Chapter 2454: The Battle for the Cape (19)

"I think there are a few points like this, we can summarize the rules." Dick said while walking: "First, we cannot stay in one location in the thick fog for too long, otherwise it will attract those eyes. Although it is not yet known what will happen after being stared at by those eyes, I think it is definitely not a good thing, so it is best not to stay in place for too long."

"Secondly, the actions we take in the thick fog will still be preserved after the thick fog dissipates and will not be reset, so every decision must be cautious."

"And the space in the thick fog is chaotic. The image of the door seems to play a not-so-small role. It is very likely that pushing open a door will lead to another new space, so be cautious about opening doors."

"Finally, different time flows may appear in the thick fog. Changes to the past are very likely to affect the future, but these results can coexist. So before making a decision to modify the timeline of the past, you must consider the future that may happen."

Dick and the main universe Nightwing were walking on the streets of Cat Getan. They believed that even if the Arkham universe Nightwing lost his mind for a while and wanted to pursue the figure in the depths of the thick fog, he would definitely remember his original purpose and go to the target location to meet up. So even if the car was gone, they could just walk there.

"Is there anything else to add?" Dick looked at the main universe Nightwing and asked. Nightwing seemed to have just noticed something. He was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Actually, I am thinking about Batman. They all think that Batman should have returned to Cat Getan after he went missing. If he is in Cat Getan at this time, how will he deal with this fog?"

Dick immediately thought of the shocking bloodstains Red Hood saw at the Capitol. That was Batman's blood, and Batman wouldn't shed so much blood for disguise, which meant his condition was indeed not good.

How should a seriously injured person act in the thick fog? Will he be caught up by those eyes? Or fall into an out-of-control trap rashly?

They both started to feel worried, caring more about Batman's situation at this time than themselves, and no longer discussed this issue, turning to think about what happened to Batman and others.

The other two groups of Robins and the main universe Batman who was active in Cat Getan underground also encountered similar things, but the rules on the Robin side were more obvious, while Batman's encounter was completely headless and chaotic.

The moment the thick fog invaded, Batman put on a gas mask, but the sewer he was exploring kept extending forward, and Batman remembered that this waterway clearly wasn't this long.

No matter whether walking forward or backward, this sewer seemed to have no end at all. There was a door on the fork in the middle, but it couldn't be pushed open at all. Every time Batman passed by the door, the door would change its appearance, as if there were different worlds behind the door.

After walking a few times, Batman found that he had fallen into a cycle. After walking forward for a distance along the endless waterway, he would return to the starting point. That is to say, he became a hamster in a hamster cage.

Batman naturally also discovered that staying for too long would see eyes on various reflective surfaces, but he was bolder than the Robins in that he didn't succumb to the fear brought by the eyes, but dragged it to almost the last second. He wanted to see what these eyes intended to do.

Until the last second, Batman found that what appeared in his field of vision was himself. He felt that he had become these eyes and possessed many broken visions. He became the thing staring at himself, watching himself fleeing for his life like an ant in an endless reincarnation.

In countless pasts, presents, and futures, his figure appeared in his field of vision, until Batman could no longer bear this massive amount of information, and he stopped testing this kind of huge eye.

He regarded this as a kind of mental attack, because once humans see the future that they often regard as mysterious and unknowable clearly visible in the eyes of another creature, every choice they make is manipulated, and the beautiful future they fought for by thinking they were planning and changing their destiny is still just the result of the superior's selection. Their hope and belief may collapse in an instant.

Batman didn't because he clearly knew that it was actually like this in daily life, but it wasn't displayed so intuitively. Humans are always good at deceiving themselves. Batman realized the truth of the world more than others earlier and understood his destiny more clearly, so he still felt shocked but not afraid.

Robin King wasn't like this. If you must use a word to describe his psychological state all along, it was "protagonist".

He always believed that he was and had always been the master of his own destiny. Thomas and Martha always disciplined him, not letting him explore the world with his own means, including but not limited to killing animals and doing some small dismantling and destruction.

But they didn't have such power. Robin King always thought so. He was free and noble. The things that died and were destroyed for him were just the price that should be paid on his exploration path. Bearing death and destruction was their honor.

Thomas and Martha were the same. After getting tired of his parents' discipline, Robin King prepared a murder. In that alley after walking out of the cinema, he shot and killed his parents.

