[Comprehensive British and American] When short rich handsome meets tall rich handsome

"The youngest of the Sheffields is dead, drowned."

"The older one took the younger one out to play, and the younger one drowned."

"The way of death is quite in line with the requirements of the sacrifice, but the choice of the person is wrong... Could it be that he knew that he was going to be sacrificed, so he murdered his brother?"

……

"The ceremony was wrong, the children of the Shefford family died wrongly, and the older one was killed too."

"It is impossible for the Sheffields to give away their second son."

"The children of the other three families are already dead. If the children of the Shford family are not dead, then the ceremony will be in vain."

"You killed your brother! You killed your brother for nothing!"

"Alex, I miss your brother so much."

"We can't lose another son! He's crazy, take him to a psychiatric hospital, send him outside, don't... don't go back to town."

"Doctor, I... I seem to see my brother Joshua, really, I am not dreaming, I saw Joshua... where? In my dream... I am dreaming... But, I Can bring him back, really, I can bring him back."

……

Tony bites on a respirator, clutching the painting he snatched from Alex's pocket at the last moment.

On it was a mechanical spider. The spider's raised abdomen looked like a drowning man. It had a face, and that face looked very much like Joshua.

Tony swam desperately, there was darkness above his head, and darkness in front of his eyes.

He couldn't see anything with his eyes, and he could only swim forward by feeling.

The whole person was numb, and all movements became mechanical.

He can hardly swim anymore.

When he was about to lose his strength, a bright light appeared in front of him, and a person was swimming towards him in the bright light.

It's Bruce.

Bruce tugged at his arm and finally swam out of the haunted house's lake with all his might.

Tony lay on the ground panting heavily, and after a little smoothness, he immediately said to Bruce: "I know, Alex is the host of the gem!"

Bruce patted him on the back and calmly said, "I know."

"You know? That's right, you should have found the evidence too." Tony said, and after he finished speaking, he handed four paintings of monsters to Bruce, "I don't know if you have this thing, but this is what I got from that From the damn haunted house."

Bruce picked up the painting and looked at it for a long time. After listening to Tony tell what happened to him along the way, he shook his head and sighed: "I see."

Tony looked at him puzzled, and Bruce explained to him: "I know that the gem that Alex got was just speculation, but I never got any evidence."

"Alex's appearance was too coincidental. When he appeared, the fog in Silent Hill cleared. What was he in before that? Sleepwalking. After he woke up, the triangular head that was trying to kill me also disappeared. , I began to suspect that Alex had something to do with the fog in Shepherd's Creek."

When Bruce said this, Tony remembered for a moment.

When he entered the hospital, Alex said he had a headache, and then the fog that had cleared thickened again.

He should have thought that when Alex was awake, the fog would clear, and when Alex was unconscious, the fog would bring the monster into this world.

Alex is manipulating the gem, or rather, the gem brings Alex's fear to that world.

"I think I already know what the world is like." Bruce said, taking out a watch, a puppet, and a black drawing board from his purse, "These three things belong to Joey, Scar Lit and Nora. They are three of the four children who were sacrificed in Shepherd's Valley. I got their memories, so I know the truth about Shepherd's Valley, but the key memory of the fourth child , I never got it."

He took a deep breath, looked back at the lake they had just escaped from, and said calmly: "I have been in this playground for so long, and I have never found it."

The haunted house you entered, I guess, was because Alex didn't want to open that haunted house to me, and the memory he most wanted to hide was in this haunted house. "

"That memory is—his brother Joshua died long ago, and he accidentally killed his brother."

"Alex Shefford will never find Joshua Shefford because he sent his brother into the lake with his own hands."

As soon as the words fell, there was a burst of broken and crisp sounds all around.

Then all the scenes turned into pieces and fell to the ground.

They returned to a ward.

The ward was spotless, with no signs of Silent Hill chaos at all.

Alex is in a psychiatric hospital...

Is this really Alex's heart?Tony suddenly realized, he remembered what he heard in that memory, Alex was crazy, his parents sent him out of town.

In fact, he has never been a soldier, he has always been in a mental hospital because his brother was killed by him.

In the center of the ward, Alex sat on the bed with his legs crossed, not far from him, Joshua stood by the window and looked at Tony.

"Is this the last layer of dreams?" Tony asked.

It's still a dreamland, but it's no longer a playground, and it's not an affected Silent Hill.

