Chapter 3172

Greed felt that he and Batman were not compatible.

It had been said before that Pride was the detective type, while Greed was the mastermind type. It was understandable that the two of them couldn't get along, and it was normal to trip each other up.

But the main universe Batman was the most typical kind of Batman. He was also the detective type, and his motivation was much stronger than Pride's.

In most cases, Pride had a kind of inertia—simply put, he would move if pushed, stay idle when nothing happened, and gamble when something happened.

But Batman wasn't like this. He was a detective of the "better safe than sorry" school full of motivation, and the preparation method he was best at was the exhaustion method.

Blocking all the roads for a certain person or a certain thing, specifically leaving a dog hole waiting for the other party to drill through, and waiting for him on the other side after he had worked hard to drill through, was the detective method Batman most often used.

And Greed was precisely the kind of mastermind who liked to dig holes everywhere. He would never walk to the end of one road, but preferred to create various side branches on a main line. Every action would often create complications, and he would often do many meaningless things to interfere with the line of sight, just to make people unable to see his true purpose.

If what Greed was best at was winding a huge ball of yarn and rolling everyone into it, then what Batman was best at was building a huge loom and weaving all the yarn into his own preparations.

It could be said that the behavioral logic of these two people was exactly opposite. Using the exhaustion method against the exhaustion method, using negative infinity against positive infinity, it would be strange if Greed could have any good feelings for Batman.

It could only be said that it was fortunate that Pride was the one who stayed in DC at the beginning. If it were Greed, he didn't know how many brain cells would have died.

Even if the Bruce in the universe where Schiller was located was relatively young, if judged by Greed's development speed, he would probably encounter the main universe Batman within five years. By that time, it would be a real nesting doll war—a prediction of your prediction of your prediction in another sense.

Actually, compared to Pride, Greed's core was closer to Batman's nemesis, the Joker—equally paranoid, crazy, and full of motivation.

It was just that Greed had no interest in specifically torturing a certain person. It was just that as long as he wanted to entangle Batman into his ball of yarn, and as long as Batman didn't want to be entangled into his ball of yarn, the two would definitely be in an antagonistic state.

And this game could actually be considered the first head-on collision between Greed and the main universe Batman, and the result was obvious.

Greed's plan was generally successful. Through the outrageous brain hole at the beginning, and then step by step setting up traps and inviting people into the urn, he got most of the players into his experimental base. And with these players in hand, it was inevitable that Batman would have scruples.

But Batman was not unprepared either. He also used the extremely short time that came in advance after the game officially started to glimpse a part of Greed's conspiracy, used a trick to escape, completely broke away from Greed's control range, and became the biggest unstable factor in the overall situation.

And out of the tacit understanding between Batman and the Joker, the Joker also broke away from Greed's plan, which was equivalent to the two most dangerous people in this game not being entangled into the ball of yarn, and this would undoubtedly become the biggest hidden danger.

But this was far from being the main show; it could only be called a shallow probe. Fairly speaking, it could barely be considered a draw.

If only Batman broke away, then he would have suffered a small loss, because his moral bottom line was significantly higher than Greed's. Greed held the players to command the princes, and he would also be tied up.

But it just so happened that the Joker also ran away. These two arch-enemies broke away from Greed's field of vision at the same time, which basically pulled the situation back to a balanced state.

Because Greed could use the players in his hands to threaten Batman, but he couldn't threaten the Joker. In this situation, even if Batman had scruples, Greed had to guard against the Joker tearing his face and making a move, so the effect of the threat was greatly reduced.

Although it was a draw on the surface, Greed knew himself that his opening was at an advantage, because he had already learned from the Beyonder that he was the first to enter the game, and his time in the game was longer than anyone else's, so he could do more things.

And Batman was more than one step slower than him, but he was able to pull the situation back to a basically balanced state through his own investigation and the foreshadowing he laid. He had already lost half a move in this game.

Greed didn't pay attention to the smile on the detective's face. His gaze swept over the others. He didn't believe that others had no anticipation of the current situation, but how much they guessed and what countermeasures they had, Greed wanted to know now.

But his gaze stopped halfway on Bruce's face, because he discovered that Bruce was distracted again.

Ever since he added the skill of psychoanalysis, he often started to be distracted.

No, to be precise, it was after Greed confirmed that the one controlling Schiller's body now was not Pride, that Bruce had been distracted.

Greed felt that Pride must have gone to find the Beyonder's trouble, but he also knew that the main reason Pride was so angry was not that the Beyonder used his talent skill without paying him royalties.

It could be said that the Beyonder copied his talent to everyone except Bruce. Pride was actually too lazy to care. If it weren't for Schiller opening the permission of the Mind Tower to the Beyonder so that the other party could build the Battleworld system faster, then even if the Beyonder wanted to copy, there would be nowhere to copy. Being copied was a matter of course.

And even if copied, it couldn't be copied to the essence. At most, it was copying a form of expression. This form was a talent for Schiller, but for others, it was a disaster. Anyone whose perspective became similar to an Outer God would make people feel crazy and unreasonable.

You say this thing is psychoanalysis? Then all the psychology masters in the world should come from mental hospitals.

But the Beyonder just happened to give this talent to Bruce.

