Chapter 142 Chapter 142 Post-Exam Settlement
"Don't worry, we just like to live a life of luxury from time to time, but we don't intend to make ourselves miserable."
Jason put the box back in his arms and said.
"You should be more concerned about your own living conditions than us. This is the first time I've seen such a filthy bat nest."
Batman said, "I can take care of myself."
Jason snorted. "Come on, I've seen your mountain of fast food and garbage. When was the last time you took out your trash? Thank goodness there are enough bats in the Batcave, otherwise cockroaches would be tap dancing on your cape."
Li Hua thought to himself: There's nothing wrong with the household waste, but do the three of us who fill our freezers with frozen meals and takeout leftovers really have the right to criticize Batman when it comes to fast food?
Batman, who had no family, hadn't heard anyone say this to him for a long time. In the end, he could only say: "I have lived longer than my father."
Jason: "If you insist on comparing like that, then your dad had children before you did. Where are your children?"
Benjamin jumped in to add to the confusion: "I already have a child."
Batman: "...I don't have the time or energy."
It’s fine that Ah Fu is urging me to get married and have children, but why is my son who is in the same position also urging me to do so?
And what about the other child? How do his parents behave when a child is born out of a minor?
"I know."
Jason didn't really want to give birth to his old father from another world.
"I'm just proving to you that your previous statement is illogical and has no connection to the preceding or following sentences. So live well, Bat Daddy from another world. If you're truly lonely and don't want to form close relationships with humans, then get a beagle."
The Big-Eared and Screaming Donkey will punch every owner's eardrum and brain nerve hard. As long as they live in the same room, it will never give the owner any room for loneliness.
"Considering the size of Wayne Manor, we can raise a few more," Li Hua suggested rigorously. "Fourteen should be enough. You can also exercise while playing with the dogs."
Although Li Hua has never raised a beagle, he has raised an ice ghost pup that is more energetic than a beagle.
In just less than two months, Li Hua clearly felt that his physical fitness had improved, and the muscle contours on his body became more obvious.
Batman: ...That's not necessary.
He wasn't so lonely as to want to keep fourteen beagles.
But Batman also knew that his verbal refusal was useless, so he had no choice but to verbally agree: "I'll consider it."
…
A green light of space jumping flashed, and Li Hua and the other two returned to the familiar Batcave, but the Batman they were familiar with was not in this cave.
However, their familiar butler, Alfred, quickly rushed back to the Batcave and explained to the three, "Master Bruce and Master Tim are out on night patrol. Would you three like dinner?"
"We were gone for so long?"
Jason clearly remembered that they went out for the exam in the morning, and they just took the other world passage twice, beat up Superman, dug up the Joker's grave, and chatted with the Batman from another universe... Did time pass so quickly?
When they came back, it was still dark in that universe.
"It's normal for time to flow differently in different parallel universes." Number 666's voice came from the portable speaker on Li Hua's collar. "It is precisely because of this situation that real-time observation of different universes has always been a very time-consuming and energy-consuming task."
Benjamin and Jason were secretly delighted when they heard this.
Doesn't that mean Bruce probably didn't see their exam live this time?
This is a great thing both for them and Bruce's mental health!
"Would you three like to have dinner? I've left some food for you," Alfred repeated.
Li Hua nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, yes!"
They were so busy in the other world that they didn't even have time to eat or drink a sip of water.
Benjamin raised his head, raised his right index finger, and just as his mouth opened——
Alfred: "I'm sorry, Mr. Tennyson, but Wayne Manor doesn't have a slush machine, so there's no slush available. Also, most of the slush shops around here are closed at this hour. Is there anything else I can help you with?"
“…It’s okay.”
Having just finished a thrilling exam, Li Hua and others did not intend to drag their exhausted minds and bodies to go on night patrol.
After dinner and a shower, they all gathered in Li Hua's room without any prior arrangement. On the bed that Alfred had just made, they lay or sat on the bed, bending themselves into various poses like completely thawed boneless chicken breasts.
This time it’s not about playing games, nor about discussing what to do next, I just want to chat.
What they saw and heard in this exam was too shocking for them, and they have now finally found the time and space to slowly accept and discuss it.
Jason said, "I left the box in the Batcave. Bruce said he would look at it when he got back."
Li Hua, who was looking at his phone, said, "Yeah."
Benjamin touched his neck and said, "I feel like my neck is hurting every time I see Clark these days..."
