Chapter 2431: Battle for the Cloak (XVIII)

Chapter 2462: The Battle for the Cape (XVIII)

"So what's going on?" Bruce asked Schiller. They were in the study room of Wayne Manor at this time, but there was a faint mist on the wall, isolating this place into an independent space.

Bruce saw everything that happened just now. Unlike Dick, he was better at reasoning and could quickly figure out those timelines that were too complicated for ordinary people.

From the perspective of the youngest Nightwing, Dick, he fell asleep, woke up, went out, and came to the office in an instant, and then saw them sleeping in the office.

All this is a complete timeline. The only space switch in the middle was to go out and come to the office immediately, but this was not difficult to do, at most it was just teleportation.

The sleeping people seen outside the door of this office are still Dick's past timeline, because they did fall asleep before.

Then another office appeared in front of Dick. A series of future events appeared outside the window of the office, that is, the remaining two people were attacked by the eyes, and they drove the car to the roof in a panic and fell down.

The timeline changes for the first time here. Dick is not in the car, which means Dick still leaves according to the original process. This timeline may be the subsequent timeline of Dick.

After seeing this future, Dick took action, that is, he returned to the office showing the past scene and threw the fire extinguisher out, which means that he changed the past, and it also means that the changed future will be produced accordingly.

And this changed future is the story brought about by the appearance of the main universe Nightwing later, that is, Dick threw a fire extinguisher down, causing the past Dick to be hit, causing him to fail to go out smoothly, and causing the main universe Nightwing who wanted to search for fixed equipment to go out.

All this seems to make sense, but the problem is that when the fog dissipated, the main universe Nightwing of the changed future stayed, and the Dick of the unchanged future also stayed, which is a complete paradox.

Assuming that the future is changed, the injured Dick should sit in the car and leave with the Arkham universe Nightwing who drove away. Assuming that the future is not changed, there should be a crashed Batmobile at the door.

But the current situation is that Dick and the main universe Nightwing who came to find equipment stayed together, which means that the future in which Dick did not throw the fire extinguisher and he came here smoothly, and the future in which he threw the fire extinguisher and Nightwing came here happened at the same time.

But human time is linear, and there can only be one future on the same timeline, and it is impossible to have both, so what is going on?

Bruce's brain began to smoke a little. He speculated that either when the fog dissipated, several timelines would merge together, and whoever stayed would be the one, or maybe there was an intersection of time and space at a certain point in time, and the person who ran to the normal timeline would not be destroyed because his future did not happen, but no matter how he thought about it, there were flaws and it didn't make sense at all.

"Why do you think the fog really has the ability to manipulate time and space?"

"......?"

Bruce stared at Schiller in silence. Schiller took a sip of tea and said, "Just because these Robins think so, do you think so too?"

"I think you should have such ability." Bruce said dryly, "...You have it, right?"

"Is it important to have it or not?" Schiller said, "Even if I have it, is there any evidence to prove that I used this ability just now?"

Bruce figured out everything immediately. He covered his forehead and was unwilling to admit that he was fooled.

But Schiller still played another perspective to him, which was his perspective. The fog appeared again, and this time they stood on the side of the road where the car was.

The three Nightwings discussed whether to get off the car in the car, and then they felt that since the fog had invaded, sitting in the car would avoid limiting their performance and would not be conducive to fighting the enemy, so they decided to get off the car.

The moment they reached out to push the car door, their expressions all became confused, and then they fell into a coma.

But unlike the previous perspective, this time only Dick woke up. He woke up suddenly and began to talk to himself in the thin mist in front of him.

Seeing his hand on the car door, Bruce knew that this should be the next plot "getting off the car".

But Dick didn't get off the car at all.

He fainted again, which means that Schiller didn't use the ability of teleportation at all, and Dick didn't go to any office at all. Everything he saw was just an illusion.

The next person to wake up was Nightwing from the main universe. He seemed to have seen something and rushed to the car door in panic, shouting "Dick, are you okay?" and "Where did this fire extinguisher come from?"

But he didn't get off the car either, and soon fainted again. Until the end, the two of them pushed open the door of the building in the illusion, and then they pushed open the car door and got off the car.

The last one to wake up was Nightwing from the Arkham Universe. This time he really woke up, but he saw the shadow standing in the thick fog, stepped on the accelerator and chased after it.

Finally, Schiller found a fire extinguisher from the office building, threw it out of the window, and it hit the two people with a bang.

The two people in front of the door seemed to be in another world.

