Chapter 581 The Memory of the Dead Suddenly Attacks Me (Part 2)
Next, the stage scenes kept changing, alleys, offices, classrooms, one after another appeared and disappeared, but what remained unchanged was that Hugo would be beaten up by Batman in every scene, and then either sent to the police station or to a mental hospital.
As these scenes flashed, Schiller's voice echoed in the theater. He said, "If you go to see a psychiatrist in the future, remember not to find such a quack."
"Perhaps you also know that this doctor named Hugo Strange has a good theoretical level, and he can even make many small inventions, and his execution is also good..."
"It can be said that in terms of comprehensive quality, he is better than me. After all, I can't make any hypnosis machines, nor can I use physical means to hypnotize people, but there is only one thing that I am better than him..."
"That is, I know very well that if you want to be a doctor, the ultimate goal is to cure the patient, and if you want to be a teacher, the ultimate goal is to teach the students well."
"If a doctor does not want to cure the patient, but wants to abuse and control him, if a teacher does not want to teach the student well, but wants to seduce and induce him, then his final destination is the mental hospital."
As Batman dragged Hugo, who had been knocked unconscious, to Arkham Mental Hospital again, Schiller's voice became a little cold, like the cold night rain in Gotham.
"If he always has a different understanding of his profession, it means that he can neither be a good doctor nor a good teacher."
"If he doesn't want to be an ordinary person, then he can only be a patient."
Victor tilted his head slightly, turned his eyes, looked at Schiller and asked: "Is this why you always say you are an ordinary person?"
Before Schiller could answer, the clown Jack, who was sitting in the front seat, suddenly got a start. He woke up, shook his head, stretched his waist, yawned, and muttered: "What a short date, his temper is so bad!"
After that, he turned his head back and looked at Schiller and said: "Ordinary people and his ordinary friends, Batman should have noticed that his memory has changed, maybe he is rushing to the subconscious now."
Just as Jack finished this sentence, two Batmen appeared in the next stage, one of whom was standing in the alley near the Gotham Cathedral, and the other landed on the roof of the cathedral.
As expected, Hugo stood opposite the Batman in the alley, and the Batman standing on the top of the clock tower looked around until he saw that the other self was holding an empty salt shaker in his hand.
He remembered that this should be when he was tracking down the murderer who killed his parents. After visiting the murderer, he found that the person opposite had become an Alzheimer's patient, who had lost all the ability to resist, but felt deeply afraid of the name Falcone.
Recalling these scenes, those thoughts surged in Batman's heart, and he remembered what Schiller said to him at the time: "Fear is the deepest and most difficult scar to eliminate engraved in the depths of the human soul."
Just as he thought of this, the heavy bell rang, echoing in every corner of Gotham.
He remembered that when he heard the bell, he vowed to spread fear to every corner of the city and make all criminals tremble, just like the all-pervasive Gotham evening bell.
Batman, who was lost in thought, was pulled back by Hugo's voice. He suddenly found that the person standing in Schiller's place in his memory was not Schiller, but Hugo.
Then, he heard Hugo say: "... How can you not take revenge on him? He killed your parents and lost his ability to move. Isn't this the best opportunity?"
"If you let him go, how can you talk about revenge? What you should take is not that broken jar, but a dagger or a gun. You should kill him and follow your inner choice... Go back... Go and kill your enemy..."
Batman on the clock tower stretched out a hand and covered his eyes, and as expected, another self in the alley directly knocked Hugo down with a punch.
Batman, standing on the clock tower, took a deep breath and sighed slowly. He felt that if this was a dream, it would be a terrible nightmare. If he had met such a professor...
Batman couldn't help but imagine such a scene. Of course, he felt that he would not be bewitched by Hugo, or rather, Hugo could not be called bewitched. Even if he really appeared in his life for a long time like Schiller, Batman felt that within a semester, he would definitely be able to send this teacher to a mental hospital.
At the beginning of his Batman career, what would it be like to meet such a professor?
