[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

Jason pulled up the hood of Cap T and waited for someone on the platform of Gotham Station.Sam sent a text message half an hour ago to tell him the arrival time, so it should be the next train to enter the station. It took him a lot of talking to get Bruce to let him go to the platform to pick him up. After all, Jason is the whole brother now. The object of Tan's gossip.

The first thing to change is the airflow. The incoming train brings the wind and the damp smell of the underground track to the platform, followed by the rumble of the rails vibrating from far and near, and the harsh chirping sound of the brakes.

The door had just slid open, and the passengers, like wild animals, squeezed their luggage bags or dragged their huge suitcases and rushed out of the car waddlingly.Sam stepped out of the carriage next to an old lady, and waited until the crowd dispersed before returning the purple suitcase in his hand to the old man, who did not match his attire, and watched the old lady drag Luggage left.

Sam took out his mobile phone and started calling at this moment, but he had just raised the mobile phone to his ear and waited for it to be connected, when someone's ringtone rang behind him.

"Hello, Sam." The same greeting came to Sam's ears through the handset and at the scene at the same time. As soon as he turned around, he saw the face under the red hat T that went viral on the gossip news.

"Jay—" Sam was about to say hello when he was interrupted by Jason's quiet gesture with a finger on his lips.

Then following Jason's signal, the two took the escalator up to the station hall one after the other. Outside the station there was a whole row of colorful minibuses waiting to welcome relatives and friends. Jason led Sam to a black Maserati and pulled away. door, making a "please" gesture.Sam pinched his luggage bag, always feeling that people around him seemed to be peeking at him, so he quickly lowered his head and got into the car.

"Hello, Sam. Long time no see." Bruce greeted Sam from the driver's seat through the rearview mirror.

"Hello, Mr. Wayne." Sam quickly stopped looking around and said hello obediently.

Jason was not as serious as Sam or Bruce, he flipped his hood back casually, turned around from the passenger seat and greeted Sam: "Sammy! You are so big! , I almost didn't recognize it."

Sam looked at Jason meaningfully, and then at Bruce next to him, his eyes clearly said: "You are ashamed to say that I am big."

"Hey, body shape doesn't matter." Jason said, rolled up his sleeves and held out his hand to Sam, "Come on, see if you want to sprinkle holy water or chant a spell or something, you should want to verify that I am not a monster Bar."

Sam looked at Bruce in the driver's seat, hesitant.He didn't want to splash Jason's face with holy water or cut his arm with a silver knife in front of his rich dad. This is Bruce Wayne, a super rich man who would cause the stock market to fluctuate no matter what he did!And he has a good relationship with Batman. Sam doesn't want to be hung upside down on a lamppost by Batman in the middle of the night.

On the contrary, Bruce saw Sam's hesitation, and directly agreed to verify it: "It's okay, Sam. I know that you, as hunters, are quite vigilant against such supernatural events, so it's good to test it."

"Uh, good." Sam took out a jar of holy water from the luggage bag and handed it to Jason, watching him pour the water into his mouth and swallow it in one gulp, without any abnormal reaction.

Taking back the water bottle, Sam handed over another silver knife: "Almost all monsters are allergic to silver, just use this knife to cut a small wound."

Jason slashed his arm according to his words, bright red blood seeped out from the wound quickly, without any adverse reaction enough to attract attention.Bruce handed his handkerchief silently.

"Are you okay? I won't eat you suddenly." Jason held the blade of the knife with a handkerchief and let Sam hold the handle to withdraw the silver knife. At the same time, he wiped off the remaining blood on the knife, and then covered it with the handkerchief Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.

"Yeah, it seems that if I don't believe you, I'll get into your car." Sam carefully put the knife and holy water back into the luggage, "But how did this happen? Mr. Wayne did it What magic ritual?"

Jason and Bruce glanced at each other, shaking their heads.There are a lot of Bruce rituals, but obviously none of them are useful.

"We don't know, but I'm not asking you to investigate the reason for my resurrection, but another evil supernatural existence."

"Oh?" Sam was a little surprised. He always thought that Jason had asked him to help research whether there was a conspiracy involving supernatural demons behind his resurrection, but it sounded like it was another supernatural case.

"Have you ever heard of 'No Name'?"

