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

For the identity of the old man, James has his own reasoning.He may not be as gifted as Rhett, but he has his own areas of expertise-observation and sensitivity to emotions.

1. The old man is very smart, and he is very conceited about it, wishing that the whole world would know it.

2. According to the age of the old man, he is about 70 years old. His heyday should be 40 to [-] years ago. Maybe you can check the smart and conceited people in that period.

3. And he likes to wear green clothes and play intellectual games.

4. The riddle about the name: I started in the middle of the red, the middle of the red and the one after it are the same way, in fact I am myself.

James wrote all the information he got in his little notebook, and then he lay down on the bed and pondered over the four items on it.Unfortunately, the spark of inspiration never came to him.If it was Bruce, maybe he would have guessed the riddle as soon as he heard it, James thought silently.Then his thoughts drifted to the strange man with glasses. Regarding that person, his instinct felt that something was wrong.

James followed the old man's advice and had Rhett tell his mother that day.And Mrs. Rhett lived up to expectations and entered the super-ready phase, during which time she watched the two children all the time...well, maybe too closely.

The strange thing is that she allowed Spencer and James to continue to communicate with the old man under such circumstances, but her face changed when the strange man appeared again, and she hurried back holding the two little hands.

She looked tense, even a little nervous, which even the dull Rhett didn't think was right.

James sighed, and an eight-year-old child learned how an adult sighed, not appearing calm, but extremely cute.The boy rolled over on the bed, then turned to the next page in the book, and wrote—

[Investigation Notes on the Man with Strange Glasses]

Bruce had taught him that reconnaissance was a delicate business, one that required patience and courage.However, as a child who is only eight years old, the knowledge reserves and investigative techniques he can use are too little.

But in any case, James couldn't let Mrs. Reid be so neurotic anymore.God knows she's been trying to keep Spencer locked up for days!She even thought of asking Bruce and Clark for a parent-to-parent conversation at home!

Oh god, James didn't want to imagine Bruce's expression.

He must investigate it by himself!

This time he didn't want to ask Bruce and Clark for help, in fact he wanted to see what he had learned during this time.

And the police won't help him without evidence, so with very limited resources, the choice—James turned the notebook back again, the pen tip resting on the riddle—a bold idea popped out.

What if... what if he went to the old man for help?Now that the other party found out what was wrong with the man with glasses, does it mean that he is willing to help?Maybe he should try it.

"It's a good idea, but I'm not interested." After a game of chess, James dismissed Rhett and asked the little rabbit to ask Mrs. Rhett for money to buy ice cream, while he stayed and told the old man about his plan.

"Don't do this, this is also a kind of puzzle solving." James persuaded.

"No." The old man wrinkled his nose and said dissatisfiedly, "This is what detectives do, and I hate detectives!"

Great, I can add this to my notebook again.

"Then what if I guess who you are? Would you be willing to help?" James tentatively asked again.

The old man thought for a while, put his crutches against his chin, and then showed a wicked smile: "If you can really guess it, and you still want to ask me for help at that time, of course, little Jim, I will Yes."

"That's a deal." James said seriously.

For the next few days, the boy racked his brains over the damned riddle, and even had it on his mind during training.Of course, this little thing couldn't be hidden from Bruce and the others.

That is to say, after getting older, experiencing too many things and living in seclusion, Bruce's desire to control has been slightly restrained.In his heyday, Bruce even had the habit of installing monitors and monitors on his assistants.

On the one hand, it is caused by a suspicious personality, and on the other hand, it is because he cares too much, so he feels that he can only feel safe if he keeps everything about the person he cares about.

As for what James kept from them, even though Bruce knew about it a long time ago, he has been enduring it all the time.After all, Clark persuaded him that James needed his own little secret, that he didn't have to be on the lookout all the time.Well, he knew he had a bad temper and couldn't handle the relationship with children, so Bruce endured it.

However, even in training, he was deserting, which was too much, and James even almost fell off the ring!

"Jim, come to my study tonight." The deep voice and Bruce's darkened face both heralded a storm of reprimand.

But at the moment James was in ecstasy and didn't care at all.He nodded sloppily, which made Bruce look a little more ugly, and the boy frisked upstairs to change—he had an appointment with the Rhetts to visit.

He had just figured out the answer to that riddle just before he nearly fell off the rings in training.He's too happy to keep his body in check, just like he's too happy to notice Bruce's expression right now.

...Okay, let's silently light some wax for this child.

Anyway, James only had the riddle in his mind now, until he entered his room, opened his notebook, and began to scribble on the bed——

That's right, that's right!This riddle is really easy!The man even gave a hint.

"I started in the middle of red, the middle of red and the one after that are the same way, in fact I am myself." The hint of this riddle is in the last sentence: I am myself.

"What am I? "I" refers to the name of the old man, and also refers to the riddle.So the old man's name is the riddle!In the word Riddle, middle is the root of the word, representing the middle meaning, so R should represent red, that is, Red!

"I started in the middle of red", the middle letter of the word Red is E, that is, the first letter of the old man's name is E; "the middle of red and the one after it are the same way", and the two words Ed are also together.

