After confirming that Talon had completely lost the ability to resist, Diamond War God stopped her nonsense. She strode forward, directly grabbed Talon's body with her crystal arm, and violently pulled him from the wall.
The flesh pierced by the crystals instantly tore, accompanied by a grating 'shhhhh' sound, and blood gushed out like a fountain.
Talon twitched in pain, making strange, garbled sounds in his throat, but Diamond War God was unmoved. She dragged him towards the exit of Crime Alley.
It was fortunate that Talon had amber gold in his body, which gave him much stronger vitality and self-healing abilities than ordinary people.
If it had been any other ordinary person, they would have died from such severe injuries.
The wound torn by the crystal clusters on him subtly squirmed, and the tissues slowly healed at a visible speed. However, compared to the secondary damage caused by Diamond War God's rough dragging, this self-healing speed was negligible.
Looking at Talon, who seemed to have completely passed out, Gwen suddenly had a bold idea.
If it was as she expected... she could try to conduct an experiment.
Having confirmed her idea, Diamond War God hoisted Talon entirely onto her shoulder.
With a wave of her hand, the crystals, harder than diamonds, directly decomposed and were recycled. Then, she walked out of Crime Alley without looking back.
Taking advantage of the sparse crowds in Gotham at night, she turned into another equally inconspicuous alley next to Crime Alley. Moss covered the damp walls, and putrid stagnant water reflected the broken moonlight.
She walked straight to the end of the alley, where a seemingly ordinary brick wall blocked Diamond War God's path.
Logically, this should have been a dead end, but she directly lifted this brick wall.
After the brick wall was lifted, the metal door behind it was revealed.
Yes, behind it was a safe house.
The way to open the door was simple: either remember the location and use brute force to pull up the wall, or use Backwards Magic to pull up the wall.
Simply put, as long as it wasn't someone like Bane idly moving walls for fun, this place would basically not be exposed.
Of course, if her tracks were followed, Gwen would also be helpless.
After a series of operations on the panel, the metal door opened. Diamond War God directly threw Talon inside and then jumped in herself.
The safe house had a complete surveillance system, and Gwen could use this system to observe the surveillance in this alley and in Crime Alley.
This safe house was originally an observation point prepared for the Wayne Couple's fake death plan. Although it wasn't used at the time, at least it was being used now.
Besides the surveillance system, which she planned to give to her sister after sticking a small Bat symbol on each screen in the future, a cold, gleaming restraint bed was placed in the corner of the safe house.
At the time, Gwen had thought that the Wayne Couple's murder in Crime Alley should have been the work of the Court of Owls.
There might have been one or two Talons on the scene at that time.
She could have taken advantage of their inattention, transformed into XLR8, and perhaps ambushed and captured one.
This bed was prepared for the reverse door at that time. Although it wasn't used then, it was being used now.
Great, the money wasn't wasted.
Diamond War God slammed Talon onto the restraint bed. Metal buckles automatically locked his limbs and neck.
After thinking about it, she still felt it wasn't secure enough, so she used her own crystals to reinforce the metal buckles of the restraint device.
Once reinforced, ensuring that the opponent could not break free, Diamond War God deactivated her transformation.
The 8-year-old her looked up at the restrained, unconscious Talon, and a smile appeared on her face as she murmured, "I didn't expect to actually lure you guys here..."
Yes, Gwen had used herself as bait.
During the board meeting, Gwen had realized that the old shareholder should be a member of the Court of Owls.
At that time, that old shareholder had emphasized that the condition was that one of the Wayne sisters must become the CEO of Wayne Group in the future.
At first glance, there didn't seem to be any problem. After all, Wayne Group was still Wayne, and it would seem a bit strange if the CEO wasn't a Wayne.
But recalling the incident that happened when she was 4 years old, Gwen immediately realized something was amiss.
Philip Kane was a member of the Kane Family, one of the so-called Four Great Families of Gotham.
These four great families had no connection with the Falcone Family or the Court of Owls.
She speculated that Philip Kane, her uncle, must truly possess strong business acumen.
Therefore, he was chosen as a business puppet by the Court of Owls. The Court intended to use him to strengthen and expand Wayne Group, and when the time was right, they would let the already replaced, fake Brucey Wayne inherit the family business.
So the question arose, what about the nominal eldest daughter? What about a sisterly struggle for inheritance?
It's simple, just kill her, right?
As long as she, the so-called older sister, died, and Brucey Wayne inherited the family business, everything would fall into place naturally.
If she, the nominal eldest daughter, was shameless and didn't hurry up and end herself even at 8 years old, then the Court should not mind sending her to her death.
Facts proved that the Court of Owls was as generous as she thought.
Since you've come, why bring gifts!
Too polite! No, no, you shouldn't.
Alright then, I'll accept this super enforcer, Talon, then.
I'm truly sorry ~
But before that, Gwen still needed to make some preparations.
She slowly extended her left hand, her fingertips lightly touching the small broken watch on her wrist.
Although she wasn't in Grey Matter mode at this moment, her operation was still skillful.
Gwen's fingers rapidly slid and pressed on the watch face, and with her actions, the watch would occasionally emit electronic beeps, or sometimes the watch face would suddenly pop up, the light on it sometimes green, sometimes light purple, and then after a while, the watch face would return to its default state.
However, Gwen did not stop, continuing to repeat the operation.
It was just that each time the watch face popped up and down, it was accompanied by some strange alert sounds.
After repeating a few times, the watch face popped up again. This time, it began to rotate on its own.
The original light purple glow on the watch face gradually faded, replaced by blue.
And seeing the watch face successfully turn blue, Gwen finally showed a relieved smile.
Very good, it seems she had gambled correctly.
If anyone who had watched "Ben 10 Alien Force," or more directly, "Ben 10" Season 2, were present, they would certainly not be unfamiliar with this scene.
This was like the small broken watch glitching out, entering a blue screen state.
If the person wearing this Omnitrix right now wasn't eight-year-old Gwen but sixteen-year-old Ben Tennyson, then the scene would be even more accurate.
She was trying to manually overclock the Omnitrix to recalibrate it.
Gwen needed an Omnitrix function that she hadn't found on the original watch, a function that wasn't on this current watch.
DNA repair.