Chapter 975: Battle for the Tower (IX)

When Batman went to serve the meal, he kept staring at where Alfred was, hoping that his butler would look at him. However, Alfred, who had taken good care of him in the manor, seemed to not recognize him now. He ate and chatted with the demons.

Several strong old miner demons also sat with the supervisor. They were chatting enthusiastically. After a while, Schiller and the supervisor he knew before joined in. There were seven or eight demons and two humans on the table, making a whole buffet.

The food in the bowl was nothing special, like boiled vines and two pieces of strange roasted beast meat. The taste was not good, but it was edible. Batman ate the rice while staring at the movement over there.

"Clang", the sound of cutlery being placed on the table rang out. Batman turned around and saw that it was Merkel who was also turning his head and staring at him. Before he could speak, Merkel sighed and said:

"I have been digging the mine for the whole morning, but I didn't see how Mr. Pennyworth got together with them. Mr. Wayne, did you see it clearly?"

"Call me Batman." Batman turned his head, glanced at the surrounding situation, lowered his voice a little, and then said: "How did you and Alfred get here? Where is Zatanna?"

"Miss Zatanna opened the portal, and then, um, she fainted because of exhaustion. Mr. Alfred sent her to rest upstairs in the manor. The two of us entered the portal and came here."

"Weren't you caught by the big sandworm?" Batman asked.

Merkel shook his head and said, "The place where we landed is not far from here. It's an underground cave. Seeing that there seemed to be people here, Alfred led me here."

"Are you here to find Schiller and me?"

"At first it seemed so, but later, Alfred seemed to have something else to do, so we stayed here."

Merkel just said this when he found a black tentacle extending from his side. He just wanted to stand up, and Batman turned around and said, "Hexagon, I was just looking for you."

Hexagon moved slowly He came over. In a place with clearer light, he looked like a ball of black vines. He didn't look like a demon monster, but more like a plant spirit. Seeing Batman's eyes, Hexagon turned his eyes down, looked at himself, and then said:

"What's so surprising? Shadow monsters are the most common mine plants, shadow vines, awakened to consciousness. Oh, yes, you just came to hell, you may not know..."

Hexagon grabbed a chair with his tentacles and sat down, then threw a piece of meat into his mouth with his tentacles. Batman didn't see where his mouth was, anyway, the meat disappeared in the center of the tentacle ball.

"Is he your friend?" Roku rolled his eyes and looked at Merkel. Merkel still looked at the monster with a vigilant look. Batman nodded, then looked at his tentacles and asked, "Is your injury better?"

"Your healing magic is really effective. The wound doesn't hurt anymore, but..." Roku waved his tentacles, then sighed and said, "Forget it."

Batman wanted to ask more, but at this time, he saw that Alfred at the opposite table left first, and after a while, Schiller also left. The two were probably going to meet.

Batman and Merkel both stood up and wanted to go over, but the group of supervisors had finished their meal and turned their attention back to them. Batman and Merkel knew that they couldn't act rashly, so they sat down again and started eating.

After a while, lunch time was over. On the way back to the mine to work, Schiller slowed down and came to Batman, leaving only one sentence: "Meet at the abandoned mine halfway up the mountain at midnight today."

After another afternoon of work, Batman also started to be lazy, but he did not steal the minerals of other demons, but pressed the heavy rock and soil fragments that fell down at the bottom of the basket.

Schiller was responsible for transporting the mine cart, but Schiller's attention was not on the mine cart at all. Batman carried a full basket of minerals and seemed to have a good harvest. He was not lazy at all, but when he poured it into the mine cart, the bottom was full of rock and soil fragments.

Schiller glanced at the dirt in the mine cart and raised his eyebrows at Batman. Batman heard him whisper: "It's a pity that you have graduated. Otherwise, I would really like to give you two points."

Batman shook his head and said as he walked back: "If I hadn't graduated yet, you would definitely deduct two points from me."

In the middle of the night, Batman quietly moved the straw mat away and began to study the gap in the corner. He also suspected that this might be a trap set by the devil for him, so he didn't act rashly.

He first swept the gravel away with his hands, feeling the airflow from inside, and then raised the torch to the gap and looked down, and found that there seemed to be a passage there.

Judging from the direction and intensity of the airflow, there must be an exit on the opposite side, and the road is not rugged, and there is nothing to cover the exit.

This means that the place where the exit is located may be relatively hidden, so there is no need for additional things to cover the hole in order to have such a strong convection airflow.

Batman first used his fingers covered with gauntlets to dig a little more of the gap, and looked inside with a torch. Sure enough, he saw that the exit at the end of the passage pointed to the mine opposite.

Batman recalled the whole picture of the mine he had seen before. He calculated the distance of the passage, and then found that the exit should be right behind the mine bunker, at the foot of the mine.

There was no shelter there, it was relatively exposed, but almost no one went there. The other small mine opposite was farther away, and there was an erupting flue in the middle, so the guards could not see the movement here.

After discovering this, Batman began to dig. The last miner who dug out this passage seemed to have buried the entrance very loosely for the convenience of travel. After a few gentle diggings, he dug out more than half of it.

