Chapter 2341: Psychic Assault (Twenty-Seven)
Chapter 2372 Psychic Assault (Twenty-Seven)
The efficiency of the two Batmen is not just 1+1=2. They quickly completed the search of most historical books and found some problems.
First of all, the two Batmen paid attention to the historical fragments they saw before entering Dr. Sosip's room. Combined with some details described in the book, they basically determined that they were some scenes from the ancient times to the Roman Empire.
But the problem is that some things that should not have appeared in human history appeared in it, such as the ravens with red eyes, such as those spaceships and weapons.
This means that there are indeed other things hidden in history, or in other words, if you turn the human history book over, those things that were originally praised as myths and legends are likely to be true.
Of course, even through Wonder Woman's self-narration, Batman also knows that there are gods on earth, but Wonder Woman is after all a descendant of gods, and her description of the Olympus pantheon is more from the perspective of gods.
And through the query of history books, Batman realized that these gods had a large number of believers at certain times on earth, and they might even be some countries they are familiar with.
From this perspective, it is a bit unreasonable that Barbatos only has the Court of Owls as his followers. This guy can't have come to Earth after the founding of the United States. If he came earlier, the followers he left behind are more likely to be in Europe or Asia, which are the two continents with dense populations in ancient times.
Realizing that the Court of Owls may not be the only believer of Barbatos, Batman began to look for ancient beliefs that tend to be dark. Similar concepts and descriptions exist in almost any pantheon. There is always a god in human primitive religion that represents the mysterious night.
He did not find the target in this regard, but Batman found that in a book that explains the origin of human totem worship, it is mentioned that there is such an ancient tribe that worships the bat god.
Almost every Batman is very interested in bats. After the two found this tribe, they decided to put aside the matter of the dark god and study what this tribe that worships bats is about.
As a result, they hit the mark by accident and found the Hebrew spelling of Barbatos in an inscription image material used as a totem display.
This is unlikely to be a coincidence, because first of all, the spelling of Hebrew is completely different from that of English. The word Barbatos is very strange in Hebrew. It is not a name that can be given by a Hebrew-speaking nation. It is more like a forced spelling of the pronunciation using the letters of their own language.
Secondly, there is a pattern in the center of the totem, but it does not look like a big bat. It looks a bit like a dragon with bat wings. The name of this tribe is even more intriguing. They call themselves the followers of Judah.
After finding the clues, they began to look through more books, and then they found that the influence of the so-called believers of Judah was really not small. They were mentioned in almost all primitive totem worship.
Then the two gradually discovered that the so-called bats were just the people who compiled these books. They thought they were ancient bat worshipers, but in fact, in the inscriptions left by the tribe of believers of Judah, they never said that they worshipped bats. They called their gods the great dark gods.
This completely matched the image of Barbatos.
The two Batmen found Constantine in a pub in Oxfordshire, who had started drinking again, but this time they successfully stopped her before she got drunk, and pressed her head to let her find more records about the Judah tribe in the mystical world.
The most useful one was a book that Constantine found in the Forgotten Bookstore, where the chief of the Judah tribe at a certain period wrote about his dream of seeing the God of Darkness.
This story is probably that one night, the chief saw their god descending on the earth in his dream, and the great God of Darkness told him that the night will eventually fall into the day, and the bat is the passage.
The last sentence is actually much more complicated and secretive than this, but after the two Batmen deciphered it, they found that Barbatos meant this.
Note that the bat here is the bat of the passage, which is the real bat, which is the pronunciation of the bat in English, but because of the language barrier, the chief at that time did not understand the real meaning.
But this inspired the two Batmans, especially the Batman in the main universe. He thought that if darkness and light are two worlds, and Barbatos is the master of the dark world, then the night will eventually fall into the day, which means that Barbatos must want to invade the light world.
And it is easy to understand that the bat is the channel. There are so many cities in this world, but he just threw the Court of Owls to Gotham and permeated Gotham with rich dark power. Could this be to lead to his birth?
Because Gotham is very bad and there are many criminals, a Batman is destined to be born. If it is not him, it will be someone else. And because of some special things in himself, he may become the channel for Barbatos to descend to the light universe.
