Chapter 470 The Three of Us (Part 2)
Bruce, who returned from Metropolis, was also full of thoughts, but he still did not forget what he was investigating before coming to Metropolis.
Because Bruce did not know when Constantine would leave Gotham, and he had no means to counter Constantine, he accelerated his investigation and planned to take advantage of the time Constantine stayed in Gotham to thoroughly understand his background.
When Constantine was followed by Batman before, he did not realize the seriousness of the problem, so he did not think about escaping Gotham. When he wanted to leave, the snowstorm trapped him again.
Because of the paralysis of traffic, many places for fun in Gotham City were closed. Constantine was idle anyway, so he started to wander around the city.
Unlike ordinary people, the sinful city that is full of dangers in the eyes of everyone is like home to Constantine. Even in this city, there are not many people who can be worse than him. When people are bad, they are invincible.
He was kidnapped by gangsters, but he slept with the gangster boss within two days. He was blackmailed by street thugs, but they found nothing but two half-dead toads.
He was kicked out by the landlord, slept on the street, formed a band with homeless people, and made a small profit. He was also cheated by the madam of the red-light district, but the next day he was obsessed with her most popular top star and turned over a new leaf.
Constantine wandered in this city that was similar to his style but different, and made Gotham fall for him with his most unruly and crazy soul.
This happy and carefree life only lasted until he sneaked to the vicinity of Gotham Cathedral.
Due to his sensitivity to occult things, Constantine discovered the wine pool hidden under the Gotham Cathedral. When Constantine lifted the floor tiles that had just been repaired and saw the liquid emitting green light, he opened his eyes wide and his eyes were shining.
Perhaps because he was skilled and daring, or perhaps because he knew that the demons would not let him die easily, Constantine did not consider any safety issues when taking liquids. He directly found an empty plastic water bottle nearby and filled it up.
But what he did not know was that while Batman was investigating Constantine, he was actually investigating the wine pool under the cathedral.
Before, he had found a lot of information in the book, and the only thing missing was an actual investigation. He had been wandering around the cathedral for the past few days, and as a result, he ran into the sneaky Constantine.
Just when Constantine was stealing the wine, Batman appeared at the right time and wanted to stop him, but because Batman was not prepared enough for magic, Constantine teleported away directly.
Then the two resumed the situation of chasing each other in Gotham City.
At the beginning, Constantine had the advantage, because magic was really convenient, whether it was flashing, teleporting or doppelganger, he was almost invincible in the chase.
But as time went on, Batman's strong learning and planning abilities began to play a role. Constantine found that he was facing one trap after another. It seemed that all the situations were within Batman's expectations, and it became more and more difficult to escape. …
Because Constantine was really slippery, Batman's patience began to gradually run out, and his means began to become more and more intense. Constantine knew that if he continued like this, he would definitely not be able to escape, so he planned to find a place to hide and avoid the limelight.
Most of Gotham's industries belonged to the Wayne family. Constantine knew this, but if he had to find a place to hide, then hospitals, universities and prisons were not easy to find.
The next day, when Constantine came to Arkham Psychiatric Hospital with a bruised face, he was received by Brand. Constantine asked a little puzzled: "Where is Schiller, is he not here?"
"He has anxiety disorder and went home to recuperate." Brand turned around, walked to the desk, picked up the medical records and payment slips, wrote two strokes on the slips, tore them off and handed them to Constantine.
After Constantine took it, he scratched his head, reached into his pocket, touched the two coins, and said, "Well, I don't have money..."
"It doesn't matter, he had expected this." Brand took out another document from the bookshelf on the table and handed it to Constantine. Constantine opened the document and said, "IOU? This is too..."
"He told me to tell you - 'Sign it if you want to.'"
"If you don't sign, there will be no ward, right? Okay..." Constantine glanced at the contract full of various economic treaties and signed it.
Without even looking up, Brand called the nurse in, pointed at Constantine and said, "Add another bed to Room 13 on the 4th floor."
"Uh, Dr. Brand, the patient in Room 13 is aggressive, have you forgotten? That's Dr. Hugo..."
Brand looked up at the nurse impatiently and said, "What can we do? The big bosses of the twelve families are all squeezed into a room with four people. How long does he want to occupy a single room?"
"If he doesn't want to, he can be transferred to the central hospital. There are still many places in the morgue there."
After saying that, Brand turned and left. The nurse shook her head helplessly, sighed, and said to Constantine, "Come with me."
While walking upstairs, Constantine chatted with the nurse. When he was not sick, he was quite sociable. To be more precise, he was good at socializing with good-looking people of the opposite or same sex.
After arriving at the 4th floor, the nurse stopped at the stairs, looked at Constantine and said, "Sir, I don't know who you are, but I still have to remind you that your roommate is a little abnormal."
"Oh? What's wrong with him?"
