The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Jason never thought in his life that he would be afraid of someone's moral level being too high.

It is true that in the eyes of ordinary people, if a child runs away from home without a phone and is kidnapped, the responsibility of the parents and the child is about half and half, with the parents slightly higher, but the daily performance should also be taken into consideration.

Batman and Jason's performance on weekdays is not good enough. Father is not father, son is not son. They have a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days. So when it comes to this matter, both parties are responsible.

And Jason asked himself, what he resented more was that Batman controlled the entire Gotham but couldn't find him for a year.

It's actually hard not to doubt that Batman didn't actually go looking for him at all.

Jason thought the same way. You installed surveillance cameras in every street and corner of Gotham. There was never a time when you couldn't clearly grasp the whereabouts of criminals, but you didn't find them this time. How could it be such a coincidence? What's going on?

What's even more annoying is that even if he didn't find it, a new Robin came out not long after, which further confirmed that Batman wasn't actually looking for him at all?

People always get into trouble when they are in trouble, and pain will make the mind run in the direction of paranoia. If a problem is thought about too many times, there will not be many rational solutions, so Arkham Knight will Birth.

But after that long night, and an even longer night at Schiller's place, Jason's sanity had recovered, and he could naturally find more solutions to this problem.

For example, it was not other criminals who kidnapped him, but the Joker. Robins all admit that the person who knows Batman best in the world is the Joker. Since he knows the best, there are many ways to prevent Batman from finding something. .

And if you think about it more optimistically, maybe it was because Batman was looking for him and fighting crime at the same time, and he was too busy to find a new assistant.

Perhaps you can also think that the guy named Tim Drake is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Even if he is not kidnapped, he will still squeeze in.

Before that, Jason didn't know if his thoughts were self-comfort, but after seeing the deep and long wound on Batman's arm that was obviously made by himself, Jason had to believe it even if he didn't believe it. .

At least this shows that Batman must have tried to find him. Batman is even more unbelievable than himself about not finding him. What's more, this matter may have nothing to do with Jason. Batman is always prepared and has a plan. I have begun to doubt my abilities.

So Jason began to feel shaken, but people need a buffer period to change their emotions. It was impossible for him to quickly forgive Batman as soon as he learned about Batman's self-mutilation. The fact that they had no differences on this matter did not mean that they would last long. The conflict from before no longer exists.

Now that it's okay, Jason knows that he has to say it even if he doesn't say it, because looking at this posture, he can't let Clark go without telling him. And based on what he just learned about Clark's power, Jason feels that escaping is a dead end.

"Help." He said to the symbiote in his mind: "Don't let him read my brain waves and heart rate. You can control it for me, right?"

"Really? Are you really going to do this?"

Jason was stunned for a moment by the symbiote's question, but he quickly understood what the symbiote meant.

If this mysterious alien creature is indeed bent on caring for its host, then he may indeed raise objections, because Jason's resentment towards Batman is not fake.

To a certain extent, the situation is exactly as Clark said. Compared to Batman, Jason is considered a vulnerable group. Jason cannot do anything to Batman. Even if he puts on the armor of the Arkham Knight, he will not be able to do anything. Did it cause any harm to him?

If you put it this way, telling your situation to a powerful, impartial and objective being may be able to get the justice you want, which is in line with Jason's long-standing demands.

But it was obvious that Jason was unwilling to do this.

Then he began to think about why he didn't want to. The man in front of him wouldn't kill Batman. Wouldn't it be better to show him how powerful he was?

Jason thought about it over and over again, and there was only one sentence lingering in his originally smart little mind - I'm not happy.

But his hesitant and silent gesture made Clark's expression grow heavier and heavier. In the end, his fists were clenched, as if he was injured more seriously than Jason.

"I'm going to ask you another question." Clark took a deep breath and said, "You just have to answer me yes or no, Jason Todd, you know you have to answer."

"You ask." Jason said absentmindedly, as long as he was not allowed to tell the lie detector about him and Batman.

"Have you ever received any threats to silence about your relationship with Batman or anything like that?"

Jason was smarter this time. He said to the symbiote in advance: "Quick, quick, adjust my heart rate and brain waves. If there is anything else that needs to be adjusted, adjust it quickly!"

The symbiote agreed, then did as he was told, and Jason cleared his throat and said, "Of course not."

Clark was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but then he seemed to feel something and stared at Jason in surprise.

As the look of surprise on his face grew stronger, Clark's expression gradually turned into disbelief. He suddenly stood up, stared at Jason's face and said, "He won't install anything in your body." A device that resists lie detection, right?!!”

Jason was a little confused.

Clark, however, still stood there in a daze with that unbelievable attitude, as if he was confirming something over and over again.

