Looking at the chaotic scene on the screen, Bruce couldn't help but cover his forehead. He remembered the first conversation he had with Arrogance when he took the elevator to the negative floor in Schiller's thinking tower.
Bruce stared at the newly added button in the elevator and said with some confusion: "Since Morbidity is the original Schiller, why didn't the elevator lead to the abyss until now?"
Arrogant sighed and said: "Do you still remember the hole on the first floor of the tower? It is to allow the personality in the tower to go down, but to prevent the disease from coming up."
"But they came up anyway."
"Because this universe is dangerous enough." Arrogance said: "To be precise, this city is much more dangerous than where I originally stayed, so I can come out for some air occasionally."
Bruce frowned slightly. He heard the implication of Schiller's words, so he asked: "What's wrong with the morbid condition? Why can't he come out in a safe place?"
"Because he is not stable enough." Arrogance turned his eyes to the side and said as if he was recalling something: "You should be able to imagine that Schiller in his original state is actually the strongest, but this power is uncontrollable.
, that’s why we want to work hard to become ordinary people.”
"So what could be morbidly irritating?"
"Everything that happened in Gotham." Arrogance shook his head slightly and said, "You can understand that this city was simply created for the sick. There is everything he needs here, so you will see him often in the future."
"But if Gotham can be irritating to the point of morbidity, why can he come and go so often?"
"Because there is also something for him to vent here." Arrogance turned to look at Bruce and said, "You have seen it in Metropolis."
This time it was Bruce's turn to turn his eyes away, and he said, "Yeah, but I saw more on the monitor."
"Actually, this is not out of control." Arrogance fumbled with the handle of the umbrella with his fingers and said, "This is actively accepting stimulation and venting desires. Everything is within control."
"So what would cause a complete loss of control?"
"I was stimulated, but I couldn't vent it." He sighed arrogantly and said, "This happened when I was young and receiving treatment."
Bruce turned to stare at Arrogance, and Arrogance briefly recalled: "The first time it happened, everyone was unprepared. When I had abnormal symptoms, the people closest to me wanted to care about me, and then
I hurt her."
"professor……"
Arrogance shook his head and said: "That is already a very distant memory, and the most ridiculous thing is that when I saw her, I was already awake, but I just couldn't hold it back."
"That was the first time I realized how fragile ordinary people are, and how out of tune I am with this world."
"What turned you on?" Bruce asked.
Arrogance was surprisingly silent.
Bruce did not take away his searching eyes.
There are few questions in the world that this professor cannot answer. Most of them are about himself. There are mysteries one after another about him, but the truth behind each one is cruel. This makes Batman's curiosity rare.
He had a fear that he shouldn't have.
"It's about a boy." Arrogance pondered for a moment and then said, "I can't remember exactly who he is. Most of the things about him were heard from medical staff."
"He also had some abilities that were slightly different from ordinary people, which were not as obvious as mine. After a series of investigations and treatments, he was discharged from the hospital."
Bruce had some bad premonitions in his heart, and he wanted to interrupt, but Schiller had already continued.
"He was in good condition when he left, just like an ordinary child. Suddenly one day I heard that he killed his parents, and then he was brought back."
"One night he burst into my room and jumped from the seventh floor. Before jumping, he shouted, 'Don't go back, don't turn back into them!'"
Schiller was silent for a while and then continued: "I saw injuries on his body. They were not bruises caused by uniforms or arrests, but more like old injuries caused by some abuse."
"Is he dead?"
"Of course, he is not Superman, and neither am I. There are no superheroes like you who are more powerful than you can imagine. Of course he will die if he jumps from the seventh floor."
"Later I heard from the nurse that his parents seemed to use violence to force him to use his abilities to do things he didn't want to do. One day he finally couldn't stand it anymore and killed them all, and he himself collapsed.
.”
Arrogant and Bruce walked out of the elevator together. He raised his head slightly and looked into the dark space of consciousness and said: "I can't say that it was a certain thing that shaped me, but it was indeed a turning point."
"Before this, everyone in the hospital told me that as long as I study hard and work hard to recover, I can leave here and go to the beautiful world outside. They described to me many beautiful scenes and good things happening in the outside world."
"Do you believe it?" Bruce asked.
"At that time, my consciousness was very confused and I couldn't tell the truth from the false. But maybe if this incident hadn't happened, the sick person might have believed this statement and finally walked towards the normal path."
"But after that, the condition was completely hopeless. This is one of the main reasons why my condition has not improved."
"At that time, I fundamentally realized that everyone in this world has his own world. Their worlds collide and blend into the same world, and then they can fall in love and know each other."
"And when my world collides with other people's world, there will only be two results. I will devour them or crush them."
"The connected world outside is like a neatly arranged bottle, and I am the bowling ball. When I rush towards them according to the prescribed healing trajectory, I will not do anything except smash them to pieces.
