Chapter 26 We are safe now, "Good evening" for now...
"Good evening." Bruce waved to the people in the car with a relaxed look on his face.
"I thought you'd be more serious." Sherlock looked at him in the rearview mirror, but that seemed inconvenient, so he turned his head away again.
"Yeah?"
Why were the two people in such a strange state during their conversation? Secretary Liu remembered that when Bruce was unconscious just now, he was a little nervous, or worried. This should be a rare emotion for Sherlock. Why did he become like this after waking up?
"How do you feel?" This is a normal greeting. Watson took a bottle of water from the empty seat beside him and handed it to Bruce.
"Not bad." Bruce checked himself and then looked out the window.
It turns out that the moon tonight is not a full moon.
"Do you want to rest?" Liu Shu's gaze stopped at his wrist.
"No." He had just woken up, Bruce noticed her gaze, and took out a handkerchief from his arms.
"Here."
Inside was a broken ring-shaped object, which Liu Shu had put on him earlier.
"I'm sorry, I broke it."
"It's okay." Perhaps it has completed its mission. Liu Shu pushed Bruce's hand away. These broken things are useless, so it's better not to take them.
Anyway, even if she recycled it, he would have taken a sample first.
"What should we do next?" Watson looked at the passenger seat. Everyone was safe and sound, and he wanted to know what to do next.
"Go find another interesting case." Sherlock turned around again. He regretted sitting in this position. If he had sat in the back, he might have been able to study the things brought out from Rusty Lake with them.
"What? Isn't there a missing detective?" They haven't found Detective Dale yet.
"He's already seen it," Sherlock looked at Bruce. "Tell me about it."
Bruce, who stayed awake at the bottom of the lake the longest, did see the missing person, but only fragments.
"I saw Dale with a head injury in a broken mirror," Bruce said, a complex expression on his face. "He had a glass bottle of red potion in his hand, and he drank it."
"Then what?"
"He pulled a key out of his mouth."
"..." Liu Shu looked away. She had never thought anything was strange when she played the game before. Traps, fishing on land, feeding animals to get what's in their stomachs were all very common things in Rusty Lake. Or maybe she had played Rust Lake too much and become rusty. Why did Bruce's description of it sound so strange?
"Then I saw Dale holding the blue potion."
"He's corrupt."
"He collapsed after drinking the green potion."
It's wrong to drink potions of unknown origin. Bruce shook his head, "But Dale must be alive."
"He's still in Rusty Lake." Sherlock confirmed, agreeing with this statement.
"Are we really not going to continue?" This was not like Sherlock's style, and Watson was a little surprised.
"Someone's going to seal this place off." The Rusty Lake puzzle wasn't as difficult as it looked. Once you knew the ultimate goal of those people, their behavior became easy to predict. Sherlock stared ahead. Even if it meant someone losing some hair, he still had to solve this problem.
"Do you need help?" Sherlock looked at Liu Shu when getting off the car.
She shook her head and said, "I don't need any help."
unnecessary.
Liu Shu subconsciously followed Bruce for a while, but she suddenly discovered that someone's true identity and even the scars he was most reluctant to reveal were shown to her.
Can she still run?
Will it be caught and adopted? Does the flower language of the stray lotus also mean that it will be lost if you are slow?
With the determination to escape as soon as he returned to Gotham, Liu Shu returned to the hotel where he started.
"Let me introduce myself again, I'm Bruce Wayne, hello."
"No, you're Match Malone."
Liu Shu's answer did not change Bruce's expression. He didn't think that a person who could recognize Holmes through the newspaper would not know Wayne, the most famous person in Gotham City.
"If you want to call me that, you can. This is your ID." Bruce put the thing on the table in front of Liu Shu, and no one knew where he got it from.
"Stay with me for now." He looked at her with a smile.
“…” I have to say that Bruce was still very gentle during this period, and Tim’s company helped him recover a lot of his mental state.
But before long, Red Hood's revenge will pull him back into his torment, deeper and harder to escape than before.
Liu Shu recalls the clown in his dream, who was the source of all evil.
"When are we leaving here?" The purpose of their coming here has been achieved, and the rest of the matter is entirely left to Holmes.
"Do you have anything to pack tomorrow?"
"No," Liu Shu looked at the suitcase. Did she have to take the train with Bruce and then change planes twice? That was too much trouble. "I'll just stay in here." She pointed to the suitcase where she had put it.
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"I'll wake up when we get there." Liu Shu ignored Bruce's disapproving look, curled up peacefully in the suitcase, and turned off her phone. She believed that Bruce could bring back a suitcase that had weight but was detected to be empty, just like he had done before.
"Morris." Late at night, Robin threw a tied man to the ground and said the man's name.
"So soon? How long have you not rested?" Gordon squatted down to check the fugitive's face, remembering that he had asked Batman the same question before.
After waiting for a long time without any response, when he looked up, Robin was gone as expected, well, just like Batman before.
He stood up helplessly and asked someone to take the fugitive away.
