Chapter 1657: Bruce Wayne and the Philosopher's Stone (Part 8)

The main teaching building of Gotham Academy of Magic is a Gothic manor castle. The left and rear areas are the main castle with a long row of Gothic spires, the front is the auditorium, the left is the corridor with arches and supporting columns, and through the corridor is a very large garden.

The floor-to-ceiling windows of the floating spire of Rodriguez House can just overlook the entire big garden. At sunrise, Schiller, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the dean's office, saw three small figures carrying cleaning tools walking into the big garden.

After a cold rain last night, the rain made the plants in the garden look greener. The rich green seemed to be oil paint painted by a brush. When the dew dripped from the tip of the leaves, it still reluctantly pulled a touch of green full of fresh vitality to make a long green dress. When it dripped to the ground, the blooming water splashes were like rotating skirts in the dance floor.

The damp air with the smell of soil drilled in from the tip of the nose. Barry couldn't help but take a deep breath, showing a look of intoxication, and then slowly exhaled, feeling that his body and mind were purified.

Little Bruce glanced at his expression, showed a look of disdain, and walked forward unhurriedly while carrying the bucket of cleaning tools with some effort.

Harley only took two brooms, and while walking, explained what Kane said before: "We are going to clean the greenhouse on the east side of the big garden. There are no fallen leaves in this season, but there is rainwater accumulated during the rain yesterday. We have to sweep them all into the drainage channel."

"In addition, some plants that withered during the experiment need to be dug out of the pots and thrown away, and the planting tools in the warehouse need to be cleaned. After we arrive, you must not provoke our professor of magical botany, otherwise she will whip you with plant whips."

"If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have to come." Barry looked at Little Bruce and said. He carried the bucket full of shovels and walked quickly in front, not even looking back at Little Bruce.

"What do you think I came with you today for?" Little Bruce sneered, his blue eyes full of sarcasm, and he continued: "Do you really think I'm afraid of those seniors? What can they do to me?"

"Then why did you come? Young Master."

"Have you heard about the room on the fourth floor of the main castle that is not allowed to enter? I plan to go there and see."

"God!" Barry stopped his steps, turned his head and looked at Little Bruce helplessly and said: "Haven't you caused enough trouble? You actually want to trespass into the forbidden area. All the teachers and professors said it is very dangerous, why do you have to go?"

"How do you know that they said it was dangerous to remind us, rather than wanting to monopolize powerful treasures?"

Barry was speechless, but Little Bruce strode forward and said: "What a stupid person, you have no understanding of the situation, and you have no idea about the current situation. It's just headache-inducing."

Barry walked two steps quickly to block Bruce. He looked at Little Bruce with a very serious expression and said: "You can't go, I won't let you go. Even if you don't care whether you are in danger, if you trespass into the forbidden area and violate school rules, you are losing face for our academy. I won't allow you to do this."

"You can't stop me, so you must go with me, because if you knew I was going in advance and didn't stop me, and I encountered any danger there, you would be responsible." Little Bruce provoked and raised an eyebrow at Barry and said: "If that's the case, your prefect position won't be kept."

"You..."

Barry was flushed with anger, but he was indeed not a person who was good at reasoning with his fists. Harley just smiled with great interest and said: "Actually, I am also a little interested in that room, but not because of any powerful power, I just simply feel that reading and attending classes every day is too boring. We should find some excitement at this age, right?"

"God, you two lunatics!" Barry shouted with a raised tone: "I'm going to tell Professor Rodriguez!"

Little Bruce, who was walking very fast, stopped his steps. He turned his head and looked at Barry and said: "Do you really think that professor is a good person?"

Barry opened his mouth, instinctively wanting to say yes, but he actually didn't know this professor named Rodriguez. Little Bruce walked forward again, and while walking, said: "He doesn't look like a good person, you'd better not count on him."

Barry turned his head to look at Harley nearby. Harley shrugged and said: "Rather than saying Professor Rodriguez is not a good person in the traditional sense, it's better to say he is a quite trendy bad person."

"How much do you know about him?" Little Bruce asked back.

"Not much." Harley sighed and said: "Most of the things I have only heard of, but he does have many secrets."

"But I think you really can't..."

"Oh, we're here." Harley ran a few steps quickly to a small building on the east side of the big garden. The left side of this small building is a stone building, and the right side is a glass flower room and greenhouse.