After Batman got into the passage, he filled the entrance with soil, then stretched out a hand and pulled the straw mat over to cover the hole.

After he left, several black tentacles reached out, cleaned up the loose soil that fell due to the excavation, and then quietly retracted it.

Coming out of the cave at the foot of the mountain, Batman found a rugged but hidden road and began to walk up the mountainside. As soon as he walked into the abandoned mine, he found that Schiller was waiting there.

Batman was about to step forward and say something? Alfred led Merkel in and brought two torches. Merkel fixed the torches, and a ray of light came into the originally dark abandoned mine.

Seeing that everyone was present, Batman cleared his throat, but no one paid attention to him. Schiller stood up first, walked up to Alfred, shook hands, and said, "Hello, comrade."

Alfred took off his hat and said to Schiller, "Hello, comrade, I am Bigg, the action committee member of the First Bureau of the Soviet State Security Committee, and I greet you on behalf of Moscow."

Merkel also walked up, shook hands with Schiller again, and then said, "Oliver, the special hired committee member of the Fifth Bureau of the Soviet State Security Committee..."

Schiller nodded, glanced at the two of them, and then said, "For confidentiality purposes, I cannot reveal my real name and rank for the time being, but please believe that we are all fighting for the cause of communism."

"Yes, Mr. Rodriguez, Moscow has sent a call and highly praised the revolutionary work you led in Central America." Alfred put his hat on the table, and the two came to the table and sat down, and Alfred spoke again Said: "Comrade Vasilyevich, expressed affirmation and praise for your pioneering work in Central America."

"In his personal letter, he called you the eternal friend of the Mexican people and the flag that is flying again in the American land."

But Schiller shook his head and said: "We all know that there has never been any savior. Revolution is inevitable and spontaneous. It does not need a brilliant and great leader. All this is the will of the Mexican people and the will of the American land..."

"In that land where countless crimes have been produced, the Mexican people have been silent for too long, so only a small spark is needed to burn the entire Central American land. They just need a passerby to guide them on the right path, not a leader. This is why I did not stand up."

"In any case, Comrade Schiller, you have accomplished an unprecedented feat and injected a fresh blood into the heart of Moscow far away." Alfred said with a serious face.

But Schiller shook his head and said, "The cause of communism has no so-called heart. Here, every comrade, every idealist, every person who has walked on this road or is walking on this road is an indispensable blood."

Batman saw that Alfred's brows gradually relaxed, and Schiller continued, "Comrade Alfred, I know that at some time you had doubts about some of the pioneers on this road, but this is actually very normal."

"On the road of exploration, we will always encounter periods of confusion. There will always be people who raise different opinions and go to another fork in the road, but if you don't take a step, you will only stay where you are forever."

"You don't have to feel that because of the mistakes of some people, Rather than being disappointed, it is better to say that you feel confused and at a loss because of your disagreement with them, which just shows that you are still loyal to your original ideals. "

"Please believe that the blood that has been surging forward has never stopped moving forward."

"Perhaps, the heart that once beat the most passionately is no longer young, just like the people of that era, some are shaken and some are old."

"But there will still be new blood joining in, and a young and energetic heart will also beat on the new land."

Schiller's tone was always calm, as if he was stating a fact, but Batman had never seen such a moving expression on Alfred's face. He even saw that his old butler began to tear up.

Batman had never seen such passionate emotions in this old man. He was always gentle and gentle, like an old tree that had reached the end of its life, twisted and vigorous, and every vein was a story.

But today, Batman saw new vitality on the branches of this old tree, or rather, the blood that had been hidden inside the old trunk, in the layers of tree rings, and was suppressed and re-emerged in his heart.

Alfred stood up and shook hands with Schiller again. The two were silent and said nothing.

But Batman clearly saw that they only used one look to tell the ups and downs of the world and life in the past few decades.

There was a power between their souls that Batman could not understand, which made them brighter and more vigorous than the red sun in the sky even if they were in hell and surrounded by demons.

Merkel seemed to be moved by this power. He and Batman were silent together. After being silent for a long time in the abandoned mine, Schiller and Alfred spoke together and stopped together.

"You go first." Schiller extended his hand to greet him, but Alfred shook his head and said, "No, you go first. I believe that your rank should be higher than mine, and your achievements are also better than mine."

Schiller did not refuse. He nodded, stood up, and said, "Now, we have three people who can set up a temporary combat command center. Then, let me briefly explain the spirit of this operation."

"The land of hell has gone through thousands of years of vicissitudes. The people of hell have suffered a lot. The demon lords are oppressive to the general public. A mountain above the head of Tongren Hell. "

"And we, as the exploited, oppressed, tenacious and rebellious civilians of Hell, must fight the stubborn old forces to the end!"

Schiller stood up and looked at the smoke gradually rising outside the abandoned cave. His voice echoed among the mines:

"All the oppressed mortals of Hell, all the bullied and exploited lower races, all the demons who have suffered injustice, will unite and vow to make Wanwanli Hell dare to change the sky!"

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