Chapter 3907: The Nameless Bat (88)

Among the Batmen, some had heard this name, some had met the person, and some had definitively seen the Scarlet Witch in action. Of course, there were also a few who were ill-informed and had no idea who she was. They had to exchange information first.

"You should know about mutants," the Adventure Batman took on this responsibility. He said, "They are a type of genetically mutated human from the neighboring world. The Scarlet Witch is one of the most powerful among them. The Scarlet Power she possesses is a cosmic primordial force; it has a connection to the chaos of the universe, but it is not exactly the same—it is a power unique to her."

"This power is truly miraculous. You can understand it as the power of creation, capable of reaching the point where one's wishes become reality. In other words, as long as she wants to, she can do anything."

"I once heard from the superheroes of that great world that many Wandas across the universes have used their willpower to warp reality, or even create an entirely different reality. This is a power comparable to God."

"I was once fortunate enough to see this lady in action within a copy-world where powers were not restricted. She had almost no superfluous movements; she simply frowned and said a word, and reality was completely altered. The enemies at the time simply vanished, as if they had never appeared. Clearly, this is very astonishing, and at the same time, mysterious and profound. I think it is normal that electronic life cannot defeat her, because this method of combat is clearly illogical, and no logical organism has any way to break through it."

The Batmen began to discuss in low voices. Most Batmen believed that the Scarlet Witch should be one of the few powerhouses on the Marvel side, far exceeding that group of people in the Avengers, and that electronic life had truly hit a snag by provoking her.

"And her husband," the Adventure Batman paused before continuing, "the husband of the Wanda I met was Vision, who seems to be an android. It is unclear who exactly created him, but he is not as powerful as his wife."

"That doesn't add up," the God of War Batman said, crossing his arms and frowning. "Our previous deduction was that the Scarlet Witch's husband was an electronic life form that happened to beat up this mastermind. But if Vision is just an android and has nothing to do with electronic life, then how could electronic life become obsessed with a redhead?"

"I think I know," the Arkham Batman spoke up. "In one universe, the husband of the Scarlet Witch, Wanda, is not Vision, but Jarvis."

"Jarvis?" Once this name was mentioned, many Batmen didn't react immediately. But soon they realized this was the name of Iron Man's electronic butler, inspired by the old butler who had raised Iron Man, similar to Alfred.

"That's right," the Arkham Batman nodded and said, "In that universe where the magic school is located, there is a professor named Jarvis. Do you remember?"

The Batmen who had been to the magic school remembered immediately. This couldn't be blamed on their poor memory; the key was that there were too many people with the same English name. It was perfectly normal for a professor and an electronic butler to share a name, and since the two roles sounded completely unrelated, no one would have guessed they were the same person.

"You mean the Professor Jarvis we once met at the magic school is Iron Man Tony Stark's electronic butler? But how did he become a professor at the magic school?"

"Don't forget, the Iron Man of that universe also uses a magic core," the Arkham Batman said. "My technique for compressing magic energy was inspired by him. And I heard he can ascend to become a Steel Magic God, so it can't be said that he has nothing to do with magic."

The Batmen suddenly realized. That made sense. In the universe where the magic school was located, almost everyone knew magic. Although Iron Man was still called Iron Man, in reality, he could be considered a mage, just one who followed the path of magic machinery. It wasn't strange for his butler to know magic.

"How strong is the Jarvis of that universe?" the Main Universe Batman asked. Although he had seen Jarvis at the school, he hadn't interacted with him. Perhaps it was because the other party appeared unremarkable, just like a real human, and didn't reveal many traits of electronic life, so the Main Universe Batman hadn't investigated him.

"Very strong," the Arkham Batman said. "You remember the magic defense network of that universe, right? Jarvis was responsible for monitoring the traffic on the magic defense network; the power of the major magic gods flowing into or out of Earth could not escape his eyes."

"This is very strange. The electronic life causing trouble on our side seems to have no way to deal with magic. How did Jarvis manage it?"

"This actually fits our previous speculation perfectly," Batwoman said. "It is precisely because Jarvis possesses power that the mastermind does not that he could easily defeat it and let the other party see a life form approaching perfection, thereby wanting to imitate him."

"I think we thought wrong about one point," the Mechanical Batman said. "The Wanda of that universe might indeed have inspired Jarvis, but not in terms of emotion, but precisely in terms of power."

"How so?"

"I said before that electronic life is a logical organism. Regardless of how you put it, their foundation is rigorous logic. This makes them far removed from mysticism, and it is impossible for them to understand magic where wishes become reality. But the Jarvis of that universe just happened to know it. Do you think it's possible the Scarlet Witch taught him?"

"But you also said that electronic life has no way to understand magic. Is this something that can be taught?"

