Did Ah Fu retire today? [Comprehensive British and American]

"Are you still awake?" Bruce asked a silly question.

Apparently Dick thought so too, he rubbed his eyes, and said dissatisfiedly, "I was woken up, Dad."

dad?

Bruce chewed the new word, his face gradually became a little strange.If you want to describe it, it is probably somewhere between shyness and coolness, plus a little bit of embarrassment of not being used to it. In short, the combination is definitely an attitude of acceptance.

But this is an emotion that a 12-year-old boy cannot reasonably interpret, so during this period of silence, he just felt that the adoptive father was silently refusing, and secretly annoyed why he couldn't restrain himself a little more and let that sentence The title that was suppressed in the bottom of my heart was called out so easily.

Ah Fu sees everything in his eyes.

He is the person who knows Bruce best, and he naturally understands that his master is a little awkward, and sometimes he looks a bit like him, but he is not refusing.

He also had a little understanding of Dick. That young man was a copy of the master of a certain period. Perhaps it was the similar childhood experience that made him feel very insecure. It's a bold attempt after they have made frequent gestures of goodwill in the past few days.

It's a pity that the master's lack of cooperation made Dick lose confidence again, and he was about to retract his tentacles.

A Fu couldn't let the relationship between the father and son ease down to the bottom again. He approached Dick, hugged the boy's shoulders that were about to shrink back, and smiled to reveal Bruce's shortcomings: "Master is shy, how much should you do?" Call Dad a few times to let him get used to it."

Dick heaved a sigh of relief, he pursed his lips and smiled, and he was in the mood of joking: "Do you still have to get used to it?"

"Of course, it's like you have to get used to it for a few days before you can say it? It's the same with the master. This kind of relationship between father and son is also a novel experience for him, and of course he needs to get used to it."

Alfred glanced at Bruce, motioning for him to say something too.

Bruce understood the hint, and bit the bullet and said, "Cough. Ah Fu is right."

Ah Fu nodded in relief, and then heard the man continue to say superfluously: "I have to get used to it in advance, otherwise when Damian also starts calling my father, I'm afraid I'll throw him out in fright?"

He thought he was very humorous, but it was like stabbing a hornet's nest, detonating Dick.

"What Damian?" The boy withdrew from Ah Fu's embrace, and asked cautiously, "I also started calling you father, what do you mean?"

Bruce didn't realize the seriousness of the problem, and explained: "Literally, I mean, you may have a younger brother, after we finish the paternity test tomorrow."

Dick's face suddenly turned cold.

He raised his chin towards Ah Fu's room, and asked sourly, "That ugly monkey inside?"

Bruce disapproves, "You shouldn't be swearing."

"Is this swearing?" Dick laughed angrily, "Then I really don't have the quality to be the son of the famous Mr. Wayne, maybe I should be driven back to the orphanage tomorrow, after all, your biological son is not very good at it." Would love to see someone take his place."

When he said "Birth", he emphasized his tone, sounding resentful and rebellious, but Ah Fu could hear grievance and fear from it.

The grievance that he suddenly changed from the only one to the one, and the fear that the other party may have Bruce's blood and be closer to this family than himself.

This is a boy who needs reassurance, but Bruce doesn't know it.

He didn't understand the little boy's awkward heart, he just felt that his good intentions had been betrayed, his authority had been challenged, and his adopted son had lost control.This is somewhat unacceptable for a person with a strong desire for control.

He wanted to say something more, but Dick already had a bad face and ran away without looking back.

Damian inside the door didn't understand much English, but he was very sensitive to the emotions released by humans. He realized almost immediately that there was a conflict outside the door, and the dark old man he hated most Man, very upset right now.

Just the fact that Bruce wasn't happy was enough for Damian to stop sabotaging and clap his hands and laugh.

After patting for a while, his palms felt a little sore, so he simply put down his hands, picked up his white and tender soles and continued to laugh, Bruce's veins burst out two times when he laughed, and he didn't restrain himself.

Ah Fu sighed a long time: "You screwed up all this."

Bruce didn't quite understand: "Isn't it Dick who needs education? Maybe it's because I did something wrong these days. I shouldn't let him use the slum area until now."

Afu shook his head: "Don't you understand? Master Dick is not rebellious, nor did he deliberately challenge you. He is just a little scared."

Bruce didn't understand even more: "What is he afraid of?"

Ah Fu said, "I'm afraid you will abandon him."

"This is ridiculous." Bruce said, "Afu, you know I won't, and even Damian, even if it turns out tomorrow that he really has nothing to do with me, I won't let him go easily."

