The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

Chapter 187 Ominous Signs of Crisis

Even after he started urinating blood, Tim, defiant and determined, continued to grit his teeth and secretly try to outdo Mal.

If running isn't suitable, then retreat to the training area on the seventh floor and train yourself using other equipment.

As a result, I strained my abdominal muscles again two days ago.

Now, I have to be extremely careful even when lifting a dumbbell, for fear of aggravating my injury.

Rachel then led Lilith to a quiet room nearby for meditation training.

The windows in the training area have been kept open for ventilation lately, thanks to the good sunshine and temperature, at the instructors' request.

I don't know where the instructors got such primitive thinking. Despite having a highly intelligent ventilation system, they still insisted on opening the windows for ventilation.

Li Zhen offered a simple explanation for this.

"That ventilation system alone can't get rid of the stench of your accumulated sweat."

A gentle breeze carried the scent of sunshine, but it also brought the shouts of Mal downstairs.

"Tsk!"

Tim, who was slowly lifting dumbbells, suddenly felt his mood worsen.

Who is he?

Red Robin, the Robin of Batman.

But since arriving at Teen Titans, he has become almost the most inconspicuous person.

There's Shazam and Jaime causing trouble, Cassandra is training in combat, and we won't talk about the superhumans. Tim doesn't need to be compared to people from different tracks.

Yet, even with the most basic physical endurance training, he couldn't beat some unknown black kid who appeared out of nowhere.

If Tim continues to immerse himself in endless, exhausting training, he might not even realize what's going on.

However, due to a health issue, Tim was forced to take more rest by his instructor, which gave him more free time to think about random things.

Tim even has some worse thoughts sometimes.

Because there are some real circumstances that only Tim himself knows.

Everyone thought he was the third Robin secretly trained by Batman, but the truth is that Tim took the initiative to wear a highly realistic Robin costume and infiltrated Batman's side.

The people of Gotham know what's going on in Gotham. Tim, who has considerable detective talent, had long seen that Batman's situation in Gotham had been getting worse and worse since the disappearance of the second Robin.

It's not bad in the traditional sense.

Instead, after the disappearance of the second Robin, he went through a relatively long period, from being more anxious and irritable at the beginning to feeling alienated from Gotham.

With the Justice League's affairs piling up, Batman seemed to be numbing himself with constant busyness, to the point that for a time, it was Nightwing, who had returned to fill in, who was often flying over Gotham's night sky instead of Batman.

After Lee Jung stormed into the Batcave and COS Batman beat up Gotham's mentally ill, the nights in Gotham began to get even worse.

Instructor Li Zhen could, of course, simply walk away and leave the matter alone; after all, he was only nominally helping out.

However, the disastrous consequences began to gradually ferment.

Black Mask, Penguin, and Bane were all seriously injured and had no choice but to go into hiding for a while to lick their wounds. Meanwhile, several seemingly unfamiliar forces took this opportunity to infiltrate Gotham and secretly devour the hidden assets left behind by the former three.

Essentially, Tim idolizes Batman.

He admires the detective side of Batman.

Gotham is constantly deteriorating; this is something almost everyone in Gotham knows.

But Batman manages to pull Gotham back from the brink of disaster through subtle clues.

But during this period, whether it was Tim's imagination or not, he felt that Batman was losing that sharpness he used to have.

So he went to the Batcave, found Alfred, and with Alfred's consent, disguised himself as Robin and appeared silently beside Batman one night.

"Only Robin can help Batman get back into form."

That's what Tim thought.

Of course, this process involved a lot of back and forth, after all, how could Batman possibly accept a Robin of unknown origin in the first place?

But Tim just wouldn't leave him alone, and with Tim's detective talent gradually becoming apparent, Batman stopped saying he wanted to get rid of him.

Tim assumed that Batman had given his consent.

But now, Tim is starting to have doubts again.

"Could it be that the reason Batman put me in the Teen Titans is because he still doesn't want me?"

Unconsciously staring at the scenery outside the window, I happened to see Li Zhen leaping down from the ninth floor and passing by the window.

"Very good, Mal. Your attitude and your drive to push your limits remind me of my life on Witrum."

Tim paused for a moment, then slowly put down the dumbbells, clutching his stomach as he moved to the window.

Am I actually not that great?

Tim watched as Mal, who was beaming with pride after receiving praise from Li Zhen, looked downstairs, and suddenly his eyes became blurry from the sunlight.

"I'm actually not as good as many people, so Batman's real intention in sending me here was to help me realize my own limitations?"

Tim was so distracted that he unconsciously uttered those words aloud.

The next second, Li Zhenteng, who was standing downstairs, turned his gaze over.

"Tsk, they really are kids. When they have a little free time, they tend to overthink things."

Li Zhen rubbed her face impatiently.

He didn't really want to take on the roles of a psychologist or a caring older brother, but Tim's identity was somewhat different.

Everyone knows that almost every Robin has been treated as Batman's adopted son.

He almost ruined his kidneys from all that training. If he were to develop psychological problems on top of that, forget about paying him. Li Zhen even had reason to suspect that Batman would have to challenge him to a fight.

"I, a man of great stature, am now bowing down for a mere 5.2 billion US dollars."

It was as if a transparent balloon suddenly rose from beneath Li Zhen's feet, propelling his body forward and flying towards Tim's floor.

"I wonder if the grid has a function for psychological counseling."

As Li Zhen was lost in thought, she suddenly saw Lilith, who was also in the training area, finish her meditation sometime earlier, walk out of the quiet room, and stand next to Tim.

Tim himself seemed startled, his slightly unfocused gaze refocusing as he turned to look at Lilith.

The girl didn't say much, but simply stretched out a hand and gently placed it on Tim's forehead.

Li Zhen, who was not in a hurry to begin with, stopped flying upon seeing this scene and stood in the air quietly observing.

"Mar and Mia, and now Lilith and Tim—speaking of which, is the issue of puppy love something that doesn't need to be addressed? I don't think I have the right or standing to interfere."

Lilith pulled her hand away from Tim's forehead. This blonde girl, who had always been unable to keep up with any physical training, looked so serious for the first time, her little face scrunched up.

"I saw a harbinger in you."

"A change is happening in your homeland, and you must get involved. There is no one who can help you—otherwise, that dark vortex will devour any overconfident fools."

Li Zhen, who flew to the window, raised her eyebrows.

This was also the first time he had heard Lilith's prophetic abilities come into play.

Tim, however, clearly didn't trust such mysterious things and almost instinctively looked at Li Zhen.

"That doesn't make sense. You mean people like the drill instructors are involved—"

Lilith looked at Lee Jung, who had her arms crossed and a smile playing on her lips.

"Even the drill instructors are the same—Good heavens, what are you doing, drill instructor?"

In Lilith's eyes, for some reason, a dense aura of death suddenly began to emanate from the top of Li Zhen's head.

"Oh, I've been thinking about how to determine if your prophetic abilities are reliable, but you've never demonstrated them since you joined the Teen Titans, saying the timing isn't right."

Li Zhen's face was full of high interest.

"So I just made up my mind to go and see for myself, to actively participate in your prophecy and experience it for myself. By the way, do you really think that so-called abstract dark vortex can even devour me?"

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