Chapter 1751: S: The Apocalypse Event (End)

"Why would he feel humans are disgusting?" Schiller sneered and said, "Just because we made things difficult for him for a few months?"

"Then I think he still has a very sufficient reason to vent his anger on the entire human race." Gordon looked at Schiller and said, "Just being made things difficult by you for a few months is..."

Everyone cast their peripheral vision to glance at Bruce. Bruce lowered his head to study the dust in the floor cracks.

"Actually, it is indeed a bit strange." Harvey opened his mouth and said. He explained from the perspective of a lawyer: "Humans feel something is disgusting or abnormal, many times it is not spontaneous instinct."

"For example, people are very avoidant of talking about murder, and also refuse bloody scenes to appear in channels for all ages. But think about it carefully, is that really human instinct? Do humans really fear corpses and blood?"

"What they fear is actually the taboo signs in civilized society behind this cultural symbol. Social law says this is incorrect, and social morality says this violates human nature. Over time, people connect all elements appearing in murder with violating civilized social rules."

"What people fear is not the element itself, but the bad consequences that might be produced by violating social rules represented behind it. This is called the domestication of humans by society."

"From this point of view, if a person has never appeared in human society and has never undergone similar domestication, then his method of looking at problems must be more primitive and wild, and more follow his biological instincts."

"In human society, we advocate helping each other, treating our own kind in a friendly and polite way, and cannot make things difficult for others at will or use bad language. And if someone doesn't do this, we will feel he is very hateful."

"But if a person has never understood human society and has never lived in it, then will he feel that humans making things difficult for him in various ways is evil?"

"All his knowledge comes from his experience at that time. He has never experienced the good side of humans. Shouldn't he feel that the human race is like this? Since that is the case, how can we talk about evil? He should feel annoyed, right?"

"Just like a fly buzzing around you, you won't feel it is evil because it is the fly's nature to fly and make sound, but you will only feel annoyed because it interferes with you."

Schiller put down his wine glass and continued to supplement: "Don't substitute Darkseid with the perspective of ordinary people. He is, after all, a hegemon who has fought in the universe for many years. The number of civilizations he has seen and destroyed must be unimaginably huge."

"Could it be that he hasn't encountered difficulties like ours? Could it be that he hasn't witnessed the aggressive resistance of certain races? And when did he get angry because of this?"

"Taking a step back, judging from the cautious strategic measures of his invasion of Earth, he should have thought that he might encounter resistance. Then for such a cold-blooded and ruthless hero, what he should do is calmly respond to the resistance and then destroy the other party, instead of getting angry with them."

"Think carefully. Darkseid knows he has to deal with Batman, and he also knows the Joker is Batman's biggest enemy. Then the most rational approach now is to contact the Joker and cooperate with him to continue to execute his plan to deal with Batman."

"Why didn't he do this? Judging from Darkseid's personality model, he is still an ambitious person who will stop at nothing for profit."

"Compared with his ambition to swallow the universe, what is a few months of difficulty that cannot be endured?"

Everyone was silent and began to think. Constantine touched his chin and said: "So something influenced him, making him have some moral standards and standards for judging right and wrong that he shouldn't have had."

"When such a person starts to be unable to tolerate the Joker, and uniquely cannot tolerate the Joker, it means he has undergone some changes." Schiller's cold smile became heavier and heavier. He said: "There are many elements that make up the Joker, and there are also many that make up Batman."

"For example, the Joker's attention, the unmovable moral standards, and... some kind of dark source that is mysterious."

"Death in the dream world does consume a certain amount of soul power, but in fact, it is far from that powerful. It's like feeling not rested after having a nightmare. What is consumed more is mental power. The key lies in the time waiting between each death and rebirth."

Gordon suddenly realized. He looked at Schiller and said: "Why do I remember you used this move before? Was it to deal with that guy named Hugo? Something like a dream within a dream within a dream, every fall will go deeper into a layer of dream..."

Schiller smiled and nodded, saying: "Yes, you might feel that the benchmark of the dream world is the Dream Realm, but in fact, it is not. The benchmark is everyone's own dream."

"That is to say, every time Darkseid dies, he will step into a layer of his own subconscious until he reaches the deepest part of his consciousness. And those dark powers obtained from Barbatos come in handy at this time."

Bruce immediately looked up at Schiller. At this moment, Schiller's three-part plan finally had an intersection point. The clues were clear, and the complete line had a clue.

The first part of the plan was Gotham's underworld and the magic world, bringing Strange over to strengthen the teaching level, while constructing a magic defense network, sending several children to another universe to learn magic, investigating the cosmic Strange murder case, and immediately preparing for making a big alarm clock to wake up Barbatos.

The second part was about Barbatos, leading the alien god of another universe to Little Bruce who could travel through the universe, creating a super alarm clock and throwing it into Barbatos's home, taking advantage of the confrontation between Nyx and Barbatos to fleece Barbatos.

