Chapter 409 I Won’t Tell You Who Will Suffer the Most (Part 2)
It is impossible to say that Batman is not curious about magic. He is born to want to investigate everything clearly and then come up with several solutions to deal with possible situations.
Since he met Constantine, he has labeled this bad guy with two labels: one is a hopeless scumbag, and the other is a source of information that can let him understand magic.
If you want to investigate someone, you must first find out his daily routine and movement trajectory, and the best way to find out all this is to follow him.
When Batman dealt with such things before, he had encountered situations where some people would go to some more difficult to describe places, or in other words, when investigating certain people in Gotham, these places cannot be avoided.
These places inevitably involve some less legal industries, but their appearance in Gotham will not surprise anyone.
The only exception is his psychology professor. The professor's life between two points made Batman even come up with a plan that he might be a robot, but except for this professor, everyone has a little hobby, and Bruce's friends are no exception.
Harvey Dent likes to play billiards and will go to the game room with his colleagues in the court after get off work. Gordon will go out for drinks with his colleagues and go hunting in the suburbs in his spare time. Although Catwoman's main job is a thief, when she is not stealing, she will go to dances or amusement parks. Since all the places they have been to are gangsters' industries, there are some unspeakable transactions in them.
When investigating these people, Batman usually chooses to knock people unconscious when he sees these transactions. If there are too many, he will go to talk to the boss of this industry, but these places only play a small role in these people's lives.
Constantine is different. These industries play all roles in his life.
Bars, dance halls, game rooms, casinos, pharmacies, red-light districts, Constantine shuttles between these places every day without a day off.
During the time Batman followed him, preventing the evil transactions in these places he went to was much more work than tracking him himself.
More importantly, these places often have some unpleasant smells, such as the smell of alcohol in the bar, the smell of cigarettes in the casino, and the strong smell of sesame oil in the drug addicts' gathering place. Even if Batman prepared some odor removers, he still couldn't escape Elsa's nose.
Elsa is not an ordinary person. Her senses are extremely sensitive. Not only does she have the ability of night vision, but her sense of smell is also far superior to that of ordinary people.
One night, Batman followed Constantine to an underground base where drug addicts were gathering. Because it was underground, he couldn't observe the situation there from other floors, so he could only sneak in by himself.
There, he found out Constantine's usual dosage of drugs and found that he was indeed a completely crazy drug addict, but he also had some of that smell on his body. At that time, Batman didn't realize what would happen if he went home with this smell.
That day, he came and went through the courtyard like the wind as usual, and came to the balcony with his grappling claws. Just when he was about to change his clothes, he heard some movement outside the door. …
Batman instantly took a defensive stance. Just as he was about to move towards the door, the entire door flew out with a "bang". Elsa appeared outside the door. She sniffed hard and started crying loudly.
Coincidentally, Catwoman Selina also stayed at Wayne Manor that day. Her bedroom was next to Batman's. Elsa ran out of her room. Hearing Elsa's crying, Catwoman hurried out.
At first, Catwoman didn't know why Aisha was crying, but when she got close to Batman, she frowned fiercely, took two steps back with some disgust, and then said: "Did you go to the most famous drug dens in the North District? Do you know how bad you smell now?"
"Oh my God! That smell is disgusting!" Catwoman covered her neck and carried Aisha to the corridor, seeming not to get close to Batman at all. She said: "I know it's hard to avoid dealing with this smell in Gotham, but don't you consider that you have two children at home?"
Catwoman's tone was very dissatisfied, as if she was really angry. Although she was a thief, she was most annoyed by drug addicts who were high on drugs and vandalized everywhere, and she was also a bit of a germaphobe, and hated the smell of those drugs.
Not to mention, three or four hours ago, Catwoman took a lot of effort to coax Aisha to sleep, but now she was woken up again, and she was crying so hard.
It's like a mother who has been taking care of her child for a day and finally coaxed the difficult child to sleep after a lot of effort. As a result, the drunk father rushed into the bedroom and made the child who was originally sleeping soundly cry. It can be imagined that this father must be in trouble.
Moreover, the noise here also woke Dick up. He changed to a day school. The school is quite far from Wayne Manor, so he must get up early to go to class the next day. It looks like he will not be able to get up and will be late.
