amaotonovel Chapter 2469: Battle for the Cloak (25)
Chapter 2469: Battle for the Cloak (25)
Chapter 2469: Battle for the Cloak (Twenty-Five)
King Robin had no way to defend himself. It was true that he wanted to invade Batman's spiritual world, but firstly, he didn't want to invade this Batman, and secondly, he didn't even know how he got here.
The young Batman opposite looked him up and down, as if trying to discern something from him, but soon he suddenly realized and said, "Oh, I see, you are here to apply for a job, right? In order to increase your chances of success, you deliberately didn't go through the main entrance and came to give me a surprise? Very good, you succeeded."
"I'm not... applying for a job? Applying for what? Are you the president too?" King Robin looked at Bruce with some confusion.
"Other than this, I can't think of any other reason for you to come to me."
"It's not that I wanted to come to you!"
Bruce bent down and began to rummage through the pile of junk papers, and successfully took out a piece of paper and handed it to King Robin.
King Robin blinked. He took the paper and took a look at it. He found that it was a messy poster with various brightly colored graffiti fonts saying "Multiverse Bat Team Recruitment Plan Open!" and "Join us! Come on an exciting multiverse adventure!".
"Multiverse Bat Team..." Robin King softly read out the name, his eyes rolled slightly, and he immediately changed his attitude and said, "Ah, I am very interested in this plan. Can you tell me in detail?"
"That's exactly what it says." Bruce stepped over the debris on the ground, walked forward, and said, "Now we invite people with lofty ideals to join Barbatos' great dark plan, help the God of Darkness rule the entire multiverse, and join in his dark kingdom."
King Robin wanted to say that this sounded like an old-fashioned and boring plan, but the name Barbatos sounded familiar to him. He had heard the madman with a mouth full of sharp teeth mention it before, but judging from his attitude, Barbatos should have some grudge against him.
King Robin thought this would be a good source of information, but he did not act rashly, because he did not forget that he was actually tricked here, and his body was still there. If his body was destroyed by the mastermind, he would never come to the real world again. He had to find a way to go back first.
"To be honest, I am a little interested." King Robin shook the poster in his hand and said, "But I did get here by mistake, and I'm having some trouble with my body. You have to find a way to send me back, and then I can come to you."
Bruce didn't seem to believe it. He looked at King Robin with a suspicious look, and the expression on his face was exactly saying "Just you?"
At this time, the disadvantages of mental abuse began to show. King Robin's mental body seemed a little weak, and its frequency was chaotic. He found a mirror in the room to look at himself. His image could not be said to be still majestic, but it could be said to be pitiful.
King Robin wanted to roar immediately, but he thought that he was under someone's roof and had to bow his head. Once he exposed his abnormality, there would be no way this weird Batman would send him back.
"As you can see, I'm in some trouble." King Robin immediately changed his strategy. Acting was his forte. After he shot and killed his parents, he pretended to be a poor victim to gain the sympathy of the police. He even inherited the inheritance smoothly without being investigated.
This is an ability that many patients with antisocial personality disorder are born with, and it is also one of the favorable evidences that their personality disorder comes from congenital brain lesions.
Studies have shown that many patients with antisocial personality disorder have the ability to understand and imitate facial expressions and body movements far beyond their age when they are young.
For example, many children, when they are young, can understand what emotions adults' crying and laughing convey. However, if the expressions are more subtle, such as frowning to express embarrassment, or smiling slightly to show pride, children's life experiences are not enough for them to summarize enough experiences to classify these overly subtle expressions, which results in them not being able to read people's expressions.
Of course, there are also some children who are educated too early due to their family situation and social environment. They have to capture and understand more of these expressions, which leads to them accumulating more experience and being better at reading people's faces. This is what many parents often call sensible and precocious.
But people with antisocial personality disorder usually don't need to accumulate experience; they are naturally able to understand these micro-expressions. What's even more extraordinary is that they can perfectly imitate these micro-expressions almost as long as they see them once.
Some children will deliberately imitate adults, such as frowning and sighing, or distorting their expressions to look fierce, but because they have too little experience in this area and their expressions are too exaggerated or unbalanced, adults can easily tell that they are pretending.
But the micro-expressions imitated by children with antisocial personality disorder are almost perfect. Not only ordinary adults, but also many professionals with criminal investigation experience and even those who can use technical means to analyze micro-expressions can be fooled by them.
When criminal investigation was just beginning to develop, people noticed an abnormal phenomenon. In many family tragedies, the only surviving child would easily be imprisoned for other serious crimes after he or she grew up.
