[Comprehensive British and American] Flying around the sun

Just as they were standing in the hall, waiting for Audrey to explore the passageway that was blown out below, a mutation occurred in the members of the Court of Owls who were knocked unconscious.

They opened their mouths and let out a shrill, inhuman scream!Audrey and Batman turned around in astonishment. They saw the faces of these dark believers melting like wax, and black smoke sizzling from their bodies.

Audrey vigilantly pulled Batman behind her, ready to face possible attacks—but these people who used to swim gracefully in their clothes and temples and overlooked all living beings just melted like fine snow in the scorching sun up.

...dissolved into puddles of indescribable black matter, leaving only those fine clothes and jewelry rolling to the ground, rolling together with those muddy swamps on the dirty ground in the dark alleys of Gotham. Can't tell the original beauty.

"Damn..." Audrey heard Batman grit his teeth.He didn't act rashly, nor did he express any opinion on the changes in these court members, but turned around again and looked down at the hollow: "Go."

"You shouldn't be here." After they jumped down from the hole, Batman still said in a low voice, "I have the ability to escape from the sky. That dark power is too weird, if Dormammu It really came—”

"If I don't come, what will happen to you now?" Audrey grabbed Batman's arm armor with her left hand, and pulled him along the rushing underground river. She turned her face to look at him , "lost in a labyrinth, trying to find a way out and a loophole - finally unable to bear the hunger and thirst, drinking from the fountain of darkness - and then lost in hallucinations, wandering in this prison? But of course I believe you You're not going to die here because you're Batman."

"The court underestimated me. I know Gotham inside and out, I can smell water and sulfur. That ugly owl fountain base is white marble, which explodes more easily than marble."

Batman turned a deaf ear to Audrey's sharp words, and said patiently: "The court wants to see how ugly I am, so they won't be in a hurry to send out claws to assassinate me. They don't even bother to use magic to deal with me. Let alone summoning Dormammu at this time. So I have time..."

"You have the time, the ability, and the patience. But that doesn't change the fact that you're using your own life as a bargaining chip, Bruce." Audrey raised her right hand hidden under the cloak to stop him, gently He said, "Maybe you can collect more court evidence in the maze, maybe you will transform into a different person after escaping death. You will figure out a lot of things, settle a heart disease, or have a new rival. "

Batman watched her silently, knowing she hadn't finished.

"But your family is still waiting for you, Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian, Barbara and Alfred, they almost turned Gotham upside down, just to find you. Gotham is also Wait for you, the Batlight has been on for hundreds of hours and will stay on until you reappear. And the Justice League needs you too...I promised Clark would find you, and I happen to have this Why can't you use a hammer to smash this toy with it?"

She smiled slightly, and turned her head to look at him again: "If you and I change places, won't you come?"

Batman couldn't answer.He deeply knew that Audrey and Clark were the same people, the brightest kind of good people in the worldly sense, and the truths spoken by good people are always difficult to refute...or maybe he didn't want to refute.

He sighed inwardly, thinking about the remaining claws.With Clark visiting Gotham, the undead assassins are no threat.But how to place them has become a big problem... After the death of Freeze Man, Batman planned to use his technology to create a cryogenic prison, but between countless events and chaos, life gave him too much time. It's too short!

He was meditating like this, watching himself standing firmly in a square transparent room, rising at the bottom of a certain river.

Then suddenly Audrey laughed beside him, interrupting his thoughts.She stretched out her left hand and tapped the thick ice on top of their heads: "If you were alone, how would you break this and escape, Bruce?"

...he couldn't escape.The Court of Owls had indeed laid a net for him, and even forcibly created such a frozen river in summer.Batman is an unyielding fighter, and the Court of Owls, who he thought had made light of him, knew it too.

When he escaped from death, exhausted his claws, blasted through the ground, and drifted up the underground river. When he thought he was finally saved, he would eventually be trapped under the river by this glass-like transparent wall and become Gotham. One of the countless drowned souls.

Therefore, when Audrey briskly cracked the ice on the river into countless pieces with that slender left hand, Batman finally spoke to her what he kept in his heart.

"Thank you, Audrey. For everything you have done." Batman said from the bottom of his heart in a voice hoarse and deep due to lack of water and injuries, "When I was looking at those things in the maze, I Ever wavered weakly, praying in my heart for someone to save me from that truth, for which I would give everything...but you saved me. You didn't save Batman who was shaken. Your Showing up in time further catalyzed the truth to come out, not only did you save my life, you saved Gotham as well."

The always cheerful Qi Nu was still teasing and joking, but when she heard this, she first looked at him with a kind of horrified eyes, and then she blushed suddenly.

She stammered, "Well, it's not like...it was Clark who saved Gotham! I just...I didn't...you don't have to say that."

Very good, learned a new trick.Batman said in his heart.It seems that there are some differences between Audrey and Clark in some respects—if a different town boy were here and heard his heartfelt praise, he would be happy to slap him on the shoulder instead of being like Audrey. Li now looks messed up, like a cat whose nape has been pinched.

