The unconscious girl's fingers twitched. A chaotic sound echoed in the mine for half a second, as if countless creatures were biting something. The next second, the girl's figure suddenly disappeared.

But the ice bridge did not collapse. Jason was stunned. Now the whole mine was frozen, but it did not necessarily mean that it was safe. No one knew when the freezing would end. Now all the injured needed to be sent out immediately.

He stood up by holding onto the wall and found Tal falling from the sky. He seemed to be clinging to the wall before. Then, the man glanced at him coldly and said, "Enlarge the hole!"

Jason yelled at him, "Do you have any backup?"

"Yes," the man said, "but they're not human—we need to kill the guards at the gate, get backup in, and take these people away."

Just then, they heard the sound of horse hooves. The road they came from was an abandoned passage that was only wide enough for two people to enter and exit side by side. There appeared Nora, who was lying on the horse's back, and the seemingly reluctant Frozen Man.

The frozen man saw the scene from a distance, was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "Catch it——"

He threw the cryo gun to Jason and Tal. The two reliable adult men looked at each other and Tal made a gesture, obviously, they should act separately.

This mine obviously needs to transport the output from below, and it was once used to transport minerals. Naturally, there is more than one way to enter and exit. There is a three-meter-high stone gate guarding the door. Behind the stone gate is a mine cart that transports upward at an angle and can also carry passengers.

Jason has put on a gas mask, but the drug powder he inhaled before makes him feel very bad. On the contrary, Tal, this guy is simply like a monster. Will this man not be affected?

He hated all drugs, which destroyed his family and the woman he called "mother."

After the flames were frozen and gradually extinguished, the entire mine slowly turned black, and Jason heard a low sob. After being frozen with a cryo gun, the objects would become very brittle. He noticed that the exposed wires on the wall had been cut by a knife, and the cut wires were connected to the surveillance probe, so there was only a faint reflection of the ice bridge in the room.

He raised an eyebrow.

The one who cut the power lines was naturally Tal, and the only reinforcements he could be sure of at that time were the gargoyles.

According to the information he learned from Weiwei, in addition to the dozens of local gargoyles in South Hinckley, there were a large number of gargoyles flying over from Gotham City, and the mine was not safe. The police were on their way, and before that, they could let the gargoyles send the injured out for timely medical treatment.

After the former killer discovered the surveillance during his first dive, he noted down the location of the surveillance. After people's safety was temporarily guaranteed and the fire was extinguished, he immediately resolved the power supply hub and delayed time.

The stone gate collapsed, and in the darkness, he rolled out like a black panther and climbed up the mine tunnel. Sure enough, above him, there were two men who seemed to be militiamen, looking over here with lights on.

A silver light flashed, and the person in the front row who heard the noise fell down, holding his throat, before he could react.

His companion was luckier, as he was killed by a freezing gun. He was completely frozen before he could reach the gun hanging on his waist.

Tal passed by him, glanced at the gun hanging on his waist, and looked at his now frozen and sluggish posture, thinking to himself: "Sure enough, the situation in the East District where there is no gun ban is easier to manage."

However, people like these probably wouldn't know how to use guns even if they had them.

There were cards and a half-eaten burger on the table. Tal couldn't understand how they could eat and have fun outside the graveyard without any psychological pressure after deciding to kill thousands of people. But it didn't matter. He didn't need to think about the scum's thoughts.

The communicator on the other party's table was still vibrating. Obviously, the mine that was originally intended to be blown up had stopped moving, so the target would naturally be confused.

Tal answered the call and took out a recorder from his gadgets:

"Chris, what's going on there? Go check it out. The surveillance is broken."

Tal coughed and lowered his voice: "The explosion happened, so of course the surveillance would fail. Didn't you give the order for us to blow these people up? I was playing cards!"

"Are you forgetting, you idiot?" the other person said, "The one who gave the order was Mayor Smith. Ahem, damn it, why am I telling you this? Stop playing cards. What's the situation with the mine? Was it really blown up?"

Tal: "No problem, but what about the bodies down there?"

"That's none of your business. Damn it, there seems to be some commotion outside. I won't talk to you anymore. Hurry up and change your clothes and go back. Nothing happened tonight, you know? Stupid!"

The call ended. Tal didn't even look at the two bodies. He opened his phone and saw a message from "Bella Betivin": "Weiwei is fine. She just needs to rest. Clear the passage. The gargoyles will go down to rescue her."

In the darkness, a pair of eyes flashing red light appeared. Tal dodged to the edge, and suddenly thought of his temporary teammate. He rushed back to the passage, and the gargoyles flew into the mine in rows, smashing the frozen bodies of the militiamen blocking the front of the passage into pieces.

