The Death Knell

"Snapped!"

There was a crisp sound not far away. It might be that the cable was broken by the wind, or it might be that the rain short-circuited the transformer box. A cluster of sparks and a wisp of smoke suddenly appeared from the Wayne Group light box above them, and it went out. .

The wisp of smoke was quickly dispersed by the rain and disappeared. The two just raised their heads and looked at the darkened billboard without saying anything.

The surroundings became dark, except for the butts of the two men's cigars, which were still shining brightly.

Su Ming thought for a moment and decided to speak first: "I come from a parallel world. What is the situation in Gotham now?"

The other party is also Death Knell. This news can tell her that when the information cannot be used in operations, she will not spread or betray the news.

Just like Batman has collected information on the weaknesses of all the superheroes on the earth in order to be able to solve the problem immediately if they go dark.

This news is a kind of strategic reserve. Su Ming can use this news to prove his sincerity without worrying about future troubles in the short term.

As long as no one paid her to kill him, the secret was relatively safe with her.

Deathstroke and Batman know each other's true identity, but due to their respective principles, Batman will not attack Deathstroke when he has not committed a crime, and some things will not appear without evidence even if he knows that Deathstroke did it.

As it happens, Deathstroke has always been neat and tidy in his work.

And Deathstroke will not attack Batman's true identity, Bruce Wayne, because the Wayne Group is too rich, and Bruce's life is also very valuable. Even if he doesn't have tens of billions, Deathstroke still decides to keep Bruce's head with him. On my neck, maybe one day I can withdraw cash?

Just like the Joker, he actually knows Batman's true identity, but he just wants to play with bats, not that boring billionaire.

However, this does not prevent him from kidnapping people around Bruce. From the butler Afu to Bruce's girlfriends, they have all been kidnapped by the Joker and forced Batman to come out and play games with him.

There are also a lot of villains who know the identity of Batman, including Black Mask, Silence, Bane, etc., just because the symbol of Gotham City is Batman. Only by defeating Batman can he prove that he rules Gotham, and defeating no one Bruce, dressed as a bat, can only say that he defeated a rich playboy...

Deathstroke is attached to the dark side of this society, so he must also protect the existence of this society.

Whether there are people who want to destroy the earth, or people who don't play by the dark rules, these are Deathstroke's enemies.

In the comics, every time an alien boss invades the earth, it will cause chaos. At this time, gangsters will take the opportunity to rob a bank or jewelry store, and even ordinary people will go to roadside stores to carry a TV home. , anyway, don’t give it up, superheroes are busy.

But among those who take the opportunity to cause trouble for superheroes, Deathstroke will definitely not be there. On many occasions, Deathstroke has helped the heroes solve aliens and invaders from other worlds, and participated in settling world-wide crises. No money was confiscated.

However, when the crisis is over and the world is safe, Deathstroke will continue his mercenary business. Any superhero who gets in the way will just say, do it!

"Well, I've probably guessed that you have good abilities, but I've never heard of a person like you."

Cindy was holding a cigarette in her mouth. The sound of rain drowned out her voice, but Su Ming heard it clearly.

"Have you met people from parallel worlds before?"

He asked her, the two of them stood side by side, both looking at the bat lights in the distance, twisting and turning on the dark clouds.

"A poor man, wearing a bank robber's cloth hood and using an old-fashioned gun. He is old and his health is deteriorating, but he is here to kill..."

Cindy said indifferently, even though she was speaking of pity, there was no expression on her face.

"Did he ever say why he came to this world? And how he left?"

Su Ming also wanted to leave. Although the days before were very boring,... at least in the original world, his motherland had a peaceful and stable society and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. He could find a safe place to rest.

There will never be an alien invasion one day, nor will there be anything beyond common sense like super villains.

