Chapter 2487

Batman and Batwoman were looking for Bruce's location. They knew that I'm afraid the key to all this still lies with the Batman of this universe.

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

Batman and Batwoman basically searched the surroundings. Now only two target communities are left, and they planned to go to one of them. But just as they were walking on the road, the surrounding space suddenly changed.

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

Shrubs turned green and then yellow, yellow and then green. Leaves grew and withered, flowers bloomed and fell. Street signs began to become old and decayed, and the road surface also began to become pitted.

Batman looked down and saw the hands of the watch on his arm turning rapidly, and finally he could almost only see the afterimage.

"Time is fast-forwarding!!!" Batwoman shouted.

Suddenly, the storm stopped.

What appeared in front of them was still that familiar street, but the scenery had changed greatly. Some of the original storefronts were still there, some had moved away, and those that remained had all become a bit dilapidated. The newly painted zebra crossing on the ground had also become mottled, the trees had grown more than a section, and the style of the posters on the wall had also jumped an era.

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

"What's going on?" Batwoman frowned and looked around, saying, "Time jumped. Who can control... oh, this is a dream."

Both of them reacted. It wasn't that someone really controlled the time of the universe, but that the dream was originally like this, or rather, the time montage in common movies is actually inspired by dreams.

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

And as the protagonist of the dream, if he doesn't realize he is dreaming, or deliberately treats this as the real world, then he won't think there is any problem with this kind of jump. They will think that ten years have really passed.

"The creator of the dream fast-forwarded 20 years." Batman said, "What is his purpose for doing this? What does he want to do?"

Bat-Cat and Krypto followed Croc-Cat to search constantly in the sewer. Soon they deduced more clues along the traces of the previous half footprint, and combined with Croc-Cat's eyewitness testimony, began to approach a target location.

Turning a corner of the sewer, finally a glimmer of light was seen at the end. Bat-Cat leaned over cautiously, but found that it was a crack in an open door.

He poked his head over to take a look and found that the room was pitch black, with only the back of a sitting person and a screen that was playing.

Bat-Cat recognized that the back seemed to be some Batman. He walked in on tiptoe along the crack of the door and squatted behind the chair to look at the screen.

The screen seemed to be playing a family's videotape. It was a very happy family of three, dad, mom, and a little daughter.

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

"Perhaps in the picnic basket." That gentle and beautiful lady turned to flip through her bag and said, "Anyway, it's definitely not with me. Perhaps you check the trunk of the car."

"We have to convince her to wear it, otherwise she will be sunburned again. Okay, I'll go check the car side."

The man walked toward the car. A figure with white hair all over his temples walked out of the driver's seat, stuffed the bag into the man's arms and said, "Peter, you are still so careless. You almost forgot this bag on the porch. If it weren't for your aunt, everyone would have no hat to wear today."

The man called Peter smiled embarrassedly. He said, "Thank you, uncle. Where is aunt?"

"When walking halfway, she said she forgot to bring honey seasoning. That is the secret ingredient necessary for the Parker family barbecue, so she turned back to get it. She will be here soon. Where is Mr. Todd?"

"He is coming soon... oh, is that his car? I'll go pick him up." Peter walked quickly toward the other end of the lawn.

Walking down from the car was surprisingly Jason, who was already middle-aged. Peter was much younger than him, but both were obviously already middle-aged.

Another lady walked down from the passenger seat of the car, and two half-grown children jumped down from the back seat of the car. One probably was already in junior high school, and the other was still small.

"Oh! Polly and Reed!" Peter walked up to hug them one by one, holding one in each hand and said, "Let's go, Mr. Todd and Miss Todd, Annie has been waiting for you for a long time, clamoring to play with blocks with you."

Bat-Cat in front of the screen almost immediately recognized that this Peter was Peter Parker, and the one called Todd was Jason Todd.

Bat-Cat bypassed the chair and jumped onto the armrest. He saw the 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 his age in the screen was already older than Batman. He was old but not weak, looking ruddy and energetic.

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

"Jason..." Arkham Batman muttered his name. Even when Bat-Cat jumped onto him, he didn't react.

