Nightmares often end with people being woken up, but story-wise, it's not over, is it?
No one has ever been able to sleep under great terror in the past, and naturally no one will see the end of the nightmare, which makes it infinite in possibilities and seemingly never-ending.It's not the kind of horror story of children curled up by the fireplace at night, or watching under the covers with flashlights.Because of the things in the books, you know that it is fake, no matter how bad it is, it will happen to others.But the nightmare, that's really everyone's own.In the endless nightmare that you can't wake up from, there is no winner, the nightmare can come back again and again, and even if people win once or twice, they can only be considered temporary survivors.As the minutes ticked by, it was already dusk, and some people continued to wait for the big fish to take the bait, while others were running around and toiling."
The situation has deteriorated further, Master Bruce."
Mr.
Butler, who sits in front of the Batcave console, wears a headset that looks like an operator, and reports to Batman on the other side of the city: "More and more maniacs are appearing under the influence of nightmares, and the best of them have become a hotbed of demons. ”Knocking out a mad sleepwalker, the Dark Knight silently flipped him on the ground, then pulled out a small sticker in the shape of a bat, pasted it on the back of the person's head, and hid the person behind a nearby dumpster.Knell gave him a lot of plastic pieces, but he couldn't trust it, so after some research, he improved his own props according to the principle of the original brainwave blocker.This kind of thing doesn't necessarily work better, but it's more convenient to carry and use, and the ultra-thin design doesn't even make the wearer feel the presence of the sticker."
Be specific."
He exhaled, turned his head to look at the crowd lying here and there on the street not far away, came to the dark corner of the side, and raised his arm.The bat armour has a projection communication function, which is not very common, but if you need to play video information, this ethereal light curtain emitting green light is more suitable.In addition to the complex sewer environment in Gotham City, everything on the ground is basically under the monitoring of bats, so Ah Fu immediately played him a video record taken by the illegal surveillance probe.A madman with his eyes closed can be seen walking on the road, and as he walks, he suddenly collapses, clutches his chest and screams for a while, and spits out purple slime from his mouth, which looks like a melted candle.When it hit the ground, it quickly reshaped, turning into a four-legged, deer-headed centaur creature with a face made of bone.A long-handled scythe grew out of its body, its weapon, and the monster then looked around and quickly disappeared into the blind spot of the surveillance.As for the person who vomited the nightmare just now, he has become a weak appearance with deeply sunken cheeks and eye sockets, more breath and less air intake, and it seems that he will die soon."
Nightmares are starting to come to life."
The corners of his mouth turned down, and Batman made a statement of his discovery: "It may be that he has taken advantage of the life force of the human race." ”"The power of life?
Is it the kind of power you said Aquaman wielded earlier?
”Ah Fu heard Batman say this, and played him another video, obviously he knew his young master, and he had to see the plural evidence.Batman doesn't suspect his butler, but he suspects everything else, such as someone hacking a communication channel, such as having a problem with his eyes, such as being still in a dream, etc.He believed that everything was dangerous, so just watching one surveillance video was not enough to get him to do anything, and he had to watch at least two more."
All living things have a life force, and it's not under the control of the Sea King, it's part of the power of connection."
The pitch-black figure stood in the corner, and the afterglow of the setting sun couldn't shine on him at all, and he continued to watch the second video.This time I saw a woman, sleepwalking, who had just killed her husband who was shouting praises to the darkness, and then spat out a large amount of purple wax oil, a strange substance that constituted a giant monster.It looked like an upright centipede, its flat body flanked by dense human arms and legs, but its head was positioned like a flower bud, like the kind of sandworm mouth it had seen in the Mongolian steppe.The Sleepless Knight, who had come into contact with them in his dreams, had already known that they could transform at will, but now he had come to the material world with this ability?
But in Batman's opinion, this is actually good news, if the nightmares that enter reality are all this kind of monsters, it is at least much better than them disguised as ordinary people and blending into the crowd."
First the skeleton centaur, then the giant centipede......"
Ah Fu sighed, the old man seemed a little tired, but also seemed a little lucky: "Fortunately, I don't have such strange things in my dreams." ”"Go ahead."
Batman didn't answer, he could probably guess what was inside Afu's nightmare.The third footage was taken by a security camera at a fast-food restaurant, and the quality of the image was not particularly good, but it was still recognizable as a fat chef, with purple wax oil flowing from the seven orifices, which constituted a huge half-human, half-fly creature, and the monster's weapon was nunchucks."
There are more and more things like that, Master Bruce."
Alfred stopped what he was doing, leaned back in his chair and poured himself a cup of tea, rubbing his aching temples slightly: "If everyone who falls into a nightmare is seen as a cocoon, then they don't hatch into something as beautiful as a butterfly." ”"After spitting out the Sleepless Knight, these people haven't woken up yet."
Nodding slightly, Batman made a conjecture about his discovery, and he had a conjecture: "These people are in a nightmare again, and maybe it won't be long before they sleepwalk again, and then when certain conditions are ripe, another nightmare will hatch into reality, and so on until they die." ”"I think so, we don't have enough people and props right now."
Butler looked at the many monitors in front of him, among which all kinds of tragedies were staged: "And I suspect that the situation in other places will be worse than Gotham, because in a way, the Gotham people have better mental endurance, and people in other places will only fall into a state of sleepwalking faster." ”"I know, I'm trying to put an end to it once and for all."
The Dark Knight walked out of the dark corner where he was hiding, and by this time the sunset had sunk into the horizon, and the last glimmer of light had disappeared over Gotham.Today, however, there is no neon night scene, and the whole city is pitch black and frighteningly quiet.There were no gunshots, no screams, which made Batman feel like his city had become a stranger.In fact, the old butler's words may not be correct, in other places, Death Knell has probably sent someone to intervene, but that person has not sent troops to Gotham for the time being, this is out of the last agreement.Batman doesn't like people to put their hands in his city, and Knell has recently gained more power, but the man's style is more slick, and he didn't send an army of androids over, don't you want to think about it?
But just then, a light appeared in the city, and it shot straight into the sky, shining the shape of a bat on some dense pitch-black clouds.For a moment, just a moment, Batman almost smiled in relief.