Chapter 1195: The Cries of the Lambs (24)

The night wind in Cat Getan is so cold that tears are about to freeze. When people shed tears, all the light they see becomes hazy and dreamy, like a sad romantic poem.

Dick, sitting on the edge of the building, feels the cold wind blowing on his face, about to freeze his skin. Suddenly, he hears abnormal footsteps behind him, steady but heavy.

Dick turns his head. When he sees that pitch-black and slender figure, he shudders instinctively, but in the next second, he discovers that it is not the Batman he knows.

Originally, facing a strong stranger, he should feel nervous, but in the next second, he feels relieved. He would rather face an enemy now than face Bruce.

"You shouldn't appear here." A voice much lower than Bruce's sounds again.

Dick turns around, sits on the edge of the roof again, sniffs, and says: "I don't know you, you don't care where I should appear."

"He didn't teach you not to leave your back to a stranger." This strange figure says so, but has no intention of attacking. He just walks over slowly and stands beside Dick.

"There are many things he didn't teach me, and I don't need him to teach me." Dick says, supporting himself on the eaves with both hands.

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

"It's me who disappointed him." Dick looks quietly at the lights of thousands of homes under the roof, takes a deep breath, and says: "I know I made him angry, made him feel very disappointed, and also feel very sad."

"I don't know what is driving me to do this." Dick shakes his head and says: "I don't know why, when facing him, my inner negative emotions are so many, like a sea."

"I worry that he thinks I'm stupid, but I also feel that he should have realized early on that I am worse than others. I'm afraid he will find out I'm not as good as others, but I also feel he must have thought I'm not as good as others long ago."

"I'm afraid he will lose patience, but I also want to know what he will do to me after losing patience. I know that angering him will make him sad, but I can't help but watch him lose control, unable to maintain his winning appearance, appearing very disheveled."

Dick covers his face with both hands, his voice like a layer of mist: "I want to make him happy, but I also feel happy when he is unhappy. I am simply the most evil bad child in the world."

"This is not your fault." The strange Batman says: "Between career and family, he made a wrong choice, and never thought about correcting it. He deserves to suffer the consequences."

The strange Batman turns to look at Dick. The red eye sockets of this little boy, after being blown by the cold wind, are like fragile and breakable ice.

"I can't find an answer." Dick shakes his head lightly again and says: "For these inexplicable evil thoughts of mine, for my behavior of being unable to stop angering him, for my unreasonable and rude performance."

After finishing, he turns his head, looks up at the strange Batman standing beside him, and asks: "Who exactly are you?"

This time, the strange Batman doesn't answer with "I am Batman." He looks back at Dick, reaches out to the edge of his mask, and takes it off.

What Dick expected was that it wasn't Bruce, but what shocked him was that the man in front of him was 70% similar to Bruce.

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

"Do you have time to listen to a story?" The strange man says with a certain tone, squats down, steps on the edge of the house, and looks at the city.

"My world also has Cat Getan, but after the gunshot of crime, Bruce Wei En died, and Thomas Wei En and Martha Wei En lived."

"But perhaps, at that time, we also died, just not buried yet, leaving a little room for imagination for this pathetic world."

"Martha couldn't accept the death of her son. She went crazy, cut open her corners of the mouth, and became a madman who always smiled. And I, in order to take revenge, in order to eliminate criminals, became Cat Getan's Dark Knight, became Batman."

"For several years, I ran in every corner of Cat Getan, fighting crimes that could never be fought, eliminating darkness that could never be eliminated, not stopping for a moment, not free for a moment."

"Such days wore away all happiness, and also made those once beautiful memories blurry. I became the unhappiest person in the entire city, and Martha wanted me to be happier, and her method was to cut open my corners of the mouth."

"I couldn't let her do this. I was trying to fight her, fighting the wife I once loved most."

"I once thought that such days would last forever, until one day I learned that Flash Barry could reverse time and change the past through extreme speed running. So, I found him. I wanted Bruce to live."

"Barry is a kind person. He agreed to my proposal. I was overjoyed and found Martha, saying that our son was coming back, saying that everything would return to the right track."

