Chapter 2432: Battle for the Cloak (XIX)
Chapter 2463: The Battle for the Cloak (XIX)
"I think there are a few rules that we can summarize." Dick said as he walked: "First, we can't stay in one place for too long in the thick fog, otherwise we will attract those eyes. Although we don't know what will happen after being watched by those eyes, I think it will definitely not be a good thing, so it's best not to stay in the same place for too long."
"Second, the actions we make in the thick fog will still be retained and will not be reset after the thick fog dissipates, so every decision must be made with caution."
"And the space in the thick fog is chaotic, and the image of the door seems to have played a significant role, very It is possible to push open a door and go to another new space, so be careful when opening the door. "
"Finally, different time streams may appear in the thick fog. Changes to the past may affect the future, but these results can coexist, so before making a decision to modify the past timeline, you must consider what may happen in the future. "
Dick and the Nightwing of the main universe are walking on the streets of Gotham. They believe that even if the Nightwing of the Arkham universe loses his mind for a while and wants to chase the figure in the depths of the thick fog, he will definitely remember his original purpose and go to the target location to meet up, so even if there is no car, they can walk there.
"Anything else to add?" Dick looked at the Nightwing of the main universe and asked. Nightwing seemed to have just noticed something. He was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Actually, I'm thinking about Batman. They all think that Batman should have returned to Gotham after his disappearance. If he is in Gotham at this time, how will he deal with this fog? "
Dick immediately thought of the shocking bloodstains that Red Hood saw in the Capitol. That was Batman's blood, and Batman would not bleed so much for disguise, which means that he is really in bad condition.
How should a seriously injured person move in the thick fog? Will he be caught by those eyes? Or will he fall into an out-of-control trap?
They all began to worry, more concerned about Batman's current situation than themselves, and stopped discussing this issue, and began to think about what Batman and others had encountered.
The other two groups of Robins and the main universe Batman who was now active in Gotham underground also encountered similar things, but the rules on Robin's side were more obvious, while Batman's experience was completely chaotic and chaotic.
The moment the thick fog invaded, Batman put on a gas mask, but the sewer he was exploring continued to extend forward, and Batman remembered that this waterway was obviously not that long.
Whether walking forward or backward, this sewer seemed to have no end at all. There was a door on the fork in the middle, but it could not be pushed open at all. Every time Batman passed by the door, the door would change its appearance, as if there was a different world behind the door.
After walking a few times, Batman found himself in a loop. After walking a distance along the endless waterway, he would return to the starting point, which means he became a hamster in a hamster cage.
Batman naturally discovered that if he stayed too long, he would see eyes on various reflective surfaces, but he was bolder than Robin in that he did not succumb to the fear brought by the eyes, but dragged it until almost the last second, he wanted to see what the eyes were going to do.
Until the last second, Batman found that it was himself who appeared in his vision. He felt that he had become these eyes with many broken visions. He became the thing staring at himself, watching himself running for his life like an ant in an endless cycle.
In countless pasts, presents and futures, his figure appeared in the field of vision, until Batman could no longer bear this huge amount of information, he stopped trying this huge eye.
He regarded this as a mental attack, because once humans see that the future they often regard as mysterious and unknowable is clearly visible in the eyes of another creature, their every choice is manipulated, and the beautiful future they think they have fought for by strategizing and changing their fate is still just the result of the selection of the superiors, and their hopes and beliefs may collapse in an instant.
Batman didn't because he knew clearly that it was actually the same in daily life, but it was not so intuitive. Humans are always good at deceiving themselves. Batman has realized the truth of the world more than others and understands his own destiny more clearly, so he is still shocked, but not afraid.
Robin King is not like this. If you have to use a word to describe his mental state all the time, it is "protagonist".
He has always believed that he is and has always been the master of his own destiny. Thomas and Martha have always disciplined him and prevented him from exploring the world by his own means, including but not limited to killing animals and doing some small dismantling and destruction.
But they do not have such power. King Robin has always believed that he is free and noble. Those things that died and were destroyed for him are just the price he should pay on his journey of exploration. It is their honor to endure death and destruction.
