The big orange is the most important [comprehensive British and American]

Maybe it was because the shock of "hearing Batman praise people with my own ears" just now was too great. Tim, who felt that he lacked a level surface and could perform the speed of light sleep on the spot, woke him up.

Red Robin Tim Drake, who has to replace Bruce to manage the company during the day, has night patrols at night, and writes papers if he doesn't have night patrols, and can't wait for 24 hours a day, has finally woken up completely. After looking at him, he was shocked to find that he was really not dreaming just now:

Did Bruce boast? !Still comforting people? !What is this doing, is the world going to be destroyed tomorrow? !

After Batman turned back and started working on his emergency plan, his own big blue bird and a little red bird were already chirping together, and the atmosphere was once very united, tense, serious and lively.

Dick couldn't quite believe his ears until now: "It's amazing, I swear, I haven't heard B praise people much in all these years."

To strengthen the credibility of his words, he added emphatically: "I swear on my cereal!"

— for a cereal fanatic, that's a very, very big deal.

Tim still has a little impression of the name Fiona, but due to the interference of various factors, he really hasn't interacted with this girl a few times. At most, he just passed by the door of her flower shop during the night patrol.After she sold the flower shop and went to New York, the magic of the shop that was once used as a flower shop was gradually revealed.

It’s not that there were no strange things about this store in the past, it’s just that compared with its previous owner, no matter how strange the place is, it’s not as attractive as Fiona herself, and those tiny details are completely covered by her light Going on, after she left Gotham, some of the strange characteristics of this shop that must have been transformed by her gradually emerged:

No one has ever stepped through the threshold of this store with malice in mind.

In Gotham City, where the folk customs are simple and honest, things like road robbery, breaking into empty doors in the middle of the night, and burglary happen not too often.Tim once made statistics and found that if the normal judicial sentencing process and the frequency of crimes are followed, within a month, one-third of the people in Gotham should be in prison, which also reflects Gotham’s judicial system The system is extremely inadequate. It basically locks people in and detains them for a few days without pain and then releases them.

The work of vigilante police can always only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

But in the past period, the florist who once belonged to Fiona played an extremely important role in their night watch.I can't count how many people saw the menacing Batman and Robin when they committed a crime, and when they fled in a panic, because there happened to be this flower shop in the direction of escape, and the protective measures left by its previous owner Still doing its job with due diligence——

I gnawed mud with my mouth on the spot and knocked out my front teeth, which is relatively light.

In short, there is a secret rumor among Gotham's criminal gangs that when you are "working", don't get close to Fifth Avenue, you will fall badly, literally "fall", Still falling on the ground, it's so evil.

Tim looked at the pile of documents as high as a hill in his hand, and felt that he was really responsible for the heavy responsibility at a young age. Hey, what's the matter, he didn't want to die young in this pile of documents and scrolling: "If it wasn't for the pile of documents and I have a job, I really want to see who this girl is."

The meaning of "Is there any kind-hearted person willing to take his own work back to let me relax" in the subtext is already obvious, but the head of the Bat family is not moved at all, and does not share some of the things that should have been his work. This genuine Wayne means what a family member should do.

Tim:? ? ?Can it still work? ? ?

Damian finished training and was about to go out for night patrol. He happened to hear Tim's words when he passed by the two who were still staring, so he reminded Dick just right—although it was difficult to say To tell whether he was sincerely reminding him or deliberately throwing salt on Nightwing's wound: "It's the one who hit you with the spoon before, Grayson."

"Little D." Dick wanted to touch his hair angrily and amusedly, but was slapped away by the extremely wary Damian: "Don't mention the past, okay? I didn't say that sentence just now." , I still remember her."

"Tt." Damian snorted lightly: "You just don't want to remember your embarrassing things, Grayson. Why don't you share them to make Drake happy?"

Tim was astonished like a thunderbolt: Is he being courted by the devil boy?Is it going to rain red or will the sun come out from the west tomorrow?

However, Damian's next sentence brought him back to the real world, and people have to sigh that nature is hard to change, and Damian Wayne's tit-for-tat confrontation with Tim Drake will never change. May change:

"The next time Belekova hits you with a spoon, you'll know how to throw it nicely."

Before Tim had time to fully burst out the "You better stop talking, I thank you" that had rushed to his lips, Batman, who had been sitting silently on the chair over there, suddenly spoke to remind Damian:

"She has a middle name."

