mtl008 Chapter 2851: The Battle of the Brick People! (5)
Chapter 2851: The Battle of the Brick People! (5)
Chapter 2851: The Battle of the Brick People! (V)
Batman walked through the gates of Wayne Manor.
The Wayne Manor in this world is very strange. It is built on a towering isolated island. There is nothing on the entire island except Wayne Manor at the top and a bunch of winding mountain roads.
"I guess Batman is really confused right now," Schiller said as they walked up the road.
"Confused about what?"
"How could the Batman who confuses this universe put his home in such a place? How confident is he in the continental shelf under this island that he is confident that no matter what disaster happens, Wayne Manor will not become the second Atlantis?"
"I think the scenery here is nice." Tim said, looking at the sunset over the sea in the distance, "It's very quiet, like a paradise away from the world."
"That's the problem. No Batman wants to live in a paradise," Schiller said. "I'm going to have a professional attack now, so you better bear with it."
Deadpool handed him a bottle of soda and said, "I've heard of you from the Spider-Man of our universe. He made an even more astonishing comment on your astonishing medical fee. For Spider-Man, that was almost like a complaint."
"My pleasure," Schiller said with a smile.
"In fact, I don't think that if a person wants to live in seclusion, it means escaping from reality. The scope of reality is too broad. It is very likely that it also contains many things that they still miss. It's just that their dislike for certain things outweighs their attachment to these things, so they want to escape."
"Then what do you think this Batman is attached to? What is he avoiding?" Tim asked thoughtfully.
"Many people can't think this through clearly. I guess Batman is the same. He may have found countless excuses for choosing to build his home here, such as safety..."
"But it's not safe at all." Tim spread his hands and said, "Anyone with an IQ above 80 knows that the cost of clearing and destroying an isolated island at sea is too small. The sea will bear all the consequences."
"For example, the beautiful scenery..."
"It's not as good as a three-hour commute to work every day." Deadpool said, "Although I haven't had much contact with Batman, I guess if he can go to the Gotham Police Department in one step, he won't want to take a plane for half an hour."
"Or a quiet atmosphere..."
Schiller himself refuted this, saying, "There is no such thing as a quiet atmosphere for Batman. He is so busy all day long that the ringing of the phone and the flashing bat light can completely destroy the quiet atmosphere."
"What about the real reason that he himself didn't even think of?"
"Have you noticed the biggest difference in this universe?"
"What?" Tim looked at Schiller in confusion.
"There are only Lego people in this universe. They don't bleed and won't get hurt. Even if they are broken into parts, they can just put them back together. They can even use parts that are not their own." Schiller said, looking down at his hands.
Tim seemed to have sensed something, but still hadn't grasped the key. This was a very novel thinking process for him. He was not the kind of detective who was good at reading minds, but was more particular about finding evidence and speaking with facts, so he always appeared at the crime scene instead of the interrogation room.
He knew that this was one of his weaknesses, and he lacked experience in dealing with people, but the Bruce in his universe said that everyone went through this and that he would be fine when he grew up.
Tim doesn't know how old he will have to be before he can be like Batman, who can see through people's hearts as easily as taking candy from a bag, always able to face everyone with the most appropriate attitude, and become the most terrifying nightmare of criminals and the most kind father of children.
Perhaps there will never be that day, because Batman is just Batman, and his Robins are all different and never live to grow up to be Batman. They worship him, but with the kind of worship they would give to a father, not the worship of God.
But Tim was a very curious person, and he thought there was nothing wrong with exploring a different side of the world, so he listened to Schiller quietly.
"What would a world without death be like? Perhaps it is unimaginable to us, but for everyone in this world of blocks, death does not exist."
"Not only death, but even the painful bleeding and injuries do not exist. Even though it is made of plastic, this is a real paradise."
"So what exactly is Batman saving?"
Tim suddenly felt a sense of empathy. He felt a sense of emptiness bursting out from his chest. He shook his head and said, "But even if no one was hurt or the chaos caused by it was caused, at least it delayed traffic..."
"Do you think Batman wants to be a traffic cop?"
Tim shook his head again. Schiller plucked a flower from the flowerbed beside the winding mountain road and began to study the splicing structure of the building blocks. Then he said, "Although the efforts and rewards of each Batman are not proportional, the positive feedback received by the Batman in this universe is particularly insufficient."
