Chapter 309

In the outskirts of Cat Getan, on the side of a hill not shown on any map, under a steep cliff, an iron door that had been carefully camouflaged was covered under rubble.

After heavy scanning and verification, Batman walked inward along the metal bridge inside the gate. The pentagonal arched door supported the entrance of the Batcave, and the long metal bridge passed through several arched doors and extended into the mountain.

Inside the arched door, there were light tubes emitting cold light, illuminating one after another blue light bands on the bridge surface. When Batman passed through the light under these arches, the cold light flowed down along his cape.

After walking across the metal bridge, there was a lifting platform, and when the lifting platform descended to the bottom, it could be discovered that this place was not yet completed.

Opposite the lifting platform was a huge cylindrical space, divided into several upper and lower levels. At this time, only the bottom level and half of the second level were completed. On the outside of each level, there was a corridor extending from the wall, and on the corridor, there were several room doors.

It is not difficult to see that this tower-like structure seems to have been designed by Batman with reference to a building that only existed in dreams. When standing at the very bottom of the tower and looking up, the layered floors would bring people an endless sense of oppression.

At this time, this place was still just a real underground base, without any strange collections. However, when Batman walked out of the lifting platform, came to the second-floor corridor, and opened one of the room doors, countless monitoring screens appeared in the room.

Each screen there represented every corner of Cat Getan, but all the monitoring screens in this room were only two-thirds lit, and the rest were black screens.

This fully proved the endless exploration desire and destructive power of Cat Getan people for novel things. These black screens meant that the cameras fixed in a certain place were broken.

Batman had been a bit busy recently, so he hadn't had time to repair the cameras, but even with two-thirds of the screens, he monitored most of Cat Getan's buildings.

Batman narrowed his eyes and began to search.

Just about ten minutes ago, he received the news from Jason that Dick had been kidnapped. Batman had to admit that when he heard this news, he felt his heart tremble.

Batman could also feel that finding a nanny for Aisha was not the only reason he adopted Dick, and wanting to find an assistant for himself was not either. If he had to say it, his and Dick's auras were very compatible.

Although Batman didn't like to study those strange metaphysical theories, when Batman and Dick were together, he found that the coldness and barrier he had when dealing with normal people as Batman didn't appear in his interaction with Dick. They seemed to have an innate tacit understanding.

【Zero Point Reading】

Before, he insisted on sending Dick to boarding school, but the boarding school had an accident, which had already made Batman a bit hesitant. And now, hearing the news that Dick had been kidnapped, the flame of anger that hadn't appeared in his heart for a long time was rekindled.

Batman narrowed his eyes, searching the screen carefully, not letting go of any detail. Soon, the movement of his head stopped, and he cast his gaze on a screen on his right hand.

In order to facilitate searching, the monitoring screens here were also distributed according to geographical location. The closer to the center, the closer to Cat Getan's city center, and the more in the corner, the more remote the location.

At this time, the picture in the screen he was watching came from the edge of Cat Getan's East District, a building between the third and fourth piers.

Several screens around this screen were black, proving that the cameras here were severely damaged, but it was not because the people living here had any precautions, but because this was Cat Getan's most famous gathering place for drug addicts. After that group of people got high, they would kick anything they saw, so the cameras broke very quickly.

Seeing this location, Batman's fingers suddenly twitched, and his face began to turn cold. Before the Batwing took off, his deep voice echoed in the empty room, looking somewhat terrifying.

"Constantine..."

The location shown on the monitoring screen was a club in the East District. Because of the damage to Cat Getan's surface buildings, that club had been closed for a long time.

A corner of the house on the surface of the club had collapsed, and no one dared to go in, but one of the only remaining cameras in the corner of the house captured a person wearing a long trench coat carrying a child into the basement.

When Batman arrived, Dick was lying on the basement floor. Batman walked over and checked. There were no injuries on Dick's body, which didn't match the claim that there was blood at the kidnapping scene described by Jason. And his movement of shaking Dick's body made Dick wake up.

Dick blinked somewhat confusedly. He saw that the person who appeared was Batman and breathed a sigh of relief. Batman asked him: "Who kidnapped you?"

"... That Constantine." Dick covered his forehead and frowned, saying: "Originally, I was in Jason's underground base, and suddenly, he appeared from the corner of the wall. It looked just like magic."

"He wanted to attack me, but I dodged it. You know, I'm not easy to deal with either. I picked up a crowbar and fought with him, broke his forehead, and even scratched his arm..."

"But in the end, he used something like a magic circle to knock me unconscious..."

Just when Batman was sizing up this basement space, there was a sound at the basement door. Constantine, who had just returned, walked down the stairs and met Batman's eyes. He turned and ran.

Batman's movements were faster than his. Several Batarangs flew past Constantine's ears and nailed to the door. Batman's deep voice came: "Move again, and you're dead."

