mousepad-d2 Chapter 70 Day 9
Chapter 70 Day 9
After he left, Bruce took out the room card, which was the presidential suite on the top floor of the Caesars Hotel.Knowing that he won't get any more information if he stays here now, Bruce put the room card back into his pocket, ignored the guests who came to strike up a conversation, and left the hotel in a hurry after saying sorry.
Nemo watched him disappear at the door without making any unnecessary gestures.
Bruce returned to Wayne Manor first. Damian had already put on the uniform of the League of Assassins that he hadn't worn for a long time, and sat motionless on the sofa. When he saw him coming back, he immediately stood up: "Father."
He looked at Damian's anxious and expectant eyes, and said truthfully: "There are too many people at the banquet, and it's not appropriate to ask anything. I'll go again tonight."
"I'm going with you." Damian stepped forward.
"No." Bruce firmly refused.
"I am the future master of the League of Assassins, and I want to clean up the traitors for the League. Father, please don't stop me!" Damian said angrily.
Bruce stopped walking into the study to open the secret passage into the Batcave, turned to look at Damian, and asked him, "Do you remember what I told you?"
Damian was puzzled: "You said a lot to me, what are you referring to?"
"We did all this for justice, not revenge." Bruce said in a deep voice.
Damian didn't speak, but from his expression and eyes, it can be seen that his heart is very tangled and uncomfortable at the moment.
Bruce sighed, walked over to the sofa, put his arm around Damian's shoulders and sat down with him.
"Damian, the information you revealed to me today is very important. I hope you can tell me completely, so that I can better judge what Nemo wants to do and how to do it. Can you help me? ?”
Damian frowned and thought for a while before saying, "I promised my mother not to tell you anything about them."
Bruce notices Damian's word: "They."
He was almost certain that Nemo must have joined the League of Assassins for Jason Todd, so how did Jason come back to life?Did he also soak in the pool of Lazarus?
At the thought of this possibility, a burst of anger welled up in his heart.Lazarus shaped Lars into an immortal demon, so what will happen to Jason who has soaked in Lazarus?
"Jason Todd is my second Robin," Bruce said to Damian.
Damian looked at him in surprise.Except for that visit to the cemetery, he had never heard Jason Todd mentioned by anyone at home.
Bruce seemed to see his doubts. Thinking of the past, although it was still painful, in order to gain Damian's trust, he had to tell the whole story about Jason.
"The clown broke his bones and blew up him and his mother. I went and brought back Jason's body. He was indeed dead."
Damian immediately asked, "Then what does this have to do with Grandpa?"
"Later, I repeatedly tracked down and reviewed the game, trying to figure out why I made such a fatal mistake and made Jason pay for this mistake with his life. I found that all of this was driven by Lars silently behind him. Guided Jason to go abroad to find his biological mother, and joined hands with the clown to create chaos in Gotham, trapped me in Gotham, no time to carefully investigate Jason's anomalies, and then helped the clown escape from the hunt, and sent him to the Very close to Jason. He told the Joker all about Robin in order to take advantage of the Joker's desire to drive me crazy and destroy me by killing Robin..."
Damian felt uncomfortable when he heard it. After two years by Bruce's side, he had gradually learned about his grandfather's hostility towards his father.He knew that what his father said was right, but he grew up with his grandfather, so he couldn't just hate his grandfather and mother like this.What's more, grandpa is dead.And he, as early as two years ago, chose Bruce.His mother must have been disappointed in him too.
Damian struggled: "Maybe there is some misunderstanding? When Nemo brought Jason Todd to the League of Assassins, Jason Todd didn't die, he was just in a coma all the time, but I'm sure he is alive."
Bruce repeated, "Are you sure?"
Damian nodded: "Yes. When they first came, many people were dissatisfied with Ulysses getting grandfather's asylum. After the alliance's operation in London failed, some people thought it was Nemo who sabotaged it. They sent Someone came to kill Jason, and my mother asked me to be responsible for Jason's safety."
Bruce secretly wrote down another key piece of information, Operation London.
Damian glanced at Bruce's expression, and finally confessed as if giving up.
"Later, there seemed to be an agreement between Ulysses and his mother. He helped his mother with things, and his mother sent Jason Todd to the big caste for treatment and recovery."
Bruce interrupted him again, asking the most crucial question first: "So where is Jason Todd now?"