"Liu Shu--" Winnie took her sister and ran to Liu Shu, who had just got off the plane.
"I won't get lost." Liu Shu waved to her. Because Winnie was worried that she couldn't find the place to pick her up, she made an appointment with her at a dessert shop in the city center.
It was the store where she first met Tina.
"I know. We'll all be out shopping eventually anyway, so why not meet here?" Winnie took out a packaged box and placed it on the table. "Here's a gift. Open it and take a look."
"Thanks."
Tina, who was standing by, also pushed the small box in her hand towards Liu Shu.
"Thank you too."
After a long while, Liu Shu finally untied the bow on the box. Because she wanted to take it apart completely, she opened it a little slowly.
As she opened the gifts, she spoke to the two of them. Although their trip to the UK was not so smooth, there was still good news.
"Maurice has been caught." Robin found the escaped prisoner, so they didn't have to worry too much about their safety.
"Who is Morris?" Winnie looked at her puzzledly.
Liu Shu's hand stopped, she raised her head and carefully observed the expressions of the two people opposite her.
"Do you still remember Tina's attending physician?" No way, Liu Shu was a little nervous.
"Attending physician?" Tina shook her head. "I'm not sick."
“!”
Winnie frowned, "That's not right, the doctor moved to another city." She remembered that Tina did have a primary doctor.
"..." Liu Shu decided to change the subject. It would be better not to discuss this for the time being. "What do you want to eat?"
"Hurry up and open your presents." Winnie didn't think too much about it.
Rather than opening the gifts, Liu Shu wanted to find Batman more, as her puppet was still with him.
"It looks very nice." It was a matcha-colored scarf. Liu Shu took it out of the box and put it on himself with some awkwardness.
Winnie clapped her hands. "I knew I'd choose this."
This color is difficult to match with clothes. If she didn’t have some green elements on her body, it would be very inconsistent. Liu Shu touched the hairpin on her head.
"And mine." Tina put her hands on the table and looked at her expectantly.
Her little box was easier to open; the ribbon on it was just for decoration and didn't need to be untied.
"Is this an emerald?" It was a bit expensive, Liu Shu pushed the thing back, "I can't accept it."
"It's just a rough stone. The one you gave her last time was much more beautiful than this one." Winnie put it in the box containing the scarf. "I have a bag here."
"Where are we going later? I want to find a place nearby..." She placed the things next to Liu Shu's hand.
But it seems that they can't play together today. Liu Shu lowered his eyes and looked at the table.
"Sister, your cell phone is ringing." Tina reminded her.
"Then I'll go take a call."
In fact, it was Liu Shu who asked Tim to call her.
"Winnie and the others don't remember Morris." Liu Shu spoke directly without waiting for the other party to speak.
"Are you talking about the monitor of your class?"
The voice sounded familiar; it was actually Wayne's housekeeper on the other end of the line.
"Ah, sorry, Master Tim is taking a break. I saw your message on his computer, so I called you."
"It's okay." Liu Shu's message just now was 'Call me quickly!' She needed to find a reason to leave and had no time to go shopping.
"Can you describe what happened? I'll convey it to him." Ah Fu felt Ryushu retreat.
"I'll message him later, thank you."
"If you need anything, you can ask me for help." Finally, Ah Fu left her a message.
Liu Shu put away his phone and returned to his previous seat.
"Sorry, I don't think I can join you today. Something has to happen."
After seeing Winnie nod to her, she looked at Tina and said, "I'll treat you to ice cream next time we meet."
"Okay." Tina's attention was quickly attracted by what the waiter brought.
"Bye." Winnie nodded to Liu Shu.
Liu Shu, who left in a hurry, turned on her cell phone on the way home. She was now sending messages to Tim and 'Matchstick Malone' about the two people's different degrees of amnesia.
There is one more thing.
"Alfred? Is he back?" Tim walked down the stairs slowly. He had just fallen asleep in the study. Today was the day Bruce would come home, and he really wanted to greet him.
"We'll be there in a few minutes. Do you want to go to the door?" Ah Fu grabbed a coat from somewhere and said, "If you don't want to get sick, you'd better put it on."
"Okay, Ah Fu." He was very obedient.
"I remember you only brought one suitcase." Tim looked at Bruce's hand. He handed the suitcase he had taken out of the manor to Alfu, but chose to hold the other one himself.
And they are so careful that they don't even let it touch the ground. What's inside it?
"Is it a gift?" Alfu looked at Bruce with a smile. He didn't expect that he would remember to bring something for his family when he went out.
"No," Bruce denied it at first. He glanced at the butler's expression and changed his words, "The gift I brought you is in that box."
Ah Fu nodded in satisfaction.
They went back inside, but Tim was clearly less interested in the presents than in the mysterious suitcase.
He crouched in front of the box Bruce had carefully placed on the carpet.
"What is it?"
"..." Bruce suddenly didn't have the courage to open it. The thing inside would definitely make Tim look at him strangely.
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