Chapter 995: Battle for the Tower (29)
When he heard the word "mild", Batman put the word in his mouth again and tasted it, but this time, he didn't make a sound, and he could tell that the professor was not in a very good mood as the conversation deepened.
However, if things are really as he said, then this is indeed an unwarranted disaster, and the teacher at the freshman registration office asked for leave at a very bad time, but in the final analysis, Batman came at a bad time.
After giving up on delving into the term, Batman began to recall how Schiller had taught him as a teacher.
Before he could start thinking about it, he had to figure out, was Schiller really teaching him?
After thinking about it for a while, Batman found that the answer is yes, but the word "teaching" is also worth appreciating.
In his freshman and sophomore years, Schiller didn't actually tutor Batman in his studies, but at that time, Schiller always appeared in all the serious cases that Batman investigated.
Batman's most impressive time was when Fish, the female boss in Living Hell, died, and Batman conducted a series of investigations, and the result was because of Schiller's umbrella.
Later, Schiller and Jack dig out the eggs of laughter deep inside him, just as the yellow light invades, Batman and the others fight in their dreams, and Schiller finally gets Aisha out.
Later, Schiller went to Metropolis, Batman had to track down the clues of the murder in the mayor's manor, and then, the trip to Gotham in Cat City was still because Schiller stimulated the dream of a thousand cats.
In the first half of the slum tour, he had nothing to do with Schiller, but in the second half, he gave Bruce a fatal blow.
And this time, Batman will fall into hell, also because Schiller has fallen into hell.
In retrospect, it seems that every time there is an incident in which Schiller appears, Batman always learns something from it.
The wisdom of detectives who solve clues layer by layer, the skills of exploring strange dreams, the courage to fly to the deepest depths of the abyss to face the madness of reality, the strategy of participating in large-scale wars, and the perception of witnessing the revolutionary process......
In the initial incident, Batman is still firm in this answer, he wants to take revenge on the criminal, but with all kinds of ups and downs, magnificent events, Batman finds that he no longer has a definite answer.
When he was in the mines, Batman had rethought the question, what was he fighting for? What are his ideals? And what is his mind?
Is it revenge? Is it to save Gotham?
When thinking of these two answers, Batman instinctively felt dissatisfied, and it was difficult for him to tell where his dissatisfaction came from, as if such an answer was not worthy of his ups and downs along the way.
Batman feels that it is difficult for anyone to define their life simply with a word or a goal after so many things.
The less a person experiences and the smaller the world he knows, the easier it is to label himself with a narrow label, and then in the direction of the label, he constantly solidifies his thinking, looks for a sense of recognition in the circle with the same label, and then, cut off all opportunities to make a new choice, and embark on such a road without hesitation.
However, if the thrilling, ups and downs along the way are exciting enough, the scars left by overcoming thorns and thorns on the road, and the courage and wisdom exercised are enough, it is difficult for people to be satisfied with the achievements brought by a small label, which is why the right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life.
Batman feels a similar way, and if he devotes everything he's learned along the way to a goal like revenge on a criminal or saving Gotham, he always feels like he's losing out.
He had seen the sunset at sunset in Living Hell, the boundless Black Tide in the dream world, the treacherous and cunning in the Metropolis, the struggle against poverty and weakness in the slums, the roar of rock 'n' roll in Cattown, and the blood of the remnant sun in Hell.
Did he walk such a long way, suffer so many injuries, learn and perceive so many things, just to go to the streets to fight criminals?
Seeing that Batman was lost in thought, Schiller coughed lightly and said, "What you are thinking now is the answer to me now
state."
"Infected by the virus, I gave an answer that you wanted to hear the most at the time, but you and I both knew that it was not the right answer, neither the right answer for everyone, nor the right answer for you." Schiller sighed again, and continued:
"But for a long time after that, you believed it, or you always thought so, and for that reason, I had to do a lot of things to erase the wrong answers, to shake your conclusions, and then I could really go after a correct answer."
Schiller glanced down at himself, slowly retracted a somewhat crazy smile on the corner of his mouth, and said, "And just after you finished your trip to the slums, I have been trying for a long time without success, and I have made a breakthrough."
Fatalism is always mysterious, but there is another way for me to check your status, and that is if I try to become one with Schiller the Clown, the other half of the infected fragment, and by how smoothly the process goes, I will be able to judge if you have made new progress."
