The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

Chapter 2524 The Battle for the Cloak (Fifty-four)

Chapter 2498 Battle for the Cloak (Fifty-four)

Batman and Batwoman are looking for Bruce's location, and they know that the key to all this may still be tied to Batman in this universe.

It was actually not difficult to find Bruce. Although the female police officer refused to reveal more, considering Gordon's personality, the community where they lived was not too far from the police station, and considering their financial situation, there was no choice. There are not many communities left.

Batman and Batwoman have basically searched their surroundings, and now there are only two target communities left. They plan to go to one of them, but when they are walking on the road, the surrounding space suddenly changes.

To be precise, the entire dreamland changed. Suddenly, the surrounding space and time began to change rapidly, making the two of them feel like they were in the center of a storm.

Shrubs turned green and yellow, yellow and green again, leaves grew and withered, flowers bloomed and withered, street signs began to become old and decayed, and the road surface began to become bumpy.

Batman lowered his head and saw the hands of the watch on his arm rotating rapidly, and in the end he could almost only see the afterimage.

"Time is moving forward!!!" Batwoman shouted.

Suddenly, the storm stopped.

What appeared in front of them was still the familiar street, but the scenery had changed greatly. Some of the original storefronts were still there, and some were moved away. The ones left behind had become a bit shabby, and the ground had just been painted. The zebra crossings have become mottled, the trees have grown taller, and the style of posters on the walls has jumped an era.

When Batman looked at his watch, he found that 20 years had passed.

"What's going on?" Batwoman frowned and looked around and said, "Time skipped, who can control it... Oh, this is a dream."

Both of them realized that it was not that someone really manipulated the time of the universe, but that dreams were always like this, or rather, the common time montage in movies was actually inspired by dreams.

No one will go through all the details of ten years in a dream. Most of them will arrive ten years later in one jump, or simply ten years later and ten years ago.

As the protagonist of the dream, if he does not realize that he is dreaming, or deliberately regards this place as the real world, then he will not think there is anything wrong with this jump, and they will think that ten years have really passed.

"The creator of the dream fast forwarded twenty years." Batman said: "What was his purpose for doing this? What did he want to do?"

Batcat and Little Krypton followed Crocodile Cat and continued to search in the sewers. Soon they deduced more clues by following the traces of the previous half of the footprints. Combined with the witness testimony of Crocodile Cat, they began to approach a certain target location. .

After turning a corner in the sewer, he finally saw a glimmer of light at the end. Batcat cautiously approached it, only to find that it was the crack of an open door.

He poked his head over and took a look, and found that the room was dark, with only the back of a seated person and a screen playing.

Batcat recognized that the back figure seemed to be a certain Batman. He crept in along the crack of the door, squatted behind the chair and looked at the screen.

A videotape of a certain family seemed to be playing on the screen. It was a very happy family of three, a father, mother and a little daughter.

"Hey, Gwen, where's Annie's hat? I remembered to bring it. Where did you put it?"

"Maybe it's in the picnic basket." The gentle and beautiful lady turned around to dig through her bag and said, "Anyway, it's definitely not here with me. Maybe you can look in the trunk of the car."

"We have to convince her to wear it, otherwise she'll get sunburned again. Okay, I'll go to the car and have a look."

The man walked towards the car, and a figure with white hair on the sideburns came out of the driver's seat, stuffed the bag into the man's arms and said, "Peter, you are still so careless, you almost forgot this bag at the entrance. If it weren't for your aunt, no one would be wearing a hat today."

The man called Peter smiled sheepishly and said, "Thank you, uncle. Where is aunt?"

"When she was halfway there, she said she had forgotten the honey seasoning, which is a secret ingredient necessary for Parker's barbecue, so she turned around and went back to get it. She arrived soon. Where is Mr. Todd?"

"He'll be here soon... Oh, is that his car? I'll pick him up." Peter walked quickly towards the other end of the lawn.

The person who stepped out of the car was Jason, who was already middle-aged. Peter was much younger than him, but both of them were obviously middle-aged.

Another lady got out of the passenger seat of the car, and two half-year-old children jumped out of the back seat of the car. One was probably in junior high school, and the other was still young.

"Oh! Polly and Reed!" Peter stepped forward and hugged them one by one, holding one by the other and saying, "Let's go, Mr. Todd and Miss Todd. Anne has been waiting for you for a long time and is clamoring to be with you." You play with blocks together.”

The Batcat in front of the screen almost immediately recognized the Peter as Peter Parker, and the one called Todd was Jason Todd.

Batcat walked around the chair and jumped onto the armrest. He saw Arkham Batman sitting in the chair with tears streaming down his face.

The scars on Jason's face have disappeared, and it can be seen that he is older than Batman on the screen. He is old but not weak, his face is red and full of energy.

More importantly, his eyes were very calm. The storm of anger that often blew in his eyes during his youth had long since subsided, and the raging waves had returned to calm, appearing peaceful, stable and happy.

