I haven't been a big brother for many years

The two drove to the "Alonso" hotel not far from Wayne Building.

This is a Michelin three-star hotel, and there is an endless stream of guests, blocking the door of the hotel tightly.

Ryan frowned, thinking of retreating: "There are too many people." His childhood experience made him instinctively dislike crowded places.

Bruce obviously misinterpreted his meaning, thinking that he should have no place.

Bruce put on his playboy smile again in front of people: "Don't worry, I've bought the whole restaurant, we'll have a place."

"...You bought another one?" Ryan was speechless, this kind of flower method.

But it would take Bruce at least 600 years to spend all of Wayne Enterprises' money in this way.

Well, as he pleases.

The two walked into this magnificent restaurant together.

"Mr. Wayne, this way please, we have reserved the best seat for you." The lobby manager saw him at a glance and greeted him graciously.

Bruce turned his head and winked at Ryan: Look.

He still had the same smile, but Ryan could catch a little smugness on his face.

Is he a child?

Showing off like this...

But there is a little bit of cuteness.

The lobby manager wanted them to go to the place in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows. You can see the fountain in the center of the hotel garden. The landscape is very beautiful.

Bruce didn't get what he wanted.

"Huh?" He made a suspicious voice, raised his chin not far away, and whispered in Ryan's ear: "Rachel, do you remember? His boyfriend is sitting over there. Harvey Dan Tet, the new prosecutors. Let's go say hello to them."

Before Ryan could react to what he said, Bruce had strode over.

"Rachel? What a coincidence." Bruce's smile added some sincerity.

"Yeah, Bruce, what a coincidence." Rachel's attitude towards Bruce has improved a lot since she knew Bruce was Batman.

She was very surprised to meet the billionaire here.You know there's no chef in Gotham that can match Alfred Pennyworth's craft.

Ryan followed, standing beside Bruce, putting on his trademark commercial smile.

"Well, Rachel, this is Ryan Black. Ryan, this is Rachel. Come on, don't tell me you have forgotten each other." Bruce introduced.Consciously or unintentionally, he ignored the existence of Harvey Dent, pretending not to know this person at all.

Although in fact, his main purpose was to get to know this famous prosecutor.

"Of course I remember, I don't mean to offend, but your beauty has always been deeply imprinted in my mind." Ryan blinked. His bright red eyes are a pair of amorous peach blossom eyes, which can always easily win the hearts of girls.

"Wow, Ryan, it's so sweet." The business exchange between the two went very smoothly.

But none of them saw Bruce's frown slightly furrowed and then immediately relaxed.

"I really miss the time when we met." Rachel sighed.

"Yeah, now you've become a great beauty." He continued joking.

"Good Ryan, stop teasing me." She turned everyone's attention to her boyfriend who had been neglected: "Bruce, Ryan. This is Harvey Dent."

Her smile is sweet, like countless women in love.

"Bruce Wayne, who has been famous for a long time and is famous." Harvey Dent stretched out his hand and shook hands with the two in turn.

"So, are you here to discuss business?" Rachel asked. The temperament and clothing of the two of them clearly belonged to the so-called "rich circle" of Gotham. The purpose of coming here could never be the same as theirs to exchange feelings. .

"Actually..." Bruce glanced at Ryan: "I just heard that the dishes here taste good, so bring him over to taste."

Bruce seemed suddenly reminded by Rachel's words: "Let's go, Ryan? Shall we go there?"

Enough talking here, the purpose of their visit today is to dine, not to chat.He pointed to the lobby manager who had been waiting for them.

"Huh?" Ryan raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion, "Aren't we going to share a table?" He originally thought that Bruce came to strike up a conversation for this.

"I'm afraid they won't agree." Harvey Dent replied before Bruce could speak.

It took him three weeks to book this position, and he couldn't let these people mess up their appointment.

This sentence obviously aroused some bad taste in Bruce's heart, even though he didn't really want to share the table: "Of course they will agree, I bought this place."

He gestured to the manager to add a table here.

Ryan smiled helplessly.

In Gotham, the topic of conversation always comes naturally to Batman: "I thought Batman had special abilities like Superman. But, you know what I mean, he's just an ordinary citizen."

Ryan shook the wine glass in his hand, the red, mellow and transparent wine was like his eyes, with a fatal attraction.

"But he's a hero, isn't he? A hero who stands up for this city," Dante retorted.

Ryan couldn't help looking at Bruce, meeting his gaze.

He immediately turned his head and looked away, and smiled nonchalantly: "But what Gotham needs is a hero like you, not a person who looks like a hero but is actually a criminal."

He added: "Maybe he's waiting for someone, someone like you. He can't deal with criminals in the light."