...Bruce looked so much like Thomas just now!Audrey grabbed Batman and flew towards the Batcave, still thinking about it.

Especially after he has been trapped in the maze for so many days, the stubble on his chin is protruding, and the armor and cloak are somewhat damaged, making him look a little haggard and tired... This makes him look the same as Audrey remembers His father looks more and more like him.

Thomas is also an unsmiling man, and his cold majesty as Batman is even more frightening than Bruce.

But he was very gentle with Audrey.Whenever this ignorant child completes some of the tasks that have been arranged, Thomas always praises her behavior and repeats her recovered name over and over again.You are a hero, you did it.You are doing your part to make the world a better place, Audrey.You saved my life, thank you.

At that time, Audrey always felt ashamed and uneasy.Standing neatly in front of this elder covered in wounds and bloodstains, she always felt that he was not praising herself, but another woman named Audrey who was wearing brilliant brilliance. hero.She's not a hero...she's just a selfish person trying to get out of this chaotic world.

Did she now live up to Thomas' approval?

The entrance to the Batcave was in the distance, and she let go.

"Master!" "Father!" "Bruce!"

At the entrance of the Batcave, Bruce's family gathered around the fence, watching the exhausted but still intact Batman being sent back by Audrey.

They surrounded him with both worry and joy, trying to support him or bring him hot soup and medicine.But Batman has long since lost the look of despair and confusion in the maze. He has returned to the dark knight who planned strategies, calmly leading his family back to his lair.

The moon and stars are sparse in the sky outside, and the bat lights are still reflected in the clouds, deterring all careerists and desperadoes who are about to move.Audrey stood on the river flowing into the entrance of the Bat Cave and watched this scene, and smiled.

A warm and generous palm was placed on her shoulder, and Audrey turned around. Her Karl was looking down at her with a smile, his eyes seemed to be twinkling like stars.

Audrey blinked - there was indeed no one she missed more than Clark at this moment.So Audrey obeyed the voice in her heart, warmly embraced his neck, and moved closer to his lips.

Damian, who was at the end, turned his head and saw this scene. He moved his lips, as if he wanted to exhale from his nose, but held back.In the end, Damian just used his small head to tiptoe to press the button on the door, and yelled loudly in his immature voice that hadn't started to change:

"The door is about to close! You can't get in yet!"

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Batman's fighter spirit is manifested in many ways-specifically today, even though he hasn't had water in the past few days and his serious injuries have not healed, he still removes his armor, wraps a bandage on his abdomen hastily, and stands up again.

Then he stretched out his arm and pulled Dick, who kept persuading him to take a good rest, over to him.In the eyes of everyone who didn't know why, he said to Audrey: "The penultimate molar on his left side was pulled out, Audrey."

"Why!?" Dick yelled in shock and aggrieved.Clark also looked stunned, subconsciously using his super vision to see through Dick's face.Then he leaned closer to Audrey's ear and whispered something in her ear.

So Audrey held back her smile, and fixed Dick's body like lightning.Dick struggled to no avail, and looked at Alfred and his three brothers for help: "Afu? Jay? Timmy? Mimi? Are you just looking at it like this???"

Afu pretended to be old, half-deaf and half-deaf, and walked away with Yeyi's heartbreaking help-seeking eyes that resembled Bruce in amorous aspects.And the rest of his brothers are even more unreliable. Although they also have a deep friendship with fighting, playing games together, and speaking ill of Bruce together, but in the face of his crisis situation at this time, this group of people actually gloated and watched from the sidelines stand up!

"I'm just saying you gotta cut back on your cereal, Dick," Tim said primly. "Look, you got cavities."

"I don't have—cavities—grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr but of butt as an invisible hand propped his face away as Audrey bent over Looked at his teeth.

"This is the chip found in the arm armor of those sharp claws." Bruce calmly inserted the chip into the computer and read it, "The chip records their hunting list..."

"Obviously, they want to kill all the officials and dignitaries who keep Gotham City running to establish a new order." A voice with a British accent said.Hearing the sound, Bruce turned to the entrance where the Batcave was connected to the Wayne Manor. Holmes was strolling down with his dressing gown on.

"I need to know why he is here." Batman turned his face back blankly and said coldly.

Dick, whose mouth was stretched open, struggled and yelled. Jason on the side held back his smile and said, "It was Farwing who brought him. When we were looking for you in the sewer, we found that this man looks like something." We were taken aback by the ghosts of vengeance that haunted the sewers."

"Ugh!" Dick let out a scream, and Audrey finally pulled out his designated tooth.Although she used cryogenic gas to relieve the pain and reduce the swelling, Ye Yi, who had regained his freedom of movement, still rubbed his cheeks with aggrieved resentment: "Why did you pull out my teeth?"

Then he glared at Jason again: "What's a 'fart wing'?"

"I'm sorry, Yehip." Jason said lazily, "Your title is a bit hard to remember."

