Chapter 1212 The Cry of the Lamb (Twenty-Four)

The night wind in Gotham was so cold that it almost froze the tears. When people shed tears, all the lights they saw became hazy and dreamy, like a sad romantic poem. 滒

Dick, sitting on the edge of the building, felt the cold wind blowing the tears on his face, almost freezing his skin. Suddenly, he heard unusual footsteps behind him, steady but heavy.

Dick turned around and shook instinctively when he saw the dark and slender figure, but in the next second, he found that it was not the Batman he knew.

Originally, facing a strong stranger, he should feel nervous, but when he realized this fact, Dick felt relieved. He would rather face the enemy than Bruce.

"You shouldn't be here." A voice much lower than Bruce's sounded again.

Dick turned around and sat on the edge of the roof again. He sniffed and said, "I don't know you, why do you care where I should be?"

"He didn't teach you not to leave your back to strangers." Although the strange figure said this, he didn't have any intention of attacking. He just walked over slowly and stood beside Dick.

"There are many things he didn't teach me, and I don't need him to teach me." Dick said with his hands on the eaves.滒

"He is not a good father." The strange Batman said: "Batman will disappoint everyone."

"I disappointed him." Dick looked at the lights of thousands of houses under the roof quietly. He took a deep breath and said: "I know I made him angry and made him feel disappointed and sad."

"I don't know what drives me to do this." Dick shook his head and said: "I don't know why, when I face him, I have so many negative emotions in my heart, like a sea."

"I am worried that he thinks I am stupid, but I also think that he should realize that I am stupider than others earlier. I am afraid that he will find that I am not as good as others, but I also think that he must have thought that I am not as good as others."

"I am afraid that he will lose I want to lose my patience, but I also want to know what he will do to me after he loses his patience. I know that angering him will make him sad, but I can't help but see him lose control and can't keep his winning attitude, which makes him look very embarrassed. "

Dick stretched out his hands to cover his face, and his voice was like a layer of mist: "I want to make him happy, but I am secretly happy when he is unhappy. I am simply the worst bad boy in the world."

"It's not your fault." The strange Batman said: "Between career and family, he made a wrong choice, and he never thought about correcting it. He deserves the consequences."

The strange Batman turned to look at Dick. The little boy's red eyes were like fragile and brittle ice after being blown by the cold wind.

"I can't find an answer." Dick shook his head again and said, "For my inexplicable bad thoughts, for my unbearable behavior that angered him, and for my unreasonable and rude performance."

After saying that, he turned his head and looked up at the strange Batman standing beside him, and asked, "Who are you?"

This time, the strange Batman did not answer with "I am Batman". He looked back at Dick, reached out and touched the edge of his mask, and then took the mask off.

As Dick expected, it was not Bruce, but what shocked him was that the man in front of him was seven points similar to Bruce.

It's just that he is older and more tired.

"Do you have time to listen to a story?" The strange man asked a question in an affirmative tone. He squatted down, stepped on the edge of the house, and looked at the city and said. Xuan

"There is also Gotham in my world, but after the gunshots of the crime, Bruce Wayne died, and Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne lived."

"But perhaps, at that time, we were also dead, but we were not buried yet, leaving a little room for imagination for this sad world."

"Martha couldn't accept the death of her son, she went crazy, cut the corners of her mouth, and became a madman who always smiled, and I, for revenge, to eliminate criminals, became the dark knight of Gotham, and became Batman."

"For several years, I ran to every corner of Gotham, fighting crimes that would never be fought, and eliminating darkness that would never be eliminated, without stopping for a moment, without a moment of leisure."

"Such days have worn away all the happiness and blurred the good memories. I have become the unhappiest person in the whole city, and Martha wants me to be happier. She wants me to smile, and the way is to cut the corner of my mouth."

"I can't let her do this. I am trying to fight against her, against my former beloved wife."

"I thought that such days would last forever, until one day I learned that the Flash Barry could reverse time and change the past by running at high speed, so I found him. I wanted Bruce to survive."

"Barry is a kind person. He agreed to my proposal. I was ecstatic to find Martha and said that our son would be back soon and that everything would be back on track."

"But later, Martha and I knew that if we died that day, Bruce would become Batman and repeat this dark and tragic fate. Martha became even crazier and couldn't laugh anymore, so she died."

Dick listened quietly, as if he was really listening to a story. When he turned his head to look at the man next to him, he didn't see any sadness on his face, only the same numbness and fatigue as always.

