Chapter 469: Birds of Prey (1)

The 45th Venice International Film Festival was scheduled to be held on August 29, 1988, so in order to participate in this grand event, Su Yun made all preparations early on and even came to the long-lost Lido Island with Brooke several days in advance.

"The scenery here is really nice. Even if I'm not here for work, I would also like to come here for vacation." Brooke said as she looked at the waves blown by the wind.

Such a gentle sea breeze brings the breath of the sea, and the affection and tenderness of the island city are so overwhelming that it is inevitable to be intoxicated.

"If you like, you can stay here for a few more days. I can approve your vacation." Su Yun responded with a smile.

Hearing this, Brooke quickly shook her head: "No, I want to fight for my goal with you rather than taking a leisure vacation."

Although she couldn't help her in every aspect like Su Yun's right-hand men, she at least didn't want to be lazy because of Su Yun's favoritism, letting Su Yun, her particularly "kind and simple" boss and old friend, work hard while she was enjoying herself in the resort.

"This is your own request, so don't complain about being tired in the future." Su Yun smiled.

"I definitely won't." Compared to her biological mother who has a strong desire for control, Su Yun's work, which seems "high-pressure" to outsiders, is a relaxing break for her.

Su Yun had taken great pains to bring her to Venice, so she certainly couldn't just relax - besides, she had long been tired of those people focusing too much on her looks and ignoring her efforts in her acting career.

It is a rare opportunity for her to come across a resource like Su Yun who has great potential to win an award. If she doesn't work hard to seize the opportunity, she will really let herself and others down.

Because of the anger that had been held back for a long time, this almost "transformative" performance really shocked many of the audience who came to the premiere after hearing about it.

Brooke Shields, who was once known as the "eighth wonder of the world" for her extraordinary beauty, appeared in this "Birds of Prey" sitting in a wheelchair with a haggard look!

Didn't they say that Mary Sue's movies won't deliberately make beautiful women ugly?! Look at this Brooke - she's not ugly in a way that affects the viewing experience. She basically looks like an ordinary person, and she loses some of her spirit because of her haggard look...

After watching "Barbara Gordon", played by Brooke Collider, gradually tell the story under the guidance of a psychiatrist, the initial shock slowly turned into heartache: Barbara ended up like this because she was attacked by the evil Clown when she was helping Batman fight against evil forces, which made her unable to stand freely and run around the world, but could only sit in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.

But she still did not give up her determination and action to fight evil. Even if she could only sit in a wheelchair, she transformed herself into a hero hidden in the darkness, monitoring everything in the name of "Oracle" and providing support to Batman to the best of her ability.

Looking at the scene of Barbara sitting in front of the surveillance camera, some viewers who had watched "The Dark Knight" before began to recognize her: compared to the mature, gorgeous, fiery red-haired "Oracle" in "The Dark Knight", Barbara, who has just changed her identity, is still somewhat unable to adapt to her "new life".

But she is still trying to adjust herself and others - a little girl who was rescued by Batman in an operation is now going through the test.

Once you pass the test, you can inherit her mantle and become the third generation Batgirl.

This girl named Cassandra was ostensibly an orphan wandering the streets. Before this, she had often obtained intelligence during her wandering life and passed it back to her for sorting. The two of them could be said to have been "cooperating" for a certain period of time.

The only mystery is that although Cassandra is so skilled that she almost never loses, she never speaks. According to the information obtained by Barbara, the reason why Cassandra can't speak is because she has received a very special "combat training" since she was a child -

This "battle training" allows her to read the other person's body language and then judge the other person's thoughts in advance. Correspondingly, this skill of reading body language completely occupies her brain, leaving her with no room for speaking...

Simply put, converting thoughts into spoken words will take up brain energy, which will in turn affect her fighting ability, and her fighting will not be smooth enough...

I wonder what kind of twisted person would cultivate such a deformed ability in a child from an early age.

She never thought that there were people in this world whose experiences were far more miserable than hers, so when facing Cassandra, Barbara really acted like both a sister and a mother, carefully guiding her to explore this new world...

