The three men who jumped down the door on the floor didn't feel the pain of falling to the floor as they had imagined, they fell into a pile of something, which had hard edges and corners, so it wasn't much better than if they had fallen to the ground.

"Oh my God!"

Barry let out a cry of pain as he struggled with his arm to remove the things around him, like a drowning man struggling in vain, and it wasn't until Hallie and Bruce had fallen that the tall mountain-like hard object slipped down a little, allowing Barry to get out.

He fumbled his way through the room in the dark, nearly tripping over something on the floor again, but thankfully, he touched the door and opened it, then found the lighting in another house with a candlestick.

When Barry walked back to the room with the candlestick, he found that they had landed on top of a pile of books, which could really be called a mountain of books, and there were probably thousands of books piled up in the middle of a room, and the exit of that passage was on the top of the mountain.

Harley rolled down the book hill, she thought it was funny, and even rolled on the spot a few times, making an agent landing motion, and little Bruce was much more elegant and reserved, he stabilized his center of gravity, and then walked down the path that Barry rolled down.

"I hope you haven't moved yourself for your sacrifice, because we have known for a long time that this is a trial that does not put your life in danger." But Bruce's words are just as stinging.

Barry pursed his mouth and let out a breath from his nose, he shook the candlestick in his hand and said, "There are still a lot of books scattered on the ground, and if you talk like that again, I will turn off the lights and make you fall and eat." ”

"Childish."

"The same goes for you."

"So where are we? Is there a stock section in a bookstore? Harley looked back at the tall mountain of books, picked up a book from her feet at random, covered her forehead as if she was going to faint, and said, "God, what kind of writing is this?" ”

Little Bruce walked over, glanced at the strange runes carved on the book she was holding, then picked up a book from the side, dusted it off, and turned the page, seeing the same words that she couldn't read at all, and it was a little more weird and complicated.

"This is probably not the writing used by humans." Bruce rubbed his chin and speculated, "I don't see any repetitive phrases in it, which means it's not using human word formation." ”

"Look at this, look at this sign." Hallie pointed to the sheep's head sign on one of the books and said, "I suspect it might be a demonic language, or at least some kind of writing from hell." ”

"Are all the books here?" Barry asked, looking up at the mountain of books.

The three of them rummaged through the mountains of books for a long time, and Bruce took out a fragment of a bookshelf from the books, and he fumbled with the runes engraved on the side of the fragment that had not completely dissipated, and said, "It looks like someone smashed the demon's library and threw all the books in it here." ”

"Isn't this the pile of books you got from Beelzebub's palace?" Konstantin turned to Bruce and asked, "Why did you leave them here?" ”

"In fact, he threw that pile of books to me." Schiller lit his cigar and leaned back on the couch and said, "I haven't seen even half of it since I got it, and I'm not interested in deciphering demonic texts, so I piled them up in the basement after the academy was built." ”

"There's not much valuable information in there." Bruce shook his head and said, "Demons are creatures that act with the power of instinct and power, and most of the people who write these books are servants of demons, and the complex demonic language they write is only to show that they have gained enough knowledge from demons, and they have no merit other than complexity." ”

"When your professor says you don't read, you'd better listen honestly." Zatanna smiled and said, "Even if you have graduated and don't have to write essays anymore, you still have to set an example for the students in your academy." ”

"I've been worrying about this lately." Miss Magician snapped her hand away and said, "I don't know what kind of preaching to make these little bastards turn in their homework on time, and I understand you more and more now, Professor Rodriguez." ”

"Then you don't understand enough." Schiller snorted, but not at Zatana, but at someone who is now known to all of you, saying, "When one of your students tries to compensate him with a shredder for not turning in his homework on time in the past four years, you should know that any other teacher in the world is lucky." ”

"There's also a limited-edition bat doll." Bruce emphasized.

"Yes, there's also a bat doll that I haven't found a place yet."

"So what kind of puzzle is this?" Bruce asked, a little confused, and Hallie walked to the side room where Barry had taken the menorah, and he opened the door and looked out, and saw that it was just a very ordinary common room, and there was nothing in it.

The only door that looked like it could leave the suite was on a wall in the lounge, and there was no sign of a lock, but the door couldn't be pushed open, and there was an extremely complex rune drawn on it, at least Bruce, Hallie, and Barry couldn't read the rune at all, or even recognize one of them.

"I guess we're probably going to have to find the meaning of the rune in those books, and then follow the rune's instructions to find the key." Barry sighed and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be the puzzle assigned by Professor Rodriguez." ”

"Oh my God, spare me!" Hallie let out a scream and slowly slid down the wall like a puddle of mud, staring at the mountain-like book in despair, and said, "I'm going to die here!" ”

Bruce Jr. was silent for a long time, walked to the side of the mountain of books and began to flip through the books one by one, Barry also looked a little discouraged, he didn't think he would live to read this pile of books.

