The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 3025 Mercury Notes (1)

Chapter 3025 Mercury Record (XI)

"Why are you looking at me?" Bruce rolled his eyes and said, "Don't let your imagination run wild. Take the photo back and find 10 details that can be inferred from it. Write a short essay and give it to me tomorrow morning. Make it detailed."

Jenna finally came to her senses, nodded hurriedly and said, "Oh, okay professor, how many words do you want to write?"

“Just 500 words, pay attention to punctuation.”

Jenna nodded and left with the photo. Bruce turned around and found a photo left on the table. It was the photo of the corpse taken from above the oil barrel.

The body was curled up in the oil drum, as peaceful as a sleeping baby.

Bruce felt a little hungry because of the extra classes he had to take at night. He went to the cafeteria to order a meal and found Schiller was there too.

"Good evening, Professor. Didn't you have dinner?"

Schiller shook his head and said, "I was busy revising my paper at night."

“Whose paper?”

"Barry, he had two final sentences and couldn't finalize them. I had a two-hour video conference with him."

"I'm giving Jenna extra lessons tonight." Bruce paused and then continued, "She's very talented, in every aspect."

"You want her to be Batgirl?"

"That's not the case. I don't even have Robin, but I think she and her brother do need more guidance. They both have good talents. Oliver is more interested in his brother and thinks he has leadership qualities."

“They are too young,” Schiller said. “Just like you when you were young.”

"I'm not old now," Bruce whispered.

"You should know that this phenomenon can be called regressive psychology, right?"

"But it's healthy. That's what the textbook says."

"Yes, a youthful mentality often comes from a happy and wonderful life, and it cannot be considered pathological, but if you continue to say so, people will think you like to pretend to be young."

"I don't care what they say," Bruce snorted.

"Have you been sleeping well lately?" Schiller asked, taking the plate from the robot's head.

"Not bad." Bruce said as if he remembered something: "I chat with Selina until late every day, and often forget to charge my phone. I really miss her very, very much, but unfortunately, we are both too busy now."

Bruce propped up his face, lowered his eyes from time to time to look at the food on the plate, and said, "I rarely talked to her so much before, and when we talked, it was always small talk. Sometimes I felt that there was nothing to talk about with her, so I stopped talking in the middle of the conversation."

"But recently, we seem to have endless topics to talk about. She talked about her experiences on the West Coast, and I talked about my experiences in the fighting world. Every time we talked until I was so sleepy that I couldn't open my eyes, I would put down my phone. She said she felt the same way."

"And we rarely talk about the kids. I noticed that a year ago our topics were always about Elsa, and they were a bit polite. Most of the time she would ask how Elsa was, and I would reply that she was fine."

"But we've been talking about the two of us a lot lately, about the past and the future, and it makes me feel really good, but I don't know if this situation will be broken if we meet in person?"

"Why do you think there has been such a change?" Schiller asked, and then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he shook his head and said, "Well, you don't need to answer. It's because not only you have grown up over the years, but she has too. Do you remember how long she has lived independently?"

"She has been here since birth... Oh, you mean in a normal society, for several years."

"Yes, she has grown up, and she has seen a lot of things in the upper class. She has gradually begun to understand you, why you wear a suit and tie, why you also put on an expensive dress for her, why you can't discuss theft and shooting at the banquet, and why she can't take away every gem she sees."

"She must have learned a lot of lessons." Bruce's voice lowered. He said, "She just rushed into Hollywood like that. I can't imagine how many difficulties she encountered to get to where she is today. Maybe I shouldn't have agreed to her in the first place..."

"Then you will never be able to chat like today." Schiller looked into Bruce's eyes and said, "She knows that she and you are from two different worlds. She didn't just run headfirst into Hollywood. She ran headfirst into your world without hesitation."

Bruce turned his face away, his features wrinkled in pain, he took a deep breath, and then said, "Because I didn't go to her."

"You went there. You've been there before."

Bruce was slightly startled, he thought of the days in the slums, which was almost the same time when Selina left Gotham.

He thought so. Just when Selena chose to take a step towards him, he also chose to take that step towards Selena at the same time. It turned out that the two of them were in sync with each other.

"It's just that you're smarter than she is," Schiller said. "It took her several years to understand Hollywood while it took you several months to understand the slums."

"No, it's not that I'm smarter than her, it's just that the path she chose is more difficult than mine." Bruce squeezed the fork tightly until his fingertips turned white. He said, "I know what kind of world it is. A girl like her will definitely get hurt all over."

"But cats are like this," Schiller said with a smile. "They won't rush into your arms and act cute just because they're hurt. They'll just sit in the corner and lick their wounds quietly, and roll their eyes at you when you try to care for them."

