Chapter 2524: Battle for the Cloak (Fifty-Four)

Chapter 2498: The Battle for the Cape (Fifty-four)

Batman and Batwoman are looking for Bruce's location. They know that the key to all this is probably still tied to the Batman of this universe.

It's not difficult to find Bruce. Although the female police officer refused to reveal more, considering Gordon's personality, the community they live in is not too far from the police station. Considering their economic situation, there are not many communities to choose from.

Batman and Batwoman have basically searched the surroundings. Now there are only two target communities left, and they plan to go to one of them, but when they are walking on the road, the surrounding space suddenly changes.

To be precise, the entire dream has changed. Suddenly, the surrounding space and time began to change rapidly, making them feel like they are in the center of a storm.

The bushes turned green and yellow, yellow and green, the leaves grew and withered, the flowers bloomed and fell, the street signs began to become old and decayed, and the road surface began to become bumpy.

Batman looked down and saw that the hands of the watch on his arm were turning rapidly, and in the end, he could only see the afterimage.

"Time is fast forward!!!" Batwoman shouted.

Suddenly, the storm stopped.

The familiar street appeared in front of them, but the scenery had changed greatly. Some of the original stores were still there, some moved away, and those that remained became a little shabby. The newly painted zebra crossing on the ground became mottled, the trees grew taller, and the style of the posters on the wall also jumped an era.

When Batman looked at his watch, he found that 20 years had passed in the year section.

"What's going on?" Batwoman frowned and looked around and said, "Time skipped, who can control it... Oh, this is a dream."

Both of them reacted. It's not that someone really controlled the time of the universe, but that dreams are originally like this, or it's better to say that the time montage in common movies is actually inspired by dreams.

No one will honestly go through all the details of ten years in a dream. Most of them jump to ten years later, or simply ten years later and ten years ago.

As the protagonist of the dream, if he does not realize that he is dreaming, or deliberately treats this place as the real world, he will not think that there is anything wrong with this jump, and he will think that he has really spent ten years.

"The creator of the dream fast-forwarded twenty years." Batman said: "What is his purpose? What does he want to do?"

Batcat and Xiaoke followed Crocodile Cat to search in the sewer. Soon they deduced more clues based on the traces of the half footprint before, and combined with Crocodile Cat's eyewitness testimony, they began to approach a certain target location.

Turning a corner of the sewer, they finally saw a ray of light at the end. Batcat approached carefully, but found that it was the crack of an open door.

He leaned over and found that the room was dark, with only the back of a sitting person and a screen showing.

Batcat recognized that the back seemed to be a certain Batman. He walked in quietly along the crack of the door, squatted behind the chair and looked at the screen.

The screen seemed to be playing a videotape of a family, a very happy family of three, a father, a mother and a little daughter.

"Hey, Gwen, where is Annie's hat? I remember bringing it to her. Where did you put it?"

"Maybe in the picnic basket." The gentle and beautiful lady turned to look through her bag and said, "It's definitely not here. Maybe you can look in the trunk of the car."

"We have to convince her to wear it, otherwise she will get sunburned again. Okay, I'll go to the car and take a look."

The man walked towards the car, and a figure with white hair on his temples came out from the driver's seat, stuffed the bag into the man's arms and said, "Peter, you are still so You almost forgot this bag on the porch. If it weren't for your aunt, no one would have had a hat to wear today."

The man called Peter smiled embarrassedly and said, "Thank you, uncle. Where's my aunt?"

"When we were halfway there, she said she forgot to bring honey seasoning, which is a secret ingredient for Parker's barbecue, so she turned back to get it. She will be there soon. Where's Mr. Todd?"

"He'll be here soon... Oh, is that his car? I'll pick him up." Peter walked quickly to the other end of the lawn.

The person who got out of the car was Jason, who was already middle-aged. Peter was much younger than him, but they were obviously middle-aged.

Another lady got out of the co-pilot seat of the car, and two half-grown children jumped out of the back seat of the car. One was probably in junior high school, and the other was still young.

"Oh! Polly and Reed!" Peter walked up to them and hugged them one by one, holding one of them by the hand and saying, "Come on, Mr. Todd and Ms. Todd, Annie has been waiting for you for a long time and is eager to play with building blocks with you."

The bat cat in front of the screen almost immediately recognized that this Peter was Peter Parker, and the one called Todd was Jason Todd.

Batcat jumped around the chair and onto the armrest. He saw Arkham Batman sitting on the chair with tears streaming down his face.

The scar on Jason's face had disappeared. It could be seen that he was older than Batman on the screen. He was old but not weak, and looked rosy and energetic.

More importantly, his eyes were very calm. The storm of anger that often blew in his eyes during his youth had long subsided, and the stormy waves returned to calm, appearing peaceful, stable and happy.

