[Comprehensive British and American] The villain is also looking for a job today

Jason's location disappeared abruptly, and the moment he disappeared, an extremely sharp alarm bell sounded in the Batcave.The final location was near Crime Alley, and Bruce quickly drove the Batmobile to check, but found nothing.

It was early morning when we returned to the Batcave again, and Bruce, who was sitting in front of the computer, looked a little tired.

Alfred placed the dinner plate on his left side, "Sir, you haven't eaten for 20 hours. No matter what the situation is, you have to keep your body in order to do what you want."

In front of the old housekeeper who has been with him for more than 40 years, this dark knight with a hard mask finally revealed a trace of fragility, and his voice was a little hoarse, "I want to reduce the risk that Jason will face because of his irrationality, so I will He's temporarily suspended. And it looks like...my choices made it worse."

"No, we both know you want to do it for his own good." Alfred whispered.

At this time, Bruce's communicator suddenly turned on the red light again.

"It's Barbara—the clown took Gordon after he shot Barbara." Bruce put on the mask again, his jaw clenched, his anger almost congealed.

Alfred sighed: "If there is any news about Jason, I will notify you immediately."

Jason was oblivious to what was happening outside.

He and Ede returned to the room on the right side of the second floor. Under the light of the candles, he could see that it was a study room with a high ceiling. The decoration was quite classical. The two walls were full of books. The desk is quietly placed next to the bookshelf, and some documents and papers are scattered on the desk.On the other side is a fireplace with a messy arrangement of dark wood.

"It seems that we won't be able to go out in a short time. My name is Ide, how about you?" Ide lay on the sofa, crossed his legs, and tilted his head to look at the black-haired boy sitting opposite him.

"Jason Todd." He continued to ask after answering: "Can you tell me why you came here? How much do you know about this house?"

Ede sighed: "I finally took a vacation to go shopping in the city center. When I walked around here... I felt a strong heart palpitation. I have never felt this kind of feeling, so I followed my intuition to come here. What I know about this No more than you."

What she said was very mysterious, but what happened now cannot be simply explained by science.Jason believed her statement for now.

Noticing that Jason's eyes turned to the desk, Ide said, "You can go and have a look, anyway, I can't see anything after looking around, and by the way, there should be candles in the penultimate drawer on the right side of the desk."

The candle was temporarily taken away by Jason, and the light immediately became dim. Amidst the indistinct light and shadow alternation, Ede suddenly felt tired from the inside out all over her body, and her eyelids couldn't even lift up.

It was hard to resist such drowsiness, especially—when she closed her eyes, Ide felt her body and mind relaxed, and a tranquility she had never felt before surrounded her, and those whispers disappeared in the mansion …

Jason looked back at Ide, the girl was submerged in the darkness, only a hazy figure could be seen.The sound of slow and even breathing slowly entered his ears——she actually fell asleep?

He didn't wake up Ed, and looked up at the bookshelf in front of him. All kinds of bulky, old, and worn-out books were tightly packed in the bookcase. Most of the titles Jason couldn't understand, and some of them were in Arabic. , Some are in Latin, some Jason can't tell what language it is, and only a small number of books are in English.

He pulled out several books, among them The Key of Solomon; The Surprises of Science by Maurice Sr.;If you open a book at random, the words and vocabulary in it are very difficult to understand, and most of them are descriptions with unclear meanings. Although you don't understand the meaning, you can feel that what is recorded in it is the content that touches the mysterious realm that makes people tremble.

Jason had to admit that Batman's omnipotent teachings did not include the field of mysticism. He was confused and gave up within 5 minutes.

A photo in the files on the desk attracted his attention. It was obviously taken under very dark conditions by prolonging the exposure time. The photo was taken of a door. It's dark, and many details are hard to see with the naked eye.

Jason sat at the desk, took out a magnifying glass from the drawer, and carefully observed the photo.Through the magnifying glass, one can barely discern some strange and dense white marks on the door. He took a pen and traced it on the white paper next to it—the shapes of incoherent rings and pentagrams.

He had never seen this kind of door before, the photos were taken by the owner of the house, and the books on the two walls can also prove that the owner is a fan of occultism, so did the owner of the house have an accident during the search?This house also seems to be gradually polluted by some force.

Jason has been looking at this picture on the table...

It wasn't until Jason was awakened by the sound of Ide turning over, that he woke up from the state of trance.Jason immediately covered the photo with a book, walked quickly to Ed and woke her up.

