amaotonovel Chapter 2259 Jincheng comes late in autumn (49)
Chapter 2259 Jincheng comes late in autumn (49)
Chapter 2259: Late Autumn in Jincheng (Forty-nine)
Bruce is difficult to deal with, but Barbatos still lets him do it because Bruce is not the first Batman Barbatos has come into contact with. The dark universe is full of masters.
The dark sources of DC generally present the following characteristics: they have the ability to pollute light, but are more willing to flow to areas where dark energy is also enriched. In essence, they present a kind of regional aggregation inertia rather than a polluting nature that spreads outward.
In other words, if Barbatos wants to pollute the bright universe with dark forces, it is not like dropping dye into the water, but rather akin to constantly pushing a shot put, which is actually a heavy and laborious process.
Otherwise, with Barbatos' status, although he couldn't take over the entire bright universe, it would be easy for him to occupy several unimportant strongholds in the bright universe itself since there is darkness in it.
Of course, the actual reason is that when the character of Barbatos was designed, his intelligence and ability only accounted for his seniority. The editor was unable to explain why this character was so awesome, but he did nothing for such a long time and was unknown, and had to wait until the Dark Knights appeared to focus on performance.
In terms of intelligence rating, Barbatos is not even ranked, let alone compared with Brainiac. Even between him and Luthor, there are still more than ten Batmen left.
In the martial arts rankings, transcendental beings like Barbatos and heaven and hell basically do not participate in the ranking. Their personalities are rather vague, and they always talk about the power of laws and rules, but in fact, they can't actually beat anyone with real fists. Their martial arts values are basically described indirectly.
The only relatively distinctive setting is mind pollution, which is quite cool, but once it is put into the plot, it looks no different from ordinary brainwashing. There is no large-scale polluting operation.
In general, the character of Barbatos seems to be designed to fill in the gaps in the background of major events. Not to mention being better than those orthodox heroes, his fashion sense is not even as good as Darkseid.
Because of this, Barbatos has more than once placed his hopes on the entire DC comics, and even on Batman, the most fashionable hero in the entire comics world. However, due to the theory of the enrichment of the source of dark energy, most of the Batmans in the dark universe are strange in appearance.
Batman himself is the source and outlet of darkness. The darkness he possesses is more like something directly bestowed upon him by the editorial department. Batman, who is in the dark universe, is even more of a gathering point of dark forces.
As long as Barbatos exists, the dark forces will continue to be infused into the Batman of the Dark Universe, but this does not make them stronger, because Batman's strongest point is his brain, and the dark forces can hardly strengthen their wisdom while keeping their sanity normal.
Simply put, farmers only fantasize about the emperor using a golden hoe to hoe the fields. Barbatos, who represents dark energy, is not very smart. How could the energy he represents strengthen a peerless genius who is above all the universe?
Of course, when talking about this, we have to mention Laughter, but in fact, Laughter has little to do with Barbatos. Barbatos is just an old man with a ring who made his last appearance in the entire origin story.
Although nominally it is because every dark universe has been contaminated by Barbatos' dark energy that Batman faces several tragedies, to be honest, the Batman who laughs has become what he is now, which is more or less due to his natural warlike nature, and Barbatos is not to blame.
After all, there are so many dark multiverses, and everyone is doing well except you. Although it is a failure in the opposite direction, it is enough to show that Barbatos is definitely not the laughing father.
Let’s go back to Barbatos’ previous plan to find the Vanguard in the dark universe. In fact, he did look for it, but the whole process of searching and selecting can be regarded as the ancient gods witnessing the diversity of human species.
Barbatos is not a human being. Although he is an intelligent being and has feelings, it is really difficult for him to understand certain human behaviors.
From his perspective, Batman suddenly went crazy one day and started killing his friends and relatives, and even all kinds of unrelated people. Then the relatives and friends of the killed people came to take revenge, and the two sides fought each other.
Batman couldn't win, so he had to either transform himself or others. Then the two sides started screaming and insisting on fighting each other, and finally the entire earth was torn to pieces, and Barbatos had to clean up the mess for them.
Otherwise, why do people say that the Batmans in the bright universe are all white moonlight? If Barbatos wants to invade the bright universe, he needs a plan and someone to execute it. However, making and executing plans requires wisdom and action, but most of the Batmans in the dark multiverse are crazy and do not have these two things at all. However, if you want to get a normal Batman, you have to invade the bright universe...
Obviously it has become a vicious circle, so Barbatos is so happy about Bruce's appearance and entrusts him with important tasks right from the start, because no matter whether this guy is troublesome or not, at least he is a normal person.