Constantine's figure stiffened on the stairs. Subsequently, he slowly raised his arms, signaling that he had no threat, and said: "I want to turn around."

Batman didn't reply. Constantine assumed he agreed, so he turned his body very slowly to look at Batman. Before Batman could ask him, he said: "Listen to my explanation! I swear I have no malice..."

Before he could finish, a fist as big as a sandbag appeared in his field of vision.

Ten minutes later, Batman threw Constantine, who was like mud, to the ground. Constantine screamed in pain, and another Batarang flew past his cheek and nailed to the ground. He didn't dare to make a sound. Batman asked: "Why kidnap Dick?"

"I'm investigating a case. Didn't you ask me to investigate the case?"

Batman stared at Constantine. Constantine explained: "Didn't I say before, that Lorena Sanchez specializes in using children's souls to practice? Then do you know how she extracts children's souls?"

Batman looked at him silently. Constantine didn't expect him to reply either, but said to himself: "I don't know if you've heard of such a legend. On the night of Halloween, there will be a beautiful woman dressed as a witch, holding a basket full of candy in her hand. If a child wants to get the candy in her hand, they must call her 'Mom'."

"When this child takes the candy and eats it, it is equivalent to completing a transaction with the Ghost Mother."

"Once a child calls the witch 'Mom', the witch can tamper with the ownership of this child's soul, truly becoming his mother, and then sell the child's soul to the devil in exchange for what she needs..."

Batman suddenly understood what he meant. He turned his head to look at Dick and asked: "Did you meet this witch?"

Dick was stunned for a moment. He recalled and said: "No, and..."

"Although I haven't been in Cat Getan for long, whether it's Easter or any other night, if someone walks on the street in strange clothes and asks people to call her Mom, she will definitely get shot."

"And, it's impossible for children in Cat Getan to call others Mom casually. When I was a chimney sweep, only the head of a block could be called 'Dad or Mom'. If anyone dared to call randomly, they would be beaten to death."

"... Then have you eaten anything randomly recently?" Batman asked again.

Dick shook his head. Suddenly he remembered and said: "I did get a few candies recently, but it was when I was a chimney sweep, given to me by the little leader there, and I didn't eat them..."

Batman turned his head to look at Constantine again. Constantine seemed to be unable to continue making things up. He gave up struggling, lay flat on the ground, showed a smile of a successful scheme to Batman, and then slowly turned into a pile of ashes.

Just then, the alarm on Batman's wrist suddenly sounded. The sharp long sound was telling Batman that someone had invaded Wei En Manor.

Batman looked at the pile of ashes on the ground and said: "Using the same trick twice, you are at least a bold liar, Constantine..."

"Wait!" Dick struggled to crawl up from the ground and said: "Didn't you say before that this thing sounds like this, meaning someone invaded the manor? We have to go back quickly, there is still... still..."

Dick repeated it several times, his tone gradually slowed down, and then became somewhat raised. He looked at Batman and said: "... There is still Aisha in the manor."

When Batman and Dick returned to Wei En Manor, Constantine was lying in the middle of the living room again, just like that day, and beside him was Aisha, who was showing her sharp teeth and a terrifying smile.

Batman walked to Constantine's side unhurriedly and said to him: "The scene is a bit familiar, right?"

I saw Constantine's chest on the ground heave violently, and then he lay on the ground like a deflated balloon. His tone carried deep helplessness.

"... Is there no normal person in Cat Getan???"

Batman walked up, grabbed his collar with his hand, and dragged him into the basement. After handcuffing Constantine, Constantine's first sentence was still: "Do you have a cigarette?"

But Batman was not Shiler. His interrogation process was mainly physical therapy. He directly crushed Constantine's arm joints with his bare hands. Constantine screamed in pain, kept gasping for breath, looked up at Batman, and said: "Really powerful, kid..."

"If it were before, I wouldn't mind playing with you, but now, I still have serious business to do..."

As he spoke, a ball of light flew out from Constantine's chest and almost instantly disappeared into the basement. Batman looked at the direction where the light ball disappeared, which was where he imprisoned Sinestro.

Just as Batman walked out of the prison door, Sinestro, who was locked in the next cell, teleported and disappeared instantly.

Batman walked back to Constantine's cell with a gloomy face. He stepped on Constantine's knee joint again, but this time, Constantine didn't scream. He lay on the spot, as if he were high on drugs, and said in a somewhat illusory tone.

"Thanks to that Professor Shiler, he let me learn a new piece of psychological knowledge, and now it can come in handy..."

Before Batman could understand what he meant, Constantine on the ground suddenly turned into a pile of ashes, and in the pile of ashes at the East District basement club, a figure slowly stood up. Constantine pulled his tie and said to himself:

"... Is this Cat Getan? A bit interesting."

Suddenly a voice sounded:

"Is that so?"

Constantine suddenly stiffened all over because he felt that he was being pressed against his back by a cylindrical object. He heard the person behind him say:

"Then... welcome to Cat Getan."