Chapter 2404

"I said, my situation with David is not exactly the same," Schiller in the office said with some helplessness. He turned around, took a box of cookies from the drawer beside him, broke one of them, and pointed at the broken parts and the crumbs that fell: "This is me."

Immediately after, he pointed at the different cookies inside the box and said: "This is David."

"But David's personalities are also evolved from his different memory fragments," Charles said.

Schiller shook his head and said: "But they have already evolved into complete personalities with their own characters and memories. They don't think they are a whole with other personalities, and don't even feel they are the same kind. This is significantly different from me."

"However, I also agree with what you said, because they come from the same person's memories and received the same kind of energy, there must be similarities between them, and there must be traces of David in the energy."

"The fastest and most convenient method is naturally to directly recycle their energy and then find the similar parts among them. But you think this might go against David's wishes, so there might be another method."

"What is that?"

Schiller thought and said: "When David disintegrated, he shared his energy with his memory fragments. Even in death, he didn't want his memories to perish. This means David must love these memories. Letting them live on has become David's obsession."

"Perhaps David won't have any reaction if one or two personalities are in danger, but if many personalities face the danger of perishing, I fear David, hidden in their consciousness, will actively aggregate to block this danger."

Charles said as if he had realized something: "So instead of us looking for David, it's better to let David look for us?"

"Exactly," Schiller nodded and said: "You said Moira is building a machine that can recycle the energy of all personalities. I think this is a good idea, but there's no need to really stuff them into the machine, just make a show of it. I think David will be willing to come out and talk to you."

The expression on Charles's face became strange. He said: "Sounds like something a kidnapper would do."

"To some extent, yes, but extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures," Schiller shrugged and said: "If you think this is bad, then leave it to Batman to do. It just so happens I have something I want you to help with."

"But Batman..."

"They are much more flexible than you, because they are certain that with them there, no personality will truly be harmed. As long as the process is controllable, they don't care if they are misunderstood."

Charles sighed and said: "After dealing with them, I realized I still have a lot to learn, especially regarding human diversity. You don't even know what I saw in their minds."

"I can imagine," Schiller said: "But it's best not to look too much, be careful of being targeted by them."

"You said you have something you want me to help with, what is it?"

Schiller was just about to open his mouth to speak when, with a bang, the door was pushed open. Aisha rushed in hurriedly, holding a piece of paper in her hand, and shouted: "It's bad, it's bad, Doctor, look at this quickly, this guy really..."

Schiller walked over, patted Aisha on the head, and signaled her not to be anxious. Aisha took a few breaths, took the water cup, gulped down a cup of water, let out a long breath, and stuffed the paper in her hand into Schiller's arms.

Schiller looked down and saw an egg drawn on the paper, and on the egg was a big mouth full of sharp teeth laughing wildly.

Schiller's movements paused for a moment, but he didn't show much surprise. He sat back in his seat and waved at Aisha. Aisha hurried over. He leaned over, looked at Aisha, and asked: "Where did you see this?"

Aisha couldn't speak when she was anxious, she could only squeak and gesture. Charles leaned over. Of course, he also saw the thing Aisha had pulled out from the Green Lantern ring at the time, so he explained it to Schiller.

Schiller understood. He placed the paper on the table and said: "In the universe on the other side, I mean the universe where the Batmen are, there is a very unique existence."

"Who?"

"A special Batman," Schiller sighed and said: "He is a combination of Batman and his arch-nemesis."

"You mean Batman and the Joker?" Aisha showed an awkward expression and said: "How did they combine? In some universe, is my mom the Joker?"

"Not that kind of combination," Schiller gently flicked Aisha's forehead with his finger and said: "Batman killed the Joker, and he was infected by the Joker virus."

"Hiss..." Aisha gasped, but immediately said: "I will go remind Uncle Jack to be careful."

Schiller rubbed her hair hard again: "Talking about serious business here."

"Alright, is he very strong?"

"Not very strong, but he is the very special kind. How should I put it? Everything is within his expectations."

"Ah?"

"It might even include the conversation between you and me right now," Schiller smiled and said: "Perhaps one day in the future, in some sudden turn of events, this special Batman will suddenly anticipate everything that happened today."

"But... but..."

Charles and Aisha both expressed they didn't understand. Aisha said: "This has no logic. If he has no possibility of peeking into our conversation now, how does he know?"

"Maybe he started laying out his plans hundreds of years ago, just to hear our conversation at this moment."

