The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

On the outskirts of Gotham, on the side of a hill that is not shown on any map, under a steep cliff, a carefully camouflaged iron gate is hidden under chaotic rocks.

After repeated scanning and verification, Batman walked along the metal bridge inside the gate. The pentagonal arched gate supports the entrance of the Batcave, and the long metal bridge passes through several arched gates. extended into the mountains.

There are cold light tubes on the inside of the arched door, which illuminate one after another blue light bands on the bridge surface. When Batman passes through the lights under these arches, the cold light flows down his cloak.

After walking through the metal bridge, there is a lifting platform, and when the lifting platform falls to the bottom, you can find that it has not yet been completed.

Opposite the lifting platform is a huge cylindrical space, which is divided into upper and lower floors. At this time, only the bottom floor and half of the second floor have been completed. On the outside of each floor, there is a wall extending The corridor that comes out, and there are several doors in the corridor.

It is not difficult to see that this tower-like structure seems to be designed by Batman by referring to a building that only exists in dreams. When standing at the bottom of the tower and looking up, the layers of layers will be Brings endless oppression.

At this time, this is still a real underground base, and there are no strange collections, but when Batman walks out of the lift platform, comes to the corridor on the second floor, and opens one of the doors, countless A monitoring screen appeared in the room.

Every screen there represents every corner of Gotham, but only two-thirds of all the monitoring screens in this room are lit, and the rest are black.

This fully proves Gotham people's endless desire to explore and destructive power for novelty. These black screens represent that the camera fixed somewhere is broken.

Batman has been a little busy lately, so he hasn't had time to fix the camera, but even with two-thirds of the screen, it's monitoring most of Gotham's buildings.

Batman narrowed his eyes and began searching.

He had received the news from Jason about Dick's kidnapping just about ten minutes earlier, and Batman had to admit that he felt his heart skip a beat when he heard the news.

Batman can also feel that finding a nanny for Aisha is not the whole reason for him to adopt Dick, nor is he wanting to find an assistant for himself. If he has to say, his and Dick's auras are very compatible.

Although Batman doesn't like to study those weird metaphysical theories, when Batman gets along with Dick, he finds that the coldness and alienation that he gets along with normal people as Batman are not in his getting along with Dick. Didn't appear, they seemed to have an innate understanding.

He insisted on sending Dick to boarding school before, but something happened at the boarding school, which already made Batman hesitate a bit, but now, when he heard the news of Dick's kidnapping, it hadn't appeared in his heart for a long time. A flame of anger was rekindled.

Batman narrowed his eyes and searched the screen carefully, not missing any details. Soon, his head movement stopped, and his eyes fell on a screen on his right.

For the convenience of searching, the monitoring screens here are also distributed according to the geographical location. The closer to the center, the closer to the city center of Gotham, and the more corners, the more remote the location.

At this time, the picture on the screen he was watching came from a building on the edge of Gotham's East Side, between the third and fourth piers.

Several screens around this screen are black, which proves that the cameras here have been severely damaged, but not because the people who live here are defensive, but because this is the most famous drug addict in Gotham In the gathering place, after those people got high, they would go up and kick everything they saw, so the camera broke down very quickly.

Seeing this position, Batman's fingers suddenly twitched, and his face became a little chilly. Before the bat took off, his deep voice echoed in the empty room, looking a little scary.

Konstantin...

The location shown on the surveillance screen was a club in the East Side, which had been closed for a long time because of the damage to Gotham's surface buildings.

A corner of the house on the surface of the club collapsed, and no one dared to go in, but the only remaining camera in the corner of the house captured a man in a long windbreaker carrying a child into the basement.

When Batman arrived, Dick was lying on the ground in the basement. Batman walked over, and he checked. Dick didn't have any injuries on his body, which didn't match Jason's description that there was blood at the kidnapping scene. The movement of him shaking Dick's body woke Dick up.

Dick blinked in confusion. He was relieved to see that the person who appeared was Batman. Batman asked him, Who kidnapped you?

...That Constantine. Dick covered his forehead and frowned, Originally, I was in Jason's underground base. Suddenly, he appeared from the corner of the wall, which looked like magic.

He wanted to attack me, but I dodged, you know, I was not easy to deal with, I took a crowbar and fought him, broke his forehead, and scratched his arm...

But in the end, he used something like a magic circle to knock me unconscious...

Just as Batman was looking at the basement space, the door of the basement rang, and Constantine, who had just returned, walked down the stairs, met Batman's eyes, turned and ran.

Batman moved faster than him, and a few bat darts flew towards Constantine's ears and nailed them on the door. Batman's deep voice came: Move again, and you're dead.

