Chapter 586: Dead Memories Suddenly Attack Me (Part 2)

Next, the scene on the stage changed constantly. Alleys, offices, classrooms—one scene appeared and disappeared. What didn't change was that in every scene, Hugo would be beaten up by Batman, and then either sent to the police station or sent to the mental hospital.

Accompanied by these flickering scenes, Schiller's voice echoed in the theater, saying: "If you go to see a psychiatrist in the future, remember not to find such a quack."

"Perhaps you also know that this doctor called Hugo Strange has a decent theoretical level, can even make many small inventions, and his execution is not bad..."

"It can be said that from a comprehensive quality perspective, he is stronger than me. After all, I can't make any hypnotic machines, nor can I use physical means to hypnotize people, but only in one point, I am stronger than him..."

"That is, I know deeply that if you want to be a doctor, the ultimate goal is to cure the patient. If you want to be a teacher, the ultimate goal is to teach the student well."

"If a doctor doesn't want to cure the patient but wants to abuse and control them, if a teacher doesn't want to teach the student well but wants to bewitch and induce them, then his ultimate destination is the mental hospital."

Accompanied by the scene in the picture where Batman dragged the already beaten-unconscious Hugo to Arkham Asylum again, Schiller's voice became a bit cold, like Cat Getan's cold night rain.

"If he always has some different understanding of his profession, it means he can't be a good doctor, nor can he be a good teacher."

"If he doesn't want to be an ordinary person, then he can only go be a patient."

Victor turned his head slightly, turned his eyes, looked at Schiller and asked: "Is this why you always say you are an ordinary person?"

Before Schiller could answer, Joker Jack in the front seat suddenly shivered. He woke up, shook his head, stretched a big stretch, yawned, and muttered: "What a short date. His temper is too bad!"

After speaking, he turned his head back, looked at Schiller and said: "Ordinary person and his ordinary friends, Batman should have noticed that his memory has changed by now. Maybe he is rushing to the subconscious mind now."

Just as Jack finished this sentence, in the next stage, two Batmans appeared. One of them was standing in the alley near Cat Getan Cathedral, and the other landed on the roof of the cathedral.

Unsurprisingly, Hugo stood opposite the Batman in the alley, and the Batman standing on the top of the clock tower looked around until he saw the other self holding an empty salt jar in his hand.

He remembered that this should be when he was investigating the murderer who killed his parents. After visiting the murderer, he discovered that the person opposite had become an Alzheimer's patient, losing all ability to resist, but felt deep fear toward the name Falcone.

Recalling these scenes, those thoughts surged in Batman's heart. He remembered a sentence Schiller said to him at the time: "Fear is the deepest and hardest-to-remove scar carved into the depths of the human soul."

Just as he thought of this, the heavy bell rang, echoing in every corner of Cat Getan.

He remembered that when he heard this bell, he swore to spread fear to every corner of this city, making all criminals tremble, just like this pervasive Cat Getan evening bell.

Batman, who was lost in thought, was pulled back by Hugo's voice. He suddenly discovered that the person standing in Schiller's position in the memory was not Schiller, but Hugo.

Then, he heard Hugo say: "... How can you not take revenge on him? He killed your parents and lost his ability to act. Isn't this the best opportunity?"

"If you let him go like this, how can you talk about revenge? What you should be holding is not that broken jar, but a dagger or a gun. You should go and kill him, follow your inner choice... go back... go and kill your enemy..."

Batman on the clock tower stretched out a hand and covered his eyes. And sure enough, the other self in the alley punched Hugo directly to the ground.

Batman standing on the clock tower took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. He felt that if this was a dream, it was a terrible nightmare. If he had encountered such a professor at the beginning...

Batman couldn't help but set up such a scene. Of course, he felt that he wouldn't be bewitched by Hugo, or rather, Hugo couldn't even be called bewitching. Even if he really appeared in his life for a long time like Schiller, Batman felt that within one semester, he would definitely be able to send this teacher to the mental hospital.

At the beginning of his Batman career, encountering such a professor, what would the situation be like now?

Looking at himself in the memory, that Batman kept repeating the same question to Hugo, asking him if he had committed a crime, asking him what crime he committed. If he didn't answer, Batman would break his leg and send him to the police station or mental hospital.

