[Zhongyingmei] Don't panic, I can still live!

Nemo sat on the sofa and used Ethiopia, Africa, vigilantes, clowns, as long as he could think of keywords, to search for news one by one, but this kind of needle-in-a-haystack search could not help him find the news he wanted.

He gave up checking the news and started staring at his phone.

He wanted to call Dick, but was afraid of disturbing his information collection.

He opened the drawer and took out an alarm with the bat logo from the deep part of the drawer.This was the equivalent of "compensation" he gave himself when he and Batman first met all those years ago.

He said that as long as the alarm is pressed, he will definitely come to him.

Nemo wanted to press it now.He wanted to ask Batman, what he promised himself, which one he did.But he didn't dare.He was afraid that Batman would really appear beside him, so what would Jason do?He was also afraid that Batman would be distracted when he saw the signal he sent, thus delaying the protection of Jason.

Nemo started to hate Batman, why did he let Jason become Robin, and after a while, he started to hate himself again, why did he have to be soft-hearted for a while, and still indulged his approach when he knew that Jason would not give up his life as a vigilante .If he had been firm enough at the beginning, three years would have been enough to make himself a complete stranger to Jason Todd, whether they would die or not, might not have caused any waves in his heart long ago.

Sitting like this until midnight, he finally couldn't bear to call Dick.

The bell rang until it automatically hung up, but the other party didn't answer.Nemo pressed redial expressionlessly, calling again and again.He didn't turn on the light, and the "di-di-" sound of the phone call continued to come out of the receiver, which was very clear in this dark and silent room.

In the Batcave, Dick was curled up on the ground with his arms folded over his knees.The mobile phone kept ringing beside him, he raised his head and looked at Alfred almost desperately.

"Ah Fu, I dare not answer his call, what should I tell him?" His tears fell in strings, hitting the dark and cold ground of the Bat Cave, and soon disappeared.

Alfred's eyes were also red.He was old, and few things could shake him emotionally, but it took all his energy to bear the grief at this time.All he could say to Dick was, "I'm sorry, Young Master Dick."

After the last automatic hangup, Nemo did not redial again.He raised his head, trying to hold back the tears in his eyes.

"Bastard." He cursed softly.

"You're all bastards."

The next day, Nemo was not open, so he took a taxi directly to Wayne Manor.

The taxi entered Wayne's private territory not far after passing the Robert Kane Bridge. Nemo paid to get off and walked forward on foot until he reached the gate of Wayne Manor.

He didn't ring the doorbell, but the housekeeper of Wayne's house had already seen him on the surveillance camera.

Alfred opened the gate of the manor and invited Nemo to come in.

"Master Carlos, good morning." Alfred showed the professionalism of an English-style butler. No matter how heavy the blow was, he seemed flawless at this moment.

Nemo didn't go in, he stood at the door and asked directly: "I won't go in, I want to see Dick, let him come out to meet me. Or you can, tell me what happened to Jason."

Alfred was silent for a while, and finally said politely: "We are going to the airport soon to pick up the two masters, Bruce and Jason, home. Do you want to go with us?"

Nemo said without hesitation: "Okay. Then I'll wait for you here."

It means still refusing to enter Wayne Manor.Alfred didn't force it either.Half an hour later, a black Lincoln slowly drove out of the manor.He stopped while passing Nemo, and Nemo opened the back door and got in.

Dick was sitting in the co-pilot, and he was wearing a pair of wide sunglasses that almost covered half of his face.He didn't dare look at Nemo, but Nemo didn't look at him at all.The doctor was very quiet after getting in the car. He folded his hands and fingers on his legs, leaned his back back, raised his head halfway and closed his eyes, looking very calm and indifferent.

At Archie Goodwin International Airport, the three of Nemo stood in the VIP passage and waited together.

Bruce's chartered plane arrived at the airport at 02:30 p.m., and at [-]:[-], he appeared in the aisle in a black windbreaker and sunglasses, but he was alone.

He got closer and closer under the gaze of the three people, and finally stood in front of them.

Bruce looked at his butler first, and Alfred only patted him on the shoulder. The old butler opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything in the end.

He turned to Dick, who looked away behind the dark glasses.

He looked at Nemo one last time.

Nemo looked him straight in the eye, then reached up and took off his sunglasses.

He looked into those blue eyes with almost no emotion, and asked calmly, "Where's my Jason?"

