Chapter 586

Next, the stage scene changed constantly. Alleys, offices, classrooms, one scene appeared and disappeared. And what remained unchanged was that in every scene, Hugo would be beaten up by Batman, and then either sent to the police station or sent to a mental hospital.

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

"Perhaps you also know that this doctor called Hugo Strange, his theoretical level is not bad, he even makes many small inventions, and his execution is not bad..."

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

"And that is, I know deeply that if one wants to be a doctor, the ultimate goal is to cure the patient. If one wants 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 him, if a teacher doesn't want to teach the student well but wants to bewitch and induce him, then his final destination is a mental hospital."

Accompanied by Batman dragging the already beaten-unconscious Hugo to Arkham Asylum in the picture, Schiller's voice became somewhat cold, like Gotham'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 sitting 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 already noticed that his memory has changed. Maybe he is rushing to the subconscious mind right now."

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

Unsurprisingly, opposite the Batman in the alley stood Hugo, and the Batman standing on the top of the bell tower looked around, until he saw that the other self was 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 already become an Alzheimer's patient, losing all ability to resist, but felt deep fear at 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 scar to eliminate in the depths of the human soul."

Just when he thought of this, the heavy bell rang, echoing in every corner of Gotham.

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 Gotham 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 kill him, follow your inner choice... go back... go hand-kill your enemy..."

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

Batman standing on the bell tower took a deep breath and sighed 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 start to imagine such a scene. Of course, he felt he wouldn't be bewitched by Hugo, or rather, Hugo couldn't be called bewitchment. Even if he really appeared in his life for a long time like Schiller, Batman felt that within a semester, he could definitely send this teacher to a mental hospital.

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

Looking at himself in the memory, that Batman kept repeating the same questions to Hugo, asking him if he 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 a mental hospital.

Batman felt that shouldn't be him. Why would he become so paranoid? Looking at this behavior from someone else's perspective, it really looked like a lunatic who had lost his reason. Is this what he wanted?

If the means he adopted at the beginning to bring fear to every corner of Gotham was this kind of means, Batman suddenly understood why Schiller would reveal that disgusted and sympathetic expression 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 looked even more like a mental patient than 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 with this 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 finished dealing with all the criminals, what would he do?

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

Fighting with non-existent hallucinations is a typical manifestation of a mental patient's onset. This was a sentence Batman once saw in a psychology textbook, perhaps written by Schiller.

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

Furthermore, he started to think 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 produced by the influence of mental illness?

As the saying goes, holding a hammer, everyone looks like a nail. After learning psychology, everyone looks like a mental patient, including himself.

The stage froze on Batman who was thinking, and then gradually collapsed. When the scene was switched again, the room layout on the stage seemed somewhat unfamiliar.

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, then letting him enlighten Clark should be good..."

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

"You mean, you can run out of results that exceed the world record just by running casually?" Tetch looked at Clark and asked: "Do you have any other magical abilities?"

Clark, who was caught in painful memories, didn't have enough defense. He said directly to Tetch: "My speed is very fast, my strength is infinite, and I have some other magical abilities, but I don't know where these came from. 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 appeared somewhat dazed. Tetch shouted loudly: "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 somewhat puzzled. 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 are really 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 built the entire earth into a dream realm! 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 either. 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 being.

Compared to Batman taking fighting crime as his duty, Superman's position was more about helping others. Standing from his perspective, what needed to be distinguished was only who needed help and who didn't. Or rather, in Superman's view, everyone needed help, as long as it was within his ability, he would help as much as he could.

There was no wavering of core position. Superman was the natural nemesis of these Gotham villains who only knew how to talk. If the scene in the movie where both ships had bombs and both sides pressed buttons appeared in front of Superman, he would only feel that both sides were weak, and both needed his help.

The Joker couldn't even finish his words, Superman would directly dismantle the ship cabin with people and carry it away. By the time the Joker finished his words, he would have already been hit by Superman with more than 300 punches.

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

So, no matter how Tetch bewitched, induced, or persuaded, Clark just felt he couldn't do that.

Finally, Tetch finally lost patience. He took out something with a somewhat 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 glow.

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 the beginning. The brainwave controller in reality was successfully opened, and it searched for Clark's brainwaves, entering his consciousness world.

As mentioned before, Schiller sending these two people into the subconscious minds of Batman and Superman was first from his own mind palace downward, entering the dream realm, and then along the dream realm, finding the consciousness of Superman and Batman, and then upward, directly entering the subconscious mind. This way, he could bypass the conscious minds of the two people.

But Tetch's brainwave controller couldn't do this. Entering someone else's consciousness world directly entered the conscious mind, and the conscious mind of a person is very easy to fluctuate.

Clark was sleeping very well in the school dormitory, and even had a dream. However, when the brainwave controller invaded his consciousness, his consciousness began to move.

Originally, if consciousness began to move, it meant he started 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.

However, as the super brain moved faster and faster, the massive information stored in Superman's brain also followed. Consciousness was constantly soothed, always sinking in the dream. After all this massive information moved, there was no space to go, and now, the only channel opened was one...

When all the redundant information, along the channel of the brainwave controller, rushed into Tetch's brain, he didn't even have a trace of resistance. 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. 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, it could already be called a kind of invasion and destruction.

Tetch's surface consciousness space instantly fell. However, one 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 leading to Tetch's subconscious mind, just like the hole dug in the ground floor of Schiller's mind palace.

Discovering that his surface consciousness was beyond saving, Tetch jumped into his subconscious mind along the rabbit hole in a panic.

It could be said that up to this step, things still had 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, the surface consciousness no longer had personality activity, so brainwave activity also stopped, and the hypnosis of the brainwave controller also stopped.

Clark just didn't use his super brain, it didn't mean he was like ordinary humans, unable to control his own consciousness space at all. 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 was going on. At this time, the brainwave channel connected by the brainwave controller hadn't closed yet. Clark followed this brainwave channel and came to Tetch's surface consciousness.

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

Clark didn't think too much, jumped down directly along the rabbit hole, and happened to meet Tetch who had just come here to take refuge.