Chen Tao turned his face expressionlessly.
"Well, he's Alfred."
Diana came a little closer and tilted her head to look at him with her sea-blue eyes like lakes.
"uh-huh?"
Um, this action is really oppressive. She walked up like this, which undoubtedly suppressed my movement space visually. This is a negotiation technique, invading other people's territory through close body language. She wanted to... uh...
Chen Tao subconsciously wanted to start to speculate on the logic of the other party's actions, just like he had done countless times. Chasing clues and deducing results should be his strength.
However, he met those sea-blue eyes, and then he couldn't figure out anything.
He remained expressionless. This is a kind of camouflage. Never let others realize what you are thinking. If you cannot ensure that you will not show flaws on your face, then it is better to solidify your expression.
——That’s how it should be.
"Take off your hood," he then heard Diana say.
"No."
"pick up."
"All right."
Chen Tao took off half of his bat hood, and he was not used to having his true face exposed in the air.
He didn't ask Diana why she asked him to do this, and she didn't mention it either.
He has been wearing the hood on his head for a while, either doing different things as Batman in different locations, or synchronizing with other Batmans, such as [Bat Mage], and then spending time in the laboratory, chatting with tired people. A frothing Flash experiments with Lucius, who is starting to look a little Mediterranean.
"That's Alfred, old butler Alfred. Hmm."
Chen Tao began to rub his hood unconsciously, but soon he realized this, put the hood into his belt, and said:
“He’s very old and sometimes he sees things wrong.
"Hmm." Wonder Woman nodded.
However, just when Chen Tao thought he had been fooled, he suddenly heard the Amazon female warrior ask directly and abruptly.
"So you didn't use my photo as your computer desktop?"
Chen Tao almost lost his expression on his face.
"I...I took pictures of everyone in the Justice League in order to make everyone's pass cards and enter their information."
"Oh, that's right." Wonder Woman nodded.
"He must have seen my P photos (touch up stuff), so he made the mistake——"
"You touch up stuff?"
"...You are thinking wrongly."
Then Diana giggled first, followed closely by Chen Tao, who slightly raised the corners of his mouth.
Such a little joke made the atmosphere between the two people suddenly become more harmonious as if some catalyst had been added.
"So...are you leaving for Atlantis tomorrow?"
"At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, we can find someone around noon."
"Well, you have to be careful. I have some connections in the government. They told me that the government's attitude towards Atlantis is quite... unfriendly.
I guess the Atlanteans aren't that friendly either. Paradise Island (the island where the Amazons from which Wonder Woman is born) has fought wars with them before. "
"Um."
"Um."
Then they found they had nothing to say.
"So...is there anything else you want to talk to me about?" Diana asked.
She turned slightly sideways, as if she was about to walk away naturally.
She waited.
"No?"
Batman didn't react. The familiar, common, consistent expression of Diana's expression began to appear on his face again.
In Diana's eyes, Batman always seemed to have only two emotions, one was a wild smile used to intimidate his enemies, and the other was a worried expressionless face.
The faint smile just now seemed like an illusion.
"Are you really speechless? Then I'm leaving."
Batman still didn't say anything, and Diana felt a little disappointed.
She turned half sideways and raised her steps slightly: "Then, see you next time -"
"Uh, of course, uh."
Diana turned her head back sharply and blinked her blue eyes: "You have something else? What's the matter?"
Then there was a pause of more than 10 seconds.
"Whether you want to, I don't know..."
I'm really a little incoherent.
Chen Tao thought so.
He said, "I don't know, I mean. We could...we could do something else, I mean or..."
"Not discussing things?"
"What? No, of course not. It's not a discussion, it's not part of a plan.
Just...do something else.
Ah, I know you will be very busy when the Justice League is established. Sometimes the government will ask you to do something, and if you don’t have time, then forget it——"
"OK."
Chen Tao met her eyes.
"So. You agreed."
"Well, you can do whatever you want."
