After a while, Jason helped Bruce pack up all the books on the floor. Bruce was reading behind the table. Jason helped him find relevant books, and then marked chapters on the table of contents that might contain clues.
Jason was concentrating on reading the catalog. Suddenly, he noticed a black shadow casting on the table. When he turned around, he saw Dick.
"Oh my God, why are you walking silently? Oh, I forgot, you are an acrobat." Jason was startled by him. He was just about to make a joke to lighten the atmosphere when he realized that Dick's expression was very unpleasant.
good.
"Yeah, I'm an acrobat. Apart from performing acrobatics, I can't do anything, especially not helping Bruce organize information!" After saying that, Dick turned around and left. Jason immediately jumped off the chair and pulled
He asked him, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so angry? What's there to be angry about? If you want to do this job, we can do it together."
Dick threw Jason's hand away, looked at him angrily and said, "You can do all the work by yourself, what do you need me to do? If Bruce thought I was useful, he wouldn't have come to you.
!”
Jason sighed, and just as he was about to explain, Dick walked towards the stairs. Jason rushed to him quickly, stopped him, and said to him: "Bruce came to me because he was afraid that you would encounter me when you went out for a night out."
Danger."
"Then you live in Gotham and have never gone out at night?" Dick became even more angry. He blushed and said in a higher tone: "You are younger than me, and you have never been in danger.
Why can't I go out alone?!"
"That's not the case, Dick, you just don't understand Gotham's terrain yet and can get lost easily, so we..."
"Then if I never go out, I will never be familiar with the terrain!"
"Then you can go out for a walk during the day."
"But I have to go to class during the day!"
Jason looked at Dick helplessly. Dick now obviously wanted everything. He wanted cultural achievements, fighting skills, and familiarity with Gotham. He wanted to prove his independence, and
Wanting Bruce's approval can be said to be a very typical behavior of a child in an emotionally sensitive period.
At this time, Bruce, who heard the noise, came over and found that the two were arguing again. He also felt a little headache.
Bruce wanted to ask about the cause and effect of the matter, but he didn't know who to ask first. Looking at the current situation, no matter who he asked first, he might irritate another person.
Fortunately, at this time, Alfred came over. Dick glared at Jason and ran away in a hurry. Before leaving, he also dropped a sentence: "I'm going back to school and I won't be back this week."
Already."
Bruce looked at his back and shook his head helplessly. The most difficult thing to deal with now was that Dick didn't seem to want to communicate with him at all.
The mood changes of adolescent children are always unpredictable. Their emotional outbursts cannot be remembered at any point. Bruce didn't know when Dick started to get into trouble.
Although care and communication are the best solutions, the difficulty is that children at this period are not willing to communicate. They feel that if they listen to their parents, they have no opinion at all. Even if they talk to their parents, they will lose.
Already.
Now, the three children living in Wayne Manor are at different ages and have passed through the initial chaotic period. Elsa has made a lot of progress and has become a cute human cub in public perception, although a little clingy.
But it can still make people feel the joy of being a parent.
Jason is at his most active stage. He is full of energy and likes to have fun. He hardly has time to think too much. The only thing that makes people feel a little tired is that he is so energetic. In less than two hours, he finished checking and annotating
When I finished the book, I almost drowned Bruce.
Moreover, Jason stared at Bruce with a shining look full of expectation, hoping that he would get feedback on the fruits of his labor. Moreover, for a child who is good at reading, it is useless to just praise him.
Bruce felt that Jason might be hoping that he would finish reading all the books tonight.
Dick, on the other hand, has become very emotionally sensitive. Jason's appearance gave him a great sense of crisis. The greater the sense of crisis, the more he wanted to step into Gotham, but the more specific his actions became,
The more worried Bruce becomes, the more he will try to stop him, which will make Dick even more unhappy.
After Batman finally learned some communication skills, Dick began to refuse to communicate. Bruce knew that he had to go on night patrol tonight, not to fight criminals, but to stop Dick from wandering around.
After nightfall, Batman once again appeared on the roof of the Wayne Tower. He stood on the highest point of Gotham and looked down. Soon, he spotted a black shadow jumping on the roof of the Gotham building.
Batman swooped down, and sure enough, he saw Dick running on the roof of the building. Dick had already seen Batman flying over on a hang glider, but he had no intention of stopping. Instead, he accelerated and continued running forward, even
Jumped high and crossed the gap between the two buildings.
This is a very dangerous move, because once the jump distance is not enough, you will definitely fall to pieces.
In an instant, Batman gathered up his cape and stopped in front of Dick. Under the streetlight reflected by the glass curtain wall of the building, he looked at Dick and said, "Go back, Dick."
Dick pursed his lips and stared at Batman, not wanting to give in at all, with a stubborn expression on his face. Soon, his eyes showed a trace of sadness. He looked at Batman and said: "I don't just want to learn some fighting skills from you.
, I also want to help you and help you complete your great cause, why do you always reject me?!"
"I didn't." Batman looked at Dick and said, "It's just that you should know how dangerous this city is."
"I'm not afraid!"
"But I'm afraid."
The sadness in Dick's eyes turned into shock. He didn't expect that Batman would say this, so the psychological defense line he had built for himself throughout the afternoon, like a city wall, collapsed in an instant. He looked at it with aggrieved eyes.
Batman said in a crying voice:
"You like Jason just because he is more like you, and he can be adopted by you, and he will be a good helper for you. Then why don't you consider me? I'm not old enough and haven't finished reading yet.
Isn’t that Jason?!”
"Dick..." Batman called his name softly, but did not look at him. Instead, he turned to the ground diagonally in front of him and said: "Everyone who is involved in the dark vortex can't...
I escaped unscathed, and this city really doesn’t need one more orphan.”
