Chapter 2101 Knight's Night of Terror (Forty-Five)

Jason never thought that he would feel fear for someone's high moral standards.

Admittedly, in the eyes of ordinary people, if a child runs away from home without a phone and is kidnapped, the responsibility of the parents and the child is about half and half, and the parents are slightly more responsible, but it also depends on their daily performance.

Batman and Jason's daily performance is not good enough. The father is not a father, and the son is not a son. There is a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days. So if you really want to talk about this matter, both parties are responsible.

Jason asked himself, what he resented more was that Batman controlled the entire Gotham, but he didn't find him for a year.

It is actually hard not to doubt that Batman didn't look for him at all.

Jason thought so too. You have installed surveillance on every street and every corner of Gotham. There has never been a time when you can't grasp the whereabouts of the criminals clearly, but you didn't find them this time. How could it be such a coincidence?

What's even more infuriating is that it's OK if he didn't find him, but a new Robin came out not long after. Doesn't this prove that Batman didn't find him at all?

When people get stuck in a dead end, they always get stuck in a dead end. Pain will make their minds run wild in the direction of paranoia. If a problem is thought about too many times, there will not be too many rational solutions, so Arkham Knight was born.

But after that long night, and an even longer night with Schiller, Jason's sanity has been restored, and he can naturally find more solutions to this problem.

For example, it was not other criminals who kidnapped him, but the Joker. The Robins all admit that the person who knows Batman best in the world is the Joker. Since he knows him best, there are many ways to make Batman never find something.

And if you think more optimistically, maybe it was because Batman was looking for him while fighting crime, and he was too busy to find a new assistant.

Maybe you can also think that the guy named Tim Drake is not a fuel-saving lamp. Even if he was not kidnapped, he would squeeze in.

Before this, Jason didn't know if his thoughts were self-consolation, but after seeing the extremely deep and long wound on Batman's arm that was obviously cut by himself, Jason had to believe it.

At least this shows that Batman must have tried to find him, and Batman was even more unbelievable than himself about not finding him. What's more, this matter may have nothing to do with Jason. Batman, who is always prepared and has a plan, has begun to doubt his ability.

So Jason began to feel shaken, but people's emotional transitions require a buffer period. It is impossible that he just forgave Batman as soon as he learned about Batman's self-harm. The fact that they had no disagreement on this matter did not mean that their long-standing conflict did not exist.

Now, Jason knew that he had to say it, because looking at the situation, Clark would not let him go even if he didn't say it, and based on his understanding of Clark's power just now, Jason felt that running away was also a dead end.

"Help me." He said to the symbiote in his heart: "Don't let him read my brain waves and heart rate. You can help me control it, right?"

"Really? Do you really want to do this?"

The symbiote's question made Jason stunned for a moment, but he soon understood what the symbiote meant.

If this mysterious alien creature is really thinking about the host, then he may indeed raise objections, because Jason's resentment towards Batman is not false.

To a certain extent, the situation is really as Clark said. Compared with Batman, Jason is a weak group. Jason can't do anything to Batman. Even if he wears the Arkham Knight's armor, he can't cause any harm to him, right?

If so, telling his situation to a fair and objective powerful being may get the justice he wants, which is in line with Jason's demands all along.

But obviously, Jason is unwilling to do this.

Then he began to think about why he didn't want to. The man in front of him would not kill Batman. Wouldn't it be better to show him some power?

Jason thought about it, and the only thing that lingered in his originally smart little head was one sentence - I don't like it.

But his hesitant and silent attitude made Clark's face heavier and heavier, and in the end he clenched his fists, as if he was more seriously injured than Jason.

"Let me ask you another question." Clark took a deep breath and said, "You only need to answer me yes or no, Jason Todd, you know you have to answer."

"Ask it." Jason said absent-mindedly, as long as he didn't tell the lie detector about him and Batman.

"Have you received a threat to keep silent about your relationship with Batman or similar topics?"

This time Jason was smart. He said to the symbiote in his heart in advance: "Quick, quick, adjust my heart rate and brain waves, and adjust anything else that needs to be adjusted quickly!

The symbiote agreed and did it. Jason cleared his throat and said, "Of course not."

Just as Clark was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he seemed to feel something and stared at Jason in doubt.

As the look of surprise on his face became more and more intense, Clark's expression gradually turned into disbelief. He stood up suddenly, stared at Jason's face and said, "He didn't install some anti-lie detector device in your body?!!"

Jason was a little confused.

Clark still stood there in a daze with that disbelief, looking like he was repeatedly confirming something.

But Jason didn't know what he was confirming, nor how he confirmed it, so he couldn't tell the symbiote to do anything to resist this confirmation.