Looking at the self in his memory, the Batman kept asking Hugo the same questions repeatedly, asking him if he had committed a crime, asking him what crime he had committed. If he didn't answer, Batman would break his legs and send him to the police station or a mental hospital.
Batman felt that it shouldn't be him. Why did he become so paranoid? Looking at this behavior from the perspective of others, it really looks like a madman who has lost his mind. Is this what he wants?
If this was the method he had envisioned to bring fear to every corner of Gotham, Batman suddenly understood why Schiller would show that kind of disgusted and sympathetic expression every time he saw him swinging his fist.
Because, from a third-person perspective, Batman beating Hugo, the Batman in this picture is even more like a mental patient than Hugo lying on the ground, paranoid, gloomy, and irritable. Isn't this a typical antisocial personality?
What will happen if it continues like this?
Batman can't imagine such a thing, but he feels that if he continues with this thinking, he will make himself stronger equipment, develop more complete strategies, find more criminals, and then use these tools to deal with them, and then what?
What will he do if he has dealt with all the criminals?
Perhaps, he will regard everyone as a potential criminal, make more plans, be ready to deal with them at any time, and even put some of these plans into practice.
Fighting non-existent hallucinations is a typical manifestation of mental illness. This is a sentence Batman once read in a psychology textbook, perhaps written by Schiller.
Batman shook his head and began to think about whether he really suffered from some kind of mental illness in the scene he imagined?
Then, he began to think about whether endless suspicion and violence generated by suspicion were really necessary? Was it a choice made by one's own will, or a symptom caused by mental illness?
As the saying goes, holding a hammer, everyone looks like a nail. After learning psychology, everyone looks like a mental patient, including oneself.
The stage was frozen on Batman who was thinking, and then gradually collapsed. When the scene was switched again, the room layout on the stage seemed a little strange.
It looked like a guest room in a manor, with a handsome young man sitting by the bed, and another thin and short man sitting on a chair near the head of the bed.
Victor turned to Schiller and said, "This should be the time when you met the Metropolitan student named Clark, right?"
Schiller nodded and said, "This Dr. Tetch also seems to want to compete with me. Since he is in Metropolitan, it should be a good idea for him to guide Clark..."
The young man sitting by the bed looked a little sad. He was telling his troubles, but obviously, Tetch didn't listen carefully. He was not interested in the trivial things that happened in the school.
"You mean, if you just run, you can run a time that exceeds the world record?" Tetch looked at Clark and asked, "What other magical abilities do you have?"
Clarke, who was trapped in painful memories, was not defensive enough. He said directly to Tetch, "I am very fast, powerful, and have some other magical abilities, but I don't know where they come from. This has caused me a lot of trouble..."
"Trouble?!!" Tetch raised his voice and said, "You actually call this extremely powerful ability a trouble?! Are you crazy?!"
Clarke seemed a little confused, and Tetch said loudly, "You should do something with it! You can even rule this city! Even rule this country and even the earth, why don't you do it???"
"Why should I do this?" Clark stared at Tetch in confusion, and said, "Why should I rule Metropolis, and why should I rule the earth?"
"Because you are stronger than them, you are stronger than everyone else. "Everyone is stronger than everyone, you can help them and help them, but I won't interfere with them, because I don't like others to interfere with me." Du! And you are distressed by this powerful ability? " In the world's smartest super brain, but many times, he is still doing things from a kind human perspective. Help. There is no wavering in the core position. Superman is a natural nemesis of those Gotham villains who talk big. If the scene in the movie where both ships have bombs and people from both sides press buttons appears in front of Superman, he will only think that both sides are weak and need his help.
Before the Joker can finish his words, Superman directly dismantles the cabin with people on it and runs away. By the time the Joker finishes speaking, he has probably been punched more than 300 times by Superman.
Superman wants to help everyone equally. When a person is extremely saintly, he cannot be shaken.
So, no matter how Tetch tempts, seduces, and persuades, Clark feels that he cannot do that.
