In The DC World With Marvel Chat Group Chapter 11: Pride and Prejudice (Part 2)

After Gordon and Batman left the basement of the chapel, both of them seemed a little silent. After all, in the place where they were just now, dozens of lives were buried in just one month.

Gotham is a dark city, but when this darkness is laid bare in front of people, only those with strong willpower can digest the impact of this deep darkness.

Both Batman and Gordon's hearts are now surging with countless emotions. The first case that the newcomer Batman handled, this seemingly boundless evil and darkness without light was in front of him, and he suddenly realized that, as Schiller said, he might indeed not be fully prepared for it. .

Powerful force is only a means to survive here, but to save this city, force alone is far from enough.

Thinking of this, Batman turned a corner and saw Schiller standing on the second floor again, holding an umbrella. Under the balcony is where the beggar used to stay.

Batman felt a kind of absurdity again, this damned criminal who killed dozens of innocent lives, how dare he stand here? Why are some people in this world indifferent to fresh life? It can even be cruel enough to kill them without hesitation.

The depression in Batman's heart turned into anger. Under Gordon's gaze, he jumped up along the street and jumped directly onto the balcony more than two meters high.

"Your trial is coming, damned murderer," Batman said.

"Have you found the evidence you want?" Schiller asked

"Of course, and the evidence is enough to judge you."

Schiller suddenly laughed, and he said in an extremely brisk tone: "How ridiculous, you are still thinking of trying me, the police department in Gotham City should really award you a good citizen medal, you are really A great cop.”

"If your parents died, there was such a great policeman who found the evidence left by the murderers and tried them, how good would it be? You think so, right?"

"You don't trust the police, you don't trust the court, but you still look for evidence and try to judge me with judicial correctness. Don't you think what you are doing is contradictory?"

"You're proving that I broke the law, Batman, and so did your actions. If I'm going to stand trial, so will you. You're proving a criminal is a criminal, aren't you? ?”

Schiller raised his voice, and said in a cadenced tone: "You think you have the ability to avenge the criminals by your own means. But in the end, you are still ordinary people domesticated by this orderly society, and you are still talking about evidence. Keep asking for a trial."

"If you can't get rid of these, if you can't get rid of the shackles imposed on you by these orderly societies, and if you can't erase the concepts about law and judicial procedures in your mind, you will never be able to achieve what you want. justice."

"Bruce..." Schiller looked into his eyes and said:

"The law is not justice, you are."

"Gotham's law didn't save your parents, just like it didn't save these dozens of missing people. If you have any unnecessary illusions about it, you will never be the real Batman."

Schiller could clearly see that Batman's arm was trembling, his hand holding the bat dart was covered with veins, even his whole body was trembling, obviously, he became extremely angry.

Schiller's words were too harsh. He exposed one of the young Batman's biggest contradictions.

Gotham's laws failed to save his parents, but Batman, who kept saying he wanted revenge, was still kidnapped by the law of order. In the end, he still followed judicial justice.

"You want me to do my own justice?" Batman asked. Then he raised a gun and pointed it at Schiller's forehead.

Of course Batman has a gun. In Gotham City, you can hardly survive without this hot weapon. Let alone justice.

Schiller still looked calm. He said: "You haven't answered my previous question. Have you found the evidence you want? What is it?"

"On the side of the crate under the chapel, there are stains left by you. There are soil and leaves in it. They are the leaves of North American red pine that are only found in Gotham University."

Schiller said: "What does that mean?"

"It means you are the murderer," Batman said.

"Really? I appeared on the streets of Mawson Street alone for no reason, dressed and acted suspiciously. And you found a leaf belonging to Gotham University at the crime scene, indicating that the murderer may be Brother People in Tan University, so I am the murderer, what a rigorous reasoning." Schiller said.

Batman looked at his expression of no remorse and guilt, his tone of understatement, his anger had really reached its peak, and the moment he wanted to pull the trigger, Gordon who ran over Shout: "Stop! Put the gun down!"

Batman is interrupted for a split second, and Schiller throws a memory card on the ground between them, saying:

"The evidence is conclusive? The murderer has been to Gotham University, and I am a university teacher. It is really conclusive."

