Chapter 39: Unexpected
Terrorist Mirror, Jonathan Mills, a real former federal agent, has been arrested. He will face murder charges for the murder of Lam Craven and Rankin Theodore, as well as an attempted murder attempt on philanthropist Bruce Wayne. However, considering his obvious mental problems, this ten-chance ** is going to be imprisoned in Arkham Asylum.
One of the oddities about Gotham City compared to the rest of the world is that criminals are often afraid of being identified as having mental problems. Elsewhere, if a criminal is found to have a mental problem, he can be given a lenient sentence and treated better in a psychiatric hospital. But in Gotham City, if your file is stamped as mentally ill, it means you're going to Arkham Asylum.
Arkham Asylum is the place that everyone in Gotham fears the most, and it is also a famous madhouse in the United States. And it is not famous because it has a higher success rate in curing neuroses than in other places, but on the contrary, because the madmen locked up in it cannot be cured.
Arkham Asylum, or Elizabeth Arkham Asylum, is located in the suburbs of Gotham City. There are a large number of vicious madmen imprisoned inside, all of them are hopelessly insane, but all of them are criminal geniuses. If you release any one, you have the ability to turn Gotham upside down. It is said that there was also a time in the history of this madhouse where more than one psychiatrist was tossed into one of them by patients.
There are even people in the Gotham Police Department who say that perhaps no one but Batman would dare to walk alone in this dark building. The people who are locked up there are all living people, but it makes you feel a hundred times more terrifying to be haunted by unjust spirits.
But because it's a place like this, it's a better place than a prison for a scary criminal like the mirror.
Bruce Wayne was attacked by terrorists on his way to the charity convention, and the driver went to the hospital to receive a blood transfusion, but he himself appeared at the convention with his injuries, which drew a lot of applause. Many people who were not optimistic about this rich second-generation son changed their opinions about him after this incident, and the fundraising activities were unprecedentedly smooth. So in a way, the mirror helped Bruce.
The matter is over, and Dick is about to take his leave.
Ever since Dick established himself as Nightwing, he left Gotham City and went to Gotham's sister town, Bloomhaven, as his base. In the past two days, he made a special trip to see Barbara, and by the way, he also cooperated with Roy to solve a terrorist case, and now he plans to go home.
Before leaving, he and Barbara hugged warmly: "Goodbye, Xiaoba, I will miss you." ”
"Uh-huh, thanks. But don't expect me to miss you just because of that. Barbara mischievously, but quickly changed her tune, "Well, I'll miss you too." ”
Barbara and Dick's relationship is not insignificant. A few years ago, when it was just beginning, Batman had only one Robin and one Batgirl by his side, and that was the two of them. They can be said to have watched each other's progress and grown together.
After saying goodbye to Barbara, Dick found Roy crouched in his room and focused all his attention on the TV news.
"Hey, buddy, I'm leaving." Dick said.
"Oh."
Dick smiled wryly, shook his head, and prepared to leave without further words. In just two days, he has become accustomed to the habits of this strange guy.
But to his surprise, just as he was about to leave the room, a voice suddenly came from behind him: "Well done this time, come back when you have time." ”
When he turned his head in slight surprise, the guy was still staring at the TV without blinking, as if he hadn't looked away at all.
But Dick knew that this was the kind of person who already recognized him as a friend, or was closer to a friend.
Dick smiled heartily: "You are also so-so, newcomer, keep up the good work!" ”
With that, he left.
Barbara slowly pushed the wheelchair to Roy's room.
"So, you didn't give him that gift." Roy didn't look back before he spoke, "As a result, you still hesitated. If it were me, I would have felt that there was nothing to hesitate about, and others were very nice."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the sound of something being thrown on the table.
Roy was finally willing to take his eyes off the television, and was stunned to find a rather beautifully wrapped cardboard box with a red ribbon and a bow on his desk. The great detective, who has always been quite confident in most of his judgments, is now not so confident. Is that a cake?
Barbara smiled as she came to him, her snow-white hand reaching out, holding the beautifully wrapped gift box that Roy had seen through the crack in Barbara's bedroom door.
The gift box had the words "ToRoyGreen" written on it, and Roy must have seen it the day he saw it through the crack in the door, but it was too far away for him to see it.
"This is for me?" He was still not sure.
Barbara laughed and said, "What? Don't you remember your birthday? ”
Roy took the gift with a hesitant hand: "Thank you? ”
The "thank you" is so unnatural that it's out of tune into a questioning tone.
"Take it apart!"
Barbara was more anxious than the person receiving the gift, as if she was the one who didn't know what was inside. Roy opened the gift box according to his words, and it was quite large.
It's an electron microscope, and it looks quite advanced.
"I guess with this, you don't have to ask Alfred for help whenever you need to test something." Barbara explained.
"Uh-oh."
"Do you like it?"
"Oh, of course it's good."
Barbara laughed out loud, "You know what? Our brilliant detective looks like a fool right now."
Then she sighed: "But this makes me feel that you seem more real." ”
Roy took a deep breath, sorted out his unprecedentedly chaotic thoughts, and asked, "So, how did you know my birthday?" ”
"When you fill in your personal information for a rental room." Barbara raised her eyebrows, "What?" Sister said that she has the ability to never forget? ”
"No, it's just that I can't remember the last time someone gave me a birthday."
Roy stared at Barbara and said seriously, "Thank you." ”
It's not easy for him to say the word "thank you" so seriously, right?
Barbara smiled: "Okay, hurry up and solve this cake, I'm salivating three thousand feet!" I made it to order from my favorite restaurant, and it tasted pretty good. I'm guessing you've never had a birthday cake either, have you? Haven't eaten it yet? That's a lifelong regret, you're going to love this thing to death! ”