Finally, Tetch finally lost his patience. He took out a strange-shaped thing from his suitcase and put it on his head. It was a bit like a hat, but more like an instrument. The circle of light bulbs on it would glow.
That was the brain wave controller developed by Tetch. This thing will not only work in the dream world, but also be turned on synchronously in reality.
Tetch will control it with brain waves. When he turns on the brain wave controller in the dream, the brain wave controller in reality will search for the brain wave that Tetch is connected to now, and enter his consciousness space to modify his memory.
Everything went smoothly before. The brain wave controller in reality was turned on smoothly, and Clark's brain waves were searched and entered his consciousness world.
As mentioned before, Schiller sent these two people into the subconscious of Batman and Superman by going down from his own mind palace to the dreamland, then following the dreamland to find the consciousness of Superman and Batman, and then going up to directly enter the subconscious, so as to bypass the conscious mind of the two.
But Tetch's brain wave controller couldn't do this. When he entered other people's conscious world, he directly entered the conscious mind, and the conscious mind of people is very easy to fluctuate.
Clark had slept well in the school dormitory, and even had a dream, but when the brain wave controller invaded his consciousness, his consciousness began to move.
Originally, if the consciousness began to move, it meant that he began to turn from sleep to wakefulness, but the hypnotic function of the brain wave controller has been soothing Clark's brain waves to keep him from waking up.
But as the super brain became more and more active, the vast amount of information stored in Superman's brain also became active. His consciousness was constantly soothed and he was always in a dream. After these vast amounts of information became active, there was no space for them to go. Now, there was only one channel open...
When all the redundant information rushed into Tetch's brain along the channel of the brain wave controller, he didn't even have a chance to resist. All the consciousness space was filled with these junk information.
How much redundant information is there in Superman's brain? It was probably so much that Schiller felt dizzy at a glance.
Clark's application of his super brain was relatively shallow. He didn't learn how to process and filter information. Instead, he learned how to record it. All the information he had seen since he was born was stored in his brain. Even a grain of dust on the coffee table and a grain of soil in the farmland were all clearly recorded.
From the principle of computers, suddenly filling the system with so much information can be regarded as an invasion and destruction.
Tetch's surface consciousness space collapsed instantly, but Tetch was better than others in that he had studied his own consciousness space.
The rabbit hole in the backyard of the fairy tale manor was actually the passage to Tetch's subconsciousness, just like the hole dug on the ground floor of Schiller's Palace of Thinking.
Finding that his surface consciousness was irreparable, Tetch jumped into his subconsciousness along the rabbit hole in a panic.
It can be said that at this point, there is still room for salvation, as long as the information is cleared out, and Tetch also thinks so.
However, his personality sank into the subconscious, and the surface consciousness no longer had personality activities, so the brain wave activity stopped, and the brain wave controller could no longer be controlled, and the hypnosis of Clark also stopped.
Clark just didn't use his super brain, which didn't mean that he couldn't control his consciousness space like ordinary humans. On the eve of waking up from the real world, he realized that his brain was invaded.
So, he did not choose to wake up, but sank into his own consciousness space to see what was going on. At this time, the brainwave channel connected to the brainwave controller had not been closed. Clark followed this channel and came to Tetch's surface consciousness.
Found that all the memories here were crowded with his own memories. Clark thought someone had stolen his memories, so he began to search for the murderer on the surface. After searching for a while, he found the rabbit hole.
Clark did not think too much and jumped down along the rabbit hole directly, and happened to meet Tetch who had just come here to take refuge.
Clark did not know who Tetch was in his surface consciousness, but Tetch knew what he had done. He saw Clark coming and ran away. Clark saw him running and knew that he was guilty, so he chased him.
Tetch could not run faster than Clark at all. Soon, he would be caught up, and if he wanted to hide, there was only one way to go.
When Schiller came to pick up Hugo and Tetch to go to the consciousness space of Batman and Superman, he also took the road of the Dreamland, that is, he opened a passage from the bottom to the top of the Dreamland.
