The next morning, before dawn, Hallie was woken up by Barry, she was sleepy-eyed, she was shaky when she walked, she looked at the two people who were very energetic, and said in some confusion, "How can you two get up so early?" ”

"We didn't sleep all night."

Hallie was even more confused, and then her eyes began to glance back and forth between Barry and Bruce, who impatiently pushed Barry aside, and said, "We need to go to the greenhouse, have you forgotten?" We're going to check the species of plants that are missing. ”

Harley yawned heavily, turned and went back to change, and it wasn't long before the three of them made their way through the large garden full of damp dew in the sunrise light, and again to the small building next to the greenhouse.

Pamela didn't live here, so she wasn't there all night and morning, and the three of them walked in through the main entrance, and little Bruce didn't find any footprints on the stone slabs in the yard.

"Either he was very cautious and deliberately did not step on the dirt and waited for the rain at night to wash away the traces on the stone road, or he would simply fly and not touch the ground at all, otherwise it would be impossible not to leave footprints."

With that, the three of them walked around the building to the backyard, and Bruce pointed to the trellis in the small garden and said, "I distinctly remember that the second row here is full of spirals, and below is the kale, and now there are four or five potted plants missing." ”

"There's also a pot of Arada swamp mushrooms missing, a malt-derived mushroom covered in slimy mucus that is often used as a catalyst for healing potions."

Barry looked around and asked, "Are you sure that all of the few are the ingredients for the healing potion?" ”

"Yes, of course." Hallie nodded, with great certainty.

Little Bruce's head still hurt a little, and the cold air that penetrated into his nose made his eyes feel like they were being pierced by nails, but he still tried to concentrate and said: "Whoever took these herbs, he can't make them in his office, he has to go to the alchemy laboratory of Zatara Academy, and the alchemy laboratory is used during the day, and he must finish refining the potion before the students go in the morning." ”

"That means he might have just finished refining the potion right now!" Barry raised his voice and said.

The three of them quickly ran across the large garden, bypassed the main castle, and came to the location of the college's underground alchemy and alchemy laboratory.

But it was a bit disappointing that it was not the expected Professor Rodriguez, but Professor Constantine.

"Why are you running so fast?" Konstantin pulled Harley, who had been knocked to the ground by him, and looked at them with some curiosity and said, "It's breakfast time, what are you doing here instead of the Great Hall?" ”

But little Bruce shrugged his nose vigorously, he stepped forward and looked into Constantine's eyes and said, "Were you just refining potions?" ”

"Your nose is smarter than a dog." Konstantin reached out and touched little Bruce's head and said, "Yes, I just came out of the alchemy laboratory, what's wrong?" ”

"I'm sorry, Professor Constantine, can you ask what potion you're refining?"

"Some healing potions, what's the problem?"

"Are you sick?"

"No, a colleague of mine asked me to refine it, because he doesn't like the smell of the alchemy laboratory, if you are okay, go and eat quickly, the cafeteria will be closed in the evening."

After saying that, Konstantin bypassed them, his back disappeared into the stairwell, and little Bruce narrowed his eyes and said, "Master of Psychology...... He must have known how to manipulate other people to achieve their goals. ”

"It's a bit suspicious." Barry frowned and said, "Dean Wayne said that Professor Constantine, Dean Rodriguez and Master of the Night Jim are friends, Professor Constantine's arm looks intact, and he said that he was refining potions for his colleague, who else could this colleague be?" ”

"Why the hell are you guessing here?" Harley seemed to be a little overwhelmed: "Defeating the dryad, smashing the door with one shot, and keeping the Philosopher's Stone safe, that's the way the Gotham people do." ”

Hallie looked at the two boys with her hands on her hips and said, "Listen to me, I'll go after class today, in addition to grenades, I have a lot of good guys here, no matter what's in the room, I can feed them to their full!" ”

With that, Harley walked briskly to the main castle and went to class with the crowd of seniors, and Bruce tugged at Barry's arm and said, "I think something is wrong, she seems to be hiding something from us." ”

"She's a native of Gotham and knows more than we do." Barry said as he walked down the hallway with Bruce Jr., "But just for your attitude, if it were me, I wouldn't tell you." ”

"She definitely knows more about Rodriguez than she suggests." Bruce said thoughtfully.

And just as they were about to follow the crowd into the classroom, they saw Konstantin walking in the direction of Rodriguez College with the crowd, and Bruce Jr. grabbed Barry and stopped him from entering the classroom, but dragged him after Konstantin.

