Chapter 51: It’s great that there’s soil in the treasure chest flowerpot…
It is normal to have soil in the flowerpot, but combined with Jason's words.
Could this be Mud Face? Liu Shu walked to the flower pot.
"He's still moving, so disgusting..."
"Then stay away from him." Jason also found him disgusting.
The wriggling mud surged in the flowerpot, and bubbles and debris kept floating up, as if trying to condense into a solid.
Liu Shu squatted down and touched the edge of the flowerpot.
There was silence inside for a moment, but then there was an even more violent upheaval.
He must be trying to convey something.
When Liu Shu continued to reach out, Jason slapped her hand away with lightning speed.
"Don't touch it."
Liu Shu tried to make him feel guilty with his eyes, but it was useless.
She saw Jason using a spatula to stir the 'mud face' inside the flower pot.
Well, he was more prepared.
"Garbage, garbage and garbage." Jason cursed the garbage in his heart as he faced the garbage on the ground.
Dead branches and leaves, and curled vines.
"Wait, is this a word?" Liu Shu turned a vine over, and its twisted curve unexpectedly formed a cursive English word.
"let me see."
Jason continued to use his spatula to stir what he considered garbage. "Old Town..."
"It can't be a distress signal." Liu Shu combined several other vines into an SOS. To be honest, it was a bit strange.
"You're right, haha, they actually thought I would save them."
"That's not right. This shouldn't be for you." It should be for Batman, Liu Shu patted the dust off his hands, and someone next to him brought a plate of wet towels.
"Where did you find this?" Jason looked up at his younger brother.
Although he was squatting on the ground, he did not seem to be the weaker party. Instead, he had the power to make people bow their heads.
"The sewer outlet is at the sea. Someone was fishing there today and saw something strange floating on the water." His men answered him.
Then these fishermen can really catch everything.
"Will this float on the water?" Liu Shu had already wiped her hands clean and she snatched the spatula from Jason's hand.
Of course, if Jason hadn't let go, it wouldn't have been possible to take it away.
"What we fished out at first was ice cubes, and they were hard to melt, so we put them in a pot and roasted them over a fire." Faced with Liu Shu's question, the subordinate did not slack off at all.
"Pot..." Is it the pot from Iceberg Restaurant? Liu Shu looked towards the kitchen.
"Don't worry, I wouldn't poison anyone." Jason mocked her.
"Food safety is important, too. You wouldn't want to eat food cooked in the same pot that cooked Clayface, would you?"
"What have you cooked?"
"Mudface."
"What's Clayface's pot?"
“Cooking food.”
"Why don't you just go upstairs and continue helping me edit the documents? Why are you hanging around here?"
"I'm hungry."
"Then why don't you eat? Is there anything to eat here?"
Liu Shu gave him a middle finger.
"Ha, why don't you do that to those guys?"
"How do you know I didn't do it?"
Jason gave her the middle finger as well.
"What are you doing?" Tim came over at some point and grabbed his hand, forcing it into a polite fist.
“???”
Liu Shu looked at Tim, who dared to take action directly after only one day, and lowered her head with deep satisfaction. She covered the corners of her mouth that she could not suppress, and squatted into a small ball obediently.
"Tsk." Jason slapped him away with even greater force than he had just used on Liu Shu, then picked up the spatula on the ground and stood up and left.
"Oh, don't learn anything random." Tim rubbed his hands. It really hurt.
"I see."
After being patted on the head, Liu Shu closed his eyes as usual.
Wait, she can't do this now.
He looked up seriously, but Ryushu noticed that Tim looked very happy.
"Did you eat just now?" He not only stood up himself, but also helped Liu Shu up.
"No."
"Then he's too bad."
"You're right." She looked at the vines and branches all over the ground and sent a photo to Batman.
That's all, he'll go.
"You just need to stay here for a few days, we can get it done quickly." Tim pulled out a chair for her.
"Me?" Why did he let her stay here like Jason did? She wouldn't put herself in danger.
Unless there was a reason that required her to go, Liu Shu felt that he seemed to be hiding something.
"I'll go get Di Ting for you," Tim said as if it was a trivial matter.
But he didn't know that out of suspicion of the vigilante's acting skills, Liu Shu was already trying to find their flaws.
"Are you going to look for Clayface and the others tonight? In the Old Town?"
"Well... there are some arrangements over there. I don't think it will take too long to prepare. It will probably start early this morning." Tim calculated seriously. He would go there too tonight.
"Can I go?"
"Of course not."
"If you feel bored or scared, you can come to me." Tim handed her a communicator.
"Okay." She would stay here obediently.
But when night falls, someone evades all of Red Hood's defenses.
"Are you here to arrest me?"
