system:……

Although I knew that Lei Xiaogu had no other meaning, it was still weird.

The old bat had a great influence on him back then, otherwise Lei Xiaogu would have no reason to treat Jason so favorably.

Jason continued to follow Lei Xiaogu in, and the more he walked, the more surprised he was. The outside of the palace was completely different from the inside. When he first entered, it still felt like a dilapidated wooden house, but inside it looked like a king's palace.

And this style doesn't match Nepal at all, Jason glanced at the emerald inlaid on the pillar, and resisted the idea of ​​buckling it down.

This mage... doesn't seem to be ordinary rich.

Lei Xiaogu led him through the long corridor, the deeper he went, the dimmer the light became, and the white smoke exuding a strange aroma was slowly lingering in the air.

Jason: [System, why do I feel weird. 】

system:……

To tell you the truth, I also feel weird, but Lei Xiaogu is like this, he is very popular in some strange places.

Lei Xiaogu stood still at the end of the corridor, turned his head, and in the dense smoke, the deep outline of the Europas seemed to be softened.

"Come here." Lei Xiaogu said.

Jason was startled, and took a few steps forward, Lei Xiaogu opened the door casually——

System: [Holy shit. 】

Jason was suffocated, and stared stiffly at the magnificent palace in front of him.

Yes, it is a palace.

In this era, except for the countries that still retain the constitutional monarchy, there are few palaces, and the royal families of those countries have become symbols, and the precious treasures they owned in the past are also put into museums for tourists to visit.

Rich guys can build it, but they can only build a shape.

As far as the eye can see, it is all shining gold.

The high and wide dome is decorated with gold stucco, every beam and column is wrapped in gold, and is carved with complicated patterns. These fine patterns are hollowed out and inlaid with fine and dense rubies. Woven into the mysterious totem, step on it, you can step on a slight depression, the thick green curtain drags the golden tassel to cover the window, no light can come in, the kind of candle you saw when you entered the door before is covered Riding in a golden candlestick, the quaint wooden table is piled with countless precious stones of various colors,

Jason:! ! !

The moon and stars are the most common decorations in this palace. Crescent decorations wrapped in gold threads are hung everywhere. The bottom is a rusty red, but it reveals an expensive meaning for no reason.

Jason followed Lei Xiaogu lightly and continued to walk in. He felt like he had fallen into a luxury version of the rabbit hole. One didn't pay attention, and a string of pearl necklaces hung on his clothes. He hurriedly reached out to pick it up——

Got it.

Jason breathed a sigh of relief, but the slipping of the pearl necklace triggered a series of chain reactions. Hills of jewels rained down on the ground, collided with each other, and rolled into the plush carpet.

A magnificent emerald rose brooch collided with a diamond and split in two with a thud.

Jason: "!"

...I can buy another diamond, but what about the emerald, which has a sense of history at first glance?

Jason squatted on the ground, staring at the broken rose, like a cat that accidentally broke a cup, his face looked very calm, but his heart was so flustered that he wanted to run away immediately.

He pursed his lips and looked at Lei Xiaogu, a little at a loss.

Jason: "I will compensate."

There should be a way... Find a skilled craftsman to repair it, maybe it can be restored to its original state?

Lei Xiaogu: "Compensation for what?"

Jason picked up the fragment of the brooch and showed it to him in the palm of his hand.

He was a little uncomfortable, these things had gone through countless years, but they were broken by themselves, and it felt terrible to watch the old things get damaged.

Lei Xiaogu: "Do you like this kind of thing?"

He took the broken rose from Jason's hand, looked at the candlelight, and threw it on the table.

Lei Xiaogu said in an understated tone: "I remember that there are many such things, and you can play with them casually."

"A lot?" Jason repeated dully.

A lot - shouldn't this kind of thing be put in a museum for people to visit?Although Jason is not interested in jewelry, he seems to have some knowledge of appreciation.

"Don't run after me—I've already given that emerald to my favorite cat, it's a nice gem." A charming female voice sounded in his head.

Jason suddenly remembered that it was the owner of this voice who taught him this knowledge.

The man looked at Jason, who was getting more and more confused, and curled his lips, "It's just some rocks."

Jason blinked.

system:……

Even it was shocked by Lei Xiaogu's behavior.

The real mage, who abandoned medicine to practice law, changed jobs quickly, was so poor that he tried to blackmail rich men by telling stories, and the entire temple lived on the boss's family fortune, and could only eat potatoes, and couldn't even afford vegetables.

A false mage, no one knows how long he has lived, can build a luxurious palace on the top of the mountain, pile up precious stones and gold into a hill, and let people throw it for fun.

