bookbashuk Chapter 2464: Battle for the Cloak (2)
Chapter 2464: Battle for the Cloak (2)
Chapter 2464: Battle for the Cloak (Twenty)
Is King Robin a person who does not seek fame or fortune?
Of course not, on the contrary, he is an attention-driven personality, which is also a common problem among many patients with antisocial personality disorder. Many of their antisocial behaviors are aimed at attracting extra attention from others. The attention of others is an addictive poison to them. The entire character of the Joker was created based on this logic.
They crave an audience, a sense of existence, and feedback from the entire society and human group. In addition to positive feedback such as cheering and applause, stimulating feedback such as screaming and fear is better.
King Robin is actually fully capable of dissecting the small animals without letting Thomas and Martha find out. He has a thousand ways to destroy all the evidence before they come back, but he won't do that.
Because for him, the physiological structure of small animals is not attractive enough. What really fascinates him is the fear and screams of Thomas and Martha when they discover the animal corpses. That will give King Robin a strange sense of existential satisfaction.
They naturally like to see their own kind express stimulating emotions such as fear. Some studies have suggested that this may be because they still retain some primitive hormones, and their own kind's warnings about dangerous beasts, such as the smell and screams of fear, stimulate their adrenaline and make them feel excited.
In primitive society, this was a necessary condition for fighting against the enemy, and when it was preserved, it could easily become a source of psychological pleasure for these antisocial people.
If in modern society there is no external enemy that is strong enough to make people feel fear and thus give them the pleasure of excitement through group fear signals, then they will play the role of such a strong enemy themselves to get enough pleasure.
So King Robin always breaks the rules in front of Martha and Thomas again and again, because his parents' screams and fear are the source of his pleasure.
But in fact, if there is no such stimulation, then positive feedback is also acceptable. For example, if someone is amazed by him and he becomes the focus of everyone's attention, it can also give him short-term satisfaction.
However, in this illusion created by thick fog, King Robin knew that it was an illusion. He just wanted to compete with the mastermind behind the scenes in this way, similar to "I want to see what kind of illusion you can create to defeat me."
Before this, King Robin thought he had no weaknesses, but he soon discovered that the mastermind knew him better than he thought.
Because in this fantasy, everyone is like a greedy machine. They have set unimaginably high expectations of what King Robin can achieve, so that no matter how good King Robin's results are, they feel it is not enough.
What really made King Robin feel overwhelmed was that they had their own logic instead of just reciting lines directly.
Because King Robin had tried to argue with Thomas, he pointed out various examples to prove that what he had learned and what he had achieved were far beyond common sense, and the other party should express amazement, and if he did not, it proved that he was a fake.
But Thomas came up with his own logic: First, are you doing better than the people around you?
King Robin certainly thought so. Not only did he perform better than everyone else, he also made the best progress in all his hobbies.
Thomas then asked, are you better than others in terms of morality?
Although King Robin was unwilling to admit it, in order to defeat the mastermind behind the scenes, he did not do anything illegal in this environment, was always a good guy, and even performed two heroic acts and was summoned by the mayor.
Then Thomas asked, is your family background better than others?
This is an established fact, and King Robin cannot lie with his eyes open. At this time, the Wayne Group is not the richest man in the world, but just a local prominent family.
So Thomas raised the issue and said, since you are worse at housework than others, you should do better than others because the early bird catches the worm.
Well, now King Robin knew which direction to work towards, so it only took him a few months to make Wayne Group bigger and stronger, and it became the world's number one. Now he is not only the son of the world's richest man, but also the world's richest man himself.
As a result, Thomas came up with a new set of logic, which is the theory of effort. Do you think you have worked hard enough?
King Robin said, I have made my family the richest in the world within a few months, isn’t that enough effort?
Thomas asked again, do you think you work harder than others?
King Robin’s answer was of course yes.
But Thomas then inferred that your starting point is higher than others, and others' family background is far inferior to yours, but they can also be second or third in the world. Isn't it because they work harder than you?
Very good, now we have entered a vicious circle. When the family background is not good, Thomas says that it is normal for the early bird to fly. When the family background is good, Thomas says that it is normal to achieve success with a high starting point.
King Robin felt that he could no longer debate this point, so he stated that among his peers all over the world, he was number one, and this was an indisputable fact.
As a result, Thomas said that compared with people of the same age, they are neither better than the best nor worse than the worst. Instead of comparing with the good ones, they only compare with the bad ones. Why can't you compare with people of all age groups?
So King Robin conducted some more scientific research and presented his results in front of Thomas, saying that no one in the human race could compare to him now.
