When he heard the word "gentle", Batman put the word in his mouth again and tasted it, but this time, he didn't make a sound. He could see that as the conversation deepened, this word
The professor was not in a very good mood.
However, if things are really as he said, then this is indeed an unreasonable disaster. The teacher at the freshman registration office asked for leave at the wrong time. But in the final analysis, Batman came at the wrong time.
After giving up the in-depth study of this vocabulary, Batman began to recall how Schiller taught him as a teacher.
Before he began to think about this problem, he had to find out whether Schiller was really teaching him?
After thinking about it for a while, Batman found that the answer was yes, but the word "teaching" was also worthy of appreciation.
During his freshman and sophomore years, Schiller actually didn't tutor Batman in his studies, but at that time, Schiller's figure always appeared in all the serious cases Batman investigated.
The most profound memory for Batman was when Fish, the boss of the Living Hell, died. Batman conducted a series of investigations and found out that it was because of Schiller's umbrella.
Later, Schiller and Jack dug up the Laughing Egg deep in his heart. When the yellow light invaded, Batman and others fought in his dream, and Schiller finally got Elsa out.
Later, Schiller went to Metropolis, and Batman had to track down clues to the murder in the mayor's manor. Then, the trip to Gotham, the cat city, was still because Schiller stimulated the dream of a thousand cats.
The first half of the trip to the slums had nothing to do with Schiller, but in the second half, he gave Bruce a fatal blow.
And this time, Batman will fall into hell because Schiller fell into hell.
Looking back carefully, it seems that every time Schiller appears, Batman always learns something from it.
The detective wisdom of deciphering clues layer by layer, the skills of exploring strange dreams, the courage to fly to the deepest part of the abyss to face the madness of reality, the strategy of participating in large-scale wars and the insights of witnessing the revolutionary process...
In the initial incident, Batman was still firm on this answer. He wanted to take revenge on the criminals. However, with various ups and downs and spectacular events, Batman discovered that he no longer had a definite answer.
When he was in the mine before, Batman had already rethought this issue. What was he fighting for? What was his ideal? What were his thoughts?
Is it revenge? Is it saving Gotham?
When thinking of these two answers, Batman instinctively felt dissatisfied. It was difficult for him to explain where his dissatisfaction came from. It was as if such an answer was not worthy of his wandering life.
Through all the vicissitudes of life.
Batman feels that after so many things, it is difficult for anyone to simply define his or her life with one word or one goal.
The less a person has experienced and the smaller the world he knows, the easier it is for him to put a narrow label on himself, and then continue to solidify his thinking in the direction of the label, looking for recognition in circles with the same label.
A sense of identity, and then, cut off all opportunities to make a new choice, and embark on such a path without hesitation.
However, if the thrilling journey along the way, the ups and downs are exciting enough, the scars left by the hardships on the road, and the courage and wisdom exercised are enough, it will be difficult for people to be satisfied with the achievements brought by a small label.
That's why, the right path in the world is subject to vicissitudes of life.
Batman has a similar feeling. If he devotes everything he has learned along the way to the goal of revenge against criminals or saving Gotham, he will always feel that he has failed.
He has seen the sunset in the living hell, the boundless black tide in the dream world, danced with the treacherous and cunning in the metropolis, struggled with poverty and weakness in the slums, heard the roar of rock and roll in Cat City, and seen the setting sun in hell
Like blood.
He has walked such a long way, suffered so many injuries, and learned so many things, just to fight criminals on the streets?
Seeing that Batman was deep in thought, Schiller coughed slightly and then said: "What you are thinking right now explains my current state."
"I was infected by the virus and gave you the answer you most wanted to hear at that time, but you and I both know that it is not the right answer. It is not the right answer for everyone, nor is it the right answer for you." Schiller sighed again.
After taking a breath, he continued:
"But for a long time afterwards, you believed it to be true, or in fact, you always thought this way. For this reason, I had to take many actions to erase the wrong answers and shake your conclusion.
Only then can we truly pursue a correct answer.”
Schiller glanced down at himself, and slowly suppressed the somewhat crazy smile on his lips. He said: "And just after you ended your trip to the slums, I made a breakthrough in something that I have been trying to no avail for a long time.
.”
"Fatalism is always mysterious, but I also have another way to check your status, that is, as long as I try to merge with the clown Schiller, the other half of the infected fragments, through the smoothness of this process
By the degree, I will be able to judge whether you have made any new progress."