Little Bruce covered his eyes and said, "It turns out that this thick fog is not that powerful. The effect of releasing hallucinogens is the same."

Schiller shook his head. Little Bruce thought he could say something profound, but Schiller said, "You don't need hallucinogens. Hypnosis can do it. After all, opening the car door is not a complicated action. Give me ten minutes and I can guide them to do it."

"But why do you do this?" Little Bruce didn't understand.

Schiller said: "It is to make them believe it."

"Usually I don't express any specific images in my works, but people come to appreciate the works for two purposes."

"The first type of people try to interpret the works, and dig out the author's creative purpose and creative ideas at the time from the author's picture performance. If he can understand and dig it out, he can get self-satisfaction similar to 'My aesthetic level is very high, I understand everything about the author'."

"The second type of people try to resonate with the works, read the strong emotions that the author wants to express from the author's picture performance, and then resonate with their own emotions, so that they can get emotional satisfaction similar to 'His feelings at that time were the same as mine, and there are still people in this world who understand me'."

"But no matter what, they come with a purpose, and they also hope to gain something in the process of appreciating the works."

"If they can't get it, they won't On the contrary, they will think, "My aesthetic level is low and I can't understand all this", or "No one can understand me, not even artists", and they will rush past it, not considering it as an exhibit, but looking for something that can make them feel experienced. "

"So a good artist, in addition to conveying his own ideas and emotions, must first satisfy some superficial needs of the audience, so that when they first see the work, they will have a feeling of "I can definitely gain something from it", so that people can stop and watch. "

"If you create everything too abstractly at the beginning, as I said, without showing any specific imagery, then they will only regard you as a white wall in an art gallery, rushing past without any experience. "

Little Bruce thought of the Robins' initial evaluation of the thick fog. Although they also mentioned some phenomena, the general meaning was that it was just a very widespread natural phenomenon that would not cause any impact and there was no need to pay attention to it.

But I believe that after this time, they will not think so. Although they still have not suffered any substantial damage, what impressed them is precisely the regularity shown in the thick fog.

Sure enough, he heard Schiller continue to say

"In the early stage, you have to create a law that is easy for them to understand at first, but later they can explore it in depth. For example, since they understand the performance of some witnesses as the disorder of time and space in the thick fog, then we will do it."

"To be honest, I do have a way to manipulate space and time, but I am not strong enough to do it in every universe. It is limited to special areas and special events. I usually don't use such a troublesome method. Which one is more time-saving and labor-saving, a dream or manipulating time and space?"

Little Bruce was speechless. Of course, it is the former. They are not gods of time and space rules. No matter what method is used, it is always laborious to do this.

And this kind of illusion is not that little Bruce is too confident. He has a very in-depth study of the power of evil gods. Illusion creation can basically be said to be the basic skills of evil gods and evil god believers.

After all, the righteous gods can bless you generously, making you strong and lucky, but evil gods usually don't do this. They deceive believers mainly by painting big cakes, and hallucinations and mental disorders are the necessary skills for painting big cakes. If any evil god doesn't know this, he can't get by.

It's just that Schiller's way of painting a pie in the sky is too unique, so Bruce can't react for a while. The evil gods usually present some things that believers want in the illusion, such as a happy family, resurrection from the dead, and money and power.

Schiller, on the other hand, doesn't even mention happiness and happiness. After this trip, it is estimated that there is nothing left except shock and fear.

And this shock and fear are not threats. It's not that these people feel scared and obey. They are afraid, but they don't know what they are afraid of.

"So what's the point of this?" Bruce asked.

"Don't you think it's interesting?" Schiller said with a smile: "The rules they found, the loopholes they thought they could exploit, all the investigations and explorations they conducted, and the truth they tried hard to find are actually just the illusions of your director."

"And the most subtle thing about this performance is that they will think that all this is the result of their own evil deeds, and that their initial peeping and curiosity are original sins."

"They will naturally discard these most precious qualities of human beings in exploring the outside world, and even warn their hopeful peers that their exploration and pursuit are meaningless, because those things cannot be heard, seen, or looked at directly."

Little Bruce felt a chill on his back, but he still looked at Schiller and said, "Aren't these Robins your descendants? Why do you treat them like this?"

"My target is not them." Schiller looked at little Bruce and said, "They are too mentally healthy, and they always think about Batman. They are not committed enough. If they are the protagonists of this play, it would be too boring."

"The most wonderful thing is that when the protagonist in the painting turns his head to look at you, he realizes that the brilliant world he once was so sure of himself is actually just a small corner in a larger horror. The look of shock and fear in his eyes."