What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 344 You can never find what you desire

Chapter 344 You can never find what you desire

It was 2:25 in the afternoon when Tim Drake walked into Titans Tower. This is the best time of the day. The sun is not as hot as it is at noon, but with warm wind. It shines just right and makes people's hearts drunk.

People always want to feel sleepy at this time. They often yawn at this time, venting their fatigue and laziness all day long, with their tails curled up like cats.

This is the time of day when people are least alert, and it is often...

When a possible attack occurs.

"Batman, are you here?" Tim asked in a low voice.

It was quiet in Titan Tower, without any sound.

Without Nightwing, without Starfire, without any member of the Teen Titans, everything was eerily silent.

Tim looked down at the ground.

Some green blood, which clearly belonged to Beast Boy. As one of the best detective skills among all the Robins in history, Tim has never lost this skill even though he has been idle and homeschooling for a long time.

He could easily imagine...Beast Boy transformed into some large animal, maybe a lion, maybe a leopard, maybe a feline.

His eyes wandered to the bloody claw marks on the ground.

He jumped straight towards a possible, um, smaller enemy, and then...

He was electrocuted in mid-air, and then his abdomen was split open with a knife, and blood flew everywhere.

"Ah ah ah ah..."

The violent screams seemed to still be echoing in my ears.

Tim narrowed his eyes.

He turned his head and looked to the side.

Some kind of plasma bombardment with enough power. This was not an attack launched because Blue Beetle couldn't control the Scarab Armor.

Instead, Blue Beetle is actively attacking the enemy. This is unusual. Blue Beetle rarely uses plasma cannons easily.

He has always resisted the use of powerful weapons such as the Scarab Armor, because these weapons themselves were designed to kill people. Using this will constantly remind Jaime (Blue Beetle's real name) that the armor on his body is a The facts about killing machines.

But Blue Beetle doesn't think he's a killing machine, at least not when he's awake. To prove this, Blue Beetle has never been willing to use powerful attacks, so that on many occasions, he is so paranoid that he only uses armored cold weapons to fight.

Only when he is completely in a state of losing combat effectiveness will he be forced to...

Wait, Tim took a breath. He quickly discovered through a scorch mark on the wall that Blue Beetle's powerful attack was not dealing with the short enemy, but a heavy punch against his good brother Beast Boy.

This poor reasoning means that Blue Beetle is likely to be mind-controlled, or his armor has been hacked. It further explains that if he wants to thoroughly investigate the whole matter, he will most likely face Blue Beetle next.

This is very important information. Once this point is ignored and Blue Beetle is mistaken from an enemy that needs to be defeated for a victim that needs help, it may be the difference between life and death.

Tim touched his universal belt.

Although he was not familiar with Blue Beetle, in the past years, when Nightwing introduced his new teammates to him, Tim also collected information about the opponent.

This precautionary preparation, well, maybe it is the bad habit of the cub of the Bat family, which may be the only thing to be thankful for.

And the worst part doesn't end there.

Tim thought. Through the traces left on the field, he quickly deduced the reason for Raven and Starfire's defeat.

Whether it was a straightforward sonic attack followed by slicing the magician's neck to create tracheal trauma to prevent the opponent from performing powerful magic, or direct pressure by injecting powerful fear gas into the brain, these methods were all too bat-like, leaving Tim with no idea of the nature of the enemy. His judgment was in a fog.

Damn it, it can’t be Batman, right?

In such a dangerous situation, Tim's mind flashed to the way Batman laughed maniacally.

At a certain point, the unsmiling, serious and cold Batman was gone forever. Tim Drake once told his classmates that Batman's heart was as black as iron and his nature as bronze, and then they took out a Batman Laughing peripheral in front of him.

Even the restaurant that Tim Drake frequents has launched a Mad Thursday Batman Laughter Set. They spread rye bread with green bell pepper sauce and red ketchup, which they call it laugh-out-loud. Then call the whole burger the Laughing Bat Combo.

I don’t know since when, Batman laughing maniacally has become a universally recognized normal phenomenon, and has even become a part of popular culture.

Okay, look, Tim, you're probably facing a dangerous adversary who's still in Titans Tower and is attacking the entire Teen Titans, and you shouldn't be distracted by Batman at this time.

Tim shook his head and once again brought his thoughts back to the current situation at hand.

But no matter what Batman becomes, some things will never change. For example, he was still as scary as before, maybe even more so. He can still solve various problems as easily as before, and you will know that Batman can always be relied on, no matter when and where you lend a hand.

Although Batman has been calling for retirement, in fact, it was Robin Tim who was the first to retire completely. And for Tim...

