The night rain in Gotham always carries the cold that penetrates into the bone marrow. Between the wind and rain, the colorful neon lights are like the eye waves of the city.

The man in a windbreaker hurriedly passed through the sidewalk, and the whistle sounded one after another, but the man quickly disappeared from the other end of the street.

Traffic lights change, car tires pressed through the puddle, and the splashed mist fell on the edge of the stone slabs in the street, and was illuminated by the lights of the convenience store to warm colors.

The leather shoes stepped on the puddles on the steps, leaving only a small gap for the light reflected on the water. The man in a windbreaker quickly walked up the stairs of the Gotham Grand Theater. After entering the interior, there were no reception staff here and the lights were pitch black.

But he still turned left with a familiarity, entered the ticketing passage, and then came to the audience, where several figures were already waiting.

Victor, who rushed over, took off the hat on his head, shook the rain on it, and walked to Schiller to sit down, and said to him, "Sorry, it's a little late, I have to clean up my laboratory..."

"It's okay, the movie hasn't started yet." Schiller took the umbrella in his hand to the other side. When Victor saw the water droplets hanging on the umbrella, he knew that he had just arrived.

The two people sitting in the front row of Schiller were Yin Wens and Coppert. They were whispering, as if Coppert was telling Yin Wens about the arrest of Bruce and Laiks before the fight. Yin Wens frowned and curled his lips.

Sitting diagonally in front of Yinvins and Copper was Jack the clown, but he was asleep and was sleeping soundly, and his nose bubbles were already emerging.

And in the seats far away from these people, there was a strange man sitting. Victor couldn't see his face clearly, but he always felt that he seemed familiar.

Suddenly, the black shadow moved for a moment, and in the short moment when Victor couldn't see clearly, he flashed to another row of seats and suddenly disappeared.

Victor wasn't even sure if he actually saw him, but Schiller answered his doubts, saying: "There are many actors in the film today, and it may be very exciting. I can't take into account all the pictures, so I hired a projectionist."

Victor looked at Schiller, and he saw that Schiller turned his head and looked at the seat next to him. There was no one there, but Schiller seemed to have seen something. He said, "Murphys, can you help us play the movie?"

In Schiller's vision, the man in a black robe and pale face sitting next to him turned his head slightly and glanced at Schiller, with a hint of dissatisfaction in his eyes, and seemed to disagree with Schiller's call him a film projectionist.

"I promise, this will be your last movie before bed. After we watch it, you can have a good night. My friends and I will say good night to you in person." Schiller said with a smile.

Morphes turned his head back and looked at the stage of the theater. Suddenly, the wooden stage and curtains there disappeared, turning into an endless galaxy. The entire theater seemed to have been opened with a big hole, and the place forward from the first row of seats turned into a black hole.

The stars kept flowing, and in the deep space, a vortex of light shining, and the lights on the ceiling of the theater went out one after another.

Such deep darkness did not last long. Suddenly, the ground in front of the seat began to extend forward, but it turned from the original old ceramic tiles to wooden floors.

Then, a room was built bit by bit, seamlessly connected with the audience of the entire theater, and even the parts of the wooden floor and ceramic tiles could be seen.

At this time, the audience in the theater was dark, and the same was true in the room. Suddenly, with a "bang", the light bulb at the top of the room lit up.

The lights also shone into the audience seats, and the seats in the front rows were illuminated. However, the locations of the people watching the movie were still very dim, but this aggravated the immersion.

When the lights in the room shone on their faces, the few people squinted their eyes, just like the audiences they saw when the movie first started, from the front row to the back.

After the light bulb was on, the room was fully visible. It was a not-so-spacious room with a desk in the middle. What was very conspicuous was that there was a huge poster hanging on the side wall, which looked like it was hand-painted with several words written on it: "Welcome to report for freshmen."

"Da, da, da." The sound of footsteps came from outside the room, and a figure walked into the room and stood at the desk.

The man behind the desk looked up. He was wearing a doctor's uniform and glasses. But the difference was that he was a bald head and bearded. Victor was very familiar with his face, which was Hugo Strange.

Victor narrowed his eyes in confusion. He didn't understand why this was the opening, but Schiller showed an interesting smile.

Hugo looked up and saw Bruce's face. He also showed a gentle smile and said, "Bruce Wayne, welcome to report, please sit down and fill in your personal information."

"Thank you." Bruce in the room sat down like a good thing and started filling in the information in the form. But as soon as he filled in two lines, he stopped and said, "Why are there so many things to write? I don't want to fill in."

As he said that, he threw the pen on the table. Hugo's face stiffened, but soon, he smiled again and said, "Okay, if you don't want to go through the program, your dormitory is 201, Building 2, Boys Apartment, take the keys and start your college life."

