Chapter 975

When Batman went to get food, he kept staring at the place where Alfred was, hoping his butler could look at him. However, Alfred, who took care of him meticulously in the manor, now seemed not to know him at all, eating while chatting with demons.

Several strong old miner demons also sat with the jailer, and several people were chatting enthusiastically. Not long after, Schiller and the jailer he knew before also joined in. A table of seven or eight demons and two humans actually made a commotion like a running banquet.

The food in the bowl was nothing special, like boiled vines, plus two pieces of strange fire-roasted beast meat. The taste couldn't be called good, but it was edible. Batman ate while staring at the movement over there.

With a "clatter," the sound of tableware being placed on the table sounded. Batman turned his head to look and found it was Merkel, who was also twisting his head and staring straight at the opposite side. Before he could speak, Merkel sighed first and said:

"I dug mines all morning and didn't see at all how Mr. Pennyworth got mixed up with them. Mr. Wayne, did you see clearly?"

"Call me Batman." Batman turned his head, glanced at the situation around him with his eyes, lowered his voice slightly, and then said: "How did you and Alfred come here? Where is Zatanna?"

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

"You weren't caught back by that big sand worm?" Batman asked.

Merkel shook his head and said: "The location where we landed was not far from here, it was an underground cave. Seeing that there seemed to be human smoke here, Alfred led me over."

"Are you here to find me and Schiller?"

"At first it seemed so, but later, Alfred seemed to have some other things he wanted to do, so we lived here."

Merkel had just said this when he discovered a black tentacle stretching out from his side. He just wanted to stand up, but Batman turned his head and said: "Six-corner, I was just looking for you."

Six-corner slowly moved over. In the clearer light, he looked like a ball of black vines rubbed together, not quite like a demon monster, more like a plant essence. Seeing Batman's eyes, Six-corner turned his eyes down, looked at himself, and then said:

"What's there to be surprised about? Shadow monsters are just the most common shadow vines in the mine cave that have awakened their intelligence. Oh, right, you just came to Hell, maybe you don't know..."

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

"Is he your friend?" Six-corner turned his eyeballs to look at Merkel. Merkel was still looking at this monster with vigilance. Batman nodded, and then looked at his tentacles and asked: "Is your injury better?"

"Your healing magic is really effective. The wound doesn't hurt anymore, but..." Six-corner waved his tentacles, and then sighed again: "Forget it."

Batman still wanted to pursue the question, but at this time, he saw Alfred at that table leave first. After a while, Schiller also left. The two were probably going to meet.

Batman and Merkel both stood up, wanting to go over, but the jailers also finished eating and put their attention back on them. Batman and Merkel knew they couldn't act rashly, so they sat down again and started eating.

After a while, the lunch time ended. On the way back to work in the mine cave, Schiller slowed down, came to Batman's side, and left only one sentence: "Tonight at midnight, gather at the abandoned mine cave on the mountainside."

After another afternoon of work, this time, Batman also started to slack off. However, he didn't go to steal other demons' minerals, but pressed the heavy rock and soil fragments that were smashed down to the very bottom of the basket.

Schiller was responsible for transferring the mine cart, and Schiller's attention was not on the mine cart at all. Batman carried a full basket of minerals, looking like a fruitful harvest, not slacking off at all, but when poured into the mine cart, the bottom layer was all rock and soil fragments.

Schiller glanced at the slag in the mine cart, raised his eyebrows at Batman, and Batman heard him say in a low voice: "It's a pity, you have already graduated, otherwise, I would really be willing to give you two extra points."

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

At midnight, Batman quietly moved the straw mat away, and then started to study the gap in the corner of the wall. He also suspected that this might be a trap set by demons for him, so he didn't act rashly.

He first used his hand to sweep away the gravel, felt the airflow coming from inside, and then held the torch to the gap to look down, finding that there really 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 was not rugged, and the exit didn't have any cover.

This shows that the location of the exit might be relatively hidden itself, so it didn't need extra things to cover the cave entrance to have such a strong convective airflow.

Batman first used his fingers covered with gauntlets to dig the gap a bit, held the torch to look inside, and sure enough, saw that the exit at the end of the passage pointed to the opposite mine.

Batman recalled the full picture of the mine he saw before in his mind. He calculated the distance of the passage, and then found that the location of the exit should be exactly behind the right side of the mine bunker, at the foot of the mine mountain.

