The proliferation of orphans on the streets of Gotham does not mean that all children in the city are orphans, but it does not mean that having parents is a good thing. Families living at the bottom of society have too little to give their children, and some have been driven crazy by life.
Parents want too much, so it is difficult to say whether these children with parents are lucky or unlucky.
But there is a type of children who are the luckiest in Gotham, and that is the children who were not born. The misfortune does not start with the generation of the children. At the bottom, there are too many mothers who have to go to school for various reasons.
Give up your children.
This is not even a moral choice. If they choose to have children, it means that they may not have full labor force for several months. This is very scary for the people at the bottom who have almost no room for error. This is just the most common human condition.
Just a basic desire to survive.
But this does not mean that they will not be sad. Even if the arrival of this child is not expected, people's yearning for a better family life will not change. As long as there is a trace of yearning for such a life, the pain of losing a child will be
inevitable.
Bruce, who had lived in the slums for a period of time, knew where to find the most cries from his mother. Just like the "hospital" he had seen in the East Side, there were places in the slums dedicated to dealing with such troubles.
The girls who come here are all relatively young, and some of them are so young that Bruce wants to kill someone.
But it is true that only young girls come here. They often have just entered the industry and do not have enough experience. Women who have worked for a long time have their own methods to avoid this happening. After all, abortion also requires recuperation and cannot be done.
Living means no income, and they will do their best to avoid similar things happening.
The vast majority of uneducated people need to endure hardships to gain experience. Most of the people here are like this. It is their youth that is ignorant of the world that allows them to have the energy to cry twice, even though Bruce is here for this cry,
He still felt that his mood had hit rock bottom.
Until he saw a boy in the waiting room - usually no man would set foot in a place like this. This was not an uptown gynecological hospital. Gentlemen showed their concern for their wives and accompanied them. This was just a shady hospital.
It's just an underground clinic.
The other girls were also surprised by the boy's appearance, but no one dared to ask. After observing for a while, Bruce discovered that the boy did not come with his girlfriend, but with a friend of a younger female friend.
.
They came earlier, prescribed medicine and left. Bruce vaguely heard the boy calling the accompanying girl "Lan". They looked very bad and looked like they had been hungry for a long time, but the boy let
Bruce felt strange.
He doesn't look like a Gothamite at all, and if anything, it's that he's even trying to take responsibility for things that have absolutely nothing to do with him - and Bruce doesn't even think about it anymore.
After just a moment of thought, Bruce turned back to his own business. He was collecting the tears of these girls, especially those who had taken the medicine for reexamination, although some of them had gradually shown the numbness of adults.
But he was obviously still grieving the loss of his child.
The atmosphere here made Bruce feel that he couldn't stay long. Fortunately, there were not many underground clinics, but accidents always happened. Customers who came here had to queue up. It took Bruce an afternoon to get the tears he wanted.
He found a cat on the streets of Gotham, opened a bottle of tears and let him smell it.
This is not a well-founded ritual, but Bruce knows that there is a special creature in the dream world, and that is cats, and they are all part of the Dream of a Thousand Cats.
Bruce had heard the story of the Dream of a Thousand Cats from Batcat, and knew how powerful she was. She was probably second only to the Sandman himself, at least much higher than Jack.
Then the cats in Gotham fabricated by Jack in the dream kingdom cannot bypass A Thousand Cats' Dream, and the story of A Thousand Cats' Dream lets Bruce know that she will empathize with the grief of losing a son.
Bruce, who has studied the occult in depth, knows that many magic rituals are produced in this way. The ancient magicians called demons and angels with things they care about, and then they can make a deal with them.
Bruce imitated this behavior, and eventually, Cats' Dream responded to him.
At first, A Thousand Cats Dream was very angry about this. He thought that Bruce had deceived her because Bruce was not the one who lost his son at all, he just gathered the grief of other people.
But when they felt Bruce's aura, the Thousand Cats' Dream chose to help him, which was even beyond Bruce's expectation, and the Thousand Cats' Dream told him that everything he did in Gotham in the real world would be a blessing to him.
It has created a home for countless mothers and children.
Bruce didn't know whether she was referring to cats or people, maybe both, because in the Gotham building renovation project, the houses used for living are allowed to keep pets, and most people who need to live in such houses cannot.
When I go to buy purebred cats, most of them are my pets if they can’t outrun me. Maybe there are really many pregnant female cats that have been picked up?
Thousand Cats Dream is not a human being, and she is not that interested in helping humans, so she just sent a vague message to the person Bruce described. Batcat only understood that Bruce wanted to find her. Although Batcat is a cat,
But it was Batman, and he probably overestimated the seriousness of the matter ten thousand times.
So, when Clark and Diana arrived, they both agreed that Bruce might be fighting the Sandman.
Although the two were anxious, because they knew nothing about the dream kingdom, they adopted the safest method, which was to shake people.
