[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

Jason knew that Dick would probably go crazy after this incident, beat him up, ran back to Bloohaven and wouldn't talk to him, and would probably walk around him even if he went back to the mansion for dinner.

But he did it anyway.

Jason still has some regrets, after all, his relationship with Dick is slowly getting better—before Jason died, their relationship was maintaining a half-way point, and Dick began to act like a brother , and he also began to get used to having an older brother.Now they are trying to restore the relationship between brothers in small steps.

This is not as easy as it appears on the surface.

First of all, Jason is not the only "brother" Dick has to face.During Jason's absence, Tim's appearance gave Dick another chance to be a big brother, and he seized this opportunity to establish a solid brotherhood with Tim.

When Damian shows up, Dick can also slowly build a relationship with Damian from scratch.Jason has to admit that Dick has infinite patience with children (even bear children). This is probably the trait brought to him by his early circus career. The child understands that he can't conflict with the brats (financial masters) who came to watch the show.

But Jason and Dick?

There was a not-so-beautiful past between them. When they met again, neither of them was the reckless Robin and the fledgling Yeyi. Both of them knew that the way of getting along in the past was no longer a reliable standard, but they were different. Sometimes they will still step into the pit left by the past, and get stuck there awkwardly, unable to advance or retreat.

It wasn't until recently that Jason started to be busy with the city renovation plan that the interaction between him and Dick gradually became normal. They began to have some new topics to talk about that would not step on each other's pain points, and everything was getting better.But the owl tribunal started to make trouble at this time, disrupting their hard-to-get-steady life again.

Now Jason just hopes to find Bruce one step earlier before Dick catches up, and if he's lucky, burn the courtroom down.

Jason didn't tell anyone about the killer crocodile's activities in the sewers. Although he would put some supplies near the hidden drain holes from time to time, the reasons Jason gave were all to support the homeless, and he never leaked the news of the killer crocodile. .This move obviously helped Jason gain enough favor with Killer Crocodile and the small group under his protection, making them willing to provide information to help Jason find Batman.

The Court of Owls always cleans up the traces very cleanly, leaving no witnesses.

But this group of homeless people who shrank into the sewer has long since become invisible, no one will see them, no one will hear them.

"Sorry, everyone." Taking off the communicator and putting the only locator on his body into the lead box, Jason walked deep into the sewer following the messages given by the homeless, "I will try my best not to die."

***

Batman plods his way through the darkness.

He's been here... how many days?Can't remember, but one thing he knows very well, he must lurk in the dark, only here is safe.The enemy tried to lure him to a place of light, but he could not go there, he had to hide in the dark to avoid them, to avoid the owl.

Leaning on the wall and moving forward bit by bit, you must stop and look carefully at every corner, where the henchmen of the court may be lurking.And he didn't have any weapons on him. The bat mark and hook gun were taken away. He had to find an exit. The court wanted to weaken him by making him anxious and doubting his every decision.

They are wrong, Batman will not succumb to this easily, this is his city, and this technique of creating a sense of oppression is the rest of his play.He will never be knocked down here, all he has to do is focus on one thought - get out of here, go home.Everything else was a trick of the courts to confuse him, don't look, don't listen.

Batman circles back to the same room again, the fountain with the giant owl statue.

He hates this damn maze, and he hates the people who built it - the court of owls - just think of how many people they tortured and killed here, how many good people, who want to make Gotham better, Batman I felt that there was a wave of anger in my body that was going to burn him from the inside out.

No, he couldn't think about it.Thinking about going home, thinking about family——

Ah Fu, poor Ah Fu, he is too old to worry about, he must be worried now.

Dick, his eldest son, he wasn't sure what the Court of Owls had to do with Dick, but he knew the beasts were up to no good.

Jason, a child who has suffered a lot, he is so grateful for the decision to become the main promoter of the urban renewal plan in the name of Wayne Enterprises. It is better to let the minions of the court go towards Bruce Wayne than to let that child bear it again More torture.

Tim, good and tough little detective, God please don't let him do anything too dramatic to attract the attention of the court.

Damian, still so young, still full of confusion about life, desperately needs a father's guidance, and he can't express in words how much he wants to watch Damian grow up.

With so many people out there waiting for him, he couldn't be down here.stand up!Bruce.Stand up, Batman!

Panting heavily, he continued to walk deep into the maze, where the distorted taste of the Court of Owls was everywhere, and the walls were covered with photos, each of which was the desperate face of a person killed by them before death.

They are so confident that Batman will die in this maze that they don't even bother to take off his disguise.He will prove it to the court, let them know that he made a huge mistake, he will flee from here, and the court will never have the opportunity to expose Batman because of their arrogance.

***

Jason stood at the entrance of the dark corridor.

Who knew there was such a place "under" the sewers?Even homeless people who live in the sewers don't have nothing to do by jumping into these sewage for a [-]-meter freestyle race-the killer crocodile is an exception, and he told Jason to look down here.

This was a major discovery, but the disgusting taste in his mouth and nose dampened more than half of the joy of victory in Jason's heart.

"Okay, students." Jason spat out the saliva in his mouth, the strange smell still lingering, "Animal world, enter the owl's nest."

Jason stepped forward, letting the darkness engulf him like a giant beast.Tonight he is Batman, and darkness is Batman's shield.