"Get up, this place is getting weirder and weirder." Jason's face was very ugly, he had never been so absent-minded, and he didn't even know how long he had been sitting there in a daze.The hands of the watch have not changed since entering the house, and the concept of time seems to be lost here.

Ede rubbed his eyes and seemed a little confused, "God, I've never fallen asleep so naturally! This place still has its advantages."

Jason didn't quite understand why she was a little relieved and excited?

Ed picked up the newly lit candle and stood up. "Did you find any clues?"

"The photo of the door on the table, the door is engraved with the shape of a circle and a pentagram, and the photo will make you lose your mind if you look at it for a long time." Jason briefly explained what happened just now.

"Oh... isn't that door the one at the end on the left side of the second floor? I was going to check it, but your sudden appearance disrupted my train of thought, and I forgot about it!"

Jason was shocked again, it was so weird.When he reached the second floor, he naturally ignored the door on the left and subconsciously walked to the right.After looking at the photos, he also didn't realize that there was one room in the house that he hadn't visited.

But Ed seemed unaffected by the door.

The two of them walked out of the room with the candlesticks in their hands. The darkness on the first floor was getting bigger and bigger, and the light of the candles was engulfed as soon as it touched the edge.

The black door at the end is made of unknown material, but when you get closer, you can see some strange patterns carved on it with a knife, and there is a small hole under the copper doorknob.

This door is locked.But lockpicking is an essential skill for every Gotham waif, Jason took out the wire and inserted it into the hole, fiddled a few times without success.He bent down to put the candle at his feet, half kneeling and put his face close to the hole.

Jason watched it for a while.Can he see something?

"Did you see anything?" Ed looked at Jason's back and asked softly with some hesitation.

He didn't answer, but the panting became louder and louder... his whole back was shaking violently up and down.

Jason felt himself in a daze, his consciousness seemed to be boiling, and Ed's voice was getting farther and farther away from him, so far away that he couldn't reach... Where am I?

I followed Ed to a strange house.

Why don't you leave?

We can't leave.

what do you see

Two voices circled and scattered in my mind, asking and answering themselves.

What do I see?His chaotic consciousness seemed to be stimulated by these words, tens of thousands of neurons converged to the cerebral cortex through complex interconnections, and the brain area that processes memory started to function again——

I put my eyes close to the keyhole, trying to see what was inside - an indescribable outline; a jelly-like mass?A mass of mud, perhaps—but it has shape—it has a thousand indescribable shapes—and there is a blotch of a different color on its body.No--it was an eye, and the eye had rolled out of its depths--it, it was about to open.

Jason fell straight backwards and fell to the ground with a loud noise, his body twitching unconsciously.Kneeling beside him, Ed saw something wriggling under Jason's left eyelid.

Oh shit.Ed couldn't help but swear in his heart.

The scene in front of him was something that can only be seen in R-rated movies - Jason's handsome face, the left eyelid was constantly filled with foreign matter, and blood gradually flowed down the corner of his eye.

Ed took a deep breath, tried his best to ignore the involuntary goosebumps on his body, and opened Jason's left eye. A white nematode about one millimeter wide tried to penetrate behind the eyeball, and the worm's mouth kept opening slightly.

It couldn't go on like this, and Ede immediately realized that the situation was critical. For a while, she could only think of digging out all the bugs first.

She turned "Blood Red" into tiny tentacles that spread out radially, and the tentacles spread towards the eyeball, covering Jason's entire left eye.Piercing the nematodes at an extremely fast speed and hooking them out, there were as many as 4 of them, and Yide threw the worms to the first floor in disgust.

Jason's convulsions gradually calmed down as the bug left his body. Before Ede could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the sound of the door lock coming from behind the black door in front of him.

Ead held her breath, "Blood Red" was always ready to activate by her hand.The sound behind the door stopped abruptly, and a strange, unheard vibration pierced through layers of reality into Ide's mind.

The reality in front of him gradually becomes a spiral distortion, the boundaries of consciousness become loose, and some kind of weird arc that does not obey the laws of the universe recreates a taboo picture - an indescribable, dirty, deformed, horrible The strange mixture of disgust is rolling, and the evil thing is gradually connected with this mansion, and it is infiltrating reality.

Ed felt her skin tingle a little, and the veins under her skin were twisting—this ugly thing was a failure, it shouldn't be in front of her eyes, God, she was going to be sick.Disgust rolled in Ide's heart, and soon her body picked up the signal too.

Something tore her skin, drilled out of her arm, a thick maroon soft and slender protrusion stretched freely, fixed on the deformed hybrid body at an alarming speed, and kept tightening.

Ed suddenly realizes she's "eating" it...