There was no cover there, relatively bare, but almost no one went there. And the other small mine on the opposite side was far away, separated by the erupting flue, and the guards couldn't see the movement here.

After discovering this, Batman started digging. The miner who dug this passage last time seemed to be for the convenience of coming and going. The entrance was buried very loosely. After digging a few times, he dug open a large half.

After Batman drilled into the passage, he buried the entrance with soil layers again, and then extended a hand to pull the straw mat over to cover the cave entrance.

After he left, several black tentacles stretched out, cleared away the floating soil that fell due to the digging, and then silently retracted.

Drilling out from the cave entrance at the foot of the mountain, Batman found a rugged but hidden road and started walking toward the mountainside. And just as he walked to the abandoned mine cave, he found that Schiller was already waiting there.

Batman just walked up and wanted to say something? Alfred led Merkel in, and also brought two torches. Merkel fixed the torches, and the originally dark abandoned mine cave welcomed a glimmer of light.

Seeing that everyone was there, Batman cleared his throat, but no one paid attention to him. Schiller took the lead in standing up, walked up to shake hands with Alfred, and then said: "Hello, comrade."

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

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

Schiller nodded, looked at the two of them, and then said: "Due to confidentiality needs, 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 telegram, giving high affirmation to the revolutionary work you led in Zhongmeizhou." Alfred placed his hat on the table, and the two came to the table and sat down. Alfred said again: "Comrade Vasilyevich expressed affirmation and praise for your pioneering work in Zhongmeizhou."

"In the handwritten letter he wrote, he called you the eternal friend of the Mexican people, the flag fluttering again on the land of the Americas."

Schiller shook his head and said: "We all know that there has never been a savior. Revolution is inevitable and spontaneous. It doesn't need a glorious and great leader. All of this is the will of the Mexican people, the will of the land of the Americas..."

"On that land that produces countless sins, the Mexican people have been silent for too long, so only a small spark is needed to burn across the entire land of Zhongmeizhou. They just need a passerby to guide them to the right path, and don't need a leader. This is also why I didn't stand out."

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

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

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

"On the road of exploration, we will always encounter periods of confusion, and there will always be people who put forward different opinions and walk to another fork in the road. However, if you don't take a step, you will only stay in place forever."

"You don't need to feel disappointed because of some people's mistakes. Instead, the fact that you feel confused and at a loss because you disagree with them just shows that you are still loyal to your initial ideals."

"Please believe that those bloodlines that have always been surging forward have never stopped their pace of progress."

"Perhaps, that heart that once beat most enthusiastically is no longer young. Just like people of that era, some waver, some age."

"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 very calm, as if stating a fact, but Batman had never seen such a moved expression on Alfred's face. He even saw his old butler start to become tearful.

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

But today, Batman saw new vitality on the branches of this old tree, or rather, it was the blood that had been hidden inside the old trunk, in layer after layer of tree rings, that had been generated and suppressed, and now surged back to his heart.

Alfred stood up, shook hands with Schiller again, and the two were silent, saying nothing.

But Batman clearly saw that they had said everything in a few decades of the world's magnificence and life's ups and downs with just one look.

Between their souls, there was a power that Batman couldn't read, which made them even brighter and more vigorous than the red sun in the sky, even though they were in Hell, surrounded by demons.

Merkel also seemed to be moved by this power, and he and Batman were silent together. And after a long silence in the abandoned mine cave, Schiller and Alfred spoke together, and then stopped together.

"You speak first." Schiller extended his hand to indicate, but Alfred shook his head and said: "No, you speak first. I believe your rank should be higher than mine, and the achievements you have made are also stronger than mine."

Schiller didn't decline. He nodded, stood up, and then said: "Now, we already have three people, and can establish a temporary combat command. Then, let me first briefly expound on the spirit of this operation."

"The land of Hell, ten thousand years of vicissitudes, the people of Hell, having suffered hardships, the demon lords, are a mountain pressing on the heads of ordinary people in Hell."

"And we, as the Hell civilians who have suffered exploitation, have been through oppression, and are tenacious and have a spirit of resistance, 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 between the mine mountains:

"All Hell mortals who have suffered oppression, all bottom-level races who have been bullied and exploited, all demons who have suffered injustice, will surely unite, swearing to make the ten thousand miles of Hell dare to change into a new sky!"