[Comprehensive British and American] The vest system of the son of hell

"Are you proposing to me?"

Matthew responded to little James with a half-smile.

Little James replied: "I will prepare the most solemn ceremony to propose to you."

"It's a pity that I'm not interested in you. I just want to get rid of the troublesome things in the Metropolis as soon as possible..." Matthew said, "I also hope that you won't reveal your special interest until the things in the Metropolis are resolved."

"I'm a person who sees the big picture..." Little James said, "Even if it's just for my love, I will not indulge my desire to ruin the whole operation."

"That would be the best," said Matthew.

Little James nodded while holding his glasses, with a very depressed and gloomy expression.

Superman sees everything in his eyes, and has a general understanding of the delicate relationship between James Jr. and Matthew: "Does anyone have any clues about the burning transparent man?"

"No."

All the Titan members shook their heads.

The image presented on the virtual screen is too simple and abstract to lock on to the target through the outline of the body.

"Maybe we can look in another direction..." Tim suggested, "like the victim."

"Yes, Harry was a witness to a bizarre death before she was attacked by the burning transparent man..." Matthew said, "At that time, she was being beaten by Jimmy's brother in the alley, and then this guy It exploded, in a physical sense."

"Can I get the surveillance video at the time of the incident?"

"no problem."

Connor grinned in his promise.

The Lex Group has almost monopolized all industries in the metropolis, and the street surveillance system also uses the products of the Lex Group.

2 minutes later--

Connor easily obtained the monitoring at the time of the incident.

Looking at the clear and strange surveillance images, everyone in Taitan felt a chill running down their spines and rushing straight to the back of their heads.

"Looks like a transparent person ripped this guy apart!"

"Indeed, it's kind of like... if you contact the burning transparent man who broke into Ms. Harry's house in the middle of the night and tried to kill her..."

"But if the burning transparent man broke into Ms. Harry's house and tried to kill her to silence her, according to Ms. Harry's statement, she didn't see anything when the accident happened, unless—"

Dick thought of a possibility: "The murderer thought Ms. Harry saw herself at the time!"

"It's possible! That's why he broke into Ms. Harry's house late at night and killed her!"

Everyone agreed with Dick's speculation.

Barbara suggested: "Let's go to the police station and find Ms. Harry now, maybe she did see something but it was so unbelievable that she was convinced she didn't see anything."

This kind of situation is not uncommon among murder witnesses-because the truth is too scary or too out of common sense, they lie to themselves and firmly believe that they did not see it.

"The current situation is that the murderer firmly believes that she saw it, so even if Ms. Harry really didn't see anything, the murderer will kill her at all costs!"

"I'll go to the police station and bring Ms. Harry here!"

While speaking, Superman had already left.

Matthew: "Is he always this fast?"

"He's Superman."

Everyone in Titan looked at Matthew with a smile, and asked, "When you went to hell to return your soul, didn't you get embarrassed by the king of hell?"

"Belier dare not accept my soul for the time being..." Matthew said, "He is afraid of the forces behind me."

"The Constantine family also has power in hell?"

Rachel showed great interest.

Matthew: "It doesn't matter whether the Constantine family is in hell or in heaven."

"Too……"

Rachel smiled subtly, and pressed the soul stone between her eyebrows with her white fingers: "Here, my father is roaring."

"The Sangong Demon hit the seal again?"

Everyone in Titan showed worried expressions.

Rachel nodded and said, "He seems to know who our enemy is."

"Rachel, can you communicate with him? I mean, ask him to reveal the name of the enemy or something?" The Martian girl asked, "There are only five days left until the so-called engagement ceremony in the invitation card. Days! In the next five days, more and more superheroes, supervillains, and news-grabbing media will enter the metropolis, and the situation will become more and more difficult to control."

"You're right, we really should hurry up."

While talking, Rachel closed her eyes, trying to communicate with the Sangongmo.

Matthew was worried that the Sangongmo would steal control of her body during the communication between her and the Sangongmo, so he held her hand and covered Rachel's body with black magic power full of hell.

really--

[Daughter, you seem to have a partner? 】

Feeling the pure hell breath on the raven's body, the Sangong Mo grinned at Rachel.

Rachel said with a cold face, "Dad, I want to know who is the guy who is playing tricks in Metropolis?"

【Metropolis is Luthor's territory, what happened here has nothing to do with him? 】

Sangongmo refused to answer the raven's question directly, but was very interested in the hellish aura on the raven's body.