Li Hua, who was still looking at his phone, said: "Hmm."
Benjamin: "I wonder how Bruce will react after seeing the letter from the other Batman...Isn't he really going to do what the other Batman said and attack Clark first?"
Jason: "No, although Bruce and Clark in this world are good friends, Batman has always been wary of Superman. You can see this from the kryptonite found everywhere on the members of this family who go out on missions."
Li Hua, who was still looking at his phone, said, "Yeah."
Jason: “…”
Benjamin: “…”
Jason: "Yeah, yeah, that's all! Li Hua, I've been putting up with you for a long time, why don't you say something!!"
Benjamin: "We've been talking here for a long time, why don't you give me some serious reaction! Stop checking your phone all the time!"
"I'm listening."
Li Hua put down his phone and took out a card from his trouser pocket.
"Sorry, I used all the experience points I saved up to draw a card, but the card that came out was a little special and seemed a bit complicated to use, so I couldn't help but look it up online."
Jason was heartbroken: "Do you understand why we have to come to your room to party?"
Li Hua: "Because my room is between your two rooms?"
"Wrong! Dead wrong!" Jason slapped the bed excitedly. "Of course it's for the ritual of watching you roll over!"
“…”
Li Hua pulled the pillow out of Benjamin's arms and angrily hit Jason's stomach.
"I don't always draw the wrong number, okay?"
"After all this time, it turns out you're worried about not knowing how to use the new cards."
Benjamin fell back and bounced on the bed, with an expression that said, "I thought it was something else, but this is it?"
Li Hua slowly calmed down his expression. "It's not what you think. My new card is the Dream card. It can make people dream."
Benjamin: "What's the big deal? It's just what the cards say, making people have sweet dreams. You can easily replicate that strange dream flower Jason mentioned and the operation of the dream machine he controlled when I was ten. Just copy my homework..."
"This card can make people have precognitive dreams."
"That brings me back to the point."
Benjamin did a sit-up and sat up straight. Jason, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, tucked both feet onto the bed and sat cross-legged facing Li Hua.
"I'd like to hear more about it."
Li Hua: "I looked it up online, and the [Dream] card can bring about sweet dreams or precognitive dreams. But I asked number 666, and what a precognitive dream contains, and what one remembers after waking up, all depends on the dreamer... Oh, and this card, like the [Fight] card, comes with a message from the technical department."
Jason: “What?”
Li Hua showed a compassionate look and repeated, "I am so lucky...lucky...Silk Song?"
Jason: “…”
Benjamin: “…”
Could it be that even the Space-Time Maintainers, who transcend time and space, couldn't wait until Silksong was released? This is too scary!
No. 666: "It's just that we and the technical department personnel in our timeline are able to observe and browse the world's intelligence, but we haven't found it. This is normal. Time keepers and time travelers only know and see more things, but that doesn't mean we are omniscient and omnipotent."
"I can see that. After all, Li Hua and Ben are both idiots."
Jason asked, nodding and ignoring the glares from his two friends.
"Then I have a question. Since Li Hua mentioned that some people can't remember their precognitive dreams after waking up, could you, number 666, help record them?"
No. 666: “No.”
Jason was puzzled: "Why? Can't you help Li Hua block the clown's will and fear illusions on the spiritual level?"
Number 666 said, "That's all superficial spiritual stuff. Dreams and perceptions belong to the subconscious, where the 'self' resides. It's the most important and vulnerable part of the soul. I won't, and can't, touch that place."
"If the surface of a person's mind is like an eggshell, and the subconscious mind is like the contents beneath the eggshell, would you choose to protect the egg by driving a thumbtack into the eggshell?"
"I am a legitimate system that assists the host in completing their work, not a black system that brainwashes people. Therefore, we will not and cannot touch or peek into the host's subconscious."
Benjamin: "You said before that the system is bound to the souls of the employees. What are they bound to?"
No. 666: "Of course it's the surface of the soul, which is equivalent to an egg tray."
"What a simple analogy," Benjamin said, changing the subject. "Hey, are you talking about egg-flavored slush?"
No. 666: ...
Li Hua: "A great man once said that there was no egg slush in the world. You buy a cup of slush and crack a raw egg into it, and from then on, there was egg slush in the world."
Benjamin: "My goodness, this great man has real insights."
If No. 666 were a human, it would have gently closed its eyes by now.
But it's not, so it just goes back to standby mode.
But never mind, it's almost used to it.
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