Chapter 2426

Hugo could be said to have witnessed what is known as a modern-day Xianglin Sao.

The word "Superman" simply could not appear in the mind of the Doomsday Batman, because as soon as it did, a flood of memories would come rushing in like a tide: how the two of them met, how they developed into close friends, and how they solved one major crisis after another together in the Justice League.

And most importantly, how Superman had betrayed him.

Every time the word "Superman" was mentioned, Batman would replay all of these things in his mind. Because the recollection was so dense and the speed so fast, Hugo couldn't even find an opportunity to insert a new memory.

But as a master of psychology, Hugo would not admit defeat so easily; simply put, he was determined to lock horns with Batman.

Then, after a whole night of attempts and listening to this entire experience at least 2,000 times, Hugo gave up.

This Batman's entire mental world seemed to revolve around Superman. No matter what topic you brought up, even if you asked him whether he ate bread or sausage for breakfast this morning, he could recall the scene of having breakfast with Superman at that time.

During this period, Hugo tried to distort things from a broad conceptual direction, such as deleting and correcting the memories of Superman, but Batman would quickly pull everything back on track, inferring from the cause that Superman must betray me, and inferring from the consequence that Superman must be lying to me.

He also tried to start from the details, such as adding some very strange little details to the memories to make Batman himself notice something was wrong—but Batman didn't notice anything wrong at all; he only felt that Superman was wrong in every way.

Hugo finally understood: reaching the extreme of a "love-struck brain" is also a skill. At the very least, it can fundamentally immunize one against all brainwashing and hypnosis. Don't talk about justice or principles, and don't talk about national hatred or family feuds; even if the King of Heaven himself came, today he would have to engage in romantic entanglements with me, and no one is allowed to leave without scolding this heartless man to a pulp with me.

Actually, the Doomsday Batman had already recovered some of his sanity, but the problem was that Hugo's machine itself was designed to stimulate emotions. Coupled with the fact that the Doomsday Batman had been discussing issues related to Superman with Batman before he arrived, and he was also thinking about things related to Superman when he was hypnotized, it caused his thinking to start going in circles in his brain.

With things having reached this point, whether or not Batman could be used to harm the Waynes was no longer important; Hugo just had to see where the limit of a love-struck brain lay.

So he brought out his signature move, using the brainwave hypnosis device to enter Batman's mind in the form of a mental projection.

There are now over 20,000 Supermen inside Batman's mind.

Because Hugo's previous imprecise operation caused Batman to flip out all the memory fragments of his time with Superman, and made them completely mixed together with no gaps between them, this resulted in the Supermen from every single memory fragment running out.

Running out wasn't the main issue; the problem was that the Superman in Batman's memories had a very clear split. Before a certain point in time, Superman was good in every way, simply a perfect partner of justice and Batman's closest confidant.

But after a certain point in time, Superman turned into a villain of all evils, simply gathering all the most evil attributes in the world, and some in Batman's imagination were no longer even human, looking even more bizarre than the real one.

This led to the righteous Superman and the evil Superman being incompatible like fire and water. On one side, a superhero was asking how you could do such a thing, while on the other, an evil criminal was answering that only by doing this could the world be saved. On one side, Clark was asking how you could treat Batman this way, while on the other, the traitor was answering that I was actually lying to him from beginning to end.

Hugo didn't see Batman's figure at all, and even if he wanted to pull him out from among the 20,000-plus Supermen, it would be too difficult.

But just when Hugo felt he was going to return empty-handed, he discovered that he couldn't even return, because these Supermen had started fighting.

Everything in the mental world depends on the intensity set for them by the master of the mental world. Batman clearly had a full understanding of Superman's strength, perhaps even slightly exaggerated. As for the Superman belonging to the group army, the destructive power he could cause was even more outrageous.

Hugo didn't even have time to turn around and run before he was completely roasted by countless world-destroying heat vision beams. He also fainted directly in reality, falling onto the machine with a "thud."

With no one operating the machine, the Doomsday Batman quickly broke free from the hypnosis. He didn't really remember what happened, only Superman, Superman, Superman, and Superman.

The Doomsday Batman looked around and quickly discovered Hugo, who had fallen onto the console. He then deduced that he might have been subjected to hypnosis, only he didn't know why the other party not only failed but also knocked himself out.

The Doomsday Batman thought about it; since he was already here, he couldn't make the trip for nothing. First, he would take this damn criminal back to the Batcave, and then the equipment in this room looked pretty good too, so he would take it all.

