dhibooks Chapter 55
Chapter 55
During the pre-war preparation time that followed, Alphonse posed several poses imitating the image of Batman in his impression with great interest. Sure enough, the boss has mutated in some places.
Probably his previous body-swap incident with Tony Stark opened up some weird new territory... Blame that Stark anyway!
As for Batman himself... he finds it hard to explain.
"When it's time to really fight."
In his characteristic deep voice: "Those extra movements of yours make you vulnerable."
Although he doesn't know how an alchemist fights, it definitely won't work!This guy can't even throw the simplest straight punch with his wrist fluttering...
"Ah, you don't have to worry about that."
Alphonse flexed his elbows: "Actually, although I'm not as good at the magic used in close combat as Miss Bazzett, it can still be regarded as a tribute to the Mark Remys family."
If there were one or two gemstones by chance, that guy would not be particularly stingy about giving away the spells. In addition, the Edelfelt family has no shortage of good melee fighters. It is still possible to strengthen oneself in a short period of time with magic. of.
From the looks of it, the other party is really capable.Batman nodded, and left the underground space of Wayne Manor first.
The program officially begins.
The clerk and Alfred stood in front of the simple sand table, each holding a communicator in his hand, looking serious and waiting.There is an overall map of Gotham City on the sand table. Alphonse was taken aback when he saw it for the first time. He did not expect such things to be stored in Wayne Manor. The abundance of reserves can be called a magic workshop—— In fact, both Tony Stark's home and Wayne's mansion give him a feeling like a magic workshop. Except for the flow of no magic power, these guys tend to take care of their homes It looks like an immovable fortress filled with various foreign defense methods.
But now, this sand table has been drastically restructured and turned into an indicator that can show the direction of the earth veins and the flow of magic power.Mercury converges into a trickle in the sand table, flowing in every corner of the sand table in Gotham City, and the task of the detective and Alfred is to report the movement of these magic powers to Alphonse and Batman at all times, Immediately alert if there is any abnormality.
"Although Gotham has also been invaded by enemies with mysterious powers before."
In the silent room, Alfred suddenly raised the topic: "But this is indeed the first time that a foreign magician has intervened. In your eyes, is this a serious matter? So much so that the S.H.I.E.L.D. Both the Magic Association and the Magic Association will come to provide support."
"...I'm sorry, sir, I don't quite understand what the store manager thinks."
The little clerk lowered his head and glanced at the mercury flowing on the sand tray. It was clearly flowing liquid metal, but the mercury had no intention of seeping into the sand tray at all, as if it was being held up by an invisible force. , slowly flowing along the inherent track: "S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't know much about the mysteries. Even if we are about the mystery department, we are just a magician to the boss."
Lingmai, spirit descending, these words are also unfamiliar to him.
"But I think, if it's the store manager..."
The clerk's voice paused: "I think there should be no problem."
If Batman is the guardian of the night in Gotham City, then Alphonse Edelfelt is undoubtedly doing the same thing, despite the chilling warnings of Asgard's trick god, But he is still willing to believe that the blond young man huddled in the gem shop in Brooklyn, sipping hot cocoa, is closer to the store manager in his heart.
With a ticking sound, a certain display screen suddenly began to show a picture.
All the communication equipment in this room can automatically capture the clown's voice. Once the sound wave is captured on the whole network, it will automatically be connected to the broadcast.
"Hahahaha, everyone in Gotham City, are you already looking forward to my performance tonight?"
In the video, the clown is in a closed room. The walls of the room are obviously lacking in decoration, and even the primer has not been painted. They just use paint to write "Welcome to Gotham" simply and scrawled: "Of course I will tonight." I have prepared an explosion link that everyone loves to see, let me tell you a little reminder, if the gas station on the outskirts of Gotham City explodes, what kind of exciting scene will it be?"
As if knowing that someone must be watching this video, the corners of his mouth were raised up strangely, and there were obvious scratches on both cheeks: "The bomb will detonate in 10 minutes, let's have a happy countdown, You know, waiting is sometimes a kind of enjoyment."
He took out a low-quality pocket watch and hung it on the wall, and pointed the camera closer to the dial: "Well, it seems that the time is less than 10 minutes, and we still have... 27 minutes and 12 seconds. I know you are watching In this video, Batman, listen, there is not much time left for you, do you choose to save this gas station? Even the sparks splashed by the fight may cause an explosion one step before the bomb, hahahaha... "
"My lord, the suburbs, the gas station."
Alfred picked up the communicator: "The first notification from the clown."
"Got it, you guys continue to monitor."
Under the night, Batman suddenly turned around on his modified motorcycle and sped across the streets of Gotham.
Alphonse flitted through the night sky of Gotham, glides through the night sky with his cloak, accompanied by gravity-adjusted gem magic.Looking down from a high altitude, the car lights in the city form a flowing line of fire along the street, which is another sense of the city's veins, the pulsation of life constructed by human beings.
