Chapter 994: Battle for the Tower (Twenty-Eight)

"Before that, I want to ask you a question, Batman, do you think you are special?" Schiller looked at Batman and asked with a smile.

"Everyone thinks they are special." Batman replied in a deep voice: "Because people can only perceive themselves. For everyone, there is only the self that can be perceived and other people who appear in their lives and play supporting roles in this world."

"It's an interesting point of view." Schiller commented, he said: "It seems that you are very interested in the cognitive school, but what I said is not based on cognition, but in reality."

"Maybe." Batman took a deep breath, and the fatigue that had just exhausted his physical strength relaxed his tense mind, which would make the language center in his brain more active, so he would be more talkative than usual.

"The world's richest man is special wherever he goes, including in Gotham." Batman said in a trance, looking at the reflection of the tableware on the table. Schiller raised his eyebrows and said, "I didn't expect that the first identity you proposed would be the world's richest man."

"Because the plan to transform Gotham that is circling in my mind revolves around one word, that is - money." Batman let out the breath he had been holding, which sounded like a gentle sigh.

"Four years ago, you would never have thought that one day you would be sitting in the room of the final villain, discussing money with your psychology professor after a life-and-death battle, and... you are still short of money."

Batman covered his eyes with his gauntlet, and then asked: "Why do you say you are Batman's victim? What did I do?"

Schiller picked up the cutlery again and started cutting the food on the plate. He said: "If you are curious about this question, let's talk about the broccoli problem first. How did you and those two idiots break into the tower? Why did you rummage around in my room?"

"We each have our own purpose." Batman told the truth. He looked up, as if he was thinking, and then said: "Zatanna does want to save the world, but her method... is special."

"Why did you find me to save the world?" Schiller asked.

"Zatanna came to us. She said that there is an extremely evil curse that has been hidden in Gotham City. Gotham is in its current state because of this curse."

"Constantine thinks that what she said makes sense, and you once said that Gotham is in its current state because of the influence of mysticism."

Batman looked up at Schiller and said, "So is the stronger curse you mentioned an extremely evil curse?"

"I think you misunderstood." Schiller understood the cause and effect relationship he mentioned. He said, "The curse on my hand comes from Constantine. It is the vengeful spirit of his brother who was killed in his mother's belly. Constantine once said that his name was Thomas, but I don't like this name very much. You don't like it either, right?"

Very rarely, Batman's expression did not change. Unlike in the past, once he heard the names of his parents, he would show a very classic serious expression. He put one hand on the armrest of the chair and said, "We thought you were in your umbrella. The curse is the so-called evil curse. "

"So, you want to take my umbrella?" Schiller paused, then looked at Batman from above his glasses and said, "I used to be sensible in doing things, and I haven't given a strong warning to you greedy uninvited guests?"

Batman paused for a moment, tapping the handrail, and said, "No need to be more powerful."

Schiller turned his eyes away, showing a slightly disgusted expression, and said, "I can tolerate Zatanna, because she is the same as you at the age of 18, and exactly the same."

"Capable people are always very confident in their abilities, and once the situation is beyond their control, they will not reflect on how they use this ability, or what is wrong with their ideas, but must find flaws in the other party, right? Batman?"

Batman coughed lightly twice. He and Schiller did not talk about four years ago, but every sentence was about four years ago.

"You should be thankful, Batman. I can only tolerate one idiot like this at the same time. If you are still like that, someone will be in danger." Schiller put a piece of subcutaneous tissue into his mouth, and fiddled with the food on the plate carefully, and then whispered:

"But you can run into my room so easily, which must be inseparable from the group of people who neglected their duties. Perhaps, they deliberately indulged you in, because they should also be curious about my current situation."

Batman's fingers paused again, and he looked at Schiller's face. I don't know if it was his illusion. Schiller's face occasionally flashed a crazy smile, but it was not as frequent as at the beginning, nor as crazy, as if it was changing.

"Merkel mentioned to me that you have changed a lot in the past four years. Is this related to the crazy personality in your body?" Batman asked.

"This is back to the original question." Schiller asked without raising his head: "Do you know that you are special?" "

But he didn't wait for Batman's answer, but said to himself: "Whether you know it now or not, you must not have known it when we first met."

"Otherwise, you wouldn't ask me such a question, and I wouldn't become Batman's victim."

