civilwarnovels Chapter 2404: Bats Fight (4)
Chapter 2404: Bats Fight (4)
Chapter 2404: Battle between Bats (XIV)
"I am back!"
Bruce shouted as he stepped into the gate of Wayne Manor, but did not hear Martha's response, so he walked quickly through the hall in front and did not see the two people in the dining room and kitchen.
So he walked all the way back to the back garden and saw another Bruce watering the land with a water pipe, with a wound on the back of his hand caused by a spider bite.
"Where are Thomas and Martha?" Bruce asked.
"I went to a parent-teacher conference for Dick," the other Bruce replied. He put away the hose in his hand, turned to look at Bruce and said, "What's wrong? What do you want from them?"
Bruce had already walked forward and said, "It's nothing, actually. I came here mainly to see you. How is your injury?"
"It's actually been healed for a long time, but Thomas and Martha are worried. I can't leave until the family doctor comes for the next comprehensive checkup." The other Bruce sighed and said, "I don't know what's happening to my universe."
"Didn't I tell you that Spider-Man is not dead? Did he come to see you?"
"No, but he left me a note telling me that he has found a new job and won't be back for a while, but it's good that he's still alive."
"So have you ever thought about getting a new job?"
The other Bruce raised an eyebrow, and Bruce walked up to him, put his arm around his shoulders and said, "I'm sure the results of your next checkup with your family doctor will show that you're actually completely fine."
"Then according to common sense, you should return to your universe, but I believe you don't want to go back now. You want to stay with Thomas and Martha, at least for a while."
The other Bruce showed an embarrassed expression, as if his true feelings were exposed, and said: "I do want to stay with them for a while, but if you..."
"I don't mind at all, actually." Bruce shrugged and said, "I've been very busy lately, so it's nice to have you accompany them instead of me."
"But you know, Thomas hates anyone who's busy. If you recover and stay at home all day..." Bruce dragged out the words, and the other Bruce shuddered.
"Well, it looks like you have a job for me." The other Bruce said, "But I must remind you that even with Spider-Man's abilities, I'm still an ordinary person, far worse than those so-called normal Batmans. I'm afraid it would be difficult for me to do your jobs."
"It's okay. It's not that difficult." The two of them turned a corner and walked into the lobby. Bruce looked at his other self and said, "By the way, do you have a uniform?"
The other Bruce shook his head and said, "My previous uniform was broken, and it seems that Thomas doesn't like me tinkering with these things."
"That's true, but I think since you've become Spider-Man, you can also ask other Spider-Mans how their uniforms are made. First, make yourself a handsome uniform, and then we can talk about the entry assessment."
"There is also an entry examination?"
"Of course, but don't worry too much, it's just a very simple quiz. You can pass it easily."
In David's spiritual world, the battle between the two dinosaurs was nearing its end. To be precise, after the first few confrontations, they did not fight.
It was a female dinosaur named Cole Norton who froze Batman Rex, then went up to it and sniffed it left and right, so that after time resumed flowing, Batman Rex had to keep his distance from it because he had no idea how to deal with the courtship behavior of a real dinosaur.
Batman raised a short hand and said, "First of all, I am not a dinosaur. I am Batman. Secondly, this body is not a real dinosaur. It is a mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Cole Norton let out a howl, but Batman Rex didn't understand anything at all because he was not actually a dinosaur at all. He had never seen any other dinosaurs before meeting Cole Norton, so he didn't understand dinosaur language.
Although it is a shocking fact that there are languages in this world that Batman does not understand, at least the Batman who entered the body of the Tyrannosaurus Rex does not have such relevant knowledge.
So he could only respond with a shout based on his feeling to make sure that this strange female dinosaur would not fix him again, but using a language rashly without a deep understanding of it would obviously not produce any good results.
Cole Norton immediately became excited and hit the Batman Rex with his head. The Batman Rex tried to dodge, but the other party immediately came up again.
"Uh, what are they doing?" Miles said a little confused.
"It looks like they're courting each other." Gwen Spider-Man shrugged, and after a sigh of relief, he said, "The good news is that they probably won't be able to fight each other anymore. The bad news is that you probably won't be able to find Cole Norton to discuss anything for a while."
The Time Manipulator also sighed.
At this moment, the communicator on Shadow Spider-Man rang. He picked it up and responded a few times, then turned back to the Spider-Team and said, "Bad news, there is not enough bandwidth, we have to evacuate first."
