[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

Thalia stared at the man in front of her, and couldn't believe that he had suspected her head. If there was no screen between the two of them, then she would definitely slap his melancholy face with a slap.

"Do you know what you're talking about, dear."

Bruce rested his forehead and sighed. The last thing he needed right now was a Talia O. Gu who was fighting against him.

"I'm just stating the facts, Thalia. The fact is that you claim that everything is under control and that Reshaw will not pose any threat to Jason, but Jason was still taken away by Reshaw himself."

"Hmph, I haven't even asked you yet, why would a good child suffer three disasters and nine disasters under your nose, and you turn your back on me!" Thalia laughed mockingly, "As soon as I picked it up I went to check the monitoring when I got your news, my father has never left, so don't think about pinning this on me, I am his mother! I don't care more about Jason than any of you few!"

It's okay not to mention the parents. As soon as Thalia emphasized her mother's identity, Bruce couldn't hold back the resentment in his heart.

"A mother who left him in Gotham? A mother who hid her child for ten years and didn't recognize his father? Have you considered my feelings as a father! You let my son live in his father's house I lived a turbulent childhood in the city, do you know how dangerous the streets of Gotham are for a child? Do you know how many times I watched those street children being murdered, and every time I would think, If I hadn't brought Jason back, he would have been one of those kids."

Thalia was so angry that she smiled instead. She was originally a charming beauty, and this smile made many men willingly kneel under her skirt.Only Bruce and Damian present clearly understood that buried under Thalia's smile was the billowing anger that was about to erupt.

"Oh, great detective, you think, you speculate, you think you can see through everyone's every move." She nodded as she spoke, "And you know that I sent someone to watch Jason from a distance, in Catherine Did you make arrangements to have Todd take him with me after he died? And you know I didn't do it because you, dear, took Jason with you, and I'm sure you'll take good care of him. And we all know what the result is, you still expect me to bring Damian to you? Did you come to die!"

——Oh, I stepped on the pain point.

Tim watched Bruce and Thalia pinch each other furiously across the screen, and Damian looked at a loss.Tim didn't blame him at all. If he opened his mouth in this situation, it would be like asking his girlfriend, "Who are you going to save when I fall into the water with your mother?", it would be dead anyway.

But Tim obviously underestimated Damian's temper, or he forgot the greatness of his inheritance. His parents have such a big temper, so how could Damian's temper be small.

"That's enough! Father, Mother!" The child's voice that hadn't changed yet screamed sharply. Bruce and Thalia stopped at the same time, seeming to be frightened by Damian's outburst.

"Shouldn't we find the culprit of this matter first?" Damian looked at his parents, both of whom were flushed from the fierce dispute, "Mother, you said that grandfather has been under your surveillance all this time Now, is there any way you can be [-]% sure that he wasn't involved in this? Because although Drake is a liability a lot of the time, his eyesight hasn't degraded to the point of being unrecognizable."

Tim figured he'd better find a dark and stormy night and stab the kid to death.Did he already regard discrediting himself as a default function?

"Of course, your grandfather's room is under surveillance all day." Thalia reorganized her emotions in a few breaths, and explained to Damian in a gentle tone.

"So there's no possibility for Rashaw to sneak away and come back without you noticing?" Tim couldn't help asking Thalia, "Maybe Rashaw discovered a hidden loophole and used it to invert Is being under house arrest an alibi?"

Thalia directly passed Rashaw's "cell" blueprint to the bat computer, which means that since you don't believe what I say, I won't be afraid of whatever you find wrong.

Judging from the blueprint, Rashaw's cell is an ordinary apartment, but there are no windows big enough for people to get through.The only way in and out is the front door of the apartment, and three meals a day are delivered through the opening in the door.It can be seen that Thalia has minimized the chance of Lei Xiao contacting other people, lest he collude with the servants to let her go.

"Okay, so what about the cleaning time?" Tim pointed to Thalia's schedule, "Is it possible for Rashaw's foreign aid to sneak in a substitute while cleaning?"

"No, the cleaning servants must thoroughly search the body before entering the room." Facing the questioning of the bat vigilantes, Thalia faintly showed an impatient look, "Honey, if you have no other questions. I I suggest that you better quickly find out the culprit of this kidnapping, because if I catch him first, I can assure you that you won't even have a chance to touch a bone of him."

