Chapter 4052

"Hiss..." The Adventure Superman gasped, and whispered to the Adventure Batman: "I think he has been with Bruce for too long; this is too vicious."

"But he makes sense," the Adventure Batman spread his hands and said, "What did Owlman gain after abandoning his moral bottom line?"

The two looked at each other, eyes wide, obviously neither could come up with an answer.

Many people think that those who abandon morality will gain more advantages in society, because they are exempt from certain unwritten rules in society, sacrificing others' interests without a bottom line to fight for their own interests, so naturally they should gain more benefits.

But the premise of this rule is that he must be able to gain more benefits. Sacrificing one's morality, using any means to achieve one's goal, and finally succeeding—even if most people can't stand you, they still have to grit their teeth and call you a hero.

But if you sacrifice your morality and don't achieve your goal, then it's inevitable that you'll look like a rascal who harms others without benefiting yourself. People walking past you will not only scold you, but might even spit on you.

How to convert low morality into an advantage is a very profound science. If you must put everything in this world, including morality, up for sale in exchange for benefits, then you must be a smart person who can calculate clearly. Otherwise, those petty gains exchanged by sacrificing morality cannot help you withstand the pressure brought by social rules.

Many people choose to be good people, and following morality is not because they are stupid, but because this is the simplest and most labor-saving method for ordinary people. As long as you live according to a certain form of standard recognized by the public, although you don't live that well, at least you can survive.

Making a breakthrough is always difficult. The difficulty of breaking upward and breaking downward is the same. To break downward from moral standards, one must also face tremendous social pressure. And if the timing of the breakthrough is wrong, or the degree is problematic, or the benefits obtained fail to pull you out of the whirlpool of public opinion in time, then the sudden, huge pressure can completely drive a person to death.

So many people don't try, actually just to save their lives. And some people try, not because they are really shrewd enough to grasp this degree, but mostly because they have no choice, and just happen to have good luck, so what they gain and what they lose cancel each other out.

And many people think that breaking the bottom line to obtain benefits is not that difficult, nor that unbearable, actually just because they ignore the pressure society exerts on them in this process. To be precise, it is underestimating the damage that social pressure can cause to one's emotions and spirit, which is completely a manifestation of not paying attention to mental health.

It's just that once this kind of thing starts, there is no turning back. When realizing how great this damage is, and that it can even directly crush a person's spirit, everything is already irreparable. Even if the person doesn't die, certain things in their personality will be completely changed. The damage brought by being excluded or even hated by the group as a social animal is long and irreversible.

Just like many people left with lifelong shadows from school bullying, school is just a small society. And those who take risks but fail have to face the real, all-around pressure of society, which is definitely not something ordinary people can withstand. So most people don't do that, not because they aren't smart enough, but just because of the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

Only a very small number of smart people, and they must also be smart people with good enough luck, can truly obtain core benefits through this method.

Owlman is actually very smart; after all, his opponents are many, many Batmen. But he is still not smart enough, and his luck is not good enough, which led to his several evil decisions not exchanging for enough confidence for him, but instead, one wrong step leading to another.

He sacrificed his moral bottom line and chose to join the Batman Who Laughs' evil plan, but in the end, he played himself in. He ignored the mage's dissuasion, studied black magic, explored forbidden knowledge, but ended up being set up by others, harming his teammates, and being expelled from his own team, finally being rescued by others in a disheveled state.

So even as an evil Batman, he is unqualified. His evil did not exchange for enough advantages, so even evil Batmen like him have to weigh whether Owlman is a good boss.

And at this time, the advantage of justice is reflected. The justice side has a bottom line, and it is by relying on this bottom line that the team's unity is maintained, so everyone believes that the leader will abide by the bottom line; even if there is a temporary defeat, he will protect everyone's safety as much as possible and maintain everyone's interests.

But the evil side doesn't have this saying. Everyone is bound together by potentially greater interests, and there is no unity or bottom line to speak of, so once the situation is unfavorable, anyone can be pushed out as a scapegoat. So once a crisis occurs, everyone runs away in a flash; if they don't run, it's easy to be pushed out by the boss to take the blame.

This leads to the fact that although the justice side may not necessarily gain much benefit when they have the advantage, when they are at a disadvantage, the bottom line is still guaranteed, morale will not dissipate so quickly, the whole team will be more resilient, and have a greater fault tolerance rate. And on the evil side, although they grab benefits quickly when they have the advantage, once the situation takes a sharp turn for the worse, it is inevitable that they will scatter like birds and beasts.

Now Owlman's situation is that those evil Batmen of the past, they were "Big Brother this, Big Brother that," but when Big Brother got into trouble, you didn't care.