"Don't worry, you won't suffer unless you disobey." Damian pulled out the puppet from behind the door and put his knife on its neck.
He didn't expect that Yanou would be held hostage by him so easily. It seemed that the assassins' training was too lax and they couldn't even defeat this one.
"I'll go with you. Don't hurt her." Liu Shu raised his hand.
"Hmph." Damian put away the knife. He didn't feel any danger. There was not even a trap in this room.
The feeling of running while being carried by a child is very wonderful. Liu Shu couldn't help but smile as he looked at the rapidly changing scenes around him.
"You can actually still laugh."
"Nothing, I'm just curious, why are you so obsessed with me?" Not only did he send out so many assassins, but he also asked Damian to go as well.
"Heh." Damian didn't answer her question.
"How rude! Is this the education of the Assassin's League?"
"Aren't you afraid that I'll throw you down now?"
It seems that he cares a lot about the Assassin's League. Liu Shu looked down and saw that her puppet had been following him in the dark.
It’s a pity that Damian is now blinded by the completion of the mission and his own pride and cannot see it.
Of course, he didn't realize that Yanou was going easy on him and deliberately letting him take away the person he wanted to take away.
The wind from the tall building ruffled Liu Shu's hair. She closed her eyes and said, "Old Town. Let me guess. Is it below the GCPD?"
Damian braked on the rooftop, his breath hitching for a moment. "How did you know?"
Because only that part was more in line with the style of the Assassin's League. Liu Shu wanted to tell him so, but she decided to make herself look more dangerous. "Guess."
Without stopping for too long, Damian continued to rush to the Gotham Police Department, during which he did not speak again.
"I don't want to go in there. It looks so dirty. Don't you mind this?"
Ryushu's words made Damian pause again.
After being put down, Liu Shu looked at the manhole cover beside him and the knife in front of him with a smile.
"Don't push your luck."
"Can you tell me your name?"
"I said, don't..." The sudden change made Damian put down the knife in his hand.
It was the puppet, and the tip of its sword was pressed against the back of Damian's neck, piercing his hood.
"Don't push your luck. I'll remember that," Liu Shu tilted his head. "Now, can you tell me?"
"Damian." A hoarse female voice came from above.
"Mother……"
Talia didn't look at her captive son, but stood beside Ryushu.
"You must have a lot of questions," she said, her lips curled up, her eyes full of calculation towards the human in front of her, "and it just so happens that we need your key."
"key?"
"I can tell you where you come from. In exchange, you have to open a mysterious treasure chest."
"You see this as an equal transaction," Liu Shu raised her head. She thought Talia would be more aggressive. "Only I can open it?"
"We think so." Talia nodded, extending her hand in a gesture of invitation.
It is true that they reject the sewers, but if there is something important to do, it is not impossible. Liu Shu followed Talia downstairs.
I really admire her for being able to do something like this so elegantly. Liu Shu walked behind Talia, holding the doll in his left hand and Damian in his right hand.
She felt that the people in front of her didn't seem to be walking in a sewer, but more like they were on some Victoria's Secret stage or the Walk of Fame.
"What are you doing?" Damian asked through gritted teeth, not even loudly.
"What are you doing?" Liu Shu blinked. She found that Damian's hands were not as soft as Yanou's. The calluses on his hands from long-term exercise were so thick that they were a bit uncomfortable.
Damian stared at her holding his hand as if he were an enemy.
That’s great. It’s the funniest thing to do when you want to kill her but can’t. Liu Shu pretended not to see it and continued to hold her hand.
There was a sudden loud noise ahead. Talia paused for a moment, then continued forward, quickening her pace.
Liu Shu continued to walk slowly. She would not run just because the person leading the way ran.
It’s easy to guess who is dismantling the Assassin’s League house in front.
Damian shook her hand away as Talia disappeared from their sight.
"Don't look at me like that."
Such a familiar statement. Jason seemed to have said that Liu Shu was immune to this kind of threat.
"hurry up."
"No, it shouldn't be too awkward if we go there later."
"What?"
Damian's frown reminded Liu Shu of Talia who was just on top. She had the same expression when she looked at him in the dark.
"The protagonist always appears last. Where is your sword?" Liu Shu put his hand on his shoulder.
Damian reacted violently, pulling out the knife from his back.
"Yes, that's it, let's go."
This way the vigilantes would know she was being coerced. Ryushu walked ahead of Damian.
Damian felt like an idiot for threatening the air.
The noises did not stop because of Talia. Liu Shu still didn't know what happened, but with Damian and Yanou there, she believed that she would not be hurt.
Damian must be very unhappy about being asked by Talia to protect her. Liu Shu glanced at his expression.
Let's wait and see what happens when we get there. The mysterious treasure chest... could it be something very precious?
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