Chapter 993: Battle for the Gao Ta (28)

"Before this, I want to ask you a question first, Batman. Do you think you are special?" Shiler asked, looking at Batman with a smile.

"Everyone thinks they are special." Batman answered in a deep voice: "Because people can only perceive themselves. For everyone, there is only the self they can feel in this world, and other people who appear in their lives playing supporting roles."

"A very interesting point of view." Shiler evaluated, and he said: "It seems you are very interested in the cognitive school, but what I am talking about is not from cognition, but in reality."

"Perhaps." Batman took a deep breath. The fatigue of having just finished a life-and-death battle made his tense thinking relax, which would make the language center in his brain more active, so he would be more talkative than usual.

"The richest man in the world is special wherever he goes, and it's the same in Cat Getan." Batman said somewhat trance-like, looking at the reflection of the tableware on the desktop. Shiler raised an eyebrow and said: "I didn't expect the first identity you proposed would be the richest man in the world."

"Because the plans to transform Cat Getan that are swirling in my brain all revolve around one word, that is—money." Batman exhaled the breath he was holding, which sounded like a light sigh.

"The you of four years ago would definitely not have thought that one day you would be sitting in the room of the final villain after just finishing a life-and-death battle, discussing the issue of money with your psychology professor, and... you are short of money."

Batman covered his eyes with hand armor and then asked: "Why do you say you are a victim of Batman? What did I do?"

Shiler picked up the tableware again and began to cut the food on the plate. He said: "If you are very curious about this question, then let's talk about the broccoli issue first. How did you and those two idiots break into the high tower? And why did you rummage through my room?"

"We have our own purposes." Batman said truthfully. He looked upward, seeming to be recalling, and then said: "Zatanna is indeed trying to save the world, but her method... is quite special."

"Why look for me to save the world?" Shiler asked.

"Zatanna found us. She said that there is a curse of extreme evil that has been hiding in Cat Getan City. Cat Getan being in this ghostly state now is inseparable from this curse."

"Constantine thinks that what she said is not unreasonable, and you once said that Cat Getan being like this also has the influence of occultism."

Batman looked up at Shiler and said: "So is the kind of stronger curse you mentioned the so-called curse of extreme evil?"

"I think you misunderstood." Shiler understood the causal relationship he mentioned and said: "The curse on my hand comes precisely from Constantine. It is the resentful soul of his own older brother whom he killed in his mother's womb. Constantine once said his name was Thomas, but I don't like this name very much, and neither do you, right?"

Very rarely, Batman's expression did not change much, unlike in the past, once he heard his parents' names, he would show a very classic serious expression. He placed one hand on the armrest of the chair and then said: "We thought that the curse in your umbrella was the so-called curse of extreme evil."

"So, you are thinking about my umbrella?" Shiler's movement paused, and then he looked at Batman from above his glasses and said: "Is it that my sense of propriety in doing things in the past has not yet given you uninvited guests a strong and powerful warning?"

Batman's fingers tapping on the armrest paused. He opened his mouth and said: "No need to be stronger and more powerful."

Shiler looked away, showing a somewhat disgusted expression, and said: "I can tolerate Zatanna because she is just like you at 18, and exactly the same."

"Capable people are always overly confident in the abilities they master, and once the situation exceeds their control, they will not reflect on their use of this ability, or whether their concepts are wrong, but must find flaws in the other party, right? Batman?"

Batman coughed twice lightly. He and Shiler did not talk about four years ago, but every sentence was talking about four years ago.

"You should feel fortunate, Batman. At any given time, I can only tolerate one such idiot. If you were still like you were back then, someone would be in danger." Shiler sent a piece of subcutaneous tissue into his mouth, fiddled with the food on his plate earnestly, and then said in a low voice:

"But you can run into my room so easily, it must be inseparable from that group of derelict Shilers. Perhaps, they should also be very curious about my current situation."

Batman's fingers paused again. He looked at Shiler's face. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but Shiler's face would occasionally flash with a crazy smile, but it was not as frequent as at the beginning, nor as crazy, as if it was in the process of transformation.

"Merkel mentioned to me that you have undergone great changes in the past four years. Does this have anything to do with the crazy personality in your body?" Batman asked.

"This circles back to the first question." Shiler asked without raising his head: "Do you know you are special?"

But he did not wait for Batman's answer, but said to himself: "No matter whether you know it now or not, at the beginning, when we first met, you definitely didn't know."

"Otherwise, you wouldn't have asked me such a question, and I wouldn't have become a victim of Batman."

