dhibooks Chapter 107
Chapter 107
The two wandered aimlessly in Crescent Bay commercial street, and someone recognized Bruce's identity, but just like what Bruce Wayne said before, the richest man in Gotham is not a star, he will not be fanatically sought after by anyone, and he will not Because after walking two steps on the street, someone came up to ask for his autograph.
They were most surprised that the richest man in Gotham would appear in such a remote commercial street, holding a suspected illegitimate child by the hand.
They wore blue suit shirts of the same color and size, the same small silver-gray vest, and even the expressions on their faces were exactly the same, except that there was a small striped bow tie on the child's neck.
Song Mo said he wanted to watch a movie.
Bruce stopped outside the only movie theater on the high street, the two of them reflected in the polished glass door, looking like a real father and son.
Bruce frowned.
The movie theater is as deserted as a commercial street, and the dozing conductor at the ticket window wakes up immediately after seeing Bruce Wayne, especially the exorbitant tip, and introduces them with 12 points of enthusiasm Well, Bruce has never done much research on these things. His latest experience watching a movie was the last time he went out with Song Mo to watch a movie in Chinatown that he forgot the name of.
He looked at the child beside him: "What do you want to see?"
Song Mo blinked: "Shall I decide?"
Bruce: "You decide."
So the child stood on tiptoe, took a look at the films, and reported the name of a movie to the conductor.
The name is a bit familiar, it seems to be a sequel to a certain film, because Bruce heard a "two" behind it.
Some kind of premonition vaguely rose in the man's heart, and this premonition came true when they sat in the middle of the theater that was booked out, saw the 10-minute long and boring opening title, and it was fulfilled after the leading actor finally appeared.
The name of the producer, director, and screenwriter that no one has heard of, the costumes of the humble studio, the rich actor who looks like a sprouting potato, and the heroine who plays the 16-year-old girl next door with heavy makeup.
...It really is a shoddy romantic comedy, a sequel was released half a month after its release.
Bruce laughed when he heard the kid around him the moment the leading actor appeared, but he didn't smile like Song Mo did, he either covered his face and leaned back, or suppressed his smile so much that he pressed his forehead against his arm.
The child pinched the pants on his knees with both hands, pursed his lips, and tried his best not to make his expression too exaggerated.
Bruce Wayne, who didn't understand what was so funny from the beginning to the end: "..."
The sequel lasted for two and a half hours. The previous one still had a plot, but the second one didn't even have a main story line. The whole film was full of broken jokes, like unit stories with no beginning or end, exaggerated acting skills and outdated jokes made me Bruce is about a third of the way through the film and wants to get up and leave, which he would no doubt have done if he had been sitting next to his friend or someone else.
He didn't even think he would have friends who would like to watch this kind of movie.
But Song Mo was very happy to watch.
So he sat with him in the movie theater for more than two hours. During this period, he didn't even take out his mobile phone once in order not to affect the children's viewing experience. He even sat down in a restaurant with a good environment after they finished watching the movie. When Song Mo asked him in a low voice if the movie was good just now.
Gotham's richest man also said against his will: "Not bad."
The child's eyes were bent into crescent moons. He sat on a higher chair specially prepared for him by the restaurant staff, bowed his head and folded the napkin on his lap in a standard manner.
At 05:30 in the afternoon, the most famous French restaurant in Crescent Bay Commercial Street put up a signboard for private use.
The soundproofing of the restaurant was very good, and there was melodious violin music in my ears. After the main course was served, Bruce naturally took Song Mo's plate and cut the beef in white sauce into small pieces suitable for eating.
Song Mo watched his movements: "Are we going back after dinner?"
Bruce nodded.
Song Mo lowered his eyes and looked at the plate of cut steak in front of him: "Then when will we come out next time?"
Bruce: "Just tell me or Alfred the next time you want to come out."
Song Mo: "Then can I go somewhere else?"
Bruce paused, and he suddenly remembered the list that Song Molie had made half a month ago.