"Don't I need to go over there?"
Alphonse turned on the communicator pinned to his ear: "If you are fighting in a place like a gas station that is prone to explosions, gem magic should be more convenient."
"No need, you continue to wait."
A low voice came from the communicator, and Alphonse heard the other party's words accompanied by the roar of a motorcycle engine: "This is definitely not the first incident tonight."
Soon, as Batman predicted, a second video warning was posted online.I don't know what kind of method he used, the clown hijacked Gotham's TV broadcast signal, so that the citizens of the whole city saw the crazy smiling figure on the TV screen at this moment.
"Good evening, citizens of Gotham City, this is the second explosion notice. Does the port of Gotham City look extraordinarily quiet tonight?"
The clown blinked in the video, and the bloody scar at the corner of his mouth was raised high: "The first cargo ship to leave tonight has some small gifts from me. If this ship has fireworks on the water, the other cargo ships will survive, but if not one cargo ship dares to leave the port, then in two hours the whole port will explode."
"Choose, Gotham."
The pale face moved closer to the camera, and then the screen shook for a while, accompanied by the sound of glass breaking, and the night scene of Gotham City's continuous traffic appeared in the video: "Choose, Batman, you may be able to stop me, or you may be able to stop me." Save a certain part of Gotham tonight, but do you think you can carry the entire Gotham City on your back? Stop dreaming! Tonight I will smash your delusion!"
"Search for the shooting location of this picture, and trace the source of the signal in reverse."
Alphonse tapped on his arm, which was inlaid with a well-crafted electronic watch, in which Tony Stark's artificial intelligence main program was stored, reminding him of every progress of Batman's plan.
[Copy that.]
The artificial intelligence responded quickly and quickly came to a conclusion.
[The signal comes from the Gotham City TV Building. Based on the analysis of the image shooting angle, it is judged that the shooting location is on the west side of the top floor of the Gotham City TV Building. ]
"how can that be!"
Everyone's communication is connected in a local frequency band, and the little shop assistant immediately exclaimed in disbelief: "It is impossible for Gotham TV station to have no one working at this time, but there is no distress signal here at all. ...!"
As he said, the TV building in Gotham City was brightly lit, and everything was as usual, but even if the phone rang, no one could reach out to answer it.
Everyone - all the employees in the entire building fell into a coma.
His eyes turned to the sand table, and the mercury area marking the location of the TV building was billowing with waves on a small scale.
"Boss, sand table!"
He immediately reported: "In the area of the TV building, a magic reaction has been detected!"
"In other words, there is a magician there."
Alphonse understood: "It's an obvious trap, and he's using an entire building full of employees as bait."
The alchemist turned around in the air and flew straight towards the location of the TV building.On the streets of Gotham City, a police car buzzed and approached Batman's motorcycle.
"Hey, which side are you going to go to!"
Sergeant Gordon poked his head out of the car window: "There's more than one place for trouble tonight!"
"You go to the port and check for bombs as much as possible."
The Knight of the Night calmly issued an order: "I will stop the place prompted in the first video."
"But……!"
Sergeant Gordon choked a word in his throat: "There are so many people..."
"Trust me, I won't give up on any Gotham citizen."
He whispered, "All will be saved tonight."
The sheriff stared at the other party for a few seconds, nodded firmly, and turned the car to the direction of the port. In Alphonse's field of vision, the TV building became closer and closer.
He landed on top of a nearby building, frowning slightly.
In the field of vision of a magician who has been protected by magic power, the outside of the entire TV building is wrapped with a malicious and steep magic barrier. Roughly judged, this can be called a kind of enchantment, maybe it is blocking It has established the connection between the interior and exterior of the TV building.This is a more simple but extremely efficient technique than workshopization, and it is more than enough to call it a "magician's laboratory".
At this moment, facing the entire enemy lair full of malice and fangs, Alphonse was slightly lost in thought.
You don't need to ask about the sand table, you can feel that the magic power of the whole Gotham is coming here.
"Choose, Batman."
On the TV, the clown still had that exaggerated smile, and made a provocative declaration to everyone in front of the TV: "If you choose to save the port, you won't be able to catch me; if you choose to go to the gas station, something will happen to the port." Explosion; if you want to rely on the stupid police to defuse the bomb, maybe you can choose to split up, but who will catch me? The life of an entire TV building will be a gift tonight! I can't wait to witness your stupidity tonight!"
For the last few words, the other party spoke with a gradually crazy tone, gritting his teeth word by word.
In the night wind, Alphonse Raven's black cloak was blown up and down.
"You go and fix the one in the TV building."
In the communicator, there was a clear instruction from Batman: "I am not very good at evaluating the combat method in the battle with the magician. Are you okay?"
"As soon as possible."
Alphonse looked directly at the brightly lit TV building: "If you delay any longer, these people will die."
Every second, the vitality of these people is scattered and lost, forming the magic power that the guy who is looking forward to in the entire TV building depends on for survival.