"But later, Martha and I knew that if the one who died that day was us, then Bruce would become Batman, repeating this dark and tragic fate. Martha was even crazier, and she couldn't smile anymore, so she died."

Dick listens quietly, as if really listening to a story. When he turns to look at the man beside him, he doesn't see any sad expression on his face, only numbness and fatigue as always.

"Barry has an enemy, he calls him Professor Zoom. He runs very fast and can travel through the universe. Barry and I wanted 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 his own eyes how his son was tortured by darkness."

"He succeeded. So, I came here, to a world where Bruce Wei En is Batman."

"And in this world, I had long since died, died with Martha under the gunshot of the suspect... Yes, I am Bruce's father, Thomas Wei En."

"He shouldn't become Batman." Thomas's tone finally has some fluctuations, becoming lower.

"The world doesn't need Batman. Cat Getan's Dark Knight can't change anything. He should return to Bruce's life, end those tragedies that might happen, be an ordinary person, or a good father."

When Thomas says the last part, his gaze falls on Dick's face. Dick purses his lips, shows a look of hesitation, and after a while, opens his mouth.

"Sometimes, I feel very aggrieved. Bruce doesn't seem to understand me at all. Perhaps, my talent is indeed not enough for him to value."

"Before, he might not have had a choice. He needed an assistant and successor. He met me, so he brought me back. But now, he has met better ones. He should indeed value them and cultivate them, so that he can have a better successor."

"As for me..." Dick tilts his head slightly and says: "I shouldn't stay here anymore. I should go back to Blüdhaven and be a small-town boy."

"But the reason I didn't do this is because I'm not reconciled. My parents don't have the ability to investigate the case of my grandfather's death at all. They are just ordinary acrobats. If someone points a gun at them, they can't hide."

"I want to follow Batman to learn, and after learning the skills, take revenge for my grandfather and protect my parents."

"If I say so, why should I care whether Bruce values me or not? I just treat 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, shouldn't make trouble with him, and even more shouldn't run out after I made a mistake myself, looking like a crying baby."

"Why would I do this?" Dick asks himself lightly.

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

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Thomas looks down at Dick and says: "Batman wants to pick an excellent assistant, but he doesn't understand that while trying hard to cultivate a successor, he will miss more."

"Miss those most precious things in the world, miss other people's love for him, and also miss the love for others that flashed in his mind once, this will be a complete tragedy."

"The evil 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 biggest fool in the world."

Dick's hands suddenly clench. His Adam's apple moves, he takes a deep breath and says: "I hope he won't be so lonely."

"But Batman is destined to be lonely." Thomas's sigh drifts into the distance.

"Are you here to persuade me?" Dick turns his head and looks at his side face and asks: "Do you want me to persuade him not to be Batman anymore?"

"You are very smart."

A sense of being used rises in Dick's heart, but he suddenly thinks that the person in front of him is Bruce's father, who knows Bruce better than him and is closer to Bruce than him.

Dick stands up and turns to walk back, saying while walking: "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 stands up and looks 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 falls toward the bottom of the high building, followed by a batarang flashing with cold light, only a few centimeters away from cutting his skin.

Thomas jumps from the high building, sinks into the shadow on the side of the stairs, and then swings up with a grappling hook, starting to jump between the roofs.

Another figure almost identical to him chases behind him, but Thomas runs in the shadows, while the other Batman leaps between the neon lights.

Two black shadows jump onto the roof of the Wei En Building one after another. Thomas has already put on the mask, so Batman looks at this identical self and feels a burst of dizziness.

"Who are you?"

"I am Batman."

After saying this, Thomas jumps off the building again, but Batman doesn't chase, because he is shocked by the answer of true or false in his mind, unable to act for a while.

With a "click," the door lock is opened, and the figure wrapped in a cape appears in the dim interrogation room. Thomas takes off the mask and walks to the table to sit down, and opposite him are a pair of gray eyes.

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

"You are right, I am not a good father... and neither is he."

"Do you want to stop him?"

"I must stop him, and you must help me. This is also helping yourself. This is the reason I found you, Professor Shiler, or rather... Joker." ===== CHAPTER 1196 =====