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"Where's Jason?"

"Sulking in your own room, are you going to see him?"

"...no"

Even the all-powerful Batman has no good way to deal with a kid who loses his temper.What's more, this has never been a project that Bruce is good at.

The only thing he can do now is to grab the black mask as soon as possible, and then lift Jason's restraint.

"Maybe you should agree with Master Jason to go out as Robin"

Alfred suggested that at least half of the kid's anger would be taken away by doing so.

Bruce thought for a while, then shook his head and rejected Alfred's suggestion. Protecting Jason's safety was just one of the reasons, and Bruce hoped to take this opportunity to keep Jason away from this kind of violence. For a period of time in his life, the rage engraved in Jason's bones is now becoming more and more obvious and even showing signs of losing control.

"Having Batman as your child's life mentor is really not a good idea"

An environment full of crime and violence is really not a good thing for a child's growth. It's great that Dick didn't grow crooked.

"what did you say?"

Bruce's voice was so low that Alfred had to ask again to make sure he didn't miss anything important.

"No...it's nothing, keep an eye on Jason"

"Okay, sir"

Alfred would only offer some advice to Bruce, and it was always Bruce who made the final decision.

Wearing a Batman uniform, Bruce sat in front of the computer for the final information screening. He got a message that a guy who handled the corpse for the black mask ran away because of fear. The black mask was looking for him, and so did Batman and the police. Looking for him, as long as he can find this guy in front of the black mask, he can become a tainted witness.

The guy wouldn't say no unless he wanted to get killed by Black Mask, and that's what he's been doing these days.

"Have you found that shipment yet?"

Alfred didn't know that Bruce had temporarily changed his search direction, and thought he had found the Black Mask's shipment.

Finding that batch of goods, and then using that batch of goods to let Black Mask leak his feet, so as to arrest and prosecute him, was the method Bruce had originally envisioned.

but:

“There was no such shipment at all”

"what?"

"Black Mask was cheated, that's why the people he sent to pick up the goods all disappeared, because there was no such shipment"

Bruce got an important message from Thalia. The employer who entrusted the Assassin Alliance to deal with that guy was because he was cheated of a large amount of money by the arms dealer on the grounds of arms transactions, amounting to hundreds of millions.

Searching all the criminal records related to that guy finally proved that this guy is just a low-level arms dealer. Barely speaking, he may not even be an arms dealer. He is just a middleman walking between A and B. , From this point of view, it can be speculated that the batch of goods he might have promised to Black Mask did not exist at all.

Although I don't know what method this guy used to deceive that old and cunning guy in Black Mask, but there is no doubt that the person Black Mask sent to pick up the goods is absolutely empty-handed.

Black Mask's subordinates didn't get the goods, and this guy was killed by Thalia halfway. Naturally, with the character of Black Mask, he would not believe that his subordinates said that this batch of goods did not exist, and he would not believe that he would buy one So stupid when.

These guys knew better than anyone what would happen if they went back empty-handed and faced the black mask, so they hid directly. This is the best guess for the current result.

"...I don't understand, Master Bruce, if there is no such shipment, why do those people need to hide it?"

"Because Black Mask doesn't believe it at all"

The information Bruce needed popped up on the screen, and he was about to act now.Picking up the helmet on the table and walking towards the Batmobile, he said again uneasy:

"Looking good on Jason"

"Okay, Master Bruce"

At the same time as the guide lights in the Batmobile tunnel turned on, a tire mark caught Bruce's attention.

Bruce stepped out of the Batmobile and studied the new rut in the tunnel.

"...Ah Fu, is Jason still in the room?"

"Master Jason? You're still there before dinner"

Alfred couldn't be sure now, only that Jason was still in the room at dinner.

"Did you see him when you went to deliver his meals?"

Bruce's eyes shifted from the ruts to the cave where the Robin's motorcycle was parked.

"...No, Master Jason said he didn't want to eat it"

"...Then you left the food at his door, but no one saw him from the beginning to the end"

"……Yes"

Alfred also sensed a key part of Bruce's problem.

Bruce walked to the motorcycle parking space and opened the black dust cover first. The following was not the Robin motorcycle that should have been parked here, but the bicycle that Clark bought for Dick a long time ago. The wooden sticks used to support the frame lost their support with Bruce's movements and scattered on the ground.

