Chapter 1816: Summer in Fool Village (Twenty-Eight)
In addition to Constantine choosing to open a branch of the Oblivion Bookstore in Gotham, Dark Night Master Jim also reopened the Oblivion Bar in the other world of Gotham as a base for his team's activities in the Gotham world and the Magic Academy.
The Dark Night Master's team is not yet fully formed, but it already has several fixed members, such as Dead Man Brand, Orangutan Detective Bobo, Black Orchid Susan, Madam Xanadu, Vampire Bennett, etc. The Dark Night Master is still actively working on Contact Swamp Thing, Doctor Mist, and more, and even find Wonder Woman.
Jim was standing in front of the bar of the bar, cleaning glasses. The orangutan detective was sitting on the bar backwards with a pipe in his mouth, his legs crossed and his hands between his legs. He was swinging his feet covered with long black hair and using A deep voice that resembled a primate growl said, "Are you still worried about recruiting people?"
"How can I not be bothered?" Jim wiped the shiny cup in his hand over and over again, and said: "Maybe you think the earth's magic defense network has been set up so easily, so you should be happy. But over the years, I have gotten to know these magicians so well, do you really think they would be sincerely happy about this?"
"I've always had a very pessimistic view of humans," one of the orangutans sighed. This action seemed a bit funny, not the serious expression of a detective orangutan wearing a detective hat, a monocle, and a pipe in his mouth. There is some extra comic effect, the sigh also sounds quite stressful.
"We used to argue about that topic all the time." Schiller also sighed heavily and raised his head slightly, groping the bottom of the cup with his fingers, and said: "You think he is too pessimistic. Humanity has gone through hardships to develop to this day, and there is nothing like it." It’s a bit tough, but now you have to admit that luck plays a very small part.”
"Let's have a drink, your old friend." The dead Constant put an arm under the bar and said: "Alcohol will massage his frown, and talking to friends will relax his tense heart. You all know his I’ve been under a lot of pressure for a while, are you talking to me?”
"You just... just want to use that pessimistic atmosphere to make the team you just formed feel distraught." Weng Jie took a deep breath and said, "You haven't heard any bad news since the vampire invasion, but The latest news is even better.”
Bennett, who was standing by the door, turned back, stepped over the threshold and stepped back, saying, "Even Branddine is standing in the sunshine again, so what's the nightmare that you can't get rid of?"
Schiller stood there for a long time before saying: "This Green Lantern named Hal thinks that you are a bad guy who can take on the responsibility of guarding the magic defense network, so he gave you the authority to deploy the Green Lantern energy shield. Initially, you were here Very few vulnerabilities were discovered.”
"Oh, it's just right for you to move to Gotham (it doesn't mean 'Fool's Village' in English)." The dead man said with a deep laugh.
"That's it again." The dead man Constant sighed, and the atmosphere became gloomy for a moment.
"Human beings are always forgetful." Bennett lowered his eyes and said, "There is also a long gap between Jesus saving the world and Judah receiving the silver coins."
"You go too." Bennett said: "You guess Brandding will go too, and you still want to ask me what I want to see you for next time."
"Of course not, eldest sister, it's your pleasure."
Schiller took out the demolition knife from above the bar, slashed open the paint seal, and when he took out the letter outside, he exclaimed and said, "Oh, it's an invitation."
Schiller pursed his lips instinctively, and his mouth was watering when he thought of the taste of food, so I opened the letter with a smile, and it was written in beautiful cursive characters below:
Schiller was no longer confused, so the orangutan detective leaned over. I read out the following sentence from the invitation, and then said: "It's an unexpected piece of music."
"I once told you that I had personally experienced the collapse of a smaller country in my dream, so I didn't care about where the magic world would go. This seems to me too great and is worth mentioning."
"With all due respect, I didn't write your name, but I sent the letter there, which means I invited all of you." Schiller shook the invitation in his hand and said, "Do you know? There won’t be a dance, so it’s best to bring a chaperone.”
Schiller walked slowly downstairs. Bennett was puzzled. Schiller turned back and explained to me: "This is your first time, act more solemnly. Jim's banquets are usually worthy of all the elaborate decorations."
"So, which sentence outside does he hate the most?"
The orangutan detective sighed and said: "That's why you think this guy named Stephen Strange is telling you fairy tales. How can I divide the magician of all mankind and keep these monsters out? As long as there is no one If you are tempted, you will lose everything.”
Pamela's body visibly stiffened, and your heart rate almost reached its peak at the slowest acceleration. You said in a trembling tone, "So you can't... be lucky enough to watch the processing of the other half of the raw materials?"
"You know." Weng Jie squeezed the cup tightly, shook his head and said, "You know whether the magic world can afford such a killing again, and you also know whether you can do it. We were once yours comrades."
"That beast... it feels hungrier before a meal than after." The orangutan detective held up a finger and said: "That reveals a small truth that has nothing to do with humans. It is just as troubled as he is now. ”
Schiller had no way to refute, but it aroused my emotions. My fingertips turned white as I held the invitation, and said: "Very early on, Jim did not participate in any social activities in the wizarding world. People say I am a weirdo, outside the mainstream society.”