Bruce's frozen eyes seemed to move, and finally he replied: "They will come out soon."

He doesn't explain "who are they" and Nemo doesn't want to ask.He felt that he had to see the final result with his own eyes, otherwise he would never give up the last faint hope.

After a while, 12 people came out from another exit carrying two coffins. They got closer and closer to Nemo, and finally stood in front of Bruce.

Alfred stepped forward first, he gave the car keys to Dick, and then led the group to the parking lot first.

Nemo watched the two coffins go away, then looked at Bruce, and asked again: "Where is my Jason?"

Bruce looks at him too, and then he reaches for his dark glasses and puts them on his face.

"Alfred will take Jason and his mother, Ms. Sheila Heywood, back to the manor first." He said softly.

Dick, standing by, seemed unable to take it any longer.He sobbed uncontrollably, and then forced himself to hold back.

He felt he couldn't stay here any longer.He didn't dare to look at Bruce, let alone Nemo.He could only turn around and said in a hurry, "I'm going to drive." Then, almost running, he fled from here.

Nemo looked again at the place where the two coffins that he could no longer see disappeared.

"Where's Batman?" he asked.

This time, Bruce didn't answer him.

Nemo asked, "Batman, he made a promise to me standing on Wayne Tower, Jason's favorite gargoyle. Do you know what he said?"

Bruce remained silent.

"Didn't Batman tell you? Okay, then I'll play it to you."

【Backtrackingspell】(backtracking spell)

Nemo pulled out his wand without hesitation, and he said the spell in front of Bruce.

It was like a faded, old movie playing in there.Inside is Batman and Nemo standing atop a gargoyle atop Wayne Tower at night.

Batman's metal-scratched, rough, electronic voice sounded between the two: "I promise you, I will value him as much as Dick, and I will teach him well and never let him He had the opportunity to encounter any mortal danger."

The picture disappeared, but Bruce's sight seemed to be fixed on the place where the magic was shown just now.

The two fell into a deathly silence.

After a while, Nemo was the first to laugh.

His laughter grew louder and louder, until finally he burst into tears.

"Bruce Wayne." He patted the nonexistent dust on his chest.

"Do you think you are ridiculous?" He laughed for a while while speaking.

"I'm ridiculous too." Nemo turned around, threw the alarm that Batman had given him on the ground, and walked over without hesitation, crushing it.

"I actually believed you."

Bruce stood there for a long time before walking slowly towards the parking lot.

He opened the back door of the car and found that Nemo hadn't left.He sat like a statue in the back of the car, Dick had obviously just cried, and the glove box by the door was full of used tissues.

Bruce got in and Dick started the car slowly.None of the three spoke.

After driving out of the parking lot, Nemo said, "Do you not want to see me, and you are thinking that this person has left, why is he still here?"

He continued to say indifferently: "I don't want to see you again, but there is still something I want to know."

Bruce then responded slowly: "You say."

"How did my Jason die?"

Bruce fell silent again.

"Then let me ask another question, who killed him."

Bruce's fingers twitched uncontrollably, as if remembering something.

In the end, he answered him calmly and masochistically: "It was me, I killed Jason."

Nemo seemed to sneer: "It's good that you know."

He continued: "But don't change the subject, you know what and who I'm asking."

This time, Bruce didn't answer him again.

Nemo sighed.

"Okay, it doesn't matter if you don't tell me. I'll figure it out myself."

Nemo was very calm, as if he was talking about what to have for dinner.

"Pay back the debt, and pay for the murder. How did Jason die? I will let the person who killed Jason die for me in the same way."

Dick looked from the rearview mirror to Bruce's face almost instantly.

But Bruce's sunglasses always cover his eyes, making it impossible to see his emotions.

"Killing is a felony," Bruce said.

"Ha." Nemo laughed exaggeratedly.

"So what about a felony?" Nemo sneered.

"In Gotham, how many people have committed serious crimes? Have they been punished?" Nemo asked sharply, looking directly at Bruce's profile.

"If putting those people in a crappy paper mental institution is any punishment. It's a 'heavy' crime."

Nemo took a deep breath, looked at Bruce coldly, and said mockingly: "If you want to blame it, you can blame yourself, why you agreed with Jason to be Robin, and why Batman didn't break Jason's leg and let him Give up this sick ideal completely, and blame Jason Todd, why he chose to be Robin, and still come to provoke me. It is you who made me so sad today."

