[Comprehensive Yingmei] I cover this earth

The moment he saw the slate, Bruce felt some images from memories that did not belong to him flood into his brain.

It was a small island isolated from the world, and there lived a small tribe that had been passed down for thousands of years.

The resources on the island are extremely scarce. Most of the time, the way this tribe obtains resources is very simple——

Pray to the gods.

Sacrifice members of a tribe to the gods every year in exchange for sufficient resources to maintain the continued existence of the tribe.

This habit has lasted for thousands of years, and no one thinks it is wrong, and no one thinks it is wrong.

Until Hawthorne Dylan was born.

He was born and raised here, and he received the education of this tribe. He also believes that praying to the gods is the best and natural way of survival.

But one day, standing on the shore, looking at the boundless sea, he suddenly felt a little confused.

What is the outside world like?

So, Hawthorne took great pains to catch a plump fish, put it on the altar, and made a wish to see the outside world.

The gods did answer him.

He began to travel in visions, seeing many things in his half-dream and half-waking state.

He saw the development driven by the steam engine of the first industrial revolution, which made factories spring up like mushrooms after rain. He saw children holding up textbooks with the school bell ringing. He saw ships sailing to unknown continents...

He woke up from the dream, and suddenly he realized that maybe they should go out and have a look.

They shouldn't be stranded on this small island, surviving in that almost barbaric way.

So Hawthorne began to tell all this to his fellow clansmen, and he tried to persuade them in various ways. However, after a long effort, he angered the clansmen and was sent to the sacrificial altar.

On the eve of his imminent sacrifice, Hawthorne wrote this letter to his friend.

He is not afraid of death, death is nothing more than returning to the embrace of the gods, he just regrets that he failed to achieve his goal.

If deep-rooted beliefs are the root that prevents ethnic groups from going out, then...

Before Hawthorn was sent to the sacrificial altar by his fellow clansmen, he took out the special sacrificial knife and sliced ​​open his chest.

"Sacrifice myself." He said, "God, the great eye of the secret star...I wish you with my unprecedented devotion to you...Let my people forget their blind faith."

……

The memory stops here.

Bruce came back to his senses suddenly, and looked at Hawthorne Dylan beside him.

"It's interesting, isn't it?" Hawthorne said with a smile, "The Eye of the Secret Star is actually a wishing machine without self-awareness. If you give enough price, He will have a certain chance to lend a helping hand. Of course, you can The price of His satisfaction is not so simple to pay. And for me, exchanging devout faith for the demise of faith is itself contradictory."

"My flesh and soul were taken away by the Eye of the Mystic Star. All the souls taken away because of the sacrifice will have their memory removed, and only the energy in the soul will be retained. They will enter the huge machine of the Eye of the Mystic Star, and all of them will be removed. His memory and humanity become a part of him." Hawthorn continued, "You can understand the Eye of the Secret Star as a computer, which has a sophisticated code, and the soul that has been taken away will become a part of it. And When my soul was taken away, the computer had a slight glitch because of a logically erroneous wish... He found that the transaction seemed impossible."

After a pause, Hawthorne continued: "So, when I entered this computer, my humanity and memory were not removed, I was still me... as the only self-aware existence in the entire computer, there is no Undoubtedly, I became the administrator of this computer. Ah, it seems a bit strange to say that, but I think you should be able to understand?"

The computer analogy is just an attempt to make it easier for Earthlings to understand the logic, and Bruce is well aware of this.

"It's a pity that there is too much data in this computer..." Hawthorne said, "too much, it drives me crazy. So, I really went crazy, and I went crazy for a long time Time, although time has long been meaningless to me... When I wake up again, I have forgotten many, many things. It may be a kind of self-protection, or it may be the secret star in the computer. antivirus program is working."

"He really wants to kill my virus." Hawthorne continued, with a self-deprecating smile in his tone, "But I'm already an administrator after all, and He can't use a positive way to destroy me. Then There is only one way to fully integrate me into this computer—removing my humanity."

"It seems that he did not succeed." Bruce said.

Hawthorn laughed: "Yeah. He awakened Ames because He knew that the earth is my home. For me, I have two choices. The first choice is to kill Amus. It's not that hard for me..."

The old day in the trench uttered an unknown call, and Bruce saw that his limbs seemed to shrink back into the trench.

Bruce: ...

It seems that it is not difficult.

"But the price to pay is that the whole earth will be buried with Amus." Hawthorne continued, "After all, it is enough to kill the power of the old days, and it is enough to kill all mankind."

"What about the second option?" Bruce asked.

"The second option is to do nothing and watch Ames destroy the Earth," Hawthorne said. "Either way, it is enough to make my humanity severely damaged."

