novelraw Chapter 239 Missing
Chapter 239 Missing
In the bat cave, Alfred was sitting in front of the bat computer, wearing a communicator, almost turning into a statue.
Harley said that if everything goes well, she will inform Ah Fu as soon as possible.
"It's been too long, I'm going to have a look." Clark stood up from the chair, "I can't hear that dark wizard's heartbeat anymore."
He didn't dare to say, a few minutes ago, Harry's weak heartbeat also suddenly disappeared.
Ah Fu hesitated briefly, "Be careful, it may be the magic that confuses you, if something is wrong, you must come back immediately."
Clark promised A Fu, with super speed, he almost rushed to the cave on the outskirts of Gotham in the blink of an eye.
And it was quiet here, and the infrasound waves that gave him a slight headache were gone.
Yet he saw Joe only in the shadows of the cave, save for the dark wizard's dead body.
"Joe, Joe..." He carried his son into the sunlight outside the cave, and tapped on the communicator with Ah Fu.
"I found Joe," Afu's gratifying blessing came in his ear, but it made it harder for Clark to say what he said next.
"I'm sorry, Alfred... Halle and the clone are gone."
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On the other side, in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula, in that strange "dream" that seems to be magical, Bruce and Damian are in a stalemate.
Of course Bruce rejected Damian's frantic suggestion, "I don't think death will be the key to getting out of this illusion."
Damian wanted to argue, but suddenly, all surreal creations disappeared.They instantly returned to the original desert.Or, they never left?
"Some critical reversal must have occurred," Bruce took out the communicator with Ah Fu and fiddled with it for a while, needing time to recover.
He commanded the Flash, "You, hurry back to Gotham, since the communicator between the four of us is still working. Me, Robin and Wonder Woman, continue to check the situation near the Assassin League base."
The Flash ran away in a blink of an eye after making a "salute", and Bruce led the team to move on.
But beside a huge gravel, he met Talia Ogu who was waiting here.
"Mother." Damian greeted lightly.
"Why are you here?" Thalia pointed at Bruce, holding out her long knife.Of course there was a team of assassins standing behind, "Because of the accident at Lazarus Pool?"
"If that person gets a resurrection method, he will become an uncontrollable threat." If he can create an illusion in which the heroes are firmly trapped, he can use this trick to subdue most of the Zhenglian, Bruce Of course, this threat will not be allowed to act recklessly.
"The Justice League doesn't need to extend its tentacles so far," Talia sneered, and said proudly: "We defeated him—the dark wizard you mentioned."
"... When did it happen?"
"Two days ago."
"But my intelligence shows that it's today," Bruce suddenly realized, "Ah...magic." This wizard manipulated the timeline of the Batcave with some kind of magic?Or cut off his signal?
This further confirmed the speculation that Riddle's move was to "tune the tiger away from the mountain".
"Is there a loss for League of Assassins and Lazarus Pool? I need to know, Thalia, this is not a game." Bruce asked.
"No, of course not, Bruce." Thalia said indifferently: "The defense force of the Assassin League will not be unable to resist a crappy wizard."
She was too quick to deny.
"So you should leave, otherwise we will have a war." Thalia's attitude of seeing off the guests was very firm.
"She didn't tell me everything," Bruce whispered to Damian.
At this point the communicator between him and The Flash rang, "Hey... Batman, come back too. There's something new going on here in Gotham. The good news is - that wizard is dead, so we're out of it." Dreams; bad news...uh..."
"Harry is missing." Barry, who spoke quickly, paused, "The one who disappeared is... the clone from back then."
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The aging light bulb in the bathroom kept flickering, as if it would go out in the next second.
Clone Z quietly observed himself in the mirror of the sink by the flickering light.Green eyes, bushy eyebrows... all the facial details, in essence, did not belong to him.
At this moment, he is hiding in an abandoned hidden base that the League of Assassins once set up in Gotham.Because this location must still have records in the files of the Assassin League, it is not safe here, and he is in danger of being captured by Madam Thalia at any time—provided she still thinks he is useful. Z sneered at himself from the mirror, with Mrs. Talia's habit, she would definitely kill him directly.
Why give him a second chance?
Since Lady Thalia will keep making new ones of him?
No...it's not the new him... Z rested his hands on the sink, lowered his head and continued to sneer...
"The new him"?This kind of wishful thinking like the Arabian Nights.
No, including himself, is just the new "Damian Wayne".Mrs. Thalia has emphasized this to him countless times in his short life of less than three years.
