Batman followed Merkel deeper into the mine, and the two found a quiet corner with a campfire and two log piers that served as chairs.

Batman and Merkel sat down face to face, Merkel moved the barbecue grill next to him, and threaded two mushrooms on the wooden skewer in the middle, lit the bonfire, and said as he roasted:

"Here, I'm hungry much slower than in reality, and when I'm busy, I don't even bother to eat, and I've only eaten two meals in the last three days, so let's try this, it's much better than the rotten leaves provided by the mines."

Batman took the mushroom skewer handed over by Merkel, he had just been treated by the Snake Demon Elder, he didn't actually feel hungry, but the mushroom emitted a fragrance, and the human instinct to eat was awakened, Batman took a bite of the juicy mushroom meat, and the fresh fragrance rushed into his nose, making him sigh a little comfortably.

Merkel took two more cups, poured a small packet of powder into it, took out the kettle and poured water into it.

He handed a glass to Batman, and said, "This is water with a small amount of blaze powder, blaze powder can provide the temperature of the water, and there is an effect similar to wine, I think it's pretty good, do you want to try it?" ”

Batman squinted at the surface of the water in the glass, which looked a bit like bubbles on the surface of beer, and smelled of sour fermentation, and Batman took a sip and found that it was more like a bubbly vodka than beer.

He was not interested in wine, so he put the glass aside, but Merkel took a sip, wiped her mouth, and then said with some excitement: "It reminds me of the first time I went to Moscow, when I really didn't know that vodka was so strong, much stronger than the liqueur I drank in England!" ”

Merkel sighed and exclaimed: "Perhaps, like that nation, it has a natural wild temperament that refuses to be manipulated." ”

"Are you Soviet?" Batman took another bite of the mushroom skewer and asked as he ate, after a trip to the slums, he was well used to such a scene, but it was better to say that this little leisure time was particularly precious and made him feel a little relaxed.

"I'm an English through and through, and when I was in school, I was exposed to Marxism, and when I first saw that book, I was fascinated by the theory in it, and I thought that maybe I could find the answers to all my questions in this theory."

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"But the more I looked, the more confused I became." Merkel took another sip of wine, the spicy taste made her cough twice, and then said: "Originally, I could understand everything on it, but as I looked more and more, I found that I couldn't understand anything." ”

"So, I started looking for advice, but as you know, England is a relatively conservative country, and you can't talk about how God was created as an artistic image in front of a group of believers......"

"By chance, I got involved in an espionage case, met people from Moscow, and I talked to them all night, and they thought I had great potential and good skills, so they introduced me to the butler school."

"I found a lot of like-minded friends there, and we talked every night about ideas in books, from the Enlightenment to the School of Nature, from how Macbeth perished, to how Paul Kochagin and Daya fell in love......

Batman looked at Merkel opposite, and he noticed that Merkel's eyes flashed with a moving light when she said these words.

But for some reason, Batman doesn't have a real sense of everything he says, and he finds that he can't put himself in the shoes of others.

Although his intellect told him that, with Merkel's origins and experiences, it might have been the happiest time of his life, and now, they were companions and comrades-in-arms, he should have empathized with and rejoiced in such a story.

But Batman just didn't feel that way, and he heard Merkel turn around and talk about his hard training years.

"At that time, the teacher had to teach us a lot of self-preservation methods, requiring us to be strong, quick, and level-headed, and I did the first two things well, and the teacher often said that my martial arts talent was very good, the only problem was that my mind was not very level-headed."

Merkel pursed her lips, showed a regretful expression, and then said: "Because of this, I was not selected for the first game, and I could only go to the fifth game as an operational agent......

"If, according to you, your butler's school trains operational agents, that is, the kind of agents who do intelligence work, infiltration and assassination, then what do you teach in your culture class?" Batman asked.

"Of course, it's to raise awareness." Merkel said very seriously: "We must comprehensively study the theoretical knowledge left by our predecessors." ”

Merkel looked Batman in the eye and explained: "My teacher used to tell me that you must not think of yourself as a gun, and you must not shoot whoever tells you to do it. ”

Batman frowned, this was completely different from the agent training system he had learned, and it could even be said that it was the opposite of the training system, among the killers and agents he had learned, the most important thing was obedience.

"I know, you may be surprised, how can an organization require agents to not just obey orders and think for themselves, but I must first understand what I am working for in order to determine my level and ability."

