Zatanna tilted her head, looked at Batman and said, "Yes, the sign at the entrance is very conspicuous. If you look in every room, you can find it, right?"
Batman recalled the building map he had seen in his mind, and said: "Let's not talk about whether there are any other secrets in this building, or how to deal with the mental patient Schiller who has been chasing us.
, do you know how many floors and rooms this building has?"
"How many?" Zatanna asked.
"If the map is correct, this building should have 9 floors, with at least 10 wards on each floor. Counting those functional rooms, utility rooms and tool rooms, we need to check at least more than 100 wards.
It is possible to find the room to leave."
"That's not a lot." Zatanna shrugged and said, "It's not a skyscraper. There are hundreds or thousands of rooms. Besides, the structure of the rooms here is very simple. Just open the door and take a look.
Without going in, it should only take a few hours to check 100 rooms, right?"
"Then we might have to think about it, the one who has been chasing us..."
As soon as Batman said this, he suddenly stopped, because all three of them heard the sound of "da da da", which sounded at the entrance of the stairs. After a moment of pause, the three of them started to rush forward in a very uniform manner.
.
"Seriously, can't we try to defeat him?" Constantine said as he ran: "I think it shouldn't be too difficult if the three of us work together, right?"
"Indeed, we have the possibility of success." Batman also said while running: "But you must consider the consequences of failure."
"The group of Schillers in the Hall of Thought have gone to who knows where, but they may come back at any time. Once we are held back and found by Schiller's army, what do you think the consequences will be?"
Just when Constantine was about to speak, Zatanna said: "We can't outrun him! Get ready to enter the ring of fire!"
After saying that, she waved her hand, and another circus fire ring appeared in front of her. The three of them jumped in one after another. After the fire ring disappeared, it appeared in another empty room. Zatanna gasped and said: "
My teleportation distance is getting closer and closer. This is really too energy-consuming. If I try it three times at most, I may not be able to release the teleportation magic..."
But at this time, Batman said: "I think your method makes sense. There is no time for us to slowly look for clues now."
"It's not that the exhaustive method cannot be used..." Batman walked to the table next to the bed in this room, took out the notebook from the cookie box, turned to a blank page, and began to draw a map of the building on it.
"The map I saw before described the building structure of the ward area. To put it simply, this building is a C-shaped building with staircase exits at both ends and the ward in the middle."
"Because the building is relatively old, the structure of almost every floor should be similar. However, a reminder note was posted next to the map, saying that the shower area is on the 3rd floor and the canteen is on the 1st floor. This should be convenient for employees who have just come here to find it.
Road."
"When I came to this space, I happened to be born in the ward where Schiller was. There was no exit there. That is to say, Schiller did not resist returning to the ward. Since he did not resist returning to his own ward, then he resisted
The chance of returning to someone else's ward will also be relatively small."
After speaking, Batman put a cross on the building structure he just drew, and then continued: "If the probability of the ward is relatively small, then the probability of other functions will be relatively high."
"First of all, the review room is not the correct exit, which means that other consultation rooms with similar functions may not be the target."
"How can you be sure that the review room you found is not the correct exit, then the others are not?" Constantine asked, looking at the pattern on the notebook.
"We are not trying to infer the correct location at once, but we are sorting it out in order based on probability, starting from the most priority location. This is the correct way to use the exhaustive method."
Without waiting for the other two to say anything, Batman began to speak on his own:
"According to the clues we have, it is written in Schiller's diagnosis and treatment records that every time he gets sick, he will be taken to the observation room for observation. This is something that is clearly mentioned with Schiller in addition to the review room.
It’s about a room, so I think it has the greatest possibility and should be put first.”
"Secondly, in addition to the observation room and review room, other living rooms, such as the canteen, shower area, activity area, reading room, self-study room, etc., are placed second."
"Re-examination is excluded as the correct answer, and treatment rooms, preparation rooms, etc. that have similar functions are ranked third."
"And the ward with the largest number and the least possibility is ranked fourth."
"We should check in this order so that we can find the exit room we want as quickly as possible."
Zatanna glanced at Batman, then looked back and said: "Bruce, you have really changed a lot."
"Okay, now is not the time to talk about love." Constantine looked at the map drawn by Batman and said: "Following this idea, let's try it first. I always feel that the situation is getting worse.
It’s getting more and more wrong.”
