[Zhongyingmei] It's not a slime!

the next day.

Inside the Batcave.

Dick sat on the railing, shocked.

"I'm only on shift, what did I miss?"

Sitting in a wheelchair, Jason, who was wrapped up like a half mummy, said, "I didn't miss anything. It's just the four of us playing mahjong together. It's just right, no one more and one less, no need for any idlers."

Ruby, who had already eaten the fourth set of cookies and was having a fifth set with Alfred, turned her head: "By the way, the four refer to me, Jason, Bruce, and Clark, and Mahjong refers to the clown."

Jason: "I don't need us to explain who the idlers are referring to?"

The idlers waited for Dick: "...So, Bruce, are you picking up your mommy while I'm working overtime?"

Bruce turned around and said to Ruby, "Don't eat too much, it will cause tooth decay." Then he answered Dick's question: "She is different from you."

"I see." Dick spread his hands, and then flipped off the railing with a neat backflip, turned 720 degrees in the air and landed steadily, and even a white crane spread its wings, and landed accurately in front of Ruby.

He said, "My name is Dick Grayson, I thought maybe you remember me?"

Ruby: I don't remember what you looked like, because you were wearing a mask, I didn't see it from beginning to end, but I remember that your character panel is an S rank.

But you can't say that, it's a low EQ approach.

So Ruby with high EQ said: "Of course I remember you. I was very impressed by your heroic demeanor in battle. You must be a very powerful person. I remember it till now."

Dick was instantly elated!

He immediately stretched out his hand and rubbed Ruby's soft head, sighed how good it felt, and said, "Based on your words, if you need help in the future, just call brother..."

Before he could utter the word "Brother", Dick suddenly became alert and jumped back past a colorful object thrown from nowhere.

He stretched out his hand to stop it, and grabbed the piece directly in his hand.

Take a closer look:

"Bitter Chocolate?" He raised his eyebrows and looked at Jason who was sitting in a wheelchair. The latter couldn't see his expression clearly, but "I'm very upset" was written all over his body.

"Don't touch her." Jason said fiercely.

"...Although, why do you carry such a strange thing with you?" Dick was full of question marks.

Jason: "..."

Don't ask the barrel, the barrel doesn't want to answer this mentally retarded question.

Dick unwrapped the chocolate in his hand slowly, threw it into his mouth and chewed it in front of Jason: "... Well, it tastes like that, you would like to eat such a high-calorie and non-nutritious thing ? Listen to my brother's advice, quit, lose weight."

Jason sneered: "This is not for me."

Dick was slightly taken aback, suddenly thought of something, and looked stiffly at Ruby who was looking at him with a dark face.

Dick: "..."

Ruby: ...that's the ration Jason prepared for me!You bastard snatched it away, but you still despise it!

Dick looked at Ruby's eyes full of accusations, and the chocolate in his mouth suddenly tasted bad, and he didn't know whether to swallow it or not.

Fortunately, Alfred brought the fifth plate of cookies at this time, which attracted Ruby's full attention, and she happily blew the housekeeper's rainbow fart.

Dick swallowed the chocolate, lost in thought.

Maybe, in order to have a good relationship with this little cutie, he needs to... learn how to cook desserts?

Seeing that Ruby's attention was all on the dessert, Dick couldn't help walking behind Bruce who was operating the computer, leaning on the back of his chair and asking softly, "Bruce, what's going on?"

How could this strange little girl be picked up suddenly?

Dick himself wasn't against Ruby at all, it was just...he couldn't imagine Batman bringing a monster girl of unknown origin back to the Batcave, which wasn't his style.

Bruce looked up from the computer and looked at Dick and Jason.

The latter also expressed doubts with his eyes.

Bruce said: "The reason is a bit complicated, I will pick a suitable time to tell you."

He glanced at Ruby who was smiling contentedly, rubbing her belly and chatting with Alfred, and sighed.

"Find a time when she's not around."

……

I don't know what Ruby and Alfred talked about. It didn't take long for the three people in the Batcave to watch Ruby get into Alfred's body, and then one person and one symbiont happily reunited. went to the kitchen.

Jason: ...You can figure out with your toes that this guy is definitely pestering Alfred to teach her how to make desserts.

