In The DC World With Marvel Chat Group Chapter 172: The night of the clown returning to the soul (Part 1)

"The Days of Being a Spiritual Mentor in Meiman"

, the days when I was a spiritual mentor in Meiman

"Father, you are here."

Schiller stood up from his seat, went up to meet him, and shook hands with the old priest. The old priest looked up at the theater and said with emotion: "I haven't been here for a long time. I didn't expect to be here now." Someone will invite me here."

Speaking, he followed Schiller and sat in the first row of seats closest to the stage. There was another person who was seated earlier, and that was the godfather Falcone who sat in the innermost.

He just turned his head and glanced at the priest and said, "Do you still remember? In our time, the lights here were brilliant, and my favorite opera at that time was La Traviata."

"My favorite is "St. Louis". At that time, these two shows were very popular, and there were no empty seats here, and there were no tickets at all."

The three of them sat in the empty old theater, on the dilapidated stage, the thick dust turned the curtain into a blackened crimson, and the gold thread on it had lost that shining luster, even the stage Most of the light bulbs around the edge are also off.

"But I still prefer today's show, what shall we call it?" Schiller turned his head to look at the two, Falcone was holding a cigar, with the flames flickering, he exhaled a puff of smoke and said : "How about Easter?"

"I think it's more appropriate to call it "The Clown's Soul".

"Why? Clown? Do you mean the kind in the circus? Gotham City Hall did have a circus to perform, but that was a long time ago."

Schiller shook his head and did not answer.

He said: "I invite you two to come here because I want to hear your stories."

Falcone sighed, and the old godfather said: "Let Daniel explain it to you."

Falcone and Schiller looked at the old priest sitting in the middle together.

The old priest said with a smile: "I used to be a member of the owl court, but that was a long time ago."

The voice of the old priest Daniel was full of nostalgia. He said: ""I said it before. People are willing to sell me a face. "

"At this time, those little birds came to me. They were far from being as powerful as they are today. They told me that they were willing to share the secret of eternal life with me. I showed great interest and joined them."

The old priest leaned his back on the back of the chair, raised his head slightly, and looked at the top of the stage, where the moonlight from the windows was extraordinarily bright, and his voice passed through the falling moonlight and spread far away.

"At that time, they didn't have these killers, it was just a gathering of powerful people, but then, they found something very special in Gotham."

"It's 'good wine', right?"

"That's right, they discovered that there is a mysterious water source in the underground of Gotham. Become younger."

"Eternal life and immortality, what a wonderful word, no one can refuse such a temptation, so the Owl Court launched a plan to discover and decipher the secret of this water source, and use it, and then obtain the real Eternal life."

"It's called, Project Water."

"But at that time, the plan didn't go well. People who risked drinking this liquid were crazy. In the end, they had no choice but to crack it from the perspective of religion, so they came to me. "

"I knew from the beginning that they were just trying to use me, but that's okay, I want to use them too."

The old priest drew a sign of the cross on his chest and said: "At that time, I felt that I followed the Lord's will and wanted His glory to save this land. If it cannot be done by ordinary methods, then another method can be used. , the Lord will forgive me."

"They used the group of European nobles to help me build a church on the ground of the water source. After that, the owl court killed them."

"The manor you live in now is what they left behind."

"So they didn't move away, but were killed?"

"Yes, the Court of Owls lied that they left, but in fact, those who did not participate in the construction of the church can leave here alive, and the Court of Owls will not expose the secret of eternal life to any risk."

"So, I stayed in the church and guarded there, watching the people of Gotham come and go, and die generation after generation."

"You always miss the point." Falcone flicked his cigar and said, "This is not a church sermon."

"Don't say that, Godfather, today is Easter, let's be patient about it." Schiller made a gesture of please continue, and the old priest nodded to him with a smile.

"Later, I deciphered some of the secrets of fine wine and used it to gain special abilities."

"So, when I first went to church, you noticed something different about me?""

The old priest shook his head and said: "Actually, my ability is not as powerful as you think. Maybe I was fine before, but now, I am old. If I am not in the church, if I am not standing on the top of the wine pool, I'm just an old, ordinary person."

"But it was true at that time. When you first came to the church, I saw something different in a slightly drunk state, so I suggested to Falcone to let him Find you to solve his son's problem."

Schiller squinted his eyes and looked towards the stage. In his eyes, the old curtain was slowly opened, and the old priest stood in the center of the stage, with the crucifix of the cathedral behind him, and the soles of his feet were rippling. wine pool.

He stood in the center of the church, and the fine wine floating in the air made him slightly drunk. In the hazy sight of the old godfather, when Schiller walked in, he just merged with the setting sun.

The golden sun's light burns the eyes, and after the light disappears, a round of sun's shadow is left behind Schiller, which is only the deepest black after the sunset.

