Meanwhile, the rescue team made up of Batman, Constantine, Superman, and Victor arrived at Schiller's manor. They had not come to investigate any clues, but to borrow something.
Butler Merkel received them. After learning of Schiller's situation, Merkel allowed them into the manor, and Constantine's target was the bottle of liquor Schiller kept on the bookshelf in the reception room.
That bottle had knocked out quite a few people. Both Constantine and Merkel had fallen victim to it and been pulled into dreams before, but now it had become a shortcut for them to enter the Dreamscape.
If they merely fell asleep and dreamed separately, they would have no way to meet up in the space of consciousness. After all, Gotham did not yet have someone like Professor X, capable of directly linking several people's brainwaves and letting them meet in a dream.
If they slept on their own, Batman could enter the Dreamscape through the hole at the bottom of his consciousness, but the others had no such passage. Besides, meeting up in the Dreamscape was not a good idea, since they might encounter danger and be picked off one by one.
So, they planned to use Mad Wine to enter the same dream first, then make their way down into the Dreamscape. That would be safer.
There was no need to elaborate on Mad Wine's effects. The instant Constantine uncorked the bottle, everyone entered the dream, while Merkel, in the real world, carried them to the sofas in the reception room.
In the dream, they should have appeared in a reception room identical to the real one, a room within Schiller's Mind Palace. But the instant they entered the dream, they began to fall, crashing to the ground like dumplings dropped into a pot.
They scrambled to their