The Death Knell

As an old Gothamite and a psychiatrist who is good at talking, Harley has a very high level of swearing. She knows all kinds of slang and swear words, and even the most filthy and vicious words come out of her mouth without any hesitation. blush.

She was extremely angry because her home was stolen by an inexplicable skeleton. Of course, part of her was still angry with herself because she didn't find out when Alfred's skeleton was a fake corpse.

But despite the scolding, she immediately squatted down to check Jason's condition. After being hit by the skeleton's attack, the old man was not in good condition.

He suffered a concussion, subdural hemorrhage, a broken cervical vertebrae, spinal nerve damage, and varying degrees of damage to his internal organs. He now looked like he was bleeding from all his orifices, and the amount of bleeding was huge. The last time Harry saw this kind of injury, there was still someone Hit by a dump truck.

In fact, not long ago, when she led the human-demon team to hunt down those visitors from other worlds in Gotham, she drove a bus to hit people, and the effect was not bad.

But given that Little Bee had used leech potion and unlimited prescriptions on Jason before, Harley was not too worried about the unconscious laughter-stopper in front of her. She also knew about those two potions, although their main function was to make people live forever. It is not old, but because its principle is to increase the activity of human cells, it can still provide some self-healing ability.

Just move to the dirty bed and lie down, but Jason lost too much blood and hit his head again, so he might not be able to wake up for a while.

"Oh, what a bad luck." Harley kicked Jason to vent her anger. She walked to the window, opened the window and shouted outside: "It's not good! Xiao Dai, Alfred's body has been faked! Superman has been killed." He took it!"

The two women who were fighting with the angel statue in front of the door were immediately shocked when they heard this, because the current situation was obvious. They and Kara, the two most powerful people in combat, had been transferred away, resulting in an emptiness inside the mansion. The lurking skeleton rose up and took advantage of the opportunity.

But when Harry yelled like this, the angel statue that represented "inferiority" also heard it. The smile on the face with blood and tears suddenly widened, and the crooked mouth seemed to have some mockery, and then it suddenly The ground turned its body, spinning like a top, and the wings behind it were used as weapons to push back Diana and Carla. Then it shook violently and the figure disappeared into the air.

"Damn it!"

Diana's lasso was thrown away and she stamped her foot with a gloomy expression. Not only was Superman kidnapped again, but there was not even a stone statue used to attract attention. She only felt angry.

But she was just belligerent, not the kind of person who would be overwhelmed by anger. After cursing, she came to her senses and hurriedly took Kara back to the mansion.

On the big tree not far away, the owl was still looking at them, but now it seemed to be smaller, like a scared little fur ball.

But Diana was not in the mood to pay attention to a little bird. She shouted to Harley to turn off the energy shield first. This thing could only go out but not in. After dozens of seconds, she and Kara returned to the mansion. The shield rise again.

"What's going on? Harley, did you just say that Alfred faked his body?"

Looking at Harley walking down from the bedroom on the second floor, Diana immediately asked for details. She was fine before Deathstroke left, but now she fell into a simple trick and lost her. How should she explain this?

She felt that the man had given so many hints before he left, leaving the situation under her control, but now something went wrong, and it was all her fault.

"Ah, maybe? But thinking about it carefully, I'm not sure if that's Alfred."

Harley scratched her hair a little irritably, and she didn't have a good expression even though she was carrying a sledgehammer:

“I went to the wine cellar under the kitchen to get some wine, hoping to drink some good wine left behind by Batman. As I was holding the wine and preparing to meet Jason and Superman, I saw the man in a tuxedo. The skeleton was carrying Superman and was about to run away. I wanted to chase him and knock him to death, but he threw a smoke bomb and disappeared with a bang. I couldn't even see the thought bubble above his head!"

Under normal circumstances, the living people she saw had a bubble on top of their head. It might be incomprehensible, it might be blank, it might be garbled, but the key was that it was there.

The only exception is his little bee, but so far, Harley has only encountered him as a special case.

As for undead creatures, they also have thought bubbles on their heads. Harley once went to catch ghosts with Zatanna before. They used the bubbles on the ghost's head to determine where the invisible ghost was, and then used a modified vacuum cleaner to catch the ghosts. The gun drove the guy away.

But today, there was nothing on the skull's head, as if he had no brain at all.

But the other party did laugh at her when she left. This is not something a brainless creature would do, so what exactly happened?

Diana was silent about Harley's answer. She didn't know what the thought bubble was, but she knew what the skeleton in the tuxedo was talking about.

When everyone came to the Wayne Mansion before, they saw the skeleton as soon as they opened the door. Because he was wearing Alfred's tuxedo and sitting on a chair next to the stairs, looking like a butler who died while waiting for a long time, so Everyone didn't think much of it.

Just seeing the skeleton covered with dust and cobwebs, he tacitly assumed that he was Alfred. Jason was still lying on the other man's lap crying. Even he, who was most familiar with Ah Fu, didn't realize that outsiders like him, What can be seen?

But that is not necessarily Ah Fu. The current clues can only prove that he is a skeleton wearing a tuxedo. He may be called Ah Mao or Ah Gou.

As for whether Slade discovered that the skeleton would revive, Diana didn't know. Probably not, because he didn't even get close to the skeleton to check, but took Harley directly to the Batcave.

This is also normal. Diana knows the relationship between her boyfriend and Batman. Although there is sympathy between smart people, they are more wary of each other and plot against each other.

It is impossible to say how close Slade and Alfred are, because in the eyes of the old man, Deathstroke is just another friend of his young master, and in Gotham City, the young master has many friends. went.

You must know that when the Joker was captured by Batman and imprisoned in the underground cell of the Batcave, it was Ah Fu who brought him food. Two-Face and Silence were frequent visitors to the Wayne family in the past.

"It shouldn't be." Kara pinched her palms at the side, looking very remorseful and anxious: "When I made the coffin for the skeleton, I checked it. It was obviously a dead person."

Anyway, she didn't believe it. How could he get up with a set of dry bones without even flesh and blood? At least she hasn't seen it.

"It's possible, sister."

Diana, who had no other options, took the two girls to the garage and prepared to check the coffin. At the same time, she explained to the young girl:

"You may not be familiar with the mysterious side of things, and rarely deal with the undead. Many undead creatures look like a pile of scattered bones when they are not stimulated by the outside world. Even the holder of the black light ring can sense You can't see their existence, but once their eye sockets are ignited with soul fire, it means that they have been awakened by the bad guys, and they are likely to get up and bite you immediately."

This is what undead creatures are like. They may be dead originally, just a pile of bones, but if a necromancer uses ordinary bones as casting materials, then it can become an undead creature.

As for whether the Tuxedo Skeleton has been lurking on its own or was awakened by someone, just go check the coffin in the garage and find out.