Chapter 1760 S Apocalypse Event (Twenty-Eight)
Chapter 1734 S Apocalypse Event (Twenty-eight)
"Wait, what's going on?!" The woman holding the steel whip took a step back, looked up at the sky with wide eyes, and a roar echoed outside the star port.
"This is a star port floating in outer space! Why is it raining??!!!!"
The men following the woman were also a little flustered. They took a few steps back and looked at the strange phenomenon in the sky at a loss. However, the humble people next to them who were not wearing armor but cloth clothes looked down at their hands in confusion. The rain fell on their skin, but did not slide off the surface of the skin, but disappeared.
The woman was stunned for a moment, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, and the veins on her hand holding the steel whip suddenly bulged. She said in a very low voice that no one else could hear: "How is this possible? The force field of Apocalypse has been broken?! This, this is absolutely impossible, no one has ever done it, no, we must find a way to solve it."
She gritted her teeth, and the expression on her face gradually turned fierce. The muscles of her arms almost instantly stretched out the tights with obvious lines. She roared and swung the steel whip violently, and the electric current flew throughout the hall.
"Go, kill them!" The woman screamed, "We must not let them invade Apocalypse!"
She had completely forgotten her contemptuous attitude just now, because she knew more than the other low-level soldiers here, so she understood what this change that had just happened meant.
Apocalypse itself is a huge force field.
This is the truth that only the top leaders of Apocalypse know. This planet can maintain such a strange state under the physical rules of the universe, all because Apocalypse is both a planet and a galaxy, both a physically existing celestial body and an aggregate of energy.
In addition to maintaining the existence of Apokolips, this force field has another most important function. Any creature living in this force field will be influenced by the force field to be loyal to Darkseid, and will eventually become a fanatical fan of Darkseid, willing to dedicate everything to him, including his own life.
First of all, if the darker Batman is, the darker Gotham will be, then does Batman have some other characteristics, and Gotham will also change because of this, just like the strength of the bond between Batman and the Joker?
But after Schiller's student Bruce became an angel, Schiller did not find much change in Gotham. He thought that this might be because Bruce replaced Gabriel's status, rather than really becoming an archangel. Gabriel's position originally existed, and Bruce just replaced him, so it did not cause much impact.
Some people say that these dark Batmen are stupid and did not think of using capital to save the city, but in fact this is just the influence of the underlying roots of the universe. When Batman is stuck in the quagmire and cannot save himself, Gotham cannot be saved. When he abandons all the darkness of the past, Gotham will naturally see the light again.
"Lady Lashina, something is wrong..." A trembling voice came from behind the woman. She turned her head and found a guard slumped on the ground, looking at the starport with a horrified expression.
"This shows that they saw more than just the scene." Schiller held the upper edge of the wine glass lightly and placed the wine glass flat on the wooden armrest, one leg on the other, fingers crossed in front of him, and smiled, but did not explain much.
If we follow this line of thought, the order of appearance should be Batman first, Gotham second, and the Joker third. It is precisely to highlight the dark characteristics of Batman that Gotham has been affected by a fundamental darkness, and therefore the Joker was born.
Gotham is a stage built for the never-ending struggle between Batman and his enemies. Therefore, wherever the struggle is staged, there is the stage, and there is naturally Gotham. This is the identity formula of Gotham.
Of course, since Gotham is defined in this way, it can be inferred that the biggest factors affecting Gotham's existence are Batman and his nemesis. Although the nemesis includes the Joker, in the Gotham constant formula, Batman still has the greatest impact on the nature of Gotham's existence.
This is why Darkseid's fleet will capture captives from all over the universe and then scatter them on the huge surface, because as long as a period of time passes, they will become naturally loyal soldiers and laborers, not asking for anything in return, but willing to die for Darkseid.
So the two girls were so shocked when they saw this plan, the reason is that no one in the world knows Batman better than Schiller.
Of course, Schiller expected Helen to take on the role of the Joker in the end. After all, she had guessed the true identity of the Book of the Dead. Helen knew that everyone who participated in Schiller's plan might be pushed away and suffer, but the more they paid, the greater the gains. Helen keenly felt that there were benefits to be gained from this, and finally agreed.
But this violates the Batman and Joker aggregation law. The equality of Batman and Joker is an unchanging identity in the DC universe. They are always directly related. It is not that one causes the other, but they always complement each other and depend on each other.
Constantine, who was rubbing his fingers on the wine glass, also showed a puzzled expression. He looked at the inexplicably changing weather on the screen and asked in a confused tone: "So what is going on? Did you send someone to use some illusion? But if it's just a scene, why are these people panicking?"
Schiller's series of big plans to catch the evil Batman included a small experimental goal, which was to see if this uncontaminated natural Batman would change his Gotham after gaining some strange powers.