"Why is it not enough? Didn't we test it before? The bandwidth can barely accommodate a few of us. Is there something unexpected in the real world?"
"That's not the case. It's just that some new people are coming in." Shadow Spider-Man replied, "Nick said that the current upload and download speeds are already dangerous. If a group of people are not withdrawn, it will start to lag next."
"But we still have to help the Time Manipulator..."
"You're going to the real world?" The Time Manipulator suddenly asked. The Spider-Men nodded, and then he said, "Then help me check the information. What exactly is this monster that appeared in the depths of time?"
"Perhaps the Time Administration will have records." Gwen Spider-Man said, "Once we find the answer, we will send someone to find you, but in exchange, you have to tell us about the machine that the X Alliance is building."
"I can tell you part of it right now as a deposit." The time manipulator said, "It is to end the war once and for all. We have been preparing for this."
After Spider-Man left, the battle between the Batmobile and Knight Armor was nearing its end. With the cooperation of Barry and the Batmobile, Knight Armor's limbs were beaten to pieces.
Finally, the Batmobile jumped off Barry's body and slammed into the chest plate of the Knight's armor, knocking it into the opposite wall with a bang. The floating helmet spun and fell to the ground with a clang.
Flash Batman walked over and picked up the helmet, then he found out that the helmet was not made of steel at all, but plastic, just imitating the material and pattern of metal.
Turning the helmet back, he saw a price tag on the back. Flash Batman took a closer look and found that this should be a plastic toy helmet sold in a cheap supermarket in France.
The Batmobile, Flash Batman and Barry got together, and they soon came to the same conclusion as the other Batmen, that is, this group of seemingly chaotic personalities actually have an internal logic, and they may be the fantasy products evolved from David's thoughts at a certain moment.
However, there was still no idea on how to eliminate these personalities. Several people discovered that when these personalities returned to their original forms, these things could not be destroyed.
Flash Batman speculated that this might be because they could not destroy David's memory, and once these personalities presented their original appearance in memory, they could not be killed.
Barry held the helmet and studied it for a long time, and finally found that it was just an ordinary plastic helmet, and it no longer had the magical property of being able to rebound attacks. However, no matter what he did, he could not leave any marks on the helmet.
"We have to go deeper." Flash Batman said, "Find those personalities that can communicate and ask what is going on."
"Come on, then." The Batmobile opened the door and said, "There are no other means of transportation in this city, which means we can drive alone."
While the Batmobile was carrying Flash Batman and Barry towards deeper levels, Batman, Batwoman and Charles and his party were also heading towards the depths of the Spirit School.
They also discovered that the tree representing the fear plant could not be destroyed, and derived the same conclusion from it, but Batman thought more than the others.
Human memory is actually not as strong as we think. Even adults will have fuzzy memories when they recall things that happened long ago. Sometimes they even doubt whether certain memories from too long ago are real or just their own imagination.
David's experience on the big tree must have happened when he was very young, but if the tree was indestructible, does it mean that this memory is very solid in David's heart?
People always have a few things that are so impressive that they will never forget them even after living for most of their lives. Considering how thrilling it was at the time, it is normal that David would remember this incident so clearly.
But if there are so many personalities here, and David remembers all of their origins clearly and they appear indestructible in the spiritual world, that would be incredible.
Batman also speculated that many of the personalities here might just be a quick glimpse while walking on the street, and the things they saw caused associations or they might be some strange characters that appeared in dreams. For normal people, these things would be quickly forgotten, and no one would fully remember what they saw when they walked through a street when they were very young.
"Could this be a symptom of hyperthymesia?" Charles suggested a possibility. "I can't control what memories my brain receives, and I can't forget them, which causes the memories to expand in the brain and form the current situation."
"But if that's the case, then the situation would definitely be much more chaotic than what we see now." Batman said: "Patients with hyperthymesia have no control over where their memories are. This is a mental illness, and the inner world of a mental patient is not so orderly."
Charles also fell silent. He had seen the minds of many mentally ill people. It was indeed a chaotic state, and more of a illogical chaos, as if some things that could never be put together were squeezed into one object, and then kept spinning and floating, blocking all vision.
Although David's spiritual world is chaotic, it is a reasonable chaos with rules and order. This shows that he can control his spiritual world. Although he is crazy, he is not sick.
"This may be related to his current state." Batwoman speculated: "We must find out what is causing him pain, these personalities?"
(End of this chapter)