In the dark night, Wayne Manor exuded a peaceful atmosphere. Dick, wearing pajamas and a nightcap, walked to his bedroom holding a blanket.
He had just finished the homework assigned by the teacher and fell asleep while doing the homework. Alfred put a blanket on him and made him feel a little embarrassed.
Bruce is more concerned about Dick's grades. Although he doesn't have to be first, he must at least have a passable grade. Failure is definitely not enough.
Dick didn't like reading very much. He followed Bruce and originally wanted to learn combat skills and investigation skills, but Bruce insisted that he was underage and had to go to school, so Dick could only go to school quietly.
However, Dick is indeed very smart and does not work very hard, but he can still get into the top three. However, he really doesn't like memorizing things by rote. Instead, he shows off in various activities at school.
And because he used to practice acrobatics, he has very good physical coordination and is also very dominant in sports. He also participated in the high jump team of the middle school, which can be said to be a model of all-round development.
After returning to his room, Dick found Elsa waiting for him with a storybook in her arms. Dick walked over, took the storybook, flipped through it, and said, "Where is it? Let me take a look... Oh, this book
Already finished reading."
Elsa stared at him with wide eyes. Dick sighed and explained: "No way, we can't go to the library to get books anymore."
"You need a key to open the library door. The key is with Alfred. Alfred should be asleep now. We can't disturb him anymore. That would be rude."
Elsa showed an aggrieved expression, jumped up, took the book away from Dick's hand, and then turned around to leave. Dick grabbed her and said, "Don't be angry, we can do it without telling stories."
Do something else, well, let me think about it..."
"By the way, I joined the school choir before, and the teacher taught me a few songs, but I didn't really like singing."
Dick pulled Aisha and sat down. He hugged the blanket and thought for a while and said: "A few days ago, Mr. Wayne was sorting out information, and he asked me to learn a song. I think it's pretty good. I'll teach you.
How about singing?"
Elsa tilted her head, as if she didn't know what song Dick was talking about, or in other words, she actually couldn't understand what the song was at all. Dick tried his best to recall the song, and then said: "Forget it, no, that song
The song is too complicated for you, I have been memorizing the lyrics for a long time."
Aisha yelled, and Dick immediately turned to look at her and said, "Are you sure you want to learn? It's really difficult..."
Aisha nodded vigorously, and Dick said helplessly: "Okay, if you don't learn it by then, don't be angry."
"Let me teach you the lyrics first." Dick stood up, ran to the bedside table, took out a pen, opened the storybook, found an empty space and started writing the lyrics.
Elsa leaned her head over, but she didn't know much about the words yet, so Dick read while writing:
"The Court of Owls...monitor your travels at all times..."
"The lyrics are really weird, aren't they? But the melody of the song is quite nice. I'll teach you how to sing it. The Court of Owls...will always monitor your travels..."...
Dick had not experienced the previous fight with the Court of Owls. He had no idea that such a thing existed in Gotham. Moreover, he read in the book that this song was just a nursery rhyme, and Bruce had no idea about the song.
It showed some special attitude, so Dick just regarded it as a song.
Bruce felt that it was impossible for Dick, who had not received professional music education, to understand the music score, let alone sing the song in its entirety.
However, Dick participated in many activities at school and joined the choir. He had a good relationship with the nun who taught singing. He learned some basic contents of music scores and was able to hum the song while looking at the music scores.
But because he didn't learn it all and didn't sing seriously, the tune he hummed was an extremely simplified version, which was a bit weird when paired with the complicated lyrics. But it was precisely because the tune was simplified that Aisha learned it very quickly.
After discovering that Elsa could hum a tune, Dick began to focus on teaching her the lyrics. However, Elsa couldn't even speak and didn't know a few words. How could she memorize such a long list of lyrics? So, Elsa just taught her the lyrics.
It has also been simplified.
In this way, the originally complex, dark, and gothic owl nursery rhyme became a real children's song.
Perhaps Dick is particularly talented in art, but the song here is really catchy. Except for the first two lines, "The Court of Owls are always watching your travels," the rest of the words have been changed.
It's easy to remember, and it requires children to speak logically, and the tune becomes more repetitive, which is easy to listen to and easy to remember.
It didn't take long for Aisha to completely learn the song. It seemed that she liked singing very much. After learning it, she started singing non-stop, and even the pronunciation of the words became fluent.
After singing it several times, Elsa became more proficient. She clapped her hands happily. Suddenly, she froze, and then started to move her head left and right, as if she was looking for something. Dick looked at his reaction and asked, "What's wrong?"
?Elsa? What are you looking for?"
Aisha showed a very confused expression. She opened her mouth and seemed to be biting something, but she didn't bite anything. She sniffed her nose vigorously, as if she smelled something, but there was nothing around her.
Her reaction made Dick's back shiver. Dick shivered, hugged the blanket tightly, looked at Elsa and asked, "What's wrong with you? Don't scare me..."
Realizing that she didn't find what she was looking for, Aisha thought for a moment, and then started singing again. After a while, she opened her mouth, took a bite of air, and sniffed again.
As if she had discovered something, Elsa started to sing the nursery rhyme loudly. Later, Elsa found that singing this way was still too troublesome, so she further simplified the lyrics and melody, and finally the entire nursery rhyme only had the first line.
, add a simple tune and repeat it constantly.
Elsa sang faster and faster, and her voice became louder and louder. As she sang, she opened her mouth, chewing two mouthfuls after singing, and chewing twice after singing, as if she was eating. Dick was very frightened, and he hurriedly
He ran out of the room and called Alfred.
