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

According to him, he first came to Siberia after crossbones.

At that time, he had just encountered the bad news of Tony's death after the Thanos battle. He originally planned to go to Wakanda, but who knew that he met the person who should have died a long time ago-Brock Rumlow.

Crossbones was his former administrator, and the relationship between them can be said to be very complicated.

His feelings for Rumlow can neither be regarded as hatred nor love, but the opposite senses mixed with complex identification and disapproval.

During the long time of getting along, the emotion he established with Rumlow can not only be wiped away by saying "Hydra is the chief culprit who hurt me". Not so harsh, the occasional unbearable look in his eyes when he looked at Bucky wasn't entirely fake.

Stockholm Syndrome is not entirely unreasonable.

So, he followed his instinct all the way, wherever Brock Rumlow went, he went there, and finally followed him to Siberia.

For an unspeakable purpose, he didn't let the other party see him, but followed behind and witnessed the other party's entry into Hydra's base.

Bucky originally planned to go in with him after a while, but who knows that before he went in, there was an explosion, and the entire Hydra base was blown up.

He rushed in, but the shockwave from the blast pushed him out, which would have been enough to kill him if he wasn't a transformed super soldier.

After the explosion was over, he searched around the base three times, but no one came out except the bombed base.

After that, Bucky stayed in Siberia for no other reason. During the explosion, he did not see Rumlow who entered the Hydra base come out, nor did he find a body.

He almost thought that the Rumlow he saw was just his dream, so he stayed here persistently, wanting to prove that it was definitely not his dream.

West fell silent after listening.

Another person who suddenly resurrected?Everyone knows that Rumlow is definitely dead. If it weren't for his suicide attack, there would be no Sokovia Act, there would be no civil war, and there would be no Avengers breakup , and there's even a good chance there won't be an Iron Man death in which the split-back Avengers can't handle Thanos enough that Tony has to forcefully inject himself with the Extremis virus.

But counting the time, the time when Bucky came to Siberia happened to be the time when West started the haunted house.

At that time, Namonros had not been resurrected, most of his power was sealed in the resurrection town, and it was impossible to resurrect Rumlow who was far away in the sky.

However, besides him and Namonros, who else in this world can resurrect people?Whether it is the pool of Lazarus or something else, in fact, the essence of resurrection is also derived from the giving of vitality.

And the sources of these vitality actually come from life and death, without their giving, others cannot obtain it.

So the question is, why did Brock Rumlow come back to life?How did he live?

West closed his eyes, emptied his mind, and searched for the existence of Brock Rumlow in the vast sea of ​​people, and then he found that there was no Brock Rumlow soul among all known living people.

"Are you sure that what you saw was Brock Rumlow?" West couldn't help asking, "not...anyone else?"

There are two possibilities for the soul he didn't find, one is that it was transformed by Namonros and then hid by him.The second is that the dead will return to the land of death in the polar sea, and only in the land of death can the soul be found.

The time of Brock Rumlow's disappearance and death does not match the time of Namonros' resurrection, so the first one is basically impossible.

Then there is only the second type, but if it is the second type, then Brock Rumlow is definitely dead.

"I'm sure." Bucky replied firmly, without even the slightest hesitation, which showed that he was sure that what he saw was Brock Rumlow—or the same person as Crossbones in his memory. , "I can't be wrong. During that time, I watched him every day and followed him all the way to Gotham, New York..."

"Wait, let's assume that Brock Rumlow is not dead, what did he go to Gotham for?" West blinked, grasping a key point in an instant.

"I don't know." Bucky said blankly.

"You followed him all the way, you don't know what he's going to do?" West pulled the corner of his mouth, unable to smile.

Bucky shook his head, and at this moment Nygma, who had been looking at him beside him, suddenly said, "I've seen him."

Bucky is not an employee of the haunted house, so he can't hear it, and only West can hear Nygma speaking.

