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Chapter 1508

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But just as Thomas's breathing became weaker and weaker, a loud "bang" came from the corridor outside the ward door, and Bruce was not startled at all, his face showing an expression of "I've been waiting for you for a long time."

As everyone knows, Batman and Joker also have a law, which is that Joker will definitely not let Batman die at the hands of others.

Bruce brought Thomas over and made him into this dying state just to wait for the Joker Martha to appear.

With a "bang," the ward door was knocked open. When Martha, wearing Joker makeup and a crazy smile on her face, appeared in front of him, Bruce's hand still tightened slightly.

And Martha, who knocked open the door, was also stunned.

The second law of Batman and Joker writes that the stronger Batman is, the stronger Joker is.

What if there are two Batmen?

This is a difficult thing to verify, because when one Batman sees another Batman, he usually only says "Get out of my Cat Getan" and tries every possible way to put this sentence into practice. The probability of the two being in the same frame is approximately zero.

But Bruce had long inferred the result from his past experiences. Cat Getan used to have two Jokers, one was Schiller and one was Jack. So whose strength did Batman change with?

The answer is Schiller.

And now, Bruce's Cat Getan has two Batmen, one is Bruce and one is Thomas. So whose strength does the Joker Jack change with?

The answer is Bruce.

Summarizing the two examples above, it is not difficult to conclude that Joker's strength should change with the Batman he has the deepest bond with. That is to say, even if Bruce and Thomas appear together now, Joker Martha will only change with Thomas's strength, because they are husband and wife and have been torturing each other for years.

Of course, this change is long-term and subtle, not that if Batman is dying, Joker must be dying. So weakening Joker by physically weakening Batman doesn't hold water.

But Bruce remembers that he once had a strange feeling. When the second Joker, Jack, appeared in front of him, Bruce's first reaction wasn't hatred or fear, but dullness.

Looking back now, it was somewhat like he was distinguishing whether he should bind dynamic difficulty with the Joker in front of him. But because of the existence of Joker Schiller, the result of his discrimination was naturally no.

And now Martha encountered the same situation. Two Batmen appeared in front of her, and she had a moment of dullness, used to judge who was the Batman dynamically bound to her.

And it was this brief dullness that gave Bruce the opportunity to approach Joker Martha. Instantly, the room was filled with the scent of wine, and the crazy wine pulled Martha's consciousness into the dream world.

Before, Bruce divided into three different personality traits, and after clearing a part of the "shit mountain code," he could also make one personality trait work in the dream, and another float to the surface of the body to control the body, just like Schiller.

Thus, the red-eyed Bruce entangled Joker Martha's consciousness in the dream world, while the blue-eyed Bruce controlled the body and started operating in the real world.

He walked to Thomas's bedside. At this time, Thomas's vital signs were approaching zero. Bruce didn't start any equipment for rescue, but took out a tube of blood.

That was the blood of Joker Caine.

Bruce pushed this tube of blood into Thomas's body with a syringe, and at the same time started the magic circle in the operating room. An alternative blood clan embrace ceremony officially began.

The process of the embrace ceremony is actually to drain the blood in the body of the embraced person, and then use the blood full of power in the blood clan's body to replace this part of the blood.

Because there is more power in the blood of the blood clan, only a small amount of blood is needed to replace more than half of the blood in an ordinary person's body, thereby replacing their bloodline and completing the transformation of the descendant. This is the principle of the embrace ceremony.

And after the embrace ceremony began, Bruce went around to the other side of the bed and directly used his angel power to send Martha to his universe. And when the power of the crazy wine disappeared, Martha returned to reality, facing the cage built with abundant Green Lantern energy, as well as Clark, Diana, and Hal who had received the notice and were guarding beside the cage.

And in the Flashpoint universe, a wonderful scene happened.

After Joker Martha was transported away, it was equivalent to this universe having no Joker. But the Batman of this universe didn't die; he was just in the process of the embrace ceremony.

Bruce had long learned that the magical part of the embrace ceremony is that the embraced person is hovering on the edge of life and death during the seven to ten-day transformation process, neither dead nor alive.

