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

in what order?

After listening to the Riddler's words, West subconsciously paid a little more attention.

Then he found that everyone's gifts were not opened at the same time, but came in a certain order.

The first person to catch it was a person sitting across from him.

If he remembered correctly, this person was also the second person who opened the food yesterday, right?

He seemed to understand what the Riddler was saying.

In the following time, everyone didn't continue talking, they finished their meal quietly, and then left separately.

As soon as West finished eating, he pulled the Riddler and refused to let him run away.

The Riddler raised his hand, indicating that he really had no intention of running.

"I heard you have something to ask me?" Penguin asked.

He stared at West, as if he knew what West was going to ask, so West did not modify it: "How did you get that painting?"

"I don't know." Penguin said directly without trying to hide it.

But this answer is definitely not what West and Dick expected. Dick raised his eyebrows: "Oswald, is there something unspeakable?"

"No, I just don't know." Penguin said without hesitation, he didn't seem to be lying, "I didn't find that painting on purpose, I don't need to lie to you, I did offer a reward for one I cursed the painting, but I didn’t look for it seriously. After all, I was just a small prosecutor. I just released the words to scare him. It’s just that this painting appeared in front of the Iceberg Club not long ago, so I put it away. It has never been opened since."

When he said this, the painting didn't seem to be aimed at the prosecutor, but the Penguin.

Penguin must have looked into this, but found nothing.

He is a big boss, and he was dealt with secretly but no trace of that person can be found. If others find out, he will definitely lose face.

So it is reasonable to say to the outside world that he was hired to deal with the prosecutor.

No wonder it was supposed to be a matter of dealing with others secretly, but it made such a big fuss, and the painting was never sent out. It turned out to be this reason.

Presumably this is also the reason why he didn't want to talk about it before.

"It's a pity that I was in Arkham before..." The Riddler said meaningfully. He was confident that if he used his IQ, he would definitely find out: "Oswald, the people under your command are too ...rough."

"That's why you gave the man in my hand to Batman as a riddle?" Penguin snorted.

Dick chuckled beside him, and Damian also raised the corners of his mouth in a sneer.

Although West couldn't understand it, he also guessed that it should be because of a certain case between them.

"Don't children need to study hard? Don't you worry about your bat father being angry if you lose your homework?" Penguin turned his head and said.

Damian's face turned black, his knowledge has already passed his age level, and there is no need to learn at any time.

Penguin is provoking him with his age.

Damian immediately wanted to punch him violently, but Dick quickly held him down.

Getting back to the topic, West continued: "So, Oswald, you don't know who sent the painting to you?"

Penguin answered his question with a nasal voice.

"So I said if I were..."

Before the Riddler finished speaking, West interrupted him: "You might have knelt down long ago, but you just never thought that such a miraculous painting...maybe it wasn't sent by someone?"

All fell silent.

West looked at Dick with a look of disbelief and couldn't help but said: "You don't believe in ghosts in this situation, do you? Does all this seem to happen in the normal world? There should be someone in your place who has dealt with complaints." Spirit? For example, Constantine went to hell."

West has always found this very strange. He has always felt that Chaoying's acceptance of supernatural beings should be quite high, but after getting in touch with them, he found that most of them don't believe in ghosts very much.

"How to say, Constantine did go to hell." Dick said, "but Batman always tells us that hell and the world after death are not the same concept. The soul existing in that world is no longer the soul itself, but a kind of evil. The power, that kind of power can only kill but not think. In this world... there is no place where the soul can exist forever, if a person dies, he dies, this is what I know."

When he said this, West finally understood.

In their concept, there are no ghosts in this world, only evil spirits.

What is the difference between evil spirits and ghosts.

The evil spirit is an evil mutated power, a combination of obsession and resentment, this kind of power has no ability to think, one is obsessed with killing someone.

And what are ghosts?Ghosts are souls with the ability to think.

The biggest difference between them is emotion.

Dick doesn't believe that there are souls in this world who retain their emotions and reason.

West subconsciously looked at Tony, and then he realized that Tony was also looking at Dick.

Dick lowered his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "To be honest, we would be very happy if there were ghosts in this world. I even sincerely hope that there is a world where the dead can exist in this world, so that at least we can expect that the dead will live in this world." Stay in a corner, even if we can't see it. However, we don't have this hope, people must be more realistic, so I believe it is because of some kind of magic."

Who is he missing?Tony?

no, he was thinking...

"Jason." Tony lowered his eyes, "Wayne never mentioned him."

The second son of the Batman, Jason Todd.

Jason died at the hands of the Joker.

"I..." West thought for a long time, but didn't know what to say, so he could only say, "I'm sorry."

"What are you apologizing to me for?" Dick said amusedly, "You didn't do anything wrong."

"I..." West didn't know what to say, he kind of wanted to tell Dick about his industry, and told him that maybe one day Jason would come to work for him.