He didn't even move his head. Nygma understood, but raised his eyebrows and continued: "I saw him in Gotham, to be precise, I saw him on surveillance."

Obviously, Nygma's habit of guessing riddles couldn't be changed.

West glanced at Nygma threateningly from the corner of his eye, and Nygma continued: "Well, I didn't see it at first, after all, he had such a big beard, and he was wearing a black beard at the time. Mask, wearing clothes covering the whole body, hiding himself tightly, and being very experienced almost avoided all the monitors, only one of him took a little trace of him..."

To get to the point, West glanced at Nygma again, this time more severely than before.

Nygma continued unhurriedly: "Then, he sent the painting to Oswald's Iceberg Club in that dress."

West frowned, subconsciously looking at Bucky.

Bucky's eyes were blank, and when he asked, "Don't you know what he's going to do", his eyes were even more blank.

This blankness didn't mean that he didn't answer his question, but that he spoke, but his eyes said that he didn't know anything.

"I don't know what he was going to do because he disappeared for a while," he said.

West looked at him suspiciously. He had already fully realized that the current Bucky was actually a little mentally unstable. This kind of instability might be related to his recent encounters, or it might be related to his own mental state. .

After all, Bucky was once a brainwashed man whose mind was scrambled by Hydra.

West looked at Nygma from the corner of his eye, and Nygma was touching his chin, and found that West's gaze was natural and said: "People who infiltrate Gotham every day—especially the villains, there are a lot of them, and Batman may also say I don’t know, but at least I haven’t encountered Hydra during the infiltration of the Iceberg Club, and if Hydra has really been to Gotham, then they haven’t done anything, and I haven’t received any information about them.”

The villains of Gotham and the guardians of Gotham know best about Gotham's underground information.Therefore, Nygma said that Hydra did nothing when it came to Gotham. In fact, it means that Hydra has never been to Gotham—because it is absolutely impossible for Hydra to go to Gotham on purpose. Do neither.

In other words, he added a considerable weight to Bucky's possible mental problems.

West turned back to look at Bucky's expression, still showing sincerity. Such an inquiry was fruitless, and West simply said, "Are you willing to open your soul to me?"

It was a rather rude request, but West sincerely hoped that Bucky would do what he said.

Bucky looked into West's eyes, and at first his expression was stiff for a moment from being offended, but as time passed, he gradually relaxed.

He didn't know West's identity, but he could see the sincerity of trust in West's eyes.

During the time when his mind was chaotic, he lived more by his intuition, and this intuition helped him avoid many dangers.

And now, his instinct told him to follow West's advice.

"If that's what you want." So he said, and obediently leaned towards West slightly.

West had never seen such an obedient person before. After a moment of surprise, he leaned over and put his hands on both sides of his forehead.

His soul poked out a small sharp horn, trying to touch Bucky's soul, he invaded his memory, consciously searched according to the information Nygma gave him, and as expected, he found the scene of Bucky in Gotham.

Bucky was exactly as described by Nygma, tightly wrapped, with almost only a pair of eyes exposed.

In other places, he'd have to be noticed, but in Gotham, it's not uncommon for him to be as sneaky as he is.

So no one cared about him, not to mention his dexterous movements, which almost avoided all the angles that could be seen by others.

West paid special attention to Bucky's eyes at this time-his eyes were space-time.

Bucky has such a memory in his mind, but he doesn't remember it at all.

And what about the Brock Rumlow he saw?West rummaged through his memory, but found no trace of Crossbones at all.

Bucky was the only one who made it all the way to Gotham.

He was so adamant about what the crossbones did to West, but the crossbones in his mouth didn't even exist.

West now even suspects that the so-called Crossbones took him to Siberia was not true.

So, did Bucky lie to him?Of course it is impossible, if Bucky really lied to him, then he would never dare to open his soul to West.

His soul was disturbed, and some real and illusory memories were stuffed into his mind.

West was about to intensify the intrusion, but who knew that he felt a strong resistance as soon as he moved.

