The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

Chapter 2507 The Battle for the Cloak (37)

Chapter 2481: The Battle for the Cape (37)

This shop selling bathtub ducks is obviously quite old. From the arrangement of the window, it can be seen that it is the most old-fashioned gift shop. So when you enter, you can see all kinds of shelves placed against the wall, and there are a lot of messy counters in the middle, all of which are piled with all kinds of gifts.

This kind of chaos should have a very lively atmosphere. Peter likes to visit such gift shops very much. However, when he visited such shops in the past, he felt like a thief because he couldn't afford most of the gifts here, and he was worried that he would meet his classmates and be laughed at.

But today he felt a little relieved, and even wanted to come here with excitement, because Jason was following him, and this guy was stronger than Thompson.

Spider-Man secretly thought in his heart that if he met his classmates this time, they would definitely not dare to laugh at him for being a poor guy, at least they would not dare to laugh at him in front of him.

But this time, when they entered the store, what attracted their attention was not the messy goods, but the person behind the messy goods counter.

The man was wearing a shop assistant's apron and was half-kneeling on the ground sorting the goods on the middle shelf. From Spider-Man and Jason's perspective, he only showed his head, but this head alone was hard to ignore. He was really too handsome.

Jason recognized at a glance that this was the Batman of his universe. Although all Batmans looked very similar, there were some subtle differences in the details. Robins in each universe could also distinguish them well. Jason was especially good at distinguishing them. He felt that the facial features of the Batman in his universe were more three-dimensional than those of other Batmen.

They both shouted at the same time, but the man did not respond. He did not even stand up the first time the two rushed in, but continued to fiddle with the goods on the shelf.

He didn't turn around until he heard a noise behind him. He stood up slowly, looked at the two men with some confusion and said, "Batman? Are you looking for a new toy with a bat? Well, what do you think of that one?"

The man pointed to the little yellow duck behind Jason. It was the Halloween-style little yellow duck that Jason had seen before. There was a bat on the top of its head and a pumpkin under its butt. It looked a little funny, but the bat was cute.

Spider-Man and Jason looked at each other and realized that something was wrong. Why did Batman pretend not to recognize them? Is there an enemy monitoring nearby?

"Do you really think that one is good-looking?" Spider-Man was a little shaken, and Jason immediately glared at him. Although the bathtub duck with a bat is very good-looking, is that the point?

But just as they were hesitating, the man wiped his hands on his apron, took a doll from the side and introduced it: "What about this one? How about this one? This is also a Halloween-themed doll. Look, its bow tie is a bat!" Spider-Man saw that the man was holding a teddy bear in his hand. The teddy bear had a small wizard hat on its head and a pumpkin bowl full of food in its hand. The bow tie was a bat. The overall shape was very cute. Spider-Man took a step forward and reached out to touch the head of the teddy bear. Jason immediately pulled him back and said, "Don't touch it. There may be nano monitors, nano viruses, nano... Anyway, there must be a lot of things on it." The man holding the bear and Spider-Man looked at Jason with a mentally ill look. "No, we don't have any gifts." The man shook his head and explained, "Because this is a discounted model, a small Halloween-limited pumpkin teddy bear, only $19." Spider-Man immediately showed a tangled expression. He only had $20 in his hand. If he bought this, he would definitely not be able to buy the bathtub duck, which would cost at least seven or eight dollars. Compared to Europe, Americans have higher wages and lower basic prices, but that depends on which city they live in. Spider-Man lives in New York after all. Even if it is not the most expensive Manhattan area, non-essential items such as gifts are still much more expensive than elsewhere.

Parker's family is not well off. Even in high school, Peter only has $20 in pocket money a week. He is not yet an adult and cannot work. His pocket money is often robbed by school bullies. He saved up the $20 for almost a month.

Jason's attention is now focused on Batman. He instinctively feels that Batman's eyes are a little wrong. If he has to describe it, Batman's eyes are a little too clear.

Batman's beautiful blue eyes always contain lingering haze and storms. No one can see through them. Jason once thought that maybe Batman himself can't do it. His overly heavy past is piled up on every iris line, weaving an airtight net. When he looks in the mirror, it also prevents him from figuring out what he is thinking.

If there were enemies watching him now, Batman could pretend to be harmless, but his eyes and his expression would never be like this.

Jason could even clearly read the eagerness in his eyes, as if he wanted to sell more goods before Christmas. Peter looked like a kid with money but nowhere to spend it, but he was not.

"Why is this on sale?" Jason asked pointedly.

