Chapter 24
What kind of experience is it like falling into the water? Especially if your hands and feet are tied.
Kevin can tell you that this is definitely not a pleasant experience. When the whole body is unable to move, the moment you fall into the water with your head down, when the cold water splashes For a moment, he felt that his head was on a thin layer of wood.
He tried his best to hold his breath, but when the water burst, he knew that this is almost impossible, because you can’t block the nostrils, and the water seeps into the nostrils. , Poured into the trachea, that is a challenge to instinct.
Maybe someone in this world can learn breakthrough under the pressure of instinct, but that will definitely not be the current Kevin, he is just a 24-year-old youngster, thanks to the old man who died 7 years ago Fu, he has an extra layer of identity in the dark than other youngsters, and he has also received training from the old man, but that is not enough for him to maintain the emotion of face doesn't change in this situation.
At the moment of falling into the water, he vaguely saw the corpse tied up with stones at the bottom of the water. It was Thompson... This made the youngster feel a touch of cold despair in his heart.
Flurry always occurs inadvertently, and then it cannot be eradicated, but when Kevin faced the pain of drowning and struggled habitually, he squeezed the knife in his hand.
This is what he learned from his old man, "The more dangerous you are, the more you can’t let go of the weapon in your hand."
The cold blade gave in this desperate situation. With his last trace of confidence, he slid the short blade that belonged to Thompson into the rope of his wrist with difficulty, erected it, and slashed the rope on his wrist with difficulty. The saw blade on the other side of the blade cut through him. His skin, pain... the bleeding pain made him want to open his mouth and yell, but he couldn't!
In this case, opening his mouth is tantamount to suicide. He can only grit his teeth and admit the pain of tearing the skin, when he feels that the last trace of air in his lungs will be squeezed out. When he felt the dullness in his chest, the rope was finally cut.
A hope of surviving exploded in Kevin’s eyes. He shook his hands frantically. The rope became looser and looser. Eventually, his hands were free. He moved his wrists and hung his body. The rocks were separated by a rope, and then they madly swam towards the sky, looking towards the top from the dark water bottom, revealing a pale rays of light.
That is to escape, rays of light of hope.
"pu"
The water splashed, Kevin slapped the water embarrassedly, breathing heavily, he lifts the head, looked towards the guy with the monkey mask above his head He was leaning on the railing with his hands, and there was a fireworks on his mouth. He waved at him, like an old friend who hadn't seen him for many years, but it was the bastard who pushed him down just now.
Damn it! This difficult lunatic! Why hasn't he gone yet!
"Did you know? In that case, only those who are not crushed by the inner fear can survive. When drowning, the overwhelming majority die from the uncontrollable loss one's head out of fear, in fact, as long as they are a little calmer, the hope of survival is actually great. Although your performance is terrible, there is no doubt that you are an excellent youngster."
Cyber Seeing Kevin walking up the steps wet, he has taken off the monkey mask on his face and looked at him completely, but Kevin looked at the talking bastard and lying on his feet. Ed, who barely recovered a trace of sanity, an uncontrollable anger exploded in Kevin's heart. With a howl, he waved the short blade moved towards Cyber in his hand and rushed over.
He is a bit taller than Cyber, but watching this exhausted youngster leaping over, Cyber shook the head and didn’t move at all. The short blade was about to touch the body. At that time, his body was slightly slanted, while avoiding the weapon, he hit Kevin with a punch in the abdomen.
The youngster's eyes widened at this brief moment, and then his legs softened, his anger was completely extinguished by the pain rising from his body, and he knelt on the ground holding his belly.
"There is only a thin line between recklessness and courage, Kevin, it seems that your father didn't teach you this."
Cyber squatted down, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, and stuffed it. Entered Kevin’s mouth and set fire to him. He tempted him and said, "Look, the grievances between us have ended, you think you can kill me, and then I give you punishment, death ends all one's troubles. , Let’s talk about what you’re going to do next?"
"What?"
Kevin hugged his stomach, limp on the ground, he looked at Cyber, and the pain was still in his body. Spreading inside, he once again realized the other side of this guy, violence...very violent.
"I mean, you leaked the secret, didn't you? You said they would punish you. How are you and Brother going to do it? Run away? Kill your neck? Or do you have to find a way to survive?"
The youngster breathed subconsciously, and as a result, he inhaled a breath of smoke, which made him choke and cough. He took the cigarette from his mouth and left it far aside, but he had to admit that Cyber was right. Now, the biggest problem facing him and Ed is how to escape the pursuit of the League of Shadows.
They are just a nobody, which can be solved by moving their fingers at the upper level, but a nobody wants to survive.
"It has nothing to do with you! Damn it, can we go?"
Kevin doesn't want to have any contact with Cyber, and until now, he doesn't think Cyber will Let go of them, so he held the short blade tightly, but he found regretfully that this thing didn't seem to protect him.
In the face of the youngster’s anger, Cyber made a regretful expression. He stood up, patted the non-existent dust on his pants, and shook his hand.
"Okay , You guys leave, but for the problem just now, I actually have a little suggestion. If you feel that you have nowhere to go, it is better to come to me. You see, we face the same dilemma, we have to help each other , Understand? You know where I live, right?"
