26. Fear: Awakening
"Buzz"
In the night of Gotham City, an old pickup truck flung out a near-perfect drift at the intersection between the narrow island and the city at a speed completely inconsistent with its bulky body, and the roar of the engine made Cyber feel a trace of speed for the first time in a long time.
Of course, if it weren't for the cool guy in black who was tied to the passenger seat with his seat belt, Cyber wouldn't mind a race in the already completely quiet city, but for now, he still had to send Gotham's son out of danger as quickly as possible.
As he shook the steering wheel, he looked at Bruce Wayne's state out of the corner of his eye, it was terrible, his breathing had reached a frightening level, and his head was also fluctuating from side to side as the car shook, judging by the frequency of the eyelid vibration, he was clearly in a special state.
He's fighting against his own fears!
Cyber had also experienced that feeling earlier today, so he was not surprised by Bruce's current performance at all, judging from his state, the fear gas he inhaled this time was even more than the amount of Race before, otherwise this son of Gotham, who was unusually healthy, would not have been in such a weak state, you know, a few days ago, he beat up Cyber head-on.
This is not something that ordinary people can do!
In the previous period of fear of poison gas, Cyber already knew how this poison gas works, it will increase the victim's sensory system, it will stimulate the respiratory system, and finally it will have a certain effect on the nervous system, it contains toxins, but separately, the only real fatal ones are poisoning and respiratory spasms.
Regarding the poisoning, Cyber can use his special recovery ability to relieve it, but the energy consumption of eliminating the toxin in the body is not even more than the energy consumption of healing a knife wound, that is, this toxin should take effect slowly and not violently, and the moment the pickup truck drove into the dock area, Cyber noticed that Bruce's chest began to rise and fall rapidly, and he hurriedly stepped on the brakes.
"Damn it!"
Cyber pushed the car door open, dragged Bruce out of the car, laid him flat on the ground, and then kicked on the fire hydrant on the side of the street, and after four hard kicks, the icy water seeped out of it, and Cyber dragged Bruce, who had a spasm in his throat muscles, to the current, let the cold water splash next to his head, covered his mouth with his left hand, forced him to breathe through his nose, and then applied cold water to his neck, constantly and rhythmically slapping his back.
(If someone around you has laryngeal spasm in real life, call the emergency number as soon as possible, this paragraph is what I found in Baidu!)
In the past, Cyber had learned how to use first aid, which was the best he could think of, and after a few minutes, Bruce Wayne's chest returned to a normal breathing rhythm, presumably because the cold water stimulated his magnified senses, and he also opened his eyes from that chaotic state, but there was no focus in those eyes, and it was clear that he had not yet shaken off the hallucination.
Cyber felt that it was tricky, Bruce had inhaled too much poison gas, and if he continued like this, his life would definitely be in danger!
He rummaged through Batman's clothes on his left hand, and finally found a strange-shaped mobile phone, and after opening it, he found a phone named "Ah Fu" in the address book, he heard his father say that Bruce Wayne's old butler is called Alfred, an old man who has served the Wayne family for decades, and is definitely trustworthy.
"It's a shame you didn't have a password, Bruce, this good habit might save your life. ”
Cyber pressed the dial button and reached out to press on Batman's chest to help him breathe at a steady pace.
"Young master, when will you be back? I have already instructed the servant to warm up dinner..."
"Stop!
Alfred began to babble after the phone was connected, Cyber interrupted him loudly, and Ah Fu immediately realized that it was not his young master on the other side, and he asked in a very calm tone,
"Who are you, is the young master safe?"
"Listen to me, Afu, I'm Seber Hawke, Papa Christian's buddy, Mr. Bruce had a little unpleasant thing at his night's "pastime", and now he's poisoned, I'm doing my best to keep him breathing, he's in a terrible condition, come to the old gun bar as fast as you can! You know where it is, right?"
After Cyber finished speaking, he heard Ah Fu's breathing on the other side also become short, and he sincerely carried a hint of request,
"Thank you, Mr. Cyber, please be sure to keep the young master safe, I will rush over as fast as I can!"
"I can only do my best, he's in a terrible situation!"
After saying that, Cyber hung up the phone, he squatted in front of Bruce Wayne, stretched out his left hand and shook it in front of his eyes, and then Bruce's suddenly outstretched hand grabbed his wrist tightly, with great force, but this reaction made Cyber breathe a sigh of relief.
What he fears the most is that the guy in front of him loses consciousness, and then it's troublesome.
"Hey, listen, man, I'm going to get you to safety now, if you can still hear, please cooperate with me!"
Cyber patted Batman's face in an attempt to make him more sober, but Bruce seemed to be fascinated and whispered a noun over and over again,
"Bats... No, don't come here! bats..."
"Bats?"
Cyber froze for a moment, then subconsciously looked at his dress, and had some vague guesses about Batman's identity in his heart.
Generally speaking, if you want to choose something as your representative, people have two choices, either the thing they like very much, or the thing that impresses them the most, the former represents love, and the latter, well, in many cases, often represents fear.
