[Comprehensive British and American] I open a haunted house in the superhero world

…Even if Bruce didn't hear it with his own ears, he still had a premonition in his heart that he was listed as a precautionary target under inexplicable circumstances.

He didn't go up to the second floor immediately, but wandered around the first floor casually.

With just a few glances, he saw many clues that the others hadn't discovered.

There was blood on the floor of the house.

It was obvious that it had been carefully cleaned the first time, but the wooden floors of the house were so old that some blood had seeped into the wood.

As for the blood that seeped into the wood, because the wood itself was covered by moldy traces, it was not so clear, and it required special inspection to discover it.

Only Bruce can see the problem with the wood at a glance.

It seems that this house will be connected to the underground sewer suitable for throwing corpses, which does make sense.

The second thing Bruce sees is the clock in the house.

Why did he notice the clock? It was the alarm clock he picked up when he was in the sewer.

The alarm clock is nine o'clock, whether it is compared with the time displayed by the moon outside or compared with the time displayed by the watch they brought in as players, it is different.

And the clock in the house... interestingly, the time was 35:[-], which was just right for the time that had passed since he picked up the alarm clock.

When did Daniel discover that he had black handprints on his neck?Bruce has a very strong hunch that at that point in time, it is very likely to have something to do with this nine.

At nine o'clock, something seemed to come alive and began to walk in the house.

Bruce lowered his head and thought, many thoughts flashed through his mind.

It's a pity that his current status as Bruce Wayne prevents him from using many of Batman's interrogation skills, otherwise he would appear too smart and be incompetent. Otherwise, he must be able to learn from Gina Many valuable clues were obtained from the girl.

Bruce originally had an attitude of not caring about participating in this game, and inexplicably exiled him underground for a while, which just made him a little funny, but he didn't care too much.

But the practice of being pushed down and pressed into the water in the sewer...

It just inexplicably aroused some naive psychology in him.

It made him unable to help but think of a long time ago, when he lived with that person who had been friends with his family for generations, that person was also like this, constantly pushing him into the pool while he was not paying attention.

Of course, that was not a past event where Bruce was bullied unilaterally. In fact, the number of times that person was dragged into the water by him was far more than the number of times Bruce himself fell into the water.

What did Thomas say to him afterwards?Don't bully him.

That half-joking fight with each other almost ran through his entire childhood.

He couldn't help but think of that person just now.

Childish, proud, just refuses to admit defeat.

Bruce is actually the same.

Batman strongly wants to control what, not only winning or losing, but also life and death.

Bruce even had a hunch that when he proved something in this haunted house, he could prove another thing he hoped.

This is why Bruce finally agreed to West to come here, allowing the owner of the haunted house to use his identity to expand his popularity.

He was not familiar with West, but he tacitly made an equivalent exchange on this matter.

If he can prove anything...

Bruce quickly turned all the guesses about the haunted house in his head, and returned his attention to the scene in front of him.

He just read the words on the account book, and then glanced at the tableware in the kitchen.

He shares the same reasoning as Gina.

There are not only four people in this house.There is a fifth person.

And he thought more than Gina, he read an emotion in the accounting book-the person who was writing this book seemed to be trying to protect someone.

He asked for the Wizard of Oz, and when he looked at the notes on it, Bruce was even more sure of this - the words on it, whether in terms of writing style or the strength of the strokes, were not for children or the elderly.

This is clearly the note of a grown man, and he is educated.

In other words, Bruce can be sure that there are five people living in this house, but the fifth person may not be recognized by the owner of the house—or the owner of the house declared that there are only four of them in order to protect him.

Therefore, the old man who is the owner of the house has never bought anything for this person, nor has he prepared a room for this person upstairs.

So where does this person live?

Bruce narrowed his eyes when he thought of the sewers. That person probably lived in the sewers.

The old man hid someone at home and hid in the sewer.

But the handwriting of this person in the Wizard of Oz book, these handwritings are obviously left when teaching children to read.

That is to say, although this person lives underground, he has been up there, and the children upstairs still know him, have learned characters by his side, and even hid a key in the cover of The Wizard of Oz.

The underground secret door can only be opened from the outside, and there is no way for a man to open it by himself after entering.

This is very interesting. It shows from the side that the old man, the three children, and the mysterious man are a close-knit group. The man will be released because he has the approval of the old man and the child.

