Richard Grayson, Bruce Wayne's first adopted son, the eldest brother in the family, and also the first Robin of Batman.
Bruce is Batman, so it's not surprising that his son is Robin, but now Robin is the third Tim. Richard, who resigned from the identity of Robin early, became the vigilante Nightwing in the neighboring city of Bludhaven after being admitted to the police academy.
During the day, he is a police officer of the Bludhaven Police Department. At night, he transforms into Nightwing and puts on a uniform to fight criminals.
He returned to Gothen this time to track down a batch of drugs that flowed from Bludhaven into the Gothen market. He has now found out the direction of the goods, which is South Hinckley, an autonomous county on the outskirts of Gothen.
South Hinckley and Bludhaven are across the sea from each other, and the security there is chaotic, with good and bad people mixed together. It will take some time to find out the specific flow of goods, so Nightwing will stay in Gotham for a while.
Naturally, he joined Batman's night patrol, as he needed his family's help in solving the case.
Gotan is not peaceful tonight. The men left behind by the Penguin Man have finally made some moves——
On the way to the East District, the current Robin Tim took the opportunity to introduce Nightwing to the new trends of the underground forces in Gotham.
"I heard about the trial of the Penguin Man. Okay, I admit that I also secretly watched the live broadcast when I was on patrol, but as expected..." He sighed, "That bastard didn't have a change of heart. It's just that his power was swallowed up by another power."
The mysterious new villain should be the so-called "Mr. C", a guy who hides his head and shows his tail.
Naturally, Nightwing didn't like Mr. C's behavior. Although he sent Penguin Man to prison, he did it not for justice, but just for fun!
"This is the most difficult villain to deal with," he said in the message. "You can never predict what he will do when, because the world is just his playground."
When he wanted to destroy it, it was just because he wanted to destroy it.
As he said this, Nightwing changed into his full uniform and squatted on the rooftop of the dilapidated last building in the East District. The moonlight slowly flowed on his back. He fell from above, leaving the moon behind him.
At this moment, the eldest brother in the family is actually thinking that he should finish the bag of instant cereal before going out.
He quickly descended to the outer wall of the fourth floor. In the dark, the bat detector was emitting a steady red light, constantly scanning the location of everyone inside. Theoretically, he would beat up those guys who kidnapped the girl, then take the girl named Weiwei away and do a full body check or something. "Resurrection", damn.
He, Tim, and Batman all have different ways of doing things. After all, they are different people - Nightwing prefers a more direct approach rather than a gradual one, during which he watches a person go further and further down the wrong path.
He did enter this level.
He took out his long stick.
Weiwei was surrounded by a group of gangsters. She stood out from the crowd on the sofa, holding her cell phone in one hand and pointing at Yeyi with the other: "What are you doing! Don't come over here! I'm calling the police!"
Nightwing: “…”
In theory, there is nothing wrong with his behavior.
But this girl doesn't follow the theory.
Weiwei and Nightwing are not familiar with each other, but she thinks Nightwing has bad intentions.
"This place has been rented by Iceberg Construction and Installation Company. Although our company has not had time to install the windows, this is no reason for you to break in!"
"This outfit...is Nightwing!"
The tall and thin man was closest to her and seemed to recognize the intruder. Weiwei patted him and asked in a low voice, "Who is Nightwing?"
"Yes... the sexiest superhero in America!" The tall and thin man seemed a little nervous and stuttered, "Just next... next door..."
The next city?
Did this trigger some kind of Easter egg that caused the characters from the neighboring city to come visit?
After chewing the word "superhero" for a while, Weiwei waved her hand to let the people around her disperse, and patted the sofa to let Nightwing sit over.
The young man named Nightwing glanced at the old sofa with scars all over it, propped up the back of the sofa with one hand, and said with a smile: "Can I call you Weiwei? Or should I not be so intimate and call you by your last name first?"
If you are not a close friend, it is not polite to call the other person by their name directly.
But your attitude really doesn't make you an outsider at all. Weiwei shook her head: "I don't have a last name."
It's too childish to just randomly type in a nickname with your surname!
Before Nightwing could speak, she continued, "We are Iceberg Construction and Installation Company. We are currently undertaking the sewer maintenance work in the East District of Gotan City. We are committed to eliminating the poor population and give priority to hiring local people so that people in the East District of Gotan can also get paid through work. The company has just been established and is still in its infancy, but it will definitely get better in the future!"
Nightwing was thrown such a long paragraph that both he and the vigilantes on the other end of the communication were speechless for a moment, and the communication channel fell into a strange silence.
He asked, "Who told you this, Weiwei?"
"No one told me," Weiwei said, "but I think so, and we will do so in the future."
Nightwing smiled and said, "It's April now, and the nights are still very cold, but in...Iceberg Construction and Installation Company, well, after your company moved in, all the homeless people who used to live here were driven out."
