Chapter 123 Chapter 123 True Masters of Fear Often Only…
"I'm going to the bathroom and vomit as much as I can while hugging the toilet."
Benjamin, who was carrying too much, stood up and left. His back was so tragic, and at this moment he looked so tall in Li Hua's eyes.
Li Hua: Thank you, my good brother. I will treat you to some snow slush when we get back!
Tim: "I think Jason is right. Students shouldn't be perfunctory about their homework. I've decided to watch The Legend of 1900 in its entirety."
He wanted to use literary and artistic works to cleanse himself of the spiritual pollution caused by the things he saw.
Jason closed his eyes tightly and said, "I think what Li Hua and Ben said earlier makes sense. Your most urgent task is to hand in tomorrow's homework. So, brother, I'll watch it with you, and then I'll help you write your review."
He also urgently needed something to wash his contaminated eyes.
The next afternoon, Bruce, who was handling Wayne Group business, was called by Tim's teacher. He signaled the employee who was reporting to work to stop, muttered in his heart, and then answered the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Mr. Wayne. I'm sorry to bother you, but I'd like to talk to you over the phone about Tim Drake. Is that convenient?"
"Of course." Bruce covered the receiver and said to the employee, "Leave the document here. I'll look at it myself later."
By the time the employee quickly walked out of the office and closed the door, Bruce still didn't understand why Tim's teacher wanted to see him this time.
Did Tim fail to hand in his homework again, or did he fall asleep in class again?
It shouldn't be like that.
Bruce didn't let Tim go on night patrol yesterday, and he took over the work at Wayne Company again and forced Tim to rest.
Such a small amount of homework was easy for Tim and there was no chance that he would not be able to finish it.
Moreover, Tim was already asleep when Bruce finished his night patrol. He confirmed that the child had not sneaked out or dealt with work on the Teen Titans side, so it was unlikely that he was sleep deprived.
"Excuse me, did my child fail to hand in his homework again? If so, I will definitely hold him accountable and make sure he hands it in tomorrow."
"No, in fact, Tim submitted all his assignments perfectly. But the problem lies in the essay he submitted about his review of The Legend of 1900."
The teacher on the other end of the phone sounded worried.
"Tim's essay was excellent, fully deserving of an 'Excellent' rating. However, he couldn't help but offer a detailed analysis and understanding of the film's plot, describing it as a redemption for him... He used eloquent language to describe the mental torment and predicament he experienced before watching the film, and how the film helped him regain some inner peace."
"I'm calling today simply to ask you, as his guardian, to pay attention to Tim's mental health in your free time. As I've said before, Tim doesn't participate in any clubs at school and rarely forms friendships with other students. His attendance is also somewhat worrying. As teachers, there's only so much we can do, so I'm afraid you, as his guardian, may need to put in some effort in this regard."
Bruce: “…”
Thinking about how not only Tim went to bed early when the night patrol came last night, but Jason, Li Hua, and Benjamin also went to bed early instead of continuing their Arkham technology transformation project in the Batcave or doing anything else, which was unusual for them. Bruce felt that he could probably guess what these boys did last night.
Or rather, what you saw.
When Azmis encrypted the information, he told Bruce that he had left a trap in the firewall of those encrypted documents, which contained some harmless little pranks for the stupid hacker.
Bruce, who had just learned that Jason was still alive, was so focused on going to the cemetery to pray for a child that he did not verify what the trap was on the spot, nor did he have time to read the information.
Bruce, who was in a good mental and emotional state, went to check the information.
Then Bruce's mental state and mood were ravaged by a hailstorm wrapped in knives.
What happened to me and my children in this parallel world? Why are there vampires in Blüdhaven and why did they kidnap Dick? Why would Tim be brainwashed by the Joker and become a clown?
What? In a world where my own mother, who wasn't dead, also became a clown? Dick also became a clown? Jason also became a clown?
No? Is that correct? Does the "clown" here really not refer to the circus clown, but the one in Arkham?
Continuing to flip through the pages, Bruce saw that there was even a world in which he killed the Joker and turned into the Joker himself.
Oh, that's okay...
Bullshit!
Although Bruce was not surprised that he would one day cross the line of killing, and had no doubt that his mental state would be bad by then, turning into a clown and killing his entire family was too much!
What kind of virus is so outrageous? It takes over the host's body and replaces them with another after the host dies?
Even though Bruce was still greatly shocked when he knew that the information that Azmis and Dr. Contradiction could reveal and provide to him was at a certain distance from his universe, and that the more specific the information, the smaller the probability of occurrence, and the time was farther in the future, he was still greatly shocked.
