Chapter 34: Clues
When Bruce returned to the cave, he saw Jason slumped in his chair unconscious, clear saliva coming out of the corners of his slightly open mouth, leaving a paralyzed mark on the leather armrest. Dick was lying on his stomach on the computer keyboard, sleeping no better than Jason, with a few more key marks on his face. Looking at Dick's posture, Bruce was somewhat glad that his computer was waterproof.
The huge computer screen also flashed the fruits of Dick's night's struggleβthe declassified poison gas component. This is not only what the scarecrow wants, but also what Bruce wants, the antidote developed from the samples obtained before, the effect is not good, and there are strong side effects, and the development of the antidote, the most critical ingredient of this poison gas, can finally be continued.
"Dick"
Bruce patted Dick in the face and woke up the dazed man.
"Hmm.... Bruce? Nihui is coming.."
Dick sucked the saliva that was still hanging on his lips and said inarticulately.
"Go back to your room and go to sleep"
Seeing Dick wake up, Bruce urged him to go back to his room, turned around, picked up Jason, who had fallen asleep completely, and walked towards the elevator.
Dick, who was extremely tired, struggled to move his feet back to his room, and Alfred would always tidy up his room so that he could come back and check in at any time.
Dick didn't even have the strength to take off his uniform, and rolled directly on the bed, and it took a little effort to separate the two electric batons behind his back and the belt on his waist from his body, and when he was about to close his eyes, he thought in a daze:
β.... Speaking of which, he never seemed to carry me back to his room..."
After Bruce sends Jason back to the room, he returns to the Batcave, where Dick has decrypted the most critical ingredients and wants to speed up the production of the antidote.
"Master Bruce, you have an important banquet in the evening, and I suggest you go to bed now to catch up on sleep."
Alfred's disapproving voice came from behind him.
"I had a break last night"
"Master Clark told me that you were so sleepy that you took a nap for almost 10 minutes all night last night, and you have to deal with what you call the cunning guys tonight, so I'd suggest you have some breakfast now and go to bed."
Alfred insisted.
Bruce turned his head to look at Alfred, and finally chose to compromise in Alfred's insistent gaze, and turned around and left the Batcave after typing Dick's translated ingredient list into a compressed package and sending it to Lucius's dedicated mailbox.
It was already afternoon when Dick woke up, and he was awakened by his own hungry stomach.
In the restaurant, Bruce and Jason are eating, I don't know if it's lunch or afternoon tea.
β... Forehead... Good afternoon"
After a casual hello, Dick sat down in the nearest dining chair, and Alfred quickly brought a sumptuous meal.
Dick observes Bruce and Jason, who is trying to eat the food in front of him and looks as fresh as he is, while Bruce only has a cup of coffee on the table in front of him...
Usually at this time, Bruce is not in the Batcave, but on other occasions, and today he is actually sitting in the dining room? There must be a problem. A sense of unease welled up in Dick's heart.
"Dick, there's a party you're going to attend with me tonight."
Bruce didn't beat around the bush and said the reason why he had been here.
β... Can I refuse? β
Dick really didn't want to go, he was really afraid of the old women who were always going to do it to him.
"A person who may be related to the scarecrow is also there"
Bruce succeeded in stopping Dick's complaints.
Putting away his decadent expression, Dick asked seriously:
"Found the scarecrow?"
"According to the clues, Elsa. Green may be one of the patrons of the Scarecrow"
Elsa. Green? Dick is quite clear about this name, as the most famous socialite, she has relationships with many bigwigs in Gotham politics, and she is currently ...
"She's not Shipton. Michelle's mistress? β
"Yes, I suspect Shipton is the sponsor behind the Scarecrow"
β... I wonder if even the Lawrence family is a bit too one-handed."
"Lawrence's involvement should be for the purpose of controlling politics, but Shipton's purpose should be money, and there should be no direct connection between the two of them"
β.... That's right, he's a businessman, what do you want me to do? β
"You have to find a way to set up a relationship with Elsa and get some clues out of her mouth"
β... Do you want me to seduce that woman? Isn't it better for you to do this kind of thing yourself? β
"I'm still going to contain Shipton and a few other people who might have a relationship."
β... Okay, so you sold me."
Bruce ignored Dick's complaints, turned and left the dining room to prepare for tonight's feast.
"I think this task is quite suitable for you"
After Bruce leaves, Jason takes the opportunity to rub Dick.