But it was a wild thing, so he couldn't give Dick a blank promise like that, and he'd be even more disappointed if it didn't work out.

So he swallowed the words back.

"Forget it." West cheered up and continued, "Just pretend it's all because of magic."

He thought about how to tell these smart people the information the system gave him.

Considering that Dick sees the painting differently from him, he suspects that it has something to do with the double butterflies the system said.

The haggard woman was somewhat similar to Miss Brown of this family in terms of dress and appearance.

Think about it carefully, if that woman is as energetic as Miss Brown, then the two of them...

Almost alone!

Twins?Still the same person?

Will Shuangdie have something to do with Miss Brown?

West really needs some smart people to give him more accurate information.

So he thought of an excuse: "Actually, before I came here, I was looking for such a painting. This painting has a name, it's called Shuangdie..."

As he spoke, he told several people the simple information the system gave him and his own guesses.

After listening, the Riddler was the first to speak.

It's just that he didn't talk about the relationship between Miss Brown and Hua, but raised his voice and said, "Master Shuangdie?"

Of course, West would not tell them that he had a mission to obtain the approval of the owner of the painting. He just accidentally mentioned the word "Master of Two Butterflies" in the process of narrating, and he was caught by the Riddler before he knew it.

This so-called master of the double butterflies has also troubled West for a long time. The reason why he has been unable to determine whether the double butterflies refer to people or objects is because of this task.

If it's human and it's really referring to Miss Brown, then it's odd.

Miss Brown looks like a high society, how could she have a master?

If it refers to items... Then I'm sorry, so far, West has not even found a single butterfly in the castle, let alone a pair of butterflies.

He remembered that there were many butterflies in the painting, but when he came in, he realized that there was not a single butterfly in the garden here, and there was not even a butterfly element in the castle.

This made West almost wonder if the task assigned to him by the system was wrong.

Now that the riddleman mentioned this word, he immediately said: "Don't ask me, I don't know what the master of Shuangdie refers to."

After pondering for a while, the Riddler suddenly said: "Do you remember that when you first came in, the housekeeper said that there is a dead lady in this house?"

When West finished listening to the Riddler in a daze and was about to leave in a trance, Nygma suddenly stopped him.

"Wait a minute." The Riddler stopped him.

West stopped his footsteps and turned around: "Is there anything else?"

The Riddler looked around, and waited until several other people had left, and only the two of them were left on the scene before he approached West: "Is there someone beside you?"

These words startled West, and he subconsciously wanted to look at Tony.

But as soon as he wanted to move, he realized that the words of the Riddler were probably testing him, so he immediately restrained his urge to turn his head.

"What are you talking about?" West said calmly.

"Did you know? Sometimes not responding is also a reaction." The Riddler said, "You don't have to pretend, I already guessed it."

"Guess what? I don't understand what you're talking about." West bit the bullet and continued.

"I figured out that there is an invisible person next to you." The Riddler continued, "That's why there are two vacancies at dinner for 13 people, because of your cat and that person, is he... a ghost? I think It's time for you to tell Ye Yi, I can see it."

West didn't know how to answer, so he could only remain silent, but such silence became affirmation in the eyes of the Riddler.

"So there are really ghosts in this world?" The Riddler swallowed and continued.

West thought he couldn't fool him anyway, so he nodded.

The Riddler seemed to be suddenly relieved.

"You won't tell others, will you?" West said anxiously.

"I know a lot of secrets, but there are some secrets that idiots are not qualified to know." The Riddler suddenly said frantically, "It's like I know that Batman is Bruce Wayne, but this is a shocking secret. It would be too much to tell others so casually." It's meaningless!"

West looked at him carefully and said, "But you told me?"

"You know his identity." The Riddler grinned, "Because of the people behind you, I heard you call him Tony, Tony Brian, Tony... Stark?"

West's pupils dilated, this shock was instinctive, even though he knew that the Riddler was more or less tentative, he couldn't control it.

"So I got it right?" the Riddler said happily, "I knew it."

Tony almost raised his palm cannon. Under the control of this world, he couldn't control his desire to kill. In this case, he really couldn't.

But he kept it under control.

"this matter……"

Before West finished speaking, the Riddler interrupted him and said, "Don't worry, this is a very big secret. This kind of secret is only suitable for a perfect riddle."

He clenched his fist for a moment: "I have to think about it, I can use this to give the bat a good riddle, and he can't guess it in his life. Are you wondering how I know something? I said I Knows a lot of secrets, but these secret idiots are never qualified to know."

He looked at West fascinated.

West's heart suddenly rose. He felt that there was something wrong with the Riddler, and he also felt that he had a wrong understanding. The Riddler in this state is the real Riddler.

"Since there are ghosts in this world, can you also turn me into a ghost?" The Riddler suddenly said to West.