1novels Chapter 11 Moon 11
Chapter 11 Moon 11
Hawthorn glanced at the sanity bar above his head that had begun to slowly fall, and shook his head regretfully.
He can indeed forcefully pull a spirit body that has dissipated from a human being to achieve the so-called resurrection, but obviously the Penguin cannot afford this level of divine power.
His sanity bar is a bit longer than that of ordinary people, but it's only a little bit longer. It's only about the same as Director Gordon who I met last time, and it's not as good as Batman's ridiculously long sanity bar.
What's more, the thing of losing san is not that whoever makes a wish will lose san, but that everyone related to this wish will be affected.
Those who know the mother penguin is dead, but witness her resurrection are also very likely to go crazy.
……
Oswald bowed his head, his heart beating like a drum.
He had thought that Hawthorne Dylan might be real, but he didn't expect that he would actually succeed in summoning this god.
The intense sense of oppression brought to him by this god was also much stronger than he had imagined, and he even had a strong premonition that if he dared to raise his head and look directly at this strange and mysterious eye, he would probably fall into it on the spot. Endless madness.
He was able to know the existence of Hawthorne Dylan, thanks to one of his horsemen.
This guy is his direct subordinate, he can be regarded as a little guy with some status. He joined the gangster purely to support his family. After all, he also relies on his own strength to work.
The Penguin doesn't mind letting this kind of person join his Iceberg Club. After all, this kind of pony is desperate for money, and behind them is the whole family. What's more, this pony is quite easy to use. Gangsters need people like this.
The bad thing is that this horse boy was broken by a tendon in a street fight and lost his basic labor force. Oswald gave him a sum of money and wanted to send him away. After all, he doesn't support idlers.
This money can help him pay his medical expenses, and he can still have some surplus, which is already very humane, far more kind than a sweatshop.But this money is obviously far from enough for a disabled breadwinner who can't even lift a crowbar to support his family for the rest of his life.
But so what?He Penguin is not here to do charity.
However, not long after this incident, the news of this young man reached him again——he recovered.
The completely destroyed tendon has recovered in just half a month, and he looks even healthier.
However, he refused to return to the penguin and continue to be a horse boy. The reason was that he had found a new belief. In order to maintain the pure and inviolable pure land in his mind, he would start to do some serious work, such as doing charity relief and so on. work.
Oswald: "...?"
He was puzzled, where is the pure land in Gotham?Isn't this kid out of his mind?
Soon he learned that it was this so-called belief that made the medical miracle happen to this young man.
Oswald really became curious now—think about it, the strategic value of such high-end medical skills is simply immeasurable.
After he asked, the horse boy told him with a pious face: "The god I believe in, he lives in the deepest part of the endless starry sky, silently watching our world, he can see all time and destiny..."
The chattering and outrageous compliments up to 5 minutes are omitted below.
Oswald: ?What the hell?Get out of Gotham, the inexplicable cult!
Just when Oswald was about to lose his patience, Ma Zai finally got to the point: "As long as you call His name, He will hear it and come to this world to fulfill your wish."
Oswald felt that he was simply insane to listen to the hypnotic spell chanted by this crazy boy for a long time.
He waved his hand impatiently for people to back off, and for the sake of his loyalty, he resisted the urge to send someone to beat him up secretly, and then put the matter behind him.
After all, how could a deity that appeared just by chanting its name really exist?
Look at the group of Catholic believers, every day in the "Jesus Christ" long "Jesus Christ" short, have not seen people really run down to save the suffering?
Besides, this is Gotham!It doesn't work when Jesus comes, he Penguin said!
Unexpectedly, his subordinates were not alone.
After he knew the name of the Eye of the Secret Star, he consciously collected some information about this so-called god. As a result, he was shocked to find that there seemed to be a lot of people with this god among the lower-level people in Gotham recently. related strange events.
These events are not the kind of horror cult that can be used as the subject of ghost movies, but most of them are fairy tale-like stories.
The relatively evil and wronged party can always be punished, and the innocent victim can always be helped.
...This kind of fairy tale is even scarier than cult in Gotham.
However, these incidents also have one thing in common. Their parties always have a more or less crazy tendency-either they start to become crazy because of fear, or they become believers because of awe.Of course, the latter is no different from madness in the eyes of other people who do not understand religion.
Well, that sounds like Gotham.
... So, is what that horse boy said true?
So Oswald Coppert called his horse boy back again, and asked: "That god of yours, can he grant any wish?"
Ma Tsai hesitated for a moment and said, "Yes, but it also depends on whether the person who makes the wish can afford the price."
