[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

The night patrol will continue at night after the banquet, but Damian and Tim, as the only student party in the Bat family, are asked to stay at home—tomorrow is still a school day.

Clark proposed him to replace Red Robin, but Bruce refused: "You are a guest, sending guests is not the Wayne family's way of hospitality."Although Clark felt that Bruce would say this reason because Afu was nearby, otherwise, according to Batman's habit, a stare and a "no" would explain everything.

Batman, Nightwing, and Red Hood are in charge of tonight's night patrol. Damian took the position in front of the Batcomputer before anyone else, playing a supporting role.Leaving Tim alone to face the little reporter Clark and Connor who put on a bad face as soon as Jason left.

Alfred sent away the last batch of waiters hired for the dinner party, picked up the equipment and began to check around the mansion for any bugs or pinhole cameras that were "accidentally" brought in. He has a strong interest in what happened in the house, and Ah Fu does not intend to satisfy these people's little gossip preferences.

"Let me help, Fu." Clark pointed to the other half of the mansion, "Let me check this half, it will be faster."

"You don't need to do this, Mr. Kent, you are a guest." Alfred frowned in disapproval, but Clark didn't give the old man room to refuse. He took off his glasses and quickly scanned half of the room with X-ray vision. The mansion cheerfully expressed that there were a few blind spots that could not be fully seen, so he went to check carefully again.

"Since you insist, please do whatever you want." The butler activated the detector, walked to the other half that was not checked and began to scan carefully.

For a moment, only Tim and Connor were left looking at each other.Two people who are not very familiar with each other look at each other, and neither of them knows what topic to use to break the deadlock.He doesn't care much about the fact that he and "Connor" are together on the parallel earth. For Tim, the reason why the parallel earth is a parallel earth means that there has been a decisive difference between that place and the reality he lives in. The two worlds are independent of each other. Since they are independent worlds, it is ridiculous to regard what happened on another earth as a strategy for the future.

After all, even the foundations are different between the two earths, so how to refer to them?

"I'm going to the kitchen, do you want to come together?" Tim took two steps towards the kitchen, looked at Connor who was still standing there, and decided to send out an invitation to wait for the other party's decision.

Connor looked up in the direction where Superman disappeared, and then looked at the kitchen. His eyes and expression reminded Tim of a child who wanted to accept gifts from his uncles and aunts, but was afraid of being scolded by his parents.

"No problem, Clark won't mind." After Tim said that, Connor followed Tim to the kitchen almost without hesitation.

Tim took out the juice from the refrigerator and handed it to Connor. He hesitated between energy drinks and coffee, and finally closed the refrigerator and chose coffee.

"So, you know Dick?" Once Tim returned to his universe, he plunged into the League and Batcave databases, making up for the big and small events that happened during their absence, so as not to He's clueless when he needs this clue someday, so of course Tim knows that the Justice League rescued a Superman clone from Cadmus' lab.

He just didn't expect that Clark would raise this clone by his side as a child, and even Dick (and maybe Alfred) knew this person in private.

"Clark brought me here a few times. He would talk to Alfred about taking care of teenagers, and Dick would tell me stories about how he got along with you." Connor took a sip of the juice while secretly observing Tim, "Clark I hope I can learn from Dick the skills of getting along with brothers."

It made sense, Tim remembered that there was a child in Clark's family, a few years younger than Damian.Doesn't it look like Connor is the role of the big brother?It's just that Dick is teaching how to be a good brother who loves his younger brother. Clark is really relieved. He is not afraid that Dick will teach a little Superman like an old hen?

"Do you think Dick's teaching is useful?" This is what Tim is very curious about. How to be a brother can be like a novice parent, in line with the principle of "raising the first child according to books, and raising the second child according to pigs" Does the concept extend downwards?

Connor looked a little uncertain: "It should, right?"

"What did he tell you? Give me an example that impresses you the most?" Tim tried to imagine what it would be like for Dick's good brother to teach, maybe there would be a lot of hugs?

