msmithbooks Chapter 25 25
Chapter 25 25
Sitting on the old banyan tree in Wayne Manor, Dick was dangling his legs, holding the blindfold in his hand, and twirling his fingers in the eye sockets of the blindfold.
Dick's eyes were fixed on the last warm yellow light in the hall on the second floor of the manor——
It finally went out!
This means that Afu finished his preparations for tomorrow morning and is now going back to his room to rest, but there are no other lights in the room, which proves that Bruce should be in the Batcave or Night Watch has not returned yet.
A smile appeared on Dick's face, and he stood up, bent over and propped his feet, keeping his balance and walking on the branches that were not as wide as his feet, just like he used to be the most skilled tightrope walker in the circus.
Dick easily rolled into the window, and even with Dick's weight, the branches outside the window only trembled slightly.
Dick kept smiling, closed the window, turned around and saw Alfred standing by the window holding a small lamp and watching him quietly.
"I thought you would sit on the banyan tree until dawn." Alfred said.
Dick was so frightened that his hand was almost smashed by the window, and he withdrew his hand in time to avoid the fate of being swollen by the window handle.
At this time, Dick was not in the mood to care about his hand that was almost smashed. He was a little thankful that at least it was not Bruce waiting for him in front of the window, but Alfred.
"Ah Fu, why are you still up so late?" Dick asked briskly, "How do you know I'm on the banyan tree?"
Alfred said calmly: "Since you were young, whenever you have something to do, you like to sit on that old banyan tree in a daze. No matter who calls you, you won't come down."
I will come down when I am hungry.Alfred added in his heart.
Dick giggled twice, couldn't help reaching out to touch his hair, and touched his thorny short hair again, Dick couldn't help but quickly wrinkled his face.
Alfred naturally also observed some abnormalities in Dick's peacetime. First of all, Dick was wearing Robin's uniform. It is certain that he just went out to watch the night, but he was not with Bruce.
Bruce is busy with the clown case recently, and it's normal not to bring Dick.
Alfred looked at Dick carefully, there was only a small piece of Dick's cloak sticking to his back, his hair looked a little strange, and there were black traces of charcoal on his face. The reason he didn't go straight back to the Batcave to change.
This is bound to be questioned by Batman.
Dick raised his eyebrows, hummed, and seemed in a good mood.
It has become like this, and you are still in a good mood?
"Master, did you go into the ring of fire and make yourself into this look?" Ah Fu asked jokingly, his tone still very calm.
"Eh..." Dick swept his face with his fingers, and said mysteriously, "You will know tomorrow."
Tomorrow the news of Black Mask blowing up the base will be on the headlines of every newspaper in Gotham and the first broadcast of the news. Those who make money from these news will never be late.
What Dick didn't know was that there would be news of Black Mask surrendering at the same time tomorrow.
Alfred raised his eyebrows, and was slightly interested in Dick's "little surprise" tomorrow.
Alfred nodded and saluted Dick, "Then you go to bed early."
"You too." Dick replied.
Before leaving, Alfred thought of something again.
He said: "By the way, the master is waiting for you in your room."
Alfred straightened up and saw Dick's expression suddenly turned bitter, he paused and said, "I suggest you change into clean clothes before going, I packed all your clothes and put them in the laundry room. "
After speaking, Alfred left with a lamp.
From the laundry room, Dick changed into clean home clothes with a faint fragrance of laundry detergent. He also washed off the charcoal dust on his face. He smelled it, and the smell of the burnt body was mostly covered by the smell of laundry detergent. Dick stood In front of his own room door, he was extremely tangled.
To open or not to open?
Opening the door is tantamount to facing Bruce directly. Bruce came to his room today to block himself, which means that this matter must have something to do with him, and Bruce must already know what he did recently.
Not opening the door is tantamount to prolonging the reprieve of the death sentence. You still have to die, but the death is slower.
Dick took a deep breath, put his hand on the doorknob and was about to open the door, when the door was opened from the inside.
Bruce was wearing a wine-red nightgown, his hair was still unfinished, and his face was calm, exactly the same as Alfred's.
"Eh...good evening? Bruce?" Dick greeted cautiously, squinting his eyes to observe Bruce's expression.
Bruce stepped aside to let Dick into the room, and he watched Dick walk stiffly with his back to the bed.
Bruce said lightly: "What have you been doing lately?"
Dick pretended to be relaxed and said, "What? I didn't do anything?" In fact, his face with his back to Bruce was covered with cold sweat.
"Your Robin uniform is burnt, what haven't you done?" Bruce said.
As soon as Bruce said this, Dick understood that Bruce had just turned off the lights and was standing at the window of his room looking at himself sitting on the banyan tree.
Dick curled his lips helplessly. Bruce did this a lot. When he first came to Wayne Manor when he was a child, he couldn't forget the death of his parents. He couldn't stay in Wayne Manor for almost a moment, and Dick would sneak out to play every night.