"Question?" Batman repeated the word with a questioning tone, and then recalled that when he first saw Shiler, he seemed to have asked him a question, so he repeated that question: "... What is the meaning of life?"

"Revenge, the meaning of life is revenge. At the beginning, I answered you like this, but actually, I shouldn't have answered you at all." Shiler put down the tableware again, sighed slightly and said: "Perhaps, you asked this question at the beginning just to figure out my professional level, but in fact, the impact of this question is much greater than you imagined."

"Cat Getan is a special city. Everyone trapped in it has the opportunity to become crazy. When I first came here, I was just an ordinary citizen, but all this ended on the day you appeared."

"You have to know one thing, it is not the Joker who chose Batman, but Batman who chose the Joker." Shiler looked at Batman and said: "That kind of crazy virus is produced precisely because of your attention. The moment you saw me and felt curious about my identity, my personality traits were already polluted."

Batman frowned deeply. He never believed in these fatalistic things, but when all this came out of his professor's mouth, he felt that Shiler would not shoot without a target, because he knew that Shiler also did not believe in fate.

"Perhaps you find it difficult to understand, but you must remember that you are special. Your attention to anyone may have a great change in their destiny, including me."

"For some reason, I know you will come sooner or later. Before seeing you for the first time, my brain was full of how to avoid meeting you, because I hate being forcibly pulled into the vortex very much."

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"If I want to participate in something, it should also be in a more active posture. I think you should have discovered this point."

Shiler looked at Batman, and Batman nodded. He was very sure that this professor did not like unexpected situations. He preferred everything to be under control, or rather, compared to participating in events, he preferred to create trouble.

"But when you appeared, I was unprepared, and at that moment, I, who was infected by the special crazy virus, had my thoughts reversed. Just like every Joker, I used a very simple psychological suggestion to attract your attention."

"And also to verify my professional level, you asked that question, and this question is the root cause of my changes."

"Perhaps, you should already know that the personality fragment infected by the virus at the beginning was also a part of arrogance. It was half of the arrogance trait, and I am the other half."

"After he was infected by the crazy virus, in order to ensure that I could have a clear mind to carry out activities, the 'superego' forcibly locked him up, and then sent the other half of arrogance, which is me, to replace his work."

"However, this matter is far from that simple, Batman..." Shiler's hand holding the table knife exerted a little force. He looked at Batman with an unkind gaze and said:

"Your question at the beginning became a kind of curse, a task I must complete."

"If you haven't received an answer and haven't found what the meaning of life is, then the other half of the trait that was infected by the crazy virus and I have no way to recover completely."

"You sound like you are talking in your sleep." Batman evaluated. He continued: "I am not referring to the fact that this cannot happen, but that neither you nor I can explain how the situation you mentioned happened."

"What is so special about my attention? Why is there a special virus? And why did that question become a curse?" Batman threw out a series of questions, but did not expect Shiler to give an explanation.

He broke the precedent and took the initiative to poke it: "In every event we experienced together, you always have extra judgments that neither the parties nor the bystanders can realize. I once thought you could predict the future, but later, your performance did not look like you had such ability."

"If you can not ask about this question, then there is no need to ask so many principles of questions." Shiler opened his mouth and said: "I want to explain all this more than you, but the answer to this question is that it cannot be explained."

Batman narrowed his eyes, but before he could open his mouth, Shiler continued: "Putting aside the facts, do you know? Every Joker has his destiny, a destiny related to Batman."

"He will definitely answer a certain question of yours, let you realize certain situations in reality, let you produce some emotions, or learn something from it."

"If he is your friend, he will accompany you until you are no longer Batman. If he is your classmate, he will study with you and progress together. And if he is your teacher..."

Batman heard Shiler sigh deeply, as if sighing at his unfortunate fate. He said: "I am the Joker, the Joker is me. We are both one person and the same personality fragment, so we have the same destiny."

"If I were not so special, without that tower of thought, and a calm and decisive manager, then a psychology professor who became a Joker would use a more strong and powerful way to answer this question of yours."

Batman had not yet asked, and Shiler opened his mouth and said: "... You wouldn't want to know the method he originally wanted to use."

Seeing Shiler's expression, Batman knew that the answer swirling in Shiler's brain was probably more shocking than the food on his plate and the corpse behind him.

"Thanks to the calm and decisive superego, he locked that madman up, but the price is..." Shiler paused, and then stared into Batman's eyes and said: "I must complete his task for the Joker."

"I must use another more gentle method to teach you how to find the answer to this question—what is the meaning of life?" ===== CHAPTER 994 =====