After waking up everyone in Wayne Manor, Batman had to go to the living room to accept their criticism. If he was facing Selina, he could still explain that he went to such a place for investigation, but facing Alfred, Batman really had no room for explanation.
Because in the eyes of the old housekeeper, even if the sky fell, he could not go to such a place.
As expected, Batman was scolded. Although Alfred did not scold him in the tone of a real elder, but only gave very gentle advice, Batman knew very well that he had better listen honestly and do it.
Since then, no one knows what agreement Alfred and Elsa have reached. Elsa has become a human detector. As long as she finds that Batman does not return home at night and returns to the manor in the middle of the night, she will immediately come up and smell whether there is any strange smell on Batman, guessing where he has gone.
If she finds any bad smell, Elsa will immediately scream and wake everyone up, followed by another midnight criticism meeting for Batman.
After the phobia of bats, Batman felt that he had a phobia of Aisha. Even if he saw a little girl of Aisha's age on the street, he would feel like walking around her. …
I don't know when it started, but when Batman faced people in Wayne Manor, it was difficult for him to say that kind of very cold rejection.
If he insisted on doing it, he could ignore anyone's noise, turn back to his room, close the door, put on pajamas, and go to bed, and continue this action the next day. Whether it was Aisha, Dick, Catwoman, or even Alfred, he couldn't shake him.
But Batman thought, maybe he had rejected others too many times outside, and every time he saw the faint light in his own nest, he felt that the indifference and stubbornness were gradually washed away.
So, he was like an adult participating in a children's drama performance, participating in it with a slightly lame and obviously pretended childishness.
Or maybe, in fact, he was the only child in this children's drama.
Batman was not the only one who discovered Aisha's special situation. Hal, the Green Lantern who came to Gotham because of the advent of the yellow lantern ring, also discovered it.
He also participated in the battle in the dream, so he also knew how Aisha was born. Now he faces two problems.
The first is, will Aisha, who was reincarnated by the yellow lantern beast Parallax Monster, pose a threat to the safety of the universe like other yellow lantern monsters?
The other is, who let Sinestro, the leader of the Yellow Lantern Corps, go?
These are also the two investigation tasks that Hal was given by the Green Lantern Corps after he reported what happened in Gotham to the Green Lantern Corps, but Hal was a little disdainful of the first question.
It may be because the little girl reincarnated by the time difference monster looks cute and does not seem to have any lethality. Moreover, she seems to be more interested in finding something to grind teeth than the safety of the universe, so Hal did not think she could threaten the safety of the universe.
However, Hal is just a fledgling Green Lantern, and he is still at the stage where he will complete any order issued by the Green Lantern Corps.
So, he had to keep a sneaky eye on Elsa. Fortunately, the Green Lantern Ring has many functions suitable for tracking, such as teleportation and invisibility, which prevented him from being caught for tracking a little girl.
As for the second question, Hal found Constantine, because Constantine was the only strange outsider who came to Gotham recently. So, while tracking Elsa, he was also tracking Constantine.
But at the same time, Batman was also tracking Constantine, so it was difficult to judge whether Hal was tracking Constantine or Batman.
At the beginning, Hal's actions were very smooth. There was no such person as him in Gotham, and no one knew what the specific functions of the Green Lantern Ring were. He could come and go freely in Gotham.
Batman, who was obsessed with investigating magic, had no time to pay attention to him. After all, in the process of facing the terrifying laughing demon, he was also one of his comrades. Compared with Constantine, a weirdo who could do magic and had no idea whether he was an enemy or a friend, Green Lantern Hal had a lower priority.
Hal was also very satisfied with the progress of his investigation. He suddenly realized that the horror rumors about Gotham that he had seen on TV and in newspapers were nothing more than that.
Although there are many gangsters and villains here, most of them are ordinary people without superpowers. As a Green Lantern with various superpowers, he did not encounter any obstacles here.
Whether it is the most chaotic East District dock area, the North District with many gangster family estates, the southern part of the new rich area, or the western part of the old city, he can roam freely without being targeted by anyone.
Until one day, the Green Lantern, who was emitting green light, came to the middle of the central turntable, the tall red and green light pole.