The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

In the end, Constantine and Bruce sat side by side on the curb of the street, looking at the bustling neon lights of the commercial street opposite, Constantine's brain paralyzed by drugs and alcohol can always see a lot from such lights Hallucinating, then, Constantine says to Bruce:

You are not from here, you should not come here, you should go back to where you live, instead of sitting here and smiling bitterly.

Yes, they all said that. Bruce replied, they said that I don't belong here, I should get out early, I don't live in a society with them, and I can't find any answers here,

No, that's not what I meant, Constantine said, When I said to an angel that you shouldn't walk in the realm of hell, I wasn't telling him how beautiful heaven is, and telling him to go back and enjoy it. life, but to warn him not to join us.

People who are already in the abyss can't save others, they can't even save themselves, I can't stand up now, I feel like vomiting, my mind is full of those nasty hallucinations, You can't expect me to go to charity churches to help the poor, you can't expect me to go to churches to spread the gospel, you can't expect me to change this city...

Constantine glanced at his palm, which was covered with lines of time. He is not actually old, but his bad habits over the years have brought his body to the brink of collapse. He said: You are young, strong, rich Vitality, wealth and stability, you can do a lot of things that I can't do, things that I wanted to do but didn't end up doing...

Why didn't you make it? Bruce asked.

Because I was pulled down by the hand protruding from hell. This is my fate. Constantine looked back at the alleys of the slums and said, Whether I was born in hell or walked halfway, I was lured into it. People who are not inherently bad, maybe want to save the world.

Don't think it's such a naive thing to do, Batman, what you've been thinking about in the attic, and what you've spent your time doing, probably didn't achieve the results you wanted, maybe compared to what you were able to do, It's much smaller, but it's not ridiculous.

You feel that everyone is looking at you and ridiculing you. You can achieve ten points, but only one point, and you are complacent about it.

But in fact, if someone has received your favor, he will only thank you, and those who have not received your favor cannot ask for more for the recipient, because it is not those bystanders who saved him, but you.

For example, you try to save me, but for some reason, you don't have the ability to save me. I can see the hard work you put in for this, so I am willing to regard you as my friend, and If someone comes out and says you haven't done enough and you should have done more to save me, I'll give him a punch.

Constantine looked at Bruce's face, but he didn't find his expression relaxed. He could understand what Bruce was thinking now, and the beating frequency of his soul was telling his mood at the moment.

Before that, Batman may have thought of all this very simply. His purpose was to fight criminals and avenge his parents. He thought he had done a very effective job. In just two years, he stopped Countless crimes.

Later, Bruce Wayne also planned to make some changes. He planned to use the power of the Wayne Group to do more things. He was originally full of ambition for this.

But the crazy reality was like a blow to the head. He discovered that the reason Gotham became like this was not what he imagined. When it came, he couldn't break free either.

What he did and thought in the past looks very ridiculous. He is not the night, because standing on the top of the Wayne Building, the night he saw is still not dark enough, and he is not revenge, which led to his life experience. Tragedy may have been more than just the one or two criminals he took down.

Constantine took a deep breath, and he found that Bruce was in a very dangerous state, his spirit was slipping towards some kind of abyss, and some hidden nature was being awakened.

He had comforted Bruce as best he could, but Constantine knew he wasn't very good at comforting people.

And if Batman doesn't think about it, the consequences will be very serious. This is not just as simple as a well-trained superhero turning into a supervillain. The collapse of the Wayne Group is the most terrifying.

Constantine rubbed his eyes with the palm of his hand. He thought for a while and decided to call for foreign aid. He walked away from where Bruce was sitting, found the nearest public phone booth, and called the Gotham Police Department.

In the Gotham Police Department, Gordon is interrogating Copperpot.

But he was also impatient to do this, because he knew that no matter which hospital Cobbot went to, he would be able to issue a report of mental illness. In the end, he would definitely not be imprisoned, but he would still have to go to Arkham Asylum, but there was already It has become the stronghold of the gangsters, and it's like going home to Copperpot.

Moreover, whenever asked about the key information about hiring a murderer, Coppert would cross his chest. Everyone in Gotham understands what this means. The chief of police is the godfather. His complexion is getting more and more wrong.

At this time, he just received a call from Constantine, and as soon as he heard that something was wrong with Batman, he was able to take this opportunity to leave.

Coming to the place where Bruce was, Gordon was also shocked by Bruce's current state. He knew better than Constantine the consequences of Batman's madness.

So, he hurriedly pressed Bruce's shoulder and said, Bruce! Look at me, I'm James, we can talk, really...

When he pressed Bruce's shoulder, he found Bruce's body trembling, and Gordon listened intently, as if he could still hear the uncontrollable laughter in his chest.

Gordon had a bad premonition. He covered his forehead and said, Jesus! What the hell is going on? Did that madman do it again?!

Suddenly, Bruce looked up, looked at him and asked, I gave you the Batlight, but why did you barely light it?

I... Gordon hesitated for a moment and said, I don't want to lie to you. The fact is that the Bat Light is really useful as a light. It has a lot of power and can illuminate the entire yard of the police station. Therefore, I fixed it on the roof behind the police station building...

Speaking of this, Gordon hurriedly said: However, it is fixed there, and it can be used normally. Just adjust the angle, and the shape of a bat will appear over Gotham...

And the reason why I don't do it all the time is because I think you are very busy. Gordon sighed and said, Well, we don't play those guessing games anymore, and I'll be honest, Wayne has to manage Wayne Corporation , Bruce has to go to school, Bruce Wayne has to raise kids and educate them, Batman has to go out and fight crime...

I really don't know which time period should I look for you, so as not to interrupt what you are going to do. If it is not a really difficult matter, I am unwilling to use this method to solve it.

Bruce looked up at him, as if he felt that Gordon was not telling the truth. At this time, Gordon turned his head and glanced at Constantine. Constantine shrugged and said, Let's talk first, I have to find a place to lie down. Yes, I feel badly.

After finishing speaking, he turned and left, and Gordon also sat on the curb. He said, Since I was promoted, I have understood a truth. The inaction of the Gotham Police Department is not entirely due to lack of firepower.

There are three types of people who will be policemen in Gotham. One is villains who have no bottom line. The purpose of their coming to the police station is to collect money. Their bosses let them in to facilitate their work. If others If people give them money, they will be more than happy to help some criminals get away with it.

The second type of people are just ordinary people. They only regard the profession of police as a job. They will go if they are called. Whether the matter can be solved depends on luck. If someone offers money, they will accept it. As long as it is not too difficult, They just do it, and they feel that all the evil that happened in Gotham will unravel naturally, and they don't need to work hard.

There is the last one, just like my colleague Brock, he looks like a black policeman on the surface, and often takes money from those gangsters, but in fact, he is a good person, using his own method to solve many people's troubles, Do your best to uphold justice...

What about you? Bruce asked looking at him.

Me?...They said I was a lunatic. Gordon looked up to the sky and said, Indeed, in this city, I am a lunatic. Do everything you can to solve the problem, even at the cost of your own safety and life.

At the beginning, I was very angry. How could they call me a lunatic? Obviously they are crazy, and they have fallen with the evil, and I am the only one who emerges from the mud. Crazy is not a bad thing.

Bruce rolled his eyes and looked at Gordon, as if he didn't understand why he said such a thing.

In his impression, Gordon is really the last conscience of Gotham. You can give up hope for anything that happens here, but you can always trust Gordon.

One day, I was caught in a very complicated gang dispute. Everyone in the police station, including the intern who had just arrived for three days, advised me to make the big and small things smaller.

Then, I drove an armed police car to the downstairs of the mansion. Bullock, who was driving, pointed a bazooka at a certain window of the mansion. I carried a rifle and entered the scene where the gang bosses were meeting.

I told them that I must get the truth, otherwise we will die here together. Anyway, except for me, none of them are innocent, and I did it voluntarily.

They all said I was crazy... Gordon narrowed his eyes and looked at the neon lights on the opposite street. He said, Everyone of them was shocked and said I was a lunatic.

They started blaming each other, saying that the other party provoked me, a lunatic. In the end, they found out the real culprit by themselves, and then shot him dead. One of the gangsters sent a car to take me back to the police station. Tell the chief of police that the godfather shouldn't have a madman as detective.

Look. Gordon spread his hands and said, In this city, if you want to stop crime, you can't be a good person, you have to be a lunatic.

Gordon took a deep breath and stood up, bent over, put his hands on his knees, looked down at Bruce and said:

Batman, don't think of yourself as the only normal person in this city, because we all know there are no normal people here.

Gordon looked at Bruce with an indescribable hope in his eyes, as if seeing himself once, he said:

I don't want to use the bat light to find you. It's not that I don't believe in your determination to fight crime. It's not that I don't think you're helpful. It's because if you treat yourself as a normal person, you won't be able to deal with these lunatics.

Don't be ashamed of being crazy, you can only defeat them if you are more crazy than them.

Bruce, who was sitting there, thought of the fire he saw, where he saw a reality crazier than the clown.

Batman has always felt that he is a normal person, but in contrast, the clown who can only laugh is a lunatic.

But now Bruce finds that in this crazy reality, no one is exempt. In the past ten years when he dreamed of revenge, he was still affected by the madness and blinded his eyes.

The continuous rain here all year round is fair to everyone. If you think you are not crazy, you may already be crazy.

Bruce thought again, if he can't be sure that he is sober, why should he deal with criminals? How can Gotham be saved?

Facing this question, Gordon couldn't answer. He was not very good at this kind of philosophical thinking, so he could only use his experience to advise Bruce.

But he knew someone who was good at it, and he called Harvey Dent, Bruce's mentor and friend.