According to the first law of Batman and Joker, where there is Batman, there must be Joker. Now Batman didn't die, but Joker was gone. So the lowest-level rule of the world executed the order to create a Joker.

Then what is the creation of Joker based on?

Bruce is very proficient in this.

First, there must be Batman's gaze. Bruce has been looking at Thomas and pouring feelings into him.

Second, Batman must have a very deep bond with Joker. Bruce is Thomas Wei En's own son.

Third, Joker must have a terrible day. Today, no one in this world is sadder than Thomas, who learned the truth.

Finally, there must be Joker virus. The blood of Joker Caine that Bruce injected into Thomas consists of two parts: one is Caine's blood, and the other is the Joker virus on Caine, who had been turned into a Joker.

To sum up, after the Joker position became vacant, the first priority heir should be Thomas Wei En.

The smile on Thomas's face, lying on the bed, gradually revealed a stiff smile. But at this moment, Bruce suddenly cut off the energy supply of the embrace ceremony magic circle in the operating room.

This magic circle is mainly used to stimulate the energy in the blood clan's blood, and the energy in the blood clan's blood is the necessary condition to ensure the embraced person is alive. After all, their own almost drained blood is no longer enough to support their lives.

Once the magic energy is cut off, it naturally stops running. Then, in Caine's blood, the part belonging to Caine's power will be cut off. Then Thomas, who relies on this power to maintain his life, should naturally die.

But Joker is immortal.

Next, a paradox appeared. The embrace ceremony was interrupted, and the embraced person would naturally die. But Thomas was the first candidate to turn into Joker, and Joker is immortal.

The world rules wanted to thoroughly turn Thomas into Joker, but Thomas had already boarded the death list, and there was no such person in the living area.

The world rules couldn't turn a person who was dying into Joker, and death couldn't receive Joker, who was immortal from the rules. The two wrestled with each other.

Death in the DC world doesn't have so much humanity, more like an automatically running program. The program couldn't run, the object would be marked as an abnormal target, and then displayed in the error report. And the error report would finally be submitted to the administrator with the highest permission, which is God.

So what is God doing now?

He is looking for Gabriel all over the world and doesn't have time to look at the error report at all. So this matter was stuck here.

In short, Bruce stuck a bug, making Thomas stuck in this form, neither dead nor alive.

And at this time, Bruce brought Joker Martha back, and then continued to entangle her in the dream world and waited quietly.

Joker's strength changes with Batman. According to the proof by contradiction of the first law, if Batman dies, Joker will also disappear.

The Batman corresponding to Joker Martha had boarded the death list, which was equivalent to already dead, just stuck. Batman died, and Joker naturally had no need to exist. Thus, the dynamic binding between Batman Thomas and Joker Martha was lifted.

Then, looking at the Joker transformation principle again.

First, there must be Batman's gaze. Bruce has been looking at Martha and pouring feelings into her.

Second, Batman must have a very deep bond with Joker. Bruce is Martha's own son.

Third. Joker must have a terrible day. Batman Thomas's death is equivalent to Joker Martha's husband passing away.

Finally, there must be Joker virus. And Joker Martha was originally a Joker, so there was originally Joker virus in her body.

Thus, Batman Bruce and Joker Martha reached a dynamic binding again, once again conforming to the Batman and Joker law.

Then, according to the variant of the second law of Batman and Joker, the more awake Batman is, the more awake Joker is, and the less serious Batman is, the less crazy Joker is.

Joker Martha, bound to Batman Bruce, will have her level of wakefulness change with Bruce. And now, there is no one in this world more awake than Bruce.

Thus, Joker Martha also gradually woke up. The effect of the Joker virus in her body became weaker and weaker, and her eyes, which originally only had madness, gradually regained their spirit.

Through the messy paint on her face and that terrifying corner of her mouth, one could still see the beautiful face of this lady who was well-maintained and didn't leave any traces of time. The appearance of Batman, which tends to be classical and melancholy, comes from his mother, Martha Wei En.

