Chapter 1021

"When I realized the truth about magic, a thought kept swirling in my mind: since it is borrowing, can it not be returned?"

"Even after coming into contact with magic, I still had no awe for so-called gods and devils. I know that they trade with humans precisely because they are cowardly and timid."

"If they were truly as powerful as they appeared, why not charge directly into the human world and swallow all humans into their bellies? They didn't. There can only be one reason for doing so, and that is that they dare not."

"Since they, like us, must follow certain rules to survive in this world, then the rules will be my weapon."

"I used decades to conduct comprehensive investigations and research, and then formulated a crazy plan. That would be my only way to save this country."

"The reason you can come here to listen to my story is precisely because you triggered a small magic on the badge, which shows that you have already discovered that vast power deep within your soul."

"And this vast power, enough to influence reality, is my achievement. You can understand it as me borrowing it from countless powerful existences."

"Calling it borrowing is not accurate, because I never intended to return it. The power I obtained is mine, and no one can make me pay the price."

"I once thought about robbing Peter to pay Paul, but that could not accumulate enough energy. I had to borrow from all powerful existences in a short period of time and default on this debt before they could react."

Schiller's speaking speed began to get faster and faster, and in his words, Schiller heard a very mysterious and astonishing adventure.

"My magical talent is very strong, so there are quite a few powerful existences willing to lend their power to me, but that is far from enough."

"In all the contracts I signed, they were obligated to keep secrets for me. Although I had to pay a greater price for this, I didn't care at all."

"They thought they had profited, so they would not tell their peers about me borrowing vast power in a short period of time."

"Simply put, I concealed my borrowing history, fabricated my credit record, and borrowed a huge sum of money from thousands of banks that was enough to shake reality."

"And these so-called mysterious existences obviously didn't understand the human financial set. They were certain that I wouldn't dare to default on the debt, so they had no scruples when lending."

"Soon, they paid the price for their arrogance, because I died, and you came."

"They wanted to collect the debt, with the premise of being able to obtain my soul. I know that in this world, no matter where I run, they can find me."

"So, I directly used the vast energy borrowed from their hands, using my own soul as a fuse to ignite, explode, and open a passage."

"And so, you came here."

"In the process of the passage opening, my soul had already been burned out. At the same time, all the debts linked to my soul disappeared without a trace, and you are a brand-new soul from a strange world, not on their loan records."

"The vast energy you obtained, because it is mixed with too many attributes of power, these powers collide, cut, and shatter each other, having completely lost their original appearance. All creditors can no longer trace the tracks of their power, which is to say, no one will be repaid their money."

Schiller's tone revealed a deep malice:

"I will let these self-proclaimed noble gods understand that there are no gods or immortals in space. If they dare to lend power to humans, they must be prepared for a group of people who do not believe in gods to treat them like pigs to be slaughtered."

"The only loophole in the rules followed by hypocritical gods is that this group of selfish monsters will never imagine that someone would be willing to completely destroy their own soul to fulfill a greater ideal."

When his voice fell, Schiller saw a ball of fire burning in the huge vortex of power; that was the soul of the original Schiller.

And when he destroyed his soul, it was not that no powerful existences discovered his actions, and not that no hands reached out toward him.

Just as demons always want to keep Constantine's life, those mysterious existences also wanted to keep the original Schiller's life to make him repay the debt.

But that shot in 1991 destined that he would never give up.

"In addition, I was born in an era earlier than you imagine. In the year I turned 33, I became the director of the Eleventh Bureau, but soon, I discovered that perhaps it was the abnormality brought about by rebirth, I would not age. This would lead to me being unable to survive in ordinary society, so I planned to leave the Eleventh Bureau."

"Before I left, I used magic to place a medal I had once obtained, which is the Red Flag medal you are holding in your hand now, into a special document."

"I told the comrades of the Eleventh Bureau that if one day this medal returned to Moscow, then follow the method I said, attach this message to the medal, take it to find me, and explain everything to me, who has already changed souls, which is you."

