Chapter 2075: Knight's Horror Night (Forty-Four)
Jason was stunned. ‘6’‘9’‘s’‘h’‘u’‘x’‘.’‘c’‘o’‘m’
He carefully looked at the expression on Clark’s face and found no joking factors, nor some of the jokes and belittlements that he had seen in the past, which were dressed in serious clothes. This reporter named Clark Kent was serious.
“Why do you ask that?” Jason asked back in confusion.
Clark lowered his head slightly and said, “Maybe you understand the news industry, but not enough. After the photo was circulated in the industry, we figured out the life stories of Jason Todd and Dick Grayson within ten minutes.”
“To be honest, it’s not smooth sailing, right?” Clark was obviously considering his words. He was particularly cautious in this regard, and he also made Jason feel his caution. Jason knew that this was the way reporters gained people’s trust.
"You two are orphans. Please forgive me for summarizing it this way. Although the circumstances are slightly different, you were indeed adopted by Bruce Wayne after losing your parents."
"Up to this point, he has nothing to blame..." Clark was obviously speaking of his own opinion, not the opinion held by his editor-in-chief or his colleagues.
Jason knew what that would be. He thought he was invulnerable, but as long as he thought of the dirty words that might appear on the front page of the gossip tabloids, especially the long string written after Bruce Wayne's name, he still felt a little irritated.
"In any case, he adopted you when you were most helpless and allowed you to survive in this dangerous city. This is a heroic act, and I am not here to criticize this."
"But your biographical information shows that you both disappeared from him later. Dick Grayson left first, and then you disappeared, replaced by another."
"Children always leave home when they grow up." Clark's fingers kept rubbing each other, and his attitude was even a little cautious, which was completely different from the power he had just shown.
In the past, Jason didn't like the feeling of being treated cautiously by others, but this kind of compassionate temperament was so suitable for Clark that it even made Jason feel awkward.
"So I'm not saying that you are wrong to do this. If you leave voluntarily, no one can tie you up at home. I believe Batman is not such a conservative parent."
"But I'm just saying a guess, and I definitely don't mean to guide you, so you don't have to follow my words."
"I just want to say that Batman trained you as his assistants and he got help from you."
"Whether he actually needs this help or not, playing the role of a father in a superhero family gives him the power to dominate others, so he should bear the corresponding responsibilities."
"Do you think he has fulfilled his responsibilities?"
The twists and turns of wording gave Jason a headache, but his brain, which was good at understanding words, quickly understood what Clark meant.
"Do you think Batman abused us?"
"I don't think so, Mr. Todd. My purpose has always been to confirm this." Clark paused and said, "Now almost all newspapers in the United States know about it. I have to find out the truth before they do."
"You know Batman, right?"
Clark pursed his lips and was unwilling to answer him. He just said very tactfully, "If he is really such a person, I will ensure that someone is capable of enforcing justice on him. You should know that this is not easy, and it can even be said to be very difficult."
Jason was silent because he knew what Clark said was right.
Assuming that Batman is really a sadist with special fetishes, then with his social status, science and technology, and military level, these orphans adopted by him have no chance of standing up and speaking. They will remain silent until death.
Jason understood early on that this is how society is. It is easy to speak, but difficult to speak out. It is even more difficult to be heard by enough people and attract attention. If the world's richest man interferes, it will be difficult as hell.
Then Jason began to wonder, what this reporter named Clark Kent meant was that he came here to ensure that if Batman did something illegal, justice would be enforced.
Where did he get his confidence from?
Jason dared to say that Clark saw what he was wondering about at the first time, and the next second the world was spinning.
Jason was picked up, and then found that his vision was getting farther and farther from the floor.
He was thrown into the sky by the reporter with one hand, and then caught and put back on the sofa.
And damn, he is at least 200 pounds now.
"I do have powerful strength that ordinary people can hardly imagine, and I hope to use this power to ensure justice for everyone." Clark sat back on the sofa and said, "Personally, I don't believe that Batman would abuse his adopted son. He is not that kind of person."
"Although he is taciturn and not good at communication, his pursuit of justice is the same as mine. Maybe he will have many misunderstandings with his children, but they will be resolved in the end."
"Then why did you come?"
