bookbashuk Chapter 2463: Battle for the Cloak (9)
Chapter 2463: Battle for the Cloak (9)
Chapter 2463: Battle for the Cloak (XIX)
"I think there are a few rules we can summarize." Dick said as he walked. "First, we can't stay in one place for too long in the thick fog, otherwise we will attract those eyes. Although we don't know what will happen after being watched by those eyes, I think it will definitely not be a good thing, so it's best not to stay in one place for too long."
"Secondly, the actions we take in the fog will be retained after the fog dissipates and will not be reset, so every decision must be made with caution."
"And the space in the thick fog is chaotic. The image of the door seems to play a big role. It is very likely that you will enter another new space by pushing open a door, so you must be careful when opening the door."
"Different time streams may appear in the final fog. Changes to the past are likely to affect the future, but these results can coexist. Therefore, before making a decision to modify the past timeline, it is necessary to consider what may happen in the future."
Dick and the Nightwing of the main universe were walking on the streets of Gotham. They believed that even if the Nightwing of the Arkham universe temporarily lost his mind and wanted to chase the figure deep in the fog, he would definitely remember his original purpose and go to the target location to meet up, so even if there was no car, they could just walk there.
"Anything else to add?" Dick looked at Nightwing in the main universe and asked. Nightwing seemed to have just realized something. He was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Actually, I was thinking about Batman. They all think that Batman should have returned to Gotham after his disappearance. If he is in Gotham now, how will he deal with this fog?"
Dick immediately thought of the shocking blood that Red Hood saw in the Capitol. That was Batman's blood, and Batman would not bleed so much for disguise, which meant that he was indeed in bad condition.
How should a seriously injured man move in the dense fog? Will he be caught up by those eyes? Or fall into a trap that is out of control?
They all began to feel worried, more concerned about Batman's current situation than their own, and stopped discussing the issue and instead began to think about what had happened to Batman and the others.
The other two groups of Robins and the main universe Batman who is currently operating underground in Gotham have encountered similar things, except that the patterns on Robin's side are more obvious, while what happened to Batman is completely disorganized and chaotic.
The moment the thick fog invaded, Batman put on a gas mask, but the sewer he was exploring kept extending forward, and Batman remembered that the sewer was not that long.
Whether walking forward or backward, this sewer seems to have no end. There is a door on the fork in the middle, but it cannot be pushed open at all. Every time Batman passes by the door, the door changes its appearance, as if there is a different world behind the door.
After walking a few times, Batman found himself trapped in a loop. After walking a certain distance along the endless waterway, he would return to the starting point, which meant that he became a hamster in a hamster cage.
Batman naturally discovered that if he stayed too long, he would see eyes on various reflective surfaces, but he was bolder than Robin in that he did not succumb to the fear the eyes brought him, but waited until almost the last second to see what the eyes were going to do.
Until the last second, Batman found that it was himself who appeared in his field of vision. He felt that he had become those eyes with many broken visions. He became the thing staring at himself, watching himself running for his life like an ant in an endless cycle.
His figure appeared in the field of vision in countless past, present and future, until Batman could no longer bear this huge amount of information, he stopped testing this huge eye.
He regarded this as a spiritual attack, because once humans saw that the future, which they often regarded as mysterious and unknowable, was clearly visible in the eyes of another creature, their every choice was manipulated, and the bright future they thought they had fought for by strategizing and changing their fate was still just the result of the selection of the superiors. Their hopes and beliefs might collapse in an instant.
Batman didn't because he knew clearly that it was actually like this in daily life, but it was not so intuitive, and humans were always good at deceiving themselves. Batman had realized the truth of the world more than others and understood his own destiny more clearly, so he was still shocked, but not afraid.
This is not the case with King Robin. If one word must be used to describe his mental state, it would be “protagonist”.
He has always believed that he is and has always been the master of his own destiny. Thomas and Martha have always disciplined him and prevented him from exploring the world by his own means, including but not limited to killing animals and doing some minor dismantling and destruction.
But they do not have such power. King Robin has always believed that he is free and noble. Those things that died and were destroyed for him are just the price he should pay on his journey of exploration. It is their honor to endure death and destruction.
