Chapter 354 The old grudge between Harley and Lisa
Two days later in the afternoon, the cemetery on the outskirts of the metropolis.
The clear sky is like a blue sea, and the sun dances in the air, casting a warm golden glow.
A coffin with dark red paint stood alone on the withered yellow grass. A dozen or so people came forward one after another, placing bunches of flowers in the direction of the stone tablet in front of the coffin.
"Sally, my condolences, your father has gone to heaven, it's true."
Halle, who put on a long black windbreaker, first put down a handful of white calla lilies before hugging Laurie and her daughter, who had red eyes, and patted Laurie's son-in-law Clark on the shoulder.
Well, it’s not Clark, who has the same name but a different surname.
Hallie did not comfort Laurie.
Laurie knows that her husband is enjoying happiness in heaven, and she is in good spirits now.
On the other hand, her daughter Sally was not so 'superstitious' and was very sad when her father died.
Clark, the son-in-law, seemed to be an honest man, but also mentally depressed. He was very sad for the passing of his father-in-law.
Harley stepped aside, and Bruce from behind stepped forward and said with a serious expression: "Madams, I'm sorry——"
"No, it has nothing to do with you." Laurie took a step closer, held his shoulders and looked at him carefully, and said with admiration on his face: "You have fulfilled all Daniel's fantasies about an heir. I should thank you."
"I'm just a temporary guest." Bruce said awkwardly.
"Haha, it doesn't matter what you wear." Laurie smiled meaningfully, "I think you will do a better job than Daniel."
"Did you expose my identity?" Bruce asked in a low voice when he returned to the group of guests.
"Have you forgotten whose hands Mr. Shadow fell into?" Harley asked.
"I know that Laurie has trapped Mr. Shadow, but she hasn't been to Gotham for many years, so she shouldn't have guessed my identity just after meeting her," Bruce said.
"She is the director of the FBI, why does she need to go to Gotham in person? Stop talking, the guests are all looking at us."
There were really few guests, Daniel didn't have many friends, and only a few immediate relatives from Laurie's son-in-law's family came.
However, no one dared to take this funeral lightly.
Look who are the guests.
The world-famous ‘ball-protecting hero’, ‘Five-ring Admiral’ Harley, the famous world’s richest man Bruce, General Lane and several other military and political figures...
Laurie's father-in-law and mother-in-law were a little trepidatious.
The funeral was very simple and did not last long. After the coffin was buried, the guests dispersed one by one.
Harry stayed at the end, preparing to have a few private words with Laurie.
"Harry, can I have a few private words with you?" Lisa came over holding her youngest son, Walter.
Both Laurie and his wife have very good foundations. When they were young, they were first-class handsome men and beautiful women.
If Laurie wasn't beautiful, he wouldn't be able to catch Dr. Manhattan.
Well, Dr. Manhattan was attracted to Laurie purely because of her beauty.
Lisa is twenty-five years old, three years older than Harry, and has given birth to two children, which only adds a bit of mature charm to her delicate beauty, making her look even more charming.
"What do you want to ask about Daniel?"
Harry followed her into the red maple forest next to the cemetery and whispered: "Your father was a good man during his lifetime, and he deserves to enter heaven."
"It's not for him..." Lisa hesitated and said, "Harry, I have to apologize to you."
"Apologise?" Harley thought she heard wrongly.
Lisa bit her red lips lightly, and Danfeng, who was very similar to Laurie, had shame and embarrassment in her eyes, "We met in the early years. Well, eight years ago, in the Metropolis."
"Really?" Hallie recalled carefully, "About nine years ago, I participated in a gymnastics competition at Metropolitan University."
"I also participated that time." Lisa said softly.
Harley stared at her and looked her up and down.
Suddenly, a picture flashed through her mind, and she suddenly realized: "Oh, I remembered, you are the 'little lame' who fell off the balance beam back then!"
Lisa's face turned slightly dark, "Yes, I fell on my butt, buttocks, and you were laughing down there.
My right ankle was injured and I walked with a limp, but I still insisted on finishing the race.
You proudly say to your father, 'This little lame has a lot of perseverance, but he has no talent.'"
The reason for the little lameness is not that Lisa is younger, but that she is born with a frail body and is smaller than Harry, a full head smaller.
"Uh..." This time it was Harley's turn to feel embarrassed, "I may have been a little bit arrogant, but I mean no harm."
Then, something moved in her heart, she pointed at Lisa's nose and shouted: "Ah, I understand, it's you! You reported me to the Gymnastics Union, right?"
Lisa nodded slightly, "I have never felt that I did anything wrong.
You were arrogant and domineering and laughed at me, but I didn't frame you falsely."
"Why have you changed your mind now?" Harley asked with a complicated expression.
This little cripple has little strength, but she has accomplished many things that even the supreme beings cannot do - it has greatly changed her destiny.
"My father passed away, and I was very sad, and then I thought of you..." Lisa said guiltily: "I apologize, not because I think you should not be punished by the Gymnastics Federation.
It was a series of subsequent events that resulted from my actions.
I am now an adult, and my father passed away normally and peacefully, but I still cannot bear the sadness of losing him.
You were so young back then, and your father died in such a tragic way, you must be more sad than me.
You deserve to be punished, but you don't deserve to suffer like that."
"Give me the baby." Harley stretched out her hand.
Lisa handed her son over in confusion, "What to do?"
