Chapter 2021: The Past is Like the Morning Star (Part 3)

Silence, the deepest silence.

Until the wind blew through the long corridor, blowing the flickering candles, and stepped out a slight sound in the boundless silence.

With a light "click," the sound was like a bell. Schiller gently placed the wine glass on the table and sighed, "'There has never been any savior in this world, nor does it rely on gods or emperors. To create human happiness, it all depends on ourselves'."

Lucifer still maintained that expression sitting in place, seemingly lost in deep memories.

"Did he shock you?" Schiller asked, "Or is this actually the greatest humiliation to you, making you angry from embarrassment, so you don't want to mention him to anyone, including me."

Lucifer's fingers on the table tightened slowly, and the knuckles holding the wine glass handle began to turn white.

"He didn't wait for your or God's forgiveness, didn't hate your standing by, he took all this as normal and didn't feel disappointed in you at all."

"Arrogance, arrogance, arrogance." Schiller said in the tone of Lucifer, "What you and I cannot accept most is that we measure others by ourselves, but the other party is much nobler than us."

"Enough."

Schiller rarely spoke again after Lucifer's voice fell, temporarily restraining his instinct to attack everyone equally, and accompanied Lucifer in silence.

"Or he is a little nobler than you imagine."

After a long while, Lucifer finally said, "I don't know how many times I complained to God about him, perhaps he also pieced together the truth from a few words, but he was always silent about this."

"I thought he didn't approve of my point of view, but it wasn't until then that I knew he was telling me that when someone refuses you, waiting in place for him to show kindness is the most stupid thing to do."

"What we want can only be fought for by ourselves. Giving up, waiting, and then resentment are essentially all evasion. We must move forward, continue to move forward, always face problems directly, and then we can solve them."

"And what truly shocked me was that he didn't just not expect me to be the savior of humanity, he even wanted to be my savior."

Lucifer turned to look at Schiller again and said, "He hoped I could face the problem directly, so he brought you back here."

Schiller had some realization after a little thought.

When Lucifer said "Child, don't be afraid" to him, God's way of solving the problem was also to take his soul away, which meant that the soul that truly represented Lucifer's destiny was his soul.

So only when he returned could Lucifer truly solve the problem.

But Schiller suddenly thought again, Lucifer was an archangel, which meant that he returned to Heaven after that time he came to the human world, and became an angel. Did he accept his destiny?

Lucifer seemed to know what he was thinking and said, "I didn't at the time, it was just that he took a step back, and I took a step back. We always get along like this."

"Then the War of the Fallen..."

Lucifer's face changed immediately, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't want to fight at first, just sneaking to Hell would be fine, but he kept encouraging me to fight the War of the Fallen, just to take my feathers to borrow money while I went to fight!"

Schiller covered his forehead. Now he knew why when Greed came out and said he wanted Lucifer to fight World War II, Lucifer turned around and ran away.

In this way, the context of the matter was very clear.

Schiller speculated that it might be before the original Schiller committed suicide, he had already discovered that the Soviet Union at that time was not worth saving.

And after he came to this world, he realized that this world had stronger power, and then he discovered that if he took a sword and walked on the edge, could he use another method to liberate all mankind?

According to Lucifer's description of the strength of that power, this was really not impossible. At worst, it was to build a heavenly kingdom.

Mankind is not difficult to raise. The production materials needed by all mankind are a drop in the bucket compared to the power that can destroy a universe. Don't care if the construction raw materials were borrowed, just say whether the final communism was realized.

Schiller speculated that this might be the original Schiller's plan. According to this plan, he instigated Lucifer to fight the War of the Fallen, and while the original owner of the feathers was busy fighting, he took these feathers to borrow money everywhere, and there was no return.

Lucifer's feathers were indeed easy to use. After all, who didn't know he was the first light? Plus the information about powerful existences that Lucifer provided to the original Schiller before, it was really one borrow after another, one pluck after another.

But as the plan progressed, the original Schiller might have discovered some clues.

Simply put, the resistance to saving the DC world didn't come from inside the wall, but from outside the wall. As long as Batman's story needed to continue, then Cat Getan, this big stage, could not be dismantled.

That is to say, relying on directly cracking down on crime to solve the Curse of Extreme Evil was almost impossible. As long as this universe was arranged as an ordinary universe with Cat Getan, then Cat Getan was impossible to be saved.

That is to say, even if the original Schiller really built a heavenly kingdom on earth, Cat Getan would still have crime, and the bottom people would still suffer, be poor, otherwise where would there be so many criminals for Batman to be an opponent?

Obviously, the original Schiller refused to accept this arrangement.

Schiller speculated that the original Schiller might have used the power originally used to create an ideal world to solve some things that were completely unsolvable before, such as the Batman Who Laughs and Doomsday.

But just this should not be enough to exhaust so much power. Schiller felt that after he came to this universe, Cat Getan successfully ushered in light. It was very likely that the original Schiller used this power to break the rules, so that Cat Getan had the possibility of being saved.