The same was true for Thomas and Martha. After becoming tired of his parents' discipline, Robin King planned a murder and shot his parents in the alley on the way out of the movie theater.
When the police arrived, he put on a perfect disguise and acted out all the emotions that a child who was devastated by the murder of his parents could show. In this way, he became an innocent victim and finally got everything he wanted.
Then he began to slaughter all the superheroes in his universe. Just like what he did in this universe, those superheroes were vulnerable to the little props he made using the savings of the Wayne Group. The whole process was even boring to the point of boring him.
Until one day a madman came. He had a pale face and a big mouth that almost took up his entire face. He described the origin of the universe's nothingness to King Robin and invited him to join his team.
King Robin was full of surprise and hope, but the first blow he suffered was when he discovered that this madman was converting Robins from various universes in batches.
He threw them into a chemical pool, making them pale and hunched, like underground creatures. The transformed Robins had no self-awareness, and King Robin could not accept this.
So he made a small pill. As long as he swallowed it, he would still be conscious after being transformed. But unfortunately, the madman acted too quickly, and King Robin was thrown into the chemical pool before he could swallow the pill.
In a rage, King Robin spit the pill directly into the chemical pool, which would allow all the transformed Robins to retain a certain degree of self-awareness. The madman just watched all this indifferently and told him that everything he did was in vain.
This was just a little friction that happened between them before. There was no doubt that even though King Robin was defeated, he still had to obey the orders of this madman and travel to one universe after another to collect more information about Batman for him.
This is also the reason why King Robin chose the Arkham Knight universe. The guy who calls himself the Batman Who Laughs said that he is a combination of Batman and the Joker. So he finds another combination and forces him to tell him the secret, and naturally he can find the weakness of the Batman Who Laughs.
Unfortunately, Batman's plan for the Arkham Knight universe did not go smoothly, and that's not the only thing that went wrong. Robin King just experienced his worst nightmare ever.
When the thick fog came, King Robin was prepared, but he did not take out his gas mask because he thought he was afraid of the mastermind behind it. He didn't care what the nature of the fog was, he had to fight head-on.
When he pushed open the door of the office, he found himself back at his home in Wayne Manor. Everything was as dull as usual and extremely boring.
The only difference is that Thomas and Martha, who now appear in the manor, no longer seem to pursue a comprehensive elite education. Instead, they advocate academic excellence.
Thomas and Martha always say study, study, and study. If you don't study, you'll be unworthy of your parents' efforts. If you don't study, you'll be betraying the Wayne family's ancestors who laid such a great foundation. If you don't get good grades, you'll be unworthy of being the heir of the Wayne family. If you can't get better grades than everyone else, you'll be unworthy of anyone's attention.
King Robin didn't feel anything about this at first, because he had always been the top student in the class, and studying was not difficult at all for him. It could be said that it took him no effort at all.
Since the mastermind behind this wants to play this game, King Robin will naturally let him see what a true genius is.
So on the first day of school, King Robin took back all the perfect test papers, but Thomas and Martha just said lightly that although you got full marks, there must be others with full marks in the school, and you just did what you should do.
King Robin was a little angry, but it was true. After all, he was still in elementary school. It was too easy to get full marks on the test paper in elementary school. Of course, he was not the only one who got full marks in the school.
So in the next few days, he poisoned the water dispenser in the school, causing most of the good students to have diarrhea during the exam. He was the only one who got full marks.
In the end, Thomas and Martha told him that he was just lucky. Although the others did not perform well in the exam, they still had the knowledge and would definitely surpass him next time.
How could King Robin accept this? In the following time, they got full marks in every exam and became the undisputed number one in the grade, but the objects of comparison were brought to the primary schools in the entire community.
In addition to test scores, he needs to get up three hours early to learn a musical instrument, learn dancing, etiquette, and social skills after school, and teach himself junior high school, high school, and university knowledge in advance.
Studying itself was not a difficult task for King Robin. He could handle all courses with ease and even achieved better results than expected.
Thomas and Martha's attitude is always a nightmare, because no matter what achievements King Robin makes, he can't even get a decent evaluation. All he can get is "it was just luck" and "I have to do better next time."
(End of this chapter)