[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

The first thing that made Jason feel abnormal was the temperature.Then there was the fresh air, and the broadcast in Chinese, English and Japanese was constantly switching in my ears: "Ladies and gentlemen, today's visit time is over, please follow the instructions in the museum and move to the exit, thank you."

Jason and Dick looked at each other, with huge question marks in their eyes.

But in the blink of an eye, they were still in Mystic Falls in 1864, and the deafening sound of shotgun firing was still echoing in their ears.Now they are standing in the empty exhibition hall, wearing clothes from costume dramas, and standing among the display glass cabinets.

"What the hell?" Jason touched his chest carefully, as if to confirm that he was real and not an illusion produced by his brain.He really stood down-to-earth in the exhibition hall, even holding his only remaining energy gun in his hand.

Dick poked Jason on the shoulder, and when Jason turned around, he saw Dick staring blankly at a certain display case.When he followed Dick's gaze, Jason almost missed and smashed the glass case closest to him.

Lying in the closet was Jason's other gun, but the one in the closet looked much older, its surface had lost its luster, and it looked like it had been violently disassembled, but it couldn't be put back together perfectly.The description of the display next to it says that this is a model of a future weapon imagined by people 140 and five years ago. It is called a model because the gun cannot be fired, and there is no magazine that can be filled with bullets.

It would be a ghost if it could be loaded. These two guns were the product of Roy's combination of the technology of the planet Tamaran and the re-magical modification of the energy gun that Jason first copied from Star Lord.He knew that the bloodbath of court members in the maze of the owl court put the old man under a lot of psychological pressure. As a good son who is considerate to his parents, Jason naturally accepted the friendly technical support from Roy. The original pistol needed to be recharged. Yes, otherwise it’s just an ordinary gun｜. Now this set uses alien technology, which solves the problem of charging, and directly achieves the goal from knocking out to killing. And because it doesn’t need bullets, it completely eliminates With the possibility of ballistic tracking, Dad will never be able to catch me and become popular in the wild!

The display location of this gun is on his and Dick's tour route, that is to say, if there is no sudden time travel, Jason and Dick continue to visit, there will be "two guns" on Jason Seeing this gun that has gone through a century of vicissitudes in the state, and then forming a paradox.But because of that inexplicable journey, now when Jason sees the gun in the cabinet, he only has the other half of it left on his body, which solves the paradoxical phenomenon of "it is impossible to have two selves in the same time and space".

"That is to say... Just like "Harry Potter", Harry and Hermione used the time-space converter to go back in time and saved themselves without letting themselves see 'myself'." Dick said with a sudden realization Excitedly explaining, "Although your gun has always been here, but when you bring its counterpart and are about to meet 'it'—time is distorted!"

Dick's voice was buzzing in Jason's ears, and what Emily said not long ago came to mind: "No one can tame time, you never know from which tricky angle time will come Teach us a lesson."

Looking at it this way, time really made Jason give himself a big slap in the face—this time travel he hated half to death, in a way, he planted the cause himself, and Dick arranged this itinerary is just a Just a trigger point.He would never know if he would have encountered this gun by chance one day and experienced this trip to Mystic Falls without this trip.

Dick was still citing "Harry Potter" excitedly. Seeing that he was about to fully describe the final time-space transformation plot of "Prisoner of Azkaban", Jason fully felt a wave called "Look at you" from him. , I can also quote from the classics" pride.

"Great, Mr. Grayson, ten points for Gryffindor." Jason deliberately interrupted Dick's story time with an exaggerated tone, and pulled his dusty shirt, "But you don't think we Should we switch back to 'Muggle' attire now, before anyone notices?"

"You're right, there should be spare work clothes over there in the staff lounge." Looking at his own reflection on the glass cabinet, Dick agreed with this proposal very much. When entering the "employee-only" passage, a group of black shadows ran towards them at a speed that clearly surpassed that of humans.

Without thinking about it, Dick subconsciously grabbed the edge of the carpet under his feet and pulled it aside violently. As expected, he saw the black shadow burst into a high-decibel scream, lying on the ground and "rolling" all the way in front of them.

"Phew! KF was immune to this trick many years ago, it seems that luck is still on our side." Patting his chest and exhaling, Dick carefully took out his short stick, guarding against this guy who seemed a little A familiar assailant.

It was a girl who was moaning and adjusting herself from a very indecent dog-eating mud position to a sitting position. From Dick's point of view, this girl looked very familiar.

