Chapter 1708 Bruce Wayne and the Chamber of Secrets (V)
Schiller had previously transformed into the mysterious black sun deep within the stars, listened to the Ancient One's emotions about that dream world, and wrote a book about the worldview related to the Old Ones and gave it to the Ancient One.
The title of this book is borrowed from the name of a fictional book "The Necronomicon" written by the crazy poet Abdullah in the Cthulhu mythology system.
The "Necronomicon" does not exist in reality, but in the Cthulhu mythology system, this book is described as recording all the knowledge related to the old gods in the world, and any investigator can find what he wants from it. taboo knowledge.
The "Necronomicon" written by Schiller is not that magical, but its content does contain all the knowledge he knows in the Cthulhu mythology system.
There is a setting of the Cthulhu Myth in the Marvel Universe. Although it is not very fundamental and closer to the background of a superhero villain, there is still a group of blind and ignorant mysterious beings waiting for their return deep in the stars. .
When Schiller gave this book to Ancient One, he actually just hoped to help the Supreme Mage understand the power system of her old enemies such as the Beholder, so as to prevent Ancient One from being plotted.
But what is a little embarrassing is that Eternity later restarted the universe, and Ancient One lost this part of his memory. However, because Eternity did not dare to restart things related to Schiller at that time, this book stayed. It is estimated that Ancient One is now I wonder what happened to this book that suddenly appeared on me.
But now Strange is even more puzzled than Gu Yi. His teacher was studying a very dangerous book behind his back, and he was caught by people from other universes present. Isn't this what he described before? The style of the universe he lives in that uses more fists and less brains has become a joke?
Gu Yi had been swinging his fists all his life, so why did he start to care about the art of war?
Strange now really wants to rush into the screen and open the book to see what is written in it, but the pride of the Supreme Mage prevents him from leaving this room now, especially since he has just told the Mage of this universe about the Ancient One. With that glorious combat experience, he couldn't run away in a hurry, otherwise it would look very much like he lied and failed and ran away.
"Have you seen it?" Harley asked.
Helen shook her head gently, looked up into Harley's eyes and said, "I have plenty of curiosity, but I'm not stupid. Just because the Supreme Mage can see things doesn't mean I can see them."
"Then why did you take it away?"
"In order to prevent the Supreme Mage from continuing to watch."
Harley paused, glanced down at the weird-looking book, pursed her lips slightly and said, "Are you so sure it's harmful?"
"I can feel a kind of vitality... There is a kind of vitality in this book. It does not mean that it is some kind of life, but it is not an ordinary dead thing. I am not sure whether I will be controlled by it, let alone ancient times. One has been controlled by it."
Strange now had no time to worry about whether the facts were contrary to what he said. He realized the seriousness of the matter, so he turned around and stared at the screen closely.
And Schiller was communicating with the gray fog in his mind.
"Did you do it?"
"Greed made me leave a trace of consciousness on that book. The original intention was to prevent Ancient One from being deceived by the old gods."
"Will this work?"
"Of course, you can only be a believer in one of the stars. If the Ancient One carries this book with her, no other Old One will be able to drive her mad."
"Because you're above them?"
"No, because they know that the fragile human mind can only bear one kind of madness, and no more will make any sense, so they will hardly touch other people's believers."
"In other words, greed made you use this book to mark the Ancient One as your believer, so that you can avoid her being plotted by other old gods?"
"You can say that." Gray fog paused for a moment, but still said: "Greed is very worried that the character he likes will lead to a tragic ending in the plot, so he does his best to take precautions, and the same is true for Gu Yi."
"Originally, he didn't need to be so careful, but Azatos's dream had a glimpse before, which means that the existence deep in the stars in the universe may be more dangerous and mysterious than you have ever seen, and ancient One is very important to human beings, so no amount of protection is too much.”
Arrogance conveyed a certain emotion in his heart. He had discussed this experience with Greed, and the answer he came to was that the position of Azathoth, the head of the gods in the Cthulhu mythology system, in the Marvel universe His character should be second only to OAA. After all, one of his dreams got the Scarlet Witch deeply involved. It can be said that he is not unpowerful.
But because of Azathoth's setting, that is, the eternal sleeper and the builder of the world, he has almost no subjective initiative and can be regarded as a background board.
But this was not the case with the gods calling and dancing around him in his dreams. The danger they posed was real.
The Ancient One in the comics died at the hands of the beholder, and the setting of the beholder comes from the novel "The Curse of the Golden Skull" by the same author of "Conan the Barbarian", which is also a work related to the Cthulhu mythology system, so It is necessary to take precautions against this aspect.
