Chapter 4103
Then it can be inferred from this: the more illogical and crazy a dream is, the more likely the person in it is to wake up and realize they are dreaming. If it's like this, it's actually easier to break through.
This idea is not bad, but it is very difficult to operate in reality. Because madness is also a talent; it's not that anyone can do it. It can even be said that a just-right lunatic is harder to find than an extremely orderly good person.
Society itself has order, and an orderly society is easier to cultivate orderly people. And to live as a crazy, chaotic person who completely ignores order in an orderly society requires extreme ego and abundant inspiration, and even the artistry that comes with the soul.
Listening to this description, it's as if it was tailor-made for the Joker. But unfortunately, the Joker is too evil; it's impossible for him to fight against the enemies of the multiverse like superheroes. He only wants to play games with Batman.
Although there are Jack and Joker-Man, these two are far from enough. Even if you bring over the slightly clearer Pale Knight and Phoenix Joker, it's not enough. Because these few people have low combat power and simply can't deal with enemies of the level of Nightmare Darkseid; adding them all together can't deal with Darkseid's sandbag-sized fist.
However, the multiverse is also full of talents; even with such harsh conditions, a team can actually be found.
First is Greed; it can be said that his madness is the most just-right, and basically doesn't mix with perversion and evil. Although sometimes he likes to make some silent big moves, and is good at making others have no choice, in the nightmare dimension, these are not big deals. He is truly the only candidate for the mission.
Then there's Bruce; he also has the thinking of a mental patient; he has the intelligence of Batman, but his thinking is more flexible and jumping than theirs; he thinks of one thing and then another, making it truly hard to figure out. This kind of chaos and disorder makes it easy for him to produce some very absurd dreams.
There's also Evil God Batman, which is the little Bruce from before. The power he possesses is actually a combination of Nyarlathotep's chaos and Barbatos's dark power; it is neither the blind, idiotic foolishness of the Outer Gods, nor the evil and emptiness of dark power. He found a perfect balance in it, letting himself neither be polluted by the Outer Gods nor controlled by Barbatos, while still maintaining Batman's intelligence. Although there are a few too many tentacles, this is not a big deal.
There's also the Constantine from the universe where Schiller is; seemingly he was caught by Nyarlathotep to write books, but actually, being able to compose the scriptures of the Outer Gods itself proves that he is in a state of clear madness. If not crazy enough, he couldn't write down those forbidden words; and if not clear enough, it would be impossible to be alive and well after writing these things.
The configuration of this team is also complete enough; the combat power is online, and the brains are enough, sufficient to deal with various weird situations. But a few hours after heading to the nightmare dimension, they retreated again, obviously not having succeeded either.
Greed, who returned to the command center, shook his head and said: "No, it's different from what we imagined. He didn't compile nightmares completely based on real experiences; on the contrary, he would deliberately make the story more dark, even distort the facts, and fabricate experiences that didn't exist at all, making us believe them to be true, and then come to destroy our spirit."
"I'm about the same," Bruce shook his head and said, "That bastard threw me into my own thesis; the words I wrote before chased me to kill, and quite a few feathers on my wings were plucked by them."
The situations others said were also about the same as what the two of them said; anyway, it was: the higher the chaos of the dream, the easier it was to produce various crazy and powerful monsters. The appearance and attributes of the monsters didn't follow logic at all, and it was impossible to have any targeted measures; just escaping the pursuit was enough of a struggle, let alone counterattacking.
Now, everyone is truly a bit numb. This nightmare power is simply troublesome to the extreme: if you reason with him, he will compile an extremely real nightmare for you, letting you not be able to wake up; if you deliberately break order, he can borrow the chaotic dream to produce illogical monsters. Doesn't this become blocked at both ends?
"I feel our direction is wrong again," the Agent said, "We shouldn't be thinking about entering the nightmare dimension and then finding Darkseid, but should be thinking about how to solve the nightmare dimension."
"You mean..."
"Entering nightmare power is completely entering the tiger's mouth. That is, the people we found are relatively able to fight, so they could run out while it was chaotic; if one or two were swallowed, it would be even more troublesome. Since the inside cannot be broken through, it's better to apply pressure directly from the outside. Violent means can't solve the problem, but can solve the problem itself."
"The problem now is that nightmare power itself is a fusion of two source powers; we here have the highest fusion of two source powers, at most on the same level, and there is no power that can be higher than it, so it cannot form suppression, otherwise we wouldn't sit and watch nightmare power expand."
"But we don't have just one strong person with two fused powers, do we? If so many fused powers attack the nightmare dimension at the same time, will it be effective?"
