In the space filled with white mist, a tall tower stood quietly, like a reef washed by the sea for thousands of years, resolute, tall, and silent.
Looking through the gap in the gate, inside the tower, there are many people coming and going, making it very lively.
Walking up the winding stairs, I stopped at the door of an ordinary office. With a "squeak", the door was pushed open. Greedy Schiller in a white coat leaned against the door and looked at the room. Arrogance sitting behind the desk said:
"If it weren't for something so important, I really couldn't stand working with you. When will you change your perfectionism? Come on, Rome wasn't built in a day!"
Arrogant, who was writing at his desk, said without raising his head: "But Rome will be built one day. You are greedy, not lazy. How long do you want to delay it?"
"Anyway, after so many years, you are not in a rush for these few days, are you? To be honest, I didn't even take my annual leave." Greedy Schiller said, shaking his head, looking at the way Arrogance looked at him, Greedy He stretched out his hands, waved and said, "Okay, I know you are eager to be an ordinary person. I will go up and see how Lazy is doing."
After saying that, he turned around and walked out. As soon as he turned around, he ran into a figure wearing a windbreaker. Greedy raised his head and said in surprise: "Lazy? Why are you back?"
Lazy showed a sly smile, glanced at Arrogant who was immersed in writing at his desk, then turned back, looked at Greedy and said: "You should ask about this, I would like to experience that in Gotham People who live.”
Greedy raised his eyebrows and said, "I know Gotham is a mess, but it's not like it made you find the emotion of anger so quickly, right?"
"What trouble did you encounter?" Arrogance raised his head and asked. He put down his pen and stood up from the table. But before Lazy could answer, he said to himself: "Forget it, it's just that Batman doesn't I’m used to writing papers, looking for trouble, gang fights and making noise, and Merkel dealing with fertilizers too often.”
Arrogance walked to the door, picked up his coat from the hanger and put it on. When he walked out, Lazy took a step back silently, made way for him, and gave him a smile.
Arrogant felt confused. He looked at Lazy up and down, shook his head slightly, and left the room.
When his figure disappeared at the end of the corridor, Lazy wanted to leave quickly, but was grabbed by Greed. Looking at Lazy's expression, Greed slowly narrowed his eyes and said: "I'm afraid what you encountered is not ordinary." Trouble?"
Sloth gave him another fake smile, and then said: "Is there any ordinary trouble in Gotham? Let me go quickly, I'm going to retreat."
Greedy showed a puzzled expression, but while he was distracted, Lazy pulled his hand away and disappeared. Greedy shook his head and said: "Forget it, Pride has been integrated and has become stronger. A lot, even if there is any trouble, he should be able to handle it."
Arrogant, who was walking to the elevator, was actually in a very good mood. He finally solved a long-standing concern and merged the two original fragments into one. More importantly, the smoothness of the fusion process exceeded his expectation. Anticipate.
It is not that simple to merge with the clown. His soul is synonymous with madness. Fortunately, the contaminated fragment was originally arrogance. There is a natural attraction between the two arrogant fragments. Those crazy factors have not contaminated it. Whole pieces.
In fact, Schiller is still a clown, but the fusion with arrogance allows him to take the essence of the clown traits and discard the dross.
Previously, Schiller became the Joker because he was selected by Batman. The Joker has many characteristics, but the most important ones are two. One is the Batman-Joker Aggregation Law. There is nothing to explain. It means literally, there is a bat. Wherever there are heroes, there must be clowns, and where there are clowns, there must be Batman.
The second is the less obvious but very stable "immortality". As a very important villain in the original work, the Joker can fake his death or disappear, but he cannot really die forever.
Schiller suspects that even the death of the Marvel and DC worlds can't take him away, which may be why.
If he is really just an ordinary time traveler, even in the DC world, because he is not in destiny and is not controlled by death, death in the Marvel Universe would avoid him for no reason.
At the beginning, Marvel's Goddess of Death made it clear to him that he was not welcome in the kingdom of death.
In other words, the goddess of death is not willing to take him in at all. Schiller has thought about the reasons, but the most reasonable one is that he has a clown in his soul, and Marvel's Death took away his soul. , where to put the clown?
More importantly, the important and popular character next door is absent. If the Joker needs to be resurrected someday, will the Kingdom of Death be directly punched with a hole by the Joker? Or one day, in the kingdom of death, a dump truck with a bat logo suddenly appeared?
Schiller suspected that Marvel's Goddess of Death would not accept it. He might have been instructed by the OAA. After all, if the popular character next door died in his own home, he would probably cause a lot of trouble.
The reason why Schiller chose to fuse with the fragments of the clown's soul rather than find a way to directly destroy half of the fragments is precisely because he took a fancy to the immortality of this identity, no matter where he is, no matter what situation he faces. , clowns always have a way out.
But Schiller is indeed fed up with this inexplicable Batman-Joker aggregation law. If he doesn't get rid of this law, he can't go anywhere or do anything. He can only guard Batman every day and torture each other with him.
