Chapter 2178

"How much longer?"

Seeing Natasha looked out the door vigilantly, and then turned to look at the parts Stark was welding while wearing a welding mask.

"Don't rush." Stark was unusually patient and wasn't very irritable, telling people not to disturb him, because obviously he was clear that only Seeing Natasha could protect him now.

"Our original plan was for you to take me back to the place where Osborn and Hammer dropped that pile of mechs, and change my armor to a new energy source, but now the development of things has exceeded our expectations."

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

People in the city are calling it an aurora now, but it's actually a shield blocking the new city.

About half an hour ago, people saw the Sky Island floating in the sky as if it were spraying, pulling out wave after wave of alien armies, and the first thing these aliens did when they descended on the new city was to disperse to the edge of this huge city and set up a huge and towering shield.

Now the whole city is completely isolated from the outside world. Whether it is electrical signals or satellite signals, they are completely blocked by this mysterious shield, and no physical matter can go out, and nothing can come in.

Even a city like New York, which is used to alien invasions, has never seen such overbearing aliens. If you want to destroy the city, you destroy the city; if you want to kill people, you kill people. What's the point of setting up a cover to circle everyone up?

But Seeing Natasha analyzed some different information from the behavior of the aliens wandering unscrupulously on the street now.

"They are looking for someone." Seeing Natasha said very affirmatively: "They are searching for these things, most likely a person, but so far they haven't found it."

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

Stark's tone contained irony. Obviously, this was not a question.

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

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

"Come over and help me lift this thing." Stark took off his mask, let Seeing Natasha come over to help, and said: "The stuff Hammer Industries made is too bulky. Fortunately, Osborn's biomass energy output is not small. The two idiots are really stupid together."

"Shut up and work." Seeing Natasha rolled her eyes and said: "Now we can't even go to S. H. I. E. L. D."

"I'll drive this thing and get one of their robots first. I only need one sample, and I can crack the mystery of their technology. By then, whether it's interfering or controlling them, it won't be difficult for me at all."

"I hope so... WATCH OUT!!!!!"

BOOM!!!!!

The door to Tim's room was pushed open.

He looked down at his watch. It was just 5 o'clock. Batman stood at the door as expected, and Tim hadn't had time to put down his schoolbag.

"How was the book club?"

"Okay." Tim took a deep breath, threw his schoolbag on the chair, turned to look at Batman, and said: "You know you shouldn't appear here. I'm not saying this to drive you away. You can stay if you want, but I still have to do my homework."

After speaking, Tim began to rummage through his schoolbag. Batman sat on his bed again, his forearms resting on his legs, his fingers crossed, watching his movements.

Tim didn't look very nervous, just a bit irritable. Batman felt he wasn't welcome, but he was used to it.

"How about Sherlock Holmes?"

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

"Geniuses are always misunderstood."

Tim lowered his hands, looked at Batman, and said: "Do you know? "Sherlock Holmes" can be considered a very good detective novel, with exciting plots and vivid stories, but I don't think this can be a topic between the two of us."

"Because we both know that a novel is just a novel, and it's too stupid to apply the situation in reality to it."

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

"At least it wouldn't be your first choice when killing time, and it wouldn't be mine either." Tim shook his head and said.

"How many words does it have?"

"I have 5 volumes on hand, about 430,000 words."

"Then it will be."

Batman stood up and reached out to Tim.

Tim blinked, feeling a bit confused, but he still rummaged through his schoolbag, took out a few books, and handed the thick novels to Batman with both hands.

Watching Batman leave with the same confused gaze, Tim scratched his head, took out his phone, hesitated for a long time, and still called Red Robin.

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

Red Robin on the other end of the phone curled his lips and said: "I'm not scared, you can say it."

"Batman asked for 5 volumes of "Sherlock Holmes" from me."

"Oh, what's wrong with that?"

"He intends to finish it."

With a clatter, Red Robin fell off his chair, causing Red Hood next to him to look over frequently, but he had no time to manage others, but grabbed the phone with both hands and raised his voice and said.

"What did you say?!! Batman intends to finish "Sherlock Holmes"?!!"

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

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

"Don't look at me like that, I'm also very shocked." Red Robin spread his arms and said: "And did you hear what he said? Batman actually intends to finish "Sherlock Holmes"!"

"While the city below is engulfed in war?"

"That's not the point, the point is "Sherlock Holmes"!" Red Robin raised his tone again, his voice sharp and wanting to crack, "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, somewhat collapsed and said: "He would see Sherlock and Moriarty fall off a cliff together while having to hug the Joker and jump off a building twice a day! This makes me feel like my toe muscles are all tight!"

Nightwing and Red Hood didn't know what he was going crazy about, but they obviously realized this wasn't normal.

This city just had a huge change. A group of inexplicable aliens rushed into the city and also established a shield that blocked everyone.

They would study this kind of shield before, assuming that Batman had been trapped inside, because the moment the aliens rushed out of the portal, Batman must have arrived at their landing point.

Then, logically speaking, Batman must be trapped in the shield. They were all planning to save Batman, but you tell me Batman is fine and is reading in the study of Wei En Manor now?

Nightwing and Red Hood didn't believe it, but Red Robin couldn't accept it, so the three of them decided to go to the study to find out.

"I bet there will be a cage falling from the ceiling." Nightwing said jokingly, but his fundamental purpose for joking wasn't to say his guess in a joking tone, but to deliberately let others talk.

"Forget it, you know there won't be such an old-fashioned project. I guess it's a taser, the kind placed under the floor." Red Hood immediately followed up.

"It would be fine if it electrocuted me, so I wouldn't have to imagine his mood when he sees the falling off the cliff part." Red Robin still wouldn't let go of that point.

The three of them came to the door of the study Batman used most often. The three of them winked at each other, and finally decided to decide the winner by rock-paper-scissors. The loser pushes the door.

Many people know that the Bat-family are all Bat-fans. They won't give up any opportunity to contact Batman, but this time is different. This is simply an obvious trap.

Something so big happened below, Batman would hide in the study and read? Are you kidding?

Batman is really there.

Red Hood, who lost the rock-paper-scissors, gently pushed the door of the study open a small crack. Batman was sitting by the window, not wearing a Bat-suit, with his legs crossed, holding a thick book in his hand.

"How is it?"

The other two didn't dare to look, turned their backs in unison, and waited to hear Red Hood's scream, but after waiting for a long time, there was no movement. Nightwing had to ask.

"'A Study in Scarlet'?"

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

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

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

Below was a classic pattern of a detective wearing a beret and smoking a pipe. The small print at the bottom read "The Prelude to the Great Detective Story."

Red Robin slapped his forehead.

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

Bang!

Batman, sitting in the rocking chair, looked up at the three Robins who fell in neatly, withdrew his gaze, put it back on the page, turned a page with his finger, and said slowly: "What a great detective."

Red Robin climbed up awkwardly, turned his head to glare at Red Hood who reached out to pull him. Although they knew Batman must have discovered them long ago, grabbing Batman's pigtail through peeking, walking in safely and laughing at him, and falling in all at once like now were two completely different things.

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

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

Red Robin pulled Red Hood. Asking why a Wei En is in Wei En Manor is still a bit too retarded, especially in the situation where the three of them just fell into Batman's study all at once.

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

Although they asked this, none of them expected Batman to give them an explanation, and didn't even expect Batman to answer.

As a result, they saw Batman turn the book page again, turn his head slightly to look at the new page, and say slowly.

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

"Uh... David?"

"No, it's Sherlock."

"Ah???"