American Comics: Beginning with Luke the Maker

"What about?" Bruce asked silently.

"For example? Your moral sense and sense of justice will be stronger? Can you completely gain the upper hand without any constraints? I don't agree with this way of doing things where one emotion has the permanent upper hand. This is too loopy for you. Just like It is human pain, and it will certainly bring you a bad experience, but it can save your life at critical moments. The same is true for the dark side." Stephen thought for a while and replied.Of course, this answer and metaphor is not accurate, but it is enough for Bruce to realize the meaning and draw inferences and understanding.

"I use it more to cut off psychic [excrescences] and make people less extreme."

"So, is it separated from me now?" Bruce looked at young Wayne, who was hunched over on the ground, suffering great pain, with a distorted face. While feeling light, Bruce also felt something in his heart. Confused and confused.

"He is infected with the abyss, and he actively provokes the abyss. If you still want to live and live healthily, then you can only do this. Cut it off before it infects you in turn." Stephen looked at the cracks that gradually followed The divided spiritual world explained to Bruce.

With the roaring sound, the ground between Bruce and young Wayne cracked. At first, it was just a fine crack, and then it snaked and expanded rapidly to both sides. The crack that was initially just a gap also Like a mountain dividing a sea, it expanded to both sides, forming a bottomless abyss.

The manor, which carried many memories and emotions of Bruce's youth, gradually moved away from him along with the young Wayne as the ground cracked.Young Wayne seemed to realize that he was about to die. A stream of black slurry sputtered out from behind him like a fountain, turning into black lines like spider silk in mid-air, and shooting in the direction of Bruce like a shower.

Stephen and Bruce watched this scene quietly. The gap caused by the crack in the ground was expanding too fast. Even though young Wayne's black spider thread was long and fast, it was still like facing a natural chasm and could not connect to Bruce. side ground.In the end, it could only be gradually swallowed up by the thick fog amidst the crazy, wild beast-like roars.

With the disappearance of young Wayne, Bruce seemed to be relieved of some danger that made his scalp numb.

The spiritual world stabilized again.As young Wayne was swallowed by the abyss, the members of the Dark Knights he embodied also collapsed and collapsed like weathered statues.

Just when Bruce thought everything was over, another shock came alive, and he felt like something was being separated from him again.A strong light dissipated part of the dense fog, revealing a person with a golden body, and the light was so intense that it was impossible to see his face. He suddenly appeared in the dispersed dense fog, and soon together with the light, and The ground was once again divided and receded together in the thick fog.

"What is that?" Bruce vaguely felt that he had lost something very important this time. He took a deep breath and looked at Stephen who was smiling awkwardly.

"You understand, sometimes I have to think about the patient's recovery. Since your dark side has been cut off, the opposite, your bright side, naturally needs to be cut off as well. Otherwise, it will just be a transition from one extreme to another. That's it. The balance during this period is difficult to grasp." Stephen said helplessly, spreading his hands.

"Are you sure you really think so?" Bruce felt that he was extraordinarily calm now, so calm that he even seemed a bit like an emotionless, cold robot.But strangely, he could clearly feel that he still had the power of emotion, and was still a human being with joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, but now those emotions were much weaker in his heart.For example, he still feels angry and angry, but this anger does not rise to the point where he loses control.The same goes for other emotions.I can feel them, but I can't be deeply affected by them.

"You have to trust the professionals!" Stephen said firmly.

"I hope so. Now, is everything settled? I mean my current state." Bruce also had no intention of arguing with Stephen on this issue. In any case, Stephen did help him a lot this time. .Without Stephen, it's hard to say whether he would have been replaced by his dark side and then become the Abyss Knight who combined the power of the abyss to destroy the universe.

Of course, it is also possible that he was discovered by Luke and others before he could completely destroy the world, and then controlled and sealed him.This is also possible.

"What's your current state?" Stephen looked at Bruce's calm face, "What are you referring to?"

"My emotions seem to be a lot indifferent. Many people and feelings that I value, including those I hold on to, now have a vague feeling of indifference in my heart. Is this feeling right? Will I always maintain this emotion? A state of indifference?" Bruce asked.He must ask this question clearly. He can find something wrong now because the cutting time is still short, and he can still realize this sense of fragmentation. When time goes by, if his condition does not recover, it will be very bad. .

It was hard for Bruce to predict what kind of person he would become if he was emotionally indifferent and didn't care about anything else!And most of the results speculated based on this situation are not what Bruce is willing to accept.After all, those speculated futures are nothing more than postponing the current trouble to the future.

"Are you asking whether this state is normal? Does it last forever or does it last for a limited time?" Stephen immediately understood Bruce's inner worries. He comforted him and said: "Don't worry, I didn't completely cut off your emotions. You The disease has not worsened to that point. Although the abyss has infected your dark side, we dealt with it in a timely manner. Just like the incurable disease cancer in the past, it has occurred and we cannot completely eradicate it. But as long as it does not reach the later stage , there are ways to cure it and even control it. You are far from the mid-to-late stage.

As time goes by and you have more contact with familiar people, your emotional system will slowly recover.Of course, compared with you before, there will definitely be differences.There's no way!But you can regard this process as a personality reshaping and emotional rebirth! "

Bruce nodded, indicating that he understood.

"Then, it's time for us to leave here. There are still some final procedures to go through." Stephen also breathed a sigh of relief.Although there were a lot of surprises this time, the results were always good. (End of chapter)