"So what about a felony? Bruce Wayne, you can't beat me, and Batman may not be able to beat me. I swear by my last name, what I want to do will be done. Let me tell you plainly, except myself, no one in this world can judge me."

After saying that sentence that day, he cast the leap spell again and disappeared in front of Bruce.

In the days that followed, Nemo's clinic was still open during the day, but people became much quieter.

On this day, Barbara placed after the clinic closed.Nemo nodded at her, asked her to come in and asked casually, "How is your injury?"

"Healing well. Dr. Nemo, thank you very much for your help," Barbara said.

Nemo replied with some disinterest: "It's nothing, but take care of yourself in the future, I won't help you anymore."

Barbara took a domino mask from her bag and handed it to Nemo.

"This is what Dick asked me to pass on to you, saying that you mentioned to him that you wanted a personal item that Jason had when he had an accident."

She remembered Dick's broken look when he handed him the mask. She had never seen Dick so sad. He asked Barbara to pass it on to Nemo, saying that he was ashamed to face the doctor.

Nemo lowered his eyes and looked at it carefully for a while before reaching out to finish the mask.

"Thank you," he said.

Barbara shook her head, her eyes were moist, but she continued, "I promised Daddy I would never be Batgirl again."

Nemo didn't respond.

Barbara continued: "He knelt by my bed and begged me to give up. He said he could die for Gotham, but he couldn't lose me..."

Barbara tilted her head slightly, trying not to shed tears.

"Then congratulations to Director Gordon." Nemo said slowly.

The two stood quietly for a while, and Barbara put a mobile phone on Nemo's desk.

"Bruce said, this should belong to you, he has already backed up the information in it, don't you mind." After finishing speaking, she left.

Nemo lightly stroked the domino mask in his hand, then picked up the mobile phone on the table, and walked into the small bedroom converted from the storage room where Jason used to live.

Because this room was not used to live in people, so the lighting is not good, there is only a small transom.

But this space of less than ten square meters was neatly and warmly arranged by Jason.

A 90-centimeter camp bed is placed against the wall, covered with a blue checked sheet.Parallel to the head of the bed is also a white desk less than 80 centimeters against the wall.On the table is a suggested bookshelf that Jason made out of wood. On the shelf are a few books that Jason often reads recently.

On the other wall was a log-colored bookcase, which Jason found second-hand from a flea market. The old cabinet had been carefully polished and varnished by him.Let this old bookcase that has been at least 20 years old be rejuvenated, and now the bookcase is full of books that Jason has read.

Nemo took out a book and opened it, and he could see the reading notes Jason made next to him.

He closed the book unbearably and put it back on the shelf.

In the end, he sat on Jason's narrow single bed, picked up the Batman pillow on the bed and threw it on the ground, and then slowly lay down.

It was only then that he discovered that Jason had pasted starry sky wallpaper on the ceiling of the storage room at some point.

After Nemo turned on the phone and turned on the screen, the screen saver was not the default screen saver he had set before, but a selfie of Jason and a strange woman.Jason in the photo is smiling very brightly.

This should be Sheila Heywood.

Nemo took a closer look at the photo. Sheila Heywood has short curly red hair, perhaps because she has been in war-torn areas all year round. Her face is a bit sad, but it doesn't prevent her from being a beauty when she was young.

On the desk next to the bed was a bottle of tequila, and next to it was a half-glass left over from Nemo's recent stay in Jason's room.

Jason looks so much like his biological mother.

Thinking this way, he raised his head and drank the wine in the glass.The spicy and bitter taste of agave rushes to the nostrils instantly.

Then he opened the phone's photo album, there was a video in it, and Nemo clicked on it.

It was a video at night, and the location looked like a Red Cross camp. They seemed to be holding a simple award ceremony or a celebration ceremony. A group of adults and children of various races formed a large circle near the tent with the Red Cross logo.An older black uncle mentioned an award, it seemed to be the most popular award for children, and the winner was Sheila Heywood.

In the crowd sitting around, Sheila Heywood stood up. She took off her white nurse uniform, revealing a long wine red dress underneath.She took her prize from the host - a handmade bracelet made of beautiful little stones.There was warm applause from below.The woman thanked her, and the host asked her to sing a song, so she looked in the direction of the phone camera and said, "This song is dedicated to my son. He grew up to be the best boy in a place I don't know." .”

Nemo heard a smirk coming from the phone.

Then, the noisy voice in the air quieted down, and the woman sang a very gentle lullaby.