"You have to think that if he was a true hero, he would be happy to see a world without bloodshed and death, but we have to look at it from the perspective of Batman in this universe, and this is the world he was born into."
"That is to say, he has no idea that there is such a thing as blood and death in this world. He doesn't know that there is a world where people are made of flesh and will scream in despair if they are slightly cut or squeezed."
Tim shuddered and unconsciously moved a little further away from Schiller. Although that was what he said and that made sense, when he said it, it always gave people the feeling that he had a lot of experience in cutting or squeezing.
It reminded Tim of the process of treating tooth decay that his dentist had described when he advised them not to eat too many cookies. It was the most terrifying story he had ever heard.
"So in this Batman worldview, what he did was spend half his life honing himself into an unparalleled master, and the problem he finally solved was to pick up the scattered building blocks and solve the traffic jam," Schiller said.
Tim sighed softly and said, "There are many cruel things in this world, but if I have to say what I fear most, it would probably be dislocation."
Schiller looked at him with an inquiring look. Tim shook his head and said, "I have never said these words to Batman because I am afraid that he will worry about me. But in fact, I always feel that the relationship between him and me should not be like this. It should not be between us and him."
"What kind of relationship?"
"Enjoyable." Tim found a word, and then continued: "Because I found that if Batman had such a past and such experiences, it would be almost impossible for him to become what I saw. This does not conform to some rules."
"Psychological laws?"
"Maybe, I don't really understand, it's just my opinion," Tim said. "I think something made him behave like that and made us behave like that, so everything became what it is now, but in fact it's not that simple."
"The Batman of this universe gives me the same feeling. Didn't he realize in the first 40 years of his life that saving such a world doesn't require him to pay so much? Of course not. He is not such a fool."
"But he still did it, risking everything, chasing after the enemy, vowing to be a hero who could surpass evil. But when he reached the finish line, he found that there was no one ahead of him. This is obviously abnormal."
"What's wrong with this?" Deadpool said, "Someone wrote a story, created a character, and then stuffed this character into every universe without considering whether the environment of this universe can produce such a character. In essence, someone is just being lazy."
"What is Gotham like in your universe?" Schiller asked Tim.
"It's dark, chaotic, full of crazy people and criminals." Tim sighed and said, "I know most of Gotham is like this. My self in other universes told me."
"It was only then that I was sure that something was wrong, because I always felt that only the Batman mentioned by Tim could deal with Gotham. As for my adoptive father... I don't know where his optimism comes from. Maybe he is gifted."
"Don't think too much about it." Schiller smiled and said, "You can assume that he is as cold as other Batmans in other places where he is not facing you. He is gentle to you only because he gives you all his gentleness."
Deadpool glanced at Schiller, but ultimately said nothing. Looking at Tim's face that had regained its radiance, he could only say "silly boy" in his heart.
"I think so." Tim laughed and said, "The atmosphere in the Bat Family is always good, because Batman sets a good example for us. He not only treats us gently, but also makes us feel that he really exists around us."
"He would set all kinds of tests for us, but in the end he was teased by Cassandra and failed the test, and he felt depressed about it. He would compete with others and spend a lot of money to hire an ice cream truck just to win the competition of 'who is the best elder' when he forgot to bring dessert to our party."
"He always felt that Alfred controlled him too much, but he inherited the nagging character from the old butler. It's not that he is a bad cook, but he is too good at multitasking and never remembers the principle of keeping a person close to the fire, which led to us changing the stove 26 times in one year."
"There are many more things like this, but I have never heard of them from my other selves. I always feel that we are at two extremes. The Batman in their universe has no details of life, while the Batman in our universe has no big ambitions."
"Then I also thought that it would be nice if we could combine the two. But like you said, if the Batman in our universe is not facing us, maybe he won't be like this now. If the Batman in other universes is facing us, maybe he will become real and lovely like our father."
"Things in this world are always like this." Deadpool carried a long sword on his shoulder, put his hands on both sides of the sword, and said: "People become the people they are today when they encounter the world, and the world becomes the world it is today when it encounters people."
"It's like I feel like my good life is stolen." Schiller looked at Tim and said, "I feel like others' more miserable lives are what I deserve. I think I'm the exception, so I worry about gains and losses and am filled with fear of being out of place."
"Are you talking about this Batman?" Tim turned his eyes away and said, "I think it makes sense. You are indeed a good doctor."
"My pleasure."