Chapter 1983 U Transcendence Event (Seventy-Four)
Chapter 1957 U Beyond Event (Seventy-four)
Batman should have been shocked, but he felt that Clark's tone was not aggressive, and did not even contain any desire. That was not the tone of an invader, not even a savior.
"You want to ask why I want to invade or save them, but we are not doing that." Clark shook his head and said.
"We are them, we are all sons of farmers, sons of the land."
Batman was silent.
Superman is many people. He is a Kryptonian, the Superman of Metropolis, the Superman of the Justice League and the Justice Lords, and a partner of superheroes and more superheroes.
Batman has heard him talk about these topics countless times, including a spaceship that crashed in Smallville, his career as a reporter in Metropolis, the past of the Justice League, and the words of many superheroes around him.
But Batman has never known Clark Kent from the perspective of a farmer's son.
Such traces on him were too faint. He talked about current affairs, media and journalism, the trend of Metropolis, the construction of the Justice League base, and the friendship with all of them, but he almost never talked about the land.
These topics may have been stripped from him during his growth period, so Batman knew a Metropolitan man, not a Smallville youth.
But now he knew.
Did Lord Superman have such a moment? Batman found that he could not imagine such a scene. Lord Superman would even talk to him about a bird and a plane that flew by him today, but they never talked about the land.
They should have talked about these, because this is a rare thing that Superman has practiced and is good at, but Batman knows but has not experienced it personally. Bruce Wayne has never planted the land himself.
Of course, Batman can plant. He can basically grow anything in any environment. He has such theoretical skills and is confident that he can practice it well, but he has not driven a tractor to sow and harvest in person, and he does not have such time and energy.
But the topics between him and Lord Superman include everything except this.
Why is this so?
At this time, Batman remembered another thing, which is about the future development direction of the Justice Lord.
In fact, this is a very important issue, and they did not reach an agreement on this issue.
Lord Superman urgently hopes that Batman will open a portal to other universes for him, and Batman believes that everything Lord Superman has done, including getting Bruce into their team, is to persuade Batman to do so.
But Batman does not want to do this.
Batman is not as naive as Lord Superman, thinking that if there are no criminals in the world, everyone can live a good life. He actually knows very well that criminals are not roots but fruits.
But it must be admitted that these fruits will prevent everyone from repairing the roots of the trees, but now, no matter how vicious the fruits are, they can't defeat Superman who uses violence.
They should continue to prune the branches, clean the bark, and repair the tree holes until the roots are restored to health and the big tree breaks through the clouds to see the real sun.
In Batman's view, Lord Superman's eagerness to leave is undoubtedly a betrayal. He is only willing to do superficial work that makes him feel comfortable, and never willing to face reality.
And what can be done to make him face reality?
While Batman was thinking, Clark had plowed a large area of land. He landed in front of Batman and waved his hand in front of Batman's eyes.
Batman took a half step back to avoid his action. Clark looked at him and said, "What are you thinking about? I called you several times but you didn't hear me."
"Nothing." Batman shook his head and walked forward, but Clark stopped him and said, "Where are you going?"
"Aren't you going to plow the land? I'll help."
"Don't be ridiculous." Clark shook his head, pointed to the stump of a felled tree next to him and said, "You can sit there for a while. No matter what you were thinking about just now, you can continue to think about it. I'll go back after I finish cutting this small piece."
Batman's raised foot froze in mid-air. He looked at Clark in mid-air, and the expression on his face was, are you serious?
Clark of course responded, he opened his palm and pointed back, meaning, do you think this is something you can help with?
Batman finally felt what the strange feeling lingering in his heart was - why don't they rely on themselves?
Everyone here has a wonderful kindness.
Batman felt that he was right, they were very kind, and everyone's attitude was similar to, either you do this or not, or either you do this or you do that, or just stay, whatever you want.
This was the most uncomfortable part for Batman, because his daily life in the Justice League was, I'm going to do this and I need you, I'm going to do this and you're going to do that, why are you going to do this, why are you going to do that, and what are we going to do.
Since Batman came here, all the questions Clark and Diana threw at him were what I am going to do, you can go or not, and there are several things to do now, you can choose which one to do.
For example, at the beginning, Clark said he was going to find Diana, but Batman didn't want him to fly with him, so Clark still wanted to find Diana, but he said Batman could go with him or stay here.