Speaking of this, Damian became angry again: "Nemo didn't even tell Jason when he left the League of Assassins! Later, Deathstroke attacked the League of Assassins, they killed grandpa, and kidnapped Jason! Understand, Jason is just my servant, what they want from the League of Assassins, it must be hijacking me is more useful than hijacking him, why is it him. Now it seems that Nemo must know where Jason is, all this is He planned it!"
"Why did you call him Ulysses?" Bruce asked finally.
"He used this last name when he came to the League of Assassins." Although Damian didn't know why Bruce asked this, he still answered.Then, he said in an even more angry tone: "He must have used some despicable means to inherit Carlos's family property!"
Bruce looked at the time, there should be some time before the end of the banquet, he asked Alfred to watch Damian sleep well, and then went to the Batcave amidst Damian's protest.
Turning on the computer, he began to search for the relevant information of the Carlos family in the past two years. The relevant information disclosed in the open is actually very limited, but in a short period of time, it can also allow Bruce to speculate on the development of the family in the past two years.
Half an hour later, he turned off the computer and sighed heavily.
He went to Gotham Cemetery alone, and stood for a while in front of Jason Todd's gravestone.
His name and epitaph have been mottled after five years of wind and sun.Bruce picked up a tool he had borrowed from the cemetery worker and shoveled away the first handful of soil under the tombstone.
Although he knew Damian wouldn't lie to him, he still needed to make the final confirmation.
There was a loud noise behind him, Bruce turned his head and looked over, it was Alfred driving the excavator over.
"Master, I assume that you don't want to dig with a shovel until dawn, so as to frighten the ordinary people who will come to visit the grave tomorrow." Alfred, who was sitting in the cab, said so.
Bruce: ...
It turned out that there was indeed an empty coffin buried under this tombstone.
Looking at the scratches on the coffin board and the blood stains that had already turned brown-gray, his heart throbbed again.
In the end, Ah Fu was responsible for reburying the empty coffin.
Bruce returned to the car, silently smoked a cigarette, lit the engine, and set off for the Caesars Hotel again.
By the time we arrived at the hotel lobby, it was almost two o'clock in the morning.Bruce swiped open the door on the top floor with his room card, but Nemo was not here.
Since Nemo dared to let him come alone, Bruce paced and observed the room generously. This is a standard luxury suite, and all the things placed outside are standard hotel supplies.Except for some personal toiletries in the bathroom, there are almost no traces of guests living in the room.It's possible that housekeeping has just been handed over, but given the time, that's unlikely.
He approached the workbench where the hotel notebook was placed, and on it was a note with a short handwritten message: [The bar on the third floor. 】
Without hesitation, Bruce turned and left the room.
There are many entertainment venues on the third floor of the hotel. When Bruce followed the waiter into the bar, the prelude of blues mixed with drums and saxophones on the bar stage had just ended. The female singer's voice was full of magnetism. Chant.
This bar attached to a luxury hotel is not noisy, the lights are dim, and the fragrance in the air is mixed with the aroma of spirits, making the whole atmosphere ambiguous and psychedelic.Two o'clock in the morning is not the busiest time for this bar. The people sitting here alone may be suffering from insomnia, or for some other reason. In short, they are all immersed in their own world under the blessing of the blues.There are also people who come in groups, and they communicate with each other in low voices in the dim booth.
The throng was barely visible, probably late enough, and Bruce's intentional low-key presence, that his presence didn't attract much attention here.
He scanned the entire field with his eyes, and immediately found the position of Nemo Carlos.Bruce walked right over.
Nemo noticed Bruce when he came in. He didn't change the gray-blue shirt he originally wore under the banquet suit. He just removed the original bow tie and undid three more buttons on the neckline.Outside the shirt was a navy blue suit vest, and the cuffs of the shirt were casually rolled up to the forearm.
Bruce's face was thinner than five years ago, which made his outline look deeper and sharper. At this moment, his brows were slightly frowned, which made Nemo even feel a little murderous.
As he got closer, Nemo even noticed a few faint wrinkles from the corners of his eyes.Damn it, he obviously looks much older, why is he still so handsome?
Nemo thought endlessly of every close encounter he had with Bruce and Batman five years ago.At that time, I felt that I accidentally slept with the two brothers of the Wayne family. Although I felt a little guilty, there was still a little secret excitement in it.Batman once called him a pervert because of this, and he was quite right.Now I know that it was Bruce himself who greened himself.Heh, his acting skills are really outstanding, no wonder he hasn't collapsed after acting in Gotham for so many years.