"Others might not be able to, but don't forget, the Scarlet Witch's ability is to modify reality. If she makes Jarvis know it, Jarvis naturally can know it. However, I think the premise is that Jarvis himself was already very close to a perfect life form. He is not just an electronic life form, but an electronic life form with emotions. His humanity and higher-level abstract algorithms helped him understand magic."

"Currently, this might be the speculation closest to the truth," the Main Universe Batman said. "The mastermind encountered the Jarvis of that universe, only to find that the other party had mastered magic that electronic life could never master, and was defeated by him. After reflecting on it, it thought that perhaps the Scarlet Witch had modified reality to give Jarvis such power, so it went to find the Scarlet Witch, wanting to obtain this power through her, but was rejected. Then it went to other universes, but was similarly rejected and defeated, and even angered the Scarlet Witches of the multiverse, so it had no choice but to sneak over to our side."

"But this creates another problem," Batwoman said. "It should be very clear that the Scarlet Witch's power is not because of her red hair, so it's useless for it to look for red-haired women here. Why would it do this?"

"Is it really useless?" the Mechanical Batman spoke up. "Among the red-haired women we know, Barbara is a top-tier hacker who might be able to help it fix some errors in its programming; Poison Ivy possesses the power of the Green, which is also a cosmic primordial force; Black Widow comes from a neighboring universe and might be very knowledgeable about that side, and she herself once possessed a very rare idealistic spirit. They are actually all very strong, aren't they?"

"You don't mean to say it wants to piece together a Scarlet Witch Wanda, do you?" Batwoman said, somewhat incredulously. "But even if these people are added together, it's still not strong enough..."

"There might be some other targets we don't know about," the Main Universe Batman said. "The problem now is that we don't know how many disaster-stricken universes there are, because not all Batmen are on our side. There are more who didn't come than those who did."

Everyone looked at each other, knowing the Main Universe Batman was right. Most of those who came today were Batmen from the firm justice camp; those from the evil and neutral camps didn't come. The number of these Batmen added together was greater than theirs, which proved there were many universes outside their understanding. Perhaps in some universe, there was a very powerful red-haired woman whose traits as a pure power aspect were collected by the mastermind.

Clearly, this mastermind intended to make up for quality with quantity, playing a game of 'Synthesizing the Big Watermelon' here. Grabbing a fighter from this universe, a paranoid one from that universe, and another who could understand itself from yet another universe, it attempted to piece together its ideal lover, a replica of the Scarlet Witch, in this way.

"Can this really succeed?" Batwoman couldn't help but ask.

"It's hard to say. I know you will think this is absurd, but in reality, there is indeed a certain probability of success. Because electronic life itself is built from errors, and these errors themselves are coincidences. If some external factor stirs things up in this pile of errors, making one error collide with another, and it just happens to spark a soul, it could possess emotions. And if some very powerful existence gives it another push, it might really become a perfect life form."

The Main Universe Batman couldn't help but sigh. All the Batmen felt a headache, because Batmen themselves were inclined toward logic; they didn't like mysticism, and even less did they like words like "coincidence" or "happened to." They were also slightly human-machine.

But alas, this universe was chaotic and murky; any factor colliding with any other factor could spark a flame. No one could guarantee anything about such probabilistic matters; theoretically impossible things were possible, and theoretically possible things could also be impossible. But as long as there was a sliver of probability, they had to find a way to stop it.

Placing hope in others was foolish. Although the Mechanical Batman said that once it had emotions, electronic life would become lazy, that was just his one-sided opinion. If this mastermind gained emotions and became even crazier after obtaining power, then the multiverse would suffer along with it. They couldn't take that risk.

"There is one more suspicious point," the Arkham Batman said again. "Why does this electronic life call itself Brainiac?"

"This proves it must have encountered a Brainiac from some universe," the Mechanical Batman said. "This is also normal. If it came here, it must have landed in some universe first. Fish find fish, shrimp find shrimp; electronic life would also be more inclined to search for electronic life. It might have met Brainiac during the search process."

"Did the two of them fight?"

"They must have fought. There is no alliance relationship between electronic life forms; they only want to turn the other into their own subsystem. So as long as they meet, they will definitely cross swords."

"This mastermind didn't lose again, did it?"

"It looks that way," the Mechanical Batman appeared somewhat serious. He said, "However, based on my understanding of Brainiac, he shouldn't be able to beat this mastermind. Although Brainiac's computing power is strong, his code is relatively old, and this mastermind capable of causing trouble across the multiverse is more than an order of magnitude stronger than him."

"That means there is a very strong Brainiac in the multiverse," Batwoman spoke up. "Great, besides the mastermind, we have to guard against a super Brainiac. We really should give the multiverse a virus scan." ===== CHAPTER 3908 =====