Chapter 1010 Is This Batman? (Part 2)

"I have bad news and worse news. Which one do you want to hear first?" Victor asked Batman in the cryogenic laboratory of Gotham University. Before Batman could answer, he said to himself:

"The bad news is that there are problems with Gotham's rainwater and drinking water sources. The worse news is that the problems are not the same."

Batman frowned. He looked at Victor and waited for his conclusion. If it were before, he would definitely go to see the test results in person or take samples to study in the Bat Cave himself, but now, he just hopes to solve this problem with the highest efficiency, and the process does not need to be studied in detail.

"I detected a mysterious substance in the rainwater, which is not in any of the components we currently know." Victor said as he walked to the laboratory table, picked up a report, and said:

"In order to study the properties of this component and the special features of rainwater, my students did many experiments and found that this component reacts with metals."

"What type of reaction?" Batman asked.

"It's not clear yet." Victor shook his head and said, "This reaction does not exist at the level visible to the naked eye. We discovered it when we used a magnetic oscillator to observe the magnetic field feedback." Hearing this, Batman seemed to have thought of something. He turned his head and looked at Zatanna. Zatanna walked up and looked at Victor and said, "Can you reproduce this reaction process? This is very likely related to magic." Then, she explained, "For people who don't have spiritual vision, magic is invisible. For example, I can take a rabbit out of my hat. You can see the hat and the rabbit, but you can't see how the rabbit is transformed, even if I use a transparent hat." "However, it's not completely without any traces. Most of the continuous magic reactions can be observed by humans through the magnetic field. Some people's magnetic fields are naturally special, that is, they have magic affinity, which can easily attract some "souls" or "spirits" to parasitize, which is the so-called ghost-attracting physique." "You can't see it with your naked eyes. 's reaction, under the vision of the spirit world, it is very likely that it is showing a state of continuous magic reaction, so if you can reproduce this process, I may be able to find a clue. "

Looking at Zatanna's tired and pale face, Batman moved his lips, but Clark immediately said: "Ms. Zatanna, you look too tired, don't you really need to rest for a while?"

"I'm sorry, I broke your portal. If possible, I will compensate you for all the materials. If you are injured or exhausted because of this, you'd better go back and sleep first."

"I'm fine." Zatanna pursed her lips and shook her head and said: "Losing the portal and consuming empty power are nothing to me. I have received more rigorous training than this. Please believe that I am professional in magic. Let's start now."

Batman kept tilting his head to look at Zatanna. In her stubborn expression, he saw himself at the beginning. Now he understands a little why Schiller said that Zatanna is very similar to him four years ago.

Now, Zatanna's emotions can't be said to be tenacious, but more like excessive paranoia. In terms of magic, she must prove her professionalism, prove that she is omnipotent, and can solve all cases in the world. No matter what her state is, she will hold on with one breath and never step back.

I have to admit that from the perspective of an observer, looking at this kind of person, there is really an impulse to suggest that he go to a mental hospital to get some medicine first.

Victor just glanced at Zatanna and didn't say anything. He called a few students and reproduced the process of their previous experiment.

In fact, it is very simple, just put a piece of iron in the magnetic oscillator, turn on the machine, drip rainwater, and the meter shows some abnormal readings.

Clark and the trainees carried buckets of rainwater together. Batman and Victor looked at the readings on the meter. Zatanna's eyes shone slightly, and just as the water poured into the cabin and submerged the iron sheet, she suddenly shouted:

"Stop! No!"

Victor and Batman turned to look at her. Zatanna said: "I observed some magical reactions... Yes, my inference is correct. This is a continuous magical reaction with some darkness and chaos... Let me see, no, no, there is something wrong with the pattern of stimulating the reaction. Can you repeat it again?"

After repeating the experiment again, Zatanna frowned. Frowning, she conjured up a screen in the air, and then wrote words and formulas in the air with her fingers, saying:

"Look here, the so-called continuous magic reaction, you can also understand it as a long-activated magic circle."

Zatanna waved her fingers and drew a slightly complicated pattern in the air, and then explained: "First, I engraved the activated end of the magic circle on an object, like this."

The pattern she drew slowly lit up and floated above his head. Zatanna waved her hand and said: "This is just a magic circle I wrote casually, and now, I'm going to use another kind of magic to activate it."

After that, one of Zatanna's fingers lit up, and then she said: "At this moment, the magic circle only emits light, and the magic in my hand also emits light, but when the two meet..."

