Chapter 948: Schiller's Greatest Fear (Part 2)

Batman wanted to speak when Zatanna was in a low mood and persuade her to give up. After all, Batman's purpose of coming here has been achieved, and he didn't think Zatanna's plan would succeed.

Unexpectedly, Zatanna suddenly pushed him away, and then said with enthusiasm: "In this case, I want to see what kind of secrets this mysterious Professor Schiller hides? What are his weaknesses?"

"If the evil curse falls into the hands of such a person, something terrible will definitely happen. I must stop it all!"

Looking at the resolute expression on Zatanna's face, Batman, who had just been hugged by Zatanna, felt that it was not easy for him to speak now.

Unexpectedly, Constantine coughed twice and said: "Xiao Za, you can see that this professor is not an ordinary person. Otherwise, we should..."

Constantine also wanted to leave. Although he didn't get the cursed soul this time, he got Batman's handle, which was a full return. His purpose was basically achieved. Anyway, he didn't think Zatanna's plan would succeed.

But Zatanna glared at him and said, "Do you think I'm the same as you? I won't aim to retreat."

After that, she walked to the light balls again, looked down at the building blocks in her hand, and said, "Building blocks? Let me think... No, no, no matter what, it's wrong to lie to children, but exchange should be okay, right?"

After that, she pulled over another memory light ball, which was smaller than the other light balls. The screen unfolded, and Zatanna constructed a scene of a children's room.

Then, she said to herself: "This building block should be very important to young Schiller. If I use it to exchange for an umbrella, he should exchange it with me, right?"

After that, young Schiller appeared in the memory space. At this time, a female teacher who looked exactly like Zatanna walked in, holding a building block in her hand, then squatted down, looked into the eyes of young Schiller and said: "Little Schiller, do you want this building block?"

Young Schiller looked into Zatanna's eyes and nodded. Zatanna showed a gentle smile, touched his head, and then said: "Then you can exchange the umbrella with the teacher, okay?"

Young Schiller tilted his head to look at the big umbrella he was holding behind him, looked at Zatanna again, and shook his head.

"Why don't you want to change with me?" Zatanna squinted her eyes gently and said with a smile: "It's not raining today, you can play with building blocks safely in the house without going out. Come on, give me the umbrella..."

Schiller took a step back and shook his head, but his eyes stayed on the building blocks in Zatanna's hand. Zatanna felt that this might be the most promising game, so she reached forward again.

Unexpectedly, Schiller took the building blocks from her hand quickly and ran to the corner.

Zatanna's eyes were wide open, and she seemed to be a little angry. She immediately took two steps forward and said, "How can you grab things? This is wrong. Children should be polite!"

But the young Schiller who hid in the corner, holding the building blocks in one hand and the umbrella in the other, just stared at her. Zatanna wanted to take two steps forward, but was afraid of irritating Schiller.

There was no other way, she could only reset the scene again. This time, she didn't stretch her hand so far forward, but held the building blocks tightly, not giving Schiller a chance to succeed. Then, she and Schiller stared at each other for three hours.

Of course, it was three hours in the memory space. About 20 minutes passed in the soul buffer where Zatanna and the others were.

Finally, the screen went out, and Zatanna chose to give up. She stood there and said sluggishly: "I really don't understand, how can such a young child have such strong concentration? He stared at my movements for three hours. As long as my fingers loosened a little and I was distracted, he would snatch the building blocks away..."

"Many autistic children have higher concentration than their peers. When they lack in one aspect, they will be particularly good at another aspect." Batman said.

Zatanna looked very tired, not only because resetting the scene many times consumed too much energy, but also because anyone who met Schiller on the line would feel a kind of mental torture.

Batman saw Zatanna's expression, and he knew that Zatanna's emotions were stretched to a string, and now it was a little too tight, and it might break at any time. It was not a good idea to provoke her at this time.

Sure enough, he heard Zatanna muttering to herself: "I must solve this curse, I have such a responsibility, this is my destiny..."

"Damn destiny!" Constantine, who was lying on the ground to recover his strength, raised his voice and said: "Why don't you understand that those elders who said these things to you don't really want you to save the world, but just want to use you to save them!"

"Constantine!" Zatanna almost screamed: "Do you think I will become a person like you? I am different from you. I will definitely use my talents to protect the world. I will never let myself go down that path!"

Constantine closed his eyes, his chest rising and falling slightly, he said: "Perhaps, your heart to protect the world is true, but the person who established this goal for you and taught you methods and skills never really wanted to protect the world..."