"I am not driven by interests, fame and status to join this war, but for the sake of ideals, justice and light."

"I am not going to this war for my own sake, but for the sake of all mankind."

"I'm not going to this war for the present, but for the future."

"We must learn in the course of learning that I am devoted to this great cause because of my ideals, and that I am fighting for the future liberation of all mankind, which will make me never hesitate, hesitate or betray in any critical situation and in a serious situation."

"The thousands of predecessors who walked ahead of me, and it is precisely because of me, that they have such ideals in their hearts to achieve such great achievements."

In Batman's eyes, the bonfire burned more and more, and the warm red of the roots of the flame burned his eyes, making him feel a little chilly, but his blood was scolding.

In the beating of the flames, he saw as many figures walked by, as he had done that day, and the train speeding through the snowy fields, and the sound of trumpets through the cold and silent streets, and thousands of people coming from the firelight, and disappearing into the distance along the curling smoke.

Alfred was never willing to speak directly to Batman, and Schiller never spoke to him about ideals, so this was the first time that Batman was confronted head-on with a Bolshevik, a true idealist, a warrior still on this path.

This made him feel a shock, but he didn't know what the emotions that were surging in his heart and blood were.

Batman is a mentally ill person, this is not an insulting description, the mental trauma of childhood, is real.

At a time when the personality is not yet fully stabilized, any trauma can cause the human psyche to drift in the direction of mental illness in pathology.

This can lead to a lot of problems in subsequent personality development, for example, even if he does not have autism, he will still have the defects caused by the spectrum characteristics, that is, he will not be able to empathize with normal empathy in many cases.

Also like now, feeling overwhelmed by a certain sudden emotion and unable to deal with it.

Batman tilted his head to the side as if he was running away, trying to calm down, but Merkel seemed to see the purpose of his approach, and he said: "I think you may have encountered a little problem in the process of leading the team, so you want to ask my opinion." ”

"This is actually normal, the gap between the upper and lower limits of this group of demons in hell is too big, the intelligence of that group of dwarf demons is equivalent to that of a human seven or eight year old child, and some demons have good intelligence, but their thinking is too chaotic, and some are too irritable......"

"It's very difficult to lead such a team, I did learn some speech skills in the butler school, and Mr. Schiller also reminded me before, but, Mr. Wayne, these speech skills alone are not good for leading a team."

Merkel looked at Batman's eyes seriously and said: "You have to have an ideal first, and then you can use the ideal to infect others, and you must first firm up a path before you can lead your comrades on this path." ”

"If you want people to cheer up and fight for themselves, you have to know what you're fighting for."

"The truth is, if you can't find a way to answer all your questions, then you can't answer the questions of the group of people you want to liberate."

With Merkel's words, Batman fell into deep thought, and he did have to think about the question now, that is, what exactly is he fighting for?

Before, he would have replied that he was going to save Gotham.

But I don't know why, after listening to Merkel's previous speech, this goal suddenly became a little unspeakable.

Could he be able to tell these demons that he was going to save a very rotten city, so they should think hard, have themselves, and fight for themselves?

This simply doesn't make sense logically.

He can't even tell the people at the bottom of Gotham, I'm going to save Gotham, so you have to try to stand on your own feet and save yourselves.

He can't make the effort to save Gotham when his ideal is to save Gotham, so that the people of Gotham understand that he needs to save himself.

If you want to express this logic in a simple way, it is probably because it is an apple, so it is an apple.

To make a more vivid analogy, let's say, Merkel owns a building, and he points to this building and says to everybody else, you have to learn how to build this brick, and then we all have a building.

And Batman is holding a brick and saying to the others, you have to learn how to build this brick, and then this brick is built.

Sometimes, anti-aircraft guns must be used to fight mosquitoes, and the reason why an ideal is called an ideal is because it must be raised high enough and great enough to make people have the consciousness of sacrificing and fighting for the rest of their lives.

Saving Gotham, in practice, is difficult, perhaps even much more difficult than the work that Merkel has accomplished in her life, it can be a goal, but it cannot be an ideal.

Saving Gotham can be Batman's goal, and in order to accomplish this goal, he must have a greater ideal, and the ideological theory derived from it.

On the way to save Gotham, Batman can only get the improvement of technical theory, but he can't get any logical self-consistent, appealing, and all-encompassing ideas from it.

However, thought is precisely the sharpest blade necessary to save someone or something, advance the times, and change the pattern.