Bruce said nothing, grabbed the keys and turned around and left. After he left, Hugo, who was sitting behind the desk, showed a relaxed smile on his face. He said, "I thought the thrilling story of Schiller and Batman meeting. Wasn't this just a chance encounter at school?"

"It seems that Schiller was an ordinary receptionist at the time. How could Batman be wary of him in this case?"

"What's going on?" Victor, sitting in the audience, turned to look at Schiller. At the same time, Copper and Yin Wens in the front row also pricked up their ears, wanting to listen to Schiller's explanation.

"If it's just to let Hugo rush into Batman's dream and then let the two of them fight, wouldn't it become a fist fight again? What's the point?"

"So, what did you do?" Victor asked.

Schiller lowered his eyes. When the lights in the room shone on his face, he could not light up the shadows under his eyebrows. The eyes that were always sunk in the shadows were gray that was covered in mist all year round.

"What Hugo entered was not Batman's manifest consciousness, but the subconscious that stored his memory. Of course, I could not pass through Batman's manifest consciousness and send Hugo into his subconscious, but I can borrow it."

"I entered the dreamland kingdom under my consciousness from my subconscious, came to Batman's dream, and then went up from the dreamland kingdom, so that I could directly reach Batman's subconscious from the bottom."

"Thanks to our film projectionist." Schiller turned his head and looked at Morpheus and said, "Thanks to him for letting me borrow. Of course, this is definitely not a smuggling. I have notified Batman in advance that there will be an exam."

"Of course, I have to thank a friend, Mr. Jack, who is sleeping soundly now." Schiller looked at Jack who was sitting in the front row again, and said: "In order not to let Batman, who is expressing consciousness, find that someone is making trouble in his memory, comedian Jack is working tirelessly to perform for Batman in his dream of express consciousness."

"But maybe he enjoyed it too, just look at his expression."

Victor followed Schiller's words and looked at Jack in the front row. Because their positions were not in front and back, from the side, he could see that Jack was sleeping with a sweet smile and seemed to be having fun.

"In addition, this friend named Hugo Strange once told me personally that he also wanted to play a role like me, so I gave him this opportunity."

"I found all the memories about Batman in my subconscious mind. It was this memory that Hugo invaded. In this memory, he replaced my existence and became Batman's teacher."

Victor shook his head, he did not continue to speak, not knowing who was watching silence for whom, but Schiller continued to explain: "Bruce in his memory did not know that this was an exam, so he would only act according to the logic of his original personality. I did not control or influence him, so what Hugo encountered was the purest Batman, without any external interference."

"Then, he might be in trouble." Victor concluded, but Schiller turned his head and glanced at Victor and said, "You seem to have some special understanding of Batman..."

"He is a very complicated person. To be honest, you two are very similar. From what I know about you, I can guess what kind of person he is."

Schiller smiled, without saying a word, turned back and continued to look at the scene on the stage.

At this time, the scene in the room was gradually withdrawn, everything was swallowed up by the dark deep space again, the starlight gathered again, forming a vortex. This time, cold and wet stone slabs fell one by one, wall tiles were built, and the shadows of the building appeared in the distance.

The sound of rain appeared in the originally quiet room, and it started drizzling on the stage. Everyone present felt the dampness and the smell of chemicals unique to Gotham hidden in the rain.

Copper sniffed, and he was very familiar with this smell. As a native Gotham man, he had been running around in such rainy nights countless times, damp, cold, pungent, but he had nowhere to avoid.

In the alley, Hugo, who had just entered this memory scene, seemed a little confused and didn't understand why she came to Gotham's rainy night like this.

Soon, two sharp sounds of "swooshing" came, and Hugo didn't react at all. He had no spider sensing, nor an umbrella, so he could not resist when the two bat marks attacked.

The dark and sharp dart stopped 30 cm away, and Batman in a bat suit appeared at the entrance of the alley.

"Batman?" Hugo narrowed his eyes, but Batman opposite him was stunned for a moment. He remembered that his name should have not been spread yet. How did his university teacher know about this suddenly appeared in Gotham's rainy night?

"Take the dart away, Batman, we should talk." Hugo frowned, but Batman was unmoved at all, and he said, "You shouldn't be here, Professor Strange."

"Are you related to the nearest missing person in the Morson neighborhood?" Batman asked.

"No." Hugo immediately denied it, but the bat dart hovering in the air was approaching again and again. Hugo only hesitated for a moment and then took a step back slightly. After all, the cold light reflected on the sharp edge of the dart was not a fake. If he got closer, his neck would be cut open.

"Batman, no, it's Bruce, Bruce Wayne...I know who you are, you're a Gotham University student, so I should ask you this question, why are you here?"

Hugo wanted to get some initiative back, so he pointed out Batman's identity because Batman was a student and he was a teacher. He believed that in this case, he could use it to create some psychological pressure.