About two years ago, shortly after he was "made".That night, looking at the green-eyed girl lying under him, he had the idea of "wanting something that belongs to him" for the first time, but she... still belonged to Damian.
He is just a substitute, a chess piece that will give way at any time when the rightful owner arrives.
He didn't know if it was the so-called "love" - he was implanted by the computer with various human social norms, historical common sense, and scientific knowledge during the "growing period" - "love" is of course one of them, Classified by Lady Thalia under "useless and cumbersome emotions".
But she was trembling. His combat experience told him that the girl under him was experiencing extreme fear.He later learned that what he did to her that night was completely unforgivable.
That night was his enlightenment night, and he swore that from then on, he would never continue to be the shadow of "Damian Wayne".
He learns, he fights.Proving his worth and apparent "loyalty" to Mrs. Thalia in exchange for her tolerance for his occasional blunders - he can't die yet, he has higher, more secretive ambitions.
Two days ago, when the League of Assassins was attacked, he decisively seized his own opportunity and escaped from the League of Assassins.Who would have thought, but was controlled by that black wizard.
After 48 hours of ignorance, when he finally regained consciousness again, he saw her fighting the black wizard to the death in great pain.
She couldn't last long, he heard her talking about a golden cup, and he happened to know where that cup was...
He thought he would definitely die in that cave, beside her.It was nothing, it was better than all the ways of death he had imagined.
"No...you...you use..."
He never imagined that she would use life-saving medicine to save himself.If he could lift his hand, he would definitely push her away.
"Shh, I'll be fine in a while..." She crawled over, groping with her little hands, trying to give him an injection.
There was darkness in front of his eyes, and he didn't know what happened next.
I don't know a few minutes later, maybe only a few tens of seconds, he suddenly woke up.
The cave was still silent, the Superman boy hadn't woken up, and no one came to find them.
She lay still, and for a second he felt the world collapse, until he saw the slight heaving of her chest—and her breathing.
Now, in the gloomy bathroom of the base, he asks himself, why did he run away with her?
This base was built underground, with the same configuration as the global bases of the League of Assassins. It was also covered with a layer of lead, and only here could escape Superman's hearing that could almost cover the whole world.
Who can he run past?Maybe he can hide from Superman, but what about Batman and Damian Wayne?And the lingering League of Assassins...he will lead her to a dead end.
And most importantly, when she wakes up, how will she treat him?
He was distractedly reviewing himself when there was a rustling sound from the simple bedroom next door.
He swallowed—the retribution will always come.No matter what she wanted to do with him, berate him, fight him, hand him over to the police, hand him over to Batman...he wouldn't fight back, he'd accept it.
He walked into the bedroom, and she was covering her head, sitting on the single bed, clutching the thin blanket with one hand, still wearing the dirty top and shorts from the cave.
She heard his footsteps and looked over with green eyes.This look made his heart almost jump out of his chest.
But she was not surprised, not afraid, just confused...
"Who are you?" she asked.
Her calm demeanor and posture are absolutely impossible to pretend.
Shocked, poured down like cold water.
She... forgot something.
Fortunately, with great guilt, all kinds of complicated emotions came to him - fortunate that she would no longer hate him or be afraid of him; factor related.
Everything needs to be re-planned.
"I'm...your friend." He said slowly, his vocal cords dry and hoarse from not using them for a long time.
"You... fighting... your body is dirty." He took a deep breath, still not used to the reality of finally being able to have a peaceful conversation with her.
"I can't wash it for you," he pointed awkwardly in a certain direction outside the bedroom door, "the bathroom... I just cleaned it."
"You don't talk often, do you?" She still supported her head, "You haven't told me your name yet."
The clone has no name, never has, only a number, his number is "Z".Later, on the basis of his successful case, Mrs. Thalia produced Z-001 and Z-002. Of course, both 001 and 002 were deformed later.
Even if Mrs. Thalia killed two geneticists, she couldn't find out why.
Of course he didn't want Damian's name.
She also looked at him curiously, waiting for his name.
"Z..." He blurted out nervously.
"Only Z? Cool..." She shrugged, seeming to shake the back of her head, frowning in pain.
"No...Zachary," he added, the first name beginning with a Z that came to his mind,* "You...you can call me Zach."
"Okay, nice to meet you, I'm..." She showed a confused expression, "Uh, I found out... I can't remember who I am either."
"You hurt your head." He wanted to approach her bed, but stopped halfway because of hesitation, "Your name... Harriet Potter."
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*The adult Shazam actor is named Zachary Levi, a name currently ranked 90th most popular among baby boys in the US according to babynames.com.
Zac Efron's Zac, full name is also Zachary