"Jason..." Arkham Batman muttered to himself, calling his name, and he didn't even react when the bat cat jumped on him.

"What's wrong with you, Batman?" The bat cat shook its claws in front of him, and climbed up his arm to his shoulder.

Arkham Batman didn't answer. He had been concentrating and even greedily watching the scene on the screen, watching Jason's happy smile between his wife and children.

Batcat frowned deeply. He could feel that this was very wrong, and then he heard Arkham Batman whispered: "Yes, this is the life he should live, this is..."

"What are you crazy about?!" Batcat interrupted him and said, "You can't be so easily deceived by illusions? You are Batman."

"This is not an illusion!!!"

Arkham Batman suddenly roared, scaring the bat cat.

Batcat was stunned, then stepped on his shoulder with his paw and said: "You should know that it is not difficult to make similar movies? I can understand that you want to find a spiritual sustenance, but this is too much..."

Arkham Batman squeezed the armrests deeply, closed his eyes and said in a trembling tone: "Jason is a good boy. If I hadn't picked him up, he would definitely live such a life. He is very smart, very capable, and very strong. Of course, he can..."

"Instead of...instead of..."

Arkham Batman's voice gradually weakened. After all, he was not good at expressing his emotions with words.

"Do I have the power to judge?" Arkham Batman repeated Spider-Man's words, "Let a child suffer in exchange for the safety of another group of people, what qualifications do I have to make such a decision?"

"No, wait a minute!" Batcat shouted: "Wake up!! You are Batman, why are you crazy?!"

"I'm not crazy! You are crazy!" Arkham Batman began to roar again, "What's wrong with letting him live like this?! This is what he deserves! This is what I, this society and this world owe him!"

"But this is not true!" Batcat He raised his voice and said, "This is a dream world, this..."

"As long as you can't wake up, this is not a dream!"

Arkham Batman stood up from the chair, picked up Batcat, looked at him with shining eyes and said, "I know who sent me here. I'm not dizzy, I'm not crazy, and I'm not trapped here. He told me that he could show me what Jason Todd really wanted... He did it!"

Batcat bit Arkham Batman's hand with a whine, and jumped down suddenly when he was in pain, standing in the distance and watching Arkham Batman vigilantly.

Although he is a cat, he is also Batman. How can he not understand that someone has bewitched Arkham Batman, and to be precise, he has used his mental loopholes very accurately.

Even if Jason said he didn't mind, even if Jason said it was nothing, how could Batman really let it go? How could he shamelessly think that as long as the victim forgave, all this could be wiped out?

What's more, the victim is impossible to forgive, Batman himself has never forgiven the criminal.

Of course they have to look forward and move forward, but the most terrifying thing about this kind of trauma is that you know clearly that no matter how broad the road ahead is, your past is constantly rotting, until one day this rot will catch up with you, until your future is also worn out.

Batman can't allow this to happen. He thinks that letting Jason continue in this state is nothing more than repeating the same mistakes. He has to find a new way for Jason, and there must be a new way.

It's better to go against him, the farther away from him, the better, because he knows that the road he is taking now is not what he wants, but more like a terminal illness and no cure.

The person who put him here made a bet with him, saying that Jason will certainly have a bright future, as long as he looks here, he will definitely see what he wants to see.

Yes, he did see it. It turns out that the end of this road is at the starting point. If Jason hadn't been picked up by him, if Jason wasn't a superhero, he would have lived such a happy life.

Batman knew Jason could do it, because he was so smart and strong, and he could thrive on the streets of Gotham when he was young. He could at least marry and have children, and live an ordinary life.

How could he not want to? Batman thought, during the days of wandering on the streets, Jason's greatest expectation was probably this, right? It was his intervention that provided him with a goal that could not be called a goal, a dead end that he himself could not walk through.

"There is still a chance to save it, there is still a chance to save it." Arkham Batman muttered to himself: "He chose this path, and he also thinks it is good, so just like this... just like this..."

He stumbled and wanted to walk out the door, but was soon stopped by Krypton, who yelled at him, and Batcat ran out at the fastest speed, chasing after Arkham Batman and shouting.

"Wake up! If that was really Jason, he was also bewitched, and this is not true!!!"

Arkham Batman's steps suddenly stopped. He turned his head and glared at Batcat fiercely and said: "So you think he should be a superhero regardless of everything, sacrifice himself, and uphold justice. He will never deserve such peace and happiness." Days, right?”

"But he is not a rich man, nor a super genius. He is just an orphan living on the streets of Gotham. He suffered from poverty and hunger when he was young, and was unfortunately kidnapped and tortured by brutal criminals. Why on earth would he do this? Pay more?”

"He is sick, his spirit has collapsed, and he has no ability to be a hero..." Arkham Batman's tone was trembling to the point of breaking, and his voice gradually disappeared into the silent and dark sewer.

"He no longer has such responsibility..."

I ate the most delicious rabbit in my life!