The Bentley eventually stopped in front of an abandoned building, its tires leaving clear ruts on the ground.

The buildings around here were abandoned several years ago, because of the bad geography, and some things that happened in the past, no bids have been made to buy these places.

There was billowing dust on the ground, and everything nearby was covered by dust. There were no living creatures on the ground, including rats, which were extremely tenacious animals that could survive no matter where they were.

The scorching sun scorched the ground, and the restless molecules in the air were clearly visible. It looked like a wasteland environment that had been attacked by a virus.

Aesop got out of the car outside and closed the car door and took a breath of dust. His mouth was filled with the smell of sand. He coughed lightly and took the black mask that Tim handed him. Aesop put on the mask, and he lifted his forehead hair that was blown by the wind. , holding his bangs on top of his head with the clips Dick gave him.

Aesop looked up and put his hands in the pockets of his overalls—he had just changed in the car, and it was Tim's clothes.

Aesop and Tim are about the same size, but Tim is much healthier than him. Tim's sweater with the words "Heart to Justice" is a little too big for Aesop.

The sneakers on his feet were originally Tim's too.The frail young man in the hospital gown suddenly changed his appearance, and the bearded man in the racer vest was almost unrecognizable.

Aesop's cold glass blue eyes scanned the surroundings, and he was a little dazed when he touched the building in front of him. The familiar place was once the birthplace of his sweetest dream.

"What's the matter, Aesop, do you know this place?" Tim noticed that Aesop was in a daze, and he asked with some doubts. Dick heard Tim's question and shifted his gaze to Aesop.

Aesop sneered, and his tone couldn't tell whether there was more joy or anger, or mixed. "If you are ripe, you can't be more familiar."

He can now imagine all the principles that Peggy taught him here, instilling in him the concept of a hero, making him give everything for her, and letting him revolve around her, just so that he can persist under the clown's hands and not Will collapsed.

"How do you fight?" the bearded man asked.

"How to fight?" Tim tilted his head, and he gestured to Aesop and Dick standing on both sides of him. "1..3...6..7, there are seven of you, God, I really don't know how you packed so many people into one car, won't you be squeezed into meatloaf?"

The bearded man choked on Tim's vicious words, and he said angrily, "You can only talk with that pretty little mouth."

"To save time?" Tim turned to look at Dick. "Da Lan, let's solve three each? The last one will see who is faster."

"Okay." Dick nodded.

"Wait? Why didn't you add me?" Aesop asked.

"You're still hurt, we can take care of this little bastard." Tim

"Little Bird hasn't seen brother beat someone up yet, has he?"

"..." Aesop withdrew his gaze and looked at the building behind him. Since it's not his turn to make a move, forget it. He can take care of these miscellaneous fish within a minute.

Aesop has always wanted to be the one watching the show, the one who controls everything behind the scenes, but the clown doesn't allow it, because the clown is the puppeteer.

Tim leaned back to avoid the fist that was almost as big as his face, and the other hand took off the last man's arm without hesitation, and tapped the man's neck with a blade, knocking him unconscious.

Tim let out a breath. He was quick and hard on the men before he got to the last one, one more than Dick.

Being higher than Dick, who has always been much better than himself in this aspect, made Tim feel a little happy, and he carefully withdrew the desire to win in his eyes.

When Tim raised his head and found that Dick hadn't noticed his behavior that was different from his usual meekness, he relieved his hanging heart and adjusted his cold expression back to his previous meekness.

Aesop lifted the yellow cordon hanging in front of his eyes with his fingers, stepped forward with his slender legs and bent over, and got inside the cordon.

Dick shouted outside: "Hi, little bird. This place has been blocked, it looks very dangerous."

Aesop didn't even give Dick a look. He walked into the dangerous building. Tim thought for a while and decided to follow Aesop. He remembered that Aesop said that he couldn't be more familiar with this place. What place is very familiar to Aesop? It must be the place where Aesop lived for a long time.

Seeing that Tim followed, Dick could only shrug his shoulders and shout behind them: "Okay, one and two are always like this, can you save the elder brother from worrying?" Dick also followed after saying this their pace.

Aesop kicked open the rusty iron gate. He wasn't worried that this action would cause the building to collapse. As Paige used to say, the building was stronger than it looked, not to mention his 'neighbors' when he was a child It's always the way you get in.

Only Aesop, a little fool, pushes the door gently every time he goes in and out, so as not to disturb an elderly grandma who lives in this building—her heart is not good, and now he doesn’t have to worry about this problem anymore, because here There are no living people anymore.

From that night on.

As soon as they entered the building, Dick and Tim were inevitably stunned by the musty smell in the building. They covered their mouths and noses with their palms to avoid inhaling the unpleasant smell.

It was completely different from the sandy and dusty appearance outside. The water supply system of this building was not cut off. The water pipes leaked every day and night, and the whole building was damp and cold.

Dick lived in a circus when he was a child, and the income of the circus was not low. Although the house he and his parents lived in was not as spacious and bright as that of a rich family, it was not enough to live in such a dangerous building in his eyes.Later, his parents were killed and died, and before he even had time to go to the orphanage for a day, Bruce took him back to Wayne Manor.

