socalfunplaces Chapter 105: Deep into the Owl's Nest
Chapter 105: Deep into the Owl's Nest
Sean did not leave the warehouse where the refugees were staying. In the next period, he and the refugees would be sent to the city of Chania in the northwest of Crete, Greece, to become a blood sacrifice and a slave of the Owl Parliament.
In the city of Chania, in the center of the Owl Parliament's labyrinth, there is what the Owl Parliament is most afraid of being discovered. The next action of Sean and the three of them is to find it and bring it out.
Finding a corner, Sean took off the x-metal armor on his body, and at the same time controlled a part of the x-metal to transform into an ordinary mask to continue to hide his face.
As soon as Sean sat down, a little boy with disheveled hair timidly moved in front of him and pulled the sleeve of his black single shirt that was exposed after he took off his armor.
Lowering his head, Sean looked at the little boy through his eyes under the mask. His dark blue eyes revealed his fear of him and his desire to be saved.
The little boy pulled Sean's sleeve again, eager to overcome his fear, and asked with determination: "Are you Superman? You punched through the floor."
"No, I'm not Superman."
Sean's words extinguished all the little boy's hopes in an instant, and the refugees around him lowered their heads like him.
The little boy let go of Sean's hand and moved to his original position with difficulty.
In this world, although Bruce has been Batman for more than twenty years, he did not start the superhero era. It was not until Clark put on his red cape a few years ago that ordinary people witnessed the birth of the first superhero.
And Batman is just a mysterious masked man, a source of fear for Gotham's criminals; as for Wonder Woman Diana, well, she gave up on humanity for nearly a century after Steve Trevor's death, and no one recognizes her. .
Therefore, for ordinary people, Superman is equivalent to a superhero, and only Superman will stand up to save innocent people. What's more, the people trapped here are a group of refugees. They don't think that anyone except Superman will save them, and who will pity them?
"I'm not Superman, but I will still save you." After the little boy moved out of a position with difficulty, Sean rekindled their hope.
The little boy's eyes lit up, he turned around and raised his fisted hands in front of his chest: "Really?"
"of course."
"But you said you weren't Superman."
"Of course I'm not Superman, but I can still take you away." Sean tapped the back of his left hand with his right hand, sighing a little at the influence of Clark, the bespectacled nerd. Perhaps in many people's minds, Superman is not only a superhero, but also a The salvation of this world is God.
"But, not now." Sean glanced at everyone, regardless of their different expressions, and continued, "In short, I will save you, please believe me."
These people now have no choice but to believe in him.
An hour later, the ship docked in the port of Crete.
At this time, Sean had already taken off his x-metal mask. Before, Nightwing was still on the ship and he needed to conceal his identity. Now that Nightwing and Raptor have gone to meet the "orator" who issued the mission to them, they naturally no longer need the mask. .
Sean casually smeared some ash on the wooden board of the warehouse and smeared it on his face, and then messed up his hair to make himself look too different from this group of refugees.
Next, Sean waited with the refugees to be sent away.
While waiting, Sean turned on the micro communicator left by Nightwing. Its signal was synchronized with Nightwing's blue high-tech glasses, which could maintain real-time contact. It could also be used as an eavesdropper to facilitate teammates to understand each other. Case.
"Thank you for coming to meet us, the Gray Sons of Gotham, the Birds of Prey." The voice adjusted its tone to a very noisy tone. It must be the so-called "orator", and the "they" in his mouth are naturally They are members of the Owl Parliament.
"We want to talk to you two."
Sean adjusted his stance and waited for the rough inspection by the owl personnel when he disembarked.
The orator's words continued:
"My owl brothers and sisters are very satisfied with your service. Our ship and cargo were successfully recovered."
Sean heard the raptor's brisk words:
"Hey, what can we say, you picked a winning team, orators."
Then Sean heard him teasing Nightwing: "We're in the same boat, right, Nightwing?"
Nightwing chose to remain silent.
Even if he couldn't see the scene over there, Sean could know that Nightwing was suffering from pain in his heart at this time. He gave innocent people to the owl's minions, even if it was to attack the court deeply, because this approach made innocent people People took risks.
In the past, he has been in situations where he had to make difficult choices, straying from principles and preparing to take the leap. But in the past, he knew there would be someone to catch him, a man with one foot in the dark, a man who wielded fear as a weapon, Batman.
But he was not sure whether X and the raptor would catch him before he fell completely into darkness.
At this time, Sean had passed the inspection of the masked man wearing a white owl mask. He roughly and casually checked the communicator that was not found, and then he was pushed to get off the boat with the refugees.
The speaker's words rang through the communicator again:
"This is your next mission and we want you to achieve great things, great achievements."
Sean didn't hear any more useful information. More than ten minutes later, he and the refugees were put into a dark cell.
On the other side, after seeing the mission issued by the speaker, Nightwing and Raptor boarded Raptor's black and orange helicopter and left Crete.
The Raptor's "Vulture" was specially modified to be as fast as the US military fighter planes. The two flew away from Crete in a few minutes.
"Can you hear me, x?" Nightwing contacted Sean immediately.
Hearing Nightwing's voice on the communicator, Sean glanced outside the cell. The guard was far enough away from him that he could feel comfortable talking to Nightwing.
After lowering his body, Sean whispered back: "The communication is normal, how is the situation?"
"The task that the orator gave me and the Raptor is to destroy the blueprint of the secret headquarters of the Parliament designed by Knut Lud, and the plan to kill Knut Lud. The plan for me and the Raptor is to get this blueprint, which will allow us to find the fear of the owl. Something that was discovered. Now we"
Raptor took over Nightwing's words: "Now we go to Reina in Norway to get this blueprint, and then we will go to my base outside Istanbul, Turkey. I have something that owls are afraid of."
"More than a hundred years ago, Gotham's Court of Owls needed a way to keep track of who gave how much to their coffers. They asked a mad inventor to create a Book of Wisdom, a book of which no trace could be found except for a select few. It’s unfathomable that even in this hacker age they still keep this traditional owl bugging us, and my base has the antidote.”