Barbatos didn't even dare to use his mind pollution on Bruce. Not to mention that Bruce had angelic status, if he connected to Bruce's mind network, he could very likely call God. The chaos and madness in Bruce's dark attributes alone made him dare not take the risk. What if he drove another one crazy?
Barbatos now treats Bruce like he is holding him in his hands for fear of dropping him, and holding him in his mouth for fear of melting him. Although it is annoying, he endures it.
So has Bruce achieved anything?
Actually, there are, but not many.
Many people may wonder why Bruce is so obsessed with life. Is it all for nothing? Are all the work reports he sent to Barbatos fake?
This is really underestimating Batman. All the plans formulated by Bruce are not only precise and vicious, but also executed very well and thoroughly. The personnel arrangements are rigorous, the working methods are scientific, and the efficiency is also maximized.
According to this, Barbatos should be able to reach the Bright Universe soon, but in fact the progress bar was pushed forward and then retracted, but Barbatos couldn't find any fault with it.
This brings us to the time when the beta version of Doujie was launched, Bruce went to the Doujie resident office and coincidentally met Nick Fury from Schiller's universe.
That’s right, it’s SHIELD and HYDRA again.
However, today, the evil Fourth Power, who has fully exerted his subjective initiative, has transformed this system to perfection and developed it further, and even formed a systematic teaching system. The first beneficiary is Bruce.
Who is Bruce? He is Batman. No one in this world understands things better than him. He even modified the plan based on the fourth power of evil to make it more suitable for local conditions and added many details that they did not notice.
The basis of this theory is actually to invite the wolf into the house, create a large-scale game between good and evil, greatly increase the apparent resource consumption, and take this opportunity to use the resources for other purposes by using the five ghosts to move things and the fire dragon to burn the warehouse.
Then use the misappropriated resources to create more job opportunities, keeping everyone busy with things that don't exist at all. This can not only keep the evil side from doing other things, but also show the righteous side that they have done a lot.
Bruce naturally followed this idea, but the good and evil were reversed. He stood on the side of the Owl, and his boss was Barbatos.
Barbatos is equivalent to Congress, which approves funding, Owl is equivalent to the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Hydra is naturally the Batman of various universes who resist Owl. Of course, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and others are occasionally introduced to play roles like the KGB.
The general approach is to first use a very detailed and reasonable plan to point out the problems that exist in a certain cosmic owl. All these problems are real and then they are improved after getting the budget.
These budgets will not be embezzled, but will be used for the right purposes. With Batman's wisdom and execution ability, the Owl's combat power can be increased dozens of times in just a few weeks.
The members of the Court of Owls are no pushovers. The stronger they are, the greater their ambitions. It is inevitable that they will come into conflict with the side of justice. Barbatos thinks so too. Since under the leadership of Batman, the owls have the ability to fight superheroes head-on, then why not?
After so many years of secretly transporting energy and pollution, I finally have the chance to show off. It didn't matter that I couldn't win in the past, but now that I'm so strong, it's time to get back what I was owed in the past.
Therefore, Barbatos and the Court of Owls had no objection to coming out in the open, because in their opinion, it was only a matter of time before they would confront the human order society, and they couldn't just hide forever.
In this way, most of the Court of Owls under Bruce's rule came to the fore and became a world-renowned terrorist organization, which naturally attracted Batman's great attention.
Bruce then used a little trick to guide Batman, making him believe that the death of his parents was most likely caused by the Owl - although some of it might be true, the parts that were not true could still be used to cleverly guide Batman into misunderstanding.
This is his own city, and the large-scale extreme terrorists may be his enemies who would kill his relatives. It is impossible for Batman to ignore it for both moral and logical reasons.
Logically speaking, this is an internal incident of Gotham, but it would be weird if Bruce would let Batman handle it so easily internally. Under his leadership, the Court of Owls is extremely high-profile.
Don't worry about the NAZI, Hydra, genocide, or alien conspiracy. Hollywood will make up whatever it wants. We are evil and unrepentant. If you don't gather a company of superheroes, can you still call it executing justice?
Such a high-profile result means that most of the justice-minded superheroes will continue to pay attention to the situation here, and Batman will not be able to deal with the Court of Owls completely independently. Once superheroes like Superman enter the scene, it is impossible not to have a grand scene.
So the scene in these universes became that the Court of Owls became the most powerful and most impressive villain on Earth, while superhero organizations such as the Justice League worked tirelessly day and night to fight against them.
To put it in the game, although a character has become one of the human rights of the current version through a technical change, the difficulty of the copy has also been comprehensively strengthened, and the change is equivalent to no change.
And unsurprisingly, in most cases, character technical changes are not for the purpose of balance adjustments. The manufacturer's ultimate goal is only one, which is to cheat money.
(End of this chapter)