Chapter 29: Screening

Jason and Dick started this night to investigate the people whose identities had been determined, but things were much more difficult than they imagined.

Winters in Gotham are still very cold, and people either have their hands in their pockets or wear gloves when they go out, and even if they know their identity, it is difficult to determine whether it is "Charlie".

"How do you get this guy's hand out of his pocket?"

Dick and Jason crouched on the roof of a nearby house, looking at the passer-by who was hurrying down the street below, Eicent. He was one of the ones screened by the computer, and at the moment he had his hands in his pockets and was in a hurry to get home.

After three days of sunny weather in Gotham, it looks like it's about to snowfall again, and the clammy air is making the rushing pedestrians on the street shrink into their warm coats as much as possible, and no one wants to expose their skin to the air in this weather, including their goal for tonight.

"How about blocking him in an alley and beating him up?"

Jason seems to have gained a little weight recently, and the uniform that Dick gave him is already a bit difficult to wear, so Alfred thoughtfully remade a new set for Jason, and thoughtfully replaced it with a long-sleeved trouser style, which made him not feel so uncomfortable in the clammy and cold environment of Gotham. And at this moment, he was squatting next to Dick, drinking hot milk tea, while looking at the man who was about to turn left, and there was an alley not far in front of the road the man was taking, which was a good place for an ambush.

“... Robin, can you stop solving the problem in such a violent way? ”

It's really the easiest to take a beating, not to mention looking at the hand, it's okay if you want to watch "Dick", but if the other party is an ordinary person, it's a bit too much.

"But this method is the simplest and most effective"

Jason couldn't understand why Dick and Bruce would give up such an easy way, and it seemed to him that it was so simple.

Dick looked at Jason's side face and rubbed his eyebrows with a headache, Bruce had told him that Jason needed more attention, Dick now finally knows why Jason needs to pay more attention, this guy is a bit unscrupulous to achieve his goals....

Is this Jason's nature or is it the previous life environment that has created Jason's personality??

Seeing that the man was about to go out of sight, Dick thought carefully, it was not good to beat people, but Jason's opinion was not meaningless.

"Robin, we're like this..."

Dick hugged Jason and whispered a few words in his ear.

"Huh? I still find it easier to take a beating."

Jason's eyebrows were about to be twisted together, and he thought Dick was too long-winded.

"It's not difficult for you, right?"

Ignoring Jason's complaints, Dick asked in turn.

"It's not difficult, do you want me to dress like this?"

"Of course not, I'm prepared"

Dick followed the rope down the alley below, where his locomotive was hidden, and took out a carrying bag from under the seat of the locomotive, which unfolded to reveal a suit of clothes, which he used for improvised casual wear.

After putting it on Jason, the oversized coat was loose and loose, making Jason look even thinner.

"This dress is so clean, it doesn't look like a homeless man's"

Many of the clothes of street children come from charitable donations, and it is normal that the size is not appropriate, but Dick's clothes are so clean that they don't look like they are worn by street beggars.

Jason thought about it and looked at the surrounding environment, and rolled around him directly on the ground twice, and his originally clean clothes immediately became dirty, and he rubbed a few times on the wall to create a bit of a hole effect, which really made Dick feel distressed.

Seeing Jason busy making "beggar's clothes" there Dick thought for a while, then took out a bottle of fast hair dye, sprayed Jason's black hair into blonde, and after smearing some dirt on his hands and smearing it twice, a dirty little blonde tramp was born.

"Go"

Satisfied with Jason's cross-dressing effect, Dick took Jason to the intersection in front of Eisente.

"Over to you"

Looking at the man who had come from afar, Dick gave Jason another command and quietly returned to the roof.

“ok”

After Dick returned to the roof, Jason peeked around the corner at the man who was getting closer and closer, estimated that the time was about right, pulled up his collar and shrunk his neck and lowered his head, and hurriedly walked out of the shadows "very coincidentally" and bumped into the man in front of him.

The skinny Jason naturally became the one who was hit, and the man looked at the little ghost who suddenly came out and bumped into him.

"Are you alright?"

The man's hand reached out of his pocket and tried to pull Jason up from the ground.

It was an ordinary white male palm, with thick knuckles indicating that his work must be related to physical strength, and the same hairs as his hair covered the back of his hand.

The boy ignored the man, got up and ran away with a grunt.

The man looked at the boy who ran away strangely, and then walked in the direction of home, and after walking a few steps, he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly touched it in his coat pocket.

"MD, that little thief !!"

The wallet that was originally placed in the inner pocket of the coat was gone, and the man hurriedly turned around and chased after the figure of the boy who disappeared just now, but the thin figure had long since disappeared, and a few people on the street were slightly attracted by the movement here, but soon people were doing their own things again, you must know that this is Gotham.

"Cut, the little mongrel is running very fast, the next time I see you, I will break your legs, damn it!"

The man scolded and turned to leave, although there was not much money in his wallet, but it was really unpleasant to be touched away so inexplicably.

Directly above the man leaving, Dick looked helplessly at the "little thief" who was sitting beside him at the moment and searched the wallet he had just arrived.

“... It's not good for you to be like this."

"If you don't do something, you'll be suspicious, and you don't have much money"

Like a real thief, Jason picked up the wallet and poured it upside down, nothing but $20 for a few cards and a few useless things, he would have been happy if he could have touched such a sum of money before, and now the amount was completely unattractive to him.

“.... Let's get rid of the habit."

Dick knew that theft would become a habit over time, and Alfred once said that when Jason first arrived at the manor, he always lost some valuable and inexpensive things from time to time, and of course these were eventually found in Jason's room.

Bruce pretended not to know, and Alfred pretended not to see it, anyway, these things eventually returned to their original positions on their own, and they both knew that it was a habit that Jason couldn't break for a while, so they turned a blind eye to it, and Jason was also trying to fix his bad habits, like quitting smoking, although he still always had a pack of cigarettes on his body but never smoked again.

"Well, don't worry"

Dick took Jason's wallet and looked through it again, except for the $20, there were only a few credit cards, a bill, and nothing else.

Dick thought about it, then pulled out the $20 and said:

"Let's go, let's go get something to eat"

“... I thought you were going to hand it over to the police"

"Hmm... You know, this is Gotham, and if there's money in the wallet that goes to the police, it's a nuisance."

“... Also to "

"What do you want to eat?"

"Hamburg"

“go!”