Dick looked at it for a long time, and then choked out a sentence: "...I want to play this too, hey, Jason, does it feel good to be possessed?"

Jason sneered: "Line up, a little bit of quality is fine."

Dick: ...

He decided not to speak to the red hood, who was a bit out of character with him, and went to Bruce instead: "Can you tell us why now?"

Bruce nodded and said, "I've checked a lot of information about this child's situation. Although I don't know much about her, I can still get a glimpse of some of her past."

Jason's ears perked up, too.

Although he also knew some things about Ruby's past, those words were after all drunk, and there was no way to connect them together, and he could only barely piece together the general idea of ​​the matter.

Bruce briefly recounted what happened to Ruby.

His way of narrating is still different from Clarke's. After all, he is just a bystander's perspective. His narrating tone is so calm that he does not mix any extra emotion, but every sentence and every word hit the point. The step-by-step hidden behind the story Calculations and games are almost gasping and frightening.

"So," he said calmly, looking at the two shocked birds, "what do you think?"

"..." Jason was stunned for a while, and then he said, "I'm going to kill Constantine."

Dick held back for a long time and said, "...is little Ruby okay?"

"I don't know if she's alright," Bruce said. "It's doing fine, at least it seems."

"That's why you brought her back?" Dick asked. "You're worried she's going to have mental problems? Hate?"

"Honestly, so far I'm not really worried about hate," Bruce said. "She has a strong heart, and she's surrounded by people who love her. What I'm really worried about is that she doesn't hate at all."

Dick thought about it.

Jason frowned: "...You mean, she should hate Constantine?"

"She should hate, maybe even get revenge, or at least try to talk to him, but she didn't, why?" Bruce asked.

"...Maybe because it doesn't matter to her," Dick said.

"That is to say, she has no time to hate, why?" Bruce then asked.

"Because something more important is urging her to move forward." Dick followed Bruce's words, "so she didn't have time to stop or look back."

Jason couldn't listen anymore, he said angrily, "This is just your speculation."

"You spent more time with her, don't you feel it?" Bruce said calmly, "Besides the problems we just mentioned, there are many other contradictions in her."

Jason froze for a moment.

He fell into a long silence.

He suddenly thought of some issues that he had talked with Ruby before. For example, her body is obviously not human, and it would be tiring to become a human, so why should she keep her human form all the time?Even if it's just a child's appearance?

Ruby replied with a smile at the time: "Because it's convenient to eat."

However, if it is just for the convenience of eating, she can completely transform into a human form only when eating, and there is no need to maintain consumption most of the time.

At first, Jason didn't think there was any problem with this. It wasn't until he finally knew what happened to Ruby that he suddenly understood why Ruby always existed in human form, even though it would make her very tired. .

— because she was afraid of being considered an outlier.

But the paradox is that if she is so afraid of not being able to integrate into an unfamiliar environment, it stands to reason that she would be willing to return to her own species, but she still lives among humans without hesitation, and even her way of life is completely consistent with humans.

"It's obviously an alien race, but it has a human heart." Bruce said precisely the root of her contradictions, "Before she came to Gotham, she couldn't become a human, but now she can do it." Arrived, and maybe that's an indication of what her goals really are."

"Turn into an earthling who is no different from us." Dick said softly.

"Or," Bruce said, "complete integration into our world."

Just like a child who wants to go home, he is always on the way home.Her goal is so clear that it seems that in her eyes there is only the lighthouse representing the destination in the distance, and nothing else can be accommodated.

Whether it is love or hate, it may trip her up in a short period of time and make her fall.

But she will only get up wherever she falls, and then continue to run towards that goal without looking back.

For some, it's a force that takes them to the other side.

And for others, it's a one-way street to destruction, even for a short time, allowing them to forget about the pain.

Because if there is only one destination in life, once it arrives, everything else will be meaningless.

Such a life is dangerous.

Because they will forget who they used to be in the process of running forward desperately.

That's why Batman needs Robin.

"Dick." Bruce looked at Dick, who was frowning and deep in thought, and said in a steady tone: "If you have time later, you can take this kid to New York."

Dick was slightly taken aback: "You mean..."

"Show her back," Bruce said, "it might be useful."