"If there is a strange man who wants to approach my brother, I have to invite him to a remote corner where no one will notice, such as near the trash can in the back alley of the bar..." Connor began to describe that Dick would talk to him every time he was in class. Described in a lively picture, "In the end, if this man makes my brother sad, I will tie him to a corner where no one will find out and bury him alive."

Tim's expression was already half dark. When he heard Connor say that Dick's field operation was to go directly to the back garden to dig a hole and then asked Connor to jump in and sprinkle the dirt mixed with kryptonite powder wildly, Tim I can't wait to bury myself.

Yes, he knew exactly what Dick was planning. He was just vaccinating the Connor of this world!

"Dick said that I must remember this sad feeling, because if someone breaks his brother's heart, he will definitely make the other person experience this feeling multiplied by a hundred times the pain." Connor probably Thinking of the kryptonite bath that day, his face turned a little pale, "I didn't quite understand why Dick would be so nervous about a man who approached his brother with evil intentions, until today I finally understood."

Tim's heart skipped a beat, and he tried to keep his heart beating calmly, motioning for Connor to share his feelings freely.

"Your second brother is great!" Connor reversed his initial indifference, and began to talk eagerly about how much Dick told him about "Little Wings", and Clark told him that Jason had unfortunately died in In the process of fighting crime, he was resurrected bizarrely, and even met a friend from another universe.

"I didn't believe there was such a person at first, I mean... he died! If another person had the chance to live again, he would choose to stay away from the thing that killed him Right! But your second brother still chooses to continue fighting crime." Connor accepted hypnotic learning in Cadmus's test tube, language, common sense, and all necessary knowledge, from science to humanities, were poured into him In my mind, it also contains the deeds of heroes and great men in history. These people were willing to sacrifice their lives for their ideals, and even sacrificed their lives.

Cadmus wished he could sacrifice himself for the "great cause" of those men, like a great man and a hero.

Therefore, Connor sometimes wonders whether these heroes in history, or even the superheroes distributed in various countries in the world, will regret it if they dedicate themselves to their ideals and find that the world has not become better chose this path?

Until he heard Jason's story.He died as a hero, but after he came back, his hometown didn't get better, so he continued to walk on the road before his death-under the circumstance that he knew better than anyone that the road ahead was dangerous.

In addition to fighting crime, he also wants to make the city more hopeful by being closer to the bottom-level residents!Connor listened to Jason's short speech in the crowd, and felt as if he saw a saint descending.Not to mention that both Jason and his father looked good, but Connor liked Jason's eyes more, looking at those eyes, listening to Jason's words in his ears, as if his whole body was about to be sucked in.

"Of course!" Tim put down his coffee, clapped his hands on the table, his face flushed with excitement, "That's Jason, the most inspiring and positive Robin! You haven't seen him as Robin yet, I stay in the alley every night just waiting for the moment when Batman and Robin fly over the roof!"

"It must be wonderful. It's a pity..." Connor felt yearning just after hearing Tim's description.

Tim observed Connor's expression and what he said before, the admiration for Jason and his own can resonate so much, this is a man who can be made!

Batman and Superman are the best team in the world, so why can't Jason have a Kryptonian sidekick?

Thinking of this, Tim unlocked the phone and showed Connor his carefully selected photos of Jason Robin: "If you come with me, there will be more."

Connor followed Tim to the attic where he hid the photos without hesitation.Although it was called an attic, it was cleaned very clean everywhere. The large unused furniture was covered with a dustproof cloth. Tim carefully pried up a wooden board, and took out a stack of A4-sized photos from underneath and handed it to Connor.

The two got together and admired Jason's photos back then, and both were moved by the feeling of having met a spiritual friend in the vast crowd.

Tim was about to get another photo that was more recent, taken when Jason just came back, when Connor suddenly tilted his head and narrowed his eyes as if he heard something.

"What is it?" Tim knows how powerful Superman's super hearing is. As a clone of Superman, Connor must have inherited those superpowers from Kryptonians. Tim didn't think that defense was foolproof just because he was in his own home. Perhaps some villain thought attacking Batman's "golden master" would be effective against the Dark Knight?