After Jason killed the two militiamen, he also heard the movement in the sky. He raised his head and his brows jumped -

There were no stars or moon in the dark sky. Only by looking carefully could he find that the winged monsters were covering the sky, making the darkness even darker. However, he had been Robin before, so he had no problem seeing in the dark. Naturally, he noticed that this was the gargoyle that had been stepped on by the vigilantes.

Thinking of the recent reports about gargoyles in Gotham City - many tabloids like to use the matter of magicians and gargoyles as news, Jason stepped aside with a strange expression.

Then, the horrible monsters flew into the mine one by one from the tunnel he had cleared. He could even clearly see the patterns painted by the children on the wings of some of the stone sculptures of the gargoyles.

Then, a small scream was heard in the mine. Jason's face changed and he rushed down with his gun tightly gripped.

…

Jane hugged her son and trembled.

It was too cold, but she didn't dare leave.

She is also a "meat prostitute". Women living in the mines not only have to work, but also become one of the channels for men to vent, including but not limited to sex and abuse. Four years ago, she spent a lot of money to escape from her home in Philadelphia and the abuse of her stepfather, thinking that she could secretly get a new identity in the chaotic city of Gotham, and rely on working and hard work to make a decent life for herself.

She just wanted to live like a human being.

But she never expected that God would send her down a new hell to punish her for her non-belief.

She understood English, she knew what she was doing, and she could understand the guards' conversations. As long as she could escape, she wouldn't have to suffer this torture anymore. That's what she thought in the first year.

Then she got pregnant and gave birth to a stupid son. The next year, she wanted to run away with her son, but after living in this environment for a long time, both the child and herself had become addicted to drugs and their bodies were completely destroyed. Jane knew that even if they escaped from here, her life would be completely ruined, but she just couldn't accept it. Her child had lived under poor lighting since birth, lived in their mine that was like a garbage dump, and lived amid obscene moans. She couldn't accept it -

He is already a fool, why can't he even look at the sun?

But she collapsed before sunrise. Her escape plan failed again because of her drug addiction. They were dragged back. Her life became worse and worse. She became more and more numb. Her three-year-old son still can't speak, but can only cry and crawl. She doesn't know where her future lies.

God, if you are punishing me, why not kill me as soon as possible? I would rather go to hell than go to heaven with you.

Then, in the firelight, she saw the ice bridge falling from the sky, and through the reflective ice she saw her own grimy face for the first time in years.

She saw her cracked hands, her reflection in the ice, her numb eyes.

On the ice bridge, an invisible force of fear erupted, causing the flames to retreat, but Zhen rushed over first regardless. She felt that the gods had descended, but it was too late. Why -

Why did you come now?

Why did you come now!!!

She thought she would question, be angry, and be full of strength, but when she saw the face of the fallen girl clearly, she found herself rushing to the front, and then, kneeling down weakly.

She rested her forehead against the cold bridge pillar, looked at her own face in the reflection, and cried silently.

There is no God. It was not God who came to save her, and it was not God's power that extinguished the flames.

Who should she hate?

Jane hid under the bridge pillar shivering, not paying attention to the two men. They hated men. She hugged the only thing that belonged to her in the mine, her son. It made no difference whether he was alive or dead at this moment. In the cold air, she felt a different kind of security and warmth.

Then she saw the horse's hoof, a pony that looked out of place here, lowered its head and licked her dirty hair.

The son in his arms tried to reach out and touch this "strange thing". A staggering woman got off the white horse and said vaguely and anxiously: "Do you know gargoyles? Forget it, gargoyles, did you see them? They are the ones above. Hold the neck of the gargoyle tightly, don't struggle or let it grab you... They are here to rescue you. It's not safe here, be good..."

"good."

The woman shouted hurriedly, and Jane raised her head to see terrible black monsters falling from the sky. A cold breath spread in the cave, screams came one after another, and the monsters used their claws to break the shackles that had been frozen at people's ankles, grabbed their skinny bodies, and dragged them away from the mine.

Most people could only cry and had no way to resist. However, Jane stared at the direction where the monsters flew away, stood up suddenly, and stumbled towards another landing monster. So what if it was a monster? So what if there was hell ahead?

As long as she could leave, she didn't mind being saved by a monster or an angel, as long as she could leave——

She hugged the monster's wings, thinking she would be blown away, but she found that her hands felt cold, and there was no sulfur and magma from hell.

The monster carefully retracted its claws and stared at her as if in a daze. Then, it hugged Jane and her son.

Then Jane felt the shaking and they were flying.

They flew up, passing through the ruins of the stone gate that she thought would never collapse, and through the seemingly long mine tunnel. Jane saw the corpses on the ground and the scaly buildings in the distance.

Four years later, the clean wind blew on her face for the first time.