amaotonovel Chapter 2394: Bats Fight (4)
Chapter 2394: Bats Fight (4)
Chapter 2394: Bats Fight (Part )
Batwoman held the Water God's Spear, carried the trapped poisonous plants, and headed towards the big tree in the center.
"You want to know the secret of each personality. Do you think the solution to this situation lies in it?" Charles asked.
"This is a very reasonable inference." Batman replied, "It is the simplest and most unsophisticated inference that an ordinary person, a person without psychic abilities, would make."
"How can it be simple?" Charles muttered in a low voice.
"Everything in this world has its reason. Even if they don't follow the physical rules of the real world, they must follow the law of cause and effect." Batman said: "There is a cause before there is an effect. This is the most essential rule in the universe."
"A lot of things happened before they happened. You see these personalities as the cause of a certain disaster, but in fact they are the result of many earlier disasters."
"If you treat them as causes, and nip them in the bud in order to prevent disasters from happening, then the real causes that ultimately created these personalities will continue to create them endlessly."
Charles frowned deeply. Batman hit the nail on the head. The most troublesome situation that the Psychic Assault Team is facing now is that it is already very difficult to kill these terrible super-power personalities, but according to David himself, these super-powered personalities are still being produced continuously in his heart.
No one knows where they came from or where they are going. No one knows how to completely eliminate them. No one knows how to prevent David from developing these personalities that could bring disaster.
But Batman offers a revealing angle, where they're not dealing with these personalities, but the deeper things that lead to them.
After the poisonous cloud was dispersed, moving forward became easier. When they arrived under the big tree, they found a small tree house on the tree with a row of spiral stairs close to the trunk, which looked like the facilities that would appear in a Boy Scout summer camp.
Once Batman reached the stairs he stopped and said, "Looks like this has something to do with his childhood. This thing isn't designed for adults."
Batwoman also walked up, stepped on the steps and nodded. Her reasoning was the same as Batman's. There was no profound reason. It was just that the steps were not only narrow, but also very dense, with almost no gaps.
For an adult, when one foot steps on it, half of the sole of the foot is exposed. The step in front is very close, and the heel of the upper foot will touch the leg behind. It will be very awkward to step up step by step.
But for younger children, it is easy to walk and very safe.
After walking up two more steps, there are wooden bars nailed to the trees about one meter high that serve as handrails. Every detail shows that this place is actually an amusement facility, not a real tree house for survival.
They walked to the top, where there were two small rooms facing each other and a platform in the middle. Batman bent down slightly and observed the traces here before officially standing on the platform where the room was.
Batwoman was watching as well, and Charles was watching both of them because he really had no idea what they were observing.
It's so ordinary here. The platform is made of boards fixed with nails and wire. The walls of the house are made of tree trunks, weeds and mud. And it seems that every time a group of children comes, it has to be rebuilt, as if it is one of the activities of the summer camp.
"There are footprints." Batman pointed to the marks on the floor and said, "There are probably three children and an adult standing here. A fatter child is standing at the stairs, two thinner and smaller children are standing in front of the room door, and the adult is standing on the edge of the platform."
"Something happened..." Batwoman said in a certain tone: "Something must have happened here."
"So what do you think happened then, Ms. Marktagt?" Schiller tapped the end of his pen lightly on the table and looked at a lady sitting opposite him.
The lady had brown hair neatly tied back, was wearing a white coat, and looked like she had just left her job.
"I don't know. David never told me." The woman, who was called Mark Taggart, looked a little tired. She said: "When this happened, he was still living with his parents. I tried very hard to find out what happened, but I don't know the details. He never told me."
"So tell me what David told you, ma'am," Schiller said.
"Just call me Maura."
"When Ms. Harrell, one of the mothers from the group, dropped him off at Muir Island, he was very withdrawn and we thought he might be suffering from childhood anxiety," Mora said.
"Although I have been studying his mutant abilities during that time, I have not forgotten to maintain his mental health. I think it is very inhumane to let him stay in the ward every day, so I applied to take him to the yard to get some fresh air at noon."
"There is a big plane tree in the yard, which comes from France. I used to like to go under the tree to enjoy the coolness, so I took David there, but he didn't want to touch the tree. Even when the weather was so hot that he was sweating all over, he didn't want to stand in the shade."
"So I started asking him what happened, and he just kept shaking his head. Through my persistent questioning and investigation, I learned that when he was 7 years old, an accident happened at the summer camp that his mother and stepfather sent him to."
