Chapter 40 Cats and Bats (Part 1)

Bruce was lying on the bed. Harvey raised his upper body a little and poured him a glass of water.

Bruce said with some distress: "She is moody and unpredictable, really like a cat. I can't figure her out. Now I am only worried that her temper will hurt others. After all, I have the best medical resources in Gotham, but others may not."

"You should be glad that you didn't rupture your kidney. The dagger was very short and only left a shallow scratch on your organ. Otherwise, you would only have one kidney left now."

Harvey put down the kettle and said: "When I was in school, I also had a girl I liked. I was crazy about her. I pursued her passionately. One day, when we went on a date, she deliberately threw the bottle far away to tease a cleaner."

"At that time, I thought, how could she do this? She is so bad and doesn't deserve my love. But then I thought about it. It was my love for her that shaped her into a perfect person in my mind. In fact In fact, she has always had a bad temper, likes to mock others, and looks down on anyone in the service industry. She has never changed herself, but I have infinite expectations for her because of my strong love. "

"I broke up with her, and she felt inexplicable. At that time, I didn't know that I really looked like a psychopath. I first pursued her madly and confessed to her, but suddenly broke up with her cleanly. This was a humiliation in the eyes of anyone, so she was very angry. "

"Thinking about it later, this is normal."

Bruce felt a little embarrassed to speak up, but he still said: "The problem of that girl is much more serious than your ex-girlfriend, and it may hurt others, physically."

"The problem is not here, the problem is when you met her and fell in love with her, didn't you know this problem?"

Bruce thought, didn't he know? He knew it very well, and he even met Catwoman on the way to commit a crime.

He couldn't help but think a little absurdly, how could he fall in love with a criminal? Or at her crime scene?

After Harvey left, Bruce fell asleep because of sleepiness.

In the dream, the brilliant lights of the jewelry store illuminated the pearl necklace scattered on the ground. Suddenly, all the lights went out, as if everything returned to the dark alley, and only the pearl necklace was shining faintly.

Batman never liked any jewelry, especially things that sparkled, like a real bat.

But his mind was full of the girl holding the shining gem and showing a sly smile.

In the haze, the luster of the pearls in his memory suddenly became less hateful. And the end of the dream was still a group of bats with heavy shadows crossing the sky.

The next day, Schiller was quite surprised when he saw Bruce in the psychological counseling room. He looked Bruce up and down and said, "Your injury has healed? You can walk so soon?

"Actually, it still hurts a little, but it doesn't matter. My internal organs are not seriously injured and are almost healed now."

Schiller said, "Then it seems that you don't have to waste my cup of coffee. "He poured himself a cup of hot coffee. Bruce was a little speechless. He said, "Give me a glass of water."

After the two sat down, Bruce said, "Harvey doesn't know my true identity yet. I think it's better not to tell him first, but I'm very distressed now. The female thief who stabbed me appears in my dreams every day."

"I even have some resistance to wearing the bat suit now. Once I meet her, I don't know what to say to her."

Schiller never dreamed that the first psychological counseling problem Batman opened his heart to him was Bruce's teenage love troubles.

As we all know, in the comics, Batman and Catwoman are true love. The screenwriters use a lot of words to describe the love story of the two. Indeed, a dark knight with a deep blood feud and a cunning and beautiful criminal, even if the background of all this is the dark Gotham City, there will still be a lot of readers who buy it.

Schiller said, "It seems that Harvey should have enlightened you, but it seems to be useless? "

"What Harvey said makes sense. I knew she was a thief before I fell in love with her. I even met her when she was robbing a jewelry store. I don't know how I could fall in love with a criminal. This is ridiculous..."

Schiller said, "What do you think caused you to become Batman?"

Bruce pondered for a moment and said, "A lot of things."

"Then what do you think caused her to become a thief?"

Bruce was silent.

"So, you are sulking here without knowing anything about a woman's past and family."

"Are you sure you really like him? Not just wanting a romantic one-night stand?"

"I haven't even slept with her yet." Bruce said.

"Do you want me to applaud your innocence?" Schiller said, and then his eyes fell on Bruce's waist. He said, "Before we even slept, she stabbed your kidney. I'm a little worried about your life now."

"Do you think I should talk to him?" Bruce said.

Schiller sighed and said, "You like that thief. If you don't talk to her, do you want to talk to me? Go and date whoever you like, understand?"

Schiller said helplessly, "What else do you think dating is? The two of you have been running around on the roof of Gotham for several days, but you don't even know who each other's parents are. You don't sleep with her, and you don't date her. If I were you, I would also stab you."

Bruce paused and said, "Okay, I'll go talk to her."

The next day, Batman caught Catwoman in an exhibition hall again. Although he didn't know Catwoman's past and family, he knew her habits accurately.

Catwoman saw him, cursed inwardly, and immediately wanted to escape.

