OBS Chapter 2874: The Battle of the Brick People! (28)
Chapter 2874: The Battle of the Brick People! (28)
Chapter 2874: The Battle of the Brick People! (Twenty-eight)
Batman's team passed the fifth floor without any danger. The sixth floor was a quagmire. There were some problems here. The vines above that could be used for pulling were a little too loose. Batman went up and pulled them, and he harvested a brand new vine.
"Are you telling me that cultists have to go through this kind of ordeal every day before they can return to their bedrooms?" Batman was puzzled.
Superman and Wonder Woman have nothing to say. They know that this is indeed a bit too abrupt, but it doesn’t matter. As long as they are involved enough, it will all be true.
"I think we should call on our partners who are better at handling this." Martian Manhunter suggested, "Let Aquaman come."
"Are you sure he's good at dealing with the swamp?" Batman asked doubtfully, and Superman deliberately brought up the Court of Owls.
"Remember the mysterious organization we saw in the secret room?" Superman asked, "I suspect this may not be their residence, but just a trap before they leave."
Batman nodded and ignored Martian Manhunter. He planned to contact Aquaman. After thinking for a while, he said, "They must be very cunning and evil. I have been in Gotham for so many years and I didn't notice that there is such a magnificent ancient city underground."
"Maybe there's a loophole in your surveillance." Wonder Woman said, "But I can understand that. Who would stare at the sewer for no reason?"
Superman didn't want to talk to them about this anymore, so he guided Batman and said, "Do you think they have anything to do with that evil clone with the glowing red eyes?"
"I think that's the weapon they left behind." Batman said, "They want to replace me with another Batman and trap me here forever. I won't let their evil plan succeed."
"By the way." Batman looked at Superman again and asked, "You said the recycling program was a scam. What's going on? What do you know?"
"I'm sorry, but that's what the evil Batman told me. I'm not sure if what he said is true, so I didn't explain it to you in detail. I was afraid of interfering with your judgment." Superman was surprisingly frank everywhere. He spread his hands and said, "He said that there is actually no raw material recycling plan, and the so-called life factor does not exist. It was the Court of Owls that misled your parents..."
"Tell me more about it."
"He said that the Court of Owls had long ago mixed a toxin into the buildings of Gotham. In addition to driving the people of Gotham crazy, it also slowed down the speed at which their bodies repair themselves, as if some raw material was insufficient."
"Then they revealed the concept of the so-called life factor to the Waynes, so that they would think that they could replenish the life factor by recycling themselves and save the world. In this way, they would lead the previous generation of superheroes to self-destruction, and the Court of Owls would be able to wipe out all the superheroes without fighting."
Everyone else gasped, and Martian Manhunter said, "This is too dark. How can this organization called the Court of Owls be so evil?"
"But the shortage of raw materials isn't limited to Gotham," Batman said. "Isn't it also happening in Metropolis?"
"We can't prove it because we lack something in our collective." Superman shook his head and said, "The Waynes are the only ones who have come up with this theory, but they didn't leave any reliable research data. There are only conclusions, but no process."
Batman wanted to refute very much. He felt that his parents would not be such aimless people. But it was just as Superman said, all the research materials left by the Waynes only contained results, which only showed that there was indeed such a life factor, but it was not clear how they came to this conclusion.
Batman is also a scientist. He knows that results without a demonstration process are unreliable. He cannot confidently say that there is no problem just because the people doing the research are his parents.
"In other words, the weakening of the body's self-repair ability may be a natural phenomenon?" Wonder Woman frowned and said, "Are we doomed to be destroyed?"
Superman thought of Schiller's theory again. Their body's ability to repair itself has weakened, probably because their universe has not been chosen and is about to be forgotten.
What caused the universe to be forgotten was the choice made by the Waynes and the previous generation of superheroes. Because this sacrifice was too cruel and was not accepted by some people with the right to vote, their universe was destroyed.
And assuming that someone actually misled the Waynes about this life factor theory, then their purpose was actually to use the Waynes to do such a cruel thing so that the universe would not be chosen.
And their plan was almost half successful.
They achieved their goal many years ago, and now they have released the cloned Batman, with the purpose, as Batman himself said, to cause greater casualties.
Seeing ordinary people suffer, the superheroes cannot sit idly by. When they see countless lives being lost, they will probably make the same choice as the Waynes.
But if this is the case, and the cruel thing happens again, their universe will be even more hated, and then there will be no hope at all.
Superman and the others knew that the Court of Owls was actually made up, but they also felt that the Waynes' conclusion that the life factor existed was too hasty, and they might have been misled.