Although Bruce knew that these things did not happen in the same universe, but if calculated this way, wouldn't the Wayne family in the legal sense be completely wiped out except for his father Thomas who survived in some possibility?
Hell, they don’t even have to group book their Arkham Asylum stay package!
When Bruce saw this, he rubbed his brows and decided to keep the information about the parallel world locked in his stomach.
The stuff in here is too explosive, and we can’t let the children see it all at once.
Especially the part about clowns. The people in his family have been very allergic to clowns recently, so it will take some time for them to recover.
Bruce had tried to test the power of Azmis's firewall, but after opening the background of the program, he found that he could not understand it at all. Azmis used programs and technologies from another world, and it could not be opened at all without the administrator permission key given by Azmis before.
Bruce finally felt relieved and carefully put away the intelligence terminal, which theoretically would not break down even if thrown into the sun. He only used the Batcomputer to log in and check it when necessary.
…until Bruce discovered Benjamin could use Crab Armor.
The night Bruce discovered the bright orange crab dismantling the freeze gun, he immediately understood what Azmis meant by "dumb hacker".
Bruce, still apprehensive about the youngsters' ability to pull tricks, used a background management program that night to unleash Azmis' trap...
Bruce then decided to forget what he had seen.
And even though he knew that Tim Jason, who had always wanted to see that part of the intelligence, would drag Benjamin to try to crack the firewall, he still did not disconnect the link between the Batcomputer and the intelligence storage terminal.
Don't ask why, it's just a little prank by the guardians who are overwhelmed by the endless pranks of teenagers.
After roughly understanding the whole story, Bruce couldn't help but feel fortunate that he wasn't communicating with the teacher face to face, otherwise he would have to control the upturned corners of his mouth.
"I understand. I'll find a chance to have a good talk with Tim. If necessary, we'll seek help from a professional psychologist..."
After communicating with the teacher who was unaware of the truth but cared about his students and hanging up the phone, Bruce did not immediately reach for the documents on the desk or check the surveillance of the Batcomputer. Instead, he took out his cell phone.
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In the training room of Wayne's house, Li Hua asked, "Do you think Bruce found out what happened last night?"
They all went to bed when Bruce came back from night training last night. Bruce was still sleeping in the morning. After noon, Bruce went out and hasn't come back yet. They didn't have much chance to meet Bruce.
But Bruce will be home for dinner, and it would be so awkward to see him when he's not there.
Benjamin: "I don't think he can find out. Last night, Tim and Jason took turns deleting the surveillance footage, and I even checked it again using Crab Armor Mastermind. I don't believe that surveillance data is more difficult to handle than the Joker virus."
"Your metaphor is good. Don't use metaphors next time. It's a bit hellish."
As Jason spoke, he subconsciously looked at the camera in the corner of the training room ceiling, while Tim, who was holding a laptop, made an "OK" gesture.
"I've already hacked the surveillance here, so don't worry."
Jason finally felt relieved and joined the discussion. "I agree with Ben. Bruce might realize we touched the computer, but he'll never find any evidence. Besides, we didn't see any useful intelligence in the first place; we just triggered a trap. What else can Bruce ask us in this situation?"
"You can't just ask, 'Did you use the Batcomputer to watch the villain's hilarious dance?'"
"Please stop talking. I don't want to think about what I saw last night." Benjamin's face twisted in pain. "I actually had a nightmare last night. I dreamed of a ghost dancing with Vilgax. Do you know how horrible that was?"
Even the skeletons were using magic to create special stage effects, and the mutant frogs and flies bred by Dr. Dong Wu were dancing along!
Tim: "Since I'm not familiar with the two people you mentioned, I don't know how scary it was, but I know it must have been very lively."
Li Hua thought of the ghost's two forms before and after it tore off its protective skin, and asked curiously, "Did the ghost tear off its outer skin this time?"
Benjamin deadpanned, "They're ripped apart. They're dancing and waving their green, black and white tentacles just like Vilgax. I can almost see the slime on those disgusting tentacles."
Don't mind that Ghost and Vilgax's tentacles don't have slime; that's just a figure of speech.
Li Hua: "So does this count as a ghost performing a striptease in front of you?"
Benjamin: ...
Benjamin: "Li Hua, you truly deserve to be the one to replace Scarecrow as the 'Master of Fear'."
Just a few words made his nightmare rise to a new level of horror!
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The author has something to say: PS: The original English name of the "ghost" in Ben 10 is "Ghostfreak" (literally ghost, spirit), which is not the same "ghost" as the Shadowkhan in Jackie Chan Adventures. The "ghost" in the Shadowkhan is "Shadow" (shadow).
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