When Fiona was still in the League of Assassins, because she didn't know her biological father's name, she never had a middle name. This directly caused Damian to call her by her first name if she didn't want to be friendly and friendly. Can call her by the last name "Berekova".For Russians, only being called by their surname, although there is no overstepping or faux pas in etiquette, it always makes people feel that something is wrong, but at that time it was the best choice that Damian could pick out of the dilemma .

Later, when Fiona had a middle name, and the names on all her certificates and materials became the most formal traditional Russian "Fiona Petrova Belekova", Damian Instead, he had no time to take care of these little things. He was too busy dealing with the assassin sent by his mother Thalia to take his life, so he didn't know for a while that Fiona already had a middle name and was still using her original name. That name came to call her, but he didn't know that this name was no longer applicable.

Batman never does useless things, and when he reminded Damian like this, Damian immediately knew that the name was somehow important and meaningful, otherwise Batman wouldn't bother to remind such a small One thing, Dang even changed his words as usual: "Okay, I understand, father."

Dick and Tim on the side also realized that Fiona, also known as "Themis", at some point, her information that had been kept in the Batcave had been completed.

Batman answered without waiting for the two to ask a question: "After she has a full name, calling her by her middle name and first name can protect her spiritually."

None of the Batman's birds are stupid. Almost after Batman finished explaining, they came to a conclusion together:

In other words, she will definitely encounter many dangerous things in the future, and there are even some important tasks to be delivered to her, otherwise, there is no need to give her such complete protection from now on.

It's just that the Justice League's protection work in this area is too good. Except for a few people who participated in the meeting, everyone else knows nothing about the "Justice League Emergency Plan". Yi and the others are the same as they are now, inferring from the clues that cannot be concealed that something is about to happen, that's all.

And compared to this kind of fact that can only be inferred, Dick and Tim are now 12 curious about Fiona's answer on the communication side:

What did she answer? !

Dick was already regretting for the one hundred and first time in his heart why he had bothered to bring the cereal in a bowl.If he had just brought the whole bag of cereal over, wouldn't it be a problem? Even if he was scared to throw the bowl by Batman's rare gentle tone, he could still hear what the other side said.

——But these two people really thought for nothing, because Fiona really didn't answer anything at that time.

There are several time zones between St. Petersburg and Gotham. Anyone with a little knowledge of geography will know that maybe the people here are still drinking afternoon tea, and the people there are about to wash up and go to bed, so Fiona this The call came at the right time, and it was 12 very considerate:

If she was going to call Batman while she was on night work, it would be midnight to early morning on her side.

It can be seen from this that what she said "I have thought about it for a long time" is really a long time, from the afternoon of that day to the early morning of the next day.

Staying up late will slow people's reactions. If you stay up too long, it may also make subtle body movements uncoordinated and not listen to the brain's control.So when Fiona was talking with earphones over there, the earphones with good radio performance faithfully conveyed the sound of something breaking with a rather abrupt "bang" and the volume was definitely not too small, conveying her He was so frightened that he trembled on the spot, and with a shake of his hand, he hung up the communication.

Fiona: ...God will kill me.It's too bad to hang up like this, but it seems superfluous and difficult to call and explain and apologize specifically for this matter.

In the end, she chose to send a text message to explain the matter, and she could no longer resist the turbulent drowsiness. She plunged into the soft quilt that still smelled of detergent and softener, and fell asleep for a dark day, until Wake up to the deafening gun salute from outside the window.

When Fiona was startled by the sound of the gun salute and sat up suddenly from the bed, she suddenly had a feeling of not knowing what day and night it was. In her mind, there was even a little figure posing in a classic oil painting shouting pose, with the voice acting beside her A line of large characters in bold red and bold scrolling continuously:

again? !

When they were in the League of Assassins before, they would conduct enemy attack drills from time to time, and as a result, this exercise might sometimes turn into a real enemy attack.After all, the century-old Assassin's Alliance is too big to attract the wind, with power and financial resources, coupled with the irresistible temptation brought by their Lazarus Pond that can resurrect the dead, what kind of enemy attack they have to face? scale:

Either the weather is calm and the sea is so boring that no one dares to force an attack, but if there is an enemy attack, it must be a large-scale, well-prepared and well-planned all-round attack with sufficient soldiers and weapons.

As soon as the number of attacks and drills increases, Fiona will form a "as soon as she hears a big movement outside, she will quickly get up from the bed, get dressed in 1 minute, bring an emergency kit and run into the shelter." Refuge" conditioned reflex.

