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

Jason didn't care about Peter's presence, and asked her when he got home: "You know something right, what are they crazy people doing?"

Peter took off his wet mask, and his face was very ugly. Why did these people jump down by calling Ed's name? What's different about Ed?

Ede bit her lower lip lightly, clenched her fist and released it, and she said slowly: "I'm just guessing, there is no evidence. Maybe... the earth where humans and their gods are is just an insignificant world. There is a three-dimensional world, but above the three-dimensional world there are four-dimensional, five-dimensional, and so on, all the way back to the untouchable upper level, which is the origin of all infinite things.”

Peter was surprised, he didn't know why Ede said that, "Do you believe what they say about stars in dreams? I'm sorry, but this is really against science."

But Ede said seriously: "Maybe human beings can only get a glimpse of the upper world through sleep. We are in a three-dimensional world. When we watch movies, TV works, comics and other content in the two-dimensional world, we naturally feel that they are fictional and false. But maybe the upper world sees us the same way.”

"Maybe what we call matter and reality are just projections and illusions, and what we call projections and illusions are real matter and reality."

Peter didn't know what to say for a while. These were things without evidence. He didn't want to refute Ed, so he looked at Jason who hadn't spoken for a long time.

Jason seemed to understand something after hearing Ide's mysterious and mysterious words.

He frowned. "Is what happened in New York and Gotham because of tomorrow?"

Ide nodded silently. She very much suspected that they were about to wake up, which caused the frequent alienation during this period.

Jason didn't ask any further, he knew that maybe the answer to everything would be tomorrow night.

Ede looked at the rainstorm outside the window, and murmured: "It's raining so hard, can we still see the stars tomorrow night?"

……

The next day, when the first ray of sunlight outside the window hit the wooden floor, it seemed to indicate that her doubts yesterday were overwhelmed.

Jason walked to her side: "It seems that they chose a good weather."

They decided to set off at 3 pm, and with some time, Jason went to the room to get ready.And Ede briefly wrote down all the things that happened to her in front of the computer, including the reason why she was going to the eastern suburbs of Gotham tonight.Finally she left a separate message for Tony.

After finishing writing, Ede closed the computer, found the ID card Tony gave him from his bag, touched it with his fingers, and put it next to the computer.She walked to the sofa and said to Peter: "If I don't come back tomorrow night, Peter, please turn on the computer and look at the file named Ede."

Peter lowered his eyes: "Why do you make such preparations? Where are you going, why don't you tell me or Tony?"

Ede smiled brightly and rubbed Peter's head: "I don't tell you because if you go together, maybe no one will send the letter for me."

"...I will open the file to read after you leave." Peter said sullenly.

"No, you won't. Let's just treat it as our agreement?" Ide spoke in a very soft voice, "There is a reason for not telling you and not telling Tony. The more you know about these things, the more you know it is a kind of pollution. The safest state is to know nothing and feel nothing.”

Peter felt flustered. He knew that Ed was strong, and he knew that Jason was the very powerful Red Hood. Both of them were much stronger than him, but he was very worried when he saw the preparations made by Ed.

He really wanted to say a few more words, but seeing the tired dark circles under Ide's eyes and frowning brows, he swallowed the words again.

"I see. I will do as you say." He lowered his head and said word by word: "But you have to promise me one thing."

"what's up?"

"You must, must come back." His eyes were full of sincerity, even pleading.

By 3:[-], Jason and Ed were ready to go.

Peter sent the two of them out, looked at Ede's slender back, couldn't help but tugged on her backpack, Ede turned around in doubt, Peter hugged her with open arms, and whispered quickly in her ear Say, "Ed, I like you."

Ed's eyes widened, and Peter let go of her with a pious expression: "I'll wait for you to come back."

Jason was urging downstairs, and Ide didn't know what to say for a moment. She... was not qualified to think about these things, so she just nodded to Peter, without even leaving a word.

Yesterday was still foggy, crazy and terrifying Gotham, after the rain faded, the green trees that belonged to summer hung with water droplets and glowed with vitality, everything looked so peaceful.

Ede was sitting on the back seat of Jason's motorcycle, concentrating on looking at the scenery on both sides. When she saw a child running and falling down on the road, she couldn't help laughing.

Jason's dull voice in the front seat came through the helmet: "You seem to be in a good mood?"

Ed put his head on Jason's back, "I just think human beings are cute, diverse, and different."

Jason didn't know if he heard it, because he didn't reply to her.

As the population became more and more sparse, and finally there was no house in sight, the eastern suburbs of Gotham were gradually approaching.

