Chapter 2916: When Night Falls (45)

The Starfire in front of them also wore a tight suit, had a head of beautiful red hair, a graceful figure, and three-dimensional and beautiful features. Basically, there was nothing to pick on.

But the problem is, she looks more like a collection of stereotypes of female superheroes. When people see her for the first time, what they feel is her beauty rather than her power.

First of all, superheroes like Wonder Woman, if you look closely, are indeed very beautiful, but most people facing her dare not look closely because she is very strong, powerful, and people's first impression of her is definitely tough, fierce, and not easy to mess with.

To give a simple example, regardless of gender, when you have been a police officer for a long time, no matter how beautiful you are, there must be a kind of power that others don't have. Every move and every opening makes people feel like they are going to pee their pants.

Even if it is a female hero with superpowers, she will look very fierce. If a female hero without superpowers wants to be world-famous, the effort and training required is simply unimaginable. They must be brave, wild, and unyielding, rather than looking like flowers in a greenhouse.

You don't even need Wonder Woman to make a comparison. Cassandra and this Starfire standing together can see the full difference. Cassandra is as sharp as a knife. Just looking at her makes you feel that a dagger has approached your chest.

On the contrary, this Starfire looks more like a superhero enthusiast, or simply an anchor, with only the form but no soul.

"Simply absurd!" Starfire said, "Is it because others are like this, I must be like this? What basis do you have?"

The Robins seemed to have noticed something wrong. Although Starfire's temper was usually a bit urgent, how could she talk to Batman like this? Who would evaluate Batman as "absurd"?

"I know this cannot be used as evidence," Batman snorted coldly, "We will talk about your problem later. Doctor Strange, have you recovered?"

When dealing with the vampire monster, Doctor Strange and the Arkham Knight had already successfully met with the three of them. Although Superman and Diana both returned to the Justice League to preside over the overall situation, the two of them followed Batman to Wayne Manor.

Doctor Strange's face looked much better at this moment. It was obvious that he had killed many vampires on the way to find Mary, and his injuries had almost healed.

He stood up and nodded. Batman stood up and walked to the side of the tied-up Barbara.

He stood still, sighed lightly, and pressed his hand on Barbara's shoulder—suddenly, someone patted him lightly on the back.

Batman turned his head and found Schiller standing behind him, and Schiller's voice also came from behind him.

"Let me do it. I am a professional and can minimize the pain."

"No."

The moment the word of refusal was spat out, Batman took a heavy punch. The force was so great that he fell to the side. Just after shaking twice and stabilizing his figure, a knife was inserted into Barbara's chest, and her heart was dissected out.

Barbara let out a scream that a human could not make. Blood splashed on Schiller's suit. Everyone was stunned, and Dick and Gordon jumped up directly.

Barbara was indeed a vampire, but the self-healing ability of vampires was limited. Still the same sentence, being touched by a cross and being directly pierced through the brain stem by a cross are two different things.

Barbara's vitality gradually faded.

But soon, magic radiance lit up on Doctor Strange's hand, fixing her soul in her body with necromantic power, sewing up her wounds, and bringing her back to life in a peculiar way.

Barbara woke up suddenly and retched desperately on the spot.

She took a deep breath, straightened her body, and looked around somewhat blankly.

"How do you feel? Barbara?" Batman immediately leaned over. Barbara seemed to have been greatly frightened. She dodged backward, but saw her father in the crowd.

Gordon also rushed up and hugged her. Barbara's expression became more complicated, and when she saw Dick watching her in the crowd, she finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"I'm sorry, I lied to you... I made an irreparable mistake... I really should have told you earlier..."

Others were a bit confused. At this time, Schiller, who was looking down at his suit ruined by blood again, said something without beginning or end, "It is acquired education that shapes the real you."

Jason seemed to understand something. He looked at Dick who didn't come forward, walked up to press Barbara's shoulder, looked into her eyes, and said, "Nationality and race are not important. What is important is who gave you what kind of education, and what education tells you who you should choose."

Schiller smiled in his heart. The Vampire King wouldn't understand. Not to mention handing a vampire baby with 80% similarity to humans to Gordon and letting them spend more than 20 years together, even if you handed a Godzilla to him, there would be an educated Godzilla Robin in the Batman family now.

The failure was still the baby. Maybe it was to increase the drama, or maybe it was to do the whole set of acting, the Vampire King directly got a baby and handed it to the Gordon couple.

As long as she didn't control it from behind the scenes during these twenty-odd years, but let Gordon raise this child, then even if she is indeed a vampire, she would definitely be a good vampire when the Vampire King didn't brain-control her.

