The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Batman followed Merkel to the depths of the mine, and the two found a fairly quiet corner, where there was a bonfire and two log pier used as chairs.

Batman and Merkel sat down face to face, and Merkel moved the grill next to it, and put two pieces of mushrooms on the wooden stick in the middle, lit the bonfire, and said while roasting:

"Here, the speed of my hunger is much slower than in reality. When I am busy, I don't even have time to eat. In the past three days, I only ate two meals. Let's try this. This is comparable to mine The rotten vegetable leaves provided are much tastier."

Batman took the mushroom skewer handed over by Merkel. He just received the treatment from the Elder Snake Demon, but he didn't feel hungry, but the mushroom gave off a fragrance, and the human instinct to eat was awakened. Batman took a bite The juicy mushroom meat burst into his nose, making him sigh in comfort.

Merkel brought two more cups, poured a small packet of powder into them, and took out a kettle to fill them with water. The moment the water was poured in, there was a sound of "呵啦", and bubbles rose in the cups.

He handed a cup to Batman, and said: "This is water made with a small amount of blaze powder. Blaze powder can provide the temperature of the water, and it also has an effect similar to wine. I think it's not bad. You have to try it." ?"

Batman squinted his eyes and glanced at the water in the glass. It looked a bit like bubbles on the surface of beer, and it also smelled of sour fermentation. After taking a sip, Batman found that it was more like beer than beer. Bubbly vodka.

He was not interested in wine, so he put the glass aside, but Merkel took a sip, wiped his mouth, and said excitedly: "This reminds me of the first time I went to Moscow. At that time, I really didn't know that vodka was so good, it was much stronger than the liqueur I drank in England!"

Merkel sighed and exclaimed: "Perhaps, just like that nation, it has a natural wild temperament that refuses to be manipulated by others."

"Are you from the Soviet Union?" Batman took another bite of the mushroom skewer and asked while eating. After experiencing the travel in the slums, he has already adapted to such a scene. Rather, this short period of leisure His time is extremely precious, which makes him feel a little relaxed.

"I am a British person through and through. When I was in school, I came into contact with Marxism. When I saw that book for the first time, I was deeply attracted by the theory. In this theory, the answers to all questions are found."

"But the more I look at it, the more confused I am." Merkel took another sip of the wine, the spicy taste made him cough twice, and then said: "Originally, I could understand everything on it, but as I The more I looked, the more I found that I couldn’t understand anything.”

"So, I started looking for someone to ask for advice, but you also know that Britain is a relatively conservative country, and you can't talk about how God was created as an artistic image in front of a group of believers..."

"By chance, I was involved in a spy case and met people from Moscow. I chatted with them all night. They thought I had great potential and good skills, so they introduced me to the butler school. .”

"There, I found a lot of like-minded friends, and we talked every night about the ideas in various books, from the Enlightenment to the Natural School, from how Macbeth died, to Paul Korchagin and How Daya fell in love..."

Batman looked at Merkel opposite, and he found that when Merkel said these words, there was a moving light in Merkel's eyes.

But for some reason, Batman didn't have a real sense of everything he said, and he found that he couldn't put himself in the shoes of others to feel the happiness of others.

Although his rationality told him that Merkel's background and experiences might have been the happiest time in his life, but now that they are companions and comrades-in-arms, he should have empathized with such narrations and made a contribution to him. And happy.

But Batman just didn't feel this way. He heard that Merkel changed the subject and talked about his hard training years.

"At that time, the teacher had to teach us many ways to protect ourselves, requiring us to be strong, fast, and calm. I did well in the first two points. The teacher often said that my fighting talent was very good. The only problem was that my Not very cool-headed."

Merkel pursed her lips, showing a regretful expression, and then said: "Because of this, I was not selected for the first round, and I could only go to the fifth round as an operational agent. In many cases, I would be hotheaded." , and the most fatal thing is that my culture class is not very good..."

"If according to what you said, your butler school trains operational agents, that is, the kind of agents who engage in intelligence work, infiltration and assassination, then what does your culture class teach?" Batman asked.

"Of course it is to raise awareness." Merkel said very seriously: "We must fully learn the theoretical knowledge left by our predecessors."

Merkel looked into Batman's eyes, and then explained: "My teacher often told me that you must never treat yourself as a gun, and you can't shoot wherever you are told."

Batman frowned. This was completely different from the agent training system he had learned, and it could even be said to be the opposite. Among the training methods for killers and agents he had learned, the most important thing was obedience.

