[Comprehensive British and American] Flying around the sun

"Wake up, John!" Watson was awakened by the constant shaking.He opened his eyes in a daze, just in time to see Sherlock's slightly elongated face enlarged in front of him.

It was only then that Watson realized that he had slept on the sofa with his neck tilted for most of the night. When he moved at this moment, there was a sharp pain in the muscles in his neck, not to mention that Sherlock was holding him like he was holding an eggbeater. His shoulders kept shaking: "Stop shaking, Sherlock! I'm already awake...what?"

"What?" Sherlock let go of his shoulders mercifully, and began to pace up and down the room. This gentleman was getting ready to go, and he still looked excited, as if a night of sleep hadn't left the slightest trace on him. . "Of course I already know where the Riddler is! Let's visit him right now! Let's hurry up, Batman is going back to Gotham today, and we have to hurry before he takes Riddler to a mental institution— —”

"Wait, wait." Watson wiped the corners of his mouth and rubbed his face to make himself more awake. "I vaguely remember that you spent a lot of effort to crack his website last night?"

"Not bad." Sherlock said radiantly, "Of course it's also thanks to those nerds."

"..." Watson pinched his eyebrows again, and decided not to dwell on this gentleman's harsh remarks, "No...you didn't go to such lengths to hack the website to communicate with him online, so that you don't have to face it in person. Is this crazy?"

"What?" Sherlock's fast paced figure stopped, and he turned to look at Watson in disbelief and said, "Why do you think that, John? Of course I was trying to attract his attention so that he could agree Meet me!"

Watson also looked at him in disbelief.After a while, he raised one hand and sat up from the sofa: "You just have to risk your life, don't you?"

"I knew you would be with me, John." Sherlock showed a happy smile, watching Watson wash and change his clothes with a tangled expression.

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"Are you that madman?" The Riddler said bluntly, sitting on a high-backed chair.A handful of Riddler's men were watching them vigilantly, guns in hand, but they were quickly dismissed.Hearing this, Watson's face darkened immediately, but Sherlock admitted generously: "Yes, we were the ones who cracked your website."

"You are not from Gotham." The Riddler rubbed his chin and came to a firm conclusion, "Interesting...what do you want me to do? Is there any news you want to know? Or do you plan to become the new Gotham villain and ask me to give you some information?" suggestion?"

"Ah, of course not!" said Sherlock cheerfully. "That's too boring. Only an idiot would find it funny in a rotten city, wearing fancy clothes and playing cat-and-mouse with masked eccentrics. I'd like to You make a deal."

Watson would have kicked him if it hadn't been for their standing.The Riddler fiddles with his question-mark-shaped cane, staring at him without a word, looking horribly sullen—wonder if it's because he's also one of the "outrageous costumes and Batman cat-and-mouse" .

Just when Watson almost couldn't help reaching for the gun, the Riddler suddenly laughed.His eyebrows were raised with interest, and the villain, known for his intellectual prowess and mental illness, said in his soft voice, "Sherlock Holmes? Mr. Inspector...you want to solve the mysteries of Gotham?"

Sherlock's eyes narrowed.He wasn't surprised that the Riddler recognized his identity from under the disguise, but he was indeed very curious about how the Riddler learned his true purpose.

The villain didn't wait for Sherlock's answer, he stood up suddenly and approached Sherlock.

Watson subconsciously took a stride up to stop him, but the Riddler just pressed against Sherlock's face and whispered to him: "Maybe you have already found out, detective. Everyone who tries to crack the darkness of Gotham will become a dark one." Part of it, Harvey Dent is like that, Batman is like that . . . and why do you think you'd be the exception?"

Sherlock's gray eyes rolled to meet Riddler's.He saw his magnified face in those eyes that implied madness, and also saw his strange and calm expression: "Because I'm not from Gotham."

The Riddler suddenly burst out into a low-pitched laugh, and he turned around and sat down again.He clapped his hands and said cheerfully: "Then go ahead and try. You want to know what lives in the deepest dark shadow of Gotham? What controls the city?"