"No... right. Can you be more specific?"

"Evil spirits that existed before human beings have written words. It is said that they were originally a tribe. The chief of the tribe found a spring that condensed all the darkness in the world. He persuaded other people in the tribe to drink the spring water with him and got the spring water. The dark power in the world, but also let their souls be swallowed by evil and become nameless." Jason narrated the stories he heard from Daquela, and Sam showed a thoughtful expression from time to time following Jason's narration , as if recalling the materials he had read in the past.

"Is this a case related to Batman and the Vigilantes?" Sam asked out of pure curiosity, but he didn't expect Jason to admit it outright.

"Uh huh, to be precise it has to do with Gotham's new vigilante, Red Hood. He killed a nameless in Gotham, but he needs to find others. You know our family has been assisting the vigilantes, so we did There have been a lot of investigations and nothing, and I think it's time to consult an expert."

Bruce turned the car around and drove up the hotel driveway, and Jason put on his sunglasses and got out to help Sam with his luggage.This hotel is the result of Sam and Jason's dispute over the place to stay in Gotham during the journey, and the final compromise.After going through the formalities at the counter and getting the room card, Jason was still a little frustrated with Sam's stubbornness.

"I still don't understand why you don't come to live in my house." Pressing the floor, Jason made a bitch face in the mirror of the elevator, "You are here to help, not to eat and drink for nothing."

"But we agreed to exchange this case for my tuition, and to be honest, I didn't think you were being serious when I first agreed. Do you know how expensive Stanford's four-year tuition is? I've done it. Alright, apply for the deduction for poor families, and then prepare for the work-study program for four years." Sam scratched his bangs on his forehead in front of the mirror, saw that even the mirror of the elevator had a gorgeous frame, and then looked at the clothes on his body that were sold by cheap chain stores. Sam felt like a comedian on the wrong set when he bought the T-shirt.

The elevator stopped at the designated floor, Jason waved his hand indifferently, and went out first to find the location of the room: "That's because you don't know how important this case is to the Red Hood. That's a big deal for the Red Hood. Don't overthink it, your room is here."

"I still think this place is too high-end, I'll just get a motel."

"No. This is the bottom line we agreed on. The law and order in this area is considered the best. You come to help, at least stay in a safe place and don't let our conscience go wrong."

Jason put Sam's duffel bag on the luggage rack by the door.Pretending to check the facilities in the room, he went around in a circle, leaving the monitor and tracker behind.

"It looks good. If you need anything, just tell the counter, and contact me if you have any news." Jason gave a final warning at the door, "Don't even think about checking out secretly and staying in a motel, I mean it .Safety is the top priority, don't run around at night, call me if you have something to do. That's it, you should have a good rest first."

After saying goodbye to Sam, Jason and Bruce went straight back to the Batcave to check the status of the monitors.Sam was on the phone with his older brother Dean, and their conversation revolved around John being mad at Sam for choosing college instead of hunting.

Jason didn't know how to comfort Sam, because if the tragedy that happened to the Winchester house happened to Jason, someone murdered Bruce or Thalia, Jason would definitely go up and down to track down the murderer, regardless of Dick Or what other people think, even if he is the only one fighting alone, he must seek justice.But as a friend, Jason can only do his best to show support for Sam's choice.

As for the members of the Bat family, Dick has already returned to Bluhaven. If he continues to ask for leave, he will probably never return to work in the police station.Tim took advantage of Bruce's busy dealing with Jason's resurrection-related matters, and applied for an exempt course directly from the school before Bruce had a chance to stop him. like.Damian was forced into the school by Bruce in the name of "learning interpersonal skills". Even if Damian emphasized on the third day that he had already completed his doctoral level studies, it was too cheap to take classes with elementary school students, so he couldn't shake him. Bruce's decision.

Therefore, in following up the unnamed case, it mainly depends on Tim, Jason and Bruce.

"He started looking things up." Tim pointed to a corner of the Bat computer screen, from the moment Sam's computer connected to the hotel's Wi-Fi Tim hacked in. Sam's computer skills are pretty good, but with Tim There is still a big gap in comparison, "Let me see, is he checking the FBI's database?"

"What type of information?" Bruce leaned forward while leaning on the back of Tim's chair, and Sam's movements were shown in real time on Tim's split screen, "Well...they are all seemingly unrelated unsolved cases."