The third part was about Darkseid, which was a long-term plan that had been going on for years. In general, it was to test whether other creatures could be transformed into Batman after certain conditions were met in the dream world. And the last piece of the puzzle for this plan was the dark energy obtained from Barbatos.

"When I discovered that Barbatos was likely completely unprepared for me, I knew this entire long-term plan was coming to an end." Schiller tapped the cup wall lightly with his finger and said: "Originally, it was to be postponed until he took the initiative to find me."

"Uh, so the experiment was successful? But what is the meaning of this?" Barbara asked in confusion: "You turned Darkseid into Batman, but wouldn't he still kill people?"

"Once he has Batman's nature, it means that the Batman-Joker law also applies to him. Even if he is still a tyrant, he has become a moral tyrant. Once there is morality, there is no need to fear him anymore."

Schiller's judgment was completely correct, and the situation in the main universe began to become ridiculous.

In order to protect the seat under his butt, the Little Blue Men tried every means to resist Darkseid. Darkseid, who had just acquired Batman's attributes, was full of fire, and adding another layer because of "I am Batman," because "I am Darkseid," his actions became even more powerful.

After the two sides started the war, humans were happy.

Originally, Darkseid's invasion of Earth could only be resisted by the youth version of the Justice League. The Green Lantern Corps would at most shout slogans. Even if they sent troops, they wouldn't come in large numbers. Humans were destined to suffer losses.

But the Green Lantern Corps blocked Darkseid, and humans were left out of the matter. More importantly

In addition, the materials brought back from Apokolips are being studied around the clock. The constant assistance from the Marvel side has finally paid off; Apokolips really does have quite a few peculiar technologies that can be put to use after analysis.

More importantly, a remark from Stark—whether intentional or not—about "Is it just you over there?" completely infuriated Batman. He pressed Amanda's head and made her contact scientists globally.

Generally speaking, such a thing would be impossible; Batman would not share his database with anyone because he views knowledge as a dangerous weapon and strictly controls the channels of outflow.

But the trouble was that Batman sent Damian and the other Robins to Thomas and Martha. Damian, with his little mouth flapping away, told them everything about Apokolips. As soon as Martha and Thomas heard there were such materials, they immediately felt this was a good opportunity to hold a global seminar and, incidentally, recruit talent for the family.

Facing the disapproving gazes of his parents, Batman could only bow his head in defeat. The seminar became quite lively—half of the participating members were Batman's former enemies, and half looked like his future enemies.

Outside the door of the seminar venue, Clark, a young reporter wearing black-rimmed glasses, held his camera and said to Bruce Wayne, who was standing by the door, "Don't be so serious, smile a little."

Diana, with her arm draped over Bruce, waved her hand and said, "Don't tease him. Do you know he just shuddered?"

"I did not," Bruce said with a serious expression.

After adjusting the camera, Clark sprinted over and crashed into the frame. A few days later, Martha looked at the photo with satisfaction and said to Thomas.

"Look, I told you, just letting Bruce go on a vacation makes everything better. Why force the child so hard?"

Thomas, while tying his tie in front of the mirror, said, "My dear, haven't you noticed? We are the ones traveling."

At this moment, Martha opened the door, and standing outside was Damian. Thomas turned back and called out, "Wait a moment, let me tidy my clothes."

Martha crouched down to tidy Damian's hair and said, "Behave yourself, you know?"

"Will he be back today?" Damian asked.

Martha knew he was referring to Batman, so she patted his head and said, "Yes, of course Bruce will be back. It's a family dinner today; if he dares not to be here, I'll break his legs."

Damian shivered, and then followed Thomas to the banquet.

Halfway through the evening family dinner, Damian, following what Thomas had taught him, lowered the rim of his wine glass slightly when clinking glasses with Bruce. Apart from the father and son, no one else noticed this detail.

The two pairs of Jasons and Tims were frantically bragging about their adventures on Apokolips, Nightwing handed them water to prevent them from choking, Dick was peeling oranges for Aisha, little Bruce was poking the steak on his plate with black tentacles, lost in thought, and Spider-Man and Harley were buried in their food, eating voraciously.

So where did Helen go? She was, of course, also happily eating.

In the empty, dark space of the universe, a scream came from the densely arranged Apokolips warships.

"That monster is here again!! Run away!!!!!"

And when Barry, who had fused the Speed Force and dark power, woke up, he found himself lying on a bed in the guest room of the Rodriguez estate. As he looked up, he saw a professor who was both familiar and strange.

"How do you feel, Barry?"

Barry looked down at his hands. In a field of vision that no one else could see, his whole body was covered in a mysterious light interwoven with gold and black.

The little boy clenched his fists and said in a low voice.

"I feel... full of power."