"Bruce!"

Seeing the man, Dick immediately called out his name in surprise.

I saw a stout man sitting on the sofa with a naked upper body, and his muscular body was covered with countless scars, which was enough to make people feel frightened just by looking at it.

The man's name is Bruce Wayne, a super-rich man with a vast fortune, a cloaked fighter who is active in the dark, and a lingering source of fear in the hearts of Gotham criminals.

He's Batman.

There were several wounds on Bruce's body that were very new, and the wounds should have been no more than three days old, and even now they were faintly oozing blood.

At this time, Alfred was carefully drugging and bandaging Bruce.

Next to the couch was a large pile of old blood-stained bandages, apparently removed from Bruce not long ago.

Alfred's face was full of worry and helplessness, and there seemed to be endless words of persuasion to say in his heart, but he still didn't speak.

He was quite skilled in dealing with wounds, dividing the medicine by dividing it by two, and then re-wrapping the new bandage.

"When did you come back?"

Dick walked to the front of the couch and asked Bruce with concern, "The injury this time is not small, do you feel okay?" ”

"As a mortal fighting with a group of gods, and even leading them, I know how hard it can be, Bruce, you'd better rest at home for a few ......."

"Dick."

Suddenly, Bruce's flat voice rang out, and his mood swings could not be heard from his tone.

"Listen to Alfred, during this time there was a criminal in Gotham who called himself Kidd the Strange Thief, and every time you failed to hunt him down?"

Hearing this, Dick's face froze, and he couldn't help but show such a wry smile.

"I knew you were going to ask about it."

Dick nodded and admitted, "Yes, Kidd the Monster Thief is very smart, and I only narrowly see through his plans every time, only to fall into his trap in the end." ”

"So, where have you been in your investigation of Kidd the Strange Thief in the months he's been active?"

Bruce continued.

"What's Kidd's real name?"

Dick fell silent.

"Kidd's age?"

“…… I don't know. ”

"Blame the thief Kidd's motive for committing the crime?"

“……”

"Looks? Nature? Living environment? Suspects? ”

Facing Dick, who didn't know anything, Bruce's tone began to get heavier.

"What have you been doing all these months? Do you know how many crimes happen every night in the city? Do you know how many innocent people are desperately in need of your help when you're wasting your time catching a performance art thief! ”

"I left with high hopes that you would protect Gotham, only to be told that you couldn't even handle a thief? Even made a thief the superstar of Gotham? That's what you do? ”

Bruce asked with a cold face.

"Master Bruce!"

Alfred next to him couldn't stand it, and said loudly: "Don't be too harsh on Young Master Richard, he has done a good job." ”

"And one thing you don't know, the appearance of Kidd the Strange Thief has caused the overall crime rate of Gotham to show a downward trend, and his presence may be a good thing to some extent."

"Ah Fu, are you saying that the appearance of a criminal can make the city better? I can't believe you're going to say such a ridiculous thing. ”

Bruce had a visibly disbelieving look on his face.

"I'd rather believe it's the GCPD to blame."

"Kidd the Thief isn't as simple as you think!"

Dick frowned and raised his voice in response, Bruce's questioning words not only did not overwhelm Dick, but provoked his resistance.

"Kidd the Thief is proficient in disguise and magic, can change his voice without props, is good at using a pistol that fires playing cards, and can also make his own non-lethal weapons such as flashbangs, smoke grenades, and tear gas, he is good at making a series of rigorous action plans, and he has a strong counter-reconnaissance ability."

"Bruce, you haven't seen Kidd the Monster Thief, so you probably don't know how good his disguise is, and trust me, it's definitely no worse than a mud face."

Dick is colorful.

"I've tried tracking down Kidd the Thief, looking through all the surveillance throughout Gotham, and at first I was able to find some traces of Kidd the Thief, but do you know what the end result is?"

"Every time! Every time I lost his whereabouts halfway through! He would deliberately drill into places with few surveillances and many pedestrians, and then he would never find them again! Because he can perform several successive disguises, he can disguise himself from head to toe several times in a blink of an eye! There's no way to know who he was after the disguise, and even if I found out what he looked like after the disguise, when I looked for it, I found out that the person wasn't the thief Kidd at all! ”

"Kidd the Strange Thief never used his true look and voice, and never left any clues at the scene, fingerprints, bloodstains, hair, dander...... None of that was there, not even the cloak of Kidd that I had confiscated. ”

"I've also locked up several suspects who are most likely to be the monster thief Kidd, but whether it's surveillance, eavesdropping, or even house search, I have used all the means I can use, but in the end, they are not the monster thief Kidd!"

"Bruce, Kidd the Monster Thief hasn't killed anyone, he's never done a terrorist attack, and he doesn't have any great power, maybe in your eyes he's just an inconsequential thief who likes to play with performance art."

Dick said with a serious face.

"But you don't see what kind of change his presence has brought to the city, I insist that he is a man of good nature, and it is true that what Kidd the thief did was wrong and might lead others to imitate and go astray, but that's why I should pay more attention to Kidd the thief."

"He's definitely not an easy opponent and I want him to be one of us, not just arrest him."

Hearing Dick's words, Bruce glanced at him faintly, and then said.

"Have you seen the news of the 'bat monster' on the Upper West Side?"

"I know there's such a thing, and the case Barbara is investigating seems to have something to do with it."

Dick was stunned for a moment, and continued.

"Barbara was attacked last night and she's lying in her room at Gotham General Hospital right now."

Bruce said expressionlessly.

"Just as you're eyeing Kidd the Monster, she's fighting the 'Bat Monster' alone!"

With that, Bruce got up from the couch and walked out of the house on his own.

"Come to the Batcave, Dick, there's only one thing you need to do tonight, and that's do what you're told."

Only Alfred and Dick remained.

(End of chapter)