Chapter 2218: Battle of Two Cities! (Sixty)

"That's the thing, ma'am, I'm sorry..."

Peter's voice came intermittently from the ward, and Martha seemed to be saying something to the doctor in an intense tone.

Batman was standing outside the door of the ward, and he knew that the person in the ward was the Batman in the universe under his feet.

According to previous investigations, Batman knew that this was another fledgling Bruce Wayne, who should be about the same age as Schiller's students, but had almost no professional training, and the prelude of the Joker's plan completely broke his defense.

But Batman didn't expect that his defense would be broken so thoroughly. He just heard the doctor in the ward say that this Bruce was likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and the condition was not mild, and he urgently needed treatment.

Now Thomas and Martha had more things to do, but Batman was the first to suffer.

"Bruce Wayne!" Thomas closed the door of the ward with a dark face. The moment his full name was called, Batman knew that he was going to suffer, but he could only follow Thomas to another room because Martha was watching him behind him.

"Listen, Bruce, I have expressed countless times that I don't want you to be Batman. Yes, that's what I think. This job is dangerous and not meaningful enough."

"Don't rush to refute me, answer me a question, why don't you take more extreme measures to restrict the madman called the Joker? You let another you get hurt."

Martha sighed softly, walked over and touched Batman's resolute face and said, "I don't know if Bruce in every universe has suffered the tragedy of our departure, but at least I regard them as my children, you at different stages of life, and I don't want them to get hurt."

"The consequences are much more serious than I thought." Martha's eyes became a little sad, and she said, "If you tell me you are unable to do it, I will never force you. If that puts you in danger, then don't demand yourself with such a strict sense of responsibility."

Batman can hear that Martha also wants him to give up. She is worried that Batman will also be hurt by the Joker, and Batman is thinking about another problem.

Originally, he thought Bruce was like him, not wanting to stop the dog-eat-dog fight below, so he returned to Wayne Manor to kill time, but now he realized that this kid might be coming for him.

Whether it's being a better father, being a better child, or now lifting Bruce who was driven crazy by the Joker, what's this, showing off that you are better?

When this thought passed through Batman's mind, he felt a little incredible, because this speculation was too naive, it felt like your classmate dropped a piece of eraser and it just fell at your feet, and you speculated that she liked you.

Bruce didn't come to trouble him actively, and Batman only vaguely felt that something was wrong, and there was insufficient evidence, so he decided to observe it again.

After Thomas and Martha returned to the ward, Bruce followed them in, and then Batman heard him say outside the door.

"...Why can't I handle it? I will definitely make that lunatic pay! I will make him understand the price of doing evil!"

"What? Dangerous? What's the danger? If you don't believe me, go ask Damian. I often play cards with the Joker in our universe, and he can't even cheat."

"...No, he is a truck driver. He has a proper job, so he doesn't have time to play cards every day. Gotham has become the logistics distribution center of the East Coast. Truck drivers are so busy..."

A few seconds later, Thomas' roar came: "Bruce! Come here!"

Batman knew that he was being called again, so he could only walk in. Thomas stared at him and asked: "What does that Joker do?"

"What?"

I mean what is the Joker's profession?"

"He is the Joker."

"I know he is the Joker! But can he earn his meal money by beating you into the hospital? ! What does he do to make money? !"

Batman really wanted to say that it was usually me who beat him into the hospital, but he knew he couldn't say that. After thinking for a while, he replied: "...He can rob banks. "

"So he is a robber?"

"He is also a thief occasionally."

"Why don't you let him do something serious? ! Like driving a truck or working in a circus."

Batman opened his mouth. If the Joker could really do something serious, he would not be the Joker. But if you want the Joker not to be the Joker, you have to let him do something serious. But if the Joker does something serious, he is not...

Batman chose to shut up.

He walked out, and before leaving, he looked at Bruce with a little doubt. Did he deliberately reveal the situation of the Joker in his universe?

"You are not much better." Thomas's roar continued, "As a Wayne, you actually owe a truck driver $100 and still haven't paid it back. Do you know how ashamed I was when he found my house? !"

Batman paused and decided to listen.

"I was wrong."

"Thomas, don't say that to him. Do you remember that he is still taking medication? The side effects of the medication are serious enough. His limb disability makes it impossible for him to even tie a knot properly. You can't force my child like this."

Batman turned around and left.

"Bruce!!!"

Thomas' roar came again, and Batman had to go back to the ward again. Thomas waved his fingers behind his back with his hands shaking with anger and said: "Go, process the hospitalization procedures for the one lying on the bed, process the reexamination procedures for the one standing, and make an appointment for a mental examination for yourself, go quickly!!!"

