[Zhongyingmei] How difficult is it to become a reliable adult

Ai Puli looked at the lively scene in front of her with novelty.

While they were away from school and going home to dress up, the school made its Halloween decorations.

In fact, those jack-o-lanterns and ghost murals have appeared on the campus a few days ago. Today, the skull decorations on the roof and the weird silhouettes in the attic windows are just more refined and novel.

The students who come and go are all dressed in strange clothes.Elves and vampires walk side by side, Jedi knights and wizards buy coffee and donuts at the campus convenience store.

April watched a man dressed as a bald man walk past them, "Who is he pretending to be?"

Damian savored it carefully, "Luthor, Metropolis is even the most famous bald man on the planet."

Jonathan stumbled, and the severed hand stuck to his head almost fell off.He shivered, "Why would someone pretend to be Luther?"

Luthor's name has even been heard by April, and his reputation among ordinary people is mixed, and some people who don't support superpowers will agree with his ideas.

"It may mean that Luthor is a monster." Damian said harshly, "After all, his bald head is easy to dress up, as long as you are willing to shave it."

As they spoke, a senior walked past them in a cardboard bat suit with an eight-pack drawn in black.

The three watched him go away in silence, while Jonathan and April looked at Damian.

The latter did not go into a rage as they thought, but made an objective evaluation, "At least the main features are captured accurately."

Where is it accurate? Are the drawn muscles accurate?

Aprily was about to ask a question when something sneaked past her.

The unpleasant smell was a mixture of spray and industrial wastewater, so unbearable that it made Ai Puli frown.

At this moment, everyone gathered in the central playground of Xicheng School, waiting for the principal to announce the rules of the Halloween game on the podium.

People in strange costumes crowded shoulder to shoulder, and when Ai Puli turned her head, the strangeness went away from her and disappeared into the noisy crowd.

"What did you find?" Damian's voice brought her back to life.

Ai Puli said with some uncertainty, "It seems that some strange things have been mixed in the school."

She thought about it, and changed the wording, "Something bad, it feels like Sister Melinda."

Damian and Jonathan looked at each other.

Jonathan held his breath for a moment, then shook his head, "I don't feel anything, D."

Ai Puli was stunned again, "There is it again, and it feels different from the last one."

She closed her eyes and frowned, "The location is far away, over there in the library, and it disappeared in a flash."

Jonathan's pupils dilated slightly, and his super vision was working.

He swept towards the position that April said, and at the same time, various voices entered his ears.He distinguished them one by one, trying to filter out the effective content in the noisy information.

The result is still a failure.

Damian's expression turned serious.

Students gathered on the playground from all directions, and the principal stepped onto the podium and adjusted the microphone.Then came the sound of "thrilling, stabling" debugging on the radio.

"Let's go!" Damian made a decisive decision, pulling them away from the square against the flow of people.

He took out the communication device that Dick had given him, fiddled with it a few times and found that there was only a busy tone on the other side.

"Many people sneaked in, there are lead plates to guard against Kryptonians, and other members cannot be contacted." His expression was resolute and indifferent, and he made a decisive judgment, "An accident happened in Gotham, and this is the next battlefield."

"But Dad..." Jonathan changed his words hastily, "But Superman is still in Metropolis!"

"Luther." Damian read out a name, "It's hard to defeat Superman, but it's easy to hold him back temporarily."

Jonathan still wanted to refute, and the crowd suddenly became commotion.

Big handfuls of green smoke scattered in different places, like fireworks exploding on the ground.

The green mist lightly enveloped the people closest to it. In the blink of an eye, the originally noisy playground became extremely quiet at this moment. Everyone watched the person who had been contaminated by the green mist fall to the ground convulsively.

The suppressed laughter sounded low, and then it became louder and more crazy.The different laughter overlapped, even overshadowing the whispers of fear.

nitrous oxide.clown.

They finally dug out these two words in the back of their minds.

Panic screams and laughter swept the playground.Chaos and madness erupted together.

Damian quickly took out the ventilator and stuffed it into the mouths of April and Jonathan.

Covering his mouth and nose, he took out a third ventilator from the jacket pocket and gestured to Jonathan, "Retreat."

Jonathan didn't hesitate. He threw April back on his back with a rare and rough movement, picked up Damian who was biting the ventilator with his other hand, and rushed straight forward.

The green mist spread extremely fast, and there were several sources that spewed out laughing gas continuously.In just one or two sentences, laughter surrounded them layer by layer like a group of densely packed ants.

Several veined hands grabbed at them, but Jonathan narrowly avoided them.

Laughter from the broadcast surrounded them from all directions, which meant that the building was also occupied.

Jonathan couldn't find a safe area to escape for a while, and he began to consider flying directly to the rooftop with April and Damian.Ai Puli stretched out her hand from his shoulder, pointing to the newly built teaching building on the east side.

That teaching building has not yet been officially opened, and no students or teachers will come near it.In Ai Puli's perception, it is one of the few places that is not infected by green.

Jonathan didn't know the inside story, he just subconsciously believed in Ai Puli's choice.

They broke into the new school building and looked down from the top floor windows.A grand and violent parade is being held in the school. At a glance, demons are dancing around, like hell.

Layer upon layer of laughter weaves into a huge net, covering the peaceful campus in the past.

Among the delirious crowd, a group of people wearing different masks and different costumes appeared.

They hide among the laughing crowd, attack fleeing people with spray bottles hidden in backpacks or pockets, and are hard to detect.

And it's only going to be more terrifying in Gotham City.

Damian laces up his uniform boots.He hid a set of uniforms in Westside School for emergencies, but he didn't expect to use them now.

"There are at least ten guys hiding, and there are four high-pressure gas tanks spreading laughing gas in the playground alone." He glanced down, "I have a general antidote for laughing gas, but the dose is not enough. The working cylinder stopped."

The boots stepped on the window sill, and Damian leaned on the wall, "Superboy, you protect A, I'll turn off the gas tank."

Jonathan had already changed into a Superboy uniform, his expression grim, anger bubbling in his blue eyes.

"I'm faster, I'll go." He flicked his wrist. "The lead plates won't stop the gas from leaking out. I can see them. There are ten of them."

"You can't find those guys hiding in the crowd," Damian said, "If you are infected by their sneak attack, things will become more troublesome."

During their argument, Aprile kept looking out the window.

Crazy greenery covers the sky and covers every inch of the school.This green is not pure, it is mixed with many other things.Ai Puli can perceive this subtle difference.

She didn't speak, and Jonathan was about to argue with Damian, but Damian blocked his mouth with one hand, "What do you feel?"

Ai Puli turned his head, the communication device that Damian was carrying beeped, and he simply turned it on and played it.

Tim's voice seemed somewhat distorted in the communication device, "The clock tower's mainframe computer was shut down, and part of the communication was unavailable. Batgirl and I went to the backup hangar, and we have only contacted you so far."

The clock tower is the second connection hub of the Bat family after the Batcave, and its failure to function will likely collapse half of the family's internal communication.

But Damian didn't have time to sneer at the moment, "Xicheng School was attacked by laughing gas. The victims showed different infection characteristics from regular laughing gas. Visually, it was a variant of laughing gas. I need an antidote."

"Understood." The two who often quarreled rarely did not choke each other, "The Halloween parade in Gotham City was also attacked. I will immediately airdrop the corresponding antidote to West City."

Ai Puli said at this moment, "To save time, you have to split up. Robin goes to get the antidote, and Superboy goes to the high-pressure gas tank."

There was a hint of fear on her face, but determination and determination quickly overshadowed the panic, "I can act with Superboy, so you don't need to separate a person to guard me."

Before the others could reject her, she calmly said, "You can't tell the attackers with the spray bottle, I can feel it."

Damian looked sideways, "The detection didn't show your range of influence, so you can probably feel things within a few meters."

Ai Puli carefully estimated, "About [-] meters, so Superboy has to take me with me so that I can sense the exact location."

"Robin." Tim on the comm cuts off their discussion.

"A," he cautiously referred to April, "this is too dangerous for you to participate in."

"But I can help," April said.

Tim just wants to sigh.He didn't want to remind himself that the little girl who said she wanted to help was only six years old regardless of her mental age.

In theory, Ai Puli's proposal is indeed the best choice.In the event that the Joker might target her, one of Robin and Superboy would have to be close by to protect him.

During this period, the other person has to take on all the responsibilities of receiving the antidote, delivering the antidote, closing the high-pressure gas cylinder for poisoning, and finding out the clown's subordinates.Under the urgent urging of time, the task is very difficult.

But Tim couldn't convince himself to let the untrained Aprily help.

Is that how Bruce felt when he heard Dick say he wanted to help when he was young?

"If the responsibility falls on the shoulders of the children, it is the adult's negligence," Tim said. "Robin and Superboy are special cases."

"It's not about age," April said, "because it's something I can do, and if I don't do it, what will other people do?"

Tim couldn't see her expression, he just had some associations at this moment.

In a trance, he thought he was a young Batman, and the first Robin of the future was standing in front of him.

He groans, "Nightwing will throw us all off the roof."

"I will intercede." Aprily said obediently, "I trust Robin and Superboy, they will protect me."

Tim foresees a dire future.

He felt both headache and relief.

All the while, Dick wanted to separate Aprily from their night life.He felt that April was afraid of this ability, so he wanted to create a safe and stable environment for his daughter.

But at this moment, Ai Puli's performance proves that she does not accept her own specialness.She was only afraid that other people would abandon her for it.

In the face of the crisis of others, this fear becomes insignificant.She and Dick are stubborn in the same vein.

"I really hope you can pretend that you haven't received my communication." Tim said helplessly, "Robin, Superboy, take care of her, or the big blue bird will make trouble for all of us."

Damian choked coldly, "Talking nonsense doesn't make you look smart, genius."

Jonathan assured seriously, "I will, sir."

The communication hung up, and the antidote sent by Tim landed on the landing pad on the roof of the teaching building.

Damian began to assign tasks, "I'll get the antidote, put them into the fire protection system, and use the fire sprinkler to spread the antidote."

"Superboy, you take A to close the high-pressure gas cylinder, find all the mice stuffed by the clown, and disarm them and disarm them. I need to throw the rest of them into the teaching building, and I will open the room when I receive your signal fire extinguisher."

He thought for a while, took out the spare Domino mask from his equipment belt, and put it on Aprile's face.

Aprily was poked head-on by his force.

"The principle of identity confidentiality, the communication equipment will be distributed to you later, and you can contact me at any time."

The senior among the three present said coldly, "Don't hold me back, or you'd better go to Kansas to farm."