The Death Knell

Steel bone's home is in Detroit, the city of automobiles in the past, but now it is as depressed as a ghost town.

Even if there were no major events such as the sinking of the earth, people had already fled the city. Now nine of the ten residential houses on the street are all darkened with lights, and the doors are open. Only mice are running fast on the dusty floor. move.

But they can't find food either. In addition to eating drug addicts who occasionally die from overdose on the street can improve their lives, they also have a hard time.

"I like it here, Bari. This is the city where I have seen the least number of cockroaches." Su Ming said to Xiao Shan, who had just put two passengers at an intersection. There weren’t even street lights here, and it was dark. of.

"I don't have night vision ability...yes, there are indeed no cockroaches. I rummaged through a few trash bins just now, and they were all empty." Xiao Shan really went to confirm the death knell, he didn't know the death knell. Mentioned why the cockroach was, but he felt that he should understand.

At the corner of the street, a few figures that looked like zombies passed by, with unconscious groans in their mouths, swaying through the unmanned street, and disappearing into another darkness.

But they are not zombies, just ordinary American addicts.

Maybe they used to be workers in automobile factories, or drivers who run transportation, but now, cars in the United States have long been saturated, and the City of Pistons has long been different.

The capable people have left here a long time ago, and those who remain are those who are immersed in their dreams and do not want to wake up.

"Is there a football match today?" Su Ming recognized the direction and walked towards the second-story building of the steel house.

The home of the members of the Titans, that is the most frequented place for the death knell.

"Uh, do you?" Barry scratched his head, the evening breeze passed, and the streets were still a bit cold. After the global cold winter passed, it obviously still had an impact on the temperature: "I don't pay much attention to sports events, you know, I don't care about anything. Every event feels that the runners are running too slowly, Hawkwoman, do you know?"

"I like hockey better." Kendra waved the morningstar hammer in his hand, imitating the action of playing a ball: "I'm not familiar with football."

While they were talking, the three of them had already reached the downstairs of the Steel Bone House. Su Ming reached out and knocked on the door, and the knocking sound spread far along the empty street in the dark.

"Dangdangdang."

Among the entire row of residential houses, it is estimated that only this house is still inhabited. The neighboring houses on the left and right have collapsed for a long time, and they are completely in ruins.

"No one is home."

Barry went to the windows to observe. He glanced at all the windows around the house in an instant, from the kitchen to the bathroom, the inside was dark.

"Ah, then I will come in."

Su Ming stretched out a finger, and the strangulated little tentacles transformed into the shape of a key at the fingertips. Just like the master, he opened the door of the room.

There was a strange smell coming, which made the eagle woman a little nervous. She suspected that the smell of protein deterioration was coming from the corpse for the first time, and the weapon in her hand was tightly clenched.

However, there were also professional forensics personnel present, and Barry immediately explained: "It is the fast food and burgers that have gone bad. The rotting human corpses are not like this. That, Slade, I go upstairs and have a look?"

Su Ming reached out to touch the light behind the door, but after pressing the switch, there was no light.

"This house is out of power. It's weird. Hasn't Steel Bone ever come back? He likes to watch sports on TV, and he likes to lie on the sofa with his homemade popcorn. It doesn't work if there is no electricity. You saw Steel Bone last time. When is it?"

"Well... it was almost a week ago." Barry looked at the eagle woman with inquiry, and Kendra nodded in support of this statement, so he spread his hands: "Yes, a week ago, in the Hall of Justice. At that time, he just came to ask about Bingxue, and soon left with the Titans team."

Su Ming was silent for a second, and after calculating various possibilities, he readjusted his plan:

"Barry, check this house to see if there are any break-ins or traces left by the accident. I am here looking at the door, Kendra, give Ron a call, I need his super powers to help me Scan the earth for brain waves of steel bones."

The steel bone is a semi-robot, but fortunately, the brain is still original, so there are still brain waves.

The metal that composes his body is promethium, and promethium metal, like the material of the death knell's original iconic armor, cannot isolate telepathy.

The Eagle Girl is very simple to do things, perhaps because she has become accustomed to the style of acting with Batman, she immediately took out the super mobile phone made by Zhenglian and contacted the green-skinned Martian with a baby at home.

The Flash turned into a flash of light and began to scurry around the room, the afterimages of the stairs going up and down can be connected together.

He spent three seconds inspecting the entire room, and then brought a small metal shard to the death knell.

"Furniture, doors and windows are not damaged, there are no other people's footprints or fingerprints, there is no unevenness in dust, some of the circuits are burned, but there is no sign of damage to the electrical appliances, and all the food in the refrigerator has deteriorated. That is the source of the smell."

After he said this, he handed out the metal fragment in his hand, which was a diamond with slightly curled edges:

"Only this, stuck under the sofa, I don't know if it is related to the disappearance of the steel frame."

Su Ming took the fragment, strangling and immediately gave the analysis result. This is a promethium metal. Seeing that the arc should have belonged to the steel ankle part, he stepped on something sharp shortly before losing this piece of metal, maybe It's a bear trap.

"Rong En searched for it, but didn't find it."

Kendra also hung up the phone, UU reading www.uukanshu.com, she has now determined that the steel frame has disappeared, not on the earth, at least not in the main dimension.

She was obviously a little anxious, after all, they were both people of color, and she and Victor had a good relationship.

Turning over the metal piece in his hand, Su Ming squinted his eyes: "The bear trap, maybe it is still live, so that it burned a part of the circuit..."

This modus operandi feels a bit familiar. A trap was buried under the steel-framed sofa, and when he stepped on it, a protective shutdown was generated due to current overload.

The classic death knell technique.

Use electricity or magnetism to deal with the steel frame, try Bailing, including overloading his microwave oven, short-circuiting his TV, installing EMP bombs in the air conditioner, and so on.

The key is that the steel frame will be hit every time.

"Barry, call Nightwing to see if other members of the Titan team are missing." Su Ming put away the metal pieces and patted Xiao Shan on the shoulder: "If a death knell came here, we might have caught it. A good clue, the steel frame was once brainwashed by Darkside. He is very important. The disappearance must mean something."