mtl008 Chapter 2399: Bats Fight (9)
Chapter 2399: Bats Fight (9)
Chapter 2399: Battle of Bats (Part )
"Gabrielle is an introverted but strong girl." Professor X lowered his eyes, picked up the wine glass on the coffee table, and recalled: "Although she is not old, out of respect for her, people respectfully call her Ms. Haller."
"I was attracted to her, but not because of what she showed, but because of what was hidden deep inside her, what made her feel pain and torment."
Strange and Stark on the opposite side were listening quietly. Although Professor X was a very kind old man, he seldom analyzed himself and almost never talked about the past. If it weren't for the problem with the large group this time, this past would have been forever buried in history.
"Gabrielle witnessed her father's death in a massacre." Professor X sighed and said, "As recorded in history, the NAZI army drove them to a certain place and killed them, and young Gabrielle could only watch but could do nothing."
"When she grew up, she left Germany and lived like a normal person. She never told anyone how traumatized she was by that experience in her childhood. She endured it until she went completely crazy."
"I saw her pain and treated her, and I have to say that was the biggest mistake I made when I was young, bar none."
"Well, because doctors and patients shouldn't..." Stark said tentatively.
"That's not it. We didn't have a formal doctor-patient relationship. The mistake I was referring to wasn't that I fell in love with her and had a child with her, but that I treated her too roughly."
"You didn't just delete her memory, did you?" Strange asked.
"It was even worse than that. I deleted that memory and built a new one for her, changing her life story to say that her father died of illness and her mother brought her to Israel."
"But the biggest problem was that her mother had actually left her long before her father died. At the time, I had an inappropriate compassion. I thought she should feel the love of her parents like ordinary people, so I projected the image of my mother into her mind, thinking that this would make her feel better."
"After we broke up, I still believed that, until one day I made the same mistake again, and then I realized that it didn't solve anything at all."
"Human thinking is full of loopholes, often illogical and too abstract, but human thinking is sometimes incredibly rigorous, and every detail remembered can corroborate each other."
"This means that if you want to make up a lie, you have to use a hundred to cover it up. You need to create enough details and make them match each other. If one of them doesn't match, people will fall into endless suspicion, which is even more terrible than psychological trauma."
Because no matter how severe the psychological trauma is, people will realize that it happened in the past, but if they fall into doubt, they will not be able to distinguish between the past, present and future, and they will not know where they are or what is real, which will make them almost unable to take care of themselves. "
"After witnessing the tragedy that followed my mistake, I wanted to find Harel, but I was not on Earth at the time, and Lilandra... well, I didn't dare to face her."
"After I realized David's existence and saw his condition, I knew that his mother might have had a very bad influence on him. I don't think Gabrielle did it on purpose, which means she might have lost control."
"As David grew up, his mother began to lose control." The Time Manipulator sighed; "She began to doubt everything around her, especially whether certain things really existed."
"She began to ask them how they came to Israel, what they encountered on the road, who they met and what they saw, and whether they really arrived in Israel or were they in hell now."
"When people around her couldn't give her an answer, she started asking David." The time manipulator lowered his head, pursed his lips and said, "David said he didn't know, he said he had never experienced it, he said the war was over a long time ago, but his mother didn't believe it."
Miles and Gwen Spider-Man looked at each other, and Gwen Spider-Man said, "These are very typical symptoms of schizophrenia. Why is this happening?"
"David wants to know, too." The Time Manipulator said, "But the war had already ended when he was born. He knew he couldn't find the answers to these questions, but he had to find a way in his mind to free his mother from pain."
"But after searching for a long time, the only answer he could find was to give his mother an answer, so I was born. In David's fantasy, he is a person with superpowers who can travel through time at will. He went back to the past and saw with his own eyes how his mother came to Israel from Germany, how she met his biological father, and how she came to Paris and gave birth to him."
"So David's personality is actually his fantasy at a certain moment?" Gwen stepped forward and asked.
"Not entirely." The time manipulator shook his head and walked to the window. The Spider-Men followed him. Through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, they could see that Max, who had the ability of plasma flame, was still wandering in the square downstairs.
"It could also be someone he met at some point who left a deep impression on him, a patron saint he imagined to protect himself during an accident, an association he had with an object, or even the only character he could remember in a vague dream."
