Chapter 1761 S: The Great Event of Apocalypse (Twenty-Eight)

"Wait, what is going on?!" The woman holding the steel whip took a step back, looked up at the sky with wide eyes, and a roar echoed outside the star port.

"This is a star port floating in outer space! Why is it raining??!!!"

The men following the woman were also a little panicked. They took a few steps back and looked at the vision in the sky at a loss. However, the lowly men next to them who were not wearing armor but wearing cloth clothes lowered their heads in confusion. Looking at their hands, the rain falling on their skin did not slip from the surface of the skin, but disappeared.

The woman was stunned for a moment, a look of panic flashed in her eyes, and veins suddenly appeared in the hand holding the steel whip. She said in a very low voice that no one else could hear: "How is this possible? The force field of Apokolips has been broken ! This, this is absolutely impossible, no one has ever done it, no, we must find a way to solve it."

She gritted her teeth, and the expression on her face gradually turned fierce. The muscles of her arms stretched out the obvious lines of the tights almost in an instant. She roared, and suddenly swung the steel whip, causing electricity to fly throughout the hall.

"Go ahead, kill them!" the woman screamed, "We must not let them invade Apokolips!"

She had completely forgotten her contemptuous attitude just now, because she knew more than the other low-level soldiers here, so she understood what the change that had just happened meant.

Apokolips itself is a massive force field.

This is a truth that only the top management of Apokolips knows. The reason why this planet can maintain such a strange state under the physical rules of the universe is because Apokolips is both a planet and a galaxy, a physical celestial body and an aggregate of energy. .

In addition to maintaining the existence of Apokolips, this force field also has the most important function. Any creature living in this force field will be affected by the force field and become loyal to Darkseid, and will eventually become Darkseid. A fanatical supporter of virtue, willing to sacrifice everything for him, including his own life.

This is why Darkseid's fleet will plunder prisoners all over the universe and then scatter them on the huge surface, because after a while, they will become naturally loyal soldiers and laborers, asking for nothing in return, just Willing to die for Darkseid.

There is no need for Apokolips to develop robots and clone tactics that may go out of control or rebel. Instead, the natural intelligent lifeforms affected by Apokolips's force field are the most loyal. You only need to throw them on the surface of the planet for a period of time. There is nothing better than this. A cheaper way to make cannon fodder.

But now, it seems that there is another, darker force field that is gradually eroding the Apokolips force field covering the star port. Perhaps it is not accurate to say that it is eroding, but more like replacing or covering the familiar force field in the star port. The force field has completely disappeared, replaced by the cold wind, cold rain and darkness, as well as silent seriousness and terrifying crazy laughter.

"Lady Lashina, something is wrong..." A trembling voice came from behind the woman. She turned around and found a guard slumped on the ground, looking at the top of the starport with a horrified expression.

There was a covered area with a transparent ceiling. The woman called Rashina looked back, and the calm expression on her face completely collapsed, because what appeared above her head were thick dark clouds and the shadows hidden behind the dark clouds. A full moon appears.

"What the hell is going on?!" Rashina shouted in a panic: "This is a space station, where does the atmosphere come from? What is that unknown yellow celestial body that shines?!!"

Constantine, who was stroking the wine glass with his fingers, also showed a puzzled expression. He looked at the inexplicably changing weather on the screen and asked in a confused tone: "So what is going on? Who did you send and what did you send?" Is it an illusion? But if it’s just a scene, why are these people worried?”

"This shows that what they saw was more than just a scene." Schiller lightly held the upper rim of the wine glass and placed it flat on the wooden armrest. He put one leg on top of the other and crossed his fingers on his body. He smiled, but didn't explain much.

This brings us to the derivative law other than the aggregation law of Batman and the Joker, which is Gotham's identity formula.

Which came first, Batman and the Joker or Gotham?

This is actually a question worth thinking about. Some people believe that the Joker was born in the darkness of Gotham. It was the dark social status of Gotham that gave him a bad day, and the Joker appeared.

If you follow this idea, the order of appearance should be Batman first, Gotham second, and Joker third. It is precisely to highlight Batman’s dark characteristics that Gotham will always be affected by a kind of root darkness. , so the clown was born.

But the problem with this idea is that it deconstructs the fatalism between Batman and the Joker. It believes that the Joker is an indirect product, just a supporting role in Batman's dark story, and is an equal existence to Gotham. He was even born in Gotham. Gotham is a bit lower.

But this violates the law of aggregation of Batman and Joker. The equality of Batman and Joker is an unchanging identity of the DC universe. They are always directly related. It is not who caused the creation of the other, but they always achieve each other and are interdependent.

So it seems that the existence of Gotham is unnecessary between Batman and the Joker, but in fact, Gotham represents more than just a city on the east coast of the United States. It also symbolizes the stage of Batman's never-ending dark story. The elements that construct this stage are as complex as the factors that construct the two characters of Batman and the Joker.

