Chapter 1775 S Apocalypse Event (Forty-Three)

Chapter 1749 S Apocalypse Event (Forty-three)

Bruce did not choose to leave Gotham.

Although he had learned from Jack that there was more than one city in the dream, it would be a good idea to develop in other cities, obtain enough resources, and then return to Gotham to compete, but Bruce did not intend to do so.

Batman in the main universe seemed to have planned to take this path. Bruce could understand his idea. Over the years, Batman must have tried countless ways to reverse the situation in Gotham, but he never succeeded. Even a fool should realize that there must be something wrong with this city at a higher level.

Batman spent half his life trying to find out where this wrongness came from. The Joker might know, but he couldn't say it, and other people either didn't know Batman well enough or didn't know Gotham well enough, so it was useless.

Batman was like standing in front of the wall at the end of a dead end, constantly looking for possible gaps, but unfortunately the source of this wrongness was more advanced than he imagined. The story of the main universe could not be completed, so Gotham could not be saved.

But now Batman may have learned from some intelligence that Gotham in the dreamland is not affected by this strange abnormality, which means that the high wall that has always blocked him has disappeared, and he finally has the possibility of saving Gotham.

Bruce knows how eager the main universe Batman will be. If he chooses to take the same path as Batman, then he can only follow him. The first person who makes Gotham better is saved, and the second one is just futile. There is no benefit in following the main universe Batman.

After Jack left, Bruce did not rush to find a way to beat the main universe Batman. He is now thinking about a very important question-is Jack really that kind?

Of course, the two of them are friends now, and their relationship is not bad, but Jack is the Joker after all, and the top priority of the Joker's behavior pattern is to watch Batman's fun.

Help Batman? That only exists in dreams or when Batman is about to die.

Jack's behavior of reminding him this time does not conform to the Joker's logic of action. Isn't it more interesting to see Batman fail the exam and get into trouble?

For such a long time, Bruce's psychology has not improved much, but his level of clown studies has advanced by leaps and bounds, and he has basically completely figured out the logic of the clown's behavior.

Once the clown's behavior is illogical, it proves that there must be some conspiracy behind it. What could it be?

Bruce started to reason from the beginning.

When Jack first came to him, he explained the situation of this world to him, using the words he had said before, "I built a Gotham in the dreamland."

Bruce was indeed misled by him, because he didn't know what kind of authority Jack had in the dreamland. He thought that Constantine, who was in charge of managing the dreamland, might have given Jack certain authority. Based on this, Jack's project could not be too big, so Bruce thought that Gotham was the entire map.

But now Jack told him that the map might even be more than the size of the entire earth, which proves that Jack's authority in the dreamland is amazing, and even if he has authority, it must take a long time to build such a large map.

If this is something he and Schiller have been preparing for a long time, then is there only a trap of misleading words?

This is not in line with the Joker's style.

The first law of Jokerology is that there will never be a correct answer to the multiple-choice questions asked by the Joker.

The second law of Jokerology is that if the Joker makes the person doing the question think that a certain answer is the correct answer, then it is very likely that the truth of this answer is the most outrageous of all the answers.

Jack first hinted to Bruce that there was only one Gotham on the map, but on the eve of Bruce almost answering the question wrong, he came to remind him that the answer you chose was wrong.

So which one is Jack hinting at as the correct answer?

Bruce went through all the conversations he had with Jack in his mind again, and then keenly found something wrong. Jack finally said that Bruce knew the answer that Schiller could give him full marks.

Is this another language trap?

Bruce's detective intuition told him that yes, and from this, this sentence is actually guiding Bruce, implying that you should find the answer that Schiller can give you full marks.

So what's wrong with this?

Bruce frowned, holding the pen in his hand tightly, and his brain was working fast.

No, the answer is probably still hidden in Jack's words and actions. What's wrong?

Suddenly, Bruce was stunned. A light bulb suddenly flashed in his mind. Sure enough, the clown law he summarized was correct. Jack was not so kind at all. There was a more sinister trap behind it.

In the reception room of the manor, Schiller laid the newspaper flat on the coffee table, put down the steaming tea in his hand, and took the orange that Elsa couldn't peel from her hand. Helen, who was curled up on the single sofa next to him, asked while eating a pear.

"It's inevitable to be misunderstood by words, right? If you stay alert all the time, it will be so tiring."

"Besides, being able to thrive in the mafia system is pretty impressive. If you hadn't brought me back, I might have died on the street now."

Schiller took the newspaper from the coffee table and unfolded it, shaking the corner of the newspaper and said, "I'm not referring to the fact that he failed to see through Jack's language trap and chose to stay in Gotham."

"What is that?" Helen showed a puzzled expression.

While reading the newspaper, Schiller sighed and said, "As you said, in daily life, no one can be vigilant about every word others say all the time. If someone deliberately wants to set up a language trap, it is normal to be led into misunderstanding. Everyone faces a survival crisis when they first arrive here. In this case, there is even less energy to carefully distinguish every word. This can't even be called a mistake."

