Dressed as a night owl, I choose to quit [DC]

Alfred and Richard from Earth-[-] are now in Wayne Manor in the main universe.

Duke was walking his dog in the garden, and he threw the ball from one side of the lawn to the other, and the dog ran round and round.Richard sat on the flower bed with his legs crossed expressionlessly, and the Alfred he was familiar with...or his code name, 'Outsider', stood behind him in a tuxedo with nothing to do, leaning on a cane.

However, no matter which universe Gotham is in, it is not peaceful, and there are always people coming to visit Wayne Manor.Barbara Gordon had been here an hour ago. She looked at Richard with a half-smile look on her face, but instead of greeting him, she turned to Duke and said, "Do you need my help tonight?"

"I'm not sure, Cassandra said she could do the night watch by herself."

"Then let me keep an eye on it. Dad said that there is a big case in the past two days, about the King of Spices robbing sixteen grocery stores and throwing pepper powder everywhere..." The girl left in a hurry. Before leaving, he nodded to Richard amiably.

Batwoman walked in the door 37 minutes ago: "I went around the world three times, and they haven't come back from Earth-3. I heard that Bruce has a biological brother, which is a good thing... But why does he look a bit like Nightmare?" wing?"

Duke was a little embarrassed, he glanced at Richard who regarded them as air, and whispered: "He is Dick, you know, Richard Grayson of Earth-3, it is said that the code name is 'Claw'."

"Oh." Batwoman then lowered her voice, "I just came out of the signal shielding area, and I didn't receive your summons. How is the situation now, do you need help?"

Duke thought she was referring to Gotham, so he repeated: "Cassandra says she can do it herself, and Barbara will help."

Batwoman lowered her head and looked at the smoke|fog|bomb that rolled to their feet: "I'm asking you."

"Boom—"

"Ahem! He ran away! Please help me stop that guy!"

Batwoman rushed up, but was blocked by the cane again: "Are you Alfred from the parallel universe? You have good skills."

Outsider: "Thanks for the compliment, ma'am."

After 10 minutes they rolled back to where they were.Batdog Ace enthusiastically nuzzles Duke's thigh, wondering why humans don't play with dogs.

Duke wrestled with Richard, "I told you to—stop!! Hell, that's the sixth time today! Was Dick this annoying when he was his age?"

"I beg to differ." The outsider interjected, while dealing with Batwoman to keep her from helping Duke, "Master Thomas and I both agree that Master Richard is the one we've met. One of the most worry-free children."

"It seems that this is the period of rebellion." Batwoman said, "I originally wanted to take Richard out for a walk, but now it seems that it won't work."

"I don't want to go out." Richard gritted his teeth on the grass and wrestled with Duke, "I want to go back to 'our' Gotham."

"Your Gotham is about to cease to exist." Batwoman knelt down beside him, and the outsider saw that she had no desire to attack, so he did not make a move. "As far as I know, Ye Xiao wants to blow up the Anti-Monitor. And the whole universe, that's why we've brought out half of the Justice League. For you, no news right now is the best news, which means...Thomas Wayne didn't fail, he didn't succeed."

And neither of these two paths could be considered a good ending for Ye Xiao.

He is at a dead end.

"He wants you alive, Richard Grayson, and only you. You can go back, we won't stop you, but then you'll have to deal with his disappointment and anger."

The extent of the black-haired young man's struggle gradually became smaller.He pulled out a hand to cover his eyes, blocking the light from the sky.

Duke rubbed Ace's head and stood up with a complicated expression.

"Alfred..." After a while, the young man on the ground yelled hoarsely, the voice gushing out of his throat was not obvious, "You knew it a long time ago, didn't you?"

The outsider looked into the distance, not knowing what he was thinking: "It's not that early, Master Richard, the name of the Anti-Monitor was only recently told. Or maybe I did know it long ago, but I just never thought about it. After all he said that 'thoughts are more stubborn than time'..." He paused, looked down at the child who had to face the harsh reality, and added, "I'm sorry."

**

"Richard went to rest." Batwoman walked slowly in the living room of Wayne's old house, and outsiders followed her. "I thought you would want to go back."

"If Master Thomas needs me, I'll go back."