"Because procedural justice is necessary." Clark looked at Jason intently and said, "I must give both of you equal opportunities to speak out. Even in this case, I have to give you more and give it earlier, because Compared to Batman, you are a vulnerable group." "Batman has many channels to speak out. Even if his identity is exposed, he is still the richest man in the world, and the assets of Wayne Group cannot disappear in a vacuum."
"If he announces a press conference, reporters from all over the world will flock to him, and even if half of them choose to put in a good word for him because of the status of Wayne Group, he can convince the world that he is innocent."
"But you have too few opportunities to speak. You are orphans and were raised by him. All social relationships are under the control of Bruce Wayne. Even your spirit and reason will be affected by him."
"You don't have a way to tell your true thoughts, or you think you speak your true thoughts, but you are actually guided. This is unfair."
"Also, even if Wayne is caught in the whirlpool of public opinion, Wayne Group's industrial manufacturing and technology industries will not be greatly affected. He will still be a rich man. Even if his influence is not as good as before, at least he will have enough food and clothing."
"But if you have been affected by this incident, I don't even mean just losing the case, but just coming forward and making accusations, it may have a huge impact on your life."
"I'm sorry, Jason. There are many tragedies like this in the world, and they are still happening. I can't save them all. They may have won, but their road to a better life ends here."
Clark lowered his eyes, lowered his tone, and sighed: "During my career as a reporter, I have saved more than one such tragedy, but most of them cannot be completely saved, no matter how powerful I am. "
"Such incidents have caused too much psychological trauma to the victims. Some commit suicide and some become alcoholics. This is their own choice. I have no way or the ability to interfere."
"After the first tragedy, I understood that I must come as quickly as possible, and no matter how complicated the interests are, I will only protect you - no matter who the enemy is."
Jason felt himself shaken.
He was a little absent-minded, but finally he heard Clark clapping his hands and finally regained consciousness.
"To tell you the truth, I have the ability to detect lies, so you only need to answer this question for me - has Batman ever abused you?"
"He didn't," Jason replied.
Clark's face suddenly sank. He stared at Jason in disbelief and said, "You are lying."
Jason instantly felt panicked. He took a deep breath, looked at Clark and said, "I didn't. What I said is true."
"Symbiote, symbiote!" Jason shouted in his heart: "What's going on? I...how did he..."
"Your heart rate fluctuated at that moment, host." The symbiote's answer was quite calm. He said: "I felt your emotions. If I want to describe it to you straightforwardly, you still have resentment towards Batman. "
"So when you deny this problem, your heart rate and brain waves will fluctuate. If the other party has the ability to detect these two data in subtle ways, it will indeed be easy to be judged as lying."
Clark had already stood up, and Jason could see from his expression that he might have locked Bruce's position.
But Jason must not let Clark go to Bruce now, because Bruce is very likely to be doing something that is not easy to talk about, something that is the product of impulse.
This would be even harder to explain if Clark saw it, and judging from the opponent's strength and understanding of Batman, Jason could vaguely guess the opponent's identity.
There really is no need for more confrontation, Jason thought for the first time. Isn’t this messy enough?
"Stop!" Jason raised his voice, stopped Clark, and then said: "This matter is very complicated, you must listen to my explanation."
Jason could clearly feel Clark's hesitation, but more importantly, he was angry, almost furious.
What a psycho from the big city, Jason thought, why is he so angry about unrelated people?
Of course, it doesn't mean that he shouldn't do this. After all, Batman is indeed very annoying, and there are too many problems that need to be solved between them, but they are definitely not solved in the Metropolis way.
Clark stayed in the end. He sat across from Jason again, and spoke to Jason with a pressure that even Jason felt was unbearable.
"I hope you can tell me the misunderstanding you said exactly as it is, without any subjective judgment or modification. I just want to hear what happened and the exact words of the conversation at that time. If you don't remember, just say you don't remember. , don’t make it up.”
Jason watched helplessly as Clark took out his notebook. His Adam's apple moved up and down, and the muscles on his lips moved in an indescribable manner.
The indescribable still refers to the fact that after doing such an activity, he should have spoken, but he didn't.
In fact, Jason knew he couldn't say it.
Batman did not physically abuse him, and psychological abuse was a matter of opinion.
But if the other party is a humanoid lie detector that can detect even such slight emotions, then how on earth is Jason going to describe the fact that he was kidnapped by the Joker so that the super-scale guy from Metropolis doesn't get angry and kill the bat? Xia slapped it into the wall and couldn't even buckle it off?