Chapter 1486: Birds and Return (31)
There is a huge abyss in hell that stretches across the entire hell, which is called "hell in hell" and some people call it "eternal night abyss".
In the deepest part of the abyss, there is a huge palace on the cliff, where Beelzebub, the extremely ancient demon king of hell, lives.
Beelzebub has many demon generals under his command, but compared with his peers, he is not militaristic. Every few hundred years, Beelzebub will gather them together for celebrations under various names, and the abyss that has just held a celebration seems a bit deserted.
Follow the long obsidian palace corridor forward, pass through the flames between the sheep head skulls, and climb the steps along the carpet woven with the pattern of the sun god, and you can come to Beelzebub's throne hall.
The tall demon guard was dozing by the door, and suddenly a roar came from the throne hall.
"······What's the reason? !! Batman, are you looking for trouble on purpose? !! Just do what I say!!
The guard was so frightened that he shivered and the spear in his hand fell to the ground. After picking up the spear, he couldn't help but look into the throne room with curiosity through the crack of the door.
In the past few days, the name Batman has appeared countless times in the roar of the demon king, but every time he only heard the voice but didn't see the person.
The demon guard observed for a while and found that His Majesty Beelzebub seemed to be responding to the prayers of believers.
Beelzebub was indeed talking to Batman on the phone, and this was This is the fourth prayer call he has received today.
Beelzebub is not completely without human believers, but generally speaking, he only needs a thought to respond to the long prayers of human believers. Anyway, most human believers pray to him for protection and power. As long as it is not too much, he will agree. Anyway, the power that humans want is just a drop in the bucket for him.
But Batman is different. He does not want power or protection. He wants knowledge.
There have been such freaks throughout the ages. Beelzebub has also given countless secret knowledge to his believers, but other believers want countless knowledge. It is not an answer, such as whether something will succeed, whether a certain history is true, what is the truth of the battle between angels and demons.
For humans, the secret knowledge is just a memory of the past for Beelzebub, and he can answer these questions easily.
But what makes Batman different is that he not only wants answers, but also the process, and he will not give points for answers alone.
When he asked Beelzebub about the future of something, his focus was not whether the future was good or bad. Beelzebub even suspected that Batman did not believe him at all in judging whether the future of something was good or bad. What Batman cared about was how Beelzebub judged it.
Of course, Beelzebub also explained to him that humans and demons have different life forms and different personalities. For demons like Beelzebub, time does not move forward linearly, so of course he can see some future.
But Batman just wants to figure out what the principle of nonlinear time prophecy is, what is the difference between the life forms of humans and demons, and what is personalities - often when Beelzebub answers a question for him, it will lead to countless other questions.
Beelzebub yelled at him, "You don't have to be too clear about magic! "Batman would reply to him, "If you don't understand the principle, how can you be sure that your answer is correct?"
Beelzebub tried to convince him with practice, such as making a prophecy and then waiting for a period of time for the prophecy to come true, but Batman would question again, even if it came true this time, what about the next time?
Without a process that can be completely deduced, how can we ensure the stability of the result?
This theory really stumped Beelzebub. The power he possessed and everything he could do were actually instinctive. He had never thought about where the power came from and how it worked.
Batman went further and said, "If you don't understand the principles of all this, then one day this power disappears, and you don't even have a way to save it. "
Of course Beelzebub wanted to swear that "this power will not disappear". He has believed this for thousands of years. He will always be the devil of hell, and his status is far superior to other existences in the universe.
But Belial's death made him a little uncertain again.
From his common sense, the three devils of hell will not die. They are the pillars of hell and should live as long as the entire universe, but Belial just disappeared, disappearing without a trace.
It is hard not to make Beelzebub feel a sense of crisis. Even if Batman will not go crazy and eat him again, how can he guarantee that nothing else will threaten his survival next time?
Any intelligent life has the instinct to survive, and emotional life is inevitably afraid. Belial disappeared too easily. The powerful power he possessed and his status similar to Beelzebub failed to provide him with any protection. Why is this?
Once this idea appeared in Beelzebub's mind, it was hard for him not to think about it. If he faced a madman like Batman one day, and removed his power and status, what would he have left?
If one day, his power and status disappeared, would he really have to stay where he was, waiting for danger to come without knowing anything, and being completely powerless to save himself?