【Tell me, have you gotten close to the Constantine family recently? 】

"You tell me what you know first, and I'll tell you what I can tell you."

Rachel didn't dare to agree to her devil father easily, for fear that her father would turn his back and occupy her body if she was not careful.

【Hahaha!You actually plan to bargain with me!Daughter, do you know what kind of soul contract the Constantine family signed with hell?

in your eyes.I'm a big villain and a big devil, but compared to what the Constantine family has done, I'm as pure as a newborn lamb!Hurry up and stay away from the people of the Constantine family!Unless you want to fall into hell with me! 】

After finishing speaking, Sangongmo closed his eyes symbolically, expressing that he would not answer his daughter's questions again.

Rachel also had no choice but to raise her consciousness and tell everyone the fact of the communication failure: "I'm sorry, I was rejected by him."

"It's okay, we can find another way..." Donna said comfortingly, "The Sangongmo is just one of our many options."

"But he was the easiest choice, and it turned out..."

"Superman is coming back soon."

Matthew said coldly, and opened the French windows.

Superman took Harry, who was still in panic, into the hotel room: "Ma'am, you can let me go now."

"Okay, I... I... I..."

Harry tried to breathe evenly.

Then she came back to her senses and realized that it was Superman himself who took her away from the police station and brought her here by means of flying, she suddenly flushed with excitement, and tightly held Superman's hands: "Oh my God! I actually saw Superman! Flying in the sky in the arms of Superman! I will never forget this day in my life!"

"Ma'am, thank you for your recognition, we need your help now."

Superman politely asked Harry to let go.

Harry let go of his hands in embarrassment, looked at the crowd of young superheroes with fiery eyes, and felt like he was dreaming: "It's unbelievable! I actually... saw so many... This guy in the leather jacket is a superhero." Kid? Is he Nightwing? This is Red Robin! Ahhh! I think I'm going to pass out! OMG!"

Before he could finish speaking, the over-excited Harry had already passed out in Beast Boy's arms.

"Need a sedative for her?" Beastie Boy asked.

Everyone nodded silently.

Ms. Harry's reaction to being so excited to faint after seeing all the superheroes is actually normal, after all, she is an ordinary person.

……

After a sedative and some ice water, Ms. Harry woke up again.

Although she is still very emotional, she has gradually been able to accept the scorching feeling of being stared at by superheroes: "Mr. Superman, and...you...you...have you brought me here? ?”

"We would like to ask you to recall the whole process of Jack—that is, the mysterious death of your ex-husband's brother yesterday. The more detailed the better, all the details that can be recalled need to be..."

Barbara said, "Only in this way can we find the person who broke into your home and tried to kill you and better protect your safety."

"me……"

Harry scratched his head and tried to recall: "I was terrified at the time, he was holding a knife and trying to scratch my face... Then suddenly his body seemed to touch something cold, the knife fell, and he took out the cross yelling..."

Harry rummaged and told everyone everything she could think of.

After learning that Jack had a strange experience similar to a ghost before his death, everyone silently looked at Rachel and Matthew, the only two on the scene who could use black magic: "Is it black magic?"

"It's not black magic, it's ghosts, Ms. Harry's daughter and her dog to be exact."

While talking, Matthew summoned the ghost girl Anna and the big dog Sophie.

Seeing his daughter and the big dog reappeared in front of him, even though they were vague and translucent images, Harry was still so moved that he knelt on the ground and hugged them hard: "Anna, Sophie, you... You...I knew that you were protecting me...you were protecting me...it was you...you..."

【It wasn't us who killed that bastard. 】

The ghost girl raised her head and said seriously to Matthew: "I really wanted to kill that bastard at the time, but unfortunately we didn't have the ability to do it."

"I know, you're an honest girl."

Matthew reached out and touched the top of the ghost girl's head.

The girl smiled happily.

Harry, who couldn't hear the ghost's voice, asked Matthew eagerly, "What did she say to you just now?"

"She said that she loves you very much. It's a pity that she didn't meet you as a ghost until now. She will always be by your side and be your guardian angel."

Matthew looked at Harry tenderly.

When Harry heard this, he couldn't help crying: "Anna...I'm an incompetent mother...I'm...a...I'm so useless! I shouldn't have married Jimmy in the first place! If I If I didn't marry him, you and Sophie must still be by my side now..."

