American Comics: Opening Guidance Batman

"Father, you are here."

Schiller stood up from his seat, greeted him, and shook hands with the old priest. The old priest looked up at the theater, and said with emotion, "I haven't been here for a long time, and I didn't expect anyone to invite people now. I'm here."

Saying that, he followed Schiller to the first row of seats closest to the stage, and there was another person who sat earlier, the godfather Falcone who sat in the innermost.

He just turned his head to look at the priest and said, "Remember? In our time, the lights were bright here, and my favorite opera at that time was La Traviata."

"My favorite is St. Louis. At that time, the two shows were very popular, and the seats were full, and tickets were not even available at all."

The three of them sat in the empty old theater, on the dilapidated stage, the thick dust turned the curtain a blackened crimson, and the gold thread on it had lost that gleaming luster, even the one on the edge of the stage. Most of the light bulbs don't come on.

"But I still prefer today's show. What do we want to call it?" Schiller turned to look at the two of them, Falcone was holding a cigar, and he exhaled a puff of smoke and said: "" Easter, how about it?"

"I think it's more appropriate to call it "The Clown Returns to the Soul"."

"Why? Clowns? You mean the kind in the circus? There was indeed a circus in Gotham, but that was a long time ago."

Schiller shook his head and did not answer.

He said, "I invited the two of you here to hear your stories."

Falcone sighed, and the old godfather said, "Let Daniel explain it to you."

Falcone and Schiller looked at the old priest sitting in the middle.

The old priest said with a smile: "I used to be a member of the Court of Owls, but that was a long time ago."

The voice of the old priest Daniel had a hint of nostalgia. He said: "" I said it before, when I came to this land, it was full of life and I was kind to people, so I had some prestige in the gang, and many people were willing to sell it. I have a face. "

"At this time, those little birds found me. They were far from being as powerful as they are today. They told me that they would like to share the secret of immortality with me. I showed great interest and joined them."

The old priest leaned his back on the back of the chair. He raised his head slightly and looked above the stage, where the moonlight from the window was exceptionally bright, and his voice traveled far away through the falling moonlight.

"At that time, they didn't have these killers, it was just a gathering of powerful people, but then they discovered something very special in Gotham."

"It's 'wine,' right?"

"That's right, they found that there is a mysterious source of water in Gotham's underground that smells like fine wine and makes people intoxicated, and people who smell this smell heal their wounds and even become younger. already."

"Immortal life and immortality are such wonderful words. No one can resist such a temptation. Therefore, the Court of Owls launched a plan to unearth and decipher the secrets of this water source, use it, and gain true immortality."

"It's called the Water Project."

"But at that time, the plan didn't go well, and the people who risked drinking this liquid went crazy. In the end, they had no way, they wanted to crack it from a religious point of view, so they came to me."

"I knew from the beginning that they were just trying to use me, but that's okay, I want to use them too."

The old priest drew a cross on his chest and said, "At that time, I felt that I was adhering to the Lord's will to let His glory save this land. If it can't be done by ordinary methods, then I can also use another method. The Lord will Forgive me."

"They used that group of European nobles to help me build a church on the grounds of the water source, and then the court of owls killed them."

"The manor you live in now is what they stayed."

"So they didn't move away, but were killed?"

"Yes, the Court of Owls lied that they left, but in reality, no one involved in the construction of the church got out alive, and the Court of Owls would not put the secret of immortality at any risk."

"So, I stayed at the church and stayed there, watching Gotham people come and go, generation after generation."

"You always miss the point," Falcone said, flicking his cigar. "This is not preaching in church."

"Don't say that, Your Excellency Godfather, today is Easter, let's be patient with this." Schiller made a gesture of continuing, and the old priest smiled and nodded to him.

"Later, I cracked part of the wine's secret and used it to gain special abilities."

"So, when I went to church for the first time, you noticed that I was different?"

The old priest shook his head and said, "Actually, my ability is not as powerful as you think. Maybe it was okay in the past, but now, I am old. If I am not in the church or standing above the wine pool, I am a An old common man."

"But it was true at the time. When you first came to the church, I was in a slightly drunk state and saw something different, so I suggested to Falcone to ask him to solve it with you. Problems with his son."

Schiller narrowed his eyes, and he looked towards the stage. In his sight, the old curtain slowly opened. The old priest stood in the center of the stage, with the crucifix in the cathedral behind him, and the turbulent wine pool at the bottom of his feet.

He was standing in the middle of the church, and the fine wine floating in the air made him slightly drunk. In the hazy sight of the old godfather, when Schiller walked in, it happened to be one with the setting sun.

The light of the golden sun scorched the eyes, and after the light disappeared, a shadow of the sun was left behind Schiller, but it was the deepest black after the sunset.

Schiller smiled, lowered his head and said: "Actually, I have always been a little strange, how could the Falco cabinet invite me, a dangerous person, to be your son's tutor. After all, no one will see my resume. would like me to touch their descendants."

