Bruce, who returned from Metropolis, had a lot of thoughts, but he still did not forget what he was investigating before coming to Metropolis.
Because Bruce didn't know when Constantine would leave Gotham, and he had no means to counter Constantine, he accelerated his investigation and planned to take advantage of Constantine's stay in Gotham.
Find out his details thoroughly.
When Constantine was being followed by Batman before, he didn't realize the seriousness of the problem, so he didn't think about escaping Gotham. When he wanted to leave, the snowstorm trapped him again.
Because traffic was paralyzed, many places for fun in Gotham City were closed. Constantine had nothing to do, so he began to wander around the city.
Unlike ordinary people, the sinful city that everyone regards as full of danger is like home to Constantine. Even in this city, there are not many people who can be worse than him. Even when a person is dead, he is invincible.
He was kidnapped by a gang, but within two days he was in the gang boss's bed. He was blackmailed by street gangsters, but the gangsters found nothing in him except two half-dead toads.
He was kicked out by his landlord, slept on the street, formed a band with homeless people, and made a small fortune. He was also deceived by a madam in the red light district, and ended up swooning her most popular fan the next day.
, wash your hands and become a good person.
In this way, Constantine wandered around in this city that was similar but different in style to him, using his most unruly and crazy soul to charm Gotham.
This happy and carefree life only lasted until he sneaked into the vicinity of Gotham Cathedral.
Out of his sensitivity to occult things, Constantine discovered the wine pool hidden under the Gotham Cathedral. When Constantine lifted up the newly repaired floor tiles, he saw the liquid exuding green light.
At that moment, he opened his eyes wide and his eyes were bright.
Perhaps because he is brave as a skilled artist, or perhaps because he knows that the devils will not let him die easily, Constantine did not consider any safety issues in taking the liquid. He directly found an empty plastic water bottle nearby and filled it full.
bottle.
But what he didn't know was that while Batman was investigating Constantine, he was also investigating the wine pool under the cathedral.
Before, he had found a lot of information in the book, and all he needed was actual inspection. He had been wandering around the cathedral for the past few days, and finally met the sneaky Constantine.
Just when Constantine was stealing the wine, Batman appeared at the right time and wanted to stop him, but because Batman was not prepared enough for magic, Constantine just teleported away.
Then the two men resumed their pursuit of each other in Gotham City.
At the beginning, Constantine had the advantage because magic was really convenient. Whether it was flash, teleportation or clone, he was almost invincible in the chase.
But as time went by, Batman's powerful learning ability and ability to make plans began to come into play. Constantine found that he was facing traps one after another. It seemed that all the situations were what Batman had expected.
Escape started to become more and more difficult…
Since Constantine was really slippery, Batman's patience began to run out, and his methods became more and more violent. Constantine knew that if he continued like this, he would definitely not be able to escape, so he planned to find a place to hide.
Stay out of the limelight.
Most of Gotham's industries belong to the Wayne family. Constantine knows this, but if you must find a place to hide, then hospitals, universities and prisons are the three places that are less likely to be hidden.
found.
The next day, when Constantine arrived at Arkham Psychiatric Hospital with a bruised nose and face, Brand was the one who received him. Constantine was a little confused and asked: "Where is Schiller? Isn't he here?"
"He suffered an anxiety attack and went home to recuperate." Brand turned around, walked to the desk, picked up the medical record and payment slip, he wrote two things on the slip, tore it off and handed it to Constantine
.
After Constantine took it, he scratched his head, reached into his pocket, touched the two steel jumpers, and then said: "Well, I have no money..."
"It doesn't matter, he has already expected this." Brand took out another document from the bookshelf on the table and handed it to Constantine. Constantine opened the document and said: "IOU? This is too...
…”
"He asked me to tell you - 'If you like it, sign it or not'."
"If you don't sign, you won't have a ward, right? Okay..." Constantine glanced at the contract filled with various economic treaties, picked up his pen and signed.
Without raising his head, Brand called the nurse in, pointed at Constantine and said: "Room 13 on the 4th floor, add another bed."
"Uh, Dr. Brand, the patient in Ward 13 is aggressive, have you forgotten? That's Dr. Hugo..."
Brand looked up at the nurse impatiently and said, "What can we do? The top leaders of the Twelve Families all share four people in one room. How long will he want to occupy a single room?"
"If he doesn't want to, just transfer him to the Central Hospital, where there are still many spaces in the morgue."
After saying that, Brand turned and left. The nurse shook her head helplessly, sighed, and said to Constantine: "Come with me."
While walking upstairs, Constantine chatted with the nurse. When he was not sick, he was quite sociable. To be precise, he was good at socializing with good-looking people of the opposite sex or the same sex.
After arriving on the fourth floor, the nurse stopped at the top of the stairs, looked at Constantine and said, "Sir, I don't know who you are, but I still have to remind you that your roommate is a little abnormal."
"Oh? What happened to him?"
