Gotham, Wayne Manor.

"Master Bruce? Master Bruce? ”

Bruce Wayne slowly opened his eyes and found himself asleep at the Batcomputer's desk at some point.

Alfred placed the silver plate on the table beside him.

"Looks like Batman stayed up late again? That's not good. "Batman may not have limits, but you do, Master Bruce."

I'm glad you've taken my advice and started working with Director Gordon. But I guess you can give him a little more trust. Occasionally without Batman overnight, Gotham won't suddenly disappear. ”

"Not yet, at least until I catch this 'scarecrow'." Within seconds of opening his eyes, Bruce was back in top shape and began to crack on his keyboard again.

"I've got a clue. ' The identity of the Scarecrow' is likely to be Dr. Jonathan Klein. The fear toxin he developed can erode people's nerves and create the illusion of fear."

"Yes, yes, today there is a scarecrow, tomorrow there is a dogtail man." Alfred sighed faintly.

After the Riddler was captured, Batman was not idle, and he was still battling wits with Gotham criminals all day long. A while ago, he took out the crime tycoon Maroni, and the Roman Falcone was also being cornered by him. During this period, a mutant called the killer crocodile appeared in the sewers, and not long after it was done, a neurotic man who called himself "Professor Pig Face" appeared.

It's strange to say. In the past, the Romans were in power, and Gotham was actually quite orderly. It's nothing more than the underworld everywhere, drugs flying all over the sky, and the average family of police and bandits dies ten or eight people every day.

Since the advent of Batman, the underworld bosses have fallen, and the crime rate on the streets has plummeted, but maniacs dressed like circuses have begun to bloom everywhere. It took decades for the citizens of Gotham to finally make it out of hell, but they never expected to crash headlong into an insane asylum.

Bruce's hand on the keyboard stopped, and he frowned, "It seems like I had a dream." I dreamed of a certain wizard, in some kind of huge temple. But I can't remember the specifics. ”

Alfred shrugged: "People dream. ”

"This time it's different. This time it feels very real. Bruce said.

Alfred shook his head: "A lot of people think dreams are real. That's not surprising. ”

"But this one is different." Bruce frowned. He instinctively felt strange, but for a moment he couldn't tell what was strange.

"Don't you want to say that it's a 'bat dream', young master?"

"What?"

"Oh nothing, it's just that I guess you like to put a bat in front of anything?" Alfred snapped his fingers and began to count, "Batmobile, Batplane, Bathook, I also saw a piece of equipment in the cave called. Bat shark repellent?

Does Batman have water vacation plans? ”

Bruce: "."

Batman has been busy holding meet-and-greets with future fan support groups for several days, and Arkham's business is also booming. Shen You hasn't been idle these days, and dragged Kara to the next to accompany him in development.

In fact, she is not resistant to scientific research, after all, she has a scientist father. After Shen You combed it, she first started to gnaw slowly from her own Kryptonian technology, she was a native Kryptonian now, plus a super brain, it should theoretically be very fast to learn.

After encountering the Blood Cultist of Sangong for the first time, Shen You scanned the scene and brought back a small stone that caught his attention.

It was carried on the body of the leader of the small group, a small black stone, which looked like it was unremarkable. However, a deep scan revealed that it contained some kind of magical energy, and it just needed to be opened in the right way.

Shen You took it and went to the old wizard, who was dissatisfied with the failure of his search for an heir today.

"The world is falling! One generation is not as good as the next! The old wizard muttered, "And the bat, too, is the number one wonder."

Shen You asked casually, "Did you meet this person?" His name is Billy Batson."

"That little kid in the orphanage? Still stealing sandwiches from patrol officers to eat? ”

"Uh, so it looks like you've met?"

"Of course, why do you ask this? Do you think I'm going to give my divine powers to a young boy who is full of fantasies? What if he uses my divine power to make a film and make a splash? ”

The old wizard blows his beard.

"I just run out of oil and die outside, bring my divine power into the coffin, and I will never choose a stinky little kid to replace my divine power!"

Shen You: "."

For some reason, I suddenly felt like I smelled some kind of real fragrance.

Okay, then you'll be happy.

Finally appeasing the old wizard, Shen You took the newly seized stone and handed it to him. The old wizard studied it and quickly said, "The magic of the devil is designed to envelop believers. It allows the demons' followers to cross the barriers of space and use special spaces to connect with each other.

Only the demonic power of the corresponding demon can activate its functioning, and any other wrong way of opening it will only cause self-destruction. ”

After some description, Shen You understood. It's a magic communicator for a believer, right?

It can only be activated with the magic given by the demon they believe in, which is equivalent to encryption. An encrypted channel that only your own people can enter.

However, the belief of the Blood Cultists is well known to be the Three Palace Demons, the magic of the Three Palace Demons.

It doesn't seem like it's nothing.

So the next day, when Raven came over to learn from the old wizard as usual, Shen You immediately found a stone for her to try. Then it really succeeded, Raven's magic power was instilled, and the purple-black magic spread along the lines on the surface of the magic stone, like an empty groove being poured into the water flow, and the stone immediately entered the active state.

Shen You took the stone back to the laboratory and conducted research. He recorded the state of the stone, the effects of Raven's magic. And make adjustments to make sure that the next time you use a specific frequency of light stimulation, you can achieve the same effect, so that you don't need to be started by Raven every time in the future.

Halfway through the study, the Philosopher's Stone began to glow that night, releasing a certain kind of fluctuation.

None other than that. Incoming calls?

Shen You's mind moved, and he activated the stone according to the method he had just discovered. His consciousness sneaked into it, and there was a trance in front of him, and he seemed to fall into some dark space.

It was pitch black all around, and it was impossible to see the specific scene. But there were several black-robed people around, dressed like the leader who was killed by Shen You before.

It is not an entity, similar to some kind of mental space that allows consciousness to communicate remotely.

When I looked down again, I was exactly the same outfit. Also dressed in black, it seems to be the initial default image of this space.

"You're late."

It was a black-robed man in the center who spoke like a leader, and said indifferently.

"Something delayed?"

In the darkness, several black-robed people looked at each other in unison.

Shen You's mind turned sharply.

They don't seem to know that the cultists here have already given the people. Consider that this is Gotham

"It's Batman." He said, "I've been targeted by him lately, and it took a little bit to get rid of him." ”

"Well, that's good. But it's important to keep a low profile, and we don't want to attract unwanted attention before the Lord comes. ”

The black-robed people responded one after another.

"Roger."

"Roger."

“.”

Seeing this, Shen You also said: "Received." ”

Then he stopped talking, and only observed secretly.

It seems that these are all cadres of the Blood Cultists?

If they lurk among them, they may be able to get information about this organization, spy on the oracles and movements of the lords of the three houses, and even have the opportunity to secretly interfere with the deployment that the three houses are trying to make in this dimension.

What's more, if the development is good enough, by the time the third house wants to open the door in the future, he may have developed into a high-level organization.

(End of chapter)