The same is true for Thomas and Martha. After being tired of his parents' discipline, King Robin planned a murder. He shot his parents in the alleyway outside the movie theater.
After the police came, he made a perfect disguise and performed all the emotions that a child who collapsed because his parents were murdered by the murderer could show. In this way, he became an innocent victim and finally got everything he wanted.
Then he began to slaughter all the superheroes in his universe, just like he did in this universe. Those superheroes were vulnerable in front of the props he created with the savings of the Wayne Group. The whole process was even boring to him.
Until one day a madman came. The other party had a pale face and a big mouth that almost occupied the whole face. He described the root of the universe's nothingness to King Robin and invited him to join his team.
King Robin was full of surprise and hope, but the first blow he suffered was that he found that this madman was converting Robins in various universes in batches.
He threw them into a chemical pool, making them pale and hunched, like underground creatures, and the transformed Robin had no self-awareness, which King Robin could not accept.
So he made a small pill. As long as he swallowed the pill, he could still maintain his consciousness after being transformed, but unfortunately the madman acted too quickly, and King Robin was thrown into the chemical pool before he could swallow the pill.
In anger, King Robin spit the pill directly into the chemical pool, which would allow all the transformed Robins to retain a certain degree of self-awareness, and the madman just watched it all lightly and told him that what he did was useless.
This was a little friction between them before. There is no doubt that King Robin was defeated, and he still had to obey the orders of this madman and go to one universe after another to collect more information about Batman for him.
This is also the reason why King Robin chose the Arkham Knight universe. The guy who called himself the Laughing Bat said that he was a combination of Batman and the Joker. Then he found another combination and forced him to tell his secret, and naturally he could find the weakness of the Laughing.
Unfortunately, the plan against Batman in the Arkham Knight universe did not go smoothly, and there was more to it than that. King Robin just experienced his most terrible nightmare in history.
When the thick fog invaded, King Robin was prepared, but he did not take out the gas mask, because he thought that this was because he was afraid of the mastermind behind the scenes. He didn't care what the nature of the fog was, he had to fight head-on.
When he pushed open the door of the office, he found himself back at home in Wayne Manor. Everything was plain as usual, which was extremely boring.
The only difference is that Thomas and Martha, who now appear in the manor, no longer seem to pursue a comprehensive elite education. They advocate academic excellence.
Thomas and Martha always said study, study, study. If you don't study, you will be ashamed of your parents' efforts. If you don't study, you will betray the ancestors of the Wayne family who laid such a great foundation. If you don't get good grades, you don't deserve to be the heir of the Wayne family. If you can't get better grades than everyone else, you don't deserve to get anyone's attention.
King Robin didn't feel anything about it at first, because he has always been the first in the class, and studying is not difficult for him. It can be said that it takes no effort at all.
Since the mastermind behind the scenes wants to play this trick, King Robin will naturally let him see what a real genius is.
So on the first day of school, King Robin took back all the full-mark test papers, but Thomas and Martha just said lightly that although you got full marks, there must be others in the school, and you just did what you should do.
King Robin was a little angry, but it was true. After all, he was still in elementary school. It was too easy to get full marks in elementary school. Of course, there was more than one full mark in the school.
So in the next few days, he poisoned the school's water dispenser, causing most of the good students to have diarrhea during the exam, and he was the only one who got full marks.
As a result, Thomas and Martha told him that it was just his good luck. Although others did not perform well in the exam, they still had knowledge in their stomachs and would definitely surpass him next time.
How could King Robin accept it? In the following time, they got full marks in every subject in every exam and became the first in the grade, but the object of comparison was pulled to the elementary school in the whole community.
In addition to the test scores, he needed to get up three hours earlier to learn musical instruments, learn dancing, etiquette, and socializing after school, and self-study junior high school, high school, and university knowledge in advance.
Learning itself was actually not a difficult thing for King Robin. He could handle all courses with ease and even achieved much better results than expected.
What was always a nightmare was the attitude of Thomas and Martha, because no matter what results King Robin achieved, he could not even get a decent evaluation. All he could get was "just a fluke" and "I have to do better next time."