Chapter 582 Dead Memories Attack Me Suddenly (Part 1)
The night rain in Gotham always brings a chill that penetrates the bones. Amid the swaying wind and rain, the colorful neon lights are like the eyes of the city.
The figure of a man in a trench coat hurriedly crossed the sidewalk, and the siren sounded one after another, but the man quickly disappeared at the other end of the street.
The traffic lights changed, the car tires ran over the puddles, and the splashed water mist fell on the edge of the street's stone slabs, illuminated by the lights of the convenience store and turned into a warm color.
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 Theater. After entering the interior, there was no receptionist here.
The lights were pitch black.
But he still turned left in a familiar way, entered the ticket channel, and then came all the way to the auditorium, where there were already several figures waiting.
Victor, who came in a hurry, took off the hat on his head, shook the rain off it, walked to Schiller, sat down, and said to him: "Sorry, it's a little late, I have to clean up my laboratory..."
"
"It doesn't matter, the movie hasn't started yet." Schiller took the umbrella in his hand to the other side. When Victor saw the water drops hanging on the umbrella, he knew that he had just arrived.
The two people sitting in the row in front of Schiller were Vince Yin and Cobble. The two of them were whispering. It seemed that Cobble was telling Vince about the fight between Bruce and Lex before and they were caught.
Yin Wensi frowned and curled his lips.
Sitting diagonally in front of Vince Yin and Copperpot was Jack the Clown, but he was already asleep, sleeping soundly, and had snot bubbles coming out of his nose.
And sitting in a corner seat 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 figure moved. For a brief moment that Victor couldn't see clearly, he flickered to the seat in another row and suddenly disappeared again.
Victor was not even sure if he had really seen him, but Schiller answered his doubts. He said: "Today's movie has many actors and it may be very exciting. I can't take care of all the pictures, so I
Hire a projectionist."
Victor looked at Schiller. He saw that Schiller turned his head and looked at the seat next to him. There was no one there, but Schiller seemed to see something. He said: "Morpheus, can you please help us show the movie?"
?"
In Schiller's field of vision, the pale man in black robe sitting next to him turned his head slightly and glanced at Schiller, with a trace of dissatisfaction in his eyes, as if he did not agree with Schiller calling him a movie projectionist.
"I promise, this will be your last movie before going to bed. After we watch it, you can have a good sleep. My friends and I will say good night to you in person." Schiller
Said with a smile.
Morpheus turned his head back and looked at the theater stage. Suddenly, the wooden stage and curtains there disappeared and turned into an endless galaxy. The entire theater seemed to have a big hole opened, and from the first row of seats to the
The place in front of me turned into a black hole.
The stars continued to flow, forming a whirlpool of flashing light in the deep sky, and the lights on the theater ceiling were extinguished one after another.…
This deep darkness did not last long. Suddenly, the ground in front of the seat began to extend forward, but it changed from the old tiles to a wooden floor.
Then, a room was built bit by bit, seamlessly connecting with the auditorium of the entire theater, and you can even see the interlaced parts of the wooden floor and ceramic tiles.
At this time, the auditorium of the theater was dark, and so was the room. Suddenly, there was a "pop" sound, and the light bulb at the top of the room lit up.
The light also shone into the auditorium at the same time, and the seats in the first few rows were illuminated. However, the positions where the people watching the movie were still very dim, but this only increased the immersion.
When the lights in the room shone on their faces, several people squinted their eyes, just like the audience who looked back from the front row when the movie just started.
After the light bulb was turned on, the scene in the room was clearly visible. It was a small room with a desk in the middle. What was very conspicuous was that there was a huge poster hanging on the side wall that looked like
It was hand-drawn with a few words written on it: "Welcome new students."
"Da, da, da." Footsteps came from outside the room, and a figure walked into the room and stood in front of the desk.
The man behind the desk looked up. He was wearing a doctor's uniform and glasses, but the difference was that he had a bald head and a beard. Victor was very familiar with his face. It was Hugo Stern.
Ranch.
Victor narrowed his eyes in confusion. He didn't understand why there was such an 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 check in. Please take a seat and fill in your personal information."
"Thank you." Bruce sat down in the room calmly, and then began to fill in the information in the form, but just after filling in two lines, he stopped and said, "Why are there so many things to write? I don't want to fill it out anymore.
.”
As he said that, he threw the pen on the table. Hugo's face stiffened for a moment, but soon he smiled again and said: "Okay, if you don't want to go through the program, your dormitory location is boys' apartment 2.
