But those who woke up found that they were not on Apokolips. They were in Gotham City, and in Arkham Asylum. The villains of Gotham were all lined up in a row, staring intently at the bed.
Several people on the hall floor.
Spider-Man was the first to wake up. He patted his head with his hand, shook his head vigorously, and said in a hoarse voice: "What's going on? Why do I seem to see a spaceship?"
Harley tilted her neck and rubbed her shoulders, and after doing a few chest-expanding exercises, she said, "If I remember correctly, did a spaceship point its cannon at us in the end? What kind of script is this? Da in the dream world.
Has Xade developed to Apokolips?"
Damian had a dull look on his face when he got up, but Bruce had already turned his head and started searching for that familiar figure. Sure enough, Batman was sitting on the chair next to him, adjusting his Bat equipment.
Noticing Bruce's gaze, Batman said in a low and hoarse voice: "You read that right, that's Darkseid and his spaceship."
"I don't understand!" Little Bruce raised his voice and said, "What about fair play? Everyone started as an orphan in Gotham, and Darkseid built the spaceship in a few months. Isn't this right?
Too outrageous?"
"Am I awake? Is it really just a dream?" Damian muttered in a daze. Suddenly he froze, and then secretly glanced at Batman with his peripheral vision.
If he remembered correctly, Batman hugged him at the last moment. Was that his imagination? Or was it true...
Damian felt a little panicked. He kept thinking in his mind that it was just a dream. Besides, he had been hugged by the young Batman before, so there was nothing to make a fuss about.
Harley narrowed her eyes. She looked around, and sure enough she saw a familiar figure in the crowd, so she ran over, hugged Harley Quinn, looked up at her and said, "Go and ask your little one right away."
Pudding, I guess he must know what is going on."
Harley Quinn whistled a few times to the sky, and then began to lower her head to study the pattern on the handle of her hammer. Harley's eyes became more and more evil. Harley Quinn looked at the knife flying behind her, sighed and said: "
Well, I don’t know much, so if you want to hear it, I’ll tell you.”
Suddenly, the people who had just woken up all focused on her. Harley Quinn curled her braided hair with her fingers and said, "Actually, before I took you to Arkham Asylum, the Joker came to see you."
Pass me, oh, it’s the clown of our world, my little biscuit.”
"Then you still said you don't know what he did?" Harley raised her tone and said dissatisfied.
"I really don't know what he wants to do." Harley Quinn still looked aggrieved. She curled her lips and said, "He only told me that he planned to do something big and asked me to help."
"What help did he ask you to do?"
"He said that he and the other two clowns would drag people on some alien planet into dreams, and asked me to take the madmen and Robins from Arkham Asylum to take away the valuable things on that planet."
Harley looked at Harley Quinn with her mouth wide open. Harley Quinn spread her arms and pretended to be innocent and said: "Before you fell asleep, the Joker gave me a signal, so I took these crazy people and drove Gotham to Apokolips.
I don’t know exactly how it was done, but the things have been moved anyway.”
"But what happened to Darkseid?" Harley scratched her head in confusion. What Harley Quinn said was obviously part of the clowns' plan, but it made her more curious about what the complete plan was.
.
At this moment, the door of the hall was pushed open, and standing outside was the center of everyone's conversation - the clown.
Of course, he was still the clown of the main universe. He walked in with his hands behind his back, then jumped in front of Batman with a whoosh, and said to him with a smile: "How is it? I did a good job, right?"
Batman ignored him, stood up from the chair, turned to the madmen in Arkham Asylum and said: "Drive back to Gotham first, but don't land on the ground, a bunch of things moved back from Apokolips
Still needs to be dealt with.”
"Wait a minute." Spider-Man suddenly realized something. He quickly ran to the window, looked outside, and then let out a slightly frightened roar that echoed in the city.
"Why is Gotham flying in the sky?!!!!"
In Wayne Manor, Schiller walked out of the guest room. Bruce didn't know when he sat back on the sofa. Constantine raised his head and glanced at Schiller who was walking down the stairs, shrugged and said:
"It's time to reveal the mystery."
Jack seemed to be suddenly awakened. After a moment of excitement, he sat up straight on the sofa, smacked his lips, and poured into his mouth the glass of wine in front of him that had already melted ice cubes.
Schiller sat on the sofa, and Harvey filled his glass with wine. Schiller picked up the wine glass and clinked it with him gently, and then began to repeat his plan.
"This is not entirely my plan, but the clown's." Schiller's first words were shocking, making everyone look at Jack, but Jack rolled his eyes and said, "It's not me, it's another one."
."
"That was before my clown personality became one with me." Schiller took a sip of wine and looked at everyone's surprised eyes and said, "So what are you surprised about? Didn't I tell you about this plan a long time ago?"
Did it start very early?”
"A bit too early." Gordon commented.
"When Jack dug holes in the palace of my mind, my clown personality had not yet merged with me, but in fact he was already a part of arrogance and possessed some of my characteristics, especially tolerance."