Young people in Gotham hardly know that there is such a place in Gotham, where there seems to be nothing.Only if you ask the elderly, you may know that the eastern suburbs of Gotham used to be prosperous.

Jason also hacked into gcPD to find a lot of information about the dusty eastern suburbs of Gotham. In the past, this was a normal village. People herded cattle and sheep, farmed, and lived like a day for ten years.

Around 1900, there is no specific time, a foreigner named Wilson came.Due to the long history, there is very little information about Wilson. It is only known that his family became more and more prestigious in the village, and it seemed that the whole village listened to his leadership.

Ten years later, an extremely tragic case occurred. Wilson and many villagers who admired him committed suicide by setting fire to his house in a hugging gesture. A total of 49 people died in the fire. The posture of hugging tightly is inseparable.

Since then it has gradually declined, and many people have chosen to move to Gotham City.But there are always people who are reluctant to leave, and there may be less than 10 families left behind.

There is no record of the following things, and then there is the file found in 1971 when dealing with the Adam Rambo incident, the mystery sect composed of more than 40 people of mixed race and social outcasts was suspected of the disappearance of many women and children. After the capture, he left behind this passage:

It is not the dead that sleep forever

In the mysterious aeons even death itself fades away.

Adam Rambo also said this, so at the time Jason and Bruce felt that the two cases were connected.Jason later found out through investigation that after these believers were arrested, the aborigines in this village were very dissatisfied with the treatment at that time, thinking that it was too light to put them in Arkham Mental Hospital and Blackgate Prison.

After the police left, they arrested nine brothers, sisters or friends of those believers from nowhere, and hanged them on the mountain.So the mountain with sinister woods on the eastern outskirts of Gotham is also called Gallows Mountain.

With the passage of time, within 20 years, people here have died and disappeared, and this place has completely become an isolated island.There are even rumors that those who cannot afford a grave in Gotham will secretly bury their bodies in the eastern suburbs of Gotham.

Jason and Ed looked at the old weedy trail and a few rotting farmhouses in the distance.

They searched separately, and they even entered the farmhouse, but found nothing but a stench and rotting furniture.So Jason said they could go to Gallows Mountain.

Gallows Mountain is covered with forests of various shapes, and there are many rocks on the ground. Looking carefully at these rocks, it seems that a confusing pattern emerges, but Ede stared at it for a while, and there is nothing but making the road under his feet more difficult to climb. helped.

Jason was behind her, and he noticed her little movements: "Be careful, this mountain is not easy to climb."

Ede stepped on a rock while turning his head. When he didn't step firmly on his foot, he suddenly felt something was wrong, but his body couldn't hold it back and fell down. He only had time to hold Jason's hand.A strong sense of weightlessness came, and Jason hugged Ed tightly, as if he was preparing to use himself as a pad to cushion some of the force. The time they fell was strangely long. Apart from the narrow and thin opening of the hole, it became wider and wider as it went down. .

With a bang, they finally fell to the ground, and even with Jason on the bottom, the impact knocked Ed into a coma.

I don't know how long it took, Ede opened his eyes in a daze, the cave was unknown how deep it was, it was on top of her head, looking from the hole where she fell, the twilight faded completely at some point, the dark sky was full of stars, bright Unbelievably, they moved slowly as if they were alive, forming halos of light.

She only looked at it for a while, then felt dizzy for a while, and a strong sense of vomiting hit her, she quickly got up and retched a few times beside her.

Ede controlled herself not to look up, this charming and dangerous starry sky made her feel strongly dangerous just by looking at it.

Jason fell harder than her, and he slowly woke up when he heard the movement. Ede said quickly: "Don't open your eyes, open them after you get up, don't look up."

Jason did as she said and sat up, leaning half against the wall.

He looked around and calculated in his mind that the hole was at least 100m deep, and it was like a cone, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and the rocks on both sides were so brittle that it was impossible to climb up.

The place where they are now has many fork holes with the naked eye. At first glance, the wide part of the hole looks like a square, the narrow part looks like a corridor, the high part is at least 30 meters high, and the short part can barely climb through.There is still water in some places, so the possibility of underground lakes is not ruled out.

Ed: "This cave is very strange, maybe it's where they gather."

There are some artificial traces here, after a little discussion, the two walked to one of the fork holes.This fork hole is about 2 meters high, but only 1 meter wide. Due to the bends and lengths, it took 20 minutes to walk through the corridor.

Jason is nearly 1.9 meters tall, and walking is even more difficult.

But after walking out of the long and narrow cave, one can be surprised at just one glance. There are countless slender stone pillars with strange shapes standing on the spacious cave floor. They are independent of each other and scattered irregularly. Like countless pillars.

