Chapter 305 Bat Maze (10)
At first glance, Zu Bat thought he saw another Batman.
But after careful observation, he realized that it was not the real thing. What sat on the throne was just a skeleton.
The skeleton exuded an ancient and mysterious aura, as if it had existed for endless years.
Zu Bat slowly walked towards the throne and observed the skeleton from a more detailed angle.
The shape of the skeleton suit does look like Batman's suit.
But the materials used to make the battle suit are extremely primitive.
The mask of the battle suit is made of tough animal hide, which has been specially treated to retain the edges of the hair.
The suit's cape is woven from the feathers of giant birds, while the armor is layers of leather held together by tough vines.
The shoulders and chest of the armor are inlaid with some smoothly polished shells.
And on the belt of the battle suit, there are some darts made of polished stones.
How to describe this suit?
Zu Bat thought that if there was Batman in ancient times, his battle suit would probably look like this.
At this moment, on the skeleton's finger, a lamp ring emitting pure white light was quietly worn.
The light seemed to have endless magic, making it impossible for people to take their eyes off it.
This is the real white lantern ring.
"Put it on...it will give you endless power..."
Someone whispered in Zu Bat's ear.
Zu Bat suddenly turned his head and found that Bruce had appeared beside him at some point. The mysterious whisper just now was made by Bruce.
"No, you must be sick!"
Zu Bat almost lost control of his emotions and luckily he didn't punch him.
"Sorry, it was just a joke."
Bruce waved his hands, "Don't be angry, don't be angry. I just felt that the atmosphere was right. There should be a devilish whisper."
After saying that, he turned and looked at the skeleton.
An existence like the ancient Batman makes it hard for Bruce not to be interested.
Zu Bat rubbed his ears. Bruce's breathing when he spoke in his ears just now made his ears a little itchy.
Of course, it could just be psychological.
"How did you get here?" Zu Bat asked in confusion, "Shouldn't I be the only one who came into this White Lantern Ring's consciousness field?"
"I didn't come in."
Bruce stopped examining the skeleton, straightened up, and poked his body.
His fingers penetrated directly into the chest without any hindrance.
"What you see now is just an illusion. I am still outside."
Bruce said, "Batman, since you are my alter ego, how can you ask such a question? It makes us seem so distant. Of course, I have already tampered with your personality, but you just haven't noticed it yet."
Did something to him?
The Batman smiled on the surface, but cursed Bruce countless times in his heart.
Damn Bruce, you are really worthy of it!
He thought quickly in his mind, when exactly did Bruce do this, but no matter how hard he tried to recall, he could not find any clues.
"Don't think about it. This is not something we should worry about right now."
Bruce downplayed it, as if he was just talking about a very ordinary little thing.
He indeed thought it was a trivial matter.
Just monitor the second personality. I believe everyone will do this.
"How long have you been spying on me?" The Batman was still a little worried. Could it be that Bruce could have heard everything he said before?
"It took quite a while," Bruce said.
"So you've been eavesdropping on me?" asked Zu Bat.
"Don't be so nervous, Zuba. I don't have any bad thoughts about you. Even if you said you wanted me to be your second personality after you gained the power, I didn't get angry when I heard it, right?"
Bruce smiled and shook his head, feeling that his second personality was really overreacting.
He stretched out his hand and patted Zu Bat's shoulder symbolically, telling him to rest assured.
But since this body is an illusion, Bruce's hand cannot actually touch the Batman's shoulder.
Just a token of my appreciation.
He turned his attention back to the skeleton.
“It does look like…”
Bruce stroked his chin and analyzed, no matter from which angle you look at it, the design of this suit looks very much like Batman.
He couldn't help but think of one thing.
"Katum!"
Bruce called the owl's name, and Katoom appeared beside him with a bang.
Zu Bat’s eyes suddenly widened.
Wait, how did this dead owl even appear in his mind?
Could it be that Bruce is not the only one monitoring him?
Bruce ignored the Batman's wild thoughts and confirmed with Katum.
