American Comics: Opening Guidance Batman

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For the past many years, the nights at Wayne Manor have been very quiet, because there is only one male host and his old housekeeper, and after the night in Gotham, the only light that is on will soon go out, A huge manor will be completely engulfed in darkness until dawn comes again.

But this night, the lights in Wayne Manor stayed on. The sound of the ladder rubbing against the bookshelf broke the silence in the room. Dick wrinkled his face and coughed hard. He waved his hand in front of his nose, trying to drive him away. of dust.

He looked up at the rows of thick books on the bookshelf, slid his fingers across their crests, and suddenly stopped on a book called "Top Ten Mysterious Legends You Don't Know".

Dick reached out and took the book out of the tightly packed pile, then climbed down a few sections of the ladder and threw the book down. Catch it, then swing her short legs and put this tome that she couldn't hold onto a pile of books next to it.

Dick climbed up the ladder in three steps and continued to rummage among the bookshelves. As he searched, he muttered to himself, "The rich are richer than I thought..."

He looked up at the reading room. This is the library of Wayne Manor. It is located in the tower on the westernmost side of the manor. The entire reading room occupies an entire floor of the tower, with hundreds of rows of bookshelves and countless books. , which are stacked in a ring-like manner.

The entire reading room retains a strong British style. The reddish-brown bookshelves are decorated with naturalistic style. In the center of the reading room is a row of circular sofas and several semi-circular desks.

"Before, if I could live in a house like this, I would be very happy, but this is just a place to put books."

Dick murmured, he took out another book from the bookshelf, then climbed down the ladder by himself, put the book on top of Elsa's stack of books, and picked up the big stack. Books and walked towards the center of the reading room.

There, Bruce was looking down at one of the books, and Dick walked over, put the thick stack on the table, patted the top book and said, "Mr. Wayne, this is Section B. All the books with occult keywords, I have arranged them in chronological order, the higher the top, the older."

Bruce took a sip of water and nodded. Dick took Elsa to another area and continued to find books for Bruce.

Even Batman has to admit that having such a small assistant really saves a lot of things, and Dick and him are very tacit understanding, Bruce is indeed reading these books in chronological order, he did not say that, Dick The books were all sorted out in a heartbeat.

To say why he read books here, we have to start from the last time he and Constantine parted ways.

Batman knew from Constantine that Mrs. Sanchez might be using children all over Gotham to practice. He couldn't just ignore it, but Batman had almost no research on the occult, and Constantine seemed completely unreliable. , Batman doesn't want to point to others, so he plans to study this knowledge himself.

But for a complete outsider, it is very difficult to cultivate by yourself without a mentor leading the door. Batman can only find the old priest of Gotham Cathedral.

Batman did not forget that when the priest stayed in the church, he could obtain some special abilities with the help of the mysterious wine pool under the church. He thought, this might help his research on the occult?

He came to the church at dusk, and the priest was not surprised by his presence. After listening to his intention, the old priest shook his head and said, "As a priest, of course I know that such a circle exists, but I advise you not to deal with them, as most of them trade with demons in exchange for special powers."

"There will be no good end to this, maybe for a while, they can obtain extremely powerful power, just like those fantasy novels, but they will inevitably pay an unimaginable price for this power, that will It would be more painful than death."

"You misunderstood, I don't want to use this method to gain power, but to find a way to deal with this power,"

Standing in the shadow of the church, Batman told the priest: "Many people are now at risk from this terrible force, and I don't know anything about it."

The priest paused as he wiped the cross in his hand, and said, "If you just want to know about this, then you shouldn't come to me."

"Who am I going to find?"

"You should know that the heyday of the occult has passed, and most people nowadays don't respect ghosts or believe in gods, especially in Gotham, but in the last era, there was a wave of black magic on the entire east coast. If If you want to know this kind of knowledge, it is best to find it in history."

"In Gotham, there are not many ancient families, but there are always one or two. The ancient families are all the same. They like to record history and collect collections. Maybe you can find a little trace of that era in these things... …”

So, Bruce began to look for the waves hidden under the water in that era in the collection of the Wayne family.

