Chapter 1943 U Transcendence Event (Thirty-Four)
Chapter 1917 U Beyond Event (Thirty-four)
The moment he saw through the truth of the game, Batman jumped onto the cage, let the little boy's head pass through the gap in the cage, then grabbed his armpits and pulled him out, and jumped down again, putting the boy back on the ground.
Natasha also jumped down with stains all over her body. She patted the dust on her hands, looked at Batman and said, "Well, great detective, now reveal the answer."
Bruce, who was sitting in the spectator's seat, stared at the scene on the screen and asked, "What do you think the original gameplay of this game should be? What do you think, Arthur?"
Bruce turned his head to look at the Joker Arthur. Arthur's eyes were still deeply sunken in his eye sockets, and his eyes were dark and no emotion could be seen, but he still moved his body in the chair, propped up his high cheekbones with one finger and said, "You should ask me, if this game really goes on according to that idiot's plan, how boring it will be. ? "
He coughed twice as if he was choked by smoke, covered his mouth with the back of his hand and continued: "I think your professor is quite talented in artistic performance and has a sense of humor. He makes this originally boring game a little interesting."
"So what's going on?" Spider-Man asked in a daze: "The man in the suit is a murderer? Who did he kill?"
"He is not just a murderer." Bruce blinked lightly and said: "He is a serial killer."
"There are prostitute killers in many places in Europe." Constantine blew out a smoke ring and said: "They specifically target women who do flesh trade in the slums, or go to the red light district, and use Money and the appearance of elites, luring prostitutes to the wilderness and killing them. "
"Many of them are not entirely for money. How should I put it? Sadism? Or a special sexual fetish. They like to kill each other in the process of having sex. Prostitutes are the easiest targets. They have no one to rely on and have no ability to resist. "
"And that woman." Constantine pointed at Natasha on the screen with two fingers holding a cigarette and said, "She is the same kind of person as them. I can see that she is a poisonous spider that will kill every man who goes to bed with her."
"It is always easier for us to see the identity of the same kind." Constantine smiled and turned his head slightly to look at Natasha. Said to Bruce: "For example, you and that guy are the same kind, but not me."
Spider-Man frowned deeply. He also realized that the rules of this game are not as simple as the gem man said. After thinking for a while, he asked: "Why answer questions?"
"This is the key point." Bruce said: "Think carefully about the questions he asked."
"Assuming that the game develops according to the normal process, what questions will he ask next?" Bruce thought and said: "Have you killed anyone? How many people have you killed? How many people of the opposite sex have you slept with? Did you kill them after having sex?"
"Why ask these questions?" Spider-Man asked a little puzzled.
"Because the person standing on the ground now is the savior, and the one in the cage is the lamb who is in urgent need of being saved, but are they really pure lambs? Or are they just demons in another sense?"
Suddenly, Spider-Man showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.
"The rules of the game are like this." Batman in the arena said: "In the first half of the game, you let us answer questions."
"As time goes by, the questions you ask each person will get closer to the unbearable secrets in their hearts, until we are unwilling to reveal the answers to certain questions."
"The cage will be pulled higher and higher, and the people in the cage will become more and more panicked. They will begin to blame us for not answering questions and why they have to watch them fall to death."
"You want us to feel guilty, be morally tortured, and even blame us for not wanting to speak out an answer to save lives."
"But this is only half of the game." Batman's voice became lower and lower, and he said: "You asked everyone who came here how they viewed human nature. Maybe only we gave an answer that surprised you."
"Maybe others and You started a heated debate, and as you said, you wanted us to see it with our own eyes. "
"When the iron cage rises to the highest point, you will change the subject of the questions, from asking us to asking them. "
"You will start asking the people in the cage about their unbearable secrets in the same way. If they are willing to answer, the cage will be lowered, and if they are not willing, the cage will not move. "
"From common sense, how can anyone not want the cage to fall? As long as they answer every question, they can land safely. Isn't this the best chance to save themselves? "
"But unfortunately, most of the people in the cage are not ordinary people, or the unspeakable secrets in their hearts are more in violation of the bottom line of morality and law than ordinary people. They are murderers. "
"If the cage rises, they will be killed, and if they reveal the secrets and the cage falls, they will face sanctions. What will they choose?"
Batman is good at turning every question into a statement, but this time there is indeed a hint of doubt in his tone, but he soon asked himself and answered: "The fear of legal sanctions cannot be greater than the fear of death. Under your coercion, they will tell one by one the evil things they have done, killing, dismembering, raping, abusing, framing... This will make all our efforts to save them look like a joke."
Batman's tone has sunk to the bottom, but there is a hint of memory in it. He said as if he was in a scene in his memory: "Then you will let us make a choice."
"Loosen the chains and throw them to death, or put down the chains to save them."
"But there is no correct answer to this choice, because you have already laid a trap." Batman raised his head slightly and looked at the people in the cage and said: "They are not all good people, nor are they all evil people."
