Chapter 269: Where Will the Dream Go (Part 1)

As everyone knows, many American comic editors have the same line of thinking: when they don't know how to express an abstract concept, they concretize it into a character's image, let them appear in the comic in human form, and endow it with human personality.

Conversely, if they don't know how to give an ordinary person the motivation to participate in something, they will add divinity to their personality, which is the so-called "awakening of the savior."

"Human God" and "Divine Human" are two eternal themes in American comics, and "Sandman" Morpheus happens to be one of the former.

To talk about his origin, one must start with the Endless family.

The Endless family are characters created after illusory concepts were endowed with human form and added with human personality traits.

There are seven members in this family, representing Dream, Death, Destiny, Despair, Desire, Delirium, and Destruction, respectively.

These concepts are invisible and intangible in real life, but in comics, they have a fixed image, and even each has its own duties and personality.

And Sandman, or Dream God, is this Morpheus who now appears before Shiler.

Also as everyone knows, any conceptual existence is generally very strong. Unlike superheroes who need positive combat records to evaluate their strength, these conceptual characters are strong enough just by their attributes themselves.

Sandman Morpheus controls all dreams. When the first creature in the universe dreamed, Morpheus was born. He can create the dreams of a thousand cats to make dreams replace reality, or make people's lives become the same as in their own dreams.

And unlike Marvel, which always emphasizes the strength of conceptual existences or the differences in their fields of duty, DC comics prefer to emphasize their unique personalities. For example, Sandman Morpheus is actually the most dedicated one among the seven members of the Endless family, besides Destiny.

It has been mentioned in the comics that his fulfillment of his duties is the most careful and cautious. Despite possessing powerful strength, he has never let this power cause any trouble. At the same time, his personality is relatively withdrawn, he doesn't have many friends, and he always likes to fall into some philosophical thinking.

Also because the field he controls has little to do with the fields of other Endless family members, he has always appeared very mysterious. He has had countless externalized images, but he always only shows one or two of them. In most cases, he is a pale and thin man with deep blue hair and a cloak made of the night.

And the person who appeared before Shiler is also like this. Of course, it is more likely that the Sandman Morpheus everyone sees is different. Whatever the person who sees him thinks he is, he is. And what is in Shiler's memory is still the image of Morpheus in the comics, so he presented this appearance.

The original work also mentioned that the first-generation Sandman Morpheus was temperamental, but clearly, he has now exceeded the scope of temperamental and appears a bit exasperated.

He stared at Shiler with those shining eyes and said to him in a hoarse voice, "Why did you connect your dream to my Dream Kingdom, and then put in a..."

His expression at this time is hard to describe. This is actually quite rare, because such conceptual existences, even if they have human personalities, will not really express emotions as clearly as ordinary humans, not to mention that Morpheus has always been relatively autistic. But now you can see disgust, aversion, the confusion of being woken up, and the anger of his home being messed up on his face at the same time.

Speaking of the Dream Kingdom, this is not hard to understand. Everyone in the Endless family has a domain that belongs exclusively to themselves. In this domain, they are almost omnipotent, and the Sand God's domain is called the Dream Kingdom, which is a name that sounds a bit dreamy. But at this moment, whether the situation of the Dream Kingdom that was splashed with shit can still conform to this dreamy style is hard to say.

"Before you ask me this question, I have many questions I want to ask you." Shiler looked at Morpheus and said, "I think you should have been prepared to answer these questions of mine, right?"

"Don't tell me you know nothing about my situation."

"You let that madman leave my home first." Morpheus emphasized again: "Do you know what he has done in the Dream Kingdom???"

"I can imagine, I feel very sorry, and express deep sympathy."

Morpheus looked at Shiler, and Shiler looked at Morpheus. Neither was willing to give in. But fortunately, they are in a dream now, and what dreams lack least is time.

Perhaps it is because the Joker really did some things that angered both man and god, or perhaps Morpheus himself was somewhat interested in Shiler, finally, he was the first to give in. He said, "What do you want to ask?"

"I must tell you first, many things I know cannot be described to you humans. The world in our eyes is different."

"Of course, of course, I know very well..." Shiler stretched out his hand to make a soothing gesture, and then let Morpheus sit on the sofa opposite him.

The globe placed on the table behind him kept spinning, but this time, he didn't have a globe head, but was a normal human image, just like in real life.

"Before I ask questions, I think you should also have some doubts, for example, why on earth I wanted to find you, and how I found you."

Shiler appeared very relaxed, as if he were not facing a powerful enemy, but rather an old friend. He explained to Morpheus: "Since you can control all dreams, it means you can read all my memories, including those in my superficial and deep conscious spaces. Therefore, I don't think I need to introduce my background in too much detail."

"Actually, as early as the first time I had some changes in my sleep, I had doubts, because I knew that this place is completely different from the world I originally lived in. All the concepts here are controlled by you, some concepts, or gods."

"This sounds incredible, but in fact, it facilitates my reasoning, because if a certain field has a problem, you can definitely find the person responsible for it." ===== CHAPTER 270 =====