The reason Tim became Robin was that after Batman lost Jason Todd, his whole person began to lose control. He began to go to the road of self-destruction and was determined to save Batman and replace Jason Todd. Mu's original intention of becoming Robin.

But now... Batman no longer thinks about self-destruction, or he is laughing happier than anyone else.

Again, although Batman has been talking about retiring, Tim feels that he is beginning to enjoy the process of saving the world, which is a huge progress for Batman.

In Batman, there is no trace of his past self-torture and self-destruction. At least one thing the old butler Alfred said is right: in the past few decades, Batman has been the one who A child who died along with his parents in an alley.

Although his body became stronger and he grew older, he never got out of that night. He always fell into a vicious circle of self-contradiction.

But one day, snap! It was like an impregnable bubble that once surrounded him, and suddenly it disappeared.

Right now he……

Uh... no longer destroying yourself, but instead destroying others?

Well, bad news: Batman's bottom line is lowered. Good news: Batman still has a bottom line.

In fact, as the old butler said, this kind of Batman may not be a bad thing, at least it is better than him who suffers a lot and has deep hatred.

At least Batman now only causes pain to others instead of himself. That's fine, Tim's point is that Batman's life is too dark.

he……

He probably deserves some happiness and joy.

Tim Drake had to admit that, just as Alfred thought, the personality of Batman had already been wiped out at some point, but in fact... this may not be a good thing?

Those psychological traumas, the endless pain, the reincarnation of torture every night, the wailing and screaming, the endless moans, the heavy burden that should not be carried on the shoulders...

They were all destroyed along with the destruction of that personality.

So one day, Batman turned into Bruce, and he no longer felt sad.

Happy, crazy, who says this isn't the last bit of tenderness this cruel mother in Gotham has for her young son?

As for the external performance... forget it, let it be.

Tim also knew that Batman really wanted to retire, but how could such a thing happen?

Everything in this world is always rolling forward, like violent winds and rain, and turbulent waves crashing on the shore.

And everyone's world is like a ship sailing in a storm.

Tim Drake can retire as an inconsequential accessory on the ship. Clark Kent can retire because he is a broken mast. The Flash, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, and even the entire gang of rogues, anyone can retire, because they are all important parts of the ship, but they are not irreplaceable.

But not Batman. It is the main mast that supports the navigation of the entire ship. Once broken, the ship is in danger of capsizing. If the world was calm, we could naturally look for talented people and slowly renew the mast, but now that the world is stormy outside, where can we have such leisure time?

Even if the weather is calm, a mainmast that can withstand wind and rain is not built in a day. Is it a joke to want to dismantle the new mast before it is cast?

Sometimes...Tim always feels that Batman can never escape the fate of Sisyphus. That is the stone pusher in Greek mythology. He kept trying to push the boulder up the hillside, but every time he would slide back into the abyss. He could never catch what he wanted, so he was trapped for life.

And so does Batman. He had begged to end crime forever, but was always disappointed. And now he wants to let go of everything, but he always fails to do so. But maybe now is better than before, at least despite the disappointment, Batman will be happier and happier than before, just a little... is enough.

Compared with the Batman who once trapped himself in the quagmire of Gotham and rotted together, obsessed with eradicating evil rather than treating the symptoms, now Batman just can't retire, which is much better than in the past.

All in all, Tim chose to send a message to Batman quietly.

It's time for him to ask Batman for help. No matter what is entrenched in Titans Tower now, it is dangerous enough and is not something he should touch.

Unlike Jason Todd, the second-generation Robin whose character is impulsive and violent, Tim, the third-generation Robin, has always known that he should act within his capabilities. Losing the second-generation Robin almost drove Batman crazy. If something went wrong with him, it would undoubtedly be a heavy blow to Batman.

He won't do stupid things to show off blindly. He loves Batman, and like Alfred, he wants Batman to be happy, and it is for this reason that he should cherish his life.

However, just when he was about to exit Titan Tower, he heard someone standing in the deep shadows, asking him in a low voice:

"Who are you? Why are you wearing Robin's uniform? Why...are you trying to leave in a hurry?"

Tim turned his head.

His heart beat violently as he looked into the eyes of that existing enemy...

etc. A little kid of five or six?

Tim never looked down on the other person because of their appearance. The opponent held a long knife in his hand, stained with green blood, which was obviously Beast Boy's.

A smile stretched from the corner of his mouth to the corners of his face, and just seeing it made people feel a chill rush from the soles of their feet to the spine of their necks.

Then, the smile on the child's face suddenly disappeared, like a drawing being erased on a blackboard.

"Isn't it actually my father who is here?"

Tim heard the child say, and he keenly noticed that something was wrong with the other person's current situation. It didn't feel like a normal state at all, but he seemed to be able to communicate.

