Chapter 2390: Battle of the Bats (Part 9)

"Gabrielle is an introverted but strong girl." Professor X lowered his eyes, picked up the wine glass on the coffee table, and recalled, "Although she is not old, out of respect for her, people respectfully call her Ms. Haller."

"I was attracted by her, but not because of the things she expressed, but because of the things hidden deep in her heart that made her feel pain and torture."

Opposite, Strange and Stark were listening quietly. Although Professor X was a very kind old man, he rarely analyzed himself and almost never talked about the past. This time, if it weren't for Legion having problems, this past would have been sealed in history forever.

"Gabrielle witnessed her father die in a massacre." Professor X sighed slightly and said, "Just like what is recorded in history, the NAZI army drove them to a certain place and killed them, and the young Gabrielle could only watch but couldn't do anything."

"After growing up, she left Germany and lived like a normal person. She didn't tell anyone how much trauma that period of experience in her childhood caused her. She had been enduring it until her inner quality was completely crazy."

"I saw her pain, so I treated her. I have to say, that was the biggest mistake I made when I was young, none of them."

"Uh, because the doctor and the patient shouldn't..." Stark tentatively said.

"It's not that. We didn't have a formal doctor-patient relationship. The mistake I referred to is not falling in love with her and having a child, but the treatment method I adopted for her was too rough."

"You wouldn't have deleted her memory directly, would you?" Strange asked.

"Worse than that, I deleted that memory, constructed a new one for her, changed her background to her father dying of illness, and her mother bringing her to Israel."

"But the biggest problem is that her mother actually left her before her father died. At that time, I had misplaced compassion. I thought she should feel the love of her parents like ordinary people, so I projected the image of my mother into her mind. I thought this would make her a little better."

"After we separated, I still thought so, until one day I made the same mistake again, and then I found that this couldn't solve any problems at all."

"Human thinking is full of omissions, often illogical, too abstract, but sometimes human thinking is rigorously unbelievable, and every detail remembered can echo each other."

"This leads to you needing to make up a lie, and then needing to use a hundred to round it up. You need to manufacture a sufficient amount of details, and you have to make them echo each other. As long as one doesn't echo, people will fall into endless suspicion, which is even more terrible than psychological trauma."

Because even if psychological trauma is heavy, people will realize that it is something that happened in the past, and if they fall into suspicion, people will not be able to distinguish between the past, present, and future, not knowing where they are, not knowing what is real, which will make them almost unable to take care of themselves."

"After witnessing the tragedy produced by my mistake later, I wanted to find Haller, but I wasn't on Earth at that time, and Lilandra was... well, I didn't dare to face her."

"After realizing David's existence, seeing his state, I knew that his mother might have caused a very bad influence on him. I think Gabrielle didn't mean it, which means she might have already lost control."

"As David grew up, his mother began to lose control gradually." The time manipulator sighed and said; "She began to doubt everything around her, especially began to doubt whether certain things really existed."

"She began to constantly ask how they came to Israel, what they encountered on the road, what people and things they saw, whether they really arrived in Israel, or whether they were now in hell and couldn't be liberated."

"When the people around couldn't give her an answer, she began to ask David." The time manipulator lowered his head, pursed his lips and said, "David said he didn't know, he said he hadn't experienced it, he said the war had long passed, but his mother didn't believe it."

Miles and Gwen Spider-Man looked at each other. Gwen Spider-Man said, "Typical symptoms of schizophrenia, why would this happen?"

"David also wanted to know." The time manipulator said, "But he was born long after the war ended. He knew it was impossible for him to find the answers to these questions, but he had to find a way in his mind to make his mother get rid of the pain."

"But looking for it, there was only this one way to give his mother an answer. So I was born. In David's fantasy, he was a superhuman who could shuttle through time at will. He returned to the past, saw with his own eyes how his mother came to Israel from Germany, how she met his biological father, and how she came to Paris and gave birth to him."

"So David's personality is actually his fantasy at a certain moment?" Gwen stepped forward and asked.

"Not entirely." The time manipulator shook his head and walked to the window. Spider-Men followed behind him. Through the huge floor-to-ceiling window, they could see Max, who had plasma flame ability, still wandering in the square downstairs.