"He said that a criminal group called the 'Syndicate' killed his children. He found a way to follow them as they traveled around the world, trying to find an opportunity to kill the enemy... Unfortunately, he did not succeed in the end. . Our world is ruled by the Amazon Council. The high degree of centralization represents faster reaction speed and stronger power. The invaders from the parallel world were quickly beaten away. They returned to their own world and turned off time and space. Door, the old man will naturally go back."

"Did the Justice League defeat them? Wait, is there a Justice League in your world?"

Su Ming thought for a moment and decided to ask this question, because before he traveled through time, DC had just updated the new DC Universe event-"Metal". If there is no Justice League, it means that this is the Dark Multiverse. A reflection of the multiverse of light.

They are universes made of dark matter, just like the two sides of a coin, but because of the nature of the world, everything that happens here is darker than the ordinary DC parallel universe.

If this was Earth 11, then nothing big would happen, and the living environment would be much more relaxed. As long as you don't provoke the Amazon Council and the female version of the Justice League, you can make money comfortably.

But if Earth is minus 11, there will be big trouble. This is a world with no other superheroes, only Batgirl and countless villains.

At the same time, it is a world on the verge of destruction. In the future, the entire world will be flooded due to the war between Batwoman and Atlantis. The only survivor is Batgirl who has transformed herself.

The cause of the matter was actually the bat.

A land and sea war broke out between Atlantis and the Amazons. Regarding the struggle for hegemony in this world, Bliss collected intelligence and believed that this was caused by the excessive ambition of the Sea Queen Arthur, who had anti-government ambitions. Home is also a potential threat, so she goes out to capture the Sea Queen and imprison her in Arkham.

The Atlanteans raided the waters near Paradise Island under the guise of peace talks, and Bliss took the opportunity to capture the Sea Queen.

However, during the fight between the two, Bliss, who was unfamiliar with underwater combat, accidentally killed her. Afterwards, the Atlanteans of course chose to retaliate and immediately triggered a tsunami through unknown means, completely destroying Gotham.

Gotham was gone, and all of Bliss's relatives and friends died. She went crazy for revenge and specially modified her body to become a superpower with water-related superpowers such as underwater breathing, seawater control, and high-speed swimming. Demon, and changed his name to - Drowned!

In the comics, she won the final war by controlling her infinitely replicable liquid monster pet 'Dead Water'.

It was a pity that at that time, all kinds of disasters caused by the long-term battles caused no other life on the earth. She made a bat lantern by herself, which shined from the bottom of the sea to the sea. It was the last light of minus 11 on this earth. .....

Batwoman Bliss Vayne is the destined daughter of this world and the only person destined to survive.

No, in fact, Batwoman died the day Gotham was flooded, and it was no longer her who survived, but the horrific supervillain who drowned.

After destroying the world, she will follow the advice of the Laughing Bat, join the Dark Knights, and go to the multiverse of light to destroy many worlds.

"What Justice League? The name doesn't sound like a rock band." Cindy smiled disdainfully: "It's annoying enough to have an Amazon Council pressing down on your head. What kind of idol group do you want to form?"

Su Ming smiled bitterly. In fact, he was just lucky.

Now he is in Gotham, the city that should have been the first to be flooded. Even though his physical fitness is far better than that of ordinary people, when all the land disappears, the sky is forever obscured by dark clouds, and there is no food, fresh water and sunshine, even he will Can't survive.

We must seize the time and act, find a way to leave this world as soon as possible, or find a way to keep this place. Earth Minus 11 is not a place for a leisurely vacation, but the front line of war.

"Then I can only hope that the world has not developed to that point in time..." Su Ming thought to himself that if the time did not come, there should still be room for struggle, so he flicked the ashes of his cigarette and asked Cindy again.

"Can you tell me why you came here? The roof of Wayne Tower."

Cindy also flicked the cigar in her hand with the same movement, showing a strange expression: "A mission."

"Do you mind sharing the mission?" Su Ming's heart moved.

"You should understand, right? I, Deathstroke, don't like to cooperate with others."

