mtl008 Chapter 2505: Battle for the Cloak (61)
Chapter 2505: Battle for the Cloak (61)
Chapter 2505: Battle for the Cloak (Sixty-one)
Bruce's arms dropped down, and he stared at Schiller quietly, as if he wanted to see something from him, but unfortunately, he only saw emptiness, like wind and fog, but there was nothing there, just like when he looked at this group of lunatics.
This was not a man who could be called special. He was even so ordinary that he did not fit in with most of the people in the room. He looked more like he should be in an office at a university or library, rather than among them, appearing at the end of this drama.
Bruce saw that Schiller was holding a roll of film in his hand, which looked like it had just been taken down from somewhere. There were quite a few pictures printed on it, which looked like the beginning of a story.
"Where should I start..." Bruce heard Schiller mutter to himself, "If I have to start from the beginning, it will be too long."
"Please sit down." Schiller pointed to the chair next to him.
Bruce smiled, and stood there looking at Schiller for a while, then walked to the chair, sat down, crossed his legs, and said, "I thought the atmosphere between us would be more tense, or is it that the leather I'm wearing is working?"
"I'm afraid it was a counter-effect." Schiller also pulled his chair closer and sat down, picked up the pen on the table and said, "If it was really my worthless student who appeared here, he would have been dragged in."
Bruce glanced at Jack the Clown with a puzzled expression, and curled his lips in what he thought was a hidden move. Schiller turned his head to look to the other side, and a black cat smoothly jumped onto his legs.
Schiller touched Batcat's head. Batcat tilted his head back, squinted his eyes, and then stared at Bruce with his blue eyes.
"The story begins with cats." Schiller said, "You have long discovered the existence of the dream world. When you first learned about the magic of the dream world, you knew it would be a perfect stage, so you laid your foreshadowing in Gotham, the cat city..."
Bruce's blue eyes reflected the murderous look of the Bat Cat, but the cats he had seen before were not so energetic. Most of them were screaming and wailing, lying dying in cages and placed on the altar, becoming the source of power for the Court of Owls to pollute the Dream of a Thousand Cats.
Morpheus, the god of dreams, once wandered in the vast land of dream space, which was the kingdom of God ruled by him. The valleys, rivers and deserts in the dream world were so real, but they were combined together in a strange way.
He is followed by a giant cat, which often talks to him about overturning the dreams of thousands of people and turning the whole world back into a cat kingdom.
But behind their leisurely stroll, there was a dark shadow always lurking. It was the first time that he became curious about the things beneath his subconscious and began to explore. He was gifted and it only took him one try to reach the dreamland.
It was his luck to meet the god of the dreamland and his cat, but he was always very good at turning his luck into other people's misfortune. When he knew the ability of the Thousand Cats' Dream, a plan took shape in his mind.
The Dream of a Thousand Cats is a collection of dreams of all cats, and as long as enough cats are having nightmares, it will inevitably be affected, and as long as it is contaminated, there will be a loophole in the dream world.
But Morpheus, the god of dreams, will not let go of anyone who dares to make a move here. In front of the master of the Dream Kingdom who is so powerful that even Lucifer is unwilling to easily touch his edge, all resistance will seem too insignificant. He cannot create another such enemy for himself.
So he placed an egg in the belly of a cat, a poor stray cat living in Gotham, which was hungry and cold, and harbored countless resentment and anger. Until the child it gave birth to was put into a bag by a man and thrown into the lake, he set out for the first time to the kingdom of Dream God and found the Dream Cat.
There he learned that cats were the original masters of this world, but a thousand people had the same dream and used the dreams of a thousand people to overthrow the rule of cats.
From then on, he began to travel around lakes, canyons and cemeteries, trying to find a thousand cats to fulfill the same dream and bring the world back to the era ruled by cats. This is the origin of the Dream of a Thousand Cats.
In the bag that the man threw into the lake, the ordinary kittens drowned naturally, but the cat that was not born by the mother cat but was born from an egg through surrogacy did not die so easily.
He survived and became the most special one among the Thousand Cats' Dreams, as the egg was essentially Batman.
Wherever there is Batman, there is Gotham, even if this Batman is a cat, so even if everything becomes what it looks like in the eyes of a cat, Gotham is still as dark and bizarre as ever.
Everything in the dream world is not stable enough and may disappear completely at any time as a dream is shattered, but the cat city Gotham from the Batcat's dream remains the same. It is like a dark nail that penetrates deeply into the land of the dream kingdom, and the pollution begins from then on.
