The Witch's Bodyguard [Comprehensive Anglo-American]

Los Angeles--

Shortly after Ma Linglong left, Stark returned to his studio and put on the white underwear.

Stark clapped his hands into the air: "Okay, while the vitriolic hostess is away, let's have some rock music to create a fiery atmosphere, Jarvis."

"Okay, sir."

Ma Linglong loves everything about Stark, except the deafening music, which forces her to talk to Stark in a yelling state, and she hates yelling.So if Ma Linglong stays in the studio, Stark can't turn the music so loud, and she will basically stay there, because Stark hopes so, he would rather sacrifice a little hobby.

"With all due respect, sir," said Jarvis, "the toxin level in your blood is increasing every day, and you should let Miss Lillian know about it."

"It won't do me any good if she finds out," Stark said quickly. "She'll probably yell at me or stop me from doing this or that." Stark would be very happy when Long blocked him from certain behaviors, such as asking for five hours of sleep after staying up for more than 24 hours. There is a way to solve this little trouble, before Linglong notices it."

"The situation is not optimistic." Jarvis popped up several floating windows, "The data we calculated yesterday cannot replace palladium metal."

"Keep trying. There are no scientists who succeed at the beginning. Think about when we were making armor." Stark said it easily, but he was very disturbed in his heart. He took the chlorophyll juice by the workbench and pinched his nose to drink it in one breath. I ran out of three hundred milliliters, "Don't tell her, psychics work with their brains, and I don't want to see Linglong distracting me."

The first time Stark noticed the changes in his body was when he replaced the battery of the reactor, he found that the skin around the built-in device was a little dark, because this kind of situation had never happened before, and he was as sharp as Stark. Almost had a bad feeling.He used the equipment in the studio to easily detect the toxins in the blood. They were affected by the energy element palladium metal carried in the reactor. The toxicity of this metal is also the disadvantage of its high energy.

He kept this matter a secret, and didn't intend or even thought to let Ma Linglong know that he started drinking a lot of chlorophyll juice every day to eliminate toxins, but the effect was not obvious.

"Then, my suggestion is that you should stop using armor," Jarvis said.

"Impossible, you know, the armor needs to be improved, I have to test them every day, I don't intend to let outsiders into 'my' body." Stark thought for a while, and said, "Don't be so negative, old man , as long as I don't use it to fight other people, I can live a long time."

Gotham City——

Bruce Wayne no longer thinks that apparition is a good thing. He just vomited once, and when Ma Linglong used the teleportation spell to bring him back to Wayne Manor and just settled down, he seemed to want to put his liver Also spit it out.Until now, Bruce felt like his guts and entrails might still be together, and he hated the feeling.He suspected that Ma Linglong did not give him this reminder on purpose. Bruce was defeated by the wizard's "convenience" the first time he tried it, and he didn't want a second time.

"It's hard being a wizard." He sighed sincerely, Bruce has no appetite at all now, even if he missed dinner, and he would most likely miss supper, "How do you get over this?" He took a sip Tequila, alcohol makes Bruce feel better.

Apparition isn't a fun, easy movement spell, and while it might seem cool and convenient, in fact, even grown wizards don't use it very often.Displacement spells are not only dangerous, but the transformation process is uncomfortable, even painful.The kind of shortcut that squeezes your guts out of shape to throw you from one place to another is usually only used in emergencies.

Not everyone's reaction was as violent as Bruce's, at least not Stark, who was even on the verge of death.

"Get used to it." Ma Linglong said indifferently. Compared with Bruce's livid complexion, the girl was different. She ate all the dishes Alfred brought, as well as the soup, which might be for three people. However, Alfred later said that it was actually for five people, "If you don't want to eat, you can give it to me." She took a fancy to the creme brulee in front of Bruce.

"Take it." Bruce generously placed the plate in front of her, "If you still need it, I'll ask Alfred to send another plate."

"No thanks, I don't want to eat too much in the morning."

For this sentence, the man has reservations.

