This story is very long, but it has an all-too-familiar beginning. One night, after finishing his day's work, Jason saw a cool car parked on the side of the street. The car had four cool tires.
Batman also saw a cool car parked on the street, but only three cool tires were left on the car.
This story is too familiar to members of the Bat-family, but in fact Batman and Jason themselves did not tell it. Batman only mentioned it when introducing Jason to Dick one day, but because of this incident
Even if it could be summarized in one sentence, it was too absurd, so it became widely known through Dick's mouth.
To be honest, that night was nothing special. Batman picked Jason up and let him adapt to life in Wayne Manor for a few days, and then took him to the Batcave to teach him more professional fighting skills.
Firearms technology, driving vehicles and controlling machinery, as well as mechanical engineering, which he is already very good at.
The study days were very busy and time passed quickly. Batman became the main theme of Jason's life, so much so that he soon forgot about those past days.
But Batman is always busy. After Batman left alone on the excuse that he was too young to go out to fight criminals, Jason would occasionally read by the fireplace, sleep in the room, and go to the garden to enjoy the shade under the big tree.
Or just laze in the bathtub.
Then he quickly grew up and became an extremely strong bird, until later, Batman was so big that he wanted to kick him out of the nest.
The time spent in this luxurious manor became the background sound when Jason's mood was ups and downs. He never thought about himself and the wallpaper in his chat box, but those things were always there.
Jason didn't remember having any emotions of his own before he was picked up by Batman. Even if he thought about it carefully, he only remembered that his mind was blank, except for two big words that kept hovering - "alive".
Those noises that always bothered him were the distorted emotions that popped up at every turn, and the source of these noises was that after his life finally returned to peace, he understood the original appearance of the world from those books and principles.
I found a string that I could play loudly.
When Jason was a child, Jason never felt that he was doing anything wrong. He stole, cheated, robbed, did dirty work, ran errands for criminals, and refused to save his kind. These were common things in his life.
In Wayne Manor, he knew from Batman, Alfred, Dick and those books that this was wrong and not just enough. Everyone hoped that he would become a just person.
Jason didn't like those rules and disciplines, but he was influenced by them subtly, or maybe it was because his always full stomach provided enough fiery blood to his body, allowing him to produce enough courage and rush it to his brain, thus making him change.
Have to hate evil as much as hatred.
Jason is the last person who should be like this, because he came out of the criminals he hates most. The first rule he came into contact with in his life was Gotham's dark rule, which should have had an impact on him.
The unimaginable influence should have shaped his personality in this way.
Jason became the complete opposite, even more extreme than others, not because he was not stable enough, but because he was too hungry before and then too full.
The extra energy created such an amazing and great turning point.
Jason thought that this was what happened, Batman made him eat too much, otherwise the first emotion he would have after surviving the Joker should not be anger and complaint, but happiness.
Just like the countless times he spent alone in Gotham at night, he was lucky enough to think that it didn't matter what happened yesterday. He survived at least.
Just imagining a person who was so fragile, who had no experience from the disaster, but only placed hope in God, made Jason feel sick to his stomach, but he also understood that he could die of angry flames, not cold numbness.
It is a great blessing for ordinary people.
Jason thought of Spider-Man again. He looked very cowardly and timid. Even though he gained great power, he did not bravely declare war on the evil forces immediately. He did not behave like a superhero.
But the topic of heroes may not play a big role in his life, because his family is living in poverty. No matter how strong Spider-Man is, he is not old enough to work a regular job, and it is difficult to convert this ability into a reliable income.
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Spider-Man is indeed no longer an ordinary person, but he has never escaped from the situation of an ordinary person, because he still has too many concerns, and it is too difficult for him to leave these behind and become a lone hero.
Then there is Bruce. If there really is a Bruce in a universe like what he experienced in this dream, and things have completely changed, and he has become equally poor and struggling, will he just accept his fate like this?
Jason suddenly realized that he would, and he suddenly figured out why Batman's image of escaping from himself in the dream was like this, because he became an ordinary person, an ordinary person like Peter Parker.
They may have some advantages in some aspects, but this is not enough to pull them out of the ranks of ordinary people. They still live among all living beings and are just as busy as them.
