[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

What exactly is the Bow of God?Where did it come from?How powerful is it?

There are too many question marks that have not been resolved, and Jason and the others are about to go to Corac, a country where civil strife is a football game, because of a news report.

Bruce really didn't know whether to admire the courage of Jason and the others, or to teach them how to be brave.

"Diana." Bruce nodded to the woman in casual clothes on screen, "Thank you for letting me take your time."

"Don't be so polite, Bruce." Diana smiled and shook her head. "It's not a big deal."

As Diana's finger tapped on the screen, a large amount of information quickly poured into Bruce's computer. The first thing that caught his attention was a rather simple-looking wooden longbow. To be honest, this bow is not at all like a "divine bow", it looks like a handicraft made by some primitive tribes, although the carvings on the bow bring it a mysterious folk style, it still cannot be concealed Its bowstring looked like it would break if pulled, not like a dreaded artifact.

"This..." Bruce considered his words, not wanting to unintentionally insult Amazon's culture, but he didn't expect that the first person to make fun of the bow was Diana.

"I know that Oliver's bow looks stronger than this one, but it undoubtedly carries the power of Ra." Diana frowned slightly, as if recalling some bad memories, "No matter what However, such divine power should not fall into the hands of mortals, especially those warlords who only want to fight for power and profit. If they really get the magic bow and find a way to manipulate it, it will be a battle without a doubt. nightmare."

"Since this divine bow is so important, excuse me, why doesn't Paradise Island seem to want to send people to find and retrieve the divine bow?" Bruce knows that Paradise Island is not keen on getting involved in disputes in the mortal world, but if it is This kind of incident involving God and God's creation... Even Diana seemed a little too cold.

"It's not that Paradise Island doesn't worry about the impact of the Divine Bow. Let's put it this way... It's a bit like a sovereignty issue. A long time ago, a group of Amazons left Paradise Island. They sought the protection of gods different from us. , and settled down in Bana-Meidol, we call them the Amazons of Bana, they are like our distant cousins, the bow of Ra God is the weapon given to them by the sun god, only the chosen warriors' tower Xima' can be used, and those who are not qualified to raise the divine weapon but try to get their hands on the power of the gods will be burned by the divine fire."

Bruce always felt that the Amazons in Bana were unreliable. Since it was such an important divine bow, it could be thrown somewhere. According to Jason, Artemis had spent more than a year tracking the divine bow However, every time she followed the clues to investigate, it was almost in vain. This time, she also followed the clues to find the black mask, and only then did she run into Jason who happened to be undercover next to the black mask.

"How did such an important bow get lost?"

"The Amazons of Bana, whose holy city is hidden behind the dust storms of the gods, separating them from the realm of mortals."

"You mean Kerak, the warlord country."

"That's right. One day, they finally found a way to cross the sandstorm. Tashima of Banna used the Bow of Ra God..." Diana took a deep breath, closed her eyes and lowered her head slightly in mourning. "She burned the invading army, along with her people, her city. The power of pulling the god's bow drove her mad. I and another warrior of Bana subdued Tahima, so that the god's fire did not spread throughout the world. The world. We didn’t find any trace of God Ra’s Bow on the battlefield. I always believed that the God Bow had been taken back by the gods, but it’s obviously still wandering in the world.”

Bruce remembered the town of Kerak that was bombed in an instant in the news reports.If even Diana believed that the destruction of this small town came from an ancient divine bow, and even Diana admitted that the power of that bow could not be resisted by mortals, he was even more sure that letting Jason and others act on their own a bad idea.

And he always felt that this matter was not as simple as what Jason and the others deduced. Is it really as simple as a warlord buying a magic bow from the black market at a high price and starting to do his best?

"Thank you, Diana. I'm afraid I have another matter here to trouble you." Bruce, who rarely asks for help, made Diana stunned for a moment, but she quickly recovered and expressed that she was happy Helping a friend, "I'm on duty in the watchtower. I have to ask you to find someone to take over. I probably won't be able to be on duty in a short time."

After finishing the call, Bruce put on the mask of the bat suit again, staring at the signal of the flight carrying Red Hood, Artemis and Bizarro on the screen.

They were about to enter Corak airspace in three minutes, until a wild beam of energy hit Red Hood's plane head-on, blowing the craft apart right in front of Batman's eyes.

***

Jason woke up in a prison cell. The space is not very big. You can walk from one end to the other in about two or three steps. Except for the tightly locked iron door, the only entrance to the outside is a small door. Even without the three iron bars, even a head would not be able to fit through the small iron window.

Well, at least he didn't have iron balls tied to his hands and feet, which was much better than Roy.However, his weapons were still confiscated, and even the hood was missing. Jason could only hope that the people who arrested him were not paying attention to the gossip news in other countries. Sen deeply suspected that Bruce had received a ransom call by now.

Just when Jason was going to study whether there is a way to pry open the iron door, there was a burst of fierce shouting from outside mixed with the bursts of bullets from the machine | shut | Whatever happened after this door, Jason was sure it would be pretty exciting.

Just three seconds after the outside calmed down, Jason's cell door was slammed open, and after the smoke and the rustling of cement debris, the figure of Batman appeared.

"The efficiency of this ransom is astonishing!" Jason watched Batman walk out of the smoke in a daze. That's right, it was the [-]% original Batman. Under the layers of camouflage, Bruce's face said: "How did you make yourself like this".

Before Jason had a chance to speak, Batman tossed him a brand new hood, not his original one, more like a new one he had kept on the shelf as a spare.

