Batman walked into the room first, followed by Gordon. The situation in the room was indeed very strange. Except for Schiller who was standing in the middle holding an umbrella, the blond man who looked like he was overindulging had something floating in his hand.
A black book, Jason Dick and Little Slippery's three children were in the innermost part of the room, sitting on the ground, and on the right side of the room was a strange altar.
Just after they walked in, Schiller walked up to the devil he photographed on the wall, looked at it and said: "Is this Mrs. Sanchez?"
Gordon said with confusion: "Mrs. Sanchez? Isn't she already dead?"
Constantine walked up to the monster, and chains flew out of the book in his hand, imprisoning the monster. Gordon turned his head and looked at the children lying on the ground, and said: "Who can give me some help?"
Let me explain, what is going on?"
"Okay." Schiller raised his voice, then tapped the ground with his umbrella and said, "Come on, let's talk one by one, starting with you."
As he spoke, he pointed at Jason and Dick. Dick looked at the umbrella in front of him that could hit the monster to the wall without being able to pull it out. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and started to tell the story obediently.
"...Two days ago, I came to this school. On the first day, everything was normal. I packed my luggage and went to bed. But because I changed the bed, I couldn't sleep. When I got up in the middle of the night,
,I saw injuries on my roommate’s back..."
"When I got up in the morning, I asked him what was wrong, but he looked very scared and didn't say anything. I was a little suspicious, so I paid close attention and found that many students seemed to have injuries..."
"I felt that someone must be abusing them. During class during the day, one of my classmates was not paying attention when praying, so the teacher asked him to go to the confession room. He showed a very scared expression. I think they must
I abused him in the confessional."
"So, I deliberately made a small mistake and asked them to put me in the confession room..."
"Then what?" Batman asked.
"...A woman came in. She said her name was Mrs. Sanchez and she was the principal of this school. She said a lot of threats to me, such as what even though I am the adopted son of the Wayne family, I must obey here, otherwise she
You just want me to look good..."
"I asked her if she abused those children, but this seemed to anger her. She said that these disobedient children should be hanged..."
"Then she beat me with a pointer, and the wounds left were exactly the same as those of my classmates. That damn woman was a sadist, she..."
Before Dick could continue speaking, Batman walked up to him and lifted up his clothes. There were many scars on Dick's back and waist. It looked like they had just been left recently. The scars were very deep.
Some of them were even a little darkened. Batman's face began to look a little ugly, but Dick didn't pay much attention. He continued:
"The woman wanted to continue beating me, but someone outside called her and said Mr. Cooper was coming to see her, so she left..."
"I thought I had to expose her true identity and rescue my classmates. So, while she was leaving, I picked the lock of the confession room door and followed her secretly..."
"The meeting place between her and Mr. Cooper was on the fourth floor. I'm pretty good at it. I climbed along the water pipe to the balcony, and then eavesdropped outside the window of their room..."
Dick pursed his lips and said in a somewhat disbelieving tone: "I heard that Mrs. Sanchez and Cooper have a deal."
"What deal?"
"It seems that the son named Cooper died, and he has always wanted to resurrect his son, and Mrs. Sanchez is a witch. They said they made a deal with the devil or something... Anyway, Cooper gave Mrs. Sanchez a lot of money, and then Mrs. Sanchez helped
Cooper resurrected his son..."
"They said they were going to sacrifice their children to the devil or something. As long as they sacrificed as many children as they wanted, they could bring Cooper's son's soul back from hell. Anyway, they used a lot of terms that I didn't understand. That's about it.
…”
"I originally thought they were mental patients, because it sounded so much like nonsense, but then they started arguing, and Mrs. Sanchez could make things fly in the room. I was startled, and then accidentally
Made some noise."
"Mrs. Sanchez noticed me immediately, but luckily I ran fast and was not caught by her immediately. I know that if what they said is true, then all the students in this school may be in danger, Sanchez
Madam is going to sacrifice them all to the devil, I have to stop this..."
"What about you? How did you two get here?" Schiller looked at Jason and Little Slicker. Jason and Little Slicker looked at each other and said, "Originally, we were in Batman's stronghold.