"Yeah, how much you wished that when your parents died, there would be someone like you who would simply shoot the murderer, because the evidence is overwhelming."

"Don't mention my parents..." Batman said with a trembling voice, "You criminal."

"You think of a lot of similarities," Schiller said.

"But your anger makes many, many differences overlooked."

"For example, I have never had any educational background related to chemistry and biology. For example, I have participated in the investigation of countless serial murders. It is..."

Schiller looked at the memory card and said, "My evidence is much more conclusive than yours."

Batman's anger dropped a little because of Gordon's interruption. After regaining his sanity, he felt that even in such a wet and cold weather, the sweat on his back shirt was soaked.

Batman vigilantly picked up the USB flash drive. He inserted the USB flash drive into the microcomputer in his arm, and a projection popped out.

At this time, Gordon also took a detour and ran into the balcony. He saw in the video that a person in a plaid shirt was sneakily standing on the outside unit of an air conditioner in a house, and extended a hose into the window. In the room, the standing and sitting figures in the room fell down one after another, and the man jumped off the air conditioner and walked into the corridor. After a while, he dragged two large boxes and put them on the trailer. Pushed away, and no one in the room had disappeared.

This was Batman's inspiration for Schiller. Jonathan really lacked anti-detection awareness. Schiller was standing in the corridor opposite him, taking pictures with a camera, but he didn't even notice.

But yes, no one in Gotham City will come out to hang out in the middle of the night, especially if you come to a place like this slum, you will lose your life if you are not careful.

Gordon suddenly shouted: "No wonder!"

"I remember when registering the addresses of missing persons, it was true that the residents on the lower floors suffered more, and almost all the victims' houses had balconies..." Gordon said.

Then he looked at Batman and Schiller, and he said to Batman angrily: "I really misread you, did you just want to shoot? Do you know that you almost killed someone just now?! "

Batman silently looked at the projection on his arm. Anyone who is not blind can see that the size of the murderer inside is thousands of miles away from Schiller.

Although Schiller doesn't know how to fight and doesn't work out, he's still tall. He's only a little shorter and thinner than Batman, but he's still close to 1.9 meters, and the guy in the video is dead It is only 1.7 meters, and the weight will not exceed 60 kilograms.

"Professor Jonathan is a nice guy, you think so, right? Because he doesn't check your homework, treats you very well, and will never fail your subject. But I'm different, I'm a very troublesome professor, He always finds faults in homework, takes exams when there is nothing to do, and threatens all students with the possibility of failing.”

"So of course I'm a murderer, but he's not. After all, how can such a cowardly, taciturn, thin and small man be a serial murderer?"

"Stop talking." Batman said in a trembling voice.

He recalled the scene when he faced the beggar that day, and from the corner of his eye, he could still see the stain left by the beggar leaning against the wall, and that strong sense of guilt and shame surrounded him again.

And Gordon's words added fuel to the fire, he said: "I don't care where you are a weirdo, wearing tights and causing chaos in the city, but you almost killed a good person. What the **** is there between you two? If you have personal grudges, then go and resolve them yourself, and don’t interfere with the police’s handling of the case.”

"Aren't the police in Gotham busy enough? You want to kill people in front of me, and you want me to send you to prison immediately?" Gordon said.

Working overtime for several days has already made him irritable, and he said impatiently: "Weird in tights, give me that USB flash drive quickly, I want to take it back for the record... Sir, please go back with me Come on, you seem to know who the murderer is, we need clues..."

After a moment of silence, Batman silently stretched out his arm and handed the USB flash drive to Gordon.

He found that his smug debut trip this time was completely adding to the chaos. The criminal Schiller he thought was the one who helped a lot and provided the most critical evidence.

Schiller didn't speak any more, Batman also stood where he was, and on the street outside, it began to rain endlessly.

Just as he was about to leave with Gordon, he heard Batman behind him say: "...I'm sorry, Professor."

Schiller's footsteps stopped, he felt a little incredible, what did Batman just say? ? ?

Did he just apologize? ? ?

