[Zhongyingmei] How difficult is it to become a reliable adult

It was a very pleasant and satisfying evening for April.

Except when he sneaked back to the manor with Damian, he found Dick sitting on the sofa with a blank expression in his bedroom, and Ah Fu standing next to him raised his eyebrows.

This was the biggest scare April had received in the six years since she was born, and she almost stepped on the air and fell off Damian's flying motorcycle.

The information to be memorized has doubled again, and this time all kinds of information about all superheroes in service are added.

"I'm miserable," Jonathan sighed. "As soon as I got home, I saw my mother sitting in the living room waiting for me."

The boy's eyes were blank, "I contracted all the housework for this half month."

"You might as well think about how to pass the competition selection and get a place in the competition."

Damian unpacked the cucumber sandwich, and quickly snatched an egg tart from Jonathan's lunch box, "Otherwise, when we go to New York, you'll have to paint the fence in the countryside."

"Hey, Damian!" As always, Jonathan failed to stop Damian from stealing, and he resignedly distributed another piece of egg tart to Ai Puli, "Here, this is made by Mom."

April trades the school cookies Ah Fu brought her in jars.

The school dismisses very early in the afternoon, so the lunches brought by the students from home are usually not much, and they can only fill their stomachs.

Normally, some sandwiches and French fries are sold in the campus convenience store of Xicheng School, but the school just had a big mess on Halloween, and many places are still under renovation.

Every time Jonathan passed by the cleaning site of the ruins of the laboratory building, he would shrink his neck guiltily.

And April and Damian.

The former doesn't blush and his heart doesn't beat, and he can decently guess with his classmates what kind of catastrophe happened to bring down a building.

The latter is strictly speaking the son of the investor in the building, and few people would go to him and talk about it.

Only poor Jonathan suffered from the torment of conscience repeatedly.

Ai Puli quickly finished the sandwich made by Alford, and she slapped the bread crumbs off her hands, "You don't have to wait for me after school today, my dad is here to pick me up."

Damian just swallowed the last bite of the sandwich, "Don't we need to send you back?"

April and Dick's apartment in Haven is about four and 10 minutes' drive from Westside School, and there is no direct school bus.

As a vigilante living a double life, Dick doesn't have time every day to drive her to and from school.Damian and Alfred occasionally stand in for him.

"Don't bother you, Dad said he would pick me up today."

she said, frowning.Because they were caught eating supper in the middle of the night, the father and daughter signed an unequal treaty. Today, April's school time will be dominated by Dick.

The girl secretly vowed in her heart that she would be more cautious next time she did small tricks, so as not to let her parents catch any clues.

Another signer of the unequal treaty is staying in the cave under the Wayne Manor, sitting in front of the bat computer and reading the information on the computer.

They obtained a lot of information from the clown, but most of them were derived by Bruce through indirect reasoning, and they needed to be integrated and verified at this moment.

The necklace that controls Poison Ivy's mind is from Mother April, a mysterious woman who made a deal with the Joker a long time ago.

The Joker gave her something, and in exchange, the necklace was kept.The Joker has been waiting to use it for just a few things.

Compared with most long-term residents of Arkham, the logic of the clown's actions is chaotic and full of randomness.But Batman knows very well that his old opponent is essentially a thoughtful planner. Combined with his actions against Aprily, the facts finally lead to a conclusion.

The Joker probably knew of Aprily's existence from the very beginning, and this necklace was something he left behind against Aprily.Most likely, this necklace was part of a deal between him and April's mother, and she left something with it.

Following this clue, they got a surveillance video of April's mother's profile.

It was a face Dick didn't recognize, and it wasn't a face Dick had seen under April's psychic influence.

Bruce fell into thought, raised his eyes, and deduced the facts from the existing inconspicuous clues.

"She changed her body."

He told Dick, "Before she decided to invade A's body, she changed bodies, and it was this behavior that gave her the confidence that she would not miss it."

"She may be waiting for a suitable opportunity, requiring A's body to grow enough to accommodate her soul, or waiting for A's ability to awaken. Her failure lies in variables. When she is weakest, her daughter is stronger than her."

This woman is like a snake that sheds its old skin and puts on a new one every once in a while.Dick had no way of being sure when he had seen her, whether they had crossed paths.

Fortunately, she has become the past tense of April.She will not bother his daughter again.

Dick turned off the data on the bat computer and sealed it in the deepest place.

He stood up and took off the mask on his face.In an instant, he changed from Ye Yi back to a worried single father, who was about to pick up his daughter who was keen to sneak out of the house in the middle of the night from school.

Bruce saw through his itinerary for tonight, "You plan to take her there."

"She must go there to see it." Dick muttered, "She's not an evil and mysterious little witch, she's Grayson."

"Of course Grayson is going to the circus."

"We're going to watch a circus show." Aprily peeked out from above the circus brochure. "There should be popcorn and Coke for a circus show."

"I looked at your bill last night," said Dick, crossing his arms across his chest like an impassable wall between Aprily and the snack cart stall. "You drank at least two liters last night. soda."