【Mom, don't cry anymore, I have returned to your side...】

The ghost girl eagerly comforts her mother.

Her tears fell to the ground like dew and wet the blanket.

The mother felt her daughter's tears, touched the wet ground, choked up and said, "Anna, mom will never leave you and Sophie again, mom will be with you and Sophie forever...forever...forever... "

【Mother……】

The ghost girl cried even harder.

She looked at Matthew with tears in her eyes, hoping that Matthew would make her mother stop crying.

Matthew touched his chin and said to Harry, "How much do you know about Jack?"

"Ok?"

"Assuming that the mysterious murderer who killed Jack did not kill randomly, then Jack's own experience is obviously closely related to the murder..." Matthew analyzed, "This assumption may be in the wrong direction, but we have to consider it."

"you are right."

Everyone in Titan recognized Matthew's analysis.

Seeing this, Harry, who completely trusted them, tried hard to recall every detail of his life with Jimmy and Jack brothers.

"Jimmy...Both brothers Jimmy and Jack are high school dropouts, drunk, violent, and monopolized the business of the entire street..."

Harry said, "I always wanted to leave them, but the whole street where I lived was their territory, and I had nowhere to escape... until one day, Jimmy killed Anna and Sophie, and I... I mustered up the courage to go to the police station to call the police...You all know what happened afterwards."

"How much do you know about Brother Jimmy's business?" Superman asked.

"I know they do illegal business, not only selling pills to school students, but also smuggling contraband..." Harry said, "The basement where we live is full of boxes that they got from Mexico. I guess the boxes contain To avoid getting into trouble, I never go to the basement myself, and Anna and Sophie are not allowed to enter the basement."

"You are a cautious woman."

"I just want to protect my daughter..." Harry said, "I thought that as long as I didn't know about their business as much as possible and didn't touch what they bought and sold...the result is still...still..."

"When Jimmy went to jail, you moved out immediately?"

"Yes."

"Have the police searched the house where you live?"

“I’ve been here twice, but because the report was a shooting, the police only took photos in the room to store evidence, and didn’t go to the basement…” Harry said, “At that time, Jack was buying goods in Mexico, and the border suddenly tightened, so he was stuck there. I can't go back to the country, and when he gets his joint back, I have already sent Jimmy to prison and moved out myself."

"You never looked at what's in the basement?"

"Yes, I didn't take anything from the basement when I moved..." Harry said very affirmatively, "I want to get rid of them as soon as possible and start over again. I won't take the initiative to cause trouble for myself."

"I believe you..." said Superman, "you're a good woman."

"But not a good mother."

Harry smiled wryly.

Barbara took Harry to the room to rest, and everyone stayed in the lobby of the suite to discuss the content provided by Harry.

"I now suspect that the real reason Jack was killed in the street was the black box in the basement..." Dick said, "assuming he opened the basement and looked at the contents of the black box when he was counting the things left by his brother."

"But that's just hypothetical for now."

"Yes, it's just a hypothesis, but it can be used as a direction of investigation..." Dick said, "I will go to the prison to talk to Jimmy tomorrow."

"no need."

Little James suddenly said, "The latest news, half an hour ago, Jimmy committed suicide in prison."

"suicide?"

Everyone was shocked...

James Jr. added: "At least it looks like suicide."

"What do you mean?"

"it means--"

Little James clicked on the 10-minute surveillance video before and after Jimmy's death that he obtained through a secret channel.

Surveillance shows that 5 minutes before his death, Jimmy was sitting alone on the upper bunk bed in the cell, with a slightly irritable expression in panic, as if he was talking to something invisible, and then——

Snowflakes interfered with monitoring.

By the time the interfering snowflakes disappeared, Jimmy was dead.

He tore the sheets to make long strips of cloth and tied them to the bed frame of the upper bunk, and hanged himself to death in the prison cell.

"This method of death is very abnormal..." Tim said, "It's not like suicide, it's more like being killed."

"Yes, very few people would commit suicide in such a troublesome way, unless—"

"But we have no evidence that key content is obscured by snowflake interference."

Superman looked distressed.

Connor walked over, looked at the video that lacked key content, and said, "Let me try, maybe it can be fixed. Of course, the success rate is not high, so don't hold out too much hope."

"It's better to have a chance of success than to have no hope at all, isn't it?"

"Yes."

While speaking, Connor had already started working.

After simple thinking, Superman decided to go to the basement where Harry and Jimmy lived.

