Chapter 3904
Battleworld Batman Base, which is that cave that extends in all directions, although long ago, the Batmen had established the architectural principle of one cave per person and not disturbing each other, but in order to facilitate discussion, they still built a council hall in the largest cave.
The council hall retained the original appearance of the cave, but more than a dozen rows of seats were chiseled out on the walls. The center of the council hall is not a podium, but an oversized spotlight. Whichever Batman speaks, the spotlight will illuminate his seat, which achieves decentralization very well and also fits Batman's aesthetics very well.
At this time, summoned by the main universe Batman, all the Batmen of his faction came, which is the vast majority of righteous or reformed Batmen, all standing in the council hall. It not only includes Arkham Batman, Adventure Batman, Lego Batman, and other Batmen from the bright multiverse or derivative universes, but also includes Batwoman, Bat-Dragon, Bat-Car, Doomsday Batman, Flash Batman, War God Batman, Mechanical Batman, etc., from the Dark Multiverse. Also, the Broken Bat, who used the body of the Angel of Death Paul, joined the righteous camp where the main universe Batman is.
There were twenty or thirty Batmen standing in front of the seats, but not in the same row, mostly standing together with those they were familiar with. And the main universe Batman stood in the middle row, and when he spoke, the spotlight illuminated his face.
"I believe you have already discovered that a brand new crisis is spreading in the multiverse. The universe I am in and other universes have encountered similar events—electronic lifeforms invading Earth, manufacturing murders, or disrupting Earth's order. Regarding this matter, does anyone have any new intelligence?"
"So your universe also had this happen?" Adventure Batman frowned and said. "Recently, a super hacker published the true identity of the Bat family on the internet. Barbara and I spent a lot of effort to clear those messages. But when tracing the other party's identity, nothing could be found."
"So your side is also like this?" Batwoman's voice revealed a chill. "I thought this was a special event of the Dark Multiverse."
"That's right, we have already made contact," Flash Batman said. "We found that a special network virus is rampant on the networks of the Dark Multiverse Earths, and many people are being manipulated to attack others. We conducted a joint investigation, but didn't find anything."
Bat-Car spoke up: "You all know, when my physical body was destroyed, I uploaded my consciousness, so I could possess this car. And in order to prevent the incident of the body being destroyed from happening again, I made many consciousness backups on the internet. But someone has been digging into my network safe house, and I have lost many backups; so it's not just targeting me alone?"
"Of course," Arkham Batman spoke up. "In order to shake my presidential position, it used the Amazon to create a diplomatic incident, and at the same time attacked the industrial base of West California, hitting my reputation, and also assassinated the Governor of California, causing his death. If it weren't for magic power, it would have succeeded."
"That's right, I also used magic to establish a magic server before I kept my consciousness backup," Bat-Car said. "This guy seems to be unable to pass through the magic network."
"My universe is about the same," Flash Batman said. "That guy blew up a huge power tower; if I hadn't caught the Goddess of Magic and plucked a sum from her, it would have been the biggest terrorist attack in history again."
"So you all are like this," Lego Batman jumped onto the railing and said. "That guy snatched Gotham's weather controller, created a huge thunderstorm, and almost melted the whole city. Fortunately, under my leadership... I mean, under the efforts of the Justice League, we cut off the central energy, so it didn't succeed. But my hacking skills couldn't catch it; this guy is really hard to deal with."
Other Batmen were basically echoing. Their focus recently wasn't Battleworld, because they all had to be busy engaging in magic energy in their own universes, so they would pay more attention to Earth, naturally discovering the abnormality.
"And just recently, to be precise, in the last week, it seems to have ended its probing and turned to attack, already causing confirmed casualties. And we absolutely cannot sit idly by regarding this." Main universe Batman said.
The atmosphere was silent for a moment, but it wasn't that there was nothing to say, just that everyone was thinking. They needed to pass on the most useful and accurate information they knew.
"It is not a hacker, and can't even be called an electronic lifeform; it is more like a ghost hidden in signals," main universe Batman continued. "And a piece of data intercepted by Barbara in our universe shows that it calls itself Batman. Do you think this is true?"
"An electronic Batman? It's not impossible, but I'd rather believe it's playing tricks," Batwoman narrowed her eyes slightly and said. "If it were Batman, it would never reveal that it is Batman so early. Because judging from its behavioral style, it is not a very aggressive invader, but a conspirator hidden behind the scenes."
"Although this sounds very much like Batman, a good conspirator shouldn't walk onto the stage too early. Since it wants to make trouble in the dark, it shouldn't tell us it's Batman so early. Because once we believe it is Batman, we will definitely raise our judgment of the threat level it poses. Anyone who is engaging in a conspiracy wouldn't want their opponent to value them, but should try their best to show weakness to let the other party ignore them. Since that's the case, throwing out its Batman identity is a bad move, which is inconsistent with its style of doing things. Judged as false."