"I don't need a mental examination..."

"God." Martha rushed over and covered Batman's mouth, patted his arm gently and said: "Don't be angry with your father, the family doctor said his blood pressure is very bad, go quickly, Bruce, I beg you."

Martha pushed Batman out of the door, closed the door and said to Batman in a low voice: "During this period, we need to take care of another you, pay more attention to the company's affairs, the children are not young anymore, they can help you, especially Damian, he is very talented in this area.

"Keep an eye on production and manage funds, you know, go. "

Batman watched Martha's back return to the ward. He turned and left. He took only two steps before he found a figure following him.

Batman stopped and turned to look at Bruce behind him. Bruce looked at him with his arms folded, then smiled and walked forward to look into Batman's eyes and said.

"People often say that blood relationship is the closest bond. You think so too, right? You are confident about your relationship with them, thinking that they are your parents and only yours."

Batman narrowed his eyes.

"Your sense of security in this relationship..." Bruce raised his lips to show his teeth, then raised the corners of his mouth to show a bad smile, "From now on, it's a bit unrealistic. Bruce Wayne is more than just you. Who they are parents depends on their own abilities."

Batman's mouth sank.

He really did it on purpose. Batman now knows who Bruce's sniper is targeting.

"You should go for a follow-up check. "

Batman turned and left. He could feel Bruce's eyes on him. The aggression in them almost made a hole in his clothes.

It was so naive that he couldn't believe it. What did he think this was? A battle for his parents?

It was meaningless.

Batman returned to the Wayne Group's building. He had to check the latest financial statements. Even though Thomas had been in charge of the Wayne Group since the Waynes came back, Batman had to make sure that there was nothing wrong with the operation.

What worried him most was the unknown funds that flowed to Mexico. During the time he stayed on Earth, he was busy paying attention to the space war and had no time to investigate what happened in Mexico. Now the entire island of Gotham has flown away from Earth. There is no way to investigate Mexico.

But Batman can still infer what Thomas has been doing recently through the flow of funds.

Several small amounts of funds were distributed to unknown Mexican accounts, and some funds flowed to military accounts or some accounts that were obviously black gloves.

The historical flow of funds in Mexican accounts shows that they also purchased arms from the Wayne Group, which means that Thomas gave money to some people in Mexico and asked them to buy arms from the Wayne Group. What is this for?

Wait, arms, why do Mexicans buy arms? There is no war there.

Batman had a bad premonition, and he immediately returned through the portal under the sky island. His own universe, and then he saw on the front page of international news that the People's Democratic Revolution broke out in Mexico, and the Democratic Alliance Army was fighting the Guadalajara government army.

Batman slapped his forehead.

Thomas actually engaged in the business of an arms dealer, giving money first, so that the other party would use the money to buy their arms, and then provoke a war to sell more arms. He even had the nerve to accuse himself of being Batman? !

But Batman instinctively felt that something was wrong. It was true that Thomas was a businessman, but he knew that his father was not the kind of arms dealer who lost his conscience, otherwise he would not have been shot in the back then.

As the investigation deepened, Batman found Thomas's personal information in the computer of the Wayne Group. personal account, which is a separate folder for recording certain things.

Batman found a photo there.

The photo shows the skyline of a prosperous city, with tall buildings lined up one after another, busy roads, winding overpasses and central roundabouts all shining under the sun.

That is Gotham.

Batman almost immediately recalled the incomparable shock he felt when he saw Bruce through Schiller's thinking tower and saw Bruce and his sunny Gotham.

And Thomas had been there and experienced it personally.

Batman found more pictures in this folder, most of which were manuscripts, which showed that they were some urban reconstruction projects.

Batman can remember all the details of this city, so he knows that the building drawn here does not belong to his Gotham, so it must be the Gotham where Bruce is.

Continuing to flip back, Batman can clearly see that the manuscript has been transformed into the neighborhood of Gotham where he is, and some methods based on previous building transformations have been clumsily applied to buildings familiar to Batman.

Thomas is not a master of architecture, and he only learned to paint when he was a child, and he is no longer a professional, but Batman can see his twelve efforts from these manuscripts.

One of the manuscripts is the Wayne Building where Batman is, surrounded by some buildings that Batman is not familiar with, which are obviously in Thomas's imagination, and the only blue sky and white clouds with a base color.

Now Batman knows that Thomas is selling arms and speculating in real estate, which has caused his blood pressure to be problematic. What is he going to do with the money he earns?

The battle for parents is really meaningless, Batman turned around.

But the Joker is right, it's time to go all out and see the true value of Schiller's outstanding graduates.

There was a power outage and no internet, so I rowed to find an internet connection to update

Why is my life so dramatic!