Chapter 1023: Momentary Broadness of Heaven and Earth (Part 2) (Patreon)

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Batman saw it all, yet not everything because he couldn't hear the original Schiller's voice, only seeing the visuals.

Batman didn't have time to search for Schiller's whereabouts through surveillance since Schiller was taken away by unidentified individuals. After all, the opposite side could very well be professional agents who knew how to evade surveillance. Moreover, to chase someone through surveillance, there must be someone stationed there to report the location in real-time, which would create delays. Batman had a better way.

He could directly use the mad wine to enter Schiller's dream, where the other Schillers in the high tower of thought could directly tell Batman the location of Schiller's body. This would be much faster than tailing the agents.

He arrived just in time, catching Schiller starting to play the memory magic brought by the badge. However, because the audio and video were separate, only Schiller could hear the sound while Batman could only see the visuals.

But this didn't hinder Batman from deducing what was going on.

In the first scene, the calendar on the wall already showed the time, it was Christmas 1991. However, the next scene appeared decades earlier in Berlin, and Schiller had turned into a child.

At this point, Batman initially thought the whole process was in reverse order. The scene he saw before, where Schiller committed suicide, was a prophecy, and only then did they begin to recount Schiller's life from the past.

However, as he continued to watch, things didn't add up. Based on young Schiller's development, he shouldn't have been a soldier but rather an agent, and the difference between the two was significant.

Moreover, on the military uniform of Schiller, Batman had seen many badges, many of which were genuine military medals. Batman recognized them; these medals were not awarded to anyone outside the military system.

Now, through the visuals, Batman understood Schiller's two different life stories, and adding what he had seen in the memory space of DC Schiller, there were already three sets.

The first set: Schiller was a Soviet Union soldier who committed suicide in December 1991.

The second set: Schiller was an agent cultivated by the KGB from a young age and also a sorcerer. He eventually became the director of the KGB's 11th bureau.

The third set: Schiller once witnessed a great carnage in an orphanage, became an experimental subject of a mysterious organization, successfully escaped, and later entered the Ninth Management.

If there were only two sets of life stories, Batman could easily fabricate a complete story.

For example, merging the second and third sets together: Schiller once witnessed a great carnage in an East German orphanage, became an experimental subject, escaped, got cured in a facility in an Eastern country, and returned to the KGB.

Merging the first and second sets: KGB entered the military system to carry out certain tasks, the mission failed, and Schiller could only choose suicide.

However, these first, second, and third sets of life stories, no matter how combined, always had one set that was redundant and unreasonable.

Batman suspected that only one set of life story was true, but he instinctively felt that they might all be true.

What was the deal with the extra set?

Among them, what concerned Batman the most was that the soldier Schiller committed suicide in December 1991, and now it was December 2, 1991. His professor was still here, seemingly not someone who could instantly enter the military system.

At that time, Batman couldn't hear the sound of the Soviet Union disintegrating on the radio. He felt it might be a prophecy but couldn't figure out under what circumstances Schiller would choose suicide.

Of course, Schiller had previously committed suicide in a telephone booth to drag Batman and Constantine into hell together. However, when the soldier Schiller committed suicide, the atmosphere in the room made Batman feel a strong sense of tragedy. He felt that it couldn't be a plan; the despair of a hero at the end of the road deeply shook him.

It was at this moment that Batman thought of the sequence in which these films were played.

Batman thought, perhaps he should simplify things. The fact was, Schiller committed suicide first, then returned to his childhood.

Thinking of this, Batman suddenly realized because he always felt that Schiller had a judgment about everyone around him that came from beyond the facts, as if he had already anticipated certain things. Could it be that he was a reincarnator?

Could it be that Schiller had met everyone he knew in this life in the previous life, including him, Batman, so Schiller had so many judgments based on facts beyond?

As the dream shattered and Schiller's consciousness returned, Batman saw the décor of the hotel from Schiller's perspective and judged it to be the Sockworth Grand Hotel. So he hurriedly came here.

Immediately, he saw the scene from Schiller's memory as the first scene, Schiller standing by the window, holding a handgun, with a heavy expression, lost in thought.