The joy in his expression was suddenly replaced by a nervous contortion, and Sherlock could see his facial muscles twitching in stress.But the Riddler tried hard to control his out-of-control expression, and still said clearly word by word: "I used to—the first half of my life—the first half of my life as a Riddler, ha, all of it was spent trying to decipher this, which I can't understand. Mysteries of ... Gotham."

His fingers even began to twitch when he said "unsolvable puzzles."However, the Riddler just grasped his cane, and then continued: "I exhausted my energy - I explored the darkness, and my ingenuity was able to see the flow of all invisible things in Gotham... Money, power, connections and crimes, They are held by a pair of invisible hands. Gotham is like a chessboard. Every event, every character, and every night of increasing depravity, someone is moving the pieces on the chessboard, throwing it into the quagmire. Pull away."

His expression became completely ferocious: "And I am also a pawn on this chessboard! When I tried to solve this puzzle, I fell deeper and deeper into this bottomless pit step by step. Finally, I lead The proud wisdom led me to find the answer to the riddle. At that time, I had already solved the riddle. Yes, you heard it right, but don’t show that disappointed expression..."

"...I've been imprisoned, how funny, Mr. Detective? They don't even bother to kill me!" The Riddler's whole body began to tremble, and the cane made a rigid thud on the ground, "They falsified My memory, erase the mystery from my brain! All I remember is how I wandered hopelessly through the darkness of Gotham day and night, trying to find a clue. And this is how they warned me: Never try to solve this puzzle a second time."

"Hmm." Sherlock looked at him blankly and said calmly, "Thank you for the story, now I know. So what is that clue or mystery?"

The Riddler also calmed down, though his facial muscles indicated that he might be in a fit of seizures.But he just kept smiling, sat on the armchair with his back straight, and put his hands up.

Finally, in the corner of this abandoned factory, Watson and Holmes heard a horror nursery rhyme that has been passed down for a long time in Gotham.

"Beware of the owl court, spying on your travels..."

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"You look like you haven't sobered up yet." Dr. Fate said with his hands behind his back in an ethereal voice.

Audrey flew beside him, and responded with a somewhat troubled expression.Dr. Fate said rather disapprovingly: "Alcohol will only bring chaos to thinking, and as a superhero, you should take it as your duty to defend order."

Audrey apologized to him dejectedly, then created a cloud of icy mist in the air, and buried her head in it.Seeing this, Dr. Fate quickly comforted him: "I'm sorry, mad girl, I don't intend to blame you. Xiao Zha was also drunk last night, and he cried until midnight when he came back..."

"Is Xiao Zha okay?" Audrey couldn't help smiling when she heard the frost that evaporated all over her hair.

When she opened her eyes today, what she saw was the wallpapered ceiling of her and Clark's residence in New York.And Clark was holding her tightly, frowning in his sleep.However, before they stayed together for too long, Audrey had to bid farewell to her lover again—quite miraculously, she felt the call of magic.

Doctor Fate is waiting for her.

"Calling you rashly, I hope you will forgive me." Dr. Fate said gently, "I have learned that you have been chosen by the elements of the earth. As the incarnation of the elements, the three pillars on the magic side will meet you."

"Uh..." Audrey rubbed her nose and said embarrassedly, "But I don't know magic, and I'm not an elemental incarnation in the true sense. I prefer to define myself as a superhuman... um... I mean the more common kind."

"In fact, you already are. You are the only representative of the white of the universe in the world, and you are indeed exerting its power at all times." Dr. Fate said, "Don't worry, the power of elements and magic are not There is no essential difference... Don't be nervous, you have already seen two of the three pillars, and I am here to take you to visit the remaining one."

"Do these two pillars refer to you and Doctor Strange? What about the last one?" Audrey asked with great interest.

