Chapter 3296

"I didn't expect you to bring him back here. I guess his attending physician didn't agree." Schiller stood at the door of the bedroom in Wei En Manor and said, "If you also plan to be insincere with me like this, then I can also take a high consultation fee and say some nice words to fool you."

"Wei En Hospital isn't safe enough." Batman seemed to be explaining, saying, "Someone is watching there, I can't let them find Jason."

"Fine, say whatever you want. I just hope the familiar environment didn't stimulate him. Otherwise, you must pay more."

Schiller pushed the door open a small crack and saw a figure sitting by the bed, currently looking quite calm. So he said: "When I treat him, you cannot be present. And I will make the cameras you installed completely ineffective. If you can't accept that, then forget it."

Batman frowned, seemingly still thinking, but Schiller had already pushed the door and entered, and with a bang, locked Batman outside the door.

After entering the room, a wisp of gray mist permeated, patrolling the room once. Soon, all the walls were covered with faint mist.

The young man sitting by the bed finally raised his head.

His eyes became sharp in an instant, with a kind of indescribable ferocity. Just making eye contact with such eyes made one feel a chill down their back.

Schiller didn't react to his attitude, just sat on the chair beside the bed, looked at him and said: "I am sure our conversation won't be known by Batman. I think you can talk about what happened back then."

Jason seemed to have returned to being dull. But after sitting in place for a while, he reached out to take the water cup on the bedside table.

Schiller handed him the water cup. He drank a whole large cup of water, coughed forcefully twice, coughed out some phlegm with blood streaks, and then let out a long breath.

"The night I was kidnapped by the Joker, Batman could have saved me." Jason's voice was hoarse beyond words, sounding like a vegetable who had been paralyzed in bed for many years without consciousness suddenly opening his mouth to speak. His vocal cords didn't seem to be under his control at all, and useless breathy sounds were interspersed in every turning syllable.

"Are you resenting him?"

"That's not what I want to say." Jason continued, "The key is the reason he didn't come to save me."

"What is it?"

"He went to stop a crime."

"So you still resent him for not choosing you."

"I said that's not the point! Cough cough cough!" Jason forcefully placed the cup on the table, and the water inside splashed out.

He coughed for a good while in place before continuing: "That was a manipulated case, the purpose was to let Batman destroy a metal smelting plant in the process of fighting Bane, to cover up the fact that a certain batch of raw materials didn't exist at all."

Jason didn't seem to expect Schiller to understand either; he just kept talking to himself: "Before the Joker took action, I followed the clues of this case and found a certain person. Then I suddenly realized the truth of all this—Batman had been used by them all along."

Schiller raised his eyebrows. He calculated the time, and Jason's age at that time should have been very young, at most no more than 12 years old. He actually discovered the truth so early?

"Then you were caught by the Joker?"

"Yes." Jason took a deep breath and said, "He tortured me, forcing me to reveal Batman's true identity."

"He didn't know at that time?"

"He didn't know. But I told him."

Batman frowned. He was recalling the original plot, but in the original *White Knight* comic, Jason didn't have many scenes, only interspersed with a few images of him being tortured by the Joker.

However, in the original plot, he did reveal Batman's identity, and even said that becoming Batman's assistant was his biggest regret.

But now it seems, this sentence seems to have a different interpretation. If Jason knew so early that Batman was actually an accomplice of the upper society, was he regretting that he had once helped the evildoer?

Jason took a deep breath and said: "I used to think that as long as I helped Batman, I could save Cat Getan. But after knowing the truth, I realized I was too naive. Batman's existence itself is a mistake."

"As long as he still exists, those people can use him to constantly cover up their own mistakes." Jason said coldly, "Even the Joker is more innocent than him. At least the Joker's crazy brain makes him not be used or bought by anyone."

Schiller could understand Jason's mood at the time. Because Jason once lived at the very bottom of Cat Getan and had a heart that refused to accept his fate, like Willy, wanting to find a way out for this city.

At that time, he naively thought that as long as he tried his best to help Batman, he could definitely make this city better. He made many efforts for this and really felt he had done it.

Until one day, he suddenly discovered that his helping Batman wasn't saving this city at all, but precisely helping those elite figures who had constantly oppressed and persecuted him to persecute more poor people like him.

It was as if he had turned from a great hero who saved the world into an executioner with hands full of blood overnight. His faith completely collapsed.

"So you exposed Batman's identity to the Joker."

"Yes. I hoped the Joker could kill him." Jason looked up at Schiller and said, "At least kill the identity of Batman, let him not do such stupid things again."

"But it didn't succeed."

Jason shook his head and said: "Because the Joker wasn't fighting Batman alone, but fighting the entire upper society. As long as those elite figures still wanted to use Batman for profit, they would help Batman deal with the Joker."

"Do you know who saved you?"

