[British and American] Jason Wayne's Struggle

When the festival is over and everything returns to normal, Damian eats, drinks and has fun at Jason's place. Although he has to spend time taking care of a willful patient, he is basically happy both physically and mentally and feels refreshed.

When the child went home, he brought a bunch of snacks, which were said to be sent to him by Jason's relatives and friends. However, Jason himself had no time to eat snacks, so he shared them with Cassandra, Peter and Damian.

In addition, Damian also brought Jason's four cats and a bear back to the manor. He explained to his father and brother: "He is going on a business trip to Europe for a long time, so he asked me to help take care of the pets."

Axel was carrying a large camouflage bag and dragging a suitcase with his bear claws. He was wearing a navy blue woolen coat, a small red felt hat, and yellow rain boots. He bowed to Bruce and Alfu, and his bear ears shook.

This bear is really too cute.

Damian added: "Axel brought in the cat food and litter, the litter box and the cat bed."

Lingxing also raised his paw to greet politely: "We've been staying here lately."

Tim asked, "He's going to Europe again?"

Damian replied, "The One-Eyed Dragon said he knows the situation over there better and it will be easier to break through. Their department that targets aliens also wants to establish a European branch, but Europe lacks reliable instructors."

So Jason was sent out.

What could Bruce say? What else could he say? Jason rarely asked for help from his family. Although it was just a small matter of taking care of the pet, the old Batman could not refuse.

Ah Fu even walked forward, touched Axel's bear head familiarly, and walked home with the bear and the cat.

Bruce held it in for a long time before finally saying, "Doesn't he still keep Mr. Freeze as a pet?"

How come there is still one missing?

Damian replied as if it was a matter of course: "Mr. Freeze is Cassandra's pet. Cassandra occasionally brings her pet with her on missions. It's not my responsibility."

Although only Mr. Freeze's head is left, in view of his good performance in recent years, Jason made him a detachable small body a while ago, which is shorter than Axel. It is a bit scary to put an adult's head on such a small body, but Mr. Freeze's intelligence and freezing ability are sufficient to serve as an assistant in the mission.

Cassandra can be said to have cultivated a war pet.

Tim stood by and looked at Bruce with a puzzled look: "So now you also accept that Mr. Freeze is a pet?"

Wake up, you are Batman, how can you treat such a living person as a pet like your children with strange brain circuits?

Bruce coughed and turned his head away: "Jason loved playing with Mr. Freeze's head when he was a kid."

Isn't he used to it? And Mr. Freeze has been Jason's pet for almost seven years, so he's probably used to it as well.

They didn't know how Jason was doing in a foreign country, but Damian was very calm. He said to Alfu who was talking about this: "Jason must be doing well."

Ah Fu smiled slightly as he looked at the child who had gradually matured: "How can you be so sure?"

Damian replied confidently: "Because I am doing pretty well now, he must be the same as me in this respect."

They are already very strong, and having an anchor will only make their minds more invulnerable. How can they not live a good life?

On the other side, Jason learned the whole situation from Abigail before leaving.

The department that deals with alien affairs now has a new name, called S.W.O.R.D., and Jason's main task is to go to Europe to train reliable department members and help S.W.O.R.D.'s branch directors in Europe and Asia to build the department framework. Of course, these branches are actually under the jurisdiction of the governments behind their respective places. The S.W.O.R.D. that Jason belongs to just has the same name as them, and will cooperate when facing alien affairs and maintain the position of "being a fellow Earthling."

Anyway, it was pretty much the same content as when he was working in North America, except that his responsibilities were broader and his job title was higher.

In short, Jason, the consultant of the Eurasian branch of S.W.O.R.D., took office with the expectations of a group of people. He counted on his fingers and felt that he might not be able to return to Milijian for four or five months.

But the job has been accepted, and with Jason's personality, he will naturally do his best to do it to the best of his ability. Moreover, he has accumulated enough work experience in North America, so it is natural for him to do the same job with ease now.

