Chapter 63 Chapter 63 Raising a child is a technical job...
Benjamin knew Bruce had a hidden agenda, but Bruce was right. They were all parents and guardians. After calming down, he realized how inconsiderate his actions had been yesterday. He could only smile awkwardly and rub the back of his head. "Haha, you're right."
"Then let's meet in the Batcave later. I'd like to discuss your next course of action with you and Li Hua." Bruce pulled out a stack of bat-shaped metal sheets thicker than bat darts from his arms. "These should be enough for the kids to use for a while."
He deliberately increased the thickness and iron content to ensure that these metal blocks could better serve as teething biscuits.
"Alfred will help look after the children, and Tim will be back later. He always wants to play with these children, so I think he will take good care of them."
These two statements were also true. They all knew that the old butler Alfred really liked children. Tim had shown interest in the ice ghost cubs many times before, and had tried to secretly feed them his Robin Darts several times just to take the opportunity to touch the cubs.
Because of this, Benjamin could not find any reason to refuse.
After handing over the fourteen moths to Tim and Alfred who had returned, Li Hua, Benjamin and Jason followed Bruce to the Batcave.
"I'm sorry. I admit I was too rash last time. Next time I'll definitely give you a heads up before I act."
In line with the principle of "leniency to those who confess, severity to those who resist", Benjamin took the initiative to speak as soon as he came down from the Bat Cave.
"I was just too excited yesterday. I'm usually very calm. If you don't believe me, ask Jason."
Jason: "That's true. He used to be the one who most emphasized discussing things before doing anything."
The time when he took these two people to the Blüdhaven Tavern to practice how to get information was without any discussion at all, and Benjamin almost had a quarrel with him about it afterwards.
After walking up the stairs to the Batcave, Jason felt that Bruce was not going to scold him with a Bat roar like usual.
Otherwise, why would Bruce call Benjamin and Li Hua into the conversation when he was scolding him? They were both completely innocent in this incident, so there was no way they could be scolded, right?
Besides, why would you come to the Batcave to curse? The bats in the Batcave won't be there to cheer and support Bruce when he's giving a lecture.
Under three gazes filled with anxiety, doubt, and confusion, Bruce said, "I didn't call you down to criticize you. I wanted to discuss tactics with you."
Benjamin: “Really?”
"Batman doesn't lie to children," Bruce said with a pleasant face. "Come on, let's discuss tactics. First, transform into a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and I'll guide you on practical issues so you can do better next time you use this hero."
"You want to teach me how to fight? Great!" Benjamin was immediately excited when he heard that he could learn to fight. "Thank you! I will definitely pay more attention next time."
Bruce maintained his friendly smile. "There are too many sophisticated instruments here. Let's go somewhere more spacious. There's a large open space near the Batcave helipad. There's also a training room with a matted sparring mat. Jason can teach Li Hua some taijutsu during this time. After all, card fighting is great, but only what you learn is yours, right?"
"See you later!" Benjamin didn't doubt him, waved to his friends, and followed Batman to the other end of the underground cave.
After Benjamin left, Li Hua asked, "Is Ben going to be in big trouble?"
There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. Although Li Hua did not understand Bruce's specific personality, he saw that he was very angry yesterday, but today he was so friendly and didn't say a word to Benjamin. He only said a few sarcastic words at the dinner table. It was obviously abnormal.
Jason: "Looks like Bruce is planning to use actual combat to correct Benjamin's mistake when using the Mighty Tyrannosaurus... By the way, even you noticed it, but that guy didn't even notice anything was wrong?"
No. 666: "People can't imagine what they don't have, just like you can't expect a dull person to be versatile."
After dealing with these little devils for so long, it felt that it had seen through them a little.
As for what it saw through, it didn't know. Maybe it saw through the long road of maintaining its account.
After a 0.5 second silence for Benjamin in his heart, Jason took Li Hua to the training room in the Batcave.
This training room was larger than Li Hua had expected. It contained not only the oversized training mat Bruce had mentioned, but also various training equipment. Li Hua could vaguely identify simple and obvious items such as dumbbells, horizontal bars, wooden swords, and dartboards. As for the other equipment... it looked like they could help people exercise, but he had no idea how they worked.
Li Hua: "How big is the Batcave?"
When I flew in on my staff, I thought the Batcave was huge, but I didn’t expect that there would be such a large space in the Batcave besides Batman’s office area and the helipad parking lot.