System: ...What kind of Supreme Mage did Strange become?Be a lonely?

**

After Lei Xiaogu left, Jason pulled a chair and sat down, and his brain, which was a little down, finally started to work.

Jason: [I always feel that something is wrong. 】

System: [... You don't feel right now?I ask you a question, you answer it seriously. 】

Jason: [Ask. 】

System: [Don't you think this man's last name is familiar? 】

Jason: [Isn't that Thalia's last name? 】

Jason:? ? !

He reacted suddenly, and he fell into a blind spot of thinking unconsciously. Thalia and Jason mentioned before that she took over the League of Assassins after killing her father, and the League of Assassins is basically only active in the Middle East. For various reasons, Jason never connected Lei Xiaogu with the League of Assassins at all.

But think about it, he himself can come back from the dead, so why can't Lei Xiaogu?

I seem to be... in the wrong place?

He realized belatedly that this wasn't Hogwarts, nor was it the Wizard's Tower, and Master Ninja wasn't considered the magic side either.

So what am I going to learn?

His previous respect for Lei Xiaogu came from magic - Strange told him that no amount of respect can be overstated for a mage who has lived for a long time. While possessing great power, mages will be tortured by side effects , a mage who can maintain his sanity after living for countless years is almost non-existent.

Even as wise as ever, she had used Dormammu's power.

Jason: 【...So I came to the League of Assassins? 】

Mixed feelings.

After the mysterious halo on the magical side dissipated, he couldn't think of the reason for staying here at all. Who knew if Lei Xiaogu planned to avenge Talia, he didn't want to get involved in Aogu's family affairs at all.

The system seemed to know what Jason was thinking, and stopped Jason from wanting to leave immediately.

Still the same sentence, come all come.

And he couldn't avoid the League of Assassins in his life, as if he had a strange fate with the Aogu family.

System: [Stay there, the League of Assassins is really a good school. 】

In the beginning, Batman found his way here, and then the League of Assassins seemed to become Robin's graduation base. Thanks to the complicated past between the old bat and Lei Xiaogu, Lei Xiaogu always wanted to surround the old bat. People get around to themselves and twist their minds to disprove Batman wrong, so the Robins always get the top treatment here.

Confused yet?Then come to the League of Assassins, and you may continue your studies after graduation, and then go to a higher caste to change jobs.

No matter how the system thinks about it, it doesn't feel bad. It knows some things, but it can't teach Jason.

Jason: 【...how do you know? 】

The familiarity in the system's tone was almost overflowing, and it didn't hide it: [Lei Xiaogu is really a good teacher, and he doesn't mean anything to you, why don't you learn something? 】

Jason began to hesitate.

System: [Another place, can someone let you throw rubies like stones? 】

Jason began to waver.

System: [This is feudal icing that is better than capitalist icing, enjoy it once in a lifetime. 】

Jason: ...you're right.

**

"Lei Xiaogu." Jason changed into a set of clothes similar to the style of Master Ninja, sat casually across the low table, and yawned - it would be late at night in the United States.

"What kind of path can you show me?"

The green-eyed man looked at him inexplicably, "You don't seem to have that much respect for me."

"Sorry." Jason pointed at his head insincerely, "It's too cold outside."

It must be so cold outside that I mistook you for a mage.

Lei Xiaogu didn't care about this either. Rather, the current Jason is more in line with his cognition, "I can give you a way out."

His tone gradually became provocative: "Fighting evil and finding justice - I have spent my life exploring it, and the League of Assassins was formed for this."

He said that to Batman back then.

Jason sneered: "League of Assassins? Use violence to curb violence, blood for blood, tooth for tooth for eye for eye?"

Sounds pretty retro.

Jason shook his head, "Too low-level."

"Of course not." Lei Xiaogu said, "I like to end crime once and for all."

Jason frowned: "Kill them directly? This is even worse, not everyone can live as long as you, and criminals grow out like weeds."

Lei Xiaogu looked at him meaningfully: "Is that really the case?"

"You may have misunderstood the League of Assassins." Lei Xiaogu said calmly, "You only saw part of it."

Lei Xiaogu's thoughts and Batman's thoughts have similarities, but it's not as good as the origin of their thoughts is the same from the beginning - living themselves as an indestructible symbol, existing in this world as a belief, but Jason never understood over this.

Even though he had worked together as Robin and Batman for so long.

The second-generation Robin only accepted Batman's ideas, but never really understood and agreed. He has knowledge and skills far beyond his peers, but he doesn't have ideas beyond them.

