[Zhongyingmei] If you don't dig a hole, you will die

Before the two had time to talk about more things, they heard the sound of vigorous knocking from outside the door.

The sound of knocking on the door was very urgent, and even a hint of madness and despair could be faintly heard, as if this person would simply go crazy if he never saw Hetty again.

Heidi and the system—the self in another world strongly asked Heti to call her that, she seemed to be an addiction to the system—simultaneously fell silent: "Who do you think is here?"

Hetty pondered for a moment: "I think it's someone I know."

System: Are you talking nonsense, sister?

Hetty actually didn't have the nerve to tell her other self that she thought it might be Jason who knocked on the door.

Not for anything else, just because of this knocking on the door, she is not afraid of complaints from neighbors, and she is sure that there are people in her family. Except for the Bat family, who is very well-informed, who else can do this?

Yes, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the others may also have such abilities, and they have already had more contact with the mutant side. I am afraid that after Hetty graduates in a few years, they can come up with enough eye-catching research results to be recognized. Pamela, who was hired back by Xavier's side, many people and many organizations can do this.

But considering the distance between their location and Hetty's current residence, which cannot be ignored, Jason was the only one who could rush here as soon as she returned to this world.

Sure enough, when Hetty looked out through the cat's eyes, the shrunken version of the scene outside the door that appeared in front of her was Jason.

It's just that when she was suddenly withdrawn from this world, the last image of him left in her mind was different. At that time, Jason was able to talk to Heidi with a rare sense of ease, and he could even talk to Heidi. Tell her "don't worry, don't think too much", it's just that at this moment he doesn't have the calmness before.

Even if he is showing his true face now, Hetty can read a bit of madness belonging to the red hood from that handsome face.

She quickly opened the door.Because the man knocked on the door desperately without feeling the pain at all, she was terrified, afraid that he would cause some problems with his hand, or that he might get impatient and break in the door in the next second, no matter what the result was. Neither are pretty.

And the moment she opened the door, she quickly said to Jason, "It's me, I'm back."

Jason stared at her for a long time, and took her into his arms completely with a sense of gratitude as if he was alive after a catastrophe.

No matter for him or Hetty, this was an action that they would never do normally.

Needless to say, Jason, even if you don't look at his obscure past, just consider that he wears a mask and armor every night, and flies around with a bunch of bats of all shapes and sizes at home. This hidden profession, if you think about it with your toes, you should know that he is not a guy who can get close to people casually;

And Heidi usually behaved as gentle and alienated as possible to everyone. Except for a very few guys who could become close friends with her, it was impossible for others to even have a little skin-to-skin contact with her.

It is only in the world of mathematics that the negative negative is positive; in the real world, it is absolutely impossible for two guys who can only hide their desire for warmth in the deepest part to reveal themselves so easily Sincerely, not to mention that one of these two is a cub of the Bat family, and I am afraid that he has the same problem called "intimacy phobia" as his mentor and his nominal adoptive father.

It’s just that no matter how polite and restrained they are at ordinary times, how good they are at hiding their true thoughts forever in the bottom of their hearts that no one can reach, after things like “evaporating in person” suddenly happen.

Even if he used the most advanced science and technology in the Batcave to search for a needle in a haystack around the world, even if Zatanna from the Dark Justice League gave a helping hand, he still couldn't find any trace of his little girl.

Fortunately, in the end, Zatanna still gave some useful information:

She is still alive, she has not evaporated, she just went to another world, if there is no accident, she will come back within 48 hours.

For the first time, Jason experienced such an anxious state of being unable to do anything. He could only pace around the Batcave anxiously.

The Dark Justice League that Zatanna belongs to has also dealt with the extrajudicial trio several times. This is the first time that the head of the Dark Justice League saw him in such an abnormal manner, so he asked curiously. : "What is the relationship between you?"

When Zatanna asked this sentence, she swore to the Three Saints of the East, she clearly saw Jason's restless footsteps paused for a while, and then began to walk up and down again.

However, even so, he couldn't hide a bit of frustration in his tone: "Friend..."

Zatanna knew very well that this guy probably had a hard mouth, or he really didn't pierce the last layer of window paper with the little girl, so she stopped asking.

She has a little friendship with most of the Bat family, and knows the process of talking to them.

If the conversation got too deep on the subject of "intimacy issues," they'd probably have a relapse and slip right out of her face.So Zatanna just shrugged: "Well, what you say is what you say."

When she was using magic to trace Hetty's trail, she could vaguely feel that there was still a person of the opposite sex who had a close friendship with her in her life.It can even be said that he is Hetty Brown's "dead brother".

But this friendship is not enough to develop into love at all.Not all interactions between men and women of the right age will end up in this direction.

If both of them are open-minded and have no selfishness, they can develop into kings in the end.