Hearing Harley's shouting, a young woman wearing a capable dark green mage robe and a pointed wizard hat on her head walked out from inside. Harley rushed up and hugged her, and then said: "Pamela, long time no see, is the experiment going well recently?"

"Don't mention it, I get a headache when I mention this. Come in, you haven't had breakfast yet, right? I'll go get you some cookies."

Pamela took off the hat on her head, revealing a young and beautiful face. Little Bruce poked Barry with his elbow and said: "Is this our professor of magical botany? Why is she so young?"

Barry didn't seem to have dissipated his anger and didn't want to talk to Little Bruce at all, but he still muttered: "Mages are quite young."

"It's as if you've seen a few mages."

The three children walked into the small building. The first floor here is a living room with a fireplace. It is a very typical American country cottage decoration style. The brown-red wooden floor and dark gray carpet, the semicircular leather sofa is opposite the fireplace. However, what is a bit surprising is that the big window facing the door is covered by green climbing plants, almost covering the whole window, so the light in the room is a bit dim.

Pamela brought a plate of emerald green cookies from the kitchen. Little Bruce's face wrinkled into a bun, and Barry didn't dare to reach out to take them. In the storybooks he had read, cookies and bread that would be painted green were usually poisoned.

But Harley picked up a cookie and threw it into her mouth and chewed it without any scruples. Pamela sat on the sofa and said: "It's okay, eat it, just put some pure natural plant dyes."

Little Bruce still didn't dare to accept, but Barry summoned the courage to taste one, and then let out an exclamation.

"Oh, it's delicious, God, it has a hint of plant fragrance, the taste is really good, thank you, professor."

Pamela showed a smile. Her gaze stayed on Little Bruce's face for a while, then moved away, and said: "Thank you for coming to help me clean up today. When Sergei left yesterday, he knocked over several plants in the greenhouse. I haven't had time to clean up yet, so I might have to trouble you."

"If you let me take a whole box of this cookie when I leave, I promise to clean it up for you." Harley showed a sweet smile and made an OK gesture to Pamela.

"Don't worry, you can take a bucket each. I have nothing to do when waiting for the experimental results, so I only do this."

Pamela stood up, she reached out, and the only big window in the living room opened with a "bang". Little Bruce and Barry were both startled, and both turned their heads to look over there.

Then they watched with their own eyes as two climbing plant vines flew in along the window, climbed along the walls and floors of the room to their cleaning tools, then wrapped around the cleaning tools with more vines, and quickly took them out of the window.

Barry and Bruce were observing plant magic at close range for the first time. Both of them widened their eyes, but at this time Pamela waved to them at the door and said: "Hurry up, it will be hot in the greenhouse later. Finish the work while it is still cool in the morning, and I will treat you to the beating cold watermelon I just researched recently."

Pamela led the three children to the greenhouse. They first bypassed the side of the house and walked through the pergola covered with wisteria flowers. Pamela held the edge of her hat and bent slightly to walk forward quickly. After passing through the pergola, the scenery in front of them suddenly opened up.

This is a small open-air garden, not a large space, with various flower stands placed around, all of which are small pots of plants. The structure is similar to ordinary plants, but the colors are very gorgeous. The leaves are red, green, and purple. There are some spiral plants, and plants that emit magical light.

From this small garden, they turned to the door of the greenhouse. A big tree grew in front of the greenhouse. Little Bruce walked to the tree curiously to check the patterns on the tree, but suddenly he felt his right shoulder touched by someone.

He looked back and saw Barry and Harley still in the distance, so he turned left and right with some doubts, but at this time he felt his other shoulder touched by someone.

"Pato, don't make trouble, come here, come with me." Pamela shouted.

Then, under Little Bruce's stunned gaze, the big tree he was looking at slowly pulled itself out of the soil, the slender roots tangled into four legs, and the thick trunk turned into two arms. This big tree turned into a tree-man image that can only be seen in fairy tale books.

Then Bruce knew why so much soil was turned over in the flower bed opposite this tree, but the tree was gone. I am afraid that another tree-man left early.

"This is Pato, a tree demon. Originally Sergei should also be here, but he was borrowed to do work, so you won't see him today."

Pamela handed the cleaning tools held by the vines to the three people while saying: "Alright, help me clean up the flower pots that Sergei knocked over when he left, and then just organize the warehouse."

Harley and Barry took the tools and started working, but Little Bruce held the broom and turned his head to stare at the flower bed full of turned-over soil around it. ===== CHAPTER 1658 =====