It is the simplest and cleanest world of consciousness belonging to Alex.

Bruce nodded: "I think this is also the truest side of Alex. He actually never knew that his brother was dead, and he also knew that he was sent to a mental hospital, but he just didn't want to admit it."

Joshua turned his head at this time, smiled and said to Tony: "I told you to ask Murphys, and you did."

Tony looked at the boy who had saved him—no, Tony knew now that he was not Joshua, Joshua was already dead, and he was Alex from beginning to end.

He is Alex who remembers his brother's death.

Alex held the gem and subconsciously split himself in two, half as the living Alex and the other as the dead Joshua.

While Alex's half is focused on chasing his brother, Joshua's other half is focused on evading his brother so that he never finds out that his brother is dead.

As if knowing what Tony was thinking, Joshua shook his head: "No, no, I've always been here."

After he finished speaking, he walked to the side of the hospital bed and sat down, patted Alex's arm lightly: "Alex, Alex."

"Joshua?" Alex raised his head, turned to look at Tony and the two, "You're back, who are they?"

"You should wake up, Alex." Joshua shook his head, did not answer his question, but said softly, "Open your dream to Murphys, let him come in, let him help you .”

"No." Alex refused without thinking.After a minute or two, he was worried about whether his refusal was too blunt, so he changed his attitude again, and said with a little pleading, "No, Joshua, I can't open my dream, Murphys...Murpheus will take you away."

"But, I've never been in your dreams, Alex." Joshua said softly, "We've always been together to create the same dream."

"We've always been together."

In the void, a multicolored light appeared, and then Murphys came in.

"I'm very happy, Alex, you are finally willing to open your dreams to me again." Murphys raised his eyebrows, and he looked no longer the arrogant dream god Tony saw, but like an ordinary dreamer. Like people, "Remember? We used to be best friends. I was there for you when you were treated coldly by your parents, when you had nightmares, when you lost Joshua."

Alex raised his head slowly: "I remember, until the stone fell on my hand..."

"It bewitched you and deceived you. It told you that it could bring your brother back, but we all know that it is impossible for a person to come back after death. Dreams are just dreams after all, and I can also make them for you.

Create a nice dream that you'll never want to wake up to, but I've never done that because I know it never made sense, and I can't resurrect Joshua. "Murpheus said, and he held out his hand, "Alex, give me that thing and let me take you away. "

"Joshua was never a dream," Alex replied.

Murphys sighed: "He's not, but it is."

Alex roared in a low voice, and he held Joshua's hand tightly beside him. Since Murphys appeared, Joshua has never spoken again.

He just looked at Alex quietly.

"He never blamed you, Alex."

Alex bent down, curled up helplessly like a shrimp roasted by flames.

Bruce and Tony watched a yellow light fly out of Alex's body and landed in Murphy's hand.

The master of dreams looked at the yellow light in his hand, and finally heaved a long sigh.

"Bruce." He yelled, and Bruce patted Tony on the shoulder, indicating that nothing would happen, and then walked up to Murphys, "Thank you, thank you."

After Murphys finished speaking, he raised his hand, and the yellow light on his hand flew into Bruce's left eye: "I took one of your eyes, and now I keep my promise, and I will give you both the eyes and the stone."

Bruce covered his left eye tightly, with a pained look on his face, and Tony was taken aback. He also assumed the power of the gem, but never in pain like this.

"The power of the mind is always the most test of people's willpower. It is very suitable for you, the Dark Knight, but remember, never be deceived by power and lose your belief." When Tony Power glared at Murphys , Murphys said softly.

The pain on Bruce's face gradually subsided. He straightened up, told Tony that he was fine, and then said to Murphys, "Does God show mercy to humans?"

"If it wasn't for being favored, how could you and him control so much luck?" Murphys said with a smile, "Fate is always contradictory. For some people, he always takes too much and gives too much." Too much, but he must have given that guy enough attention."

"I still want to know about Alex..." Tony said, looking at Alex sitting on the bed.

"As you can imagine, Alex has long been lost in the dream." Murphys said, "Sacrifice is real, but it has always been a scam. People always use unscrupulous means in pursuing beliefs. Alex is this A sacrifice of the first generation, like the other children, he was not close to his parents since he was a child. Since he is destined to die, wouldn't establishing too many emotional ties make death more painful? The only thing that is good for Alex is his Younger brother Joshua. Joshua is the heir born to the Schford couple after they knew that Alex was a sacrifice, and he was the only one who didn't care about Alex's status as a sacrifice."