Schiller turned his head in disbelief, Batman was standing in the shadow cast by the building, the only light shining on his mask, he pressed his lips tightly, Schiller felt very absurd.

He's Batman.

Because he's Batman.

And Batman is always right.

Batman won't apologize to anyone.

In the face of everyone's doubts, he would only say: "Because I am Batman."

In the Batman comics, Schiller has seen too much about the dark side of Batman, such as preparing kryptonite to defend against Superman, such as preparing a set of plans for everyone in the Justice League to deal with them. Trusts no one, not even himself.

I have to say that when the editors of the manga created this character, these dark sides made him even more attractive. It can also leave a deeper impression on readers.

But this also created Schiller's prejudice against Batman.

He thinks Batman should be like that, in the comics. Batman never apologized, because he didn't think he was wrong, he thought those precautions against his companions were necessary.

This caused a prejudice to Schiller. Batman is not incapable of apologizing. When he really finds out that he is wrong, he will still feel regret and guilt.

Schiller really wants to teach the young Batman some principles, such as not to be prejudiced, not to judge people by their appearance, not to be carried away by anger, and to maintain independent thinking.

But Schiller suddenly discovered that he is actually not qualified to teach Batman not to be prejudiced, because he himself has an indelible stereotype of this character, and he hopes that Bruce can become the caricature in his mind. Batman in the movie, and the faster the process, the better.

But now it seems that this story is not a wise and knowledgeable professor and his young reckless student, but a very classic "Pride and Prejudice".

Batman, with the sheer arrogance of his own reasoning, thinks that Schiller must be the murderer, and when he has a preconceived prejudice, coupled with some evidence that just fits his prejudice, he almost shoots Schiller.

But Schiller also has a prejudice against Batman, thinking that he should be a mature, cautious, suspicious dark hero like in the comics.

Two people don't say that they are fifty steps and laughing at a hundred steps, but they can also be said to be half a catty.

Now Batman seems to have learned this lesson, and he clearly realizes that he is not omniscient.

His reasoning, too, would be bound by prejudices to produce great fallacies, and his impulses, under this arrogance, are all the more deadly.

He saw the scar on the side of Schiller's neck, which he had left with a bat dart earlier, and at that time, he assumed that Schiller was a criminal and threatened him in the same way as a criminal, although he did not today Shot, but as Gordon said, the wound was deep and I'm afraid there must be a scar.

Batman felt guilty about this, but also terrified.

He thought that the inability of the law to judge every criminal correctly was not the reason for him to judge others arbitrarily with his own arrogance.

And when he cannot guarantee that he is 100% correct, any impulsive violence may leave an indelible scar on an innocent person, even a good person.

He was just rejoicing that the price innocent people paid was not their lives.

Standing in the shadows, Batman thought that he wanted to prevent this possibility from happening forever, so he decided ~IndoMTL.com~ that no matter how vicious criminals he faces in the future, he will never kill anyone.

If any innocent person died unjustly in his hands, then he would become a more heinous criminal than killing his parents.

Because the criminals who killed his parents, maybe just for money or revenge, the damage they caused was two lives.

And if Batman kills innocent people indiscriminately, there will be no hope for this city anymore.

In the comics, the setting that Batman doesn't kill people seems to have existed from the beginning.

Schiller has not explored why this is, and he finds it irritating that this setting is missing. For example, in the face of those nasty criminals, those lunatics who escaped from prison again and again to make trouble, why couldn't Batman kill them? He had thought of this countless times while reading comics.

But what he didn't expect was that in this world, the young Batman was determined not to kill criminals precisely because of him, precisely because of Schiller.

Because he's Batman, he's the only hope for the city, and if he's overwhelmed by the guilt of killing innocent people, the city is hopeless.

By coincidence, although Schiller still failed to let the young Batman establish his own spiritual support, he managed to complete one of Batman's settings, that is, not to kill people.

Schiller would never have imagined that he would regret his meddling this time countless times in the days to come.

When Batman fully matured, Schiller yelled in his heart countless times, why can't Batman move his fingers to strangle those damned criminals, so that they don't appear again and again Break his peaceful life in front of him! !

And all of this stems from what happened today, and it is all his own fault.