[Comprehensive British and American] Superhero Manual

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Because the previous plot involved the original work, it needs to be changed. I am sorry that everyone needs to read it again_(:з」∠)_

In the quiet and deep alley, there was a sudden "snap", as if something had fallen to the ground, but on this unsettled night, no one would pay attention to what happened in a remote corner.

Carl got up from the ground, and rubbed his feet on the ground guiltily, smoothing out the hole he made.

This is undoubtedly another time travel, and Karl, who is used to his ability, has already started to use his super hearing to capture information and judge his current situation.

The city is mostly old-fashioned buildings, and the lead contained in them hinders Carl's super hearing and X vision, but the vaguely heard sentences are enough for him to know where he is.

— This is Gotham.

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After Karl's 12th birthday, his Kryptonian abilities have basically stabilized. Although he can't achieve perfect control, Karl can already use them well in his life.

At the same time, the mutant ability belonging to Karl is also constantly evolving.

At the beginning, he traveled through sleep, and Karl often found himself in a strange place when he woke up.The location is also very random, sometimes Carl will appear in the Justice League watchtower like the first time, and sometimes he wakes up to find himself on a park bench.

Later, when Karl was awake, his ability would also be activated, but just a daze, he came to another world without knowing it.

The travel time is also uncertain. Sometimes it only takes a few minutes or a few hours before Karl returns, but sometimes it takes a long time. The longest time is that he stayed in another world for a week before returning.

Because of this uncertainty, Carl has been worried by others, for fear that he will be hurt in other worlds.

As the principal of X Academy, Charles has taught various mutant students and has a deep understanding of how to use mutant abilities.Under his guidance, Karl can also gradually control this randomly triggered, unstable ability.

In short, regardless of the hard training, Carl is now able to detect before the ability is activated, and inform Charles through the signal transmitter on the watch, so that he will not suddenly disappear without them knowing.

It was the same this time. When Carl realized that he was about to cross, he immediately pressed the button on the watch. In the next second, he came to this new world.

It's a new world, but it's not.After all, he already had a rough understanding of the city of Gotham.

Parallel worlds are like this, similar things have differences, but they are generally the same.

But no matter which world it is in, Gotham is always associated with Batman.

Karl was flying in the air, using the darkness to cover up his figure.He looked around, trying to find the black silhouette of the bat.

—no results.

On the contrary, the darkness and evil of this city were unreservedly unfolded before his eyes.Although the deeper shadows were hidden from him due to the blockage of leaded buildings, even so, Carl could hear the voices of those crimes.

Until Carl saw with his own eyes a gangster robbing a white-collar worker on his way off work, and was about to insert a glaring knife into the struggling lady's chest.

Carl didn't bother to think about why Batman didn't show up.A red light flashed in his eyes, and the red ray hit the gangster's wrist, knocking the knife in his hand to the ground.

The white-collar lady took the opportunity to escape, and the gangster also fled the place in panic.

Carl stopped the crime, but his mood didn't improve.Maybe, he wondered, this wasn't the Gotham he knew, because there was no Batman here.

Depressed Carl continued to fly aimlessly in the air.He was a little confused and didn't know what to do next.

Once he crossed over to Wayne Manor, where he knew the true identity of Batman.

Although they were monitored as suspicious persons at first, after confirming Karl's identity, their defenses were significantly reduced and their attitudes became much friendlier.

That was Karl's first in-depth contact with the Bat-family.Batman is the same as he imagined, but also has a different side.And Batman's sidekicks, Robin, who's even his age, are already helping Batman fight crime.

Although Carl was only there for three days, the image of Batman was gradually fleshed out in his cognition.

The parallel world he experienced later, as long as Gotham is mentioned, it must be connected with Batman.

They are like an inseparable whole.

This is why when Carl found himself in Gotham, the first thing he did was to find the existence of Batman.

But the result was surprising and disappointing.Those words captured by his super-hearing had everything but Batman.

Karl landed on one of the eaves and sat on the upturned part. His hanging legs swayed, drawing shapeless arcs in the night wind.

Carl was thinking about what he was going to do. According to past experience, he would not stay in this world for long, and even if he imitated Batman's approach, it would not bring much change to the city.

The boy fell into confusion for a moment.

At this moment, there was a faint smell of blood in the oncoming breeze.In this chaotic night, the smell of blood was not so conspicuous, but the cries of children that came to Karl's ears immediately woke him up.

Karl stood up abruptly, his heart secretly bursting with anger, and when he flew out, he kicked off a piece of wood on the eaves, and fell with a loud noise.

But Karl couldn't care less about it anymore, his super hearing and X-sight were fully open, helping him locate the direction of those children.

Despite the obstruction of the lead building, Carl managed to find the place.

It was an old dilapidated residential house, surrounded by ruins in the deep and dark night, only this residential house was still lit with dim yellow lights, and several figures flickered behind the windows on the second floor.

The swaying shadow obviously belonged to a child, and the anger in Karl's heart was accumulating more and more, and he wished he could rush in immediately to rescue the people inside.

However, Karl still restrained his urge. He at least needed to understand who did such a thing before he could complete this mission of saving lives.

Carl used his flying ability to fly near the lighted window, and cautiously leaned over to penetrate the curtains covering the window to observe the situation inside.

He first saw a figure from behind, a figure in a purple dress.

Karl's first reaction was to ask, who is this woman?

After he noticed that the mottled and dark marks on the skirt were actually dried blood, he felt a retching sensation in his chest.

The woman inside didn't notice that there was someone outside the window at all, or she didn't care about it at all.She was humming an out-of-tune nursery rhyme, and her voice sounded a bit gentle.

However, when she turned around and revealed the heavily oiled clown makeup, the scene suddenly became horrifying.

Carl covered his mouth just in time to prevent himself from screaming.There are clowns here!

In his short parallel world experiences, he had also heard about this notorious Gotham villain, and those newspapers made him the biggest mess in Gotham.

And in this world without Batman, the Joker also exists, and she is still a woman.

It took Carl a moment to calm his beating heart.He couldn't help but began to doubt his previous judgment. Is there really no Batman in this world?

The soft cries of the children in the room brought Karl back to his senses, and he continued to pay attention to the situation inside. He found that the female clown seemed to regard the looted children as his own, and she even prepared some food for them. child eats.

The female clown hugged a boy and whispered something softly: "Mum Bruce, my baby...don't worry, mom is here, no one can hurt you...no one can..."

The child was trembling with fear, but could not even cry out under the tremendous pressure.The rest of the children huddled in the corner, their eyes closed tightly, not daring to look at the clown.

A certain noun in her words touched Carl's nerves, but before he could think more, there was a loud bang from the door of the house, and a black figure broke in.

Carl's eyes widened in surprise. This person turned out to be Batman? !