Chapter 12 Chapter 12 A Lot of Heroes
Benjamin: "We need to find a place with a lot of scrap metal. If possible, it's best to leave Gotham City. This place is really not suitable for raising a baby."
"I believe you when you say Gotham isn't a good place to raise a baby, but what do you want the scrap metal for?" Jason asked. "By the way, I haven't asked yet, what's your name?"
"Because owned metal is hard to handle." Benjamin shook hands with Jason. After changing into clean clothes and replenishing his diet, his physical strength and spirits had recovered a lot. "I'm Benjamin Tennyson, just call me Ben."
Jason handed over the crowbar in his hand. "Here, metal."
"I'm afraid that's not enough."
According to what No. 666 just said, the Ice Ghost can make a four-wheeled car with three people, so the amount of metal required is definitely not something that can be solved with just a crowbar.
"Do you know of any place around here that has a junkyard for abandoned cars or something like that?"
"There's no place like that in Gotham. Even if your car is parked on the side of the road, someone might take the tires off and sell them for money. Even the metal can be sold for money. Plus, Gotham is a highly developed city where land is very valuable. Scrapped car recycling and dismantling companies fall under the category of comprehensive waste resource utilization, which isn't a mainstream industry in Gotham."
But when it comes to this kind of industry, the neighboring city of Blüdhaven might have it.
The city of Bludhaven made its fortune from the whaling industry. Although it no longer does this, the abandoned whaling facilities should still remain.
There are also many factories in Blüdhaven. Although this city is very close to Gotham, the development of the two cities is completely different. I heard that it feels like the Gotham of the last century.
Jason had never been to Bludhaven, but he had heard of the city many times.
The situation there is even worse than Gotham. All the scum that is too vulgar, despicable or terrible for Gotham has taken root there, making Gotham's safety index unbelievably high compared to there.
As far as Jason knew, there were no superheroes in Blüdhaven, and he had never heard of any super villains there.
When Jason first became Robin, Batman went there to handle a case. After he came back, Jason pestered him to hear what the Dark Knight thought of the city.
"There's endless corruption, gangs, and casinos..."
And the sentence that left a deep impression on Jason——
"There's no such thing as Commissioner Jim Gordon there, at least not that I've met."
In short, Bludhaven wouldn't be a good place to go.
Jason didn't notice that Benjamin's eyes suddenly lost focus after he swallowed the last bite of bread.
"How much scrap metal do you want? Does it have something to do with your current situation?" Jason said. "If there's no rush, wait until the baby is born. The child is the most important thing right now."
"Yes," Jason heard the boy beside him say, "Children are the most important."
Jason: “I’m glad we can come to an understanding.”
But Benjamin didn't respond to Jason this time. He suddenly stood up and adjusted the watch on his left wrist. Before Jason could see what he did, his raised right hand had already slapped the dial.
A blinding green light suddenly exploded. Jason's combat experience in dodging explosives and poisonous gas made him subconsciously leap behind the church bench to avoid possible attacks. When he stuck his head out again, he saw a black and blue human figure with huge wings spread out behind it.
"Ice Ghost!"
Jason's eyes widened. The creature in front of him looked exactly like the Mothman in American urban legends. But before he could start to think about whether this creature was a friend or foe, and how to deal with it if it was an enemy, the creature suddenly became ethereal and transparent, and dived into the ground like a ghost, leaving only a question that Jason could barely utter.
"Book……?"
"Where's Ben?!" Before Jason could figure out the situation, a loud shout came from behind him. Li Hua, who was supposed to be in the bathroom, suddenly appeared here for some reason. Jason was sure that he didn't hear any movement.
Li Hua was seen in disheveled clothes and soaked in water, looking very miserable. It was obvious that he had just rushed over in the middle of a fight with the man in muddy clothes in the bathroom. He was holding a bird-beaked staff in one hand and a card with very classical colors and patterns in the other, and asked breathlessly.
"Have you seen a black and blue creature that looks like a moth? Where are the others?"
Li Hua was cleaning the mud off himself and the magic boy's uniform in the bathroom when he heard a faint sound of "Ice Ghost" coming from outside.
At that time, Li Hua picked up the staff and smashed it at the [Time] card. After the time stopped, he rushed out directly, only to find that Benjamin was really gone, and there was only Jason squatting behind the church bench with a confused look on his face.
Li Hua knew something bad was going to happen at that moment.
Jason pointed to where Benjamin disappeared. "He suddenly became translucent and ran away from the ground."
The moment he heard this answer, Li Hua suffered cardiac and respiratory arrest.
The Nakfuji people become invisible!
It must be that the Ice Ghost realized that Fei couldn't get rid of him, so he chose to turn invisible and sink into the ground.
Number 666 had previously warned the Ice Ghost that it was extremely anxious and could emerge at any moment due to the nesting work it had been doing overnight. But Li Hua hadn't expected it to be so anxious! He'd only had to change his clothes and rub some mud before his friend had already burrowed underground!
Or is this some kind of "little friend unearthing rule" of the universe's will? Is the price of digging out a little friend from the soil the price of burying another little friend back into the soil?