The Time Manipulator's eyes fell on Max and he said, "This old man named Max is actually a victim that David saw in a fire in Paris."
"The house was completely on fire at the time, and the old man seemed reluctant to leave his property. He came out last after most people ran out, but unfortunately, the flames had already engulfed the front hall, and he had turned into a burning man when he ran out."
"David had never seen a human in this form, and he didn't quite understand why the other person became like this, so he just interpreted it as a superpower with fire power, and Max was born."
"But in fact, this name is not the old man's real name, but the name of a newsstand owner David knew before. He thought the two of them had some similarities, so this name became Max's name."
"It's amazing." Miles exclaimed, "I also have some imaginary friends, but they only exist in the spiritual world of my childhood. Why can his imaginary friends have super powers?"
"This is David's mutant power. I'm talking about the real David."
Spider-Man Gwen immediately understood the implication and said, "The real David, you mean there is a fake David?"
"The man who now calls himself David is not David at all." The time manipulator revealed a shocking secret, "The real David would never want all personalities to disappear like he does. We have never been a burden to him."
The Spider-Men felt that they were getting closer to the truth, and they began to ask questions, but the time manipulator did not answer.
“If you want to know more, go to the Prophet. He has answers to all questions and knows everything.”
After saying this, the Time Manipulator disappeared, just like the way he disappeared before.
The leading Shadow Spider-Man sighed and said, "It seems we can't get anything from him..."
Suddenly, with a whoosh, the Time Manipulator appeared again, with the largest expression ever shown on his face, one of disbelief and shock.
"What is that???!"
Then he disappeared again, this time for a little longer, but reappeared soon after, looking completely stunned.
"What's wrong with you?" Gwen asked with some concern. She was indeed worried that something might happen to the time manipulator. After all, the other party had just provided useful clues, and they might need his help later.
"There is a... strange thing in the time stream." The time manipulator looked at a loss. He said, "It looks like the black version of myself, but how is this possible? The time stream is not in the universe. There can't be any creatures living here."
"Is he... dangerous?" Shadow Spider-Man asked tentatively.
"I'm not sure." The time manipulator's eyes became serious. He said, "The other party looks very aggressive, but I dare not let him touch me. The time stream is full of dangers. If something goes wrong during the time travel, I don't know where I will be thrown to."
"So you don't have complete control over time?"
"No one can completely control time." The time manipulator said, "It's just that some people have mastered the method of adjusting the flow of time and have the ability to use this method to change the speed of time flow."
"All the time ability users you have seen control the same time stream. Therefore, when their abilities act on you at the same time, only the instructions of the one with stronger control over the time stream will take effect."
"Priority principle?"
"That's right." The time manipulator was still a little confused and said, "But the time stream is not a space, but an extremely abstract thing. Although we can travel through it, we cannot stay in it. Two time ability users will not meet in it even if they use their time ability at the same time."
"So what now?" Spider-Man asked. "Sounds like a big problem."
"It will be a big problem, because the time flow in David's spiritual world and the real world outside is the same."
"Does that mean he could have gotten outside?"
"He may have run outside."
The time manipulator paused for a moment and said, "You have to do me a favor. I can't enter the time stream now. You need to take me to another personality that manipulates time. In exchange, I can find a way to send you to the prophet, so that you don't have to defeat other personalities along the way."
The Spider-Men discussed it and felt that even if the other party did not offer any exchange conditions, they had to find a way to help. After all, this sounded like a big problem and Nick was still working in the Time Management Bureau.
They set off quickly, and on the way, Miles asked curiously, "Which personality are you going to meet?"
"Cole Norton," the time manipulator answered as he walked quickly. "His appearance may be a little surprising, but don't be too surprised when you see him."
Miles sneered and said, "We are not children, so we won't make a fuss."
20 minutes later, all the Spider-Men stared at the huge figure rushing out of the yard in amazement. They said it was a completely wrong character, this guy was actually a giant dinosaur.
But what's even more outrageous is that there is a dinosaur chasing him. It is bigger than him, with a black head and upper body, and gray lower body. The color combination reminds the Spider-Men of an old friend.
(End of this chapter)