mtl008 Chapter 2412: Bats Fight (22)
Chapter 2412: Bats Fight (22)
Chapter 2412: Battle between Bats (Twenty-two)
Elsa's eyes widened the moment she saw the egg. Batman immediately caught her expression, looked at her and asked, "Do you know what this is?"
"Well... I saw a manuscript in Professor Schiller's room." Aisha considered her words and said, "I believe there should be no such coincidence. The origin of this thing is not simple."
After hearing Professor Schiller's name, all those who were familiar with this name fell silent. If Schiller knew about this in advance, then was their presence here now also related to him?
Batman thinks this is very likely, because it is not a coincidence that all the contaminated Batmen gathered here. If Schiller gathered them here, does he think there is an answer to solve the problem here?
But no matter what, they have to keep moving forward, because this mutant named David is also a big trouble. Who knows where his personalities will go if they run away? Even if one of them enters their own universe, it will be difficult to deal with. They still have to solve it as soon as possible.
So the group started to head out of the city, but according to the time manipulator, there was no way to get out of the city in an ordinary way. There would be an invisible air wall at the border, and the only way to get out was to go through the portal and teleport directly to the castle.
Batwoman questioned this, "So how did those personalities that were fighting on the grassland get out?"
"It is precisely because they ran away that the city has such restrictions. It should be David in the castle who added them."
“You haven’t told us what that machine you’re working on is,” Elsa said.
"That's Moira's way of solving the problem." The Time Manipulator sighed and said, "You will see her in the castle soon, and she will tell you then."
They followed the time manipulator to the portal. When sending them away, the time manipulator warned them: "I guess David and Moira are both mentally unstable now. You'd better not stimulate them. If this matter can be resolved satisfactorily, you'd better get the things in the time stream out as soon as possible."
Everyone said goodbye to the time manipulator and came to the castle. Before they even set foot on the ground, they heard a fierce quarrel coming from upstairs.
"You know this is not what he wants. Your so-called salvation is just to satisfy your own selfish desires. It won't bring him peace at all. Stop it now." A helpless female voice came.
"The same goes for you." A male voice said, "You built that machine just to satisfy yourself. Since he can no longer decide his future, it's up to us to decide. Whoever among us decides will naturally depend on his ability."
"I don't want to fight you here." The female voice said, "It will ruin everything. Why don't you ask your friends in real life?"
"I have no friends." came the cold reply.
"David, it's David," said Charles.
His voice seemed to alarm the two people upstairs, and soon two figures appeared in front of everyone. One of them was David, whom Charles was familiar with, a personality that looked exactly like David's body and possessed incredible power.
The other one was a woman. They knew that this was probably the Moira that the time manipulator mentioned, but they still didn't know who this Moira was or what abilities she had.
"Don't get excited, David." Batman took the lead in comforting: "We are here to help you."
"I don't need help." David still said with a straight face: "You should go back to where you came from. I can solve these problems myself."
"Your solution is to let all the personalities go." Moira ruthlessly exposed David and said, "You don't care what the real world will become, and you don't care what will happen to ordinary people."
"Don't you care either?" David turned to look at Moira and said, "You don't even care whether the universe will be destroyed."
"I'm looking for a way to keep both universes intact." Moira said calmly, "When the machine is built, all personalities will return to their original state, and David will return."
"Then he will collapse and despair, because that is not the result he wants at all." David said: "He personally gave these memory carriers souls and lives. If you end them, he will hate you."
"He won't, because he knows the situation is out of control now, and I have to do this in order not to destroy him and the outside world."
“Does he really love this world?”
This question silenced Moira, and she finally did not answer, but said: "I don't know, David, I don't know if he should love the world? After all he has experienced."
David's expression relaxed slightly, he lowered his eyes and said, "I don't know, Mom, but I know that when he comes back, he finds himself alone, then all the changes he has made will be meaningless. I can't allow this to happen."
"Wait a moment." Suddenly someone spoke up. Everyone turned around and saw that it was Peter. Peter stretched out his hand and said, "Can you explain what's going on? Who is he you are talking about? What did he do?"
"And you're his mother." Peter looked at Moira calmly, obviously thinking that they were not very similar.
