Chapter 1,730 Bruce Wayne and the Prisoners of the Batcave (13)
Chapter 1704 Bruce Wayne and the Prisoners of the Batcave (13)
Although the literary saying is "staring into the abyss", what Greedy has done after the version update is really not just learning the knowledge of the outer gods, or learning knowledge is actually just a means. The original purpose of Greedy's entire plan came from his recent
A journey into the abyss.
A few months ago, Greed returned to the tower room and carried out version renovations with the help of Gray Fog. Because Batman and Iron Man also gave part of their wisdom to Gray Fog, so after that they often played in the high tower.
Study weird scientific theories together in the tower room.
On this day, Greed, who had been staying in the room for a few days, wanted to get some air. He walked out of the room and entered the elevator. Then he discovered that there was an extra button at the bottom of the elevator floor button, which said "minus 1".
Greedy raised his eyebrows, and when he was hesitating whether to press it or not, the elevator door opened, and the superego came in. Greedy pointed at the button and asked: "You really led the elevator to the bottom? Aren't you afraid of them climbing together?"
come out?"
"They can climb out even if there is no elevator." The superego shook his head and said, "But it is true that they asked for the elevator, mainly because the hole drilled by arrogance in the floor was too inconspicuous. Within half a year, more than sixty people had climbed out.
There was an accident that caused my personality traits to plummet. I really can’t stand picking up trash in the abyss, so I’d better get an elevator to be safer.”
"I think so." Greedy nodded and said, "Sickness is just more dangerous in the original world. In the world of superheroes, what does mental illness mean?"
Then he said with some curiosity: "Can I go down and take a look? I really haven't looked carefully at what it's like underneath."
"There's nothing interesting to see, but if you want to go down, remember to bring the gray mist with you, so that you won't have to go out and people will come to catch you."
So Greed took the gray fog and took the elevator to the bottom of the tower of thinking, that is, in the subconscious. It was a vast darkness. If you didn't step on the inverted floor, you couldn't reach the abyss.
Greed originally wanted to visit the abyss, but during the journey, his attention was attracted by other things. He stepped on the back of the conscious floor, and Greed pointed to the deeper part of his subconscious and asked: "How do I feel?
Is there something there?"
"It's not your illusion." The gray mist floating beside him replied: "The original owner of this body left a bunch of messy things in our subconscious."
"No one cares?"
"They don't have much interest." Hui Wu shook his body and said, "It looks like just a pile of junk, with very few useful things. Arrogance took a look at it last time, but he didn't find any clues."
Greedy licked his lips, rolled his eyes and said, "The garbage is all treasures that have been placed in the wrong place. It's hard to come down once, why don't you go and take a look? Come on, let's go take a look."
The gray fog and greed flew upward together, or continued to sink into the depths of the subconscious. As the light of the elevator became smaller and smaller, they had reached the depths of the subconscious. The darkness here was more intense, but the depth of the darkness was
Some shadows were vaguely visible.
Greed is like a treasure hunter. He and Gray Fog approached the shadows together, and then discovered that just as Gray Fog said, most of them were tatters of unknown meaning, such as leaves, oars, olive branches, star rings, pieces of paper,
These things floating in the depths of the subconscious seem to have no practical value at all.
Continuing to float downward, Greedy saw a shining feather. Of course he knew it was the one that the original Schiller had pulled out of Lucifer, but he just took a look and left.
Instead of continuing down, he searched carefully above where the feathers were. After crossing the darkness, Greed found a piece of scales floating quietly in his subconscious.
Obviously these are not fish scales, they are bigger and harder than that. There is no color in the subconscious, so no more clues can be found from the scales themselves.
"There must be something useful, right?" Greedy said to himself. Obviously he was unwilling to give up. He felt that since the original Schiller left so many things here, these things should have some use value. Greedy
It's always like this, there's nothing in this world that he can't squeeze out of his life.
After hesitating for a while, he was still unwilling to give up, and finally decided to take the risk and continue sinking with the gray mist.
The depths of the subconscious mind are actually nothingness, which is the edge of self-existence. Once the consciousness collectively collapses, they will fall into this nothingness, and then begin to weaken their self-awareness and gradually lose awareness of their own existence. This is also manifested by many mental illnesses.
Symptoms of dissociation, so there are dangers there for any personality trait.
But the creed of greed has always kept the bold, but he also knew that the superego had actually guessed that he would do this, otherwise he would not have been allowed to bring the gray mist with him. If any danger occurred, the gray mist could at least catch him.
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Slowly sinking, the darkness gradually disappears. This is an empty realm, and all personality traits that enter this place will gradually lose the sense of the existence of everything.
