The Death Knell

The small living room was decorated warmly, with flower pots full of flowers and a crackling fireplace.

When the fireplace saw the death knell coming in, the hole burning with blazing flames made a smiley face like a mouth, and then it sprayed out a lot of popcorn, obviously wanting to entertain guests.

But generally speaking, Su Ming is not used to picking up things from the ground to eat, and feels unhygienic.

He followed Sandman into the small living room and found a sofa covered with orange blankets to sit down. Feeling the strength of the springs on his back, he smiled and said: "Haha, look at what you said, I'm just a Ordinary people."

Daniel, who was as pale as a ghost, sighed. He knew that Deathstroke always liked to emphasize that he was an ordinary person.

But ordinary people can't even enter the dreamland, let alone enter this castle. This is the center of the dreamland, a transcendent realm. If it's really an ordinary person, just seeing the doorknob at the door that makes dirty jokes, I'm afraid Time to scream.

He walked a few steps and sat down on the opposite sofa. A plastic garden gnome wearing a pointed hat walked stiffly and brought tea and snacks and placed them on the coffee table.

A window appeared on the wall nearby. After the garden ornament put down the tea, flames spurted out from its soles and flew out of the window. A few seconds later, there was a crisp sound of broken glass. .

Daniel seemed not to hear, and waved his hand, and the window on the wall disappeared, as if it had never existed.

After doing this little thing, the Sandman raised his hand to signal Deathstroke to enjoy it: "Please have some tea, the dream's banquet is being prepared, please wait a moment."

"Eat? I thought you didn't have to eat since you became the Sandman." Su Ming, who felt as if he was back at home, was not polite. He also wanted to taste the black tea in his dream. Could it be the sleeping black tea?

But after taking a sip, I realized that the opposite was true. The mint flavor in the tea was so strong that after one sip, my nose felt burning, as if I had eaten mustard.

"Dreams are closely related to people's lives. What people need in reality, they also need in dreams." Pale Meng replied. He also took a sip of black tea and tilted his head: "If it's true, it's like a dream, it's like a dream." A phantom, as the human mind imagines it.”

In fact, people often dream that they are eating good food. As a flesh-and-blood creature, human beings subconsciously want to realize their wishes in dreams that they do not have in reality.

A hungry beggar dreams of enjoying endless hamburgers and fried chicken, an old bachelor with an empty home dreams of his first love when he was young, a poor and unlucky man dreams of winning the lottery jackpot, and so on.

They may not necessarily think about this when they are awake, but the subconscious mind is always the most intuitive reflection of people's hearts.

When people are awake, they usually eat three meals a day, with an interval of no more than five or six hours. However, after falling asleep, they may not eat for ten hours. If you feel hungry in your dream, it is logical to dream about eating. .

It's just that when some people wake up, they will find that what they have in their mouths is pillow towels or the corpse of their girlfriends. That's another story.

"Haha, that's right. You're from Gotham too. This riddle is really exciting." Deathstroke smiled and put down the tea cup and picked up the snacks on the side, but the bear biscuit seemed to be alive as it was being put into his mouth. Before, Little Bear held his head in his hands and looked like he was crouching in defense, which was really embarrassing: "Have you gone back to see your mother recently? How is she doing?"

So Su Ming turned his hand and stuffed it into the mouth of the strangled bean sprouts that came out of his shoulder.

"Alzheimer's disease has swallowed her up, and dreams and reality have lost the boundaries for her, but that's okay." Daniel's expression was very calm. Perhaps after becoming the Sandman, he realized that death is not a terrible thing.

She had a son, but Sandman couldn't see her often. It was enough to say that they were separated forever, so it would be easier to live a more relaxed life after forgetting him.

Death has one day off per year, but the Sandman doesn't have one. Even though he's always running around, he's patrolling every dream, and it's a serious working state.

"Didn't you hire a caregiver?" Su Ming raised his eyebrows. Although he knew that after inheriting the position of Sandman, Daniel would have to cut off his past human identity, but from a human perspective, it was indeed a bit cruel.

"That's not her destiny, Gotham nurse. Let the wolf come into the house." The Sandman seemed to be speaking as a human being, not as a member of the Endless Family, because the riddle level was reduced.

"That's right, well, let's get down to business. I came here today because I want you to take me around and see interesting dreams. I encountered a small problem recently. I lacked that kind of lightning inspiration, so I thought Let’s search for it in the human imagination.”

It seems that Daniel is not busy today, so let him take you around for a while. After all, from a certain point of view, he is the real Sandman, the "spirit" among countless "embodiments", and A Thousand Cats' Dream is very important to him. Human beings don't have much authority over their dreams.

"Dreams are always willing to help others." Daniel touched the armrest of the sofa and took another sip of tea: "Please tell me, it was not shown in the dream."

He was indeed curious about what could stump Deathstroke. Even though he automatically turned into a dead face after becoming the Sandman and could no longer make any expressions, he could still hear the tone of his voice.

Glancing at the fireplace that was automatically sucking in firewood, Su Ming nodded. Although Daniel was not very smart and liked to be the Riddler when talking, from a standpoint, as a human being, he naturally sided with humans. There is nothing doubtful about this.

There are some things you can't tell others, but you can tell them something.

So while feeding Strangler snacks and drinking black tea, Su Ming briefly told him about the CAAT, and also mentioned that that thing might be targeting Earth 0 at some point.

Now that Diversity 1 is placed inside 40K, it can even be said to be integrated into one. No matter which one suffers, the other will definitely not be able to escape.

Su Ming had plenty of escape options, but if faced with that situation, he wouldn't be able to save everyone.

The flames in the fireplace flickered, forming small fireworks, leaving a crackling sound in the room, which was very interesting.

After listening to what Deathstroke said, Daniel was silent for a while, and his eyes lost focus. He was obviously thinking about something.

After a moment, he came back to his senses, nodded and said:

"I can't go with you. The power of dreams is available, but dreams can be by your side."

This means that he is busy catching the escaped nightmare, so he can't leave, but the gas mask death knell, which is the symbol of Sandman's kingship, can be used, and he can go to the Dream of a Thousand Cats to keep him company.

"Okay, A Thousand Cats' Dream should be idle anyway." Su Ming nodded indifferently. As long as it's Sandman, let alone A Thousand Cats' Dream, it's fine even if First Dream takes him as a tour guide: "But you said We already know which nightmare is missing, who is it?"

"'Insomnia' (Insomnia), the enemy of dreams, thousands of horrors sleep in dreams, and it is crazy and paranoid to wake them up."

The white ghost-like man spread his hands, indicating that he had something important to investigate today. Countless ancients were sleeping in their dreams. Once one of them woke up, something would probably happen.