Selena was holding a large box and walked through a slender corridor, her good friend Maggie was standing at the door waiting for her, and when Selena came over, Maggie hurriedly greeted her and helped her carry the box into the house.

Putting the box down, Selena let out a sigh of relief, patted the dust off her hands, and looked up at the environment inside the room.

After the completion of the first phase of the renovation of Living Hell, many residents have converted the excess area of their homes into one-room apartments for rent to residents in other places in the East District.

What used to be a living hell was the worst neighborhood in the East End, but now, the situation is completely different, although the rooms here are still very small, and the lighting is not enough, but the sanitary conditions are better than more than one grade, although the decoration is not much luxurious, but it is certainly much better than the broken shed.

And because of the gap between the rich and the poor, there are still many residents in the East District who live in dilapidated houses, such as Selena's friend Maggie, who used to live on the periphery of the shantytown, although it is better than those broken houses built of iron sheets and containers, but whenever it rains, the rainwater will flow down the corner of the wall until a large area of the ground is damp and moldy.

The house where Maggie used to live, the windows in the room were small, the orientation was not good, the winter was cold and the summer was hot, and every winter, Selena couldn't even stay in that house for two hours, otherwise her limbs would freeze and stiffen.

Maggie also walked through the door, looking at the small room, she exclaimed, "I never thought I would be able to live in a house like this." ”

This small room is not big, only four or five square meters, just enough to fit a bed, but there is a window on the side, and a bay window, which expands a lot of space, and there are two pots of flowers on the bay window, which are just right at this time.

Maggie suddenly lay down on the bed with a happy expression, Selena sat next to her and hugged her, smiled and said, "You have found a new job in a restaurant in the East End, and with a salary, you can rent a better house, and if you save some money, you may be able to buy a house of your own." ”

"Come on." Maggie shook her head and said, "Even buying a house in the East End will require a lot of money, and with my current salary, I'm afraid there will be no hope for another ten years of work." ”

"Don't say that, haven't you heard? Gotham University's technical academy has already opened, and although the first batch of students is small, maybe the second batch will recruit more people. ”

Selena shook her head and said: "I'm not a student to read, but you can definitely do it, you are so patient, you knit sweaters so well, you can sing, if you go to learn some skills, the salary will definitely get higher and higher, and it will not be difficult to buy a house." ”

Maggie leaned over and looked at Selena's beautiful face, and she said, "What about you?" What are you going to do? Fooling around with Wayne every day? ”

"I'm not messing around with him."

"You are." Maggie was so sure that he would marry you. Will you be his wife? Will you two raise children? I'm not talking about adopted children, but children born to you......"

"He won't take you to church, he won't swear an oath to you, you two won't grow old, Selena, I just don't want you to be hurt to say such hurtful things...... Maggie looked at Selena with a sad look in her eyes, and she said:

"Your beauty is an unparalleled wealth, but it is also a deadly trap, it will make you superstitious in the first half of your life about the dreams that other people bring you, but when you lose your beauty, you may be more miserable than others......" Maggie looked at her friend seriously.

Selena put her hand on Maggie's hand and said, "I never expected him to promise me?" It's okay if he's not responsible for me, I don't want to be responsible for him, I don't want to take my life so seriously. ”

"Maggie, I know that you dream of walking into the church with your true love, taking a solemn vow, and then walking into the grave hand in hand, but I'm different, I think it's too boring."

"I know I don't have the capital to enjoy love, because I'm just a poor girl from the slums, and the good conditions can't accompany me for the rest of my life, but I don't care, if I'm destined to go back to the slums, that's fine, I like this feeling of freedom."

Selena walked to the window, stroked the leaves of the potted flower on the windowsill, and said, "Ma."

Ji, you are like this pot of flowers, you should wake up from a warm bedroom on an ordinary morning, and the craziest thing you did the night before was to give your lover a kiss. ”

"But, at the same time, I may have just fallen asleep in the morning light, because I spent the whole night on the roof of the building, or sitting on the roof, watching the light of the jewelry store opposite, and I love this outlaw life, and I love this kind of lover."

