With the arrival of Commissioner Gordon, the war between women naturally could not continue. Barbara was able to announce relatively decently that she had not lost. Although anyone with eyes could see the actual scene, at least her face was saved.
She had no energy to talk to her father, so she sat on the ground. She would definitely die if she fought for another minute. Even though her family was not devout, the only word that came to her mind was "Thank God." With His attention, I managed to get through this embarrassing competition safely. I had a mysterious feeling that maybe I should do something for Him? Maybe have my own mission?
Thea didn't feel she had a sacred mission. She just thought it was just acting and wanted to shake Barbara's hand or give her a fist bump and say "thank you" or something like that.
Because after every fight with Mrs. Shiva, even though they were covered in bruises, they still said something politely. But now, seeing Barbara's original posture sitting elegantly turn into lying with her arms and legs open, with her bright red hair sticking to her body in tufts as if it had been washed, she gave up that behavior that was seemingly humble but actually sarcastic.
"Hey, are you guys listening?" Felicity asked again, uncertain, when she heard no movement through the earpiece. The drone hovering in the sky had already flown back after the battle with Killer Croc, so she had no idea that a harmonious and enthusiastic friendly match was happening here.
"Yes, everyone is here." Normally, it was Barbara who appeared, but now she was as tired as a dead dog. Catwoman and Thea didn't seem to want to talk to her first, so in the end, only the honest Robin had to respond.
Felicity said "Oh," which didn't make any sense. "Shall we begin?"
Now that Gotham's version of the Six-Party Talks had officially convened, the meeting's theme certainly could not be a major issue like world peace. Instead, they were mainly discussing the issue of housing and adopting lonely crocodiles.
As the boss, Thea couldn't speak first and hinted at her number one henchman. Felicity immediately said if you don't want this thing, you can take it directly to our Star City. Our Quinn Group has an applied sciences lab with all kinds of saws and power drills. I believe single crocodiles will like it there.
Besides, we have 1,500 eager workers at home. As long as you give us a nod, we can take this thing away using human pullers, carrying on shoulders, rolling logs, and ropes without using any modern machinery. It's no big deal! You Gotham residents can rest easy.
Barbara then sighed in relief and expressed her firm opposition to this rude request. This guy eats and drinks from our Gotham, and he must die on our land. If you have a particularly urgent need, for the sake of our camaraderie in fighting side by side this time, we can give you a bowl of soup after that, but it's impossible to take him away directly.
Thea had no good way to deal with this response. The value of heroes in this world is that one must fight their own monsters, and outsiders have no right to interfere with the equipment they use. Since they are so determined to oppose it, she can only forget it. She doesn't have high expectations for this big guy anyway. As for drawing blood to make enhancers, whether it can be done or not, just looking at his appearance, you can tell that the sequelae will be extremely serious.
Barbara was very pleased that Thea and the others backed down when faced with difficulties. To be honest, she felt a bit uncomfortable when she refused. After all, she and the others didn't help much in the whole incident.
Felicity was the one who started the verbal fight, and the two just acted as repeaters. This work could be done by any two people, maybe even two with louder voices.
The decisive blow had nothing to do with him. Although the two were in a very embarrassing situation, it really didn't play a big role.
Now that he heard they had tacitly recognized Killer Croc's ownership by Gotham, he felt like he had achieved a great victory, and his sympathy for the two increased a bit.
"Dad, do you have any solution?" Barbara didn't want to pay attention to the big ice cube now. As long as he stayed in Gotham, it didn't matter where you threw him. She just wanted to go back to take a good shower and sleep well.
It must be said that Commissioner Gordon was really helpless at first. He was a policeman and did this his whole life. Even after his wife ran away, he didn't have time to pay attention to her, let alone other tasks. Moving work like this was obviously something that people in the construction industry were better at.
But the 1,500 people mentioned by Felicity now made him think of a silly idea. We have a lot of people in Gotham, so there's no doubt about that. Let's just use our strength to make it happen! Anyway, there are many idle people in the school building, and we can just call a few hundred people to transport it.