"I know, you may be surprised, how can there be an organization that requires agents not only to obey orders, but also to think independently, but I must first understand what I am working for in order to determine my level and ability. "

"I am not driven by interests, reputation and status to join this war, but for the ideal of justice and light."

"I am not going to this war for myself, but for all mankind."

"I didn't join this war for the present, but for the future."

"We must learn from our studies that because of my own ideals, I have devoted myself to this great cause and struggled for the liberation of all mankind in the future. This will allow me to, in any critical and severe situation, They will never hesitate, hesitate or betray."

"Thousands of predecessors who have walked in front of me are just like me, with such ideals in mind, so they can achieve such great achievements."

In Batman's eyes, the bonfire was burning hotter and hotter. The fiery red at the root of the flame scalded his eyes, making him feel a little chilly, but his blood was throbbing.

While the flames were beating, he saw many figures passing by, the train speeding across the snow field, the sound of horns passing through the cold and silent streets, thousands of people came from the flames, and they were like that day. Disappeared in the distance along the curling smoke.

Alfred was never willing to bring these things up front to Batman, and Schiller never talked about ideals to him, so this is the first time Batman has come face to face with a Bolshevik, a true idealist, a A soldier who is still walking on this road.

This made him feel a kind of shock, but he didn't know what the emotion that was surging in his heart and blood was.

Batman is a mental patient. This is not an insulting description. The trauma of childhood is real.

When the personality is not completely stable, any trauma may cause the human spirit to deviate in the direction of pathological mental illness.

This may lead to a lot of problems in the subsequent personality growth. For example, even if he does not suffer from autism, he still has the defects caused by the spectrum characteristics, that is, he cannot empathize normally in many cases.

Also, like now, feeling overwhelmed and unable to deal with some sudden emotion.

Batman turned his head to one side as if escaping, trying to calm down, but Merkel seemed to have seen the purpose of his coming, and he said, "I think, you may be in the process of leading the team and encounter I have a problem, so I want to ask my opinion."

"This is actually quite normal. The gap between the upper and lower limits of these demons in hell is too great. The intelligence of those dwarf demons is equivalent to that of a seven or eight-year-old human child. Some demons have good intelligence, but their thinking is too chaotic. Too irritable..."

"It is very difficult to lead such a team. I did learn some speaking skills in the butler school. Mr. Schiller also mentioned me before, but Mr. Wayne, relying on these speaking skills alone It’s not good to lead a team.”

Merkel looked into Batman's eyes seriously, and said: "You have to have an ideal before you can use it to infect others. You must first be firm on a path before you can lead your comrades on this path."

"If you want people to lift themselves up and fight for themselves, you have to know what you're fighting for."

"The truth is, if you can't find a way to answer all of your own questions, then you can't answer the questions of the people you want to liberate."

Accompanied by Merkel's words, Batman fell into deep thought. He really has to think about a question now, that is, what is he fighting for?
Before he would have answered, he was going to save Gotham.

But I don't know why, after listening to Merkel's previous speech, this goal suddenly became a little hard to say.

Can he tell these demons that he's going to save a city that sucks, so they should think hard, own themselves, and fight for themselves?

This doesn't make sense at all logically.

He couldn't even tell the people at the bottom of Gotham, I want to save Gotham, so you must work hard to stand on your own and save yourself.

He can't make the people of Gotham understand to save themselves when his ideal is to save Gotham.

If you want to express this logic in a simple way, it is probably that because it is an apple, it is an apple.

If you want to make a more vivid analogy, it is like, Merkel owns a building, so he pointed to this building and said to everyone else, you have to learn how to lay this brick, and then we will all learn how to lay a brick. There are buildings.

And Batman is holding a brick and saying to others, you have to learn how to build this brick, and then this brick is built.

Sometimes it is necessary to use anti-aircraft guns to fight mosquitoes. The reason why an ideal is called an ideal is because it must be high enough and great enough to make people have the consciousness of sacrificing and fighting for life.

Saving Gotham is actually very difficult, and it may even be much more difficult than the work Merkel has accomplished in her life. It can be a goal, but it cannot be an ideal.

Saving Gotham can be Batman's goal, and in order to accomplish this goal, he must have a greater ideal and the ideological theory derived from it.

To save Gotham, there is no possibility of deriving ideas and theories from ideals. On the way to save Gotham, Batman can only obtain the improvement of technical theories, but not any logical, appealing, and all-in-one knowledge. thought of.

However, thinking is precisely the sharpest blade necessary to save someone or something, advance the times, and change the pattern.