Chapter 3: Little Ringo Found His Dad
26.
My mother and I have traveled halfway around the world.
We also visited famous tourist attractions around the world, climbed the Great Wall and watched the flag-raising ceremony; rode a small boat and savored the misty rain of Jiangnan; climbed the Skytree amidst the night sky and lights; walked through the corridors of the Louvre and admired immortal masterpieces; and stood in front of the Sydney Opera House, admiring the perfect fusion of architecture and nature...
Of course, I personally didn't feel anything. Aside from the fact that the spiritual energy of the scenic spot was incredibly complex, embodying so many emotions... I had no real problem with either visiting scenic spots or nature. After all, I didn't have to walk, and every day I could just lie in my mom's arms and move to a new location.
And obviously my mother doesn't have much artistic talent, and she is not as interested in the above-mentioned famous attractions as she is in the new fellow villagers in Ailao Mountain.
Alas, the primeval forest.
Alas, guide NPC.
27.
It's incredible that I lived safely to the age of one in Ms. Lin Yao's hands.
After we emerged from the Amazon rainforest, my mother suddenly remembered that today was my first birthday, a double celebration, so she took me to a nearby city and prepared to follow local customs and buy me a cake to celebrate.
Unexpectedly, it was such a coincidence that my biological father, who I always thought had turned into a star and flown away, is now in this city.
28.
When my mother was planning to rob the rich and help the poor randomly in this city, she happened to rob the gang that my father was disguised as.
Of course, at the age of one, I didn't know anything. When my mother kicked the door open, slapped the person who came up to "reason" and sent him flying ten meters away, and told everyone to get out, leaving behind an ordinary-looking street thug wearing an old jacket, worn jeans and a simple T-shirt.
I thought she wanted a tour guide.
29.
Who knew that after everyone else had left, the man's originally timid expression suddenly changed. Although he had no expression on his face, he was suddenly full of momentum, and he was completely different from before.
Then, my mom greeted him in a familiar manner: "Hi! Bruce, I didn't expect to see you doing so badly in over a year, hahahahaha!"
Then, without waiting for the other party to answer, she grabbed me who was eating a cake on the side and lifted me up high like Rafiki lifted Simba.
"Look Bruce, this is our daughter! Her name is Ringo! Ringo, call her daddy!"
I calmly took another bite of cake and waved to him, "Hi, Dad. I'm the daughter you've never met."
29.
I guess my mom did it on purpose.
Because when his expression collapsed as if a volcano would erupt in the next second.
My mother let out an earth-shattering laugh.
I dare say that people within a ten-mile radius will have to rely on hearing aids after hearing her laughter.
real.
30.
My father, Mr. Bruce Wayne, was wearing an inconspicuous outfit from a cheap stall, but the sharp light in his blue eyes betrayed his innate aristocratic temperament and the brain of a senior detective.
He stood there stiffly, his brain racing, trying to process "Lin Yao suddenly appeared again", "I have a daughter at such a young age", "There is a raisin falling from the cake", "How should I explain it to the gang leader when he asks about it later", etc.
Ms. Lin Yao, as if she had returned home, naturally handed me to Bruce, who stiffly took me. Then she sat on a chair, singing off-key songs while she searched for the money, pills, guns, and bullets they hadn't taken with them when they left.
My dad and I looked at each other seriously for ten seconds.
I was the first to break the silence and asked him:
"Would you like some cake?"
He took one look at the cake I'd poked and prodded, and politely replied, "It looks delicious, but no thanks."
Well, I ate the cake in one bite with no regrets (at all).
31.
"Leona."
Bruce hugged me with a serious face and suddenly said to me.
I held the fork in my mouth and blinked clearly.
"It's not nice. Lingo is a better name."
My mother, Ms. Lin Yao, took over the conversation without even looking up, her tone light and airy, as if the previous sentence was not a rebuttal, but a statement of a universal truth.
Oh, so you were naming me.
Without even looking up, Ms. Lin Yao formed the gun into a lump of iron with her bare hands, then carefully twisted it left and right. I guess she was still attached to the jaguar that (forced) to accompany us through the Amazon and might want to make a statue of it.
While she was doing her handicrafts meticulously, she was also able to compete with Bruce.
"'Leona' is very elegant and charming." Bruce's mouth corners turned down slightly, and he looked like a black cat that secretly despised humans.
Lin Yao raised her eyebrows, still without looking up. The lump of iron in her hand had been squeezed into a... well, probably a tiger, although the tiger looked more like a twisted, screaming French fry.
"Elegance? Charm? Bruce, are you naming her or choosing wine?" Lin Yao retorted bluntly, twisting the "Iron Tiger" in her hand again, making it even more abstract.