If Bruce hadn't confessed what he knew in person, Ma Linglong would never have been able to detect the fact that the man already knew she was a witch from the man's always wise and calm appearance.The time they spent together was not short, and they even had a little deep contact, but Bruce never revealed what he knew from the beginning to the end. Not only did he completely hide Batman's secret, but he also covered up other secrets tightly. .

He even made Mike a lot smarter, and that Thunderbird boy dared to tease his former idol, and Ma Linglong could guess that it was him who told the secret without Bruce telling him.

"Do you ride a broom too?" Bruce asked. "I've seen Mike's broom. It's pretty fast. I guess 80."

Ma Linglong snorted coldly with disdain: "Only 80 miles?"

"How much is yours?"

"150 miles."

For a broom, it is already very fast to reach the speed of a car at 80 mph. Ordinary brooms only have 50 mph or even less. It is the standard configuration of the Magic Council and the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic.This speed is easy to control and accidents are not likely to occur. After all, brooms are different from cars, and the rider is exposed to the outside. Even with the protection of the protective spell, once the speed exceeds 100 mph, it is quite dangerous.

Bruce Wayne not only knows that Ma Linglong is a witch, but also knows that there are not only wizards in the United States, but also all kinds of wizards and related schools in Britain and even the whole of Europe.

The source of all this has to be attributed to an anti-drug operation five years ago.

He sneaked into the trading market in the form of Batman. The place was a remote abandoned warehouse in Gotham City. Mike Longbottom was also there. The two noticed each other's existence almost at the same time. They were respectively lurking on the hanging beams of the warehouse roof Both ends of the steel pipe have their own purpose.

At that time, he and Mike didn't know each other, let alone who the other was, but they had a tacit understanding and neither of them exposed the other.

During the operation, Bruce Wayne rescued Mike and together with him subdued the wizard who appeared in the drug trade.Later, Bruce learned that their trade included not only drugs, but also potions from the wizarding world. Whether it was drugs or potions, they were illegal transactions.

Of course Bruce didn't know what a wizard was at first, but saw Mike and the enemy gesticulating with a stick for a long time. The light emitted was so powerful that the entire warehouse was hit by the light with holes everywhere.

At that time, Mike used a normal wand, not a gun-shaped one.

The opponent is very strong, but Mike is not weak either. His spells and innate magical talent are enough to bring the enemy to justice, but he fell down after being severely injured by the spell in order to block the fatal blow for Batman.

When Bruce was watching the battle, he discovered the secret of the wand. The emitted light is obviously different from the laser in the ordinary sense. They are more inclined to a special physical attack. The goggles analyze the unpredictable data inside.Bruce guessed that as long as he didn't get hit by the light, he would be fine (he learned much later that some spells don't light up, and he was just lucky at the time).

Bruce saw the enemy's weakness, and he not only snatched the wand with his bare hands, but also broke it in two.

To be honest, Mike was a little surprised the first time he saw a wizard's wand broken by a Muggle. At that time, Mike had just won the Auror Medal, which was his first mission, and his knowledge of Muggles was only limited to textbooks.

Not a single page mentions that Muggles can break wands too.

It's not that the night knight won easily without the enemy's wand. In fact, it was a battle he encountered that was more difficult than the clown.He realized that the enemy could do harm to him without a wand, and that the opponent could pin him to the wall by simply reaching out.

In the end, Mike rejoined the battle and used several powerful attack spells to completely subdue the opponent.

Mike should have cast an oblivion spell on Bruce to make him forget everything he'd been through with wizards, but he's Batman, and he's not like a normal Muggle.Bruce neither regarded the other party as a monster (Bruce thought he was the monster), nor did he show much shock. He thought that Mike might be an alien with an alien weapon.

When Bruce teases that using a stick as an alien weapon isn't cutting-edge enough, Mike tells him who he is.

It only took three seconds for the knight to accept.

In the end, Mike didn't erase the knight's memory, not only that, but they also became friends, which can also be called comrades-in-arms.

