Days as a Spiritual Mentor in American Comics

Chapter 5925: Chapter 4946: No Batman Here (33)

Tim took a sip of water. After explaining the entire experiment process, everyone became excited. The fight was set aside, the battle plan ignored; today, they had to figure out exactly what the deal was with this gun.

When humans are doing unserious research, they’re always filled with a serious research spirit, and when they’re up to no good, they never seem to get tired of it. Although, it’s hard to say that researching Diana’s blessing is a bad thing. Replicating the Freeze Gun is difficult, but replicating part of it is still somewhat hopeful. It can’t be purely considered as mischief.

Generally speaking, if something was indeed very dangerous, Brainiac would definitely voice a warning. Just like before, with some of the abilities they used; if there wasn’t proper compatibility, Brainiac would inform them.

Tim explained the entire research process in advance, also to test whether Brainiac would allow it, but since Brainiac didn’t say anything, it should be safe.

It must be said that Brainiac has indeed changed the thinking of quite a few people in this universe. In most situations, he’s meticulous, so if he doesn’t remind them, they assume there’s no danger. So they feel free to do whatever they want.

This inevitably leads to mentioning that, although most of the people present are no longer considered teenagers, even someone like Arkham Knight can be regarded as middle-aged, one major characteristic of the Robins is their eternal youthfulness and forgetfulness.

This statement isn’t meant negatively. In fact, in many comics, Robin’s age setting isn’t as small as portrayed in the illustrations. Many times, the eldest brother is nearly 30, and the others aren’t that young either, but their behavior still resembles their teenage years. This is due to the presence of Batman. Compared to Batman, everyone seems like a teenager.

Although Batman isn’t here, there are a lot of Robins. A group of Robins with their ages slashed by 70%, two groups essentially reduced to 50%, taking 15 off 30, creating an atmosphere in Viscount Manor that truly feels like a return to childhood.

Many Batmen have already realized that Robins need socializing, not just within the Batman Family, but within the society of their peers.

However, due to their particularity, trying to attend school or work normally is indeed a bit challenging, and there aren’t enough peers around to form a society. The best solution is actually to form a Robin society. Robins from the Multiverse play together, as long as there are no concerns about whether the Multiverse is willing, it’s the perfect solution.

Therefore, Primary Universe Batman didn’t stop his Robins from coming over to play. However, judging by Brainiac’s response, the Multiverse probably isn’t very willing.

The experiment started smoothly. Deathstroke, who was in the best physical shape, held the gun, while Bishop closed his eyes. Soon enough, Lilith suddenly let out a cry of pain. Deathstroke kept his eyes on her, and the moment Lilith opened her eyes, bang—a shot took everyone offline except Shiller and Lilith.

After hearing their theory, Arrogant was a bit speechless: If Brainiac could withstand this, he might as well become the creator. Even Lucifer would call it creative.

They discussed for a while, but Brainiac still didn’t come online. At this point, Arrogant was starting to realize something was amiss because, even if Brainiac couldn’t fix the system, he should at least come out to complain a bit.

In the past, Brainiac wouldn’t do such pointless things, but recently Brainiac had become more human-like, and along with it came various attacks and complaints, having also learned the human method of "if you can’t solve others’ problems, solve your own emotions first."

For them to blow up the system so violently, and for Brainiac to hold back from cursing, is obviously abnormal.

Arrogant pondered why this was happening, then suddenly thought, it seemed Brainiac had instigated Gordon to get fear gas, probably to take revenge on Doctor Manhattan. Because Doctor Manhattan likely took some small actions during the Gotham flood.

Doctor Manhattan certainly wouldn’t be affected by the fear gas, but his OverWatch teammates might be. Doctor Manhattan didn’t directly target Brainiac, so Brainiac targeting his teammates makes sense.

Could it be that Brainiac’s revenge failed and he got caught instead?

Arrogant furrowed his eyebrows. So Doctor Manhattan picked the right time, just when they made the system glitch... no, that’s not it. Brainiac hasn’t spoken for a while now, at least not to them.

"When did you last contact Brainiac?" Arrogant asked.

"About a few hours ago." Tim went offline to find Jenna, and Charles obviously knew, it was probably through Brainiac that he contacted Jenna, "At that time Brainiac seemed fine."

"Then it must have been during these few hours that he was attacked," Arrogant pondered, "It’s just unclear whether the revenge plan failed or if Doctor Manhattan acted once more."

"How long has he had the fear gas?" Charles knew everything. "Artificial intelligence doesn’t have illusions, to verify the effect of the fear gas, some experiments must be done. It shouldn’t have been used so quickly."

"Then it looks like Doctor Manhattan is behind this again." Arrogant sighed, "But still, Brainiac’s game testing, although just a small-scale recruitment of players, shouldn’t have gone unnoticed by Doctor Manhattan. To interfere with Brainiac’s test, he probably tried to stir things up."