The track of dawn in the world of American manga

Chapter 26 26. Cat Hunting or Big Sister’s Little Game

"The way you act reminds me of someone"

It is very exciting to ride in the Batmobile, which is as cool and thick as a tank, but as flexible as the Phantom of the Night, and swaggering through Gotham in the dark.

But having a chatty guy sitting next to you can turn this wonderful thing into a boring night patrol.

Mason was sitting in the passenger seat, looking at the night scene passing by through the transparent interior glass of the cabin. Next to him, Dick Grayson, wearing a Batman suit, was grabbing a handle that was covered with buttons like a racing car.

While saying softly:

"No wonder Batman pays so much attention to you."

"You mean Jason Todd?"

Mason said expressionlessly:

"Ever since I came into contact with Batman, everyone seems to be saying this. Maybe you think this is a compliment, but I want to clarify, it is not.

Mr. First Robin, not every young man who comes into contact with Batman desires to become a ‘Son of the Bat’ like you and Jason.”

"Sorry, I just felt it."

The young master stopped talking.

He skillfully drove the Batmobile through the deserted alleys of Gotham at night, and rushed out of the alley a few seconds later, just in time to knock down a group of robbers who were rushing out of the robbed store.

Several rope darts were shot out from the Batmobile's weapon system controlled by Nightwing, and the unlucky ones with broken bones were wrapped around telephone poles on the roadside.

Finally, he thoughtfully called the police as Batman and reported his location.

The whole process went smoothly, and the Batmobile's speed didn't even slow down much. It looked like a veteran of night patrol.

"Aren't you going to find Catwoman? Are you just wandering around blindly like this?"

Mason said:

"With all due respect, no cat will wait for you to catch her, unless she wants to play games with you. But you are not Batman."

"Batman may be alone, but Robins are different. I asked someone for help, and Catwoman's location has been basically confirmed."

The young master activated an electronic map in the Batmobile, and soon a red dot marked the target. He glanced at the map, and then drove the Batmobile into a dark alley.

Mason also stared at the map, and after a few seconds he said:

"We're going to Crime Alley?"

"Um."

Grayson nodded and explained:

"There is a clinic there that treats some of Gotham's street heroes, and people like Catwoman who are both good and evil occasionally go there for treatment.

It is also the only place among the dozen or so blocks nearby that provides free treatment to the poor and homeless.

The doctor has a very high reputation in the neighborhood, and the poor people in the neighborhood will take the initiative to protect her. In addition, the doctor treats his patients equally and will treat seriously injured gang members, so the gang members also respect her.

She even designated her clinic as a 'truce zone'.

When I was Robin, I was sent there by Batman several times when I got into trouble. Catwoman's injuries were not fully healed yet, and she needed a place to complete her treatment.

There is a high probability that she will go there."

The more Mason listened, the weirder his expression became. He said tentatively:

"You mean Dr. Leslie Tompkins?"

"Huh? You know that place too?"

The eldest young man asked in surprise.

"I was sent in by Batman and was just discharged from the hospital at noon today."

Mason held the gun "Old K" and complained in a low voice:

"I didn't expect that after saying goodbye at noon, I would come to visit this doctor again in the evening. Sure enough, my hunch was correct. It is not easy for a doctor to open a clinic in Crime Alley.

Who is she?"

"Dr. Leslie was Commissioner Gordon's fiancée."

Grayson started to speak, but was interrupted by Mason waving his hand:

"I know this, tell me something I don't know."

"Well, she used to be a physician at Wayne Hospital and an assistant to Sir Thomas Wayne. She left the hospital after the tragedy that year, and then something happened that caused her to leave Gotham and come back here.

After moving to the city, he opened a clinic in Crime Alley."

The young man may have regarded Mason as a person he could trust, so as he approached the clinic, he told the young man something about Dr. Leslie's past. Mason nodded repeatedly.

Although he has read some comics, he is only an ordinary fan and does not know every character that appears.

