Chapter 2363

The efficiency of the two Batmen was not just 1+1=2. They quickly completed the retrieval of the vast majority of historical classics and really discovered some problems.

First of all, both Batmen paid attention to the historical fragments they saw before entering Dr. Sothep's room, and combined with some details described in the book, they basically determined that those were some scenes from the ancient period to the Roman Empire period.

But the problem was that some things that shouldn't have appeared in human history appeared, such as ravens with red eyes, such as those spaceships and weapons.

This meant that there were indeed other things hidden in history, or that if you turned the human history book over, those things that were originally hailed as myths and legends were very likely to be true.

Of course, even through Wonder Woman's self-narration, Batman knew that there were gods on Earth, but Wonder Woman was a descendant of gods after all, and her narration of the Olympus god system was more from the perspective of gods.

And through the query of history books, Batman realized that these gods had huge believers in certain periods on Earth, and might even be certain countries they were familiar with.

From this perspective, Barbatos only having the Court of Owls as believers didn't make sense. This guy couldn't have come to Earth after the founding of the United States. If he came earlier, the believers he left behind were more likely to be in Europe or Asia, which were the densely populated areas in ancient times.

Realizing that the Court of Owls might not be Barbatos's only believers, Batman began to look for ancient beliefs that tended to be dark. Similar concepts and descriptions existed in almost every god system. In human primitive religions, there was always a god representing the mysterious night.

In this regard, he didn't find the target, but as Batman searched, he found that a classic explaining the origin of human totem worship mentioned that there was an ancient tribe that worshipped the Bat God.

Almost every Batman was very interested in bats. After the two discovered this tribe, they decided to put the matter of the God of Darkness aside first and study what was going on with this tribe that worshipped bats.

As a result, they stumbled upon it. In the image data of a stele used as totem display, they found the Hebrew spelling of Barbatos.

This was unlikely to be a coincidence, because first of all, the Hebrew spelling method was completely different from English. The composition of the word Barbatos in Hebrew was very strange. It looked like it wasn't a name that could be created by a nation using Hebrew. It was more like a forced application, insisting on using the letters of one's own language to spell out this pronunciation.

Secondly, there was a pattern in the center of this totem, but it didn't look like a big bat. It looked a bit like a dragon with bat wings, and the name of this tribe was even more intriguing. They called themselves the Believers of Judah.

After discovering the clues, they began to search in more books, and then found that the influence of this so-called Believers of Judah tribe was really not small. Almost all primitive totem worship mentioned them.

Then the two gradually discovered that the so-called bat was just because the people who compiled these books thought the totem looked like a bat, so they thought they were ancient bat worshippers. But in fact, in the steles left by the Believers of Judah tribe, they never said they worshipped bats. They called their god the Great God of Darkness.

This completely matched Barbatos's image.

The two Batmen found Constantine, who had started drinking again, in a pub in Oxfordshire, but this time they successfully stopped her before she got drunk, and pressed her head, making her find more records about the Judah tribe in the occult field.

The most useful of these was a book Constantine found from the Forgotten Bookstore. Here was the process of a chieftain of the Judah tribe at a certain period writing about his dream of the God of Darkness.

This story was probably that one night, the chieftain saw their god descend on the earth in a dream, and the Great God of Darkness said to him that the night would eventually descend on the day, and the bat was the channel.

The last sentence was actually much more complicated and secretive than this, but after the two Batmen deciphered it, they found that Barbatos meant exactly this.

Note that the bat here, the bat is the channel, the bat is a real bat, which is the pronunciation of bat in English, but because of the language barrier, the chieftain at that time didn't understand the real meaning.

But this inspired the two Batmen, especially the main universe Batman. He thought, if darkness and light were two worlds, and Barbatos was the master of the dark world, then the night would eventually descend on the day, which meant Barbatos must want to invade the world of light.

And the bat is the channel is also easy to understand. There were so many cities in this world, but he threw the Court of Owls into Cat Getan and used thick dark power to soak Cat Getan. Could this be to lead to his own birth?

Because Cat Getan was rotten and there were many criminals, it was destined to give birth to a Batman. If it wasn't himself, it would be someone else. And because of some special features in himself, he might become the channel for Barbatos to descend into the light universe.

When the main universe Batman told Batwoman about these things, Batwoman said it was too abstract and hard to understand, but Constantine gave a reasonable explanation.

