Bruce carefully washed his face in front of the sink, wiping off the water with a white towel hanging on a shelf nearby. He pricked up his ears to make sure no one was near the bathroom outside, then took the headset out of his coat pocket and put it in his ears.
"Alfred," he called.
The loyal old housekeeper seemed to be always waiting on the other end of the channel, and immediately responded: "Yes, sir, is there anything I can help you with?"
"I managed to get some hair and blood samples, and am now doing DNA sampling with the analytical equipment I carry with me," Bruce said in a low voice, "I'm uploading the data back to the computer in the Batcave over an encrypted line, and I need you to check against the database. Analyze and compare, and send the results to my mobile phone as soon as they are available."
"Can I ask whose sample is that, sir?"
Bruce was silent for a while.
"Analyze the sample and give me the results, Alfred," he said.
"Well, it's not the first time anyway." Alfred said calmly, "At least I hope it's not a creature other than humans this time."
"Mr. Wayne?"
Bruce turned off the comms the moment the knock appeared on the door, and threw the headset back into his coat pocket. Clark - or the man who now calls himself Peter - pushed open the door and leaned in halfway. "Dinner is ready, Mr. Wayne, you won't want to miss Lena's pie."
Lena is the only daughter of a carpenter in the family, and Bruce can see that she has a close relationship with "Peter".
"Yes, of course not." Bruce smiled, "I'll be there in a minute."
Meanwhile, the deep sea.
Helena and her first-time mission partner, Shockwave, were trapped in the gloomy Kryptonian spaceship for more than ten hours, and while she admits the partner's talent in certain aspects is amazing, that doesn't stop her She was unbearably bored after ten hours of nonstop, panic-stricken chatter. Every time she angrily reprimanded him for shutting his mouth, he could only stay silent for at most five minutes before reopening the conversation box, as if ten hours of chatting couldn't drain his saliva reserve, which should be considered a good thing after all. A super power.
So Helena gave up knowingly, and began to let him nagging endlessly. After listening to it for a long time, she suddenly began to feel that it was not so bad, at least this rookie could remind her that she was not alone in this lonely corner of the deep sea, and it would help relieve the pressure in the current situation.
When the locked door in front of them suddenly opened without warning after more than ten hours of silence, and a person with a big "S" written on his chest appeared outside the door, the first reaction of the two was too long. Closure makes them hallucinate.
"Heaven Comes"
One of the good things about AI - they don't usually lie, and a few minutes after the old Kryptonian AI told Jay that it could guide him to his missing friend, he did find it in one of the ship's lounges Helena and her new friend. When he walked into the door, the two of them were sitting side by side against the wall, their eyes full of surprise focused on him, but they didn't mean to stand up.
So he had to take the initiative to say hello: "Hi, we meet again."
Well, considering that the background of their meeting is a 20,000-year-old Kryptonian research ship 100 meters below the sea floor, this may not be the best opening line.
Then it was her young companion who spoke first, pointing at Jay and stammering, "You...you're...the new Superman?"
"it's me."
Jay stayed for more than five seconds when he saw this young man, and then jumped up like a flashback, his eyes almost lit up: "God, you are my big fan! Oh no... ..I mean, I'm your fan!"
Having never seen such a number, Jay was a little overwhelmed: "Uh...thank you?"
"I never thought I'd see you in this situation... can you give me your autograph?"
"Uh I..."
Helena pulled him back. "That can come later." Then she looked back at Jay and asked, "Why are you here? Waller asked you to come?"
"She said you were missing at the bottom of the ocean and needed rescue," Jay said, "but she didn't mention it was on an ancient Kryptonian ship. Speaking of which, how did you get in? The gate seems to need to identify Krypton. Genes can be turned on."
"Indeed," she said. "There was a special pulse of energy under the rock we were standing on. Sisko said it was some kind of space energy, and somehow it ripped through the ocean floor and completely changed it. the terrain of where we are."
"Sisko?" Jay asked.
When the excited young man saw the idol mentioning himself, he hurriedly brushed his presence: "It's me. Sisko Ramon, shock wave, it's an honor to meet you, Superman!"
Jay glanced at the hand he held out warmly, feeling the need to shake him out of courtesy: "I'm honored too."
"You can just ignore him." Helena rolled her eyes, "He is a rookie in the field, but he does have some special abilities. His code name is shock wave, which can sense molecular vibrations, and thus sense some things that cannot be seen by normal means. s things."
Shockwave? The code name Jay is impressive, the original seems to have such a superhero.
"The enormous pressure pulled us from the cracked rock into this hole at the bottom. Our safety cable was torn, and the energy field covering this place blocked the signal, and we were unable to communicate with the outside world, nor did we We need the oxygen inside to survive." Helena said, "Thanks to Sisko for this part, he used the shock wave to sense the ship's movement. The passcode will allow us to get in."
"There is still a password..."
Sisko seems to have finally calmed down from the excitement of "seeing the idol" at this moment, he said: "I also sensed more things in the shock wave. This space seems to be supported by something with extremely strong space-time energy. Including this spaceship was randomly sent here from a certain space and time line unknown to us. That thing is extremely powerful, and it continuously releases energy to disrupt the composition of time and space, which is why this All the strangeness of the sea."
Jay frowned. "What's that?"
"I don't know," Sisko said. "Whatever it was, someone took it before us, and now it's just the remnants of its energy field that sustains the space. Once that energy is exhausted, this seafloor The cave is going to collapse, and it can happen every second now."
"Very well, that means we have to get out of here quickly."
"Well... there is one more question." Sisko showed a somewhat embarrassed expression and pointed to his diving suit, "My uniform was cut when I fell, if I return directly to the sea …"
"You'll be squashed into meat sauce, so I can't just grab the two of you and fly back." Jay shrugged, "But it's not a big problem, then plan B is ready."
"Plan B?" Sisko glanced at Helena secretly, she didn't look nervous at all, "And a plan B?"
"I'll take this ship up with me."
Jay said it calmly, his expression as if he was not talking about picking up an alien spaceship with at least 10,000 tons from the bottom of the sea, but about carrying the bought cabbage upstairs easily.
Sisko subconsciously cast a questioning look at Helena, who patted his shoulder blankly: "You will get used to it."