For many years, the nights at Wayne Manor had been very quiet, for there was only one man and his old butler, and when night fell in Gotham, the only light that lit up would soon go out, and the vast manor would be completely engulfed in darkness until dawn came again.

But this night, the lights in Wayne's Manor were always on, and the sound of ladders rubbing against the bookshelves broke the silence in the room, and Dick wrinkled his face and coughed vigorously, waving his hand in front of his nose to drive away the dust in front of him.

He looked up at the rows and rows of thick books on the shelves, ran his fingers across their spines, and suddenly stopped at a book called "Ten Mysterious Legends You Don't Know."

Dick reached out and took the book out of the tightly packed pile, then climbed down a few ladders and threw it down, and Aisha on the ground jumped up and grabbed it, then swung her short legs and put the tome in a pile of books next to her.

Dick climbed the ladder in three steps and began to rummage through the bookshelves, saying to himself as he searched, "The rich man's life is richer than I imagined......"

He looked up at the reading room, which was the library of Wayne Manor, located in the westernmost tower of the manor, and the entire reading room occupied an entire floor of the tower, with hundreds of rows of shelves and countless books, arranged in a ring on top of each other.

The whole reading room retains a strong British style, with reddish-brown bookshelves depicting naturalistic decoration, and a row of circular sofas and several semi-circular desks in the center of the reading room.

"I used to be glad I could live in a house like this, but this is just a place to put books."

Dick muttered under his breath as he took another book from the shelf, then climbed down the ladder himself, placed it on top of Aisha's stack of books, picked up the large stack of books, and walked towards the center of the reading room.

There, Bruce was looking down at one of the books, and Dick walked over and placed a thick stack of books on the table, patted the top book and said, "Mr. Wayne, this is all the books in Section B with occult keywords, and I've arranged them in chronological order, the older they are. ”

Bruce took a sip and nodded, and Dick took Aisha to another district and continued to find books for Bruce.

Even Batman has to admit that having such a little assistant can really save a lot of things, and Dick and he have a very tacit understanding, Bruce is indeed reading these books in chronological order, he didn't say this, Dick sorted out all the books with a heart.

If you want to talk about why he is reading here, you have to start after the last time he and Konstantin separated.

Batman knew from Constantine that Mrs. Sanchez might be using the children of Gotham to cultivate, and he couldn't sit idly by, but Batman had almost no research on the occult, Constantine seemed completely unreliable, and Batman didn't want to point fingers at others, so he planned to study this knowledge himself.

But for a complete outsider, it is very difficult to practice on his own without a mentor leading him in, and Batman can only find the old priest of Gotham Cathedral.

Batman hadn't forgotten that when the priest was in the church, he could use the mysterious wine pool under the church to gain some special abilities, and he thought, maybe it would help him in his study of the occult?

He came to the church at dusk, and the priest was not surprised by his presence, but after hearing his intentions, the old priest shook his head and said, "As a clergyman, of course I know that such a circle exists, but I advise you not to deal with them, for most of them trade with demons in exchange for special powers. ”

"There will be no good end in this, maybe for a while, they can gain incomparably more power, just like those fantasy ones, but they will inevitably pay an unimaginable price for this power, it will be a pain worse than death."

"You're mistaken, I'm not trying to gain power with this method, but I hope to find a way to deal with it,"

Standing in the shadow of the church, Batman said to the priest: "There are many people who are now in danger because of this terrible power, and I know nothing about it. ”

The priest paused as he wiped the cross in his hand, and said, "If you just want to know about it, then you should not come to me." ”

"Who am I going to?"

"You should know that the heyday of the occult has passed, and most people nowadays do not respect ghosts and gods, especially in Gotham, but in the last era, there was a wave of black magic all over the East Coast, and if you want to know this kind of knowledge, it is best to look for it from history."

"In Gotham, there are not many ancient families, but there are always one or two, the old families are the same, they like to record history, collect collections, maybe you can find a trace of that era in these things......"

So, Bruce began to look for the waves hidden under the water in the Wayne family's collection of books.

