amaotonovel Chapter 2472: Battle for the Cloak (28)
Chapter 2472: Battle for the Cloak (28)
Chapter 2472: Battle for the Cloak (Twenty-Eight)
Bruce used his tentacles to lift King Robin's body onto the table nearby. He turned to Schiller and asked, "What do you want to do? Open his skull? Maybe we can try to start from the eye sockets..."
Schiller understood. He was politely asking whether or not to perform a frontal lobotomy on Robin King. But he knew that this approach was useless. The editor who created Robin King had already said that this guy was just a teenage version of the Laughing Maniac. His strength did not come from his physical condition but from the high-level settings. Therefore, even if his brain was touched, it would be difficult to turn him into an idiot.
"Take the box off his belt first." Schiller said, looking at the box on the front of King Robin's belt, "There seem to be a lot of props in it. See if there are any you can use. The rest can be given to the other Robins."
Little Bruce was not polite either. He had been staring at King Robin for a long time and naturally knew how powerful his ability was to take out suitable props from his belt at any time. He wanted to see what this belt was.
After unbuckling his belt and taking the box out, little Bruce looked a little disappointed because he found that he couldn't open the box.
This is not surprising. After all, if there were some extremely powerful props inside, King Robin would definitely not fail to take precautions. Little Bruce used his tentacles and Naaia's energy, but they were unable to do anything to the box on his belt.
Schiller was more concerned about King Robin's body. He took a quick look and found that King Robin's skin was corroded, most likely because he was thrown into the pool used to transform Robin by Laughing Maniac.
This means that King Robin's current physical condition is more complicated than Schiller imagined, because there is a possibility that King Robin's brain does have congenital lesions, but after he was thrown into the pool, he was further influenced by madness. Schiller needs to carefully distinguish which are congenital lesions and which are acquired modifications. This is a rather troublesome task.
"We need to find a quieter place." Schiller said, "His spirit body won't be back in a short time. We can study where his madness comes from."
Little Bruce is actually more interested in the box on the belt, but since he can't open it now, he might as well do research with Schiller. Maybe he can open it after cracking King Robin's secret.
After a little thought, the two came to the laboratory underground in Wayne Tower. After the Batman of the Arkham Universe became president, most of the experiments conducted here were related to energy innovation. Little Bruce could see that in addition to trying to make up for the loopholes in the entire American system, the president also planned to build a new engine for the country.
Just as Schiller was doing a basic checkup on King Robin, little Bruce discovered more traces left by President Wayne here. It seemed that the Batman of this universe would collect certain reports about new policies and write some comments, and now all this information is stored here.
Little Bruce could understand why he didn't go back to the study in Wayne Manor to do these things. When he stayed in Wayne Manor in the main universe, there was not a single quiet day. The Robins were really too noisy.
Young Bruce took a look and found that President Wayne's reputation was quite high. He had only been in power for a year, but there were signs of unification in various parts of the federation.
As we all know, the United States is more of a union of powerful small countries than a unified big country. The power of each state is unimaginable. Rather than issuing orders, the president is more like waving flags and shouting slogans. He shouts, but whether the people below listen to him or not is another matter.
But Wayne did not become president through elections. He came directly to the gates of the city and put on the yellow robe. For Batman at the time, the situation had become so serious that he had no choice but to take action.
It is also well known that kings who find it difficult to convince the people during their coming to power will always use some small tricks after taking office, and the era that follows will be one of peace and prosperity in the world.
After all, there is nothing you can do about it. You got to the top by means that were not in line with the previous rules, so there must be a bunch of troublemakers below you. If you don't suppress them, you won't be able to keep your position stable.
At that time, Bruce Wayne had to become president even if he didn't want to. His and Robin's true identities had been exposed. If he didn't take economic and political measures, not only would he fail to become Batman, but his children would also die socially.
In this situation, now that he is in power, there is no way he would give the people below him any chance to shake his position.
So the first thing Bruce Wayne did after taking office was to build a strong government, and the most important step in building a strong government is to reduce the power of the feudal lords.
Many people would think about this question: what would happen if Batman, arguably the most powerful character in comic book history, became the emperor?
The answer is that no matter how loudly those state governments and capital groups clamor, they can't do anything to him.
On the one hand, they could not fight against him militarily. Wayne directly brought Zentraedi technology. Who could beat this living father? On the other hand, their political acumen and economic means were far inferior to the super genius Batman. They were divided and divided by him in a very short time. When it comes to manipulating power, Batman is no less capable.
In this way, the vast majority of local powers in the entire United States federation were taken back in less than a year, solving the problem of separatist regimes and basically solving most of the problems in the United States.