Thinking about his current situation, Beelzebub thought, I'm afraid so, he didn't know where his power came from. If it was generated naturally, would it continue to be generated? If it was given by someone, would it continue to be given?
These questions hovered in Beelzebub's mind like a spell. Every time Batman made a phone call to ask questions that Beelzebub had never thought of, the spell became clearer.
When a demon king began to think about the source of his power, he would inevitably use his instinctive and powerful power to trace the origin of the universe with a vision far beyond that of humans.
But unfortunately, Beelzebub's status was high, but not high enough. No matter how he used his special vision and powerful power to explore the mysteries of the universe, he could never accurately say "how everything that exists exists".
This made Beelzebub feel irritable, even self-destructive, but Batman still patiently called him to ask questions that sounded simple but no one could answer.
Gradually, Beelzebub was no longer so angry. After all, a small human being could persevere, even if he made dozens of harassing calls to his god every day to find out the answers to the questions. Then, as a god, wouldn't he be stupid in his eyes if he was so irritable?
Although, Beelzebub felt that in Batman's eyes, all life should be stupid, because he was a little too smart.
When Beelzebub really memorized Batman's questions and those explanations he said casually and understood them, Beelzebub found that this human was really ridiculously smart.
Batman can directly get the answers to many things that are impossible to see through from a human perspective through deduction. Knowledge that is impossible to understand with human life forms, Batman also forced them to understand with his terrible understanding ability.
He may be the smartest person in the universe, Beelzebub thought.
Then maybe, I can use his wisdom to answer the mysteries of the universe that he can't figure out at all.
Yes, this is good for me, Beelzebub thought. Not every demon monarch has such a smart pope. He should firmly grasp this opportunity, maybe he can have a chance to go further.
Thinking of this, Beelzebub's heart became a little hot.
But at this time, Batman's phone calls were no longer so frequent.
Beelzebub could only sit in his throne room and be suspicious, and one day, he finally couldn't help asking Batman: "Why haven't you prayed recently?"
He tried to control his tone so that he wouldn't sound like a crazy woman who called every five minutes to check on him, but what Batman said made him feel half cold.
"I think those questions may be too difficult for a demon king, after all, you are very far away from the origin of the universe."
"However, in the recent academic discussion, my teacher recommended me a good candidate. I am planning to fly to the West Coast to ask Lucifer."
Beelzebub felt his heart tightened. He knew that as God's most beloved youngest son, Lucifer could be called truly omniscient and omnipotent.
At this moment, Beelzebub was not afraid that Batman would not be able to ask, but was afraid that he really asked. Will he still have a place as a god by then?
Beelzebub was pessimistic about this, so he immediately said to Batman: "There is no need to trouble His Majesty Satan with such a small matter. What is the name of the rune word you mentioned the day before yesterday?... Jealousy? Evil? That is the field of Azazel. I will ask him later."
"Oh, that one." Batman's understated tone came from the other end: "The topic has been conquered by Tim, but..."
Beelzebub's mood was like a roller coaster. He immediately asked: "But what?" "Nothing, it's my personal matter."
"As the Pope, you should be pious to your God. Isn't prayer used to tell God about your difficulties without reservation?"
"Well, actually it's about some problems in my spiritual world. Some time ago, I split some personality traits. I have been studying how to make them work together, but you also know that the human spiritual world is very fragile, so there was a little problem in my research process..."
"What's the problem?" Beelzebub's tone contained a little bit of smugness. Batman, you have come to this day?
"It's hard to say." Batman's tone was a little embarrassed. He was silent for a while, and then said: "Why don't you come to my mind and take a look?"
Beelzebub didn't think there was anything strange about this invitation. Many humans would summon demons into their bodies in order to gain more power.
Beelzebub was even a little surprised that Batman would be willing to let him enter his body? Many humans are very resistant to this matter.
But the opportunity is rare, Beelzebub really wants to know what is so special about this human called Batman.
So, Beelzebub made up his mind and said to Batman: "I will give you a spell. You just need to recite it completely, and I can enter your soul to check the situation. Don't worry, there is no soul problem that I can't solve."
Batman recited the spell, and Beelzebub successfully entered his soul, and then was drowned by endless shit codes.
"Help me modify the program until it can be used, thank you." "Oh... shit... what is this..."
"By the way, this is a closed system. You can't get out before you finish modifying it. I'm going to do other work. Bye"Batman!!! Bat... Ugh!!! "