Linked to the role-playing game of The Wizard of Oz, this man is likely to be involved in the game.

Bruce thought about a question before, why are there shoes and skirts in the sewer?And it was so carefully packed in a cardboard box and placed on a wooden board to avoid soiling?

That skirt and the sewer can be said to be out of tune.

There is also an emotion behind such carefulness-love.

In a short time, Bruce had a gradually clear guess in his mind.

The adult man in a family of five had to disappear from the public eye for some reason (probably because he offended someone). In order to protect him, the family dug a passage between the house and the sewer and hid him in the sewer.

Everyone thought he was dead, but he was still living in the sewer well, teaching children to learn, and they even planned to make a role-playing game of The Wizard of Oz as a self-entertainment within the family.

And this man, for this self-entertaining game, got a skirt and shoes, hid them in the sewer, and prepared to give them away at a certain time.

So here comes the crux of the story, what happened next?Where did the family of four who lived here go?And where did that man go?

The Wizard of Oz, is it over yet?

Bruce suddenly looked up at the clock above his head, and for a moment had an impulse to take it down and have a look.

But he didn't move, because Bruce Wayne didn't have the IQ to think of these clues, so he had to find a way to get others to do it.

At this moment, there was a huge quarrel outside.

Bruce went out to look, and found that Ford and Kato had quarreled again.

The reason for their quarrel was entirely because after Gina reminded Kirby, Kirby began to pay attention to Kato.

And not long after, he discovered that Kato was actually trying to secretly take the red dress.

He found out at the time that he was still planning to stand still in the future. Who knew that Ford, who had been distressed by being suspected, paid close attention to Kirby's actions, so he immediately discovered what Kato was doing.

Ford was no better than Kirby, he couldn't bear himself, so he quarreled with Kato on the spot.

As if he had let out a sigh of relief, he used this incident to declare that there was absolutely nothing wrong with him, and it was Kato who had the problem.

After Kato was targeted, he repeatedly emphasized that he really didn't take the skirt on purpose, and he didn't know why he took the skirt.

As a witness to the incident on the second floor, Gina has absolutely no way of believing Kato.

And Kirby, who has cooperated with her, also believes in Gina's judgment.

By this time, the others were all at a loss, they could hardly tell who was lying and who was honest.

Everyone became the object of suspicion, and even those who were not involved in this matter began to be unable to trust their friends.

"Why did you get that dress?" Gina asked the question repeatedly.

But Kato couldn't say it anyway, his actions were originally very covert, if he hadn't been suspicious of him long ago, I'm afraid he wouldn't have seen it at all.

By the time Bruce went back, they had begun to reach the final step—a vote on whether or not Kato had a problem.

Betty and Daniel abstained, and Ford, Gina, and Kirby voted yes, and it didn't matter whether Bruce voted or not.

As the accused, the expression on Kato's face changed from agitation at the beginning to calmness later on, and a smile appeared on his face when he finally confirmed that he had been accused.

This made everyone more sure that there was something wrong with this person.

"Is that what you think?" Kato's expression suddenly became a half-smile, "That's right, really smart!"

Everyone's pupils shrank, they didn't expect that there was something wrong with Kato.

"You don't know, do you?" Kato suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled at the face, actually tearing off a piece of skin, and under that face was a white man, "If you tear off the face of that corpse, you will You will find that that is the Kato you are looking for."

Betty covered her mouth all at once to stop the scream that came out,

In other words, during the inspection on the second floor, the corpse had already been replaced by his friend?

Kato was over when he was on the second floor.

The white man licked his lower lip, then opened his mouth to Bruce.

She said with her lips: [Help a few friends say something to you, Hi, Bruce. 】

This sentence shocked Bruce all of a sudden, and he quickly understood that this sentence was out of the script of the haunted house story, and it was just for him.

But he felt that this trial was inexplicable, including Kato's sudden almost self-destructive behavior, which was more like something that must happen after touching a certain plot point.

After saying this, the man quickly took two steps back, and suddenly fell backwards.

"Who can you trust? Who can you not trust?" After leaving these words, Kato suddenly disappeared out of thin air.

At the last moment, that person... looked at the clock.

Bruce heard his words, but paid more attention to where his eyes were looking.

The man is watching the time.

It's 45:[-] now.

Or, touched a certain point in time.