Then Thomas asked, have you compared yourself with the great men in history? If you were put in that situation in history, could you do better than the great men? You are just blessed by the good environment.
In a rage, Robin directly launched a war, dragging all mankind into the abyss of war, and then built a foundation from scratch, successfully unified the earth, and proved that he did better than anyone in history.
Thomas said, even if you are doing well now, how do you know you won't do better in the future? If you are proud and complacent now, you will never have the opportunity to surpass yourself.
How would King Robin compare himself to his future self? He raised this question, and Thomas pulled out his trump card: You were more adorable when you were carefree as a child. Now you are too utilitarian and have completely lost your original intention. Your mother and I are very disappointed.
King Robin was speechless.
It's not that he really couldn't do anything to Thomas and Martha. Of course he could kill them easily, but he regarded this as a competition and confrontation, and he had to defeat the opponent head-on. In this case, if he got angry and attacked them, it would be equivalent to admitting defeat.
Of course he knew that this was a dead end, but he thought that with his own strength, even if it was a dead end, he could still find a way out, so why not?
What he expected was that the other party would be so shocked by his great achievements that he would be speechless and would no longer be able to find any faults, or at least would begin to engage in sophistry and nitpick. In this way, King Robin would be able to ridicule the mastermind behind the scenes and find faults in his achievements because he could not deny them.
But now he discovered that Thomas and Martha possessed an all-round defensive logic with no blind spots. It was not a sophistry logic made up or forced out on the spot by the mastermind behind the scenes in order to win the duel, but there really were such people in the world.
They have their own set of thinking logic that is independent of the rest of the world, and it is interconnected, and they can always end up in negation.
If you stand out in one group, they say you are a fluke, and if you stand out in all groups, they say there must be others.
If you compare month-on-month, they say your increase is not big enough. If you compare year-on-year, they say you are not working hard enough.
If you are truly the best among the living, they will compare you with the dead. If you are the best in history, they will start comparing you with the future.
If you have done all of the above to the best of your ability, and even refuted them speechlessly with real evidence, they will say that you have forgotten your original intention, and that the ignorant, backward and know-nothing you are more innocent and likable.
Then if you decide to ignore them and just move on, they will say that you are not listening to other people's opinions and are insisting on having your own way, and will jump out and say "Na na na na na, I told you so" whenever you make any little mistake.
If you decide to listen to them, reflect on yourself and make improvements, let go of everything and return to your original intention, they will say that you are too irresponsible, that you are capable of taking responsibility but you evade it, that you only care about your own ideas and have no sense of social responsibility. When you encounter any problems in the future, they will jump out and say "I wish I had done this in the past".
In short, no matter how well you do or what choices you make in the process, these people will not be satisfied. It seems that the purpose of their existence is to disgust every arrogant genius and let them understand that even if they conquer the entire universe, they cannot conquer the mouths of this group of people.
They just stood there quietly, like smelly and hard stones in a cesspool. Even if someone transformed the cesspool into a paradise, they would still be able to spray shit from their mouths due to the shit in their stomachs.
And a super genius like King Robin who thinks he has the world under control will always realize at a certain moment a desperate fact - somewhere in this corner of the world that praises his achievements, somewhere in this corner of the world that surrenders and trembles at his power, this group of people will never change their minds.
No matter you destroy or create the world, no matter you change or surpass yourself, they always have their own theories and are very happy to deny you. Recognition and sincere praise of others never exist in their lives.
For a wise man who doesn't care about other people's eyes, the existence or non-existence of this group of people is meaningless, but is King Robin such a wise man? Of course not, the core of his personality is the desire for attention.
But this was not the kind of attention he wanted, it made him feel like he was covered in shit, and young King Robin didn't realize that the first moment he realized it was shit, he should have stayed away from it instead of trying to throw a bomb into the toilet head-on.
Unable to bear it any longer, Robin King killed Thomas and Martha, just as he had done in his own universe.
Then, he experienced the most disgusting moment of his life.
"See, Martha, I told you before that Bruce is just like this. No matter what achievements he makes, he will never be good to his parents. He is a hypocrite." Thomas said this while lying in a pool of blood.
"Yes, Thomas, you are right. We expected this a long time ago, didn't we? No matter how many disguises he put on, he couldn't hide it from his parents. We are the only people in the world who know his true face. The restrictive measures we took were correct. Now he really did it. He is really a born bad guy."
"It's a pity that the world has ignored our foresight, but it doesn't matter. They will soon pay the price for their contempt for our opinions. This evil bad guy will soon slaughter the whole world."
"Yes, but this is the price they should pay for their stupidity. We have said it before..."
Thomas and Martha died.
King Robin really vomited, physically vomited.
(End of this chapter)