Schiller sighed softly and said: "I was chosen by Batman, so part of my arrogance was tainted and became the Joker. Both the arrogance and the clown transformed from arrogance are dissatisfied with this, and they are looking for ways to fight back."
"Wait a minute." Constantine heard what Schiller meant. He stared at Schiller and said, "You mean you and Bruce have tortured each other for four years, and that doesn't count as fighting back against Batman?"
Schiller shook his head and said: "What we have to fight back is not Batman, but the rule that Batman's gaze can turn people into clowns."
Several people were silent for a moment, but it was more like they had nothing to say. Gordon smacked his lips and said, "Can I understand that you want to take revenge on the world?"
"Absolutely." Schiller took another sip of wine, and then said: "You should know that I have summarized some rules for Batman and the Joker. These are the underlying rules of this world. At the same time, I am also applying these rules to formulate my own rules.
plan of."
"It's like proposing a mathematical conjecture, proving that the conjecture is true, and then using formulas to solve problems. But this conjecture is too simple. I think there should be corresponding conjectures that can explore the nature of the world more deeply."
"I have a headache." Constantine covered his forehead and said, "Just tell me what you did."
"In order to give some color to the rules of the world that arbitrarily polluted my personality traits, and in order to come up with more innovative conjectures, I made a deal with the clown personality. The two of us merged into one, becoming a complete arrogance, and then
Put the whole plan into action.”
"The whole plan is roughly as follows: First of all, in order to prevent the numerous restrictions in the real world from affecting my plan, and in order to prevent too much noise from affecting our home planet, we need a pure experimental environment, and the dream country is the best.
choose."
"Oh, let's talk about the part about me." Constantine said a little depressed.
"Sorry, I didn't target you." Schiller shook his head and said: "I didn't expect that Morpheus would leave the authority of the Dream God to a rotten person who would sleep with him the first time he met him. It's an accident for you.
happiness."
Constantine covered his chest, and he didn't know whether the expression on his face was pain, happiness, or both, and it cycled through.
"We already understand how you obtained authority over the dream world." Zatanna added: "You gave part of your soul to Constantine, so you naturally have the authority he has. This part can be directly
jump over."
"Thank you, miss." Schiller nodded and continued: "While I was stealing the power of the Dream Kingdom, Jack was also carrying out his work in the Dream Kingdom."
"The Sandman who manages the Dream Kingdom and other people in the Dream Kingdom thought that Jack was just causing trouble aimlessly. The Sandman thought that Jack was the big alarm clock I threw into the Dream Kingdom. But in fact, Jack took the opportunity of causing trouble and successfully found
A collection of dreams in the real world of our universe.”
"The dreams in the Dream Kingdom are one bubble after another. The dreams in the same universe and the same area are all in one collection. It is not easy to find them. It took Jack some time, but it is all worth it."
"What's the meaning?"
"The useful parts of the dreams of life in our universe are extracted and fused to create the dream world you just saw."
"I asked how that is so realistic." Barbara said with sudden realization: "If the whole world was built by Jack, he wouldn't even know the rural areas of Mexico in such detail, right?"
"It is better to say that he built it than that he fused it." Schiller went on to explain: "He just extracted the factors related to the real world from the dreams of people all over the world and fused them together, because those memories are real.
So the dream naturally seems very real."
Bruce turned to look at Jack, who smiled at him and said, "I still didn't lie. The phrase 'I not only built Gotham' can refer to other places that I also built, or it can refer to other places that I built besides building."
He did other things besides that, didn’t he?”
Bruce covered his mouth with a wine glass.
"What is the purpose of you doing this?" Barbara then asked, her eyes scanning between Schiller and Jack and said: "I can't say that I know the clown very well, but I know that if two people are fanatically pursuing each other at the same time,
An idol, there won't be any friendly cooperation between them."
"Naturally, other clowns are also interested in the conjectures I want to explore." Schiller showed a smile and said: "Love is the biggest motivation, isn't it?"
"But just having a venue is not enough. This plan must have experimental subjects. Jack and I only have two clowns combined, and we need a third one."
"By chance, I went to the main universe..." Schiller turned to look at Bruce, who looked up to study the patterns on the ceiling.
"I think the clowns in the main universe are pretty good. Although there was a little disturbance in the middle, which made it impossible for my body to go to the main universe, but after all, the experimental site is in the dream universe, so it doesn't hinder anything."
"On the eve of the invasion of Apokolips in the main universe, I contacted the clown in the main universe through a dream. I explained my conjecture to him, hoping that he could cooperate with me to complete the plan. He was also very interested in my proposal, so he joined
Our research team consists of three clowns."
"I still don't understand what you are trying to do." Constantine said with a confused look on his face: "Why don't you tell me what your guess is first."
Everyone else looked at Schiller very attentively, and they were also very interested in the conjecture that could impress the other two clowns.
Schiller nodded and agreed happily and said.
"If Batman's gaze can produce the Joker, can the Joker's gaze also produce Batman?"
