[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

Henry Powell overlooking the night view at the City Z Carlton Hotel in Gotham.The Skyline Suite is just like the hotel's advertised, with a 30-story building and a magnificent view. One of Gotham's landmarks, the Wayne Tower and the Clock Tower, are in front of Henry's eyes.

Soon, the new landmark of Gotham will be his Powell Park.Wayne will become a thing of the past, a sad story to remind the world that the rich cannot last three generations.Tourists who come to visit will listen to the inspirational story of how Henry Powell rose from an ordinary little engineer under his building, and lament poor Wayne, whose business has been lost for generations in the hands of a playboy's unscrupulous descendants.

All of this is only happening in Henry's mind, but he has full confidence that his imagination will become reality.Although he did not disclose to any reporter that his business expansion is not limited to pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, winning Wayne Biotechnology is only the first step. He will tear up Wayne’s kingdom bit by bit, and let Wayne take With a little mercy from him, he went back to the manor left by his ancestors, and lived with his parents' trust fund with his head bowed and a mournful face.

This is the most suitable life for their brainless second-generation ancestors, isn't it?

Of course, things don't need to develop to this point.Ten years ago, he had sincerely begged Wayne Pharmaceuticals not to fire him, but no one was willing to listen to his explanation.His research is valuable. Anyone who has been in the pharmaceutical industry knows that it takes a lot of time to develop a new drug, and his ideas are forward-looking. His former boss and his The pig-headed boss couldn't see his value, so he gave him humiliating ratings and fake comments every year during the evaluation, as if they really cared.

He originally thought that Wayne Enterprises would be different, how to put it - that's Wayne!A world-renowned large enterprise!If it was Wayne Enterprises, they would definitely see what kind of profit his research would bring.

but not.

Just like those other idiots, they kicked him out with just a few black and white personnel files.He was not even allowed to take away all the research materials, because he had signed a non-disclosure agreement.He had begged, brought all his research reports to the directors of Wayne Pharmaceuticals without dignity, and begged them to give him a chance, and he was even willing to give up all rights to the research results.He even tried to beg Bruce Wayne!That travel must be accompanied by a young model with big breasts and thin waist, the Gotham sweetheart who collects luxury cars as model cars.

He still doesn't know if his letter of petition has reached Bruce Wayne.

None of this matters anymore.He has the secret weapon to win. Those who have trampled on him now have to bow to him and live by his face.

Thinking about it this way, Henry felt a lot happier, and even the ugly gargoyle on the Wayn Tower looked much more pleasing to the eye.As for the little side effect of the secret weapon, how could Mr. Powell, a winner in life, not have the resources to deal with this annoying fly?

"Cathy, dear." Henry put through his assistant. "That British exorcist, Kang or something, have you contacted him yet? Tell him he can make any price... what? Don't make excuses, a big Is it possible for a living person to disappear? Well, let’s get them too, oh! I heard that Asians also have exorcisms? Find two people with names and surnames, I don’t want to be a clown. Go go go go .”

After hanging up the call, the wealthy Belgian businessman cursed at "unreliable magic stick", turned around and prepared to leave the night breeze on the balcony to enjoy a warm half-body bath.

If it wasn't for the two masked reflections on the french doors to stop him.

"Ah... I forgot about this damn city and these freaks." Henry muttered and turned around, looking impatiently at Nightwing and Robin squatting on the railing of his balcony, "what's the matter ? I’m just here for business travel, nothing illegal.”

"Of course, Mr. Powell." It was Ye Yi who spoke. Unlike Robin with a bad face next to him, the older vigilante asked in a very friendly tone, "We have some minor problems and need your assistance."

"No problem, I have always admired the vigilantes who sacrificed their lives for justice. Come in." Powell opened the French doors, and with a fake smile on his face, he let Nightwing and Robin into the room.

"Gentlemen, I don't know what I can do to help you two?" Henry got a glass of red wine and handed it to the elderly vigilante in a very hostile manner. After getting the expected rejection, he drank it on his own.

"We came here for a contract." This time it was Robin who spoke. The serious look of the young man who hadn't changed his voice seemed to Henry to be pretending to be an adult.

"I'm afraid you have to be more precise, kid." Robin obviously doesn't like being called a kid, and Henry felt that he was greatly pleased when he saw the young man wanting to refute but had to hold back, "I'm a big drug As the operator of the factory, we sign contracts with many people every day. But I can assure you that if there is any illegal activity involved in this, I am very happy to cooperate with you. I am a good businessman who abides by the law.”