Maggie sighed deeply and said, "Only that Wayne can stand you." ”

"That's right." Maggie said as if she had suddenly remembered something, "Lately, how come you have been available to help me move?" Haven't you been with Wayne before? ”

Selena had a complicated look, she said, "He's been busy lately and doesn't have much time. ”

Maggie suddenly pricked up her ears, narrowed her eyes, and asked, "Busy?" When a man says he's busy, haven't you been wary? ”

Maggie pulled Selena back to the bed, threw her head towards herself, then held her cheeks with both hands, and said, "Look at you, such a gorgeous and moving beauty, what man will look at your face and say that he is busy?" ”

Selena puffed out her cheeks, pushed Maggie's hand away, and said, "Bruce Wayne is okay, not only can she tell me that he's busy, but she even asked me to help him look up information and write papers all night on the first night we were separated and reunited!" ”

"Oh my God!" Maggie exclaimed, "That's it, you still think he didn't cheat??" Does Bruce Wayne write essays? If you put this in the newspapers, it will become the most popular joke in Gotham for the next decade!! ”

"I don't know what's wrong with him, it seems to have changed, but I can't tell where it happened." Selena rested her head on Maggie's shoulder, but the alarm bell in Maggie's heart rang louder and louder, she said, "You have to trust your instincts, when you think a man has changed, things may be what you imagined." ”

"You mean, he really cheated? No, I've told him before, if he gets tired of it, then tell me that the two of us broke up, and he promised me that he wouldn't go to another woman until he asked me to break up. Selena's eyes widened, and she said with some confusion.

"You believe the dude's promise?!" Maggie glanced at her and said, "You'd better keep an eye on it, even if you don't need his wealth and status, but he's your boyfriend after all, if you cheat, wouldn't it mean that you're very unattractive??" ”

Selena immediately bounced up from the bed, bared her teeth and said, "If he dares to cheat, I will definitely kill him!" ”

But after a while, she was deflated again, and sat down again with her head a little dejected, saying, "Recently, Bruce has been hiding in Gotham University, and I can't get in there. ”

"Can't get in? Is there a place in Gotham that you can't get into? Maggie looked at Selena suspiciously.

"No, if I try to climb over the wall to get in, how can the security guard stop me? But there's a terrible professor there, and I don't dare mess with him, or I'm going to be stewed. Selena shuddered.

"Professor? But aren't all university professors quite mild? Is it the kind of knowledgeable and polite look? Maggie held her face in her hands and said, "I like that type, at least not like those gangsters, who are full of fire." ”

"Not really." Selena waved her hand in front of her, and then said, "Do you remember the last time I talked about my adventure to the Metropolis?" ”

Maggie nodded and said, "Of course I remember, you said that you were trapped in a manor because of a heavy snowfall, and you also encountered a group of agents, and a helicopter engine that would fly in the sky, to be honest, Selena, I think you may have a fever, otherwise how could you have such a hallucination?" ”

"I don't have a fever." Selena emphasized: "I didn't tell you before, when I was trapped in the manor, I had a dream, to be precise, that Professor Schiller pulled me into his dream. ”

"Originally, everything was fine, I was wandering around in a super big amusement park, all the amusement facilities were free of charge, even those shops that played balloons and fishing toys did not charge, I was so happy that I wanted to try every facility!"

"But just as I was having fun, there was an earthquake all of a sudden, no, maybe, it wasn't an earthquake, it sounded like something had exploded, and in an instant, the whole park changed."

"Everything started to crack, all kinds of pieces came together and turned into some weird monsters, and all the facilities in the playground exploded, and I had to run around like crazy while dodging the pieces......"

Selena covered her chest with her hands and said, "At that time, I was riding the Ferris wheel, and when I fell from mid-air, I was almost scared to death!" ”

"I ran a full kilometer to escape from there, but I ran into a monster that ran out of a dream again......"

"Anyway, there's a lot of terrible stuff in that Professor Schiller's head......" Selena said with a shudder, "if I dare to break into Gotham University, he'll kill me!" ”

Maggie sighed and said, "Even if these things are not your imagination, but with Gotham University so big and you only go around the very edge, how can he just spot you?" ”

"And aren't you always at night? At that time, this group of teachers should have fallen asleep a long time ago, and even if you are caught, you are just going to find your boyfriend, not to do bad things, which is very common, what reason does he have to kill you? ”

Selena hesitated for a moment, thinking that what Maggie said made sense, Gotham University is so big, she won't be unlucky, as soon as she enters, she will run into Schiller, right? ”

Moreover, she didn't go in to steal something, she just went to find Bruce, and if she was caught, at most she was scolded twice, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

With that in mind, Selena stood up, dusted her clothes, and said to Maggie, "It's going to get dark soon, so I'm going to go around Gotham University and see if there's a place to sneak in." ”

After moving around the room, Selena jumped out of the window of Maggie's room.

It didn't take long for her to find herself near Gotham University, and although she didn't think she would be discovered, she found the most secluded place and climbed over the guardrail with great skill.

Selena landed behind a bush in a green flower bed, and as soon as she poked her head out of the bush, she felt a dark shadow covering her head.

Selena subconsciously dodged and jumped, and climbed to the top of the street lamp pole next to her, "whooshing" a few times, and Schiller pointed at her with the tip of an umbrella and said, "You come down." ”

Selena shook her head vigorously and said, "I'm not going down." ”

"You come down."

"I'm not going down."

"Why don't you come down?"

"Then why don't you come up?"