Judging from Grayson's description, the cold-faced doctor with an unusual past history should be one of the few people who knows Batman's true identity.

The fact that her clinic can be opened in a crime alley without incident is probably because of the master's financial ability.

"Enter ghost mode, bioradar scans ahead!"

As he approached the clinic next to Crime Alley, Nightwing's fingers quickly clicked several times on the control panel covered with buttons on the Batmobile.

The low noise emitted by the high-speed Batmobile immediately subsided, just like the low sound of an electric car running.

The bioradar was activated and scanned the four-story clinic in front of it up and down, and the three-dimensional structure and the living organisms moving within it were reflected on the electronic screen.

Mason and Nightwing grasped their weapons at the same time.

On the screen in front of them, the four floors of the clinic were extremely "busy", especially the third floor, where many red dots representing living things were moving rapidly.

It looked like a scuffle.

"Catwoman is indeed here, and she brought her trouble to Dr. Leslie's clinic."

Nightwing parked the Batmobile on the side of the road. The moment the cabin opened, he took out his grappling gun and fired it at a high place. He also threw a few smoke bombs at Mason who jumped out of the car with the gun, and warned:

"I'll catch Catwoman, you go save Dr. Leslie and those patients. If you can, cover your face. The first lesson of 'Newbie Robin Tutorial', this is not just to protect your identity, but also to avoid trouble."

Spread it to those around you.”

"Do your own thing."

Without looking back, Mason rushed towards the clinic in front of him with a gun in his hand. Grayson shook his head as he watched.

Like Batman, he quickly rushed high into the sky while stretching the grapple gun, and then spread his bat cape in the air to glide to the roof of the clinic. The moment he landed lightly, Mr. Bat took out a remote control and pressed it.

Two launch tubes popped out of the back of the Batmobile parked on the roadside in a cool way. With two bangs, two black "missiles" shot towards the clinic and exploded in the air.

No harm was done.

But at the moment when the missile exploded, the street lights and all lighting facilities in the entire street were instantly powered off, and the lights of the fourth-floor clinic were dimmed instantly.

This is the battle mode of the Bat Family.

The night is their best friend, and stealth operations in the dark are always their first choice.

If you don't have the initiative on the battlefield, you can use various means, including banknote abilities, to make the battle terrain more favorable to you.

At the same time that the young master rushed in from the top of the building, Mason also rushed into the clinic from the bottom.

Of course, the invisibility cloak must be put on in advance. Without entering combat, this thing is simply a sneaky artifact.

Thanks to having stayed in the clinic for a day and a half, Mason was quite familiar with the place. He ignored the few men in black patrolling the first floor, bypassed them and went up to the second floor and went straight to Dr. Leslie's office.

These men in black from the Assassin's League were obviously well prepared, and there were few signs of fighting on the road.

The patients in the ward were not harmed. They were locked in the ward, just like Dr. Leslie was tied to his chair with a rope by two men in black.

There were also several nurses on the night shift who were knocked unconscious and lay in a mess on the floor.

Eh~ What a waste.

Most of the combatants were playing "hide and seek" with Catwoman on the third floor. There were not many men in black on the second floor, but they were all armed to the teeth. Not only did they carry assault guns, but some also carried samurai swords.

Mason did not shoot rashly after confirming the situation.

He put the gun behind his back, pulled out the Sujie Eagle with his backhand, and slipped to the end of the corridor while wearing an invisibility cloak, trying to start his first "stealth operation."

With the combination of the extremely sharp Sujie Eagle and the invisibility cloak, the process of killing the first few people was very smooth, and each one provided a "silent assassination" bonus to combat skill proficiency.

But after all, Mason had not systematically practiced combat and infiltration, and he made a mistake when he killed the fifth man in black.

The sound of the gun hitting the floor when the guy fell to the ground immediately attracted other accomplices.

Seeing that something was not right, Mason decisively threw the shuriken into his bag and pulled out the double-barreled blaster cannon from his waist. Before the invisibility cloak had expired, he picked up the gun and fired a quick shot at several approaching killers.