To the extent that, when faced with Batman assigning her a task, Barbara would argue that Batman's treatment of Cassandra was undoubtedly like rescuing Cassandra from the previous cage and then sending her to another new cage that looked different but was not much different in essence.

"She needs a mission now, otherwise her heart can't be 'calmed' down." Batman explained, "Just like you before."

Understanding Batman's intentions, Barbara took a step back, but still kept an eye on Cassandra's every move through surveillance.

During one operation, Cassandra rescued the daughter of a nearby flower shop owner. The blonde girl had a special ability that allowed Cassandra to transform her thoughts into spoken words.

"What on earth did you do to me?!" Cassandra was not only uncomfortable but also extremely shocked when she discovered the changes in herself.

"I, I just think that you should be able to speak..." The flower shop owner's daughter is named Dina. She has wanted to be a crime fighter since she was a child, so when she saw an accident on the way to deliver flowers, she couldn't control herself and wanted to help fight crime.

As a result, her untrained skills basically made things worse. If she hadn't relied on her innate ultrasonic telekinesis to secretly attack several people, she might not have survived until the masked hero with the bat symbol came to rescue her.

But it seems... her subconscious telekinesis is also quite effective in hypnosis. When she used it inadvertently, it put the masked hero who came to save her into distress.

Looking at the masked hero's back as he almost fled after solving the criminal's problem, Dina felt very complicated.

Cassandra's return to the safe house made Barbara feel even more confused: "You... can speak now?!"

"But it also affected my combat ability." As expected, Cassandra herself felt stagnant in combat ever since she was able to speak.

But no matter how awkward Cassandra was, Batman and Barbara thought that this was a good thing that outweighed the disadvantages - because this undoubtedly meant that the "pressure" that the abnormal combat training had put on Cassandra had eased, allowing her to gradually recover the language ability that a normal person should have.

Language is often a means of communication between people.

Due to Cassandra's decreased combat ability and "recovery" of her speech, Batman and Barbara temporarily stopped her mission assignments, which made her quite uneasy.

Fortunately, Batman and Barbara soon found a new "mission" for Cassandra: after discovering that Cassandra was interested in ballet, they arranged for Cassandra to learn ballet, hoping that she could gradually erase the marks and traces of the past by interacting with "normal people".

While learning ballet, Cassandra met a new friend, Helena, the eldest daughter of an ancient family. However, when she was young, her family was destroyed by the chaotic Gothic criminals, and she was later sent to live with Cicely's uncle.

But even after experiencing such hardships, Helena remained a gentle and kind Catholic, and studied and lived with the goal of becoming a nun in the future.

Among the many people in the dance studio who thought Cassandra, with her black hair and black eyes and oriental face, was cold and strange and therefore difficult to communicate with, Helena was the only one who reached out to Cassandra and was willing to communicate with her.

Batman and Barbara were both relieved to know that Cassandra had a new "friend".

After confirming that Cassandra was doing well, Barbara then continued to ask about Batman's recent actions: "What exactly is the situation with that strange drug that suddenly flowed into Gotham?"

"Nightwing and I have seen this before. This drug can put people in a state of madness and create endless chaos..." Batman simply explained that this "zombie drug" first makes people feel supreme happiness and then pretends to die, and then "resurrects from the dead" and becomes a crazy state to attack others at will and create chaos.

Before the two of them had time to talk in detail, they received a call for support.

At the same time, on a wide avenue, a group of strong soldiers were protecting a policewoman in a blue uniform as she left: "Get out of here quickly, leave this to us!"

The policewoman held her weapon tightly in her hand, staring at the crazy-looking people in front of her, shaking her head and saying, "I once had the grades to enter the Black Eagle Team, so why can't I stay and fight?!"

"Ma'am, this is not the place you should be!" The captain of the Black Eagle team knocked down the first person who attacked and responded quickly.

Just as the policewoman was about to say something to refute this kind of male chauvinism, a figure in blue and black suddenly fell from the sky: "Hey, here, ladies have never been forced to hide behind men."

Even...if it weren't for that accident, the lady with long, flaming hair would have been a masked hero like him, able to fly freely in the night sky.