Building 201, take the key and start your college life."
Bruce said nothing, grabbed the key, turned around and left. After he left, Hugo, who was sitting behind the desk, had a relaxed smile on his face. He said: "I thought that Schiller and Batman met.
What a thrilling story, isn’t this just an accidental encounter in school?”
"It seems that Schiller was an ordinary receptionist at the time. In this case, how could Batman be wary of him?"
"What's going on?" Victor, who was sitting in the audience, turned to look at Schiller. At the same time, Cobot and Vince Yin in the front row also pricked up their ears and wanted to listen.
Le's explanation.
"If you just 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 of that?"
"So, what did you do?" Victor asked.…
Schiller lowered his eyes. When the light in the room shone on his face, it could not light up the shadows under his eyebrows. Those eyes that were always in shadows were shrouded in fog all year round.
Indistinct gray.
"What Hugo entered was not Batman's conscious mind, but the subconscious where his memories are stored. Of course, there is no way for me to cross Batman's conscious mind and send Hugo into his subconscious, but I can
Borrow the way."
"I went from my subconscious into the dream realm beneath my consciousness, to Batman's dream realm, and then from the dream realm upwards. In this way, I can reach Batman's subconscious mind directly from the bottom."
"Thanks to our movie projectionist." Schiller turned to look at Morpheus and said, "Thanks to him for letting me borrow the passage. Of course, this is by no means a smuggling. I have informed Batman in advance that there will be a
It’s time for an exam.”
"Of course, I would also like to thank a friend, Mr. Jack, who is sleeping soundly now." Schiller looked at Jack, who was sitting in the front row, and said, "In order to prevent the unconscious Batman from finding out that someone is killing him.
Trouble in his memory, comedian Jack is working tirelessly to perform for Batman in his conscious dream."
"But maybe he's enjoying 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 directly behind each other, he could see from the side that the sleeping Jack was smiling sweetly and seemed to be having a good time.
"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."
"In my subconscious, I found all of Batman's memories about me. It was this memory that Hugo invaded. In this memory, he replaced my existence and became Batman's teacher."
Victor shook his head and did not continue to speak. He did not know who he was mourning for, but Schiller continued to explain: "Bruce in memory does not know that this is an exam, so he will only follow his original personality."
He acted logically and I did not control or influence him, so what Hugo met was the purest Batman without any external interference."
"Then, he might be in trouble." Victor concluded, but Schiller glanced at Victor and said, "You seem to have some special understanding of Batman..."
"He is a very complicated person. With all due respect, you two are very similar. From my understanding of you, I can guess what kind of person he is."
Schiller smiled, said nothing, turned back, and continued to watch the scene on the stage.
At this time, the scene in the room was gradually withdrawn, and everything was swallowed up by the dark deep space again. The starlight gathered again and formed a vortex. This time, the cold and damp stone slabs fell one by one, the wall bricks were built, and the shadows of the buildings were
Looming in the distance.
There was a sound of rain in the originally quiet room, and a drizzle started falling on the stage. Everyone present felt the dampness coming towards their faces, and the unique Gotham smell of chemicals hidden in the rain...
Cobot sniffed. He was very familiar with this smell. As a native of Gotham, he had been running around in this kind of rainy night countless times. It was damp, cold, and pungent, but there was no way to avoid it.
In the alley, Hugo, who had just entered this memory scene, seemed a little confused and didn't understand why he came to Gotham on a rainy night.
Soon, two sharp "whoosh" sounds came through the air, and Hugo didn't react at all. He didn't have a spider sense or an umbrella, so he had no way to resist when the two bats attacked.
The dark and sharp dart stopped 30 centimeters away from him, and Batman in a bat suit appeared at the entrance of the alley.
"Batman?" Hugo narrowed his eyes, but Batman across from him was stunned for a moment. He remembered that his name should not have spread yet. This man who suddenly appeared in the rainy night in Gotham, his university teacher,
How did you know?
"Put the dart away, Batman, we should talk." Hugo frowned and said, but Batman was unmoved at all. He said, "You shouldn't be here, Professor Strange."
"Are you involved in the recent disappearance in Mawson Street?" Batman asked.
"No." Hugo immediately denied it, but the batarang hovering in the air kept approaching. Hugo only hesitated for a moment and took a step back slightly. After all, the cold light reflected by the sharp edge of the dart was not a fake. If he continued
Come any closer and his neck will be sliced open.