"I'm not his real mother," Moira said patiently. "I'm his imaginary mother."
Most of the people present would understand what I said, after all, most of the people present were Batman.
"What exactly did David do?" Batman asked.
"The dividing point was the terrorist attack." Moira sighed softly and said, "Before that, David only gave part of his power to his imaginary friends, who were his only good friends in the spiritual world and had accompanied him throughout his growth."
"Together they shaped his spiritual world, constructing the prairie and the castle, which were things David had always wanted to see, and life in Paris was a mixture of bittersweet memories that he had to face."
"So he didn't lose control at that time."
"Yes, there would be no extra personalities at that time." Moira nodded, sat down cross-legged on the ground, and said as if reminiscing: "David has always been happy with their company. Even though there are many things that go wrong in reality, the spiritual space is his paradise. He can escape all troubles here."
"And when the terrorist attacks happened, he hated himself for not doing anything, and hated himself for doing too much, so he chose to go to destruction, but in the end, he couldn't bear to let his friends perish with him."
"In order to prevent his imaginary friends from dying with him, he chose to disintegrate himself, giving his spiritual energy to all his good memories, or just memories."
Peter gasped. David actually decomposed himself. No wonder he could have so many personalities alive and well in his spiritual space.
"And what about the personalities that are still emerging?" Charles asked.
"Some are memory fragments that are still gaining energy, and I don't know about some of them." Moira shook her head and said, "Quite a few astral wanderers sensed that there was a delicious buffet here, so they came here and shared the energy, but we have trapped them all now."
"So what are you going to do now?" Peter asked.
"I will release all these personalities." David said, "With more and more split personalities, this space has become extremely unstable. The home that David and his imaginary friends created here was also destroyed by the war. I can't tolerate this."
"And that's what David wants, too. He wants his friends to live and be free, which they deserve."
"No, David, you can't do this." Moira retorted: "This will cause chaos in the real world. The universe there is not as strong as you think, and you don't have the ability to send them all to reality."
"The personalities that left have gained freedom, but what about those that stayed? Will they also want freedom and therefore begin to attack the spiritual world more violently? You must take this into consideration..."
Peter did not question David angrily. He just looked at Moira and said, "What about you, ma'am? How are you going to solve it?"
"I made a machine." Moira lowered her head and said, "It can restore the energy in all personalities and use them to fill the cracks in the current spiritual world, returning them to their original appearance."
"You're killing them."
"I just want the best for everyone."
"Stop arguing." Peter immediately stopped them and said, "May I ask, can we still seek the advice of the real David now?"
Moira shook her head and said, "I haven't seen him since then. I think his consciousness has dissipated."
"Maybe not." David raised his voice, "He may be hiding somewhere watching us, and you will make him more sad and disappointed."
"Wait a minute," Helen said aloud. "You're going to let all these personalities out? How are you going to let them out?"
"I can manifest the bodies of some of them in reality..."
"Isn't that all?"
"Many of their personalities do not have complete thinking abilities. They cannot control their bodies, so it is meaningless even if they manifest themselves."
"What I mean is, if personalities are constantly being created, and your power is limited, then won't it be filled up sooner or later?"
"He probably doesn't have much power left." David said, but he could hear his own tone was full of guilt. In fact, he didn't know why he had more and more personalities, otherwise he wouldn't have to go to Schiller.
Peter stroked his chin and said, "I don't think the real David has disappeared. Even if his consciousness dissipated at that time, there must be some traces left in the power he left behind."
"Since he was the cause of this incident, he must take responsibility and make the decision. No one can replace him. So instead of thinking about how to deal with these personalities, you should think about how to bring the real David back."
"But even if David's consciousness still remains in the energy that has been divided among the various personalities, how can we extract the consciousness and combine it into one without harming these personalities?"
The question raised by David made everyone look at each other in bewilderment. It was a question that touched upon their blind spots in knowledge. The main reason was that this situation was too rare. With so many Batmen put together, no one had ever experienced this.
"Wait, it seems that not everyone has not seen it." Batman of the main universe thought for a moment, looked at Peter, and asked, "Is Dr. Schiller free?"
(End of this chapter)