Three-stream detection simulator

It was quiet on the other end of the phone. Diana waited patiently for a while and inadvertently heard the purring of a feline behind her. But when she concentrated her attention and tried to distinguish it, the faint sound disappeared again, making her suspect that it was her illusion.

After a long time, Batman seemed to sigh and said, "Bring him back, please."

"You're welcome, Bruce."

Diana hesitated for a moment. She wanted to comfort the other party, but she felt that people like them had long been accustomed to accepting reality, so she swallowed the words that almost blurted out.

She walked into the ruins, intending to be a diligent porter, and gestured on Hercule's body twice, wondering whether to carry the person on her shoulders or give him a princess hug. The detective was injured in the chest, so no matter how he tossed, there would be no risk of breaking in two in the middle.

Forget it, just hold him.

Wonder Woman, dressed in a dashing uniform, carefully placed the metal arm armor on her left hand under Hercule's neck, stretched her other hand to the other's knee, and easily embraced the adult male of considerable size.

When she stood up, she noticed that the detective's hair color seemed to change in the sunlight. A layer of sophisticated magic disguise automatically peeled off with her movements, revealing the obviously abnormal pale hair color underneath.

"Huh?"

After the magic's concealing effect disappeared, Diana felt a strong evil breath from Hercule's body. Hercule in her eyes was no longer an organic body, but a kind of vague and chaotic weird energy. This energy would not only affect other people's perception of the detective, but also interfere with Hercule's own mind.

In just a few minutes of contact, Diana noticed that she had an unidentified source of irritability and suspicion in her heart, and it was directed at Hercule and herself at the same time:

Who is the detective? Does he have an ulterior motive for bringing this dangerous power to the 21st century?

Should she take the risk to bring him back? What if it's not controlled properly? Hercule Hugo is dead anyway, wouldn't it be better for her to get rid of the body here?

No...wait...what am I thinking?

Diana was dazed for a moment, and when she came to her senses again, she found herself half-kneeling in front of Hercule's body, about to reach out and take off his coat.

What am I doing! !

Diana's pupils trembled. She quickly withdrew her hand and grasped the Lasso of Truth at her waist, and dared not let her guard down again. The strong urge to undress Hercule flooded her heart. This had nothing to do with biological instincts, but was entirely the evil energy that made up the detective's body.

Wonder Woman quickly understood that the coat and this power were fighting. The coat restrained the other, so the evil power had to persuade the rescuers to change the coat for the body.

After thinking it through, Diana wrapped the detective's coat a little tighter. This time, she didn't even touch Hercule's exposed skin. She just picked him up through his clothes and flew quickly into the sky toward the east coast of the United States.

**

After hanging up Diana's phone call, Batman sat in front of the computer in the Batcave for a long time with one hand on his temple. The screen automatically played the conversation between Hercule and Argus, some of which were irrelevant, while others were full of deep meaning.

For example, Hercule said that he had played chess with Batman in the "conscious world". This obviously didn't happen in the 21st century, but Batman asked himself, it is indeed possible for him to carve the horse ears of chess into the shape of bat ears... On the other hand, Argus did not accuse Hercule of indulging in the imaginary world, but said that "that Batman can be regarded as an isotope in a parallel universe."

All these phenomena show that in addition to the various little secrets in Hercule, he also has a special ability that is not useful on weekdays.

This special ability may be related to his missing brain and his body that has lost vital signs.

——Unlike what Wonder Woman imagined, Batman in the 21st century was not completely pessimistic at the moment. He accepted the fact that Hercule might be dead, but he also retained a glimmer of hope, thinking that the detective might leave himself a way out before facing Argus.

The problem was that no one was sure whether this way out would work, and where Hercule's body was.

Batman pondered for a long time when he fell into thought, and he didn't come back to his senses until Wonder Woman flew directly into the Batcave, and instructed Diana to put the body on the operating table that had been prepared long ago.

Diana: "..."

Ah?

This is not quite the same as the imagined mourning session.

Anyway, she reminded her companion: "You'd better not touch him, the power that constitutes his body is a bit strange."

After saying this, she glimpsed something familiar in the display cabinet deep in the Batcave. A starfish was lying in a jar, staring at the detective's body on the operating table with its eyes wide open, as if it had something to say. As for it...

There was also a complete body of Hercule? ?

Diana suspected that she had seen it wrong. Batman was using special equipment to scan the wound on Hercule on the operating table. She involuntarily took a few steps higher to see the things in the cabinet in front of the cave wall more clearly.

Just at this moment, the starfish slapped the glass jar a few times and shouted: "Dad! I know what that is!"

Diana: "..."

She was simply not sure whether she should look at the starfish first or the intact body next to it. In any case, it was a fact that her friend kept an alien creature that had invaded the Hall of Justice and kept her friend's friend in the closet. The underworld index of the already gloomy Bat Cave suddenly doubled.

