The Comprehensive Evolution of American Comics.

Chapter 1239

Talia felt like she was going crazy. Her chosen next leader of the League of Assassins, her own son Damian, had been missing for almost four days.

Generally speaking, when an assassin is carrying out a mission, there will be a period of silence in order to avoid being discovered. During this period, no one can contact him, and the assassin himself will not contact anyone.

This timeframe varies, ranging from one or two days to one or two months. Damian's four days is not unusual at all.

However, the key issue is that, given Damian's status, he is not required to perform missions, and Damian did not lose contact while performing a mission.

He disappeared while traveling to broaden his horizons, and the person leading the group was none other than Talia's own father, Rashomon, the current leader of the Assassin's Guild.

According to Lei Xiaogu, Damian discovered clues about the missing Cassandra and volunteered to go on a quest to find her.

When he left, Damian put on the standard equipment that assassins usually carry out on missions, including communication tools, so he should not have lost contact under any circumstances.

Even if you don't have a communication device, it's fine, since every member of the Assassin's Guild carries a tracker just in case.

However, Damian's location could not be seen on the tracking equipment at this time, indicating that the tracker had malfunctioned.

But Damian wasn't on an assassination mission; he was just on a retrieval mission, following clues to find the trail.

Even if Damian encounters an enemy, given his intelligence, he wouldn't confront them head-on; contacting the Assassin Brotherhood would be the more likely thing he would do.

Disappearing without leaving anything behind is not in Damian's style. The only possibility is that he has run into trouble.

This was Talia's judgment; she believed that Damian might have been kidnapped by someone, and of course, there were even more dangerous possibilities, but she dared not think about them.

However, her father, Lei Xiaogu, had a different opinion.

“When Damian told me about this, he was clearly hiding something. I initially thought he didn’t want me to know his source of information, but now it seems he has other ideas.”

"What are your thoughts, Father?" Talia was actually extremely anxious, but she had to suppress her emotions and ask.

"Clearly, our young heir has already made his own plans." Lei Xiaogu didn't seem angry at all; on the contrary, he seemed a little gratified.

“Talia, I ask you, has Damian ever shown a strong desire for anything?”

“No.” Talia shook her head. “Damian usually doesn’t show much emotional fluctuation towards anything, except for his remarkable enthusiasm for martial arts… Could it be?”

“It seems you’ve already guessed it.” Lei Xiaogu nodded. “Why does Damian like training? He’s not like David’s woman, who is a born martial arts fanatic who can give up anything and abandon everything for martial arts.”

"Damian is intelligent, but he is just an 'ordinary' child. The reason he is so engrossed in training is because of the promise you made to him."

“Batman…” Talia gritted her teeth. “I shouldn’t have agreed to those things with him so soon.”

“That’s not right, Talia.” Lei Xiaogu shook his head. “If you want a horse to run, you have to feed it grass. If you don’t give Damian a goal, how can he have any motivation?” “Now that Damian has gone out to find his father on his own, although it has taken all of us by surprise, it is not necessarily a bad thing.”

“But Father,” Talia hesitated, “this matter is still undecided. What if we guess wrong?”

Talia still gave Lei Xiaogu face by including herself in the discussion, so that even if something went wrong, it would be a joint mistake, not just the latter's responsibility.

“It’s simple, Talia,” Lei Xiaogu said confidently. “Why don’t you just go see Batman? I believe he won’t hide this from you, after all, you’re the child’s mother.”

Lei Xiaogu is right. Although Batman looks cold and aloof, he is actually very sentimental, especially because of his own experiences, he is unable to resist family ties.

"I'll set off right away." Talia had reached her limit. She stood up, bowed, and took her leave before hurriedly going to make preparations.

Lei Xiaogu remained calm throughout, only showing a slightly different emotion when he deduced what Damian might do.

It wasn't that he didn't care about Damian, but rather that his long life had taught Lei Xiaogu one thing: being anxious was useless.

Rather than letting these negative emotions affect you, it's better to learn to control your emotions and use a calm mind to make accurate judgments.

As a leader, the first and most important thing to learn is to stay calm at all times. If you panic, your subordinates will only panic more than you.

Even the previously panicked Talia is now suppressing her emotions, at least on the surface, in front of Lei Xiaogu. If the latter were not there, the former might very well do something extreme.

If Lei Xiaogu's guess is correct, then everything will be fine; but if he guesses wrong, things will become extremely troublesome.

However, Lei Xiaogu did not think he was wrong. Not long ago, he received a new message that one of his Illuminati bases had been attacked by the Justice League.

It was a fairly important base, containing a lot of cloning data, and the real Roy Harper was also stored there.

Although the people there had already destroyed the data when the attack occurred, Superman was still too fast, resulting in a lot of data being saved.

Fortunately, the Illuminati's bases are all different from each other, and almost every base is an isolated island, only handling its own specific business. This is to prevent the enemy from finding all the bases by following the clues once one base is discovered.

The Justice League could only obtain some information on cloning technology, plus a genuine Roy Harper and other failed clones.

None of this was enough to make the Illuminati feel sorry for themselves. The only thing that puzzled them was how they had been discovered, since their base in Tibet was one of their safest bases.

Not only did they have technological protection, but the witch child also personally set up some magical protection. Normally, it would have been impossible for them to be discovered by the Justice League without any warning.

The answer is actually quite simple: it was an inside job. Lei Xiaogu deduced that Damian must have leaked the information, which explains everything.

(End of this chapter)