Chapter 2214: Battle of Two Cities! (Fifty-Six)

"How long will it take?"

Natasha looked outside the door warily, then turned to look at the parts that Stark, wearing a welding mask, was welding.

"Don't worry." Stark was unusually patient, and didn't ask people not to disturb him in a very irritable manner, because he obviously knew that only Natasha could protect him now.

"Our original plan was for you to take me back to the place where Osborn and Hammer left the mechas and replace my mechas with a new energy source, but now the development of things has exceeded our expectations."

Hearing Stark's words, Natasha also sighed. She looked at the distant sky, and at the end of her vision, she could vaguely see a blue light curtain looming on the skyline.

The people in the city now call it the Aurora, but in fact it is a protective shield that blocks the new city.

About half an hour ago, people saw that the floating island in the sky seemed to be like a jet, pulling out waves of alien troops, and the first thing these aliens did when they landed in the new city was to disperse to the edge of this huge city and set up a huge and towering protective shield.

Now the whole city is completely isolated from the outside world. Both electric and satellite signals are completely blocked by this mysterious shield. No physical matter can go out, and nothing can come in.

Even New York, a city that is used to alien invasions, has never seen such domineering aliens. You can destroy the city if you want to, and kill people if you want to. What's the point of putting a cover around everyone?

But Natasha analyzed some unique information from the behavior of the aliens who are now wandering recklessly on the streets.

"They are looking for someone." Natasha said very confidently: "They are searching for these things. It is likely to be a person, but they have not found it so far."

"Do you think they will leave after they find it?"

Stark's tone was ironic, and it was obviously not a question.

Natasha also snorted coldly and said, "The progress of their search is not a countdown to freedom, but a prelude to the destruction of the entire earth."

"For any alien, the earth is unnecessary. It's just that some things they want exist on this planet. Once they get this thing, it's better for this annoying planet to disappear."

"Come and help me lift this thing." Stark took off his mask and asked Natasha to come and help. He said, "This thing made by Hammer Military is too heavy. Fortunately, Osborn's biomass energy has contributed a lot. The two idiots are really stupid together."

"Shut up and work." Natasha rolled her eyes and said, "Now we can't even go to SHIELD."

"I'll drive this thing to get one of their robots first. I only need one sample to crack the secrets of their technology. At that time, whether it's interfering with or controlling them, it won't be difficult for me at all."

"I hope... Be careful!!!!!!"

Boom!!!!!!

The door of Tim's room was pushed open.

He looked down at his watch. It was just 5 o'clock. Batman was standing at the door as expected, and Tim hadn't put down his bag yet.

"How was the book club?"

"Not bad." Tim took a deep breath, threw his bag on the chair, turned to look at Batman and said, "You know you shouldn't be here. I don't mean to drive you away by saying this. You can stay if you want, but I still have to do my homework."

After that, Tim began to search in his bag. Batman sat on his bed again, with his forearms on his legs, fingers crossed, watching his movements.

Tim didn't seem very nervous, but just a little irritable. Batman felt that he was unwelcome, but he was used to it.

"How is Sherlock Holmes?"

"Compared to you, he is not a good detective." Tim shook his head and said, "After I pointed out the murderer in advance for the third time, the counselor asked me to go home."

"Genius is always misunderstood."

Tim lowered his hands and looked at Batman and said, "You know what? The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a very good detective novel with exciting plots and vivid stories, but I don't think it can be a topic between the two of us."

"Because we all know that novels are just novels. It's stupid to apply real situations to them."

"Do you think I won't like this book?"

"At least it won't be your first choice to kill time, nor mine." Tim shook his head and said.

"How many words does it have?"

"I have 5 books in my hand, about 430,000 words."

"Then it will be."

Batman stood up and stretched out his hand to Tim.

Tim blinked and felt a little confused, but he still took out a few books from his schoolbag and handed the thick novel to Batman with both hands.

Watching Batman leave with the same puzzled look, Tim scratched his head, took out his cell phone, and after hesitating for a long time, he called Red Robin.

"Hello? Yes, it's me. I want to tell you an extremely shocking news. You must sit tight."

Red Robin on the other end of the phone curled his lips and said, "I'm not scared, tell me what you want."

"Batman took five copies of Sherlock Holmes from me."

"Oh, what's wrong?"

"He plans to finish reading it."

With a click, Red Robin fell off the chair, attracting the attention of Red Hood next to him, but he had no time to care about others, instead he held the phone with both hands and spoke in a raised voice.

"What did you say?! Batman plans to finish reading "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"?!"