One can't help but wonder if Wayne Manor is at risk of collapse with such a large cavity underground.
Jason: "I made the same exclamation as you when I first arrived, and then I quickly gave up thinking."
Just like he gave up thinking about how much money Bruce Wayne actually had, he just thought the Batcave was only as big as Batman wanted it to be.
Because every time he thinks he's explored every area of the Batcave, Batman always finds a new and surprising area he didn't know about or hadn't been to. It's just like how Bruce has been funding the Justice League for so many years, repairing its war damage, upgrading and repairing its equipment, and burning through money, yet he's still a billionaire with his wealth showing no sign of shrinking.
Li Hua had just asked casually, but after hearing what Jason said, he gave up thinking about this issue any further and just regarded it as the mysterious power of the rich.
"So are you going to teach me how to fight now?" Li Hua pressed down on the thick training mat. After making sure he wouldn't get hurt even if he fell, he started to get excited. "Coach, I want to learn that awesome flying kick!"
Jason walked to the equipment area of the training room and pulled out several triangular pieces of opaque fabric, each with a small ball hanging from the end. "Of course, no problem, but please allow me to set up the scene first."
After saying that, Jason threw these wonderful fabrics, spinning them with perfect yangge dance skills. After they accurately and ruthlessly covered the cameras in the training room, he said to Li Hua, "Okay, now there's nothing that might cause a dark history. It's time to move on to the next step. Quick, while Bruce is away and Tim and Alfred are taking care of the kids, take out your wand that I can use and let me try it out."
"You play with me in your normal [Fighting] card, and I'll use this blessed suit to spar with you while giving you practical instructions. This way, we'll both learn magic and gain some physical skills experience, killing four birds with one stone!"
Let me make it clear in advance that Jason is absolutely not a cross-dresser. It’s just that the bonus of that outfit is too high and the value is too good!
Although he had never fought in that suit, and although the bonus from that suit was not as high as Li Hua's own BUFF, it was still a bonus!
In the face of absolute numerical values, aesthetics is not worth mentioning, let alone a mere magical girl outfit. As long as the numerical value is high enough, even if it means streaking...
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This still requires some hesitation.
"Well... okay." Li Hua took out two magic wands from the system space No. 666. When Jason transformed into the magic boy, he removed the seal of the bird-beak wand without any expression and activated the [Fighting] card.
"Why don't you show any appreciation?" Jason said, emerging from the blossoming shimmering petals. "Haven't you always wanted to see me in this dress? Now that I'm wearing it, a little applause wouldn't be unreasonable, right?"
"That's because you don't want to wear it, so we want to see it. Of course, bizarre costumes are only fun when they make the wearer look awkward," Li Hua said. "But now you're actively trying to wear it, and you're wearing it to beat me up, and I'm not even a little upset. I even feel like, 'Ah, another one of our magical trio is wearing women's clothes just for stats.'"
At least I can hypnotize myself that my own outfit is a magic boy costume, but Jason's outfit is not the same, because the magic wand in his hand that grows on the BUG was made by the maker in memory of his daughter. The original name of all the files is "Magical Girl", a real "Magical Girl" transformation.
Jason knew all this, as number 666 had told him when he first transformed. But now Jason didn't hesitate at all, which showed how terrible it was to be blinded by numbers.
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Tim had thought the task of caring for the ice ghost cubs would be easy.
After all, these little guys have always been very well-behaved when they are with Benjamin, Li Hua and Jason. They don't run around even when their guardians fall asleep. They even know how to spray ice to reinforce their "nests" to protect the safety of themselves and their parents.
Tim felt that it would be no problem to take care of such a well-behaved cub for a whole day, let alone a few hours.
Taking care of children can't be harder than handling group documents, right?
When they first took over, the ice ghost cubs were indeed very well-behaved. They were able to take care of themselves from birth and did not need to be taken care of like human babies. Tim and Alfred simply prepared a lot of finger-thick metal rods, metal wires and small pieces of iron sheets in the manor, which were originally intended to be used as children's teething toys.
But they soon discovered that the cubs preferred to use these materials to build nests rather than eat them.
Just like an alien version of playing house, each ice ghost cub occupied a place and began to stack metal, then reinforced it with ice condensed from the ejected freezing gas, and used these metals to stack into strangely shaped steel nests in the yard of the manor.
But the metal originally intended for use is obviously not enough for the cubs to build a nest, and they remember the teachings of their guardians that "you cannot dismantle things randomly". So what should they do?