In an instant, West was pushed out of Bucky's soul.

He looked at Bucky in shock. Although he was defenseless at the time, could even such a non-magical hero reject him like this?

Bucky looked at him blankly, he didn't know what happened, his body was relaxed, his whole body was relaxed.

But when West tried to enter his soul again, he found that his soul was not as obedient as he showed.

On the contrary, his soul was extremely tense, almost as if he was in a wartime state, and West could feel a strong resistance when he got a little closer.

He saw that Bucky's body was still relaxed, every muscle of his was filled with his willingness to accept West, while his soul showed the opposite meaning.

At this moment, he finally exposed his own big problem - the dick and the soul are sometimes split.

It's no longer whether he has mental problems, it's a big problem with his whole body!

West didn't dare to venture forward, he already fully understood why Bucky had the contradictory reaction just now, because there was a big problem with his soul.

But judging from Bucky's behavior, he didn't appear particularly abnormal.

There is a separation between the soul and the body. Generally, this separation is due to death, and in special cases, it is because someone has tampered with his soul.

In either case, Bucky should be showing some kind of abnormality - but he doesn't.

West has to figure out why he's in this situation and who exactly did it to Bucky Barnes.

"I may have to use some special means." West said gently to Bucky, and then winked at the staff of the haunted house next to him, indicating that Cain, the magic side, must pay attention to them. Case.

Bucky still didn't know what happened, but West couldn't wait, he was eager to know what happened.

He took out the ruby ​​left by the succubus and put it in his palm.

If there is no way to find the truth by invading the soul, then there is only a dream.

A dream is a collection of a person's subconscious mind. What he notices and what he doesn't notice will all be reflected in the dream.

West is not good at dream invasion, which is the specialty of the previous generation of succubi, but fortunately he got the relic left by the succubus, which allows him to easily invade other people's dreams even if he is a layman—as long as the other party Not great at it.

Thinking this way, he put his strength into the ruby.

The power of the endless family comes from the same source, even if they are irrelevant, they can communicate with each other.

After his power entered the ruby, the gem gave off a dark red light, which made people feel dizzy and felt like they were going to lose consciousness in a second.

Bucky looked down at the ruby ​​in his hand subconsciously, his mind gradually became chaotic, and he slowly lost consciousness with the words that West muttered in his mouth.

Then, West also entered the dream like him.

The dream he induced Bucky to have was based on his memory. At the beginning, he was afraid that Bucky's soul would be unstable, so he didn't dare to get into the theme too quickly, and carefully constructed a false world for him.

Afterwards, he found that the reaction was not too big, so he pushed his memory forward with confidence. Most of the dreams are from the first-person perspective, which means that what Bucky can see, West who dreams with him can see What.

He didn't want to interfere too much, so he watched most of the time.

If you want to say when Bucky became abnormal, it should be after the battle of Thanos.

The Winter Soldier hasn't had those weird reactions during the Thanos battle yet.

So he pushed the memory forward to the time when the battle of Thanos was almost at its end.

At that time, Bucky followed Steve to face Thanos at the Avengers base, which was the main battlefield at the time.

Then Thanos came, the Avengers resisted, and the death of Iron Man after robbing the Infinity Stones-West saw the process of Tony's death for the first time, and it was still from the perspective of the Winter Soldier.

It never occurred to Bucky that Tony would die.

Tony fell so suddenly, the battle had just ended, he just found a place to rest, and then fell down with a bang.

From Bucky's perspective, West can especially feel his disbelief and pain at that moment.

He didn't think about it at all...or rather, he didn't think about it.

After that comes the cleanup of the battlefield, where the Winter Soldier was not accepted by everyone in the Avengers due to some of his past, and he was excluded in the process.

Before the Thanos War, half of the Avengers were being hunted down. Since they saved the world again, the relationship between the government and them has eased a lot.