"I remember you said that there is a timeline where Batman was transported to an ancient time hundreds of thousands of years ago."
Bruce pointed at the skeleton, "Is this Batman?"
"No."
Katum shook his head decisively, "I can recognize that guy even if he was burned to ashes. I can be 100% sure that these are not his bones."
Bruce nodded and didn't ask why, choosing to trust the owl's judgment.
"That's weird."
Bruce asked doubtfully, "Who could this ancient Batman be?"
Zu Bat had been listening in, and finally couldn't stand it anymore.
"Stop it right there!"
He loudly interrupted the conversation between Bruce and Katum, and said gloomily, "Isn't the most important thing now for me to get the White Lantern Ring?"
The ring was still glowing on the skeleton's finger.
“No one is stopping you from taking it.”
Bruce asked with a strange look on his face, "We are just illusions and can't stop any of your actions. Just do what you have to do. Why do you care about us?
"Are you still thinking that when you take off the lantern ring, we will applaud you from behind?"
The expression on Zu Bat's face instantly became as uncomfortable as if he was constipated.
He was reflecting on himself, wondering why he had this strange mentality, as if he would not dare to act on his own without Bruce's nod.
Has he been tamed by Bruce?
Of course, Zu Bat was reflecting in his heart, but he couldn't show it on his face. He said coldly with a straight face: "I'm just used to respecting others."
After that, he walked forward, stretched out his hand, and prepared to take off the lantern ring.
Just as his fingers were about to touch the light ring, a low buzzing sound rang out in the space, as if it was a warning.
Zu Bat's hand suddenly stopped. He looked around but couldn't see anything unusual.
However, the buzzing sound became more and more intense, and Zu Bat felt that his head was as painful as if it was hit by a sledgehammer.
"What's wrong?" Bruce asked, pretending to be concerned.
“There is… a sound…”
Zu Bat gritted his teeth, the pain in his head was getting stronger and stronger, so strong that his consciousness could no longer resist it. Bruce also put away his cynical attitude, Zu Bat's painful appearance did not seem fake.
"What did you hear?" Bruce asked seriously.
"I heard……"
Just as Zu Bat was about to explain further, the pain suddenly intensified several levels. Zu Bat felt as if his entire head was torn in half, and some strange knowledge he had never experienced before was poured into his brain.
Several images flashed before his eyes.
In the first picture, the whole world seemed to be invaded by some kind of white bone-spurred creature.
They quickly emerged from underground all over the world and spread to all places of human activity in the blink of an eye.
The bone spurs emit a foul odor and entangle buildings. The human body is also parasitized, with bone spurs constantly protruding from under the skin. People struggle in pain and cry out in despair, and the world falls into panic and chaos.
Then the picture changed, and Zu Bat saw the second picture.
In this scene, people stand on the street with dull eyes, like puppets controlled by computers.
Their bodies are connected to various wires, and they are controlled by an invisible force like puppets.
The huge electronic screen in the sky flashed complex programs, and a huge eye was monitoring everything.
Then, the scene changed again, to the third picture.
The whole world was submerged by the raging flood and turned into a water world.
The flood hit everything wantonly, completely erasing all traces of human existence.
Zu Bat felt extremely suffocated just by looking at these scenes.
Is this an illusion, or a possible future?
he does not know.
Finally, the fourth picture appeared. This time, the scene was no longer as desperate as the previous one, but it was full of absurdity and bizarreness.
In the city scene in front of us, all kinds of strange objects fell from the sky. Huge playing cards were like giant darts, falling one by one; broken toy idols were the remains of idols falling from the sky, carrying a strange breath; a toy train emitting black smoke made a strange "woohoo" sound and fell headfirst.
It's as if the world has turned into a giant horror playground.
Zu Bat couldn't figure out what these things he saw meant.
He just knew that if he allowed the scene to continue playing out, his head would literally explode.
"Bruce!"
He suddenly roared and punched himself on the head, which made Bruce next to him a little dazed.