"Oh, uh, um. Okay." Chen Tao said.
"But not now, it's not convenient now," he hesitated, but even at this time the serious expression seemed to be solidified on his face, and he subconsciously turned his head: "I still have to deal with it. Something about Atlantis.”
"Yes," said Diana. She suddenly realized something, and hurriedly turned her head like Batman.
The two people looked at different places on both sides, one on the left and the other on the right, and then looked at each other out of the corner of their eyes.
"Ah, yes, I'm very busy now."
"I know, I have something to do too."
"But maybe..."
"Yes, look..."
"In two days?"
"In two days, okay."
"OK."
"goodbye."
"goodbye."
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"What we are looking for is a Caucasian male, approximately 28 years old, with golden hair and golden eyes, and if he has a beard, it will also be golden. Name: Arthur Curry, Codename: Aquaman.”
Chen Tao, Super Girl Kara Kent and Super Boy Connor Luthor were sitting in a hidden tactical van.
This kind of van looks like an ordinary car on the outside, but the inside is decorated with something else, almost like a small bat cave.
Early in Batman's career, Bruce Wayne used to live directly in this car, monitoring the Falcone family (the crime syndicate of DC villains Romans) on a weekly basis in order to collect information that could legally transport them. Evidence to go to jail.
At this time, the three of them were sitting in a row in the carriage. On the screen in front of them, Amanda Waller was introducing the situation that the government had.
"His height is approximately between 1.9 and 2 meters. Although according to the fishermen, his height is over 2.5 meters, but after multiple verifications, we believe it is a false rumor——"
"Arthur Curry's height is 1.93 meters." Chen Tao said.
Then he saw Amanda Waller glaring at him with a "why didn't you tell me earlier" look.
"Go on."
"He is extremely dangerous. The highest record of strength we have ever seen him use is to lift a 160,000-ton cruise ship with his bare hands while enduring the impact of tidal waves. This is the upper limit of known strength. Although not as good as the Superman we know, he is every bit as good as Wonder Woman and Diana Prince."
Among the three people present, Supergirl listened very attentively, while Chen Tao had known the information for a long time. Only Superboy Connor was distracted.
Chen Tao stretched out a hand, synchronized his fingers all the way to his shoulder for extremely fast bullets, and then banged Connor's chest from behind.
"Ouch!"
"concentrate."
Superboy Connor covered his head: "Why can you hit me so painfully?"
He looked at the seat under his butt: "And the seat hasn't collapsed yet!"
This is of course because Chen Tao used force from back to front instead of from top to bottom. He didn't plan to dismantle the car he was riding in yet.
Amanda on the screen was still talking: "Dr. Stephen Shen was entrusted by Arthur Curry's father, Tom Curry, to conduct research on Atlantis as early as his childhood."
"However, Stephen Shen later tried to make this research public. He planned to obtain the blood of the young Sea King, Arthur, to prove to the world that he had discovered the existence of Atlantis."
"Therefore, the two families fell out. Tom Curry, the father of Aquaman Arthur, would never allow this kind of research to put his son in danger to be made public. Because some Dr. Shen are tight-lipped and unwilling to share until death As a result, Arthur's father, Tom Curry, died and he never saw Arthur again."
"The reason why Dr. Shen is unwilling to share is very simple," Chen Tao said: "He hired a mercenary named Black Manta to steal the blood of Arthur, the king of the sea, and accidentally killed Arthur's father. The furious sea king I ran to Black Manta's salvage boat to seek revenge on him, but accidentally killed Black Manta's father. They killed each other's fathers and formed a deep hatred."
He shrugged: "The summary is to kill each other's fathers as a sign of friendship."
Amanda Waller rolled her eyes. How come you know everything? You know so much, why am I pretending to explain to you information that you already know?
"Go on."
Hearing Batman's words, Amanda Waller could only sigh, and then continued: "Therefore, Dr. Shen can only provide us with some outdated information to allow us to speculate on the current status of Arthur the Sea King."