The result of being too adept at his job was that Jason could even find time after work. Coupled with the convenience of space teleportation, he discovered for the first time that he could actually do a lot of things that he had always wanted to do but never had the time to do.

When Jason was a child, he hoped that one day he would be able to travel around the world with a backpack, see all kinds of scenery, meet different people and things, watch musicals, rock climb, and take road trips. When others needed him, he would put on the vigilante uniform and do justice. Then he would write stories with a pen, make a living by writing, and become a writer.

When he grew up, he realized that such a life was too ideal for him, even to the point of being unrealistic. He had already taken another path, and it was impossible for him to go back to his old path.

However, now, he can take advantage of his free time to visit the tourist destinations he longed for in the past, and watch musicals such as "Elizabeth", "Romeo and Juliet", "Rock Mozart", and "The Little Prince".

When he was in his early teens, he lost his parents and relatives, wandering the streets alone and living in a garbage can. At that time, he looked at the gray sky of Gotham and felt that loneliness was so unbearable.

Now, he is used to walking alone on the streets of foreign countries.

Jason no longer felt that it was a scary thing to move forward alone. Perhaps he had understood that everyone is born alone and faces death alone, but as long as he had walked through this world, there were some people who would always keep him in their hearts.

After spending that Christmas with Damian, Jason felt that the most uneasy part of his heart had finally been resolved.

He once longed for love to fill his unhappy childhood, but now love will never disappear. With an anchor, he can face the world with more ease.

Thanks to Todamian, he really figured out a lot of things recently.

Jason, now 26 years old, walked into the coffee shop near Notre Dame Cathedral, which was once a turning point in his life.

The waitress was still the same one, but she didn't recognize Jason as the teenager who had fainted in her store. She just took out the old notebook at Jason's request.

Jason opened page 32 of the notebook, pondered for a moment, and left a line of his own words below the words that once awakened him.

He was thankful that everyone who came to this coffee shop to leave a message would leave a blank line between the previous person and the next person when writing their own paragraph, so he had enough space to write these words.

"I have come to the place I have always longed for in the middle of my life. The scenery in Paris is beautiful, the coffee is delicious, the musicals are great, and you are still great now. Thank you."

……

Because of the nature of his job, Jason needs to travel between Asia and Europe, and occasionally go to work at the flower farm. When Doom found out, he told Jason that this was a good thing because it would give Jason the opportunity to experience different countries, systems, and national customs.

It is never a bad thing for a person to gain knowledge and broaden his horizons.

Because of this, Jason got the opportunity to go on a business trip to the Flower Growers' home, and even met with Kong Kenan in Shanghai. Classmate Kong has become a civil servant, an elite who specializes in combating the super-anti-coronavirus department. When Jason started to have dinner with him, this guy spoke a lot of official rhetoric, and only returned to normal after Jason slapped him on the back of the head, and then he smiled bitterly.

"Hey, when I was taking the civil service exam, I was so exhausted from writing the essay."

Jason nodded to show that he understood: "I was like this when I was writing documents for my doctoral supervisor before. It took me several days to recover."

The two old classmates drank a glass of wine, and then complained about each other's dishonesty. They were both super heroes, but they only took off their pseudonyms today.

Jason rolled his eyes. "I reduced the frequency of my vigilante duties two years ago. Vigilantes can only solve temporary problems. To eradicate certain people and certain things, we have to start from the root cause."

Kong Kenan looked at him with a little sympathy: "You are talking about the problem in your hometown, right? You Milijian are troublesome. Different states have different laws. Gotham is still the money laundering sanctuary for a bunch of old money families in Milijian. If you want to change that place, the enemies you have to face alone will be enough to make you suffer. In the end, I'm afraid you may even have to risk your life."

"If I was afraid of death, I wouldn't have been a vigilante."

Jason drank another glass of wine, but he didn't persuade Kong Kenan to drink more. This guy has to drive to pick up his girlfriend from get off work later. If he is called by the traffic police to check for drunk driving and then found to have problems and deducted points, it would be unfair for him.

