Chapter 2915: When Night Falls (44)
"Go and check what happened back then," Schiller said to Constantine, "Go back to the past and see what happened when Barbara was born."
Constantine didn't ask much. He came back after a while, didn't bring back any video data, just said, "It's about the same as she said. A sneaky nurse took away a girl and brought another one. The Gordon couple didn't find any abnormalities."
Schiller wasn't surprised at all. The other party dared to play this hand, so they wouldn't leave flaws in such an obvious place.
"Can you go to an earlier time point to see where that little girl came from?" Schiller asked.
Constantine said, "The causal relationship is reversed. You must give me the time and place, and I can travel back to investigate. If there is only time, the landing point is random. Without clues, I can't find out."
Schiller's fingers tapped the table lightly, and he began to sort out the relationship.
Among the real and fake Barbaras, only one is Gordon's biological daughter. If the real Barbara who came later says it's her, it's not unexpected, and the paternity test results will also show it's her.
The fake Barbara who was caught is indeed the real culprit who attacked three people including Dick.
Then assuming this is actually the result of the vampire being at the end of its rope and traveling back to the past, what was it originally?
Combined with the various actions of the Vampire King before, Schiller had a bold guess—I was reborn, reborn on the night before choosing my identity. This time, I am no longer the Vampire King whose tricks were exposed and caught, but Batgirl with the favor of the Batman family...
Schiller wasn't thinking wildly. He knew this kind of person too well. Still the same sentence, fools always feel that as long as they are given a chance to start over, they will definitely be able to turn the tide.
Essentially, it's because they feel that the reason they couldn't succeed must be external reasons. If people are not good, blame the land for not being flat. Give me another piece of land, and I will definitely be able to build a high-rise building.
Things might be like this.
On the original timeline, the Vampire King thought of a way to replace the original Barbara, mixed into the Batman family to make trouble, bit three people in a row, and brought huge trouble to Batman.
But unfortunately, she still fell into the hands of Batman and the Justice League and was caught.
She felt very unwilling, and felt that it was not a problem with her plan. Where she fell, she must climb up. So she formulated a plan that she thought was more comprehensive.
First, she traveled back to the past, took away the Barbara in her infancy, and swapped a vampire baby over.
That's right, Schiller guessed that the vampire baby returned to the Gordon couple should not be the Vampire King, but a vampire baby she found from somewhere.
Schiller didn't know if a baby could be embraced, but it was also possible that it was a child born to her subordinates.
Schiller also suspected that the real Barbara born to Mrs. Gordon back then might have already died. If she didn't die, it is estimated that she was raised by the Vampire King somewhere as a hostage.
And when the vampire incident was nearing its end, Barbara would definitely be caught. At this time, the one caught was actually the irrelevant vampire baby, and then the real Vampire King appeared as the victim real Barbara, completing the swap.
Maybe someone will ask, what's the use of going around such a big circle? This series of plans seems to have no big effect on the vampire's great cause, and it is very laborious, but the thinking of this kind of person is not like this.
Their thinking is, didn't you Batman catch me last time? Then I will definitely let you catch the wrong person this time, and then transition to "So you Batman also have times when you catch the wrong person!"
It sounds really strange, but this kind of person is essentially unable to obtain any sense of superiority by his own ability, and once he has the advantage of information gap, he will not use this advantage to do anything serious, but will definitely use it to strike and retaliate against those who make him unable to obtain a sense of superiority.
This kind of strike and retaliation even has a higher priority than all his careers. I just replaced the most important link in your plan by knowing the future, and then after you follow the original plan and make a mistake, I can laugh at you for a lifetime.
It's just that, because the IQ is too low and the vision is limited, they can't understand what is called the passage of time, and they feel that the person they expected must still follow the original plan.
For example, she felt that the final ending was Barbara being caught, so she changed a Barbara, so that the other party would catch the wrong person.
But she didn't think about it, Batman is the best detective in the world, he wouldn't convict someone so easily.
Okay, even if there is very solid video evidence, and it can be proven that the video has not been edited or post-processed, how can you prove that Barbara was not controlled?
Even if Barbara admitted it herself, how can you prove that she was not controlled to admit it?
If it were in the past criminal investigation world, this would be considered unreasonable, but even vampires have them, so why can't there be puppet magic that controls people to do bad things?
Moreover, Schiller felt that her level of psychoanalysis was about the same as Bruce's. She never realized that Batman is actually a very emotional person.
After Constantine left, Schiller took a walk in the garden. Although he didn't flip through his memory bank much, he had his own understanding of Batman.
In the stereotypical impression of most people, Batman is an extremely cold and ruthless person, simply a law enforcement machine, and no one can make him bend the law for personal gain.
