[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

Wayne Tower and her twelve gargoyle guards are Gotham's most famous landmarks, overseen by Bruce's great-great-grandfather, Alan Wayne.In the original design concept, the gargoyle facing twelve directions symbolized that every corner of Gotham was guarded. Batman and Robin often overlooked the city from the gargoyle during the night patrol, but today , these twelve silent guardians obviously didn't notice the attack from the air.

"The surveillance screen in the elevator room, 30 seconds ago...yes, that's there." Jason pointed to the surveillance screen when Wayne Tower was attacked, "He suddenly appeared and killed two security guards. After the elevator door opened, Lincoln Ma Qi dodged the dead man falling towards him and got stabbed."

Tim continued to check the surveillance screen of the elevator. The Wayne Tower is undergoing annual maintenance, so it is not open to the public, including the observation deck. Different leisure and entertainment venues are in business, so the security guards must stop on every floor for sign-in and inspection.However, during the annual maintenance, the business of other floors is also suspended, so the work of security has become relatively easy. It is only necessary to ensure that the only observation deck area where workers enter and exit is free from abnormalities.

"There is no pause between the elevator from the first floor to the top floor." Tim watched the entire elevator video, and the security guards entered the elevator from the first floor and went all the way to the top viewing platform, "and judging from their expressions and actions , they didn't notice anything unusual until our owl killer showed up."

"So he must not have been hiding in the elevator all the time." Jason repeatedly watched the moment when the assassin appeared and killed the security guard, "Although the monitor has a blind spot, it is impossible for the passengers inside to ignore a big living man in a strange costume. Drilled down the elevator shaft?"

"The first question should be how the assassin entered the tower." Tim kept switching the monitor screen, trying to find the route of the assassin's invasion, "Wayne Tower has only one entrance and exit, which is the gate on the first floor, but apart from Bruce and March, no one entered the Wayn Tower, because it was not a construction day, so there may not have been people pretending to be workers to get in. Bruce suspected that the other party came in from the railway tunnel below along the pipeline, but I still can't figure out how he's going to get to the top floor even if he's hacked like this?"

If the killer entered the elevator first, then climbed into the elevator shaft and began to climb up, he would be photographed by the surveillance camera the moment he entered the elevator.If he had made his way up the Wayn Tower's outer wall to the top floor, he wouldn't have had to risk getting into the elevator and killing the security guard before attacking Bruce.

"Dick, do you have any ideas to share?" Jason poked Dick, who then turned around as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"Huh? What?" Dick was stunned for a moment, and then put on a look of thinking, "Ah, yes, that's right, what you said makes a lot of sense."

Jason and Tim exchanged a look, and they both knew that this was a poor performance for Dick.

"Dick, are you all right?" Tim pushed the console and let the chair slide away from the front of the Batcomputer, "We can take care of this case, if you don't feel well, you can rest for the night, you have an early shift tomorrow Isn't it?"

"I'm fine!" Dick dismissed Tim's proposal without hesitation, "I was just thinking about late night watch..."

"Use this state to go on night watch?" Jason narrowed his eyes and looked at Dick suspiciously, "Are you in a hurry to reincarnate or something?"

"What's wrong with me? I haven't worked overtime and I haven't been injured. Why can't I be on night watch?" Dick protested.

Tim looked at their eldest brother worriedly, as if he wanted to see through his uniform to find the other's hidden wound: "Dick, you're in a trance, are you really okay? If you're injured or infected, it's not good s things……"

"No no no!" Dick held up his hands in a gesture of surrender, "I swear I'm healthy, I'm just...uh, thinking."

"Thinking about what?" Jason's deep voice was matched with an unhappy expression on his brows. Even though Dick knew that the person in front of him was Little Wings, he still couldn't help himself from training Robin for many years. Truthfully told what he was worrying about, "About the dead man who was killed by a flying knife."

Jason nodded, and continued to ask: "And then? What happened to the deceased?"

It’s okay for Dick not to mention the dead man, but Jason couldn’t help but want to curse the old man and his secretism when he mentioned it, because “they specified Bruce Wayne.” Then they were not allowed to intervene in this case ( All files are encrypted at the same time).

"This has nothing to do with you. If there is, I will inform you again."

ha!As if saying that was enough to make them stop.

"Uh, I was just thinking...what if it's not all because of Bruce?" Dick looked worried, but also had a little... guilt?

"It's not because of Bruce, it's because of it?" Jason remembered the brief exchange Batman had with Nightwing when he first discovered the dead man, "You?"

Even Tim couldn't sit still anymore, he stood with Jason and stopped the elder brother who wanted to run away.

"You'd better take it seriously, otherwise..." Tim's tone was full of threats.

Jason's sneer made Dick feel like he was standing at attention in every hair.

"Okay! Okay! I said!" After persisting for a few minutes, Dick finally decided to give up resistance, "Bruce found some dander from the dead man's nails, and the DNA test showed that it was mine, so he asked me if I knew him. I told him - and I want to emphasize that I'm telling the truth - that the man found me at the groundbreaking ceremony of the new Gotham project, and kept grabbing me and saying strange things, and then he was taken away by security, I didn't know him at all before that. I still have his scratches on my hand."

"What did he say?" When Jason asked, Tim had already gone to check the surveillance footage on the day of the groundbreaking ceremony.

