Chapter 2401: The Battle of the Bats (Part 20)

After Batman put on the helmet, Spider-Man found Wonder Woman and, by asking about the black sun deep in the thick fog, figured out the problem of the energy flow in the helmet.

In short, it was not a creation of the Olympian pantheon, and its energy system was completely different from theirs. And from some traces of energy flow, it could be seen that before this piece of metal was forged, the energy circuit already existed.

That is to say, the energy circuit with the function of an energy amplifier was brought by this piece of metal itself, not carved by Ares.

This immediately aroused Wonder Woman's vigilance, because if this helmet was not Ares's creation, it must be thousands of times more dangerous than they imagined.

However, it was too late to say these things now. They first had to figure out how to take the helmet off Batman's head.

Wonder Woman believed that they still had room to persuade Batman, but Spider-Man was not so optimistic. Judging from Batman's previous performance, he now seemed to think that everyone would snatch his helmet, which was clearly a sign of being bewitched.

Finally, they formulated a strategy: Wonder Woman would attract Batman's attention, regardless of the method—reasoning with Batman or threatening Batman—in short, firmly attract his attention to herself, and then Spider-Man would knock Batman unconscious.

They quickly found Batman wearing the helmet, and Wonder Woman also successfully appeared before him, attracting Batman's attention—unfortunately, in the bad way; Batman indeed felt that Wonder Woman wanted to snatch his helmet.

Although Wonder Woman felt extremely sad, she still performed her duties well, allowing Batman's attention to remain on her for a period of time before Batman came into contact with her.

Peter used the instant movement ability in the fog space to successfully appear behind Batman and knock him unconscious. But a new problem was placed in front of the two: the helmet could not be taken off.

That's right, after Peter's experiments and observations, the energy circuit in the helmet had merged with Batman's brain, or simply put, this energy circuit was designed for Batman's brain. Once the two became one, they could no longer be separated.

Even if they were forcibly separated by violence, it would cause serious damage to Batman's brain. Even if his life could be saved, it would make him an idiot.

Wonder Woman felt despair. She finally realized that this helmet was a conspiracy against Batman, and if she hadn't knocked the helmet off at the beginning, or had been a little stronger and not knocked unconscious by Ares, there wouldn't be such a bad result today.

Peter, however, had not given up yet. He believed Batman could still be saved.

Through a series of checks, Peter found that the energy circuit merged with Batman's brain was fine. Its specific principle was to convert Batman's excessive thinking energy into real energy, thereby allowing him to possess huge power. This process was logical and would not make Batman lose his mind.

What really made Batman lose his mind was the pollution suffered when his thinking flowed through the energy circuit, and this pollution had a core that existed in the energy circuit. As long as the secret of the energy circuit was cracked and this core was removed, Batman could be restored to sanity.

At this time, the occult knowledge Peter learned in the fog space finally came in handy.

Peter was already relatively proficient in brain science and had studied human brain waves. Combined with the research on the flow of human soul energy in occultism, he believed he had the certainty to crack all of this.

Wonder Woman also provided help to Peter. She went back to Themyscira and brought back creations of the Olympian pantheon. There were also energy circuits on them. Although the style of the energy circuits was different from those in the helmet, the principles were similar.

Although it took a long time, Peter finally cracked all of this. However, although he had theoretical knowledge, removing the core was still a troublesome thing, because Peter had no divine power, and he didn't dare to let the fog invade Batman's brain easily.

Finally, Wonder Woman proposed to use her divine power to go deep into the energy circuit to remove the core, but Peter warned her that removing the core was actually using a large amount of divine power to offset the energy surging in the energy circuit. These divine powers would never come back.

Wonder Woman made a decision she would always make.

So after Batman woke up, he saw a Wonder Woman without divine power. Her whole body no longer radiated that kind of vibrant light, but became more real, closer to him.

After learning all this, Batman wearing the helmet hugged Wonder Woman, but at the same time he knew he had to find a way to help Wonder Woman regain her divine power, otherwise she would never be able to return to her hometown.

Unfortunately, the ability Batman currently possessed was the powerful energy converted from his thinking energy that surpassed ordinary people through the helmet. This energy was not divine power and could not be fed back to Wonder Woman.