But she didn't run away. Batman grabbed her cape again. Catwoman cursed, took a deep breath, turned around and said, "Let me go! You weirdo! Don't let me use a knife!"

Batman said, "Let's talk."

"What can I talk to you about? Don't interfere with my work!"

Ten minutes later, the two came to the roof of the exhibition hall. Catwoman waved her hand helplessly and said, "Okay, okay, my little boy, what do you want to talk about? Tell me the truth? I can almost recite all your truths."

"No, I just want to hear your story." Batman said.

Catwoman was a little surprised. She was silent for a moment, glanced at the pointed ears on Batman's head, and said, "For your taste in clothing, okay."

"... I come from the slums in the east, you know, the biggest and messiest one. My mother is an alcoholic and my father is a drug addict, but I am lucky enough not to be addicted. I have been with a brothel owner since I was a child. She is a retired acrobat and taught me a lot. Of course, she has a bad temper and I was beaten a lot, but fortunately I learned real things."

"When she wanted to sell me to a smelly middle-aged man, I ran away. I was 12 years old that year."

"Later, there was a nosy orphanage that insisted on letting me live there. I said okay, then I went. Later, someone there wanted to adopt me , but later I offended the administrator there, he wanted to abuse me, so I stole his diamond necklace and ran away again. ”

“I met a thief leader, we all called her Lucky Mom, she specially trained little girls like us to steal things for her, I practiced acrobatics, I was pretty good, I was her favorite child.”

“But the good times didn’t last long, the diamond necklace I had been hiding on my body was discovered by her, you know, it was very valuable, enough for her to retire, she asked me to hand it over, but I didn’t want to do that, so I ran away again.”

“Later I met a sister, her name was Maggie, she was very good to me, but her boyfriend always beat her and wanted to kill her. When he was about to do it, I killed the man and was wanted. I don’t want I got my sisters into trouble, so I've been wandering around, but sometimes I'll send money back when I make it."

"That's it, a very ordinary story, not very exciting, I think it shouldn't be as exciting as your life experience, right? Great hero."

Batman seemed a little silent, he said: "Not exciting enough? Not exciting enough?"

Catwoman shook her head, she said: "Oh, I forgot, you are a young man who grew up in a rich area, people in your area should all go to school step by step, right?"

"But it's not the case where we are, there are not one or two students in a block, in fact, my mother loves me very much, but she is a little controlled by alcohol, she spends more time on the cat than on me."

"My parents don't have the ability to support my education, My neighbors are all like this. It's good enough if one of the parents is sane, at least they won't starve to death. I've also heard that both parents were drunk, and the child climbed onto the stove and was scalded to death. "

"Of course, the growth experience of people like us is similar. The lucky ones, like me, learn a skill. The best way out is to work for the gang. If you can become a casino dealer, it's a really respectable job. Maggie's boyfriend is a casino thug. He is so popular that many hostesses there are attached to him. "

"In fact, Lucky Mom is also good to me. She sometimes acts like a real mother. Whenever I steal a lot of jewelry for her, she will praise me and even give me candy. Of course, she will beat or scold those children who can't steal anything, but in my opinion, they are just young, and they will be fine if they practice well for a few years. "

Catwoman spoke in a relaxed and lively tone, and this kind of life was quite interesting in her description.

For example, when she was practicing acrobatics, she fell from the eaves for the first time and hit someone. As a result, the unlucky drunkard had just stolen a dozen dollars from others, and the money fell into Catwoman's hands. She used the money to buy food for her mother's cat and got a kiss from her mother.

Batman didn't speak the whole time. He listened quietly. Catwoman stopped talking. She looked at Batman and said, "Okay, okay, I know this story disappoints you. I don't have a rich and wonderful college life, and I don't understand your job search goals. We are completely from two different worlds. You rich people should not be interested in this kind of slum life, right? After all, it sounds dirty and messy."

Batman said in a low voice, "No, this is the most exciting story I have ever heard."

Catwoman raised her eyebrows and said, "You are so sweet. I am a little embarrassed by your praise. In fact, I am also very happy because no one is willing to listen to me talk about these things. Maggie is not in good health and can't go out. When we chat, she prefers to listen to my stories about traveling in the rich area and listen to me telling her about the rich ladies, the skirts they wear and the necklaces they wear."

Batman asked, "Do you like jewelry so much?"

"I knew you would ask this question." Catwoman blinked and said.

"At first, I just wanted to get better treatment from Lucky Mom because of these jewels, and I didn't want to be beaten."

"But later when Lucky Mom asked me for the diamond necklace, I realized that I actually liked their original luster, not how much they could be sold for. I felt sad when I thought that Lucky Mom was going to sell these treasures for money."

"That charming luster, especially the light under the light, is the most beautiful thing in the world! My lifelong dream is to have a huge castle filled with all these beautiful gems..." Catwoman's tone became more and more cheerful, as if happy bubbles were about to pop out.