As night fell, Bruce did not rest in his room, and he carried a slightly large flower pot to the corner of the manor garden.

It was a little surprising that instead of flowers, the pot was planted with a rough mineral, and what was even more puzzling was that Bruce crouched down with the pot and began to talk to the ore.

"Just like we did in the mine before, once someone attacks the Shadow Mine, you don't restrict it, let all the Shadow Vines in the Shadow Mine burst out."

"But that's dangerous!" A voice came out of the mineral, and a pair of eyes appeared in the translucent ore, dripping, looking at Bruce, and said, "You human bodies are very fragile, if you take a beat, you may die." ”

"Then you control the shadow vine to imprison the other party, but don't hurt him, can you do it?"

The eyes of the mineral blinked, and there was an affirmative reply, and after Bruce put the pot down, he walked back into the hall with some difficulty, and Jason and Tim just walked in.

The two children carried two heavy boxes, and Tim lifted the boxes above his head, ran up to Bruce, and said like a treasure, "Look, we're going to the Batcave and bringing all your gear!" ”

"Thanks, but I don't want to use him now." Bruce said, shaking his head.

Tim's eyes widened in surprise and said, "Don't want to use them?" So how do you protect yourself? You're going to get hurt. ”

Jason also echoed: "You are not lightly injured, if you don't wear armor and fight with people, others only need a knife to stab you in the lungs." ”

"Don't worry, I have a way, don't worry."

Bruce coaxed the two of them upstairs and asked them to stay in the bedroom and never come out, so that Alfred could take care of Aisha, while he wore nothing but a normal sweatshirt and sat on the couch waiting for the night to come.

As night fell, Bruce, feeling a little sleepy, keenly heard a noise coming from the garden, and he immediately came to his senses and walked out into the garden.

Bruce knew that Thomas would definitely go this way, and that the invasion weakness of all the estates throughout Gotham was the garden, because he himself had exploited this weakness.

So, unsurprisingly, he saw Batman Thomas in the corner of the garden, and he was again standing in the darkness, darker than the darkness.

Bruce leaned against the wall of the manor, he felt bad, the air in the garden was cold and damp, the wounds on his body were still in severe pain, his strength had not recovered at all, and he had no equipment to give him a sense of security.

Bruce felt that he was now naked like a baby, but he had brought it upon himself.

"You've heard about the day." Thomas spoke.

"I know, you did it." Bruce propped one hand against the wall, trying to resist the thought of slipping and curling up, and said in a somewhat dry voice, "You deliberately hid to exhaust me from running, and deliberately provoked family conflicts between Alberto and Roy, leaving me exhausted on the way to dissuade them." ”

"Aren't you going to repent?" Thomas asked, but he wasn't really asking, as if he was sure that Bruce wouldn't change at all.

But what made him feel a little puzzled was that he didn't see stubbornness in Bruce's eyes, and Bruce finally couldn't hold back, his back leaned against the wall and slowly slid down, and he sat on the ground.

Thomas frowned deeply, he couldn't understand Bruce's move, this was showing weakness to the enemy, and it was not conducive to the confrontation at all.

"I think you have a point." Bruce lowered his head slightly, and said in a dry and hoarse voice: "Batman's career is meaningless, I should give up as soon as possible and go back to Bruce Wayne." ”

Thomas froze there, but soon he began to look warily from side to side, and said, "This is your delaying tactic." ”

"Batman's instinct makes you doubt everything." Bruce said intermittently, "You think I'm lying, just to set a trap for you." ”

"I don't repent, you're going to make me repent, I'm repentant, and you don't believe it, are you crazy, or am I crazy?"

As Bruce uttered these words, it was as if he were not speaking to Thomas in front of him, but to himself, because Bruce remembered another person.

When he shows that he is not an ordinary person, Bruce wants him to be an ordinary person, but when he really tries to be an ordinary person, Bruce does not believe it.

Bruce only felt ridiculous and wanted to laugh now, he was a person who didn't believe in metaphysics, but at the moment he could only say that everything was a cycle of cause and effect, and retribution was unpleasant.

Bruce used the last of his strength to stand up, he leaned against the wall and looked into Thomas's eyes and said, "I'm going to give up being Batman, I'm not going to wear that uniform anymore, and you should call Gordon now, tell him what you did today, and then turn yourself in and go to jail." ”

Bruce saw that Thomas's fingertips began to tremble, it was not anger, it was more like annoyance, so Bruce said to him, "You're taking revenge, aren't you?" ”

"Because I disobeyed you before, because I didn't obey your arrangement, because I rejected you, so even if I took a step back, you are still ashamed of giving in."

Thomas stared at Bruce with a blank face, but he noticed that Bruce seemed to be talking to himself not all the time, but to himself.