Bruce: "Where do you want to go?"
The child didn't think about it, as if the answer had long been in his mind: "I want to visit Captain Yanhua's hometown." After speaking, he added in a low voice as if talking to himself, "She said she used to live in The Ming Empire on Earth."
Bruce thought for a few seconds, and after realizing that Song Mo was referring to China 500 years ago——
That is indeed the place Song Mo has always wanted to go but has never had the chance to go.
"It's not there for the time being." Bruce looked into the child's eyes because his answer showed disappointment, and added, "I'll take you there after I can guarantee your safety."
Song Mo looked at Bruce, his azure blue eyes regained his spirit: "Yes."
He finished the small portion of white sauce in front of him, and the waiter stepped forward to remove the plate and brought the last blueberry cake.
The sky gradually darkened, and the commercial street began to become lively, with brilliant lights lit up around the shops, and the biggest electronic screen hanging outside the second floor of the store also lit up.
There is a trailer for the latest Batman movie on the screen, produced by Warner Bros. As a celebrity in Gotham, those screenwriters and directors will certainly not let go of this subject, just like the New York production company has been negotiating with S.H.I.E.L.D. for months The copyright issues are already in the works for the Avengers movie after the boot.
Bruce watched Song Mo's attention being drawn away, and he didn't even look at the blueberry cake in his hand.
The man couldn't help asking the question he'd always wanted to ask: "Why do you like Batman?"
Song Mo watched intently, and didn't realize until the end of the trailer that someone seemed to have said something to him just now. He turned his head and looked at Bruce: "Sorry, did you say anything just now?"
Bruce then repeated the question again.
It seems that the three words Batman can easily mobilize the child's emotions. He swallowed the cake in his mouth: "He's cool! He's even cooler than Destiny's Sixth Night Symphony!"
This was probably the time when Song Mo spoke the most strongly in the past few days.
Bruce noticed the strange name: "Sixth Night Symphony?"
"That's a rogue from before Destiny, I'm outside—" Song Mo paused at this point, and then changed his words, "Master Otto—" He paused again, considering his current position, and spoke again, "I saw it in the Chronicle of Destiny in Otto's library."
The pause in the title could not interrupt his enthusiasm for talking about his former idol: "The previous bishop was very greedy. He tried every means to join forces with the nobles to exploit the believers of Destiny. In the darkest days of the Church of Destiny, only Sixth Night Symphony stood Come out. She steals from the rich and gives to the poor, has smoke bombs that confuse people, and bracelets that shoot slings."
The volume of the children is not loud, and the waiters are standing at the front desk or in a far corner, no one can hear what they are saying.He briefly narrated the life of the rogue, from her birth to her tragic ending.
"A lot of people like her." The pair of eyes showed regret at the end, and then seemed to think of himself, and he lowered his eyes, "When I was very young, I also thought that I would become like her when I grew up. people, but the Mandate of Heaven is peaceful now, and—”
"Captain Yanhua's assistant said that they educated me by training bishops, not to let me use my abilities to do those messy things."
Bruce didn't speak.
He could tell that Song Mo had received some kind of strict education, from the way he spoke, from his every move, from the second day he lived in Wayne Manor.It has nothing to do with the unfamiliar environment and insecurity, and many times he doesn't act like a seven-year-old at all.
At least Bruce wouldn't even dare to laugh out loud at his age. The only explanation he could think of was that in the way of education for bishops, they didn't even allow any exaggerated expressions on his face, because it would have Damage the majesty of the Holy See.
Bruce didn't want to make the topic serious, but he really wanted to know Song Mo's views during this period, which was very important, so he deliberately slowed down his tone: "Have you ever thought about it, in case you become a bad guy in the future?" what to do?"
This seems to be a question that the seven-year-old Song Mo has never thought about: "Why should I become a villain?"
Bruce: "Because a lot of uncontrollable things happened."