Dick clenched his fists tightly and shouted loudly: "I am not a burden to you and I don't need your protection. I will prove it to you!"
After shouting, he turned around and ran away. Batman took steps to catch up, but Dick's mood had obviously collapsed. If Batman continued to chase him like a prey, it would definitely put more pressure on him.
If Batman has learned anything from the mutual torture with Schiller over the past few years, it is how to learn to put maximum pressure on people like this professor, and how to do the opposite to avoid putting people under pressure.
pressure.
But soon, Batman had to chase Dick in the direction of his escape again, because there was a scream on the street about two or three buildings away.
After Dick heard the scream, he turned around and ran over without thinking. Batman behind him arrived at the scene of the incident almost at the same time as him. As soon as he landed, he saw a black figure facing him.
The man in the alley raised his dagger.
With two "whoosh" sounds, two batarangs pierced the air and hit the black figure at an extremely fast speed. However, the scene of blood splattering as imagined did not appear.
The moment the light on the Bat's belt shone on the black figure, Dick let out a scream of terror, took two steps back, and fell to the ground.
Even Batman stared blankly, because the appearance of that black shadow was so terrifying.
It didn't look like a person, but a life-size doll, and it was the kind of simulated doll with movable joints.
But what’s even scarier is that the limbs that are separated and then connected together by ball joints are not plastic or metal, but human limbs.
And it can be seen that the limbs on this terrifying doll do not come from the same person.
The two legs should be from a woman, fair and slender, wearing high heels. The left arm has swollen muscles and tattoos. It looks like it is from a gang member, and the right arm is shorter than the other limbs.
A large section should have come from a child.
The head of this doll is that of a young man, wearing glasses, but his face is painted with scary baby makeup and he is also wearing a crooked wig.
His lips were completely shaved off and replaced with plastic lips like a Barbie doll. The upper and lower lips were sewn together with wires. One of his eyeballs was replaced with a doll's prosthetic eye, while the other eyeball was exposed.
of fear and pleading.
The moment Batman showed up, the doll seemed to have lost control and fell to the ground. However, Batman did not check on him immediately. Instead, he supported Dick to the wall, patting him and retching.
I took Dick's back and sprayed him with some stabilizing spray.
Dick's face turned pale, because the impact of the scene just now was so great that he saw the details of this monster clearly without any preparation.
It was a living person who had been made into a puppet. The congealed blood, broken skin and frightened expression were all clearly visible.
Perhaps, many people who have seen the accident scene know that the most impactful thing is not the picture, but the strong smell combined with the picture. Some people can even hear the subtle sound of blood spurting out.
The scene surrounded by various senses will make people involuntarily think of how terrible tragedy would be if it happened to them.
This kind of association will directly penetrate people's psychological defenses and make people feel extremely fearful and disgusting. Dick is in this state now.
Dick was in a state of panic all the time and didn't even use the stabilizing spray. After the panic passed, he became angry again and then became violent. He wanted to break away from Batman, but Batman could only stretch out his arms and hug him.
He kept patting Dick on the back and said to him: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid... I'm here."
After a while, Dick finally calmed down, and he began to tremble and cry again. Batman almost instinctively grasped his current state of mind, so he patted him on the back and said, "I know, this is scary.
I just broke out in a cold sweat and my shirt was soaked through."
Dick's crying subsided slightly, and Batman continued: "Anyone who sees such a cruel scene for the first time will be scared. You are not weak."
After crying for a while, Dick finally calmed down. He sniffed, wiped his tears, looked at Batman and said: "...Hurry over and have a look. He seems to be trying to kill someone."
After making sure that Dick was okay, Batman let him go and walked towards the terrifying doll, but before he could walk over, a small black shadow jumped out from behind the trash can at the end of the alley, and
Shout to Batman: "You are Batman, right? You must be the great hero Batman!"
Batman was stunned for a moment. The great hero Batman? He has never heard anyone call him that. For a long time, Batman's reputation was very bad. People only thought that he was a pervert wearing tights. Even if
Now that there is a slight change, it will definitely not reach the level of a great hero.
When the light on the Bat's belt shone through, the figure covered his eyes with his hands, as if he was stimulated by the light.
But soon, he rushed to the side of the doll, helped up another man who fell on the ground, and said: "Oh my God, Uncle Virati, you were almost attacked by a terrifying doll!"
After the man who fell to the ground stood up, Batman discovered that he was a fat, middle-aged man who looked very kind. He was wearing ordinary clothes, but he was holding the keys to a luxury car in his hand.
It should be the driver who goes up.
The fat Verati was covering his chest and seemed to be a little unresponsive. After seeing the terrifying doll on the ground, he let out a piercing scream, rolled his eyes, and began to fall to the ground.
.
"Batman! Help Uncle Virati! He is my father's driver and is here to pick me up from school!"
Only then did Batman see the appearance of this little black figure clearly. It was a little boy with short black hair and blue-green eyes. There was no expression of fear on his face. On the contrary, he looked a little...
excited.
He rushed directly in front of Batman, and then reached out to pull his cloak. Although Batman dodged it, he still spoke quickly:
"Oh my God! I really didn't expect! I will meet my idol Batman here! You must sign your name for me. I have admired you for a long time! I know you are a big hero, and you are
After he really saved me this time, I knew I had seen the right person!"
He said this while looking at Batman with expectant eyes, but then he clenched his fists and looked at the ground while stamping his feet and said: "I knew I would definitely meet Batman!
I knew he was as handsome as I imagined!!"
As soon as Batman opened his mouth to say something, the little boy ran a little further away, looked at Batman and said, "Oh, yes, you can take me home so that I can treat you to a supper.
"
"Look at me, I forgot to introduce myself! My dad is the famous right-hand man Drake, I am Little Drake, you can also call me Tim Drake!"