Chapter 2363: Battle Between Bats (IV)

Chapter 2394 Bats Fight (IV)

Batwoman held the Water God's Spear and the trapped poisonous plants, and the group headed for the tree in the center.

"You want to know the secret of each personality. Do you think the solution to this situation is hidden in it?" Charles asked.

"This is a very reasonable inference." Batman replied: "It is a simple and plain reasoning that an ordinary person, a person without psychic abilities, would make."

"What's so simple about it?" Charles muttered in a low voice.

"Everything in this world has its reasons. Even if they do not follow the physical rules of the real world, they must follow the law of cause and effect." Batman said: "There is a cause before there is a result. This is the most essential rule in the universe."

"Many things have already happened before they happened. You regard these personalities as the cause of a disaster, but in fact they are the result of many earlier disasters."

"If you treat them as causes and nip them in the bud in order to prevent disasters from happening, then the real cause that ultimately created these personalities will continue to create them endlessly, without end."

Charles frowned deeply. Batman hit the nail on the head. The most troublesome situation facing the Psychic Assault Team now is that it is very difficult to kill these terrible super-powered personalities, but according to David himself, these super-powered people are still being produced in his heart.

No one knows where they come from or where they are going. No one knows how to completely eliminate them, and no one knows how to stop David from producing these personalities that may bring disasters.

But Batman provided an enlightening perspective. What they had to solve was not these personalities, but the deeper things that led to these personalities.

After the poisonous cloud was dispelled, it became easier to move forward. After arriving under the big tree, they found a small tree house on the tree, with a row of spiral stairs close to the trunk, like the facilities that would appear in a Boy Scout summer camp.

As soon as Batman walked up the stairs, he stopped and said, "It looks like this is related to his childhood. This thing is not designed for adults."

Batwoman also walked up and stepped on it and nodded. Her reasoning was the same as Batman's. There was no profound reason, but the stairs were not only narrow, but also very dense, with almost no gaps.

For adults, if one foot stepped on it, half of the sole of the foot would be exposed, and the front step was very close. The heel of the upper foot would touch the leg behind. If they stepped up step by step, it would be very awkward.

But for younger children, this is both easy to walk and very safe.

After walking up two more steps, there were wooden bars nailed to the trees at a height of about one meter, which served as handrails. Every detail showed that this place was actually an amusement facility, not a real tree house for survival.

They walked to the top, two small houses facing each other and a platform in the middle. Batman bent down slightly and observed the traces here before standing on the platform where the room was.

Batwoman was also observing, and Charles was observing the two of them, because he really didn't know what they observed.

This place was too ordinary. The platform was a board fixed with nails and wires. The walls of the house were made of tree trunks, weeds and mud. It seemed that every time a group of children came, it would be rebuilt here, as if it was one of the activities of the summer camp.

"There are footprints." Batman pointed to the marks on the floor and said, "There are probably three children and an adult standing here. A fatter child is standing at the stairs, two thinner and smaller children are standing in front of the room door, and the adult is standing on the edge of the platform."

"What happened..." Batwoman said in a positive tone, "Something must have happened here."

"So what do you think happened at that time? Ms. Mark Taggart." Schiller tapped the end of the pen lightly on the table and looked at a lady sitting opposite.

The lady had brown hair, neatly tied behind her head, wearing a white coat, and looked like she had just left her job.

"I don't know, David never told me." The lady called Mark Taggart looked a little tired. She said, "When this happened, he was still living with his parents. I spent a lot of effort to find out the general process of the incident, but I don't know the specifics, and he didn't tell me."

"Then tell me what David told you, ma'am." Schiller said.

"Just call me Mora."

"When Ms. Harrell, the mother of the group, sent him to Muir Island, he seemed very taciturn, and we all thought he might have childhood anxiety disorder." Mora said.

"Although I was studying his mutant abilities during that time, I did not forget to maintain his mental health. I thought it was very inhumane to let him stay in the ward every day, so I applied to take him to the yard to get some fresh air at noon."

"There is a big sycamore tree in the yard, which comes from France. I used to like to go under that tree to enjoy the coolness, so I took David there, but he didn't want to touch the tree, even if the weather was so hot that he was sweating all over, he didn't want to stand in the shade."

"So I started to ask what happened, and he just kept shaking his head. After my persistent questioning and investigation, I learned that when he was 7 years old, an accident happened in the summer camp where his mother and stepfather sent him."

"No one knows what happened specifically. In short, there is a project in the summer camp to lead the Boy Scouts to fight in the jungle, recognize plants, learn to make fire, and build tree houses."