"Anna? Annabelle?" As soon as Jason called out the name, Dick immediately connected the person in front of him with the girl from the herbal shop in Mystic Falls Town. It was indeed the same person, except that the girl in front of him was not wearing a complicated long dress. It was a simple T-shirt and jeans, and his hairstyle was no longer conservative and tight, but casually loose. The image changes were too different, and Dick, who didn't have much friendship with Anna, didn't recognize him at all for a while.

"Uh, Jason." Ana smiled awkwardly, rubbing her sore knee, "I'm not sure if I should say 'Long time no see' or... just a normal 'Hi', because to you we probably We met yesterday or the day before yesterday...uh haha..."

Jason stretched out his hand to help Anna get up from the ground, with a blank expression on his face from the beginning to the end: "To be honest, I'm a little confused now, what the hell is going on? Can someone explain?"

"Yes!" Anna clapped her hands, pointed at the ceiling of the exhibition hall, with a smile on her face, "Go upstairs, clothes, food and drinks... everything is ready! Hurry up, Wait a minute and the security guards will come to patrol!"

Jason and Dick exchanged glances, and followed Anna to the staff-only elevator upstairs. Right now, it seemed that she was the only one who could explain the situation clearly to them.

After Anna, I was not surprised to meet Mrs. Pearl upstairs, Jason.She very politely asked Jason and Dick to just use everything they saw in the room. After a series of courteous rejections, the two finally changed back to their familiar clothes lightly and happily, and put on cotton T-shirts. At that moment, Jason felt that he could finally understand the source of the excitement in those people who were trapped in the wilderness and finally rescued back to civilized society.

When everyone was sitting around the small square table, the first thing Mrs. Pearl said was to ask them what was the last thing they remembered.

***

Dick couldn't persuade Damon, no matter what he said, the other party still insisted on ambushing the convoy of vampires to save his beloved woman.

"This is ridiculous." After listening to Dimon's plan, Dick just wanted to open the other person's head to see what was inside. Could love corrode a person's brain like this?

"Listen, this is a convoy. What is the concept of a convoy? One carriage will be followed by another. How can you snatch one of them in such a long convoy without being seen by the carriages behind? "

"Stephan! Let's cooperate internally and externally." Damon changed his appearance of yelling and shouting a few minutes ago, and Dick couldn't help but wonder if the person in front of him was a smart person, "I believe he must be very willing to help. "

"It's too risky." Dick is not half as optimistic as Dimon, but he also knows that the other party is not the type to listen to advice, "Otherwise, I will go with you..." At least he can block it a little if the situation is not right. block.

"Don't bother!" Damon quickly rejected Dick, so fast that Dick felt a little hurt, as if he was some kind of horrible monster, "Really, don't bother you, you are a guest, you rest, this is myself I'll do it myself!"

"Don't bother, you are also Jason's friend, and you have shared so many things about Jason with me, so I can't let you get into trouble!" Dick was very sincere, and he didn't even know that Jason was hiding such a thing in his heart. What an awkward thought, the more he thinks about it now, the more he feels that he was a jerk back then, and now Little Wing doesn't need his big brother to take care of him, and those who miss it can't come back.At least he had to take care of Little Wing's tree hole... Ahhh!are friends!Don't let the other party go to the muzzle of the gun and die.

Dick finally managed to get himself into Dimon's team.

However, he always felt that as the captain, Damon's back looked a bit tragic, and he didn't know why.

***

After separating from Emily, Jason avoided the crowd all the way and moved in the direction of Salvador's house. He didn't know if Dick coaxed Damon back. He was really worried that he was stuck in the mire of love. A guy who can't extricate himself will kill himself.

Sure enough, before he was halfway there, he saw three sneaky figures in the grass on the opposite side of the road.

In all fairness, the choice of hiding place was pretty good, but the person who observed them was Jason, and the three of them made a lot of noise.

Damon pulled Stefan tightly beside him, and the two brothers followed Dick with only two or three steps between them, but Damon would turn his head to look at it from time to time, and then rubbed forward for a while. He took a few steps, as if the extra centimeter away from Dick would increase his sense of security by a liter.

What exactly did Dick do to Damon when he went after Emily?

Before figuring that out, Jason was more concerned with the equally veiled Giseppe Salvador who was on the same side of the road as he was, and another squire who also had a seat at the town's founders' meeting.

Across the road, the three small groups formed a triangular confrontation—Damon’s small group was obviously in a mess, Dick didn’t know what to say to Damon, Stefan seemed to want to ease the atmosphere, and Damon himself was as tense as an arrow on a fully drawn bow waiting to be released at any time.

A carriage holding vampires rattled past Jason, and a few minutes later, the front of another carriage appeared in his sight, and Damon's purpose was ready to be revealed.

