Chapter 2061: Knight's Horror Night (Forty-Five)

Jason never thought that he would be afraid of someone's high moral standards.

Admittedly, in the eyes of ordinary people, if a child runs away from home without a phone and is kidnapped, the responsibility of the parents and the child is about half and half, and the parents are slightly more responsible, but it also depends on their daily performance.

Batman and Jason's daily performance is not good enough. The father is not a father, and the son is not a son. There is a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days. So if you really want to talk about this, both parties are responsible.

And Jason asked himself, what he resented more was that Batman controlled the entire Gotham, but he didn't find him for a year.

It is actually hard not to doubt that Batman didn't look for him at all.

Jason thought so too. You have installed surveillance on every street and every corner of Gotham. There has never been a time when you can't grasp the whereabouts of the criminals clearly, but you didn't find them this time. How could it be such a coincidence?

What's even more infuriating is that it's OK if he didn't find him, but a new Robin came out not long after. Doesn't this prove that Batman didn't find him at all?

When people get stuck in a dead end, they always get stuck in a dead end. Pain will make their minds run wild in the direction of paranoia. If a problem is thought about too many times, there will not be too many rational solutions, so Arkham Knight was born.

But after that long night, and an even longer night with Schiller, Jason's sanity has been restored, and he can naturally find more solutions to this problem.

For example, the one who kidnapped him was not another criminal, but the Joker. The Robins all admit that the person who knows Batman best in the world is the Joker. Since he knows him best, there are many ways to make Batman never find something.

And if you think more optimistically, maybe it's because Batman is looking for him while fighting crime, and he's too busy to find a new assistant.

Maybe you can also think that the guy named Tim Drake is not a good person. Even if he wasn't kidnapped, he would squeeze in.

Before this, Jason didn't know if his thoughts were self-consolation, but after seeing the extremely deep and long wound on Batman's arm that was obviously cut by himself, Jason had to believe it.

At least this shows that Batman must have tried to find him, and Batman was even more unbelievable than himself about not finding him. What's more, this matter may have nothing to do with Jason. Batman, who is always prepared and has a plan, has begun to doubt his ability.

So Jason began to feel shaken, but people's emotional transitions need a buffer period. It is impossible that he just forgave Batman as soon as he learned about Batman's self-harm. The fact that they have no disagreement on this matter does not mean that their long-standing conflict does not exist.

Now, Jason knows that he has to say it, because looking at this posture, Clark will not let him go even if he doesn't say it, and based on his understanding of Clark's power just now, Jason thinks that running away is also a dead end.

"Help me." He said to the symbiote in his heart: "Don't let him read my brain waves and heart rate. You can help me control it, right?"

"Really? Do you really want to do this?"

The symbiote's question made Jason stunned for a moment, but he soon understood what the symbiote meant.

If this mysterious alien creature is really thinking about the host, then he may indeed raise objections, because Jason's resentment towards Batman is not false.

To a certain extent, the situation is really as Clark said. Compared with Batman, Jason is a weak group. Jason can't do anything to Batman. Even if he wears the Arkham Knight's armor, he can't cause any harm to him, right?

If so, telling his situation to a fair and objective powerful being may get the justice he wants, which is in line with Jason's demands all along.

But obviously, Jason is unwilling to do this.

Then he began to think about why he didn't want to. The man in front of him would not kill Batman. Wouldn't it be better to show him some power?

Jason thought about it, and the only thing that lingered in his originally smart little head was one sentence - I don't like it.

But his hesitant and silent attitude made Clark's face heavier and heavier, and in the end he clenched his fists, as if he was more seriously injured than Jason.

"Let me ask you another question." Clark took a deep breath and said, "You just need to answer me or no, Jason Todd, you know you have to answer."

"Ask it." Jason said absent-mindedly, as long as he didn't tell the lie detector about him and Batman.

"Have you received a threat to keep silent about your relationship with Batman or similar topics?"

This time Jason was smart, he said to the symbiote in his heart in advance: "Quick, quick, adjust my heart rate and brain waves, and adjust anything else that needs to be adjusted, adjust it quickly!

The symbiote agreed and did it, Jason cleared his throat and said, "Of course not. "

Just as Clark was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he seemed to sense something and stared at Jason in doubt.

As the look of surprise on his face became more and more intense, Clark's expression gradually turned into disbelief. He stood up and stared at Jason's face and said, "He didn't install some kind of anti-lie detector device in your body? ! ! "

Jason was a little confused.

But Clark still stood there in a daze with that look of disbelief, looking like he was repeatedly confirming something.

But Jason didn't know what he was confirming or how he confirmed it, so he couldn't instruct the symbiote what to do to counter this confirmation. Clark's face became colder and colder. He took a deep breath, sat down again and looked at Jason and said: "I know that humans cannot notice the changes in their own brain waves and heart rate, but it is through this change that I confirm Did they tell the truth?"