"Although it is a jungle battle, it is actually just leading the children to play in a small forest, let them know several common poisonous plants, and teach them how to make fire with flint. Everything went smoothly in the front and the children had a lot of fun."

"But something happened at the last step. The only instructor that day fell from the platform of the tree house when he was building the tree house."

"How high is it there?" Schiller asked.

"David said it was about two meters." Mora frowned slightly and said, "But the instructor fell very badly. I heard that there was a problem with the lumbar nerves. He can only stay in bed for the rest of his life."

Schiller also frowned.

Standing on the edge of the platform, Batman looked down and, not surprisingly, saw traces of human figures on the wet soil below.

"Did someone fall down?" Charles asked.

Batman turned around and nodded, saying, "Yes, the adult fell down and fell on the ground here."

Charles walked over, looked at the edge, and then found that this place was not particularly high. He didn't dare to jump down, but if he really fell down, it shouldn't be a big deal.

Batwoman suddenly shook her head and said, "It wasn't a slip and fall, but someone pushed him down."

The two Batmen stood in two different positions. Suddenly, Batman reached out to grab Batwoman. Batwoman seemed to be afraid and shrank her body and hid in the room behind her.

Batman rushed forward and came to the door to catch Batwoman. Charles understood some of Batman's emotions, so he immediately rushed over from the edge of the platform, grabbed Batman's cape and pulled him out.

The two pulled and tugged all the way to the edge of the platform. Batman used his strength advantage to press Charles to the ground, but at this time Charles kicked hard and turned over, and Batman stumbled and fell off the platform.

He fell completely on the human-shaped trace, exactly.

"This is unscientific." Charles said: "If the children who come here are only six or seven years old as you said, and the instructors leading the Boy Scouts are all retired soldiers, how could a six or seven-year-old child knock the retired soldiers down?"

Batman had climbed up again, and he said: "Can't you do it?"

Charles was slightly stunned.

"Are you saying that this is actually David's experience, and he used his mutant ability to push the instructor off the platform?"

Batman nodded and said, "And he probably used a special ability to seriously injure the instructor, because if it was a normal fall, the soil below is very soft, and most adults would not be hurt if they fell down."

"But from the traces of the soil below, it can be seen that the other party should be completely unable to move, and he has been lying here until the ambulance arrives."

Batwoman seemed to understand something, she turned her head to look at the poisonous plants trapped next to her and said, "I have heard that many patients with dissociative identity disorder have split personalities to protect the main personality."

"A 7-year-old child wants to make an adult unable to move instantly. In addition to controlling brain waves like you, the best way is to start with nerves. Even we use the same method." Batman said, "Nerves are the fatal weakness of human motor ability."

"So this personality was born at this time." Check Els looked at the poisonous plant in the bubble and said, "Here's the thing. David attended a summer camp when he was 7 years old. Unfortunately, they met a terrible instructor."

"From the actions just simulated, the instructor may want to hurt or sexually assault another child. This is indeed a very good environment for committing crimes. If it is in a remote enough community, no one will notice what happened here, and the children dare not say anything."

"But David is not an ordinary child. He tried to stop the instructor. After being held down by the instructor, his self-protection mechanism was activated. A superpower specifically targeting human nerves was born, subduing the instructor and protecting David."

"I think he will show up in the form of plants, perhaps because this place is supposed to protect them." Batwoman speculated: "Maybe the instructor told them that using local materials and building a shelter with plants in the dangerous jungle will be the best way for them to spend the long night."

"It's possible." Batman affirmed: "Children's thinking is very abstract, focusing more on association than logic. They may not understand the necessity of building shelters, but they will definitely realize through such behavior that trees and plants are their protectors."

"When someone wants to hurt them here, their first reaction may not be to call the police or find a way to ask adults for help like adults, but to think that a plant god will come to save them."

"This is why child psychology is listed as a separate subject. Because of incomplete brain development, insufficient education, lack of common sense and rational thinking, their way of thinking is completely different from that of adults."

Charles immediately drew inferences from one example and said: "So in David's spiritual world, the less human, the more weird, funny and absurd, the more likely it is to come from his childhood."

Batman nodded and said: "Speaking of the clown, maybe I hit the nail on the head at the time. This plant personality that looks like a tree man would dress up as a clown, not because he had seen the clown in the circus or the movie."

"It's just because David first learned to play poker in the Boy Scout camp, and the person who taught him told him that the big ace is the strongest of all poker cards."