New Gods of North America

The little girl continued to do her homework over there.

Wayne continued to walk around and talk with Damon MacCready.

This time it was Wayne's turn to take the lead. "We have promised to do our best to solve the problem of Emma's future shelter and education. What about our requirements?"

Damon MacCready seemed to have thought of the answer in advance:

"I will look for an opportunity in the next few days to arrange an appointment with the Life School contact who was responsible for the transaction with me. If there is another mastermind behind him, I can disguise myself as him and try to help you find the person. But I may only be able to do this step."

"Can you transform into other people?" Wayne asked.

Damon MacCready nodded:

"My extraordinary ability can probably be called 'mimicry'. I can change into the other person's appearance by touching their body. The duration of each time is no longer than 24 hours.

"During this process, the volume of my body can be 'compressed' or 'expanded' appropriately, but there is a limit. When the volume is 'compressed', my physical energy and physique will increase accordingly, and vice versa."

Wayne thought for a moment, "If this is the image you have disguised yourself before, can you change it again?"

"No. Every time I change my form, I need to touch the target's body."

Hmm...

Although it has limitations, I feel it can still be useful in certain situations.

It's a pity that this guy is a stubborn donkey.

"Then you should contact the other party as soon as possible. Try to choose a relatively remote location that is suitable for our ambush." ​​Wayne said.

"I have already contacted them. In fact, on the way back from your detective agency, I sent a letter and left my contact information, asking them to come to George Berg first and take Emma away. From the perspective of completing the transaction, they have no reason to refuse the 'hostage'."

"Do we still have to take the little girl with us then? That's not a good idea, right?" Wayne asked.

Damon MacCready shook his head. "The other party only knows that Emma is my companion's 'daughter', but does not know Emma's exact age and appearance. You can arrange for a lady to go with me to negotiate. Or you can dress up as me and I can pretend to be a lady."

"Let's decide after the other party takes the bait." Wayne thought for a moment, "By the way, Emma should also be a Beyonder? What are her Beyonders?"

"Emma's extraordinary ability allows her to return to her 'original state'. This may sound a bit abstract, but she can make her body 'melt' like wax - this is just a metaphor - and then 'solidify' into her original appearance. As long as her body parts are not separated or 'changed', her recovery ability is still relatively strong."

Wow, that sounds like it would work better than my own healing abilities.

I just don't know how efficient she is in utilizing her spiritual power. The extraordinary ability involving "form transformation" should consume spiritual power.

However, Damon MacCready seemed a little worried about Emma's extraordinary abilities:

"However, it is precisely because of the influence of her extraordinary ability that Emma's body cannot grow naturally. She needs to absorb the spiritual power of the 'life' field, or absorb certain special nutrients in nature to grow. She is quite concerned about the fact that she cannot grow taller, so she may sneak out sometimes.

"Apart from her relatively good recovery ability, she is actually no different from an ordinary little girl. If part of her body is 'lost', her size will even shrink after she recovers to her original size, returning to her previous size."

Wayne understood, "I understand. We will pay attention to it when protecting her in the future. As for her 'growth', we can only think of a way to deal with it slowly in the future."

I feel like it's a little easier than other kids.

At least if other children are missing limbs, it’s not something that can be fixed by just picking them up or “try to pick up the bigger pieces”.

The two just finished chatting.

The little girl ran over excitedly holding up her notebook, waiting to be praised, "Mr. Wayne, I have already finished the question."

So fast?!

Wayne took the notebook and took a quick look at it. Although the problem-solving process seemed much more complicated than the standard answer, there was no problem with the idea and the answer was correct.

If you're like that, I'm going to step up my game.

While praising Emma's mathematical talent, Wayne asked her for a pen and wrote down the more concise standard answer:

"There is actually a simpler solution to this problem. You can go back and take a look."

Then Wayne also wrote down a more difficult "competition question" he had seen at the back, "I have another question here, which should also have several solutions. You can try it again. However, the simplest solution to this question requires you to think about it yourself."

If this problem was solved by brute force, it would probably take several pages of paper using calculus. Wayne thought it should be enough for the little girl to entertain herself for a while.

As for why I won't tell her the simplest solution later...

Please,

This is something Wayne had casually seen when he was looking for information online. He was lucky enough to remember a few questions and answers. He didn't even bother to look at the standard answers in detail...

…

After having someone send Emma back to the detective agency,

With the "hostage" in hand, Wayne simply let Damon MacCready disguise himself as Doug, so that there would be one more person to protect Mr. Ben Harmon and to confirm his sincerity in cooperation.

At this time, the intelligence of Doug's birds became apparent.

Without Doug using his extraordinary abilities, the pigeons were the sharpest at distinguishing the two people. The parrot seemed to think that both of them were real. As for the owl, it looked confused with its eyes wide open no matter who it looked at. No one knew what it was thinking.

Although Lina knew that there was a new little girl in the detective agency, she was not very interested in her at the moment.

After she missed the maid disguised as Damon MacCready last night due to her bad relationship with Mrs. Harmon,

She had been reflecting on her mistakes over the past two days, and she didn't know what magic she had used, but she had actually succeeded in turning "enemies into friends" with Mrs. Harmon. She was busy finding out all kinds of gossip in George Berg's circle, and even asked about the landlord of the detective agency's two failed marriages.

Mr. Ben Harmon was really sick - the ointment that Damon MacCready applied was not a poison, so there was naturally no so-called "antidote". Although the dose Mr. Ben Harmon drank was not much due to timely discovery, he still felt a little dizzy and had a fever.

Then three days passed in a flash.

Damon MacCready gave Wayne the news after reading a small advertisement in the newspaper:

“The other party has come to Georgeburg and left his contact information.

"I'm going to write a letter now and I'm going to ask a newsboy or something to help deliver it. Do you want to find an opportunity to come to his house and do it, or do you want me to ask him out?"