Jason frowned: "This is a bit like the city of a thousand pillars."

Ed asks what the city of a thousand pillars is.

Jason gave a brief description: "It is said that in Arabia, King Yilan used his terrifying talent to build the City of Thousand Pillars. This City of Thousand Pillars can prevent humans from freely passing through the huge space-time channel to reach the real border. The gate. It took him more than [-] years to build it with all the power of all nations."

"Whether Yilan exists or not is still uncertain. The City of Thousand Pillars is more like a fairy tale, but my first reaction when I saw this was to think of it."

The City of Thousand Pillars that prevents humans from freely passing through the passage of time and space...

They walked through the rock chamber of countless stone pillars in silence, and walked out for an unknown amount of time. After crawling through a dark cave, they keenly felt that the soil was getting wet.

What appeared before their eyes was...a bottomless lake, like a huge black hole, silently waiting for its prey.

They were less than 1 meter above the lake. Jason took out a flashlight from his bag. The light of the powerful flashlight can cover a long distance. From a distance, there seemed to be something at the end.

The two looked intently into the distance. With the light of the flashlight, Ide saw a huge and terrifying gate on the rock wall in the distance. , it makes people fearful at a glance.

Ede didn't want to jump into this bottomless lake. The deep water was impervious to light, and there was endless darkness below. He didn't know how deep it was, which made people feel suffocated by being swallowed and submerged.It's ridiculous to say that human beings claim to be the masters of the earth and firmly believe that they are the spirits of all things, but they don't even understand the sea area clearly.

Even if Ede didn't want to, there was nothing she could do about it. The huge unnatural door in the distance was like a bait, and she knew she had to go in.

Jason asked Ed if he could swim, and Ed nodded.Then he jumped down first with the flashlight in his mouth. As Jason gradually swam away, the surroundings of Ed became more and more silent, which made people feel uneasy.

She followed behind Jason, wary.The water always reminded Ide of the ugly and smelly deep ones he had encountered in his previous trips to the Middle East.

They swam for a long time, and there was no other sound except the sound of water caused by the sliding of their arms.This strange silence makes people wonder if they are still on the earth.

Nothing happened until we climbed ashore.Ide stood wet in front of the damp and seepage stone wall and watched Jason reach out and try to push the door. It is undeniable that the moment Jason touched the door, Ide felt an indescribable panic, for no reason. Shy, she even wanted to turn around and run away, returning to reality to be her shrinking turtle.

But it didn't seem surprising that Jason didn't push the door open. The door was so huge, as if it was built for giants. She was relieved, but she wasn't disappointed. result.

She stepped forward and tried to push the door without any expectations.But that door... was pushed open by her just like that.

Before Yide could react, the door opened unexpectedly.

They walked in the door blankly, and the moment they stepped through the door, the two of them knew that they were in a place on earth that no geographer could locate.

Countless species that don't know how to describe them are watching them quietly.

Their bodies are like giant cones full of folds, and the top of the cone is connected to a human head, but there is no mouth, and the mouth is smooth.Where the limbs should be, grow these four foot-thick tentacles, and at the top of these tentacles grow the head and other organs.At the end of two of the tentacles grow huge claws.

Ed and Jason gradually calmed down their surprise, and then Ed found a familiar face among this group of "people"—Gaius!The vice president of Arkham Asylum, who told her to be the informer who wanted her to go to the eastern suburbs of Gotham.

Gaius squirmed, and it kept opening and closing the huge pincers growing at the end of the tentacles. After scraping and knocking, these pincers made a human voice:

"Hi. Ed."

Ide looked at him hostilely, "Are you the leader? Where's Wyatt? Where's the Cthulhu Order?"

Gaius continued to open and close the pincers: "Don't be angry, Ide. I represent our ethnic group, and we share a set of ideas. Cthulhu Order? What a distant and ancient name. Yes, we used to call this name."

"I can tell you slowly, the truth you want to know."

They even brought in two benches, and Ed and Jason looked at each other and sat down.

Ide asked: "How did you become like this? Were you the one who was in Arkham Asylum before?"

Gaius waved his tentacles and said, "This started a long time ago. When we were still operating under the name of the Cthulhu Order, we discovered a great race by chance. They commandeered our bodies. But generosity keeps a part of us, like the head."

Ede: "Aren't you afraid of being turned into this?"

Gaius said: "Afraid? Let me think about it. There was some at first, but after the surprise and resentment subsided, we gradually adapted to this strange image and no longer felt fear. The truth we longed to know before, the great race all Told us, and now we have only gratitude, never resentment,"

Jason said sarcastically from the side: "Open your mouth about a great race, but shut your mouth about a great race. In fact, you are just prisoners."