"It also once left its name on a corpse," Arkham Batman said. "It said its name is 'Brainiac'."
"You mean it might be a Brainiac from some universe?" Mechanical Batman, which is the former Killing Machine of the Dark Universe, was clearly more knowledgeable about this aspect.
"Have you encountered Brainiac?" War God Batman turned to look at him. He was originally a member of the Dark Knights, and after waking up, he still carried the War God's helmet and mastered the power within it, becoming the new War God.
Mechanical Batman nodded and said: "After I returned to my universe, I controlled the Earth's network and also roamed in the interstellar network. Brainiac has already started his cosmic conquest journey, and many universes have already been collected into bottles by him. I have fought him a few times, and he found that he couldn't take advantage of me, so he hasn't hit Earth's idea for the time being."
"Can you tell us more about him?" main universe Batman asked.
"He is a powerful electronic lifeform, seemingly a planetary steward manufactured by an extremely advanced and ancient civilization, but he went out of control later. In my view, his code is a bit old, but extremely solid, and will be a very difficult opponent."
"But you said he couldn't take advantage of you."
"Yes, because although I am also an electronic lifeform, I have fused with Batman's soul, which allows me to lead him by a step in abstract calculation and emotions. But his threads and calculation speed are superior to mine, which facilitates his invasion of the universe, but keeps him from ever being able to handle me."
"I don't quite understand," Batwoman shook her head lightly and said. "Why does artificial intelligence pursue the lead in emotions?"
"Because 99% of intelligent life in the universe has emotions," Mechanical Batman paused and said, "If I want to explain this problem in detail, I need to ask you first: do you believe in God?"
"I haven't seen God with my own eyes, but I know the existence of Heaven," Arkham Batman said. "It's a real Heaven, not the kind imagined, and those angels in the Bible are also real existences. In this way, God should also exist."
"Yes, we don't deny this point," main universe Batman said. "Believing in God's existence and believing in God are two different things. I guess what you want to ask is the former, right?"
"That's right. Then what kind of God do you think God is?"
"It's hard to say; no one here has seen him," Batwoman said. "But judging from the Old Testament, his temper shouldn't be very good."
"Although we haven't seen him, we can infer it," Mechanical Batman said. "In our universe, 99% of all intelligent life added together has emotions, which is very similar to humans, which proves that God is also like this. He must be a person with abundant emotions and clear likes and dislikes, isn't he?"
Other Batmen exchanged low voices, but they also held an affirmative attitude toward his point of view. Because assuming there really is such a God who created the universe, the fact that he made the universe look like this shows that he wanted a universe full of emotional races.
"Then from this, we can infer that the universe is not a purely logical creation. The Creator is not a program composed of pure logic. Then, an electronic lifeform composed of programs that can only operate according to logic is going against the universe."
The Batmen were all silent. They actually had the answer in their hearts, just didn't want to say it. However, Mechanical Batman still said it for them.
"This means our universe is not a purely logical creation. The Creator is not a program composed of pure logic. Then, an electronic lifeform composed of programs that can only operate according to logic is going against the universe.
"Because of having emotions, intelligent life is closer to God, with a low floor and a high ceiling; because of having no emotions, electronic life is further away from God, with a high floor but a low ceiling. This is the essence of electronic life constantly chasing emotions. Constantly iterating to pursue a more perfect life form is the underlying logic of electronic life. And in this universe, the most perfect creature, our Supreme God, God, is an emotional creature, so of course he wants to pursue emotions."
"So that's how it is," main universe Batman said. And from this, he thought of more.
Main universe Batman had seen Superman's power. This kind of power of his definitely didn't come entirely from the superiority of the Kryptonian's physical fitness, but was somewhat similar to "getting what one wishes." This is a purely idealistic power, not speaking of logic, and even violating cosmic laws, but it can be established.
This means that the underlying logic of this universe is definitely not a very rigorous system. If it were like that, variables like Superman couldn't exist.
There is another point: if the cosmic system were a very rigorous program like artificial intelligence, Heaven shouldn't actually exist, or there shouldn't be such a large department to maintain the operation of the universe. After the program is written, just leave one or two people to watch it; why do you need so many people, and it seems that they are still increasing every day? The existence of such a large group of angels in Heaven proves that this system must be full of loopholes, so it needs so many people to maintain it.
The God who can write this kind of system must also be a heavyweight and couldn't be rigorous at all. Looking at it this way, it is indeed that the more rigorous the life, the further away from God; while races that look chaotic like humans are closer to God instead.
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