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A low and powerful explosion sounded like a bell, and the moment the hot buckshot pellets exploded, the smoke bomb given by Nightwing was also thrown to the ground.

Thick smoke poured out of the corridor on the second floor, and then rhythmic gunshots echoed in the dark floor. One after another, men in black were knocked to the ground.

The invisibility cloak this time is really awesome.

After Mason blew up the head of the last killer guarding the hostages, this thing still didn't work. It seemed that it was in a good mood today.

The young man put away his invisibility cloak and rushed into the doctor's office, carrying Dr. Leslie out after being knocked unconscious. He also opened all the locked wards along the way so that the patients could evacuate with him.

Several patrollers on the first floor, presumably after receiving a request for support, rushed into the stairs with guns in hand, and happened to come face-to-face with Mason who was coming down from above.

Both sides drew their guns almost simultaneously, but Mason was obviously faster.

On the narrow stairs, the double-barreled hand cannon fired two rounds of large buckshot with a total of 16 steel balls, successfully turning the four people in front of them into blood-covered sieves.

A few seconds later, Mason rushed out of the clinic with the patients screaming.

He put the unconscious Dr. Leslie on a chair by the roadside. Just as he was about to wake her up, he suddenly heard an explosion above his head. He looked up and saw that a wall on the third floor was shattered by fire.

The burning corpses of several killers in black also fell to the ground from the explosion, and in the sky reflected by the fire, a slender figure grabbed the rope that was shot and was quickly sliding to the roof of the opposite building.

"Catwoman?"

Mason decisively raised his crit shotgun in a kneeling position, aimed at Catwoman and tilted the muzzle slightly.

The bullet shot out with a bang, accurately breaking Catwoman's escape rope in mid-air, turning the female snitch's smooth escape into a dancing fall in the second half.

But she is a veteran street hero after all, and that big sister has many life-saving gadgets in her hands.

As she fell into the air, she fired a hook-and-lock gun that was almost the same as Batman's, making herself trace a trajectory in the air like Tarzan, and then flipped her body for seven and a half times like a gymnast, and finally ended up with a

The superhero fell steadily to the ground in a shameful posture.

It happens to be located at the entrance of Crime Alley.

Catwoman stood up and looked back in Mason's direction, made a fierce and unladylike gesture, and then ran into the dark crime alley without looking back.

Mason took out Dr. Leslie's cell phone and unlocked it with the doctor's finger, then dialed a number. While chasing Catwoman in the direction of escape, he said to the other end of the phone:

"Doctor Leslie is injured, Gordon, come here!"

"What?"

The director on the other end of the phone exclaimed.

Then there was the harsh sound of car tires rubbing against the ground while turning at high speed. Mason grinned. It seemed that the relationship between "old lovers" was indeed reliable.

The doctor seems to have nothing to worry about.

At the same time that Mason rushed into the crime alley, a black figure jumped out of the explosion hole on the third floor of the clinic. Young Master Nightwing, who had solved the killers in black, opened his black cloak and glided toward the other end of the crime alley.

Rushed over.

This famous alley in Gotham City is not long, and the tops of the buildings on both sides are very flat, with almost no place to hide.

With Nightwing gliding high in the sky, Catwoman did not choose to expose herself proactively. Instead, she hid beside a trash can in a dark alley and prepared to sneak up on her pursuers.

She didn't know that Mason was stopping her from escaping, and thought it was other members of the Bat Family who were assisting Nightwing.

Mason rushed into the crime alley with a gun in hand. In the darkness without street lights, he took off the crit shotgun for melee combat and opened the tactical flashlight pendant hanging from the muzzle. As he walked forward, he shouted:

"Ms. Selena, come out! I don't mean any harm, I just want to ask you something. You haven't forgotten me, right? I'm Mason, and I saved you once."

He looked around vigilantly and walked forward, but was unexpectedly attacked by a strong black shadow from the side.