Clark's face became colder and colder. He took a deep breath, sat down again and looked at Jason and said, "I know that humans cannot notice changes in their brain waves and heart rates, but I use these changes to confirm whether they are telling the truth."

"In fact, I can even see directly how your heart and brain work. Any slight change in them cannot escape my eyes."

"But you know, Jason, when I asked this question and you gave a negative answer, your heart rate and brain waves never changed at all, as if they were some kind of rigorous machine, but the human body does not work like this."

It's bad. Jason immediately realized that he was too smart. In fact, he might have said a negative answer without control and let Clark believe it.

After all, although Batman expressed his unwillingness to let outsiders know about the affairs of the Bat Family, he did not emphasize to any Robin that they could not talk about their relationship with Batman.

So if Jason denied it, he was actually telling the truth. If this lie detector could judge it, this level would be passed.

But he didn't. His previous fantasies interfered with his rational judgment, or maybe he inherited some of Batman's suspicious personality and didn't like others to do lie detector tests on him. So he rashly let the symbiote adjust his physiological state without understanding Clark's lie detector principle.

I'm afraid it's really unnatural, Jason thought. Unlike before, in the basement of the deserted island cabin, Jason touched a living beating heart with his own hands. The human heart rate is not an average beat counter. There will be some irregularities more or less. It would be strange if it was not discovered if it was changed to a perfect one.

Jason didn't realize a truth, that is, when something develops to the stage of "you don't have to explain", don't try to explain it anymore, and once it develops to the stage of "we all understand", don't say anything anymore, pretending to be dead is the best choice.

Unfortunately, he didn't experience such things often, and mistakenly thought that the reporter opposite was quite considerate, so he said: "This matter is not what you think. There was indeed an accident before, but that..."

"Do you know what the party recusation system is?" Clark interrupted him and asked.

Jason shook his head blankly. He was a native of Gotham. His relationship with the law was like the most familiar stranger. Familiarity meant that he was hovering on the bottom line of the law every day, and unfamiliarity meant that he didn't understand the law at all.

Clark stretched out his hands and gestured and said, "In many kidnapping cases, judges and juries do not believe the testimony of the kidnapped. That's because the victims may have been in long-term mental abuse or brainwashing, and they have no clear understanding of the crimes imposed on them by the perpetrators, and subjectively reduce the description of the harm."

"Of course, I know that if you continue, you may say that you just had a quarrel."

Jason opened his mouth. He wanted to say that this was the case. Unfortunately, even though his pre-swing time was among the shortest in the Bat Family, he still did not have any ability to interrupt others, let alone reporters, or reporters in Metropolis.

"Yes, you may have just had a fight, so what's the matter with the injury on your eye? Are you going to say, 'Fighting is normal, who hasn't had a fight?'"

Clark was heartbroken. He said, "This is a manifestation of subjectively reducing the description of harm, rationalizing and normalizing certain bullying and even abuse behaviors."

"Indeed, everyone has more or less conflicts with others during the process of growing up, and some will develop into physical conflicts, but most of them happen to people of the same age or strength level."

"Let me give you an example. If you quarrel with your classmates and eventually develop into a fight, then I don't think this is It needs a legal trial because your physical and psychological development, actual age and social status are relatively equal. "

"The consequences you two will have to bear for beating others are almost the same. You may get hurt, be scolded by the teacher, and drop out of school."

"But if the above conditions are not equal, and the consequences of fighting are different - he will not suffer physical and psychological harm, he will get better care than you after being injured, and his reputation in front of others will not be affected, and only you will suffer unilaterally, then this is abuse."

Jason opened his mouth and found that he could not refute.

Thinking carefully, he did suffer more consequences than Batman in the quarrel with Batman. Of course, the most recent one was his kidnapping by the Joker.

It is true that he kidnapped because he ran away from home, but the place where they quarreled was the Batcave, and it sounded like Batman's territory. So if he didn't leave, could he stay there?

Jason felt a little depressed, but he couldn't tell where this depression came from. It might be because his mental state had recovered a little, and some emotions were revealed.

Just then, a hand was pressed on his shoulder, and Jason looked up and found Clark looking at him intently.

"Don't be sad, Jason, I'm not blaming you, someone else is wrong, I just hope you can realize that maybe for a long time, some things you have believed in are unreasonable and abnormal."

"Or after I remind you, you can at least think diligently about whether some things are normal, instead of numbly letting them happen, and then you passively accept them... That will hurt you very much."

Jason turned his head away from Clark's blue eyes, and he definitely said the word "help" in his heart.

Damn, the sun came out before dawn, this was Jason's last thought before he was knocked unconscious.

Melted in the sun