Chapter 2100: Knight's Night of Terror (Forty-Four)

Jason was stunned.

He carefully looked at the expression on Clark's face and found no joking factors, nor some of the jokes and belittlements that he had seen in the past, but this reporter named Clark Kent was serious.

"Why do you ask that?" Jason asked back in confusion.

Clark lowered his head slightly and said, "Maybe you understand the news industry, but not enough. After the photo spread in the industry, we figured out the life stories of Jason Todd and Dick Grayson within ten minutes."

"To be honest, it wasn't all smooth sailing, right?" Clark was obviously considering his words. He was particularly cautious in this regard, and he also made Jason feel his caution. Jason knew that this was the way reporters gained people's trust.

"You two are orphans. Please forgive me for summarizing it this way. Although the circumstances are slightly different, you were indeed adopted by Bruce Wayne after losing your parents."

"Up to this point, he has nothing to blame..." Clark was obviously speaking of his own opinion, not the opinion held by his editor-in-chief or his colleagues.

Jason knew what that would be. He thought he was invulnerable, but as long as he thought of the dirty words that might appear on the front page of the gossip tabloids, especially the long string written after Bruce Wayne's name, he still felt a little irritated.

"In any case, he adopted you when you were most helpless and allowed you to survive in this dangerous city. This is a heroic act, and I am not here to criticize this."

"But your biographical information shows that you both disappeared from him later. Dick Grayson left first, and then you disappeared, replaced by another one."

"Children always leave home when they grow up." Clark's fingers kept rubbing each other, and his attitude was even a little cautious, which was completely different from the power he had just shown.

In the past, Jason didn't like the feeling of being treated cautiously by others, but this kind of compassionate temperament was so suitable for Clark that it even made Jason feel awkward.

"So I'm not saying that you are wrong to do this. If you leave voluntarily, no one can tie you up at home. I believe Batman is not such a conservative parent."

"But I'm just saying a guess, and I definitely don't mean to guide you, so you don't have to follow my words."

"I just want to say that Batman trained you as his assistants and he got help from you."

"Whether he actually needs this help or not, playing the role of a father in a superhero family gives him the power to dominate others, so he should bear the corresponding responsibilities."

"Do you think he has fulfilled his responsibilities?"

The twists and turns of wording gave Jason a headache, but his brain, which was good at understanding words, quickly understood what Clark meant.

"Do you think Batman abused us?"

"I don't think so, Mr. Todd. My purpose has always been to confirm this." Clark paused and said, "Now almost all newspapers in the United States know about it. I have to find out the truth before they do."

"You know Batman, right?"

Clark pursed his lips and was unwilling to answer him. He just said very tactfully, "If he is really such a person, I will ensure that someone is capable of enforcing justice on him. You should know that this is not easy, and it can even be said to be very difficult."

Jason was silent because he knew what Clark said was right.

Assuming that Batman is really a sadist with special fetishes, then with his social status, science and technology, and military strength, these orphans adopted by him have no chance of speaking out. They will remain silent until death.

Jason understood early on that this is how society is. It is easy to speak, but difficult to speak out. It is even more difficult to be heard by enough people and attract attention. If the world's richest man interferes, it will be difficult as hell.

Then Jason began to wonder, what this reporter named Clark Kent meant was that he came here to ensure that if Batman did something illegal, justice would be enforced.

Where did he get his confidence from?

Jason dared to say that Clark saw what he was wondering about at the first moment, and the next second the world was spinning.

Jason was picked up, and then found that his vision was getting farther and farther from the floor.

He was thrown into the sky by the reporter with one hand, and then caught and put back on the sofa.

And damn, he is at least 200 pounds now.

"I do have powerful strength that ordinary people can hardly imagine, and I hope to use this power to ensure justice for everyone." Clark sat back on the sofa and said, "Personally, I don't believe that Batman would abuse his adopted son. He is not that kind of person."

"Although he is taciturn and not good at communication, his pursuit of justice is the same as mine. Maybe he will have many misunderstandings with his children, but they will be resolved in the end."

"Then why did you come?"

"Because procedural justice is necessary." Clark looked at Jason intently and said, "I must give both of you equal opportunities to speak. Even in this case, I have to give you more and earlier, because compared to Batman, you are a disadvantaged group."