During this period, Clark had not long graduated from college. If his reporting on Gotham City had not become popular, he would still be an intern reporter. Although Diana had lived for a long time, most of her life was spent as an art consultant in Metropolis.
The number of superheroes they knew could be counted on one hand, and even fewer were capable of fighting, so Green Lantern Hal, Green Arrow Oliver and Aquaman Arthur were all called over.
They first found a safe place to fall asleep, and Batcat went to their dreams one by one to gather them together. Then they first went to Gotham, the cat city in the dreamland, and then found the way to the dreamland where Bruce was.
The Dreamland is not a real continent. It is a unique space composed of countless dream bubbles. In other words, it is impossible for them to walk to Bruce's dreamland, and they must find other ways.
They met God in the dreamland.
Why does God appear here? We must start with the origin of the Sandman comic. Although the Sandman comic series is a comic publication under DC, its world view is relatively independent, and its focus is not on superhero battles, but on a series of bizarre
It is a dreamy story, absurd and weird, with a dark charm, which can be called Gothic style, and also has some Dionysian spirit.
The author of this series of comics has mentioned that some of the power settings of the Sandman comic series are incompatible with the DC universe, which also makes the Sandman in the Endless Family unique in his power.
There is a common misunderstanding about the Sandman's power. Some people say that the Sandman once reshaped God, so they think that the Sandman can be on an equal footing with God, or at least a very small number of people who can influence God.
But in fact, the source of this statement is that Lucifer once mentioned that the external force that shaped God is similar to the Sandman, but the similarity here should refer to the fact that the Sandman is a collection of dreams, while the external force is a collection of beliefs about creatures in the universe.
None of the main comics mentioned the details of Sandman's influence on God, and the intersection between the main worldview and the worldview of Sandman comics is just Lucifer.
But precisely because of the differences between the two worldviews, if there is a place that God's power cannot reach, the dream kingdom is indeed one of them.
In summary, God is here to find his son.
But he hasn't found it yet. Logically speaking, he only needs to ask the Sandman to find out. But the problem is that the current owners of the dream kingdom are Constantine and Schiller. God is not afraid of Schiller. He mainly wants to find his son.
A good hearing.
Although they can't ask the Sandman, God can still ask the Dream of a Thousand Cats. In this way, Batcat and his friends who wanted to find the answer at the core of the Dream of a Thousand Cats met God.
God sent them directly into the dreamland where Bruce was. Nothing else. Bruce did a great job in heaven. The best thing was to publish the diary about Lucifer that God had written before.
God is happy as much as Xifa is angry, so it doesn't matter if he helps.
Precisely because it was sent in by God himself, Schiller and Jack, who had the power over the dream kingdom at the moment, did not feel that there were many more people in Gotham.
Batcat and his friends were stunned for a moment after they arrived in this city. Isn't this Gotham? What's going on with this one-to-one pixel-level reproduction? If one Gotham is not enough, what will happen to both teachers and students?
But they are not affected by the rules of the game, and naturally they have not turned into children. To be conservative, the image of these people together can be called the landmark of a city. It is naturally very simple for Bruce to find them.
Bruce spent a lot of effort to convince the group that he was Bruce, and spent some time explaining to them what was going on, but he did not mention the cause of this dream world.
The main reason is that he is worried that this group of people will turn around and leave after hearing that Schiller is responsible for it again. This group of people is definitely capable of doing it, and Bruce doesn't want to let the reinforcements he finally brought in cause problems.
Standing at the end of a secluded alley in the streets of Gotham, Clark looked at Bruce and said, "Why did you call us here? As a child, it is dangerous to live alone on the streets of any city. But dying in the dream world is dangerous.
Really dead!"
"That's not the case in this world, but you should also feel that your superpowers can't be used. It's the special rules of this world. There are no superpowers here."
"That's not a problem, at least we are adults." Diana touched Bruce's head and said, "Even if we don't have special powers, academic credentials, or family background, at least the knowledge we have learned is still in our minds.
It’s not difficult to find a job.”
"Shouldn't we take him out of here?" Hal objected and said, "What's the point of staying in this city? Isn't this Gotham? You might as well let him go back to Gotham Tower in the real world.
Standing on guard can also generate some tourism income."
"Of course there is no point in staying in Gotham in the dream world." Bruce nodded and said, "After all, the situation in the real world is much better than here, but there is more than just Gotham here."
"What do you mean?" Diana heard something in Bruce's words.
"This is a dream. No matter what you do, it will not affect the real world. If you die here, you will be resurrected, so there is no place you want to go?"
Several people were stunned.
At this time, Bruce took out a few tickets from his shabby jacket, and the destination on them was written with a word that was unfamiliar yet familiar to them - "Mexico".
"The Sandman" is really good to watch, I recommend watching it