"Batman, no, it's Bruce, Bruce Wayne... I know your true identity. You are a student at Gotham University. Therefore, I should ask you this question, why are you here?"
Hugo wanted to regain some initiative, so he pointed out Batman's identity, because Batman is a student and he is a teacher. He believed that in this situation, he could use this to create some psychological pressure.
But Batman remained unmoved. The batarangs hovering in the air continued to approach until Hugo was forced to lean against the wall of the alley. The two batarangs got closer and closer until they were against Hugo's body.
On the 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 persons in the Mawson neighborhood?" Batman walked towards Hugo step by step, so close that Hugo could already see the raindrops falling on his cloak, leaving small drops of water.
beads.
He felt a terrifying atmosphere spreading. Suddenly, with a "sizzle", one of the darts whirled and cut Hugo's skin, and blood spurted out. Hugo instinctively covered his neck and hid aside.
But what greeted him was Batman's fist.
First he punched the side of the cheek, and then he hit his knee. Hugo was knocked to the ground without the ability to fight back, and fell into the cold puddles of Gotham. He heard Batman ask coldly: "
Tell me if you have anything to do with the missing persons in the Mawson neighborhood."
"If you don't want to speak, I will find a way to make you speak."
"Are you crazy?! Bruce!
!You want to kill your university teacher?!... No, it shouldn't be like this. Isn't Schiller also... impossible..."...
Batman just repeated those words without emotion, and Hugo didn't answer, so he continued to beat Hugo violently.
Hugo was so beaten that he was dizzy. The nosebleed first flowed into his mouth, and then dripped into the puddles, dyeing it red. He curled up and lay 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 you were wanted again. However, you used disgraceful means to escape the crime. After that, you were stationed in another
A laboratory was expelled again six months ago due to another illegal experiment."
"During the experiment, you showed violent and sadistic tendencies, especially having a strong interest in illegal human experiments. Among the subjects of your last experimental project, 11 samples were related to the missing people in the Mawson neighborhood.
Similar types..."
"Wait a minute!" Victor in the audience suddenly asked: "If these are Bruce's memory fragments, how did he know this information? He shouldn't know Hugo at this time, right?"
"I added it to his memory, but what I told him is all true. Hugo was expelled due to illegal human experimentation. This matter is well known in the industry, and Batman in this period also has the ability to find out.
"
"I don't think this is unfair..." Schiller stroked 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 curiously and asked: "Then how did you avoid falling 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, where Hugo was already unconscious. As the sound of night rain became louder and louder, the scene collapsed again and returned to the endless deep space.
The stars were turning, and when they reappeared, the scene was somewhat familiar. It was still the alley, but this time, the rain had just stopped, and the cold wind passed through the street, making a whimpering sound.
"boom!
!”
The amplified sound startled Yin Vince. He hid in his seat, but it was like watching a horror movie. While he was scared, he kept staring at the stage, trying to see what was coming from it.
the sound of.
At the base of the wall of a tall building, a hand stretched out from an inconspicuous trash can. The pattern on the glove looked familiar to Cobot. As expected, it was Batman crawling out of the trash can.
He kept coughing and rubbing his eyes. Cobot saw some white powder on his mask. He was stunned for a moment, and then coldly snorted: "The favorite trick of those low-level gangsters, you can't beat it."
Just sprinkle lime into other people's eyes..."
Vince Yin took a breath and said, "That must be very uncomfortable. If my eyelashes get into my eyes, I will feel uncomfortable for a long time."
Batman covered his eyes with one hand and supported his waist with the other as he limped out of the alley.
On the road, he saw a beggar, so he walked over and talked to the beggar. Hugo, who appeared on the balcony of the second floor, was still immersed in the anger and fear of being beaten by Batman before.
He kept thinking: "No... Could it be that Schiller also... Yes, facing such a person, how could he not suffer a loss? It's not that simple to control Batman. It seems that it's me.
It’s too adventurous…”
"I shouldn't have had a conflict with him so quickly. It seems I have to observe 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 saying to the beggar that you were safe, but that was not Hugo's point at all. He was now
I just want to figure out what Batman's weakness is.
Batman said a few words to the beggar, left another amount of money, and then left. After he left, Hugo walked up to the beggar. He just wanted to know what was so special about this beggar, and
Can you find Batman's flaws from the conversation between Batman and the beggar?
But just when he jumped down from the second floor and came to the beggar, the "whoosh" sound broke through the air again, two batarangs struck again, and Batman, who had already left, turned back.
What appeared in Hugo's field of vision was Batman's sandbag-sized fist.