So the old man's name is Ed Riddle?No, there weren't any famous people with that name decades ago.So it’s not, riddles mean unsolved mysteries, unsolved mysteries can be replaced by the synonym of Enigma, and the first letter of this word happens to be E, taking it apart is E and Nigma, plus the previous Ed It should be short for Edward.

Then the real name of the old man is Edward Nigma, and according to the search results on the webpage, Edward Nigma was the high-intelligence criminal known as "Riddle" (Riddle) decades ago.

In the descriptions left by the media in the past, the Riddler often wears green clothing and holds a large question mark cane. He likes to show off his IQ by committing high-IQ crimes and is keen on solving puzzle games.The only problem is that the age of the Riddler is not right, he shouldn't be so old, he is at least ten years older than his actual age.

Closer to home, James only now understood what the Riddler meant.Just because he guessed the old man's name, he was not sure whether to ask him for help.After all, the Riddler is a lunatic and a criminal, so he should call the police and arrest him.

but……

Forget it, let's find Spencer at Rhett's first, in case we are late, the little rabbit will pout again.

If time went back to when he had just guessed the name of the Riddler, James promised that he would immediately obediently explain this goddamn shit to the adults!Whether it's about Nygma or about the strange guy with glasses.

Otherwise, I and Rhett would not have fallen into such a situation——

The strange man with glasses grabbed the struggling little Rhett, holding a knife in his hand, while he hit him on the head, barely getting up now but still buzzing.James tried hard to recall Bruce's education, but he was powerless at this time, after all, the child's strength was too weak, and he had only received training for one year.

Everything was fine at Rhett's house until Mrs. Rhett got a phone call and ran out in a panic.

Rhett seemed worried, and James decided to take him to the kitchen to squeeze juice to relieve his depressed mood.

And then...God knows how that man ran in!James did resist at first, and then he was hit on the head by the pot that was suddenly picked up by the man.

He only felt a sweet, salty taste in his mouth, his eyes turned black, and his legs went limp when he tried to stand up.When James recovered from the slight concussion, he found that Reid who didn't know when he ran out was caught by the man, struggling in vain, and the man seemed to enjoy Reed's powerless resistance.

Oh, he should try being called Clark, at least that's what Bruce taught him.Bruce told him that if he was really in big trouble that he couldn't solve, if his life or someone else's life was threatened, he could try calling Clark.

As soon as James opened his mouth, he was kicked by the man, and then there was a cough, and his throat hurt.

"Little bastard, shut your mouth, I knew you were a problem." The man said fiercely, and then showed a strange smile: "I only wanted him, you are not my type, but... …the freebies are also nice.”

Rhett's expression looked like he was about to cry, but he held back firmly and looked at his best friend full of worry.

James felt pain everywhere in his body, he had never felt so much pain.Even when I received Bruce Hell training for three days in a row, it didn't hurt so much.Moreover, Clark still felt sorry for him, cooked him a lot of delicious food, applied medicine to his injuries from bruises, and comforted him gently.

"Hey, you have to be strong, like a man, you promised your mother." James said to himself: "Besides, you can't let Rhett have an accident, he is just a little rabbit."

James gritted his teeth, decided to show weakness first, and then sneaked up on the man when he was unaware... He curled up his body, pretended to be panic-stricken, and crawled back shaking his head.

In order to make himself look good, the boy also cleverly bit his lip and stimulated his tear ducts with pain.

The man was really satisfied with James' current reaction, he looked more excited, and even wanted to leave Rhett first.He was hesitating, and finally he threw Reid on the ground, gave him a terrifying warning look, and walked towards James with a knife.

He knelt down and put the knife on James' neck.His dirty eyes glowed behind the glasses, and the tip of the knife traveled to the button of the boy's shirt, and it was broken with a little force, and then he carved bloodstains on the boy's white and tender skin.

"Excellent." The man licked his lips, showing eager eyes, and the tip of the knife continued to go down.

When he peeled the boy off with a knife, he saw the blood oozing from the skin condensed into blood beads and rolled down. The man couldn't help but lower his head to lick it. He liked the little boy's panicked, terrified but helpless cry. Voice.

The so-called color makes the mind faint, which probably means this.

James planned to fight back at this moment, but before he could make a move, a vase hit the man hard on the head.Panting, Nygma supported his crutches, raised his eyebrows at James and said, "I don't like manual labor in my life."

Rhett stood up from the ground with red eyes, and then threw himself at James.

"Oh, take it easy, he wasn't slaughtered, but he was about to be crushed to death by you." Nygma taunted in a characteristic tone.

James didn't speak in silence, he was still too young to hide his emotions.This abnormality was quickly discovered by the Riddler, and it was just a change of mind, and Nygma understood it.

"I take back what I said before, you're not that stupid. Then, do you know who I am?" The evil smile appeared on the old man's wrinkled face again, looking particularly frightening.

James probably knew that there was no point in concealing it. He nodded and said, "You are the Riddler."

"Very good, very good, let's guess a new riddle, children." Nigma laughed and said, "An old man found two children and played a game with them. What do you think is the reason?"