After the police came, he made a perfect disguise, performing all the emotions that a child who collapsed because his parents were murdered by a murderer could show. Just like that, he became an innocent victim and finally got everything he wanted.

Then he started slaughtering all superheroes in his universe, just as he did in this universe. Those superheroes were vulnerable in front of the small props he built using Wei En Group's savings. The whole process was even so boring that it made him feel uninteresting.

Until the arrival of a madman one day, the other party had a pale face and a big mouth that almost occupied the whole face. He described the root of the void of the universe to Robin King and invited him to join his team.

Robin King was full of surprise and hope for this, but the first blow he suffered was that he found this madman was converting Robins in various universes in batches.

He threw them into a chemical pool, making them pale and hunched, looking like cave creatures. And the converted Robins had no self-consciousness. Robin King couldn't accept this.

So he made a small pill. As long as he swallowed this pill, he could still maintain his consciousness after being converted. But unfortunately, the madman acted too fast, and Robin King didn't have time to swallow the pill before being thrown into the chemical pool.

In a fit of anger, Robin King spat the pill directly into the chemical pool, which would allow all Robins converted afterward to retain a certain degree of self-consciousness. And the madman just stared at all this faintly and told him that everything he did was in vain.

This was the small friction they had before. What was undeniable was that Robin King was defeated, and he still had to take orders from this madman, going to one universe after another to collect more information about Batman for him.

This was also the reason why Robin King chose the Arkham Knight universe. The guy who called himself the Batman Who Laughs said he was a combination of Batman and the Joker, so he found another combination, forced out his secret, and naturally could find the weakness of the Batman Who Laughs.

But unfortunately, the plan against the Batman of the Arkham Knight universe didn't go smoothly, and it wasn't just this point that didn't go smoothly. Robin King had just experienced the most terrifying nightmare in his life.

When the thick fog invaded, Robin King was prepared, but he didn't take out a gas mask, because he thought that was being afraid of the mastermind behind the scenes. He didn't care what the nature of this fog was; he had to fight head-on.

When he pushed open the office door, he found himself back at his home in Wei En Manor. Everything was plain and ordinary, simply boring to the extreme.

The only difference was that Thomas and Martha who appeared in the manor now didn't seem to follow the set of comprehensive elite education anymore. They advocated achievement-firstism more.

Thomas and Martha's mouths were study, study, study. If you don't study, you are failing your parents' efforts. If you don't study, you are betraying the ancestors of the Wei En family who laid such a large foundation. If you don't get good grades, you don't deserve to be the heir of the Wei En family. If you can't get better grades than everyone else, you don't deserve anyone's attention.

Robin King didn't have any feelings about this at first, because he had always been the first in the class. Studying itself had no difficulty for him, and it could be said that it didn't take any effort at all.

Since this mastermind wanted to play this set, Robin King would naturally let him see what a real genius was.

So on the first day of school, Robin King brought back all the full-score test papers, but Thomas and Martha just faintly indicated that although you were full marks, there must be other full marks in the school, and you were just doing what you should do.

Robin King was a bit angry, but the fact was indeed so. After all, he was still in elementary school. It was too easy to get full marks in elementary school. Of course, there wasn't just one full mark in the school.

So in the next few days, he poisoned the water dispenser in the school, making most of the good students have diarrhea during the exam, and he was the only one who got all full marks.

As a result, Thomas and Martha told him that this was just his good luck. Although others didn't perform well in the exam, the knowledge was still in their stomachs, and they would definitely surpass him next time.

How could Robin King be convinced? In all the following time, they got full marks in every subject in every exam, becoming the well-deserved grade one. But the object of comparison was pulled to the elementary school in the whole community.

And in addition to exam results, he needed to get up three hours early to learn musical instruments, learn dance, etiquette, and social interaction after school, and self-study junior high, high school, and university knowledge in advance.

Studying itself actually didn't count as any difficulty for Robin King. He handled all courses with ease and could even achieve much better results than expected.

What was always a nightmare was Thomas and Martha's attitude, because no matter what achievements Robin King achieved, he couldn't even get an evaluation of "okay". What he could always get was only "it's just luck" and "next time it must be better". ===== CHAPTER 2455 =====