A Fu said calmly: "I know, master. But Master Dick doesn't know, so you need to tell him all the more, tell him what you think."

Bruce hesitated to speak, which was a bit difficult for him.

Ah Fu also knows this. His master has always been very awkward. Except in front of himself, he occasionally shows some vulnerability and childishness. To others, even his first love girlfriend Rachel, he keeps all his feelings in his heart , do not tell, do not share.

If it weren't for this, they wouldn't have broken up so suddenly, and in the end, his retirement career, which was about to be achieved, would have been aborted in the foreseeable future.

Bruce seems to have a natural ability to package care and concern into strictness and control, causing misunderstandings.

This is what Ah Fu does not want to see.

"You should go and see Master Dick." He directly suggested, "If you don't want him to wander around Gotham at night alone. You should know what the night in Gotham represents, right?"

Of course Bruce knows that no one is more familiar with Gotham than he is, and understands the crises and despair lurking in the dark night.

And just like Ah Fu said, it has been nearly 10 minutes since Dick ran downstairs, so there is no guarantee that he really ran away from home...

"I'll go and see Dick, and watch Damian!" Bruce didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately ran back to the room. He tore off his nightgown, quickly changed into his suit and trousers, and chased downstairs without stopping.

As expected, Dick was not downstairs. To be precise, he searched all the nearby garages and yards, but there was no trace of the child.

He called Ah Fu and said anxiously: "Dick is gone, there is one car missing in the garage."

Ah Fu said, "That silver sports car that you said would be given to him in the future?"

Bruce responded, expressing his affirmation.

Ah Fu turned over Damian, who was tired from laughing and was sleeping like a piglet on the ground with pouting | buttocks, and gently hugged him back on the bed.Hearing Bruce's words, he didn't feel any surprise, after all, these were already in his expectation.

He walked out of the room, closed the door, and then comforted him: "The problem is not serious, you go to the Batcave, change into the equipment, I will control Gotham's surveillance, and we will find him. Believe me, it will not be as difficult as you find It's harder for criminals in hiding."

Bruce frowned, but he still didn't relax: "But he's damned driving a car away, I'm afraid he can't even reach the steering wheel!"

"So we have to hurry up." Alfred quickened his pace and went down to the Batcave. When he arrived, Bruce had already changed his armor and started the Batmobile.

The black cloak ruined by Damian was cruelly thrown aside, obviously Batman didn't use it regardless of the past.Ah Fu walked to the console, divided the huge screen into 300 pieces, cut into the surveillance images of the main roads in the city, and played them simultaneously.

It's not easy for humans, but it's fine for him.

Five minutes later, he paused a certain video, zoomed in, and then turned on the intercom system, saying quickly: "Master Dick is found, he is on York Street, drive west, if you can catch up in 5 minutes, you can be at He pulled over just before going onto Fifth Avenue."

Batman said, "Give me the exact location."

A Fu sent the location: "The best route has been found for you, but York Street is not smooth recently, you'd better hurry up."

"I know?" Batman slammed on the accelerator, allowing the chariot to turn into a black bolt of lightning, blending into the thick night of Gotham without a trace.

But Ah Fu was a little uneasy.

The moment the Batmobile drove into York Street, a deep uneasiness suddenly surged in his heart, which made him unable to rest assured.

Ah Fu's sixth sense has always been very effective, this kind of urgent anxiety, the number of times he has happened in his decades of bat life can be counted on two hands.

It was once when the adoptive parents had an accident, once when Thomas died tragically, and then there were several crisis moments when Bruce was almost alive. Every time this premonition came, it was accompanied by the death and serious injury of someone close to him, which really made Ah Fu could not calm down.

He took a deep breath and gently took off the headset.

He extracted the mana stored in his body, destroyed all the surveillance cameras inside the Batcave, and duplicated the body of a butler in front of the original console.

He turned his body back into a bat and rushed out of the preparation room.

He issued audio that humans could not receive, but in the next second, there were bursts of responses from the depths of the Bat Cave.

Countless bats spread their wings, screamed and assembled, and circled upwards. They followed Afu Bat and flew towards Batman's direction.

At the same time, Batman faintly noticed something was wrong.

Ah Fu has not spoken for a long time.

No reminders, no reassurance, no worries, not even... no breathing?

Bruce didn't know if he heard it wrong for a while, or the sound of the Batmobile's engine was too loud to cover something, but he subconsciously called out: "Ah Fu, are you there?"

No one responded.

He didn't know that his Ah Fu was leading hordes of "little brothers" and hurried over to protect him, but he suddenly couldn't hear any response from the housekeeper, and felt a little flustered.