"Question?" Batman repeated the word in a questioning tone, and then recalled that when he first met Schiller, he seemed to ask him a question, so he repeated the question: "... What is the meaning of life?"

"Revenge, the meaning of life is revenge, I answered you like this, but in fact, I shouldn't have answered you at all." Schiller put down the cutlery again, sighed slightly and said: "Perhaps, you asked this question just to find out my professional level, but in fact In fact, the impact of this problem is much greater than you think. "

"Gotham is a special city. Everyone who is deeply involved in it has the opportunity to become crazy. When I first came here, I was just an ordinary citizen, but all this ended the day you appeared. "

"You have to know that it was not the Joker who chose Batman, but Batman who chose the Joker." Schiller looked at Batman and said, "The crazy virus was caused by your attention. The moment you saw me and were curious about my identity, my personality traits were already contaminated."

Batman frowned deeply. He never believed in these fatalistic things, but when all this came out of his professor's mouth, he felt that Schiller would not shoot without purpose, because he knew that Schiller did not believe in fate either.

"Perhaps you find it difficult to understand, but you must remember that you are special. Your attention to anyone may greatly change their fate, including me."

"For some reason, I knew you would come sooner or later. Before I saw you for the first time, my mind was all about how to avoid meeting you, because I really hate being forced into a vortex."

"If I want to participate in something, it should be in a more proactive attitude. I think you should have discovered this."

Schiller looked at Batman, and Batman nodded. He was very sure that the professor did not like unexpected situations. He preferred to be in control of everything, or in other words, he preferred to create trouble rather than participate in events.

"But when you appeared, I was completely unprepared, and at that moment, I was infected by the special crazy virus, and my thoughts were reversed. Like every clown, I used a very simple psychological suggestion to attract your attention."

"And in order to verify my professional level, you asked that question, and this question is the root of these changes in me."

"Perhaps, you should have known that the personality fragment infected by the virus was also part of arrogance. It is half of the arrogant trait, and I am the other half."

"After he was infected by the crazy virus, in order to ensure that I could have a clear mind to carry out activities, the 'superego' forcibly locked him up, and then sent the other half of arrogance, that is, me, to replace his work."

"But this matter is far from that simple. , Batman..." Schiller slightly exerted force on the hand holding the dinner knife, and looked at Batman with an unfriendly look, saying:

"The question you asked at the beginning has become a curse, a task I must complete."

"If you don't get the answer, and haven't found the meaning of life, then the other half of my characteristics and I, who were once contaminated by the crazy virus, will not be able to recover completely."

"You sound like you are talking in your sleep." Batman commented, and then he said: "I don't mean that this thing can't happen, but that neither you nor I can explain how the situation you are talking about happened."

"What is so special about my attention? Why did a special virus appear? Why did that question become a curse?" Batman threw out a series of questions, but he didn't expect Schiller to give an explanation.

He took the initiative to speak for the first time, and said: "In everything we have experienced together, you always have additional judgments that neither the authorities nor the bystanders can realize. I thought you could predict the future, but later, you did not behave like you had such ability."

"If you can stop asking questions about this question, there is no need to ask the principles of so many questions." Schiller said: "I want to explain all this more than you do, but the answer to this question is that it cannot be explained."

Batman narrowed his eyes, but before he could speak, Schiller continued: "Putting aside the facts, you know? Every clown has his destiny, a destiny related to Batman."

"He will definitely answer one of your questions, make you realize certain situations in reality, make you feel some emotions, or learn something from it."

"If he is your friend, he will accompany you until you are no longer Batman. If he is your classmate, he will study and improve with you, and if he is your teacher..."

Batman heard that Schiller sighed deeply, as if he was lamenting his unfortunate fate. He said: "I am the Joker, and the Joker is me. We are both one person and the same piece of personality fragment, so we have the same fate."

"If I were not so special, without that tower of thinking and a calm and decisive manager, then a psychology professor who became a Joker would answer your question in a more powerful way."

Before Batman asked, Schiller said: "... You don't want to know the method he wanted to use."

Seeing Schiller's expression, Batman knew that the answer circling in Schiller's mind would probably be more shocking than the food on his plate and the corpse behind him.

"Thanks to the calm and decisive superego, he locked up the madman, but the price was..." Schiller paused, then stared into Batman's eyes and said: "I must complete the Joker's mission for him."

"I must use another more gentle method to teach you how to find the answer to this question-what is the meaning of life?"

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