Constantine's figure froze on the stairs, and then he slowly raised his arms, indicating that he was not threatening him and said, I want to turn around.

Batman didn't answer, and Constantine agreed by default, so he turned his body around very slowly, looked at Batman, and before Batman asked him, he said, Listen to me! I swear I didn't Malicious...

Before he could finish speaking, a fist the size of a sandbag appeared in his field of vision.

Ten minutes later, Batman threw the muddy Constantine on the ground. Constantine screamed in pain, and another bat dart brushed his cheek and nailed him to the ground. He didn't dare to make a sound. Batman asked : Why kidnap Dick?

I'm investigating the case, didn't you ask me to investigate the case?

Batman stared at Constantine, and Constantine explained: Didn't I say it before, that Laurenna Sanchez specializes in using children's souls for cultivation, so do you know how she extracts children's souls?

Batman looked at him silently, and Constantine didn't expect him to answer, but said to himself: I don't know if you have heard such a legend that on Halloween night, there will be a witch dressed as a witch. A pretty woman with a basket full of candy, and if a child wants to get her candy, they must call her 'Mama'.

When the child takes the candy and eats it, he is equivalent to completing the deal with the ghost mother.

Once a child calls the witch 'mother', the witch can tamper with the ownership of the child's soul and become his mother, and then sell the child's soul to the devil in exchange for what she needs...

Batman suddenly understood what he meant, he looked sideways at Dick and said, You met this witch?

Dick froze for a moment, then thought back and said, No, no, and...

Although I haven't been in Gotham for a long time, whether it's Easter or any other night, if someone walks in the street in a strange dress and someone calls her mom, she will definitely get shot.

Besides, kids in Gotham can't call other people's mother casually. When I was a smoke boy, only the head of a block could be called 'Mom and Dad'. If anyone dared to call out, they would be beaten to death. of.

...Then have you been eating indiscriminately lately? Batman asked again.

Dick shook his head, suddenly remembered, and said, I did get a few candies recently, but they were given to me by the boss there when I went to work as a cigarette boy, and I didn't eat them...

Batman turned his head to look at Constantine again. Constantine seemed to be unable to make up any more. He gave up struggling and lay flat on the ground. After showing a tricky smile at Batman, the whole person slowly The earth was reduced to a heap of ashes.

At this moment, the alarm on Batman's wrist rang suddenly, and the long, sharp sound told Batman that someone had invaded Wayne Manor.

Batman looked at the pile of ashes on the ground and said, Twice the same trick, you're at least a daring liar, Constantine...

Wait! Dick tried to get up from the ground. He said, Didn't you say that this thing was called that, that someone had invaded the manor? We have to go back quickly, there are... and...

Dick repeated it several times, his tone gradually slowed down, and then became a little aggressive. He and Batman looked at each other and said, ...there is still Aisha in the manor.

When Batman and Dick returned to Wayne Manor, Constantine was lying in the middle of the living room just like that day, and next to him was Aisha who was grinning horribly with her fangs.

Batman walked up to Constantine unhurriedly, and said to him, The scene is a bit familiar, isn't it?

I saw Constantine's chest heaving violently on the ground, and then lying on the ground like a deflated balloon, his tone was filled with deep helplessness.

...Is there no normal person in Gotham???

Batman went up, grabbed his collar with his hands, and dragged him to the basement. After he was handcuffed, Constantine's first sentence was still: Is there any smoke?

But Batman is not Schiller. His interrogation process is mainly based on physical therapy. He directly crushed Constantine's arm joints with his bare hands. While Constantine screamed, he kept panting and looked up. Batman said, That's enough, kid...

If it was before, I wouldn't mind playing with you, but now, I still have business to do...

As he said that, a ball of light flew out of Constantine's chest, and disappeared into the basement almost instantly. Batman looked at the direction where the ball of light disappeared, which was where he imprisoned Sinestro.

Just as Batman walked out of the prison door, Sinestro, who was locked in the next cell, launched a teleportation and disappeared in an instant.

Batman walked back to Constantine's cell sullenly, and he broke Constantine's knee again, but this time. Constantine didn't scream, he lay there, as if he was on drugs, and said in a somewhat illusory tone.

Thanks to that Professor Schiller, he let me learn a new psychological knowledge, and now it can be used...

Before Batman understood what he meant, Constantine on the ground was suddenly reduced to a pile of ashes, and a figure slowly stood up from the pile of ashes in the basement club in the East End. His own tie said to himself:

...Is this Gotham? Interesting.

Suddenly a voice sounded:

Yeah?

Constantine suddenly froze because he felt a cylindrical object pressed against his back, and he heard the person behind him say:

So... welcome to Gotham.