As a result, when she quickly got dressed and reached out to touch the emergency kit subconsciously, she found nothing. At this moment, Fiona, who was so frightened by the loud voice and had a conditioned reflex, was slow. She slowly realized that she is now in Bantiva, St. Petersburg, not in the League of Assassins, and there is no refuge or exercise at all.

She looked up at the electronic perpetual calendar on the wall, and only then did she realize why Bantiwa was in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, but she still heard a deafening salute at seven o'clock this morning:

Today is Victory Day and her birthday.

When the curtain of World War II slowly began to fall in 1945, when Germany submitted an unconditional surrender letter to Russia, which was still called the "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" at that time, this surrender letter will start in the early morning of the next day, that is, May 1945. When it officially came into effect on September 5, no one would have thought that this historic day of smashing fascist Germany would be designated as a national holiday and be deeply remembered.

The Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War has gone through so many ups and downs with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, even after it was disbanded and became the "former Soviet Union", on the vast land of Russia that still retains its old glory, This festival is still deeply remembered in the form of legislation.

On this day, not only will the whole people have a holiday, but there will even be large-scale military parades all over the country to commemorate the hardships of that war and how hard-won peace is today.Among them, the two largest military parades, one in Moscow, the capital of Russia, and the other in St. Petersburg, so hearing fireworks and salutes early in the morning is purely a normal operation on Victory Day.

Fiona suddenly felt a pain in her temple for no apparent reason.She has been in poor health and has low blood sugar, so she always brings some candy with her to prevent herself from fainting suddenly. Getting up too fast in the morning can also cause short-term dizziness and nausea, but she has never experienced such a severe headache condition.

She pressed her slightly hot forehead against the cold table.Because in the concept of psychics, the mirror is something that can communicate between the dead and the living, so they usually don't easily put this thing in the room. If you want to look in the mirror, you have to go to the bathroom.Therefore, searching the entire room, the only thing that could provide her with a smooth and cold surface as a support point to calm down was the table.

The moment Fiona put her head on it, she heard two voices calling her name, and she was still very familiar with these two voices:

She had heard the voice from the side of the dead countless times in her dreams.Fidelis's English pronunciation always has a foreign accent. The vowels and consonants are very strange, but with the blessing of her beautiful voice, it brings out a lingering tenderness and inexplicable twists and turns. The taste of thousands of times comes——

【Fioshka, my daughter, you were born amidst the cheers and blessings of the crowd. 】

Just after the short whisper of the undead, all the headaches that had been haunting her all disappeared. No matter how concentrated she was, she couldn't catch the whispers from the past.

The boundary between the living and the dead cannot be easily crossed, and if it is crossed, some price must be paid.But Fidelis had been dead for too long, and she couldn't afford even the simplest price.

So this blessing was not sent by Fidelis, who had been dead for many years, but when Fiona was unintentionally exploring her heart and trying to find her inner self-confidence and sense of security. The words she heard when she was conscious, and the words she needed most at this time, were only retrieved from memory.

On the other side, the voice from the living side is more enthusiastic and lively, and this voice also comes from Fiona's downstairs. momentum:

"Fioshka, Happy Victory Day, do you want to go to the military parade?!"

Fiona knew this voice very well, it was obviously the voice of Martha, the Dream Witch.She was still wondering why Martha didn't use her cell phone when she had it, but she grabbed the cell phone next to the pillow and took a look, only to find that because she forgot to charge the phone last night, the screen of this high-tech product produced by Stark Industries has gone black The strike has been going on for a long time.

She quickly poked her head out, just in time to see Martha rushing over from the staff dormitory building on the other side. She was waving the Russian flag, standing under Fiona's window and kept waving:

"Happy birthday Fioska! There is a military parade outside today, do you want to watch it with me? We agreed before!"

Fiona quickly grabbed a silk scarf from the hanger next to her that she was going to wrap around her neck to block the wind, and immediately lay down on the window sill and shouted back: "I'm going, wait a minute, I'm going down!"

She hastily grabbed a bottle of water with bread in her mouth, and rushed down the stairs. When she passed the hall, she found Daria typing something hard on the computer, with a slender cigarette between her fingers, The curling smoke easily scattered into the shape of a spider web in the air, carrying the allure and elegance unique to mature women——

Then this elegance was shattered by the next violent keystroke, and the soot was shaken off by the swift force.

It was rare for Fiona to see Dahlia in such a gaffe, and at this time Martha also came into the hall. At first glance, Dahlia was also surprised: "God, Dahlia, what are you doing?" What's wrong? Need help?"