But in fact, it's not like that. The basis of everything Batman does is emotion. Don't forget what he said—"I am the night, I am vengeance, I am Batman."
What does vengeance rely on?
Is it rational thinking?
Is it meticulous logic?
Does the dignified Bruce Wei En have to be a vigilante in a city, instead of easily becoming the world's largest producer, just because he is a ruthless logic machine?
This kind of word is not very fair to describe Luthor. If it is used by anyone to describe Batman, then his level of psychoanalysis is probably about the same as Bruce's.
The basis for Batman to punish criminals is emotion, and the basis for him to adopt Robins, train them, unite the Batman family, and lead the Justice League is also emotion.
But if Batman could be a ruthless leadership machine and completely treat the Batman family and the Justice League as his company, these two organizations would not have been mixed into by vampires.
Still the same sentence, with Batman's leadership, he could lead these two organizations to this point, and Aquaman couldn't let him release so much water.
So Batman is actually more emotional than many people imagine, especially when facing people he cares about, he is simply double-standard to the extreme. Many things are no longer a matter of discussion, but whatever you want, and if you unfortunately mess it up, I will provide you with a bottom line.
Searching through the history of the Batman family and Justice League members, you can basically find such moments. To say that the omniscient Batman really didn't anticipate it before they caused trouble? I'm afraid not, he just didn't want to stop it.
So, Schiller could anticipate that after Batman returned, Wei En Manor would have a storm.
He tossed Dick like that, but at least he was under the banner of being good for Dick, and the most terrible damage caused was pulling out his two teeth.
But this mastermind wanted Barbara to die.
Those two videos were like a noose around Barbara's neck, played in front of so many people in public. Even if Barbara was saved by Batman and woke up, she probably couldn't face the mistakes she made.
Schiller timed it and returned to the manor hall.
A row of sofas on the left sat the Robins, a row of sofas on the right sat the witnesses such as Gordon and Constantine, Batman sat in the middle, and the vampire Barbara sat opposite him.
"Have you solved Mary?" Schiller walked to his seat unhurriedly, sat down, crossed one leg over the other, and said with his ankles touching his calves.
Batman shook his head silently.
All the Robins could see how angry Batman was now. One by one, they all hung their heads, not daring to breathe.
Only Starfire, the real Barbara, was talking eloquently.
She was probably telling how she discovered the whole conspiracy back then and escaped from the hands of vampires, debuted with Starfire as her code name, and has been lurking around the members of the Batman family, silently protecting them.
But Batman's first sentence made her unable to answer.
"Are you a superpower user?"
"What?"
"I said, are you an ordinary person, or a superpower user?"
"My parents are the Gordon couple, so of course I am an ordinary person. I know you can't believe that I did all this as an ordinary person, but I..."
"Then why is Starfire in other universes a superpower user?"
Schiller really couldn't help laughing. He had to use a cup to block his mouth. He actually didn't know who Starfire was, just vaguely heard that she seemed to be a young superhero.
But the Batman in front of him has been to the Battleworld. Although he was called back by the system to maintain the universe, if he worked harder on the previous time, it would not be a problem to rank two or three dungeons.
Usually Batman wouldn't do this. They would rather stay at the base to exchange information about each other's universes, and based on Batman's personality, the information they exchanged would be quite comprehensive.
And because Starfire is not a particularly famous hero, it is not strange that Batman would exchange information about Starfire in other universes.
It can only be said that the Vampire King is still that Vampire King, but Batman is no longer the simple Batman of the past. The time to rank two dungeons is enough for him to check the household registration of all the variants of this group of people around him.
Note, if the Vampire King replaced Starfire from the beginning, then in the cognition of the locals in this universe, Starfire has always been a superhero who has no superpowers, just a relatively strong physical technique.
If Batman hadn't opened his eyes to see the universe through the Battleworld, he might not have been able to pick out any flaws. Who stipulated that ordinary people can't be superheroes?
But according to Batman's understanding, all Starfires in other universes are aliens with superpowers, and they don't look like this at all, and the two can be said to be completely different.
Batman announced to everyone the information he got from other Batmans about Starfire.
And precisely because Starfire is not very famous, she doesn't have a variant in every universe like famous superheroes, but almost all universes are similar in appearance and race, at most there are differences in uniform details.
Everyone looked at the Starfire in the data, and then looked at the one standing in the hall, and had to admit that the two were completely different.
The Starfire in the data is not exquisite beauty, but full of wildness, with angry emotions between her eyebrows, and flowing red hair like the fire of vengeance. Even if it's just looking at the pictures, you can see her vigorously burning, unyielding soul fire.
And the one standing in front of them, how to say it, if Schiller were to describe it, he would use a very impolite word, that is, drawing a tiger but not looking like a dog. ===== CHAPTER 2916 =====
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