It even arranged corresponding accommodation for Bucky Barnes, who had nowhere to go-since the Avengers base was funded by the Stark Group, and as the manager of Tony's property, Pepper did not agree that he was in the base Guilty, so he went back to Brooklyn.

West knew in his heart that when the critical moment came, Barnes, who was assigned to Brooklyn, left Brooklyn not long after. If something happened in the middle, it must be because of this—whether it was the crossbones he saw or something else. ...

West's eyes widened for a moment, and from Bucky's perspective, he actually saw the crossbones.

Crossbones was on the street not far from his house, and seemed to have noticed Bucky's gaze from a distance, and then turned his head away.

The exposed half of his face clearly had wounds from the explosion, but his physical condition looked as good as before he died.

Without even thinking about it, Bucky jumped out of the window to find Rumlow.

However, the moment he jumped off, the crossbones disappeared on the spot.

He may have blinked his eyes for 0.01 or 0.02 seconds, and looked away from Rumlow's direction, but such a short time is definitely not enough for a normal human to disappear in place—unless he is a superman.

However, Rumlow just disappeared.

About meeting Rumlow again, Bucky didn't tell anyone, but started to investigate secretly.

The strange thing is that when Bucky was chasing Rumlow, Rumlow seemed to be watching Bucky all the time. Bucky could see him appearing beside him a few times, but as soon as Bucky found out, he would disappear immediately .

West couldn't help feeling that Rumlow like this was like a bait for fishing, luring Bucky to approach him step by step.

West doesn't know if the two who are in the chase feel this way, but West does.

Does this rumlo really exist?West is skeptical.

The dream reflects the understanding in Bucky's mind, which may be affected, not necessarily the actual situation, but his soul reflects the truth.

If Bucky saw Rumlow in Gotham like now but Rumlow was not there, it proves that the crossbones Bucky saw at this time may not be real.

Just as West was thinking like this, he suddenly felt a sharp gaze shot towards him.

He looked up suddenly, and found that Crossbones, who was being tracked by Bucky, was staring in his direction with a strange look.

West is in Bucky's perspective, and the crossbones should be looking at Bucky.

No, West feels wrong, the owner of this line of sight is completely different from the Rumlow he saw before.

This line of sight is more like... looking at him.

"West..." That "Rumlow" opened his mouth without making any sound, but the call struck West's soul word by word.

West opened his mouth slightly, his eyes widened, and his brain was attacked in reverse.

He immediately withdrew all his strength and wanted to get out of Bucky's mind, but he hadn't done it yet, a force that he didn't know but unexpectedly felt familiar made him feel drowsy.

Someone wants to drag him into a dream.

Is it Namonos?West's first reaction was this person.

The special connection between him and Namonroth made him think of that person involuntarily.

But then he realized that it shouldn't be, neither he nor Namonros is the manipulator of the dream, and their previous encounter in the dream was also given by the succubus.

To say that the only one in this world who is also the best at manipulating dreams is the succubus named after dreams.

But the Dream Demon is a member of the Endless Family, and he has already become history along with the Endless Family.

No matter who is attacking West now, he is facing a very urgent situation. Falling asleep in another person's dream is a very dangerous thing. The consciousness of a person is completely handed over to others, and the damage to the consciousness often touches the soul.

West wanted to resist, but the other party's ability in dreams far surpassed him as a layman, and it didn't take long for him to feel that his mind was slowly sinking.

He smiled wryly, already realizing that he should have jumped into someone's trap.

Bucky Barnes is a trap, that's what's waiting for him.

Instead of resisting at this time, it is better to let nature take its course and make a good defense, so as to wait for the opportunity.

West simply gave up, and took the initiative to comply with the other party, while he completely wrapped his soul with power, and set up a hard shield for himself.

Although dreams are not his domain, the soul is.

Then his body sank, and then he appeared in a completely strange place.

West's own recollection of this place never existed, a gleaming... hotel.

