What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 48
Old Wayne Building.

As the elevator door opened with a ding, Chen Tao just walked into the 14th floor when he saw Lincoln March standing there like a silent and elegant statue.

"Bruce, I was just about to say how much I appreciate you coming to meet with me. I can imagine how busy you are these days."

"Not too busy to meet with Lincoln March 'next Mayor of Gotham'—"

"Is that what the gossip says at the moment?"

"Probably." Chen Tao smiled at him, "But I don't doubt the veracity of the gossip. I've been reading about you, a self-made financial darling turned philanthropist."

"Ni's story is wonderful and perfect."

Lincoln March felt that when Bruce said the word "perfect", he seemed to be pointing to other places, but looking at his sincere eyes, he felt that this seemed to be an illusion of his own thinking.

"You've done good things too, you've funded a boys' home and run after-school literacy classes."

Chen Tao took out a check and wrote and drew on it.

"So what do you think? Does the number seem satisfactory?"

"Bruce, I'm not here to ask you for money, but make no mistake—every penny is appreciated."

"Hell, Mayor Caro has about 10 lines of credit that operate [-]/[-], and the source of funding is questionable at the best word," Lincoln March said.

"If you want public support, I'm afraid I can't give it."

"I don't want to support it publicly either. What I really want is your vote."

Chen Tao silently watched Lincoln March act.

The other party looked sincere.

Tsk.If you like to play so much, why not play with him?
"My ticket. You came all the way for one, Lincoln."

"Yes, but what you're doing at the moment is also my belief. The Bruce Gotham reconstruction plan is a good thing. Frankly, I look at you like I see a friend."

"A cynic would say you see an opportunity."

"Yes, cynics will also say that you started the New Gotham project in essence for the company's image, because it is a publicly held project and so on but it serves a private purpose."

"Is that what the gossip says at the moment?"

"Well, maybe they're right. I should go. I'll leave the check on the table."

"You know Bruce, I lost my parents when I was a kid too."

Chen Tao's footsteps stopped.

The meat scene is here, and the classic parents start.

In any case, when you want to deceive Batman, first bring the conversation to areas that the other party does not understand.

"Strange, isn't it? Only the details. I can barely remember my mother's face. But I remember her—very well.

The brooch she was wearing on the day of the accident.The ceramic brooch I made for her at school, small, heart-shaped, completely crooked, one side bigger and the other smaller, but she pinned it to her stunning dress, my ugly little brooch.

I don't recall hitting our drunk driver.

I don't quite remember how the accident happened...but I do remember when the paramedics took me away and I saw the brooch laying on the ground intact, not broken, not cracked, just lying there on the road, I just wish someone had it pick it up. "

"After that night when I lost everything I owned, I was completely hopeless for a long time, and I hated the world."

"But then I got the tuition, the funding to go to City College, and the city saved me, Bruce, Gotham saved me."

"This city gave me purpose when I was alone, and I bet he gave you."

"I look at you, and I see an ally, a real ally, and you must know that there are not many allies in this city, and they are far apart, especially now."

Chen Tao smiled.

"Mr. March..."

"I have always believed that the best way to understand a city is to get down to earth."

He turned around and stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, stretching his body, looking at the human fireworks scattered in the distant night.

"Feel the cracks in the sidewalk beneath your feet..."

An indescribable momentum enveloped Lincoln March.He didn't understand what was going on, he just felt—

Just seeing Bruce Wayne standing there with a glass in his hand... smothered him a bit.

"A strange bright silence in the snow-covered parking lot..."

"Sparks hissing from the elevated train passing over Third Street."

"The ticking of traffic lights in the middle of the night..."

"But do you know what the most interesting thing is?"

He saw Bruce Wayne turn around, and the light shone into the room from behind him, leaving half of his face in shadow.

"Everything about Gotham is so obvious on the surface, but if you try to understand Gotham on a deeper level, you'll spend your entire life...and still not know anything about it."

"Isn't it, Mr. March?"

"Gotham has an underground cavern."

Lincoln March didn't know why the topic suddenly turned here.

"There is only one, in fact, the only one is in Kane County, which is located under the Willows Children's Rescue Center. Many years ago, this was Gotham's affiliated hospital for treating children with mental illness and neurological dysfunction. It was still working 18 years ago."

Lincoln March's face changed a little bit.This is a secret that only he and the court will know.They've been well hidden all these years, how did Batman get this information?
Of course I knew it from reading the comics.

Chen Tao looked at his dignified look, and secretly laughed in his heart.

He continued:
"I once had a younger brother, Thomas Wayne II, Mr. March..."

Chen Tao said while secretly observing Lincoln March.

He laughed secretly in his heart, and he continued, telling a story that was changed by the time traveler:
"When I was three my mother got pregnant with him and we got into a car accident, I don't remember the accident but it was recorded. He was my younger brother, born prematurely, with congenital defect."

Lincoln March felt his heart beating faster and faster.

What Bruce Wayne knew far exceeded his expectations, which meant... all his previous assumptions about the other party had to be overthrown and restarted.

"Gotham Mercy records show my brother Thomas Wayne Jr. was born in an emergency, was given a name, was put on a life support shortly after - but the doctors said he had severe neurological damage. Because it's so severe, there's a good chance he'll be in a permanent vegetative state to get over the initial trauma."

"He managed to survive."

"My parents secretly sent him to Liulin Hospital for treatment. They always felt that the car accident was unusual. In order to protect the little baby and prevent possible black hands from harming him, they sent him to Willow."

Chen Tao stared closely at Lincoln March's face: "My parents love my little brother. But what no one thought of was——"

"Half a month later, that little baby disappeared."

Chen Tao said: "My parents have been looking for him until they died, and I have been looking for him, for so many years."

Lincoln March's hands were shaking.

"We didn't find any at all."

"Say, March, where's that kid going to be?"

(End of this chapter)