Looking at the calendar on the wall, today was December 2, 1991.

"Calm down, Professor." Batman walked behind Schiller, who was holding the handgun, and turned to look at him, asking, "Did you see everything?"

Batman remained silent without denying it. In his mind, he recalled the expression and demeanor of Schiller in the first scene, which was somewhat different from the professor standing in front of him now, reminding Batman of another person, his butler Alfred.

At that moment, Batman had a thought. He realized that the sadness and confusion Alfred had shown behind his back were all because of one thing—the Soviet Union.

What had happened recently in the Soviet Union?

Batman didn't know; his understanding of the Soviet Union mostly came from the news. He hadn't heard of any major news from the Soviet Union recently. So why did Schiller have an incident during this time?

Just as Batman was pondering, Schiller sighed and pulled the curtains shut, ignoring the lush broccoli outside the window.

Schiller thought that Gotham, filled with blue cabbage, was no place to stay. It just so happened that he could now follow the people from the 11th bureau back to Moscow to find out the current situation in the Soviet Union. He could also take a break and get away from the annoying broccoli.

So, Schiller spoke up, saying, "I know you have many questions, but I don't have time to answer them now. I have to go to Moscow for a while. I might not be back for months. Let's talk about your graduation message and recommendation letter when I return."

Batman's expression changed, and he took a step to the side, blocking Schiller's path out of the room, and asked, "What are you going to do in Moscow?"

"What do you think I'm going there for?"

Schiller meant, don't you know who I am? Sooner or later, the KGB will return, but in Batman's understanding just now after seeing that scene, it meant something else.

"Are you a reincarnator?" Batman changed the subject.

Thinking of the blue cabbage Schiller, he absentmindedly nodded. The original Schiller was indeed a reincarnator.

After getting a positive answer, Batman had a feeling of inevitability. When Schiller told Batman that he was cursed by a bat, Batman was thinking about one question.

Schiller had spent so much effort to cure him. Was it really just because of Batman's curse?

Batman didn't think so. Schiller couldn't completely undo this curse. Looking back at his Batman four years ago, he deeply felt that undoing the curse and changing him might be simpler.

But since Schiller chose a more difficult and longer path, there must be a reason. And if Schiller was a reincarnator, what was his previous life like? What was the outcome?

Batman knew that these two questions wouldn't have any good answers because if there were any good outcomes, Schiller wouldn't have put in so much effort to treat him in this life.

Thinking of this reason, Batman's gaze fell on the handgun in Schiller's hand.

Batman looked at Schiller and then reached out his hand. Seeing Schiller's eye contact, Batman calmly said, "I won't let the Soviet Union disintegrate."

Schiller instantly raised his eyes, staring straight at Batman, his eye contact full of disbelief.

Then, Schiller took a deep breath, lowered his eyelids, hesitated for a moment, turned his head aside, but still put the Makarov handgun in Batman's hand.

Before leaving, Batman glanced at the calendar on the wall and stood at the door, saying to Schiller, "Merry Christmas in advance, Professor."

Schiller, standing by the window, with his hands in his suit pockets, watched Batman leave and shook his head.

At this moment, Schiller remembered another question. So, he called Petrov in and asked him, "How did you determine my location?"

Facing this question, Petrov paused for a moment, then said, "A special comrade contacted us and told us that you were taken away by a team of Russian-speaking agents. But apart from us, no one in Gotham has the authority to act. Naturally, we guessed that they might be CIA undercover agents."

"The Sockworth Grand Hotel is originally the residence of the KGB. In order to convince other agents, Andro must have brought you here. So, we went straight to the door."

"Who contacted you?" Schiller asked.

Petrov walked directly to Schiller's side, picked up the telephone, and said to the other end, "Hello, comrade, thank you for your information. We have successfully received it, Director."

The lines on Petrov's fingers gradually disappeared, and the skin on his hand stretched, becoming younger.

The young and fair hand put down the telephone and looked in the direction of the sunlight in front of the window. The face behind the telephone was Lex Luthor.

"No need to thank me... comrade."

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