Gisep and his companions were staring at Damon's actions, and knew without thinking too much that they were going to stop Damon, but they didn't know why they didn't make a move until now.Jason shifted his position slightly, making sure neither group noticed him.

When the third carriage passed by and the fourth carriage was not within sight, there was a rustling of grass on the opposite side, and Damon and Stefan rushed out one after the other to catch up with the third carriage.In Jason's eyes, Giuseppe Salvador and his companions also took out the shotguns they hid from the grass, and pointed the guns at their two sons.

Jason's eyes widened, unable to believe what he saw.

The El Salvador brothers wanted to unlock the door of the carriage with all their concentration, unaware that the man they called their father was aiming their guns at their own sons.

"Get down!" Dick's voice and two gunshots broke the oppressive silence at the same time.Jason watched as Dick burst out of the grass and threw himself at the Salvatore brothers, while Gisep, who had fired the first shot, had turned his gun to throw Dick at them with his club held high.

Jason has no doubt that Dick's stick can definitely hit the target as long as he lets go, but he doesn't guarantee that he won't be hit by bullets. Now he doesn't have Kevlar to protect him, and he doesn't have Afu and Dr. Leslie as his backing, so Jayson Sen made the only thought in his head——

"You son of a bitch!" He also rushed out with his gun raised, and pulled the trigger.

***

"And here we are" So ends the 1864 story.

Mrs. Pearl nodded thoughtfully, and slowly told what happened afterwards.

The Salvador brothers didn't survive that night. Although Gisep's mouth was squinted because of Jason's shot and he couldn't even stand still, his companions still caught up with the Salvador brothers and shot them dead.All the vampires were gathered in the church in the outskirts, and all were burned to ashes in a fire.

All the casualties that night were blamed on the Union Army, and the town of Mystic Falls also left a notable mark in the high school history textbook because of this "Battle of Willow Creek".

The gun that Jason gave to Emily came in handy one night. Mrs. Pearl had already been identified as a vampire, and she was about to be shot to death by the townspeople with crossbows. Hitting him with the energy gun Jason gave him for a while, the effect is amazing!The townspeople who were not hit saw their companion suddenly fell to the ground and twitched all over, but could not find any trauma. They all suspected that this was the evil method of the vampire and dared not pursue it deeply.

Pearl and Anna therefore owe Emily a favor, promising to protect her and her family all the way until they find a safe place to stay.It was not until Emily was about to die many years later that she asked her descendants to give the gun to the mother of pearl and explained the origin.

After that, Pearl and Anna have been paying attention to the name "Jason Wayne", but apart from one name, no one knows exactly which era he came from, even his identity background, even the name Authenticity is also unknown.

With the passage of time, technology has gradually developed, and even superheroes and humans with special functions are no longer news, but the search for "Jason Wayne" still has not made much progress.Gradually, their mother and daughter can only rely on this kind of exhibition, hoping that one day they can get some useful information from the flow of visitors and say "thank you" to Jason in person.

"Then one day I saw the news about Wayne's house in Gotham, and I thought... well, maybe this time I won?" Anna danced and shared with them the day she found out the truth, "I always At first I thought it was nonsense, that the rich and the young encountered terrorist attacks while traveling abroad, and then finally returned home after living in a foreign land for many years, but because of the name 'Jason', I forced myself to continue reading the news——Scary aunt I lost all my blood bags! It's really you! Can your life be more dramatic?"

"Wait, so you two already know who I am so early?" Jason suddenly didn't know how to respond, he was pretty sure he had never seen Mother of Pearl in Gotham, if they were trying to get close to him, The big caste blade on him will definitely react, just like now - he can feel that the woman in front of him is not human, but she is not evil, which is one of the reasons why he is willing to go with Anna. After 100 years, Anna is still a good vampire, and it makes no sense that she would suddenly want to hurt Jason and Dick.

"That's true, but we also realize that even if we come to thank you, you probably won't believe what we say." Mrs. Pearl explained with a smile, "After careful consideration, we have decided to maintain the status quo and not take any action. The second son Wayne of Gotham is really you, and one day you will complete this time cycle under the guidance of fate, just like now."

"But..." Dick said hesitantly, "I didn't plan to include this itinerary. It was because another place we planned to visit was temporarily closed, so I changed it here. That is to say, it is very likely that we I will never set foot here, never see Jason's gun, and never complete the time cycle."

"There are two possibilities, one means that you are not the person we are looking for, 'Jason Wayne' may be a descendant who looks very similar to you, then we will continue to wait, we are vampires, Theoretically, there is endless time." Mrs. Pearl said with a bitter smile, "If you are the one we are waiting for, and you never complete this time cycle in your whole life, then the worst situation is probably that we The time trajectory of these people will be completely overturned and rewritten. Emily didn't get your help, I would probably have died that night, Anna... Maybe it's bad luck, the fate of Emily and her family may be It's never been the same. Who knows, time is an unpredictable force in the world."