Batman felt that shouldn't be him. Why would he become so paranoid? Looking at this behavior from the perspective of others, it really looks like a lunatic who has lost his reason. Is this what he wants?

If the goal he envisioned, bringing fear to every corner of Cat Getan, was achieved by this means, Batman suddenly understood why Schiller would reveal that look of disgust and a bit of sympathy every time he saw him throwing punches.

Because, looking at Batman beating Hugo from the perspective of a third person, the Batman in this picture is even more like a mental patient than the Hugo lying on the ground—paranoid, gloomy, irritable. Isn't this a typical antisocial personality?

If it continues to develop like this, what will it become?

Batman couldn't imagine such a thing, but he felt that if he continued to walk in this line of thinking, he would manufacture stronger equipment for himself, formulate more perfect strategies, find more criminals, and then use these tools to deal with them. And then?

If he dealt with all the criminals, what would he do?

Perhaps, he would see everyone as a potential criminal, formulate more plans, be ready to deal with them at any time, and even put some of these plans into practice.

Fighting with hallucinations that don't exist is a typical manifestation of mental patients when they have an episode. This is a sentence Batman once saw in a psychology textbook, perhaps written by Schiller.

Batman shook his head. He started to think about whether he in this scene he envisioned was really suffering from some kind of mental illness?

Furthermore, he started to think about whether the endless suspicion and the violence generated in suspicion were really necessary? Was that a choice made by his own will, or a symptom generated by the influence of mental illness?

As the saying goes, holding a hammer, everyone looks like a nail. Studying psychology, everyone looks like a mental patient, including oneself.

The stage froze on the thinking Batman, and then gradually collapsed. When the scene was switched again, the room layout on the stage seemed a bit strange.

It looked like a guest room in a manor. A handsome young man was sitting on the edge of the bed, and another thin and short man was sitting on a chair near the head of the bed.

Victor turned his head to look at Schiller and said: "This should be when you met that Metropolis student named Clark, right?"

Schiller nodded and said: "This Dr. Tetch also seems to want to compete with me. Since he is in Metropolis, it should be good for him to go and enlighten Clark..."

The young man sitting on the edge of the bed looked a bit worried. He was telling his troubles, but obviously, Tetch wasn't listening seriously. He wasn't interested in the trivial matters that happened at school at all.

"You mean, you can run out of results that exceed world records just by running around?" Tetch looked at Clark and asked: "What other magical abilities do you have?"

Clark, who was trapped in painful memories, didn't have a strong enough defense. He said directly to Tetch: "My speed is very fast, I have infinite strength, and some other magical abilities, but I don't know where these came from, and this has caused me a lot of trouble..."

"Trouble?!

" Tetch raised his tone and said: "You actually call this powerful ability trouble?! Are you crazy?!"

Clark looked a bit dazed. Tetch shouted: "You should use it to do something! You can even rule this city! Even rule this country or even the earth. Why don't you do that???"

"Why should I do that?" Clark stared at Tetch with some incomprehension. He said: "Why should I rule Metropolis, and why should I rule the earth?"

"Because you are more powerful than them! You are more powerful than everyone!"

"Why should I rule them just because I am more powerful than everyone? I can help them, I can save them, but I won't interfere with them, because I don't like others interfering with me either."

"You really are a lunatic!" Tetch jumped down from the chair and screamed: "You could have easily possessed everything! You could have possessed all the Alices in this world, you could have turned the entire earth into a dream kingdom! And you are actually worried about this kind of powerful ability now???"

"No, I won't change the lives of ordinary people, because the rules I set for them, they might not necessarily like. They will feel sad, and I won't set any rules. I haven't even graduated from college..."

Clark's thinking was very clear. He was completely not the type of Batman who would struggle with one sentence for three days. Although he possessed the smartest super brain in the world, many times, he was still doing things from the perspective of a kind human.

Compared to Batman who takes fighting crime as his duty, Superman's position is more about helping others. Standing from his perspective, the only things that need to be distinguished are who needs help and who doesn't, or rather, in Superman's view, everyone needs help, as long as it is within his ability, he should help as much as he can.

There is no wavering of the core position. Superman is the natural nemesis of these Cat Getan villains who talk big. If the scene in the movie where both ships have bombs and both sides press buttons appears in front of Superman, he will only feel that both sides are weak and both need his help.