Thalia was about to cut off the communication after finishing speaking, but was stopped by Tim rushing to the bat computer:

"But this foreign aid is likely to be a superhuman! You also saw how Jason disappeared. What if the other party made Lei Xiao's double invisible and entered the room, and then exchanged the two in the same way? Or does he have other we don't know yet? The ability to know, such as directly transforming into Rashaw?" Tim put forward his hypothesis, "I mean... have you talked to him recently? Have you seen him directly, not through the surveillance screen?"

Thalia thought about Tim's question, and she had to admit that the kid had some truth to it.Although technological products are convenient, once they are hacked, they may be directly reversed by the enemy.Therefore, Thalia minimized the intervention of technological products when Lei Xiao O. Gu was imprisoned. However, if Lei Xiao's helper is a person with superpowers, then the checkpoint lacking high-tech means will become the enemy's last resort. Vulnerabilities that are easy to exploit.

But she couldn't figure out how Lei Xiao used to contact his friends outside?Thalia was sure that the person locked in that room was the real Reshaw O. Gu, and he didn't have any external communication device on his body, nor was he a telepath who could use brain waves to send distress signals.

"I really don't want to say that, but your little apprentice is much more useful than you, my dear." Thalia flew to Bruce with undisguised eyes of disdain, and instead showed an encouraging smile to Tim, "Timothy ,right."

"Uh, yes." Thalia's smile seemed to touch a certain nerve in Damian, making him flick his eyes at Tim desperately where the bat computer's camera couldn't see, "Timothy Drake , it's an honor to meet you? Although we've been chatting for a while..."

"You're very nice, Timothy. Jason always said you had a bright head, and it appears to be so."

Tim's whole body seemed to be lit up, and his eyes were burning with incomparable fighting spirit.

"Reshaw O. Gu, whom Jason and I met, mentioned the 'Great Caste Blade', which was a weapon Jason took out of thin air. Do you know where it came from? We only know that this weapon can restrain and The black mist that appeared together with Lei Xiao."

As soon as Thalia heard the blade of the great caste, her expression changed immediately, she pressed the communication button and began to order her men to go down and check Lei Xiao's room.But judging from the way she pinched the bridge of her nose, she probably already knew what was going on.

"It's nameless." Thalia gritted her teeth and spit out these two words, "They really went after Jason."

Nameless again, the word Bruce is most tired of now is probably "nameless".I can't figure out the root cause, and can't find any useful information except for some illusory descriptions such as "ancient darkness".Jason also only repeatedly emphasized that the nameless is his responsibility, and he must completely wipe out these dark souls.

Bruce suspects that even Jason doesn't know what Nameless is.Otherwise, according to Jason's personality, he would definitely take the initiative to track down Wuming's whereabouts immediately and destroy the enemy directly, just like he did with Wuming lurking in Gotham.The fact that Jason chose to use himself as bait to catch Wuming just showed his shallow knowledge of the enemy.And his agreement to seek the knowledge and experience of a witcher was a manifestation of Jason's helplessness.

"How much do you know about Wuming?" Bruce waited for Thalia's answer. He knew that at this juncture, Thalia would no longer hide any secrets, if she really wanted to save Jason.

Sure enough, Thalia showed little hesitation, and directly showed his cards to Bruce: "I don't know much, I haven't accepted the complete cultivation of the big caste, I... I'm not pure enough. Jason is different, he is The only human being accepted by the big caste in the past 1000 years is also the only person who has passed the "purification ceremony" in the past [-] years. Others either couldn't bear the ceremony and gave up halfway, or they tried to use their willpower to get through it, but they overestimated themselves. dying in the process."

Bruce gasped, and Tim and Damian next to him were clearly shocked by what Thalia had revealed.

"The marks on his body... He said it was a proof of passing the ceremony, and it represented the difference in the identity of the disciples." Only then did Bruce understand how the so-called difference came from. Jason used the test of life and death in exchange of.

This made Bruce feel the anger that had just subsided in his chest flare up again.It's just that this time he didn't know whether to direct his anger at the master who "tested" Jason, or Jason who accepted the test so easily.For God's sake, Jason only accepted this ceremony after he was resurrected from the dead. Did he think that after he died once, he could treat his own life lavishly?

Thalia talked about the karma between Dakola, the big caste and the nameless, the Assassin's League and the big caste, and finally the ending of the big caste being slaughtered by the nameless.

