Chapter 585: Dead Memories Suddenly Attack Me (Part 1)

Cat Getan's night rain always carries a coldness that penetrates the bone marrow. Between the swaying wind and rain, the colorful neon lights are like the flowing eyes of this city.

A man in a trench coat hurried across the sidewalk. Horns sounded one after another, but the person quickly disappeared at the other end of the street.

Traffic lights changed, car tires pressed over puddles, and the splashed water mist fell on the edge of the street's stone slabs, illuminated into a warm color by the convenience store's lights.

Leather shoes stepped on the puddles on the steps, leaving only a very small gap for the lights reflected on the water surface. The man in the trench coat walked quickly up the stairs of the Cat Getan Grand Theater. After entering the interior, there was no reception staff, and the lights were pitch black.

But he still turned left familiarly, entered the ticket channel, and came all the way to the auditorium. And there, several figures were already waiting.

Victor, who had hurried over, took off the hat on his head and shook off the rainwater on it. He walked to Schiller's side and sat down, saying to him: "Sorry, a bit late, I had to clean up my lab..."

"It's okay, the movie hasn't started yet." Schiller moved the umbrella by his side to the other side. Victor saw the water droplets hanging on the umbrella and knew that he hadn't come long ago either.

The two people sitting in the front row of Schiller were Yin Wensi and Cobblepot. The two of them were whispering, seemingly Cobblepot telling Yin Wensi about Bruce and Lex fighting and being caught earlier, which made Yin Wensi frown and curl his lips.

Sitting diagonally in front of Yin Wensi and Cobblepot was Joker Jack, but he had already fallen asleep, sleeping very soundly, and at this moment, a snot bubble had already emerged.

And in a seat in the corner very far from these people sat a strange man. Victor couldn't see his face clearly, but he always felt he was familiar.

Suddenly, the black shadow moved. In a short moment that Victor couldn't see clearly, he flashed to another row of seats, and suddenly disappeared again.

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Victor wasn't even sure if he had really seen him, but Schiller answered his doubt, saying: "There are many participating actors in today's movie, perhaps it will be very exciting. I can't take care of all the screens, so I invited a projectionist."

Victor looked at Schiller. He saw Schiller tilt his head to look at the seat next to him. There was no one there, but Schiller seemed to see something, saying: "Morpheus, can I trouble you to help us show the movie?"

In Schiller's field of vision, the pale-faced man in a black robe sitting next to him turned his head slightly and glanced at Schiller, with a trace of dissatisfaction in his eyes, seemingly not agreeing with Schiller calling him a movie projectionist.

"I guarantee this will be the last movie before you sleep. After we finish watching it, you can have a good sleep. My friends and I will personally say goodnight to you." Schiller smiled and said.

Morpheus turned his head back and looked at the stage of the theater. Suddenly, the wooden stage and curtains there all disappeared, turning into an endless galaxy. The entire theater seemed to have a huge hole opened, and the area from the first row of seats forward became a black hole.

Stars kept flowing, forming a swirling vortex of flashing light in the deep space. The lights on the ceiling of the theater went out one by one.

Such deep darkness didn't last long. Suddenly, the ground in front of the seats began to extend forward, only it changed from the old tiles to wooden floors.

Then, a room was built bit by bit, seamlessly connected to the auditorium of the theater, and one could even see the part where the wooden floor and tiles intersected.

At this time, the auditorium of the theater was pitch black, and the room was the same. Suddenly, with a "pop," the light bulb at the top of the room lit up.

The light also shone into the auditorium. The seats in the first few rows were illuminated, but the positions where the few people watching the movie were located were still very dim, but this increased the sense of immersion.

When the light in the room shone on their faces, several people narrowed their eyes, just like the audience seen when looking back from the front row when the movie just started.

After the light bulb lit up, the scene in the room was clear at a glance. It was not a spacious room, with a desk in the middle, and very conspicuously, a huge poster was hung on the side wall, looking like it was hand-drawn, with a few words written on it: "Welcome New Students to Report".

"Tap, tap, tap." Footsteps came from outside the room, and a figure walked into the room and stood in front of the desk.

The person behind the desk looked up. He was wearing a doctor's uniform and glasses, but what was different was that he was bald and had a beard. Victor was very familiar with his face; it was Hugo Strange.

Victor narrowed his eyes with some doubt. He didn't understand why it was such an opening, but Schiller revealed an interested smile.

Hugo looked up, saw Bruce's face, and also revealed a gentle smile, saying: "Bruce Wei En, welcome to report. Please sit down and fill in your personal information."

"Thanks." The Bruce in the room sat down smoothly and started to fill in the information in the form, but after filling in only two lines, he stopped and said: "Why are there so many things to write? I don't want to fill it in."

Saying this, he threw the pen onto the desktop. Hugo's face stiffened, but soon, he revealed a smile again and said: "Fine, if you don't want to go through the procedure, your dormitory location is Boys' Apartment Building 2, Room 201. Take the key and start your college life."

