Chapter 412: Who Has Bad Luck, I Won't Say (Part 2)

To say that Batman wasn't curious about magic would be impossible. A person like him was born wanting to investigate everything clearly and then come up with several sets of solutions to deal with possible situations.

Since meeting Constantine, he had labeled this scumbag with two tags: one was a hopeless scumbag, and the other was an information source that could let him understand magic.

To investigate someone, naturally, one must first figure out their daily routine and movement trajectory, and the best way to figure all this out was to follow them.

Batman hadn't not encountered situations where people went to places that were hard to describe when dealing with such things in the past, or rather, investigating certain people in Cat Getan couldn't avoid these places.

These places inevitably involved some industries that weren't so legal, but appearing in Cat Getan wouldn't make anyone feel surprised.

The only exception among these was his psychology professor. This professor's two-point-one-line life made Batman even come up with a contingency plan that he might be a robot. However, aside from this professor, everyone had little hobbies, and Bruce's friends were no exception.

Harvey Dent liked to play billiards and would go to the game room with his colleagues from the courthouse after work. Gordon would go out drinking with his colleagues and go hunting in the suburbs in his spare time. Although Catwoman's main job was being a thief, when she wasn't stealing things, she would also go to balls or amusement parks. Since all the locations they went to were gang industries, there were some unspeakable transactions inside.

When investigating these people, Batman would generally choose to knock people out when seeing these transactions. If there were any that were too excessive, he would go talk to the boss of that industry. But these places only played a very small part in these people's lives.

But Constantine was different. These industries played the entire role in his life.

Bars, dance halls, game rooms, casinos, pharmacies, red-light districts—Constantine shuttled through these places every day without a single day of rest.

During the time Batman followed him, the workload of stopping the evil transactions in the places he went to was much greater than following him itself.

More importantly, these places often had some rather unpleasant smells: the smell of alcohol in bars, the smell of smoke in casinos, the pungent smell of incense oil in drug addict gathering places. Even though Batman prepared some odor removers, he still couldn't escape Aisha's nose.

Aisha was not an ordinary person. Her senses were abnormally sensitive; not only was she born with night vision, but her sense of smell was also far beyond that of ordinary people.

One night, Batman followed Constantine to an underground stronghold where drug addicts gathered. Because it was underground, he couldn't observe the situation there from other buildings and had to sneak in himself.

There, he figured out Constantine's usual dosage and discovered that he was indeed a completely crazy drug addict. But likewise, he himself was also stained with some of that smell. At that time, Batman hadn't realized what would happen if he brought this smell home.

That day, he passed through the courtyard like the wind as usual, used his grappling hook to reach the balcony, and just as he was about to change clothes, he heard some movement outside the door.

Batman instantly assumed a defensive posture. Just as he was about to move toward the door, with a "bang," the entire door flew away. Aisha's figure appeared outside the door. She sniffed hard, then began to wail.

Coincidentally, Catwoman Selina was also staying at Wei En Manor that day. Her bedroom was next to Batman's. Aisha had run out of her room. Hearing Aisha's crying, Catwoman rushed out.

At first, Catwoman didn't know why Aisha was crying, but when she got close to Batman, she frowned fiercely, stepped back two steps with some disgust, and said: "Did you go to one of the most famous drug dens in the North District? Do you know how much you stink right now?"

"My God! That smell is nauseating!" Catwoman covered her neck, holding Aisha as she walked to the corridor, seemingly not wanting to get close to Batman at all. She said: "I know it's hard to avoid dealing with this smell in Cat Getan, but don't you consider that you still have two children at home?"

Catwoman's tone was very dissatisfied, as if she were truly angry. Although she was a thief, she was also most annoyed by those drug addicts who were high and causing destruction everywhere, and she also had a bit of a cleanliness obsession, hating the smell of those drugs deeply.

Not to mention, three or four hours ago, Catwoman had spent a lot of effort finally getting Aisha to sleep, but now she was woken up again, and crying so hard.