When Batman from the main universe told Batwoman about these things, Batwoman said that this was too abstract and difficult to understand, but Constantine gave a reasonable explanation.
"Mysticism is like this. A certain god may choose you not because you have any special abilities or how good you are, but just because your name has some special meaning."
"Things that are meaningless and have no impact in the eyes of humans are not the case in the world of mysticism. Your date of birth, the state of the sun and the moon when you were born, the meaning of your name, and the good and evil of certain things you have done are all of great significance to these mysterious beings."
"So I am the chosen one." Batwoman frowned deeply and said, "But I can never open a channel for an evil god. How can he use me to come to this world?"
"Really?" Batman looked at her and asked.
Batwoman was slightly stunned. She turned her head and stared at Batman. She was about to refute, but when she saw his deep eyes, she realized something.
"This universe is an enlarged version of Gotham." Batman said: "Infected by dark energy, criminals emerge in endlessly, tragedies occur one after another, do you dare to say that you will never lose control?"
"What about you? Have you never lost control?"
"Maybe, but I can find myself in the end." Batman said: "This is not because my willpower is stronger than yours, but just because the universe I live in is much better than the situation here. Even if some mistakes occur, there is room for recovery."
Batwoman stopped talking and began to think. Suppose this group of weird visitors from another world did not come, she went to negotiate with the Queen of the Sea, and the two parted unhappily. Will it eventually evolve into a war between land and sea?
If the war really broke out, could she really be sure that the land would not be destroyed and the ocean would not be cleansed, and finally get a good result of peace?
Not completely sure, Batwoman thought, her preparations were far from enough to ensure that everything was under her control, so why did she want to start this war?
She suddenly felt a hollow in her chest, and her breathing became rapid. Suddenly, a hand was placed on her shoulder. Batman looked at her and said, "Calm down. The thoughts in your mind may not be your own thoughts. They are the result of the influence of the dark power. He just wants you to think so, to make you lose control, and then open a channel."
Batwoman took a deep breath and forced her heart to stop beating so hard, but a certain haze still lingered in her mind.
"Let's go back." Batman said, "I guess you should have a final plan for Atlantis. Take it and let's talk to the Queen of the Sea. Now is not the time for internal fighting."
Discovering that the culprit had been controlling the two of them in the shadows, Batman felt a sense of urgency. They returned to Gotham without stopping, and Batwoman showed Batman her last resort.
"It's a huge machine, consisting of an energy storage, a control center, a bunch of mechanical arms and an operating table."
"When necessary, I will transform myself into the ultimate weapon." Batwoman said: "As long as enough energy is filled into the energy storage, I mean energy that can control the direction of transformation, such as the energy of Atlantis, I can inject this energy into the body in another form to make me have their abilities, even stronger than him."
"It's terrible." Batman commented: "I think you now realize that you are more out of control than you think. How did you think of transforming yourself into a weapon? Why do you think you won't lose control?"
Batwoman was speechless at this time, because she really had no way to guarantee that she would still be herself after becoming a weapon, and she didn't realize this at all when she was looking at the machine.
This is not like her, in fact, it is not like any Batman. Although Batman has made backup plans for every factor around him that may be out of control, he actually has the most backup plans for his own loss of control.
Batman had many nightmares, but the worst one was not Superman or Green Lantern losing control, but himself. In his opinion, a man who lost his mind was much more terrible than any criminal.
Batman looked up at the energy center and said, "What do you use to amplify the energy filled in it?"
"A meteorite, or to be more precise, the metal in the meteorite." Batwoman said, "This thing fell in Egypt and was originally placed in the Egyptian Museum, but it fell into my hands during a battle. I found that this thing has very magical properties, so I built this machine."
Batwoman pointed to a jar with a strange light flashing under the energy center and said, "That's it. All the energy passing through this metal will be amplified, reorganized and compressed, with more magical properties and more powerful."
Batman shook his head, obviously still marveling at Batwoman's boldness. He said, "We can't carry this thing to see the Queen of the Sea. She may not understand what it is used for, and it doesn't have enough deterrence."
"Where is your workshop? I think we can modify it to be an obvious weapon, and specifically targeted at Atlanteans, so that she can calm down and talk to us. Maybe it will come in handy later."