Bruce said nothing, grabbed the key, and turned to leave. After he left, the Hugo sitting behind the desk revealed a relaxed smile on his face, saying: "I thought how thrilling the story of Schiller and Batman meeting was. Isn't this just accidentally meeting at school?"

"It seems that Schiller was just an ordinary reception teacher at the time. In this situation, how could Batman have any guard against him?"

"What's going on?" Victor turned his head to look at Schiller. At the same time, Cobblepot and Yin Wensi in the front row also pricked up their ears, wanting to hear Schiller's explanation.

"If it were just letting Hugo rush into Batman's dream and then letting the two of them fight, wouldn't it just turn into a fistfight? What's the point of that?"

"So, what did you do?" Victor asked.

Schiller lowered his eyelids. When the light in the room shone on his face, it couldn't light up the shadow under his brow bone. Those eyes that were always submerged in the shadows were gray, hazy, and unclear under the mist all year round.

"Hugo didn't enter Batman's conscious mind, but his subconscious mind that stores his memories. Of course, I have no way to bypass Batman's conscious mind and send Hugo into his subconscious mind, but I can borrow the way."

"I enter the Dream Realm under consciousness from my own subconscious mind, come to under Batman's dream, and then go upward from the Dream Realm. This way, I can reach Batman's subconscious mind directly from the bottom."

"Thanks to our movie projectionist." Schiller turned his head to look at Morpheus, saying: "Thanks to him for letting me borrow the way. Of course, this is definitely not smuggling. I have notified Batman in advance that there will be an exam."

"Of course, I also have to thank a friend, and that is Mr. Jack, who is sleeping soundly now." Schiller looked at Jack sitting in the front row again, saying: "In order not to let the Batman of the conscious mind discover that someone is making trouble in his memory, comedian Jack is working tirelessly to perform for Batman in the dream of the conscious mind."

"But perhaps he is also enjoying it. Just look at his expression."

Victor followed Schiller's words and looked at Jack in the front row. Because their positions were not directly in front and behind, from the side, one could see that the sleeping Jack was revealing a sweet smile, looking like he was having a great time.

"Additionally, this friend called Hugo Strange once told me personally that he also wanted to play a role like me, so I gave him this opportunity."

"In the subconscious mind, I found all the memories of Batman related to me. Hugo invaded exactly this memory. In this memory, he replaced my existence and became Batman's teacher."

Victor shook his head. He didn't continue to speak, not knowing who he was mourning for. Schiller continued to explain: "The Bruce in the memory doesn't know this is an exam, so he will only follow the logic of his original personality to act. I didn't control or influence him, so what Hugo encountered was the purest Batman, without any external interference."

"Then, he might be in trouble." Victor concluded. Schiller glanced at Victor and said: "You seem to have some special understanding of Batman..."

"He is a quite complex person. Forgive me for being blunt, you two are very similar. From the understanding of you, I can guess what kind of person he is."

Schiller smiled, didn't speak, turned back, and continued to watch the scene on the stage.

At this time, the scene of the room was gradually extracted, and everything was swallowed by that kind of dark deep space again. Starlight gathered again, forming a vortex. This time, cold and damp stone slabs fell one by one, wall bricks were built, and the shadows of buildings appeared vaguely in the distance.

The quiet indoor scene appeared with the sound of rain. It started to rain drizzlingly on the stage. Everyone present felt the dampness rushing toward them, and the smell of chemical agents hidden in the rain unique to Cat Getan.

Cobblepot sniffed. He was too familiar with this smell. As a Gothamite born and raised, he had run around in this kind of rainy night countless times—damp, cold, pungent, but with nowhere to hide.

In the alley, Hugo, who had just entered this memory scene, seemed a bit confused, not understanding why he had come to Cat Getan's rainy night like this.

Soon, two sharp "whoosh" sounds of breaking through the air came. Hugo didn't react at all. He didn't have spider-sense, nor did he have an umbrella. Therefore, when the two Batarangs attacked, he was defenseless.

The pitch-black and sharp flying darts stopped 30 centimeters away from him. Batman, wearing a Batman suit, appeared at the entrance of the alley.

"Batman?" Hugo narrowed his eyes, but the Batman opposite was stunned for a moment. He remembered that his name shouldn't have spread yet. How did this university teacher of his, who suddenly appeared in Cat Getan's rainy night, know?

"Take the darts away, Batman, we should talk." Hugo frowned, but Batman remained unmoved. He said: "You shouldn't appear here, Professor Strange."

"Are you related to the recent missing person case in the Demon God block?" Batman asked.

"No." Hugo denied it immediately, but the Batarangs suspended in the air approached again. Hugo only hesitated for a second before stepping back slightly. After all, the cold light reflected by the sharp edges of the flying darts wasn't fake. If they got any closer, his neck would be cut open.

"Batman, no, it's Bruce, Bruce Wei En... I know your true identity. You are a student at Cat Getan University. Therefore, I should be the one asking this question. Why are you here?"

Hugo wanted to regain some initiative, so he pointed out Batman's identity. Because Batman was a student and he was a teacher, he thought that in this situation, he could use this to create some psychological pressure.