According to the Batman Joker Aggregation Law, Doomsday, who became the Joker, must be stronger than Batman, so little Bruce almost immediately found that the two forces that were originally fighting each other in his body were combined at a speed that he didn't even react to, and some wonderful chemical reactions occurred.
Schiller, who witnessed Bruce's transformation with his own eyes, naturally confirmed this point. If Batman is saved, Gotham will be saved. If Batman sees the light, Gotham will see the light again.
So it seems that the existence of Gotham is unnecessary between Batman and the Joker, but in fact, Gotham represents more than just a city on the east coast of the United States. It also symbolizes the stage of Batman's never-ending dark story. The elements that construct this stage are as complex as the factors that construct the two characters of Batman and the Joker.
This requires mentioning the derivative law outside the Batman and Joker aggregation law, that is, the identity formula of Gotham.
In the Book of the Dead, Schiller introduced the Batman-Joker aggregation law and several formulas in this law in detail to Harley and Helen, including the conditions for the generation of the Joker, and the phenomenon of the power binding between Batman and the Joker.
The dark multiverse energy representing Barbatos merges with the cipher power representing the outer god Nyarlathotep. When power and knowledge are combined, Batman's strength rises rapidly until it reaches the same level as the young Doomsday Joker.
For example, Batman like the main universe Batman seems to be completely unable to save Gotham, because the darkness in their hearts has never changed, and the darkness from the root of Gotham will not disappear, and the dark nature of this city will exist for a long time.
As we all know, Batman cannot know magic, otherwise the universe will be destroyed. Therefore, this Batman who accepts other powers cannot stay in his original universe, otherwise the universe will be destroyed, but the experimental results will not be seen.
After Bruce from Schiller's universe brought little Bruce, although Schiller was not sure whether this individual who had not yet become Batman could be regarded as Batman, and whether the experiment would be effective, he came anyway, so he might as well give it a try.
"What the hell is going on?!!" Lashina shouted in collapse: "This is a space station, where does the atmosphere come from? What is that glowing yellow unknown celestial body?!!"
This man, who is called the protagonist in the story, has been too deeply bound to his stage background. Anyone who wants to bypass Batman to save Gotham is just daydreaming.
There was a hooded area with a transparent roof. The woman called Lashina looked back, and the calm expression on her face completely collapsed, because above her head appeared thick dark clouds and a full moon that appeared from time to time behind the dark clouds.
But in some comics, Batman stopped being Batman and became Bruce Wayne, using business means to save the market, successfully saving this dark city and restoring the real order of Gotham.
As we all know, the elements that make up the Joker can include Batman's gaze, chemical pools, bad days, smiling faces, circuses, etc., so the first element of Gotham is naturally Batman, and the second element is Batman's enemies.
But now, it seems that another darker force field is gradually eroding the Apocalypse force field that shrouds the star port. Perhaps it is not accurate to say that it is erosion, but more like replacement or coverage. The familiar force field in the star port has completely disappeared, replaced by cold wind and rain and night, as well as silent seriousness and terrifying crazy laughter.
After successfully seducing Nyarlathotep to be interested in little Bruce and lending him power, Schiller took little Bruce to the dark space. What was a little unexpected was that little Bruce's ambition was greater than he thought. Either he didn't want it or he wanted it all.
But Schiller believes that there is a possibility of digging deeper into this phenomenon.
Which came first, Batman and the Joker or Gotham?
This is actually a question worth thinking about. Some people think that the Joker was born in the darkness of Gotham. It was the dark social situation in Gotham that gave him a bad day, so the Joker appeared.
There is no need for Apokolips to develop robots and clones that may get out of control or rebel. Instead, the natural intelligent life affected by the force field of Apokolips is the most loyal. They only need to be thrown on the surface of the planet for a while. There is no cheaper way to make cannon fodder than this.
But the problem with this idea is that it deconstructs the fatalism of Batman and the Joker, believing that the Joker is a product of indirectness and is just a supporting character in Batman's dark story. He is an equal existence to Gotham, or even born in Gotham and is slightly lower than Gotham.
After learning that Bruce Jr. might have merged the power of Nyarlathotep and Barbatos, Schiller thought it was time to test whether his idea was correct, so when Helen and Harley turned to the Book of the Dead, he gave a very detailed plan with both theory and execution methods.
In other words, this is similar to the Joker Aggregation Law of Batman. Gotham will change with his different states depending on how Batman exists.
By the same token, Gotham, which is deeply influenced by Batman, has also changed. In other words, Gotham's current strength is about equal to that of Bruce Jr. and Helen Doomsday, and Doomsday itself is a completely supermodel.
And because the changes that Bruce Jr. has undergone are inseparable from mysticism and magic, his own stage Gotham also has similar properties, implying darkness, madness and dazzling mystery.
Bruce Jr. looked up, and what he saw from the rain, dark clouds and the moon that appeared and disappeared behind the clouds was not only Gotham, but also the bay town in Massachusetts that was always cloudy, damp and cold.