It is now a twisted screaming french fry ingredient - a twisted screaming potato.
"'Ringo' is so cute and energetic! And it's simple and catchy. Look, she likes this name herself." Lin Yao said, raising his chin to signal me.
She made a three with her hand under the table, which meant I could get three small pieces of cake!
I immediately understood and firmly supported Mommy's naming strategy, not forgetting to give a little kick to Bruce: "Yeah! Ringo sounds so good! 'Leona' sounds like I'm going to some aristocratic tea party next week. Too feudal! Too relic-like!"
32.
My father is indeed the man my mother has her eyes on. He quickly used his detective brain to figure out what my mother used to seduce me, and decided to use a division strategy to defeat her one by one.
When he suggested using the joker card to decide the winner, it aroused my mother's top cancer, and she rolled up her sleeves and started searching for cards through the walls and cabinets.
He slipped a black card to me through my blind spot. When I looked at the black card and raised my head to look at his face, he smiled and winked at me.
I took the black card dully and nodded solemnly at him.
I've decided on you as my father! I've also decided on the name Leona!
33.
Then, Ms. Lin Yao, who was unlucky in gambling but refused to admit defeat, played many classic card games with Bruce, including drawing joker cards, guessing the size, blackjack, solitaire, UNO, Skat, panic, and 13 cards.
Although my mother has bad luck in gambling, she has a good memory and a sharp mind.
Although my father has good luck in gambling and a good brain, his eyesight is not as fast as my mother's cheating hands.
So they are evenly matched.
Hmm… but Bruce clearly didn't see it, yet he was able to tell that Ms. Lin Yao was cheating out of habit… Could it be that he had lost many times because of this before? After all, it had become a habit after all.
No way?
34.
I winked at my mother.
My mother raised the twisted, screaming potato in her hand.
We smiled at each other.
The big fish is hooked!
35.
Yes, our target from the beginning was Bruce.
My mother's perception is very strong, extremely strong, beyond common sense, sky-high... In short, it is super strong!
What I meant was that my mother had sensed Bruce when we were still in the rainforest.
According to her, because it is very noisy for her eyes and ears, she usually closes her overly strong senses unless a creature she has marked appears.
To put it simply, it's a bit like a Seven-Day Statue hidden in a dark map. Although the map is not unlocked, you just know it's there.
So we rarely relied on NPC guides. My mother took me straight through the rainforest and came to this city with a clear goal.
36.
My mother told me on the way that my father was very rich.
She said it three times.
Even the money he gave us back then was all we spent this year! Shocking!
My mom sheepishly explained that her belongings were swept away by a crack in the world when she arrived, leaving her penniless. She was lucky to have landed in a country with a similar language, otherwise communication would have been a challenge for her.
Then she was picked up by the local official in charge of abnormal phenomena. After being guarded and inspected for a period of time, she was picked up again from a nearby hill and became the senior sister there.
She stayed there for a long time, got to know the world, learned a lot, and became stronger.
She even became the representative figure of that session, and the leader of the mountain wanted to retire and let her inherit his position.
——Unfortunately, my mother rejected her, and she was even kidnapped by a guy from out of town who had only been in the mountain for less than a year! (Voice of the Mountain Boss)
Even my dad called her "Big Sister"!
Ms. Lin Yao looked very proud when she talked about this, and listed it as the best trophy - the red-crowned crane level. It can be seen that she really thinks this is something worth showing off.
Unfortunately, I didn't know who Bruce was at the time, so I took the level of this matter with a grain of salt.
Later on, as I got to know the blues better, I thought it should be upgraded to vermilion red!
Please, being called "Big Sister" by Bruce is so cool and worth showing off!
37.
Ahem, I’ve gone off topic.
Anyway, Bruce is really rich! We decided to rob the rich (Bruce) and give to the poor (ourselves).
Bruce is the big fish we have our eyes on!
Of course, seeing how Bruce looked straight ahead while we were exchanging signals, it was hard to tell whether he was aware that he was being taken advantage of.
But who cares, the point is we’re rich again now!
Money power + superpowers are the strongest!
38.
We had the money, Bruce secured the naming rights, and we all had a bright future!
After my mom and I high-fived each other, I gave her the black card in front of Bruce, and we quickly got together and started chattering happily.
"Little cake! Little cake! I want blueberry mousse!"
"Okay, okay, I'm sure you'll get one. With this card... darling, do you remember what I said a while ago?"
"Of course I remember!" I glanced at my stepfather, leaned over to my mother and began to mutter quietly: "...Ready to go...right? I'm so looking forward to it! Especially...with...is it really that...?"
Then we both covered our mouths and started giggling.
39.