"Barry has an enemy, he calls him Professor Speed, he runs very fast and can travel through the universe, Barry and I want to stop him from doing evil, and at the last moment, he took me out of my universe."

"He said he would send me to a new universe to see with my own eyes how his son was tortured by darkness."

"He succeeded, so I came here, to a world where Bruce Wayne is Batman."

"And in this world, I have long been dead, and died with Martha under the gunshot of the suspect... Yes, I am Bruce's father Thomas Wayne."

"He shouldn't be Batman." Thomas' tone finally fluctuated and became lower.

"The world doesn't need Batman, Gotham's Dark Knight can't change anything, he should return to Bruce's life, end those possible tragedies, be an ordinary person, or a good father."

When Thomas said the last sentence, his eyes fell on Dick's face. Dick pursed his lips and showed a hesitant expression. After a moment of silence, he spoke.

"Sometimes, I feel very wronged. Bruce doesn't seem to understand me at all. Maybe my talent is not enough for him to pay attention to."

"Before, he may have no choice. He needed an assistant and successor. He met me, so he took me back. But now, he has met better people. He should really pay attention to them and train them, so that he can have a better successor."

"As for me..." Dick tilted his head slightly and said, "I shouldn't stay here anymore. I should go back to Blüdhaven and be a small town boy."

"But the reason why I didn't do this is because I was unwilling. My parents are simply unable to investigate the death of my grandfather. case, they are just ordinary acrobats, if someone points a gun at them, they can't hide. "滒

"I want to learn from Batman, and after learning the skills, I will avenge my grandfather and protect my parents. "

"If that's the case, why should I care whether Bruce values ​​me? I just regard him as a teacher who teaches me skills. "

"So, I will also think about whether I want too much. He is not my biological father and has no obligation to raise me. I shouldn't anger him, I shouldn't quarrel with him, and I shouldn't run out after I make a mistake, like a crying baby. "

"Why did I do this?" Dick asked himself gently.

"Because you love him." Thomas said, "You love him, so you want to know if he loves you too...but he disappointed you."

Thomas looked down at Dick and said, "Batman wants to choose an excellent assistant, but he doesn't understand that when he tries to train a successor, he will miss more."

"It will be a complete tragedy to miss the most precious things in the world, miss the love of others for him, and miss the love he once flashed in his mind for others." Xuan

"The evils of this world will not disappear completely because of one person. If someone takes this as a goal and even gives up all love, then he is the stupidest fool in the world."

Dick's hands suddenly clenched, his Adam's apple moved, and he took a deep breath and said, "I hope he won't be so lonely."

"But Batman is destined to be lonely." Thomas' sigh drifted away.

"Are you here to convince me?" Dick turned his head and stared at his profile and asked, "You want me to convince him not to be Batman anymore?"

"You're very smart."

Dick felt a surge of anger at being used, but he suddenly remembered that the man in front of him was Bruce's father, who knew Bruce better than he did and was closer to Bruce than he was.

Dick stood up and turned back, saying as he walked, "I won't be used by you to say anything to Bruce. Our quarrel is just our business and has nothing to do with you."

Thomas stood up and looked at his back, saying in a low voice, "Even if I don't use you, one day you will understand these truths."

The next second, he fell down the tall building, followed by a bat dart flashing with cold light, which was only a few centimeters away from cutting his skin.

Thomas jumped down from the tall building and sank into the shadow on the side of the stairs, then swung up with a hook and began to jump between the rooftops.

Another figure that looked almost identical to him chased after him, except that Thomas ran in the shadows while the other Batman flew among the neon lights.

Two shadows jumped onto the roof of the Wayne Building one after another. Thomas had put on a mask, so Batman felt dazed when he looked at this identical version of himself.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Batman."

After saying this, Thomas jumped off the building again, but Batman didn't chase him because he was shocked by the answer in his mind that he could not judge whether it was true or false, and he was unable to move for a while.

With a "click", the door lock was opened, and a figure wrapped in a cloak appeared in the dim inquiry room. Thomas took off his mask, walked to the table and sat down, and opposite him was a pair of gray eyes.

"Did you see the result?" The gray eyes blinked.

"You're right, I'm not a good father... nor is he."

"Do you want to stop him?"

"I have to stop him, and if you help me, you are also helping yourself. This is why I came to you, Professor Schiller, or... the Joker."

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