In The DC World With Marvel Chat Group Chapter 1451: Research on Manipulation (17)
Bane came back on the third day, and when he heard Bruce say good morning in that low tone, he was no longer surprised, he just squatted in front of Bruce's cell door and said.
"I don't know if you're pretending to be driven crazy by the torture Amanda inflicted on you, maybe it's your way of teasing or getting revenge on her, but I'm not here to hear that."
"Then what do you want to hear?"
"I just want to know about you, about Batman, about..." Bane's tone gradually sank, and it took a long time before he uttered a word: "About Gotham."
"I don't know what exactly you mean."
"A long time ago, I asked a colleague if he had any good vacation spots to recommend. He told me that Gotham would be a good choice. I think this point of view is very interesting. Maybe the best place for us criminals to relax , is precisely a city of sin.”
"So about five years ago, I took a tour of the East Coast with a good colleague. The first stop was the bustling metropolis, and then Gotham. Like home."
"What is your home like?"
Bane fell silent again, and after a while, his low trembling voice came from outside the door: "You are smarter than I thought, Batman."
"Thank you for your compliment."
"You have a darker heart than mine, but you are more straightforward than me, and you use this straightforwardness as a weapon. You have indeed surpassed my assessment of your level, and now I am more interested in you Already."
"My pleasure."
"So tell me, Batman, what happened to the city I saw a month ago?"
"I don't understand what you mean."
"I mean, why did the legendary city of darkness disappear in just five years, and Gotham not only has sunshine, but also hope?"
Bane knocked on the door with his hand, and let out a "winter", his tone was full of a slightly morbid desire for knowledge.
"Tell me, Batman, what did you do to this city to make it what it is today, tell me, how the **** did you save Gotham? That's what I followed you here thinking Ask your question."
"Why do you ask that?"
"Because Gotham cannot be saved." There was finally a wave of fluctuation in Bane's tone, his breathing became heavier and his speech speed became faster: "Because five years ago, I saw this When I was in the city, I judged that even if I replaced you, I couldn't cure the city, and I believed you couldn't do it, so I left."
"That colleague once asked me why I didn't kill you, because when I saw you from a distance, I thought you were too young and immature, and I didn't think you were worthy of being my opponent."
"If I must take your life, it's better to make your despair worthy of this city, then I call it a miracle, and you are not worthy, then you are still far away. "
"Thank you for your compliment."
"Batman..." Bane whispered: "A few months ago, I revisited this place out of curiosity-I can't believe what I saw, you, a man who is addicted to his childish fantasies and games In just a few short years, a boy in Gotham dug a gap in the dark barrier that never sees the sun."
"Now the miracle is yours, and I want to know, what is the true face of the miracle?"
"Why do you ask that?"
Bane was silent for a while, shorter than his previous silence, and he asked: "Truth for truth, right?"
"What is your home like?"
"A prison, sounds absurd, but my mother was captured by the war, and the person who captured my mother decided that if there was a boy in her belly, then he would pay for his father's crimes, and then I was born."
"Sounds bad."
"Yes, but there are worse things. I was born and raised in a prison. I can't talk about healthy growth. My physique is far inferior to those strong new prisoners who came in. I am constantly being beaten. and abuse.”
"And one day, a prisoner wanted to use me to escape from the prison, and pushed me down the tunnel to make me unconscious. It may be that the brain attack changed my mind. I couldn't bear it any longer, so I killed him. "
"I don't know what exactly you mean."
"In a very cruel way, I removed his mandible, injected rat bait into his stomach, and then stuffed a bunch of hungry live rats into his esophagus, let him from the Gnawed from the inside out."
"The warden thought I was very cruel, so he threw me to the lowest level of the cell, a dark and narrow place where the tide would rise at any time. I lived by eating rats."
"But this exercised my will and body. When I really grew up, I seized the power of the prison and ran amok here. They took a fancy to my strong willpower and chose me as a biochemical A member of the experiment."
"The experience in the laboratory was very boring. As you said, the experimental projects were not taken seriously, and the doctors were not professional enough. They injected me with a toxin to make me stronger, so I killed them, all He escaped from prison and has since become a freelance mercenary.”
Bane's tone became more and more low, and after a while of silence, he still asked: "In exchange, don't you plan to reveal some truth about Gotham?"
"I don't know what exactly you mean."
"What do you think Gotham is?"
"Gotham is a city located on the east coast of the United States, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, with a temperate continental humid climate. It has four districts and a total population of nearly ten million people..."
"It seems that I can't get an answer today." Bane stood up, put one hand on the door and said: "I took Amanda's order to lure you here, not completely It is to complete the task, and also to create a sufficiently secret communication channel for us."
"This method is not honorable, so I owe you, but I have to figure it out, and you will always answer me. Goodbye, Batman."