Doctor Fate solemnly waved his hand, and a glowing tunnel appeared in front of their eyes, with some kind of blurred fantasy images flashing at both ends.But to Audrey, it looked more like a subway tunnel.They flew forward through the tunnel, and the entrance behind them disappeared in an instant.

"That's right." Dr. Fate nodded slightly, and replied patiently, "The rest is the guardian of the Rock of Eternity, the wizard Shazam. He is also one of the oldest guardians of the earth, and he is already in the Rock of Eternity. It has been stationed for 3000 years."

Audrey was immediately in awe. In these short words, she could hear the unknown great life of a lonely guardian.She wasn't nervous at first, but Audrey felt a little at a loss when facing a wizard who had experienced such a long time.The light and shadow of the tunnel kept changing behind them, and Audrey asked, "What should I do?"

"Did Doctor Strange and I ask you to do something?" Doctor Fate smiled slightly, shaking his head at her, "Be yourself."

Audrey then laughed too, and she saw the end of the tunnel directly in front of her bursting with light.Dr. Fate flew out and landed gracefully. Audrey also landed. She raised her head and looked at the eternal place, which is said to be the pillar of world magic defense together with the Tower of Fate and the Sanctuary of Holies.

Different from the majesty and sanctity of the Holy of Holies and the simplicity and mystery of the Tower of Destiny, the Rock of Eternity faithfully interprets its name, and it seems to be just a cave formed by rocks.The cave is wide and deep, with seven statues of different shapes lined up on both sides.

The stone carvings of these statues were lifelike, and their eyes seemed to be alive, giving Audrey the illusion that she was being watched.

"Welcome to the Rock of Eternity, child." An old voice interrupted her thoughts, "I am the only remaining guardian of the Eternal Council."

Audrey turned her head and saw seven stone high-backed chairs neatly arranged in the deepest part of the cave.But at this moment, only an old man with white beard and hair was sitting on the chair in the middle, staring at her gently.

Somewhat different from the tall and majestic image she had imagined, this legendary figure looked a little too thin, his white beard hung down to his somewhat skinny arms, and there was a white shimmer in the dim grotto.

But Audrey will not despise him because of this, let alone ignore the powerful power contained in his old body.Doctor Fate stepped forward and saluted him.Audrey also followed, raised her head and looked directly into the old man's vicissitudes of eyes.

"Hello, Audrey. You are the first white incarnation of the universe that has appeared in thousands of years. If you don't mind, I hope I can use the Book of Reflection to see the future for you." Wizard Shazam Speaking calmly, a thick glowing book appeared in his hand, with a mysterious eye depicted on the cover.

"I don't mind, thank you. But... can the future be predicted?" Audrey blinked and said with some confusion, "The fate has already been written? Is the world ruled by determinism?"

"Good question, child." The old man smiled gently at her, "Fate does exist. But He does not interfere with the development of things, so there are infinite possibilities in the future. But some things must happen, and many things will develop It changes according to their different details... and because of this, although the Book of Reflection can only see the possibility, it often represents a more accurate future."

He opened the thick book.The pages of the book were automatic without wind, and quickly turned to a certain page and stopped.Wizard Shazam looked at it with frowned eyebrows, then sighed lowly.

"If you are willing to listen to an old man's advice, child." The wizard raised his head, his tone still calm, "Stop trying to explore Gotham's mysteries with Batman. Its controller is changing in the direction of vague chaos , will lead explorers into darkness."

"What?" Audrey also frowned, but mainly because of the distress caused by confusion, "What is the mystery of Gotham?"

"That darkness once belonged to an unspeakable nightmare god, but after restarting, it fell into the hands of the burning Dormammu." Wizard Shazam said, "And behind Dormammu is an even more unspeakable darkness...you It is the agent of the elements, and should not be eroded by the mind."

He closed the book and asked gently, "Can you hear the statues by the wall?"

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It's late again! ! (screams)

Who would have thought that I was obsessed with reading the text, so I wrote it late...

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