Bruce seemed to remember something and laughed. He quickly took out his mobile phone and started typing, but soon stopped with a conflicted expression. He deleted what he had typed before, but started typing again after a while.

"What do you want to ask her?"

"I want to know why she chose to leave Gotham in the first place."

"It was influenced by some external forces." Schiller said directly: "It should be one of her friends who persuaded her."

"Persuading her to go to Hollywood?"

"No, she was probably just trying to emphasize to her the fact that you two are not from the same world, and that you might just be playing around, and if she gets caught up in it, she'll get badly hurt."

Bruce showed a hint of dissatisfaction, but he didn't say anything, because under the circumstances at the time, this statement was correct. It can even be said that this friend must be truly caring about Selina.

Otherwise, dating a rich man would be a blessing for her, and her friends would also benefit from it. If they are really selfish, they will only persuade Selena to use her beauty to trap him so that she can use his connections to get things done, without caring about Selena's fate.

"In fact, that was probably just an attempt on her part." Schiller thought for a moment and said, "But you gave her a surprise, because just when she tried to take that step towards you, you also took a step towards her."

"Yes, I remember that Selina's temper improved a lot after that. I thought it was because of my behavior in the slums that she thought I was a fool..."

Bruce showed an amused expression, and soon started to press his phone again, as if Selina had replied to him. After taking a look, he showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, and then said.

"Indeed, her friend Maggie persuaded her, and Selina is not the type to sit still and wait for death, so she decided to make one last attempt, and fortunately, I did not let her down."

"I just have one question, doesn't your phone have a camera?"

"No, no, no, a video call will destroy the mystery." Bruce shook his head like a rattle. He said, "It will reduce the sense of surprise when we really meet, so we only chat via text."

Schiller shook his head, as if he couldn't understand the young people of today.

Bruce was eating and chatting there absentmindedly when suddenly a phone call came in. Bruce picked up the phone with some surprise.

"Oh, Jenna." Bruce raised his eyebrows and gave Schiller a smug look, as if to say, look, this little girl is also happy to deal with me, so you can't blame me for wanting to adopt her, right?

But listening to Jenna's chatter, Bruce showed a helpless expression and said, "Yes, I want 10 details and 5 words, not 5 details and 10 hundred words. OK, good night."

"Ten hundred..." Bruce said with his teeth bared, "She's like Elsa who just learned to talk. She can count to 10 hundreds."

Schiller was almost done eating. He piled up his plate and said, "You should pay more attention and not waste her talent."

"I believe it would be a waste of her talent to just let her take psychology classes. Tomorrow Diana will teach them fighting skills, and I'm sure she'll do well in that area as well."

"Keep your confidence."

Bruce soon finished eating. He planned to go back to his dormitory and chat with Selina while lying on the bed. Of course, he could also make a voice call, which would not destroy the mystery.

After returning to the dormitory, Bruce took a shower, dried his hair, changed into pajamas, and lay down comfortably. Before he could call his girlfriend, another call came in.

“…What if you can’t find 10 details? Can’t you try harder? There are 26 photos and you can’t find 10 details???”

"No, don't talk to me in that tone. I'm not your brother. It's useless to act like a spoiled child. ... I'm strict? I'm responsible..."

"Okay, since this is your first time writing a paper, five details should be enough, right? Yes, just five details plus your reasoning process will be enough. Submit it on time tomorrow morning!"

After hanging up the phone, Bruce sighed. He would definitely talk about this matter in detail when he calls Selina later. He felt that even Selina could find 10 details.

Less than two minutes after the two of them got on the phone, another call came in, and Bruce had no choice but to say, "Wait a minute, honey, I'll take the call."

Bruce picked up the phone and found it was Jenna again. After hearing what Jenna said, he widened his eyes and said, "Why do you need to write 5 words to find 250 details? Because of mathematical rules??? What mathematical rules???"

"Reducing the fraction? No, wait a minute, you mean that since the details to be found are halved, the number of words to be written should also be halved? Am I bullying you for not understanding math???"

"No, no, no, Jenna, listen to me. I'm going to use as many words as I say, okay? If you can't write 5 words with 500 details, then write 10 details!"

"You can't write? Didn't I ask you to write 5 words? ... No, you can't write 250 words!!!"

Because Bruce answered Jenna's call with another phone and did not hang up Selina, Selina heard Bruce's roar.

After a few minutes, Bruce picked up the phone that was talking to Selina again and said, "Sorry, baby, I just went to calm down. Let's continue."

Just as he was about to say something, another phone rang. Bruce picked up the phone and yelled at the other end, "I said 500 words, due tomorrow morning, no negotiation!!!"

"Oh, Clark, it's nothing. I'm not angry. I just spoke a little louder. Believe me, I'm really not. I'm very calm now. Calm down..."

(End of this chapter)