Cindy picked up a cigar and wiped the rain from her hair. The letter "W" of Vayne Group was obviously not so well covered. If it were the "M" of the Golden Arches, maybe it would be much better for two people to stand under it.

Su Ming smiled and let their single eyes face each other. With his excellent eyesight, he could even see his own reflection in Cindy's eyes.

"I really don't like it, but if my memory is correct, there have been a few times."

Although this memory actually came from comics, and it was the death knell of the main world, the corners of Cindy's mouth twitched, and Su Ming couldn't tell whether it was a smile or some other expression.

"Okay, just this time, I'm a little clueless about this task, but you can only get a quarter, understand?"

"Money doesn't matter, intelligence is more important."

Su Ming took a cigarette and stretched out his right hand. This was just a joke. He actually knew that he couldn't stay here for too long. He appeared in the Dark Multiverse, and its existence showed that a big event had begun. .

If you don’t want to die, you must go to the multiverse of light. Earth Minus 11 lacks many things. This is not the main plane. Some things simply cannot be done here.

"Okay, this is what you said."

She finally laughed and reached out to hold his hand. He could feel that both hands were equally strong.

Without hesitation, she immediately began describing the current mission.

"This is a person-finding mission. I actually don't want to accept it, but I have very little work recently. I happened to buy a yacht a few days ago..."

She let go of her hand and turned to face the city in the rainy night:

"So, this mission comes from an old friend of mine..."

"clown."

Su Ming also looked at this dark city. When she came to Wayne Tower, she must be looking for Batgirl, and the one who is most obsessed with finding bats in Gotham must be the Joker.

"In your world she might be called the Joker, but in ours she's called the jester, and of course we all know who she's talking about."

Cindy moved her neck and blew out a puff of smoke. The white mist with the aroma of nicotine was dispersed in the rain:

"That's it. Recently, the bat disappeared, so she felt very lonely. She wanted the bat to play with her."

"What new trick did she come up with? Wait... maybe it's an old trick for my world."

Su Ming took a deep breath from his cigar. If there were any clues, he might have read the corresponding comics, but Earth Minus 11, he wasn't sure.

"Who knows, I'm not interested in her tricks at all. I just want to get the money. So this mission is to find the bat and then send her a message to tell her that the Rigoletto is waiting in Arkham. She has a big, big good news to tell her."

Cindy pressed the cigar against the wall and put the rest into the cigarette case.

"Exact words?" Su Ming raised his eyebrows.

"Of course, her original words were 'big, big good news.' Since we mercenaries, we must deliver the message accurately. This is our mission."

Cindy shrugged and replied expressionlessly:

"To be honest, I really don't want to work for Rigoletto. She is really crazy. I wonder what the good news is. Maybe there is a super-high-yield nuclear warhead in Gotham."

Su Ming sighed. Of course the clown's money was money, but he never described the mission properly.

Cindy put on her helmet and refastened the buckle: "It's useless to think about it so much. Why not think about where Bliss Wayne went? Before coming here, I went to her home, the Batcave, the police station She can’t be found on the roof of the bureau, and now the company can be excluded.”

"When she was working as a bat, her favorite thing was to overlook her city from the gargoyle on the top floor of Vayne Tower." Su Ming continued and put on his own helmet.

"Yeah, and then I found you, and obviously it wasn't my luckiest day."

She picked up a short stick on the ground, threw it to Su Ming, and then picked up her own.

Su Ming folded the long stick and inserted it into the restraint slot behind his back, and moved his neck to ensure that it would not affect the movement:

"Obviously, it's not mine, because there's no reason for me to come here. I'm obviously in my own world, doing my own thing, and then, whoosh! I'm here."

"Okay, looking at it this way, you seem to be more unlucky than me. You can consider saving some money and hire me to help you find a way back."

Cindy took the lead downstairs, she moved quickly.

"A good suggestion, but now, I have to confirm what the Joker said. If things are really what I think, we are all in big trouble."

Su Ming sighed and followed her.