The words [Dream Hotel] are written on the door of the hotel. Two villains with strange looks and behaviors at the door hold a menu or something in their hands and make strange noises at West. He shouted strangely: "Welcome, Mr. West, I'm Cain."

"I'm Abel."

West almost thought he heard it wrong, he knew Cain and Abel, but obviously the two in front of him were completely different from the Cain and Abel he knew.

"But we are Cain and Abel in the dream." The two weirdos seemed to know what he was thinking. "We are what people dream of us, and we are what we are."

West frowned, he probably already understood that the two weirdos who called themselves "Cain and Abel" in front of him were not the real ones, but dream creatures, changing according to people's dreams.

So here is...

If it wasn't for the succubus being dead, West almost thought he had arrived in the succubus territory.

But even if West knew that the succubus was dead, he couldn't help thinking—is there another place named after a dream in this world?

Coupled with the powerful force that dragged him into the dream just now - will there be another person with that powerful force?

"Okay, Westerbrian, the second generation is dead." The two weirdos muttered strangely while holding the things in their hands, "Confirm your identity..."

Before he finished saying "confirm your identity", he slapped himself on the head: "I forgot, I still need to confirm my identity."

After he finished speaking, he spread out the "menu" in his hand - West saw it clearly now, it was a notebook with many words that he couldn't understand - those words and obviously Any known language is different.

The two weirdos coughed and cleared their throats: "Mr. Brian, please answer three questions. After three questions, you can enter the hotel."

"Why should I enter the hotel?" West raised his eyebrows and asked as a matter of course.

The two weirdos looked at each other and said in unison: "Mr. West doesn't want to know what all this is for? For example, what happened to Bucky Barnes? Where is this place?"

This is a good reason, and West remained silent, acquiescing to their request.

The two weirdos lowered their heads and opened the notebook: "The first question, what did you dream about when you first met Lady Death?"

What did you dream about when you first met Lady Death?West closed his eyes, many thoughts turned in his mind.

He wondered if he should tell the truth, how much, and to whom.

Finally he said: "I dreamed of death."

Yes, he dreamed of death, and this death was not Lady Death, not endless death, but death itself.

He dreamed that he was rotting in the mud, dreamed of the heavy coffin pressing on him, dreamed of the night from which he could never escape.

That is the feeling that death gives to everyone, and death itself knows death best.

This dream is still fresh in his memory.

"Congratulations, you got the answer right." The weirdo clapped his hands as if encouraging, "Second question, what did you dream about the day before Ms. Death disappeared?"

West pursed his lips: "I dreamed of death."

That was the second time he dreamed of death, the suffocating pain that West could never forget.

He was buried in the ground and stopped breathing.

"Very good, you also answered the second question correctly." The weirdo nodded, and then turned to the next page, "The third and most important question... what will you dream about tonight?"

West slowly lowered his eyes.

"I would... dream about death," West replied.

"Congratulations, you got the answer right." Today has not passed, night has not yet fallen, no one knows what they will dream about.

But West answered this way, and they all agreed.

He realized what the three questions really meant—or reminded him of.

When did his connection with Namonros begin?

The two most important moments in his life——

The first time he met Lady Death, he knew who he was, and that day he dreamed of death.

The second time, when Lady Death died, on that day, he refused to admit his identity, decided to abandon his responsibilities, and pretended that he was just an ordinary person. He dreamed of death.

Was the death in these two dreams really his?The person buried underground, was he or was his consciousness connected to Namonos, who had the same power as him, at that moment?

"Who are you?" West whispered.

At this time, the two weirdos who had finished asking the question turned sideways and opened the door to West.

"Okay, Mr. Brian, please come in."

West's footsteps did not stop, and he walked firmly into the so-called dream hotel.

A man dressed as a waiter stood at the front desk of the hotel, holding a wine bottle in his hand, while pouring the wine gracefully, he said to him: "It's the first time we met, West, you probably don't know me yet, but But I have been paying attention to you all the time, and I forgot to introduce myself, I am the second-generation succubus, Murphys."