"You don't look like such a dedicated man, Mr. Pennyworth. Richard Grayson loved his 'brother' and would rather die for him, or accept a world without Thomas Wayne. And You, you don't even feel sad that Ye Xiao went astray, what made you choose to go back?"

The outsider's shoes and cane tap rhythmic repetitions on the floor tiles: "I want to correct two fallacies in your statement, ma'am.

First of all, Master Thomas's behavior does not seem to me to be 'going astray' in our place.On the contrary, we have always believed that he will and only he will walk on the right path, whether it is to dominate Gotham in a way that is unacceptable to you, or to destroy it with a quantum bomb - save the world, ma'am.

Second, I'm willing to answer your question while correcting you.Am I a loyal person?The answer is not ever.I was in my prime, I had a lot of big plans for self-gratification, and I was going to leave Wayne Manor after two more years.If the Waynes don't agree, I try to get them to agree.

However, at this time, the young Master Thomas came to me and proposed the rough but effective plan that you should already know. From that day on, I changed my mind and decided to abandon my original vision for the future and turn to and follow him. "

Batwoman asked, "Why?"

"As a result, this has been the most productive and fulfilling investment of my life. Can you imagine a child who was not outstanding at a young age, growing up to be the most powerful couple in the world?" one of the individuals?

Master Thomas was not only ordinary when he was a child, he even seemed a little stupid or unresponsive.It was a disguise, of course, to keep himself out of the crowd, so that his cruel and insatiable murderer parents would not notice this little oddity in the family.Master Thomas was only about five years old when Mrs. Martha murdered and called her elder son to watch them, as far as I can remember, and his trousers were so soaked in blood that they couldn't be washed properly, and I ended up having to wear them for a while. The second time the pants are thrown away.

Master Thomas—the father of the children, I mean—was a rather weak man, from whom Master Thomas Jr.'s occasional tenderness may have been inherited.On the day Mrs. Martha did it, he was restless and threatened that if Master Thomas was so frightened that he yelled and attracted the police, he would get rid of the son and let Thomas Jr. take the blame for them.Anyway, the Wayne family has no shortage of heirs, and Bruce Wayne was still alive at that time..."

Batwoman doesn't look very good.

Outsider: "I'm not saying this to tell you how difficult it was for Master Thomas's childhood, no, ma'am, he's lucky enough. We were thrown in the garbage at birth or grew up without food more children, the important thing is that he is 'different'. He does not enjoy the pleasures we enjoy, he is not ashamed of the humiliation we inflict, and he fears what we do not understand. He and most people On the contrary, I realized later, he was like you—but not like you."

"So it's back to my original point, ma'am. Can you imagine such a child, and finally become the night owl you are familiar with?"

They stopped in front of the portrait of Wayne and his wife in the main universe. The outsider raised his head to look at the face of the deceased, and asked again: "A few years ago, could you have expected that Bruce Wayne would become Batman one day?"

"So I stayed. Loyal, obeyed his every order, and firmly believed that we were always on the right path."

Batwoman: "You didn't go back to stop him from destroying the world, but to join him..."

"Save our world, yes ma'am."

"So the 'I'm sorry' you just said to Richard was just a lie. I began to understand why Night Owl chose to let that child live, and dragged you to die together."

"...that's not a lie." The outsider turned his head and murmured, "I really regret it. If he can insist...if he doesn't choose..."

He didn't say any more.

**

Earth-3, Nightwing and Red Hood crouched in the old treetops outside Wayne Manor.

"I think I smell owl shit."

"There's nothing like that, Xiaojie." Ye Yi said, holding the binoculars in his hand, without turning his head, "Even if there was, there was a heavy rain last night, and the smell of animal excrement and corpses were all wiped out." Cleaned up. Did you forget to wash your helmet?"

Red Hood: "...No, it must have nothing to do with this. You are the one who never washes your uniform. What happened to the owl eggs you took from this tree?"

"Changing the subject a bit abruptly, but if Duke is still alive, the owl eggs may be hatched, and Barbara said she will keep an eye on Richard, so that when he plans to murder, he won't be... um,' bully Extermination of the ancestors' or 'murder of the same kind', accidentally injuring those unborn owl babies, anyway, that's what it means."