Bruce narrowed his eyes: "So, the so-called awakening of the old days is just a trick directed and performed by the eye of the secret star?"

Is the Old One just a pawn passively involved in the struggle for control of the Eye of the Secret Star?

This old ruler is really too shameless...

Just because the place where it was sealed was the hometown of the administrator of the Secret Star Eye, he was almost killed directly...

If Hawthorne really rushed over and took his ashes away, where would he go to find someone to justify? ?

Hawthorne glanced at him and nodded: "You can understand that, but it's not a bad thing, is it? Ames will wake up sooner or later. We just detonated the bomb early."

"That's why you sent Star Nest here." Bruce said, "You want to protect the earth and your humanity, and it is obviously the most appropriate way to send people who are not so polluted to guide humans."

"Yeah, you have never let me down." Hawthorn chuckled, "Everything went so smoothly."

"Then why did you come this time?" Bruce said, "The old days are still awake, and the crisis on the earth still exists. Even if you reach some kind of agreement with the old days, the eye of the secret star will still be your biggest hidden danger."

"Yes." Hawthorne sighed softly, "So I am here this time to reach a new cooperation agreement with Ames."

He looked into Bruce's blue eyes, and said softly: "My original will and the secret star's eye cannot directly confront each other, after all, we are one in essence... So, I need the power of Amus, use his power Get rid of the original will of the eye of the secret star."

"Is his strength enough?"

"In an evenly matched tug-of-war, even if one of the parties has the power of an extra child, it will change the situation of the battle drastically." Hawthorne said, "So, enough."

"So what are you paying for?" Bruce asked.

"After I am completely integrated with the Eye of the Secret Star, I will help him... to lift the seal and leave the earth."

After hearing Hawthorne's words, Ames seemed to agree very much, and a part of the tentacles exposed outside the trench happily patted the sea water.

He really has had enough of the earth, a place of right and wrong!You bastards are forced to play whatever you want, I will not accompany you!

Hawthorne looked at Bruce and said with a smile: "How? This is definitely a safe profit for the earth, isn't it?"

After this transaction is over, Hawthorne has completely obtained the power and control of the Eye of the Secret Star. It is known that he has a hometown affection for the earth, and he will definitely not make a move on the earth.And the old ruler, who is a hidden danger to the earth, will also leave the earth, and... there is a high probability that he will never come back again.

Mainly because I dare not come back.

For the earth, removing two threats at once is indeed a steady profit.

But Bruce quickly thought of another problem.

"You helped the old days leave the earth, which requires a lot of external god power." He said calmly, "Can human beings resist it?"

Hawthorne was silent for a moment, sighed, and said, "I can't resist it."

Bruce: "So..."

"So..." Hawthorne looked at Bruce regretfully, and said, "Maybe, you're going to be Batman again."

Bruce was slightly taken aback: "What do you mean?"

Hawthorne sighed softly and said: "I spread beliefs on the earth, not for my own vanity or anything else, you should know, I don't respect blind and deformed beliefs-this has always been Your own protection. Now that beliefs have spread all over the world, if I extract all the beliefs at once, and with Abrael's assistance... I can form a protective shield on the earth in a short time, It can last for about half a minute. In this half minute, I can transfer Amos away."

"Extract all at once?" Bruce asked suspiciously.

"It's just killing the chicken to get the eggs." Hawthorne said, "uproot the fruits of the seeds of faith in their hearts, and bring all their memories of the Eye of the Secret Star. Everything, all of them, are all fused together to form an unprecedented crystallization of super faith. ..."

He paused, and said with some regret: "Unfortunately, if this is done, the Church of the Secret Star will cease to exist, and the unity of politics and religion in Gotham will disappear. Those who were forced to wash their hands because of the Eye of the Secret Star I'm afraid the criminals are going to be active again. That's why I say, I'm afraid... you're going to be Batman again."

Bruce: ...

Uh, how should I put it, fortunately, he hasn't missed training all these years...

"But it's not that bad." Hawthorne said, "Anyway, the messenger has killed the big trouble of the clown, and for other criminals, although the memory and fear of the Church of the Secret Star will disappear, those who The memory of the year will be automatically completed in their minds in another logical way. So, even if they will no longer remember the Eye of the Secret Star, they will eventually remember the feeling I gave them... Fear, or fanaticism."

"They'll remember," he said softly.

"What about us?" Bruce said, "Are we going to forget too?"

Will the messenger be forgotten?

Hawthorne laughed.

"No, my friends, you won't." He blinked his eyes, and this action was even a little mischievous, "I don't want everyone to forget me, otherwise, how can I prove that I once existed? "

After all, this is the anchor of his humanity.