The righteous Batmen who stood on the Prime Universe Batman's side before, for the sake of the Prime Universe Batman, argued strongly on just grounds. Owlman had just argued with them for several rounds.

Now it's his turn to be scolded, and his teammates are like gourds with their mouths sawed shut, one by one either studying the lights on the ceiling or studying the cracks in the floor tiles, and not a single person came out to help.

But it's difficult to help now; at least the Adventure Batman thought about it and couldn't think of any angle to refute.

You stand from the perspective of battlefield failure, but the other party has already said that they didn't fail at all. You stand from the perspective of personal quality, no matter how poorly the Prime Universe Batman performs now, he won't be more miserable than the previous Owlman. After all, Owlman sold out more moral bottom lines and is still more miserable than others—isn't that just being bad?

However, Owlman is worthy of being Owlman; his eyes rolled, and then he said: "Don't you feel guilty? Batman? Eighty percent of the Flashes were killed; they must have been very painful when they died. And your Superman, won't he be disappointed in you at the last moment before he died?"

The Adventure Batman couldn't listen anymore; he walked out of the crowd, nudged Owlman with his shoulder, bumped him to the other side, and said: "Don't worry, Batman. War always has casualties; everyone has this psychological preparation. Especially the Flash and Superman, they will absolutely not fear sacrifice, and it's even more impossible for them to resent you; you know them."

"I feel very sorry for their deaths," the Prime Universe Batman's voice lowered, and he said, "War indeed always has sacrifices, but such a huge sacrifice is not a common situation. Even if they don't feel anything, I feel very regretful. All the pain they experienced is my fault."

Owlman was immediately somewhat triumphant; as long as the Prime Universe Batman's momentum weakened, it would be fine. He just wanted to press his advantage and carry out a deeper psychological strike, when he heard the Prime Universe Batman say:

"Mistakes are irreversible, but they can be compensated for. The sacrifice has already been caused, so naturally, they cannot be brought back to life, but we can use their deaths to achieve results; this is what I should do now. If I indulge in guilt and mourn the spring and autumn, that is irresponsible to all the living people."

"I don't express it precisely because I don't want my emotions to infect too many people, leading to an impact on subsequent operations. I originally thought everyone was a smart person and had already reached a tacit understanding; I didn't expect that someone would actually think that I'm wrong for not hiding in my room and crying. But then again, a sociopath without empathy can only try to understand the emotional world of normal people through his shallow and crude knowledge, so it's not surprising to make such a joke."

Owlman's face turned blue and purple again.

He discovered that not having Superman is not a weakening for Batman, but a damn epic enhancement. Although Superman's "saintly heart" is very annoying most of the time, at least the point of indiscriminate sympathy for vulnerable groups can well help the current Owlman. If the Prime Universe Superman were there, at least he would stand out at this time to smooth things over, instead of leaving him there like a thin piece of dried bat meat like now.

Owlman couldn't help but look at the only Superman present, but the other party wasn't looking at him at all, but seemed to be operating the Battleworld interface, occasionally giving a look to the Batman of his own universe.

Very good, if Superman were there, he would probably only care about flirting with the Batman of his own universe and wouldn't care about the life or death of other Batmen at all. In a sense, he is even more ruthless than an evil Batman like Owlman.

It's a pity that the Ultraman of his universe was laid down by himself, so it's impossible to help him out of the siege. But just at this time, a new Superman arrived in Batman's conference room. Owlman turned his head to look—isn't this the Injustice Superman?

Before coming, he had already checked the Battleworld news and knew what good deeds this Superman had done. He actually directly brain-controlled the Batman of his own universe; it's simply... well done.

Owlman couldn't help but feel a bit jealous. Anyway, Ultraman is already useless, and Superwoman is still standing on Ultraman's side chasing him; this group is visibly hopeless, so it's better to join the thriving Injustice League. This guy should only have some grudges with the Batman of his universe; he isn't even a Batman himself, so there shouldn't be any problem joining, right?

When the Injustice Superman walked into the room, he felt the atmosphere was a bit scorching, but he didn't know who had gone crazy. He only knew that the current war situation was unfavorable, and Superman's side was already so short of manpower that they had to pull him, an evil Superman, over to work. He actually didn't want to come, but unfortunately, the Injustice Batman was still in their hands, so he could only come.

As soon as he entered the door, he felt a scorching gaze. Following this gaze, first, there was a pair of familiar pointed ears, and then... a diver's mask?

The Injustice Superman's gaze patrolled the crowd; he was looking for the Injustice Batman. But that guy wearing round glasses had been staring at him, and this gaze made the Injustice Superman feel very annoyed.

So he fired a heat vision at him.