Considering that Superman has the weakness of being weak when he encounters kryptonite, Dick and Matthew accompany Superman to go.

The remaining members of the Titans stayed at the Planet Hotel to protect Harry, restore the images, and prevent possible attacks.

……

Jimmy and Harry's residence is adjacent to a slum, and security problems can be imagined.

Of course, compared to Gotham, the law and order in the metropolis is still very good. Even in the slums, in the dead of night, there are only vagrants and hooligans hanging out on the streets, and they rarely encounter corpses or crime scenes.

As expected of the Metropolis of Superman.

Matthew, who grew up in Gotham, couldn't help but secretly sigh when looking at the metropolis with thousands of lights.

Dick made indirect remarks: "Matthew, I heard you are from Gotham?"

"Yes, I spent my childhood and teenage years in Gotham."

"then you--"

"After I found out about my background, I left," Matthew said.

"Why?" Dick asked, "Although Gotham is not a good place, John Constantine is more..."

"Yes, Gotham is not a good place, but it is the place where I lived my childhood and youth. I can't stay in Gotham anymore. I'm afraid that my blood will bring bad luck to the people around me, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to bear it. Gotham's dark temptation to befriend the Joker or be an accomplice to some other dark force."

"then you--"

Dick thought for a moment and asked Matthew, "You never thought of meeting your father?"

"Let's go with fate..." Matthew said, "After all, my birth was an accident of accidents."

"Connor's appearance was also an accident to Uncle Superman, but he accepted it quickly, and there is also the matter of Damian." Dick said, "How do you know that he can't accept your existence if you don't try it?"

"My situation is different from theirs," Matthew said. "My birth was a magical mistake."

"Forehead……"

Dick, who really didn't have much research on the magic side, chose to remain silent.

At this time, the three of them finally arrived at the destination of the trip.

The dark room looks a bit eerie, not to mention that there have been murders here, so no one lives there.

After stabilizing his figure, Superman stepped forward first, reaching out to push the door.

Matthew: "Wait a minute!"

"something wrong?"

"Our destination is the basement..." Matthew said, "Don't move the room for now."

"what do you mean--"

"Well..." Matthew said, "There's something in the room."

"But my clairvoyance can't see anyone in the room." Superman said, "Is it a non-human creature like a ghost?"

"Hard to say."

Matthew smiled and suggested that Dick stay outside, and he and Superman went into the basement to find the black box that Harry mentioned was said to be shipped from Mexico.

"After entering, you should see through it first to make sure there is no kryptonite or the like inside, and then we will open the box."

"it is good……"

Superman readily agreed.

Dick watched the two enter the basement, and stayed outside to guard and defend.

……

Harry is afraid of causing trouble, not only does not enter the basement himself, but also strictly forbids his daughter to enter the basement, and Superman and Matthew both have special abilities and can walk in the air.

Therefore, when the two entered the basement semi-levitated with a lamp and found at least three kinds of footprints on the dusty steps and the ground, the two looked at each other and were highly nervous.

Intuition told them that the contents of the black box from Mexico—

"I can't see through the box..." Superman said. "The inside of the box is coated with alien metal, which prevents my see-through like lead."

"Then should we open the box now or take the box back and open it?" Matthew asked.

At this moment, four large boxes were stacked against the wall, a full two meters high and five meters long.

"Open it now..." Superman said, "though it might be a little dangerous to do so."

"Okay, I'll open the box." Matthew said, worried that the contents of the box were kryptonite.

Superman nodded and stepped back half a meter.

Matthew stepped forward, using black magic to raise his hand to summon a forest fairy, driving the half-entity fairy to float above the black box and open the black box.

boom!

The heavy box lid was lifted slowly, and a golden light burst out from the box.

It turned out to be——

Holy Grail!

The Holy Grail in Arthurian legend!

The golden cup seems to have been cast just yesterday, and the light illuminates the entire basement.

"This is……"

Superman was also stunned.

Like Matthew, he never dreamed that the box contained the Holy Grail, the sacred cup that is said to have contained Jesus' blood.

What is even more surprising is that the moment the forest fairy took the cup out of the box, the black box containing the Holy Grail turned into flying ash.

And at the very bottom of the golden cup, a gurgling dark red liquid appeared.

Holy blood?

still--

Matthew and Superman looked at each other.

The development of things has seriously exceeded their expectations.

"The remaining three boxes, open it now or take it back?" Matthew asked Superman.