As he spoke, he was thinking about the question of Arthur the Sea King. Unlike Wonder Woman Diana, based on the intelligence they knew and what Batman said, it seemed that the other person was... a more impulsive, reckless, and aggressive person?
However, according to the timeline provided by Dr. Shen, it is only a profile of his teenage years and does not represent the current state of the other party. Amanda continued:
"Times have changed, and his appearance may have been different from that of his youth. Therefore, in the preliminary preparation work, we made a lot of fallacies and found many wrong [Arthur], and due to improper expressions by the communicators, even among the fishermen This caused a certain amount of panic in the circle, which made Arthur, the King of the Sea, hide himself even more, thus increasing the difficulty of the task in disguise."
"But fortunately, after a long period of hard work and subsequent investment of funds, we have finally basically locked in the location where Neptune King Arthur may exist. No, or in other words, if Neptune King Arthur is not here, it means that it is basically impossible for us to continue Found him."
On the screen, Amanda Waller knocked on the table with the pen in her hand, and then the camera cut to the door of a tavern on the seaside.
"We finally settled on this place, the town of Derry, Maine, the 'Little Boy in Yellow' beer hall." Amanda Waller said: "Due to the 1990 movie "The Return of the Clown," the town of Derry once ushered in a beer hall. A wave of small development, even though it has almost no dividends now, there is Internet here, it can contact the outside world, and it is also one of the coastal towns with a relatively large flow of people.
If Arthur, King of the Sea, needs information about the outside world, this would be the right place. But what ultimately drives our judgment is another reason. "
Amanda Waller puts a picture of a person on the screen.
He was a strong man who was obviously taller than others. He had blond shawl hair and a golden beard like a lion. The most eye-catching thing was his eyes:
It's really golden yellow, as unreal as wearing colored contact lenses.
"This man calls himself Arthur Morgan. He is now a security guard at the Little Boy in Yellow. He works part-time, working 2 days a week and 5 days off. He only works on weekends, because weekends are a time for people to relax and there may be security incidents in the pub. Most of the time.
People around us told us that he appeared in the town of Derry two months ago. There was no record of his train ticket or flight to Maine, nor was this name found in Maine. It was most likely a fake name. "
"How tall is he?"
"According to the calculations of professional agents, it is 1.98 meters. This is consistent with what the fishermen said. A height of about two meters is indeed likely to be mistaken for about 2.5 meters, but it is different from your information Batman. We do not dare to I confirmed it was him, so I gave an estimate of about 1.8 to two meters."
Chen Tao motioned to Amanda Waller to continue.
"We found that he was running his own intelligence network locally and was consciously avoiding our people while seizing the government's movements."
"Of course, not only many of us locals also suspected that he was the Sea King that many fishermen said by word of mouth, but no one dared to come forward and ask him. Our agents tried him once, but he behaved completely like an ordinary person. , it’s hard to say whether the acting was too good or whether we made a mistake.”
Amanda Waller said:
"The name Arthur is really too common. There are people with this name everywhere. We don't dare to conduct too intense testing to prevent us from getting a fake Arthur by mistake again like before, which almost kills civilians. situation occurs."
"But no matter what, according to expert probability analysis, Sea King Arthur must have his own intelligence channels, otherwise there is no way to explain why he can hide from us for so long. Do you know? The submarines and fleets searching for him are deliberately looking for Under the prerequisite, we have never met any Atlantean even once. Even if we deliberately find someone to pretend to be a fisherman and fishermen to lure him out, he will not be fooled. "
"Without understanding of the outside world, it's almost impossible to happen."
Amanda Waller finally concluded: "So, Aquaman Arthur Curry must be hiding among us. Even if he is not the target person with long blond hair, he must be in Derry Town, because this is the easiest place to get intelligence among the coastal towns. location."
"I'm done," she said.
Chen Tao touched his chin.
"Okay, that being the case. So what are you waiting for? Let's go try him ourselves."
(End of chapter)
