Chapter 603: Owl Nursery Rhyme (Part 1)

In the darkness of night, Wayne Manor was filled with a peaceful atmosphere. Dick, wearing pajamas and a nightcap, walked to his bedroom with a blanket in his arms.

He had just finished the homework assigned by the teacher and fell asleep while doing it. Alfred covered him with a blanket, which made him feel a little embarrassed.

Bruce paid more attention to Dick's grades. Although he didn't have to be the first, he had to have a reasonable grade at least. Failure was definitely not acceptable.

Dick didn't like studying very much. He followed Bruce and wanted to learn combat and reconnaissance skills, but Bruce insisted that he was not an adult and had to go to school, so Dick could only go to school quietly.

However, Dick was indeed very smart. He didn't work very hard, but he could still get into the top three. However, he really didn't like rote memorization. Instead, he showed his talents in various activities at school.

Because he used to practice acrobatics, he had very good physical coordination and was also advantageous in sports. He also joined the high jump team in middle school. He could be said to be a typical example of all-round development.

After returning to his room, Dick found that Elsa was waiting for him with a storybook. Dick walked over, took the storybook and flipped through it, saying, "Where are you at? Let me see... Oh, the book has been finished."

Elsa stared at him with big eyes. Dick sighed and explained, "There is no way. We can't go to the library to get books anymore."

"You need a key to open the door of the library. The key is with Alfred. Alfred should be asleep now. We can't disturb him anymore. It's impolite."

Elsa showed an aggrieved expression, jumped up, took the book from Dick's hand, and turned to leave. Dick grabbed her and said, "Don't be angry. We can do something else instead of telling stories. Well, let me think..."

"By the way, I also participated in the school choir before. The teacher taught a few songs, but I don't like singing them very much."

Di He held Aisha and sat down. He hugged the blanket, thought for a while and said, "A few days ago, Mr. Wayne was sorting out materials. He asked me to learn a song. I think it's pretty good. How about I teach you to sing it?"

Aisha tilted her head, as if she didn't know what song Dick was talking about, or in other words, she couldn't understand what the song was. Dick tried to recall the song, and then said, "Forget it, no, that song is too complicated for you. I have memorized the lyrics for a long time."

Aisha called out, and Dick immediately turned his head to look at her and said, "Are you sure you want to learn? It's really difficult..."

Aisha nodded vigorously, and Dick said helplessly, "Okay, don't be angry if you don't learn it by then."

"Let me teach you the lyrics first." Dick stood up, ran to the bedside table, took out a pen, then opened the storybook, found an empty space and started writing the lyrics.

Elsa leaned over, but she didn't know many words yet, so Dick wrote and read:

"The Court of Owls...always watching you go out..."

"The lyrics are really weird, right? But the tune is pretty nice. I'll teach you to sing, the Court of Owls...always watching you go out..."

Dick hadn't experienced the previous fight with the Court of Owls, and he had no idea that such a thing existed in Gotham. Moreover, he read in the book that this song was just a nursery rhyme, and Bruce didn't show any special attitude towards this song, so Dick just regarded it as a song.

Bruce felt that Dick, who had not received professional music education, could not understand the score, let alone sing the song completely.

However, Dick participated in many activities in school and joined the choir. He had a good relationship with the nun who taught singing, and learned some basic content of the music score, and could hum the song by looking at the score.

But because he didn't learn it completely and didn't sing it seriously, the tune he hummed was an extremely simplified version, which was a bit strange with the complicated lyrics, but it was precisely because the tune was simplified that Elsa learned it quickly.

After finding that Elsa could hum the tune, Dick began to focus on teaching her the lyrics, but Elsa couldn't even speak and didn't know many words, so how could she memorize such a long list of lyrics, so Elsa simplified the lyrics.

In this way, the originally complex, dark, and Gothic owl nursery rhyme completely became a real children's song.

Perhaps Dick was particularly talented in art, and the song here can really be called catchy. Except for the first two sentences "The Court of Owls is always monitoring your travels", the rest of the lyrics were changed to be very memorable. It also required the children's speaking logic, and the tune became more repetitive, which was pleasant and memorable.

Not long after, Elsa completely learned the song. It seemed that she liked singing very much. After learning it, she began to sing non-stop, and even the pronunciation of the words became fluent.

After singing a few times, Elsa became more proficient. She clapped her hands happily. Suddenly, she froze and began to shake her head left and right, as if looking for something. Dick was a little confused by her reaction and asked, "What's wrong? Elsa? What are you looking for?"

Elsa showed a very confused expression. She opened her mouth and seemed to bite something, but she didn't bite anything. She sniffed hard and seemed to smell something, but there was nothing around.

Her reaction made Dick's back cold. Dick shivered, hugged the blanket tightly, looked at Elsa and asked, "What's wrong with you? Don't scare me..."

Finding that she didn't find what she wanted, Elsa thought for a while, and then started singing again. After a while, she opened her mouth, bit the air, and sniffed again.

As if she had discovered something, Elsa began to sing the nursery rhyme loudly. Later, Elsa found that it was still too troublesome to sing like this, so she further simplified the lyrics and melody. In the end, the whole nursery rhyme was left with the first sentence, plus a simple tune, and repeated continuously.

Elsa sang faster and louder. As she sang, she opened her mouth and chewed twice after singing once, and chewed twice after singing once, as if she was eating. Dick was scared. He ran out of the room and called Alfred.