"After you came back from the slums, I tried it again as usual, and then I discovered that for the first time, we were able to fuse for a short period of time."
"However, at this time, other problems arose." Schiller shook his head and said helplessly: "The software license has been reached, but the hardware cannot be merged so easily."
"When I first came to Gotham, my superego realized that this was a very dangerous city. He needed some strong personality to support my actions and prevent me from falling into danger."
"However, many powerful personalities are too aggressive. After being released, I will not be in danger, but Gotham University will be more dangerous. Therefore, the superego chose arrogance, which is a negative trait, but not that strong.
The aggressive personality fragment.”
"But also for some special reasons, complete arrogance cannot directly rise to the consciousness, so the superego divides them into two."
"The superego is not a personality fragment. He is the collective consciousness of all personality fragments. It is equivalent to the administrator of my soul. He has strong power and authority."
"Therefore, when he divided the personality fragments, he did it very thoroughly. At the same time, he used a mysterious power to heal the wounds quickly without leaving any scars."
"So, when I wanted to merge with the other half of the fragments, I found that we had actually become two complete fragments. It was very difficult to merge into one again."
"I think you should know that when grafting plants, both sides must have wounds before fusion is possible. In other words, we in our prime state cannot fuse."
"After Constantine caused broccoli all over the city, you only saw that I fell into weakness, but the other half of my personality fragment, which is the clown Schiller, also fell into weakness."
"At this time, I realized that the opportunity has come. We are both in an extremely weak state now. As long as we create wounds artificially, there will be a chance to merge back together."
"That's why I asked the FBI agents to take me away. I thought they would successfully send me to Washington and then torture me to extract a confession. This might stimulate my spirit and create a weapon for fusion.
wound……"
Schiller shook his head helplessly and said, "But I really didn't expect that the people they sent couldn't even get out of Gotham."
"The plan to use torture to extract confessions failed. I had to find another way. I think if we are controlled by the body, then we must look for mental stimulation to bring psychological trauma. But if there is no body, we can directly hurt the soul.
Create wounds."
Batman and Schiller looked at each other, and Schiller said: "So, I killed myself and fell into hell."
"What you observed before is that I am in a somewhat unstable state precisely because we are trying to fuse." After speaking, Schiller glanced at General Rotten Heart and said, "After arriving at the mine, I realized,
Now that the opportunity has come, this cruel mine owner should be able to inflict wounds that satisfy me."
Schiller lowered his head and glanced at the metal lock on his collarbone. He said: "He did a good job, but to my expectation, there was still no way to fuse smoothly with just the wound, because during the fusion process
, I need to replenish a lot of energy."
"So I asked him to give me some extra help," Schiller said, peeling the fat off the lower half of a piece of slightly charred pork skin, then sticking a fork into his mouth.
"Perhaps you have heard that powerful demons can devour weak demons, but in fact, human souls can also do this, and we can also devour demons."
"Of course, the strength of human souls cannot be compared to that of demons." Schiller glanced at General Rotten Heart again, showed a smile and said, "But what humans are best at is using tools."
"Even if I could swallow a whole demon, I would not adopt such a barbaric method. Human beings have to use tableware to eat and chew slowly. We have been away from the era of drinking blood with raw hair for too long."
After saying that, Schiller took the plate from the strange demon's hand, put the freshly roasted belly meat into his own plate, cut it into small pieces, and put it into his mouth.
Batman was still in a trance of thought. After listening to Schiller's story, he finally understood what was going on with the professor's attitude as if he had a grudge against him. It didn't seem like Schiller had something to do with him.
hatred.
Batman was certain that Schiller must have been seeking revenge for his personal vendetta when he taught him to find the answer to this question, but he had no evidence, and he suspected that there was no teaching involved in the personal vendetta.
At first, he thought Schiller was a criminal, and because he couldn't stand the vigilantes, he targeted him everywhere. Later, he thought Schiller was a psychopath, and he couldn't stand normal people, so he targeted him everywhere. But now it seems that Schiller
Le's actions had very clear motives and goals.
All the seemingly abnormal actions came from what happened when they first met. The cause and effect match and the logic is reasonable.
In other words, although Schiller was ill, his actions against Batman were not due to illness.
So if Schiller's behavior is normal, who is abnormal?