They all spoke in Chinese. Jason knew Chinese, but he hadn't used it for many years so it was rusty. In the past two days when he was working in Zhonghua, he quickly picked up Mandarin again and even had a Shanghai accent.

After the party, Jason didn't let Kong Kenan see him off. Instead, he walked slowly on the street with his hands in his pockets, holding a cup of milk tea in his hands. He also bought some small things and planned to send them to Wayne Manor as a gift for Alfu.

Chance encounters happen unexpectedly at such moments.

Jason finished his milk tea, found a trash can to throw it away, and stood under the street light, enjoying the river breeze from the Bund. Then he heard a click, turned around, and saw a man with black hair and blue eyes smiling at him with a row of neat white teeth.

The man had a high nose and deep eyes, and was obviously white like Jason. He greeted Jason in English: "Hi, I think you are very handsome."

Jason thought he looked familiar. He squinted his eyes for a while and recognized the man. It was Johnny Stone, the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four. Many years ago, Jason had met him once in the Watchtower (Chapter 43).

Since the establishment of the Avengers and the gradual integration of mutants into society, the Fantastic Four have become like outdated internet celebrities. They still participate in some actions, but are no longer the focus of public attention as they were at the beginning, because there are so many superheroes worthy of people's attention now.

By the way, the Fantastic Four used to be sworn enemies with his doctoral advisor Doom, but in recent years they have rarely fought against each other. Doom is content to be his king, while Mr. Fantastic and his wife focus on scientific research and raising children.

Johnny Stone seemed to have misunderstood something. He scratched his cheek and said, "Uh, did you recognize who I am?"

Jason blinked and smiled, "Yes, Mr. Stone, I know you."

"Just call me Jonathan or Johnny. Hello, I'm here for tourism. Can I keep your photo? Your presence makes this landscape photo even better."

Johnny held out his hand and Jason shook it.

"I'm Jason. If you don't want to send my photos to newspapers or enter them in competitions, and just keep them for yourself, feel free to do so."

Johnny laughed again. He was the same age as Dick, already thirty-three years old this year, but he still looked like a sunny boy, full of bright vitality.

He winked. “I promise I’ll keep this photo.”

At this time, they all regarded this incident as a coincidence. Two people from Mi Li Jian met in Shanghai, one of them came here on a business trip, and the other came here to travel. Then they talked for a few words, and neither of them had any intention of making close friends with each other, so they turned around and left in different directions.

However, what Jason didn't expect was that when he went to the Flower Capital to hand over the members of the Asian branch of S.W.O.R.D. who had completed the training to the director of the Super Hero Management Office, he actually ran into Johnny again.

At that time, Jason had just come out of the super management office, holding a candied haws in his hand. He squinted his eyes because of the sourness of the hawthorn in it, and then there was another snapping sound.

He turned around and saw Johnny waving at him and pointing at the stone lions behind him.

"Boy, I want to take a picture of that lion. Please move aside. I will treat you to roast duck later."

Jason readily avoided it, and by the time they finished eating the roast duck, they had become familiar with each other.

Johnny was sure that there was some kind of fate between him and Jason, otherwise they would not have met twice in different cities in a big country with a population of 14 billion. So he was very enthusiastic in the conversation, sharing his travel experience with Jason and showing Jason the scenery photos in his camera.

His photography skills are very good, and those ordinary things in daily life also appear vivid and interesting under his lens.

While eating, Johnny said to Jason, "I'm going to Sichuan and then take a plane to Tibet from there. What about you? Are you going to Tibet on a business trip too?"

Jason pressed the button on the camera, admiring the landscape photos. Hearing this, he laughed and said, "No, I have finished my work. I am going to take a week off here and then go on a long trip again."

To be precise, he is going to take a group of rookies to outer space to experience what it's like to carry out missions in the universe. Before that, he has to give those rookies a week to prepare.

Johnny nodded and held out his hand to Jason: "It's so boring to stay in Yanjing for only a week. Do you want to travel with me?"