Nightwing and Red Hood came up immediately. Red Hood looked at the information in Nightwing's hand. Nightwing shook his head at him and said in a low voice: "The technology of the shield blocking the whole city is more advanced than we thought. I'm afraid it can't be cracked for the time being."

As soon as Red Robin put down the phone, Red Hood looked at him with wide eyes and said: "Don't tell me Batman is in the city now."

"Don't look at me like that, I'm shocked too." Red Robin opened his arms and said: "And did you hear what he said? Batman actually plans to finish reading "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"!"

"With the city below in flames?"

"That's not the point. The point is "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"!" Red Robin raised his voice again, his voice so sharp that it was about to break, "Under what circumstances would Batman want to read a detective novel!"

Red Robin reached out and pulled the hair on both sides of his head, and said in a somewhat collapsed state: "He would see Holmes and Moriarty both fall off a cliff when he was about to jump off the building with the Joker twice a day! This makes me feel that my toe muscles are tense!"

Nightwing and Red Hood don't know what he is crazy about, but they obviously realize that this is not normal.

A huge change has just happened in this city. A group of inexplicable aliens rushed into the city and set up a shield to block everyone.

They would study this shield before, assuming that Batman was trapped inside, because the moment the aliens rushed out of the portal, Batman must have reached their landing point.

So it stands to reason that Batman must be trapped in the shield, and they are all planning to rescue Batman, but you tell me that Batman is fine and is reading in the study of Wayne Manor?

Nightwing and Red Hood don't believe it, but Red Robin can't accept it, so the three of them plan to go to the study to find out.

"I bet there will be a cage falling from the ceiling." Nightwing said jokingly, but the fundamental purpose of his joke was not to make a guess in a joking tone, but to deliberately let others talk.

"Come on, you know there won't be such an old-fashioned project. I guess it's an electric shocker, the kind placed under the floor." Red Hood followed immediately.

"It's good that it knocked me out and made me fall asleep. Don't imagine how he felt when he saw the part about falling off the cliff." Red Robin still held on to that point.

The three of them came all the way to the door of Batman's most frequently used study upstairs. The three of them winked at each other and finally decided to decide the winner by rock-paper-scissors. The loser would push the door.

Many people know that the Bat Family are all Bat fans, and they will not give up any opportunity to contact Batman, but this time is different, this is simply an obvious trap.

With such a big thing happening down there, Batman would hide in the study to read a book, what a joke?

Batman is really there.

Red Hood, who lost the game of rock-paper-scissors, gently pushed the door of the study open a little, and Batman was sitting by the window, not wearing a bat costume, with his legs crossed, holding a thick book in his hands.

"How is it?"

The other two did not dare to look, and turned their backs to wait for the screams of Red Hood, but after waiting for a long time, there was no movement, so Nightwing had to ask.

"'A Study in Scarlet'?"

"What? What blood?!" Nightwing turned around immediately, his hand was already touching the weapon, but Red Hood looked through the crack in the door and said: "The book I said he was reading, the book in Batman's hand said 'A Study in Scarlet'."

"It's Sherlock Holmes!" Red Robin shouted immediately.

He hurried over, pushed Red Hood aside, and looked through the crack in the door, and saw the big letters "Sherlock Holmes" on the cover of the book.

Below was a classic image of a detective wearing a beret and smoking a pipe, and the bottom line of small words read "The Prologue to a Great Detective Story".

Red Robin slapped his forehead.

Red Hood also wanted to read, so he pushed Red Robin away again. The two pushed and shoved each other, and Nightwing was afraid that they would make a noise, so he reached out to pull, and the Red Robin at the innermost lost his balance.

Bang!

Batman, sitting in the rocking chair, looked up at the three Robins who had fallen in neatly, then retracted his gaze and returned to the pages of the book. He turned a page with his fingers and said slowly, "What a great detective."

Red Robin climbed up awkwardly, turned back and glared at the Red Hood who reached out to pull him. Although they knew that Batman must have discovered them a long time ago, it was completely different to sneak a peek and grab Batman's pigtail, then walk in safely and laugh at him, and to fall in all at once like now.

"Why are you here?" Red Hood asked bluntly.

Batman looked at the three of them, looked at his book, and then looked at the door of the study.

Red Robin pulled Red Hood, asking why Wayne was in Wayne Manor was a little too stupid, especially when the three of them just fell into Batman's study.

"I mean, Batman, you saw the shield, right? What's going on?"

Although they asked this, none of the three of them expected Batman to give them an explanation, or even an answer.

As a result, they saw that Batman turned another page of the book, turned his head slightly, looked at the new page and said slowly.

"It's a strange natural phenomenon... Do you know what Holmes' real name is?"

"Uh... David?"

"No, it's Sherlock."

"Huh???"