Chapter 47: The Death of His Parents
When Dante stepped off the plane, the first thing he saw was Alfred, and so did Bruce.
Alfred stood there smiling, his slightly trembling legs and lips long devoid of the qualities that a good butler must have, that is, calmness.
But who would blame him?
"Welcome back, Bruce!"
Alfred said as he came over to Bruce and hugged him.
"Bruce, your clothes are really trendy, except for the dirt!"
Alfred joked excitedly, he shouldn't have joked with the heir of the Wayne family, but everything starts tomorrow, today!
Bruce hugged Alfred excitedly, this old man watched him grow from a child, but he never let him see hope, he brought him only pain and nostalgia!
"Alfred!" Bruce said earnestly, "I'm back!"
"Just come back, young master!" Alfred patted Bruce on the back, "Maybe I should call you sir?"
Alfred joked, then let go of Bruce and shifted his gaze to Dante, he just saw the sword wounds and blood stains on Dante's clothes at a glance, his face did not change, but his heart was more vigilant!
"Hello!" he held out his hand to Dante, "I'm Alfred Peniworth, the steward of the Wayne family, and it's a pleasure to meet you, Master!"
"What?"
Dante was stunned, how could this old man call himself Master! So, Dante looked at Bruce, who smiled awkwardly.
"Ah Fu!" Bruce whispered into Ah Fu's ear, "He hasn't allowed me to call him Master yet, because I haven't passed his test yet!"
When Alfred heard this, he nodded as if suddenly.
"So, will you be lucky enough to know your name?"
Alfred didn't change the smile on his face, and asked Dante softly, Dante could see that he was hiding his deep scrutiny and vigilance, so Dante smiled noncommittally: "Dante Naphilim!"
As soon as the words fell, Alfred let go of Dante's hand, and he decided to investigate Dante's identity after he went back, this is a dangerous person!
Of course, when he was thinking about this, his body had naturally made a guide.
"Because of my lord's orders, I personally drove around Gotham for more than ten circles to get here, and God forbid me not to be targeted by the increasingly rampant robbers!"
Alfred said as he opened the door of his Rolls-Royce.
"Please get in the car, I have prepared simple food in the old mansion, because all the servants have been dismissed, and the master does not want others to know the news of your return, so the person who cooks will be me, I hope you can like the Mexican food I cook!"
Before Dante could answer, Bruce pulled the car door for Dante, but Dante didn't care, but Alfred looked at Bruce like this, and became more and more dissatisfied with Dante in his heart!
The Wayne family is one of the top ten powerful families in the United States, and too many people want to get involved with the Wayne family every year, and Bruce, who has not been educated by the family for a long time, is the best target for countless conspirators!
Alfred silently stepped into the driver's seat and started the car, the improvised tarmac was far away from Gotham for secrecy.
"Alfred, is there any hidden place in our house?"
"What are you asking for?" Alfred turned to look at Bruce in the back seat as he drove.
Bruce glanced at Dante beside him.
"I need to do some special training, but I don't want anyone else to know about my special training, if there is no such place at home, then, I will go to the neighborhood with the teacher to find out!"
Bruce avoids the master and instead refers to Dante as a teacher, but Dante acquiesces.
"Alright!" Alfred gave Bruce a deep look, and he said, "In the basement of the old mansion, there are natural caves, I found those caves during the renovation thirty-seven years ago, and left them behind, I always thought that those spaces might have some effect, but I didn't expect them to have such a role!"
The caves were a natural safe house, because the caves were eighty meters underground, and a little arrangement could even prevent nuclear explosions, and Alfred, who had been a soldier, left them behind after seeing them and reinforced them with some materials.
Originally, the Wayne family still had two abandoned warehouses that could meet Bruce's requirements, but those places were too far away from Alfred, and Ah Fu didn't want much, so it was enough to be closer to Bruce so that he could take good care of Bruce and take care of the only surviving heir of the Wayne family!
"That's great!"
Hearing Ah Fu's words, Bruce shouted softly, he looked at Dante, and asked, "Is it okay to have such a place!"
Dante nodded, since the real Lei Xiaogu set a huge trap for himself, using the life of Lei Xiaogu's stand-in to control the explosives and cause an avalanche to kill himself, then, why didn't he go according to his wishes and hide his location, so as not to scare away this cunning guy again!
"That's it, too good an environment is not suitable for your cultivation, and I happen to have some things to do that may be louder, and the underground is very good!"
Dante nodded in agreement, Bruce smiled, and Alfred glanced lightly at the rearview mirror, increasingly displeased.
"Can you share what you're planning to do?"
Alfred asked, he was probing, because the real Wayne would never hide anything from him.
Bruce heard Alfred's question and glanced at Dante weakly, but Dante seemed to be resting with his eyes closed, and Bruce knew that Dante would not fail to hear Afu's question, and such behavior should be acquiescence.
"Ah Fu, for the past few years, I have been fighting criminals in my own way, but I have gradually become lost in the lives of criminals, so I was arrested in China and imprisoned in a prison near the peak of Shisha Bangma in the Himalayas. ”
Bruce spoke softly.