This means that they have to go through the pain that ordinary people go through, those trivial matters, and trial and error, but it also means that they don't have to shoulder the responsibilities of superheroes.
Who on earth would ask a person whose parents died when he was young, who is impoverished, has no skills and a family to support, to be responsible for the current situation of this society?
It would be better to say that they themselves are victims of the current social situation, and society should bear more responsibility for them. Society owes them.
Except for the death of his parents, all of Batman's sufferings come from his twisted sense of responsibility. To a certain extent, most Spider-Man are also trapped by the saying "With great power comes great responsibility."
The troubles of the rich are always greater than the pain of ordinary people, but the pain of ordinary people can hardly be compared with the gap between the sense of responsibility and efforts of those superheroes who want to save the world and the tragic consequences of reality.
Ordinary people's lives are not all miserable, because they don't want much and it's easy to please themselves. But in the life of a superhero driven by a sense of responsibility, there is only driven urgency, effort to take action, and the desire to go further after success.
Inspiration, the regret of wanting to try again after failure.
Is this really good? Jason thought this way. If he hadn't been picked up by Batman, he might still be unconscious and be kidnapped by criminals. He would consider himself unlucky and go home to rest for a day before continuing to go out to work without blaming anyone.
There is no one to blame.
After the wind blew by the river, Jason checked into a motel. He felt bad just after midnight. His body was very hot and his mouth was dry, but he was also very cold. He must have had a fever.
Normally, he was not that fragile. He sat up and went to buy medicine, but now Jason was lying on the bed and didn't want to move. He just stared at the ceiling with half-squinted eyes, listening to the roar coming from next door in the completely non-soundproof hotel.
, yelling, vibrating music, and the mumblings of a drunkard.
The TV in the next room had been playing a program, which seemed to be the midnight news channel, but soon a hurried female voice came: "The little girl Wei Li, the only survivor of many recent attacks on children, described to the police that she had been in a dream
After seeing a clawed monster, let’s listen to the analysis of professional mental experts..."
Jason was in a daze because of the fever. This information flowed through his cerebral cortex and disappeared within less than a second.
The clenched arms gradually relaxed, and Jason fell asleep in a daze.
In an ordinary apartment building, Bruce was sitting on the floor in the living room repairing a wheelchair. He did not watch TV, but just listened to the news on the TV.
Gordon's voice came from inside the house, and Bruce quickly walked in. He helped Gordon turn over, but Gordon did not fall asleep as usual. He just looked at Bruce and said: "Did you hear the news? Yes.
Killers are killing children."
"Yes, Uncle Gordon, I heard that, and that's a pity."
Gordon showed a painful expression, his only movable arm curled up slightly, his fingers grabbed the sheets and said: "Perhaps, Officer Ge Yin..."
Bruce lowered his eyes and said nothing. Gordon quickly calmed down and said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have told you this. You have to go to work tomorrow, so go to bed."
"If you want to make a call, Uncle Gordon, I can bring you the phone, but..."
"But it won't have any effect, I know." Gordon said with a numb look on his face, "I'm no longer a police officer. There are very few people in the Gotham Police Department who know me."
"I believe they will handle the case well." Bruce lowered his head and said, "We can only believe them."
Gordon said nothing, staring blankly at the ceiling. Bruce turned around and closed the door gently, sighing inexplicably.
In the Arkham Knight universe, Batman and Poison Ivy overcame many difficulties, especially the strange fog and various strange natural phenomena in the fog, and finally reached the edge of the portal.
"God, I can't even think about what I've experienced along the way." Poison Ivy covered her forehead and babbled as if she was stimulated: "A fish with metal legs, a killer wearing a smiley mask
, a weird doll, a nun who looks like a corpse, a weirdo with nails all over his head..."
"Repeating this will do nothing for your mental health." Batman said calmly.
"Which of what is happening right now is good for my mental health?!!" Poison Ivy snarled.
"If we succeed, maybe." Batman's tone remained flat until he saw the current state of the portal.
Batman has been here before, but because he really doesn't know much about magic, and after the portal was closed, he couldn't find any mechanism to restart it or completely destroy it, so he ignored it for the time being.
But now, what appears in front of Batman is not a portal, but a hole, a hole in the ground.