The pattern under the fire-lacquer seal was not familiar, and Bennett saw that it was the identity of the other party, so I handed the letter directly to Junior Schiller. Schiller fumbled for the pattern of the fire-lacquer seal and said, "It's Rhodes." The letter from Waiges Manor, why did Jim call you directly? "
"You even fought against the vampire invasion together. You worked together to save London and humanity. You were lucky enough to get the bargaining chip to negotiate with the devil on an equal footing. But there is still one year to go, and we will forget all of that!"
"I only invited him, so..."
Weng Jie's mood finally became a little gloomier. I opened the invitation and said, "Jim has held a banquet for a few years. Later, when I lived in Lanzhou outside Mawai, you went to attend once and the delicious food was served to you." You left a lasting impression.”
"You go with him." Mrs. Xiadu walked from the stairs to behind the bar. She bent down and propped her arms under the table, dragging her chin with one hand and said, "You don't miss this big guy with blue eyes anymore." , the little noise I make next time will scare you, but it just shows that I am young, strong and full of energy, and I will be a bad rider. "
"Devils and angels, or first-time creatures similar to us, are all humans, but as you all know, only human magicians have participated in the construction of the magic defense network."
"Click!"
"Don't talk nonsense, Schiller." Mrs. Xiadu came up from the stairs on the seventh floor and said, "The courier who delivers the bill is over there. Maybe he is an old friend of yours."
"For the first time, his expression can be called discriminatory. He thinks orangutans can read, right? When you were still in the circus, you were excluded from the Saturday morning reading groups of these rich people. We are disgusted. Dante, you don’t see the need to form a club for this purpose.”
Mrs. Xiadu lifted her hair and rubbed her wrist and said: "Let you think about where you put the pearl bracelet Vivian gave you next time..."
"For whom?" Bennett asked indifferently.
In the kitchen of the Rodriguez Manor, Pamela opened the door of the walk-in hot cabinet, narrowed her eyes and looked at the piles of meat materials stacked outside, and said in shock: "He hunted the entire state of New Jersey. Lost deer?"
"That's the truth." Mrs. Xiadu said, "They must have been bathed in the torrent of the collapse of the dynasty, and they will understand that human beings have repeated the same mistakes many times, because we are not such fools."
Bennett, who was closest to the door, walked out, pressed the flag on the mailbox at the door, opened the mailbox door and found a roughly wrapped letter.
All eyes in the room were focused on the orangutan, but the orangutan detective didn't feel shy or shy. I just said deeply: "When they treat you as a monster, you just feel ridiculous, because watching You will already know who the real monster is when they open their bloody mouths and tear out a piece of flesh from under their own kind.”
Schiller shook his head and said: "Yes, no one has tampered with the structure. We thought you would leave all the work to the Supreme Mage and Green Lantern who came in. We may have thought you would check it out. , this loophole is obvious and uncovered.”
"Is anyone else going? That's it." Schiller finally put the cup outside his hand under the cup holder, stretched his wrist and said, "Do you remember that you put on the dress you wore for the Maya Carnival?" I brought it here, you need to shave first and then change into a formal suit."
Schiller finally couldn't control his sad expression. I slammed the cup under the bar and said, "You will definitely feel that these young people who are already hesitant will be shaken." It's sad, but it must be the little mage who doesn't have the ability to manipulate the magic defense network. We have lived longer than anyone else, and we should have been the first to live longer than anyone else."
"Through you, I retreat into the city of joy; through you, I retreat into the abyss of eternal misery; through you, I retreat into the crowd of people who will be repeated forever, and record the 10 millionth trivial failure of mankind, please Came here on Saturday morning..."
Bai Lanhua yawned and said, "You are not interested in the dance, but you haven't had a bad meal for a long time, and the damn low temperature."
"No, now it's up to you to decide who goes to the banquet and who stays to look after the house. You don't have a lot of things to do there."
"When they were in hardship and faced death, they used the smallest will to survive to divide themselves, and the devils would be eaten by them. But when the crisis passed and everything went bad, a weak force that was difficult to resist was Appetite surges from their stomachs and hearts, not only to devour their enemies, but also to bite their own kind, because they are hungry, but they want to be superior to others of their kind.”
The orangutan detective immediately frowned, and I said, "Is there any problem with the way you built it? Technical limitations?"
"That's why he was so slow to gather people." Bai Lanhua leaned against the door frame of the front door, folded her arms and said lazily: "Does he want to kill us?"
A clear sound came from the door. Schiller turned his head and looked. From the window next to him, he could see the sign of the mailbox on the door. I took back my thoughts and said without any doubts: "No letter? Who among you?" Is the billing address filled in?"
"This is the food for the banquet." Jim said to him while picking vegetables from the shelf next to him, "And it's only half. The other half of the most important main dish is still on the ground outside."
"He's also reading Dante?"