"It's not the contract of 'Powell Pharmaceuticals', but yours——Henry Powell's contract." Ye Yi's explanation with a smile on his face washed away all the joy that Henry had just accumulated.

"What? Sorry, I don't quite understand..." Henry tried to look confused, and he almost succeeded if he was facing someone else instead of two vigilantes who were prepared.

Ye Yi seemed to want to say something more, but was elbowed away by Robin: "Don't bullshit you two, you will be tired after reading it. You, what is the content of your contract with the devil, and how long will it expire?"

To describe Henry's face as "as if struck by lightning" would be an understatement.He's basically struck by lightning and then dragged around the back of a car, a "messy broken doll" to put it bluntly.

"I... I don't know what you are talking about, you are crazy! I know you vigilantes are also crazy!" Henry raised his head and poured all the red wine in the glass, and was about to touch the mobile phone in his pocket As soon as Ye Yi grabbed his wrist.

"What are you doing! What are you going to do! I haven't done anything illegal! You can't arrest me!" Henry struggled to get rid of Ye Yi, but the young vigilante didn't intend to let him go at all, instead he was half dragged Pull Henry to the front of the sofa, and sit down on his shoulder.

"Relax, Mr. Powell. We're not here to arrest you, but to help you." Ye Yi watched as Henry shrank himself into the corner of the sofa, raised his hands in a gesture of surrender commonly used all over the world, and slowly fall back.

"To be clear, we are here to help you solve the problem of vicious dogs." Robin said with a mocking smile, "If you are in a hurry to find exorcism experts all over the world, I guess the magic cast by the Fairy Godmother is about to arrive." Time. Oh, or should I say Demon Godmother?"

Henry swallowed nervously, staring at Ye Yi and Robin for a while, scratching subconsciously on the sofa with his ten fingers, and finally clenched into fists.

"You...know how to deal with that...that thing?" Henry looked at the vigilantes dubiously.

"Before you talk about that, why don't you tell me how long you have?" Robin grabbed an apple from the hotel's welcome fruit plate and tossed it in his hand, as if he was on an outing to save Henry's life Just by the way, "we deal with it differently depending on how tight the time is."

"About... half a month? About? I don't know, I didn't count the dates seriously!" By the end Henry was already a little hysterical, "At first I wasn't even sure if it was a hallucination or I was dreaming, okay? , and then all of a sudden everything changed, and I started to believe that maybe I wasn't dreaming, and the devil remembered the exact date!"

"Calm down, start from the beginning, what happened at the beginning that made you think it was a hallucination?" Dick pulled a high-backed chair from the side, and sat in front of Henry with the back of the chair in his arms.Robin is still idling, but the recording device in the universal pocket is recording Henry's story verbatim.

"Ten years ago, Wayne Enterprises acquired my original company, and then they fired me. A bunch of blind people..." Henry was about to start scolding Wayne Enterprises when an apple was thrown at his face, Henry was in a hurry It was only by lying down on the sofa that it barely avoided the Apple attack.

"Robin!" Ye Yi turned around and gave the boy who was making faces at him a reproachful look.

"We all know this, fast forward to the devil's trade... Hurry up, hurry up, time is running out." Robin smiled at Henry with two rows of big white teeth, and reached out to grab another apple from the fruit plate.

"At first I really didn't know that these demons were real, I just...wanted to try! It's like high school students playing Ouija boards." Henry licked his lips and stammered on. The day he saw the devil, "I came from a small town, and the whole town raised cows to make cheese, the kind of place you city kids can't imagine. The old people in the town would tell these ghost stories, Goblins in the woods, summoning demons, evil gods haunting... In short, there is a saying that witches will put the bones of black cats, the soil on graves and their portraits in boxes, and then bury them somewhere to summon them. Demons are their servants."

"So that's what you did? Then the demon showed up?" Nightwing didn't sound too convinced that someone could summon a demon from a childhood ghost story.

"Of course not, I did research! What if the devil eats me as soon as it comes out? I did some research and took some protective measures... I brought a Bible and a cross, just in case - I also went to get voodoo amulets and divine water from Asian temples." Henry retorted Ye Yi with a kind of anger that his IQ was insulted, "I did it according to the legend, black cat bones, grave soil, I just replaced the portrait with a photograph and buried the box at the intersection."