Bruce leaned against the wall, his arms folded across his chest, looking at the mother and daughter in front of him with an expression that said "I'm thinking about life."
"Lin Yao, you should at least be more restrained." Bruce sighed, looked at my mother's excited expression, and curled his lips again.
Cats despise people! But because cats are cute! So they are good cats!
I patted Bruce, who was looking at me doubtfully, and touched his trouser leg.
Rounding is like touching the cat!
"Constrain? Bruce, do you have any misunderstanding about the power of money? Isn't the meaning of its existence to allow us to enjoy life to the fullest?" Lin Yao didn't even raise his head, and flicked his finger on the black card, his eyes shining.
"Dad, we will spend money wisely." I nodded to him seriously.
I tried to tell him with my eyes that I was serious.
Unfortunately, just like my eyes didn't let my mother know that I refused to go to the Arctic at first, Bruce obviously didn't get any useful information from my eyes.
Oh, the eyes.
Alas, no one understands me.
40.
However, since the card has been given away, Bruce will not pay too much attention to what Lin Yao bought with this card.
In return, Lin Yao was also happy to give him some appropriate help.
After all, we are here now. Not to mention their previous relationship, just look at the card my mother is holding in her hand. She will not easily refuse Bruce's request.
Now, with the help of my mother, the human-shaped plug-in, Bruce's original plan of taking the opportunity to infiltrate the inside can be changed.
According to Bruce, he has recently been specifically looking for various criminal organizations to lurk in order to figure out their motives for committing crimes, understand their methods of committing crimes, and experience their criminal thinking.
But with his current status, because of my mom, he'll probably soon become a famous gigolo with a powerful backer...
I might as well go all out and get rid of them, then move to another place and hide in another organization.
Although he didn't sound like he was complaining when he said this, my mother's eyes obviously drifted away and she even started whistling.
This time I will side with the "Leona" faction.
It's not because of the black card.
I already said it’s not because of the black card!
41.
“——Bang!”
As the last member of the gang flew backwards in front of my mother, Bruce's revised plan was successfully completed.
Hmm...how is this not considered a form of "breaking into the interior"?
No matter what method you use, just tell me whether you have broken into the inside!
Efficient! Simple! Fast!
Of course, it is not recommended for players who have not maxed out their military strength to follow this style.
You might be killed in return.
After all, you never know when these seemingly low-level people might fall into a chemical tank, obtain a degree from Gotham University, awaken a criminal personality after being disfigured, or be injected with unknown drugs to gain super powers...
serious.
42.
One afternoon, after counting the gang's supplies, properly settling the lower-level personnel and their families, and defeating several cadres who had been sent back from outside...
I lay on the windowsill, resting my head on my arms, staring at the lazy kitten under the window.
It curled up into a ball, its golden eyes half open and half closed, as if it had just woken up from a long, beautiful dream.
The room was quiet. Only my mother, Lin Yao, was fiddling with her newly looted weapon. The metal parts spun nimbly under her fingertips, occasionally making crisp clicks. Bruce, on the other hand, sat under a desk lamp, his head bent, sorting through the intelligence he'd swished from the gang. His face was expressionless, and he looked calm.
I tugged at the curtains hanging by the window and glanced at the cat. It raised its head slightly, its eyes filled with a puzzled expression: "What does this person want?"
I secretly pulled a corner of the curtain outside and shook it gently. The fabric swayed gently in the breeze, looking like a restless fish tail.
The cat was indeed attracted. It stretched out its two furry paws, stretched lazily, and flicked its tail, looking like it was preparing to attack.
But it only raised one paw and nonchalantly scratched the curtain, as if to say, "Okay, cat has given you face. Human, please stop bothering me."
I held my breath and continued shaking the curtains, trying to arouse its more interest.
43.
Lin Yao suddenly stopped what he was doing, looked up and said, "Bruce, what are you going to do next?"
The sound startled the kitten so much that it jumped up and then ran away.
I watched it leave in silence.
Bruce paused, looked out the window, and said calmly, "Go back to Gotham."
I turned to look at him. "Is Gotham Dad's hometown? What does it look like? Green and vibrant? Transparent and hazy? Or gray and pointy and tiny?"
Bruce smiled slightly, his beautiful blue eyes shining with charm: "Gotham is not a good place, Leona, but it is my city."
My mother curled her lips and said, "What a dull answer."
"But it's very Bruce." I nodded seriously to show my understanding.
Lin Yao laughed, put down the tools in his hand, stood up, and patted Bruce on the shoulder: "Then keep going, little brother. If you can't make it, remember to come to us, we will provide you with a 'temporary shelter'."
Bruce didn't say much, just waved another black card.
Tsk, what’s so great about being rich!
Fight with you rich people!
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