"Are you talking about my father?!" Zatanna's voice broke, she said to Constantine viciously: "No matter what, what my father and I did was to protect others! Unlike you!"

Constantine did not refute this at all, he just took out a cigarette and took a puff, and then said: "Looking for justice and protecting others in the magic world, have you made a mistake? We are just a group of cursed poor worms, don't think too great of yourself."

Batman saw Zatanna's somewhat distorted face. Through the conversation between Zatanna and Constantine, Batman guessed that Zatanna, who was born in a famous family, may have been instilled with the idea of ​​using her powerful talents to save and protect the world since she was a child.

Perhaps, the purpose of the person who instilled this truth in him was not pure, or perhaps their purpose was simple, but it did not match the facts.

Constantine has repeatedly stressed that magic talent is like a curse, constantly forcing people to fall into the abyss. Zatanna seems to think that she will be the exception, but Constantine is very pessimistic about this.

"You should save more energy, Zatanna, save some energy to protect yourself, instead of driving yourself crazy in the pursuit of so-called justice like now."

Zatanna's expression was moved for a moment, and Batman saw a trace of fragility in that moment, but it soon disappeared.

This female magician, who always has a playful smile on her face, is always as focused and energetic as performing on the stage.

But first, she heard about the evil curse and rushed to Gotham without stopping. Then, she spent a lot of strength and energy to set up the fog to block the spirit world of Gotham. Finally, she was not able to find the flaws in the memory space...

This series of blows made Zatanna feel very anxious. It seemed that there was always a voice in her heart urging her, telling her that if she couldn't solve this problem alone, there would be serious consequences. As long as she didn't do her best, as long as she made any small mistakes, the world would be destroyed and mankind would perish.

And Batman deeply understood this emotion.

Batman is not very good at comforting people. He can only use his own methods to divert Zatanna's attention, so he said:

"If we continue to waste time here, there will be no additional progress. I think we should return to the real world first. This is the most rational choice."

He looked at Zatanna and Constantine and said, "Both of you are in bad condition. We need to rest urgently. Let's go back first."

Constantine nodded, stood up from the ground, and planned to leave, but Zatanna, who stood there silently, took a deep breath, exhaled, and then said, "If you want to leave, I can send you back first, but I have to stay here."

"Even if I can't get the curse medium now, I must know how to restrain him, otherwise, when the disaster really comes, it will be too late."

"Xiao Za, listen to me, there is no point in dragging it on, it will cause great harm to you." Constantine looked into Zatanna's eyes and said, "I know "You still have a trump card, but it's not worth it."

"Nothing is not worth it. I've said it before, I'm doing my best every moment." Zatanna was also unwilling to give in. She said, "If you want to leave, I'll send you away now, but I must find the flaws in these memory spaces."

Zatanna's stubbornness gave Constantine a headache. He winked at Batman, wanting Batman to come and persuade him, but unexpectedly, Batman came over and said, "Do you think you still have spare energy? If so, then execute your plan."

"Oh my God, are you crazy? !" Constantine said in confusion, "Even if you stay here for a few more hours, what will happen? It's just repeating these previous failures a few more times..."

Unexpectedly, Zatanna said, "No, since things have come to this point, I think we can use some radical methods."

"You mean, do you have other methods?" Batman looked at her and asked.

Zatanna sighed and said, "I don't really want to do this. This is beyond the scope of memory modification."

"Now, what you see is that I am creating a fictional memory space and implanting false memories into the characters in the memory space. In fact, it will not have much impact on the real memory."

"Because this is only a change on the superficial level of consciousness, and it does not touch the deep part at all."

"But in fact, mental magic can do much more than this. We can go deeper along the path of memory to spy on more secrets there."

Zatanna sighed softly and said, "If we can't use this deceptive method to make him hand over the curse medium, then at least we can get a way to restrain him and stop him when he wants to do something."

Seeing the expression on Zatanna's face and hearing what she said, Batman had a very strange feeling, because he saw his past self in Zatanna.

Suspicious, paranoid, and persecuted, he hopes that everything will act according to his ideas, and that all plans are prepared. For any existence that may be beyond his control, he must get their weaknesses, otherwise he will have trouble sleeping and eating.

Now, Batman has clearly known how his current personality was formed. He is driven by anger, revenge, and the desire to save Gotham. He is eager to become a perfect person, and he is very anxious about not being able to be perfect.

So what is forcing Zatanna to take such a path to the abyss? What can save her?

Batman suddenly found that from the perspective of an observer, such a person is not likable. He finally understood why Schiller and the madman who always laughed always emphasized that "people dressed as bats are mentally ill."

Because such people really look like mental patients.

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