the other side.

Inside the Batcave.

……

"Bruce, we've also finished tidying up here." Dick leaned on the soft chair, rubbed his eyes and said, "This is really a big project."

"Let me take a look." Bruce put down the folklore and archeology book in his hand, rubbed his temples that were dizzy from various vague words, and walked to the computer screen.

"All the information about Uriah Hart that can be queried is here, including all his files, itinerary, consumption records, and even the images captured by the surveillance video." Alf standing beside Dick "It's really thanks to ever-advancing technology," Reid said.

"But with all due respect, it's not very legal." Dick spread his hands.

"Special times." Bruce said slowly, "And it's not the first time it's illegal, is it?"

"Haha, that's too true...well, Ulea has a younger sister named Angela, his mother died after giving birth to Angela, and his father died of a work-related injury on the construction site. As a result, the children received a large amount of compensation, allowing them to barely survive the financial difficulties." Dick looked at Uriah's information, "They have an uncle, but this uncle doesn't seem to like them very much. I gave them child support according to the standard, and Uriah never gave it again after she became an adult."

"Their living standards are basically maintained near the food and clothing line." Alfred said, "Uriah dropped out of school after graduating from high school and went to work, basically doing some physical work such as transportation, or serving as a waiter for him. My sister continues to go to school...here are some bills."

Bruce glanced at the bill and frowned: "This bill..."

"If there is no problem with the records." Alfred said, "Youria's boss should have deductions and arrears, and his salary is not even enough to meet the minimum living allowance. In addition, I also found that Uriah Ya went to the emergency department of the hospital three months after working, and the initial diagnosis was a fractured bone, which needed to be taken for an X-ray, but the bill was not paid.”

Dick said with some astonishment: "That is to say, he went to the emergency room and was judged to have a broken bone, but he didn't buy medicine or take an X-ray?"

"Yes, Master Richard, combined with his bills, this doesn't seem to be an incomprehensible thing." Alfred said softly.

"This..." Dick snatched the copy of the diagnostic report, a little unbelievable.As Robin, of course he has had bone fractures countless times, and he knows that kind of pain. As an ordinary person who has not been trained, Uriah can endure this kind of severe pain forcefully and risk a huge pain. Risk waiting for it to heal itself?

How scary is this for a young child?

"Why the fracture?" Bruce asked.

Alfred called up a surveillance report: "Perhaps this video can explain the problem, sir."

In the black-and-white surveillance footage, Yulea seemed to be arguing with a middle-aged man in the kitchen of a certain restaurant. Perhaps when he got excited, he waved his hand and accidentally knocked a plate to the ground.

The boy was frightened and dumbfounded almost immediately. After he froze for a second, he immediately grabbed the sleeve of the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man threw him away impatiently. The boy fell to the ground and hugged him. off his leg.

Afterwards, the middle-aged man pulled out an iron shelf from the cupboard, and beat the boy desperately, but the boy still hugged him tightly and refused to let go. In the end, without knowing what the middle-aged man said, the boy Let go.

The middle-aged man kicked him hard and then left.

Yulea lay on the ground for a long time before slowly getting up. After sitting on the spot and covering his legs for a while, he stood up tremblingly, tidied up the messy kitchen, and left the kitchen with a stagger. .

The entire video had only pictures and no sound, but such a dead picture made everyone's heart sink slightly.

The cold iron rod hit the boy's body again and again, and it also hit a certain string in their hearts desperately, causing dull pain.

"...Since there is surveillance, he can use this video to sue the person who beat him!" Dick was so angry that he couldn't bear to watch the video again, and turned to the two parents.

"I don't know." Alfred said, "Maybe it's really hard for a kid with no experience or education to find a job."

"..." Bruce fell silent.He seemed to sigh silently.

Dick seemed about to say something more, but after a while he let himself down and sat back in his chair, sullen.

"The person closest to Uriah is his sister, Angela Hart," Alfred said, "Uriah and Angela, this must be a traditional Christian family."

"This is his sister's report card, and it's pretty good to be honest..." Dick called up a school record, "If you continue to develop like this, you might be able to go to an Ivy League...and she's a pretty little girl. "

Bruce took the information form from Uriah's sister: "This kid is about your age, Dick."

Dick frowned and said, "Basically the same age, it's a pity..."

It's a pity that such a beautiful girl was buried on the streets of Gotham together with her youth and future, under the dirty muzzle attached to the bone marrow of this city.

But she was just one of many innocent victims.

Bruce looked at the medical bill in his hand.Stacked with the medical bills are the bills for Uriah's sale of all property, and almost every one can be matched.

But even so, he still couldn't save his sister.

"There is also a surveillance video here." Alfred said, "It is a surveillance video of the hospital lobby."

"Look at it," Bruce said.

The video is very short, only a little over ten seconds.

In just ten seconds, the child left the hospital step by step, alone, carrying his dead sister and his only family member on his back.

He didn't attract anyone's attention, but quietly left the sight of others without looking back.

He was just a grown man, and his curved back seemed to have been broken by the world.

A sense of desperation surged from the cold electronic screen like a tide, as if all the air had been drained, making it hard to breathe.

Bruce looked at the staggering teenager in the video, as if he saw the boy kneeling in the crime alley many years ago.

The same despair, the same pain.

The separation between life and death is so deep and painful that it almost tears the human soul in two.

He suddenly thought of the alley where he met Uriah that day.

The child didn't panic or fear when he saw him, his eyes were always smiling, maybe it was because of his face, or maybe it was because of his mood.

Are you out of pain and despair?

Have you found new hope?

Or is it completely numb?

Is he really... still alive?

"...I can probably understand why he summoned the evil god." Dick said rather sullenly. All this made his chest tight, but he didn't know how to vent this depression. "When a person is really desperate, is Will desperately grab at straws."

"A life-saving straw..." Bruce shook his head and whispered, "But is that really a life-saving straw?"

"That's true." Dick spread his hands, "The life-saving straw does not have the ability to kill 21 people in an instant, it should be regarded as the deadly straw."

"That's not what he did," Bruce said.

"Huh?" Dick's eyes widened.

"These people died because they couldn't bear the pollution of the evil god's descent ceremony." Bruce said, "They really walked into the scope of the ceremony because they wanted to harm Uriah."

"How do you know?" Dick asked suspiciously, "It would be great if that's the case."

That shows that Uriah has not become a murderous lunatic, he can still be saved!

Bruce said vaguely, "A friend told me."

"A friend?" Dick raised one eyebrow jokingly, "Oh...you know everything."

Bruce: "..."

Dick continued to ask: "Your old friend... Did Zatanna tell you about the evil god?"

Bruce nodded: "Well, there are very few written materials, and only she can give me some useful information, about the outer gods and those ancient secrets..."

"External God?" This unfamiliar word made Dick interrupt Bruce curiously.

"Outer God." Bruce repeated, "The ruler of the high latitudes."

He raised his head and looked at the densely packed information about Uriah Hart displayed on the big screen.

"If it's true what Zatanna said," he said, "we're in big trouble this time."

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