"Jason..." Arkham Batman muttered his name, and he didn't react even when Batcat jumped on him.

"What's wrong with you, Batman." Batcat shook his claws in front of him, and climbed up his arm to his shoulder.

Arkham Batman didn't answer. He had been concentrating and even greedily watching the scene on the screen, watching Jason's happy smile between his wife and children.

Batcat frowned deeply. He could feel that something was wrong. Then he heard Arkham Batman whispered, "Yes, this is the life he should live. This is..."

"What are you crazy about?!" Batcat interrupted him and said, "You can't be so easily deceived by illusions? You are Batman."

"This is not an illusion!!!"

Arkham Batman suddenly roared, which scared Batcat.

Batcat was stunned, then stepped on his shoulder and said, "You should know that it is not difficult to make similar movies? I understand that you want to find a spiritual sustenance, but this is too much..."

Arkham Batman squeezed the armrests deeply, closed his eyes and said in a trembling tone, "Jason is a good boy. If I hadn't picked him up, he would definitely be able to live such a life. He is very smart, very capable, and very strong. Of course, he can..."

"Instead of...instead of..."

Arkham Batman's voice gradually weakened. After all, he was not good at expressing his emotions in words.

"Do I have the power to judge?" Arkham Batman repeated Spider-Man's words, "Let a child suffer in exchange for the safety of another group of people, what qualifications do I have to make such a decision?"

"No, wait a minute!" Batcat shouted: "Wake up!! You are Batman, why are you crazy?!"

"I'm not crazy! You are crazy!" Arkham Batman began to roar again, "What's wrong with letting him live like this?! This is what he deserves! This is what I, this society and this world owe him!"

"But this is not true!" Batcat He raised his voice and said, "This is a dream world, this..."

"As long as you can't wake up, this is not a dream!"

Arkham Batman stood up from the chair, picked up Batcat, looked at him with shining eyes and said, "I know who sent me here. I'm not dizzy, I'm not crazy, and I'm not trapped here. He told me that he could show me what Jason Todd really wants... He did it!"

Batcat bit Arkham Batman's hand with a whine, and jumped down suddenly when he was in pain, standing in the distance and watching Arkham Batman vigilantly.

Although he is a cat, he is also Batman. How can he not understand that someone has bewitched Arkham Batman, and to be precise, he has used his mental loopholes very accurately.

Even if Jason said he didn't mind, even if Jason said it was nothing, how could Batman really let it go? How could he shamelessly think that as long as the victim forgave, all this could be wiped out?

What's more, the victim is impossible to forgive, Batman himself has never forgiven the criminal.

Of course they have to look forward and move forward, but the most terrifying thing about this kind of trauma is that you know clearly that no matter how broad the road ahead is, your past is constantly rotting, until one day this rot will catch up with you, until your future is also worn out.

Batman can't allow this to happen. He thinks that letting Jason continue in this state is nothing more than repeating the same mistakes. He has to find a new way for Jason, and there must be a new way.

It's better to go against him, the farther away from him, the better, because he knows that the road he is taking now is not what he wants, but more like a terminal illness and no cure.

The person who put him here made a bet with him, saying that Jason will certainly have a bright future, as long as he looks here, he will definitely see what he wants to see.

Yes, he did see it. It turns out that the end of this road is at the starting point. If Jason hadn't been picked up by him, if Jason wasn't a superhero, he would have lived such a happy life.

Batman knew Jason could do it, because he was so smart and strong, and he was able to thrive on the streets of Gotham when he was young. Even if he didn't become rich, at least he would have no problem getting married and having children, and living an ordinary life.

How could he not want to? Batman thought, during his days of wandering on the streets, this was probably Jason's biggest hope, right? It was his own intervention that gave him a goal that could not be called a goal, a dead end that he himself had not been able to walk through.

"There is still a chance to save it, there is still a chance to save it." Arkham Batman muttered to himself: "He chose this path, and he also thinks it is good, so just like this... just like this..."

He stumbled and wanted to walk out the door, but was soon stopped by Xiao Krypton, who yelled at him. Batcat ran out at the fastest speed and chased after Arkham Batman and shouted.

"Wake up! If that's Jason, he was bewitched. This is not true!!!"

Arkham Batman suddenly stopped, turned around and glared at Batcat, saying, "So you think he should be a superhero at all costs, sacrifice himself, uphold justice, and never deserve such a peaceful and happy life, right?!"

"But he is not a rich man, not a super genius, he is just an orphan living on the streets of Gotham, suffering from poverty and hunger in his childhood, and was unfortunately kidnapped and tortured by brutal criminals. Why should he pay more for this?!"

"He is sick, his spirit has collapsed, he doesn't have the ability to be a hero..." Arkham Batman's tone has trembled and broken, and his voice gradually disappeared in the silent and dark sewer.

"He doesn't have such a responsibility anymore..."

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