"Occultism is like this. A certain god chooses you, maybe not because you have any special abilities or are how excellent, but simply because your name has some special meaning."

"In the eyes of humans, things that are meaningless and have no impact are not so in the occult field. Your date of birth, the state of the sun and moon at birth, the meaning of your name, the good and evil of certain things you do, all have major significance in the eyes of these mysterious existences."

"So I am the chosen one." Batwoman frowned deeply and said: "But I will never open a channel for an evil god. How does he want to use me to descend into this world?"

"Really?" Batman looked at her and asked.

Batwoman was stunned for a moment. She turned to stare at Batman, just wanting to refute, but seeing his deep eyes, she realized something.

"This universe is an enlarged version of Cat Getan." Batman said: "Infected by dark energy, criminals emerge one after another, tragedies one after another. Do you dare to say that you will never lose control?"

"Then what about you? Have you never lost control?"

"Perhaps, but in the end, I can always find myself." Batman said: "This is not because my willpower is stronger than yours, but simply because the universe I am in is much better than here. Even if some mistakes appear, there is room for recovery."

Batwoman stopped talking. She began to think. Assuming these strange visitors from another world didn't come, she went to negotiate with the Sea Queen, and the two parted on bad terms. Would it eventually evolve into a sea-land war?

If the war really broke out, did she really have the certainty that the land wouldn't be destroyed and the ocean wouldn't be cleansed, and finally get a peaceful good result?

Not entirely sure, Batwoman thought. The preparations she made were far from reaching the point of ensuring that everything was under her control. Then why did she want to start this war?

She suddenly felt a kind of void in her chest, and her breathing began to become rapid. Suddenly a hand was placed on her shoulder. Batman looked at her and said: "Calm down, the thoughts that appear in your mind may not be your own thoughts. That is the result of the influence of dark power. He just wants you to think so, wants you to lose control, and then open a channel."

Batwoman took a sharp breath, forcing her heart not to beat so violently, but a kind of haze still couldn't dissipate in her mind.

"Let's go back." Batman said: "I guess you should have a final plan for Atlantis. Take it, let's go talk to the Sea Queen. Now is not the time for infighting."

Finding that the culprit had been manipulating the two of them in the shadows, Batman felt a sense of urgency. They rushed back to Cat Getan without stopping, and Batwoman showed Batman her final means.

"It was a huge machine, consisting of an energy storage device, a control center, a bunch of mechanical arms, and an operating table."

"At the critical moment, I will transform myself into the final weapon." Batwoman said: "As long as I fill the energy storage device with enough energy, I mean energy that can control the direction of transformation, such as Atlantis's energy, I can pour this energy into my body in another form to make me possess the abilities they have, or even stronger than him."

"Terrible." Batman commented: "I think you now realize that the degree of your loss of control is deeper than you imagined. How could you think of transforming yourself into a weapon? Why do you think you won't lose control?"

At this time, Batwoman was speechless because she really had no way to guarantee that she would still be herself after becoming a weapon, and she didn't realize this at all when she was looking at the machine.

This didn't look like her, and in fact didn't look like any Batman. Although Batman had made backup plans for every factor around him that could lose control, in fact, the backup plans he made for his own loss of control were the most.

Batman had had many nightmares, but the worst of them wasn't Superman or Green Lantern losing control, but all of them were him losing control. In his view, a Batman who had lost his reason was more terrifying than any criminal.

Batman looked up at the energy hub and said: "What did you use to amplify the energy filled in it?"

"A meteorite, to be precise, the metal in the meteorite." Batwoman said: "This thing fell in Egypt and was originally placed in the Egyptian Museum, but it fell into my hands in a battle. I found that this thing has very magical properties, so I built this machine."

Batwoman pointed to a jar flashing with strange light under the energy hub and said: "That's it. All energy passing through this kind of metal will be amplified, reorganized, and compressed, possessing more magical properties and being more powerful."

Batman shook his head, obviously still marveling at Batwoman's boldness. He said: "We can't move this thing to see the Sea Queen. She might not understand what this is for, and it doesn't have enough deterrent power."

"Where is your workshop? I think we can transform it into an obvious weapon, and specifically target the Atlanteans, so that she can calm down and talk to us, and perhaps it can come in handy later."

Batwoman sighed and said: "I can't be sure. I'm still sober now, so you do it. The workspace is over there."