American Comics: Opening Guidance Batman

Chapter 267: Layers of Fear (Part 1)

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The night was already deep, and Bruce, who was lying on the bed, was sleeping more and more deeply, but even in his sleep, his brows were still tightly wrinkled.

Suddenly, the door to his bedroom opened a small crack, the light poured out, the light sound of the door shaft was annoying, Bruce's brows furrowed even more, his arms moved, and he turned over.

A layer of shadow-like darkness covered his face, and Bruce seemed to notice it. The moment he opened his eyes, a flash of lightning flashed outside the window, and a terrifying clown with a dagger was standing in front of his bed.

The moment the dagger fell, Bruce sat up from the bed. He held his breath tightly, as if strangled by his throat. After a long time, he let out a breath with shaking shoulders. a nightmare.

Before the cold sweat on his forehead and back subsided, Bruce pursed his lips, wiped his face, and sat up from the bed.

He saw that the window of his room opened a small crack, and the wind from outside the window blew in, causing the lampshade of the lamp to shake a little, and the shadows in the room flickered. Bruce thought, maybe this is the reason for his nightmare, so he Go over and close the window.

After there was no wind in the room, all lights and shadows were quiet, and Bruce walked slowly to the bathroom, trying to find a towel to wipe the sweat on his face.

After entering the bathroom, he put his hand on the sink and quietly looked at himself in the mirror, but this time he did not have any hallucinations, but found that his face was pale, and the wound on his shoulder burst open and began to seep out Blood.

He touched his shoulder lightly with the other hand. The pain was not too severe but very long. It might have been caused by too much force when he just sat up, causing the tear.

Bruce turned on the faucet helplessly, bent down, and wanted to wash his face.

Just when he lowered his head, closed his eyes, and held up the water, he didn't notice that the bathroom door slowly opened.

And when he got up again, looked up, and looked into the mirror, a terrifying shadow stood behind him, and Bruce appeared in the mirror at the same time as a laughing crazy clown, he raised his dagger and slammed it down Swipe hard.

"Uh!!"

Bruce let out a painful groan, sat up from the bed, took a deep breath, and looked at the surrounding scene in confusion. He was still lying on the bed, and the room was still empty and nothing.

The window was closed tightly, no wind was blowing in, the lampshade was not shaking, the light and shadow were not changing, and more importantly, there was no crazy clown.

He sat a little stiffly on the bed, and with breathing, there was a trembling in his throat. When he wanted to get out of bed again, he hesitated at the bedside before standing up, and then reached out to touch the edge of the desk next to him.

The sharpness there conveyed to his brain along his fingertips, giving him a sense of security. Bruce did not go to the bathroom this time, but walked to the door of his room, twisted the door handle, and opened the door. In an instant, a terrible scene happened.

Outside the door is not the corridor of Wayne Manor, but a black hole whistling with wind. Bruce was sucked in almost instantly, and then, after the nauseating feeling of weightlessness and falling, he sat up again from the bed.

Bruce closed his eyes sharply, he was completely unsure if this was a dream or not.

Bruce began to think, if this time it was also a dream, what would he do to wake up?

He took a few deep breaths, calmed himself, and began to look around the room. The bedroom was no different from what he remembered, everything was where he should be, the lights he didn't turn off before he went to bed, let everything out All covered with a thin halo.

What was it that created his serial nightmares?

Bruce stood up again and walked to the middle of the room. He only paused for a moment, then walked to the bathroom again, turned on the faucet, lowered his head, held the water, washed his face, and stood up straight. Sure enough, a madly laughing clown raised his head at him. He picked up the dagger, and again, he woke up from his dream.

Bruce understands now that he's trapped in an endless dream and must find a way to wake up.

Sitting up from the bed, Bruce began to search, but everything in the room was extremely real, not what it should have appeared in a dream, the wood grain on the table was clearly visible, and the scratches on the edge of the chair were exactly what Bruce remembered. .

If you lie down to sleep, there will be a crazy clown coming to the bed with a dagger. If you go into the bathroom to wash your face, there will be another crazy clown standing behind him with a dagger. If you want to open the bedroom door and go out , will be sucked into the endless darkness.

After all of the above, Bruce would wake up from bed again and repeat the same nightmare.

Bruce tried many times and triggered more conditions. For example, if he stood still in the middle of the room, a clown would appear on the chandelier and stab him with a dagger. If he got under the table, There will be a flat clown printed on the wall on the back wall and stab him with a dagger. If he opens the wardrobe, a crazy clown will rush out and stab him with a dagger.

It was as if no matter where he was or what he was doing, there were scary clowns everywhere.

