"Dick and Jason went to visit the Met?"

"Yes, Master Bruce"

Bruce had just finished talking to Luthor from the Lex Group about tonight's press conference when he returned to the hotel and heard the news that Alfred had brought him.

He'd been a little worried that Dick and Jason wouldn't get along, but it seems like they're getting along well for now.

"Master Dick is also very happy to have a brother."

The Grayson family has been in the trapeze profession for generations, and pregnancy is not a good thing for this profession, so the family is almost exclusively an only child, and only if a girl is born will they consider conceiving a second child. Even if Dick hadn't experienced anything like that, his parents wouldn't have considered having a second child.

And Jason's arrival also eased the conflict between Bruce and Dick, which made Alfred happy.

"Do you need me to inform them of tonight's banquet?"

Bruce and Luthor have decided to hold a press conference tonight to announce some of the preliminary developments of the partnership, on the one hand, to satisfy the public's curiosity; On the other hand, if successful, the launch will cause the shares of Lex Group and Wayne Enterprises to rise, thereby obtaining more financing.

As Wayne's adopted son, both Dick and Jason seem to have the need to attend such a banquet.

“.. No, neither Dick nor Jason liked the environment."

Dick was fine, but judging from Jason's reaction when he got off the plane today, Jason was completely unsuitable for this environment.

Coupled with the fact that Jason's identity is still undetermined, I am afraid that this will also become a topic of interest for the media. It's not a good idea to put that kid under the media flash.

"Okay"

Bruce didn't plan to call two people to the party, but that didn't mean they wouldn't come on their own.

"I thought you weren't interested in this kind of banquet?"

Dick was a little surprised that it was Jason who decided to come back for dinner. He had always thought that Jason would be disgusted by this kind of upper-class thing.

"Is not interested"

Jason stood in a corner and watched the crowd of people walk into the banquet hall, most of them journalists, and many partners who have partnerships with Wayne Enterprises and the Lex Group, and of course their competitors.

Jason watched everyone like a security guard.

"Then what are you doing here?"

Dick smiled at a familiar figure in the crowd, and he could almost guess who Jason was looking for.

"Superman, Bruce and Superman went somewhere that day, and when they came back, they decided to come to Met, I don't believe it's a coincidence"

Jason lowered his voice and said, he was very sure that Superman would come today.

Dick had mentioned last time that he had a disguise to disguise his identity as Superman, and he also mentioned his colleague.

“.. Oh.... Clarke! ”

The familiar man saw Dick standing in the corner and greeted him in a friendly manner, and Dick took the opportunity to wave his name and draw him away from the crowd.

"Dick, I thought you weren't coming"

A mild-mannered man in a cheap gray suit with a striped tie and a plaid shirt underneath squeezed out of the crowd and walked towards them.

Dick hid himself in the shadows as much as possible after shouting, and the identity of Bruce Wayne's adopted son could easily become a target of the media on such occasions, especially if the main owner had not yet come.

"I don't really want to come to this kind of place, but Jason wants to come"

The big man turned his head to look at Jason gently, and smiled at him in a friendly manner.

Jason looked at the man's smile, felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity from the depths of his heart, and unconsciously stared at the man carefully.

His black hair was neatly combed and attached to his forehead, and his face was covered by a pair of old-fashioned, thick-framed black eyes. Although the cheap suit was ironed straight, Jason always felt that this suit was not so suitable for a man's figure, and he was really taller and stronger than Bruce.

"What are you doing here?"

Dick greeted the man very familiarly.

"I'm a journalist."

The man laughed, and Jason realized that the man had a reporter's sign pinned to his chest.

"Why don't you ask Bruce when you're done? He'll tell you for sure."

"I'm mostly interviewing Luther, and with Louis here, I can't walk away. What are you doing here? ”

"Jason wants to see you"

"Look at me?"

The man turned his head again and looked at the boy who had been watching him with a gentle smile.

Louis?! There is also the curvature of the corners of the man's mouth when he smiles.....

"Ahh Super.."

Dick quickly covered Jason's mouth, preventing him from calling out the title.

"Don't scream...."

“... Sorry"

"It's okay, re-introduce myself, I'm a reporter for the Daily Planet, Clark. Kent. Hello Jason."

“.. Forehead.. Hello.."

Jason didn't know why he was so obsessed with finding Superman here, but when Superman himself was really standing in front of him, he didn't know what to say at all, but Dick seemed to have finally found a breakthrough, dragging Clark to a corner and asking him what he wanted to know.

"What did you find?"

Dick asked Clark bluntly, these things can only be asked to Clark, Bruce you don't want to ask for any news.

"Dick..."

Clark was a little helpless.

"Clark, I'm also looking for a clue that may be related to this matter"

“.. You should ask Bruce."

"Oh ~ Clark, you know Bruce won't say anything at all"

Clark looked at Dick helplessly, he knew that Bruce would definitely not take the initiative to reveal any clues to Dick, and Dick would never run to ask Bruce any clues in order to prove himself.