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became heavy, until Dick opened his mouth and said in as gentle a tone as possible: "It's actually very possible. My friend...'s friend knows Speedy, and he said that if Speedy goes back to the past at will and changes History, if it goes wrong, the entire timeline will be erased, and the scope of impact may not be just one or two people, but may also be the entire world."

Jason still finds it hard to believe that a travel plan involves the existence and extinction of a timeline, but since the time cycle in front of him has been completed, worrying about how this cycle started in the first place is like arguing about whether the chicken lays the egg or the egg lays. It is the same as who comes first to the chicken, no matter what the outcome is, the fact is already doomed.

Compared with the reason, Jason is more concerned about an illogical part of this story: "Since Emily rescued you, how do you know what happened to Brother Salvador? I doubt that Gisup is happy with him. My friend will openly and honestly describe to you how he killed his own son."

"As the direct victim's own son, dictation is more real and effective than anything else, isn't it?" Another familiar voice appeared at the door following the sound of footsteps and the door opening. Damon Salvador was lazily leaning against the door frame, Holding a copy of "Biography of a Tycoon", "You should really tell me that this book was not published until 1925. I have been looking for this book for 60 years!"

Obviously Damon has also become a member of the vampires, and has evidence that Jason is a future man - Jason can only smile awkwardly and politely.

Damon shook his head, smiled helplessly, and threw the book in his hand to Jason, who quickly caught the antique novel that was old and yellowed, but still looked well taken care of.Turning to the first page, he found Fitzgerald's signature and three unexpected words: "To Jason".

"I remember that you spoke highly of this book, and I know Fitzgerald himself. I told him that a friend is a fan of his book. I happened to have this book at hand, so I asked him to sign it."

Jason has already hugged the book tightly in his arms and refused to let go. This is the first edition!First edition signed by the author!

Dick looked at Dimon's operation in shock, why didn't he expect it?After driving for a few days and skipping a century, the relationship with Little Wing finally got a little closer.Throwing a book over here, Jason was as happy as when he opened the cereal circle and found out that he had won another box for free!

The eldest brother felt a little stuffy.

Fortunately, Damon's next sentence gave Dick a lot of balance in an instant: "Richard, now that I think about it, I think what you said back then made sense. It is really important to have a good relationship with your brother. How do you say that?" The...'Lack of love since I was a child, and I grew up abnormal', it is so true!"

"What, Stefan is abnormal?" Jason was still caressing the signed novel with his eyes, and he didn't lift his head when he spoke.

"Basically, after he became a vampire, he was extremely vicious. He is the type known as the 'Ripper' among vampires. He is extremely violent and will tear apart the blood-sucking objects." Damon's face was serious. Said, "Steven's reputation was very famous at that time, there are not many vampires in the Chicago area who don't know him."

...Jason and Dick exchanged a look, and they both thought of the Chicago serial murder case in the bat computer that was once used as a criminological example textbook for the Robins.

"Oh! I remembered! He also has a title, 'The Ripper of Monterey'." Anna added fire at the right time.

It's great, and another old case in the bat computer has also been solved, which is really gratifying.

"But it has been changed now. Thank God, he is now a vegetarian." Damon exhaled a long breath with lingering fear on his face, and made a prayer gesture of thanking God with his hands clenched under his chin, "Why do you two use this kind of food?" look at me?"

"What? It's okay!"

"There is no strange expression, you read it wrong!"

Dick and Jason said in unison.

Walking out of the exhibition hall run by Pearl and Anna, breathing the polluted air of the 21st century, and looking at his brother who has not been so happy with him, Jason felt that his desire to make Dick unhappy had already... Eighty points dropped to 75 points.

"Little Wing, if you really can't think about it that day, and you have the idea of ​​joining gangsters and causing harm to the world, please remember to tell me." Dick looked up at the dusty sky with a serious expression on his face.

Jason's answer was a look of caring for the mentally retarded. Dick didn't care much, anyway, he would give every brother in the family a lot of love, a lot of love!Absolutely won't let the younger brothers become... er, won't make the younger brothers' pervert tendencies worse!

A week later, the headlines of the Gotham Daily were all about the masked hero Red Hood walking between black and white, who was seen walking side by side with Black Mask.

The Bat family finally dispatched the AI ​​bat Brucey, and the little tree man Groot who entered the second stage of biological control, which stopped Nightwing from crying and going to jump Wayn Tower to "go astray" His younger brother's act of apologizing.