As soon as Daria saw that Fiona was about to come over, she immediately put out the cigarette in the ashtray:

"Fioshka, don't come here, second-hand smoke is bad for your lungs."

Fiona: ...Then you still smoke.

Facing Fiona's silent gaze, Daria raised her hands helplessly: "Decompression, just one."

She suddenly remembered something, and said to Martha: "Don't let Fioshka buy wine for you!"

Martha blinked in surprise: "You don't sell alcohol the week before the victory day and the week after, Daria, have you been confused lately?"

Dahlia looked at the time at the bottom right of the computer, only to realize that she has been really busy these past few days, and almost ignored such a big day as Victory Day: "...It's a bit. "

"What are you busy with?" Martha wanted to go over to have a look, but Daria stopped her lightly: "It's nothing, just some trivial matters. Aren't you going to watch the military parade? If you don't leave, it will be too late."

"That's right!" Masha's attention was immediately diverted: "Let's go, Fioshka, if we go out now, we can buy you a military cap in time before the parade begins."

The moment Fiona was dragged out by Martha, she suddenly looked back with a feeling, and saw Daria frowning irritably in front of the computer, with her slender hands inserted between her black and thick long hair , messed up her well-combed hair, and her raised eyebrows were frowning uncomfortably, making her look even more aggressive in her imposing manner.

——What is it that troubles a person like her?

But Fiona didn't have time to think about it, and she was pulled into the car by Marsala. On her reflector and on her chest, there was a yellow and black striped St. George ribbon. She looked at Fiona's naked body. He quickly found an extra ribbon from his bag and put it on for her, and while putting it on, he added:

"I present to you the ribbon of St. George of bravery and victory, lady!"

"From now on you're—wait I think about it—good decision, from now on you're the Rapunzel Witch, and you're going to do your part in selling lettuce and collecting debts, not a single piece of lettuce can be given away in our land Let people!"

Fiona had heard the story of Rapunzel, so it was easy for her to understand what Martha meant by "trafficking lettuce forcibly and collecting debts", so she burst out laughing.

Martha thoughtfully raised the glass window to prevent Fiona's hair from being blown by the wind: "You still look good when you smile, Fioska."

Because she was concentrating on driving and couldn't get distracted, she turned her head in Fiona's direction meaningfully:

"For us, our birthday is actually the most vulnerable time of the year, but at this time we have the blessings from our parents. Under the two contradictions, if we don't handle it well, the future will be very long. The energy field will be disordered for a period of time, so you must be happy on your birthday."

She drove very fast, and arrived at the place of the military parade in a short while. Only then did Fiona realize that many people around, regardless of men, women, and children, were wearing army green hats on their heads, which was a very simple and plain hat. The most basic triangular military cap doesn't match the color of many people's clothes, but everyone just put the cap on their heads so simply, and they are very happy to watch the military parade.

Just as she was observing the space around her, Martha, who took action to buy as soon as she walked, had already completed a series of procedures for parking, paying, taking the bill, going out to buy things and then returning, and put a military green hat of the same standard The hat was put on Fiona's head, and she took a few steps back to look at it, and she made a final decision with satisfaction:

"A military parade without a triangular cap is soulless. Congratulations to Fioska on turning 16! Buy you a triangular cap, this is an extra gift from me."

"When I go back today, I will hold a birthday party for you, and then you will see my gift. It's super beautiful, I promise!"

Victory Day is a big day for Russians. The streets are filled with seas of joyful crowds. Considering the population density of Russia, it is not easy to reach this level.They put their hats on their heads, walked hand in hand over the orange soda and hot dog stands, and Martha bought Fiona a cup of hot milk tea, and it always happened when there were too many people:

Accidentally walked away.

In fact, Fiona would not get lost so easily. She and Martha have been holding hands, but there are too many people. She and Martha are not tall, just when she inserts the straw into the milk tea After filling the cup, when she looked up, she and Martha had separated.

She is not an internet addicted girl with a mobile phone. She is different from those young people who can't live without electronic products. She doesn't have the habit of charging her mobile phone every day, let alone her mobile phone with a black screen. It doesn't work without it.

She looked around and excitedly spoke Russian very fast, with a strong St. Petersburg accent, which made people she couldn't understand at all feel like never before what it meant to be truly "weak, pitiful and helpless." ".

And at this moment, a gentle and magnetic voice came from behind her, tentatively calling her name:

"Fioshka?"