The expression on Aisha's face became even more confused. She said: "But why?"

"Because he has a plan hundreds of years later that needs to use this conversation of ours."

"But how did he know at that time?"

"Calculated."

"What is the logic of the calculation?"

"I don't know either," Schiller shook his head and said: "If there were logic, he wouldn't be so special."

"But..." Aisha's eyebrows furrowed deeply. It was completely visible that her little brain was running at full speed, and the CPU was almost smoking.

"But he shouldn't be that old, right?" Charles answered first: "He was born hundreds of years ago? Could calculate as soon as he was born? Or is he actually some kind of demigod?"

"He can travel through time," Schiller said: "When necessary, he can appear at any time, any place, and do what he wants to do in any way."

"This is Batman? This isn't God?"

"Usually God, just occasionally feels like he is Batman," Schiller replied.

"Is he our enemy?" A sorrowful look crawled onto Aisha's face. She said: "How do we deal with this kind of enemy?"

Aisha looked up at Schiller and didn't see any worried expression on his face. She even vaguely felt that Schiller wanted to laugh. Could this be her illusion?

Schiller shook the paper at Aisha and said: "Do you know how you were born?"

"Almost no memory," Aisha said: "Between not being human and becoming human, there is a very obvious dividing line. I am also like a normal human baby, almost no memory in the embryo. The memory of Parallax has some, but more of it is something like instinct."

"Have you ever thought about why Bruce was able to give birth to you? Where did your embryo come from? And why do you look so much like him? It couldn't be that he was really pregnant, right?"

Aisha didn't react at first, but when she finally understood what Schiller meant, she opened her mouth wide in disbelief.

She extended her finger and pointed at the paper, staring at Schiller with wide eyes. Schiller nodded and said: "That's right, you were hatched from here. Because this comes from another Batman, you and Bruce look almost the same."

"But... but..." Aisha almost couldn't accept this fact. She said: "But how could this thing appear inside Bruce's body?"

"Good question, I also want to know," Schiller's fingertips gently tapped the desktop and said: "According to my understanding, he shouldn't have any reason to leave these eggs, but since they appeared, it proves that things have changed, and where this change comes from..."

Schiller didn't finish his sentence, because the speculation in his mind actually came from the comic plot.

In the comics, the Batman Who Laughs basically went smoothly from his debut to his exit, never having suffered a setback. It could be seen that the vast majority of his plans were offensive. One moment he was leading the Dark Knights to invade the universe, the next he was looking for the Super Monitor and the Anti-Monitor, wanting to directly destroy the multiverse.

The birth of the members of the Dark Knights having the handiwork of the Batman Who Laughs was actually not beyond Schiller's expectations, because in the original comics, the backstories of these members were not expanded upon much, mainly tending toward their battles after invading the main universe.

But if you look closely at their backstories, you can see some suspicious points. And if all this was the Batman Who Laughs' plan, it would be even more reasonable. After all, the Batman Who Laughs is also Batman. If he wanted to choose team members to invade the main universe, he would definitely be more inclined to cultivate and build them himself, rather than randomly selecting a few.

So the only remaining point different from the original work, the Batman Who Laughs' egg that was not mentioned at all in the original work, became the biggest suspicious point.

This thing looked like it could be some kind of pollutant, buried deep inside some Batmen's bodies or hidden by their side, ready to pollute them at any time.

But the Batman Who Laughs' egg was completely different from the special metal that attempted to pollute Batwoman and other Batmen. If it was also pollution, the Batman Who Laughs didn't need to create two different forms of things.

And the Batman Who Laughs' egg was very special. From Aisha's birth, it could be seen that this thing was actually a compressed package of a whole complete Batman. I fear it wouldn't be easy for anyone to build this thing. If it was just for pollution, there was no need to go to such great lengths.

Let's look at the places where the Batman Who Laughs' egg appeared. There was one inside Bruce's body, one in the Green Lantern Batman's ring, and others hadn't been discovered yet. So what was the common point between Bruce and the Green Lantern Batman?

At first glance, the two were very far apart. Bruce was from the Light Universe, while the Green Lantern Batman was from the Dark Universe. There were no common points in character, and their abilities were even further apart.

But Schiller realized that this was just him looking from the current perspective. If he entered the special perspective of the Batman Who Laughs at a certain point in time, the Green Lantern Batman and Bruce could possibly be classified as the same kind of person.

Then the question returned to the universe where Bruce was. Schiller had to start thinking about a question: was the DC universe he was in really the Light Universe?