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As we all know, the elements that constitute the Joker can include Batman's gaze, chemical pools, bad days, smiling faces, circuses, etc., so the first element that constitutes Gotham is naturally Batman, and the second element is Batman's enemies.

Gotham is a stage for the never-ending struggle between Batman and his enemies. Therefore, where the struggle is staged, there is the stage, and there is naturally Gotham. This is the identity formula of Gotham.

Of course, since Gotham is defined in this way, it can be inferred that the biggest factor affecting Gotham's existence is Batman and his enemies. Although the enemies include the Joker, in the Gotham identity formula, Batman still has the greatest influence on the nature of Gotham's existence.

In other words, this is somewhat similar to the Batman Joker Aggregation Law. Gotham will change according to Batman's existence.

For example, Batman like the main universe Batman seems to be completely unable to save Gotham. That's because the darkness in their hearts has never changed. The darkness from the root of Gotham will not disappear, and the dark nature of this city will exist for a long time.

But in some comics, Batman is no longer Batman, but Bruce Wayne, who uses business means to save the city and successfully saves the dark city, restoring the real order of Gotham.

Some people say that these dark Batmen are stupid and did not think of using capital to save the city, but in fact, this is just the influence of the underlying roots of the universe. When Batman is stuck in the quagmire and cannot save himself, Gotham cannot be saved. When he casts aside all the darkness of the past, Gotham will naturally see the light again.

Schiller, who witnessed Bruce's transformation, naturally confirmed this point. If Batman is saved, Gotham will be saved. If Batman sees the light, Gotham will see the light again.

This man, who is called the protagonist in the story, has been tied too deeply to his stage background. Anyone who wants to bypass Batman and save Gotham is just daydreaming.

But Schiller believes that there is a possibility of digging deeper into this phenomenon.

First of all, if the darker Batman is, the darker Gotham will be. Then, does Batman have some other characteristics, and Gotham will also change, just like the strength of the bond between Batman and the Joker?

But after Schiller's student Bruce became an angel, Schiller did not find much change in Gotham. He thought that it might be that Bruce replaced Gabriel's status, rather than becoming a real archangel. Gabriel's position originally existed, and Bruce just replaced him, so it did not cause much impact.

Schiller's series of big plans to catch the evil Batman included a small experimental goal, which was to see if this uncontaminated natural Batman would change his Gotham after gaining some strange powers.

As we all know, Batman cannot know magic, otherwise the universe will be destroyed. Therefore, this Batman who receives other powers cannot stay in his original universe, otherwise the universe will be destroyed, but the experimental results will not be seen.

After Bruce from Schiller's universe brought little Bruce, although Schiller was not sure whether this individual who had not yet become Batman could be considered Batman, and whether the experiment would be effective, he was here anyway, so he might as well give it a try.

After successfully seducing Nyarlathotep to be interested in little Bruce and lending him power, Schiller brought little Bruce to the dark space. What was a little unexpected to him was that little Bruce's ambition was greater than he imagined, either no or all.

After learning that little Bruce was likely to have merged the power of Nyarlathotep and Barbatos, Schiller thought it was time to test whether his idea was correct, so when Helen and Harley asked for help from the Book of the Dead, he gave a very detailed plan with both theory and implementation methods.

Schiller introduced the Batman Joker Aggregation Law and several formulas in the law in detail to Harley and Helen in the Book of the Dead, including the conditions for the generation of the Joker and the phenomenon of the strength of Batman and the Joker being bound.

So the two girls were so shocked when they saw the plan. The reason is that no one in the world knows Batman better than Schiller.

Of course, Schiller expected Helen to take on the role of the Joker in the end. After all, she had guessed the true identity of the Book of the Dead. Helen knew that everyone who participated in Schiller's plan might be pushed away and suffer, but the more they paid, the greater the gains. Helen keenly felt that there were benefits to be gained, and finally agreed.

According to the Batman Joker Aggregation Law, Doomsday, who became the Joker, must be stronger than Batman, so Bruce almost immediately found that the two forces that were originally fighting each other in his body were combined at a speed that he didn't even react to, and some wonderful chemical reactions occurred.

The dark multiverse energy representing Barbatos merged with the cipher power representing the outer god Nyarlathotep. When power and knowledge merged, Batman's strength rose rapidly until he reached the same level as the young Joker Doomsday.

By the same token, Gotham, which was deeply influenced by Batman, also changed. In other words, Gotham's current strength was about equal to that of Bruce Jr. and Helen Doomsday, and Doomsday itself was a completely supermodel.

And because the changes that Bruce Jr. underwent were inseparable from mysticism and magic, his own stage Gotham also had similar attributes, implying darkness, madness, and dazzling mystery.

Bruce Jr. looked up, and what he saw from the rain, dark clouds, and the moon that appeared and disappeared behind the clouds was not only Gotham, but also the bay town in Massachusetts that was always cloudy, damp and cold.