The Agent's words gave the main universe Batman some inspiration: they don't have power higher than Nightmare Darkseid here, but they have many powers on the same level as him. Hal, who just finished fusing, Evil God Batman who originally had two powers, and many single powers on the same level: Manhattan Batman, Super-Body, Scarlet Witch, etc. With so many source powers added together, can't they break through the nightmare dimension?
"This matter needs to be discussed from a long-term perspective," the main universe Batman said, "We only have one chance; if it doesn't succeed, the other party discovers our plan, and might choose to avoid the edge for a while. Once he runs away, there will be no peace in the multiverse from then on."
The complexions of the others were also a bit heavy; they knew very well: Nightmare Darkseid is now taking revenge on the main universe Batman, so he let nightmare power expand, and also gave them an opportunity to deal with him.
But once he wakes up from hatred, realizes that this side is also not easy to deal with, and decides to strategically retreat, hide and accumulate power, and make a comeback another day, then there will always be a big bomb buried in the depths of the universe, not knowing when it will explode. Then their days ahead can only be spent in fear.
Considering this guy isn't from this world, it's also possible he will return to that side, which means both big worlds will be in fear.
If he is even more despicable, and doesn't engage in large-scale invasion, but uses nightmare power to harass endlessly, then both big worlds will have no peace.
"The frontal attack cannot stop," the main universe Batman said, "We cannot let him realize that we want to break through from the outside, but must be like before, going deep into the inside, so that he can relax his vigilance."
"The frontal troops are not enough," Nick said, "Although other multiverses also have superheroes arriving one after another, entering the nightmare dimension is just sending food. If they are swallowed by the nightmare dimension, strengthening Darkseid's power, then the outside breakthrough will be even harder."
The main universe Batman also knew that their troops were not enough. No matter how many superheroes there are, they aren't enough for the nightmare dimension to swallow. Darkseid gaining their power is a small matter; the key is if so many people die, they will definitely have complaints, and it's truly hard to clean up the aftermath.
Now they need a wave of frontal troops, and they must be the kind of intelligent creatures that can have nightmares, preferably humans, so that they won't arouse Darkseid's suspicion.
The main universe Batman was thinking, but saw Greed and Nick whispering there. Greed was obviously persuading Nick, and Nick was a bit reluctant.
The main universe Batman stood there calmly; he knew Greed was very good at making people have no choice. Since he went to persuade, Nick had no second choice besides cooperating.
Sure enough, soon Nick walked out and said: "I do have a batch of people there who should be able to come in handy. Not to mention achieving results, it's enough to fool Darkseid."
The main universe Batman looked at him.
"Before, by chance, I discovered the formation principle of 'ghosts', which is actually a kind of mutated brainwave. The brainwaves of humans after death that haven't completely dissipated, under the influence of some special magnetic fields, will remain and form a kind of thing similar to ghosts. They will partially retain the memories and wisdom before death, but sometimes they will also become too angry, and some will have aggression. This is the truth of most supernatural events on Earth."
Others were a bit horrified, but the main universe Batman immediately realized something and said: "You can mass-produce ghosts?"
"Uh, not really. It's just that at the time I thought, anyway people are dead, instead of letting them become ghosts that attack others, it's better to guide them slightly to become my employees, so I don't have to pay wages, and don't have to take vacations..."
Greed poked him hard with his elbow. Nick quickly cleared his throat and said: "So I conducted some small research in this aspect, and finally really found a suitable magnetic field. Under the influence of this magnetic field, some incomplete brainwaves can produce suitable mutations, letting them become a kind of ghost that can accept guidance."
"And then work for you for free?"
"No no no, this thing didn't pass the ethical review, so it's still temporarily not allowed to work for me. And, although they can be manufactured, because the brainwaves used are from death-row prisoners, this group of ghosts isn't very rational and can't do any fine work; at most they can scare people. I'm thinking, it's not bad to use them to fool nightmare power."
The main universe Batman nodded and said: "From the few explorations we've had before, we can see that Nightmare Darkseid's main energy should be focused on the multiverse; he should be exploring the multiverse on this side and hasn't taken the initiative to attack us. Then we send some ghosts over; he might only think it's our new trick and won't think we've given up on exploration; it should be able to fool him."
Greed also nodded; actually, he had already obtained information from Eternity: Nightmare Darkseid was indeed roaming in the multiverse.
After all, he was promoted to a multiverse-level existence overnight; it's impossible not to be curious about the multiverse. And he was also very confident in his strength; although he wanted to deal with the main universe Batman, he would also take some time to explore the multiverse, perhaps also wanting to obtain more powerful power in the multiverse.
And quite a few abstract entities in the multiverse had already discovered this newcomer, but Darkseid didn't have any aggressive actions, so they didn't care. But I'm afraid soon, he will bump into local gods, and perhaps that time will be an opportunity.
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