"If you can find this document by following various clues, it proves that you have this ability."

"And if you are willing to return it to Moscow after getting this medal, it proves that you are our comrade and can inherit my last wish. Therefore, you will naturally get this message and figure out all the truth."

"Perhaps you should have already discovered that the vast power you possess is a kind of inert power. You cannot fully control it with magical talent or soul. This is because you still need to find a key..."

After the last segment of the voice finished playing, everything returned to silence, and this dream gradually disappeared before Schiller's eyes.

But as the content of the dream became gradually transparent, Schiller saw a familiar black figure on the opposite side, as well as a more familiar kind of wine aroma.

Schiller widened his eyes, and at the moment the dream shattered, his roar echoed in the dream space:

"BATMAN!!!!!!!!!"

Schiller sat up from the bed in shock. He just wanted to use the gray mist to leave here and return to the Rodriguez estate to block Batman, but Petrov, who had already gone downstairs, walked in and said:

"Director, Andro, who brought you here, is actually a CIA agent lurking inside the KGB. He wanted to hijack you on the way to take you back to Moscow, but fortunately, we arrived in time."

After speaking, Petrov saluted and said: "Director, all the comrades of the Eleventh Bureau are waiting for your instructions."

Schiller felt his brain was a mess, so he waved his hand directly and said: "You go downstairs and wait first. I will call you when I want you to come up again."

But to Schiller's surprise, Petrov saluted again, then silently led the people out, asking nothing.

Schiller lay alone on the hotel bed, closing his eyes, with the words said by the original Schiller echoing in his mind.

Simply put, the original Schiller was a strengthened and upgraded plus version of Constantine.

The Constantine of this era is not too excessive yet. Although he has already provoked Lucifer and has dealt with quite a few demon lords in hell, he is not yet on the blacklist of all Satans and angels.

But according to the behavior of the original Schiller, what he did was definitely much more excessive than Constantine.

Constantine is currently still robbing Peter to pay Paul, using the psychology that demons don't want him to fall into the hands of his rivals to pull back and forth, and he has also gotten himself covered in injuries.

However, the original Schiller fought a blitzkrieg against these mysterious existences, using the information gap in a short period of time to cheat for extremely vast power, and then consumed it on the spot, defaulting on this money as a bad debt.

Because everything happened too fast, and before this, no one had ever done this, the vast majority of mysterious existences could not react in time.

Moreover, in the thinking of these mysterious existences, they cannot understand what so-called ideals are. They never thought that someone would directly destroy their own soul just to default on a debt, because this simply has no meaning.

If the person is gone and the money isn't spent, then what is the money for?

Moreover, they also don't worry that the debtor will destroy his own soul due to an accident. He took such a large amount of power, if he doesn't use it to protect himself, what else can he use it for? He already has such powerful power, how could his soul be destroyed due to an accident? No matter from which angle, it doesn't make sense.

Therefore, they, like before, lent out a large amount of power without any guard. Anyway, as long as it is within the universe, no one can escape from their palms.

However, when they looked back and wanted to collect the debt, they discovered that this soul had disappeared into thin air, and they didn't know where the power had gone. Thus, this incomparably vast power became an unsolved mystery and fell into the hands of the current Schiller.

Moreover, according to the process described by the original Schiller, his creditors were definitely not just a few simple demons or angels.

Schiller, who has already been to hell, is clear that even if all the demon lords in hell were added together and lent out their maximum share, they would definitely not be able to gather such vast power.

Schiller suspects that there is very likely an existence at the level of the Green or above among them who was severely scammed by the original Schiller, and there might be more than one such fat sheep.

Conversely, the original Schiller very likely fleeced existences at the level of the Green or similar levels all over to be able to obtain such powerful power to use to cross the limits of space and time and pull him here.

And the immediate problem is that once these existences detect that this power is still in Schiller's body, he can forget about mixing in the DC universe.