Jason was 12 years old when he was adopted. Before he was 12 years old, he had no chance to experience these ideas. When he died, Jason was 15 years old. In just three years, it was not enough for a child to understand these things. After he was resurrected, he lived like a fool again. After several years, in a sense, it is really a miracle that he is so mature in heart now.

Even for Batman, he only learned about this by stumbles after he took many detours and studied in the League of Assassins after he became an adult.

Lei Xiaogu continued: "You are completely lost."

"I've been paying attention to you." Lei Xiaogu was very straightforward, "I noticed that you worked as a vigilante in Bludhaven for a few days, but you never did it again."

Jason's eyelashes trembled. The system was right. Although the man in front of him didn't have mysterious magic, he could see through the most vulnerable places in everyone's heart.

In Bludhaven, he had tried to bring justice to the weak. At that time, he tried to rescue a shopkeeper who was being charged protection fees by the gangsters every day, and directly smashed the heads of those villains.

Things didn't get any better. In that city, ordinary people were attached to gangs.

It's impossible for Jason to squat there every day, even if he taught the gang leader a lesson, but in Bludhaven, "accidents" happen every second.

He was silent for a few seconds, and whispered, "Unless I can control this city."

But he alone cannot do this.

Lei Xiaogu said in a low voice: "The darker the place, the more likely there is light. Those cities have their own vigilantes, but I guess you don't agree with them."

He picked up the small pot on the table and put it on the stove, and steam came out continuously from the spout.

Jason stared at the white mist without making a sound.

Lei Xiaogu was right again, he really hated those vigilantes flying around the city without knowing what they were doing.

A city, a country, is so corrupt that it needs superheroes to save it—from small crimes to wars, and even a little serious matter requires the intervention of vigilantes. An ordinary person is more willing to rush to the police than to call the police. Calling Superman from the sky, the threat theory of superpowers is expanding day by day, but they will still pin their hopes on heroes at critical moments.

Why can't you save yourselves?

This is what he hates the most.

But how to change?To hate those vigilantes?Is it too noble to hate them, or why do they want to fight crime spontaneously?Do you still have to blame the good guys for the villains?

Jason slowly shifted his gaze to Lei Xiaogu's face, "The vigilantes can't solve these things from the root."

This contradiction is simply irreconcilable. As long as the city is still rotten, it will only form a circular chain that gets worse and worse. A few decades ago, Gotham was called the City of Hope. What about now?

Lei Xiaogu showed a bit of impatience on his face, and it could be seen that he was also very disgusted, and his evaluation was much lower than that of Jason: "They molded themselves into saints for their own satisfaction, and they thought that they were saving .”

He picked up the teapot and filled the cup: "It's all futile. I don't deny that they did a lot, but..."

"Useless."

"You're angry, you're blaming yourself, those flames of vengeance keep burning, but the reality is that you can't do anything, you want justice, but no one can give them justice."

"I'll teach you a way to do it once and for all."

**

Jason began to train with Lei Xiaogu.

There are many things to train, and everything is different, but with familiar shadows, the way of the Assassin League is very different from Jason's habits. Even if they have an absolute advantage, they have to hide in the dark , The ninjas acted silently, and then left like ghosts.

Jason wasn't used to it, not that he wouldn't do things in secret, Batman's past training for him was pretty much baked into his instincts - but he didn't like it.

Jason likes to make those criminals feel oppressed like a cat and a mouse, leaving those criminals speechless in fear, and he thinks it is a kindness for those villains to be killed easily.

Lei Xiaogu asked Jason to correct this habit.

They fought on the icy lake at the foot of the mountain. The ice surface had been treated in advance and was covered with fine cracks. As long as the strength under their feet was a little stronger, they would fall into the water.

There were continuous crackling sounds.

"You need to go lighter."

Like a shadow, Lei Xiaogu suddenly appeared behind Jason, and the sword in his hand aimed at the fragile neck without hesitation.

The sound of the air being cut.

Jason didn't dare to use too much force. He could already feel the ice creaking under his feet, so he could only push the blade away with skill, and then retreated slowly while restraining his movements.

"You can't let others know who you are." Lei Xiaogu's hands kept moving, "You gave yourself a code name—Red Hood?"

"Yes." Jason took a few steps back, and a piece of ice fell from where he had just stepped on.

"It's not bad, you can be the Red Hood, but the Red Hood can't be you." Lei Xiaogu tapped his toes and flashed in front of Jason in an instant, "There is still a little more."

"Don't be distracted by others." Lei Xiaogu said, "Be careful where you step."

There was a crackling sound from Jason's feet, and before he could look down, he fell into the ice hole.

The system sighed: ...

Although it still didn't escape, even the old bat had to fall into the ice hole, it tried to comfort itself.

