The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 111 The Battle of Living Hell
In the early morning, the sun shone into the bedroom of Wayne Manor, Bruce sat up from the bed, Alfred stood outside the door, Bruce asked him: "What time is it?"

"It's nine o'clock, young master."

Bruce was a little surprised. He walked to the window, opened the curtains and took a look, and found that the sky outside was indeed very bright. It was the first time he got up so late since returning to Gotham.

The butler, Alfred, looked very happy. When Bruce went downstairs to eat breakfast, Alfred stood aside with a smile.

"Ah Fu, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so happy?"

"Because the young master seems to be very happy recently."

Bruce froze for a moment, is he happy?He touched his face, and then tried hard to recall his recent behavior patterns.

Because of Schiller's genius and creative Gotham University student internship program, Bruce has been really busy recently. He has to go out with other students to control traffic during the day, and has to run between the hospital and prison at night to move those who can't live here. Over there, the gang members who couldn't live there and moved here have made arrangements.

He suddenly realized that recently he had been Bruce much longer than Batman.

In the past in Wayne Manor, he would not hide his true nature. He seldom smiled and was relatively taciturn. Although he was very close to Ah Fu, he rarely had any mood swings.

But lately, because he's been Bruce for so long, he's been acting more like the playboy he's pretending to be, and he's stopped being so straight-faced all the time, and occasionally joking around with Alfred.

This caused a warning in his heart. Since returning to Gotham, he has never slept until nine o'clock naturally, which is a sign that his spirit is letting down his vigilance.

From a psychological point of view, this is actually very normal. A large part of who a person becomes is who he thinks he is. Bruce is only 18 years old and has just started college. When he was a rich man, he couldn't clearly find the boundary between this disguised identity and his own personality.

After another busy day, Bruce who came back was in the bathroom of his bedroom. He turned on the tap and washed his face with cold water.

The curtain next to him was gently blown by the evening wind, and the cold light was above his head, making a dark shadow gather under his feet.

Bruce propped his hands on the washstand and looked at the mirror in front of him. The person in the mirror had blue eyes, but the light from top to bottom made his eyes shrouded in the shadow of the eyebrow arch.

"Who am I??" he asked.

"who am I?"

"who I am……"

His voice echoed in the empty room, the sound hit the wall, and returned to his ears, as if another him was asking him this sentence, he felt that he seemed to hear the answer vaguely, But it seemed like nothing was heard.

There's no way a reflected echo could give him an answer, and Bruce knows that.

He stretched out his hand to wipe away the mist that had condensed on the glass and see what his eyes looked like, but in the end, he still didn't do that, and let his entire face and eyes be covered by the mist on the surface of the mirror, and then he Stand up straight and look at yourself in the mirror as if condescending.

"I am Batman."

"I am Batman……"

The corners of his mouth began to drop a little bit. He didn't wear a face mask, but when the shadow climbed over his face, the whole face seemed to be covered under a black mask again.

The shadows covering those blue eyes grew thicker, and finally, only his deep voice echoed in the empty manor, saying, "I am, Batman..."

Bruce walked out of the bathroom. In the dark bedroom, he didn't turn on the light. He just walked to the door and opened it, and then continued to walk through the dark corridor. When he was standing on the edge of the stairs, he saw Al standing downstairs. Fred, wiping the old telephone with a felt cloth.

Since Bruce came back, he invented a new mobile communication device for himself, the mobile phone, and he never used that phone again. The old rotary dial telephone was too old, and every time it rang When the bell rang, the manor would appear even emptier.

But Alfred cherishes that telephone very much. Bruce has never seen a trace of dust on it, and it is the same today, but the difference is that Bruce heard Alfred humming, which is a bit like A jazz ditty, full of the style of the previous era, just like the happy and lively mood of the immigrants when they first discovered this golden coast.

Bruce looked at Alfred's back, he closed his eyes in some pain, he clenched his hand holding on to the railing, the old wooden handrail made a soft sound, Alfred turned his head and saw Bruce standing on the stairs Up above, before he could ask, Bruce returned to the bedroom as if fleeing.

When he closed the bedroom door, he was almost gasping for breath, as if this distance was more tiring than running a few kilometers.

He felt a violent emotion churning in his heart, as if something was constantly stimulating the emotional system in his brain.

Since a long time ago, Bruce has never felt such intense emotions. After a gunshot in a dark night, Bruce's emotional world lost half of his emotions. He has been gone for a long time.

But Bruce didn't know how to describe his feelings when he saw Alfred so happy, and this question had been bothering him for a long time.

Bruce, who was upset, tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep. An inexplicable impulsive emotion was affecting him. He had no other choice but to put on the bat suit, and then left Wayne Manor.

This is the first time that Batman doesn't put on this suit to get out of here not because he wants to fight criminals, but because he just escapes the emotion that he doesn't want to accept.

Therefore, after leaving Wayne Manor, he wandered around Gotham almost aimlessly. Bruce had never been like this before, hoping that he would quickly meet a criminal, bring him to justice, and send him to prison... No, today should be my turn to be sent to a mental hospital.