After Cyber said they could go, Kevin gave him a puzzled look. After seeing Cyber didn’t mean to do anything, , He gritted his teeth, walked over to cut the rope on Ed’s body, carried his own brother step by step and stayed away from here, until after walking out of 20Kevin, he looked back, Cyber is still standing there, not killing at all. What they meant to die.
"Isn’t he afraid of me going back to inform?"
Everything suffered tonight made Youngster’s head a little confused, he simply stopped thinking about these things, since the other party Didn't intend to kill them, this is the best result, isn't it?
As for the troubles of the League of Shadows... Let's wait for Ed to recover. Thinking of this, Kevin also feels desperate. He is too weak, so weak that even self-protection is a problem. . He even envied Cyber. If he could easily kill one and capture two under the siege of three people, he would be a little bit emboldened even in the face of those killers.
10 minutes later, Kevin, gasping for breath, put Ed, who couldn’t even speak, on the side of the road. He sat there planning to take a rest. As a result, in the middle of the night, the rumbling sound of the car changed from Behind them, the two bright rays of light lifted the palms of the youngster's hands and blocked them, and then they heard a click. Some old but well-maintained Pickup stopped at it. In front of him, the car window was rolled down, and Cyber with sunglasses waved at him,
"Come up, brother, this is far from the narrow island, you need a ride to see you."
"What the hell do you want to do?"
Kevin was a little crazy. When he thought he and Ed would be killed, the bastard let them go, but he When he thought he would get rid of him completely, this guy appeared in front of him again with a very familiar appearance, like a lingering nightmare.
"Didn't you say that the grievances between us have died ends all one's troubles? Do you want to kill us?"
"Damn, the people in this city are really Not friendly!"
Cyber cursed, he knocked on the car door and increased his tone, "Yes, the previous thing is over, but I need your help now, I don’t know what lunatic asylum is. Well, you won't refuse me?"
Kevin was stunned, a sense of absurdity emerged in his heart, he couldn't help but ask,
" Why should I help you! Why should I help you? You almost killed me just now!"
When I heard this question, Cyber's frowned.
"Well, this is a Good question, but I think it will convince you."
His left hand was placed on the car window, where he held a shiny silver light pistol. After seeing the thing, Kevin had all The anger was suppressed, and he became dejected. He was 10,000 reluctant to deal with Cyber, but in the end, he still carried Ed and sat on the old Pickup. Under the darkness, this car was used by the old man. The well-maintained car roared again and drove all the way towards the narrow island.
At the same time, above the filthy streets of the narrow island, a black shadow was quietly moving back and forth between the roofs, and that agile hand was like a Beast hunting in the dark, precise, fast, without a pause.
It was a guy dressed like a black bat. He jumped off the edge of the roof, and the black cloak opened silently behind him, helping him to glide to his destination. It was a very unremarkable house, but according to the news he got from the hapless Sheriff Fras recently, this was Falcone's stronghold on the narrow island.
Not only Cyber, "Batman" is also very interested in the raw materials Falcone has shipped to the narrow island many times. After the last time the transaction was interrupted at the pier and Falcone was sent to the prison, the last few days He came out several times that night, beat more than 10 dangerous guys to death, tied them up and threw them at the back door of Gotham Police Station.
The experience he had once made Batman extremely hate crime. These criminals should be punished, but he will not kill them, because he does not want to be the same villain as those criminals. This is what he insists on. The bottom line!
In the past 7 years of his disappearance, he lived almost entirely among criminals. Will he sympathize with them?
Yes, he would, when he stole for the first time in order not to be starved to death, Batman felt that he had lost the ability to judge right and wrong. When he wandered around in the Far East, he I have experienced more than once the fear before making the choice between sin and death.
He would steal because he was hungry, he would steal the warehouse with other unknown thieves, just in exchange for food for the second day, and the pleasure after committing a crime. He spent 6 years In the time, he fully understood the criminal's bizarre world. He even forgot his original intention during that terrible time. He was even one step away from the final loss!
But there is a kind of strength supporting him, so that he has never become one of them! The parents who died before his eyes represent the fear of the past. In the last year of hard training, he armed himself with firm will, strong strength, and skilled martial skills, and killed Han Aragul. After the leader of the League of Shadows, he finally reborn from the ashes in the dissolution of fear!
"I can't be them, I won't be them!"
Batman muttered to himself on the top of a narrow island like hell, he looked at the ones below People who are forced to do less just jobs for their livelihoods are the bottom of Gotham's. They live in slums. Many things are beyond their choice. He will sympathize with them, but when they violate his inner bottom line. , He will punish them ruthlessly.
Using fear and violence, let yourself become something more terrifying than crime, a symbol, just like the person who appeared before him, the best teacher in the League of Shadows. As said,
"The apparent order maintainers are for self-satisfaction, and they are easy to lose their fighting spirit. Even they themselves will eventually fall into unrighteous hypocrites, but if you can surpass yourself, Dedicate yourself to a certain belief. If no one can stop you, you will become...something eternal! Become a symbol and transcend it!"
Batman With his hands moving, he was afraid of the power surging in his body, but when he found a way to vent his own anger, he chose the path, he found a way to keep himself from getting lost between revenge and power. Benchmark, a line of defense that blocks everything!
This silhouette, almost fuse together with the darkness, opened his arms and fell down, like a cross falling from the edge. The moment he fell into the air, he opened his eyes firmly The rays of light flashed in his eyes.
He can't be them! He has lost a lot, so he can't lose anymore, himself!