"Anti-Life Equation?" Stephen thought about it, and without waiting for Luke to answer, he denied the answer himself.

He had fought Darkseid, the owner of the anti-life equation, and had experienced the power that could distort human consciousness. Overall, Stephen also acknowledges the power of the anti-life equation, but it is not enough for Luke to rush to it.

And what Luke thinks is valid for the project in his hand should be related to the project, or at the same level. That kind of power and stuff, at least above the Infinity Stones.

Luke held out his hand to Stephen, "Can you give me the dark side of Bruce first?" ”

Stephen was a little stunned, he didn't seem to expect Luke to be interested in the dark side of Bruce. He looked at Bruce, who had no objection, and immediately took out the dark side of Bruce that he had put away, got up from his chair, and handed it to Luke. Then, he retreated to Bruce's side and watched Luke's move with him.

The black orb floated in the air in Luke's hand, and the air seeped out black gritty-like metallic sand, which combined into tiny parts, and then pieced together an instrument like a horizontal hourglass on the left and right, and the center point of the hourglass was the dark orb that Stephen handed over, which contained the dark side of Bruce.

The dark sphere was twisted and split apart in front of everyone's eyes, and the consciousness imprisoned inside turned into wisps of black mist, as if smelling the breath of freedom, and quickly overflowed along the cracked sphere to all sides, but soon they were hindered by a powerful force, layers of invisible barriers hindered them, and there was a force like a scalpel, cutting them with precision.

Two twisted apparitions were cut out, and two faces appeared in mid-air. One was the face of young Wayne, his body still haunted by the black abyss markers; The other is the Laughing Bat. He was unlucky, as an outsider who actively merged with the dark side of Bruce, he was also implicated by the abyssal attention that young Wayne called for.

It's hard to say that this wasn't in the Laughing Bat's plan, but he did let himself get in touch with the abyssal power of this universe through Bruce's dark side, and experienced it for himself.

With a wave of his hand, Luke reabsorbed young Wayne's share back into the Dark Orb and re-imprisoned. Then the device that opened the sphere seal and took on the function of a pocket intelligent soul operating table also collapsed into a dense network of hundreds of thousands of tiny parts in an instant, and then split into black metal sand again, covering Luke's left hand with a layer of gloves of unknown material.

"No." Luke tosses the dark orb in the direction where Bruce and Stephen are.

"You're here for him?" The levitating cloak behind Stephen stretched out a corner of his coat to wrap around the dark sphere, and obediently handed it to Stephen's hand. Stephen asked, looking at the soul projection of the dazed laughing bat in the void.

"To be precise, I'm here for his memory and the person behind it." Luke corrected it, and the soul of the laughing bat was compressed into an A4-sized, dictionary-thick book in the next moment. His hands tossed back and forth over the soul projection of the Laughing Bat, as if it were rummaging through a real book. The memories of each stage of the laughing bat are neatly arranged according to time on the catalog.

"Is there anyone behind him?" Stephen was stunned for a moment, his eyes swept over Bruce beside him, and his heart suddenly dawned. He wasn't surprised by this, after all, most of the things that involved dimensional invasions would have a behind-the-scenes mastermind.

He and Bruce were very interested in asking again, but looking at Luke's intently flipping through the books, they could only temporarily suppress their inner curiosity and desire to explore. Fortunately, Luke flipped through it quickly, and after only a few seconds, the book called the Laughing Bat was closed again, apparently having been read by Luke.

"Seen so fast?" Stephen was a little shocked by Luke's efficiency. He had always been confident in his memory and learning abilities, and he had read a lot of Kama Taj's treasured magic books in the middle of the night. But he also had to admit that if he had Luke's reading speed, he would have had much easier.

"I'm not interested in his other memories. There is no need to waste my time on it. Luke reached out and stroked the cover of the book, his eyes looked at Bruce and Stephen, and he shook the book in the air with his hand, and asked, "Is there anything you want to know?" ”

"Nope." Bruce shook his head, in the dream, he had gone through the harrowing experience of how the other person came to be like this, and he didn't want to recall that memory again. So as not to affect my own mental stability until now.

"I'm not interested in him either." Bruce shook his head, of course Stephen couldn't take the initiative to read the book of the Laughing Bat, and it had nothing to do with him, so why waste time?

"So, his ownership belongs to me, and it's okay for me to use it, right?" As Luke spoke, he looked at Bruce.

"Of course." Bruce understood what Luke meant, and he speculated that maybe Luke would do something inhumane to this soul next, and consulted his heterotopic beforehand. Although Bruce doesn't feel that there is any point in opposing and what can be stopped. But Luke showed an attitude, and he certainly wasn't uninteresting. The other party didn't touch his bottom line, did he?

"What are you going to do with him?" Stephen helped Bruce out.

"That's pretty good material." Luke gave an answer without concealment. "Its crystallization after death can open a passage for me to my destination. It's a guiding needle, Stephen. ”

"Is your material so, well, evil? Using the soul as a material? Bruce looked at the soul of the laughing bat that was constantly transforming in Luke's hands, and his eyes were complicated.

"In the mystical world, the soul itself is a mass material! The better the soul, the more sought after! And dimensional demon gods such as Mephisto will constantly ponder a person's soul according to their own power attributes, and carve it into what they want. Stephen explained.