Actually, Schiller had puzzled before. Along the way, he felt that the Cat Getan he was in was completely a simple mode, almost without the accidental events that everything went bad in most comic plots.

In the comics, Batman, as long as he wanted to do something to make Cat Getan better, would definitely encounter various resistances and troubles, even the kind of extremely low-probability accidents that would not appear from the perspective of probability, and then everything would be ruined.

Although he was Batman, he was originally unable to save Cat Getan, but Schiller had also been turned into the Joker, and there was no reason why he could save Cat Getan as soon as he came, so all this was surprisingly smooth, which was probably really related to the big explosion caused by the original Schiller in Cat Getan.

A strange person who could think of such a shocking plan could not have investigated the so-called Curse of Extreme Evil before acting. He must have mastered some information before daring to act.

Thinking about it this way, the smooth transformation progress of Cat Getan was not a coincidence, all the coincidences were deliberate.

And at this time, Schiller remembered another thing, so he asked, "Would it be God who told the supreme existence of another universe about Dr. Anatoly?"

Lucifer came back to his senses. He thought about it and said, "I don't know the situation of the universe you went to later, but since God sent you there, he should know."

"It seems it's eight or nine out of ten." Schiller tapped the armrest with his finger.

"What did that supreme existence say to you?" Lucifer asked curiously.

"He said that the doctor is still alive."

"Is that a very important person to you?"

"You could say that."

"Wait." Lucifer suddenly thought of something. He stared at Schiller and said, "Is this a very shocking piece of news? You have only returned to this world for a few years, right? Is that doctor very old?"

Schiller shook his head and didn't speak. Lucifer narrowed his eyes. He took a sip of wine, put down the wine glass, and said, "You have already successfully forced the truth out, can't you say a little more about yourself?"

"This doesn't make much sense." Schiller seemed to be thinking about some other things, so his attention was somewhat scattered. Then he said, "You have returned to Heaven now and become an angel. Is this also a manifestation of some kind of destiny?"

"Yes, and it's still because of you." Lucifer sighed and said, "So to some extent, I can also understand God. In places he cannot take care of, everything operates according to rules, and what I can escape is ultimately limited, and I will eventually return to the original path."

"But you can also choose to leave Heaven now."

"Yes, but this might be another destiny."

Lucifer continued to look at Schiller and asked with great interest, "What happened in the world you went to later, right? You thought that doctor was already dead, so you would be very interested in the news that he is still alive."

Schiller didn't deny it either. He nodded and said, "The situation is very complicated, but it is indeed so, and I want to figure out the reason behind this."

"Let's hear it, maybe I can help."

"Forget it, this story is too long. How is Battleworld prepared?"

Lucifer rubbed for a while and found that there was really no way to make Schiller speak, so he had to say with lack of interest, "It's okay. I have temporarily arranged the big guys you brought over in the redundancy area."

"Can their illness be cured?"

"That kind of bug is not troublesome, but their body strength is indeed quite amazing. Owen is trying to find a way, and it is estimated that it will be solved in a few days."

Schiller had already stood up, clearly not intending to stay long. Although he was not here to force the truth out today, didn't Lucifer say it voluntarily?

But this truth really couldn't be called very shocking. From the perspective of probability, after an extremely low-probability event happens to you, if there is a second one, it doesn't prove how lucky you are, but proves that this is not an extremely low-probability event at all, and there must be hidden secrets behind it.

If Schiller's possession of special abilities in his previous life could be explained as him being the chosen one, then the fact that transmigration also happened to him proved that there must be something wrong with him.

And before he left Lucifer's palace, the two stood in front of the main gate looking at the blue Earth not far away. Schiller supported his hands with the umbrella in front of him, looked at Lucifer, and said, "Will you miss him?"

"Sometimes." Lucifer said with great emotion, "But I can always see him again from the subtle changes in the Earth of that universe."

"In the eyes of gods, loss is not a temporary end, but a long excavation. It is an opportunity to find more traces of his existence in the future, a ticket to a new adventure."

"You finally had a taste of being a savior." Schiller lowered his head and laughed, "You solved the Court of Owls in a way that stunned everyone."

Lucifer looked at the Earth quietly, his eyes reflecting the pulse of every earth vein and the prosperity of every city, and then he said, "You are right. What we cannot accept most is the salvation of others, which makes us feel our own insignificance. You have to bend down first to look directly at the greatness of others."

"But the most shocking thing is that compared to the great thing they did that affected us, they might be more proud of our changes."

"Because this process is not a kind of crushing and breaking, but the most beautiful thing that the human race can provide—inheritance."

"The most precious thing in inheritance is not knowledge and skills." Schiller also looked at the Earth and said.

"But the infinite hope they project on you, that is the true secret for us to get rid of the established destiny and possess infinite possibilities." ===== CHAPTER 2022 =====