In other words, now, there is a hole at the bottom of Tetch and Hugo's subconscious, which leads directly to the Dreamland.
Tetch had nowhere to hide, no way to avoid it, so he could only jump down along the hole. He knew that there was a fantasy kingdom under the hole. As long as he could enter that kingdom and find a place to hide himself, he might be safe.
On the other side, Hugo, who was being chased by Batman, thought the same thing.
And it just so happened that there was also a hole under Batman's subconscious mind, which was made by the Joker when he borrowed a passage from the dream kingdom to play in Batman's consciousness.
Hugo searched for a long time and found that there was only such an escape route, so he jumped down without hesitation. Seeing that his test paper had escaped, Batman, who didn't want to fail, must chase it.
So, Tetch and Superman, Hugo and Batman, all came to the dream kingdom along the holes in their own consciousness space.
The two groups of people chased and fled, but they still met each other, which made it even more lively.
Clark didn't know what Batman was doing, and thought he was here to pick up Tetch. Batman saw Tetch and knew he was another murderer, so he wanted to chase him.
The four people were running around in the dreamland. Hugo and Tetch were fine. Batman and Clark both had their own special effects. When Batman's black tide and Clark's light collided with each other, explosions kept happening.
At this point in the play, Morpheus in the audience couldn't sit still anymore. After he disappeared, Schiller took out a bottle of wine. The other people didn't need him to remind them, and they all leaned back on their chairs, ready to fall asleep.
Morpheus hurried back to his home and found that his home was almost demolished. He was immediately furious and his evil was born.
In an instant, all the people in the dreamland condensed, and Morpheus landed in the center of the battlefield, his robe fluttering without wind, and his expression was majestic without anger.
"Stop it! You damned humans! You destroyed the dreamland, you must pay the price..."
Everyone was imprisoned and could not move. Morpheus knew the power of his power, so he did not notice that Clark's expression became a little angry.
Looking at his position, you can understand why he has such emotions. Clark is only one step away from Tetch and is about to catch him. At this time, Morpheus froze everyone. In Clark's view, isn't this protecting Tetch?
When it comes to the execution of justice, Superman specializes in all kinds of dissatisfaction.
Morpheus took a deep breath and sighed again. Suddenly, he saw the shadow of a ship appear in the distance.
The big ship slowly came over and stopped far away from Morpheus. Morpheus shouted angrily: "Schiller! Look at what you did!... Why are you standing so far away? Are you afraid that I will beat you?!"
Schiller, standing on the bow, shook his head and said: "I'm not afraid that you will beat me, I'm afraid..."
As he said, he stretched out a finger and gently pointed at Morpheus's back. Morpheus snorted coldly and said: "Don't try this trick..."
Instantly, an extremely dazzling light burst out from behind him, and a sun rose in the dreamland. The light in the center became brighter and brighter until it burned a hole in the entire universe.
Silently, the moment the brilliant light burst out, everything in the dreamland that could be seen was razed to the ground.
The moment Batman saw the light, he remembered Schiller's more than 20 floors that had collapsed, so he retreated at an extremely fast speed, and was then dragged back to the ship by Schiller's collar.
Morpheus, the god of dreams, made some last-minute resistance at the end, but because the reaction time was too short and he was too close to Superman, he flew the farthest when the sun exploded.
The reason why he flew the farthest was that the remaining two human souls had no chance to fly, just like moths flying into the fire, they melted on the spot.
When Morpheus landed and collapsed on the ground, his eyes full of stars, he heard the low and reverberating horn sound, and he saw the shadow of a big ship...
He saw that two figures jumped down from the big ship, one of them was Schiller, and the other figure was somewhat familiar to Morpheus, or very familiar.
Constantine walked slowly to the side of Morpheus who was lying, lowered his head, took out a cigarette and lit it in his mouth, took a puff, slowly exhaled the smoke, then looked down at Morpheus and said:
"Now, you can always tell me why you don't want to give me a good dream?"
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