Not to mention Tim, the Drake family has always been the upper class in Gotham. Their family is very rich. Received invitations for three people, this kind of place is completely dangerous for Tim, he will never come.

Compared to the exaggerated reactions of Dick and Tim, two people who have never lived in this kind of place, Aesop's reaction was very flat. He just frowned slightly, surprised that his nose was familiar with the smell , He has smelled this smell for four or five years.

Maybe it's because he is born inferior, so he is suitable for this taste. After such a long time, his nose just got sore and he got used to this taste again.

The furnishings of this building still seem to maintain the appearance when Aesop left in the past, except that the corpses were removed by the police after Aesop called the police.The blood stains on the ground are still the same as before. The police don't care whether the place where these inferior guys who don't even have a birth certificate live is clean. The next wave of residents will be like this.

Aesop jumped over the collapsed water pipes on the ground, and stepped lightly on the rusty stairs. The stairs had fallen off a lot due to the age and water corrosion. He jumped on the other side of the stairs with ease and continued to move forward.

The stairs made an unbearable sound bearing the weight of the three of them, and Dick was a little worried that the ladder would break when he stepped on a certain floor, because at present, he was the heaviest of them.

Fortunately, what Dick was worried about didn't happen. The precarious building was much stronger than they expected.

Aesop walked to the door and opened the crooked delivery box next to the door. The coin-sized fluffy black spider that crawled out of the delivery box failed to scare Aesop, but Dick next to him walked a little away in disgust. Hey, he hates this fluffy bug with many legs, it looks like a witch's pet, it's extremely evil.

Aesop smiled strangely at Dick, as if mocking Dick's inexplicable fear of bugs.He pulls a table knife from his cuff, who knows how he got it when Bruce strictly prohibited Aesop's access to similar dangerous goods for the second time.

The silver table knife turned on Aesop's finger, and the next second the table knife was inserted into the spider's body fiercely, nailing it to the wall, green liquid burst out from its body, Aesop stepped back slightly to prevent the liquid from sticking On his clothes, the spider struggled twice and lost its movement.

Aesop pressed one finger on one of the spider's legs, and pulled out the knife with the other hand.He wrinkled his nose in disgust and said, "Is there any paper?"

"Here you are." Tim pulled a napkin to Aesop, and Aesop wiped the knife carefully with a paper towel smelling of cologne.

Aesop made a superb knife technique, which no one among Robins possessed.Because they are forbidden to use knives.

"Hiss—" Dick blinked, it was quite bloody.

Aesop reached into the distribution box and took out a rusty key from it. The key was inserted into the lock and twisted. God bless God, this broken door can still be opened with a key.

"Welcome to my old home, a sweet, warm home." Aesop imitated the clown's tone and said something beautiful, which is quite rare, isn't it?

There are many things in the narrow room, and many things are dumped on the ground, maintaining the appearance of a few years ago, making the originally small room even more crowded, a room that was originally crowded enough for a woman and a child, After three men poured in at once, it was almost impossible to move.

Aesop took a long-legged stride across the low couch, and he remembered that he had some stuff in here, his gun 'Napolitan Thorn', which he used to threaten an informant after Batman took Jason away. Or, later he hid the gun here again.

"Sit whatever you want, I'll find something." Aesop walked towards the location where he hid the gun in his memory.

Dick glanced at the small room, it was dirty everywhere, how could there be a place to sit!He sighed softly, his eyes caught Tim who was wandering around the room, and he also started to walk around the room with Tim.

This is the house where the little bird lived in the past, the clown actually let Aesop live in this kind of place?

Although the Joker is recognized as the poorest villain in Gotham, it’s only because the Joker doesn’t care about money. Some people just want to watch Gotham burn. Do your kids live in this kind of place?

Thinking this way, Dick saw the photo frame on the table facing the sun and barely being seen by him. He picked up the photo frame on the table, and the photos in the photo frame were covered with dust so that he couldn't see what was on it.

Dick grabbed the dirty curtain and wiped the dust off the picture frame.

In the photo, a skinny black-haired little boy was wearing a black T-shirt that was too big and partially washed out for his figure, and a pair of dirty and degummed sneakers on his feet.

But the boy's face was clean and clear, with big cat eyes shining and a big smile, and the little boy had a miniature version of Bruce's face, and next to his head was the head of another woman with beautiful golden hair, With beautiful facial features and a good figure, the woman had a happy smile on her face, and her arms were around the little boy's shoulders.

Dick knows the two people in the photo, one is Aesop's 'mother', the woman who designed Aesop's birth, the person who reached out to rescue Aesop when his life was hanging by a thread, and the one who pushed Aesop into the abyss.

The other is Aesop when he was a child, the little boy with longing and hope in his eyes, who gently pulled the hem of his clothes to ask Officer Dick Grayson for help, and would smile at the little toys that came with McDonald's.

In front of Dick's eyes appeared the data again. Amidst the explosions and screams, Carnival Rabbit walked rhythmically. The long knife in his hand gleamed. He swung the knife to kill the enemy without hesitation, like an elegant killer.

Or Aesop lying in the recuperation cabin with injuries all over his body, and his expressionless and mocking tone.

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