"You mean you're going after a serial killer? Even without Daniel's recommendation, I don't care about this kind of thing. It's commonplace in Gotham. There are all kinds of lunatics here. I'd rather be lunatics than stupid. "

"Let's talk about Evans. To be honest, when he came to see me, I was a little worried about him, because I could clearly feel that something was wrong with him." Gu Yan

Falcone sighed and said, "I think you should see that he has two personalities."

"To be honest." Schiller looked at Father Daniel, and he said, "Before this, before Evans came to me this time, I didn't realize that he had a second personality in his body. How on earth did you do it? of?"

"Because at that time, Alberto was indeed dead, and only Evans was the only one. Of course you wouldn't feel anything. The personality you felt later was Alberto after the resurrection."

""Do you think Alberto is the first personality? "The godfather just finished asking this sentence, he answered himself: "No, Evans is indeed the first personality, he is my son. "

The godfather sighed again, he felt he had sighed too many times lately, but said: "When Evans was 6 years old, his mother died, and I was so engrossed in the loss of a lover that I neglected to treat him care."

"One night, he sneaked out to play by himself, and when he came back, he was no longer him."

"… Owl Court did?"

"How do you think the Court of Owls developed into what it is today?" Falcone asked rhetorically: "Just based on their cult theory? Not everyone eats that one."

"That's how they seduce some of the descendants of the upper class, wash their personality, wipe their memory, and then build a more extreme personality that will eventually surrender to them."

"That's Alberto?"

"Yes, my child disappeared and became an owl's minion, but unlike those ignorant idiots, I will not mistake this change for the child's rebellious period."

"This is their usual method. No parent will suspect that their children have been replaced. They will only think that their children have changed because of their age."

The Court of Owls had one of the biggest holes, and Falcone took another puff of his cigar and said, "They made a perfect personality, a perfect godfather."

"I can understand what they want to do, they have prepared a perfect heir for me, as long as he takes over the position of godfather, then Falcone and the Twelve Family will be in their pockets, they are very confident , Alberto will please me."

"But that's what made me extremely suspicious, because before this, Evans was more like his mum than me."

"Sounds a bit ridiculous, doesn't it?" The godfather moved his fingers and said, "At that time, I also thought I was crazy to suspect that my own son was replaced by someone..."

"When he stabbed me with a knife, I finally lost hope."

"I was in so much pain, but I couldn't find the evidence. From a scientific point of view, I couldn't explain it, so I had to turn to faith."

Then, Father Daniel's voice sounded: "When Carmine came to the church, I saw a lost father, and when he told me about these pains, I didn't think it was a joke."

Daniel sighed, his tone was a little guilty, and he said: "The method of cleaning memory and replacing personality comes from the water source in the underground of the church. That's the method I found. In order to achieve my purpose, I will give this method to to the court."

"But after seeing Carmine, I knew. I was doing it terribly wrong."

"Those so-called rhetoric of joining the court in order to spread the glory of the Lord are just excuses for me to be tempted by eternal life."

"When a desperate father stood in front of me..." Daniel's voice began to tremble a little, he said: "The father saw his son being nailed to the cross, bleeding all over the floor, and I became an accomplice, became Judas with a purse in his hand..."

"I know it can't go on like this, I have to stop this."

"So you used the same method to wash away Alberto's personality and regain Evans' personality?"

"The wine has another use, and that is resurrection. I didn't find Evans' personality, but resurrected him."

"so…"

"Alberto is also resurrected."

"Remember the water plan I mentioned earlier?" Father Daniel turned to Schiller and said, "This plan is more than that."

"Over the years, the Court of Owls has kept very thin wine in the blood of many people by contaminating drinking water or rainwater."

"Those heavy rains a few days ago woke them up."

"Why did they choose to start the water source project at this time? Although some people were crazy in that heavy rain, it was far from enough to shake the city."

"They must have other plans."

"One more question, what happened to the funeral? If it's just to replace the personality, there's no need for UU reading www.uukanshu.com to make it so grand, right?"

"That was the idea I gave him. I know the Court of Owls very well and how they control the city. They have a special metal in their hands that resists the effects of fine wine," said Father Daniel.

"I suggested that Carmine did something about the transportation of their raw materials, so that the shipment didn't arrive on time, and many people didn't get an effective umbrella."

"Are you trying to deceive the court?"

"No, we know that forging brotherhood can only be hidden from ordinary people, but not from the Court of Owls."

"I'm just warning them," Carmine said, holding his cigar. "I know their tricks, and I'm not afraid to kill. If they have to press on, then we'll break the bank."

"If they dare to touch my son again, I will make Gotham a ghost town."

In the tone of the godfather, Schiller heard the ferocity of the underworld king of Gotham in that glorious era, as well as the determination of a father.