Ai Puli is a devout soda drink believer, she justified herself, "I am not the only one who drank it, Damian and Qiao Mingming also drank it!"

"The three shared equally, and you also drank 667 milliliters." Dick said ruthlessly, "Your baby teeth rejected you."

April's face collapsed into a soft little sandbag.

Dick was unmoved, "Jason said that you can drink it. From now on, what Jason said has no effect in this family."

Ai Puli turned her head three times a step, reluctantly looking at the row of soda bottles on the stall.She muttered faintly, "You don't love me anymore."

Dick's half-smile, "Because my heart is a house, honey, and there are a lot of people living in it."

April, eager to imitate Damian's outrage, stepped on Dick's sneakers.Considering the future supply of soda, she gave up this unrealistic idea.

They didn't buy snacks and drinks, entered the arena earlier than others, and picked a good seat in the front row.

April knew that Dick grew up in a circus when she was a child. She looked around and quickly forgot the little father-daughter grievances with Dick. "Did you grow up in this circus?"

"No." He pinned the crooked hairpin on April's head, with a nostalgic and deep expression, "The circus I grew up in is not very convenient for us to go there now."

He didn't want to show too much of his dark side in front of Ai Puli, and smiled easily, "This circus is also very famous. Their acrobatic performances are great. Although they are not famous for trapeze, you can also come and see them." .”

Ai Puli thought for a while, tilted her head and frowned and stared at Dick, "Dad, I have already decided to learn ballet. Barbara said that she will give me a pair of pointe shoes when my insteps are almost pressed."

The little girl who didn't know that she had just exposed that she had a secret chat with Barbara said regretfully, "If you want me to learn acrobatics, go to the back row."

Dick laughed, "You can learn anything, as long as you like it."

While they were talking, more and more spectators entered the arena, gradually filling the entire hall.The theme song of the circus is still playing cheerfully, the voice is getting lower and lower.

The colorful lights replaced the normal lights, and the light suddenly dimmed, and April unconsciously approached Dick.

Like a vigilant bird, she hides herself under the belly of her parents.

She still likes to face everything with a cautious attitude, the difference is that she becomes full of confidence in front of close people.

The lights went out, and the theme song with beating notes disappeared at some point.Darkness and silence enveloped everyone present.

Aprile grabbed Dick by the sleeve, her eyes widening.

In the next second, the gorgeous theme song was played again, and the colorful lights were reflected on the roof of the circus, like small planets moving on their own trajectories.

An elephant sits on an animal trainer, a tiger crosses a burning ring of fire, an acrobat walks on a unicycle on a tightrope, and a clown with a painted face throws and catches different colored balls.

The emcee in the top hat opened his hands towards them, his voice echoing Dick's, "Welcome to the circus!"

Perhaps no matter what situation Grayson's blood was in, no matter what kind of body they slept in, they couldn't refuse such excitement.

Dick hadn't had time to tell April the story about his parents.

The upright and brave Grayson couple, the chivalrous sky dancer.They didn't get to meet April, but the love and support they gave to Dick, the courage and kindness that runs through Dick's life, these beautiful things will be passed on to April through Dick.

This is the so-called inheritance of blood.

Ai Puli looked in one direction halfway. She was so fascinated by the performance that her eyes were glued to the field.This action quickly caught Dick's attention, "What's wrong?"

"Someone was watching us," Aprily replied truthfully. "It took a long time to watch, but there was no malice."

Dick frowned.He didn't want April to be involved in his troubles, but April's feeling was always accurate, so he just kept this doubt in his mind.

After the performance, Aprily did not change her mind about learning ballet, but she was very interested in tonight's performance, and she kept asking Dick, the former circus star.

Dick patiently answered her questions one by one.

"Does the tamer sleep with the animals?"

"No, but those big guys sometimes fight for favor, and if they are not appeased, they will be depressed."

"Can't the clown catch the ball?"

"Possibly, that's why they have to practice a lot, and only those who perform well will play."

"Are the acrobats here better than you," Aprily said with sly eyes, "Who do you think is better?"

Dick put his hands on her shoulders. "You're underestimating me, girl. I have to tell you that Jason gave me a note to work at his circus."

"Wow." April said in surprise, "He's so stingy."

"really."

It was the feeling of being watched again, only this time more private and calm.

Ai Puli turned her head, and outside the circus tent stood a strange oriental face.

The girl with black hair and black eyes walked towards them and stopped one meter in front of April.Her dark eyes met Aprily's.

There was no greeting on both sides, which is not a polite behavior.But the girls, one big and one small, didn't care about this.

April is a person who is very good at reading people.

The girl who suddenly appeared in front of them was a knife in its sheath.Those who don't know her will think of her as a fragile ornament, but in fact she is omnipotent and bathed in blood.

She is willing to put it back into the sheath to protect others from being hurt by her own sharpness.

More importantly, she, like April, is an observer. They are analyzing the world and seeking their own way of survival.

The girl blinked her dark eyes, and said slowly, "Do you want to drink soda?"

Ai Puli's eyes lit up, and she was about to answer.

Dick pressed her shoulder, and said kindly and cruelly, "Thank you, she doesn't want to."