The Muggle knowledge that Mike learned in Ifrmony made him very curious about this race. After passing the Auror qualification, he volunteered to work as an undercover agent in the Muggle world. The dark wizard who caused the harm is his own responsibility, which does not coincide with Batman's behavior.

They often meet at night, and Alfred once thought that his master finally got rid of the emotional shadow of Catwoman and accepted a new relationship.

Even if it's a guy.

Mike never thought of being able to call Muggles brothers and sisters. At most, he wanted to observe them, not to look down on them, but to get along with Muggles and to restrain the exposure of magic, which is not easy to do.But when he was with Bruce, he didn't have any troubles in this regard. His ability to accept novel things and his heart were far better than too many Muggles.

He thought it would be nice to have a bat-like Muggle as a friend, because bats and wizards are very compatible, and he has never met a Muggle who thinks like Bruce after that.Of course Mike knew Superman too, but Superman wasn't a Muggle, he wasn't even from Earth.

For two years, Mike and Batman performed tasks together. He acted as Robin who died in the battle, filling the vacancy responsible for the active atmosphere, and fighting crime with Batman in and out of extremely dangerous places.This matter was strongly opposed by Congress. Mike used his actions to prove that Bruce was absolutely reliable. At that time, Congress was at the peak of Muggle research, so they acquiesced in Mike's behavior.

The premise is that he cannot use offensive spells on Muggles, and can only appear as a researcher.Until the accident happened between Mike and his girlfriend, he was really powerless and had to withdraw from the cooperation with Batman.

During that time, Bruce never tried to apparate once, and Mike never took him.

Now, he knows why.

"Since you know who I am and I know who you are, I think our future cooperation will be smoother and more honest than before." Bruce said, "Mike told me a lot about you, you are a celebrity in the wizarding world, You've fought criminals too, and he said you're trustworthy, and I agree."

It's not really appropriate for a man to call Voldemort and his henchmen criminals, he should be called terrorists.

"No." Ma Linglong said.

"I won't let you do it for nothing," Bruce said.

"It has nothing to do with money."

"I know that you have a solid family business. The information on the information is false. Your parents are Chinese and they are still alive." Bruce shook his glass and leaned gracefully on the back of his chair. He has now recovered status, showing skilled negotiating skills, "But you are very interested in me, aren't you, you want to know me and who I am, because you like bats, you like the dark, I don't mind letting you know about me. "

He was right, but Ma Linglong didn't accept the move.

The little bat flew in from the window, and when it saw its owner, it pounced excitedly, and Ma Linglong grabbed it: "I don't want to spend my energy on you right now, I have a lot of things to do. " Turning to the little bat again, "I didn't cause any trouble to others."

"In addition to putting mice and snakes on my pillow, it has behaved very well." Bruce said, "But I still want you to take it away." He didn't want to experience opening his eyes to find a furry or Naked animals share a pillow with themselves.

"Really." Ma Linglong rubbed the little bat's stomach, "It seems that it likes you very much."

She is not a lone ranger, at least not before, she also has partners, more than four, sometimes seven (Quidditch), Ma Linglong has many years of experience in cooperation, and can get along with everyone, especially like Hers, although it may seem like the opposite, Ma Linglong is very good at teamwork.The reason why she rejected Bruce was not because she liked to fight alone, nor because she didn't have enough energy. She only needed to provide the other party with the opportunity to talk to the ghosts to reap a lot of money, which was obviously a good deal.

However, she was puzzled by Bruce's tireless sacrifice for people who had nothing to do with it, and this confusion made her reluctant to see Bruce trade his life for intelligence that didn't seem worth it.

Ma Linglong thought that doing that was like killing him, and she didn't want to be a murderer.

Not to mention, Batman saved Stark.

"It's okay, I don't need you every day, but I hope you can help me for the last time." Bruce stopped shaking the glass, the transparent liquid was still circling according to inertia, "Remember the black police I said last time, they were Killed, at that reception, you saw that none of them survived, I suspect there is something hidden in it, I need to exchange information with the undead of the black police."

The phone rang untimely, and Ma Linglong glanced at the caller ID.

