Chapter 948: What Schiller Fears Most (Part 2)

Batman originally wanted to speak when Zatanna was depressed and persuade her to give up. After all, Batman's purpose of coming here had been achieved, and he didn't think Zatanna's plan could succeed.

Unexpectedly, Zatanna suddenly pushed him away, and then said energetically: "In this case, I want to see what kind of secrets this mysterious Professor Schiller hides? What does he have?" weakness?"

"If an extremely evil curse falls into the hands of such a person, something terrible will happen. I must stop it all!"

Looking at the determined expression on Zatanna's face, Batman, who had just been hugged by Zatanna, felt that it was not very easy for him to speak now.

Unexpectedly, Constantine coughed twice and said: "Xiao Zha, you can see that this professor is not an ordinary person, otherwise we will still..."

Constantine also wanted to leave. Although he didn't get the Cursed Soul this time, he got Batman's handle. He returned with a full load. His goal was basically achieved. Anyway, he didn't think Zatanna's plan could be achieved. success.

But Zatanna glared at him and said, "Do you think I'm the same as you? I won't aim to retreat."

After saying that, she walked up to the light balls again, looked down at the building blocks in her hand, and said: "Building blocks? Let me think about it... No, no, no matter what, it is wrong to lie to children, but exchange should be possible. Bar?"

After saying that, she pulled over another memory light ball. This memory light ball was smaller than the other light balls. The screen unfolded and Zatanna constructed a scene of a children's room.

Then, she said to herself: "This building block should be a very important thing to the young Schiller. If I exchange him for an umbrella, he should exchange it with me, right?"

After saying that, the young Schiller appeared in the memory space. At this time, a female teacher who looked exactly like Zatanna came in. She held a building block in her hand, then squatted down and looked at the young Schiller. His eyes said: "Children Schiller, do you want this building block?"

The young Schiller looked into Zatanna's eyes and nodded. Zatanna showed a gentle smile, touched his head, and said, "Can you exchange your umbrella with the teacher?"

The young Schiller turned his head and glanced at the big umbrella he was holding behind him, then looked at Zatanna again, and then shook his head.

"Why don't you want to switch with me?" Zatanna still squinted her eyes very gently and said with a smile: "It's not raining today. You can safely play with building blocks in the house without going out. Come on, give me your umbrella." I……"

Schiller took a step back slightly and shook his head again, but his eyes stayed on the building blocks in Zatanna's hand. Zatanna felt that this might be the most promising round, so she moved her hand again. Passed it forward.

Unexpectedly, Schiller quickly took the blocks from her hand and ran to the corner.

Zatanna's eyes widened and she seemed a little angry. She immediately took two steps forward and said, "How can you steal something? This is wrong. Children must be polite!"

But the young Schiller who was hiding in the corner, holding blocks in one hand and an umbrella in the other, just kept staring at her. Zatanna wanted to take two steps forward, but she was afraid of irritating Schiller.

She had no choice but to reset the scene again. This time, she did not reach out so far forward and grabbed the blocks tightly, not giving Schiller a chance to succeed. Then, she and Schiller glared at each other like this. Three hours.

Of course, it was three hours in the memory space, and about 20 minutes had passed in the soul buffer zone where Zatanna and the others were.

Finally, the screen went out, and Zatanna chose to give up. She stood there and said sluggishly: "I really don't understand, how can such a young child have such a strong concentration? He stared at my movements. For three full hours, as long as I loosened my fingers a little and lost my mind, he would snatch the blocks away..."

"Many autistic children have higher concentration than their peers. If they are lacking in one aspect, they will be particularly good at another aspect." Batman said.

Zatanna's face looked very tired, not only because it took too much power to reset the scene multiple times, but also because anyone who encountered Schiller would feel a kind of mental torture.

Batman saw Zatanna's expression, and he knew that Zatanna's emotions were being stretched into a string, and it was a little too tight now and might break at any time. It was not a good idea to stimulate her at this time.

Sure enough, he heard Zatanna murmur to herself: "I must solve this curse. I have such a responsibility. This is my destiny..."

"Damn fate!" Constantine, who was lying on the ground recovering his strength, raised his voice and said, "Why don't you understand that those elders who said these words to you don't really want you to save the world, but I just want to use you to save them!"

"Constantine!" Zatanna almost screamed: "Do you think I will become someone like you? I am different from you. I will definitely use my talents to protect the world. I will never Let yourself go down that path!”

Constantine closed his eyes, his chest rose and fell weakly, and he said: "Perhaps your desire to protect the world is true, but the person who originally established this goal for you and taught you methods and skills has never been I don’t really want to protect the world…”

"Are you talking about my father?!" Zatanna's voice broke. She said to Constantine viciously: "No matter what, what my father and I did was to protect others! Unlike you!"

