[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

When Jason explained to the head of the department that he had decided to suspend his enrollment plan after various considerations, the expression on the other party's face looked like he had gone home after a hard day and caught his wife in bed, and at the same time found that he had helped the old next door to raise him for ten years His son was just as desperate.

—Probably because he heard the sound of huge sponsorships flying away every year for the next four years.

"Mr. Wayne, are you really going to stop thinking about it?" The dean pushed his glasses, trying in vain to change Jason's mind.

It's a pity that he will never know how firm Jason's determination is: "No, I'm sorry to trouble you, Professor Stevenson. I have always yearned for your school, but I found that the climate on the West Bank is really not suitable for me Cough cough." Jason covered his mouth and turned his head to pretend to cough.

In fact, Jason planned that he would never be near Stanford again in his life. The lollipop angel Gabriel brought him a psychological shadow that almost enveloped the entire California.He even gave Sam a complete description of Gabriel's appearance, telling him to stay away from this guy, just in case, Jason even gave Sam Lucifer's phone number-it sounds like Gabriel anyway There is a bit of disagreement with Lucifer, since that Gabriel guy is unkind first, don't blame him for being unrighteous!

After making all the preparations, Jason bought the train ticket with satisfaction, turned off his mobile phone, computer and all electronic items and threw them at the bottom of the suitcase, preparing to comfort him with a peaceful railway journey across the east and west coasts. Deeply hurt hearts.Damian expressed his full support for this decision, and even bought a ticket for the entire car for it-even if Jason wants to hold a concert in the car or use the car as a dance floor on a whim, no one can stop him.

The Wayne brothers ran happily to the railway journey, completely forgetting that at the beginning of the journey, the traveling companion was not the one beside them at this moment.

So when Tim finally figured out what happened to the "tragedy" in the Titan Tower, he was full of anger and was about to teach some little devil a lesson-yes, he knew that Damian definitely went to find Jay. Tim, if he contacted Jason in advance, Jason would definitely cover for this brat, so Tim planned to catch Damian to catch him.

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"Sorry, the guests in this room have already checked out earlier." The front desk staff of the hotel answered Tim's question about the inability to open the door with the room card with a professional smile. setting, the old card will become invalid immediately and cannot be used.”

"Checked out?" Tim couldn't help raising the volume, "But, but... Ah, forget it, did he leave a message or something? Or leave my luggage at the front desk?"

The front desk clerk lowered his head to check the records displayed on the computer, and when he looked up, he had an apologetic smile on his face: "I'm very sorry, I can't find any messages or items here, maybe you can try to contact him directly?"

Tim looked awkwardly at the dialing record on the phone that was approaching double digits, and nodded absently to the front desk staff: "Good idea, thank you, sorry for the trouble." While saying this, Tim once again gave up hope After pressing the dial button, after the initial three seconds of waiting, a familiar system tone came: "Sorry, the phone you dialed is currently not powered on..."

This is so weird, why did Jason check out all of a sudden?Is Damian with him?Even if you check out, why even turn off your mobile phone?Did something happen during this time that Jason had to flee?

The abnormal situation forced Tim to start thinking in various bloody and horrible directions.When he set off for the Titan Tower, he only brought light luggage. The computer and other equipment were all in Jason's place. Tim could only contact the Titan Tower partners to come to pick him up, and at the same time use his mobile phone to conduct limited investigations.

In fact, he should have notified Bruce immediately, but knowing Jason's personality well, if he really just doesn't want to be disturbed for some reason, the attention from Batman should be something that Jason absolutely doesn't want to receive at this moment. gift pack.

Especially when Tim found out that a certain self-media that specializes in digging celebrity gossips had just posted news a few hours ago, he was even more convinced that Bruce should never be involved—unless he wanted to send Jason or Damian for a while. A trip to Germany for an in-depth medical experience - giving it to Damian sounds like a good idea, but considering the age of the two protagonists... it's better not to accidentally injure friendly troops.

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The so-called railway journey is not a non-stop ride. When transferring between states, Jason will also stop for a day or two to visit the scenic spots. It has been ten days since he arrived in New York.

Finally, I feel that my body and mind are completely healed by the natural beauty and cultural and historical sites along the way. After recharging, I am ready to return to Gotham to re-invest in the great city construction, whether it is Wayne Enterprises or Red Hood.Jason squatted on the ground whistling and rummaged through the suitcase, took out his mobile phone that had been forgotten for more than a week, turned it on, ignored the app prompts pouring in, and prepared to call a car back to Gotham.

Almost at the moment when all the prompts were over, Jason's hand almost trembled when a call came in, and he smashed the machine onto the road and let the car tide destroy it.

Caller ID: Bruce (old man)

Jason believed that he must have been too nervous to press the answer button with trembling hands instead of rejecting the call.

"Jason."

Ah, it's familiar, Bruce's voice with an uncracked jaw.

Jason suddenly felt prickly at the corners of his eyes, and the mist made him see things a little unclear—but he couldn't tell whether the tears were because the wanderer felt the warmth of home when he heard his father's voice, or because of the illusory orthopedic incident Let him feel the call of Germany.

"Hi...Hi! Old man, what's the matter?" Putting the phone to his ear, he quickly searched for the nearest subway entrance with his eyes at the same time. As long as he got off the subway, he could quickly end the call with the excuse of poor signal reception.