The United States has too much capital. If it had not suffered the disasters in the early days of its founding, which prevented it from becoming a complete nation, it would not have declined at such a fast rate. If this problem is solved, it will have no problem sitting on the mountain of gold and living off its capital for another 50 years.
At this stage, the Batman President of the Arkham Universe faces the same problem faced by Bruce of Schiller's universe - the fundamental problem of the capitalist system.
There is no perfect system in this world, but the capitalist system is obviously too imperfect. Although it is full of contradictions in theory, the description on paper has even been beautified a lot, and there are more problems in actual operation.
The world's most powerful country has operated this system for so many years, and countless stubborn problems have accumulated. The most worrying issue for the rulers is that the bomb will explode sooner or later, but you don't know where it will explode or how big it will be.
The bomb of Bruce's universe has obviously exploded, and it exploded in a very bizarre way. Who would have thought that the music festival was being held happily one second, and the next second almost the entire country's economy exploded into fireworks.
Bruce had indeed anticipated this. Now that the Cold War had come to this point, it all depended on which of the two could hold on and not collapse. If one of them remained stable, the other would surely collapse.
It’s like there are two starving ghosts but there is only one steamed bun. Whoever has the last bit of strength left to chew and swallow the bun will definitely starve to death.
The United States in Schiller's universe not only failed to eat the giant bear's carcass, but also because the Soviet Union's lingering survival forced Europe to unite, the United States' plan to destroy its father was no longer hopeful, and it was completely starved to death.
The day after the economic crisis broke out, the government completely shut down and state governments declared bankruptcy one after another. Capitalists and politicians refused to let go when they had meat to eat, but ran away quickly when they found that there was no food to eat. In less than a day, they withdrew completely and the entire country became a state of anarchy in the physical sense.
Almost at the same time, after dealing with the political problems, President Batman of the Arkham Universe discovered that this was not the end, but the beginning of the beginning. The mess left to him were all the kind of dead ends that could be cured in the early stages of treatment, but had long since become unsolvable.
They had communicated a few words in the fighting world system.
Young Bruce discovered this in the letters they exchanged later. It is very likely that one of them sent a group message - Young Bruce guessed it was the younger Batman - and then it was received by the other party, and both parties found that they were facing the same problem.
So the two of them began to communicate, and their main research direction was how to resolve the fundamental contradictions of this system.
Then these two super geniuses came to the same conclusion, that there is no solution in the world at all.
But this does not discourage Batman. He understands that if a problem has no solution, it proves that it is not wise to stick to the problem. It is better to study another problem.
Since the conflict cannot be resolved, is there a way to delay it indefinitely so that it will never break out?
After the two of them studied it, they found that this method really existed, which was the so-called making the people suffer more.
With Batman's military means, it won't be a problem to suppress the rebellion for a few hundred more years. If he starts plundering the whole world, suppressing the rebellion while sucking its blood, he can indeed bring about a prosperous era.
But is Batman trying to leave a name in history? Of course not, so this approach is completely putting the cart before the horse.
In the end, they both came to the same conclusion - there was no solution on Earth, so they had to go outside the Earth.
The exchange of letters came to an abrupt end here. Since there was really no confidential information, the letters were not encrypted. After reading them, little Bruce couldn't figure out what the two of them were trying to do, and I'm afraid the same was true for other people who read the letters.
But young Bruce is different from ordinary people. After all, he is Bruce Wayne and can think from other people's perspectives. Since the final conclusion is that a solution must be sought outside the earth, from the perspective of human history, this so-called solution can be summed up in two words - war.
Whether it is being invaded by aliens or actively launching a war abroad, it can effectively divert the internal conflicts of the earth and thus divert the internal conflicts of the United States.
As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. If the earth were to face a crisis of destruction, the first thing other countries would do would certainly be to unite to save the United States first. They can't just cut off one of their own arms when facing a powerful enemy, right?
They don't even need to take advantage of the situation. They just need to consider the fact that the enemy is at hand and not add insult to injury. Bruce Wayne can use his extraordinary means to give the country a sigh of relief.
But the question is, where does this foreign enemy come from?
Little Bruce thought about it and felt that the plan of randomly sending signals to attract aliens was definitely unreliable, because the attracted people were uncontrollable. What if the other party really destroyed the earth with one shot?
In Batman's view, alien invasions and the start of interstellar wars used to create pressure must be controllable. Even if he cannot control his opponents, he must at least understand them.
When talking about the desire to invade the earth, Batman also knew something about it, so little Bruce had to think of one person - Darkseid, the emperor of Apokolips.
(End of this chapter)