But Li Hua didn't collapse for long, because No. 666 gave him a reassurance in time: "It's okay, I can locate it."
Not to mention that the Omnitrix itself will send out positioning, the soul wavelengths included in the whitelist are all their colleagues. The existence of systems like No. 666 is to assist them in completing tasks, which of course includes helping employees find each other when they meet in a strange world.
[…Not to mention, you two are spacetime stowaways, and the spacetime fluctuations around you are inherently different from those of the locals in this world. I used a similar principle to help you locate the infiltration point of the other world before, and I'll do the same this time. So, do you understand? Benjamin won't be let go. At most, it will just take some effort to find him.]
I understand. Number 666, you—are—my God!!!
Li Hua "howled" in the soul private chat channel.
[No. 666, how can I live without you! ]
Number 666 nearly blurted out, "Then you'll die," but his professionalism and his love for the newcomers stopped him: "Alright, alright, hurry up and eat and drink to replenish your energy and mana. Otherwise, if you panic over such a small thing, you'll never survive."
"Why are you sitting down?"
Jason, who was ready to go out to look for someone, stared blankly at the anxious Li Hua who took out a few more loaves of bread from the convenience store plastic bag, sat down on the bench and started eating, with no intention of moving at all.
"I can't catch up. I can't burrow underground. Besides, I've used up all my mana and stamina. My suit is broken and the bonus is gone."
Li Hua said, "Don't worry, this isn't the first time Ben has lost control. He won't hurt anyone. He'll return to normal when the time is right."
Jason: "What was that just now? Was the magic boy transforming?"
Li Hua: "...Well, sort of."
It is indeed a transformation, but there is no magic.
Jason: "Look at how confident you are. Does he often lose control?"
Li Hua: "No, I've just been in a special situation recently. What you just saw is what you call 'the one about to give birth'. I named it 'Ice Ghost'. Ice Ghost is hermaphrodite and can reproduce on its own. It's been busy building a nest for its children before giving birth, so it's a bit anxious. The instinct to reproduce and raise cubs has taken over me."
Jason finally understood why Benjamin had said before that he was "sometimes not completely male". He originally thought he was a fluid gender, but he didn't expect that he was a fluid species!
Jason: "Will he get lost now?"
Li Hua's answer was resounding and powerful: "Of course it was lost."
“…”
So you are still so calm now?
Li Hua swallowed the bread and said, "It's okay. I can locate him. We can go find him after he changes back to normal. This will save trouble. You don't want to join in beating up a pregnant woman, do you?"
Jason certainly didn't want to.
"So what is he doing now? Is he in danger?"
Li Hua pretended to think, but in reality, he was waiting for No. 666's response. "Considering that 'He's in a hurry, he should probably go find some nutritious food for him and the baby. Don't worry, the Ice Ghost doesn't eat humans, only metal."
"Nutritious...metal?"
Jason couldn't help but wonder what kind of metal was considered nutritious for this metal-eating creature.
…
"What the hell are you?"
A man wearing a faceless, pale mask slumped on the ground, his courage dissipating into the dark underground space along with the white air exhaled from his mouth.
He was surrounded by several huge blocks of ice, in which were frozen several figures wearing black and yellow uniforms and holding weapons, with only their heads sticking out of the ice. They all looked like they had lost consciousness as if the power had gone out.
Whether it was fear or the cold, the masked man trembled with every word he spoke. "Why did you provoke the Court of Owls?"
The creature didn't respond to his question, nor did it even give him a glance.
The pair of broad and beautiful blue-black wings curled up and wrapped around His slender human-shaped body with a structure similar to that of an insect. After the overlapping wings were wrapped around His body, when He was seen from behind, He looked like a traveler wearing a blue hooded cloak with black edges.
It was like taking out a monster that roamed in the cold and blizzard, beautiful and deadly.
This mysterious creature suddenly raided the underground base of the Court of Owls. He did not deliberately hide his presence, and the Claw Killer who was performing security work discovered him without any suspense.
The Court of Owls takes away gifted children, physically transforms and trains them to become undead killers and the "claws" of the Court of Owls.
The "Claws" have been transformed into a magical liquid metal called "Amber Gold", which gives them extremely strong self-healing abilities. They are almost immortal, which allows them to kill almost anyone the Court of Owls asks them to eliminate.
Faced with such a powerful weapon, the Court of Owls would of course leave some "flaws" in it while carefully keeping it to prevent them from rebelling.
One of the weaknesses of the Talon Assassins of the Court of Owls is the cold.
But they were very unlucky today, because the one who attacked them was a Nakfuji who was in a rage during her pregnancy.
Or perhaps we should call Him - "Ice Ghost".
The administrator of the Court of Owls shivered in cold and fear, not knowing what this strange creature was going to do.
Of course, judging by the current situation, he couldn't stop the creature from doing anything it wanted to do. He only hoped that the creature would spare his life after completing what it wanted to do.
Under the horrified gaze of the administrators, the Ice Ghost picked up the container of electrum.
Then he drank the amber gold inside in one gulp.
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