Although he didn't quite understand, Song Mo still thought about his question: "How bad is it?"
Bruce: "Blow up buildings, vandalize public property, play tricks on Batman."
Hearing the last one, Song Mo disagreed and said, "That's really bad." He looked at Bruce, "Does it also include murder?"
Bruce: "No."
Song Mo put down the spoon for digging the cake, and seriously thought about this assumption that he thought was almost impossible to realize, but in the end he only had a very ignorant and vague answer: "Captain Yanhua said, God has given us the ability It's not for us to bully innocent people."
He looked at the blueberry cake in front of him: "I don't want to blow up buildings, and I don't want to bully anyone."
No one can imagine that such a child will become a feared Gotham criminal in the future.
Bruce felt that he seemed to have found the reason for the contradictions he had seen in Song Mo all along, about——
Why Song Mo, as the best side of all his identities, will be the clown who restrains himself from killing in the end.
Because only when he is a clown, all the people he faces who will be killed by him are innocent people.
He is not as crazy as his adoptive father, he is more like a kid who is angry with Gotham, he uses all the ways he can think of to get revenge on Gotham, acts recklessly in Gotham, vents his dissatisfaction and anger, but he never One thing I never thought about was to destroy Gotham.
Like Bruce didn't know.
In Gotham, others would dare to rob a bank with a fruit knife. He had a gun, but he only wanted a bag of white bread.
Thinking about it didn't make the man feel better, but instead made him frown.
If Song Mo was just a clown who did all kinds of evil, even after he knew how bad Song Mo's experience was, his mood would not be so complicated.
Old Jack told him when he was still alive, he said that the Joker and Batman are very similar, they are the same kind of people, but Bruce never thought of it that way.Old Jack has been determined to prove that people all over the world are as crazy as him, but it is Gotham, which is considered by everyone to have the most inferior human nature, to prove to Old Jack that his point of view is wrong.
Until he met Song Mo.
It wasn't the first time Bruce felt this way, only when facing Song Mo, he would have the illusion that he was looking at himself.
This may be the biggest unknown conspiracy of old Jack so far, or perhaps the adoption of Song Mo was planned from the beginning when he planned to fight Batman.
He did it.
He's bred a Joker that Batman can never get rid of.
But it turns out he was wrong again.
Because the clown cultivated by Old Jack is more restrained than what Old Jack imagined.
Song Mo, who was sitting across the table, was eating the remaining half of the blueberry cake, with his wrists hanging in the air, his posture correct, and his back straight.
But if the person sitting opposite him is 17-year-old Song Mo, the young man will definitely not just sit obediently, he will lean sideways, prop his elbows on the dining table and rest his chin with one hand, and finish eating the cream on the cake Then she looked at him while poking the cake embryo, and then said something he couldn't answer.
He didn't want Song Mo's future life to be like his previous 17 years.
He really wants to do something to make Song Mo's future life better, better than all the good things and good things he can give him.
But he just didn't know how to face his feelings.
Song Mo is worthy of anyone who is willing to put him first in everything, and this option excludes him from the beginning, Bruce Wayne, or Batman.
"Bruce?" The child on the opposite side called his name softly.
The man came back to his senses. He looked at the removed dinner plate in front of Song Mo and stood up: "Go back."
The seven-year-old Song Mo nodded, and jumped down before Bruce was about to walk over to lift him off the chair that was about the same height as others, and then grabbed the man's two fingers as before.
As they walked towards the car parked not far from the commercial street.
"Master." Alfred's voice suddenly sounded in the communication chip next to Bruce's ear, "The people of destiny surrounded the World Expo five minutes ago, and they captured everyone in the banquet building, including Mayor Harder."
Before Alfred could finish his sentence, the bat light that hadn't been lit for four days lit up again on the clouds above his head.
Everyone around stopped at this moment, looked up at the sky, and exclaimed in their mouths.
Bruce frowned.
"I'll send Song Mo back first."