He should have been angry because Bruce had played with him for so long, but when he first learned of his identity, grief deeper than being deceived occupied all his emotions, and when he recovered, this deception was more important to him. It is insignificant in the eyes.
I haven't seen him in five years, and the heart-stirring moment five years ago has been mellowed by time and memories. When he sees blood again and again, and goes further and further on the road he believes, he will always stop and think about it. Think Bruce.
Jason is safe and sound, and Lars is dead. Although the clown is still alive, Nemo is already planning his death.So why is he still not reconciled, why does he want to come back here?
Because of Bruce.
Does he want to save Bruce?No, Bruce doesn't need him to save him, Batman always knows what he's doing.
Gotham brought too many scars and pain to Bruce. Bruce used his own flesh and blood to try to hold Gotham to prevent her from falling, but Nemo didn't want to see him go on like this anymore.If Bruce knew what he wanted to do, he would probably beat him three quarters to death and throw him in Arkham like he did with the criminals.So he will carefully hide himself.
But for now, fuck the |fucking|machinations and every step of the way.He just wants to sleep with him.
Bruce sat down in front of him.Nemo smiled slightly, and greeted him casually like an old friend he hadn't seen for a long time: "I thought you wouldn't come. What would you like to drink?"
Bruce looked at the man in front of him, five years had barely left a mark on his face, this man was so natural and casual in front of him, as if nothing had ever happened between them, he was as plain as if it was just yesterday Meet yourself.
"Up to you," Bruce replied.
Nemo snapped his fingers and called the bartender over to pour him a shot of tequila.
"Try it, the red wine here may not be as mellow as the one in your wine cellar, but the tequila is not bad."
If there is any difference in the appearance of the person in front of him from five years ago, it is that his originally pure black hair color has now turned into a very special silver gray.Nemo has already taken off the formal clothes he wore at the banquet. He should have taken a shower. He is wearing a very ordinary black T-shirt with a V-neck. At this time, his right elbow is resting on the bar. With his head supported on his palms, his gray hair hung down, lazily and casually, on the table.He squinted his eyes halfway, as if he was intoxicated by the melodious and magnetic singing of the singer on stage.
He looks so harmless and soft, but from Damian's description, from the limited collection of his bat computer, and his actions in the Carlos family, it is easy to know that he is not harmless at all. He is a species that sees blood and seals his throat.
All this is after that accident.Gotham once again sticks out her fangs and assimilates a good guy.
But Bruce didn't want to give up easily.Fate has never been kind to him, but he has never succumbed to fate.Now that Nemo hadn't done anything in Gotham, he'd be watching him, holding him back.
What he regrets the most now is that five years ago, he was too immersed in his pain and did not discover Nemo's abnormality in time.What I regret even more is that my mistake made him leave Gotham and gave up on staring at him.At the beginning, he didn't want to use his desire to control to hurt someone who was also heartbroken for Jason, but now he regretted it.
Knowing that he has such a deep relationship with Jason, why is he so arrogant that he thinks that Nemo will control his inner desire for revenge?
For the clown, not killing is more difficult than killing. Even he gave up after going through a painful choice that was close to destruction. How can he demand that Nemo do nothing?What's more, he still has that kind of strength.
Bruce took the salt Nemo handed over and wiped it on the tiger's mouth, and opened his mouth to bite the lemon slice Nemo handed over.Nemo's fingertips brushed against his lips, Bruce looked into his eyes and drank the amber liquid in the glass.
The suffocated wine rushed straight to the head, causing Bruce to pinch the bridge of his nose subconsciously.
"Is it because your night shift is not going well? Bruce, you're old, so do what you can." Nemo still had a smile on his lips, cupping Bruce's face with one hand, and stroking the fine lines at the corners of his eyes with his fingers.
Bruce could clearly feel the gun callus on his palm and the tiger's mouth.
He closed his eyes unbearably.
He told him to leave Gotham, he left, but he told him not to come back, and he just came back.He would rather let his hands be stained with blood and his soul be tainted, but also come back for revenge.
He hated himself for letting this person out of his control even though he had controlled everything almost harshly.
Why would you not listen to me like Jason Todd?
Jason has already paid with his life, what are you going to pay?
Nemo's face was getting closer and closer to him, and at the moment when their lips were almost touching, Bruce turned his head away.
Disobedient children don't deserve to be kissed.
Bruce glared at Nemo with an almost ferocious expression.Then he picked up the shot glass that was filled again and drank it down in one gulp.
The author says:
Bruce: stare.jpg
Nemo: cute, think rua!
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