"When Jack met Bruce for the first time, he used language to guide Bruce, making Bruce think that he only built the city of Gotham, but this is not the trap itself, but the foreshadowing of the trap."

"Jack wants Bruce to think that he made a mistake." Schiller concluded.

"So why did he do this?" Helen asked.

"This is another psychological trap - exaggerating the mistakes that anyone may make in daily life, emphasizing that someone must be responsible for it, thereby causing the other party to feel urgent and nervous."

"If I'm not mistaken, Jack will say to Bruce, 'Your psychology professor must be very disappointed that you didn't avoid such a simple psychological hint' - this is a common technique to suppress others from a spiritual level, fabricating disgust in the surrounding environment that does not exist, and making the other party fall into self-blame and self-doubt."

Helen seemed very interested in these theories. She stopped eating and looked at Schiller intently and asked: "Then he What is the purpose of suppressing Bruce? To make Bruce doubt himself and make bigger mistakes? "

"You are really smart, Miss Helen." Schiller put down the newspaper, looked into Helen's eyes and said, "This is to make the other party make forced mistakes."

"The more you feel that people around you are disappointed in you, the more you blame yourself and feel inferior, the more you dare not participate in normal social activities, and the more you can only rely on the person who suppresses you. This is a vicious cycle, and its purpose is to manipulate others."

Helen digested what Schiller said, and then she understood why Schiller said that Jack's use of language to guide Bruce to misunderstand was just a trap.

"He took advantage of Bruce's nervousness during his existential crisis and made him make a small mistake. Then he ran to him and exaggerated the importance of this mistake. After Bruce came to this world, he had never come into contact with other people. He created an atmosphere that the whole world was disappointed in him."

After reasoning here, Helen had another question. She asked: "If Bruce was really nervous about this, what mistake would he make? Or what mistake did Jack want him to make?"

"Of course it's a bigger and more irreparable mistake."

Helen thought about it carefully, but couldn't think of an answer, so she could only look at Schiller with an inquiring look.

Schiller took a sip of tea from the cup, sighed and said, "Being misled by words is not a big deal. Even the most professional psychologist in the world cannot say that he has never misunderstood others. I am the same."

"Humans are sensory creatures. They can only understand the other party's intentions from their language and actions. Understanding this thing itself is the most difficult thing in the world. Misunderstanding is human nature and it is always difficult to escape."

"But if Bruce really stepped into the real trap, he would make a bigger mistake, which is the mistake that will really add to my reputation in the education field."

"What is that?"

"Helen, let me ask you, if you make a small mistake and people say that your parents will be very angry about it, and you still have a chance to make up for it and let them not be disappointed in you, what will you do?"

Helen thought for a while and said, "Of course I will do my best to make up for it. After all, I don't want to disappoint them."

When she said this, Helen was stunned for a moment, and then she said as if she had suddenly realized something: "Oh, I understand! My parents love me, so even if I make some mistakes, they will understand and forgive me."

"But if I want to make up for it desperately because I am afraid of disappointing them, I will be driven by fear, and fear often makes people lose their reason and make bigger mistakes."

"At that time, a small mistake that could be understood may turn into a big mistake that really makes them sad, and if they show disappointment because of this, I will feel very wronged."

"Because I am worried that they will be angry and disappointed, I try to make up for it. Even if I make a bigger mistake, they should understand that I do this because I love them, so an irreconcilable contradiction arises."

"My parents want to teach me not to make such mistakes again, but I use whether they understand and forgive me to measure whether they love me."

"Once you ask others to prove your love, the misunderstanding will never be resolved, because what you need to prove is never whether you love or not, but whether you love enough, but it is not enough anyway."

Schiller looked at Helen with great appreciation, nodded and said: "Jack used Bruce's small mistake and the tense atmosphere he fabricated to create a trap that would make Bruce more eager to prove his academic level to me."

Helen frowned and said: "Yes, what Jack said to Bruce was equivalent to 'You got such a simple question wrong, your teacher will be very disappointed', so Bruce will definitely try to answer the following questions well, but I still don't understand. Bai, according to this line of thinking, what big mistake will Bruce make? "

"Why does he have to answer the questions?"

Schiller picked up the newspaper again and said while browsing: "Why does he have to answer the questions when I give him a test paper?"

"Because you are his..."

Helen was choked, then lowered her voice and said with a sigh: "Yes, you are just his university professor, and he graduated from university a long time ago. No graduate will return to university to take the exam organized by university professors."

But Helen hesitated and said: "But I heard that you two have a close relationship. He may regard you as his..."

"Father?"

Helen nodded.

"So do you have to take a meaningless exam because of this?" Schiller shook the newspaper and said: "His graduation project is to resist patriarchy. If he fails the exam again, doesn't it mean that I let him go last time?"

"Then did you let him go?"

"Have you heard of the Pacific Ocean?"