He was right. After the weak item in this memory space, that is, the straitjacket, was taken away, the entire space became more and more gloomy. Before, there were several rooms with lights on on each floor.
, but now it has become pitch black.
At this moment, the three of them heard the "tapping" sound again. Zatanna's eyes widened and she said, "This is impossible. My teleportation distance is at least 4 floors. How could he be so fast?"
Come over here?"
"I told you, the situation is getting worse and worse." Constantine's hand shimmered, and he said: "Either he speeded up, or he has the ability to position, and before he comes here,
Let’s go quickly.”
After saying that, the three of them rushed out of the room, but as soon as they went out, they found that in the dark corridor, countless tentacle-like things stretched out from the thick darkness. They were the fixing straps of the straitjacket, but this time
At that time, it was like the devil's hand stretching out from the bottomless abyss.
Constantine waved his hand and a magic shield appeared, just blocking the two fixed belts that were attacking. Zatanna took two steps back and was about to use the ring of fire to teleport again when Batman stopped her and said to Constantine: "
Stop fighting, get rid of him first!"
Constantine fired a few more streams of light, causing Schiller's offensive to stall for a moment. The three of them started running desperately in the corridor again. It was not until the "click-click" sound of metal hitting the ground disappeared that their pace slowed down.
stand up.
"Judging from the sign next to the map, the observation room should be on the top floor. Schiller happens to be downstairs. Let's go up and have a look first." After saying that, Batman walked towards the stairs, and several people arrived at the ninth floor, the top floor.
And found the so-called observation room at the end of the corridor.
It was a dark room. Of course, all rooms now are very dark, but the difference in this room is that it has no windows and only has a small observation exit on the door.
The floor, walls and ceiling of the entire room are all made of plastic, and the light is a circular safety light embedded in the ceiling. There is only one chair in the entire room, which is fixed on the ground in the center of the room, with a card for fixing the straitjacket on it.
Buckle metal ring.
In the darkness, Batman seemed to see Schiller in a straight suit fixed on this chair, with his head raised and looking directly at the light above his head.
At this moment, Batman suddenly felt an emotion he had never felt before, as if he had seen his future on a certain timeline.
A person who is born crazy is sad. The world in their eyes is different from that of ordinary people. In the process of domesticating themselves to be able to integrate into ordinary people's society, they must break their bones, peel off their skin, and bleed dry.
His own blood will rebuild everything.
In contrast, those who are born into a society of ordinary people, have a peaceful life, and are never crazy are undoubtedly very lucky.
Therefore, the behavior of ordinary people allowing themselves to slide towards the abyss of madness is like throwing things on the ground that others dream of but cannot obtain, and trample on them at will.
At this moment, Batman suddenly understood why Schiller was always hostile to him sometimes.
If those memories are true, then perhaps the two of them are in line with that sentence. A madman tries hard to become an ordinary person, while an ordinary person allows himself to become a madman.
Batman saw Schiller sitting on a chair, looking up at the light, as if looking at the moon.
Perhaps at that time, he never thought that one day, he would encounter a bat that would fly towards the abyss without looking at the bright moon.
Suddenly, Batman seemed to be blessed and found the answer he came here to find - what is Schiller most afraid of?
Those Gotham incidents where Schiller was looming behind but always had a win-win situation, those murderers who appeared in his dreams, the clown who always appeared and disappeared at the right time, what Schiller said in the church
…
Batman doesn't know whether Schiller concocted these incidents, said these words, and took these actions to force him to learn because he didn't want one more person to wear a straitjacket in this absurd society.
A madman looking at the moon.
Perhaps, if one day, Batman really laughs because of his madness, it will not only be the clown who feels sick and collapsed, but also an ordinary person who is born crazy.
He heard such an answer in his heart, but after the answer flashed away, it did not leave any deep impression in his memory.
It's not like what he imagined before. Even if the world is destroyed and his soul collapses, he will put this answer in an absolutely safe place to prevent himself from forgetting it.
The answer I got with so much effort flew by so lightly, like a ball of waste paper thrown out of a parabola, and was thrown into a corner.
Batman took one more look at the chair before turning around and leaving.
Where Zatanna and Constantine didn't see it, Batman, hidden in the darkness, mobilized all the muscles on his face and spent a lot of effort to reveal a somewhat ugly smile.