With a "clatter," the cell door was closed. Red Hood was still leaning against the wall in front of the cell door, saying contemptuously, "Anyway, this is the first time I've seen an idiot who can knock himself out while hypnotizing someone else."

Hugo hammered his forehead hard and said, "What do you know?! That damn Batman, his whole head is full of Superman."

"Is this your first day knowing Batman?" Red Hood rolled his eyes and said, "When has his brain ever been without Superman?"

"But he, he..." Hugo almost couldn't catch his breath and nearly suffocated himself.

And in another room in the Batcave, another criminal appeared in front of Batman: the Mad Hatter, who was also proficient in hypnosis.

The process was roughly the same: constantly leaking information to the competitors of Wei En Enterprises, letting them discover that they couldn't defeat the monster brought by the Waynes using ordinary methods, so they thought of hiring super-criminals.

The person who knew this group of super-criminals best was Batman. He directly transformed into a professional manager and began to peddle information about the Mad Hatter everywhere. Eventually, someone offered a price that could move the Mad Hatter, so he also headed toward the Doomsday Batman.

The final result was exactly the same. Anyone who wanted to defeat the Doomsday Batman from a mental level eventually fell under the iron fist of his invincible love-struck brain.

With a "clatter," the cell door closed again. The Mad Hatter was lying on the ground in a sorry state, and as soon as he turned his head, he saw his good colleague, Hugo.

Immediately after, the Joker was also caught.

However, he wasn't caught by the Green Lantern Batman. After that kid took a bite of the Joker and let the Joker discover the secret of the blood, the Joker felt that he should still have some utility value, so he found a cellar and locked him up.

The problem lay with Harley Quinn.

How could Harley Quinn not be tempted by a life-sized, Batman-colored, super-cool big dinosaur? Facing Batman, the fact that she didn't show it clearly meant she had her own plans, and Batman was also prepared to fulfill her plans.

After the Bat-Rex woke up, Batman conducted a series of checks and upgrades on it, and under the pretext that these upgrades needed adjustment, he let the Bat-Rex go out to exercise its body.

And Harley Quinn had been lurking nearby for a long time. She knew that this big dinosaur couldn't stay inside forever, so after the Bat-Rex went out, she rushed up at the fastest speed and swung a hammer onto the Bat-Rex's head.

This hammer blow came too suddenly, and the Bat-Rex didn't react in time, stumbling a bit. Taking this opportunity, Harley Quinn jumped onto its back with a "whoosh."

The small patch right behind the Bat-Rex's head was its weak point, because its arms were too short to scratch it, and the range of motion from shaking its head and tail wouldn't be very large. Harley Quinn had aimed precisely at this point, grabbing that part tightly and refusing to let go.

And unlike Damian, Harley Quinn had premeditated this. She had made full preparations and directly took out a set of Tyrannosaurus saddle gear, putting it on the Bat-Rex's head.

So she flicked the reins, shouted "Giddy-up!", and rode the Bat-Rex as she galloped away.

Harley Quinn's idea was very simple: she had finally managed to get such a big treasure, so of course she had to show it off to her dear Puddin', and incidentally make up for his regret of sleeping in that morning and failing to welcome Batman.

So Harley Quinn rode the Bat-Rex and charged into the Joker gang's base.

After all, the Bat-Rex wasn't a real Tyrannosaurus; it wasn't made of flesh and blood at all, but was made entirely of alloy, and had just undergone a comprehensive upgrade by Batman. The few explosives, bullets, and cold weapons in the hands of the Joker gang members couldn't cause it any damage at all.

It just so happened that the Joker had no heart to manage the chaos outside at this time; he was studying what was going on with that blood. He thought it was just Harley Quinn bringing back some bizarre thing that caused chaos, a thing that often happened in the Joker gang, so the Joker had no time to care.

Unexpectedly, this bizarre thing was a bit too bizarre. Harley Quinn rode the Bat-Rex, galloping through the Joker gang's base, charging and crashing, leaving people and horses overturned wherever she went.

The ground kept shaking, and screams continued to come. It wasn't until a speck of dust from the ceiling beam fell into the bottle containing the blood that the Joker finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"Harley! Be quiet! You damn..."

As soon as the Joker walked out of the room, he saw a huge black shadow blocking the sky, charging toward him like a wild boar.

Bang!

When the Joker woke up again, what he saw was the familiar ceiling of the Batcave prison.