Thomas stepped forward, and just a second before he reached out and touched Bruce, a batrang flew out with his palm in his hand, and Thomas instantly rolled to the side, his vigilance at the top.

But the target of this batarang was not his arm, but a strange flower pot behind Thomas, the sharp blade striking the ore body, and in an instant, endless shadow vine tentacles gushed out.

A pair of eyes loomed between the vines, which slowed their attack, but they still wrapped around Thomas's body in an instant, pulling him back to the wall, and anchoring him to the wall.

Thomas stared at Bruce, who gasped for a moment, but stood up and said.

"I don't blame you at all, and I'm sure you're the real Thomas, although not necessarily the dead Thomas, but you may really be my father, because the two of us really have the same idea."

"When two people have a conflict, when they are facing each other, when the other party advances, I have to advance more than him, but when the other party retreats, I wonder if he really retreats, in order to verify this suspicion, I have to go further until the other party is forced to retreat."

"And after the other party has no way to retreat and begins to fight back, they will feel that their suspicions are really right, and then they will start to resort to violence, and after winning the victory, they will continue to oppress the other party."

But this kind of oppression has no longer had anything to do with the initial contradiction, just anger at the other party's past resistance...... It's revenge. ”

"I don't know, if it's a genetic disease in the Wayne family, or maybe it's Batman's curse."

Before Thomas could speak, Bruce preempted him and asked, "You give me a familiar feeling, but not because you are Thomas, but because your judgment of me is always based on facts other than facts...... What did Schiller say to you? ”

"He said Batman was ruining himself." Thomas was silent for a moment, then spoke.

"Sure enough." Bruce staggered out against the wall, saying as he went: "I'm not surprised, you were deceived by him, but you don't blame you, it's not a trick, it's just an insight into people's hearts." ”

"He saw that what you care about most is whether your son will repeat the tragic fate of Batman."

"So, he made up an extremely miserable me to you, he took advantage of your urgency, knowing that you would be anxious and feel that change was urgent, ignoring the facts, he didn't know you too well, but he knew me too well."

"Where are you going?" Thomas asked, looking at Bruce's back as he left.

Bruce paused in his footsteps and said, "It could be hell." ”

In the dark and narrow corridor of the prison, Amanda led a group of security personnel to the staircase and walked down the stairs to the ground floor, where she saw Bruce waiting there.

"Where's Schiller?" Bruce asked, looking at Amanda.

"The murder that took place at the FBI base in Ravilla County, Metropolitan Area, has been accused of possibly being the work of a mysterious organization called the 'League of Assassins', and Talia Ogu, who mysteriously disappeared a few days ago, has become the most likely suspect in the crime."

Amanda clasped her arms, looked at Bruce and said, "The FBI has found out that Talia has an extra interest in you, and they suspect that the Wayne Group may be in collusion with the Assassin League, so. So they entrusted me with an investigation...... You know, they need balance. ”

"So now, this prison is still under my control, and although the employees want money, they want their lives even more."

"Mr. Wayne, Professor Schiller said he didn't want to see you, and now, please leave."

"Where is he?" Bruce asked again.

Moment. The sound of countless guns being loaded rang out, and the security personnel pointed their guns at Bruce, and Amanda then spoke: "I advise you not to have any dangerous thoughts, just yesterday, a group of KGB infiltrated the prison and almost caused a big mess." ”

"The FBI believed that the KGB might be trying to rescue Schiller, which showed that Schiller had important secrets or was extremely valuable, so they immediately took Schiller to FBI headquarters."

"I don't know what they talked about, but in the end, they came to an agreement that, at some pinch, Schiller would use his abilities to serve the FBI, and the FBI would exonerate Schiller, that is, Schiller was not a prisoner now."

Bruce took two steps forward and didn't speak, but Amanda knew he had repeated the question again.

Amanda gave a mocking look and was about to speak, when Bruce rushed to her side with lightning speed and then strangled her neck with his arm.

"Don't move." Bruce shouted.

The security guards wanted to turn their guns, but when they saw Amanda being held hostage, they were also a little hesitant, and no matter which one of the two they shot, nothing good would come of it, so they all stopped.

Amanda gritted her teeth, looked sideways at Bruce and said, "Anyone with a little conscience will not send their teacher to prison and go on a rampage here!" ”

"Tell me, where is he?" Bruce's arms tightened.

Amanda had some difficulty breathing, and she glared at Bruce, but in the end she could only say intermittently, "Inquiry room...... He asked me to tell you...... If you go to him...... ...... at your own risk"

Bruce let go of Amanda, who held her neck and looked at his back, and after taking a few breaths, said to the security guard next to her:

"Call the doctor and prepare for the first aid...... Forget it, prepare the plane, these two madmen, even if one of them wants to die, don't kill me! ”

(End of chapter)