"It could also be someone he met at a certain moment who left a deep impression on him, a guardian god he fantasized about protecting himself in a certain accident, a association he had for a certain item, or even a character he could only remember in a certain blurry dream."

The time manipulator's gaze fell on Max, and he said, "This old man named Max is actually a victim David saw in a fire in Paris."

"At that time, the house was completely burning. This old man seemed to be reluctant to part with his property. After most people ran out, he finally came out, but very unfortunately, the flames had swallowed the front hall, and he had become a fire man when he ran out."

"David hadn't seen this form of human, and he didn't quite understand why the other party became like this, so he took it for granted that the other party was actually a superhuman with fire ability, so Max was born."

"But in fact, this name is not the real name of this old man, but the name of a newspaper kiosk owner David knew before. He felt that they had some similarities, so this became Max's name."

"Too magical." Miles sighed, "I also have some fantasy friends, but they only exist in the mental world of my childhood. Why can his fantasy friends have superpowers?"

"This is David's mutant ability, I mean the real David."

Gwen Spider-Man immediately heard the subtext, she said, "The real David, do you mean there is a fake David?"

"That person who now calls himself David is not David at all." The time manipulator revealed a shocking secret, "The real David would never want all personalities to disappear like him. We have never been his burden."

Spider-Men felt that they were close to the truth. They questioned one after another, but the time manipulator didn't answer.

"If you want to know more things, go find the prophet. He answers all questions and knows everything."

After speaking, the time manipulator's figure disappeared, just like the way he disappeared before.

The leading Noir Spider-Man sighed and said, "It seems we can't get from him..."

Suddenly with a swish, the time manipulator appeared again. His face appeared with the biggest expression ever, which was unbelievable shock.

"What is that thing???!!!"

Then he disappeared with a swish again. This time the time was a bit longer, but soon appeared again, looking like he was completely stunned.

"What's wrong with you?" Gwen asked with some concern. She was indeed worried about the time manipulator having an accident. After all, the other party had just provided useful clues, and they might need the other party's help later.

"There is a... strange thing in the time flow." The time manipulator looked at a loss and said, "It looks like a black me, but how is this possible? The time flow is not within the universe, it is impossible for any creature to live here."

"Is he... very dangerous?" Noir Spider-Man tentatively asked.

"I'm not sure." The time manipulator's eyes became serious, and he said, "The other party looks very aggressive, but I dare not let him come into contact with me. The time flow is full of crises. Once the crossing process has a problem, I don't know where I will be thrown."

"So you are not completely controlling time?"

"No one can completely control time." The time manipulator said, "It's just that some people have mastered the method of adjusting the time flow and have the ability to use this method to change the time flow rate."

"All the time-manipulators you have seen control the same time stream, so when their abilities act upon you simultaneously, only the command from the one with the stronger control over the time stream will take effect."

"Priority principle?"

"That's right." The time manipulator still looked a bit confused and said, "But the time flow is not a space, but a very abstract thing. Although we can shuttle through it, we cannot stay in it. Two time ability users using time abilities at the same time will not meet in it."

"Then what should we do now?" Spider-Man asked, "It sounds like a big trouble."

"It will definitely be a big trouble, because in David's mental world and the real world outside, the time flow is common."

"That is to say, he might run outside?"

"He might have already run outside."

The time manipulator paused slightly and said, "You need to do me a favor. I cannot enter the time flow now. You need to take me to the personality that manipulates time. In exchange, I can find a way to send you to the prophet, so you don't have to defeat the other personalities on the way."

Spider-Men discussed it and felt that even if the other party didn't provide exchange conditions, they had to find a way to help. After all, this sounded like a big problem. Nick was still working at the Time Variance Authority.

They soon set off. On the way, Miles asked with some curiosity, "Which personality are you going to see?"

"Cole Norton." The time manipulator answered while walking fast, "His appearance might be shocking. Don't be too surprised after seeing him."

Miles sneered and said, "We are not children, we won't make a fuss."

20 minutes later, all Spider-Men looked at the huge figure rushing out of the courtyard in a daze. Saying it was a personality was completely wrong. This guy was a huge dinosaur.

But what was even more outrageous was that there was a dinosaur chasing behind him, bigger than him, with a black head and upper body, and a gray lower part, the color scheme reminded Spider-Men of an old friend. ===== CHAPTER 2391 =====