"There are indeed killers among them who are born cruel and do all kinds of evil."
Batman's eyes fell on the body of the man in the suit, and then swept over the little boy's mother.
He saw the old wounds on the thin neck of the woman and the blood on her hairpin.
"There are also accidental murderers who have resisted persecution."
Then his eyes fell on the teacher, and he saw a little blood on the back of his employee card.
"Or there are vigilante killers who witnessed evil and upheld justice."
His eyes repeatedly patrolled the crowd in the cage, the elderly, women, couples, couriers, religious workers...
Countless information entered his mind and came out of his mouth like an emotionless broadcasting machine.
"For money, for love, for faith, committing crimes, watching, and covering up... If they get equal death, isn't it also a kind of inequality?"
Batman sighed and continued: "No superhero will watch them fall to death, and if we choose to save them, no one will want to let people who know their crimes leave here alive, and what awaits us will be a feast of killing."
"Not only will they kill each other, they will also attack us, which will make us feel angry, humiliated, and sad."
Batman's tone gradually calmed down, he raised his head to look at the huge eyes of the Gem Man and said: "So, tell me, where is the funny point?"
The Gem Man was confused.
"Where is the humorous part of this play?" Batman asked in confusion, "I think the existing elements are not enough to form a humorous ending. Do you have any other plans?"
"What plan?" The Gem Man said in disbelief, "Isn't this exciting enough?! If you let them all fall to death, I will tell you the true experience of each of them. If you let them all out, they will hunt you down."
Batman just looked at him straight and said, "Yes, I guessed this part. I'm asking you what you plan to do next."
"You won't watch them fall to death. You will take this as a joke. The pack of vicious dogs are released from the cage, and they are chased by them, jumping up and down, covered with wounds, and then either you kill them all, or they kill you all, and this round of the game is over! "
The Gem Man saw a rather rude expression on Batman's face, and he yelled like crazy: "What's that look in your eyes? ! This is the game I designed myself!"
"Either throw them all to death, and then find out that some of them had no choice, or release them, but in order to save your own life, kill them all, either way you will feel guilty!"
Batman's expression became even more rude.
Just as the Gem Man was about to continue yelling, Batman suddenly raised a finger and said, "I just want to ask one question, are they vertebrates?"
"Uh, do you even need to ask that?"
"Then I can just break their spines."
The Gem Man seemed a little scared, he looked at Batman with wide eyes and said, "What did you say?! What are you going to do?!"
Batman took another look at the impact wounds on the foreheads of the people in the cage and said, "Or knock them into a concussion, remove their limbs, break their ankles, so that they won't die, and they won't be able to resist."
"That's why I asked you if you have any follow-up arrangements. If things really develop like this, I'm going to stand among them. , waiting for you to call the police? "
Arthur, the clown in the audience, laughed out loud, as if he understood the joke of this sentence. He wiped away the tears from his eyes with the back of his hand and said, "He will be a comedy master. I am sure that his reaction has sublimated this boring farce into a real comedy performance."
"Maybe he knows a real comedy master." Bruce said, "When he has seen too many master-level art performances, it may be difficult for him to adapt to this farce without a beginning or an end."
"What about you?" Arthur widened his eyes, looked at Bruce and asked, "Do you know such a comedy master? Have you seen his art performances?"
"Maybe we will see it soon. "
The battle on the back of the gem man's hand finally came to a conclusion. In fact, it only took a few minutes for Schiller and Bei Bat to fight each other with fists and flesh.
Bei Bat, who changed the venue to fight, still couldn't gain any advantage, but his plan was not to defeat Schiller head-on. He had used his tactical moves to lead Schiller to the edge of the gem man's back.
Schiller rushed towards Bei Bat again, and this time Bei Bat didn't hide. He just turned slightly sideways and grabbed Schiller's arm, and fell backwards with the force of his forward rush. The two of them fell down entangled together.
At the moment of sudden weightlessness, the human body will instinctively tense up, and without a place to borrow strength, the power gap will be significantly reduced.
Bei Bat could clearly feel that Schiller tensed up the moment he fell, and he took advantage of this moment to adjust the position of the two, turned Schiller to the top, and then punched him on the temple.
Then came another punch, and blood flowed out of Schiller's mouth, but Batman didn't hold back. He had to knock Schiller unconscious as soon as possible, otherwise he would still go crazy after landing.
With the last punch, Schiller finally lost consciousness. Batman adjusted his posture again to ensure that the back armor of the bat suit would bear most of the impact when landing.
Most of it, not all of it, because this suit of armor was not a cushioning armor, and the height of the fall was very high. He would be injured and his ribs might be broken, but Batman was never afraid of being injured.
But suddenly Batman saw Schiller, who should have fainted, suddenly opened his eyes and gave him a nasty smile.
The next second, the sky was spinning.
"Bang!"
When he landed, Batman was on top.