"Oh, yes?"
Dick didn't bother to say anything to Jason, he was so busy thinking about how to approach the woman, he really didn't want to take the job.
β.. Why do you have this expression, is that woman ugly? β
Dick looked like the sky was about to fall, which aroused Jason's curiosity.
"No, it's beautiful, plump, sexy"
"Then why do you still look like the boss is not happy?"
β... That woman can strip your clothes naked with her eyes, and lick them three times inside and three times on the outside..."
If he could, Dick really didn't want to provoke the woman, who had seen her a few times before when he had attended a banquet with Bruce, and the woman had shown a fanatical interest in him. Come on, he was only 10 years old then.....
β.... Uh, good luck."
"Oh... I thank you."
Dick looked at Jason's lively expression and rolled his eyes weakly in his heart. After thinking about it for a long time, Dick decided that he could not be sold alone, so he said:
"No, you are also an adopted son, why can you stay out of it, you have to go with it"
"Huh? I'm not going."
"That's it, after all, you were also adopted by Bruce, and I'm sure those women will be very interested in you"
"I haven't been adopted, and I haven't gone through the formalities!"
"But the media doesn't see it that way"
Jason couldn't refute Dick's remarks, as Barbara said, more than half of the paparazzi in Gotham rely on Bruce. In Wayne's lace news life, Jason didn't stay with Bruce for long, and soon major newspapers began to speculate about the boy's identity. Although Wayne Enterprises refused to disclose anything related to Jason on the grounds of protecting the privacy of minors, it still did not prevent the paparazzi, like the shark who asked about the fishy smell, from digging up Jason as one of the children who were trafficked in the first place. Soon, Bruce's adoption of a trafficked child out of sympathy became a media-accepted fact... In a sense, this is indeed true.
In this way, Jason was dragged by Dick to this kind of banquet that had nothing to do with him at all.
As soon as he stepped into the golden door, Jason regretted it. Alfred's high-end suit has become like a rope at the moment, and Jason can't even walk away, which is not the same concept as a business banquet at all.
"Don't pass out, little wings!"
Dick maliciously whispered in Jason's ear, and dragged him towards the crowd.
Jason's arrival even overshadows Bruce's demeanor, unlike Dick, whose identity is completely transparent, and everyone knows that Bruce decided to adopt Dick after witnessing the death of the Grayson family. Jason's background is a complete mystery, and Wayne Enterprises is completely silent about Jason's past, and people always have an interest in the unknown beyond common sense.
"Hehe, you're very popular."
Dick laughed as he looked at Jason, who was surrounded by women, in exchange for Jason's annoyed glare.
"You scared him, hey"
A soft female voice interjected and relieved Jason.
Jason looked at the visitor, a woman dressed in a silver fishtail, with long bright red curly hair, exaggerated eyelashes, dark blue eye shadow, red lips, and slightly raised corners of the mouth. The woman came over in a row around Jason's woman, and sat next to Jason, the strong smell of perfume on her body made Jason want to sneeze, although he had a gentle smile, but Jason always felt like a frog targeted by a poisonous snake.
"What's your name?"
The woman's gentle voice drew Jason's instinctive alarm bells.
"Miss Elsa"
There has never been a time when Jason was so grateful to hear Dick's voice.
"I really want to scare him?"
Elsa turned her head and smiled at Dick.
"Where, he is only conquered by your beauty"
"Oh hehe, you have such a sweet mouth, just like your adoptive father"
Dick's words caused the woman to burst into a crisp laugh, and with her laughter, the pair of huge, completely unreasonable breasts shook in front of Jason.
"Bruce is with Mr. Shipton, do you want to come over?"
It's time for Dick to shift his focus to Bruce's side.
"Oh . . . That's right, I'm going to say hello too, see you later, boy, you're so beautiful with those green eyes! β
Arsha left a lip mark on Jason's cheek, and then twisted his upright ass and walked towards Bruce.
β... What is that? β
Jason asked in disbelief as he looked at the back twisted like a snake.
β... Yes, that's her."
She's Shipton's mistress and Dick's target tonight, Elsa. Green, a woman like Medusa.
"Then you stay here, if the situation is not right, you must come to save me"
Dick completely lost his calm attitude just now, and put his arm around Jason's shoulder and said uncertainly.
"Uh... Good luck."
This time Jason said this from the heart.