The Death Knell

Just as Su Ming said, Diana did come back soon and brought Amazon guards to maintain order in the city.

But ever since she found the location of the death knell, she had been staring at him without saying a word, expressionless.

"Are you going to ask about Donna? I heard it from Constantine, but I'm not sure it's true. I wanted to confirm it after I went back and tell you."

Su Ming held the tea cup. Under his sharp eyes, the black tea seemed to suddenly lose its fragrance.

"stare......"

Diana still remained silent, but her eyes were full of complaints and grievances. Her sister was missing and was suspected to have been kidnapped by the madman from the Laughing Bat.

So Deathstroke ended up having afternoon tea with someone else here?

Although she herself has lived in the UK for decades, she knows that some people have this habit, such as Vivian and Xanadu, both of whom have lived in the UK for hundreds of years.

But you, Deathstroke, are not British!

"The Laughing Bat captured her for use. If she is valuable, she will not be given up easily. She is currently safe."

Putting down the tea cup, Su Ming explained again and pushed the snacks on the picnic cloth towards Diana. Mrs. Xanadu had lived for so many years and her skill in making snacks was indeed quite good.

"stare....."

Diana still didn't speak, and just stared at Su Ming without looking at anyone else. The atmosphere was quite awkward, and no one else knew what to say.

Vivian looked at Muni with questioning eyes, but Mrs. Xanadu rolled her eyes and said that she didn't know what was going on. She hadn't been to the Hall of Justice for a long time.

Although it seems that Wonder Woman and this otherworldly Deathstroke have a story, who knows what the story is.

Anyway, if it continues like this, it should be a horror story about a resentful woman and an innocent soul seeking her life, right?

There were birds flying not far away, landing on the lake to drink water, and looking at the people here furtively. Maybe they sensed something was wrong in the atmosphere. They quickly fluttered their wings and flew away, leaving a trace on the mirror-like lake. Light ripples in circles.

Su Ming sighed, he knew what Diana meant.

"Okay, after dealing with Circe, we can go rescue Donna. Is this okay? Don't worry, even if Arthur falls into the hands of the alien Poseidon, I can rescue him intact. The Laughing Bat is not god."

Wonder Woman then sat down, pushed Wade away who was in the way, and sat next to Deathstroke. She picked up the cup in front of Su Ming, drank all the black tea with one tilt of her neck, and seemed to have drank something strong. A touch of wine.

She lifted her hair and clenched her fists, looking worried: "But he is Batman."

"Ugh... I've killed several Batmans." Su Ming looked at the empty teacup and decided to smoke: "Have some confidence in me, I'm the strongest mercenary."

"Yes, Wonder Woman, even if you don't have confidence in him, DC's strongest mercenary, there is still me, Marvel's strongest." Wade's head popped up from between the two of them, and he said with a smile. , and he patted his chest generously: "Just settle with gold coins. I can accept drachma gold coins."

Diana covered her nose. After Wade's uniform was soaked in water, his whole body smelled like the panda house in the zoo.

Su's cousin smelled like some kind of scavenging beast. She couldn't understand anything about DC or Marvel, but since Deadpool looked like he was going to help, she nodded to him in a friendly manner.

Su Ming pushed Wade's head away and looked at Madam Xanadu again: "Okay, she's back. Which one of you sisters will come?"

"I'll do it." Muni made a move, and her tarot cards appeared out of thin air in her hands. She put the cards on the cloth: "Just treat it as a reward for saving me. There is no charge this time. Diana, concentrate on Cut the cards.”

Diana curled her lips. She felt a toothache when she thought of Madam Xanadu's divination answers. Every time the riddles seemed to mock her IQ, she didn't like it very much.

But she had to deal with Circe before she could save Donna, so how to find Circe was the question she should ask, and it was the key at the moment.

She reached out and carefully divided the cards into three piles, then stacked them again.

Seeing that she had finished cutting the cards, Mrs. Xanadu stretched out a finger and pressed it on the back of the cards: "Now, silently recite the question you want to ask in your heart. There is only one question. Don't ask it a second time. Be convinced in your heart. "

While speaking in an erratic tone, Mrs. Xanadu rolled her eyes and pushed the cards one by one with her fingers. Twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana were arranged in a six-pointed star array, a total of seven cards.

Next it’s time to open the cards.

I have to say, the way Muni rolled her eyes, swayed from side to side and chattered, she really looked like a charlatan. The magic floating cloak didn't feel any magic flow. Can this really tell fortunes?

But all the cards were still turned over, and everyone's eyes were focused on the cards, with different patterns and different positions.

The others were just watching the excitement. Except for the Invincible Ibis, who knew a little bit of sedge divination, the other people's magic had nothing in common with tarot divination.

Muni, who was crossing her legs, held her chin with her hand, looking at the turned cards and thinking, and at the same time she was explaining something in a low voice, but she didn't know whether she was telling others or herself.

"Temperance, Tower, Chariot, Magician..." Observing the deck, Madam Xanadu was silent for a while, then raised her head and looked at Diana: "You are doubting yourself, both wisdom and emotion. There are doubts in every aspect, but he already has the answer. His judgment is correct. The upright wheel of fortune represents the right time, and the hermit and the star mean that you can reach your goal through the most intelligent means. But hurry, she is leaving, and once we lose her trace this time, you will all die the next time we meet."

"There's no need for the last sentence. You fortune tellers, cursing people to death is an occupational disease."

Su Ming waved his hand and interrupted her. He had seen a lot in his previous life, such as blackening of the hall and bloody disasters. The monks and Taoists on the overpass would all do this.

Madam Xanadu did not refute, just smiled and shrugged. The reason why she asked Diana to calculate was because she did not see the fate of this death knell at all.

It was as if this person appeared out of thin air, or had died long ago. He carried the aura of 'death' on his body and was walking an unknown path.

Such people cannot be counted, just like herself.

After she used tarot cards to win back her life from 'death' 1,200 years ago, she could no longer predict what would happen to her.

Diana looked confused and her eyes were about to turn into mosquito coils. This time Madam Xanadu made it very clear and even explained each card.

However, I still can’t understand it...

"Let's go, I know what to do." Su Ming stood up and said goodbye politely to the mages present. Suddenly he remembered something and said to Vivian: "The Fairy of the Lake can do some calculations with water fortune. Where is Donna? Since you are here, let’s just ask her once and for all to avoid running back and forth.”

McGeeken, who had been watching with cold eyes, then interjected: "She can't calculate it. Diana and Donna have no blood relationship. Water fortune-telling requires connected items."

"If it's true what Satan said, you don't have her personal belongings or blood, so I can't count it." Vivian showed an embarrassed expression. Although it was true, it didn't taste like it when it came from the devil's mouth.

"Ask me, I know!" Wade popped up again: "I know where the lair of the Laughing Bat is. It's in Gotham. Some viewers told me."

Su Ming hit him on the head, turned around and left with Diana: "Don't push things that you can guess with a little effort on the non-existent audience! Who hasn't guessed that Batman is in Gotham? But Gotham It’s so big, where exactly is the Laughing Bat hiding?”

"Butcher Swamp, in a small broken house, he also has a big jar." Wade told his cousin as always, treating the auditory hallucinations as if they were real.

"Even if he was here before, he must be gone now." Su Ming shook his head with a calm expression: "The Laughing Bat showed me a long time ago that he has the ability to climb over the wall. I don't know whether it is true or not. But if someone is really behind you Whisper in your ear, be careful that the person reporting the point is himself, never underestimate Batman..."