"Oh? Is there anything else I don't know?" She pushed open the door and walked down, half-smiling, her voice sounding dull in the helmet.

"It's not about the mission, it's about the world."

The heavy rain that seemed to never stop, and the disappearance of Batman, seemed to Su Ming more like the beginning of a doomsday event. If he could, he still wanted to live, then he had to find Bat as soon as possible.

"Do you know what I hate?" She turned her head and poked his chest with her finger: "I hope we can be honest with each other. I told you my mission, but you are hiding something now. "

"I'm not sure yet, but I can tell you, but you just have to listen and don't ask, because I can't explain how I know."

Su Ming gently opened her fingers, walked past her quickly, and walked to the front. While going downstairs, he told her about what was going to happen on Earth Minus 11.

The news made her stiff for a moment, but she soon returned to normal, and she held her head and shook it.

"What should we do next?"

"Do you believe me?" Su Ming said he was very pleased. He didn't want to explain that he got this information from the comics, which would sound like crazy.

"That's because we are all mercenaries. If I were asked to travel across the world to spread such exaggerated false news, I would not do it for any amount of money. Our ability determines our position in the mercenary world, and top mercenaries do not Such a boring thing."

Cindy quickly overtook him and walked to the front: "Then the only possibility is that this is indeed true, and our world is heading for destruction."

Su Ming was a little confused. The fact that the jester asked to see Bat at this time meant that she knew something. She should also know where Batgirl was. So why did she go to all the trouble and hire Deathstroke to find someone without explaining it? ?

"If you are willing to work with me to prevent the destruction of the world, that would be great. If not, then I will act alone."

There are not many ways to stop the flood from flooding the earth. The most effective one is to stop Bliss from killing the Sea Queen. It is useless to go to the Amazon Council. They will not believe that he is a culprit. Not even the Atlanteans, who hate all land creatures.

Behind this incident, there is also a Batman who is infected by the Joker's blood on Earth - 22 - the Laughing Bat, as the commander, and the real mastermind, the final dragon of the Dark Multiverse, Barbatos.

They are the culprits of everything, and they are hiding somewhere at this time, observing the development of things.

"Can't I not participate in the self-rescue operation? I don't want to die either. Although I don't know what kind of guy the clown in your world is, our jester is a crazy lunatic. For this mission, I received a tape. , using instruments to analyze all kinds of laughter and hysteria for more than ten minutes."

Cindy shook her head and explained the situation in more detail.

"Rigoletto is in Arkham right now, but she's gone completely crazy and now sees no one but the Bat."

"Looks like the good news is that the Joker I know is exactly the same as your Rigoletto, and that's worth a drink... Since her side isn't working, how about we go find her chick?"

Su Ming changed her attention. If there was anyone who might know the whereabouts of the bat, then besides her, there were several people.

For example, Catwoman, Thalia from Shadow Dancers, and Harley Quinn.

Among these people, Catwoman is completely a stray cat with no fixed abode. Who knows where she is now.

As for Thalia, the League of Assassins' base is in South Darbat, which is terribly far away.

Among these people, Harley is actually the best to find. Although she is also quite crazy, she can still distinguish right from wrong in certain situations.

Cindy was silent for a while: "Okay, let's go find Harley, but she is not her girl. According to Harley, their relationship is called..."

"Sister Tao?" Su Ming rolled his eyes under the mask.

"That's probably what it means, right? Her original words were little pumpkin and little pudding... I found that you are very talented in the language of madmen."

Although her voice was very hoarse after being treated by the mask, her tone sounded a little helpless.

Helplessness is normal. Anyone who deals with clowns will either fear or admire them. People like Deathstroke are more helpless towards clowns.

It just so happens that the clown also knows this, so he prefers others to show other emotions, such as anger and curiosity. Of course, he likes to see others smile the most.

In the comics, he constantly provokes Batman's anger, which seems to outsiders to be seeking death, but he just wants to see why Bat...

So serious?