At this time, Peter learned about David's current situation from other Spider-Men, so he invited Batman to enter David's mental world to confront those personalities and find out the truth.

Batman actually didn't want to go because he thought he needed to stay to protect Wonder Woman. But unfortunately, although Wonder Woman had no divine power, she was still Wonder Woman. She thought she didn't need protection, and Peter saved Batman, so Batman should go to help him.

Wonder Woman returned to her brother to ask if Hephaestus had a way to restore divine power, and Batman also followed Peter, wanting to enter David's mental world through the Battleworld portal.

However, unfortunately, because Peter spent a long time studying how to crack the energy circuit on the helmet, they were the last batch of people who wanted to enter the mental world. And at this time, Superman had already entered, completely occupying the bandwidth, and even filled the redundancy. The two found that they couldn't get in.

Because Peter was on a business trip, he didn't understand the principles, and he thought there was a problem with the portal. He just kept trying to get in, which was actually equivalent to a network attack, causing others inside to lag.

And after Clark left, the two of them finally succeeded in getting in, and were luckier than other Batmen, landing directly in the middle of the main force.

And after successfully joining forces with them, the group picked up the Green Lantern Batman who had been knocked unconscious because he had no energy on the way to the castle.

After contacting the helmet Batman and the Green Lantern Batman, Batman finally noticed that something was wrong. This group of Batmen was not just the strange batch of Batmen in the universe. The reason why they became like this and gathered here was not a coincidence.

The Batmen started to reconcile accounts.

The first was this group of Batmen from the Dark Universe. After they finished telling their experiences, everyone found that some kind of pollution was the key to their birth.

As mentioned before, in the plan dissected by Ultron, a mysterious energy carried by mysterious brain waves crossed several universes and polluted countless Batmen. After all these polluted Batmen gathered together, the sufficient information also made Batman realize this point—this is someone's conspiracy.

Then the problem returned to the origin. What exactly was that pool of mysterious red substance that Batman and Batwoman structured with instruments, which was called blood by the figure in the fog?

All Batmen who had been polluted started to think about this question, but almost none of them had a conclusion. The only thing they knew was that someone wanted to use them to do something, which was the source of the tragedy they faced.

It was impossible not to be angry, but compared to anger, they felt a kind of fear. This mastermind standing behind the heavy fog had anticipated everything long ago.

Finally, it was Peter who broke the gloomy atmosphere.

"You guys think about it, this mastermind makes a helmet for a while, makes machine parts for a while, and disguises them as some meteorites. What does this prove?"

All Batmen looked at him.

"Proves that he dare not face you directly." Peter said, "If he really dared to do this, he would just rush to your house, knock you unconscious, and then inject that kind of pollutant into your body. Why go through such a big circle?"

"Maybe he has other plans."

"Perhaps, but his gains definitely don't outweigh the energy spent on polluting you by going through such a big circle. Even if he just likes to do this, it proves that he is a despicable villain, lacking the courage and ability for a fair fight."

"From my experience, this group of people likes to do the most is to sow discord and be sneaky. They repeatedly chant in your ears that the world is dark, people are untrustworthy, and only by doing bad things can you retaliate against all this."

"But the facts are definitely not like this. Aren't we united now?" Peter scanned the room and said.

"Everything he did was to prevent you from standing together, because although he said on his lips that all this is meaningless and is a senseless struggle, he is actually more afraid of this than anyone else."

"What drives him to constantly split you, pollute you, and make you lose trust in others is nothing else, but his innate fear of unity, justice, and public justice."

"He can understand it intellectually, but he dare not believe it emotionally, and dare not imagine it in fantasy. A person who is accustomed to questioning and doubting the whole world will still choose to stand with other selves after encountering such deep tragedy."

"He thinks depravity is your inevitable end, so you must not do this, but completely opposite to firmly work together with other sufferers. The more miserable, the more unyielding; the more questioning, the more you believe."

"Taking a step back." Peter showed a smile and said, "You organized a super big party. There are countless Batmen here and things as interesting as you, but you just don't invite him. Now, who will be angry?" ===== CHAPTER 2402 =====