"He was originally our attending doctor, but I don't know why he went crazy. At the beginning, he was very aggressive. Several male nurses were injured by him. He has been better recently, but he may still attack people. You have to be careful."
"Doctor? How did he make himself crazy?"
"Who knows." The nurse started to move forward again Walking away, he said as he walked: "I don't think you need to be curious about this question. There are people going crazy in Gotham every day, and there doesn't have to be a reason."
When they arrived at the door of the ward, the nurse pushed open the door and saw a figure squatting in the corner. The nurse frowned and turned around, then said: "Mr. Constantine, please wait here for a while. I'm going to call the nurse. Why did he tear the straitjacket open again?"...
As she said that, the nurse left. Constantine walked over and looked down at the man. He didn't look young. He was bald and wore glasses. His teeth were chattering and he was mumbling to himself.
Constantine leaned over to listen. He kept saying words like "dream" and "monster". Just when Constantine shook his head and planned to walk away and not listen to these crazy words, he suddenly heard a familiar syllable.
Constantine leaned over again and listened for a while. He confirmed that the syllable was "Schiller".
Constantine looked around, and just when he was about to ask, the nurse came over with the caregiver. They pushed Hugo to the bed and tied him up. Constantine coughed and sat back on the bed as if nothing had happened.
After a while, an older nurse came to the door with a cart, then walked to Hugo's bedside with a tray and gave him an injection. Seeing the old nurse walking to his side with the needle, Constantine hid at the bedside and said, "I don't need an injection, do I?"
The old nurse looked at him and said, "Indeed, no."
She took the document hanging from her waist and took a look, then said, "Dr. Brand greeted me. Do you want morphine or cocaine?"
Constantine opened his eyes wide, but looking at the nurse's calm expression, in order not to appear ignorant, he coughed again and said calmly, "Morphine."
Soon, the medicine was delivered, and Constantine pretended to have fallen asleep in bed. After the nurse left, he opened his eyes slightly to confirm that there was no one else in the room, and then he came to Hugo's bed again.
Hugo seemed to have been given tranquilizers and had fallen asleep. Constantine looked at him for a long time, and after finding that there was no reaction, he had to give up.
At night, the ward was very quiet, and both of them seemed to be sleeping soundly, but after a while, Hugo, who was lying on the bed, moved.
His teeth began to tremble, his whole body trembled, and he struggled on the bed. After a few minutes, he suddenly regained his composure, then slowly pulled one hand out of the restraints that had been broken free, sat up straight, and untied the other hand.
After getting off the bed, he glanced at Constantine who was sleeping soundly. His face was no longer as frightened and panicked as before, but seemed very calm and a little gloomy.
He walked to the door lightly, and the movement of pushing the door was also cautious, without making any sound throughout the whole process, but just after he left, Constantine opened his eyes instantly.
Constantine uttered a slight "snort" and said, "You only acted for a dozen minutes and you thought I was asleep? You are young."
He also climbed up from the bed quickly, without any signs of being dizzy from taking drugs before going to sleep. He opened the door quietly and followed Hugo, and then found that he had come to a ward on the 7th floor.
The door of the ward on the 7th floor was more like a tightly guarded base gate. The door frame and door panel were made of metal. It looked like a place where dangerous people were detained, but Hugo didn't know why he could open the door. After he went in, Constantine stuck to the door. …
He found that he couldn't hear any movement inside from outside the door, so he snapped his fingers, and a faint ghost went in through the crack of the door. Now he could not only hear, but also see.
There were two men inside the door, one of whom was the bald Hugo, and the other was thinner, far less strong than Hugo, wearing glasses, pale, and looked like a scholar.
"If you still want to tell me about your unrealistic dreams and weird stories, then our cooperation ends here, Hugo."
"Jonathan, I say again, that is not a weird story, but what I saw with my own eyes! If we can't find a way to deal with him, even if we can escape, the final result will only be to be locked up again."
"Fear has defeated you!" The scholar named Jonathan raised his voice and said in a disdainful tone: "I can also make people see unrealistic illusions and feel fear for them."
"I have already developed that kind of weapon, who knows..." Jonathan's tone became gnashing, he said angrily: "A mysterious thief stole my results and locked me up here!"
"Last time you told me that you were locked up a year ago. Do you know that Gotham now has a superhero named Batman?"
Jonas snorted coldly and said, "How can I not know? It was Batman who put me in here. , he was still a young boy at that time, but he was just lucky. "
"It seems that we all have our own enemies in Gotham." Hugo's voice became lower and lower, with a hint of madness in his tone. He said: "If we want to escape from here, we must make some trouble."
Hugo dragged out the tail tone, then turned his head to look out the window. The downtown of Gotham in the distance was brightly lit. He said:
"Sin City? I think this is just right for us."
"Break the glass, burn the banknotes, let the bored ordinary people eat bullets, and let the self-proclaimed heroes scream. This is what we should do-"
"It's time to make some big noise."
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