The Catwoman who jumped out showed no enthusiasm for meeting an acquaintance. She waved the long legs of the charming man and kicked away the spear in Mason's hand. She then accurately cut Mason's wrist with her wave, and quickly pulled out the gun with both hands.

The hand cannon was also knocked to the ground.

Then he clamped Mason's neck between his legs and in a series of dazzling jujitsu moves, he threw the young man around in the air and smashed him to the ground.

"You heartless little guy! I thought we were accomplices!"

Catwoman, wearing a full set of tights and red goggles, pressed on Mason's chest.

She looked at the young man who had saved her a week ago with an unhappy face, waved the "cat's claw" knife in her hand, and said in a vicious and threatening tone:

"Don't play with the bat cubs! They are not good friends. Now that my sister is leaving, you'd better not stop me, otherwise I'll scratch your pretty face."

"I have no intention of stopping you."

Mason, who was pinned to the ground by Catwoman in an inelegant posture, did not resist. He said directly:

"But what you hid dragged me into the quagmire. The killers of the Penguin Gang and the League of Assassins are looking for the information in that hard drive. You can't be so selfish, Ms. Selina."

"snort"

Catwoman hesitated for a moment, shook her head and said:

"I can't hand it over to you. You can't handle things of this level. I have to wait for Batman to come back. When it comes to the survival of Gotham City, I only believe in him!"

"Why didn't Batman give it to him when he took you to therapy?"

Mason asked back, obviously doubting the sincerity of Sister Catwoman.

As a result, the latter rolled his eyes charmingly and said angrily:

"I was in a coma for those few days, you little genius. When I woke up, he was too busy with you to spend time with me, and it would take time for me to decipher the information.

This is just an accident, but this accident happened because of you.

I have never seen that indifferent man be so interested in anyone. Frankly speaking, sister, I am a little jealous. In short, let’s wait for Batman to come back.”

She released her hold on Mason and kicked the young man's two guns further away. After seeing Nightwing landing at the other end of the alley, Catwoman turned around and said again:

"Don't come after me, little one, or I'll be rude to you."

"Sorry, but I'm the one who wants to be rude tonight."

The moment Mason was released and suppressed, he took out Sujie's Eagle from his bag. Of course, he didn't stab him with a sword. He just deflected the blade and swung it out when Catwoman kicked his long leg at his head and threw it off.

Yeyi, who rushed over, had already learned his lesson. He suddenly stopped, turned around and covered his eyes.

But Catwoman obviously had no experience with this sword. She was hit in the face by the light refracted by the sword. Even with the protection of goggles, she instantly lost her vision. She staggered back and was grabbed by Mason who jumped up.

Hold your shoulders,

With a bang, it hit the wall next to it in a reverse wall-dong motion.

"then!"

Nightwing swung a lock over, and Mason took it in his hand and slapped Catwoman's struggling hands. With a click, the black bat lock locked her hands behind her back.

At the same time, the drawings of this exquisite bat lock were also collected by Mason.

But the eldest sister's counterattack was so fierce.

His long legs bent and he kicked Mason in the crotch. The young man reacted quickly and jumped back to avoid this vicious attack.

Nightwing rushed forward like an evil accomplice of the perverted criminal who attacked and imprisoned Sister Royal. With a wave of his hand, he inserted a bat sedative into Catwoman's neck, causing the struggling wild cat to finally calm down.

“A pleasure to work with!”

The eldest son carried Catwoman on his shoulders and gave Mason a thumbs up.

This is still a silly move that Batman would never do, and it looks very inconsistent with the Batsuit he is wearing.

"Where to go next? The Batcave?"

Mason picked up the gun and wiped the dirt on it and asked. Grayson shook his head and said:

"You are not allowed to enter the Batcave yet, so we go to a nearby safe house and immediately ask Catwoman where she hid the information. I just discovered the elite Shadow Warriors of the League of Assassins in the clinic.

Things are deteriorating quickly, Mason, and their patience is wearing thin, which is not a good thing in my experience."

(End of chapter)