"We need to talk, where are you?" Bruce's voice on the other end of the phone was calm, not looking like he was going to break anyone's legs, which reassured Jason a little.

"Just arrived in New York." Jason didn't intend to lie about the location. If Bruce wanted to, he would use all kinds of cheating methods to grab Jason directly from the street. fly a trip.

There was a rustling sound from the phone, as if flipping paper.The files in the Batcave are all electronic, and there will be paper files, probably in the mansion library upstairs, or the documents that the Wayne Group needs to sign (but most of the time, electronic signatures are used instead of paper copies) ), it was really difficult for Jason to piece together the environment Bruce was in and what he was going to say to himself based on the background sound alone.

Damian was also bowing his head to type on the phone, his brows were tightly frowned, probably not something pleasant, and seeing Jason's eyes on him, Damian handed the phone to Jason, it was full of It's all all kinds of messages from Dick, basically asking Damian why he ran away from Titan, where he went, why he didn't answer the phone...etc.

It didn't mention their thrilling love hotel escape story, it seems that the survival index has improved a lot.

"Do you have anywhere else to go?" Bruce's question is almost equivalent to: "No matter where you are going, don't go and get back!".

Normally, even if Jason had no other places he wanted to go, he would deliberately pull out ten or eight places, just to make Bruce compromise and squeeze out an "Okay" from his teeth. Knowing whether he could keep his leg, Jason was honest for a rare time: "No, I'm going home, and I'm calling for a car."

Bruce probably didn't expect Jason to agree so readily, and after a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone, he replied: "Okay, don't call the car, I'll let the company send a car there. Damian will stay with you ? Let him come back with you."

After briefly explaining the details of waiting for the bus, Jason didn't dig out any useful information from Bruce—"We'll talk about it when you come back." All of them were dismissed by this sentence.

"What do you think it's because of?" Jason thought for a long time, but couldn't figure out what made Bruce rush to talk to him.

Damian pressed the last punctuation mark on the keyboard, turned the device into Do Not Disturb mode and stuffed it back into his pocket, completely ignoring Dick: "Maybe, first of all, I'm just hypothesizing because he wants to introduce Do you know women who share your interests?"

Jason remembered the female assassins who kept appearing in Gotham for a while, and suddenly felt top-heavy, please don't even convince the old man to join the blind date!

"Hehe, that's impossible." Jason shook his head, shaking the scene of the big marriage and love show out of his head, "You might as well say that he found us a stepmother, and that it would be more interesting for us to go home and meet 'auntie' possible."

"It's even more impossible." Damian directly refuted Jason's assumption, "Mother will not let these women take advantage of it."

Thinking about Thalia's fighting power, Jason had to admit that Damian was right. Before these "aunts" had a chance to step into the gate of Wayne's house, they had probably been "disappeared".

What exactly did Bruce want to talk to him about? This was a question until the two of them got into the car sent by Wayne Enterprises and took a nap in the back seat until the gate of Wayne Manor appeared in front of them. No one was satisfied. the result of.

——No matter how startling the subject may be, it's great to be able to see Wayne Manor again in person, not a smoky ruin.

Bruce was sitting in the study waiting for Jason. The desk was covered with ancient manuscripts that looked like they would fall apart at any time, as well as ancient documents that were carefully preserved in sheaths and whose age could not be tested at a glance.

"Uh... Are we going to deal with some evil god case?" Jason glanced at several translations, and he still saw a few keywords such as "soul" on them.

Bruce didn't answer directly, but pointed to a painting that looked like it would shatter if touched, and the weapons on it looked familiar.

"Blade of the Great Caste?" Jason walked around the table, carefully examining the ancient artifact that should be older than all the people in the house combined, "What's wrong?"

Could it be something like Nameless making a comeback?

Bruce looked at Jason's expression full of question marks, his brows were deeply furrowed, as if he didn't know how to speak to get the question to the point, and he seemed to be observing Jason's expression to see if he was hiding anything.

"Did you know that the blade of the great caste will consume the soul of the user?"

Jason blinked and looked at Bruce without saying a word.

"You know." Bruce narrowed his eyes and helped Jason speak out, "Then let me ask you, when do you plan to bring this matter up for discussion?"

For the answer to this question, Jason chose to turn around and rush out the door.

"Jason! Stop!" Bruce slapped the table and stood up, ready to chase someone.

Hearing the sound, he chose to speed up his feet, but because of the factor of "I haven't been home for more than a year", he didn't grasp the distance between the door and the solid wood bookcase next to him, and Jason, who kicked the bookcase as soon as he took a step, fell to the ground with his legs hugged.

The scene in the house was chaotic for a while, and no one noticed how horrifying this scene was in the eyes of Tim, who was held by Connor and floated in the air outside the window——

"Quick, Connor, let's go! I've decided to stay in the Titan Tower forever!" Tim pressed his beating heart, thinking about how to destroy the collection under the third wooden board from the right under the bed, and the second row of bookcases Behind the reference book, and hidden in the secret door under the desk... various idol collections are used editions, missionary editions, and collector's editions.

God bless him, he still wants to have a pair of intact legs in his next life!