Thinking of this, Batman covered his forehead with some discomfort, what was he thinking?Sober up!You are not Bruce now!Don't bother with the crap going back and forth between hospitals and prisons!

But Batman still couldn't control himself. When he thought that tomorrow the prison population would exceed 28% and the vacancy rate of the wards would be less than 15%, he felt that this pressure was more terrifying than anything else.

But hell, Batman wandered around for half an hour in this city where he could encounter three robberies within two steps, but he still hasn't encountered a single criminal.

Now the streets near the turntable in the city center can be said to be brightly lit. There are night markets thousands of meters long on the four avenues extending from the turntable, brightly lit all night.

People who will come here, most of them are people who work night shifts, not only those truck drivers who have to deliver goods at night, but also porters who work night shifts, warehouse guards, security guards, etc. Now these people are the most active people in Gotham citizens.

Batman is standing on the top of the tall building, he knows very well that if he jumps in such a suit now, he will be shot twice before he lands, and there is no crime here, obviously, the city center does not need Batman, he can only leave here and go further.

The central turntable and major transportation hubs of Gotham City are not all. There are more dark neighborhoods where the lights cannot cover. Batman followed his dark instinct and came to the darkest part of Gotham. place.

This is the East Side of Gotham. The East Side has always been synonymous with chaos in Gotham. The gangs here can be said to be intricate and intricate, but the chaos in the East Side is also graded.

One of the most terrifying places, known as the "living hell", is the westernmost block of the East End, that is, the place farthest from the pier, and it is also the most crowded, densely populated, darkest and poorest place.

Living Hell is often called "Gotham in Gotham" by Gotham people. All the residential buildings here are crookedly crowded together, and the width of the alley between the buildings is not even enough for an adult to stretch his arms. It can't be done, there are so many sundries piled up in such a dark and narrow alley, there is almost no place for people to stay.

When Batman fell from the roof and walked into the first street of living hell, he found that when he looked up from the ground, there was only a very narrow gap in the sky above his head, and the dense wires and antennas on it were even worse. Obscuring most of the field of vision, like a big net hanging over the head.

It is very difficult to move forward in such an alley, even Batman is no exception, there are almost no lights here, only a few faint lights are revealed from a few high windows, Batman almost tripped over several times when he was caught by a garbage bag After that, I finally turned on the flashlight.

But even so, walking here is also a very difficult thing. Batman just took two steps in an alley when he found an extremely twisted staircase spiraling around into a dark corridor.

He walked up the creaking stairs, and when he walked into the corridor and came out again, he found that there was another flat land in front of him. He walked forward and found that this was the roof of a building, and the bottom of his feet was another road. Dark alley.

Batman found a ladder on the roof of this building to the roof on the other side. Even if this kind of ladder is Batman's skill, he has to walk over it carefully.

When he stood on the ladder, he looked down, and the bottom was like an endless abyss, all of which were layers of windows, wires, garbage bags, all the complicated things were entangled, like hell spreading down layer by layer .

Walking through the ladder to the other side, he saw a mountain of garbage bags piled up on the top corner of the building. Going to the other side, there was another tall building stacked on top of each other. The door, after Batman walked in, he really came to the building of the living hell.

The situation here was worse than outside, there was hardly any light, and the corridor was so narrow that Batman had to bow his head and tighten his arms, otherwise he would not be able to climb the stairs at all.

Batman feels that it is not accurate to call this kind of passage a staircase, it is more like an intestine, and it is too appropriate to call this a living hell.

This narrow, dark and cramped corridor is like an intestinal organ in a living being. After Batman walked up two floors, he finally saw another small door beside him.

After going out through this door, the corridor in front of me was finally a little more spacious, but the door was still closed, and there were various signs hanging in the corridor, such as deli, grocery store, barber shop and so on.

Batman was suddenly surprised to find that Living Hell seemed to have its own ecosystem. He walked through this corridor and found that there were a total of six small intestines leading here. According to Batman's estimation, the structure of these six intestinal passages , should be the same as when he came, corresponding to the entrances in the six directions of the building.

This is really weird and wonderful, Batman thought.

This city is like the epitome of Gotham, and it is worthy of the title of "Gotham in Gotham".

He was surprised to find that there are not only all kinds of living facilities here, but also a system of electricity, water and communication. The thick water pipes spread forward infinitely in the dark corridor, like thick blood vessels, and the wires are messy. Hanging above the head, it is like densely packed nerves.

There are countless posters and advertisements posted on the side of each portal, and there are even letterboxes hanging in front of many doors.

This is the first time Batman has seen Gotham like this. After all, he didn't have a Batmobile before. The scope of his crime fighting is basically centered on the Wayne Building, spreading out for a certain distance, and those robbers are basically in and out of the city. Within this range, after all, it is the busiest commercial street in Gotham.

But now, he is in this living hell, and he has seen another side of Gotham City that is unknown, or in other words, the reality under the bustling surface of Gotham City.

But what is strange is that this place is dark, cramped, scary and weird, but it has a complete ecological system, showing a different vitality and charm, and even a fascinating beauty.

Batman thought he might be crazy, and he even thought that such a real and chaotic scene was the city's final answer.

(End of this chapter)