The man who looked exactly like Batman immediately showed a kind of embarrassment on his expression, as if he had been exposed. He swallowed a sound and then said: "This... okay, the label of this thing It got caught in a vacuum cleaner and got damaged, so it has no tags and is being sold at a low price.”

Jason crossed his arms and said, "Actually, you spent money to buy it because you broke the label, right? It's just that you think it's useless for you to hold this thing, so you want to find someone to take advantage of it and sell it to him. Recover some losses.”

The embarrassment on the man's face became even stronger. Jason narrowed his eyes and said, "I guess you won't buy it for more than 25 dollars. Are you only going to spend 6 dollars to pay for your mistake? Oh, I said it wrong. …”

Just as the man was about to speak, Jason added: "19 is a very unique number. It is close to 20, but it starts with 1, so many stores like to start with it to hint to customers that this thing only costs more than ten yuan. ”

"But these cunning businessmen will not let go of the money they can make. They will definitely mark the price at 19 yuan. This is no different from 20 yuan. They can still get 1 at the beginning. No matter how stupid the store is, they will not let it go. This is 9 cents.”

"If you say that the price of this toy is an integer of 19 yuan, it proves that this is not the price in the store, but perhaps more like a small concession that some people are willing to make for their trivial mistakes. 1 yuan is really Is it enough to fill your conscience?"

The expression on the man's face had completely turned into embarrassment. Jason carefully observed the changes in his expression and found that this was really not a performance. Even if it was just for fun, Batman didn't have so many rich little expressions. How could this happen? What's going on?

Jason immediately pulled Spider-Man and said, "Something's wrong. I think Batman might..."

As soon as he said this, he turned around and found that Spider-Man's eyes seemed to be glued to the teddy bear.

And Batman's eyes seemed to be glued to Spider-Man.

Jason sighed and said: "Don't think you can fool us. No one has to pay so much extra for your mistake. Since you have bought it, it is a second-hand item. It costs 10 US dollars. Give us another one." A Christmas duck in the window.”

"Impossible!" the man said in a louder voice: "The duck alone costs 8 yuan. How can this bear be worth only 2 yuan?"

"Please, it's not how much this bear is worth, but how much money we are willing to pay to slightly compensate for your losses. This is obviously out of humanitarian concern, not commodity trading. It's useless for you to keep this bear anyway, right? ?”

The man looked at the bear in his hand hesitantly, but he was unwilling to accept the price, so he could only counteroffer: "How about $15, bear plus duck?"

"No, that's too high. We don't need this bear in the first place." Jason stretched out his hand to block Spider-Man's longing gaze and said, "We just want to buy ducks. It only cost 8 yuan. It's you." If you get into trouble and ask us for help, we will spend an extra two dollars to help you solve the problem."

In the end, the two bargained and decided to buy the bear and the Christmas bathtub duck for $12. In the process, Jason discovered a shocking fact: Batman didn't like bats.

If it were the real Batman, Jason would bet that even if the teddy bear with the Batman bow tie had no effect on Batman, he would not sell it. Even if Batman was not the richest man in the world, he would still be short of these two dollars. , he won’t sell it either.

Jason just learned about Batman's simple and fanatical love for bats not long ago. As a man in his late 30s, he received a bat doll that was about the same height as him at a birthday party. This incident brought him great joy. A huge mental impact.

He was directly confused by Batman's enthusiasm for bats, and finally understood a truth that he had never figured out before, why bats?

Why else? Batman just likes bats. Those claims that bats are Batman’s psychological shadow cannot be explained at all. Why is he obsessed with printing bat patterns on every piece of equipment? Who would imprint psychological shadows all over the world? All?

Batman's new dollar bill has bats on it!

By the way, dollars. Jason immediately reached for Spider-Man's pocket. Spider-Man couldn't rob him, but Jason snatched the banknotes out of his hand. It wasn't even whole money, but a lot of change. .

Jason opened it and saw that it was not a bat on the dollar, but Franklin, which meant that this was the era before Bruce Wayne became president.

No, it's not that real. This is a dream after all, and anything can happen. This guy might be Batman, or he might just be a passerby in the dream.

Jason decided to test it out. He held the money and ignored the longing look in the eyes of this strange Batman. He put one hand on his waist and leaned against the counter with the other side. He said, "Actually, I'm more curious about how you use the vacuum cleaner to clean the toys." The label was caught in it, shouldn’t this thing be kept close to the ground for cleaning?”

The man's face showed an even more embarrassed expression.