So, just like human cubs who would secretly scoop a spoonful of sand from their playmates' buckets to build their own sandcastles, and penguins who would steal their neighbors' stones to build nests, the ice ghost cubs also learned to light up the skill points to "steal" some building materials from their brothers and sisters to fill their own nests.
Once the theft was discovered, it was bound to arouse the anger of the owner, so several angry squeaking babies instantly fought each other.
The key point is that after they found out that any fight would be stopped by Tim and Alfred with a net, the ice ghost cubs who were holding back their anger learned their lesson. Seven or eight ice ghost cubs started one of the typical fighting methods among the Nakfuji people - invisible confrontation.
Now Tim and Alfred couldn't stop them, and reasoning was useless. These babies, who were not even a month old, couldn't even walk or speak, let alone listen to the reasoning of strangers.
"What should we do now? Should we ask Ben and the others to come up?" Tim, who was shouting until his mouth was dry and sweating but still couldn't stop the ice ghost melee, had to ask Alfred for help. The old butler gave up after shouting twice and found it was useless, and stood calmly by the side watching them fight.
"I don't think the situation has gotten to the point where we need to call the parents, Master Tim," the old housekeeper, who had taken care of several children, said calmly. "Chasing and fighting is just children's nature. It's best to let children solve their own problems."
These cubs had fought before, and Benjamin, Li Hua, and Jason knew without blinking that this was normal for Ice Ghost cubs. Since it wasn't a serious matter, and the children were evenly matched, a parent's intervention might not only fail to resolve the conflict but could actually exacerbate it.
The dispute among the cubs soon affected innocent people.
As the youngest ice ghost cub, due to his smallest body, he could only pick up some metal wires and small pieces of iron when carrying materials, and build a nest in the corner. The nest he built was also small, and compared with his brothers and sisters, his nest was filled with more ice.
Perhaps it was because there was really nothing good there, or perhaps it was because these ice ghost cubs, who were not even a month old, had some sense of "teamwork", but in any case, the youngest's nest had never been stolen.
However, his nest was accidentally damaged during a fight between his brothers and sisters, and was completely frozen into a solid ice block by a breath of freezing air.
Even if the Ice Ghosts can become invisible, they cannot become invisible all the time. This solid nest can no longer be called a "nest".
The impact was like a sand castle that a child had painstakingly built in a corner being accidentally stepped on and collapsed. The youngest child did not cry or make a fuss. He just sat on the top of his abandoned nest, looking up at his brothers and sisters who were fighting in a ball, without saying a word.
The ice ghost cubs that were originally fighting stopped fighting, even stopped flapping their wings, and looked at the youngest quietly, as if they knew they had done something bad.
"Oh my god... poor little guy."
The pitiful look of the youngest moved the two acting guardians present. Just when Tim wanted to hold the youngest to comfort him, he suddenly turned invisible and dived into the ground at a speed that no one could react. The group of fighting ice ghost cubs screamed and followed him, turning invisible and diving into the ground, completely disappearing.
Tim, who had just taken a step forward, said: "..."
Only five Ice Ghost pups were left at the scene, sitting in their own nests and not joining the melee from beginning to end.
They didn't seem to have any intention of catching up with their companions. Instead, they took advantage of their brothers and sisters diving underground and quickly stood up to dismantle their brothers and sisters' building materials and installed them on the bottom of their own nest. The level of chaos was as if they were experiencing a Black Friday sale.
Tim: “…”
Aa ...
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The author has something to say: It’s not lost, the youngest one went downstairs to complain to the guardian.
Youngest: Let me see who tore down the nest I built? ...If you can't tell, then let's all complain! Mom, Dad—Godfather—Godfather—look at them! ! ! ! !
The others who caught up with him said: No, don’t tell the parents! ! ! !
Tim before taking care of children: Who am I? I'm Robin... (omitted a bunch of buff identities), how difficult can taking care of children be?
After taking care of the kids for half an hour, Tim said: Help! Benjamin, help! Jason, help! Li Hua, help! I don't want to take care of the kids anymore. Let me get back to work! I can still approve documents!
Benjamin: (Weary tone) This is why I'm suffering from "parent fatigue." I can't even imagine what kind of hell I'll be facing when these fourteen children grow up, learn to speak, and, given their similar ages, all enter their rebellious phases simultaneously...
Bruce with three children going through their rebellious phase: ...
Bruce: Come on.
【Catch a bug once】
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