Chapter 40 :New Project

Gotham City.

Clouds shrouded almost all year round covering the top of this black modern city, and even bursts of electricity flashed in the gloomy haze. The torrential rain poured down from behind the clouds without warning, slamming loudly and densely on the gloomy streets.

Barbara Gordon was sitting in her wheelchair by the window of the clock tower. The rain was like a waterfall hanging out of the window. Looking down at the city through a laminar iris was like watching a sleeping demon.

Many years ago, she was also one of the drag fighters in this city. Bat girl, that used to be her code name, but that was before her leg was shot and mutilated by a green-haired lunatic wearing clown makeup. Now, she claims to be an oracle and is one of the top hackers in the world, providing logistical support for the cloaked fighters at this position in the highest point of Gotham.

She has always hated rainy weather, even if she has lived in this cloud-shrouded city for so long.

The elevator behind him made a crisp "ding", which was a direct elevator that only a few people with access rights could take. She turned the wheelchair around, and saw the huntress appearing in front of the door with one hand on the side of the elevator, breathing heavily. Her hair was messy, her purple cloak was torn apart, and she looked quite embarrassed.

Barbara raised her eyebrows: "You didn't inform us that you were back to Gotham."

She and Helena have always had a good relationship, although Helena has now switched jobs to work for the government and it has not changed.

"I have been in Gotham's stronghold for the past two days until they kicked me out-just for this thing." Helena stepped forward and took out a USB flash drive from her belt, "Please, I need Your help. This is important."

Barbara took the USB flash drive and asked, "Let me guess, Bruce doesn't know yet?"

"I didn't tell him." Helena said lightly.

"Then maybe you should think about it." Barbara inserted the USB flash drive into her computer and said at the same time, "After all, he is your father. You can't go on like this forever. In addition, he also needs you."

Helena was silent and did not answer.

Barbara skillfully opened the USB flash drive on her computer, and the project named "s.d.e.project" quickly popped up on the screen, as well as the warning dialog box and the password input field that Helena had encountered. Barbara frowned and read the name again, and asked, "This is what makes you look so embarrassed? Then it must be important."

"I just tried to access its content. They hunted me like a first-degree wanted criminal." Helena said, "I tried to crack it, but it failed, and it automatically sent a warning to the superior server. I only had time to copy the data. But be careful, if the cracking fails..."

"It may also upload data, revealing our location. Thank you for the reminder, you really brought a hot potato." Although Barbara seemed to be complaining, she didn't mean to retreat. She stretched and moved her slender fingers, as if she was about to go for a big fight.

"But you will do it, won't you?" Helena asked. "You can always do it."

"Of course, keep your eyes open in the back."

Barbara said lightly, but in fact it was not that easy job. She didn't say a word for the whole half an hour after that, just staring at the computer screen intently. Helena watched her fingers flap flexibly on the keyboard, lines of green code scrolling across the black background interface like torrents. Although she didn't quite understand it, she could see that this was a difficult battle. Barbara looked stern, as if a chess master had encountered an opponent he had never seen before, and was engaged in a hearty attack with the enemy.

Helena waited quietly and interestingly, without interrupting. She pulled herself over a chair and sat down, feeling a little sleepy.

After a while, the scrolling code on the interface in front of Barbara finally stopped, and the prompt window of successful cracking popped up in the center of the interface in a timely manner. Even Helena, who was watching the battle, couldn't help feeling similar to hell difficulty. The excitement of clearing the game.

Barbara let out a long sigh of relief, feeling like she has completed a long march: "This thing you want to see is really famous. It's military-level encryption-no, even above that. I can't remember exactly when it was once such a troublesome security protocol was cracked."

"I said it is very important." Helena couldn't wait to lie down on the back of the chair where Barbara was sitting, and urged, "Open it up and see what is inside?"

Barbara clicked on the folder, and the long list of people that Jay had seen appeared before the two women first. Barbara clicked on the follow-up folders one by one, and the detailed information told them a story about alien exploration and a Krypton visitor who came to Earth in response to the invitation of mankind, just like Jay on the other side in this project The only remaining survivor heard it.

"So this is the origin of that Kryptonian kid." Helena smacked her tongue and muttered.

"Who?" Barbara hadn't fully digested the information, and asked in surprise, "Are you saying this is true? A Kryptonian that we don't know has been hiding on the earth, have you seen him?"

"I have seen it, and Bruce has seen it." Helena said casually, "Next time I have a chance, maybe I can introduce you to him. He is a very interesting little boy...Wait, is it still here? Have an attachment?"

Only then did Barbara notice this attachment that they almost ignored because they were so busy and surprised, named "s.d.e-neo", it seems that this plan has a follow-up.

They thought that what they had seen before was surprising enough, but they never expected that the truly breathtaking content had just begun here. When Barbara clicked on the attachment, Helena felt that she almost stopped breathing. She couldn't help but doubt the authenticity of the contents described here, because they were so incredible.

If this is true, then everything they have seen, experienced, and lived is an extremely large scam.

Metropolis, hospital.

The night fell quietly on the sleeping metropolis, the sun hid little by little under the outline of the city at night, and the man-made lights came in through the only window of the ward. Cara had been by the hospital bed for several hours, and Louise was still lying unconsciously, her face pale and there was no sign of waking up.

The huge ward was extremely silent, and the "di" sound of monitoring the heart rate seemed extremely harsh.

Jay landed on the balcony with barely a sound, like a breeze with no substance, but Kara noticed it after all. She walked out quickly and quickly noticed the tiredness and sadness written on Jay's face.

"He's right in front of me, that poor old man." Jay said in a low voice, "We...we are probably like this close. But I couldn't save him."

"Jay..."

"I should have saved him." Jay ignored her interruption and said in a low voice, "I should react faster and take him out of the house before the flames...I should have noticed earlier That bomb, I..."

"Jay." She stroked his face with her hand, looking directly at his gloomy pale blue eyes, "I don't know what happened, but I can imagine it because we have all experienced it. But you have to remember, it's not your fault, okay?"

"I watched him burn to ashes in front of me." Jay shook her hand gently. "It feels like...like the person who was painfully burned to death was myself. ."

"I know." Cararou said, "We all feel that way, and you may feel more in the future, even worse than this. The secret is to remember that these pains do not belong to you. And the reason In this way, we must help those in pain. You have to remember that even though we have such a powerful ability, we are not gods after all. We are just constantly trying to make the right choices."

Jay was silent for a while and asked, "So this feeling, it will never disappear, right?"

Kara nodded: "Yes, they won't."

Jay looked at the brightly lit city under the balcony and took a deep breath.

"Thank you," he said, "I feel better now."

After a pause, he said again: "I have to go."

"I can help." Kara said.

"No, I need you to take care of Louise, and my parents, they may be in danger." Jay said, "Although I don't know who I am facing, they are facing me A missile was thrown in his office. And when I just found someone willing to tell me the news, they blew up the house."

Carla couldn't help covering her mouth: "Rao is here, what happened?"

"I don't know yet. But what I do know is that it has become my business." Jay said, and people have resurfaced in the air, "I have to figure this out. I can ask you to take care of them. ?"

"Of course." Kara nodded. "Go ahead and do what you have to do."

"Thank you. I'm so glad to have you by my side, really."

He smiled slightly, his body moved, turning into a blue afterimage and rushing into the night sky.