And when the madness in Martha's brain gradually faded, the residual memories told her reason what kind of cruel things she had done. Martha Wei En, who had always been kind and loving, finally couldn't help but collapse.

She sat on the ground, covered her face with her hands, and started crying non-stop, and then looked up at Bruce as if she suddenly thought of something. And Bruce was also looking down at her.

Bruce slowly knelt on one knee and hugged Martha. Just as he wanted to say something to comfort his mother, two angels flapping their wings arrived late.

Michael and Lucifer looked into the operating room from left and right at Thomas, who was lying on the operating table, neither dead nor alive. Michael glared at Lucifer and said: "You said let him try, now it's good. What should we do now?"

"How about trying a restart?" Lucifer said somewhat embarrassedly, and then he looked up, examined the surrounding environment, and said: "It's not easy to handle. Not to mention that the Flashpoint universe is special, a restart might cause a collapse. If this damn Batman goes to complain to his teacher, I don't want to fall into bad luck like Gabriel."

"But if it stays stuck like this, death will sooner or later notice something is wrong. If he complains to God, can God go and scold Batman? It must be the two of us who are fully responsible for letting him come over. By then, it will be 'Two gods can't watch one person!'"

Lucifer and Michael sighed deeply. Lucifer gritted his teeth and said: "I knew there would be no good fruit if it involved Schiller!"

After thinking for a while, Lucifer said: "How about we secretly resurrect Thomas? Cross out the name on the death list, and treat it as if nothing happened. I guarantee death won't be able to tell."

"You are interfering with the normal order of the world!" Michael, who had a sense of justice, said.

"I am correcting the normal order of the world!" Lucifer started counting on his fingers: "Why did Batman come here? Because he became an angel. Then why did he become an angel? Because Gabriel gave up his angel status and gave it to him. Then why did Gabriel give up his angel status?"

"Don't look at me like that. I know it's because I angered him. But doesn't God have any responsibility? I am cleaning up the mess for God. Otherwise, because of this matter, several universes will collapse. How will God's face be saved?"

"Pure sophistry!" Michael evaluated.

"Now you know why I am God's favorite angel!"

Lucifer didn't say a word, raised his hand and waved, and Thomas took a big breath on the spot and sat up from the bed.

And Bruce had already left with Martha. Bruce brought Martha to his universe, which was equivalent to not changing the plot development of the Flashpoint universe, so Thomas would still come to this universe because of the same accident, and didn't cause a time paradox.

Borrowing Bruce's holy light power, Bruce and Martha landed at Cat Getan Cathedral in his universe.

Standing in front of the pulpit, Martha looked at the familiar scene and couldn't help but ask: "How did you do it? Little Bruce, I mean... how did you lift that kind of terrible virus?"

Outside the cathedral door, the twilight of Cat Getan was thick. The sunset glow shone on Martha's face through the colored glass windows, painting a thick golden oil color on her eyebrows and eyes, and also draping a soft gauze over her shoulders.

The Jesus suffering statue behind the pulpit of Cat Getan Cathedral lowered its head, its face becoming blurry in the mist of dusk. After all the madness disappeared, Mrs. Wei En became as gentle and kind as the Virgin in an oil painting.

Bruce looked at Martha's face, which was no different from his memory. He remembered the evening when he was in kindergarten and ran into his mother's arms laughing. The beautiful and brilliant sunset that fell on Martha's shoulders through the gaps in the leaves of the tree in front of the school gate was the same.

Bruce stepped forward again. Martha, who was exhausted by madness, had a somewhat confused look in her eyes, as if she had forgotten many things, but only the instinct of a mother made her open her arms and hug her son, who was much stronger than in her memory, into her arms.

Motherly love is the only love in this world that comes from instinct and can be obtained without any choice or confrontation. It is unconditional and forever great.

At this moment, Bruce finally understood why his teacher wanted him to take a different path—do not go gently into that good night, but be an ordinary person, die before the long night comes, in that brilliant, enthusiastic, emotional twilight, and drown in a gentle embrace.

Thus, he said in a choked tone like a child.

"Because... I am not Batman."

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