"In the future, the hardworking ones among them will come back as employees," Weiwei frowned. "I like a saying, 'He who does not work shall not eat.' Why can they occupy this place just because they are weak? We pay the rent."
Even though it's only $1.
"They'll die of disease and hunger before they get any work." Nightwing stood up straight.
"But it is not our company's responsibility to provide them with free assistance," Weiwei said.
She added in her mind: That's the mayor's responsibility.
Judging from Nightwing's expression, she seemed to have failed in the negotiation? Weiwei thought uncertainly, she still wanted to coax Nightwing to help fight Claw.
Nightwing stared at the girl in front of him, the faint blue light from the branches beside him reflected on half of her face.
He knew about this branch. When various strange buildings appeared in Gotham City, Batman would naturally investigate. After scientific experiments, they have verified the efficacy of the branch and what kind of light it emits under what emotions - this seems to be able to be used as a lie detector.
Gold represents fear, while blue represents anger.
This is really strange, the branches seem to indicate that the girl is in a state of constant anger, but from her expression, you can't tell at all.
Maybe something went wrong in the original experiment.
"Are you leaving?" Weiwei asked, lying on the sofa, "Can you tell me how to become a superhero?"
Today's battle with the Claws made Vivi realize that her fighting ability was still too weak. A serious infrastructure game didn't require fighting skills, but Vivi, this wasn't a serious game! In order to prevent the scene of using her own corpse to pour cement piles, she had to improve this shortcoming as soon as possible.
Anyway, Batman is just an ordinary man who has been trained. In Gotan, a high enough level of martial arts skills should be enough.
Nightwing has a weird expression: "You want to be a superhero... Does Mr. C agree?"
Mr. C is so famous that even the neighboring cities know about him! ?
But this title is too childish. Weiwei felt ashamed. She said vaguely: "...Why would I disagree? Isn't this a good thing?"
Unexpectedly, her answer gave the vigilantes in the entire communication a new guess -
Barbara: "Based on the micro-expression analysis, she was very sure that Mr. C would agree, but she didn't seem to expect Dick to know about Mr. C. Looking at her pupils, she was shocked and quickly restrained her emotions, followed by shame."
"All her previous answers came from the heart, whether it was about helping others or the homeless," Barbara's voice seemed a little hesitant. "Her answers showed the way of thinking of an idealist. She believed that she was really saving Gotham, but now it seems that she also knows that Mr. C's approach is problematic."
Nightwing thought for a moment: "But she thinks C won't stop her, why? Are they very close... no... "
Tim interrupted him: "I guess what you're thinking, but can you please not always think about that aspect, intimacy has another form -"
"They are father and daughter," Barbara concluded.
It may not be the father. Considering the abnormality shown by Weiwei, the identity of "creator" is more appropriate.
"If I tell Batman that I want to be a villain, I think he will blow my head off..." Nightwing muttered to himself.
"What?" Weiwei didn't hear clearly.
"Hey," Nightwing said, "No, kid, I think you should go to school instead of being a superhero."
Go to school and wash away your father's brainwashing! Although Nightwing followed Batman to do vigilante work when he was a minor, he is now an adult and it is justified to say such double-standard words.
"But..." Weiwei said, "Can going to school stop the enemy?"
She tilted her head and looked due north: "The enemy is coming."
There were twinkling lights in the distance, and Nightwing frowned. The two of them walked to the edge of the building while chatting, and could clearly see the not-so-good night scenery of the East District. He suddenly noticed a vertical beam of light rising upward in the distance, as eye-catching as a lighthouse, but the lighthouse flashed twice and then went out - Nightwing was a policeman in Bludhaven, and he was familiar with these equipment.
"Nightwing," the teammate's voice came from the headset, "B is fighting with a superhuman. The opponent's recovery speed is not normal. He is now on the first floor-"
"Need my support?" He was ready at any time, but the voice was not finished.
"No, I'm not sure. Did you notice the light in D8? That's the SWAT team. They're carrying RPGs and unmanned tanks. You need to check what they're doing... God, why would such equipment be driven into the East District?"
Nightwing wondered as well.
He turned his head to look at Weiwei, was stunned, and turned 270 degrees on the spot, but he could not find the girl at all. The girl disappeared directly.
"…Is her idol Batman?" He complained casually, stretching his body and falling from the tall building like a light flying bird.
Weiwei didn't see this scene, as she was teleported to the mayor's office the moment before.
Weiwei changed her high heels into leather boots, put on a simple windbreaker, and then took the walkie-talkie that was already prepared on the table and pinned it to her chest——
The chief of the security force knocked on the door. Weiwei opened the door and walked out, nodding to the unprepossessing man.
The man followed silently, and at the helicopter pad of the City Hall, the propellers blew up the hunting wind.
When Weiwei boarded the plane, all the cars that had been turned off turned on their lights one by one. She looked towards the south.
That's the direction of the East District.