Although the organization behind the scenes may not be called the Court of Owls, if Batman can be guided to deal with them, they will naturally have more advantages than outsiders like them.
That's why Superman, Wonder Woman and others cooperated to act out this drama, the purpose of which was to make Batman believe that there was indeed a mastermind behind the scenes who misled his parents. Otherwise, given his feelings towards his parents, he could not accept that his parents were the culprits of all this.
As long as you draw a target in the void first and let Batman figure out how to shoot it, you can then use the shooting to directly kill the person behind the target. This is also the idea of Batman and Schiller in the main universe.
Don’t worry about whether it was done by the Court of Owls or not. As long as someone did it, and I say they are called the Court of Owls, then they are called the Court of Owls. It’s no use if they say they are not called the Court of Owls. After all, you are the villain.
Aquaman arrived very quickly. He was the most unreliable person in the entire Justice League. As soon as he arrived, he waved his hands and said no. He could control water, but he needed a trident. Without this weapon, the only superpower he had left was talking to fish.
But it was obvious that there were no fish in the swamp that could communicate with him, and he did not bring his own weapons. There was no path in the swamp except for the vines and ropes above that could be used to grab onto, and the walls were covered with spikes, making it impossible to walk.
And this vine is obviously unreliable - in fact, it was reliable originally, but because of the problem with the splicing of parts, it is definitely unreliable now.
Just as Batman was thinking about how to break through, Deadpool called Schiller and said he had found a location, right in the center of Gotham Airport.
In fact, Schiller could also predict where he would look. Gotham was full of tall buildings and there were not many wide spaces. The rooftop of the Wayne Building was a good choice, but it was too high, so he probably could only choose the airport.
Gotham's airport is on the sea, the result of land reclamation. It is relatively remote and it takes some time to drive there.
Schiller planned to go over and take a look first. After all, even though monsters were wreaking havoc inside Gotham, flights were still taking off and landing normally. If they needed to open a portal there, they would have to find a way to suspend flights for a while.
The main universe Batman also wanted to make sure that opening a portal there would not have too much impact on the city, so he went there with Schiller and Tim.
This means that there is no one left in the Batcave, or rather, there is no decent person left. However, there is still one undecent person, and that is Dick.
And Batman, who is trying to pass the levels, seems to be stumped by the sixth level, but in fact, in addition to the superheroes, there is another person who has been paying attention to them, and that is the Joker.
The Joker couldn't wait to see Batman's ugly expression after he saw through it all. This time he would never allow him to escape, but would make him admit in person that he hated him the most.
Acting like a fool who has been fooled in front of so many friends will surely make him hate the culprit completely. Then, no matter whether it is the weird-looking cloned Batman or the righteous psychiatrist, they can't take away his position as the mastermind. Whoever comes forward and admits it first will be the one.
Batman must hate him, hate him to the core, and the Joker is already blushing with anticipation just thinking about this scene.
But it still doesn't work. This damn ancient city has 13 floors. So when will he be able to see Batman's broken expression?
Since they were being cheated anyway, they might as well shorten the process. The Joker thought about it and decided that it might be possible to help Batman and let him complete the next 7 levels as quickly as possible.
This coincided with Dick's idea, so when the two met on the seventh floor, they were both surprised.
Dick took the equipment from the Batcave and dug a hole through a wall directly from the sewer. He originally wanted to go to the 6th floor to help Batman cross the swamp, but he dug the wrong hole and went directly to the 7th floor where there were clues.
The Joker wanted to dig a hole in the ceiling of every floor from the sixth floor down, so that Batman could fall directly to the thirteenth floor.
Dick, holding the drill in his hand, gave a fake smile and said, "Would you believe me if I said I didn't come here on purpose?"
"What do you think?!" The clown gave an evil smile.
Soon Batman's communicator rang, and Dick's tearful face appeared on the screen, he said.
"Batman, I was kidnapped by the Joker! He threw me into the depths of a terrible ancient city! Can you come and save me?!"
Batman's eyes widened, and he said to Dick on the screen: "Are you saying that you were kidnapped by the Joker and taken to the ancient city of the Court of Owls?! Which floor are you on?!"
"I don't know, but that lunatic said this is the bottom, and that you don't have the ability to get here, and you can't save me, and he will use a crowbar to smash me into pieces..."
Superman and Wonder Woman silently took two steps back because they saw fire in Batman's eyes.
"The clown... the clown still said." Dick took a deep breath, as if he had mustered up a huge amount of courage, and roared at the camera.
"He said Alfred's cookies were horrible!!!"
(End of this chapter)