"It's too late, I don't know what they are going to do, but they seem to be opening up a transmission channel with the Tiangong galaxy, and they plan to take those people away." The old butler said calmly, "I have already arrived at the commercial street, young master."
The next moment, another black car stopped in front of the two of them, and the window of the driver's seat was pulled open, revealing the face of the old butler inside.
The seven-year-old child also seemed to feel the change in the atmosphere, he didn't say much, got into the car quietly, and waited for Bruce to close the door.
"Protect him." The man took out the mobile phone that remotely controlled the Batcave from his pocket, "If there are other situations, you can contact the Avengers."
Alfred showed an unexpected expression, but soon, he nodded and said: "I see, young master."
The black car turned around and quickly disappeared on the Crescent Ring Road. Bruce turned and walked into a remote corner of the commercial street. Rush to the direction of the Expo.
No one knew what the purpose of Destiny was this time. After Batman rushed to the World Expo, he saw a group of Valkyries surrounding the Yanbin Building in the World Expo that had been pierced through the huge eggshell wall outside.
After the last battle in New York, Destiny's vitality was severely injured. This raid did not send out many troops. It didn't take Batman much time to break through their defenses, when he rushed to the center of the banquet hall.
The Gotham police who followed rushed in from outside the hall, and among the group of rescued hostages, he saw Alfred's figure.
The man thought that Alfred left early after dealing with Mayor Harder's charity dinner, but the situation in front of him told him.
Alfred wasn't at Wayne Manor at all.
For a moment, he fell into an ice cellar.
A faint light shrouded the top floor of Wayne Manor after the Bat fighter left the range of Crescent Bay.
Seven-year-old Song Mo followed behind Alfred. They pushed open the gate of the manor and walked into the hall.
Alfred stopped.
Song Mo looked up at the old butler who stopped suddenly. The old butler didn't turn on the lights in the hall immediately after entering the manor, and the surrounding area was very dark, so it seemed that the light that suddenly descended on the outside of the manor was extremely bright.
That layer of light cut off all the space outside the Wayne Manor, and for a moment pulled away a certain substance in the air in the manor, and then, a familiar energy began to spread around.
Song Mo, who has been dealing with this kind of energy since he was a child, recognized it almost instantly.
Honkai energy.
The child behind the butler looked out the window, his eyes widened at the words of destiny floating on the light curtain.Then, he heard a familiar voice.
"Are you having fun, Norchon?"
Alfred in front of him didn't know when he changed his appearance.
There was no trace of impurity in the long golden hair, and the golden pattern on the black robe symbolized the absolute authority of the Holy See of Heaven. He looked at Song Mo with those emerald green eyes, like looking at his long-lost child.
"It's time to go home," he said.
He stretched out his hand in the direction of Song Mo. The child stood there, his blue eyes gradually losing focus, and then slowly put his hand on Otto's.
A dazzling white light exploded from the center. After the white light disappeared, a knee-length robe engraved with golden scriptures appeared on the child's shoulders. There was a button of the destiny symbol in the center of the robe, covering his whole body.
There is an extra pure white staircase under their feet, and the staircase extends upwards, leading to a black vortex door at the end.
Ao Tuo led Song Mo up step by step.
The whole body of the child seemed to be wrapped in countless layers of transparent shells. Every time he took a step, the shells shattered, and the child grew taller. When he walked to the middle of the stairs, he completely recovered to his original appearance.
Song Mo suddenly stopped.
Otto glanced back at him, and found that the young man frowned while looking at the closed door.
"This city has never treated you well, so you don't need to be nostalgic."
"Let's go back."
The young man rolled his dull eyes, and lifted his foot under the guidance of Otto, just as he was about to step down a step.
The light curtain covering the periphery of the manor was watered as if something had passed through it. The next moment, the gate of the manor was pushed open, and a black figure broke in.
The black cloak fell down, the man wore a mask, and his jaw line was tense.He said in a low voice.
"Let him go."