"Hey, what are you doing? We were going to be late for class. ”

"We have to hold on to the reliable handle!" Bruce Jr. dragged Barry faster and faster, and at last he even ran, he turned back to Barry and said, "Konstantin is probably going to deliver medicine to Rodriguez, if that's the case, then we know what's going on!" ”

Barry was dragged by him all the way behind Konstantin, and sure enough, Konstantin entered the dean's office of the Rodriguez Academy, and the two saw Konstantin take out the healing potion from his arms and hand it to Schiller.

They wanted to continue to observe to see if Schiller would show the wound on his arm, but by this time Konstantin had already come out, and they would definitely be found if they continued to lie down in the window and look inside, so they had to leave early.

"Now we're sure it's him." Bruce clenched his fists and said, "Shredder-inflicted wounds? No one will believe this to a three-year-old child! ”

"So what are we going to do?"

"Let's go see the Philosopher's Stone tonight, no matter what he wants to do, as long as the Philosopher's Stone is safe and sound, it's fine."

Just after the backs of the two children disappeared at the end of the hallway, Schiller took the healing potion and went to the dean's office at Strange House, and slapped the potion in front of Strange.

Strange raised an eyebrow and said, "You know that I am dissatisfied with the difficulty of the trial, and I must want to secretly change the content of the trial, so you specially got a dryad and put it at the door, betting that I will definitely be injured if I don't have magic." ”

Strange picked up a potion and lifted the sleeve of his arm with his hand, revealing the wound with a circle of bandages underneath, and poured the potion on the wound.

"But I'll say that this trial you're doing with Jim and Konstantin is a little too pediatric." Strange shook his head, he looked at Schiller and said, "Just breaking the school rules to defeat a certain monster and go through some of the levels assigned by the professors in the room can really give them enough courage to resist in the face of angels and demons?" ”

"What do you think?" Schiller asked noncommittally.

"You're a little different from the Schiller I know, and the biggest difference is that you're really a good teacher, and you seem to be strict with your students, but you don't want them to get hurt." Strange straightened his sleeves without hesitation.

"You are not greedy as long as you can achieve the goal of educating them, no matter how cruel the process is, that's why you can torture each other with your students, and when they are in pain, you are also suffering for it."

Schiller didn't deny that he just looked at Strange's chest and said, "You still took out the Philosopher's Stone we put in there, right?" ”

Strange took out a shimmering green crystal from his bosom, put it in his hand, and said, "If those kids knew that this thing could be piled up, they would be angry...... Did you know that your student, Bruce Wayne, came to see me? ”

"I was wondering what you guys talked about."

"He told me he had a few things to accomplish and hoped that I would cooperate, and I saw in it a new possibility that could really test the students, so I found an opportunity to replace the Philosopher's Stone you had set up."

"Replaced with what?"

"Didn't you have Master Andrew put a lot of magic projections in that hallway? We'll find out tonight. ”

Soon evening, Schiller, Bruce, Strange, Constantine, Pamela, and Zatana sat on the couch in the reception area of the Rodriguez Academy's office, with a huge magical projection screen hanging in front of them, with the scene in the corridor on the fourth floor of the main castle.

Soon, the three figures began to sneakily probe their brains at the staircase, but before they could see the figures come out, several black shadows like meteors crossed a graceful arc and rolled down to the feet of the dryad.

The dryad was not so smart, and was given the order not to move if no one attacked the door, so he didn't even dodge when five, six, seven, or eight grenades exploded at the same time.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The scene on the magic screen was directly enveloped in smoke, and when the smoke cleared, a large hole was blown into the walls of the hallway, which was made of magical materials stronger than any other material in ordinary society.

Pamela in front of the screen covered her forehead and said, "I didn't apply any advanced magic protection to Sergei, and you didn't tell me that the students here would throw grenades." ”

"Gotham people are like that." Konstantin sighed and said, "It's not that magic can only be used in the magic academy, I have long said that the unsuspecting devil is also afraid of bullets, explosions and flames. ”

But when Harley, the leader, didn't know where to pull out a shoulder-mounted anti-tank bazooka, Konstantin was silent.

The only one in the room who stood still was Schiller, who lowered his head to cut his cigar and said, "Because I know the Gothams, the dryad is just an appetizer, and most of the puzzles in the trials cannot be solved by force." ”

Harley let out a cheer as she looked at the walls of the school building that had been blasted out of a large hole and the stumps of the Dryad that had been torn apart.

Pushing the cart full of bazookas, machine guns, grenades, and who knows how many bullets there were, she rushed towards the door of the trial room.

Let's get started!

(End of chapter)