"Your boyfriend is very clingy." Bruce said with a teasing tone, "I didn't know that Stark also had a dedicated side. It seems that he is serious about you."

"Of course you don't know him." Ma Linglong said with a proud and domineering tone, "but I do know him."

"I don't want to know him." Bruce raised his chin, "Hurry up and answer the phone, I don't want Iron Man wearing armor to destroy my manor."

"Hey, baby Linglong, where have you been?" Stark's voice bounced out of the receiver, "You should be home soon, am I having breakfast with you?"

"I..." Ma Linglong hesitated for a moment, "I'm in Gotham." She didn't want to lie to him, Stark probably knew her location, he just asked that on purpose, if Ma Linglong lied, Stark K will be cranky.

"Does this mean that there is no breakfast?" He said with a relaxed tone, but it is not difficult to hear the disappointment. Stark did not locate his girl. Of course he wanted to do so, but he tried his best to resist the impulse, "Okay , it seems that you will come back very late, will you come back, today?"

"meeting."

"How about we go out to eat tonight, I'll make a reservation now." When Stark was talking, he had already swipe the screen to choose a dish, "Which country's cuisine do you want to eat, China, Japan, France, Italy, or something else? of?"

"Italy." Ma Linglong said.

"I've got it done, seven o'clock in the evening." As if he was afraid that Ma Linglong would change his mind, he said quickly, "I'll come pick you up or if you're not convenient, we'll meet at the door of the restaurant. Be there by five."

"You mean, you're coming to Gotham?"

"Yes, the location of the restaurant is easy to find. You just need to go to downtown Gotham and see a building with a 'W' outside the building. The restaurant is on the left of the 'W'. Nothing special, but the highest."

Stark belittled the Wayne Building to nothing, which made Ma Linglong amused: "I see, do I need to wear a dress?"

"If you want to wear it." In fact, he expected it.

After Ma Linglong hung up the phone, she still kept her smile. Bruce had never seen her smile like a spring breeze. This should mean that the girl just heard a joke worthy of her laughing like this: "Then, while you are in a good mood." Bruce said , "Make a price, we will act tonight."

"Not tonight, I have an appointment."

"Stark?" Bruce looked embarrassed, "Excuse me, maybe it can be done during the day?"

"No." Ma Linglong replied bluntly, "I don't understand why you insist on making such a dangerous deal. Even if you don't rely on me, you will be able to find out the truth in the end, otherwise how would you have come here before?"

"I don't deny that I can," Bruce said. "A week, a month, or two months, maybe longer. It's hard to estimate how many people will be implicated during this period. I don't want to stake the lives of innocent people unless There is no choice."

"you will die."

"Wizards will die, and normal people will die." Ma Linglong was very pleased that Bruce classified wizards into the category of normal people. "I don't think death is a factor that I should consider the consequences."

"Aren't you afraid of dying?"

Bruce smiled slightly, and his smile revealed a traditional gentlemanly elegance. This smiling face deceived many people who paid attention to him. He left a mark on his lips against the wine glass: "You seem to care about my answer, This is the third time you have asked."

"A little bit." Ma Linglong said, she looked at him, "You are very strange, take off your armor, you look like a completely different person."

"Taking off the armor, I'm Bruce Wayne." He said, "There are countless double-faced people in this world, and I'm not the first one. There should be weirder ones among wizards, I think?"

"Isn't Batman just Bruce Wayne?"

This may be the reason why Ma Linglong fell in love with Stark. She likes his straightforwardness, even with undisguised blatantness, but it is not completely lacking in taste. Ma Linglong does not need to rely on suspicion by his side.

"Batman is Batman, Bruce Wayne is Bruce Wayne, they're different." Bruce continued with his comforting smile, "I'm 45 years old, past an untimely death I'm old, but it doesn't mean I haven't tried it. Of course I'm afraid of death, but I'm even more afraid of the accelerated expansion of evil forces when I'm thinking about life and death. On balance, the former is not so scary."