Constantine did not refute this at all. He just took out a cigarette and took a puff, then said: "Looking for justice and protecting others in the magic world, are you wrong? We are just a group of poor cursed creatures. Don't think too highly of yourself."

Batman saw Zatanna's distorted face. Through the conversation between Zatanna and Constantine, Batman guessed that Zatanna, who was born in a famous family, may have been instilled with the idea of ​​using her powerful talents to save and protect the world since she was a child.

Perhaps, the purpose of those who instilled this truth in him was not pure, or perhaps their purpose was simple, but it did not match the facts.

Constantine has emphasized countless times that magic talent is like a curse, constantly forcing people to slide into the abyss. Zatanna seems to think that she will be the exception, but Constantine is very pessimistic about this.

"You should save more energy, Zatanna, save some energy to protect yourself, instead of driving yourself crazy in the pursuit of so-called justice like now."

Zatanna's expression was moved for a moment, and Batman saw a trace of fragility in that moment, but it soon disappeared.

This female magician, who always has a playful smile on her face, is always focused and full of energy, just like performing on the stage.

But first, she heard the news of the evil curse and rushed to Gotham without stopping. Then, she spent a lot of strength and energy to arrange the fog that blocked the Gotham spirit world. Finally, it was not smooth to find the flaws in the memory space...

This series of blows made Zatanna feel very anxious. It seemed that there was always a voice in her heart urging her, telling her that if she couldn't solve this matter alone, there would be serious consequences. As long as she didn't do her best, as long as she made any small mistakes, the world would be destroyed and mankind would perish.

And Batman deeply understood this emotion.

Batman is not very good at comforting people. He can only use his own methods to divert Zatanna's attention, so he said:

"If we continue to waste time here, there will be no additional progress. I think we should return to the real world first. This is the most rational choice."

He looked at Zatanna and Constantine and said, "Both of you are in bad condition. We urgently need to rest. Let's go back first."

Constantine nodded, stood up from the ground, and planned to leave, but Zatanna, who stood there silently, took a deep breath, exhaled, and then said, "If you want to leave, I can send you back first, but I have to stay here."

"Even if I can't get the curse medium now, I must know how to restrain him, otherwise, when the disaster really comes, it will be too late."

"Xiao Za, listen to me, there is no point in dragging it on, it will cause great harm to you." Constantine looked into Zatanna's eyes and said, "I know You still have a trump card, but it's not worth it. "

"Nothing is not worth it, I've said, I'm doing my best every moment." Zatanna was also unwilling to give in. She said: "If you want to leave, I'll send you away now, but I must find the flaws in these memory spaces."

Zatanna's stubbornness gave Constantine a headache. He winked at Batman, wanting Batman to come and persuade him, but unexpectedly, Batman came over and said: "Do you think you still have spare energy? If so, then execute your plan."

"Oh my God, are you crazy? !" Constantine said in confusion: "Even if you stay here for a few more hours, what will happen? It's just repeating these previous failures a few more times..."

Unexpectedly, Zatanna said: "No, since things have come to this point, I think we can use some radical methods."

"You mean, do you have other methods?" Batman looked at her and asked.

Zatanna sighed and said, "Actually, I don't want to do this. This is beyond the scope of memory modification."

"Now, what you see is that I am creating a fictional memory space and implanting false memories for the characters in the memory space. In fact, it will not have much impact on the real memory."

"Because this is only a change on the superficial level of consciousness, and it does not touch the deep part at all."

"But in fact, mental magic can do much more than that. We can go deeper along the path of memory to spy on more secrets there."

Zatanna sighed softly and said, "If we can't use this deceptive method to make him hand over the curse medium, then at least we can get a way to restrain him and stop him when he wants to do something."

Seeing the expression on Zatanna's face and hearing what she said, Batman had a very strange feeling, because he saw his past self in Zatanna.

Suspicious, paranoid, and persecuted, he hopes that everything will go according to his ideas and that all plans have backup plans. He must find the weaknesses of any existence that may be beyond his control, otherwise he will have trouble sleeping and eating.

Now, Batman has clearly understood how his current personality was formed. He is driven by anger, revenge and the desire to save Gotham. He is eager to become a perfect person, and he is very anxious about not being able to be perfect.

So what is forcing Zatanna to take such a path to the abyss? What can save her?

Batman suddenly found that from the perspective of an observer, such a person is not likable. He finally understood why Schiller and the madman who always laughed kept emphasizing that "people dressed as bats are mentally ill."

Because such people really look like mental patients.