"What's wrong with you? Batman." Bat-Cat shook his claws in front of him and even climbed onto his shoulder along his arm.

Arkham Batman didn't answer. He kept looking at the scene in the screen intently, even greedily, watching Jason's happy smiling face between his wife and children.

Bat-Cat frowned deeply. He could feel that this was very wrong, and then he heard Arkham Batman whisper, "Yes, this is the life he should live, this is..."

"What are you going crazy about?!" Bat-Cat interrupted him and said, "You wouldn't be so easily blinded by hallucinations, would you? You are Batman."

"This is not a hallucination!!!"

Arkham Batman suddenly roared, giving Bat-Cat a big fright.

Bat-Cat was stunned, then stepped on his claws on his shoulder and said, "You should know that making similar movies is not difficult, right? I can understand, you want to find a spiritual sustenance, but this is inevitably..."

Arkham Batman squeezed the armrest deeply, closed his eyes and said in a trembling tone, "Jason is a good child. If I hadn't picked him up back then, he would definitely have been 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 with language.

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

"No, wait a minute!" Bat-Cat shouted, "Wake up!! You are Batman, what are you going crazy about?!!"

"I'm not crazy! You are the ones who are crazy!" Arkham Batman roared 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 real!" Bat-Cat raised his tone 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. He picked up Bat-Cat and looked at him with glowing eyes, saying, "I know who sent me here. I didn't faint, didn't go crazy, and wasn't trapped here. He told me he could let me see what Jason Todd really wanted... he did it!"

Bat-Cat let out an "Awoo" and bit Arkham Batman's hand. Taking advantage of his pain, he jumped down suddenly and stood in the distance, looking at Arkham Batman vigilantly.

Although he was a cat, he was also Batman. How could he not understand that someone had bewitched Arkham Batman, to be precise, had extremely accurately utilized his mental loopholes.

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

What's more, the victim couldn't forgive at all. Batman himself had never forgiven criminals.

Of course they have to look forward and move forward, but the most terrible thing about such trauma is that you clearly know 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 it wears out your future as well.

Batman cannot allow this to happen. He thinks that letting Jason continue to be in this state is nothing more than repeating the same mistakes. He has to find a new path for Jason. There must be a new path.

It is best to go in the opposite direction to him, as far away from him as possible, because he knows that the path he is walking now is not what his heart desires, but more like being terminally ill, hopeless.

The person who put him here made a bet with him. He said that Jason would certainly have a bright path ahead. As long as he watched here, he would certainly see what he wanted to see.

Yes, he did see it. It turns out that the end of this path 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 knows Jason can, because he is so smart and so strong. In his childhood, he could mix well on the streets of Cat Getan. Not to mention being rich, at least getting married and having children, living an ordinary life for a lifetime is certainly no problem.

How could he not be willing? Batman thought, in the days of wandering on the streets, I'm afraid this was Jason's greatest expectation, right? It was his own intervention that provided him with a goal that couldn't be called a goal, a dead end that he didn't walk through himself.

"There is still a chance to make up for it, there is still a chance to make up for it." Arkham Batman muttered to himself, "He chose this path, and he also thinks this is very good, then just like this... just like this..."

He stumbled and wanted to walk out of the door, but was soon stopped by Krypto. Krypto barked at him. Bat-Cat ran out at the fastest speed, chasing behind Arkham Batman and shouting.

"Wake up! If that is really Jason, he is also bewitched. This is not real!!!"

Arkham Batman's footsteps suddenly stopped. He turned his head and glared at Bat-Cat fiercely, saying, "So you think he should desperately be a superhero, sacrifice himself, maintain justice, and never deserve to live such a peaceful and happy life, right?!"

"But he is not a big tycoon, not a super genius, he is just an orphan wandering on the streets of Cat Getan, suffering from poverty and hunger in his childhood, and unfortunately kidnapped and tortured by cruel criminals. What on earth does he deserve to pay more for this?!"

"He is sick, his spirit has collapsed, he has no ability to be a hero..." Arkham Batman's tone was already trembling to the point of breaking, and his voice gradually disappeared into the silent and dark sewer.

"He also has no such responsibility anymore..."