After all, that is James Gordon.

Schiller is now curious about what role Dick played in it. It seems that he knows more than everyone else.

But now Barbara has escaped the control of her vampire bloodline father through death, but Dick is still a proper vampire. Although the bloodline is thin and he has escaped a part, he still can't say anything when there is a high-level vampire on the scene.

Then we can only count on Barbara.

"I... I am a vampire..." Barbara sobbed, "Yes, from the beginning, I realized long ago that I am actually not... don't cry, Dad."

"But I haven't bitten innocent people," Barbara said, "Dick helped me get blood bags. This is also one of the reasons why he insisted on going to Blüdhaven, because Gotham is under Batman's surveillance, and he would be exposed sooner or later if he did this."

"But... vampires need the blood of living people to maintain their strength, so... so I bit him, I'm really sorry..."

Dick looked at her with a slightly apologetic look.

But everyone on the scene couldn't know?

"No! It has nothing to do with the time you left!" Barbara said loudly, "That didn't take long, not enough to make my desire for blood rise to this extent!"

"Since then, I can't remember many things..." Barbara covered her head in pain and said, "I feel that I am the Vampire King, I have the mission to revive the vampire race, and for this, I ordered Dick not to reveal my identity, and I also... I also..."

"Take a deep breath, miss, you might have post-traumatic stress disorder," Schiller stepped forward to comfort her again.

Barbara calmed down quickly, but when Batman asked if she knew who controlled her, she couldn't answer. According to Barbara herself, she hadn't seen other vampires, at least not when she had memories.

The baby plan actually has a benefit, that is, babies don't remember things. Swapping identities at this time, Barbara wouldn't know who did it.

But Batman stared at the Starfire and said, "If the data of Starfire in other universes cannot be used as solid evidence, then what about the data from other civilizations in the Milky Way of this universe?"

"I just sent a message, asking Superman to go to the Green Lantern headquarters and retrieve Starfire's data. You probably don't know yet, right? The real Starfire is not only a superpower user but also an alien, and a famous cosmic superhero."

Another picture appeared on the screen. It was Starfire fighting certain interstellar Zerg. It was exactly the same as the appearance of the Starfire shown in the data before, and quite different from the Starfire standing in front of them.

"Your choice to impersonate Starfire must not be a coincidence. Where did you put her?"

The murderous intent in Batman's tone could no longer be concealed.

"You still don't have any evidence," Starfire said fearlessly, "My growth trajectory is true, the actions I took as a superhero are true, and my interactions with your assistants are true. Is it because your assistant became a traitor that you want to slander me?"

Yes, Schiller thought, this is another advantage of playing with the timeline. She can completely travel back to the past and start from scratch to create a superhero identity.

Everything she did in these decades was what a superhero should do, so who can say she is not a superhero?

Batman stared at her with the coldest gaze, but didn't take the next step.

This is Batman's biggest shortcoming, Schiller thought silently in his heart, emotional, but not shameless enough.

Schiller walked silently in front of Starfire, gave her a smile, and said, "Don't get excited, miss... considering you have a marriage history, maybe I should call you lady."

"Lady, you have to calm down. You didn't do anything wrong. As a fan of this Starfire lady, it is reasonable for you to use any legal means to chase stars, even if you wear almost the same clothes, dye your hair the same color as her, and use her code name and name, that is just a normal expression of your love and should not be blamed by anyone."

"Of course, you also have to understand Batman's mood. His most capable assistant and his good friend just suffered a tragedy, and you, I have to say, lady, talking about certain words related to your two life experiences at this moment may have to make people think of the possibility and desire of you replacing her. I definitely don't mean you really have this meaning, but if it triggers such associations, it is also difficult to ask Batman to remain completely calm."

"Considering that you are such an enthusiastic imitator of the cosmic hero Starfire lady, I believe you are definitely not intentional."

"I swear, if you can cooperate with us, Batman will definitely have a way to contact your most excellent and powerful idol. She will also be very happy to have such a beautiful fan as you."

"Now, can you please stay calm like them and sit down and talk?"

A blood-colored whirlwind suddenly blew around Starfire. ===== CHAPTER 2917 =====

"Considering that you are such an enthusiastic admirer and imitator of the great cosmic hero Starfire, I believe you certainly didn't mean it."

"I swear, if you can cooperate with us, Batman will definitely have a way to contact your most excellent and powerful idol, and she will surely be very happy to have such a beautiful fan as you."

"Now, could you please stay calm like them and sit down to talk?"

A blood-colored whirlwind suddenly swept up around Starfire.