The Joker can't even finish speaking, and Superman directly dismantles the cabin with people and carries it away. By the time the Joker finishes speaking, he has probably already been punched more than three hundred times by Superman.

Superman wants to help everyone equally. When a person is holy to the extreme, he is unshakable.

Therefore, no matter how Tetch bewitches, induces, or persuades, Clark just feels he can't do that.

Finally, Tetch lost his patience. He took out something with a strange shape from his suitcase and put it on his head. It looked a bit like a hat, but more like an instrument, and the circle of light bulbs on it would shine.

That was the brainwave controller developed by Tetch. This thing wouldn't only exert its effect in the dream world; in reality, it was also opened synchronously.

Tetch would use brainwaves to control it. When he opened the brainwave controller in the dream, the brainwave controller in reality would search for the brainwave that Tetch was currently connected to, and enter his consciousness space to modify his memory.

Everything went very smoothly at first. The brainwave controller in reality was opened successfully, and it searched for Clark's brainwaves, entering his consciousness world.

It was said before that Schiller sent these two people into the subconscious minds of Batman and Superman by first going down from his own Mind Palace, entering the Dream Realm, then along the Dream Realm, finding the consciousness of Superman and Batman, and then going up, directly entering the subconscious mind, so that he could bypass the conscious minds of the two.

But Tetch's brainwave controller couldn't do this. He entered the consciousness world of others, and what he entered directly was the conscious mind, and the conscious mind of a person is very easy to fluctuate.

Clark was sleeping soundly in his school dormitory, and even had a dream. But when the brainwave controller invaded his consciousness, his consciousness started to move.

Originally, if consciousness starts to move, it means he is starting to turn from sleep to wakefulness. But the hypnotic function of the brainwave controller had been soothing Clark's brainwaves, telling him not to wake up.

But as the super brain moved faster and faster, the massive amount of information stored in Superman's brain also moved along with it. The consciousness was constantly soothed, always sinking in the dream. After these massive amounts of information moved, there was no space to go, and now, the only channel opened was...

When all the redundant information rushed into Tetch's brain along the channel of the brainwave controller, he didn't even have a trace of resistance, and the entire consciousness space was filled with this garbage information.

To what extent was the redundant information in Superman's brain? It was probably to the extent that Schiller felt dizzy just by looking at it.

Clark's application of his super brain was relatively shallow. He hadn't learned how to process and filter information, but he had learned how to record it. All the information he had seen from birth to now was stored in his brain, even a grain of dust on the coffee table, a grain of soil in the farmland, every detail was clear.

From the principle of a computer, suddenly being filled with so much information can be called an invasion and destruction.

Tetch's surface consciousness space collapsed instantly. But the point where Tetch was stronger than others was that he also had some research on his own consciousness space.

In that fairy tale manor, the rabbit hole in the backyard was actually a channel to Tetch's subconscious mind, just like the hole dug on the ground floor of Schiller's Mind Palace.

Discovering that his surface consciousness space was beyond saving, Tetch jumped into his subconscious mind in a panic.

It can be said that up to this step, there was still room for salvation. As long as those pieces of information were cleared out, it would be fine. Tetch also thought so.

However, his personality sank into the subconscious mind, and there was no personality activity in the surface consciousness, so the brainwave activity stopped, and the hypnosis of Clark stopped. Clark only didn't use his super brain, which didn't mean he was like an ordinary human, completely unable to control his own consciousness space. On the eve of waking up from the real world, he noticed that his brain had been invaded.

So, he didn't choose to wake up, but sank into his own consciousness space, wanting to see what on earth was going on. At this time, the brainwave channel connected by the brainwave controller hadn't closed yet. Clark followed this channel and came to Tetch's surface consciousness.

Discovering that it was full of his own memories, Clark thought someone had stolen his memories, so he started searching for this murderer on the surface, and after searching, he found that rabbit hole.

Clark didn't think too much and jumped down along the rabbit hole, just in time to meet Tetch who had just come here to take refuge. ===== CHAPTER 587 =====

Clark didn't think too much and jumped straight down the rabbit hole, happening to run into Tetch, who had just come here to take refuge.