The Death Knell

Soon, there was the sound of clinking pots and pans in the house, and you could see through the kitchen window that the family was setting the table, and the cake was already placed on the table.

The mistress of the house was taking the pie out of the oven. Even though she was wearing gloves, after she put the plate on the table, she quickly took off her gloves and pinched her ears with her fingers.

Batman's focus is not on the beautiful wife, but on the cracked pie. It is a blueberry pie, and this is not the taste that Gotham locals like. She must have been married from out of town. , and it’s a small place.

She wears cowboy boots at home, which is a Texas custom, and the blueberry jam turns a purple color after being roasted. Gotham people are generally allergic to this "clown purple", unless they are a fanatical believer of the madman.

So the purple things I saw in my dreams before, and the wax oil that makes up the nightmares' bodies are purple, is that also because of this?

As you continue reading, there is nothing special. The family shared the cake. During this period, the children smeared Christopher's face with cream. He just laughed and tickled his naughty boy, looking very happy. .

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Batman started walking, walking around the house along the edge of the woodland, seeming to observe something, but saying nothing.

There is no fixed unit of time in dreams. In just a moment, the sky in the forest clearing turned into night. It was a rare sunny day in Gotham, and you could even see the moon.

Based on these judgments, Christopher's home is not in the city, but in a suburb west of Gotham.

Gotham is surrounded by the sea to the east and south, which can be ruled out directly. The city has been built to the seaside. Such houses do not exist. Even if there are similar residential areas in Southport, the housing prices are definitely not affordable for a construction worker.

There is indeed a forest in the north of the city, but Wayne's mansion is located in the north of the city. The surrounding terrain is mainly mountainous with sparse trees, and Batman has traveled many routes between the city and his own home. He has never seen a house like this before.

The only explanation is that the house in the dream used to be located in the western suburbs of the city. It was a relatively backward area, but the environment was good.

In the short time that Batman was thinking about this, the house in front of him began to flicker.

One second it was the peaceful scene under the sun during the day, and the next second it was the scene of a raging fire burning in the night. The two different scenes seemed to have been edited onto the same film by sharp means. After playing it, It keeps flashing like this.

But this flashback only lasted a few seconds, and then stabilized. What appeared in front of Batman was a house on fire. The smell of chemical fiber when the furniture was burning was mixed with the smell of burned human flesh. , coming towards you.

Batman knows that this is what Christopher smelled at that time, and the nightmare just reproduced it all to show it to himself.

At this time, the man was kneeling on the side of the road outside his burning house, crying and wailing.

"No! No! This isn't true! God! Why are you doing this to me?!"

He seemed unable to accept this reality, but his eyes were fixed on the bright fire, as if he wanted to keep this scene firmly in his mind.

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A dark figure appeared silently behind the man, or behind the man's nightmare. The bat-shaped figure was dark, with only two white eyepieces still glowing slightly in the night.

"Who? Who set the fire?! Who killed my family?!" The man kneeling on the roadside turned his head and neck 180 degrees, and his ferocious twisted face was like a ghost. Asking this question loudly.

This nightmare seems very painful, but Batman believes that its pain is not because it can empathize with Insomnia, but because its body is now being remotely controlled by Insomnia, and it is a puppet used for communication.

This is bad news. If Insomnia can control other Sleepless Knights to do things for it, then Deathstroke's plan to trap it will probably fail.

Even if you catch someone, you only catch a mouthpiece, which is useless.

So do you still have to attack your heart?

"That's your problem." Batman looked at him without flinching, even his voice was as calm as ever: "Who do you think killed your family."

Interrogative, but in a declarative tone, that's Batman.

However, the kneeling Nightmare did not answer directly. He just melted quickly like a candle and wailed in a different tone: "Find the murderer, and we will see you again."

Having said that, everything in the forest clearing changed again, and the charred house returned to its original state again. Everything was peaceful and beautiful. Not far away, a Ford car drove quickly, and the highway passed by it. The bottom of the chassis extends to Batman's feet.

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The Dark Knight didn't move, he just stood there. It wasn't until the man got out of the car, took out the cake from the trunk, and carried it through his body that Batman's corners of his mouth turned downwards.

Christopher is replaying that nightmare to himself, trying to help him find the murderer.

But what about ‘insomnia’? What does it think? Is there really any value in solving this case by myself?

Thinking of this, Batman faces a choice. Perhaps solving this case will make Christopher, who is sleeping in reality, willing to help, but the question is, what can he do? Can a vegetative person really have an impact on the 'insomnia' that has already been hatched?

And if all of this is a trap for insomnia, to delay or mislead yourself, then every second you spend here, the situation in Gotham outside will become worse.

At best, the Birds of Prey and others can only delay those sleepless knights who enter reality to a limited extent. It is unrealistic to rely on them to solve the problem. You must go back and take charge.

Thinking of this, Batman turned around and looked at the house. Through the window, he saw a family preparing at the dining table and saw the smiling faces of the children.

The two curved corners of his mouth gradually retracted, and his face became expressionless again.

He stepped forward, walked across the beautifully built courtyard lawn, passed through the beautiful carved wooden door of the house, and entered directly into the house.

If this is the memory that Christopher retained in his subconscious that day, then what he saw may not be true. It may be that he wanted to make himself believe that his home was decorated like this that day.

Then when looking for clues, you must also determine which ones are false clues and which ones are uncertain factors that the patient relies on memory to fill in.

Only in this way can it be possible to find out the truth about the fire and give the deceased an answer.