"After you came back from the slums, I tried it again on a routine basis, and then I found that we were able to merge for the first time in a short time."
"However, at this time, other problems have arisen." Schiller shook his head and said helplessly, "The software license has been reached, but the hardware can't be merged so easily."
"When I first arrived in Gotham, the superego realized that this is a very dangerous city, and he needs some strong personality to support my actions and keep me from getting into danger."
"However, many powerful personalities are too aggressive, and after they are released. I wasn't in danger anymore, but Gotham University was, so the superego chose arrogance, a personality fragment that was both a negative trait but not so aggressive."
"But also, for some special reason, complete arrogance cannot directly float the watchmaking consciousness, so the superego divides them into two."
"The superego is not a personality fragment, he is the collective consciousness of all personality fragments, the equivalent of the administrator of my soul, he has great power and authority."
"Therefore, when he cut the fragments of his personality, he divided them very thoroughly, and at the same time, he used a mysterious power to make the wounds after the division heal quickly, leaving no scars at all."
"So, when I wanted to merge with the other half of the pieces, I realized that we had actually become two complete pieces, and it was very difficult to become one again."
"I think you should know that when carrying out plant grafting, both sides must have wounds to have the possibility of fusion, that is to say, we in our heyday have no way to fuse."
After Konstantin made the city full of broccoli, you only saw that I was in a state of weakness, but the other half of my personality fragment, the clown Schiller, was also in a state of weakness."
"At this time, I realized that the opportunity had come, and the two of us were now in an extremely weak state, and as long as the wound was artificially created, there was a chance to merge back together."
"That's why I let the FBI agents take me away, I thought they were going to get me to Washington and torture me to extract a confession, which might irritate my spirit and create a wound for fusion......
Schiller shook his head helplessly and said, "But I really didn't expect that the people they sent would not even be able to get out of Gotham."
"The plan to use torture to extract confessions failed, and I had to find another way, I thought, if we are subject to the body, then we must look for mental stimulation in order to bring psychological trauma, but if there is no physical body, we can directly hurt the soul and create wounds."
Batman and Schiller looked at each other, and Schiller said, "So, I killed myself and fell into hell."
"As you observed before, I'm in a bit of a precarious state, and it's because we're trying to merge." After saying that, Schiller glanced at General Rotten Heart and said, "After coming to the mine, I realized that the opportunity had come, and this brutal mine master should be able to create a wound that satisfies me."
Schiller glanced down at himself
"He did a good job, but to my surprise, I couldn't do a smooth fusion with a wound alone, because I needed a lot of energy during the fusion process."
Schiller peeled off the bottom half of a piece of roasted, slightly charred skin, put it in his mouth with a fork, and said, "So I asked him to give me some extra help."
"Perhaps. You've heard for a long time that powerful demons can devour weak demons, but in fact, human souls can do the same, and we can devour demons too."
"Of course, the strength of human souls is not comparable to that of demons in any way." Schiller glanced at General Rotten Heart again, smiled and said, "But what humans are best at is using tools."
"Even if I could devour an entire demon, I wouldn't take such a barbaric approach, humans have to eat with utensils, chew slowly, we are too long away from the era when Ru Mao drank blood."
After saying that, Schiller took the plate from the strange demon's hand, put the freshly roasted belly meat into his plate, cut it into small pieces, and put it in his mouth.
Batman was still in a trance of thinking, and after listening to Schiller's story, he finally understood what was going on with the professor's attitude as if he had an enmity with him, that was not as if, Schiller had an enmity with him.
Batman was sure that Schiller must have had a personal vendetta when he taught him to find the answer to this question, but he had no evidence, and he suspected that there was no teaching in it.
At first, he thought that Schiller was a criminal, because he was not used to seeing vigilantes, so he targeted him everywhere, and later, he thought that Schiller was a psychopath, because he was not used to seeing normal people, so he targeted him everywhere, but now it seems that Schiller's actions have very clear motives and goals.
All the seemingly abnormal targeted actions come from what happened when they first met, and the cause and effect match is logical and reasonable.
In other words, although Schiller is sick, his actions against Batman are not because of illness.
So if, Schiller's behavior is normal, who is abnormal?