Back then Dick didn't know that Bruce Wayne was the Dark Knight Batman.
While Dick thought his actions were seamless, in fact Bruce saw all of his actions every night in front of the window.
"Okay—" Dick began to describe what happened tonight in detail. "I finished my work at the police station and saw the man in the black mask driving to the penguin's territory..."
Of course, it is a concealed account of what happened tonight.
Bruce frowned, silently urging Dick to continue with his eyes.
"I followed and found that Black Mask had caught the Origami Phantom Thief."
Another Origami Phantom Thief?Bruce has heard of this name a lot recently, and in the past, only the Origami Thief would describe his theft in a small section of the newspaper after he stole it.
But whoever wrote the newspaper has never seen the origami monster. The descriptions about the origami monster in the newspaper are almost all fictional, such as the undead who drowned in Gotham Bay thousands of years ago.These things are so mysterious that almost no one believes them.
Although there are no legends about the strange abilities of the Origami Phantom Thief on the Internet, because he was not only active in Gotham, most people just regard the 'legend' as hype, and just think that the Origami Phantom Thief is a person who steals and leaves little paper cranes Quirky thief.
After all, stealing those collectibles is not only possible with the "weird ability" of the Origami Phantom Thief. Catwoman Selena can also get the collectibles from the exhibition hall through her stealing skills and cleverness.
The origami thief Asa Carter can leave such an impression in people's minds, all because of his low-key behavior in the past.
Even Bruce's information about the Origami Thief is just a D-class thief and nothing else.
In fact, regarding the Origami Phantom Thief, if Bruce hadn't fought against him last time and saw Asa's ability with his own eyes, he would have been one of the majority of them.
Since the last time the Origami Thief was captured and sent to Arkham Asylum, the name of the Origami Thief suddenly started.
During the night patrol in recent days, Batman discovered from the monitoring of the surrounding conversations that the probability of the name Origami Phantom Thief appearing from the mouths of criminals has greatly increased.
Such a sudden probability made Batman feel very bad, as if something big was about to happen, everyone aimed at the origami monster.
"continue."
Dick took a sip of water, moistened his throat and continued: "Black Mask tried to win him over, but I beat him up. He became so angry that he decided to blow up the building and kill me and the Origami Phantom Thief."
Bruce asked, "You let Black Mask get away?"
"He jumped out of the window, I have to escape with the origami thief first." Dick explained.
"So you didn't catch it?" Bruce's ice blue eyes looked straight into Dick's without any meaning.
"Yes... yes." Dick shifted his gaze a little guilty.
You know, the person who defeated the black mask was Si Xing, and the person who led him out of the burning building was also Si Xing. Well, even though Dick beat the black mask, he could also escape from the building.
Dick is not good at lying, let alone in front of Bruce, Bruce's eyes always give Dick a feeling of being seen through his heart.
"But I just received a call from Gordon James, saying that Black Mask surrendered himself." Bruce said slowly.
"Huh?" Dick was confused.
"According to his account, the Origami Phantom Thief sent him in, and he also told everyone to be vigilant against the Origami Phantom Thief. If the Origami Phantom Thief is captured by any force, the balance of Gotham would collapse, so Gordon called me and asked if I should ambush him in advance. Catch the Origami Phantom Thief."
Bruceton continued after a while: "Before everyone has the possibility to come into contact with the Origami Phantom Thief, before the Origami Phantom Thief causes more damage, control the Origami Phantom Thief."
Dick frowned, and he said, "No, Asa Cartel won't join any forces, otherwise he should join the Black Mask Gang tonight."
Bruce continued to say in a deep voice: "Maybe the conditions proposed by Black Mask are not enough to attract the Origami Phantom Thief, but there will always be someone who will put forward conditions that make the Origami Phantom Thief willing to serve him."
Dick couldn't help retorting: "Asathar is not that kind of person."
Dick has always judged people through his first intuition, and his intuition has always been very accurate. Coupled with these few times of getting along with Si Xing, Dick found that Si Xing's nature is really not bad, not to mention that he has saved himself.
When he fell into the flames, Dick only remembered to hold Si Xing tightly, because there was only one thought in his mind at that time, that Si Xing was afraid of fire.Dick has always been someone who puts himself in a protective position, even when the person he's protecting doesn't need his protection.
And when Si Xing transformed into wings, Si Xing could completely let go and let him fall into the sea of flames alone. That would be regarded as solving an enemy, because their original identities were originally opposites.
But Si Xing didn't let go, instead he stretched out his arms to hug him, and dragged him out of the sea of flames, even if his body was scalded with mottled burns.
Dick remembered that the pair of hands wrapped around him, which was a little cold in stark contrast to Dick's body temperature. It wasn't considered powerful, but he just persisted with all his strength.
"You know him very well." Bruce said in a positive tone.
Only then did Dick realize that he was being told by Bruce in a Bruce way.