"Maybe, if I want to." Dante didn't really agree with him, but he was a qualified politician.So he said with a smile: "Batman really won't be engaged in such a career all his life."

"What if you were Batman? A knight of light during the day and a hero of darkness at night?" Ryan drank the last sip of red wine and put down his empty glass.

Then, without any table manners, he picks up Bruce's untouched glass.

But Bruce didn't say anything, not even his expression changed much.

He totally condoned Lane's behavior.

Dante coughed uncomfortably at their interaction. "If I were going out every night." He glanced at Rachel. "Someone already knew."

As if he wanted to compete with Ryan's action just now, he grandly took Rachel's hand at the dinner table.

"Okay, Dante, I've decided, I'm going to raise money for you." Mr. Wayne, who hadn't spoken for a long time, finally spoke, and the words were surprising when he opened his mouth.

Ryan leaned back in his chair and began to shake his glass in boredom.He just knew what he wanted to do.However, not now.

……

After Ryan and Bruce left, Dante was still in a trance: "Rachel? Are they a couple?"

"Harvey?" Rachel touched his forehead to make sure he didn't have a fever, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

"How is it possible? Have you forgotten the scandal about Bruce in the newspaper?" Bruce definitely likes women, even if the behavior of the two of them makes Rachel feel puzzled.

……

"When are you talking about raising money for him?" Ryan asked Bruce, sitting in the co-pilot.He drank just now, even though he only ordered red wine, he could only let Bruce, who really didn't drink a drop, drive.

"In a few days, get ready." Bruce replied while turning the steering wheel, "What's wrong?"

Ryan shook his head, and his slender fingers tapped the rhythm on the back of the other hand: "He is a hero exposed to the eyes of the public, and he always feels something is wrong."

Bruce laughed and said, "You said before that I was a delicious roast beef, didn't nothing happen?"

He held the steering wheel in one hand and rubbed Ryan's soft metallic hair with the other hand: "Okay, don't think too much. I promise, it will be fine."

Ryan's fingers moved, and he felt his right eyelid twitch faintly.

Worse, the bad premonition is even stronger...

He finally sighed: "You have to be ready."

Ryan Black can't persuade Bruce Wayne.

So he changed his identity to persuade Batman.

"Meet you again." It was the voice of the emotionless artificial intelligence from the smartphone.

Batman looked up, and sure enough, he saw the masked man sitting on the eaves shaking his legs.

"Well, your sandwich is delicious." Batman rarely threatened him, but greeted him friendly.

"As long as you like it." The masked man tilted his head: "Do you know Harvey Dent? That's the prosecutor."

The surrounding area has been checked by him in advance, and there is no one nearby.

"What do you want to say?" This almost hit Batman's most sensitive place at the moment.

"It's nothing. It seems that you know each other." He threw down a photo: "The clown has joined forces with the gang, if you don't want Harvey Dent to die, watch him closely. You have formed an alliance is everyone The gangsters dare not attack you for what you have already guessed, but they have already gritted their teeth with hatred for this Mr. Prosecutor."

Batman took the photo, which was obviously a candid photo, even a little blurry.But Batman recognized the physical characteristics of the leaders of the gang and the iconic purple coat and green hair of the clown.

"I heard that the Wayne family is going to hold a banquet for him." The masked man waved his hands exaggeratedly: "Wouldn't the son of Gotham be bought by those scumbags?"

He deliberately added this sentence, struggling to completely differentiate Ryan Black and the masked man into two people.

Batman put away the photo: "I will protect him."

Ryan frowned. Does this guy mean that the banquet is still going to be held?They have already warned him like this: "Don't underestimate the clown, he is a lunatic."

Even if he hasn't done anything yet.

"So how does it compare to you?"

"what?"

"Which one is more dangerous, the clown or you? Why are you helping me? Do you want to use me to get rid of the clown?" Batman was aggressive.

The masked man retracted his legs that had already stepped out and said, "I know you may not believe me, but..."

He couldn't think of any good words, so he just broke the can and said, "Anyway, please believe me, clown, it's really very dangerous. I won't use you, I swear on my... life."

"Take off the mask, I'll trust you after taking off the mask." Batman's cold and deep voice finally reminded the masked man that what he was facing was not Bruce, the billionaire by day, but an emotionless, sensitive and suspicious monster.

The masked man sighed: "Believe it or not, I can only help here." As soon as he finished speaking, he had disappeared behind the eaves.

Forget it, Ryan is completely dead to let him not hold this banquet.No matter what Bruce wants to do, he just needs to protect him.

Batman on the other side of the wall was thinking too.

How did the news come so fast?

He just said at dinner time that he was going to raise funds for Dante, did even the masked man know about it at night?Does Dante really have eyes and ears?Or was it overheard by someone in the hotel?

or?

The possibility he least wants to admit:

Will it be Ryan?