The relationship between the son and the son is as light as water.

However, Zatanna didn't mean to explain the second part to Jason at all. She only told him the first half in detail, and finally added a fire: "But I have to be fair, if something happens There are two people in front of me, one is a handsome young man who is funny and understanding, and has a lot of money at home.

And the other guy who can compete with him is just a guy I met on the streets of Gotham. As long as my brain circuits are normal, I will definitely choose the former. "

She originally thought that Jason would secretly make up his mind after hearing this, and find a time to confess to the little girl, but she never expected that Jason did plan like this at the beginning, until he heard Zatanna's last sentence After saying that, his expression became subtle in an instant, and it took him a long time to reply Zatanna with a simple "Oh".

Zatanna: Wait, did I say something wrong?Why is this person not nervous all of a sudden?

Jason: ...I really know Hetty Brown.Her thinking circuit may not have been very normal in this life.

However, all his indifferent camouflage, all the tension and caring emotions he insisted on not wanting to show, were all counted under the gaze of those blue-green eyes when he saw Hetty who opened the door to welcome him. Broken into powder.

He thought that since he soaked in the Lazarus pool, he had lost all the abilities related to such a simple positive emotion as "love".

After all, to be able to come out of that strange water in the ancient pool and be a normal person with his own mind is a great thing.

And it was true, he wasn't the Chosen One like Damian Wayne.

After coming out of the Lazarus pool for a long time, his heart has been filled with tyranny and darkness. After escaping from the Assassin League, he wandered on the streets for a long time, unable to find his home, It's like walking alone in a world of ice and snow.

Occasionally, a few words drifted into his ears, about Arkham Asylum, about the Justice League, about Superman in the Metropolis next door, about Batman and his new Robin assistant...

It's just that he can't think in his head anymore, and it's not that he has lost his hearing.So he could only passively accept the news that was too bitter and sad for him.

There are gods in the metropolis in the distance, a new superhero organization has been established in New York, and there are still dark knights and his active little assistants in the dark night of Gotham... But these, just It has nothing to do with him.

It's as if he is a blind traveler walking alone late at night, and he can only listen to others telling him that on the roadside he travels and in the future he is about to go, there are flowers and willows, everything is satisfactory, prosperity is like a brocade, there is love and hope—— —

But it's always what he heard, and it's not his own thing.

This feeling is very subtle, just like looking at flowers in the mirror or fishing for the moon in the water, it will always be hazy;

It's also like looking at each other from a distance in the fog, separated by thousands of rivers and mountains, suddenly near and far away, purely vain beauty, things of others.

Even if you hear it, you can only talk to quench your thirst and suspend the urgent need; but it is like drinking poisonous poison, which is full of hidden dangers and cannot last long.

He had been alone in the endless darkness for far too long.It's not that she has no companions with him. What a good friend the extrajudicial trio are. They have fought side by side and fought through life and death together. They are friends who can safely entrust their backs and their own lives. But they They are all just passers-by:

Because they have their own home and their own lover, it is impossible for them to be bound together with him as a lone wolf forever.

It's like a spark that blooms by chance in the dark night. After the brief brilliance, the loneliness and coldness become more and more unbearable in contrast.

Until one day, a little black-haired girl came to the attic with her notebook and pen, and a flashlight dangling from her mouth that was trembling as if she was going to die in the next moment, and lay in the ruins. Thinking about life, his eyes met, and he felt his heart was hit in an instant:

In those blue-green, clear eyes, he could see the bright and brilliant sparks all over the sky.

But in the eyes of the other party, it was not so romantic at the time.

After all, it was rare for Hetty to tell the truth a long time later. All she could think about was the question "who could smash the attic down with their weight?", and Jason, who was still wearing a hood, couldn't see his eyes when he was distracted. , using Hetty's own words to revise Jason's feelings, I can barely say that "the windows of her soul are aligned with the two holes in a red barrel".

But that's all for later.

Jason hugged the little girl he had lost and found tightly, feeling like he was alive after a catastrophe, and even his voice had an inaudible tremor: "Good girl, don't scare me. "

"I lost your audio, but at that time I could still find you who was shrunk. This time, you disappeared from my eyes and disappeared from the world for a full 28 hours, 10, [-] minutes. I just accept it personally. Can't do this scene."

"How do you remember it so clearly?" Hetty was a little out of breath from being hugged by him. The arm strength of the red hood was there, and she was not joking.

Even if he had intentionally reminded himself that the girl in front of him was an ordinary little girl, and she was a little out of order under the agitation of emotions.

As soon as Jason felt Hetty's painful rejection, he quickly loosened the shackles on her, but his hands were still around her waist, staring into her clear eyes.

He felt that he couldn't say this sentence no matter what, so he could only say it to her in front of him over and over again in this wordless silence:

In these 28 hours without you, I live like years.