Chapter 1776 S Apocalypse Event (Forty-Four)

Chapter 1750 S Tianqi Event (Forty-four)

"I feel helpless if students don't study well, and I'm also very angry if the head teacher doesn't do well, but what will really affect my reputation in the academic world is the exam slacking." Schiller sighed.

"The topic of Bruce's graduation exam is manipulation and anti-manipulation. Which do you think is more difficult?"

"Manipulating others or not being manipulated by others?" Helen thought for a while and said, "It should be more difficult to manipulate others. You need to learn a lot of skills, and you have to be able to quickly analyze a person's personality and formulate targeted strategies."

Schiller shook his head and said, "Skills can be learned. Finding the weaknesses of others' hearts is not a technical job. It's difficult to understand a person in a week, but as long as you are willing to invest the time cost and keep circling around a person for several years, no matter how difficult the other person is to understand, you should understand it almost."

Helen nodded thoughtfully, she touched her chin and said, "Is it difficult not to be manipulated by others?"

"It's difficult not to be influenced by others." Schiller said After taking a sip of tea, he said, "It is difficult for people to avoid being influenced by their surroundings. The more important someone is to you, the greater the influence they exert on you. It is impossible to be completely immune to this influence."

"Once the other party wants to manipulate you, his understanding of you and his important position in your mind will become the most powerful weapon. The inability to resist is not because of weakness, but the essence of manipulation is that he loves you, and you also feel his love, and you think this can make up for his manipulation of you."

Helen silently kept these words in her heart, and then she said, "Since Bruce has graduated, it proves that he has learned to manipulate others and resist manipulation."

"Jack himself is also manipulating Bruce. This is the same knowledge point, just in a different form." Schiller sighed and said.

"And the easiest way to resist manipulation is to stop looking for recognition from others, and completely stop thinking about whether others will be disappointed in you for doing this, and just do it."

"I understand." Helen pointed a finger and said, "Jack emphasized to Bruce that if he didn't take the exam, you would be disappointed. If he was worried and anxious about it, or even took the initiative to find ways to get high scores, he was actually being manipulated by Jack."

"This proves that he didn't really complete the project." Schiller sighed and said, "It also proves that I gave him a light score in the graduation exam, and I had previously publicized the news of his excellent graduation, which would definitely affect my reputation in the education industry. A major blow. "

"This is really difficult!" Helen leaned on the sofa and said, "Who can not pay attention to the feelings of those close to them? If you never consider their thoughts before doing things, won't it really make them sad?"

"So the most important thing is to grasp the scale." Schiller said while folding the corners of the newspapers together: "Thinking too much will lead to gains and losses, and being ruthless and righteous will inevitably lead to losses. Everyone holds a knife called emotion in their hands. Either use it to hurt others, or sharpen it, or feel guilty, or suffer, there is no other choice. "

"But this question is not that difficult to solve. In fact, there is another way of thinking." Schiller said, changing the subject.

"What is that?" Helen asked a little curiously.

"Either Bruce realizes that he shouldn't pay attention to my opinion and resists Jack's manipulation, or he can also realize that saving this Gotham is meaningless."

"It's not that the Batman of another universe needs to save Gotham, so he also needs to do so. After all, the Gotham of another universe is different from his Gotham."

"The Gotham where the other Batman is located has reached a dead end. Batman failed to establish order in the first place, so it is difficult for him to explore the most suitable path for his city in the golden age. If he starts exploring now, he will have to pay too much."

"Then a virtual Gotham that is not affected by dark forces is the best experimental field. This is a very valuable opportunity for him, so of course he should try it boldly."

"But For Bruce, the Gotham he is in does not need to be explored anymore. His Gotham has already found a route, and it only needs to develop step by step. Then it is meaningless to find a way to save Gotham again, at least it is not the top priority. "

"But if he wants to do the top priority, he must also put aside his anxiety about the test scores. In the final analysis, isn't it the same thing?"

Schiller shook his head and said, "It depends on what the top priority is, or in other words, is there such a thing that is worth him taking the risk of disappointing me and doing it."

Helen stared at Schiller, not missing any expression on his face, but still did not see any emotion on his face. Just as she retracted her gaze, she heard Schiller whisper.

"If there is, how can I be disappointed?"

The ringing of Gordon's mobile phone in front of the screen drowned out Schiller's voice. Gordon picked up the phone and said, "Hello, hello... Clark? What's wrong? ... Your cat is missing, and Bruce can't get through? Do you want me to ask him if he has seen your cat?"

"Sorry, Clark, we can't contact Bruce now, but I don't think a cat can run from Metropolis to Gotham... He has superpowers? Then I should have received relevant crime reports a long time ago..."

"Oh, you're not crazy, right? But I really haven't heard any news... No, it's okay, I'll be the first to wait for Bruce to come back... What? Your cat is back? Okay, bye."

