[Comprehensive British and American] The life of the villain and the body of the hero

James Layton, male, his biological father and mother cannot be tested. In short, the irresponsible parents threw him on the street in the winter after the child was born. On the first day after birth, he lost his breath and froze to death on the street.

The Leightons were a middle-class couple with no children.Mr. Leighton is an interior designer by profession, and Mrs. Leighton is an elegant and gentle writer.In the first six years of James' life, he lived in carefree sweetness. He didn't know that he was picked up. He only knew that he had the most handsome father, the most gentle mother and the happiest family in the world. .

Until the Laytons also died, at the hands of a burglar. The police said that it was a serial killer who had committed several crimes in many places, but the police did not tell the young James that such a serial killer is very difficult to catch. arrived.

The Laytons died one night in the summer. When little James heard the noise and went downstairs to find his parents, he saw only two bloody corpses lying on the floor in the living room. His parents were lying on the floor with their eyes open. On the bed, blood stained the white home clothes, and then flowed to little James, who was kneeling on the ground.

No one found out that the Laytons were dead, and the frightened child couldn't make a sound. He just pushed the adults' corpses in vain, hoping that his parents who had always loved him would get up and hug him to comfort him as usual.

He wanted to say, I am no longer a picky eater, I must eat every carrot;

He wanted to say, I am no longer afraid of the dark, and I will not sneak into your bed and ask to sleep together.

The naive children thought that it was because he was too disobedient that they would make their parents angry, and they would lie on the ground pretending not to see him, and would not talk to him.After all, death is not easy for children of this age to understand, but six years old is enough for James to have a vague premonition that irreparable misfortune is about to consume him.

It took a full day for the stench and bloody smell of the dead body to be detected by neighbors returning from vacation.After ringing the doorbell and inquiring to no avail, the muscular man wearing glasses knocked open the door under the instructions of his wheelchair companion——

A six-year-old boy knelt down in a pool of blood that had dried up long ago, staring blankly at the neighbor at the door with dull green eyes. Beside him were the corpses of two adults, with wide-eyed eyes telling about his tragic death wronged.

Sitting in the wheelchair, the icy blue eyes of the man in his 50s shrank rapidly. His hands tightly pinched the armrest of the wheelchair, and veins appeared on the back of his hands. He was panting, as if he was enduring something. kind of pain.

"Bruce..." the bespectacled man in his early 30s yelled worriedly.

"Get that kid out."

The man with glasses nodded, and immediately walked over to pick up little James, but the child, who was no different from a puppet just now, let out a scream like a trapped animal, and struggled desperately in the man's embrace. The irrational little beast violently bit the man's strong arm, while the little hand stretched out to the corner of the female corpse's clothes, and the nails that were tightly clasped to the floor were bloody and bloody.

"Yeah—" The meaningless, futile screams echoed in the ears of the man with glasses, and he frowned.

"Knock him out, Clark," Bruce whispered.

The man with glasses nodded, and lightly pinched the back of the child's neck. The crazy little beast with teeth and claws immediately collapsed into the man's arms as if the pause button was pressed. Clark hugged the boy and carefully exited the crime scene.

"I'm going to call the police, Bruce, this child..." "Give the child to me first."

After picking up the unconscious boy, his handsome face was still stained with dark red blood, Bruce took out a silk handkerchief from his pocket and wiped away the sweat from the child's forehead and the tears from the corners of the eyes.

Who says children don't know what it's like to be heartbroken when they're young?

Is there anything more tragic than seeing your parents die in front of your eyes, but you are powerless, and finally you can only kneel beside them and scream hysterically?He once swore that he would never let a child suffer the same suffering he once had.

However, the ant-like human beings could not defeat the powerful and cruel fate in the end, and it was always the darkness that won in the end.

In the end, the investigation of the serial killer ended without a problem, and the police are just ordinary human beings, so they can't be blamed entirely.Relatives of the Leightons were reluctant to take over the adopted child, and they even believed that it was the bad luck brought by James Jr.So, for this six-year-old, the orphanage was the end result.

After making a big circle, he returned to the original starting point, or maybe that was his destination in the first place.

A young child has no right to say no, but he has feet to run on.Taking advantage of his caretaker's inattentiveness, little James escaped, and walked for a whole night with amazing perseverance, and finally sat blankly at the door of the vacant room of Layton's house, his green eyes filled with tears silently The ground dripped on the steps.

The lights in the next door neighbor's house came on——

The wheelchair made a "squeaky" sound. Bruce, in dark pajamas, looked at the helpless but stubborn child in the night and moonlight, and finally stretched out a hand.

"Would you like to live with me, James?" Bruce asked in a low voice.

The boy didn't think too much. For him, living in a neighbor's house was better than living in an orphanage. At least he could see his original home every day here.So, he nodded to the man in the wheelchair.

At this time, Clark also came out of the room, walking in a hurry, holding a coat in his hand, and carefully put it on Bruce as soon as he walked over. The latter just raised his eyebrows, continued to look at little James, and said Ignore Clark's attentions.

Bruce's ice-blue eyes, which were always as sharp as a blade, became a little gentle at this moment. The boy instinctively leaned his head on his shoulder, sobbing softly. Bruce stroked the boy's soft dark brown hair, but did not speak.

When the boy was tired from crying and fell asleep, Bruce handed the child to Clark to hold him while he steered the wheelchair to go home.Clark hesitated to speak, and finally asked before he quickly entered the room: "Bruce, are you planning to raise Robin again?"

The big man knew that he had caused trouble again after the temperature around him dropped rapidly as if he had frozen.He shouldn't have mentioned Robin cheaply, and he shouldn't have poked Bruce's heart wound at this moment.

The cold breath made James twitch uncomfortably in Clark's arms, and his small brows frowned.

Seeing this, Bruce calmed down, directed Clark to put the child on the bed, and covered him with a quilt. After both of them left the room, he said in a cold voice: "James will not become Robin, and no one will see you again." To be Robin, the superheroes are dead and the world doesn't need them, he'll just be a normal guy."

James lost his first adoptive parents that year, and he loved them all his life, even though they had only been a family for six short years.But James' last name is Layton, and it will always be Layton.

After the age of six, Bruce and Clark adopted James Jr., and they still lived next to the old house in Leighton, which also had a new occupant six months later.

James, who had experienced drastic changes in his life, changed from innocent to a little gloomy overnight. He didn't like to talk or play with other children. Apart from studying, he would spend most of his time in a corner of the room silently in a daze.

The social worker who visited back suggested that Clark hire a child psychologist for James, and Bruce rarely objected.But James' reaction to this was very violent. He locked himself in the room and refused to come out or let anyone in.

Clark didn't dare to force it, and in the end Bruce "persuaded" him out.To be honest, neither of them knows how to raise a normal child. Bruce has indeed raised several generations of Robin, but it has to be said that several generations of Robin are not normal, whether it is behavior or psychology.

Bruce himself has some psychological problems, let alone solve the psychological shadow for little James.

However, Bruce eventually dropped the option of a therapist.But he began to explicitly forbid James to hide in the dark corner of the closet alone. If James is unwilling to play with children his age, then spend more time studying.

Therefore, the most common scene in this home is that Bruce gives lessons to James in the study, while Clark waters the garden, goes to the supermarket to buy fresh ingredients, and gives the most abundant dinner to the big and small in the kitchen, and of course snacks.

Clark was superb at making cookies, but Bruce still looked disgusted. Clark told James that it was because Bruce had eaten better cookies, and his craftsmanship was far inferior to that person.

James is not stupid, but he is not a genius either.

He couldn't learn a foreign language within a few months, and he was often confused by simple calculations, and couldn't recite the historical events of several ancient Egyptian dynasties.He studied hard but still couldn't reach the heights Bruce demanded.

Bruce is very strict in teaching direction and has little patience.

"Am I stupid?" The boy who was reprimanded by Bruce that day ran to the kitchen and asked Clark, "Bruce taught me nothing well, and I let him down again."

Clark was cooking a pot of chowder. He diced fresh celery into the pot and covered it.Then he knelt down and looked at James and comforted him gently: "Bruce will not disappoint you, he just has stricter requirements."

"If I had learned better, I would have been wiser..."

"Jim, in this world, there are always some people who are smarter and some people who are stronger. Some people learn quickly and some people learn slowly, but in the end they all have their own strengths and can find what is most important to them. things." Clark's gentle and mellow voice was like the afternoon sun: "Speaking of being stupid, I'm also stupid, but Bruce never disliked me for being stupid."

"...you're not stupid, Bruce said," the boy muttered, before running off, leaving the man stunned and stunned.

After that, although Bruce was still strict, at least he wouldn't speak too harshly.We said before that James is not stupid. Of course, he is not as smart as some geniuses, but he has his own strengths.

James is very sensitive to human emotions. He has a good head that is good at reasoning people's hearts, or he has this talent.Just like one day when he saw his neighbor Mrs. Laura walking by the window leading his Chihuahua, he turned his head and said to Bruce: "Ms. Laura is very upset. Did she quarrel with Mr. Simon?"

"How do you know?" Bruce asked, after all, there was no displeasure on the lady's face, at least she hid it well.

"Ive's tail drooped today, and Mrs. Laura is holding the small gift that Mr. Simon bought yesterday." James pointed to the Chihuahua in the distance. Dogs are extremely sensitive to the emotions of their owners.

Bruce thought for a while about Mrs. Laura and Mr. Simon's extramarital affairs that were hidden from their partners, and recalled yesterday that Clark casually mentioned that Mrs. Simon was pregnant again. He nodded clearly and said to James: "Don't tell others about this. .”

Therefore, Clark and Bruce discovered the boy's talent. After all, they could see what Laura and Simon had, and there were not many in this gossip community, not to mention that James was only eight years old.

It's a nice talent, as long as you use it well and don't abuse it.Bruce changed the focus of private teaching according to his aptitude, and no longer insisted on James' extraordinary performance in subjects such as physical chemistry.Some people are not born to be scientists, and this kind of thing cannot be forced.