Even when his eyes are used to the darkness, Jason still has difficulty seeing the road under his feet, and his physical fitness has been strengthened by the water of Lazarus Pool. Once you get it on, you can never get rid of it.Like a drug, the difference is nothing more than a degree of dependence on the water.

After turning the third turn, Jason was completely sure that this was a maze: "What kind of deep pervert can come up with this idea? I'll let Xiaohong check James Dashner when I go back. I should have known It's not easy to write a story about teenagers running around in a murder maze!"

The designer of this maze has spent a lot of time understanding the complex psychology of human beings.

It's very dark here, but if you look up, the rows of light tubes on the top provide a weak light source, and you can barely see your toes clearly, which is not enough for untrained ordinary people to see the distance beyond two steps .

If it is really completely dark and you can't see your fingers, then most people will choose to stop because they are afraid of the darkness.This way the courts would not be able to fulfill their purpose of letting their prisoners escape through the labyrinth.

On the contrary, there is a little bit of light like now, and people always feel that they can find a way out if they go a little further. When they find that they may not be able to get out, the way back has already been lost.Here they will wander until they go mad or die of starvation and thirst before they go mad.

Jason considered the length of the hook gun. Maybe he should give up the idea of ​​wandering around in the maze and just climb up and look into the distance?

That's a good idea, and it looks like he's already attached—

"Claws." Jason threw a batarang towards his back, which was easily caught by a man dressed as a giant owl.

"Batman." Talon threw back the batarang, and Jason also effortlessly pinched the metal that cut through the air, secretly surprised at the strength of the opponent's hand.

Jason was quite surprised that Talon didn't immediately rush up and chop him eighteen times.He thought the Court of Owls wanted Batman dead very badly, and it didn't seem so aggressive now.

If it was Bruce's Batman here, he would probably continue to compete patiently with the opponent, and the one who struck first would lose.What Da Kela taught him about the Zen in the battle saved Jason from wasting energy from tense nerves from the beginning to the end, but sometimes he could be invincible by getting the first hand.

Jason pulled the trigger. In order not to expose Red Hood's identity, he used a normal pistol, not the energy gun he used to.On Gotham Street, he had to take into account the image of Batman without a gun, but here he couldn't wait to blow the heads of these bastards.

Talon dodges bullets with such agility that it's almost as good as Dick's.If Dick is characterized by the flexibility of his loins, Talon is characterized by his wrist movements.When Jason encountered opponents who used throwing weapons in the past, most of them could tell from the opponent's body movements where he was going to throw the knife. Every throwing knife thrown by the claws flew towards different positions on Jason's body , but his hand movements barely changed.

This is the proof that Claw has perfected this throwing knife technique, and can precisely control the direction of the weapon with only a slight deviation of the wrist.

"Batman, the court of owls has sentenced you to death!" Claw used the cover of the throwing knife to close the distance, and the first move was to slash at Jason's hand holding the gun with the knife, trying to get rid of his weapon.

"I've played it before, it's not new." Jason pushed back the claw's knife with the body of the gun in turn, "Shall I introduce you to the attractions?"

"The only thing left for you to play tricks is now." The claws were completely unaffected by Jason's provocation, and immediately switched to attacking the exposed lower half of Jason's face with the claws on the back of his hand, forcing Jason to let go To his repression, "every bat dies, no matter how many knockoffs you make..."

Before Sharp Claw finished speaking, Jason punched his lumbar nerve plexus and interrupted him. It wasn't because of the pain, but because he chose to stop and appreciate the moment of Batman's astonishment in front of him.Just like the enemies he eliminated for the court in the past, those self-proclaimed martial arts experts showed helpless and desperate expressions after futile resistance.

Jason was really surprised by the strange body of the claw that ignored the pain, but he hit it with [-]% strength, and another person would have passed out on the spot.But it would be disrespectful to think he's going to scare the shit out of him just because of that.

"Enhancement or transformation?" Jason tried to attack other vulnerable parts, and occasionally fired two shots to test the limit of the claw's willingness to withstand damage (he doesn't have infinite bullets), "Hmm...maybe it has both."

Talon doesn't function like a normal human, but Jason bets he still has normal human weaknesses, which means a bullet through the head or the heart could send him home.

He doesn't have that kind of time to do private martial arts training here.

Batman doesn't kill people.

But here is Jason, not Batman.Jason, on the other hand, has less qualms about putting a bullet in the head of a heinous garbage dumper.

Hell, if you walk around in the big universe and don't kill anyone, don't say you're an interstellar mess.

So when he had that opportunity, in just one second, at the right angle, Jason sent the bullet so naturally, watching the small piece of metal get into the armor of the sharp claw.Having personally disassembled a set of armor, he knew where the weak points of the Talon's equipment were.

Jason watched his opponent fall backwards and hit the ground with a "smack".He looked down at the collapsed sharp claw on the ground, and counted silently for 2 minutes, the opponent's chest did not rise and fall.

"Okay, be careful sailing forever." He pursed his mouth and mourned for his bullet stock for three seconds, and Talon's visor had another hole between his eyes.

With no intention of finding out who was under the mask, Jason continued to explore the maze to find Bruce, sent himself to the wall of the maze with a hook gun, and continued to explore.

The Claw corpse in the maze sat up with slow and stiff movements, and the owl-shaped goggles stared faintly at the direction where Jason disappeared.