It's not that there are many books, it's just that all the books they see are not incomprehensible to humans, which means that if they want to find clues, it is not feasible to infer from the content, either they will read all the books or find another way.

"I bet reading the book isn't a normal solution." Barry began to grope along the walls and knock and knock, as if looking for a mechanism.

Bruce was still silently reading the book, and Hallie eventually chose to join Barry's team, because while she was indeed a shrewd genius, she was not good at codebreaking.

"What kind of rune is that? Why have I never seen one? Off-screen, Konstantin stared at the intricate pattern on the door with some confusion, and after looking at it for a long time, he said with a little caution: "The features look chaotic, there are some Phoenician elements, but those look like patterns used by the Israelites......"

"I painted it blindly."

As soon as Schiller said this, everyone turned to look at him, and Schiller showed a slightly mysterious smile again, and then said, "Remember the purpose of this trial? Don't be too respectful of power, and don't think that the knowledge of demons and angels is noble. ”

"So the key ......"

"Dig up the mountain of books and you'll see it."

Konstantin slapped his head on the wrist and said, "So it's a purely manual job?" ”

"All we're pursuing now is to make dealing with angels and demons a physical task, isn't it?"

Strange immediately nodded in agreement.

"The purpose of studying magic theory is not to really understand the obscure knowledge of angels and demons, I prefer to think of this as a guide against deception, you must have enough truth in your brain to be able to tell what angels and demons say is true and what is false."

"But it's all based on the fact that angels and demons can't forcibly control you." Strange touched his chin and said, "If they can't use force, and magicians are educated to become more and more difficult to deceive, then they really have to choose to talk to us." ”

Barry and Harley groped for almost every wall in the room, but couldn't find anything, and Hallie detonated a grenade in the smaller lounge and smashed the door lock with a gun, but to no avail, apparently unlike the buildings on the ground.

Then Barry, a little desperate to believe that they really had to finish reading the books, went up to Bruce Jr. and asked him, "Where do you see it?" Is there anything I can do to help? ”

"Actually, I didn't look at anything." Bruce shook his head and said, "If I had given enough time, I think I could decipher these mysterious languages, but I don't think it makes sense." ”

"But if we can't understand it, what will we do with that mysterious rune?"

Little Bruce snorted coldly, he threw the book out of his hand, watched it roll on the ground twice, and then hugged his arms and said: "Like you said, this is a puzzle designed by Professor Rodriguez, so don't forget, in addition to being a professor at the Gotham School of Magic, he is also a world-renowned master of psychology, at least in your world." ”

"So what?"

"Have you ever heard of the 'elephant in the room'?"

Barry shook his head blankly, and Hallie frowned and said, "I've heard a little about it, is it something that is very eye-catching in a certain space but is overlooked?" ”

"It's more like 'something we all know exists, but we all deliberately ignore.'" Bruce Jr. looked up at the mountain and said, "This is the reverse application of this theory, and the professor has created something that we cannot ignore at all, and that must be paid attention to, which shows that the answer has nothing to do with the nature of the thing itself." ”

Off-screen, Schiller's hand holding the cigar paused slightly, and everyone turned their eyes to him again, Schiller slowly exhaled a puff of cigar smoke and said, "I can't find the only Bruce Wayne in all the universe who is not good at psychology, right?" ”

Then Bruce Wayne immediately glanced away.

"Obviously, this room has been deliberately arranged in such a way that there is nothing but this mountain of books, and it must have had something, and if it was just to get this pile of books in, it would not have been necessary to remove all the furniture."

Bruce Jr. began to paced in place, speculating, "If the person who laid out this puzzle did, it would be a hint that this step clearly had a meaning." ”

"The puzzle in the previous room was too simple, and perhaps it was the foreshadowing for the puzzle in this room, where there were only bottles and jars, and they happened to be the key to solving the puzzle, which caused people to think that the only books in this room were written with the answers to the puzzles."

"But if it's a master psychologist who has set it all up, we might as well think of it the other way around, that these books are the only things in the room that have nothing to do with the puzzle, and that they just confuse us into making us pay attention to all this."

"It makes a lot of sense." Bruce Jr. stopped, touched his chin and said, "Maybe that's how angels and demons manipulate us, when we ask demons for answers, they give us those forbidden knowledge, but they don't say anything, as if as long as we learn this knowledge, we can naturally find the answers we want." ”

"But the answer can be everywhere, but not in knowledge, and when the mages finally got mad by this forbidden knowledge, they jumped out and said that we never said that there was an answer in knowledge."

"I can already imagine a magician ever being deceived like this." Hallie walked up to Bruce Jr., stood side by side with him and asked, "So where do you think the key will be?" ”

"I think Professor Rodriguez would be the kind of person who has a purpose for every action, and since knowledge comes from hell, perhaps...... The keys also come from there. ”

After saying that, Bruce's eyes looked towards the bottom of the book mountain.