But Batman was unmoved, and the bat dart hovering in the air continued to approach until he pressed Hugo against the wall of the alley. The two bat marks were getting closer and closer until they hit Hugo's Adam's apple.

"Do you want to kill your teacher?" Hugo's Adam's apple trembled up and down, and he asked, "Are you crazy? Batman!"

"Tell me, are you related to the missing population in the Morson neighborhood?" Batman walked to Hugo step by step. So close to Hugo, he could see the raindrops falling on his cloak, leaving tiny drops of water.

He felt a terrifying atmosphere spread. Suddenly, with a "sweet" sound, one of the darts squirted and cut Hugo's skin, blood splashed out. Hugo instinctively covered his neck and hid to the side, but Batman's fist was greeted.

First, he punched the side of the cheek, then another knee hit. Hugo was knocked to the ground without any fighting back, falling into Gotham's cold puddle. He heard Batman ask coldly: "Tell me, do you have something to do with the missing population in the Mosen neighborhood?"

"If you don't want to speak, I'll have a way to get you to speak."

"Are you crazy?! Bruce!

!You want to kill your university teacher?!...No, it shouldn't be like this, is Schiller... impossible..."

Batman just repeated the sentence without emotion. Without Hugo's answer, he continued to use violent means to beat Hugo.

Hugo was so beaten that he was dizzy. His nosebleed first flowed into his mouth and dripped into the puddle, dyeing a red color. He lay curled up on the ground. He heard Batman say:

"Hugo Strange, I investigated all your information. A year ago, you were expelled for illegal experiments, and then wanted again, but you took disgrace to escape. Then, you entered another laboratory, and six months ago, you were expelled again for another illegal experiment."

"During the experiment, you showed a tendency to violence and abuse, especially for violating human experiments. Among the subjects in your last experimental project, 11 samples were similar to the population type of the missing population in the Morson neighborhood... "

"Wait a minute!" Victor in the audience suddenly asked, "If this is a fragment of Bruce's memory, how did he know these information? He shouldn't know Hugo yet, right?"

"I added it to his memory, but what I told him is the fact that Hugo was expelled for illegal human experiments. This incident is well-known in the industry. Batman of this period is also capable of checking it."

"I don't think this is unfair..." Schillemosau said with his fingers and said, "After all, my previous resume..."

Schiller shook his head and did not continue to speak. After Victor thought of this, he looked at Schiller with some curiosity and asked, "How did you avoid getting into this situation?"

Schiller shook his head again, not intending to answer the question, but seeing Victor's curious eyes, Schiller only said: "I'm just an ordinary person."

Schiller continued to look at the stage. Hugo lying there was already unconsciousness. As the night rain became louder, the scene collapsed again and returned to the endless deep space.

The stars flowed and when they appeared again, the scene was a little familiar, and it was still the alley, but this time, the rain had just stopped, and the cold wind passed through the street, making whimpering howls.

"Bang!

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Yin Wens was frightened by the amplified sound. He hid in his seat, but he was like watching a horror movie. While he was scared, he stared at the stage intently, wanting to see what was making the sound.

At the base of a tall building, a hand stretched out from the inconspicuous trash can. The lines on the gloves made Copper look familiar. Sure enough, Batman crawled out of the trash can.

He kept coughing and rubbing his eyes. Coppert saw some white powder stained on his mask. He was stunned for a moment, and then snorted coldly: "Those gangsters like to use the most. If they can't beat them, they will sprinkle lime into other people's eyes..."

Yin Wens gasped and said, "That must be very uncomfortable. It will be uncomfortable for a long time when I get my eyelashes into my eyes."

Batman covered his eyes with one hand and held his waist with the other. He limped out of the alley.

On the way, he saw a beggar, so he walked over to talk to the beggar, and Hugo, who appeared on the balcony on the second floor, was still immersed in the anger and fear of being beaten by Batman before.

He kept chanting: "No... Could it be that Schiller was...yes, how could he not suffer any loss when facing such a person? It's not that easy to control Batman. It seems that I'm too aggressive..."

"I shouldn't have a conflict with him so soon. It seems that I still have to observe it before taking action..."

So he stood on the side of the balcony on the second floor, observing the conversation between Batman and the beggar. He heard Batman say to the beggar what you are safe, but that was not the focus of Hugo's attention. He just wanted to figure out what Batman's weakness was.

Batman said a few words to the beggar, left another sum of money, and then left. After he left, Hugo walked to the beggar. He just wanted to know what special things this beggar had and whether he could find Batman's flaws from the conversation between Batman and the beggar.

But just as he jumped down from the second floor and came to the beggar, the "swoosh" sound of breaking through the air sounded again, and two bat darts attacked again, and Batman, who had already left, returned.

What appeared in Hugo's vision was Batman's big fist.
Chapter completed!