"Batman has many channels to speak out. Even if his identity is exposed, he is still the richest man in the world, and the assets of the Wayne Group cannot disappear out of thin air."

"If he announces a press conference, reporters from all over the world will flock to him. Even if half of them choose to speak for him because of the status of the Wayne Group, he can make the world believe that he is innocent."

"But you have too few opportunities to speak. You are orphans, raised by him. All social relationships are under the control of Bruce Wayne, and even your spirit and reason will be affected by him."

"You have no way to speak your true thoughts, or you think you have spoken the truth, but in fact you are guided. This is not fair."

"And, even if Wayne is caught in the whirlpool of public opinion, Wayne Group's industries related to industrial manufacturing and technology will not be greatly affected. He will still be a big Rich people, even if your influence is not as good as before, at least you have enough food and clothing. "

"But if you are affected by this incident, I don't even mean losing the case, but just standing up and making accusations may have a profound impact on your life. "

"I'm sorry, Jason, there are many such tragedies in the world, and they are still happening now. I can't save them all. They may win, but their beautiful life ends here. "

Clark lowered his eyes, his tone lowered, and he sighed and said: "In my career as a reporter, I have saved more than one such tragedy, but more of them have not been completely saved, no matter how powerful I am. "

"Such incidents have caused too much psychological trauma to the victims. Some committed suicide, some drank alcohol. This is their own choice. I can't interfere, and I don't have the ability to interfere. "

"After the first tragedy, I realized that I had to come as soon as possible, and then no matter how complicated the interests were, I would only protect you-no matter who the enemy was. "

Jason felt shocked.

He was a little absent-minded, and finally heard the sound of Clark clapping his hands, and then he barely came back to his senses.

"To be honest, I have the ability to identify lies, so you only need to answer me this question - has Batman abused you?"

"He didn't." Jason replied.

Clark's face suddenly sank, and he stared at Jason in disbelief and said, "You are lying."

Jason felt panic instantly, he took a deep breath, looked at Clark and said, "I didn't, I'm telling the truth."

"Symbiote, symbiote!" Jason shouted in his heart, "What's going on? I...how did he..."

"Your heart rate fluctuated at that moment, host." The symbiote's answer was quite calm. He said, "I felt your emotions. If I want to describe it to you directly, you still have resentment towards Batman."

"So when you denied this question, your heart rate and brain waves fluctuated. If the other party has the ability to subtly detect these two data, it is indeed easy to be judged as lying."

Clark has stood up, and Jason can see from his expression that he is probably already locked Bruce's position.

But Jason absolutely couldn't let Clark go to Bruce now, because Bruce might be doing something that was not easy to explain, something that was the product of impulse.

If Clark saw this, it would be even more difficult to explain, and from the other party's strength and understanding of Batman, Jason could also vaguely guess the other party's identity.

There really was no need for more confrontation, Jason thought of this for the first time, isn't this messy enough?

"Stop!" Jason raised his voice, called Clark, and then said: "This matter is very complicated, you must listen to my explanation."

Jason could clearly feel Clark's hesitation, but more of it was anger, it could be said that he was furious.

What a psychopath from Metropolis, Jason thought, why should he be so angry about the affairs of unrelated people?

Of course, it's not that he shouldn't do this, after all, Batman is really annoying, and there are too many problems between them that need to be solved, but it's definitely not the way people in Metropolis solve it.

Clark finally stayed, he sat opposite Jason again, and said to Jason with a kind of pressure that Jason felt a little bit unbearable.

"I hope you can tell me exactly what you said about the misunderstanding, without any subjective judgment or embellishment. I just want to hear the course of events and the original words of the conversation at that time. If you don't remember, just say you don't remember, don't make up."

Jason watched Clark take out the notebook, his Adam's apple moved up and down, and the muscles of his lips moved in an indescribable posture.

Indescribable still means that after doing such activities, he should speak, but he didn't.

In fact, Jason knew he couldn't speak.

Batman did not abuse him physically, and psychological abuse is a matter of opinion.

But if the other party is a human lie detector that can detect even such a slight emotion, how on earth should Jason describe the fact that he was kidnapped by the Joker so that this super-balance spirit from Metropolis will not be so angry that he will slam Batman into the wall and cannot be arrested?