"Why hasn't my father come to see me yet? Did I fail the trial? I have obviously completed the trial, why don't you come to recognize me quickly? Why haven't I been praised? Is my trial not over yet? Is it true that I have not yet come to recognize me? Have a new goal? I..."

Boom!Boom!Boom!

Tim Drake felt his heart beating fast. He is now trapped in the opponent's home court, which is definitely a very disadvantageous situation.

"What's your name?"

He immediately spoke out to interrupt the other party's continued train of thought. If the other party continued to think about it, he would not be sure what the other party was going to say.

Then he successfully got the name of the other party, Damian Wayne.

"Listen to me, I'm supervising your trial on behalf of Batman."

While speaking to stabilize the other party, Tim secretly prepared various protective equipment in his universal belt.

Without knowing exactly what arrangements the young man in front of him who calls himself Damian Wayne has made in Titan Tower, fighting the opponent here is undoubtedly a huge disadvantage.

The child was obviously controlled and delirious. Tim Drake had seen victims hypnotized by the Mad Hatter (Note: DC villain, who uses hats to mind-control others, appeared in the previous article).

Taichi (the original name of the Mad Hatter) is a super master who is proficient in the forced puppet control of the hat and the control of a person's thoughts by strengthening a person's thoughts through hypnosis.

Thanks to the other party's training, Tim still has some experience in analyzing people who are in a state of mind control.

The child in front of him has obviously been strengthened with some of his ideas about gaining Batman's approval. The controller behind the scenes uses mind control to drive this child to do things that he would not normally do.

At this time, you shouldn't say words that are different from his thinking and cognition to stimulate the other person's brain. Instead, you should follow him and then...

呲呲呲!

Tim Drake rolled and jumped away from the position where he had just stood. The sudden electric shock made Tim's heart pound. He threw out the blocking agent to prevent himself from cardiac paralysis caused by stepping on the ground.

This was already an electric current that was completely enough to kill. The child in front of him was no longer serious about his actions, and the extent of his control had deepened.

"Listen to me, you..."

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu——Why hasn’t dad come to recognize my success?!”

Along with Damian's deformed cry, his voice began to gradually mix with a voice that sounded like a rough-voiced adult, resonating with him at the same frequency.

Tim threw out three yellow batarangs, but they were smashed into pieces by the stand rising from Damian's body. The fear gas attached to them was also blocked by the protective stand, and Damian was not hit at all.

However, this also prevented Damian's subsequent attack. Tim quickly left the coverage area of the motor device and moved to a safe place.

It seemed that Damian and Tim Drake were equally matched at this moment, but at this moment Tim's heart was ringing with alarm bells.

"Damn... this kid is too well prepared, and he is still killing. What's even worse is that if he has defeated the entire Teen Titans, given his current state of mind control, then what is very likely to happen that is……"

boom! ! !

A beam of light that looked like lightning melted the steel beam beneath Tim's feet.

He fell to the ground in a panic. If he hadn't shot the bat hook in time and jumped to another beam, he would have fallen into the electric shock zone again. Tim had no doubt that he would be electrocuted to death as long as he stepped on it.

"Damn it, why hasn't Batman arrived yet? I've already sent him a message."

Looking at the expressionless Blue Beetle appearing next to Damian, Tim was secretly worried.

"Is he tripped?"

But soon Tim had no time to think about it. The appearance of Starfire, Beast Boy, and the other two Teen Titans members beside Damian made his heart sink. Although Raven did not appear, Beast Boy was full of blood. They are all injured, but the force here has absolutely surpassed...

brush!

Tim shrank his head and dodged the attack from behind.

He turned his head and saw Killer Croc opening the red door of all living beings and appearing next to Damian with an expressionless face.

"Damn, even Killer Crocodile is controlled... Then..."

Tim looked sharply at his feet. Fortunately, what he feared did not happen. It seems Clayface didn’t…

But it was of no use. The next second Tim was knocked unconscious by Starfire. This was not at the speed he could react. This was a huge gap between humans and superhumans.

"You must... you must complete the trial... to gain your father's approval..."

Damian looked at Tim lying on the ground. Purple and red colors appeared in his eyes, and then became darker.

He walked towards the other party and pulled out the knife from his waist.

"I have to……"

He was struggling, but he still raised the knife towards the fallen Tim.

Then... Damian heard a sigh.

"stop."

He turned his head and saw Batman appearing behind him at some point.

He reached out a hand and put it on his shoulder.

"Father..." Damian turned his head, the struggle in his eyes became more intense, and his pupils kept trembling.

"Father..." He couldn't say anything, he just shouted again.

"It's okay... Be good."