Stay there, it’s not bad there, but it’s a bit boring to stay there for a long time…”
"Before, our friend Tire told us that boarding schools are children's prisons. Although he said that this boarding school in the north is different, we are still a little worried. After all, we have nothing to do. We just want to see how Dick is doing.
…”
Dick covered his forehead helplessly and said, "Originally, I wanted to find an opportunity to sneak out and contact Batman, but they sneaked into the school and were caught by the key keeper."
"It seemed that Mrs. Sanchez was in need of someone to sacrifice, so she locked the two of them in the basement. I had to find a way to save them..."
"Speaking of the key keeper." Gordon scratched his head in confusion and said, "Where are the others? Why didn't I see him downstairs? He shouldn't have left so fast, right?"
"Obviously, he is working with this devil. Didn't you realize that he always wanted to take us to the seventh floor?"
"Uh..." Gordon paused and said, "So the seventh floor is a trap? But how did they know we were coming?...Oh, they called the police, so they deliberately called the police to trick people here and then took them there
Kill them on the seventh floor, but what’s the point of doing so? Does Mrs. Sanchez have any grudge against the police?”
"She wants to sacrifice you to replenish her own strength, because she knows she can't beat me."
Constantine lit a cigarette, but in an instant, the cigarette in his hand was knocked out and was nailed to the wall by a bat badge. Batman looked at him and said: "Didn't you see there is something else here?"
Child?"
Constantine made a helpless expression and said, "Okay, next is my story."
"I won't introduce who I am. In short, my previous residence was a mental hospital, but I was wrongly accused. I am not a mental patient. For various reasons, I was locked up in a mental hospital."
"A few days ago, a gangster named Harry Cooper fished me out of there so that I could use occult methods to resurrect his son."
"Wait a minute, didn't Dick just say that Cooper asked Mrs. Sanchez to resurrect his son?"
"Obviously, the person he was looking for didn't have much ability." Constantine glanced at the monster chained to the wall.
"Cooper told me that the person he was looking for before was greedy and he couldn't afford the price, so he planned to find someone else."
"Cooper told me that the wizard he had previously offered was to sacrifice the souls of thirteen children to the demons in hell on a full moon night, and then he could get his son's soul back."
"When I heard this method, I knew who he was looking for."
Constantine glanced at the monster again and said: "In witchcraft, there is a branch that specializes in cultivating children's souls. I generally call this branch 'Ghost Mother', and as far as I know, in the current occult circle
There is only one ghost mother here, and that’s Lorena Sanchez.”
"When I heard that Cooper actually came to her, I almost laughed out loud. Laurenna is a liar! Of course she knew that no matter how many children's souls were sacrificed, it would be impossible to pull Cooper's son's soul from hell.
Come back and no one can take back their food from the devil's hand."
"But that Cooper was an outsider who only knew a little bit about it. He believed Laurenna's story and not only gave her a lot of money, but also arranged for her to become the principal of a boarding school so that she could take action on those children.
"
"After I learned all this, of course I wouldn't let her succeed, so I approached Laurenna and asked her to stop her deception and leave here."
"She said she would consider it, but secretly, she set up traps and altars in this school just to give me a head-on blow when I came to cause trouble."
"Sure enough, after I came, she used the altar to summon the shadow of the devil, which possessed her and turned into the monster she is now..."
"So how did Cooper die?"
"He was cursed to death by Laurenna because he refused to provide funds to Laurenna and no longer trusted her. This guy also said before that Cooper and Laurenna had a big fight. After they broke up,
, Laurenna should just use a spell to kill him."
"Do the recent serial killings in Gotham have anything to do with you?" Batman asked, staring at Constantine.
"Serial murderer?" Constantine was stunned for a moment and said, "No matter what it is, I don't know. I've only been in Gotham for a few days..."
"Constantine, do you know..."
Schiller turned around and walked to the opposite side of Constantine. Constantine also looked at Schiller and said: "...What?"
Schiller lowered his head, slowly slid his handle down from the umbrella handle, and then held the middle part of the umbrella with both hands.
With a "bang", Constantine was knocked down by the raised umbrella handle. He lay on the ground. Before he passed out, he saw Schiller holding the umbrella on the ground with his back to the light, and said: