Chapter 1749
The dream woke up.
But the people present who woke up found that they were not on Apokolips. They were in Cat Getan City, and they were in Arkham Asylum. Cat Getan's villains were lined up in a row, staring intently at the few people lying on the hall floor.
The first to wake up was Spider-Man. He patted his head with his hand, shook his head vigorously, and said in a hoarse voice: "What's going on? Why do I seem to have seen a spaceship?"
Harley tilted her neck while rubbing her shoulders, and after doing a few chest expansion exercises, she said: "If I remember correctly, was there a spaceship aiming its muzzle at us at the end? What kind of script is this again? Has the Darkseid of the dream world already developed to Apokolips?"
Damian, who climbed up, looked dull, but little Bruce had already turned his head to start searching for that familiar figure. Sure enough, Batman was sitting on a chair nearby, debugging his bat equipment.
Noticing little Bruce's gaze, Batman spoke in a low, hoarse voice: "You didn't see wrong. That was Darkseid and his spaceship."
"I don't understand!" Little Bruce raised his tone and said: "What about the fair competition? Everyone started as Cat Getan orphans. Darkseid built a spaceship in a few months. Isn't this too outrageous?"
"Am I awake? Was that really just a dream?" Damian muttered dizzyly. Suddenly he was stunned, and then secretly glanced at Batman with his peripheral vision.
If he remembered correctly, Batman hugged him at the last moment. Was that his illusion? Or was it really...
Damian felt a bit terrified. He kept muttering in his heart that it was just a dream. Besides, he had also been hugged by the young Batman before, so there was nothing to make a fuss about.
Harley narrowed her eyes. She looked around and sure enough saw a familiar figure in the crowd, so she flew over, hugged Harley Quinn, looked up at her and said: "Hurry up and ask your Puddin' what is going on. I bet he definitely knows."
Harley Quinn whistled at the sky, and then began to study the patterns on the handle of her hammer with her head down. Harley's gaze became more and more unkind. Harley Quinn looked at the knife flying behind her, sighed and said: "Okay, I don't know much. If you want to listen, I'll tell you."
Suddenly, the few people who had just woken up all cast their eyes on her. Harley Quinn rolled her hair on one side of her braid with her fingers and said: "Actually, before I took you to Arkham Asylum, Joker came to find me. Oh, that's the Joker of our world, my little cookie."
"Then why did you say you didn't know what he went to do?" Harley raised her tone, dissatisfied.
"I really don't know what he wants to do." Harley Quinn still looked aggrieved. She curled her lips and said: "He only told me he planned to do a big one and let me help."
"What did he let you help with?"
"He said he and two other Jokers would drag people on an alien planet into a dream and let me take the lunatics of Arkham Asylum and the Robins to take away the valuable things on that planet."
Harley opened her mouth wide and looked at Harley Quinn. Harley Quinn spread her arms and pretended to be innocent and said: "Before you entered the dream, Joker gave me a signal, so I took this group of lunatics and drove Cat Getan to Apokolips. I don't know exactly how it was done, but anyway, the things have been moved away."
"But what about Darkseid?" Harley scratched her head very confusedly. What Harley Quinn said was obviously part of the plan of these Jokers, but this made her even more curious about what the complete plan was.
Just at this time, the door of the hall was pushed open, and outside stood the center of everyone's topic—Joker.
Of course, it was still the main universe Joker. He walked in with his hands behind his back, and then with a horizontal jump, he rushed in front of Batman, smiling and saying to him: "How about it? I did pretty well, right?"
Batman didn't pay attention to him at all, stood up from the chair, turned to the lunatics of Arkham Asylum and said: "Move Cat Getan back first, but don't land. A pile of things moved back from Apokolips still needs to be processed."
"Wait a minute." Spider-Man suddenly realized something. He ran to the window quickly, looked out, and then a slightly terrified roar echoed in the city.
"Why is Cat Getan flying in the sky?!!!!"
In Wayne Manor, Schiller walked out of the guest room. Bruce didn't know when he sat back on the sofa. Constantine looked up at Schiller who walked down the stairs gracefully, shrugged and said: "It's time to reveal the answer."
Jack seemed to be suddenly awakened. After a jolt, he sat straight from the sofa, smacked his lips, and poured the drink with melted ice into his mouth.
Schiller sat on the sofa. Harvey poured wine into his glass. Schiller picked up the wine glass and clinked it with him gently, and then began to repeat his plan.
"This is not entirely my plan, but Joker's." Schiller's first sentence was shocking, making everyone look at Jack, but Jack rolled his eyes and said: "Not me, it's another one."
"That was before my Joker personality trait merged with me." Schiller sipped his wine, looking at everyone's surprised eyes and said: "So what are you surprised about? Didn't I say long ago that this plan started very early?"
"A bit too early." Gordon commented.
"When Jack was digging holes in my mind palace, my Joker personality hadn't merged with me yet, but in fact, he was originally part of arrogance, possessing some of my traits, especially tolerance."
Schiller sighed gently and said: "I was chosen by Batman, so part of arrogance was polluted into Joker. Both arrogance and the Joker transformed from arrogance were very dissatisfied with this, and they were looking for a way to fight back."
"Wait a minute." Constantine heard Schiller's meaning. He stared at Schiller and said: "Do you mean that you and Bruce torturing each other for four years doesn't count as fighting back against Batman?"
Schiller shook his head and said: "What needs to be fought back is not Batman, but the rule that Batman's gaze can turn people into Jokers."
Several people were silent for a while, but it was more like they had nothing to say. Gordon smacked his lips and said: "Can I understand that you want to take revenge on this world?"
"Roughly so." Schiller drank another sip of wine and then said: "You should know that I summarized some laws of Batman and Joker. This is the underlying rule of this world, and at the same time, I am also applying this rule to formulate my plan."
"It's like proposing a mathematical conjecture, proving the conjecture is true, and then using the formula to do problems, but this conjecture is too shallow. I think there should be corresponding conjectures that can explore the essence of this world more deeply."
"I have a headache." Constantine covered his forehead and said: "Just tell us what you actually did."
"In order to give some color to the world rules that pollute my personality traits at will, and also to propose more innovative conjectures, I reached a deal with the Joker personality. We merged into one, became complete arrogance, and then put the whole plan into practice."
"The whole plan is roughly as follows: First, in order to prevent the heavy restrictions in the real world from affecting my plan, and also to prevent making too much noise to affect the Earth's home, we need a pure experimental environment. The Dream Realm is the best choice."
"Oh, it's about the part targeting me." Constantine said somewhat depressed.
"Sorry, I never targeted you." Schiller shook his head and said: "I didn't expect Morpheus to leave the authority of the Dream God to a rotten person who wanted to sleep with him the first time he met him. You count as a pleasant surprise."
Constantine covered his chest. The expression on his face didn't know if it was painful or happy, or both, cycling back and forth.
"We have already understood how you obtained the authority of the Dream World." Zatanna added: "You gave part of your soul to Constantine, so naturally you possessed the authority he had. This part can be skipped directly."
"Thank you, miss." Schiller nodded and continued: "While I was stealing the authority of the Dream Realm, Jack was also doing his work in the Dream Realm."
"The Sandman who manages the Dream Realm and others in the Dream Realm thought Jack was just messing around aimlessly. The Sandman thought Jack was the big alarm clock I threw into the Dream Realm, but in fact, Jack took the opportunity of messing around to successfully find the dream collection of the real world of our universe."
"The dreams in the Dream Realm are one bubble after another. The dreams of the same universe and the same region are in one collection. It is not easy to find them. Jack spent some time, but everything is worth it."
"What do you mean?"
"Integrating the useful parts of the dreams of life in our universe, the dream world you just saw was built."
"I said how could it be so realistic." Barbara suddenly realized: "If the whole world was built by Jack, he wouldn't be so detailed about the rural areas of Mexico, right?"
"Rather than saying it was built by him, it is better to say it was integrated by him." Schiller continued to explain: "He just extracted the factors related to the real world from the dreams of people all over the world and integrated them together. Because those memories are real, the dream naturally appears very realistic."
Bruce turned his head to look at Jack. Jack revealed a smile to him and said: "I still didn't lie. The sentence 'I didn't just build Cat Getan' can refer to the fact that I also built other places, or it can refer to the fact that I did other things besides building, right?"
Bruce blocked his mouth with a wine glass.
"What is the purpose of you doing this?" Barbara continued to ask. Her gaze swept between Schiller and Jack and said: "I can't say I know Joker very well, but I know that if two people fanatically pursue an idol at the same time, they won't have any friendly cooperation."
"Naturally, it is because of the conjecture I want to explore, and other Jokers are also interested." Schiller revealed a smile and said: "Passion is the greatest motivation, isn't it?"
"But having a venue is not enough. This plan must have experimental subjects. Jack and I add up to only two Jokers, and we need a third one."
"By coincidence, I went to the main universe..." Schiller turned his head to look at Bruce. Bruce looked up to study the patterns on the ceiling.
"I think the Joker of the main universe is not bad. Although there was a little storm in the middle, making my main body unable to go to the main universe, after all, the experimental venue is in the dream universe, so it doesn't hinder anything."
"On the eve of the Apokolips invasion in the main universe, I contacted the Joker of the main universe through a dream. I explained my conjecture to him and hoped that he could cooperate with me to complete the plan. He was also very interested in my proposal, so he joined our research group. Three Jokers were gathered."
"I still don't understand what you are going to do." Constantine said with a puzzled face: "Why don't you talk about what your conjecture is first."
Others looked at Schiller with great concentration. They were also very interested in the conjecture that could move the other two Jokers.
Schiller nodded and readily agreed and said.
"If Batman's gaze can produce a Joker, can Joker's gaze also produce a Batman?"
End of Chapter