"He was originally the attending doctor here, but for some reason, he went crazy. He was very aggressive at first, and several male caregivers were injured by him. He has gotten better recently, but he may still attack people.
, you have to be careful."
"Doctor? How did he drive himself crazy?"
"Who knows." The nurse started to walk forward again and said as she walked: "I don't think you need to be curious about this question. People go crazy every day in Gotham, and there doesn't have to be a reason."
Arriving at the door of the ward, the nurse opened the door and saw a figure squatting in the corner. The nurse turned around with a frown and said, "Mr. Constantine, please wait here for a while. I'm going to call the nurse. Why did he call me again?"
The straitjacket was torn off?”…
With that, the nurse left. Constantine walked over and glanced down at the man. He didn't look young. He had a bald head, wore glasses, his teeth were chattering, and he was mumbling to himself.
Constantine leaned over and listened. He kept saying words like "dream" and "monster". Just when Constantine shook his head and planned to go away and not listen to these crazy words, he suddenly heard a familiar voice.
syllables.
Constantine leaned over again and listened for a while, and he determined that the syllable was "Schiller".
Constantine looked around, and just when he was about to ask, the nurse came over with the caregivers. They pressed Hugo to the bed and tied him up. Constantine coughed and pretended to be nothing.
I sat back on the bed as if nothing had happened.
After a while, an older nurse pushed a trolley to the door. Then she walked to Hugo's bedside with a tray and gave him an injection. When she saw the old nurse walking towards her with the needle,
Beside him, Constantine hid at the head of the bed and said, "I don't need an injection, right?"
The old nurse looked at him and said, "It's really not necessary."
She took the hanging receipt from her waist and took a look at it, and then said: "Doctor Brand said hello to me, do you want morphine or cocaine?"
Constantine opened his eyes wide, but looking at the nurse's calm expression, in order not to appear ignorant, he coughed again and pretended to be calm and said: "Let's take morphine."
Soon, the medicine was delivered, and Constantine pretended to have fallen asleep on the bed. After the nurse left, he opened his eyes slightly to confirm that there was no one else in the room, and then he came to Hugo's bed again.
Hugo seemed to have been given a tranquillizer and had fallen asleep. Constant looked at him for a long time and found no reaction, so he had to give up.
At night, the ward was very quiet, and both of them seemed to be sleeping deeply. But after a while, Hugo moved in the bed.
His teeth began to chatter, his whole body trembled, and he struggled on the bed. After a few minutes, he suddenly regained his composure. Then he slowly pulled one hand out of the restraints that had been broken free, sat up straight, and then pulled the other hand out.
One hand is also untied.
After getting out of bed, he glanced at Constantine, who was sleeping soundly. His face no longer looked as frightened and panicked as when he had been ill, but looked very calm and a little gloomy.
He walked to the door softly, and pushed the door cautiously without making any noise. But just after he left, Constantine opened his eyes instantly.
Constantine made a slight "chi" sound and said: "You only played for ten minutes and you thought I had fallen asleep? You are young."
He also climbed out of bed quickly, without any signs of dizziness from taking drugs before falling asleep. He opened the door softly, followed Hugo, and found that he had arrived at a ward on the seventh floor.
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The door of the ward on the seventh floor is more like a tightly secured base door. The door frame and door panels are made of metal. It looks like a place where dangerous people are detained, but Hugo doesn't know why he can open that door. After he enters
Afterwards, Constantine stuck to the door...
He found that he could not hear any movement outside the door, so he snapped his fingers, and a faint ghost slipped in along the crack of the door. Now he could not only hear it, but also see it.
There were two men inside the door. One of them was Hugo, who was bald. The other one looked thinner, far less strong than Hugo. He wore glasses, looked pale, and looked like a scholar.
"If you still want to come and talk to me about your unrealistic dream stories, then our cooperation ends here, Hugo."
"Jonathan, let me say it again, that is not a strange story, but something I saw with my own eyes! If we can't find a way to deal with him, even if we can escape, the end result will be just to be imprisoned again."
"Fear has defeated you!" The scholar named Jonathan raised his voice and said in a disdainful tone: "I can also make people see unrealistic hallucinations and be afraid of them.
"
"I have already developed that kind of weapon, who knew..." Jonathan's tone became gritted, and he said angrily: "A mysterious thief stole my results and imprisoned me here!"
"The last time you told me, it was a year ago that you were imprisoned. Do you know that there is now a superhero in Gotham named Batman?"
Jonas snorted and said, "Why don't you know? It was Batman who caught me here. He was still a young boy at that time, but he was just lucky."
"It seems that we all have our own enemies in Gotham." Hugo's voice became deeper and deeper, with a hint of madness in his tone. He said, "If we want to escape from here, we must cause some trouble."
Hugo prolonged his tone, then turned to look out the window. In the distance, Gotham city center was brightly lit, and he said:
"Sin City? I think this is just the right place for us."
"Smash the glass, set the banknotes on fire, let the boring ordinary people take the bullets, and let the heroes who claim to be righteous scream. This is what we should do -"