Ma Linglong was not interested in him because he was a bat. This might be only one out of ten thousand reasons. The rest, most of them, were because she had too many questions about Bruce and Batman.

They are obviously the same person, but under the mask, there are two completely opposite personalities, and even the aura emanating from the body is different.If it wasn't because Ma Linglong was sure that the man in front of her was a Muggle, she really wondered if the man had mastered some kind of unknown magic to cause this situation.

"You don't have a dual personality, do you?" Ma Linglong suddenly thought.

"That's a good question to ask." Bruce pretended to think about it for a moment, "but I guess I'm not."

"The last one." Ma Linglong said, "Why don't you kill people?"

"If I answer you, are you willing to assist me?"

"I'd like to think about it."

"It seems that this is a loss-making business for me." Bruce thought for a while, swallowed again, he felt a heavy bitterness in his stomach, "It's easy to kill people." He said slowly, "I have Opportunity to kill everyone I've ever fought, and I've killed hundreds if that's what I'm after."

"Then."

Bruce took a sip of tequila: "That's it, no. Then, if you want to learn more about 'bats', you should stay with them for a long time, instead of just doing superficial questionnaires."

Ma Linglong frowned slightly, she pondered for a long time, and then said: "I will give you an answer in a month."

"so long?"

"Some things have been waiting for a long time, and they naturally belong to you."

"It's been too long." Bruce frowned, his heart sank, "This matter is by no means simple, I can't wait that long."

"Be patient." Ma Linglong said, "Maybe you can find out the truth yourself in a month. There is nothing wrong with living a few more years."

"I don't care how long I can live." Bruce said, he has spent a lot of time in this incident, and he can't even imagine how many people died in the middle, but so far, the only thing that made him break through the bottleneck was the relationship with Just a few minutes of undead dialogue.

"I have killed people, Bruce Wayne." Ma Linglong's voice suddenly became very gloomy, "There are six people in total. Before they died, these six people caused more than five hundred people to die strangely, most of them were Muggles. , I guess you know what Muggles mean, or you hear most of them as No-Majs, it's the same. They treat Muggles with more cruelty than you can imagine, such as stuffing worms in the guts of Muggles and making them reproduce faster , until the body can no longer bear the accumulation of worms and burst, the victim's consciousness is even awake, as for the six people, they cheered like celebrating a birthday, there are many such acts. Don't think that you are the only one who has seen the dark , darkness is everywhere, no matter which world you are in."

Ma Linglong paused for a moment, without showing the slightest sense of guilt: "I will go to hell after I die, this is the punishment I deserve, no matter how hateful the people I kill are. But at least, I saved more people, and I'm not afraid of going to hell."

Bruce was undoubtedly shocked. He really didn't expect Ma Linglong to kill someone: "You think I didn't kill people because I was afraid of going to hell?"

"No matter what your reasons are, that's your business. The people I killed were all heinous bastards. They died because of me, but I wouldn't be afraid or afraid of it, let alone regret it." Ma Ling Long was surprisingly calm, she said in a straight tone, "But you, Wayne, I don't want you to die because of me."

There was a silence between them for a minute or more, so quiet that only the slight sound of the snoring of the little bat

Finally, Bruce let out a helpless sigh: "So, does Stark know you're a wizard?"

"Do not."

"You're not going to tell him?"

Ma Linglong hesitated for a moment, and replied, "Maybe."

"Afraid that he won't accept you?" He can always tell the truth, as if he has done a long time of research and analysis.

Ma Linglong stood up: "That's it, I'm leaving."

Bruce also got up: "You guys are dating at night. It's only morning. We can talk a lot. I want to know how many ghosts are in my manor. Is there anyone I know?"

"I will come to you in a month." Ma Linglong said, she drank the last sip of wine in the glass, "I have to find a way to drive the car to the entrance of the tall and old-fashioned building in downtown Gotham , and my car is now parked somewhere in Los Angeles."

"Tall and old-fashioned? Hope you don't mean where you used to work."

The author has something to say: Kavin has been stuck a lot lately, it's really painful, please touch her. . .