And once stabbed by the dagger-wielding clown, Bruce wakes up from his dream, finds himself on the bed again, and wakes up again.

This horrific nightmare kept looping as if it never ended.

In this way, in the Bruce bedroom of Wayne Manor, one Bruce after another, began to try various actions, some moved their mattresses, some lifted the legs of the desk, and some moved the wardrobe, whenever When they trigger a certain condition, Bruce will disappear, but then more Bruce will appear.

When he found out that it was a recurring dream, Bruce knew that there was no other way but to be exhausted, because nothing made sense in the dream.

After all, if it is in reality, with the security system of Wayne Manor, it is impossible for the clown with the dagger to enter his bedroom.

If it is normal reasoning, exhaustive method and carpet search are undoubtedly the last resort when thinking is in trouble, or when there are no other new options, but in this case, these two methods efficiency is the highest.

Finally, everything changed when a Bruce in the room touched the light switch.

When he flipped the switch of the lamp with his hand, turned it off, and plunged the room into darkness, the terrifying clown did not appear again.

Whether he walked into the bathroom to wash his face, or lay back in bed to sleep, the crazy smiling face did not appear in the darkened bedroom.

But that doesn't mean this endless cycle of nightmares is over.

Bruce was still unsure whether he was in a dream or not. He walked to the window in the dark, opened the window, and the cold wind accompanied the rain on his face. The touch was very real, but Bruce didn't relax at all. He finally understood it now. Find out what the Joker meant when he said "The game is on".

After trying every possible move that could trigger the Joker to appear and the Joker doesn't appear, Bruce knew that "turning off the lights" might be the point of the puzzle.

And next, he walked to the bedroom door, and then opened the bedroom door.

Outside the door is the corridor of Wayne Manor.

But Bruce didn't let his guard down at all. After experiencing countless rounds of nightmares, he no longer trusted everything in the so-called "reality".

At this time, it was also dark in Wayne Manor. Bruce walked along the dark corridor until he reached the edge of the stairs. The moment he stepped down, the next step disappeared, and then he fell down, and then again Wake up from a dream.

Get up, turn off the light, open the door, go out, this time, Bruce changed direction, trying to go down the stairs on the other side, and then he found that no matter which stairs he took, the moment he lifted his foot down, after The steps will disappear, and then he will enter the next dream again.

What is the key to this puzzle? Bruce stood in the dark corridor thinking, he didn't have any anxiety or impatience, or rather, he got a brief silence from this kind of thinking.

How on earth is he going to get out of this floor if he can't take the stairs?

Bruce tried to jump straight down from the edge of the patio. In reality, the height of two floors was nothing to him, but in dreams, once he felt a fall, he would wake up again, so he found that, This method doesn't work.

If he can't leave this floor, then maybe he should explore other rooms, but the situation in other rooms and bedrooms is the same, and many of Bruce's actions will make him trigger the deadly clown, the figure with a crazy smile, I don't know why It will appear behind him, beside him, above his head, and even in front of him, and then swing the dagger at him to wake him up again.

Room after room, puzzle after puzzle, Bruce's figure once again filled the third floor of the entire Wayne Manor, with his actions, stops and thoughts everywhere~www.NovelMTL.com~ and I don't know how many times. After waking up, Bruce didn't go through the same process, but stayed in his bedroom.

As he had done many times before, he turned off the lights in the bedroom, then knelt down halfway, leaned down, put his head on the floor and looked under the bed.

In the entire third floor of Wayne Manor, the only place he hadn't checked was the bottom of his bed.

But Bruce knew why he ignored it. His hand on the bedside trembled slightly. He could never forget the horror story he had heard when he was very young.

When you sleep on the bed, there will be a shadow like you sleeping under the bed, that is your shadow.

If the child doesn't sleep well, the shadow will crawl out from the bottom of the bed and throw you under the bed, and he will lie down on the bed instead of you.

He will completely replace you, enjoy the care of your parents, play with your friends, wear your clothes, play with your toys, and you can only hide under the bed like a shadow and cry sadly.

The memories of childhood shadows are the deepest, but even without this story, it takes a lot of courage for people to look under the darker bed in the darkness.

And there, Bruce found something that wasn't supposed to be in his room, a spinning... globe?

There is also a small note next to the globe with a line of words written in a very scrawled and eccentric font -

"This is Miss Globe, and his dance partner is Jack. Jack the Clown wants to remind Batman that the good boy needs to sleep! Turn off the lights!"

The moment he finished reading the note, a pale hand held a dagger, stretched out from under the bed, and stabbed Bruce.

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