Zatanna moved her finger slightly, pointed at the magic wand, and a stream of light flew out. With a "whoosh", a strong wind blew out of the magic circle and blew Zatanna's long black hair behind her ears.

And until Zatanna extinguished the magic circle, the wind kept blowing and remained in a very stable state. Zatanna stretched out her hand and explained: "Look, this is the difference between continuous magic and ordinary magic."

"If I use ordinary magic, it's like this... the wind blows hard!"

Zatanna concentrated and cast the simplest irony magic. The wind blew towards Batman and blew up the cape behind him, but soon, the strong wind disappeared and Batman's cape fell down.

"Normally, the magic we use is determined by the amount of magic we use to determine its intensity and duration." Zatanna is much more professional than Constantine in explaining magic. After all, she has received the most professional academic education and knows how to explain the principles of magic to others.

"However, if we stop the output of magic, the magic will stop, but continuous reaction magic is not like this. After constructing the activated magic circle and the elements that trigger the magic circle, once the two sides meet, the magic will continue to take effect."

"If that's the case, isn't continuous reaction magic much stronger than ordinary magic?" Victor asked with a frown.

"However, continuous reaction magic is much more difficult and fragile than other magic. You can't just put two things in place and activate them, and then expect them to work forever." Zatanna shook her head and said, "In most cases, the continuous reaction magic performed by many magicians is very fragile, requires maintenance, and the effect is not strong. In addition, the investment is very large. Now, few people will use this kind of magic." After explaining the principle, Zatanna looked at the iron sheet still in the instrument and said, "The rainwater you just poured in is indeed the element for activation, but the metal in this machine is not the correct end to be activated." "The concept of magic is relatively vague. Scientific experiments are so precise that the excitation formula set in the rain is likely to contain metal, so although this piece of metal is not the correct excitation end, it will also produce some reaction with the rain. "

"This shows that the correct excitation end is metal, but not this type of metal. As for which type it is..." Zatanna thought for a while, and then said: "Later, I will enter the spirit world and cast a tracking magic on the rain, and then observe its critical path. I should be able to determine what the excitation end is. "

After speaking, he took a deep breath, completely ignoring his weak state, and forced himself into the spirit world. The rainwater collected in the bucket emitted a burst of light and then disappeared.

After a while, a questioning "Hmm?" was heard in the air. After a long silence, Zatanna reappeared. Her face became even paler. Then she took a breath and looked at Batman and said:

"I have bad news and worse news. Which one do you want to hear first?"

Batman looked at her silently. Zatanna sighed and said, "The bad news is that the triggering end of the rain is not a single piece of metal, but all the metal in Gotham's buildings."

Batman's face immediately sank. He stood up and looked at Zatanna intently. Zatanna also looked at him and said, "The worse news is that the nature of the entire continuous reaction magic is worse than I thought."

"Although I knew that this magic was more inclined to evil and chaos, I didn't expect that all The metals at the excited ends are united to form a larger magic circle. This is a complex magic that is difficult for me to describe, or rather, it can no longer be considered magic. "

Zatanna's face became even paler, almost without any blood color. She looked at the ground under her feet and said vaguely: "We are standing on the most intense darkness and evil in the world. Perhaps, this is the truth of the evil curse."

Zatanna raised her head again, looked into Batman's eyes and said: "The rain stimulated the magic circle in the metal, and the continuous reaction magic of the magic circle in the metal formed an extremely large vortex, which absorbed all the malice in the universe. Therefore, this place is called a place that cannot be saved..."

"So, do you have a solution?" Batman looked at Zatanna and asked.

Zatanna suddenly fell silent, and the atmosphere in the room quieted down. After a while, she took a deep breath and said:

"Of course, I have a way... I have a way to solve the most terrible curse in the world, otherwise. I would not come here and find you. Before coming here, I had already figured out a way."

Batman had a premonition of what she was going to say next, and he saw a kind of tragedy in Zatanna's eyes.

Time seemed to have gone back to four years ago, and Batman and Zatanna, who was opposite him, were like looking in a mirror. He thought that maybe he had also shown such a look when he stood on the roof of Wayne Building.

Before Zatanna spoke, Batman said, "You don't have to sacrifice yourself, because you are not as important as you think."

Seeing Zatanna's expression suddenly change, Batman finally understood why Schiller always disliked him.

Because now, Zatanna's downward corners of her mouth, narrowed eyes and frowned eyebrows, how serious she felt in her own feelings, how funny and ridiculous she looked to the bystanders.

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