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That night, Oswald suffered from insomnia.
Lying on his soft, gorgeous bedsheets, looking at the ceiling decorated with intricate murals and Rococo-style reliefs, he began to recall his original intention after a long absence.
It is true that he is a very ambitious person, but he also started as a humble umbrella boy at the mercy of mermaids. At that time, he had no ambition to climb to the top, and all his strength and ambition came from Yu stood behind him with his mother—the only person in the world who really treated him well.Unfortunately, his mother was implicated in his power struggle and became another victim of this man-eating city.
He has indeed achieved a proud result now. He has reached the top position in Gotham's underground kingdom. Although there are many competitors of comparable strength, and even vigilantes who get in the way come to beat him up from time to time, But the throne is always fought for and defended by fighting, and he is happy to accept these challenges.
Of course, he'd be happier if those challenges were gone.
But sometimes he also thinks, what's the point of these?
He has everything now, except that he has no one to share it with.
If his mother was still around... she would be extremely proud of his achievements.
If mother is still...
He suddenly sat up from the bed, and what Ma Zi said to him appeared in his mind.
"He can grant any wish...as long as you can afford it."
Oswald stared at the moonlight leaking from the window with his eyes open, and couldn't fall asleep all night. He only felt that his mind was in a mess, as if something was bewitching him and urging him.
He knew it might be a hoax, maybe he would chant the name of the god like a fool all day and no one would answer him, but so what?Anyway, he has nothing to lose.
But what if it was true?
just in case……
So, Penguin, who has always been decisive, ruthless, holds high the banner of materialism, and sneers at all ghosts and snakes, finds a remote church where few people will come after a busy day.
He asked his horse boys to wait outside, sat in the last row, put the umbrella aside, and whispered the name of the god.
"The brush that carves civilization, the eye that observes the universe, the observer of thousands of destiny trajectories, the eye of the secret star that sleeps deep in the starry sky..."
After he recited it once, he sat there quietly, waiting for a miracle to happen.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Time passed quietly, and he waited with bated breath. The candles in the church burned quietly and smoothly, occasionally making a slight sound of sparks.
Oswald: ……………
He felt more and more that he was infected with madness, and all this was so ridiculous that he wondered if his brain was not functioning well when he was old.
Just when he gradually lost his patience, he was keenly aware that those quietly burning candles suddenly jumped up, as if a gust of wind had blown by and startled the flames.
But where does the closed church come from?
As soon as this idea appeared in his brain, he felt an extremely cold wind blowing past him, and he almost couldn't help shivering——
It's not cold in temperature, but a chilling, almost materialized sense of fear that goes deep into the bone marrow. It's not cold, it can even be warm, but it makes people feel chills in the heart, as if feeling a self. A powerful existence that is absolutely irresistible, destiny is completely dominated, there is no room for resistance, human dignity, self and all cognition have lost their meaning...a sense of fear.
Oswald was shocked.
He is... successful?This turned out to be true? !
Then, without even giving him time to regret, he saw the eyes slowly opening in the void.
It was an extremely abstract eye, made entirely of strange lights, floating in the void.It just quietly looked down at the prayers sitting in the church, without saying a word, its eyes were a little cold because of the lack of emotion, but it was patient enough, and it didn't seem to be overwhelmed by Oswald's negligence. offend.
So next, they had the conversation at the beginning.
After telling Hawthorne his wish, Penguin lowered his head, waiting for the other party's reaction with his heart beating like a drum.
Soon he heard the cold, distant and vast voice say calmly: "You can't pay the price."
Oswald froze for a moment, and then great disappointment engulfed him.
He couldn't pay the price—it proved that what he had now wasn't enough, not even for a life-for-life.
So he was... rejected?
But the next sentence from the Eye of the Mysterious Star caused him to raise his head suddenly, with a look of shock to the point of disbelief in his eyes.
"But I can let you see her again, in a harmless way." Hawthorne looked down at Oswald, his tone still calm, "It's not cheap."
It would be scary for the spirit to return to the real world, but if Oswald can be pulled into the spirit world, things will be much simpler-of course, it doesn't mean to give the penguin to the shark.The spirit world and the dream world are interlinked, which is why humans on Earth can enter Hawthorne's dream.
As long as Oswald enters the dream, Hawthorne Dylan has a way to pull him into the spirit world and see his mother's spirit.
"As much as I can afford!" said Oswald eagerly.
"..." Seeing his anxious appearance, Hawthorne didn't try to keep it secret for the sake of mystery, and said in a flat tone: "You will... have a good dream."
After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes, allowing the mark of the Eye of the Secret Star to disappear into the void.