In the midst of the frenzy, Audrey stretched out her left hand holding back a smile, and the pulled tooth floated in the air and flew in front of Dick.

It looked normal, but then, Audrey waved her left hand lightly in the air.The tooth was sliced ​​flat, and a tiny gold owl coin gleamed just inside the tooth.

Dick's pupils suddenly tightened.He took the tooth and raised his head: "...what is this?"

"Amber gold." Bruce turned his face and said in a low voice, "a substance that brings life back to life. Filled with the cells and blood of those claw assassins, from the small coin inside this tooth seeps into their bodies, day after day. day, until after their death, resurrected and driven by the Court of Owls."

"I...almost...became a claw?" Dick murmured, holding the tooth dully.Bruce walked up to him and put his hand on his shoulder.

Didn't know that if Audrey wasn't around, Bruce would have punched him on the left cheek neatly, and Dick, who knocked out his teeth with his fist, hugged his father helplessly. All the jokes disappeared.

"In the pre-modern era, some prepared gladiators would be sent to the arena to participate in parades and perform as clowns and acrobats. That is the ancient version... of the circus." Holmes still stood still watching this scene, and said abruptly, "Every ten years, Harry's Circus sends some young athletes to the Court of Owls, and the chosen ones are trained secretly as Talons."*

"I should have been the closest," Dick murmured, "but when my parents died..."

"...Bruce adopted you." Audrey said softly, "Maybe it's fate?"

"There is no such thing as fate, and everyone present should know this." Holmes pierced through the warm atmosphere at the moment, and he himself walked away as if he hadn't noticed the cold atmosphere at all. Come in, "And I'm here to remind you that if there was any dark magical power in Gotham, it's obviously a problem now. This doesn't necessarily mean a good thing... You know, the worst order is very Better than no order."

"How did you come to that conclusion?" Damian said.Obviously, everyone present has their own understanding of whether fate exists or not, and Audrey, the only one who has the correct answer, is wandering in the sky, so no one answered his words.

Only Clark was not interested in the so-called magical power at all. Seeing that everyone was staring at Holmes intently, he had no choice but to focus on his Audrey.

"I never knew why Mycroft would allow me to come to Gotham, and even acquiesced in Watson bringing my passport." Sherlock looked at Bruce sharply, "...unless he thinks Gotham is better than London is safer now."

Bruce raised his eyebrows, acquiescing to the conclusion that he and Mycroft had a connection, and waited for him to continue.

And Sherlock's chatter will naturally not stop when it is not interrupted: "The UK also has a large number of well-established spellcasters, and the conclusion I got from them is that the dimension in the UK is shaking, and there are many spellcasters. Monster."

He gave a low laugh: "In contrast, Gotham's underground magic world is ruled by Dormammu, and my brother happens to have some personal relationships with Batman, so let me come here, at least under the current circumstances. No worries."

…It is very strange to listen to the British detective talking about Dormammu, magic, dimensions, goblins, etc., so strange that it seems that Doctor Strange is speaking.Dick spat the blood out of his mouth soundlessly and gave Bruce a reproachful look.

"But there is only one thing that my arrogant brother didn't expect: the dark attraction of Gotham's underground is so effective for me... This power makes me obsessed with wanting to crack its secrets, wanting to go deep into it, even I have been in danger several times." Sherlock said quickly, "By the time he noticed the abnormality in Gotham, it was too late, and he hurriedly wanted to arrange for me to leave."

He showed an amused smile: "Just tonight, I suddenly woke up from that state of ecstasy. So I came to the conclusion: Gotham's court of owls has been destroyed, the one they believed in The Dark Demon God withdrew all his power. But what is the reason for a dimensional Demon God to give up his followers so easily?"

Sherlock Holmes raised his head, and said what he deduced with his mortal mind, what is happening in the dimension beyond the earth, which is enough to shock all the guardians and superheroes of the dimension: "The dark dimension is going on. Invaded, Dormammu is about to be replaced!"

The room fell into silence, and everyone looked at the detective who said the shocking words in silence.In such silence, Clark broke the silence with a tense tone:

"Why do you keep hiding your right hand, Audrey?"

Batman looked over with blazing eyes, and looked straight at her!He recalled Audrey's behavior along the way after defeating the Court of Owls, and found it awkward.He strode over and stared at her silently.

And Clark also stared at her, but his eyes were more restless and worried.Under such gazes, Audrey sighed.She raised her eyes to Clark and pursed her lips again.Then, she stretched out her right hand hidden under the cloak, reached out and took off the wristband, and took off the mitt.

In the center of the slender palm that should have been as white as jade, as if it had been scorched, a group of dark and strange lines spread from the palm of her hand to the fingertips, and the lines seemed to be alive, and they were still swimming. Moving, burning silently under the surface of her skin.

"You said something wrong, Sherlock." Audrey seemed to smile a little, and said calmly, "...fate is real."

*Sherlock Holmes quote from The New 52 Batman.

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The essence of this chapter: Tooth extraction by beak (not

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