American Comics: Beginning with Luke the Maker

"Anti-life equation?" Stephen thought for a moment and rejected the answer before Luke could answer.

He has fought against Darkseid, the owner of the Anti-Life Equation, and experienced the power that can distort human consciousness.In general, Stephen also acknowledged the power of the Anti-Life Equation, but this was not enough to make Luke rush over for it.

And something that Luke can consider to be effective for the project he is working on should be related to the project or at the same level.That kind of power and stuff is at least on top of the Infinity Stones.

Luke stretched out his hand to Stephen: "Can you hand over the dark side of Bruce to me first?"

Stephen was a little stunned. He didn't seem to expect Luke to be interested in Bruce's dark side.He looked at Bruce who had no objection, and immediately took out the dark side of Bruce that he had put away, stood up from the chair, and handed it into Luke's hand.Then, he retreated to Bruce's side and watched Luke's actions with him.

The black sphere was suspended in Luke's hand, and black gravel-like metal sand seeped into the air. They were combined into tiny parts, and then pieced together on the left and right sides to form what looked like a horizontal hourglass. The same instrument, the center point of the hourglass, is the dark sphere that Stephen handed over, containing the dark side of Bruce.

The dark sphere was twisted and split in full view of the public, and the consciousness imprisoned inside turned into wisps of black mist, as if smelling the breath of freedom, it quickly overflowed around the cracked sphere, but soon Soon they encountered powerful obstacles, layers of invisible barriers blocking them, and there was also a force that cut them accurately like a scalpel.

Two twisted phantoms were cut out, and two faces appeared in mid-air.One is the face of young Wayne, with the black markings of the abyss still lingering on his body; the other is the Laughing Bat.He was unlucky. As an outsider who took the initiative to integrate with Bruce's dark side, he was also implicated in the abyss of attention called by young Wayne.

It's hard to say whether this was part of the Laughing Bat's plan, but he did bring himself into contact with the abyss of the universe through Bruce's dark side, and experienced it personally.

With a wave of his hand, Luke reabsorbed young Wayne's portion back into the Dark Sphere and imprisoned it again.Then the sphere seal was opened, and the device that assumed the function of a pocket intelligent soul operating table also collapsed into hundreds of thousands of densely packed tiny parts in an instant, and then split again into black metal sand, covering Luke's left hand. A layer of gloves of unknown material.

"No." Luke threw the dark sphere in the direction of Bruce and Stephen.

"Are you here for him?" The floating cloak behind Stephen stretched out a piece of clothing to wrap around the dark sphere, and obediently handed it to Stephen's hand.Stephen asked as he looked at the soul projection of the dazed Laughing Bat in the void.

"To be precise, I came here for his memory and the person in charge behind it." Luke corrected, and the soul of the Laughing Bat was compressed into an A4-sized book as thick as a dictionary in the next moment. books.His hands flipped back and forth on the soul projection of the Laughing Bat, as if he were flipping through a real book.The memories of each stage of the Laughing Bat are neatly arranged in categories according to time in the directory.

"Is there someone behind him?" Stephen was startled for a moment, his eyes glanced at Bruce beside him, and his heart suddenly dawned.He wasn't surprised by this. After all, anything involving dimensional invasion would have a mastermind behind it.

He and Bruce were very interested in asking again, but seeing Luke looking at the books intently, they could only suppress their inner curiosity and desire to explore for the time being.Fortunately, Luke flipped through the pages very quickly. After just a few seconds, the book titled The Laughing Bat was closed again. Luke had obviously finished flipping through it.

"Seeing it so fast?" Stephen was a little shocked at Luke's efficiency.He has always been confident in his memory and learning ability. He spent so much time late at night reading many magic books collected by Karma Taj.But he also had to admit that if he had Luke's reading speed, he would have been much more relaxed.

"I'm not interested in his other memories. There's no need to waste my time on them." Luke reached out to touch the cover of the book, looked at Bruce and Stephen, and shook the book in the air. Asked: "Is there anything you want to know?"

"No." Bruce shook his head. In his dream, he had already browsed through the tragic experience of how the other party became like this, and he didn't want to recall that memory again.So as not to affect myself who is not yet mentally stable.

"I'm not interested in him either." Bruce shook his head. Of course, Stephen was even less likely to take the initiative to read the book about the Laughing Bat, and he had no personal relationship with him, so why waste time?
"Then, his ownership rights belong to me. Is it okay for me to use him?" Luke looked at Bruce when he spoke.

"Of course." Bruce understood what Luke meant. He speculated that Luke might do some inhumane things to this soul next, so he should seek the opinion of his alien body beforehand.Although Bruce didn't feel that there was any point in his opposition and that he could prevent anything.But Luke showed attitude, and he certainly wasn't ignorant.The other party hasn't touched his bottom line, right?

"What are you going to use him for?" Stephen asked for Bruce.

"This is a pretty good material." Luke answered without any concealment. "The crystal after its death can open a passage for me to my destination. This is a guidepost, Stephen."

"Is your material so, um, evil? Using the soul as the material?" Bruce looked at the soul of the Laughing Bat that was constantly deforming in Luke's hands with complicated eyes.

"In the mysterious world, the soul itself is a popular material! The better the soul, the more sought after it will be! And dimensional demons such as Mephisto will continue to use it according to their own power attributes. Figure out a person’s soul and carve it into what you want it to be,” Stephen explained.