"Look at the ones he specifically listed. The victims of these homicides are all influential people in society." Tim also investigated the records of these unsolved cases that year, "Look at this, the leader of the gender equality movement. This He is a highly prestigious candidate for local councilor and a priest who is very active in the diocese. The only thing they have in common is that there is no sign of forced entry, but the place where the crime happened is full of evidence of the deceased’s desperate resistance. It’s strange. It was on the body of the deceased that no trace of the murderer could be found."

Tim called up a photo, the deceased was a judge who was about to retire and was well respected in the local area.He was found dead in his study, his body covered with defensive wounds, and the last fatal wound was that the murderer cut his trachea and arteries with a knife from behind his neck.

"He has been dodging the murderer's knife, that's why he has the knife wounds caused by these blocks. But when the murderer controls him from behind, most people should scratch the murderer like this."

Tim signaled Jason to play the murderer, and he played the victim. Jason grabbed Tim's neck with his elbow from behind to force him to look up, and with his other hand, he took the file folder as a knife and made a knife on Tim's carotid artery. cutting action.Tim raised his hands to scratch Jason's neck, and stretched his hands back, blindly scratching in the direction of Jason's face.

"However, in the autopsy report, the nails of the deceased were very clean without any flakes of skin. And judging from the intensity of the deceased's resistance, other people in the family or neighbors should have heard his struggle and calling for help."

Jason understood what Tim meant, and also pointed out the unreasonable things in the autopsy report and transcripts.

"That's right! But you see, the family members said they didn't hear anything when they were resting upstairs. The neighbors also said that the deceased's house looked normal. So these cases have never been solved. After all, there are no witnesses and no one left. Any DNA evidence.” Tim touched his chin and tilted his head thoughtfully, “So there is a high probability that supernatural monsters will be involved in such cases, I understand. Sure enough, people from different fields think differently. Not quite the same."

Bruce frowned looking at other similar cases.The causes of death of the deceased are all kinds of strange, but the commonality that Tim said can be found in every case.It seems that the murderer used some kind of trick when killing people so that others could not see or hear the tragedy that was happening.

"I said... don't you think the timing of these people's deaths is a little sensitive?" Jason pointed to the local news that Tim found out when searching for the victim's information, "Like this judge, he died before he died." It is a high-profile local financial case that is being tried. There is also this social movement leader, who had many conflicts with the state government. They all died, the world was in chaos - everyone blamed each other but no one had direct evidence that the other was the killer."

"This reminds me of someone." The line of Bruce's jaw tightened, and the knuckles of his fingers on the table turned white from the force. "Someone who claims to guide all mankind behind the scenes of history."

"Reisho O. Gu." Jason gritted his teeth and spit out the name. He didn't want to call this guy grandpa at all, "but... Mom said she had already taken care of Lei Xiao?"

Tim made a gesture of wiping his neck: "The so-called deal?"

"I don't think Thalia will kill Lei Xiao." Bruce was the first to deny, "It's not that she and Lei Xiao have had conflicts, and it's something Thalia would do to pit Lei Xiao hard, but Kill Rashaw... for better or for worse, he's Talia's father."

Jason wrinkled his nose, obviously not thinking that Reshaw O. Gu would be a "good dad" in any sense.He didn't forget the ferocious look of Lei Shaw after he found out that Thalia had used the Lazarus pool.

"Well, assuming Lei Xiao is not dead, he is also under the control of his mother." Jason took out his mobile phone and shook it in front of Bruce, "I can confirm the situation now."

Bruce stiffened visibly, while Tim looked at Jason expectantly.

"Let's do it." Bruce finally gritted his teeth and nodded. The detective's inquisitive mind surpassed the embarrassment of listening to the warm interaction between the ex and the child. "It's better not to have any loopholes."

"No problem." Jason turned his phone to hands-free mode, and Thalia's voice quickly rang out in the Batcave.

"Jason, honey." Before Thalia's first greeting was finished, Bruce shuddered, as if someone had touched a nerve in him.Tim glanced at him and didn't say much. He listened intently to the conversation between Jason and Thalia so as not to miss any important information.

"Hey Mom! Well, you said you 'got' Reshaw right?"