The young man being pulled stopped completely.
Under the pure white stairs, the Honkai energy spreading from the door gradually became thicker. They sank at the bottom of the hall, and the environment temporarily modified by the light curtain allowed them to survive for a longer time. The moment Xia appeared in the hall, he rushed over.
With all the evil thoughts absorbed since their birth, they invade the human brain along the pores, manipulate the mind, and shout in the ear, like someone is crying out in despair, or someone is laughing at something.
It started with that gunshot in an alley in Gotham 17 years ago.
Otto watched the man's footsteps stop abruptly, and let out a sneer.
No matter how noble the earthling looks on the surface, it is impossible for him to be as righteous psychologically as he shows.
"Nochon." Otto called him again.
The youth's pupils, which had just gained focus, were lost again.
Batman stood there, those evil thoughts were like countless hands, grabbing his legs, grabbing his body, grabbing his brain, grabbing his heart, telling him that he can never escape, he can only escape in his life. Bound to the crimes of Gotham, he came to an end in despair.
He saw the back of the young man getting farther and farther away from him, but he was trapped in the past and couldn't break free. The scene in front of him ignited a raging fire, and the fire gathered and turned into countless dead souls.
They screamed for help and scolded harshly, blaming Batman for not saving them in time, and why among the many people Batman managed to save, they were the only ones who died in the attack of those criminals.
The eyes under the bat mask gradually turned blood red, before the pupils completely disappeared.
The flames in front of my eyes suddenly began to distort. They scattered into small pieces and turned into overwhelming bats, flapping their wings and whizzing past their heads, and then gathered together to form countless figures. Alfred, Gordon, Yin, Ethan, Harvey Dent, they stood on both sides of the road, fell one by one before his eyes, he kept moving forward, trying to escape from here, he pushed away the overwhelming bats, finally, he saw a mirror.
The clown in the mirror looked up.
"Do you remember who you are?"
Strange tone of voice, hysterical laughter.
The crisp sound of shattering mirrors.
The swarm of bats flapped their wings and disappeared in front of them.
The flames rose as high as they could reach, and then extinguished instantly like a punctured balloon.
In front of you is the last door to the Tiangong galaxy.
The two walked up the last step, and when they were about to step into the door, Otto heard something rushing towards him.
He reached out to catch it, and it was a silver bat dart the size of a finger.
Before they had time to react, a black grapple was tightly fastened to the steps under their feet, the sling suddenly exerted force, and the black figure came close in an instant.
The tall figure wrapped the young man completely, and with an irresistible gesture, he firmly clamped Otto's arm that was pulling Song Mo.
The man's voice became hoarse due to the influence of the Houkai energy.
"Let him go."
Otto raised his other hand, intending to counterattack, but just as he was about to move, a laser cannon suddenly hit the ladder.
The bright blue shells shattered the stairs, completely disconnecting the connection between Otto and Song Mo, the light curtain surrounding Wayne Manor dissipated, and the air rushed in again, breaking down the calm atmosphere under the hall at a speed visible to the naked eye. That black purple mist.
The shattered stairs and Otto's body turned into spots of light, the black vortex door closed instantly, and disappeared on the earth at the last second. Otto glanced at the direction in which the laser cannon was fired.
Only the top half of one was left, the shield was completely broken, and the red and white mecha with only the muzzle intact stood there quietly, its bright electronic eyes staring at the person who once created him and gave him a new life.
"One day you will realize that you were wrong, Bishop."
Bangya's voice sounded in the hall, and Otto's trace disappeared completely in Wayne Manor.
Batman fell from mid-air with the young man in his arms, and hit the ground with his back, making a muffled sound.
He sat up with difficulty, and checked the young man's condition for the first time. After finding that he had just passed out, his tense nerves relaxed, and the intense exhaustion after being eroded by the Houkai energy began to occupy his brain.
Bruce leaned against the wall behind him and dialed Alfred's number before falling completely unconscious.