One thing Bruce is sure of now is that someone gave Jason a vague mission to deal with an evil force said to be thousands of years old, and that person even killed Jason in order to ensure that Jason would die to complete the mission Teachers, including Jason's respected "Daquela", he called "the wise teacher".

"This is a trap." Bruce propped his hands on the console of the bat computer, and his mind was spinning rapidly, "Lei Xiao and Wuming are cooperating secretly. Wuming is restrained by the big caste. Lei Xiao knows where the big caste base is. Big Trouble must have made a deal with Lei Xiao, asking Lei Xiao to tell them how to reach the base of the big caste."

"But my father's agreement with the big caste has been maintained for hundreds of years. If he intends to join forces with Wuming to eliminate the big caste, why should he wait until now." Dakla is the image that Talia has ever been closest to her mother. It is really hard to accept that Lei Xiao was behind the death of Da Kela.

Could this be the real reason why Daquela's soul did not allow her to avenge herself?Because Daquela has already seen through that this is Lei Xiao's conspiracy, and she doesn't want Thalia to turn against Lei Xiao for revenge, so she only asks that Wuming must be eliminated-because the big caste will never suppress Wuming again. Regardless of whether this is a conspiracy or not, Wuming must be eliminated for the sake of this world.

"It's hard to say. Maybe Lei Xiao didn't hook up with Wuming before, maybe Wuming paid a price that was more to his liking, or..." Bruce rubbed his chin, thinking of Jason's saying that there was no one in a thousand years. Ritual of passage of the second person, "the one who breaks the balance appears."

"Jason." Thalia quickly understood who Bruce called the person who broke the century-old balance.

Thalia cut off the call, knowing without thinking that she was going to make the final confirmation, confirming that Lei Xiao did not design all this together with Wuming.But knowing what Bruce knew about the Demon Lord, he knew Thalia would be disappointed.

"Don't worry, Bruce, we'll fix whatever Reshaw and Nameless are planning." Tim patted Bruce's arm. "Together we'll bring Jason home and end this mess."

"Tt, it sounds like you know my grandfather well, Drake." Damian snorted disdainfully, ignored Tim's fierce eyes, walked to the bat computer and began to operate it skillfully.

"There are two things in this world that grandpa values ​​most. One is his eternal life, and the other is the perfect world he hopes to build." Damian is mobilizing the satellite of Wayne Enterprises to capture a certain wilderness. Photo, "He achieved the first item by using the Lazarus Pool, but my grandfather is not satisfied with the current situation of relying on the water of the pool for longevity. Jason's resurrection made my grandfather very interested."

"He wants to know the reason for Jason's resurrection, so that even if he doesn't have time to use the spring water, he can be resurrected." Tim can understand this, but what he doesn't understand is why Lei Xiao and Wuming made a deal for Jason.

"Here. If grandpa escapes, then the most likely place for him to go is here." Damian fixed the satellite image in a piece of loess, "Aisa Erasoban."

Bruce stared at the land that was empty except for yellow sand and rocks, and the corner of his mouth raised a dangerous arc: "Pack up your equipment, we will take off in an hour."

After the explanation, Bruce went directly to the ordinary vehicles parked in the Batcave. In order to cope with their occasional need to rush to the hospital or other places immediately after restoring their civilian clothes, there will be one or two vehicles in the Batcave that can normally drive on the main road.

"Bruce, where are you going?" Tim craned his neck and shouted while checking the status of the bat machine.

Bruce got into the car without looking back, started the engine and rushed out of the Batcave.

Alfred checked the belts of each Bat-Vigilante to make sure they contained sufficient emergency medical supplies.And besides the belts of Batman and Red Robin, he took out the spare Nightwing uniform and checked it: "I believe the master went to Bluhaven to ask for leave for Master Richard."

It is estimated that Master Richard will be packed directly into the car and brought back. Fortunately, the equipment of each master is always kept in the Batcave.

***

Aisa Erasoban, in front of the statue of Lei Xiao O Gu, Jason looked up at the stone statue, recalling the story Lei Xiao told him in his mind.

If Rashaw's story is true, then the source of all evil, the secret of the immortality of the head of demons, the original Lazarus pool is before his eyes, under this statue.

Jason reached out to caress his chest. No one could see it under the layers of clothing, but Jason knew that the imprint left by the purification pool was shining.As if responding to the magic behind these rock barriers.

Something is calling him.