"But then Joshua died by accident, was that really an accident?" Tony frowned.

Murphys nodded: "Yes, it was just an accident. They went boating by the lake, and during the fight, Joshua fell into the lake, and Alex failed to save him. Each family's sacrifice has a specific The method of death for Alex happened to be drowning. Everyone believed that he killed his brother on purpose. Alex was very guilty, and he also thought... that he killed his brother subconsciously .”

"The Shifud family already had a son who died, and his father was reluctant to die another one. At that time, Alex had a mental problem under the weight of his brother's death, so he sent him to the hospital outside the town under the pretext. "Murphys continued, "Later, the sacrificial ceremony failed, and there were many heavy rains in the Shepherd's Valley, and the whole town was covered in fog. The residents of the town thought that the wrong person died, and they insisted on Alex's death. It's a pity that Alex was already outside at this time. They blamed this on his parents. I have to admit that although those two people were not good to Alex before, they did protect him later St. His father died, his mother went crazy, and the town completely turned into Silent Hill."

The corner of Murphys' mouth curled up into a mocking smile: "There has never been any sacrificial ceremony, and the later Silent Hill was not because of the failure of the ceremony, but because of that damned stone.

During those days in the hospital, Alex had been having a bad time, and then the stone came to him, bewitched him, and created a fake Joshua for him.I was always with him in his dreams, but the stones tempted him to deny me access to his dreams, that was a power outside the world, and my laws were useless against it.It kept relying on Alex to suck my powers, until he was able to influence the outside world.And Alex has always been conscious. On the one hand, he loves the fictional reality given to him by gems, and on the other hand, he deeply realizes that it is false. Under the contradiction, several dream worlds appeared, and the beauty in the original dream became changed. A world full of monsters. "

"Later, you came. I can't affect reality, but you can."

"So Joshua drowned because of an accident a long time ago, and Alex also became insane because he found out that he had killed his brother by mistake." Tony asked Murphys, "This world...is just him. his hopes and his nightmares."

"Contradictions, people are inherently contradictory." Murphys said, "Joshua is not only Alex's dream, but also his nightmare. He trapped himself in the dream, all because of—— "

"--like."

"He loves Joshua, just as Joshua loves him." Murphys said slowly, "If one day, you lose the most important person, you will also find that love is a beautiful thing. Yes, it is also painful."

Tony and Bruce suddenly raised their heads at the same time, and the moment their eyes intersected, the two looked away instantly.

"Batman probably doesn't have to worry about this kind of thing anymore, ha." He pretended to say casually, trying to cover up the momentary awkward look.

For some reason, he could still feel Bruce watching him from behind.

Tony's heart beat faster for a moment, coughed lightly as a cover, and then asked Murphys: "Then what's going on with you and Alex?"

"Shhh." Murphys glanced at him and Bruce, showing an inexplicable smile.Then he raised a finger and whispered, "That's another story."

After speaking, he put a notebook beside Alex's bed.

Tony remembered that notebook, which was Murphy's diary.

"Okay, I've finished listening to the story." Murphys opened his arms, "It's time for you to leave... By the way, before you leave, as a kind person who hasn't been together for too long, a god of dreams, I want to tell Say something to you."

"Never get caught up in the dreams that rock brings you, Bruce, no matter how good it looks."

There was a flash of blue light, and Tony retracted his gauntlets.

"Is it the soul?" Tony glanced at Bruce who was touching his left eye, and asked, "What kind of feeling?"

Bruce was silent for a while: "...it won't work."

Worry, two magic blind.

While talking, they walked out from the basement of Tony's villa.

Tony locates their home location in the basement.

When they got upstairs, they all exclaimed in unison.

Except for the secret part hidden in the basement, the entire superstructure of Tony's villa has disappeared.

Including next to them, there are traces of being bombed everywhere.

"What happened, is Thanos' army coming?" Unconsciously, Tony's voice was trembling and angry.

For a moment he thought of the New York he had seen before.

"No—" Bruce looked fierce, staring at the most conspicuous building in Gotham City - Wayne Tower.

I saw a big smiling face painted with red paint on the highest part of the tower.

"--clown!"

Welcome to the city of clowns.