Harley took the child, her face suddenly changed, she pointed to the horizon and shouted: "Ah, look, there is an alien spaceship!"
"Where-ouch!"
Lisa turned around subconsciously and saw a dull pain in her left ankle. She screamed and fell down on the hard soil of the forest path.
"You tripped me?" She lay on the ground, turned her head, her face was full of disbelief, and her eyes were filled with accusations.
"Well, little lame, I forgive you." Harley nodded and said seriously.
"You've gone too far." Lisa's big bright eyes were covered with a layer of mist. She struggled to get up, took her son from Harley's hand, and limped back.
As he walked, he wiped his eyes.
It seems that the old scene in front of the balance beam in the gymnasium has reappeared...
After a while, Laurie came over.
"Lisa seemed to have fallen and her breasts fell out." She looked at Harry suspiciously.
Less than half a year after Lisa gave birth, the two huge lumps on her chest suddenly pressed to the ground, soaking her front.
"She was walking and looking at the sky, but she didn't pay attention to the puddle under her feet and sprained her foot." Harley said with a smile.
"She seemed to have red eyes and shed tears." Laurie said.
"Alas, her father passed away, and she felt uncomfortable." Harry sighed.
Laurie looked at her deeply and said, "What are you doing with me now?"
"The day before yesterday, I asked Amanda to check the secret documents of Senator Joseph Jr., do you know?"
Laurie smiled bitterly and said: "I have written my resignation letter and will submit it in two days.
Let alone a senator, if you tell me now that the president is an alien pretending to be an alien, I won’t be interested at all.”
"What if it has something to do with your old lover?" Harley asked.
"Old lover..." Laurie was stunned for a moment, then said in surprise: "You mean Joan? What relationship can Joseph Keen have with Joan?"
"Alas, the level of science and technology in this world is really a mystery. In just a few days, an instrument for detecting Ivy's mental spores was invented.
Even Ivy doesn't know how they did it." Harley sighed.
Laurie thought for a while and said: "It should be the work of the Shadow Bureau. I once heard Amanda mention that Ivy was on their watch list two years ago.
Since you failed to control Joseph with mental spores, how did you know his secret?"
"It's not him. I came to you just to investigate him. The secret came from Mark..."
Hallie told all about Mark's miserable experiences and plans.
Laurie was stunned, "You are so bold. Mark is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a four-star general, and the top leader of the military..."
"However, he is even more arrogant and ignorant, and actually wants to steal Joan's power."
"You don't believe what he said?" Harley frowned.
"Since you personally extract information, it will probably be difficult for him to tell lies..." Laurie's eyes were misty, "But Qiong is so powerful that ordinary people can't even imagine it.
Your moment is his moment, his previous moment, and his next moment."
"It's so complicated. Isn't it just straddling the timeline and observing the past and the future at will? How unimaginable is this?"
"This ability at least ensures that he will not be plotted by others -" Laurie's expression changed, "Qiong is not truly omniscient and omnipotent, and his ability to observe time has a fatal flaw.
But that flaw is only known to me, Daniel, Rorschach and Werther (Pharaoh).
Rorschach died that day..."
Laurie became excited, "Is that bastard Werther still alive? Hiding in a military experimental base, plotting against Joan again?"
"Don't get excited, tell me first, what is Dr. Manhattan's fatal flaw." Harley said excitedly.
"Why, you also want to seize Joan's power?" Laurie warned.
"You're not interested in his power at all? When you were in love and passion, you never thought about some benefits, such as turning into blue Laurie?" Harley asked curiously.
Lowry said angrily: "At that time, everyone called him 'Hydrogen Bomb' behind his back. Who would want the power of a hydrogen bomb?
Mark must be crazy to want to steal the power of the hydrogen bomb.
Let me tell you, if an ordinary person touches Joan's energy arc even slightly, it will immediately break into atoms."
"Dr. Manhattan's power is definitely not nuclear energy." Harley said with certainty: "It's just a dream that nuclear energy wants to merge the universe!"
Laurie pondered for a moment and said: "Tachyons can restrain Qiong's ability to observe time."
Harley thought for a while and said: "The Mercury Laboratory in Midtown is a leader in this field, but it still hasn't found a tachyon that travels faster than light."
Lowry sneered: "Witt mastered mature tachyon technology in the 1970s."
"What did Pharaoh do?" Hallie asked.
Laurie looked around, took Harry out of the forest, and found a more open hillside.
The two of them were sitting on the hillside, with a panoramic view of the surrounding scenery.
No one can whisper or get close enough to eavesdrop.
"He used tachyons to break Joan's 'time observation' ability..."
Laurie recounted the plot of "Watchmen" (ps).
Looking at Harley who looked indifferent, she asked doubtfully: "You don't seem shocked at all?"
"I have long suspected that the alien octopus is a hoax. Not only me, but my high school teacher even knows the inside story.
Probably, the octopus matter is not even top-secret information within the government." Harley said.
Laurie nodded and sighed: "Rorschach left a diary to the New York Times before he died. It was discovered many years later. Then, Werther ran away and I was taken to the White House by the FBI...
Now it seems that, like me, Werther has not been able to escape the clutches of the military, and is now being locked up in a basement, researching for that old bastard Mark...
I don't know what the research has revealed, but I guess it could hurt Joan.
In this world, the only mortal who can harm Joan is Pharaoh Witte."