"In fact, I can even directly see how your heart and brain work. No slight change in them can escape my eyes."

"But you know what? Jason, when I asked this question and you gave a negative answer, your heart rate and brain waves never changed at all, as if they were some kind of rigorous machine. But that’s not how the human body works.”

Broken, Jason immediately realized that his cleverness was mistaken for him. In fact, he might be able to say a negative answer without control and still make Clark believe it.

After all, although Batman expressed his reluctance to let outsiders know about the Bat Family, he did not emphasize to any Robin that they could not talk about their relationship with Batman.

So if Jason denies it, he is actually telling the truth. If this lie detector has a way to judge, this test will be considered passed.

But he didn't. His previous random thoughts interfered with his rational judgment, or maybe he also inherited some of Batman's suspicious characters and disliked others having his lie detector tested on him, so he recklessly did not understand the principle of Clark's lie detector. Next, let the symbiote adjust his physiological state.

I'm afraid it's really unnatural, Jason thought. Unlike before, in the basement of the desert island cabin, Jason had personally touched a living and beating heart. The human heart rate is not an average beat counter. There are more or less irregularities. Qi, it would be strange to change it to Qi without being discovered.

Jason did not realize the truth, that is, when something develops to the "you don't have to explain" stage, don't try to explain it anymore, and once it develops to the "we all understand" stage, don't say anything anymore Well, pretending to be dead is the best option.

Unfortunately, he did not often experience this kind of thing, and he mistakenly thought that the reporter opposite him was quite considerate, so he said: "This matter is not what you think. An accident did happen before, but that …”

"Do you know what the client avoidance system is?" Clark interrupted and asked.

Jason shook his head blankly. He is an authentic Gotham native. His relationship with the law is like that of a stranger he is most familiar with. Familiarity means that he hovers on the bottom line of the law every day. Strangeness means that he does not understand the law at all. .

Clark stretched out his hands and gestured and said: "In many kidnapping cases, judges and juries do not accept the testimony of the kidnapped. That is because the victims may have been subjected to long-term mental abuse or brainwashing and have no idea about the perpetrators." The perpetrators did not have a clear understanding of the criminal behavior committed on them, and subjectively reduced the description of the harm. "

"Of course, I know if you continue talking, you might say that you just had a quarrel."

Jason opened his mouth. He wanted to say that was the case. Unfortunately, even though his forward speaking time was among the shortest among the Bat-family, he still did not have the ability to intercept others, let alone reporters, and he was still a reporter from Metropolis. .

"Yes, you may have had a quarrel just now, so what happened to the injury on your eye? Do you still want to say, 'Fighting is normal, who hasn't had a fight?'?"

Clark was heartbroken. He said: "This is a manifestation of subjectively reducing the description of harmfulness, rationalizing and normalizing certain bullying and even abusive behaviors."

"It is true that everyone has more or less conflicts with others when they grow up, and some of them will turn into physical conflicts, but most of them happen with people of the same age or the same power level."

"Let me give you an example. If you quarrel with your classmates and it eventually develops into a fight, then I don't think this requires a legal trial because your physical and mental development, actual age and social status are all relatively equal."

"You two will suffer almost the same consequences for hitting someone. You may be injured, you may be scolded by the teacher, you may drop out of school."

"But if the above conditions are not equal, and the consequences of the fight are different - he will not suffer physical or psychological harm, he will receive better care than you after the injury, and his reputation in front of others will not So if you are affected in any way and only suffer the harm unilaterally, then this is abuse.”

Jason opened his mouth and found that he couldn't refute.

If you think about it carefully, he did suffer more consequences than Batman when it came to quarreling with Batman. Of course, the most recent one was his kidnapping by the Joker.

It is true that he kidnapped because he ran away from home, but the place where they quarreled was the Batcave, and it sounded like it was Batman's territory. So if he didn't leave, could he still hang on?

Jason felt a little frustrated, but he couldn't tell where this frustration came from. It might be because his mental state had recovered a little, and some emotions were also revealed.

Just then, a hand pressed on his shoulder, and Jason looked up to find Clark looking at him intently.

"Don't be sad, Jason. I'm not blaming you. Someone else is wrong. I just hope you can realize that maybe for a long time, some things you have believed to be true are unreasonable and abnormal."

"Or after I remind you, you can at least think diligently about whether some things are normal or not, instead of numbly letting them happen, and then you passively accept them... That will make you very hurt."

Jason turned his head away from Clark's blue eyes. He definitely said the word "help" in his heart.

Damn, the sun came out before dawn. This was Jason's last thought before he was knocked unconscious.

Melted in the sun