The Death Knell

Two people took the lead, and three incompetent people followed behind. Barbara held her laptop, while Vico held the microphone. Pete, with a pale face, carried the camera and followed at the end.

Seeing his stumbling steps and sluggish expression, he looked like a zombie on a rainy night.

Su Ming felt that this was a bad sign, as if it foreshadowed that when he and others opened the underground research institute, a bunch of human-eating monsters would appear.

He pulled out his two knives and made two cuts on the iron wire wall. The sparks disappeared in the rain and drew an X shape. Then he bent the iron wires to form a hole that could accommodate a wheelchair. First, he cut Ba Bala moves over.

Barbara smiled nervously at him, then turned her attention to her dark surroundings.

Scrap cars are the empty shells of vehicles. They have been stripped of their engines, spark plugs, batteries or anything else of value, and then piled here like discarded corpses by humans, forming hills.

In the dark night, the shadows of these black hills occupied every direction around the group of people. Regardless of the angle, they looked exactly the same from a distance.

Whether it was Barbara, Vicky or Pete, they had never been to such a remote place in the middle of the night.

Any Gothamite knows what's in the darkness, but some people take the initiative to pursue it, while others avoid it like snakes and scorpions.

Su Ming keenly felt that someone was watching him. He looked up and found a homeless person in the abandoned car not far away. She was observing from the empty cab through the non-existent window. Wait for yourself.

He didn't think much of it until the woman started making strange noises.

"Gugu...Gugu..."

"boom!"

Su Ming immediately raised his hand and fired a shot, which shocked Barbara and the others. He killed people without warning. Is this the true nature of a mercenary on a mission?

However, this shot, which they thought was a sure hit, was dodged by the weird woman in an incredible posture. She jerked her neck down like a boneless creature, her head seemed to have retracted into her body, and the bullet It crossed the top of her head.

When she emerged from the scrapped car again, her original image of a wanderer changed into a masked man wearing round glasses.

She stood up from the abandoned car and stood on the roof of the car in a flash. She was wearing a black leather uniform, and this uniform had golden decorative patterns and inappropriate lace, like the hunting attire worn by nobles in the Middle Ages.

The round glasses on the head are like the eyes of an owl, looking down at Su Ming and his party.

"Protect them."

Without saying a word, he pulled out his two swords and jumped onto the abandoned car nearby, silently confronting this weirdo.

"I always thought their existence was just a legend..." Cindy also pulled out her weapon and stood in front of several people: "It seems like what Su said, Gotham hides too many secrets."

Of course, Wei Ke would not give up such an opportunity. She immediately directed Pete to use her poncho to hold up a small patch of sky for her, took out her little notebook, and planned to record it with the light of the camera.

"So Miss Cindy, you seem to know the masked person opposite. Can you explain her identity to us?"

Cindy glanced at her. She knew that the people Su Ming brought were not simple people in the parallel universe, but here, Wei Ke was just an ordinary person, and excessive curiosity would definitely kill her.

"You just need to know that they are killers from a very ancient force in Gotham. If you know too much, you will really die."

"It doesn't matter. As a reporter, I have been mentally prepared for a long time. Please tell me and tell the citizens the truth!"

Unexpectedly, this threat of death seemed to trigger Wei Ke's switch. She immediately blushed and asked excitedly, pursed her lips hard, opened her eyes wide, and her pupils were full of excitement.

Cindy shook her head, not knowing whether she agreed or what she meant. She recited a nursery rhyme that was widely circulated in Gotham. It was rumored that any child playing on the road was reciting it decades ago.

"Beware of the Court of Owls, always watching your travels. Peeping at Gotham City in the dark, hiding on the top of the low-walled attic. It is with you at home, and it walks with you when you hide under the bed. Don't say its name, or its claws will tear you apart. Neck.”

Wei Ke was stunned for a moment, but the reporter's keen sense of smell allowed her to write down this passage. If she had the chance, she planned to study the history of Gotham and maybe she could find something.

Su Ming was the first to react. As a time traveler, in Gotham, a city of bats, he heard the cooing of an owl in such a storm and realized something was wrong.

This woman disguised as a Wanderer is the assassin of the Court of Owls, Talon.

Until Su Ming traveled through time, DC Comics still had not explained the details of the mysterious organization The Court of Owls. He only knew that it was an alliance composed of Gotham's oldest families and had been influencing Gotham through various means.

No one knows their identities. All members will wear white night owl masks and have a unique ring as a token.

Talon is an assassin they trained to eliminate political dissidents in the city.

Before the gangs came to power and after the Four Families, Gotham actually experienced a brief period of rule by the Court of Owls. However, due to the struggle for power, internal disputes broke out among them and they suffered heavy losses.

Falcone and other gangsters gained power in one fell swoop and drove the owls back into hiding in the darkness.

Maybe Bat or Falcone would know this level of information, but Su Ming knew more information from another world.

Their origins are actually earlier, and can be traced back to the Stone Age of mankind. The Bird Tribe, the Wolf Tribe, the Bear Tribe, and the Bat Tribe are regarded as the origins of European civilization in the DC universe.

Batman is a descendant of the Bat Tribe, and the Court of Owls is from the Bird Tribe.

The most critical thing is that the members of the Court of Owls are all brainwashed and controlled by the chi hu priests among them. They are all dark minions who swear unconditional allegiance to the dark god Barbatos in their dreams.

From a certain perspective, Barbatos is the Bat God of the Dark Multiverse, the Dragon of Darkness, the only true god, and they are not wrong in believing in him.

It's a pity that this god only wants to bring a bright universe for fun, and doesn't pay much attention to his followers, just treating them as tools that can be thrown away after use.

But this is no excuse for Su Ming to relax. The claws have appeared here. The representative court will know about it soon, and Barbatos will also know about it soon!

The danger at that time will rise at a crazy speed.

He must keep the claw here as long as possible to delay the Court of Owls from learning.