Lei Xiaogu lit a fire.

Jason changed into a set of dry clothes. At first, he didn't understand why Lei Xiaogu asked him to bring a few more sets before going out. Only now did he realize that it was for this time.

He put his somewhat red and swollen hands close to the fire, and after feeling the heat, he unconsciously moved forward.

"Don't get too close to the fire." Lei Xiaogu pushed Jason's scarf off the ground and wrapped it around his neck. So far, today's training is over.

Jason leaned closer to the fire again. He fell into the water in this weather. If his physical fitness was not good enough, he would probably have a fever by now.

"The red hood you mentioned earlier." He pursed his lips, turned his face, and stared seriously at Lei Xiaogu's eyes, "What does that mean?"

Lei Xiaogu didn't answer directly, "You were defeated by me because I was a little slow in saying this, but if you are patient and don't be so anxious, you may be able to listen to me slowly after defeating me." explain."

Lei Xiaogu had already learned a lesson from Batman. He trained Jason in a different way, which was very gentle, but could subtly change him.

Now Jason has learned not to interrupt Lei Xiaogu when he is talking.

Lei Xiaogu added a few pieces of firewood to the fire, "I don't need to teach you how to fight, your skills are already good enough."

"But—be vigilant at all times." He flipped his palm, and a Hidden Blade appeared in his hand, and he raised his hand to stab Jason in the eye, "Danger is everywhere, especially when a person thinks everything is over when."

When the tip of the sword almost touched Jason's eyes, Lei Xiaogu stopped and handed the delicate Hidden Blade to Jason, "Just being sharp is not enough, you need to hide yourself."

Jason took the Hidden Blade and looked at the flame, "I've seen Damian have a similar sword."

"This is the badge of Aogu." Lei Xiaogu pointed to the strange pattern on the hilt, "Pull out its lines and reorganize it, which means assassin in Arno."

"Arno?"

"It has disappeared. It is a very inconspicuous small country. I am from that country."

This was the first time Jason heard Lei Xiaogu talk about himself. Before that, he knew nothing about Lei Xiaogu.

Jason raised his eyebrows slightly, a little uncomfortable, and didn't know how to respond.

Knowing Lei Xiaogu's past is not a good thing. When he knew nothing, Jason could carefully criticize Lei Xiaogu's behavior like a program. The more he knew, the more bugs in the program.

Everyone has their own past, and a criminal who commits all kinds of crimes may have a reason to turn bad. When judgment is mixed into emotions, Jason cannot guarantee whether he can still look at everything about the League of Assassins objectively.

His current state is a bit like Batman back then. Although he is training here, he only learns a little bit of what he needs, and he has a noncommittal attitude towards Lei Xiaogu's brainwashing package.

"Now let me answer your previous question." Lei Xiaogu said: "The red hood should be a symbol."

"The red hood can represent an idea, a name that can make criminals unable to kill after hearing the name, or it can become a legend."

"But Jason Todd is a human being, and as long as he is human, he will have weaknesses."

Jason froze.

He didn't think about it from this aspect, and the mask was just for the convenience of concealing his true identity.

"I want to understand this." Lei Xiaogu stood up and moved his body a little, "This is the meaning of your study here."

**

Manhattan, New York Temple.

With a cold face, Wang sat on the chair and stared at Strange vigorously.

The supreme mage closed his eyes, floating cross-legged in mid-air, and the red cloak automatically moved without wind.

"Can you stop staring at me?" He opened his eyes suddenly and fell to the ground. "I'm sure he's not in New York."

Wang: "Whether he is in New York or not has nothing to do with me."

Strange: "?"

Wang: "I'm feeling distressed. I want you to ask the story that is worth a black card. Have you asked?"

Strange: ...

did not ask.

He frowned, continued to use magic to locate Jason, and even tried to connect the magic power to several other temples to strengthen the induction, but still found nothing.

This is very unreasonable, how can a person disappear from the magic net so completely?What's more, Jason is still learning how to get magic power from Visandi, so it stands to reason that he should be as conspicuous as a light bulb.

Wang patted his elbow hard.

"Don't disturb me." Strange said with a sullen face, "I've already extended my search to most of the northern hemisphere."

"I found him." Wang looked indifferent and shook his phone.

"Why don't you call?"

The author has something to say:

Jason: Job transfer failed.

Lei Xiaogu is the crazy handsome guy in the movie who taught you to lure you to hide your identity, focus on you alone and finally kill you!Do not accept rebuttal woo woo woo

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The name Lei Xiaogu is used because the number of characters is small, otherwise the full name would be too long QAQ

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