After Alfred was called over, Elsa was still singing. Alfred didn't act rashly. He went directly to call Bruce who was studying the Ark reactor model in the Batcave...
When Bruce came back and saw Elsa like this, he asked Dick, "What's wrong? What was she singing?"
Because the song was simplified so much by Dick and Elsa, Bruce didn't even recognize it as a nursery rhyme for a while. Dick thought he had gotten into trouble and honestly told everything.
Bruce looked at Dick and said, "Did you really learn that song? How did you know the music?"
"I joined the school choir, and the nun who taught singing liked me very much, so she taught me some musical notation, but I couldn't recognize them all. I only knew a basic melody, and I made up the rest.
"
Dick turned to look at Elsa again and said: "After I taught Elsa, she didn't fully learn it. She probably made up the rest of the adjustments."
At this moment, Aisha suddenly stopped singing. She stood there and burped, then suddenly laughed, ran to Bruce's legs, hugged his legs, and danced
While shouting: "Dad! So full! I'm full!"
Bruce squatted down, pressed Aisha's shoulders, looked at her front and back, and found that she was not injured and was still conscious, but what she just said was something Bruce didn't understand.
Elsa can now speak some words and express her own status in language. For example, when Alfred feeds her vegetables that she doesn't like, she will say that she is full and doesn't want to eat them.
Bruce looked up at the clock hanging on the wall again. It was now past 9 pm. Logically speaking, it had been 4 hours since dinner time. Bruce looked back at Alfred. Alfred shook his head.
Said: "Eating late-night snacks is not good for your health. The Wayne family does not have such a habit."
"What did you eat?" Bruce asked.
"It's delicious...so full, so full! Burp!" Elsa could only repeat these few words over and over again. Bruce asked several times, but she couldn't say anything.
Finally, Elsa also understood that Bruce wanted to know the answer, so she pulled Bruce's trouser leg to the window and pointed out the window.
Bruce looked out the window, there was nothing outside, just the endless darkness of Gotham.
Realizing that Bruce still didn't understand, Aisha thought for a moment, then quickly ran over, jumped on the bed, and turned off the lamp.
At this time, the whole room fell into darkness. Elsa stood on the bed and jumped up and down shouting: "This! It's delicious! This is it!"
Bruce walked over and turned on the desk lamp, and Elsa stopped screaming. He turned off the desk lamp again, and Elsa started to scream again. Bruce stood up, looked at Alfred, and then said: "Dark? Dark night?...
…dark?"
Suddenly, he thought that the person who created this nursery rhyme might be the Dark Owl Sacrifice. Now, when Aisha was singing this nursery rhyme, she seemed to be eating, and she would shout "so full" after eating. Does that mean that,
Maybe this nursery rhyme brought something and then it was eaten by Elsa?
Thinking of this, Bruce immediately became nervous. He first picked up Aisha, then pulled Dick's arm and said, "Come with me, come with me, go to the hall!"...
"Alfred, open all the defense systems of Wayne Manor, put all vehicles in place, and if you find any abnormality, directly output the highest firepower!"
After saying that, he held a child in one hand and hurried to the hall downstairs. He turned on all the lights in the hall and asked them to stand in the middle of the hall. Alfred got him a full set of Batman equipment. Bruce
After putting it on, I stood in the lobby of Wayne Manor and stood ready.
But after waiting for a long time, nothing strange came. Unexpectedly, at this time, Aisha actually started singing the nursery rhyme again, and then started chewing chewing chews while singing. Bruce took this opportunity to observe the surroundings, but there was still something wrong.
Didn't see any.
He felt that this might be a problem with vision. Just because Aisha could see some things did not mean that he could see Aisha. After all, Aisha was reincarnated by a parallax monster, and her soul was that of a parallax monster, while his soul was that of an ordinary human being.
, so it is very possible that he cannot see what Aisha can see.
Not only him, but Dick and Alfred were all ordinary humans, so in the entire manor, only Elsa could see that kind of thing.
Bruce admitted that he panicked when he discovered that there might be something wrong with the nursery rhyme. At that time, he felt that Dick couldn't read the music score, so he asked him to memorize the lyrics.
But this is actually because he lacks understanding of Dick. Recently, he has been busy studying the Ark reactor model that Schiller gave him. By the time he came home, both children were already asleep, and some
During that time, we didn’t even have dinner at home. The time we had before for chatting and telling stories in front of the fireplace after dinner was completely gone.
Therefore, Bruce didn't know enough about Dick's campus life recently and didn't know what activities he participated in at school, so this mistake occurred.
Fortunately, Elsa is not an ordinary child. If these two children were just ordinary human children, they might be entangled with something, and neither Bruce nor Alfred would be able to find out.
Thinking back to his previous speculation, that is, if Gotham has become so chaotic and dark, it may be the Dark Owl Priest who is doing something secretly. Then could it be that because of his own momentary negligence, Dick and Aisha also died?
On an irreversible path?
Thinking of this, Bruce's face slowly turned cold. He did not leave the two children, but asked Alfred to take the phone from the living room, pick up the receiver and dial, and then said to the other side:
"Hey, it's me, coming to Wayne Manor."
A muffled and hoarse voice came from the other side: "What? Bruce? What did you say? I...oh, wait, dear, wait, let me answer the phone...I'm not free now, I'm an adult now."
time……"
Bruce's voice became colder and colder, and he said: "If you don't come over, then I will go find you, Constantine."
Constantine suddenly broke into a cold sweat. He felt that he was being stared at by an irresistible darkness. He shook his head vigorously and said: