The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 2497: Battle for the Cloak (53)

Chapter 2497: Battle for the Cloak (Fifty-three)

Bruce had a piece of lint stuck to his finger.

It was light blue, very short and very small. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see it at all, but he knew where it came from. He was very familiar with it.

In order to protect the crime scene, police officers will need to use shoe covers. The shoe covers of the police station are purchased and configured in a unified manner, and using the same material will leave the same traces.

The house Bruce rented was very small. It was only a few steps from the front door to the bedroom, and he had to pass by a wall. He was now squatting beside the wall, staring at the fuzz on his hands that was obviously left by the police's shoe covers.

He stood up and pushed open the bedroom door. Gordon turned his eyes to look at him, as if he knew what he was going to say.

"Who's been here?" Bruce asked.

"Ge Yin," Gordon said, "I was too worried about the Claw Killer, but she obviously made too many mistakes in the process of investigation and arrest. I have some suggestions for her."

"I don't want any more children to suffer from this." Gordon showed a painful expression and turned his head away and said, "I know I promised you that I would not let more police appear in your life, but this is the only exception, Bruce, for the last time."

Bruce frowned slightly at the mention of the Claw Killer, but he still put his arms down and said, "Leave the police with the police, James. You are no longer the sheriff."

"Of course." Gordon looked at the ceiling with lifeless eyes and said, "I said, this is the last time."

Bruce's eyes lingered on the radio he was holding, but he quickly looked away and walked out of the bedroom to see that the news on TV was about the Claw Killer again.

However, the difference is that this time the news mentioned that Spider-Man, who has been active in the sky over New York recently, seems to be facing off against this killer. The former is investigating and hunting down the latter, and the police said that perhaps this kind of super criminal should be dealt with by superheroes.

Bruce showed a look of annoyance.

Spider-Man saw a familiar figure after school. It was Bruce, but he was being chased by several strong men.

Spider-Man didn't care about anything else and immediately rushed forward, knocked down the strong men with a few punches, and saved Bruce.

"What's wrong with you?" Spider-Man asked.

Bruce wiped the injured corner of his mouth, stood up and said, "I'm fine."

He was about to leave when Spider-Man quickly stopped him, looked at the group of people and asked, "Who are they? Why are they chasing you? Aren't you going to call the police?"

Bruce acted very secretive and didn't want to say much. He just waved his hand at Spider-Man and said, "Go home quickly. This has nothing to do with you."

"How is it none of my business? They actually had the guts to chase you here in broad daylight, and the police don't care?"

"They are the creditors' people." Bruce lowered his eyes and said, "It is only natural to pay back debts. How can the police intervene?"

"You owe them money?" Spider-Man understood immediately. He looked at Bruce and said, "You borrowed money from loan sharks? Why would you do this?"

“Because I have no money.”

"You...what do you want so much money for?"

"I broke a very expensive limited edition gift box and caused my boss to lose a big client. I have to pay for it."

"What's going on?" Spider-Man remembered that Jason said the doll they bought was actually broken by Bruce before, which shows that he is indeed clumsy at work.

However, Spider-Man still decided to ask what exactly happened, so he took Bruce to a hamburger restaurant that he often went to in front of the school gate, decided to treat Bruce to dinner, and then asked him what had happened recently.

The two ordered two meal sets and sat by the window of the burger shop. Looking at the people coming and going at the school gate, Bruce took a big bite of the burger and said, "Yesterday, my boss asked me to give a birthday present to one of his old customers for their child's 8th birthday. It was a limited edition toy set they ordered from Belgium. It was customized half a year in advance, and there is only one set. It is rare and expensive."

"My boss has always wanted to move the store to this customer's neighborhood. It's a wealthy area, and more people will be willing to buy gifts there. If this is done well, the store can be moved there smoothly, and an opening party can be held to accumulate a lot of customers."

"Did you screw up?"

Bruce sighed and said, "It wouldn't have happened. I was driving my boss's car on the road with the gift safely in the trunk. Who knew that the car in front of me somehow lost control and not only flipped over, but also turned sideways. I didn't have time to step on the brakes, and I became part of the chain accident."

"Luckily, only the front of the car was hit. I took the gifts out of the trunk and planned to go around the accident scene and then take a taxi. But for some reason, everyone behind me hurried over here and pushed me to the side of the road."

"A big guy was so busy running that he didn't see me at all and knocked me to the ground. The gift box flew out of his hand and a truck that also failed to brake in time overturned on the side of the road and hit the box."

"Of course the gifts were all broken." Bruce turned his head away and said, "I arrived at the client's home empty-handed, and then was kicked out. The boss's relocation plan fell through, and I was fired."

"But the gift set is very expensive. I have to pay compensation, otherwise I will be sued and go to jail. Then Gordon will be completely left without anyone to take care of him. But I don't have that much money."

"I didn't have any savings to begin with. Now I've lost one job, and it's impossible for me to earn so much money in the remaining two jobs in a short period of time. I have no choice but to take out a loan."

"But my credit score is not high enough, and I don't have any assets to pledge, so regular banks won't lend me money. When I was working, I met a colleague who was a loan shark, and he helped me get in touch with the gang."

Spider-Man covered his forehead, but he suddenly came to his senses. He looked at Bruce and asked, "Which route did you take when you delivered the goods?"

"To get to Third Avenue in Manhattan from Queens, go around Hall Street and drive a little further. There is a bridge in front of you."

Spider-Man was suddenly stunned, because he remembered that he captured the Claw Killer on that road yesterday.

Because this murderer has been active recently, Spider-Man quickly caught up with him. When he once again tried to hide under the children's toy slide to ambush the children, Spider-Man rushed up directly.

But this guy is definitely not human. Not only can he teleport, but his sharp claws appear and disappear at any time, and Spider-Man's uniform was almost torn by them.

But he would not let go of the killer who threatened so many families so easily, so he used his spider-sensing ability and greatly increased strength to deal with the Claw Killer for several rounds.

During the battle, Spider-Man learned that this guy was called Freddy and was from the Elm Street District. He seemed to have a special interest in children and was very cruel and perverted.

In this case, Spider-Man could not let him go. Although Spider-Man did not have much combat experience, his spider-mutated power was indeed very strong. He caught Freddy and beat him up.

But Freddy didn't seem to want to get entangled with him. When he found that he couldn't beat him, he turned around and ran away. Spider-Man chased him without thinking.

The subsequent chase was a classic, with Freddy appearing in car after car, scaring the drivers so much that they fumbled with the steering wheels, causing serious traffic accidents and traffic jams.

Spider-Man knew that Freddy was playing this trick just to stop him, so he wasn't fooled at all. He swung over the car at the fastest speed, punched the car window, and pulled Freddy out. After Freddy disappeared by teleporting away, he locked onto the target at the fastest speed and kicked him out of the billboard.

Spider-Man certainly saw the serious traffic accident and the crowd fleeing in panic below, but at that time he only had eyes for this damn murderer and wanted to bring him to justice immediately, so he was just focused on chasing him all the way and had no time to stop to mediate traffic.

What Spider-Man is most certain of is that the culprit for Bruce's current situation is the overturned truck he encountered. At that time, the truck was falling in front of him, and Freddy crawled out from the front of the truck and escaped as slippery as a loach.

He pulled the driver out of the cab to prevent him from suffering secondary injuries, but he did not notice that there was a gift box on the ground where the truck overturned.

"Do you know what's going on?" Spider-Man asked with a slightly guilty look.

Bruce shook his head and said, "The police who arrived later said that a superhero named Spider-Man was chasing the killer."

"Superhero?" Bruce put down the paper of the burger and muttered to himself: "...Not to me anyway."

Spider-Man returned home with a lot on his mind. Jason's illness had improved a little and he was now cooking in the kitchen. There were already two dishes on the table.

Jason's street life has enabled him to develop excellent cooking skills, and he is particularly good at Gotham Stew. In short, he just throws some ingredients suitable for making stews into the pot, and then adds a lot of chili peppers, and the taste is pretty good.

Placing a large pot of stew on the table, Jason sat across from Spider-Man, looked at his face and said, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so downcast?"

Spider-Man opened his mouth, fell silent, and after a while he said, "I seem to be in trouble."

He put his hands on the table and briefly explained what had happened. Jason also sighed and said nothing.

"I thought you were going to give me some advice," Spider-Man said, "saying something like, as long as you are true to yourself, everything will be fine."

"We all know that's a lie." Jason said very bluntly: "If everyone only cared about themselves, the world would have ended long ago."

"Do we have the right to judge?" Spider-Man asked, "How can we make such a decision to exchange the future of one person for the safety of another person's life?"

Jason shook his head. He didn't want to think about these problems now. During the few days of illness, he felt the warmth of home from Peter Parker's uncle and aunt for the first time in a long time.

The Batcave wasn't bad, but you couldn't expect a statue named Batman to provide you with anything other than the necessary survival conditions and combat instructions. Alfred was also very busy, and he was old, so Jason never felt comfortable giving him any extra trouble.

But the Parkers are not like that. They have a kind of enthusiasm that comes from the inside out, as if if you don't bother them, you don't consider them as your own people. This is the most common kindness of the petty people.

Jason was taken extremely good care of here, a little too well. Aunt May prepared delicious food every day regardless of time and place. What she meant by "you can try it" was that you should go to the sofa and finish this plate of snacks right now, and then go back to your room and fall asleep until fat quietly multiplied in every part of your body, until your heart became comfortable and soft.

Is this kind of life really bad? Jason couldn't give a definite answer. He only knew that the members of the Parker family were very happy, at least much happier than himself and Batman.

Then maybe it's not a bad idea to choose to live like this. Since you can't and don't want to, and you have no position on it, then just be an ordinary person among the vast majority of people, and spend your life in smaller joys and worries. What's wrong with that?

(End of this chapter)