"The family already has a bat dog and a bat cow. By analogy, these owls are destined to be born under the name of 'bat owls'. If owls are intelligent, they might rather never come to this world."

"..." Dick couldn't hold back, and said against his will after a while, "Maybe we can change the naming style this time."

Jason snorted.

The evening wind brushes aside the forest leaves, bringing a profound coolness.More than 40 minutes have passed since the 'Suicide Squad' formed by Bain rushed into Wayne Manor.The ancient and huge building complex is still quiet, and the rocks wrap the bright windows, like the dim yellow eyes of a sleeping giant.

Jason leaned over, wondering whether the cold he felt came from the night in the city or from the eyes of the Golem.He stroked the barrel of the gun, and imagined that the night owl, covered in gunpowder smoke and blood, shattered the glass and fell into the garden, with its open cloak like the wings of a bird.

He had seen a similar scene, in Gotham in another universe.The owl and the bat jumped out of his temporary office one after another. At that time, no one thought that one day, they would have to read the life story of another "Wayne" with a delicate mood.

And they're standing here tonight, in Batman's words, to stop a 'killing spree'—the problem is that, as the world's greatest detective, Bruce doesn't make it clear exactly where the killer and the killed are assigned. To which side, Dick and Jason can only spontaneously understand this order as:

Don't let things get too out of line.

"I heard that there are psychological pirates who can manipulate others in Bane's team." Jason narrowed his eyes and said, "I can't figure out how such a team would fail. But considering the number of times Batman was alone in Arkham Kill seven in and seven out..."

Before he finished speaking, a deafening sound suddenly came from Wayne Manor.

"Is he driving a tank in the manor?!" Jason turned over and jumped off the branch, taking advantage of the chaos and sprinting towards the building.

Dick followed him: "Night Owl didn't develop the Bat Cave... the Owl Cave, he might have parked his heavy weapons in the back garden. It suddenly occurred to me that Alfred was moved away in advance Bar?"

"You haven't reached the age where you have memory problems, Ye Yi. According to the invisible rule that we don't hurt each other's hostages, Ye Xiao sent the butler away at ten o'clock. He knew that Bane was coming, and he was everywhere. people."

"This is very strange, Hood. I was thinking, even if Ye Xiao wanted to commit suicide, but the Anti-Monitor didn't come, it's not the time yet, why did he stay here by himself?"

There was another earth-shattering bang.

"Be careful!" Dick grabbed Jason, and they rolled to the side of the bunker, avoiding the fire that was close at hand.

Immediately afterwards, he turned his head, showing a shocked expression uncontrollably, for the image reflected in his blue eyes—the main building of Wayne Manor collapsed in the explosion, and the silent image was like a melted cream cake.

The ancient manor that existed for centuries was reduced to ruins overnight, embracing its enemies and sinking to the earth, like its master embracing a grand exit.

It took Jason a few seconds to react. He stood up holding the cover and stared into the flames, saying seriously, "You're right, Dick, he's not here. It's Batman—ha!" Killin'! Bruce knew Night Owl was going to leave early and lay a trap, and he deliberately misled us and sent everyone away to fight his brother one-on-one, fucking-" He yelled angrily.

"It's not the first day you know him." Dick said, covering his face, "but I'm afraid Bruce didn't expect Night Owl to blow up Wayne Manor together. We really have to stop the killing now. If the rescue operation is not enough In time, no one will survive the fire."

The rescue targets are all their 'old acquaintances'.

The young people of the Bat Family glanced at each other, and they all saw the word "unlucky" on each other's faces.

**

Meanwhile, Earth-3 Gotham, the other side.On the top of a hundred-foot-high building, two similar figures faced each other across the night.

"You don't have much time left." Ye Xiao said, "Even I can't touch every corner of the earth. You can take away the people you want, and save the people you think are worth saving. Even so, Are you going to waste your time in pointless fights with me?"

"Bruce."

The author has something to say:

I thought I could update it for three days in a row, and I thought it was a celebration of 5000 collections (I was shocked that such a cold subject could exceed [-])... But I couldn't finish writing and didn't want to break in the middle of the chapter!Goo!

The next chapter will return to Mr. Xiao's perspective.

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