Chapter 2504: The Battle for the Cape (Part 71)
"So? You guys went around in such a big circle just to wait for me to finish the performance and laugh wildly here for no reason?"
The Batman Who Laughs grinned and sneered, and he simply changed back to his original attire, scanning the room.
The atmosphere in the room was indeed very active now. Two-Face and Harley Quinn were discussing how difficult it was to study in that era. The Penguin was telling the Batman of the main universe the details of his getting rich. All the academic circle big shots gathered together to study other ways to poison Batman. Even Riddler was holding a Superman peripheral he got from the Batman of the main universe and admiring it back and forth.
Only Shiler looked free in this room. The Batman Who Laughs looked at him and began to deliver his signature long-winded speech.
"Do you really think the things you guys are doing have meaning? If it weren't for that young Batman being too reckless and exposing too much information in front of me, I wouldn't have thought of disguising as him."
"For those who are familiar with him, my disguise might not be perfect, but it doesn't matter. There are more people in this universe who are not familiar with him. As long as I act in his identity and image, and kill a few indigenous people of the universe casually, he won't want to help Barbatos complete any plan smoothly."
"Yes, he will become a public enemy of the universe, and no longer me. Today is just a small opening ceremony. And no matter where you chase me, I can appear in any corner of the universe, using his identity as a crazy Batman to do some of your so-called evil deeds."
"Isn't this how you look at me? Dark, evil, hopeless. But, but I am Batman. I have never needed your praise for me. But now, you are slandering me for no reason. I think this is not fair..."
Shiler was actually not listening to what the Batman Who Laughs was saying. He was rarely immersed in his own world, and only cleared up after a while, while the Batman Who Laughs was still continuing.
"So this is the retribution you deserve. Those universes hidden in the depths are collapsing, but it's good that they are destroyed. They were not needed to exist in the first place. Those lives, environments, society, and everything cherished by superheroes have long been labeled as trash..."
Very good, this can be said to be the point Shiler likes most about the Batman Who Laughs. He walked away for three minutes without missing any useful information, just like flipping through a few pages of the Batman Who Laughs' comic, and guess what, he could still understand it.
The Batman Who Laughs was talking nonsense there, and Shiler was listening while walking away on this side. The topic was pulling and pulling, and finally pulled back to the present.
"Now you know my purpose. Then what about you? You group of madmen, you made such a big battle, just to grab the appearance opportunity in the play I directed?"
Shiler shook his head, poured himself a cup of coffee, and said, "Obviously, the opportunity to appear in the play is not the key. Here's a small hint: although Constantine and I possess a part of the Dream King's authority, obviously we can't do like Morpheus, who can randomly create and destroy dreams and control everything in them."
"So you guys had to do this?" The Batman Who Laughs still had this bit of IQ. He said, "You guys only by personally participating in it can change the trajectory of the Dream World, so you guys had to go in."
Shiler nodded.
"Then why did you guys go in?"
"We were just discussing this question. Didn't you listen?" Shiler took a sip of coffee and said, "To help you complete your play."
"And then? What if it's completed now?"
"Nothing." Shiler looked to be in a good mood. He looked at the Batman Who Laughs and said, "You did provide us with quite a few jokes, especially after you fast-forwarded time."
The Batman Who Laughs seemed to have no feeling about his operation of fast-forwarding time, had no remorse, and didn't know what this group of people was laughing at.
Shiler glanced at his watch without moving, opened his mouth, and said, "Has there been even one second of thinking about how the Talon killer Freddy, a killer who can teleport, managed to appear in the photos of reporters every day?"
As soon as this was said, everyone in the room looked at the sky, some looked at the ground, some studied the armrests of the chairs, and some checked the structure of the table legs.
Batman, what is Batman doing? He is swearing that he really didn't want to laugh, but Jack held the opposite opinion.
The reason why this question had a thunderous effect was because Shiler had asked them after the operation ended, and at that time, none of them found anything wrong.
Of course, this everyone didn't include Batman and the Joker, but this was enough to be called the dark history of everyone present.
The thing is like this: at that time, Shiler said that he also wanted to play a role, and then all the villains looked at him with expectation, wanting to see how he would operate. But for some reason, Shiler didn't intend to go in himself.
Upon hearing this news, the criminals were a bit disappointed, but still wanted to know what amazing operation the group leader who set up this game would have.
But looking at it in practice, it was very disappointing. The killer manipulated by Shiler not only only looked for children to start with, he not only looked for children to start with, but also always had to use various terrain advantages, such as appearing in wardrobes, mirrors, and bathtubs.
And the start was always unsuccessful. Either he was discovered by parents and fled in a panic, or he was caught by the police and had to use teleportation to escape.