Bruce turned decisively and walked towards the elevator, Alfred hurriedly followed behind him.The two came to the door of Jason's room. The food that Alfred had put on the floor before was still there unmoved. Bruce pushed the door open, and the room was empty and there was no sign of Jason at all.

"Eh...he was still there during dinner"

"Yes, he was indeed there at that time, but he ran out while I was eating. I'm afraid this is not the first time he has done this. The time difference is really beautiful, boy!"

It never occurred to Bruce that Jason would run away while he was at the manor, between his dinner and Alfred's rounds, what the hell was he trying to do?Isn't he worried that he will suddenly come to make rounds?

Bruce walked over to pick up the laptop that was thrown on the bed, and when he saw what was inside, his eyebrows furrowed tightly.

"Do you know where Master Jason has gone?"

Seeing Bruce's expression, Alfred knew he had already guessed Jason's whereabouts.

"Yes, yes, he went to see his father..."

Bruce looked at the freeze-frame picture on the computer screen and said in an unhappy tone...

Jason squatted on a roof across from Elsa's apartment, wearing his red Robin uniform, mask, and black hair. He had grown taller, and his voice was completely different from before. The man did not Reason recognizes itself.

Jason took a deep breath, then pulled out his grapple gun and walked over to the target's balcony.

The man in the room seemed to have just come out of the shower, the blue towel was still wrapped around the protruding beer belly, and he opened the refrigerator door while wiping his head.

"Where is the goods?"

The sudden sound from behind made the man turn around quickly, and a beer bottle flew towards Jason. Jason tilted his head, and the bottle scraped his hair and flew towards the wall behind him.

The man was stunned when he saw the person coming, Jason didn't care and continued:

"If you don't want to fall into the hands of Black Mask, hand over the goods"

The man still stared blankly at him and didn't answer, Jason frowned impatiently, just as he was thinking about whether hanging the man out of the window would give him a quicker answer, the man finally spoke out, just the sound The content is completely different from what Jason expected:

"Jason?"

It had been a long time since Jason had heard the characteristic hoarse voice caused by excessive smoking and drinking. He never thought he would hear this voice calling his name.As far as I can remember, this man will only call him a bastard, trash, how ridiculous, the name Jason Todd is still known from other people's mouths.

"You got the wrong person"

Jason began to think about what to do if this guy really recognized him. Based on his understanding of men, he would definitely be able to guess Batman's identity if he recognized him. He picked up a bat dart, and his green eyes stared at the man in front of him through the goggles.

"Admit it? Hahahahaha who do you think I am? I am your father, do you think you have grown taller and your voice has changed a little, so I can't recognize you? I can recognize you even if you turn into ashes...haha "

The man didn't care about Jason's denial at all, and even laughed arrogantly, as if Jason had asked a particularly ridiculous question.

"What are you doing here?"

When the man had laughed enough, he turned around and opened the refrigerator again, taking out a bottle of beer and asking.

"The Goods of the Black Mask"

Jason didn't beat around the bush, he saw a pistol on the table next to the refrigerator, and the bat dart in his right hand was always ready.

"Hmph! Where did you come from? That idiot was cheated. By the way, weren't you adopted by Bruce Wayne?"

The topic suddenly jumped to Bruce, and Jason's whole body went into a state of alert.

"Wait a minute, if you are Robin, then Batman is...hahahahaha, this is big news"

Sure enough, I guessed it, damn it, Jason just wanted to scold himself severely at this moment, he shouldn't have come.What to do now?

He can't let this man leave after knowing the truth. Even if this man doesn't sell Bruce's identity to someone who is very interested, he will definitely use this to blackmail Bruce... This man must die!

This was the first time that Jason wanted to kill someone. He knew that there would definitely be a lot of trouble, especially from Bruce, and it might even make Bruce cut off his relationship, but at the moment he couldn't care less , All he has on his mind now is to stop this man from revealing Batman's identity.

The sound of the gun being loaded aroused Jason's vigilance, but he couldn't throw the bat dart that he had been holding in his hand after he saw the man's movements clearly.

The man held the loaded gun, and instead of pointing the muzzle at Jason, he put it on his chin and said:

"Hey, boy! Your mother's name is Sheila Heywood, and she's alive. She may be the worst woman in the world, but she's a real beauty, and you look exactly like her, Jason"

The sound of gunfire drowned out the man's last voice, looking at the lifeless body on the ground, Jason wasn't sure if he heard the man call his name again.