Schiller smiled, lowered his head and said: "Actually, I have always been a little strange. How could His Excellency Falcone invite me, a dangerous person, to be your son's tutor? After all, anyone who sees my resume , would not want me to contact their offspring."

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"You mean you track down serial murderers? Even without Daniel's recommendation, I don't care about such things. This is common in Gotham. There are all kinds of lunatics here. I would rather have a lunatic than Don't be a fool."

"Let's talk about Evans. To be honest, when he came to me, I was a little worried about him, because I could clearly feel that something was wrong with him."

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Falcone sighed and said: "I think you should have seen that he has two personalities."

"To be honest." Schiller looked at Father Daniel, and he said, "Before that, that is, before Evans came to me this time, I didn't realize that there was a second personality in him at all. How did you do it?"

"Because at that time, Alberto was indeed dead, and Evans was the only one. Of course, you wouldn't feel anything. The personality you felt later was the revived Alberto."

""Do you think Alberto is the first personality? "As soon as the godfather finished asking this question, he replied by himself: "No, Evans is indeed the first personality, and he is my son. "

The godfather sighed again. He felt that he had sighed too much recently, but he still said: "When Evans was 6 years old, his mother passed away, and I was immersed in the grief of losing a lover. To take care of him."

"One night, he sneaked out to play by himself, and when he came back, he was no longer him."

"...by the Court of Owls?"

"How do you think the Owl Court developed into what it is today?" Falcone asked back: "Is it just based on their cult theory? Not everyone agrees with that."

"This is how they lure the descendants of some upper-class people, wash away their personalities, erase their memories, and then build a more extreme personality that will eventually surrender to them."

"That's Alberto?"

"Yes, my child disappeared and became the minion of the owl, but I am different from those ignorant fools. I will not mistake this change for the child's rebellious period."

"This is their common method. No parent will doubt that their children have been replaced. They will only think that the change in their children is due to their age."

The Court of Owls has one of the biggest holes, and Falcone takes another puff on his cigar before saying, "They've created a perfect personality, a perfect man who could be Godfather."

"I can understand what they want to do. They have prepared a perfect heir for me. As long as he takes over the position of Godfather, Falcone and the Twelve Family will be in their pocket. They I am very confident that Alberto will satisfy me."

"But this is what makes me suspicious, because before that, Evans was more like his mother than me."

"Sounds a bit absurd, doesn't it?" The godfather moved his fingers and said, "At that time, I also thought I was crazy, and I would suspect that my own son had been replaced..."

"When he stabbed me with a knife, I finally despaired."

"I am in great pain, but I can't find evidence. From a scientific point of view, I can't explain this matter, so I can only turn to faith."

Then, the voice of Father Daniel sounded: "When Carmine came to the church, I saw a father who had lost his soul. When he told me about these pains, I didn't think it was a joke."

Daniel sighed, and his tone was a little guilty. He said: "The method of cleaning memory and replacing personality comes from the water source underground in the church. That is the method I found. In order to achieve my goal, I will use this This method was handed over to the court.”

"But after seeing Carmine, I knew. What I did was very wrong."

"Those so-called statements about joining the court in order to spread the glory of the Lord are just excuses for me to be tempted by eternal life."

"When a desperate father stood in front of me..." Daniel's voice began to tremble, and he said, "The father saw his son being nailed to the cross, bleeding all over the ground, and I Became an accomplice, Judas with a purse in his hand..."

"I know, I can't go on like this anymore, I have to stop this."

"So you used the same method to wash away Alberto's personality and regain Evans' personality?"

"Fine wine has another use, which is resurrection. I didn't recover Evans' personality, but resurrected him."

"So..."

"Alberto has also been resurrected."

"Remember the water source plan I mentioned earlier?" Father Daniel turned to look at Schiller~IndoMTL.com~ and said, "This plan is more than that."

"Over the years, the Owl Court has polluted drinking water or rainwater, making many people's blood flow with very thin wine."

"Those heavy rains a few days ago woke them up."

"Why did they choose to start the water source project at this time? Although some people did go crazy in that heavy rain, the number is far from enough to shake the city."

"They must have other plans."

"One more question, what happened to the funeral? If it's just to replace the personality, there is no need to make it so grand, right?"

"That was the idea I gave him. I know the Owl Court very well, and I know how they control the city. They have a special metal in their hands that can resist the effects of fine wine." Father Daniel said.

"I suggest that Carmine manipulated the transportation of their production materials, so that the shipment could not arrive on time, and many people did not get effective umbrellas."

"Are you trying to fool the court?"

"No, we know that the falsification of brotherhood can only be hidden from ordinary people, but not from the court of owls."

"I'm just warning them." Carmine said as he squeezed his cigar, "I know their little tricks, and I'm not afraid of killing people. "

"If they dare to touch my son again, I will make Gotham an empty city."

In the tone of the godfather, Schiller heard the ferocity of the king of Gotham's underground in that glorious era, and the determination of a father.