"Wait, we can't just leave like this!" Putting on the hood, Jason quickly followed Batman's back, while carefully stepping over the grunting Korek soldiers, "Artemis and Bizarro! We have to Find them first."

"They're not here." Batman walked quickly in the cramped corridor, leading Jason out of this prison that was not much better than a dangerous building without looking back, "You should be glad they haven't had time to check your identity, if not……"

"Yes, yes, I know, it will cause trouble for everyone." Jason suppressed the strange feeling in his chest, and followed Batman to board the Batplane parked not far away, "You won't happen to find it too The guys I was searched for, right?"

Following Batman's gesture, Jason saw a small bag bulging in the corner, his weapons and various tools.

——How high is your efficiency, old man!

"Sit down, it's time to take off." Batman sat in the driver's seat, fastened his seat belt, and ordered Jason, who was putting on the equipment, without looking back.

Jason was stunned for a while, and the dagger in his hand almost missed his toes: "Where are you going?"

"Back to Gotham." Batman said it as if it was a matter of course, but Jason didn't think so.

"What? But the bow of God Ra is still in the hands of the generals of Kerak, we can't just leave like this! That thing is very dangerous!" He couldn't believe that Batman thought that leaving the bow with hidden divine power in it It was a good idea in the hands of the warlord leader, "Besides, I have to go to Artemis and Bizarro."

"If you can survive the crash, I strongly believe that an Amazon and a Kryptonian clone will be fine." Batman's tone was the same as usual, but Jason vaguely heard from each other. Between the words, I felt the suppressed anger, and the crash... How did B know that he crashed?

Recalling what Batman said not long ago, the group of Korek soldiers hadn't checked Jason's identity, and with Batman's super high efficiency, the only possible conclusion was—"Old man, are you following me? I thought you Against Stoka's actions!"

"If I hadn't followed, you were going to throw away your secret identity for a piece of fake news, and drag everyone down together." Batman's statement made Jason feel like he had made a stupid mistake, which was not true. Yes, both he and Artemis have checked, the energy that destroyed the city of Korek is definitely not a human weapon, Artemis has seen the power of the bow of God Ra, this is definitely that bow!

"This is not fake news, we are sure that the bow of God is here." Jason tried not to be too excited, but he knew that he had failed completely when he spoke, "If you have carefully studied those news videos, You'll know it's not some shitty experimental weapon of destruction."

"I agree that the cause of the city's destruction was pulling the God's Bow, but the bow is not in the General's hands, it's a trap, and you—" Batman pulled the joystick back with utterly unnecessary force, causing the Bat-Man to Climb, "walked into the trap openly."

"So you've already interrogated the general, yeah, I'm not surprised at all." Jason really didn't know how to face this kind of father, he could go all the way around most of the country with his parents' crazy love Earth, however, can also go to interrogate suspects after his own crash. Even though Jason knows that Bruce must have been convinced that his life is not in danger before conducting interrogation, this kind of calmness and logic is simply beyond the limit of human beings... …

If the general who is currently lying on the hospital bed wrapped in bandages can hear Jason's thoughts, even if he is dead and nailed in a coffin, he will still be in the tomb, shouting with this decayed vocal cord: "Calm and logic!" What a ghost! He didn't know how to write the word calm when he was fat and beating me!"

But whether it's Batman or Jason, no one knows what the general thinks (even if he knows, he probably won't care), what they care more about is the damn bow.

"The bow is undoubtedly in Kerak's hands, but it's not in the hands of the general." Batman skillfully manipulated the bat fighter, while guiding Jason to think along his logic, "What makes you think the general is the most suspicious?" people?"

"Of course he was suspicious. Artemis chased the bow of God to Black Mask, but the bow was no longer in Black Mask's hands. During this period, he made a big deal with Kerak's biggest warlord, a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars. , just change one commodity.” Jason raised a finger to emphasize the one and only, unique big deal, “The date when the city was blown up, the delivery of this big deal will be recorded in Black Mask’s ledger Shortly thereafter, it perfectly matched the shipping schedule."

"What about the fact that the bow of God Ra must be used by 'Simata'? The general has nothing to do with the Amazons of Bana."

"You even found this?" Jason muttered in surprise, and didn't ask any more: "How do you know?" This meaningless question, "Well... now is the age when technology impacts magic, Who knows what unknown black technology the general has mastered."

"Or maybe the Bow of Ra God is still in the hands of its most orthodox users."

Jason chewed on the hidden meaning in Batman's words, and rejected the idea without hesitation.

"You think Artemis lied to me." Jason shook his head vigorously, "That's impossible."

"You don't know her, son." Batman couldn't help sighing, the process was more difficult than he thought, "It's only been a few days since you first met, you can't In such a short period of time, I can see through a person thoroughly."

"I may not know about Artemis' past, but I have fought side by side with her. I know that she is a warrior who values ​​honor. She can break my bones with one punch. She will not deliberately design me to fall. Broken leg!"

While Jason was actively defending Artemis, the same energy beam appeared in front of the Bat Fighter—the same attack as the plane that shot down Jason and others before.

Although Batman has tried his best to deflect the fuselage, the fierce attack still brushed along the belly of the fuselage. Unlike the last time, Jason did see the figure behind the energy beam this time, a man holding a long gun The woman with the bow, that outfit is definitely not Korek's soldier.

Anyway, the old man was right about one thing.

The bow of God Ra is not in the general's hands.

And for the next year or so, he doesn't want to fly.