Heavy storm clouds covered the city completely like a thick quilt, blocking the moon and stars outside.
The wind on the rooftop felt cool.
Decadent neon lights shined through broken tubes, and the night wind mixed with the smell of alcohol; even standing on a rooftop over a hundred meters high, one could easily smell the unique rotting stench of this city.
Li Zu gently pulled his right foot back.
His sole tested the edge of the building.
Rustle~
The sand on the rooftop was brushed off the building as he pulled his foot back, falling down into that hundred-meter abyss.
A black shadow flashed before his eyes and quickly melted into the night.
Li Zu lowered his head, through his left-red-and-right-blue stockings, to see the hundred-meter abyss behind him.
He wanted to take two steps forward to get himself into a safe area, but the pair of blood-red panther-like eyes in the darkness locked onto his figure tightly, ready to pounce the moment his body moved even a little!
In front of Li Zu's eyes, visible only to him, was a strange blue window.
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There were detailed descriptions below, but he no longer had time to look more closely because the dark shadow suddenly attacked, grabbed him by the collar, lifted him up effortlessly, and slammed him heavily onto the ground.
Thud!
His back hit the ground like a swung iron hammer, and the pain also shifted Li Zu's attention to the person who had attacked him.
A suit of black clothes, wearing a bat cowl.
The black bat cape dragged on the ground.
Batman!
From Batman's series of actions against him just now, it was not hard to tell that he was currently in a hostile relationship with Batman.
At least Batman never kills, Li Zu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, feeling glad that he could keep his small life.
But Batman's next action caused his heart, which he had intended to relax, to be clenched again.
Batman actually raised his hand, drew a pistol from his waist, and pointed it at Li Zu's head.
"Kid, tell me where the Joker is?"
"Joker?"
English, which was relatively unfamiliar to him, popped out of Li Zu's mouth, but in the next moment,
Bang!
A bullet grazed Li Zu's head, hit the ground, and bounced away with a ding.
The scalding hot air brushed past his temples.
Li Zu was sure that his cheek was definitely bleeding.
"Where is the Joker?" Batman bent down and grabbed Li Zu. His arms were as thick as an adult's thigh, so carrying Li Zu did not look effortless at all.
Twisting his waist and turning, Li Zu was already being held, suspended over that hundred-meter "cliff."
Li Zu kicked his legs in the air twice, his feet hanging.
Through his yellow leather shoes caked with mud, he could see car traffic the size of ants.
Lifting his head again to look at the figure enveloped in black, Li Zu said rather awkwardly, "I actually really want to tell you, but you have to believe me, I really don't know."
"You bunch of lunatics," Batman seemed to have anticipated Li Zu's answer and suddenly let go of his right hand.
A sense of weightlessness struck,
"Ah--!!" Li Zu couldn't help screaming as his body began to fall rapidly.
And Batman hadn't applied a single bit of protective measure to him.
He could watch with his own eyes as the surrounding buildings "rose from the ground," and after struggling to turn around, what awaited him was the ground that kept getting closer.
Falling from a height of a hundred meters and then being smashed into pulp was the only outcome he could think of.
But in that instant.
A pair of steel arms with a slight upward pushing force caught Li Zu.
While neutralizing all the downward force on his body in an instant, they also carried him flying back up toward the rooftop.
Thud, thud!
Iron feet slammed onto the rooftop, and Batman, who was just about to leave, paused and stopped.
"Can't you change your methods for once?" asked Steel Bone, who had rescued Li Zu.
And after Li Zu was put down, he was also able to see the other person's appearance clearly.
Wrapped entirely in metal, with only half of his profile exposed.
Steel Bone, Victor Stone!
A incomparably powerful superhero, who naturally was also the nightmare of all villains, and among those villains... Li Zu himself might be included.
"That is their final destination, Cyborg!" Batman did not seem surprised that Steel Bone saved Li Zu, or rather, he did not care about Li Zu's life or death at all.
"You're called Cyborg?" Li Zu asked somewhat strangely.
"Right now we have no interest in chatting with you about these things, can you obediently stand there and wait for the police car?" Cyborg asked.
Li Zu nodded very cooperatively: "With pleasure!"
Compared to being with Batman and Steel Bone, he now hoped more that he could hide in a safe prison for a while.
And from the few words just now, it wasn't hard to figure out that he seemed to have been hanging out with the Joker?
"You aren't planning to ask how I found you?" Cyborg asked.
"Thermal imaging, electronically controlled hearing, once you connect to your satellite, you can know everything in Gotham!" Batman said somewhat irritably, clearly disliking others meddling in his turf.
"It's simpler than that, it's night in Gotham right now, you're hunting, and the place where you finally process your prey is always here..." Cyborg paused, glancing out the window at the building, his eyes instantly crossing a hundred meters to see that alley piled with garbage.
"...an alley that leaves a deep impression on you!"
"Of course, I'm not here to complain about you," Cyborg said: "It's just that we need your help right now."
Steel Bone's hand lifted, releasing an eerie light.
When Li Zu came to his senses, he found himself surrounded by superheroes.
Hawkman with wings, and a few half-grown kids standing together whose identities weren't hard to guess, definitely the Shazam family.
The red-skinned Green Lantern Abin Sur, Captain Cold, Element Woman...
Even though their equipment differed somewhat from what he expected, those iconic suits made it easy for Li Zu to guess the identities of this group of people.
All of them supervillains, or superheroes, gathered together because of a certain matter.
"Everyone who has decided to step up is here now," Cyborg said: "Let the vote begin, who is willing to fight alongside me?"
The crowd was a chatterbox of noise, and Li Zu stood at the edge, watching the superheroes who only existed on screens and in comic books arguing like people buying groceries at a vegetable market.
"Sorry, we don't agree~" Among the children, a boy leaning on crutches raised his hand and said: "Perhaps we need one more vote."
"Eugene, has that wisdom of Solomon of yours told us what we should do?"
The boy Eugene adjusted his glasses and calmly said: "We can ask our hero~"
"That's right!" The children seemed to have found a tacit understanding.
"Shazam!!"
They shouted in unison and were engulfed in lightning.
When the lightning vanished, a strong man wearing a red combat suit with a lightning symbol on his chest replaced the positions of the six children just moments ago.
The superhero Shazam!
What Li Zu saw today was definitely more exciting than his entire life up to this point!
"Wonder Woman left a deep impression on me, and now it's time to return the favor!" Shazam the Thunder said viciously, the anger in his eyes almost turning into a physical substance ready to spew out.
With the addition of Shazam, this group of people seemed even more excited.
"I'm not joining."
Batman projected a grapple line and swung away.
His decisiveness caught everyone by surprise.
"What! Batman isn't participating?"
"Perhaps we should reconsider."
"Perhaps this is too dangerous, or maybe this matter isn't as terrible as we imagined?"
The people in the hologram grew fewer and fewer.
"Wait!" Soon only Cyborg and Li Zu were left on the rooftop.
This negotiation, which felt inexplicable to Li Zu, also ended because of Batman's sudden departure.
Police sirens came from the distance.
Cyborg looked at Li Zu: "Your private car is here!"
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