Later, after Diana came back, they studied how to store the prey. Clark said he could freeze the prey and make bacon and bacon.
Diana said she was going to cook, Clark said he was going to farm, and then they went on their own, as if Batman could stand there for half an hour and wait for them to finish everything.
The biggest difference is that they have things to do and they have to do their own things. They don't mind Batman giving suggestions or following, but they don't care whether Batman does it or not. Anyway, no matter what Batman does, they have to do what they want to do.
In the Justice League, everyone is waiting for Batman's opinion. When Superman wants to do something, he will first ask Batman, and then wait for Batman's answer and action. He will only move when Batman moves, otherwise he will stay there. Diana is almost the same, especially when the group is acting.
If Batman asks them to do something or opposes them to do something, their first reaction is not to do it, but to ask why.
So it is not enough for Batman to give advice, but he must also give explanations. If the explanation cannot convince them, they will still not do it, or some will listen to Batman and some will change it themselves.
Sometimes Batman feels like the turtle in the wishing well. All the people who come to make wishes are very sincere, hoping that he will have great magical powers, but those who ask for wealth will still spend money recklessly, those who ask for career will still not work hard, and those who ask for love will still be cold and violent.
You say he has no subjective initiative, he comes at least three times a day, you say he has subjective initiative, if he spends the energy of praying to gods and Buddhas on his own thinking and learning, his dream will come true long ago.
In just less than half an hour, none of the people he met made a wish to him. The questions he asked were all of a choice nature, not an exploration nature, which made Batman a little uncomfortable.
Batman was stunned for about half a minute while thinking about this problem. Clark had already flown away and returned. He waved to Batman and said, "It's done. Let's go back to eat."
Batman looked up and saw that a large area of woods in front of him had been cut down, and the ground had basically been turned over. This work efficiency was so fast that it was touching.
In this case, Batman had nothing to say. After all, he couldn't do better in this situation, so he followed Clark back to the camp.
Before he reached the open space under the tree house, Batman smelled a mouth-watering meat aroma.
Diana, who was stewing braised pork soup, saw the two people and knocked the edge of the pot with the spoon she had just carved and said, "I shouldn't have believed their lies. I knew they wouldn't come back on time for dinner. The look in their eyes before they left was saying, I'm going to fool you and then have a crazy time regardless of time."
Clark shrugged and said, "Where's Brucy? Is it back?"
"They are the same." Diana said a little angrily, "Why do you think it really went to catch fish? I'm not surprised if it walked back to your bedroom."
Clark laughed in a low voice, but Batman was a little surprised, so he asked, "Brucy?"
"A bat cat." Diana rolled her eyes slightly and said, "It said it was good at catching fish, so it planned to try its luck by the creek, but it hasn't come back yet."
"Maybe we should go find it..."
Just as Clark finished speaking, there was a strange sound from the bushes behind him. Batman turned his head and saw a dark cat head sticking out from between the branches.
Although it is a cat, its ears are much more pointed than those of ordinary cats, and they look similar to the two pointed ears on the top of the bat suit.
Clark walked over and picked up the bat cat. The bat cat stepped on his arm smoothly and jumped to his shoulder, then jumped from his back to the other shoulder. He squatted on Clark's shoulder, licked his paws and said, "It seems that you have caught the fish, but the bad news is that I walked a long way along the stream and didn't see the estuary."
Clark took the bat cat to sit next to the stove, and Batman had to walk over and sit down. Clark lowered his head and looked into the pot, and found that there was venison, berries, and plant roots found before.
"I kept some for seeds and put them over there. There are many berry bushes, so it doesn't matter if you eat some. Venison has too little fat, so I put some fat from the belly of the fish. It has been carefully cleaned before putting it in, so there will be no fishy smell."
"I think we can wait for them for a while." Clark took the spoon from Diana and stirred the soup in the pot. After a while, the fragrance became stronger.
Batman found that he could quietly watch the floating grease and berry pieces on the soup without thinking about anything.
No one asked him, no one paid attention to him, as if he could stay like this quietly forever, and the tranquility was somewhat healing.
Suddenly, the round platform next to the tree house flashed, and two figures returned to the camp, obviously the other two teammates Clark mentioned.
Batman was attracted by the light, and instinctively looked up. The face he saw instantly broke his peaceful mood at this time.
That was the murderer who killed their universe Flash, and the mortal enemy of Superman and the Justice League, Lex Luthor.