As everyone knows, Pride spent so much effort just to keep Bruce from following his path. At the cost of madness, exchanging for the talent of psychoanalysis was very worthless for Batman.

Because Batman's own wisdom and ability in behavioral analysis were enough for him to deal with everything in this world, so why bother to be a madman?

Pride spent ten years keeping Bruce away from this path, but as a result, you, the Beyonder, kicked him back overnight. If Pride didn't find your trouble, whose trouble would he find?

This matter, when talked about, was the Beyonder's problem, but in essence, it still benefited from Bruce's particularity to Pride, so Greed suspected that Pride went to find Bruce after finding the Beyonder.

In the Battleworld game, the channel of the Dream Kingdom couldn't be used, but the Beyonder was the administrator. It wasn't that he wanted to go to whose spiritual space he could go to whose spiritual space.

Greed also had some understanding of this guy. On the surface, he was arrogant, but in reality, he knelt faster than anyone else, and he especially loved to watch the fun. He was also a fun-seeker who feared that the world would not be chaotic.

If Pride intended to grab him to find Bruce, he might not necessarily bite and not let go. Maybe to watch the fun between the two of them, he would open the door of convenience for Pride.

That was why Greed said before that Bruce's analysis was best not parrot-like, because he always felt that it was a bit like Pride's tone.

Greed looked at Bruce deeply, followed his clear blue eyes and looked in, and seemed to vaguely see a few figures talking happily, one of whom was Pride who had disappeared for a long time.

But there was more than just Pride in Bruce's spiritual space.

In a space like the hall of Wayne Manor, there were a few figures sitting around the fireplace.

On the big sofa, the Beyonder in a white uniform leaned on the right armrest, while on the left sat an old man holding a storybook. The bull-horned helmet was placed on the table aside. It was exactly the God of Stories, Loki.

On the single sofa on the other side, a man wearing a retro suit, with a mustache, and wearing Mickey Mouse ears on his head was exactly Walt Disney, who was smiling and drinking coffee.

Pride, still wearing a black suit, sat opposite him, cutting a cigar unhurriedly, and on the chair next to him sat a tall black man with a circle of golden patterns around his eyes. That was the avatar of Nyarlathotep, the Black Pharaoh.

And Lucifer, the Archangel who was still wearing a holy robe, was squatting by the fireplace adding firewood to it. The fire lit in the fireplace was not an ordinary flame. The flickering images in the fire were exactly Bruce's first-person perspective.

At this time, Pride was talking to the fireplace like a madman.

"Your eyes are clearer, Greed can almost see my hair through your eyeballs. Bruce, can you focus your eyes?!!"

"I have no way!" Bruce's voice came from the fireplace. He said, "I have been trying to analyze the representative colors of the emotions you mentioned."

"You are Batman, can't you multitask?"

"This game limits my wisdom! My thinking speed is slow as hell now, I can't even think through one line!"

"But when you weren't limited in wisdom, I didn't see you being any better." Pride threw the cut fragments into the fire and said, "At first I had some complaints about the Beyonder, but now I must thank him. He let me see that your psychoanalysis talent still has room to decline."

Before Bruce could speak, Pride shouted again, "Look forward! Look at that blue line! That is Greed's anxiety!! Reach out and grab it... I'm not asking you to really reach out! Use your thinking to contact it! Then use your reason to analyze it..."

The blue line slowly approached, and then the picture became even more chaotic. Sometimes it was blue sky and white clouds, sometimes it was the churning deep sea, as if all the blue in the world had merged together, making people feel a wave after wave of coldness and melancholy.

"What do you feel?"

"I feel very cold."

"Besides that?"

"Uh, very messy, I can't say clearly, too many thoughts mixed together." Bruce's voice came intermittently. It seemed that he was speaking while analyzing those thoughts, but because it was very difficult to multitask now, it led to a disconnection between his expression and his internal dialogue.

"Do you feel the anxiety hidden behind these pictures?"

"Honestly, I can't see where the anxiety is. Is he both afraid of heights and afraid of swimming?"

"Seeing the sky is fear of heights, seeing the deep sea is fear of swimming? Bruce, why can't you learn to be more emotional?"

"Aren't you asking me to use reason to analyze it?!"

"You have to use emotion to experience it first. Didn't you say you feel very cold? What kind of emotion does this coldness make you burst out?"

"Makes me want to find some clothes to wear."

"What if you can't find them?"

"Then forget it."

"Forget what! Imagine your despair in a cold environment where you are isolated and helpless! What does that make you feel?"

"Feel... despair?"

"I'm asking what this despair makes you feel!"

"Despair is despair. Since you are already in despair, what other emotions can there be?"

Pride put down the eighth cigar he had cut, and then said, "That means something is out of your control. The despair brought by this coldness, like being in the ice and snow, represents a sense of powerlessness beyond control, exposure, loneliness, being abandoned."

"Oh." Bruce responded, and then said, "So he was abandoned by the main universe Batman? Will he go find him?"

"You make me feel like I'm pushing a wheelchair up the stairs," Pride said.

"Is it because I'm too heavy that you can't push it?"

"What makes me feel difficult is that you are not in the wheelchair at all!"

Everyone else was doing their own things with a blank face, not surprised by this scene, because this kind of discussion had been repeated for the eighth time.