"In a way, he won't cause you trouble anymore." Thalia said confidently, "What happened? Is father's old department going to cause trouble for you? I know that group of deadheads The guys are always restless, don't worry honey. Mommy will clear them out of Gotham in no time, and you don't mind, before your conspiracy theory father thinks I'm going to poison your mind, for God's sake For the sake of this, I will give Damian the means to defend himself, so that he will not be torn apart in that chaotic and crazy place!"

A certain "conspiracy theory father" stood in the corner watching his nose, nose, nose, nose and heart, his hands tightly clenched into fists by his side, as if he wanted to argue but was also trying to restrain himself.

"Jason, baby, don't be like your father on this one. There's no right or wrong with any weapon, or any skill. Speaking of which, if he has a problem with your gun, ignore him Let him have an opinion and tell me directly in front of me, you know?"

Jason gave Bruce a sympathetic look of apology. He was actually surprised that Bruce, who hated guns so much, didn't even utter a syllable of objection to his use of guns as weapons from beginning to end.Jason knew that this was Bruce making a compromise between his likes and dislikes and Jason's choice. Even if Bruce hated guns, but Jason chose a gun as a weapon, then he would accept Jason's choice instead of forcing Jason to suit Bruce's preferences.

"Mom! Mom! Where are you going, everything is fine, and the people from the league didn't bother me, and I haven't thanked you for sending someone to the court to cooperate with the performance." Jason quickly diverted the topic from criticizing Bruce, Tim had put his hands over his mouth to keep himself from laughing.

"What are you talking about? This is a big matter about your identity. How could I not do anything. By the way, how is Damian? Did he make trouble for you? Don't get too used to him, raise him You're so squeamish, how can there be a younger brother like him who asks you to cook this and that for him every three days..."

Seeing that Thalia's mother's nagging mode is about to lose control, Jason can only cast a threatening look at Tim who is trembling on the computer chair while holding back his laughter, and at the same time he raises his voice and turns the topic back to Lei Xiao: " Damian is very good, Mom, don't be too hard on him. And I really have to make sure Reshaw is under your control, right? He has no chance to come out and cause trouble, right? This is very important, we must To confirm whether the suspect is him."

After a moment of silence, Talia ordered the servants to leave on the other end of the phone, followed by the sound of her typing on the keyboard.

"I'm sure he's still where he's supposed to be. Don't worry, Jason. My father may have lived a thousand years, but he doesn't have those superhuman powers. He's in a place with nothing to do except basic water and electricity." Weapons, surveillance lines, and all systems are not connected to the Internet, and your prophets cannot access them remotely through the Internet."

Bruce nodded, indicating that he had the information he wanted.Jason ended the hands-free mode, clamped the phone to his ear and began to listen to Thalia.

"That's great." Tim lay on the back of the chair and watched Jason deal with Thalia's various questions, with an expression on his face that was impatient and cheerful at times, "My mother never talked to me much, she asked me the most. That's my grade."

"Your mom is pretty successful as a career woman." Bruce patted Tim on the shoulder lightly. "She's just... not very good at being a mother. You have us now, and when you're an adult maybe you can be with her." Your parents maintain a mature and friendly relationship, none of this is conclusive."

"I guess so. To me, even the Batcave is much warmer than the Drake Mansion." Tim pouted, and his eyes lit up quickly when Jason finished the call and came back , "And there's Jason... This is Wonderland, Bruce."

"Control point, young man." Bruce clapped the hand on Tim's shoulder and squeezed it hard.

Jason didn't notice the turbulent undercurrent between Bruce and Tim at all, and ruled out the possibility of Ray Shaw being involved in it, and Jason felt a lot more relaxed.

"Well, that's all I can do until there is more news. Wuming hid for so long and killed all the big castes. I don't believe they will be so satisfied and start to keep a low profile again." Jason twisted his neck, Pointing to the top of the bat cave, "Now, who wants to sign up for a one-day tour of the flower and bird market tomorrow? I plan to take Sam for a stroll along the way, as an old friend."

Tim's hand flew high into the air.

Bruce pinched the bridge of his nose, and couldn't bear to watch the shrewd and capable Red Robin follow Jason around excitedly like a puppy during the night watch.

Is it really okay for Tim to do this?