It's better to have a solution than no solution at all. Director Gordon gathered more than a hundred people. Thea controlled the skateboard and pulled it into the sky, while the rest of the people worked with logs and ropes. Finally, they pulled the ice block, weighing more than a ton, from the lake to the road. It took a lot of effort to load it onto the truck. An hour later, they finally returned to the university safely.
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"What is this, hum?"
"Probably a Christmas present..."
Transporting the big ice block into the school caused quite a stir. Many children from the citizens' families had never seen something so rare, and they ran and kept asking their families about it. Family members also gave all kinds of explanations, saying it was a large weapon or that the director was going to give everyone shaved ice. In short, no one could tell there was a single crocodile hidden in it.
The mission was completed, and everyone dispersed the team. Thea and Barbara went back to sleep, of course, they slept separately. Robin went straight to the bathroom to take a shower.
Catwoman pulled Felicity into a corner and asked quietly, "Do you have an instrument that can verify the authenticity of a work of art?"
"What are you doing?" Felicity looked stunned, but she was not stupid.
Catwoman laughed and said, "I'm going to borrow some artworks. The jewelry industry in Gotham has been going through a cold winter recently. No one dares to take jewelry when they go out. The most sought-after market now is the art market!"
Catwoman is now very envious of Thea's skateboard, but although she is still rich, it's expensive to help the poor now and then. No matter how rich Bruce is, it has nothing to do with her. After all, she is still at war with Talia over the naming rights of Wayne. Seeing Talia rushing to Gotham with a child in her arms, she feels that this surname is getting farther and farther away from her.
Since it takes time to change her name from Selina Kyle to Selina Wayne, she now plans to be self-sufficient. Everything will be easy when she has money. She can then buy it directly from Thea or ask Bruce to help make it.
It so happened that people in the city were panicking, and the rich people in the upper city were hiding at home, and no one dared to go out. The market demand suddenly became depressed, and her previous business of jewelry and jade was inevitably hit hard.
This forced her to focus on the art market, which she was not good at before.
As an unknown former hacker, Felicity had just turned a new page a few days ago and didn't have the strong sense of justice she would later develop. Although she knew Catwoman definitely wasn't as simple as "borrowing" and that it must have been illegal, are hackers law-abiding people?
"Why didn't you tell Thea?" Felicity couldn't help but ask: why did you come to me? I don't think we're that close. It seems like you and Thea have a better relationship, right?
Catwoman is now full of admiration for the duo from Star City. She always feels that they can invent incredible things easily, which is different from Batman's research route. Compared to the old man's planes and cannons, the research of these two women is more suitable for her.
The way she looks at the two now is similar to how Nobita looks at Doraemon, with a bit of envy and expectation.
Now, regarding Felicity's question, she was also thinking: why not find Thea, with whom she has a better relationship?
She thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's because of her status as a rich woman. I always feel that she wouldn't approve of my behavior. I think we're very similar. You should be able to help me."
What's the meaning? After hearing what Catwoman said, Felicity was a bit speechless. Does that mean she looks like a bad person or a poor person? Do you think Thea is a good person? You were deceived by her little white flowery dress!
In fact, Catwoman's perception is quite accurate. Because of her family background, Thea is very cautious and won't step on laws and regulations at will, at least not unless it's a matter of life and death. According to the game's classification, she is at least on the legal side, but it's unclear whether she is legally good or legally neutral.
Felicity doesn't have this problem. She feeds herself and her family, and she's very adventurous, otherwise she wouldn't have volunteered to come to this damned place.
"Okay, this is for you. I don't know anything about the rest." He turned on the tablet and connected it to a cell phone. He operated it quickly and finally handed the phone to Catwoman and quickly left.
Catwoman took the phone and found that there was only one app called "Art Identification 2.2." She opened the app and found that it was a very simple program. By just scanning the art, it could determine the age and production process of the item. The software's database was extremely large, and even collections in Malaysia were included. Although it is impossible to provide authenticity directly, this is enough. Catwoman doesn't have high requirements for artworks, as long as the age matches.