There is a second outcome.”
"Is this a morbid thought?"
"Yes, and I have already seen the result of a bowling ball hitting a bottle once. There is no need for it to happen a second time."
"So pathology creates normality, and the desire of normalcy is to be an ordinary person." Bruce also sighed and said: "He knew that he couldn't squeeze himself into the shape of a bottle, so he had to try to shrink a little and blend in with the pile of bottles.
I hope I won’t be discovered.”
"But it's not too successful." Schiller shook his head helplessly and said, "At least it was like this in my original world. I tried hard to cover up 80% of my anomalies, but the remaining 20% still caused trouble from time to time, but
When I knew I was about to lose control, I chose to go to a more dangerous environment."
"I found some outlets to vent there, but that was not a long-term solution. The pathology is still hidden in my instinct, but it cannot stay there forever."
"And you're in Gotham again."
"Yes, I often want to believe in God because of this." Schiller showed a smile and said: "Here, everything about me has reached a delicate balance. It is not that I belong to Gotham, but Gotham
belong to me."
"It's not that I belong to Gotham, but Gotham belongs to me..."
Bruce in the spectators' gallery instinctively said this sentence in his memory, and then he felt a gaze as blazing as a heat ray shining towards him.
Lord Superman stared straight at Bruce.
"what did you just say?"
"No, it's nothing, I just..."
"Repeat what you just said." Lord Superman's eyes flashed with a faint red light, which brought physical heat to his gaze.
Bruce seemed a little helpless, and he had no choice but to say: "'It's not that I belong to Gotham, but Gotham belongs to me.'"
"You should have thought so earlier." Lord Superman seemed to be talking to Bruce, but he didn't seem to be.
"But that's not what I said. Please don't put it on my head to prevent me from being accused of academic plagiarism one day." Bruce shook his head quickly and said like a machine gun: "This sentence is quoted from Schiller.
Professor Rodrigues had a private chat with me one day, or it may come from a journal article by him that I have not read, but I am only quoting and reprinting it. All opinions expressed in this sentence represent Rodrigues only.
Dr. Gus, I disclaim any copyright responsibility."
Lord Superman was slightly startled.
"Are you still in college?" he asked.
"No, I'm about to graduate from my master's degree, and I'm in the process of applying for qualifications to study for my first doctoral degree."
"Have you already studied for a doctorate?" Lord Superman seemed to be remembering something very far away, and then asked: "Where is your bat suit? Aren't you Batman?"
Bruce did not wear a bat suit. He wore a sweatshirt and jeans like an ordinary college student. There was an apple dancing ballet printed on the front of the sweatshirt.
"I brought it, but I didn't wear it." Bruce yawned and said as if he was a little sleepy: "How can I put it, my first muscle-building cycle plan was completed well, so the bat suit doesn't fit so well.
It’s more convenient to wear sportswear.”
There are really too many points in this sentence that Lord Superman does not understand. This is not something that his super brain can come up with through thinking and calculation.
First of all, it's surprising that Batman doesn't wear the Batsuit.
Whether before he became Lord or after, Clark had stared at one question countless times at two o'clock in the middle of the night - Is Batman really a bat spirit?
If not, why is he wearing that damn Batsuit whenever he goes to see Batman, even when he's standing in the bathroom?
Secondly, the fact that Batman needs to gain muscle is a fantasy.
One person can repel 20 waves of aliens from 8:00 to 10:00 in the evening, prevent more than 200 meteorites from hitting the earth from 10:00 to 12:00, and prevent more than 200 meteorites from hitting the earth from 12:00 to 2:00.
He can catch about 20,000 criminals in the world at one time, and he can also play a game with all the criminals in Gotham from 2:00 to 6:00. Does he still need to gain muscle?
Sometimes Superman really doesn't know who is Superman.
Finally, and most ridiculously, the Batsuit actually doesn’t fit?
And what Lord Superman can't understand the most - Bruce Wayne actually prefers sportswear to suits?!
The moment Lord Superman confirmed that the young Batman in front of him was not lying, he wondered if this Batman was crazy.
Then, he watched helplessly as Bruce turned around and asked Constantine for a cigarette, skillfully opened the package, took one out and held it in his hand.
Either he is crazy, or he is crazy.
Lord Superman thought, it's ridiculous that Batman would smoke, it's even more ridiculous that Batman would smoke cigarettes from unknown sources, Batman would smoke cigarettes from unknown sources provided by Constantine, the most absurd of all!
Superman's super sense of smell let him know that there was definitely something added to this thing, otherwise the clown Arthur wouldn't have had the dry mouth reaction that people with a history of taking drugs would have when they smell the smell of drugs.
Instinct reaction.
The next second he understood that Batman was definitely crazy.
Because Bruce turned around and asked the Joker to borrow some fuel.
This chapter has been completed!