Become a Phantom Thief from the Comic World

"Barbara?"

Dean nodded understandingly. Unexpectedly, in addition to completing her work in the library during the day and working as a bat girl at night, Barbara also had time to be a language teacher for the poor mute girl.

At this time, the mute girl opened the book again, pointed at "Cassandra" on it, looked at Dean, and then pointed at herself.

'Cassandra, is that your name? '

Dean asked strangely while gesturing. Seeing Cassandra's face look very Asian, he thought he would hear a familiar name, but he didn't expect her name to be a serious American name.

'Where's your surname? '

Suddenly, Cassandra's face became complicated, including regret, pain, resentment, shame, nostalgia, recollection... It was hard to imagine that a teenage girl would have such a heavy facial expression.

Just when Dean thought that he had asked unnecessary questions, Cassandra's expression returned to normal and she continued to flip through the book.

'Cain, that's my last name, Cassandra Cain is my full name. '

Dean thought for a while, took out a pen from his body, and then took out a piece of paper and wrote "Dean Thaston" on it.

'this is my name. '

Dean imitated Cassandra and pointed at himself, then at the words on the paper.

'Then are we friends? '

Cassandra signed to Dean expectantly.

'Barbara said exchanging names was the first step to becoming friends. '

'Not yet, but maybe in the future, making friends is not that simple. '

Dean shook his head slightly and responded.

'You have to know someone first before you can be friends with them. '

Cassandra nodded in understanding.

Then the two began to talk in sign language or by writing and drawing on paper.

However, because Cassandra has not studied systematically, her language foundation is very poor, and the number of words she knows is very rare. It is difficult to even read, let alone write.

So she usually uses graffiti to express her inner thoughts, which are not easy to express with gestures, but it is difficult for ordinary people to understand that kind of graffiti.

Unfortunately, Dean is a magician.

As a magician, the ability to observe the mind and figure out other people's thoughts is essential, and understanding graffiti is not a problem.

Yes, magicians are such a universal excuse. How should you deal with it?

The conversation between the two started with Barbara, after all, they both knew each other.

According to Cassandra...gesture? Gestures plus graffiti?

who cares! In short, according to Cassandra's description, because she could not speak, Barbara would take special care of her every time she came to the library.

Sometimes, in order to answer her questions, Barbara would give up a lot of her daily work.

There are very few people in the library, and even fewer of them know sign language. There are even some people who are inherently discriminatory towards the disabled.

And among the staff in the library, only Barbara understands sign language, so she is basically the only one who can help Cassandra, and she is willing to help.

For this reason, Cassandra was very grateful to Barbara and relied on her because it was the first time in so many years that she met someone who was so kind to her.

Cassandra is a street child who claims to have been to many places, but she obviously doesn't want to talk about the past. Dean is not a curious baby, so he doesn't ask too much about it.

In addition, Cassandra is a bit...socially afraid? Every time she comes to the library, she always finds a seat with fewer people.

This is also the reason why she and Dean sat together. The two of them had the same requirements for choosing a seat, and the seats in the library were not single-seat models, but a large table with a circle of small chairs around it. mode.

When Cassandra sat across from Dean, there was actually quite a distance between them.

As the conversation deepened, Dean felt that Cassandra was very optimistic in nature. The manifestation of social anxiety was not inferiority complex because she could not speak, but she simply had too little contact with others and did not know how to communicate with them. .

In fact, Dean felt that Cassandra didn't actually think that not being able to speak was a flaw at all, it was just inconvenient when communicating.

During this process, Dean also performed a few little magic tricks for Cassandra to see, but what troubled him was that the girl looked at him with innocent eyes from beginning to end, without showing any signs of surprise. .

Dean even began to wonder if his craftsmanship had deteriorated...

"Speaking of which, I don't seem to have seen Barbara today."

While chatting, Dean suddenly looked around the library as if he remembered something, and then looked at the sky outside.

"It's not dark yet, so it shouldn't be time for Bat Girl to appear. Besides, it's not time for the library to get off work yet, and today is not a day off either."

Dean touched his chin, "Did Barbara sit in the office all day today and blow on the air conditioner? It doesn't feel like her style."

With Barbara's warm-heartedness, Cassandra is here today. She will definitely come over and teach her how to read when she has time.

At this time, a librarian came not far away, pushing a cart filled with various books.

Dean stretched out his hand to stop him and asked politely: "Sir, can I ask if Miss Barbara Gordon is here?"

The administrator looked a little surprised when he heard Dean's question.

"Do you know Director Gordon?"

"Yes, we are friends with Barbara."

Dean nodded.

"Sorry, Director Gordon is on sick leave today. I heard that she fell from upstairs when she went home last night and is currently hospitalized. If you want to find her, you have to go to Gotham General Hospital."

The librarian sighed and said, "I really hope she's okay, otherwise I won't be motivated to work every day."

Dean's eyes flashed vaguely.

The Gordon's house, like the Dean's house, is a single-family house. The only difference is in size. The Gordon's house only has two floors.

Will Batgirl fall down two floors? And even threw himself into the hospital?

He didn't believe such nonsense.

"I'm afraid he was injured in the battle."

Dean thought to himself.

'I want to visit Barbara in the hospital. Can you come with me? '

Cassandra suddenly walked up to Dean and made a few worried gestures with her hands.

'Isn't Barbara your friend? '

Before Dean could react, Cassandra suddenly made several gestures with an apologetic look.

'Oh, I'm sorry, if you have anything else to do...'

Dean saw this and shook his head with a smile.

'I'm going with you. I'm also worried about whether Barbara's injury is serious. '

He remembered that the neighborhood where Bat Girl was most often found was the Upper West Side, and the Upper West Side was most famous for the urban legend of the "Bat Monster" recently.

Now that Barbara is suddenly injured and hospitalized, is there a possible connection between the two?

Regarding Kassan’s age, Kassan first appeared in Borderlands at the age of 17. We all know that Borderlands took place when Tim was around 15 years old, and Tim became Robin when he was 13. , Jason had just died a few months ago, and Jason only served as Robin for two years before he died. After Dick became Nightwing, Jason took over as Robin within a few months. Dick served as Robin for only a few months. The longest period is probably between 4 and 5 years. Although there is definitely a huge time bug in this, it is still a relatively acceptable age difference in the Bat family. The current time point of this article is one year after Dick's solo career as Nightwing. Half a year ago, based on the fact that Kassan was 17 years old in Borderlands, Kassan should be around 12 years old under normal circumstances, so I wrote Kassan about 2 years older here, but I guarantee that this is not the case at all. Affect any plot

Also, this book will absolutely never write about any DC movies, and it will definitely never use characters from any DC movies. I know there are many people who like to direct movies, but sorry, based on the timeline, The plot of Zha’s version of Zhenglian ended several years ago in this article