"Haha" Catwoman felt that Felicity wasn't an honest child. If you were a good person, who would have time to prepare this software? It was obvious that it had been written a long time ago but had never been used.
This was a great help to me. When I thought about my career taking off, I was no longer worried about Master Bruce being in prison.
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That night, after Robin and Barbara had rested enough, they went out and captured a criminal with a name. This man was called Electrocutioner. I heard that this skill was passed down from his ancestors. I wonder which generation of Electrocutioners he is now.
But when Thea looked at this middle-aged man with a serious face, she thought he was just a funny guy hired by someone. This guy was so stupid that he carried an electric car battery on his back, and it wasn't known if it was a hydrogen battery or a lithium battery. Two wires were connected to the gloves. He would electrocute anyone he caught. He seemed very powerful and was really successful in dealing with ordinary people.
But the clever Commissioner Gordon discovered thirty years ago that their craft has a fatal flaw: it's afraid of water. You don't even need to prepare anything special. Just walk three meters away, open a bottle of Pocari Sweat, and pour it on his face, and this guy will be speechless.
What crappy technology is this? Instead of seeking innovation, they cling to tradition for thirty years. Their descendants have been passing down such stupid things, and they continue to fight against the Gotham Police Department despite repeated failures. I can only say that this family has a hole in their brain.
Thea shook her head and stopped looking at the serious electrocutioner. She was afraid that she would laugh and affect her lady-like behavior, so she lowered her head and finished the black bass and cheeseburger on her plate.
Just when she thought she would simply live like this, wait for Batman to come home, retreat completely to the second line, steal a fortune when no one was paying attention, and go home, someone came to talk to her.
"Mrs. Queen, the boss asks you to come to the conference room." A policeman whose name Thea couldn't remember said to her.
"Oh, alright." What does it mean for you to come to me? Thea was a bit confused. Did Batman come back? But he quickly shook his head, saying it wouldn't happen so soon. It would take weeks for the broken bones to heal. His spine was broken, so even if he got out, he couldn't recover so quickly.
When I pushed the door open and entered the conference room, I found that not everyone was there. Felicity, Robin, and Catwoman weren't there. Only Commissioner Gordon and Barbara were talking to a woman in black.
"Thea, let me introduce you. This is Leila Michaels, a senior investigator from the Advanced Superhuman Joint Research Group. She is here this time regarding Killer Croc." Commissioner Gordon made a brief introduction.
Oh, isn't it the Sky Eye Society? And this woman is Leila? The future wife of John Diggle, I saw that she wasn't wearing a ring. Does that mean they're not together yet? Thea looked at her face carefully. She must be a character from Arrow. She didn't expect their first meeting to be in Gotham.
"Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you."
The two women shook hands gently. It can be seen that Leila was still a bit immature at this time, different from the middle-aged woman with unfulfilled desires in the future. Now she can barely be considered a young mature woman...
Leila was also secretly observing the young person in front of her. She was ordered to take Killer Croc away this time, and meeting Thea was purely accidental. But after learning about her past in detail, she decided to get in touch with her.
"Mrs. Queen, I just saw Killer Croc's frozen body. May I ask how many days it will take to defrost under natural conditions?"
Why is that the question? Thea turned to Director Gordon and asked, "I'm going to sleep. Didn't Felicity tell you?"
Director Gordon shook his head helplessly. He really forgot to ask, and when he remembered, he couldn't find anyone. Leila had asked him some questions just now, and he didn't know anything. When he heard that Thea was having dinner, he got Leila's consent and hurriedly called her.
Thea patted her forehead. This confused guy really brought shame to Star City. She quickly coughed twice, "Ahem, theoretically, under normal temperature conditions, it will defrost in three days. This has nothing to do with the object's species. Whether it's a giant or a dwarf, it will take three days. If consciousness needs to be restored, ordinary people need to restore nerve activity. It takes fifteen to thirty days to wake up. But I didn't draw this guy's blood or study him, so it's hard to say, but it will take at least five days."
Hearing that Killer Croc would be able to jump out of the ice immediately, Director Gordon and Barbara were obviously relieved, and Leila nodded with a general's attitude.