"Wait, why is it an intersection?" Robin tilted his head curiously, and Henry couldn't figure out why this annoying kid could make such a cute move.Isn't this against the law?

"That famous legend, the legendary blues singer? Robert Johnson, the crossroads blues? The blues of me and the devil?" Henry watched the two vigilantes tilt their heads at the same time, and began to suspect that these two seemed to be amateurs. Is the guy reliable, "Don't you young people listen to music?"

"Uh, Whitney Houston?" Nightwing tried to give an example, in exchange for a second apple attack, "Robin!"

"Focus, you two! I don't care about your music taste, devil! Thank you!" Robin simply carried the whole fruit plate on his lap.

"It's clearly the intersection you asked about... Forget it," Henry shrank back to the corner of the sofa under the threat of Robin raising his hand to the fruit plate, and told the story dutifully, "When I just buried things, there was nothing It happened, and then suddenly a woman appeared. I guarantee that there will be no one there before she appears. I specially chose to go there when there was no one in the middle of the night. It was a very remote path, and no normal person would be there. Walking around, and I didn't see any headlights. She just showed up out of nowhere and knew my name."

"This woman, what does she look like?"

"I don't remember clearly, it's just... very beautiful, and... oh, her eyes will turn red, including the white part of the eyes." Henry narrowed his eyes and thought carefully about that day ten years ago , "She said I can have anything, just tell her, she can give me everything."

"What did you ask her for? Money? Start-up capital for you to start a company?"

"No, it's not money. If all I wanted was money, I wouldn't have rejected the severance package offered by Wayne Enterprises! I can't be paid by money!" Henry beat the sofa with his fist angrily, "I want... …I want revenge, yes, that's what I said. I want Wayne, who humiliated me, to regret that he didn't keep me. I said that, and then...then..."

"Then what happened? She took out the contract and asked you to sign it with blood?"

"She kissed me." Henry said blankly, eyes as if dreaming, "Well, I'm pretty sure she kissed me, and then... she disappeared. I thought I was hallucinating, so I drove back I went to sleep at home. After that I continued to fight with Wayne Enterprises, then they filed a lawsuit and I was given a restraining order from Wayne Pharmaceuticals. But all of a sudden I got a call asking if I should go to their place For the interview, I have never heard of this company, and I have not submitted a resume, they said they saw me on the news."

"Wait, let me tidy up." Nightwing made a pause gesture, "You chirp with the devil, go home and continue protesting against Wayne Enterprises, and then you'll have a job at your door."

"Uh, right?" Henry thought for a while, nodded and said that's the way it is, "I started from the business and went to the hospital to sell new drugs. It went so smoothly, and I became a million-dollar salesman in the company within a year .At the beginning, I didn’t think about the devil. When I started to want to be my own boss, everything went so smoothly that I started to feel that something was wrong. Maybe I wasn’t dreaming that night. But I Tried going back to that crossroads, waited all night, the woman didn't show up again, so I didn't think about it - who would say that life is too good! Now I can compete with Wayne And I'm pretty sure I'll be the winner this time!"

"It's a pity that your victory day is likely to be your death day. It's a pity." Henry wanted to point to Robin's nose and shout that you don't look regretful at all, but his guts are obviously not enough to support him to make such a move kind of move.

"Otherwise why do you think I'm here? I've been following the Gotham news and when they started reporting strange animal attacks, I started seeing strange shadows too! Like a black dog from the boss! Wait for me My exorcist team is here, I'm going to kill that monster, and life will go on." Henry puffed up his chest, trying to make himself look confident, but his cold sweat and the trembling in his voice gave him away, "That's all I know, what do we do now?"

"No, there's no 'us' here, you stay here obediently, let's go find a way to get rid of this black dog brother."

Nightwing and Robin both walked to the balcony where they came in, and Robin was still holding a fruit plate in his hand.

"Robin, put down that plate of fruit." Yeyi flicked Robin's wrist lightly, and jumped out of the balcony first.

"Stingy." Robin casually put the fruit plate on the cabinet next to him, but still walked away with the last apple, "Be good, Henry." With the apple in his mouth, the boy followed the footsteps of the blue vigilante and jumped to Late night in Gotham.

Henry rushed to the balcony in three steps at a time and leaned out half of his body to look around. There was no other movement except the stream of lights under his feet.

"Hell, are they human!"

Could it be the bird fairy that grandma said!