"He's worried about you"

"I know, but I'm not a kid anymore"

"Okay, I'll tell you you can, but promise I'm never going to track Luther"

In the end, Clark compromised, and if he didn't compromise anyway, Dick would definitely always be on his side.

"Clark"

"It's a quid pro quo, Dick"

Clark would never compromise without Dick's assurance.

“... Well, I promise not to track down Luthor alone."

"Yes, I promise not to track Luther, Dick"

"Clark"

"This is Metropolis, Dick."

“... Okay, so what did you find? ”

In the end, Dick compromised, and of course you can't fool Superman with a random sentence on Superman's turf, so Dick has to give up the idea of starting from Luther's side.

"The last time Bruce found some mud balls from the warehouse where I found the poison gas, and from the composition analysis, the mud balls are similar to the ones he found when he tracked the clues in Gotham, and they probably came from the same place."

"That's all?"

Bruce also isolated some blood stains from the contents of the warehouse, and compared DNA samples to determine that they were a gang of criminals in Gotham. The gas sample I gave to Bruce, after laboratory analysis, was supposed to be a variant of the scarecrow's gas sample. ”

"Gone?"

"Not anymore, so Bruce decided to take over the joint research on biological neurology that Luthor had mentioned to him before, to see what he was going to do, ah, Louis is calling me, I'll go first. Dick remember what you promised me. ”

"Got it~"

Clark said a few more words to Dick, and walked over to a woman in a red dress, Jason looked at the woman, she was indeed quite good-looking, and she should be the one that Superman had a good impression of.

"What are you looking for?"

Jason has been following Bruce on the hunt for crimes, sometimes forgetting that Dick is also a vigilante.

"You know Esma. Professor Claude."

"The professor of biological neuroscience?"

Jason has the impression that the night he stole the Batmobile's tires, Bruce was tracking the case of the man's disappearance.

Two years ago, Luthor came to Bruce to discuss this cooperation project, but according to Luthor's consistent behavior, Bruce didn't think that this matter was as simple as it seemed, and followed the clues and finally tracked down Esma. Claude"

"Is this weird? Isn't he a professor of biological neuroscience? ”

"It's not surprising that Luthor hired him, but it's strange that Luthor didn't have him on the list of scientific research teams that Luthor gave Bruce"

"So he's secretly hired by Luther?"

"Yes, and he just started a scientific research project to use microorganisms to repair the damage to the human nervous system not long ago, and a fund dedicated to supporting the development of science and technology under Bruce's name also injected funds into this project, Bruce doesn't think that the two are completely unrelated, in case he finds an excuse to shelve this cooperation project, and plans to see what happens here"

"I was kidnapped by a scarecrow"

“... Jason, don't jump to conclusions until you have solid evidence, Bruce should have taught you this."

"But that's obvious, isn't it?"

Dick sighed, Jason was still inexperienced.

"Actually, Bruce and I both suspect that the Scarecrow may have joined forces with Esma a long time ago, so it's hard to say whether it was kidnapped to research a new type of poison gas or disappeared for other reasons, and this new type of puppet gas is also very strange, which is not at all like a scarecrow's style"

This is what Dick has never figured out, with the scarecrow's desire for control in the late middle and second periods, how could he develop this kind of puppet type of poison gas that can manipulate the human body, no matter how you think about it, it should be another type of fear type of poison gas, unless he was commissioned to develop it.

"Is it Lex?"

Jason asked.

“... I don't know, the tracking clue reached the most critical time, because it was broken by accident"

Dick wanted to slap himself twice every time he remembered that mistake, if he hadn't been so reckless at the time, he wouldn't have let the trail he had so hard to track down be cut off like that.

Jason looked at Dick's unhappy face, and an idea suddenly came to mind:

"Dick, the time you were injured?"

Hearing Jason say this, Dick turned his head around, and his face, which was always hippie and smiling, only had a serious look at the moment:

"Jason, has anyone ever said that your instincts are annoying..."

"No, you're the first, I guessed right"

"Yes, that time, I almost gave my life and couldn't keep the clue in my hand, cut!"

Jason didn't know how to proceed, and that mistake seemed to hit Dick hard.

"So this time I'm going to have to grab the scarecrow with my own hands anyway. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to be truly independent! ”

Dick looked at Bruce, who was giving a speech on the banquet stage, and said fiercely.

"What kind of person is Luther? Is it more evil than the black-faced man? ”

Jason lives in an environment that makes him gossip at most, and he is a little curious about Luthor as a person, is he the same as the villains in Gotham?

"No, how can I say that? That guy is completely different from those crazy people in Gotham, closer to the villains in the traditional sense, he has the ambition to participate in politics, and his biggest hobby is to make money.... Unscrupulous money-making.............. He's a greedy guy."

Dick said as he looked at the shiny bald head that appeared in the crowd.

"He's Luther?"

Jason followed Dick's gaze and found the bald head, and at this moment the bald head had walked to the banquet stage, and naturally put his arm around Bruce's shoulders to announce the joint decision of the two companies to the reporters below. That smiling, glittering face made Jason want to knock all his white teeth off.

"I hate him!"

"Me too!"