"Goodbye, Bane."
An hour later, Bruce woke up again. He blinked in confusion, tried hard to dispel the hallucinations in front of him, felt the silence in his ears, and said to himself: "...He left? Automatically There should be no problem with the reply, right?"
Pretty soon, he's quiet again, apparently diving headfirst into Mountain of Shit code, doing what every Gothamite has ever done, repeatedly trying to pan for gold out of **** with great perseverance.
On the second, third, and fourth days, Bane would appear outside Bruce's cell door every day, talking to him about many things, but rarely getting a response.
Of course, Bane sensed that Bruce's short and repeated answer was wrong, but he thought that he helped Amanda trick Bruce here, and Bruce would think that he and Amanda were in the same group, so he would act in front of him. It's also normal to deprive the drama that drives you crazy.
Bain knew that he had to break through this layer of defense before he could get the real answer.
But what surprised him first, then shocked him, and finally made him speechless was that this Batman didn't say a word to the only person he could communicate with during the entire week during the harsh sensory deprivation punishment.
Bane was almost in admiration.
As we all know, the most severe part of sensory deprivation is that in a completely dark space, people cannot feel the flow of time, and this state of complete loneliness seems to last until their death. Extremely deep despair, almost no one can resist.
In most cases, sensory deprivation cannot be done very tightly, but when Amanda builds this prison, she will naturally take great pains in the final punishment. The cells used for this punishment are surrounded by layers of maze-like soundproofing devices. And it is tightly shaded, and even the ventilation device is absolutely silent.
Criminals will be very strictly restrained on the chair, and there will be no room for movement except for solving personal needs from time to time. If it is not because long-term immobility may cause limb diseases, Amanda even considered direct intubation to solve the problem Eating and excretion problems.
This is simply an excellent environment for cultivating the Stockholm plot, and Bain is naturally aware of this.
In this case, with a person who can communicate and a way to experience the passage of time, the imprisoned person must go crazy and find a sense of security from it to alleviate the terrible Loneliness and despair destroy the will.
Bane wanted to kill Batman, but after seeing the situation in Gotham again, he thought Batman was a miracle, so he, like all the villains in Gotham, didn't want to destroy Batman's body , but want to completely destroy his spirit, or go one step further, manipulate his spirit.
What Bain has for Batman saving Gotham is not admiration, but a morbid curiosity. His birth and upbringing were inherently distorted, and morbidity was the norm for him.
But now, he really has a feeling of admiration for Batman. Batman has almost completely surpassed the limit of the human spirit. Two weeks and 14 days of sensory deprivation together, in the thinking and feeling The torture, which may be longer and more painful than decades of imprisonment, did not make this tough guy say a word.
Because Baine spent his childhood and adolescence in a small and completely enclosed space, he could understand how this kind of pain can distort a person's spirit and drive him crazy.
He also knows better that if he had a partner at that time, he didn't have to do anything else, just come to talk to him every day, he would definitely be grateful, no matter what the other party asked him to do, he would do it of.
Loneliness is the greatest enemy of human beings, and human beings in loneliness are the greatest enemy of order.
But for so many days, Bane got nothing but a few repeated answers——he gave in.
Finally, Bane stood in the dark corridor, feeling the boundless silence he had been terrified of and the loneliness that would still come to mind when recalling the past for many years ~IndoMTL.com~ told Bruce.
"I once thought about breaking your spine, seeing you lying helplessly on the ground, unable to do anything, being abandoned in the rainy night, because this will make you feel the pain I have suffered, no Physical pain, but the loneliness and despair brought about by powerlessness.”
"No matter how you look at it, I have to defend myself. I don't like dynamic bloodshed and conflict."
"I prefer to deprive people of their power, watch them die in silence, and let them understand that at the last moment of their lives, what they fear most is not death, but the loneliness of being abandoned."
"From the moment I was born, I was abandoned by this world."
"But this is not a kind of revenge. I failed to overcome loneliness in loneliness. I chose to escape from loneliness, return to the crowd, and resist with violence. This proves that I lost to it."
"I have searched the world and killed countless people in this way, just to prove that I am right-no one can overcome loneliness itself in loneliness."
"Until I met you, Batman."
Bane raised his hand on the door, retracted his arm and hung it by his side, with a solemn posture as if he was saluting something, and when he made a sound, he seemed to be sighing softly.
"You defeated loneliness and you also defeated me."
Then he put his hands on the door again, gritted his teeth and said: "And I just want to know, what is it that supports you to defeat it, you have to tell me, Batman... answer me!"
Only a deeper silence answered him.
At the same time, Bruce's angry and puzzled voice echoed in his spiritual world——
"How come Schiller can do it but I can't???"