Greed can stay here longer due to his special nature of paranoia, but it does not mean that he can stay here forever. After staying in this blank space for a while but searching to no avail, Hui Wu reminded: "I
I think we should go up."
But greed is like a diver who is about to run out of oxygen but fails to find the pearl, and is still unwilling to give up.
After another half a while, when he was sure that there was nothing here and that he had reached the edge of the danger line, Greedy finally decided to give up. However, he did not let the gray mist take him up quickly, but planned to float up slowly by himself.
When he approached the surface of the void zone, his self-awareness had been almost exhausted. It was like a dream. As long as he woke up from the dream, he would be intact, and the dividing line from the void zone was right in front of him.
It takes just a second to surface and regain oxygen.
But at this moment, Greed felt an echo coming from the endless nothingness.
Because he wanted to listen carefully, he completely stopped his floating movements. After an unknown period of time, it seemed like a year, it seemed like a second. When he reappeared, he was lying on the ground of the tower of thought.
"You scared me to death!" Huiwu let out a soft and plaintive exclamation, circled around Greedy's body, and then said: "I thought you could float up on your own, so I was a little distracted, but I don't know how you did it.
You stopped yourself and you were almost drowned, you know?"
Greedy shook his head slightly, and he found that he heard that echo, just on the edge of disappearing from self-awareness, and now this echo stayed in his mind.
That was not a sentence, but more like conveying an idea, and Greedy was surprised to find that he found the pile of tattered instruction manuals.
The idea is very short and not complicated. It can be summed up in the most concise language with only one sentence - "I have never gathered this sheep before. Remember to gather it in the future."
Greedy still remembers that the original Schiller borrowed a lot of debt, then blew himself up and ran away, forcibly defaulting on the debt, and left all the energy he borrowed to the current Schiller, although Greedy feels that what he did is not entirely right.
In order to save the Soviet Union, there may be other plans, but the huge amount of energy is real.
Schiller's understanding of the occult was not very deep at the time, so he could not judge the approximate value of magical energy as a universal currency. That energy seemed to be a lot, but if the inflation in the magical world was serious enough, it would take too much energy to do things.
, then it’s actually not too much.
After a period of dealing with the magical worlds of the two worlds, Schiller discovered that although this ball of energy was unexpectedly huge and had even caused a qualitative change, judging from the original Schiller's actions of picking up all the wool, the quantity was also small.
Not too exaggerated.
And now Greed knows that the original Schiller did not collect all the wool. It seems that some sheep escaped by chance, but it is more likely that the original Schiller felt that the wool was not long enough, so he planned to raise sheep.
It was raised and harvested again and again, and the wool was not even finished until it ran away.
As an expert at shearing wool, Greed could almost perfectly sympathize with the grief of the original Silena who had taken away the wool but had not finished shearing it. This grief was even more heartbreaking than his own death.
For any miser, the most terrifying thing is not that the money was not spent after death, but that he knew he was going to die but did not borrow all the usury loans.
In this way, Greed can understand that the pile of rags deep in the subconscious is actually of no use. It is more like a notepad to record the power of powerful beings in the universe that have not yet been borrowed.
As we all know, sheep can also feel pain. The first handful of wool is the most likely to be harvested. A sheep that has been fooled once will probably run away even if it is not the last person this time.
If you get closer, it won't be that hairy even if you can continue to tuck.
But thinking about it on the other hand, the powerful beings represented by these marks are all pure, trusting little lambs that have never been plucked. For Greed, this is simply a windfall and the most precious knowledge.
And wealth is even more valuable than the ability to break through the concentration limit that he gained from the previous update.
When he thinks that there are so many unplucked sheep in the depths of the endless DC universe, Greedy feels hot inside, the situation is great, and his life is getting more and more promising.
After returning to the thinking tower, Greed told his findings to his superego and arrogance. The superego was noncommittal, acquiescing to Greedy's continued plundering of wool, while arrogance made logical assumptions.
"If every object left deep in the subconscious represents a god, then who do they represent?"
"That's a problem, but I'm afraid we can't send a broadcast across the universe to find lost items. I think we can always guess one or two, right? Let's try analyzing one or two first?"
Arrogance and the other Schillers agreed to this proposal, so Greed went down again with Gray Fog, but this time he didn't care about the bones that were buried more shallowly, because the deeper they must be hidden, the better.
Greed finally chose Scales.
When he dragged the giant scale, which was almost as tall as half his body, back to the tower of thought, without the darkness of subconscious vagueness and illogical infestation, the scale showed its original appearance——
It was a piece of black, shimmering with tiny shimmers, almost with an iconic aura...dragon scales.