Connor frowned, staring at the ceiling above them.Tim knew the ceiling was going up to the wooden beams that held the roof up, and now some people would choose to take the ceiling down and expose the beams to add some natural flair, but this was the Wayne House, and it wasn't a trendy thing, which meant whatever Connor heard something bad, hidden in the gap between the ceiling and the roof.

"I don't think it's an enemy." Connor shook his head, "Maybe it's just a mouse."

The hesitation and hesitation in Connor's mouth made Tim a little surprised. He knew that the X-ray vision of Kryptonians could easily see through the ceiling (there was no lead plate in there), but he was very tactful and didn't mention it. , just got up and went to the side to pick up the ladder and set it up.

"No matter what it is, it doesn't hurt to make sure." In the corner of the ceiling, there is a wooden board that can be moved, so that the homeowner has a way to deal with problems such as rodents or pests. Tim pushed the ladder under the board and confirmed Checking the firmness of the stepping tool, "Can you help me hold it up, Connor."

Tim stepped on the ladder, and Connor's hands gripped the sides of the ladder so firmly that Tim almost thought he was climbing a ladder instead of a folding ladder.Pushing away the wooden board, Tim used the flashlight function of his mobile phone to take a picture inside, and he met a pair of big round eyes with reflective light.

It was a gray owl, with its feet on tonight's prey, and Tim interrupted when it looked like it was about to start feasting.

"Hush! Shh!" Tim drove the owl away, watching it grab its prey and slip out of a hidden gap in the roof.

He tells Connor not to worry, it's just that an owl got in.This episode left neither of them in the mood to continue looking at photos and gossip about idols. Clark also finished his inspection work with Ah Fu and came to call Connor home.After exchanging mobile phone numbers, Tim didn't even plan to go down to the Batcave to bother Damian, and went straight back to the room and lay on the bed for the first time.

But he couldn't sleep.I don't know if it's because of the cup of coffee earlier, or the scene just now—reason told him that this is a normal phenomenon. Urbanization has caused many wild birds to fly to human houses to nest, and the Wayne mansion is located in the suburbs again. Close to the woods, it is not surprising that there are owls flying.Turning over on the bed, Tim couldn't help but think about the suit of armor Jason had brought back, and how clearly he could see—

The moment the owl flew out, the prey it was holding in its feet was a bat.

***

Construction on the first phase of Wayne Enterprises' new Gotham will begin soon.

Jason is busy running around the construction site every day to make sure that the work and rest of the nearby residents will not be too much disturbed during the construction, or to help solve various problems.Dick and Bruce's day shifts are quite normal, and Damian and Tim also go to school obediently every day. Except that Tim's mobile phone stickiness has risen very quickly, there is no major change.

Well, perhaps that could be called a change, if you count the next mayoral candidate, Lincoln March, who is often privately visited.

As a political figure, Lincoln seems to spend too much time on Bruce Wayne. Even after Bruce stated that he would not publicly support any candidate, Lincoln still said that he just felt that Bruce and him had the same ideas. Friends, and showed great enthusiasm for the new Gotham project.

Bruce even seriously considered that it wouldn't be a bad thing if the mayor shared his ideals.Until Detective Bullock brought Batman to a murder scene that was too cruel.

"Obviously, someone wants to use the dead as a target to practice throwing knives. I don't know whether this is good or bad." The dead in Detective Bullock's mouth was performed by the murderer with a circus throwing knife. tied to the wall in a standard posture, and his body is full of knives. In the original knife throwing performance, each knife should accurately nail a human-shaped outline along the body of the meat target, but here every knife is Inserted in the body of the dead, nothing fails.

"No matter who the perpetrator is, he is a professional. Every knife avoids the main blood vessels. I want to torture him as much as possible." Batman pulled out a throwing knife from the corpse. His heart sank heavily.

"We found some skin flakes inside the dead man's nails. It is likely that he scratched the murderer when he was fighting." Detective Brock watched as usual as the cloaked vigilante took the specimen with the super bat on his wrist. The equipment starts to be detected.

Even when Batman took his cigar and lit the flaming words "Bruce Wayne dies tomorrow" on the wall, Detective Bullock's heart was at peace.

This is Gotham, and weird things happen in this city.

Such as horror nursery rhymes become reality.