Anything related to the occult has a subtle and strange beauty, they are good at using some words and word orders that ordinary people do not use, to describe a thing, and the words are full of all kinds of code words, as if rejecting every ordinary person's exploration of it.

But if you look at these stories with a rational attitude, you will find that they are just stories, and the logic of the stories themselves is no different from those children's books written in fairy tale books, and many of the concepts mentioned in them are just ordinary people's imagination about this mysterious circle, and there is no evidence at all.

The clouds outside the window flew faster and faster, and Bruce turned the book faster and faster, and Dick walked back and forth again and again, Bruce finished reading more and more books, and there were fewer and fewer books he hadn't read, and finally, Dick had finished looking for all the books with occult keywords, sat down opposite Bruce, and began to read the books.

He reads much more slowly than Bruce, because Bruce only reads these stories to find information, and Dick is really attracted to these mysterious stories, Aisha sits next to him, and pretends to read, but every once in a while the book loses a piece of paper, and it all goes into Aisha's stomach.

Dick was fascinated until the soft sound of Bruce putting down the glass of water alarmed him, and he looked up and found that the pile of books in Bruce's hand had been read, all of them, and he closed the books and asked Bruce, "Did you find anything?" Mr. Wayne? ”

Bruce looked at the book Dick was reading, Dick saw his eyes, looked down at the book in front of him, and said, "Oh, this is the 'Ten Mysterious Legends' I just got, it's pretty good......"

"What's in it?"

"Hmm......" Dick hesitated, a little unsure of how to answer, Bruce took a sip of water and said, "It's not an exam, it's not an assignment for reading notes, I'm just trying to change my perspective and see if I can find new ideas." ”

"Well, there are ten stories recorded here, I just saw the end of the second one, the first story is about werewolves, the second story is about a suicide town, I think the second story is more interesting......"

"Do you think there's a clue in there that might be useful?"

"Clues?" Dick asked, puzzled, "Isn't this a ghost story?" Where will there be any clues? ”

Bruce withdrew his gaze from Dick and turned to the book in his hand, which introduced the various magic circles and boasted about their functions, but most of them looked like children's graffiti, and the examples cited did not match reality.

Bruce said to Dick, "If you're sleepy, go to sleep, I'll keep watching for a while." ”

As he spoke, he walked to the bookshelf and began to rummage through some books about history, this kind of fantasy story does not provide detailed and reliable clues, so maybe some traces can be found in the history of Gotham City's development.

When Bruce found the book, he sat down again, but neither Dick nor Isa left, and Dick looked up and asked him, "Is the legend of the witch true?" Children who have eaten sugar, whose souls have been sold to demons? ”

Dick put his hand on his face and said, "I feel a little strange, if Lady Sanchez is really a witch, then why did she come to Gotham?" ”

"When my mom and dad came to Gotham, they were forced to find no other job on the East Coast, except for the circus here who were willing to accept them, so we had to come here."

"If we had another choice, we wouldn't be in this city, the weather is bad and dangerous, and the people are not very good-tempered, so we wouldn't be here if we weren't desperate."

"But since Madame Sanchez is a witch, she must be much better than us, right? Why did she have to come to Gotham? ”

"The kids here aren't any special compared to other kids, are they? If I had to say anything, it was that the kids here are more violent and harder to ......."

Bruce's hand stopped flipping through the pages, and Dick saw the action and said, "Oh, sorry, did I bother you?" It's just that I still can't sleep a little now, why don't I go and sit at the desk on the other side? ”

"No, you go on."

"Say what?"

"That part about Gotham."

"I've already finished speaking, this is actually a pretty simple truth, if the outsiders are not desperate, they probably won't come here, right?"

"Of course, I know that there are a lot of outsiders who have been here lately, but that's because Gotham has suddenly been cool lately, but Madame Sanchez has been here for a long time, and she should be more dangerous when she comes there, right?"

"Indeed." The frequency of Bruce's voice is always steady, and his intonation does not fluctuate when he speaks, making him sound drowsy.

"There's no reason why Laurena Sanchez chose a city like Gotham as her home base, but since she did, there must be a reason."

Bruce lowered his eyes and looked at the book in his hand, the cover of which read, "Notes of Solomon Wayne."

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