Anything related to mysticism has a kind of obscure and weird beauty. They are good at using some words and word order that ordinary people do not use to describe one thing. man's exploration of it.

But if you look at these stories with a rational attitude, you will find that they are just stories. The logic of the stories themselves is no different from those of children's books written in fairy tales, and many concepts mentioned in them. , are just the imagination of ordinary people about this mysterious circle, and there is absolutely no evidence to test it.

The clouds outside the window flew faster and faster, and Bruce turned faster and faster when he flipped through the books. Dick walked over and over again, and Bruce read more and more books, and less and less books he didn't read. By the end, Dick had searched for all the books with occult keywords, sat down opposite Bruce, and began to read the books.

His reading speed is much slower than Bruce's, because Bruce is reading these stories just to find information, and Dick is really attracted by these mysterious stories, and Elsa is sitting next to him and pretending to read, but every time Every once in a while, the book would lose a piece of paper, all of which was swallowed by Elsa.

Dick was fascinated by it, until the light sound of Bruce putting down the water glass startled him. He raised his head and found that the pile of books in Bruce's hand had already been read. He also closed the book and asked Bruce, "Did you find anything? Mr. En?"

Bruce's eyes fell on the book Dick was reading, Dick saw his eyes, looked down at the book in front of him, and said, "Oh, this is the 'Top Ten Mysteries I just got' Legend', it's pretty good..."

"What's in there?"

"Well..." Dick hesitated for a while, not sure how to answer, Bruce took a sip and said, "This is not an exam, nor is it an assignment for reading notes, I just want to try to change the perspective and see if I can find it. new ideas."

"Well, there are ten stories recorded here. I just saw the end of the second one. The first legend is about werewolves, and the second story is about a suicide town. I think the second story is more interesting. Some……"

"Do you think there might be any useful clues in there?"

"Clues?" Dick asked very puzzled. "Isn't this a ghost story? Where are the clues?"

Bruce took his eyes away from Dick and turned to the book in his hand. This book introduced all kinds of magic circles, and bragged about the functions of these magic circles, but most of them were great. Most of them looked like children's doodles, and the examples cited were inconsistent with reality.

Bruce said to Dick, "If you're sleepy, go to bed, and I'll keep watching for a while."

With that said, he walked to the bookshelf and began to rummage through some books on history. This kind of fantasy story cannot provide detailed and reliable clues, so maybe some traces can be found in the history of Gotham City's development.

After Bruce found the book, he sat down again, but neither Dick nor Elsa left. Dick looked up and asked him, "Is that witch legend true? Children who have eaten sugar have their souls sold to demons?"

Dick put his hand on his face and said, "I feel a little strange, if Mrs. Sanchez is really a witch, why is she in Gotham?"

"When my parents came to Gotham, they were forced to do so, except that the circus here was willing to accept them~www.NovelMTL.com~ The whole east coast couldn't find another job, so we could only come here."

"If there was another choice, we would definitely not come to this city, the weather is bad, it is very dangerous, and people are not very good-natured, it is difficult to get along with, if we are desperate, we will not come here."

"But since Mrs. Sanchez is a witch, she should be much stronger than us, right? Why does she have to come to Gotham?"

"The kids here are nothing special compared to other kids, right? If I have to say anything, it's that the kids here are more violent and harder to deal with..."

Bruce's hand flipping the pages stopped, and Dick saw the movement and said, "Oh, sorry, did I bother you? It's just that I can't sleep a little right now, or should I sit at the other desk?"

"No, go on."

"say what?"

"The part about Gotham."

"I've finished speaking. This is actually a very simple truth. If people from other places are not desperate, they shouldn't come here, right?"

"Of course, I know that there are quite a lot of foreigners coming here recently, but that's because Gotham has been suddenly very cool recently, but Mrs. Sanchez has been here for a long time. She came here, Gotham should be more dangerous, right?"

"Indeed." The frequency of Bruce's voice was always steady, and there was no fluctuation in his tone when he spoke, which sounded drowsy.

"Laurena Sanchez didn't have any reason to choose a city like Gotham as her home base, but since she did, there must be a reason."

Bruce lowered his eyes and looked at the book in his hand. The cover of the book read: "Notes of Solomon Wayne".