"What!"

Dick was taken aback and quickly turned to Alfred.

"I, I didn't know there was such a thing...... How's Barbara doing now? Why didn't she ask me for help? ”

Looking at Dick with guilt on his face, Alfred spoke softly.

"Master Richard, we only found out about this not long ago, Barbara was injured by the 'bat monster' last night, and she didn't wake up from her coma until today, and then called Wayne Manor to explain the situation, but fortunately she didn't hurt the vital point."

"Commissioner Gordon asked the media not to report on this incident, because if even the police chief's daughter could not protect herself, then the sense of security of other citizens would collapse in an instant, causing a huge panic."

Alfred sighed and said, "He must be quite uncomfortable, but in order to maintain the stability of the city, Director Gordon had to hide what happened to Barbara. ”

"So...... Is Bruce actually blaming me for not helping Barbara in time? ”

Dick lowered his head and thought with a complicated expression.

As soon as he saw Dick's expression, Alfred knew what he was thinking, and he stepped forward and patted Dick on the shoulder.

"It's more likely that he's blaming himself for not coming back a little sooner."

Alfred said softly, "Don't complain too much about Master Bruce, he didn't really think that when he told you, he just didn't know how to express his emotions. ”

"I know, Alfred, I've always known that, but Bruce was right about one thing."

Dick nodded, his gaze becoming determined, "Lately I've been paying too much attention to Kidd the Thief, and neglecting other things that could pose a bigger threat. ”

"Barbara actually told me that she was going to investigate the bat monster murder case, and the most important thing I should have done at that time was to go with her to investigate, at least to be able to help her in time, but I was so focused on the monster thief Kidd that I didn't think that the bat monster could really exist."

"Knowing that Kidd the Strange Thief won't hurt anyone, and even if he steals the diamond, he will return it, but the actual threat he poses is not as good as the robbers who can be seen everywhere in the alley, so I should put him to the end to deal with it."

Dick shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"No one is omniscient, there are so many things that you can't predict, in the beginning, no one will believe that the bat monster is real, and I am no exception, you don't have to blame yourself, Master Richard, it's not to blame, and Barbara won't blame you."

Alfred said in a calm tone.

"Alright, it's time for you to go to the Bat Cave now, don't keep Master Bruce waiting too long, I hope you can find that bat monster and fix it hard."

"Thanks, Alfred, you always make people feel less bad when you talk."

Dick smiled as if relieved.

He turned and walked out of the house, towards the dark passage leading to the Bat Cave at Wayne Manor.

After going down to the Batcave, he saw Bruce sitting in front of the Batcomputer browsing a video, he had changed into a batsuit, only the helmet was not on.

"You came too slowly, and being late is one of the most shameful shortcomings of a soldier."

Bruce's gaze continued to be fixed on the monitor, and he said without looking back.

Dick had long been accustomed to Bruce's attitude, and he didn't care about it at all, but the kind of accountability with obvious emotions just now was a bit different from the usual Bruce, which made Dick a little uncomfortable.

Without saying a word, he walked up to the bat computer, only to see that the image above showed an unusually large bat monster, standing upright and more than two meters tall, and the length of its wings stretched out was nearly four meters.

This bat monster has lower limbs close to those of humans, except that its feet have become claws, the overall legs are not much different from human legs, and it does not look like the lower limbs of a bat at all, and it even wears pants, although it is tattered and not presentable.

The hands and abdomen also seem to be close to those of a human, but the arms and flanks are connected to the wings of large bats, and the hands are as sharp claws as the feet.

The head, like the wings, is the closest part of the body to a bat, as if a bat's head has been magnified to the size of a human head.

It's not so much a humanoid bat monster as a bat-like human monster.

"This is the 'bat monster' that hurt Barbara?"

"This image was sent by Barbara."

Bruce said lightly.

Dick looked at the monster in the video with a strange expression, "How do I feel about this monster...... A little too human-like? ”

"Perhaps...... It is the individual. ”

Bruce stared at the image and said meaningfully.

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At the same time, the Gotham City Library.

Dean didn't choose to go home immediately after school, but went to the library.

It's not because he's looking for new teaser material, after all, Dean has just finished stealing a 'Big Jewel'.

The next announcement will have to be a while later, and the monster thief also needs to take a vacation.

Even if it's not for the material, Dean often comes to the library, a habit he's had for a long time, going at least once a week.

This is because if Dean wants to complete some advanced magic tricks, he must use a lot of mental and physical knowledge, and even chemical knowledge, and the information gap is also an important part of magic tricks.

It was difficult to access the knowledge that Dean needed in high school, so he had to go to the library to learn on his own.

The difficulty is actually okay, he doesn't want to be a scientist, he doesn't need to delve into it, he just needs to know the principle and how to use it.

Dean ends school at 4 p.m. and the library closes at 8 p.m., which is enough time for Dean to learn a lot of new things.

Entering the library, Dean found a few books in the corresponding bookcase, and then found a remote place to sit down.

He doesn't like to read books and has too many people around him, so every time he comes to the library, he chooses a similar place.

In Gotham, there are usually very few people who like to come to the library to read books, and there are so many empty seats that Dean doesn't need to worry about someone coming to disturb him.

Boom!

However, not long after Dean sat down and opened the book, a sound of moving a chair rang out from the opposite side.

Then a thud came from the desktop.

"Huh?"

Dean looked up in surprise.

I saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old black-haired and black-eyed girl sitting in front of him, and her face and skin color seemed to be very close to that of Asians, which made Dean feel a little more inexplicable closeness out of thin air.

She was holding a huge black book in her hand, so thick that she couldn't even hold it in one hand.

The sound of a book being placed on the table was the sound of a book.

As for the title of the book, it is "The Vocabulary of the World's Mainstream Languages......

(I went to the hospital today for a checkup, the problem is not very big, a slight meniscus injury, no surgery, the only problem is that I estimated that the time spent in the hospital was a little long, so today is still a normal update, and the chapter owed yesterday will be made up tomorrow)

(End of chapter)