"A few days ago, I was locked up for beating up a group of prisoners who tried to teach me a lesson, but what was waiting for me in the confinement room was not darkness, but a man named Ducata, who called himself Lei Xiaogu's subordinate, who pointed out my problem and guided me to find Lei Xiaogu in order to find my way!"
Speaking of this, Bruce suddenly remembered that this person named Ducata was extremely charming, even if he just remembered every little detail of Ducata's body.
"Originally, I was going to look for Lei Xiaogu, but that afternoon, I met my teacher, that is, Dante, he went to the prison to pursue the news of Lei Xiaogu, so I was attacked by Lei Xiaogu's men, the teacher grabbed the bullet that should have hit me with his hand and saved me, and Lei Xiaogu's men have been disguised as prison guards, and after their identities were exposed, they committed suicide by drinking poison, I suspect that the prison is the reserve barracks under Lei Xiaogu's recruits!"
"Subsequently, the teacher took me to walk on the snowy mountain for two days, the teacher defeated the forty ninjas who tried to kill us in the early morning of the next day, and finally the teacher killed more than three hundred ninjas under Lei Xiaogu, and we finally met Lei Xiaogu!"
"And then, did you find out that your teacher was God?"
Ah Fu felt that Bruce was blinded by a play played by Dante, but he didn't think it was a good idea to expose Dante at this time, after all, he could see that Bruce was fanatically believing in Dante, believing that his teacher could kill hundreds of enemies by himself, hehe, the ghost believes it!
So, Ah Fu quipped.
"No!" Hearing Ah Fu's words, Bruce shook his head: "Of course not, it's just that the Lei Xiaogu we saw is just a stand-in, he told us before he died that their organization is called the Shadow Warrior Alliance, and their real leader's target is Gotham, I speculate that the reason why I can be found by their leader is precisely because I am Gotham's Bruce Wayne!"
Hearing this, Ah Fu's expression became much more serious, and the scrutiny of Dante in his eyes was no longer concealed at all, taking Gotham as a target, and an American city as a target, hey, even if it was a terrorist organization that was once in the limelight, the legendary Hydra who fought with Captain America didn't dare to say that now!
Bruce frowned and looked at Ah Fu and Dante, he knew that his old butler like a father was doubting Dante, after all, who would believe that there were still warriors in the world who could defeat a hundred without seeing that feat with their own eyes, without seeing the silver-white light that filled the sky with their own eyes!
"Ah Fu, my teacher is a powerful person, I believe you will slowly become clear, when Lei Xiaogu's stand-in died, the explosion of explosives buried in the base caused a huge avalanche, the teacher stuck his sword in the cliff, took me to find a way out, and fed me his own blood, so that I gained hope!"
After Bruce finished speaking, he reached out and patted Ah Fu's shoulder to signal him to relax, and Ah Fu heard this, and the fear in Ah Fu's eyes was half a point less.
"By the way, the Ray Yogu stand-in once said that his real leader has set the target of destruction Gotham, and they feel that they should destroy Gotham, the center of the world's most crime rate, just like they did more than twenty years ago!"
Bruce said, looking at Alfred.
"Did Gotham face any destructive crisis more than twenty years ago?" asked Bruce.
Damn it!
Hearing Bruce's words, Ah Fu shook his hands as he drove.
He struggled to grip the steering wheel and steer the Rolls-Royce as he answered Bruce's questions.
"More than 20 years ago, it was the worst economic depression in Gotham, and it seemed that overnight, the whole city went from the economic subcenter of the United States to the city of death, countless people lost their jobs, they had no food, so they started to make trouble, it was an extremely dark time, extremely dark!"
"What happened later, if it was a conspiracy of the Shadow Warrior Alliance, it shouldn't have been solved so easily. ”
"Of course!" Ah Fu turned to look at Bruce: "That year, your father used almost all his wealth to help the poor, he believed that his actions would bring changes to the city, and he did bring many rich people to participate in this action, and the total cost of saving the city that year exceeded two trillion dollars!"
When Bruce suddenly heard the news, his heart was extremely excited, sure enough, his father was a hero, and he would eventually become a hero!
"Did they do it, they stopped the Shadow Warrior Alliance!"
"Half of it!" Ah Fu looked at Bruce regretfully: "They used their own experience to sound the alarm for all the rich people who are not willing to pay, your parents both died at the hands of homeless and desperate homeless people, which let the rich know that if the economy continues to deteriorate, they may be the next to die!"
Bruce was stunned, yes, wasn't the year his parents died exactly twenty-one years ago!
Dante opened his eyes, and what happened to Bruce's parents made Dante feel a little regretful, and he could hear that they were good people, but it was always good people who died.
"I deeply regret all this!" Dante said softly, "but I suspect that their deaths may have something to do with the Shadow Warrior Alliance, and I think we can start looking into this from this point!"
Dante looked at Bruce, and he could see the heat burning in Bruce's eyes, so Dante patted him on the shoulder.
"Let's start tonight!"