At the end of the song, there was another round of applause.Sheila Heywood bowed, then smiled and walked towards the phone camera.

Then he clicked on the second video. This video should be secretly recorded. The angle of view is very bad. Half of the lens is blocked by an unknown object, so Nemo can only try to identify it in a limited field of view.Sheila Heywood was talking to a man in a familiar purple suit in the corner of the tent. For some reason, the video and sound recorded by the mobile phone were severely disturbed, and only Heywood and the opposite man could be heard. After a fierce quarrel, in the end, the woman's voice gradually weakened.Because the video does not capture the heads of the two, only Sheila Heywood can only be seen taking a step back at the end, and then choked up.

Nemo paused the video, zoomed in on the part of the purple suit, carefully discerned and thought about it, and finally remembered who this person was, it was the clown.He already had a relatively certain guess about the murderer in his heart.

Finally, Nemo opened Jason's address book. He only saved a number with this phone, and the note on the number was Mom.

There are several voice messages sent from this number, Nemo clicks on them and listens to them one by one.

Gotham did not know when it started to rain heavily, and the majestic raindrops hit the ground, which could be heard clearly even in this small room.

"Mom, I walked around the campsite by myself today and played football with the local kids. They all knew Nurse Heywood, said you were gentle, and often gave them snacks. I'm so proud of you, but Also kinda jealous of them because they got your love."

"Mom, are you still busy? I know it may take a while for you to admit that you have a teenage son in front of your colleagues, but I really want to spend more time with you. You can call me?

"Mom, you're not in the camp today, are you on a field trip? Why didn't you call me? It's a mess here, and I'll follow you from afar to protect you. Don't you want to see me?"

"Mother……"

"Mother……"

"Mom, why do you always avoid me? Don't you sing to me? I really want to be by your side. If you receive a message, you must call me."

Nemo kept his eyes closed, and he played these messages in a loop like masochistic.

From these messages, he could feel a 15-year-old boy's turbulent and restrained nostalgia for his mother, as well as the bitterness that he couldn't ask for.

The sound of the rain was getting louder and louder, as if the pouring rain was helping the boy who was always 15 years old to cry wantonly.

He didn't raise his hand to touch the domino mask until he felt that his heart was numb with pain, and maybe he wouldn't be crushed by any more painful memories.

He raised his wand and tapped it on the center of the mask.

【Backtrackingspell】(backtracking spell)

A wisp of mist rose from the center of the mask, they gradually rose into the air, and finally covered the entire ceiling thinly.

"Jason, I'm going to chase that batch of laughing gas, you stay here, please, just monitor, don't face the clown alone, I can accept all your previous rebellions, only this time, listen to me, don't do it yourself Do it, listen to me."

Nemo saw in the picture that Batman held Robin's shoulders and gave him solemn orders.

"Okay, you go. The laughing gas must be recovered, and it cannot be released in the refugee camp. I will monitor the clown here."

Batman patted him on the shoulder one last time, and turned to leave.

Robin watched the clown's every move from a distance, until she saw Sheila Haywood and the clown enter a warehouse together.

He seemed to struggle for a long time, and finally said softly to himself: "I'm sorry, I have to go, that's my mother."

So Robin walked towards the warehouse without hesitation.

The clown's crowbar slammed down on the restrained Robin, and he laughed happily as he hit it.

"Ah, I really can't wait to look forward to the expression of this little bat when he receives this carefully prepared gift."

"Bam—"

Again, Robin groaned in pain and spat out a mouthful of blood.

One of his eyes could not be opened at all, but the other was staring at the woman in the corner.

Sheila Heywood turned away from watching the beating of her own son behind her.But the trembling fingers she held up to reveal that her heart was not as unfeeling as she showed.

The clown seemed to be pleased by this scene, he grinned and said, "The love between mother and child is so touching."

Sheila Heywood couldn't take it anymore, and shouted with her back to them: "You kill him and Batman will not let you go! He will kill you!"

The clown laughed loudly: "Huh? He will kill me? Then I'm looking forward to it!"

"Bam—"

This time, he hit Robin hard on the head, and then stepped on his breastbone.

Nemo closed his eyes. It should be at this moment that the protective spell on Jason's body was triggered.

The author says:

It was updated at noon today, I hope everyone will leave a lot of comments, writing these chapters is really exhausting emotionally...

If there are more comments, it will be updated again at 9 pm.Thank you Dakar~

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