Chapter 1438: Finding the Truth
However, Bruce Wayne is different after all. He is Gotham's top rich second generation!
The two brothers also recognized his identity and let him in without stopping him.
Soon, Bruce met Falcone, the black boss who looked elegant and imposing wearing glasses.
While playing billiards with him, he saw that Bruce was enveloped in low pressure, so he roughly guessed his origin and sent everyone else away.
"The Riddler's cousin has really caused a lot of trouble?" Falcone sighed.
Of course, he also watched the video that the Riddler revealed about Thomas Wayne's paid murder, but this guy behaved very calmly, and this bit of black information didn't matter to him at all.
Bruce Wayne was different. He was completely lost and asked in a low voice: "Is it true?"
"What? About that reporter? Boy, what do you want to know?" Falcone was still pretending.
Bruce Wayne didn't beat around the bush and asked directly: "Did you kill my father for him?"
Falcone shrugged his shoulders and explained: "Listen, your father was in trouble at the time, and the reporter knew some gossip... Everyone has some dirty secrets about your mother's privacy and family history. This is normal.
But your father didn’t want anything to be exposed, especially before the election. Your father wanted to give him hush money, but he didn’t want it, so he came to me. "
Falcone admitted that he had killed people and basically admitted that what the Riddler said was the truth.
"You see, even a good man like your father will do these shameful things when forced." Falcone was trying to clear Batman's father's name, but in his mouth, there was no truth. It's so simple as revealed by the Riddler.
He believed that the reporter was bribed to deliberately target Thomas Wayne, and the man behind the scenes was none other than Salvatore Maroney!
Maloney and Falcone were competitors at the beginning. As the saying goes, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Both of them are gangsters. Of course, they are in a tit-for-tat situation.
Falcone is close to the big boss Thomas Wayne, but the latter is running for mayor of Gotham. Once the election is successful, Falcone will also benefit from it, which is what Maloney does not want to see.
Therefore, he arranged for reporters to come forward to expose the secret family history and dirty information of Thomas Wayne's wife!
In addition, Falcone is also hinting, no, it should be clear that Thomas Wayne's death was probably behind the scenes of Salvatore Maroney!
Bruce Wayne was completely confused. Heavy stimulations came one after another, and even Batman couldn't bear it.
In eternal space, Gwen Stacy glanced at the silent Bruce Wayne and frowned: "He is lying...at least he is not telling the whole truth! That's what I feel."
The Flash also nodded and said: "I think so too. A clever lie is always half true and half false, only in key places... This Falcone can't be trusted anyway!"
Bruce Wayne let out a sigh of relief: "I will investigate clearly, for sure!"
In the light screen video, he thought the same thing. After returning home, he quietly investigated. The next day, he went to the hospital to visit the housekeeper Ah Fu. Ah Fu recovered well and had woken up from a coma. When he opened his eyes, he saw his young master sitting next to him, and Lao Huai smiled with relief.
However, Bruce Wayne looked depressed and ugly, and his first sentence was not conventional: "You finally woke up? Are you okay?"
But: "You lied to me...for the rest of my life!"
Regarding the young master's sudden accusation, Ah Fu's smile on the hospital bed suddenly froze and he looked at him in confusion.
Bruce Wayne did not sell out, and said directly: "I talked to Falcone, and he told me what he did for my father, and that Salvatore Maroney sent someone to assassinate my father. Why did you Don't tell me?
I have fought hard for him over the years and believe he is a good man. "
Bruce Wayne was somewhat despairing at this time. It would be an understatement to say that his faith collapsed.
Although his father died early due to an accident, he has always been Bruce Wayne's idol. His reputation for charity, kindness and justice is well known in Gotham. It also influenced Bruce and became his constant The motivation to push yourself and work hard.
Many children have the ideal of making their parents proud of themselves. Bruce Wayne is certainly no exception. Compared with other children from happy families, he hopes to make a career and prove it to his parents in heaven. Be deeply proud of yourself.
Now, you tell him that all this is false. Your father is not a good person at all, but a hypocritical villain, no different from the bastards you want to fight!
This undoubtedly fundamentally overturned Bruce Wayne's firm belief, and the blow was not small.
Ah Fu also had a strong reaction on the hospital bed, "He is a good man. Listen, your father is a good man! He, he just made a mistake..."
Come to think of it, if it weren't for the injuries on his body, Ah Fu might have gotten up excitedly and grabbed Bruce's collar and shook him wildly.
If there is anyone in Gotham who cares more about the reputation of his father and the Wayne family than Bruce Wayne, that person is undoubtedly Alfred Pennyworth, who has served the Wayne family for most of his life.
This is also his home, and the relationship between Thomas Wayne and him is by no means as simple as ordinary friends.
"A mistake? He hired someone to kill someone. Why did he do that? To protect his family's image? Or his political ambitions?" Bruce Wayne said sarcastically. At this time, he probably felt unfamiliar with his old father.
However, if you calculate the time, Bruce's father passed away when he was still very young and ignorant. Later, he learned about his father through stories passed down by word of mouth. In this regard, he was really not as good as the old butler Alfu.
Alfu told him earnestly: "He is not trying to protect the family's image, and he didn't kill anyone! He is just protecting your mother. He doesn't care about his image and campaign. He only cares about her and you!"
In Alfred's mouth, Bruce Wayne heard another version of the past.
First of all, it is certain that the family scandal exposed by the reporter was indeed true, not fabricated. It was precisely because the revelation was true that it brought a heavy psychological burden to Bruce's mother Martha, which aroused the anger of Bruce's father Thomas. He didn't care about any campaign, nor did he care about his personal and family image or even reputation, but his family was his reverse scale.