"No one knows exactly what happened, but one of the projects in the summer camp is to lead the Boy Scouts in jungle warfare, learn about plants, learn to make fire, and build tree houses."
"Although it was called jungle warfare, it was actually just taking the children to play in a small forest, letting them know several common poisonous plants and teaching them how to make fire with flint. Everything went smoothly at first and the children had a lot of fun."
"But something went wrong at the last step. The only instructor that day fell off the platform of the tree house while building it."
"How high up is it?" Schiller asked.
"David said it was about two meters." Mora frowned slightly and said, "But the instructor fell very badly. I heard there is something wrong with his lumbar nerves. He will have to stay in bed for the rest of his life."
Schiller also frowned.
Standing on the edge of the platform, Batman looked down and, quite unsurprisingly, saw the traces of a human figure on the wet dirt below.
"Did anyone fall?" Charles asked.
Batman turned and nodded, saying, "Yes, the adult fell and hit the ground over here."
Charles walked over, looked towards the edge, and found that the place was not particularly high. He didn't dare to jump down, but if he really fell down, it shouldn't be a big deal.
Batwoman suddenly shook her head and said, "I didn't fall down accidentally. I was pushed down by someone."
The two Batmen stood in two different positions. Suddenly, Batman reached out to grab Batwoman. Batwoman seemed to be scared, so she shrank her body and hid in the room behind her.
Batman rushed forward and came to the door to grab Batwoman out. Charles understood some of Batman's emotions, so he immediately rushed over from the edge of the platform, grabbed Batman's cape and pulled him out.
The two men pulled and tugged all the way to the edge of the platform. Batman used his strength advantage to pin Charles to the ground, but at this time Charles kicked hard and turned over, and Batman staggered and fell off the platform.
It fell completely on the human-shaped trace, without any error.
"This is unscientific." Charles said, "If the children who come here are only six or seven years old as you said, and the instructors leading the Boy Scouts are all retired soldiers, then how could a six or seven-year-old child knock the retired soldiers down?"
Batman had climbed back up and said, "Can't you do this?"
Charles was slightly stunned.
"Are you saying that this was actually David's experience, and he used his mutant powers to push the instructor off the platform?"
Batman nodded and said, "And he might have used a special ability to seriously injure the instructor. If it was a normal fall, the soil below is very soft, and most adults would be fine if they fell down."
"But from the traces of soil underneath, it can be seen that the person was completely unable to move and lay there until the ambulance arrived."
Batwoman seemed to understand something. She turned her head to look at the poisonous plant trapped next to her and said, "I have heard that many patients with dissociative identity disorder have split personalities to protect their main personality."
"If a 7-year-old wants to make an adult unable to move instantly, besides controlling brain waves like you, the best way is to start with nerves. Even we use the same method." Batman said: "Nerves are the fatal weakness of human motor ability."
"So this personality was born at this time." Charles looked at the poisonous plant in the bubble and said, "The thing is, David attended a summer camp when he was 7 years old. Unfortunately, they met a terrible instructor."
"From the actions just simulated, it seems that this instructor may want to hurt or sexually assault another child. This is indeed a very good environment for committing a crime. If it were in a remote enough community, no one would notice what happened here, and the children would not dare to say anything."
"But David is not an ordinary child. He tried to stop the instructor. After being held down by the instructor, his self-protection mechanism was activated. A superpower that specifically targets human nerves was born. He subdued the instructor and protected David."
"I think he will appear in the form of plants, perhaps because this place is supposed to protect them." Batwoman speculated: "Perhaps the instructor told them that using local materials and building a shelter with plants in the dangerous jungle will be the best way for them to spend the long night."
"That's possible," Batman confirmed. "Children's thinking is very abstract, focusing more on association than logic. They may not understand the necessity of building a shelter, but they will definitely realize through such actions that trees and plants are their protectors."
"When someone wants to hurt them here, their first reaction may not be to call the police or seek help from adults like adults do, but to think that a plant god will come to save them."
"That's why child psychology is a separate discipline, because their brains are not fully developed, they don't receive enough education, they lack common sense and rational thinking, so their way of thinking is completely different from that of adults."
Charles immediately drew inferences from his experience and said, "So in David's spiritual world, the less human, the more weird, funny and absurd, the more likely it is that it came from his childhood."
Batman nodded and said, "Speaking of the Joker, maybe I hit the nail on the head. This plant personality that looks like a tree man dressed up as a clown not because he had seen clowns in the circus or in movies."
"And it was simply because David first learned to play poker at a Boy Scout camp, and the person who taught him told him that the Joker was the strongest card of all."
(End of this chapter)