Chapter 409: I Wont Say Whos Having a Bad Time 2

Chapter 409: I Wont Say Whos Having a Bad Time 2

It's impossible to say that Batman isn't curious about magic. Being the kind of person who naturally wants to investigate and understand everything, he always comes up with multiple solutions to deal with possible situations.

Since he met Constantine, he has labeled this guy as an irredeemable scumbag and a source of information on magic.

To investigate someone, it's natural to first understand their daily routine and movements, and the best way to do that is to track them.

When Batman dealt with these kinds of situations before, he encountered cases where certain people would go to places that were difficult to describe, or in Gotham's case, industries that weren't surprising to anyone but were involved in some less than legal activities.

The only exception was his psychology professor, who lived a very routine life, making Batman even come up with a contingency plan in case the professor was a robot. However, everyone else had their own hobbies, including Bruce's friends.

Harvey Dent liked playing pool and would go to the game room with his colleagues after work. Gordon would go out for drinks with his colleagues and go hunting in his spare time. Catwoman, despite being a thief, would also go to dances or amusement parks when not stealing. Since all the places they went to were industries of the underworld, there were some shady deals going on.

When investigating these people, Batman would usually choose to knock them out if they were involved in these trades. If it was too severe, he would talk to the owner of the industry, but these places only played a small role in their lives.

However, Constantine was different. These industries played a major role in his life.

Bars, dance halls, game rooms, casinos, pharmacies, red-light districts - Constantine would shuttle through these places every day without taking a break.

During the time Batman was tracking him, stopping him from participating in these evil deals in these places took much more effort than tracking him.

Moreover, these places often had some unpleasant smells, such as the smell of alcohol in bars, the smell of smoke in casinos, and the strong odor of opium in the gathering places of addicts. Even though Batman prepared some odor-eliminating agents, Aisha's nose still couldn't be fooled.

Aisha wasn't an ordinary person. Her senses were exceptionally sensitive. Not only did she have night vision, but her sense of smell was also far beyond that of an average person.

One night, Batman followed Constantine to an underground den where drug addicts gathered. Since it was underground, he couldn't observe the situation from other buildings and had to blend in.

There, he found out Constantine's usual dosage and discovered that he was indeed a complete and utter drug addict. However, he also ended up with some of that smell on him. At that time, Batman didn't realize what would happen if he brought that smell back home.

After developing a fear of Aisha, Batman felt uneasy even when he saw a little girl around Aisha's age on the street, and he wanted to avoid them.

At some point, Batman found it difficult to refuse the people at Wayne Manor with the same coldness he had before. He could have continued his solitary actions without caring about anyone's objections, but whenever he saw the dim light in his lair, he felt that his detachment and stubbornness were gradually being washed away.

Therefore, he participated in childish activities like an adult participating in a children's play, pretending to be childish in a somewhat awkward way. Perhaps he was the only child in this play.

Green Lantern Hal, who came to Gotham due to the appearance of the yellow power ring, also noticed Aisha's special situation. He had participated in the dream battle and knew how Aisha was born. Now he faced two questions.

Firstly, whether Aisha, who was created by the fear entity Parallax, would pose a threat to space security like other yellow lanterns. The second was who released Sinestro, the leader of the Yellow Lantern Corps.

When Hal reported the incident to the Green Lantern Corps, they gave him two investigation tasks. However, Hal was somewhat disdainful of the first question. Perhaps because the little girl transformed by the fear entity looked cute and harmless, and she seemed more interested in grinding her teeth than threatening space security, Hal didn't think she posed a threat.

But Hal was still a rookie Green Lantern who followed orders from the Corps, so he had to secretly keep an eye on Aisha. Fortunately, the Green Lantern ring had many tracking functions, such as teleportation and invisibility, which allowed him to track the little girl without being caught.

While investigating the second question, Hal eventually traced it to Constantine. Since Constantine was the only strange outsider who had come to Gotham recently, Hal began to track him while following Aisha.

However, Batman was also following Constantine, so it was difficult to determine whether Hal's actions were to track Constantine or Batman.

At first, Hal was able to move around Gotham freely without anyone noticing him, since he was a new face in the city and no one knew the specific functions of the Green Lantern ring. Batman, who was immersed in investigating magic, didn't pay much attention to him either. Hal's priority was lower than Constantine, who was a stranger with unknown intentions but had knowledge of magic.

Hal was pleased with his progress in the investigation. He suddenly realized that the horrific rumors about Gotham he had seen on TV and in newspapers were not entirely true. Although there were many gangs and bad guys, they were mostly ordinary people without superpowers, and as a Green Lantern with various abilities, he encountered no obstacles.

He could move around freely in the most chaotic areas, such as the east docks, the northern areas with many gang family estates, the southern area of the new wealthy district, and the western old town, without being targeted by anyone.

One day, the Green Lantern, surrounded by green light, arrived at the center of the central roundabout, on top of the tall red and green traffic light.

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