At first, people thought that it was the tragedy of their childhood that caused them great psychological trauma, causing them to become patients with antisocial personality disorder, making them unable to control their behavior and thus harming others in adulthood.
But later, with the development of technology and the continuous progress of various disciplines, people discovered that they might have misunderstood the cause and effect. The only surviving child was very likely the murderer of the family massacre. He was born like this, so he would do such cruel things whether he was a child or when he grew up.
Once this result was revealed, it immediately sparked widespread discussion among the public. Many people thought it was impossible. How could a child so young kill his entire family? Even if he had this idea, how did he do it?
But countless bloody facts were laid out before the public, and then people discovered that patients with this type of personality disorder are born with perfect camouflage abilities, and can deceive the entire family by acting. When they act when their family members are off guard, their success rate is much greater than people imagine.
Because the family members, like many ordinary people, think that such a young child can't do anything bad. At most, he would break dishes and toys. But in fact, if it is premeditated and carefully planned, any tool in life that can bring danger by accident can be their perfect crime prop.
Robin King is a patient with this type of personality disorder, so he also has all their talents, and because he is also Bruce Wayne, he has all of Bruce Wayne's genius wisdom, and his ability to disguise is flawless.
Now that he is in this state, he has to give full play to his advantages. After all, Batman is a superhero, and morality requires him to help the weak and fight against the strong. With his childish image and haggard state, how can he not be considered a weak member?
But simply acting pitiful would be too easy to be exposed, because the other party was also Bruce Wayne, and he knew that Bruce Wayne could not be a helpless little poor guy, so he had to grasp a balance and act like he was capable and resourceful but was in trouble and needed help.
"I think we can talk about the terms." Robin King further said: "I am interested in your team and would love to join, but I can't join in my current state. You have to let me get my body back, otherwise how can I help you?"
Unexpectedly, Bruce sat down on the spot, propped up his head with his hands and said in a slightly distressed tone: "It's really rare that you are interested in my team. I asked several Batmen, and they all said they were not interested."
"That's because your poster is awful," King Robin said in his mind, "No Batman would be interested in a graffiti-style poster like this. Even a notice written in black and white would be better than this."
"I think it's not bad." King Robin could only endure the discomfort, spread his hands and said: "Maybe you can also tell me the details of your team, maybe I will be more interested."
King Robin was also thinking of getting some intelligence. He knew that Crazy Laugh would definitely be interested in Barbatos and related information.
Bruce, who was sitting on the ground, sighed and said, "To be honest, since I accepted this recruitment mission, I have traveled all over the universe, but I haven't found a decent team member. I have approved a lot of funds, but there is no one. What can I do?"
"Uh, you mean, Barbatos asked you to recruit players?"
"Of course, Barbatos is the god of darkness. He wants to invade the light universe. Should I go alone?"
King Robin thought he had heard some incredible plan, but now his focus was, "...the God of Darkness?"
Bruce jumped up as if a switch had been pressed. He took out a pile of books from somewhere and stuffed them into King Robin's arms. He said, "Yes, it's the Dark Lord. This is the glorious history of our company. Here is the personal resume of the company's boss. And this is our current corporate culture. I think you will definitely be interested."
Robin King held the pile of books and thought that he was not that interested, but what other methods could he use to gain the trust of this strange Batman? He had to make this man happy before he could send him back.
King Robin pretended to be watching while asking Bruce questions subtly, hoping to get more information from him so that the trip would not be in vain.
As a result, no matter how he asked, Bruce was in the state of a resentful worker. The topic would always turn back to how inhumane the boss was, how conscienceless the company was, how hard he worked, and how much his colleagues held him back.
Bruce seemed to have finally found someone to vent his dissatisfaction to, and he kept talking endlessly.
"...Then do you think I can be blamed for this? I told him a long time ago that he had to perform miracles as soon as possible. Otherwise, would others believe it just because those members of the Court of Owls were promoting it? He kept delaying, and it's been two months. Now what? His business has been overturned, right?"
"As for Universe 162, I don't even want to talk about it. I said when the project was launched that there was a war in this universe and the situation was extremely unstable. It wouldn't work if they tried to deal with urban building pollution. The radiation in the groundwater is many times stronger than your pollution. But he refused to listen. What happened in the end? Didn't he still get bombed in his hometown?"
"Besides, the Bright Universe Intelligence Project that had been stalling for a long time finally made some progress under my control, but he wants to micromanage it again. I told you, if he wants to achieve results, why would he need to ask me to take over?"
(End of this chapter)