Jason paused rarely, and said: "I can't be sure. But perhaps it's possible it was Harley Quinn."

"What do you mean?"

"When the Joker was torturing me, she secretly helped me. Otherwise, I would have really gone crazy. But toward the end, I was already in a coma, only feeling like I was thrown somewhere. Later I had no consciousness. When I woke up again, I found myself in a mental hospital in Blüdhaven."

Schiller tapped the armrest with his fingers and said: "I hope you can be honest with me. Because there aren't many people who can help you now. But I can also understand your concealment. After all, we aren't very familiar yet."

"Are you trying to ask why I pretended to be crazy?"

Schiller looked at him without speaking.

Jason pursed his lips and said: "Someone is watching me. I suspect it's that group of people, but I can't be sure. They might want to use me as the last means to threaten Batman."

Before Schiller could speak, Jason said to himself: "I realized the truth and being caught by the Joker happened at the same time. At that time, my spirit and body were very painful, and I didn't have time to think calmly."

"But later when I was in the mental hospital, I thought carefully about everything Batman had done, and then I found he was even stupider than I imagined. He really felt he was doing good things."

"But since that's the case, it proves he is at least a stupid good person. If he could realize and admit this, he definitely wouldn't be obedient anymore."

"But that group of people won't give up a money-making machine they've cultivated for so long. They need means to restrain Batman, and can only start from people close to Batman."

Hearing this, Schiller's hand tapping the armrest paused. He looked at Jason and said: "Do you know Alfred is dead?"

Jason was struck as if by lightning.

He stood up from the bed with a swoosh, but it seemed because he had been sitting for too long, the blood circulation in his legs was poor. After standing up suddenly, he let out a cry of pain and fell directly to the ground.

His movement was too sudden, Schiller didn't react. He hurriedly helped Jason up.

But Jason didn't seem to see him at all, saying: "That's right, it must be like this. They made a move. They want to make Batman completely their puppet."

Schiller was about to say something when he felt his wrist being grabbed. Jason used a lot of force, Schiller pulled, but couldn't pull it out.

"Calm down," Schiller said, "Otherwise don't blame me for being impolite."

Jason had no reaction at all. Schiller felt he wasn't completely not crazy, anyway, his spirit wasn't very normal.

"After Alfred died, did Batman become more and more irritable? He started using more violent means to treat criminals, beating them, even hurting them. Is it like that?!"

Schiller narrowed his eyes and said: "How do you know?"

Jason realized and let go, saying: "I..."

"You can talk about what you know." Schiller soothed him and said, "I will go verify it myself."

Jason sat back down, but his limbs became very stiff. He rested his hands on his knees and then said: "They didn't choose Batman for no reason."

"What?"

"The Wei En family might have a genetic disease." Jason licked his dry lips and said, "They have violent tendencies when their emotions fluctuate greatly, which will gradually become more severe with age."

"How do you know?!"

"When Alfred was organizing the belongings of the Waynes, I found a tape recorder. There were unfinished tapes inside, which seemed to be the medical records of some psychological doctor."

"What was said inside?"

"I don't remember very clearly, but it seems to be saying Thomas Wei En's situation deteriorated. He did some things." Jason's fists on his knees gradually tightened, and he said, "That voice was somewhat familiar, it seemed to be the voice of Batman's private doctor, Dr. Thompkins."

Schiller felt the clues in his brain were gradually stringing together. He looked at Jason and said: "Have you never told Batman about these?"

"At that time I only felt this was irrelevant. But later when I was thinking carefully about everything in the mental hospital, I felt something was wrong."

Jason swallowed his saliva and said: "Cat Getan's upper society wasn't established after Bruce Wei En was born, at least it started when his father was young. Their investment in crime wasn't a day or two, but very likely started decades ago."

"You suspect Batman's father was also a person chosen by them? But his father didn't become a superhero, and was unfortunately assassinated."

"Is it possible that he was assassinated precisely because his father didn't want to become Batman?" Jason quickened his tone, looking at Schiller and saying, "Thomas went to see a psychological doctor, which means he realized something was wrong himself. He might have wanted to correct this mistake, but was discovered by that group of people. In order to complete their evil plan, they simply killed the Waynes directly, and instead cultivated their son."

"A nice story. But you have no evidence." Schiller said, "The only person who might have understood the whole picture, Alfred, is already dead."

"But Dr. Thompkins is still alive." Jason said, "Although she came later than Alfred, if Thomas was looking for her for psychological treatment, it proves she can be trusted."

Schiller sighed and said: "I will go investigate. Before that, do me a favor."

"What favor?"

"How much of your skills are left?"

Jason looked up at him: "What do you want me to do?"

"Of course, take revenge." Schiller also looked at him and said, "Find the Pale Knight, and put a bullet in him."

(End of chapter)