Batman did not notice that Wonder Woman was holding a weapon as if she was facing a serial killer hidden in the crowd. He was studying Hercule's autopsy report and confirmed that a wound to the chest was the direct cause of death. In addition, the detective's highly lethal pipe was in his coat pocket, showing signs of use, while the black cat and translator that often haunted the place were nowhere to be seen.

"Diana." Batman asked, "Did you ever see a beast when you were in Egypt?"

Wonder Woman was startled by his voice and almost thrust her sword into the Gotham vigilante's throat.

"Are you okay?" Batman took a few cautious steps back and asked alertly.

"I... I'm sorry, you are talking about Cybida, I have never seen it." Diana frowned and tried to relax, "Hercule's body has a strange effect, it makes me constantly doubt myself and others.”

Then again, putting aside the influence of evil forces, isn't there nothing wrong with you Batman?

Don’t put everything in the cabinet back home!

"Bruce," she said politely, "you should pay more attention to your living environment."

Batman didn't take it seriously and turned to ask Can Luo: "What did you want to say just now?"

"That's the kind of dad," Can Luo said with his chest raised and his head raised. "The power that makes up Hugo's body should be 'unbelief'. It symbolizes the evil and cruel nature in people's hearts, which usually bursts out when they lose something they love. Of course, a human like Hugo would never have someone or something he would love to death." It took the opportunity to speak ill of the detective, and said it openly, "So I think the truth is this-"

"In the past, he had been using his reason to suppress this power. After his death, his 'unbelief' lost its control, so he appeared to be much more active than when he was still alive."

"You said he was dead." Batman ignored the bad words, "But his brain and consciousness can exist apart from the body. It stands to reason that Argos can only kill his body, but cannot erase his soul. "

Ganluo squinted his eyes and looked at the corpse on the operating table seriously.

There is no doubt about the vision of the alien conqueror, and it soon came up with new ideas:

"It turns out that there is very little 'unbelief' energy left in this corpse. Now it can be suppressed by the spirit of nature in the coat. It is definitely not enough to contain complete human consciousness. If Hugo stays here, he will either The body completely collapsed, or was unable to move and was imprisoned in the body. I guess Argos had killed many times, and in the process, the power in the shell was exhausted, and Hugo's consciousness was forced to return. Inside his body."

Batman compared its words with the autopsy results: "The fatal wound to the chest was repeated twice."

"Absolutely more than that." Can Luo said, "To be able to consume such a huge power, the detective died at least five...well, seven times!"

It didn't notice that its father was suddenly silent, nor did it notice that Wonder Woman seemed a little sad when she hesitated to speak. This little guy, who didn’t understand human emotions well enough, thought happily:

"Hugo's body may still be alive, but that's not in the 21st century. He will never come back after losing his anchor!"

Diana patted Batman's stiff shoulder reassuringly.

She thought of a cruel possibility: Hercule returned to the Lost Universe. After helping the 21st century win, all of them will slide into the abyss along with the leaky ship in the Strange Universe that cannot be repaired.

The last farewell was truly a farewell.

But it was a bit sad to say it, especially for Bruce, Hercule was one of the few friends he could talk to.

In the end, Diana just sat quietly with Batman for a while and then left. Before leaving, she said: "I will go to the funeral. My condolences, Bruce."

However, later that day, things changed again, and it cannot be said to be for the better:

After Iron Man and Morgan crossed the Atlantic and arrived in Egypt, they only saw bloodstains and ruins. On top of the tomb-like pyramid remains was a fluorescent flower they had never seen before, which was probably picked from the universe. , and nothing else.

Tony sat on the floor in a dusty state, and after asking around under his daughter's eager gaze, he found out that Wonder Woman had been here.

So when he called Batman, he was full of resentment: "Don't you think you forgot something, busy Mr. Batman?"

The tone was quite Herculean.

Batman: "..."

He was speechless for a moment, so he simply copied Diana's words exactly as they were: "When Wonder Woman found Hercule Hugo, he had no obvious vital signs."

"You can come and see him."

Tony subconsciously looked at Morgan.

Morgan heard it and said: "He is not dead. Argos cannot kill him."

Before Tony could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Morgan continue: "But his body was sent to another place by him. We can't find him. I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to meet other living conscious life forms."

She imagined Hercule's conscious world.

Will there be many people there?

As a person who is supposed to live outside the realm of dreams, would he feel lonely if he exiled himself to the vast universe of thinking?

Morgan remembered that long ago, when she had just met Hercule, he said to her when he was explaining the world of consciousness:

"Thank you for coming to talk to me, otherwise I would have to play the 127th round of word chain with Superman in the world of consciousness today."

At that time, he seemed very reluctant to be alone.

Morgan asked him: "For you, spiritual freedom should also be a kind of freedom?"

Hercule refused to answer.

The past flashed in Morgan's mind, and she shook her head a little tiredly: "You can try to find him... but it doesn't matter if you can't find him. Don't waste too much resources and energy on the Universe of Strange Stories. Our involvement with you is over."