Clark put down the phone, picked up the bat cat that jumped onto the phone stand with both hands, then hugged him into his arms and rubbed his head hard and said, "Where did you go? I was making a sandwich and you disappeared. What's the matter with Bruce you mentioned? You said he was looking for you?"

"He was indeed looking for me just now." The bat cat licked his paw and said, "But the call was very vague, I can't be sure of the exact location."

"Is he in any danger?" Clark said anxiously, "He invited me to Gotham before, but I couldn't leave because of the newspaper work, so I didn't go. Is he in trouble?"

Bat Cat scratched his whiskers with his claws, avoided Clark's stroking hand and said, "I am more inclined to think that he may be trapped somewhere in the dreamland."

"Why?"

"Otherwise why would he contact me instead of directly contacting you?" Bat Cat looked up at Clark and said, "If he has the opportunity to send a message, then the first choice will definitely not be a cat, unless he can only send a message to me."

"And the only limitation that allows him to send a message to me but not to you is that I come from the dreamland and am the dream of a thousand cats. Part of the dream kingdom, you can communicate with Gotham at any time, and you are a human being. If you are not dreaming, no one in the dream kingdom can contact you. "

"Bruce is trapped in his dream? Then I have to go to him quickly. Didn't you say before that if you die in a dream, you are really dead? He must be in great danger now..."

Clark turned around and was about to leave. Batcat yawned slowly and said, "Do you think you can walk to the dream kingdom?"

Clark only then reacted, stopped awkwardly and said, "Uh, it seems not possible, can you take me there?"

"It can be possible, but why don't you think about how great the danger is to trap Batman?"

Looking at Clark's confused expression, Batcat had to explain: "Batman The soul of Batman is very strong, and his willpower is unparalleled. Logically, as long as he realizes that it is a dream, he should be able to wake up. "

"But since he sent a message from the dreamland, it proves that he cannot return to the real world for the time being, which proves that the thing that trapped him in the dreamland will be very difficult to deal with, and it may not be useful for you to go alone. "

Clark put on a serious expression, he touched the head of the bat cat and said: "You are right, the thing that can trap Batman must be very difficult, but I don't know much about these weird things, I have to ask Diana. "

After a while, in the cafe next to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Diana took a sip of iced coffee with both hands, and then said: "You said Bruce might be trapped in the dream world? I don't know much about it, but how did he contact you?"

Clark looked at the bat cat next to him. The bat cat squatted at the table, hanging its tail under the table, and said in a serious tone: "This is about the origin of the dream of a thousand cats. Do you know? This world was once dominated by cats. "

Clark laughed. He wanted to reach out and touch the bat cat, but the bat cat dodged. He looked at Clark with a very serious expression and said, "This is not a joke, this is true."

"A long time ago, cats ruled the world and humans were slaves of cats. But one day, a thousand humans collectively had a dream. They used this dream to change reality, so humans dominated the world and cats became pets."

"So how did the dream of a thousand cats come about?" The bat cat asked and answered herself: "A Siamese cat who became a human pet followed her reproductive instinct and gave birth to her children, but her owner only thought these little bastards were troublesome, so he put them in his pocket and sank them to the bottom of the river."

"The Siamese cat felt the darkness and fear. The deep pain of losing her child awakened her extraordinary emotions. She began to pray like a human, and a mysterious dream answered her prayer. "

"The Siamese cat found herself in this dream. The place she was going to was far away and mysterious, and there were powerful guards, but this could not stop an angry mother. She went through thousands of hardships and came to the cave, and waiting for her was the God of Cats. He also has another name that you are familiar with, the master of the dream kingdom-Sleepy Demon. "

"Sleepy Demon told her about the grievances between humans and cats. From then on, the cat hoped to find a thousand cats to form a thousand cat dreams, use dreams to rewrite reality, and let the era return to the era of cat rule. "

"Wait, I have a question. "Clark asked: "If cats once ruled humans, why didn't they leave any traces in history? "

Batcat sighed and said, "Because this is not history at all. The Dream of a Thousand People completely changed reality. The material world that exists now has been ruled by humans from the beginning, and the world line ruled by cats has been completely erased."

"So if the Dream of a Thousand Cats really works, the timeline ruled by humans will also be erased?" Diana asked.

"Yes, but that didn't really happen." Batcat shook his ears and said, "The end of the story is that the Siamese cat woke up, and she kept repeating her story to her companions in reality. She wanted to find a thousand cats to have the same dream."

"The speech of this Siamese cat made a world with only cats appear in the dreams of more and more cats, so the dream kingdom also began to appear in places like Gotham, where the residents are only cats. We are part of the Dream of a Thousand Cats."

"But you still didn't tell me how Bruce contacted you."

"I told him this story." Batcat paused and said, "So he knew how to let the Dream of a Thousand Cats hear his call."

"What is that?"

"The cry of losing a child."