Love and fear, which are always the two emotions that can arouse people's inner fluctuations, are also the only two emotions that can make people burst out more powerful, or willing to choose death, they represent the two extremes of human nature, in Cyber's view, fear is actually more effective, because the destructive power of love is never as destructive as fear.
You can make a person fear you with your fists or words, but you decide that you can't make someone fall in love with you with your fists and words.
In Bruce Wayne's case, he chose bats, absolutely not because of love.
"Are you afraid of bats?
Cyber thought for a moment and whispered in Batman's ear in a gentle voice, "Are you afraid of the moment they pounce out of the darkness?"
In the midst of the confusion that Bruce Wayne heard, the sound of Cyber sounded to him like the magic sounds of hell, and the terrifying scene there reappeared before his eyes with the help of this voice.
It was when he was playing with Rachel as a child, and he accidentally fell into an abandoned well inside Wayne Manor, his leg was injured, and for a child of seven or eight years old, he could not move his body, so he could only wait for help at the bottom of the dark well, but in front of him, there was a stone cave with uneven levels, and there was a buzzing sound from it.
Frightened, he picked up a stone and tried to protect himself, but in the growing fear in his heart, he finally smashed the stone in his hand into the hole that looked like the entrance to hell, and the sound annoyed the hidden creatures in the cave, and they frantically pounced from the darkness, from the cave like the mouth of the beast, and pounced on him.
Thousands of bats!
The black pressure is like a storm!
"Ahh
Bruce's body began to struggle, and Cyber had to break free from his wrists, press his body with both arms, and whisper in his ear,
"Wake up, Bruce Wayne, you're Batman, bastard, don't be knocked down by this fear!"
The sudden sound of the voice brought Bruce out of that childhood horror memory, and his eyes blinked hard,
"Bats... Help me disperse... Help me..."
"Think of happy things! Think of Ah Fu, think of your parents!"
Cyber remembers how he got out of that fear, and since he had fear in his heart, he fought it with other emotions, he grabbed Bruce's shoulder, lifted him off the ground, and slammed it against the car door, the impact made Batman's consciousness clear again for a moment, and he heard a voice shouting in his ear,
"Think about something else! Throw away those dark memories, think... Well, think of Rachel, you like her, don't you? Think about the days you spent with her, think about your housekeeper Ah Fu, think about the things that make you happy, make you angry, make you move!
Cyber grabbed his shoulders and shook him constantly,
"Don't be defeated by fear! being defeated by it means that you have succumbed to it, that you are a coward!"
"Don't you want to fight evil? How can you be a coward!"
"You have to conquer your fears, harness your fears, and give them fear! Suppress it with something else! Don't let it knock you down! I'll take you to safety right now! But you have to learn to protect yourself! Fight back! Understand? Fight back against it!"
"Fight back against your fears with other emotions! Stay awake, bastard! I don't want to save an idiot who can only cry!"
These words may not have caused any fluctuations in Bruce Wayne at other times, after all, his experience in the past 7 years has made it difficult for him to have mood swings, but now it is different, he is in a very vulnerable state due to the fear and poison gas, and he almost subconsciously obeys these words of Cyber.
And someone had told him about fear before, and soon, the experience of the past 7 years came to his mind, and although it was not good, it finally cleared him up from that deepest fear.
Seeing that Bruce's body was still trembling, but at least regained a trace of sanity, Cyber immediately pressed him into the carriage, started quickly, and sped towards the Old Gun Bar.
"Fear gass... This thing is so wicked. ”
Cyber glanced at Bruce Wayne, who was struggling to fight against the fear that arose from his heart, and he was also a little afraid in his heart, if he had inhaled a dose of Batman today, and did not trigger the heat flow in his body at the last moment, I am afraid that he would have been killed by Thompson with a knife.
For the weak-willed, this thing can literally destroy their will in an instant, and think of what Kevin said that the Shadow Warrior Alliance intends to destroy Gotham with this poisonous gas, and think of the kind of environment where the entire city is engulfed in this poisonous gas, and when the time comes, under the domination of fear, what will those ordinary people who have been defeated do something... Cyber couldn't have imagined.
They don't even need to use much force, just the cannibalism in the city will destroy everything.
Cyber remembered what he had experienced in some parts of Africa, where chaos was not so easy to suppress once it arose, and once the blood began to bleed, it could quickly turn into a real catastrophe, in which case even if Cyber could fight again, he would be helpless in the face of a desperate city.
So while Cyber was racing all the way, he really began to think about a problem.
"Shouldn't I really leave Gotham..."
Ten minutes later, the pickup truck stopped at the door of the Old Gun Bar, and before the lights in the bar were turned off, Daddy walked out and saw Cyber carrying a strange-looking guy out of the car.
"This is..."
"Shhhh
The two of them carried Bruce Wayne in a bat suit into the room on the second floor, and when they put Batman on the bed, Bruce, who had taken off his bat armor, grabbed Cyber's arm with difficulty, his body was still trembling, and it could be seen that it was in pain, but in those eyes, there was no previous panic and uneasiness, and there was some confusion, but he had regained his senses.
Seeing this scene, Cyber breathed a sigh of relief,
"Whew... Congratulations, you conquered fear, you didn't get knocked down by it, you're not a coward. ”
"Thanks... Thank you!"