Therefore, he chose to use half of the fragments to fuse with the other half, and took the initiative with his arrogant qualities. This way he not only retained the identity of the clown, but also gained a certain degree of autonomy to do what he wanted to do.
Comparing the situation of DC and Marvel, it will be clear that Schiller of Marvel often takes the initiative to fight for the interests of mankind, connect various forces, and arrange the positive and negative characters into appropriate positions. Therefore, the Marvel world must Seems much more energetic.
But because of the law of aggregation with Batman, DC Schiller is always involved in a lot of troubles in Gotham, and he can't leave even if he wants to.
Not to mention taking the initiative to do something, the farthest place he went was the West Coast. The whole world has not changed much and is still lifeless. In the past four years, Schiller has not even been promoted in his professional title and is almost spinning in circles. .
The only good news is that Batman's condition is getting better, but the world doesn't revolve around Batman. Schiller actually has a lot of things he wants to do, but because of the trouble caused by Batman, he can't do it at all. The inability to take the initiative resulted in the progress falling behind Greed.
This was something Arrogance couldn't bear, so when he could fuse it with the Joker's trait fragments, he immediately did so, and joined forces with Greed to upgrade the Sloth's trait fragments, allowing him to lead the team as quickly as possible. speed to stabilize your mental state.
The current arrogance can be said to be complacent. He has prepared many plans and is gearing up to expand the map, connect various forces, and stir up the chaos in the universe.
When he arrived at the elevator manager's office, he didn't even knock on the door. He just opened the door, stuck his head in and said, "Go straight to the top floor."
After saying that, he closed the door with a bang and walked quickly towards the elevator. Because his soul was full of energy, all kinds of plans that were as complicated as a ball of wool were constantly circling in his mind. As for, when the elevator rose to the top floor and gradually regained consciousness, he was still meditating.
The bright white light gradually dissipated from before his eyes. Schiller was like a person who had just woken up. Although he had seen the picture, his brain had not yet received the information. When he regained consciousness, the picture he saw in the previous few seconds was the same as the picture he had seen in the first few seconds. The information he was receiving now flooded into his brain, and it took him a long time to react.
After Schiller's brain processed the information, Schiller's first reaction... was no reaction. He froze on the spot.
He didn't understand why he didn't stay in the office of Gotham University or the bedroom of Rodriguez Manor, but instead appeared in the ruins of a battlefield that seemed to have been ravaged by some monster? ? ? ?
After discovering this fact, Schiller was instantly nervous. He thought, could there really be some dangerous person who invaded Gotham University? The newly upgraded Sloth couldn't cope with it, so he hid back in the tower?
But when I thought about it again, I felt that something was wrong. It was impossible for any personality fragment in the tower of thinking to choose to switch personalities in dangerous situations. This was irresponsible for Schiller's personal safety.
Schiller's personality traits are like luncheon meat in a can. If the outer shell of the can is destroyed, all the fillings inside will not last too long. The so-called lip-dead teeth are cold, and this is exactly the case, even for the crazy clown. , and it is impossible to forcefully hide in the tower regardless of physical safety.
Since Lazy chose to switch at this time, it means that it is safe now. Schiller looked around and saw that everywhere he looked, there were indeed ruins. This was by no means safe.
In order to figure out what was going on, Schiller had to choose to look through the memories of this past period.
He originally just wanted to take a quick look and determine the reason for the environment he came to. As a result, the first scene he saw was that Victor told him that Bruce transferred to the Department of Physics and handed in the exam in two days. a dissertation.
I have to admit that after such a long time together, Batman knows his teacher too well.
He knew very well that when Schiller opened up old scores, he was accustomed to going from front to back. The order of revenge was the same as the order of settling old scores. And he left the scene without looking back precisely because, according to the chronological order, Schiller Definitely turn to him first.
Facts have proved that Batman's choice is very wise. When Schiller saw Victor's evaluation of Bruce, he became angry. Unfortunately, Batman is not here now. Even if he wants to settle the score, he can only wait. .
Looking back further, Schiller saw the section where someone kept calling to harass him. Of course, he knew with almost no inference that the caller was Silence, Thomas Elliott.
As soon as Schiller's eyes fell on Elliot's face, which was bandaged, a police car stopped at the intersection. Gordon led the police officers to handcuff Silence and put him into the police car.
Immediately afterwards, there was a murder in the hospital, and the person who committed the crime was Roman, the black mask. Roman was not at the scene. If nothing else, he should have been brought to justice.
Schiller continued to turn back, and then saw a young face - Harley Quinzel.
Standing there, Schiller slowly took a deep breath, looked down at his dusty clothes, stretched out his hand, and lightly dusted his windbreaker jacket.
Harley, who was peeking outside the door, let out an astonishing scream the moment she saw his eyes.
"professor??!!"
(End of chapter)