This gave the audience at that time a feeling of being in the clouds. Just this? This is also worthy of being called a killer?
Then Shiler stunned everyone present with one question. Yes, how could a killer with teleportation ability be so vegetable?
Teleportation is a good ability, but most have very strict restrictions. The kind of teleportation used by Constantine is called Ash Clone, which requires first creating clones and putting them in designated locations, and then the real body and fake body can be switched.
Most other villains' teleportation is more high-speed movement, that is, running too fast, looking like teleportation, but Freddy is not. Freddy really appears suddenly and disappears suddenly.
And he can even ignore physical obstacles, coming down from the ceiling for a while, and drilling out from the bathtub for a while.
Reasonably speaking, having this ability, being a killer is a bit of a waste of talent, but how did he manage to not even do a good job as a killer?
So Shiler began his explanation.
"The meaning of a killer's existence is not killing." Shiler first put forward his argument. "Assuming that whoever kills more people is the most powerful killer in the world, then we should enshrine the first person infected with AIDS."
"Even if it is said to be active murder, can those butchers without any artistry be compared with us?"
This remark was agreed by most criminals. These narcissists considered themselves to have an essential difference from the killer heads. They called themselves artists and felt that crime was a special art.
After attracting everyone's attention, Shiler continued: "Killing is just a process. Although you can spend some energy on it, you can't put the cart before the horse. If you treat putting a knife to someone's neck and then arranging the corpse as the focus, then I would rather go kill chickens."
"Friends who often kill people should know that the process of killing is not important. What is important is your stance and purpose, and the works that maintain your thinking and interpret your thinking in the whole process are the top priority."
"So what kind of work do you want to present?" Scarecrow asked.
Shiler shook his head and said, "Although I do have some clumsy works that are not enough for outsiders, if I narrowly limit the scope of the work to the posture of the corpse, it will not be inferior. Using the murder events of the killer can completely achieve more goals."
"As everyone expected." Shiler nodded and said, "I deliberately controlled Freddy to appear frequently in the media, and the purpose is..."
Shiler looked at the Batman Who Laughs and said, "... to create pressure." 【2504-47
"I don't feel like this has put any pressure on me," The Batman Who Laughs replied. "Because I simply don't care who gets killed."
"But you do care when someone disrupts your genius creation." Schiller revealed a smile, took out another reel of film, and began to play it back. As expected, everyone saw the Bruce played by The Batman Who Laughs looking annoyed at the television several times during the process.
That actually shouldn't have been an expression Bruce would show, because according to Bruce's character design, he was too destitute and incapable; he should have been more indifferent toward crime, rather than annoyed.
This was clearly the emotion of The Batman Who Laughs himself.
"Freddy's ability can indeed allow him to easily avoid anyone's filming. As long as I don't want it, no one can film him, but I must let the media film him."
"Because you and I both know that a serial killer operating so brazenly in this city, besides affecting ordinary people, will certainly affect the superheroes as well."
"The more often the serial killer appears, the more the sense of justice in the hearts of the superheroes will stir. You know this better than I do, so the more the serial killer shows his face, the more you feel that the situation is out of your control, and this will make you feel anxious."
"Nonsense," The Batman Who Laughs replied.
"Oh, so that's how it is. It seems that your clumsy move of fast-forwarding 20 years wasn't an unforced error, but rather something you designed that way from the start?" Schiller asked him with a smile.
The Batman Who Laughs stopped talking.
To be fair, this wasn't his design. Rationally, he knew this move was clumsy and could be called the only flaw in this play of his. Of course, he believed the reason it was called a flaw was because it wasn't what he had originally conceived, not because the behavior was truly that outrageous.
Now that he had to admit it was his own design, he felt like he was being forced to confess, but if he said it wasn't his design, he couldn't explain why this segment appeared. Wasn't that just anxiety?
Schiller continued.
"Your anxiety made you overlook an obvious fact, and the same goes for everyone else." Schiller looked at everyone and said, "How could a serial killer with teleportation be frequently filmed by the media? It's simply unreasonable, but you were all too focused on his actions and ignored the most basic logic."
Schiller sighed, then rested his gaze on the face of The Batman Who Laughs and said, "Many things in this world are like this; the answer is right in the question. Besides the serial killer matter, it's the same right now."
"What's wrong now?"
"Why did we enter the play you directed and go to such great lengths to help you complete it?"
"Why?"
"Of course, to help you complete it." Schiller looked into the eyes of The Batman Who Laughs and said, "If you didn't complete it, wouldn't you have had time to do something else?"
"Just like now, if you weren't sitting here talking with us, wouldn't you have discovered that someone had entered your home base?"
End of Chapter