But Jason didn't know what he was confirming or how he confirmed it, so he couldn't instruct the symbiote what to do to counter this confirmation. Clark's face became colder and colder. He took a deep breath, sat down again and looked at Jason and said: "I know that humans cannot notice the changes in their own brain waves and heart rate, but it is through this change that I confirm Are they telling the truth?"

"In fact, I can even directly see how your heart and brain work. No slight change in them can escape my eyes."

"But you know what? Jason, when I asked this question and you gave a negative answer, your heart rate and brain waves never changed at all, as if they were some kind of rigorous machine. But that’s not how the human body works.”

Something bad happened. Jason immediately realized that he was being fooled by his cleverness. In fact, he might be able to say a negative answer without any control and still make Clark believe it.

After all, although Batman expressed his unwillingness to let outsiders know about the Bat Family's affairs, he did not emphasize to any Robin that they could not talk about their relationship with Batman.

So if Jason denies it, he is actually telling the truth. If this lie detector has a way to judge, this test will be considered passed.

But he didn't. His previous random thoughts interfered with his rational judgment, or maybe he also inherited some of Batman's suspicious characters and disliked others having his lie detector tested on him, so he recklessly went to work without understanding the principles of Clark's lie detector. Next, let the symbiote adjust his physiological state.

I'm afraid it's really unnatural, Jason thought. Unlike before, in the basement of the desert island cabin, Jason had personally touched a living and beating heart. The human heart rate is not an average beat counter. There are more or less irregularities. Qi, it would be strange to change it to Qi without being discovered.

Jason did not realize the truth, that is, when something develops to the "you don't have to explain" stage, don't try to explain it anymore, and once it develops to the "we all understand" stage, don't say anything anymore Well, pretending to be dead is the best option.

Unfortunately, he did not often experience this kind of thing, and he mistakenly thought that the reporter opposite him was quite considerate, so he said: "This is not what you think. An accident did happen before, but that …”

"Do you know what the client avoidance system is?" Clark interrupted and asked.

Jason shook his head blankly. He is an authentic Gotham native. His relationship with the law is like that of a stranger he is most familiar with. Familiar means that he hovers on the bottom line of the law every day. Strange means that he does not understand the law at all. .

Clark stretched out his hands and gestured and said: "In many kidnapping cases, judges and juries do not accept the testimony of the kidnapped. That is because the victims may have been subjected to long-term mental abuse or brainwashing and have no idea about the perpetrators." The perpetrators did not have a clear understanding of the criminal behavior inflicted on them, and subjectively reduced the description of the harm."

"Of course, I know if you continue talking, you might say that you just had a quarrel."

Jason opened his mouth. He wanted to say that was the case. Unfortunately, even though his forward speaking time was among the shortest among the Bat-family, he still did not have the ability to intercept others, let alone reporters, and he was still a reporter from Metropolis. .

"Yes, you may have had a fight just now, so what happened to the injury on your eye? Do you still want to say, 'Fighting is normal, who hasn't had a fight?'?"

Clark was heartbroken, saying: "This is a manifestation of subjectively lowering the description of harmfulness, rationalizing and normalizing certain bullying and even abusive behaviors."

"It is true that everyone has more or less conflicts with others when they grow up, and some of them will turn into physical conflicts, but most of them happen with people of the same age or with the same power level."

"Let me give you an example. If you quarrel with your classmates and it eventually develops into a fight, then I don't think this requires a legal trial because your physical and mental development, actual age and social status are all relatively equal."

"You two will suffer almost the same consequences for hitting someone. You may be injured, you may be scolded by the teacher, you may drop out of school."

"But if the above conditions are not equal, and the consequences of the fight are different - he will not suffer physical or psychological harm, he will receive better care than you after the injury, and his reputation in front of others will not Therefore, if you are affected in any way and only bear the harm unilaterally, then this is abuse."

Jason opened his mouth and found that he couldn't refute.

If you think about it carefully, he did suffer more consequences than Batman when it came to quarreling with Batman. Of course, the most recent one was his kidnapping by the Joker.

It is true that he kidnapped because he ran away from home, but the place where they quarreled was the Batcave, and it sounded like it was Batman's territory. So if he didn't leave, could he still hang on?

Jason felt a little frustrated, but he couldn't tell where this frustration came from. It might be because his mental state had recovered a little, and some emotions were also revealed.

Just then, a hand pressed on his shoulder, and Jason looked up to find Clark looking at him intently.

"Don't be sad, Jason. I don't mean to criticize you. Someone else is wrong. I just hope you can realize that maybe some of the things you have believed to be true for a long time are unreasonable and abnormal."

"Or after I remind you, you can at least be diligent in thinking about whether certain things are normal, instead of being numb and letting them happen, and then you passively accept it...that will hurt you very much."

Jason turned his head away from Clark's blue eyes, and he definitely said the word "help" in his heart.

Damn it, the sun was out before dawn, was Jason's last thought before he was knocked unconscious.

Sunburned