"I just feel a little strange in my heart. After all, I am myself in another world." Bruce is not too sentimental. Judging from the dream, those blackened selves in other universes are obviously not good people. Each of them is burdened with a The cry of the destruction of the universe.

"This is normal, haven't you noticed? You are simply the best fusion agent in these universes! Anyone can fuse with your soul, and any energy can adapt to you. You are simply a ten thousand-year-old stickman Mixture." Luke held a ready-made black pointer in his hand and glanced at Bruce with a strange look.

Bruce tensed up at the interested research look in Luke's eyes. He was quite afraid that Luke would suddenly say to him at the next moment: "Do you want to contribute your body as material for me to study?" or something like that. . "Don't be nervous, I didn't study your mind. Your physical information has been stored in my database as early as the first time. I'm just explaining to you what's special about you. Look at the strange things that those Dark Legions have Each of your own strength characteristics is a combined product of someone's soul and strength. Obviously, the mastermind behind the scenes thinks that your material is very useful." Luke saw Bruce's nervousness, He comforted him casually.

"When you say that, I don't know what emotion to express." Bruce smiled bitterly.

Luke waved his finger, and an illusory furnace spewed energy. A strong man's figure appeared out of nowhere, and then under the stunned gazes of Bruce and Stephen, an extremely illusory soul shadow was thrown into it. into the body.

"Let him stay here for a while, and I'll go see Becky. You can also chat with him." Luke put away the black pointer, and then a neatly drawn pattern was drawn in the air behind him. He stretched out his hand to open the door, turned around and said as he stepped in.

"Is this?" Watching Luke step into the space door, both Bruce and Stephen's eyes fell on the third person on the field.

It was a face exactly like Bruce's, and Luke thoughtfully made him a set of loose clothes like a hospital gown.

"Another you." Stephen opened his mouth.

"Of course I know this is another me." Bruce took a deep breath and pointed at the other person: "The question is, which me is he? I understand that his skills are unreasonable, but what does this mean?"

"Hmm!" Bruce in the hospital gown snorted. He slowly opened his eyes, and then looked around with vigilance. Until he saw Bruce and Stephen, his body suddenly relaxed again.

"I'm sorry for causing trouble to you and your universe, Bruce." Bruce, who was wearing a hospital gown, got ahead of the two of them and looked at Bruce with a somewhat guilty expression as he apologized.

"The Laughing Bat?" Stephen and Bruce looked at each other in confusion, and then looked at Bruce in the hospital gown and asked.

"I really don't want to hear this name from you. Because it will always remind me of that nightmare-like experience." Bruce in hospital gown hugged his head and squatted down, with a painful expression on his face.

"What on earth is going on?" Bruce was a little confused.For a moment, he couldn't tell whether his mental state was still normal.

"Obviously, Luke helped him get back to normal," Stephen speculated.The illusory soul that was shot into this body was the Laughing Bat extracted by Luke.According to the original attributes, this should be a chaotic and dark personality soul combined with the Joker, but it is acting so normal now. If it is not disguised, it is obviously Luke who is helping him when extracting the material materials he needs. Feeling relieved.

"Cognitive modification?" Bruce thought of a possibility.For example, Darkseid's Anti-Life Equation has the ability to distort human consciousness, causing people to lose themselves or degenerate into another form.Based on his understanding of spiritual energy, spiritual energy also has a very high absolute priority in this regard.So in other words, Luke can modify people's cognition, which is not incomprehensible.

"No, I remember everything about me. I just returned to myself before I was infected with the clown virus." Bruce in the hospital gown denied Bruce's speculation. He did not think that his cognition had been modified, because he had remembered everything. Remember.

"Are you sure your memory is true and has not been modified in any way?" Bruce expressed doubts.

"I am you, and you should trust your own judgment." Bruce, who was in a hospital gown, glanced strangely at himself, who was not very stable in mood swings.

"This shouldn't be a simple cognitive modification." Stephen came to his own conclusion after observing.His words also attracted the attention of the two Bruces, who turned their gazes to listen to Stephen's opinions.

"Emotions are easily affected by various factors. But after the Laughing Bat is linked to a powerful dark master and is contaminated by its power characteristics, simple cognitive modification cannot change his depravity. .

In other words, simple cognitive modification can only make him falsely awake for a moment at most, and then under the influence of the power attribute, he will still become corrupted and become what the power attribute represents. "Stephen analyzed: "That kind of method treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and it is difficult for the Laughing Bat to return to its true self. "

The two Bruces nodded slowly.This is like cutting a waterfall. If the subsequent water flow is not stopped, the waterfall will not be cut off.

"So, rather than so much a cognitive modification, I think there is also a change in power attributes! A force that is opposed to the mastermind behind the scenes, acting as a protective layer and filter layer, protecting Bruce's spirit The soul no longer has to be forcibly polluted. It allowed him to regain his original reason and calmness." Stephen continued: "In terms of opposing energy attributes, this is the area where Luke is most proficient. He can always find a way to restrain any energy. And create energy with opposite properties.”

"But this does not prevent him from arbitrarily altering and distorting people's spiritual souls like those dimensional demons, does it?" Bruce narrowed his eyes, "The only difference from the dimensional demons you mentioned is that those dimensional demons may only have A kind of pollution with a power attribute, and Luke can be combined and matched at will, allowing people to switch back and forth between the camps of justice, darkness, chaos, etc."

"I can't deny what you said. But I don't think you need to worry too much about this. If he wanted to, it would be difficult for you to stop him, wouldn't it?" Stephen spread his hands. (End of chapter)