New York has been bustling these days, with the Stark Industries Expo attracting people from all over the world.
But Luke and Selina lived a peaceful life.
Fudge has already set up the home improvement and repair company, and Luke's investment has also been put in place.
Now, those old workers and more than a dozen temporary workers have begun to receive the information sent by Xiaowo, and are running around the streets and alleys of Manhattan, knocking on doors to solicit business.
The former Department of Defense employee Bent Bennett is now a distinguished researcher at the New Hope Laboratory in Nassau County. He has a separate position and enjoys his own budget, without having to argue with other people.
The name New Hope was carefully chosen by Luke, and it is the New Hope in the previous life.
Luke hopes that the various technologies in this laboratory can be like the “piglets and poultry” in the farm, going in small and thin and coming out plump and white.
And Mindy and Nikki were having a hot relationship—literally. Hot relationship.
Monica's neighborhood was in Harlem, and the three girls' homes were not far away, so it was not troublesome to travel back and forth.
Whenever they had nothing to do, the three of them would go to Nikki's house to fight, and then Nikki would drive them home.
With a new friend, Mindy hasn’t had time to come over and play with Nugget lately.
Things were calm for a few days, until nine o'clock that evening, when Luke went out with Selina and Nugget.
"Are you sure it's an important lair of the Hand?" Selina asked, following behind him.
Luke knew that she just thought that digging into the sewer was too boring, so he just said casually: "I have photographed the red-clothed ninja going in and out there twice, and they were carrying things. Given the nature of the Hand, they would not do something like moving bricks."
Selina: "What do you think is in there?"
Luke: "According to Xiaowo's calculations, those things are most likely people."
Selina was puzzled. "The Hand... doesn't seem to be involved in human trafficking? At least our data doesn't show such news."
Luke: "Yeah, so I'm curious about who they're going to get there."
While the two were chatting, they crawled out of the sewer.
The armor's built-in deodorization system in the alley was activated, a cloud of smoke floated in the darkness, and then there was silence again.
The two invisible men and the dog headed straight for their destination—an old factory building on the riverside in Manhattan.
The two people and the dog did not stay outside. Luke entered from the front, and Selina blocked the back door and groped inside.
As soon as they entered, they felt something was wrong here.
It's too quiet here, it doesn't look like anyone is active.
Apart from the walkways, most places were obviously deserted and dusty.
As a stronghold, this situation is very abnormal.
A moment later, Luke reached the top floor of the sixth floor with his extraordinary perception, walked straight into a room, and immediately frowned.
In the room, more than a dozen half-grown children were locked in iron cages with intravenous tubes inserted into their bodies.
The IV tubes did not give the children any fluids, but instead drew blood from their bodies, collected it into a glass jar, and then flowed it into a stone container that looked a bit like a coffin and a bit like a large bottle.
Luke's face darkened.
This doesn't seem like a good idea.
The lens quickly identified the identities of two or three children. They had no criminal records and were civilians with real information.
Then, more and more children had their identities locked, and more than half of the children were like this.
Luke snorted coldly, raised his hand to his waist, and threw it out.
Two bat darts spun out and disappeared silently into the darkness.
With two puffs, two red-clothed ninjas fell from the high corner and landed heavily on the ground.
Luke released his invisibility in the darkness outside the door, his black cloak dropped, his eyes flashing blood red.
Today he came wearing a bat armor and had no intention of killing anyone, but the scene before him made him extremely angry.
Batman doesn't kill people, but these Hand ninjas are not human.
After the two ninjas fell, there was still no system notification of their killing.
Luke walked over, picked up the two bodies and walked out the door.
The detection function of the armor has been activated, and the data obtained is very abnormal.
With a gloomy face, he tore off the ninja's clothes and saw an obvious Y-shaped cut on the man's chest.
Luke immediately tore off the clothes of another ninja next to him and found a Y-shaped cut on his chest.
He narrowed his eyes, stood up, and with a thought, the two bodies were put into Space No. 1.
System: Kill two ninjas who will be resurrected by the group, and the mission is accomplished.
The total mission experience is 3000, and the points are 3000.
The mission contribution rate is 100%, and you will get 3000 experience points and 3000 points.
Luke sneered: Interesting.
The only things that can be stored in Space No. 1 are dead things, such as dead people, or dead animals and insects.
There was no indication that these two ninjas were killed, which meant they were not dead, but their "corpses" could be stored in Space No. 1.
After the body was taken away, the system issued a killing prompt.
The order is reversed, and the "resurrected ninja" in the system prompt reveals a lot of information.
However, Luke didn't want to delve into this issue for the time being as there were more than a dozen children having their blood drawn.
Saving people is what Batman should do.
When he walked into the room again, Luke had a medical kit in his hand.
He casually tore off the locks on the iron cages, pulled out the infusion tubes from the children, and then stopped the bleeding and bandaged them. The detection function of the armor kept reporting on the physical conditions of the children.
For the time being, their lives are not in danger, but when they will die is another matter.
Selina's reminder came: "Something is not right. I called the police and the police car is on the way, but there are also people from the Hand, and there are quite a few of them."
Luke looked at a group of red-clad ninjas on the drone approaching quickly from the dark alley, and sneered: "It's okay, you and the hellhound don't move, we'll deal with the fish that slipped through the net or the next batch of reinforcements, leave this group of people to me."
As he spoke, he walked out of the room where the child was imprisoned and stood in the passage outside the door.
He did not activate the invisibility function and just stood there quietly.
Suddenly, a sound of breaking wind came from the right side of the passage, followed by more than a dozen shurikens spinning out from the darkness.
Luke put his hands across his waist, and a series of bat darts swarmed to the right side of the passage like a swarm of bats coming out of a cave to hunt.
With a slight clinking sound, the flying shuriken was directly knocked away by the bat dart, and the arc created by the bat dart was even more bizarre and unpredictable, disappearing into the passages on both sides.
There were continuous muffled puffing sounds, followed by the thuds of heavy objects falling to the ground, but there were no screams.
On the right side of the passage, silence returned.
Luke turned his head and looked to the right side of the passage, as if he could penetrate the darkness over there.
The next moment, his figure disappeared into the air, and a strong wind seemed to blow through the passage, and countless dust was rolled up, covering the passage on the right.