Has Zu Bat become ill to this extent?
"wait--"
He wanted Zu Bat to stop and stop hurting him, but Zu Bat's movements became faster and faster, and he kept hitting him more and more fiercely.
Bruce understood a little.
"Do you want to knock yourself out and let me, the main personality, take over?"
This was the first time Bruce saw Batman lose his composure like this. This was not his style, and there must be a deeper meaning behind it.
He said helplessly: "You don't have to be so extreme, I just share the same thoughts with you."
The manipulations Bruce had previously done to the original Batman personality allowed him to share the original Batman's memories and share the pressure of thinking.
This is the last resort, and Bruce doesn't want to use it unless it's absolutely necessary.
But now we have to use it even if we don’t need it.
Bruce established a connection with the Batman Vs. Batman, and in an instant, he experienced the same scenes that the other party saw.
At the same time, the huge pain was also transmitted to Bruce's brain.
"Something's wrong!"
Bruce immediately noticed something unusual, and thought that the pain of thinking like this should not be borne by only himself and the Batman, so he made a prompt decision and connected with Katum through telepathy.
"Fuck!"
Katum jumped three feet high in an instant, covering his head and screaming.
He was not mentally prepared at all. Bruce's move was equivalent to a direct killing of Katum.
"Bruce, can't you just be a human being..."
Katum gritted his teeth, his whole body shaking, he jumped around in the space to relieve the pain in his brain, looking a bit like a ball.
Bruce's body was shaking as well.
"We share the difficulties..." He said with a forced smile.
Now, the pain of Zu Bat was distributed to two people and one bird.
Moreover, Katum's brain was unusual. While enduring most of the pain, he was still able to stay awake and curse in an orderly manner.
In the severe pain, they didn't know how much time had passed, maybe less than a minute, or maybe more than a century.
Finally, the pain receded like the tide, and the two men and the bird collapsed to the ground.
They gasped and it took them a long time to come back to their senses.
"What was that just now..." The pain finally subsided and Zuba regained the ability to speak.
"I don't know..." Bruce's head was still buzzing, and he couldn't think deeply for a moment.
Only Katum recovered the fastest. He thought about what he had just seen and associated it with something.
“It could be a vision of the future.”
Katoum whispered, “Those scenes just now seemed to correspond to the abilities of a certain dark Batman.”
In the first scene, there is a creature with bone spurs all over its body, which looks like it is infected with the spores of Doomsday. This is a small skill of the Ravager that is not worth mentioning.
In the second scenario, humans are controlled by computers, which is something a killing machine can do.
The third scene, the water world, needless to say, is naturally about drowned souls.
As for the final fourth scene...
The world has become a horror playground, and the only thing that comes to mind immediately is clowns.
In other words, the combination of the Joker and Batman - The Bat Who Laughs.
"Dark Batman's abilities?"
Bruce muttered, "They keep destroying the world?"
Batboy's gaze shifted back to the skeleton of the ancient Batman, the white lantern ring glowing on the skeleton's finger.
If what they had just seen was indeed the future, it could only be what the White Lantern Ring allowed them to see.
"I don't think so."
Zu Bat shook his head and said, “Don’t forget, this White Lantern Ring only exists in Supergirl’s world. Even if it allows us to see the future, we can only see the future of this world.
"Could a world be destroyed four times?"
Bruce admitted that there was some truth to this.
A man cannot be killed twice, and the world cannot be destroyed four times simultaneously.
Without saying too much, just compare the first two scenes. If all humans were infected by Doomsday spores, then the scenes of computers controlling humans would not be possible.
but--
"What if the White Lantern Ring's prophecy is not for this world, but a prediction from our perspective?"
Bruce thought of something.
Previously, when Batwoman was studying the remains of Martians, she found traces of genetic modification in them.
The artificial Martian creatures contain the genes of Dark Batman.
So, there is already a dark Batman sneaking into this world...
The scene in the scene is not impossible to appear!
(End of this chapter)