"I just felt a little weird in my heart. After all, it's the self of another world. Bruce didn't have much sentimentality, judging from the dream, those blackened selves from other universes were obviously not good people, and each of them was burdened with the wail of the collapse of the universe.

"It's normal, didn't you notice? You are simply the best fusion agent in these universes! Anyone can merge with your soul, and any energy can be adapted to you. You are simply the glue of 10,000 years. Luke held a finished black pointer in his hand and gave Bruce a strange look.

Bruce was nervous by the look of interest in Luke's eyes, and he was quite scared that the next moment Luke suddenly gave him a sentence: "Do you want to contribute your body as material and be studied by me?" Something like that.

"Don't be nervous, I didn't study your mind. Your body data was in my database back the first time. I'm just giving you a glimpse of how special you are. Look at yourself in the dark legions who have a myriad of strange power traits, each of which is a combination of someone's soul and power. Obviously, the master messenger behind the scenes thinks that your material is very useful. Luke saw Bruce's nervousness and casually reassured him.

"When you say that, I don't know what emotions to express for a while." Bruce smiled wryly.

With a flick of Luke's finger, an illusory furnace spewed energy, and a sturdy man figure appeared out of nowhere, and then, under the stunned gaze of Bruce and Stephen, he threw an extremely illusory soul shadow into his body.

"Let him stay here for a while, and I'll go see Becky. You can also talk to him. Luke put the black hands away, and then a door was neatly drawn in the air behind him, and he reached out and pushed it open, turning around as he stepped inside.

"What is this?" Watching Luke step through the space door, Bruce and Stephen's eyes fell on the third person on the field.

It was an identical face to Bruce, and Luke thoughtfully created a loose fit for him like a hospital gown.

"Another you." Stephen opened his mouth.

"Of course I know it's another me." Bruce took a deep breath and pointed at the other party, "The question is, which one is he?" I understand that his skills are unreasonable, but what is it? ”

"Hmm!" Bruce let out a soft snort, he slowly opened his eyes, and then looked around vigilantly for a moment, until he saw Bruce and Stephen, and his body suddenly relaxed again.

"I'm sorry for causing trouble for you and your universe, Bruce." Bruce preempted the two of them in the hospital gown, and looked at Bruce with a somewhat guilty expression and apologized.

"Laughing Bat?" Stephen and Bruce looked at each other in unison, and then looked at the hospital gown in unison and Bruce asked.

"I don't want to hear that name from your mouths. Because it always reminds me of that nightmarish experience. Bruce hugged his head and squatted down, his face painful.

"What the hell is going on?" Bruce was a little dazed. He couldn't tell for a moment whether his mental state was still normal.

"Obviously, Luke helped him get back to normal." Stephen speculated. The illusory soul that was slapped into this body was the Laughing Bat that Luke had extracted. According to the original attributes, this should be a chaotic dark personality soul combined with the Joker, but it is now behaving so normally, if it is not disguised, it is obviously Luke who helped him relieve himself when extracting the material materials he needs.

"Cognitive modification?" Bruce thought of a possibility. Darkseid's anti-life equation, for example, has the ability to distort human consciousness, make people lose themselves, or degenerate into something else. With his knowledge of psionic energy, psionic energy also has a fairly high absolute priority in this regard. In other words, Luke can modify people's cognition, and it is not that he cannot understand it.

"No, I remember everything, I just went back to my pre-COVID self." Bruce rejects Bruce's speculation, he doesn't think his perception has been modified, because he remembers everything.

"Are you sure your memories are real and haven't been altered in any way?" Bruce was skeptical.

"I am you, and you should trust your own judgment." Bruce glanced strangely at his mood-swinging and unsteady self.

"This shouldn't be just a cognitive change." Stephen observed and came to his own conclusions. His words also caught the attention of the two Bruces, who all turned their eyes to listen to Stephen's opinion.

"Emotions are easily influenced by a variety of factors. But after being tainted by the nature of a powerful dark lord like the Laughing Bat, mere cognitive modification will not change his depravity.

In other words, simple cognitive modification can only make him falsely awake for a moment at most, and then under the influence of the power attribute, he will still degenerate and become what the power attribute represents. Stephen analyzed: "That method treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and it is difficult for the laughing bat to return to its true self." ”

The two Bruces nodded slowly. It's like cutting a waterfall, and if you don't stop the subsequent flow of water, the waterfall won't be cut off.

"So, it's not so much a cognitive change, I think there's also a change in the strength attribute! A force that opposes the main messenger behind the scenes, acting as a protective layer and a filter, protecting the spirit and soul of this Bruce from being forcibly polluted. Let him regain his original sanity and calm. Stephen continued, "In terms of opposing energy attributes, this is Luke's most proficient field. He can always find a way to restrain any energy and create energy with opposing attributes. ”

"But that doesn't stop him from arbitrarily altering and distorting people's spiritual souls like those dimensional demon gods, doesn't it?" Bruce narrowed his eyes, "The only difference from those dimensional demon gods in your mouth is that those dimensional demon gods may only have one power attribute pollution, while Luke can combine and match as he wants, allowing people to switch back and forth between the camps of justice, darkness, chaos, etc." ”

"I can't deny your words. But I don't think you need to worry too much about that. If he wanted to, you wouldn't be able to stop it, would you? Stephen spread his hands. (End of chapter)