But Batman remained unmoved. The Batarangs suspended in the air continued to approach until they forced Hugo against the wall of the alley. The two Batarangs got closer and closer until they pressed against Hugo's Adam's apple.

"Do you want to kill your teacher?!" Hugo's Adam's apple trembled up and down. He asked: "Are you crazy?! Batman!"

"Tell me, are you related to the missing person case in the Demon God block?" Batman walked to Hugo step by step, so close that Hugo could already see raindrops falling on his cape, leaving tiny water droplets.

He felt a terrifying atmosphere spreading. Suddenly, with a "shhh" sound, one of the flying darts rotated and cut Hugo's skin. Blood sprayed out. Hugo instinctively covered his neck and dodged to the side, but what greeted him was Batman's fist.

First, a punch hit the side of his cheek, followed by a knee strike. Hugo was beaten to the ground without any ability to fight back, falling into Gotham's cold puddle. He heard Batman ask coldly: "Tell me, are you related to the missing person case in the Demon God block?"

"If you don't want to open your mouth, I have a way to make you open it."

"Are you crazy?! Bruce!

! Do you want to kill your college teacher?!... No, it shouldn't be like this. Could it be that Schiller also... Impossible..."

Batman just repeated that sentence without any emotion. Hugo didn't answer, so he continued to take violent means to beat Hugo.

Hugo was beaten until he was dizzy. The nosebleed first flowed into his mouth, then dripped into the puddle, dyeing a piece of red. He curled up and lay on the ground. He heard Batman say:

"Hugo Strange, I investigated all your information. One year ago, you were expelled due to illegal experiments, and then you were wanted, but you used disgraceful means to clear your name. Afterward, you entered another laboratory, and half a year ago, you were expelled again due to another illegal experiment."

"In the experimental process, you showed violence and abuse tendencies, especially having a strong interest in illegal human experiments. Among the subjects of your last experimental project, 11 samples were similar to the population type of the missing person case in the Demon God block..."

"Wait a minute!" Victor in the auditorium suddenly asked: "If this is Bruce's memory fragment, then how does he know this information? He shouldn't know Hugo at this time, right?"

"I added it in his memory, but what I told him were facts. Hugo was expelled due to illegal human experiments; this matter is well-known in the industry. The Batman of this period also has the ability to find out."

"I think this is not unfair..." Schiller rubbed his fingers and said: "After all, my previous resume..."

Schiller shook his head and didn't continue to speak. After Victor thought of this point, he looked at Schiller curiously and asked: "Then how on earth did you avoid falling into this situation?"

Schiller shook his head again and didn't intend to answer this question. But seeing Victor's curious eyes, Schiller only said one sentence: "I am just an ordinary person."

Schiller continued to look at the stage. The Hugo lying there was already delirious. Accompanied by the sound of the night rain getting louder, this scene collapsed again and turned into endless deep space.

Starlight flowed. When it appeared again, the scene was somewhat familiar. It was still that alley, only this time, the rain had just stopped, and the cold wind blew through the street, making a whimpering cry.

"Bang!

!"

The amplified sound startled Yin Wensi, and he hid in his seat, but just like watching a horror movie, while afraid, he still stared at the stage without blinking, wanting to see what on earth made the sound.

At the foot of a tall building, a hand stretched out from an inconspicuous trash can. The pattern on the glove made Cobblepot feel familiar. Sure enough, the one who crawled out of the trash can was Batman.

He kept coughing, rubbing his eyes. Cobblepot was stunned for a moment, then sneered: "The trick that the bottom-level thugs like to use the most, if they can't beat someone, they throw lime into others' eyes..."

Yin Wensi gasped and said: "That must be very uncomfortable. If my eyelashes get into my eyes, it's uncomfortable for half a day."

Batman covered one eye with one hand and had to support his waist with the other. He walked out of the alley with a limp.

On the way, he saw a beggar, so he walked over to talk to the beggar. And Hugo, who appeared on the balcony of the second floor, was still immersed in the anger and fear of being beaten by Batman earlier.

He kept muttering in his mouth: "No... could it be that Schiller also... That's right, facing such a person, how could he not suffer? Thinking of controlling Batman is not that simple. It seems I was too aggressive..."

"I shouldn't have had a conflict with him so quickly. It seems I still need to observe for a while before taking action..."

So, he stood on the side of the second-floor balcony, observing the conversation between Batman and the beggar. He heard Batman say something to the beggar about you being safe, but that was not Hugo's focus at all. He just wanted to figure out what was special about this beggar, and whether he could find Batman's flaws from the conversation between Batman and the beggar.

But just as he jumped down from the second floor and came to the beggar, the "whoosh" sound of breaking through the air sounded again. Two Batarangs attacked again. Batman, who had already left, returned.

And what appeared in Hugo's field of vision was Batman's fist, which was as big as a sandbag. ===== CHAPTER 586 =====

And what appeared in Hugo's field of vision was Batman's sandbag-sized fist.