It was like a mother who had been tired from taking care of a child all day, having spent nine oxen and two tigers' worth of effort to finally get the difficult baby to sleep, only for the father, reeking of alcohol, to rush into the bedroom and smoke the child, who had been sleeping soundly, until they wailed. One could imagine that this father was definitely going to have bad luck.

Moreover, the commotion here also woke Dick up. He went to a day school that was quite far from Wei En Manor, so he had to get up early the next day to go to class. Looking at this situation, he definitely wouldn't be able to get up and would be late.

After waking everyone in Wei En Manor, Batman had to come to the living room to accept their criticism. If he could explain to Selina that he went to such a place for investigation work, he really had no room for explanation when facing Alfred.

Because in the old butler's view, even if the sky fell, one couldn't go to that kind of place.

As expected, Batman was scolded. Although Alfred wouldn't lecture him in the tone of a true elder, but only gave very gentle advice, Batman knew very well that he had better listen honestly and then do as he was told.

Since then, I don't know what agreement Alfred and Aisha reached, but Aisha became a human detector. As long as she discovered Batman didn't return home at night and only returned to the manor in the middle of the night, she would immediately come over, sniff Batman to see if there was any strange smell, and guess where he had gone.

Once she discovered any bad smell, Aisha would immediately scream, then wake everyone up, followed by Batman's middle-of-the-night criticism meeting.

Since bat-phobia, Batman felt he had developed Aisha-phobia. Even if he saw a little girl about Aisha's age on the street, he would have the feeling of wanting to walk around her.

I don't know when it started, but when Batman faced the people in Wei En Manor, it was very hard to say those very cold, rejecting words.

If he had to be willful, he could ignore anyone's noise, turn around, return to his room, close the door, change into pajamas, and then sleep, continuing such actions the next day. Neither Aisha, Dick, Catwoman, nor even Alfred could shake him.

But Batman thought, perhaps it was because he had rejected others too many times outside. Whenever he saw the faint light in his own nest, he felt that those coldness and stubbornness were gradually being washed away.

Therefore, like an adult participating in a children's play, he participated in it with a slightly clumsy, obviously feigned childishness.

Or perhaps, he was actually the only child in this children's play.

Aisha's special situation wasn't only discovered by Batman. Before, Green Lantern Hal, who came to Cat Getan because of the descent of the Yellow Lantern ring, also discovered it.

He also participated in the battle of the dream, so he also knew how Aisha was born. Now he faced two problems.

The first was, would Aisha, who was transformed from the Yellow Lantern entity Parallax, pose a threat to cosmic security like other Yellow Lantern demons?

The other was, who let go of the Yellow Lantern Corps leader, Sinestro?

These were also the two investigation tasks the Green Lantern Corps gave him after Hal reported what happened in Cat Getan to the Green Lantern Corps. But regarding the first question, Hal was a bit disdainful in his heart.

Perhaps because this little girl transformed from Parallax looked cuter and didn't seem to have any lethality, and compared to cosmic security, she seemed more interested in finding something to grind her teeth on, so Hal didn't feel she could threaten cosmic security.

However, Hal was just a fledgling Green Lantern, still at the stage of completing whatever orders the Green Lantern Corps issued.

Thus, he had to sneakily watch Aisha. Fortunately, the Green Lantern ring possessed many functions suitable for tracking, such as teleportation and invisibility, which allowed him not to be caught for following a little girl.

And on the second question, as Hal investigated, he traced it to Constantine, because the only strange outsider who had come to Cat Getan recently was Constantine. Thus, while following Aisha, he was also following Constantine.

But at the same time, Batman was also following Constantine, so it was hard to judge whether Hal's behavior was following Constantine or following Batman.

At first, Hal's actions were very smooth. Cat Getan hadn't seen a character like him, and everyone didn't know what specific functions the Green Lantern ring had. He could come and go freely in Cat Getan.

Batman, who was obsessed with investigating magic, had no time to pay attention to him. After all, in the process of facing the Fear Laughing Demon, he was considered one of the comrades-in-arms. Compared to Constantine, a weirdo who knew magic and whose friend-or-foe status was unclear, Green Lantern Hal's priority was relatively low. ===== CHAPTER 413 =====