Gaius turned his head to look at him, and his voice became a little cold: "Humans, hello. Do you know what is your biggest shortcoming? It is arrogance. Humans are just one of the most inconspicuous members of the earth. 3 million years ago, when the first batch of amphibian ancestors crawled out of the warm ocean, countless great civilizations were established by many things that you never imagined, and explored every secret in time and space.

Some of them come from among the stars, and some of them are even as old as the universe. Even if the time it took for humans to evolve as terrestrial microorganisms is multiplied by hundreds, it is still less than one hundred thousandth of them. "

Gaius' eyes were glued to Jason's body, as if he was deciding something, "Human, we can allow you to join and become a part of the great race."

"No, I still like being human. You are too ugly." Jason sneered, "What else can you give me? Give me a conical body and countless tentacles."

Gaius: "We can bring you, in terms you can understand, the knowledge of infinite ages of every species that has ever existed or will ever exist, including their art, achievement, language, and psychology. The dimension of time cease to exist, and you will gain endless knowledge."

He said intoxicatedly: "If you are a human being with a keen mind who wants to uncover the hidden secrets of the earth, this gift is simply sweet and incredible. I even met my future self. Unlike human beings, the lifespan of the great race is too long. It's been too long, and human beings have been struggling with time."

He stretched out four trumpet-shaped tentacles, and his conical body twisted continuously. He drank from a porcelain cup with the light green tentacles under his head. This absurd scene really makes people feel uncomfortable. When you Watching incomprehensible monsters behave in ways only humans can do is often more disgusting than seeing the monster itself for the first time.

Jason got goosebumps, and checked himself and Ide calmly. He was relieved when he saw that he was still in human form, but he had no intention of continuing to communicate with Gaius at all.

Ede said: "Then you saw your future self, that is to say, you can see the future, right?"

Gaius's language is still peaceful, but what he said makes people shudder: "Yes, the human beings who claim to be the spirit of all things have ushered in a terrible end."

"Who attacked humans and why?"

A series of unpleasant laughter came out of Gaius' pincers: "The reason? It's just interesting. Ide, even the great race, there are many races in space that can easily destroy us, let alone such a fragile human being." ?”

Ede was silent. She also knew that human beings are so fragile, but she didn't want to continue discussing this topic: "What about Wyatt? You didn't answer my question."

Gaius: "You will find him if you keep searching."

Ed and Jason stood up, ready to leave.Gaius and others stretched out tentacles to stop Jason, "Humans can't, humans can't go."

This was like a signal to attack. Jason's uncontrollable anger burst out at this moment. He swiftly shuttled among the tentacles, and Gaius' light green tentacles were cut off by him in an instant.

But... Their figures suddenly blurred, turning into a picture-like scene, as if someone was wiping with an eraser. Before Gaius and the others completely disappeared, a piece of yellowed sheepskin The paper was blown in front of Ed by the wind blowing from nowhere.

She bent to pick up the parchment.

It reads: Those who dare to seek to see the other side of the veil, those who dare to see it as a guide, should be more cautious than avoid dealing with him; The immensity of is occupied and bound by dark things.That which roams the night, that evil that defiles the Old Seal, that herds that are known to watch over the secret gates in every tomb; He of the entrance: he shall lead the reckless through all worlds, and at last to the abyss of nameless devourers.

When she finished reading the last word, the atmosphere around her suddenly began to undergo a strange change. There seemed to be countless disturbances and chaos in time and space, and she saw that Jason in front of her was suddenly wiped with an eraser. , gradually become transparent until disappearing into the air.

The huge stone gate and the surrounding stone walls seemed to have disappeared, but they didn't seem to disappear, leaving only a series of strange impressions. Rather than saying that Ede saw it, it was better to say that her brain felt the change.She felt that all the information around her entered into her mind in a strange way and kept circling in her mind, but she didn't even know how this change came about.

She was worried about Jason's whereabouts, but felt dizzy again. Ed kept searching for the memories in his brain, but suddenly doubted, had Jason been with her all this time?Was it really Jason who followed her through the narrow stone wall and told her about the City of Thousand Pillars and entered the gate with her?

The more Ide thought about it anxiously, the more blank she felt in her mind. In the end, she couldn't even remember Jason's appearance.Jason's black hair gradually faded to blond, and his face, which was always unrestrained, was gradually replaced by a gentle and affectionate face.

It was only when those light gray pupils looked at her that she realized it.

That's... Wyatt.