With a stable base, we can naturally start to send a steady stream of polluted power into the dreamland. Things become very simple after that. It is not difficult to deceive those owls who firmly believe in a certain god and make them believe that they can gain greater power by sacrificing the souls of suffering cats.
After all, cats are so weak compared to humans. Whether they caught or bought them, they got enough cats, tortured them, abused them, and made them go through one terrible dream after another while they were dying.
Just like that, the Dream of Thousand Cats had cracks that neither he nor the God of Dreams had noticed, and the authority of the dream world began to waver from that moment on.
The Bat-Cat, who is the key to maintaining Gotham Cat City, is actually just the cat form of his clone that hatched from an egg. Although the Bat-Cat himself does not know this, as long as he exists, he can steal part of the power of the Thousand Cats Dream, make some small moves at the cracks, and build a new dream world within the scope of Gotham Cat City.
Schiller had talked to Bat Cat about his origins a long time ago, but Bat Cat didn't know and was not interested in it. It was after Xiao Krypton came that he persisted in fighting crime in the dream world every day until one day he met a cat that smelled similar to Bat Cat.
Xiao Kr had to take the bat cat over to meet the Siamese cat whose smell he felt was somewhat familiar. When the bat cat appeared in front of the Siamese cat, he heard a familiar cry.
This brought back some vague memories of Bat Cat, which were the screams of the mother cat when she gave birth to him who was overgrown.
When Siamese found his child, he almost couldn't wait to rush over, rubbed against the bat cat, licked its fur, and told it the story of the past. To this day, the cat mother has not given up. He still wants to create a world ruled by cats to avenge the murderer who killed his child.
Batcat enjoyed his mother's love for a while, but he was still Batman. He began to think about more things, such as why he was so much bigger than the other cubs, why his color was different from all the other cats, why he felt he was Batcat, and why he appeared in a city called Gotham as soon as he became conscious.
There was obviously a trace of all this, and from then on, Batcat suspected that everything he had in the past and present was arranged by the same conspirator.
So after resuming his identity as Batcat, he also began to rule the city as Bruce Wayne, using his technology and wealth to monitor every move in the city.
Until one day, a human sneaked into the city.
But he did more than just transport another person here. He created a bubble of a dream world here and hid it underground in the entire city, then opened a passage upwards, leading directly to a special universe of Batman.
The bat cat sat on the table in front of Schiller and licked his paws, while Bruce, who was crossing his legs, squinted at him and said, "So you found out when I opened the passage."
Batcat looked up at him and said nothing.
Schiller put down the film in his hand, picked up another roll and said, "So let's see how you lock on to this particular universe."
The first scene of this story did not take place in the DC world, but Stark's figure appeared very rarely. What's even more bizarre is that Stark and Schiller fought each other with blood all over their heads.
Stark, who originally just wanted to follow Schiller downstairs to throw away the garbage, was tricked into the zombie universe and had a fierce conflict with Schiller. Then he found out that Schiller was not his good doctor, but a person with a personality trait called gluttony.
It just so happened that Schiller threw the experimental products made by Nick into this universe as garbage, but after Gluttony appeared, he was eager to get something to eat. Therefore, Stark discovered the secret of ghosts. To some extent, they are a special kind of radio waves.
From this, Stark deduced the ghost wave theory and began to study the relationship between brain waves and the soul.
But he was not the first person to do this, to be precise, he was not the one who had walked the farthest at the same time.
Someone had discovered the influence of brain waves long before this. Almost all of human soul and spirit rely on this. If brain waves can be compiled, it is equivalent to being able to control all intelligent life.
Of course, this was extremely difficult, but after he had been researching for a while, he began to experiment extensively in various universes in an effort to achieve true brainwave encoding.
The difficulty of this technology was beyond his imagination, but it didn't matter, he had other methods. As long as he could send some carrier objects carrying special virus bands to other people and have long-term contact with them, he could partially change the frequency and wavelength of their brain waves and achieve the purpose of affecting their minds.
His experiments were a great success, and he succeeded several times, but he still did not reach the point where he could compile brain waves at will. He just had a new technology - wide-area brain wave search and reading.
He is able to retrieve brain waves and read the other person's thoughts and understand their condition through the retrieval machine without having to make contact with the other person.
For a long time, it has become his all-powerful weapon. Think about it, he doesn't even need to make contact with the other party, just stand at a distance and look at him, and he can know what he is thinking and what he will do next. Isn't this a skill born for the mastermind behind the scenes?
Once the stage was set in the dream world, he knew he could use this skill to cast all the characters he wanted.
(End of this chapter)