After Alfred was called over, Aisha was still singing. Alfred did not act rashly. He went straight to call Bruce, who was studying the Ark reactor model in the Bat Cave.

After Bruce came back, he saw Aisha like this and asked Dick: "What's wrong? What is she singing?"

Due to the fact that Dick and Aisha simplified the song so much, Bruce did not recognize that it was the nursery rhyme at first. Dick thought he was in trouble and honestly explained everything.

Bruce looked at Dick and said, "Did you really learn that song? How did you recognize the music score?"

"I joined the school choir. The nun who taught singing liked me very much, so she taught me some music score symbols, but I couldn't recognize them all. I only knew a basic melody, and the rest of the tunes were all made up by me."

Dick turned his head and looked at Aisha and said, "After I taught her, Aisha didn't learn it completely, and the rest of the tunes were probably made up by her."

Just then, Aisha suddenly stopped singing. She stood there and burped, then suddenly laughed, and ran to Bruce's legs, hugged his legs, and jumped while shouting, "Dad! I'm full! I'm full!"

Bruce squatted down, pressed Aisha's shoulders, and looked her up and down. He found that she was not injured and was still conscious. It was just that Bruce didn't understand what she just said.

Elsa can now speak some words and can also express her status in words. For example, when Alfred feeds her vegetables that she doesn't like, she will say that she is full and doesn't want to eat.

Bruce looked up at the clock on the wall again. It was past 9 o'clock in the evening. Logically, it had been 4 hours since dinner time. Bruce looked back at Alfred. Alfred shook his head and said, "Eating midnight snacks is not good for the body. The Wayne family doesn't have such a habit."

"What did you eat?" Bruce asked.

"Delicious... So full, full! Burp!" Elsa could only repeat these few words over and over again. Bruce asked several times, but she couldn't say anything.

Finally, Elsa also understood that Bruce wanted to know the answer, so she pulled Bruce's trouser leg to the window and pointed outside the window.

Bruce looked out the window. There was nothing outside, only the endless night of Gotham.

Finding that Bruce still didn't understand, Elsa thought for a while, then ran over quickly, jumped on the bed, and turned off the lamp.

Now, the whole room was plunged into darkness. Elsa stood on the bed and jumped and shouted: "This! Delicious! This is it!"

Bruce walked over and turned on the lamp, and Elsa stopped shouting. He turned off the lamp again, and Elsa started shouting again. Bruce stood up, looked at Alfred, and said: "Dark? Night? ... Dark?"

Suddenly, he thought that the creator of this nursery rhyme might be the Dark Owl Priest. Now, when Elsa sang this nursery rhyme, it seemed like she was eating something, and after eating, she would shout "I'm so full". Does that mean that this nursery rhyme may have brought something, and then it was eaten by Elsa?

Thinking of this, Bruce immediately became nervous. He first picked up Aisha, then pulled Dick's arm and said, "Come with me, come with me, to the hall!"

"Alfred, open all the defense systems of Wayne Manor, and put all the transportation in place. If you find any abnormality, directly output the highest firepower!"

After saying that, he carried a child in one hand and quickly went to the hall downstairs, lit up all the lights in the hall, and then asked them to stand in the middle of the hall. Alfred brought him a full set of Batman's equipment. After Bruce put it on, he stood in the hall of Wayne Manor and waited for it.

But after waiting for a long time, nothing strange came. Who knew that at this time, Aisha actually started singing the nursery rhyme again, and then started chewing while singing. Bruce took this opportunity to observe the surroundings, but still saw nothing.

He felt that this might be a problem of vision. Just because Elsa could see something didn't mean he could see Elsa. After all, Elsa was the reincarnation of a parallax monster, and her soul was a parallax monster, while his soul was that of an ordinary human. So it was very likely that he couldn't see what Elsa could see.

Not only him, Dick and Alfred were ordinary humans, so in the entire manor, only Elsa could see that kind of thing.

Bruce admitted that he panicked when he found out that there might be something wrong with this nursery rhyme. At that time, he thought Dick couldn't read the music score, so he asked him to memorize the lyrics.

But this was actually because he didn't know Dick well enough. Recently, he had been busy studying the Ark reactor model that Schiller had given him. When he got home, the two children had already gone to bed. Sometimes, they didn't eat dinner at home. The time to chat and tell stories in front of the fireplace after dinner was completely gone.

So, Bruce didn't know enough about Dick's campus life recently, and didn't know what activities he participated in at school, so this mistake occurred.

Fortunately, Aisha is not an ordinary child. If these two children were just ordinary human children, they might be entangled in something and Bruce and Alfred would not be able to find it.

Thinking of my previous speculation, that is, Gotham has become so chaotic and dark, and it may be the dark owl priest who is secretly doing it. Then, will Dick and Aisha also embark on an irreversible path because of my momentary negligence?

Thinking of this, Bruce's face gradually turned cold. He did not leave the two children, but asked Alfred to take the phone in the living room, picked up the receiver and dialed, and then said to the other end:

"Hello, it's me, I'm coming to Wayne Manor."

A muddled and hoarse voice came from the other side: "What? Bruce? What did you say? I... Oh, wait a minute, dear, wait, I'll take a call... I'm not free now, now is the time for adults..."

Bruce's voice became colder and colder, he said: "If you don't come, then I'll go find you, Constantine."

Constantine broke out in a cold sweat in an instant, he felt that he was being stared at by an irresistible darkness, he shook his head vigorously, and then said:

"Wait for me, I'll be there soon."

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