"He said 'they're real, they're everywhere, they sent him on you — all of you.' You think, if Bruce is who 'they' want to deal with, why would he come to me? And that day You two were there too, if 'all of us' were in danger, why was he the first one to come to me?"

Jason tried to bring up his thoughts: "Maybe it's because you're the eldest in the public eye?"

"That's not right! I was on duty immediately after the ceremony. I was wearing civilian clothes to avoid the media, and I was standing in the crowd. If he wanted someone from the Wayne family to issue a warning, he should Looking for you or Tim, not me who looks like a passer-by." Dick bit his lip angrily, "I should have noticed that this was wrong, but at the moment I really think he is a delirious doomsday believer , going around saying that the kingdom of heaven is near and the day of judgment is coming. I should have stayed him and asked him more."

"Hey, it's not your fault, okay?" Jason patted Dick on the shoulder to express comfort, "Let's assume that the 'court of owls' that the assassin said really existed, then he is probably the meeting in the nursery rhyme." Headhunter's Claws. Then this nameless dead man tries to warn you—warn us, it means he's connected to the court, maybe he works for the court, but he said things he shouldn't have said, so..."

"Wanmo mentioned his name, and Claws found your head." Dick repeated the last two lines of the nursery rhyme silently, "He mentioned the name of the court, and Claws... well, didn't cut off your head." , but we all understand the meaning."

"That's right, and you said he found you in the crowd, look at this picture." Tim pointed to the appearance of the unknown dead man pushing away from the crowd on the screen and grabbing Dick, "He came from a long way He recognized you, and rushed all the way over eagerly. This means that he recognizes you, not the kind of recognition that he can call out your name on TV because he has seen public figures, but is very, very familiar."

"So I'm right! It's all because of me, that goddamn court wants me, Bruce's because of me... oh my god! I gotta get out of here, Stay away from Bruce, away from you." Dick shook his head and stepped back, "I can't let you be targeted by crazy killers because of my relationship."

"Calm down, Dick." Jason tried to stabilize Dick's mood, but the latter had already stepped on his motorcycle and was about to rush out of the hole, "Lying on the grass! Bruce!"

The swarm of black bats swooped towards Dick from the depths of the cave like a small tornado. The little claws of the bats hitting Nightwing's uniform did not cause any harm to Dick, but they were enough to disturb him and make him even The man and the car fell to the ground.

Bruce the Bat flew right in front of the bat wall, and behind him all the bats were densely packed to block the exit of the Batcave, and they were ready to charge Nightwing again at any time.

"Did your brain be stolen by an owl or something?" Jason picked up Nightwing from the ground, half-dragged it back to the front of the Batcomputer and pressed it on the chair, "In case you leave, they will continue to target you. What about Bruce? You had the opportunity to help the old man deal with this court, and now you want him to fight alone?"

"He still has you guys, and he still has Damian." Dick hung his head in frustration, "If I was really the target, Bruce would do stupid things to protect me."

"That's why you are the one who has the best position to scold him here." Tim stuffed a cup of coffee for Dick, "Just like the last time Jason and I taught him a lesson, you want to miss this fair lesson to Batman Chance?"

"That's right, besides, is it because you still can't tell. Who knows if Bruce hooked up with the wrong girl when he was playing Playboy and caused a murder?" Jason tried to lighten the atmosphere, but Dick was just embarrassed. He babbled, "Let's not talk about that, let's find out how Mr. Claw invaded the building first! How far this is going too far!"

Dick took a sip of coffee, watched Jason and Tim discuss the assassin's infiltration method in a particularly excited manner, then looked back at the solid bat fence, closed his eyes and took a deep breath helplessly.

—Focus, Dick, you're the big brother, and you gotta act like a big brother.Protect your little brothers, protect your second father, protect your family.

Opening his eyes, Dick looked at the video on the bat computer. The assassin chose to attack Lincoln March and Bruce with throwing knives instead of more deadly weapons, such as pistols. At such a close distance, a professional The assassin can determine the death of the target with one shot, but the claw chose a non-lethal weapon such as a knife.

Speaking of which, the nameless dead were also tortured with a knife, and placed in the shape of a flying knife target, just like a circus performance...

"Wait, what if this claw has been in the Wayn Tower all along?" Dick's assumption made both Jason and Tim stop debating, and turned to look at him, "If he had been in the Wayn Tower long ago?" Then there will be no trouble of being caught by the surveillance screen when going in and out. Isn't that the nursery rhyme that sings like this: 'Looking at Gotham City from the dark, hiding in the attic with low walls. At home he is with, sleeping and He's in the bed, too.', they're everywhere, even at home—in the Wayn Tower."

"Okay...but it's impossible for him to stay in the tower and wait for Bruce all the time. Wayne Tower is a tourist attraction, and Bruce won't hang out in it if he has nothing to do." Jason turned his head and looked at the screen that was blocked at the beginning. Stabbed Lincoln March, "unless he knew Bruce was going to be at Wayn Tower at some point, because of somebody's invitation."

"How about we meet Mr. March?" Before Jason could finish his sentence, Tim had already found out the hospital and ward number where Lincoln stayed.

Dick shook his head and said that he would not participate in this paragraph. He had some doubts to prove: "Don't worry, I won't disappear suddenly, I just went to check some things."

As far as he knew, there were not many circuses related to Gotham. Among them, there was only one famous for its superb acrobatics, not for freak shows or other strange shows——Harry Circus.