Schiller thinks this might be an insurance policy of the original Schiller. He directly pushed the current Schiller to the opposite side of all mysterious existences, which also means that if the current Schiller wants to ensure he is not liquidated, he must rely on this power.

But what the original Schiller didn't expect was that Schiller didn't need a key, nor did he need to use this power; he only needed to cut it into pieces and feed it to each personality.

Of course, the Superego used this power to repair the tower and increase the personality strength of certain personalities, but it still didn't consume much. If he wanted to, he could use this power to comprehensively strengthen all personalities. At that time, all the strengthened Schillers would come out in full force to fight against these mysterious existences, and they wouldn't necessarily fall into a disadvantage.

Therefore, Schiller currently has no sense of crisis, and he feels that if the original Schiller were still alive now, he would definitely have a lot of common language with the Greedy Schiller. The two would definitely be a perfect match.

The Greedy Schiller is in Marvel, and over there, he almost replicated such an operation. The two became the most like-minded close friends in different times and different spaces.

Now, Schiller is more worried about another thing. Just now, before the dream shattered, he saw Batman's figure and smelled the scent of crazy wine. That is to say, his student very likely used crazy wine to break into his dream, and his timing was excellent; at that time, the original Schiller was playing his past.

Schiller now urgently needs to determine how much Batman saw.

If it was everything, then next, he might have to lay his cards on the table with Batman, but he is not sure if Batman can accept the fact that he is a comic book character.

What makes Schiller feel even more helpless is that he spent a full four years and finally almost cured Batman. If Batman were to collapse again because of this, wouldn't the previous efforts have been in vain?

Schiller didn't want to face this at all, so he lay on the bed and began to think about whether there was a more gentle way to express the truth.

After a while, Schiller wanted to sit up from the bed, and then he discovered that the pistol Petrov had handed him earlier was still lying on his quilt.

Schiller picked up the pistol and discovered that it was indeed a Makarov pistol. Because it was loved by Soviet officers at all levels, it was also known as the "Officer's Pistol."

This pistol certainly couldn't be the one the original Schiller used to commit suicide, but because the model was the same, the image was naturally the same.

Schiller got off the bed and stood by the window, holding the pistol in his hand, falling into deep thought.

The scene of the original Schiller's suicide also brought him quite a lot of emotion, because now, it was already December 2nd, 1991.

However, many major events before the dissolution of the Soviet Union had not yet happened. The impact of the death of the map-head was far greater than imagined.

Now, no one is willing to jump out to be the first bird; otherwise, they are very likely to be targeted by both the Soviet Union and the United States.

Don't forget, the revolution in Central America is in full swing, and the US Congress is already red-eyed with anxiety. As long as there is a way to shift the contradictions, no matter what price they have to pay, they are willing. And the leaders of those small countries are not stupid; rushing up now is just the fate of cannon fodder.

This led to some countries that had previously announced independence having no movement, and slogans couldn't be shouted. Some that hadn't announced independence also quieted down, planning to drag through this period before making other plans.

And the later successors indeed lived up to expectations. Although there were no political achievements for the time being, at least they were living well, which also let some people see hope.

Some wavering factions, while wavering, wavered back. Except for some extreme factions that were single-mindedly leaning to the right, the vast majority of people only changed direction because they couldn't see hope. If they could be human beings in their own country, no one would want to go to other places to be a dog.

The situation stabilized like this. Although such a situation couldn't drag on for more than three years, everyone knew that the hope for the Soviet Union to land smoothly was very great. Perhaps a large part of the territory would be lost, but scraping the bone to remove the poison and preserving the essence might also be a good thing.

Thinking of this, Schiller let the gray mist control the radio to play a piece of music.

Just as Schiller was fiddling with the pistol while recalling the scenes he had seen, with a "bang," the hotel door was kicked open, and Batman rushed in.

As soon as Batman entered, he saw the exact same scene he had just seen in the dream.

Schiller stood by the window with a heavy face, holding a Makarov pistol in his hand, and what was playing on the radio was "Farewell to the Slavs."