In fact, Gray Mist has been able to split off a part of himself from a long time ago, but he will not create independent offspring like other symbionts. When he realized his true identity, every strand of his thoughts was connected to the depths of the stars. The call echoes from afar, which is inevitably weird and terrifying to humans.
"Can you still operate this book now? Even though it's a world away?" Schiller asked the gray fog.
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"Yes, when I look at it."
Schiller speculated that this might be one of the manifestations of the observer effect Bruce said. When he stared at the universe from this end, the distance between the two universes and their own positions were not so important. More from their observations.
"Make sure it doesn't hurt the students."
"I will."
At this time, Harley, who was sitting at the desk, had already begun to speculate on the origin of this book with her naturally suspicious thinking coming from Gotham.
"If as you said, Gu Yi was still studying this book before you came, it means that there must be something in this book that she wants. This is the only way we can do it without opening this book. Clues to get to the bottom of her behavior, what do you think the most powerful mage, the Ancient One, wants?"
Helen frowned and was also lost in thought. She felt that some parts of her thinking were gradually being developed. She had not thought about conspiracy theories like this before, but now she could gradually grasp some clues. Maybe it was Doomsday's powerful ability to learn and evolve has brought her another evolution in thinking.
"Master Gu Yi is not a person who blindly pursues power. You may not believe it, but she never takes the initiative to stir up trouble. It was the demon gods who came to her to lend her power. Gu Yi had to fight back against them in order to settle the score. ”
"She is not thirsty for knowledge. She has reached a perfect state of mind many years ago. She has nothing else to ask for and will no longer struggle with the answers to certain questions. She has long found information about herself and her own answers to everything in the universe. The answer to the question.”
"So what's going on?"
Harry and Helen's eyes fell on the cover of the book at the same time. They had to admit that the idea of opening the book and taking a look was surprisingly tempting, and the two of them were not Zen masters who had practiced for many years. Generally speaking, They are still two little girls who have no experience in the world.
"If I were you, I would choose to go back and stop them now." Constantine frowned and said with a serious expression: "We can all understand that accidents always happen, and nothing can be better than what you have carefully crafted. The good situation deserves your protection.”
Constantine was actually reminding Strange that there was no need to put his universe in danger for the sake of face, but Strange seemed to have suddenly figured out something, and his frown relaxed, and he He passed the coffee table and sat back on the sofa, even leisurely picking up the wine glass and taking a sip.
Bruce, Constantine and Zatanna all turned to look at him, and then Strange shook his head and said: "If the Ancient One is really bewitched by this book, or wants to explore something in it, Secret, then why the study room at Karma Taj College?”
There was silence in the room, and Strange sighed softly and said: "If the possession of mysterious knowledge eroded her, she would never choose to study this kind of knowledge in a school study room. There are no conditions here. It’s not quiet enough, she left this book behind on purpose.”
"To let this little girl get it?" Zatanna said with some disbelief: "I have absolutely no intention of questioning your teacher's ability, but isn't this a bit...I mean, isn't it a bit risky?"
"Helen Stark is special." When Schiller's voice sounded, everyone turned to look at him, and Schiller's fingers gently rubbed the wine glass, as if he was doing two things at once, and his voice was light and thin. Then he said vaguely: "She is not a native of that universe, and her background is quite bizarre."
"As bizarre as you?" Strange asked.
Schiller remained silent and did not answer, but Bruce's eyes suddenly focused on Strange.
The two girls in the dormitory did not make a rash decision in the end. They made an appointment to go to the college library together after class tomorrow to search for information about the name of the Necronomicon. At least they first understood what they might face. , and then take action.
Soon the lights in the two bedrooms dimmed, but the room where Bruce and Barry were located was still brightly lit. The reason was that the dormitory they used was not brand new. The previous owner left some Chinese books on the bookshelf, and the room where Bruce and Barry were staying was still brightly lit. Bruce is planning to teach himself this ancient and complex language through the few books he has.
"Are you serious?" Barry said as if he couldn't stand it anymore: "Before this, you didn't even know any Chinese characters, but you plan to learn a language just by reading books? Isn't this a bit too much? Ridiculous?"
"It's not that I haven't heard of Chinese at all." Little Bruce rolled his eyes very slightly. Even though he was sitting cross-legged on the mat, his back was straight. He was looking at the content of the book intently and said: " If you think of it as cracking a code, it becomes easy and fun.”
"Never."
"Bang bang bang", the door was knocked.
Little Bruce and Barry looked up together. Barry glanced at the darkening sky outside the window and said with some confusion: "It's so late, who else will come?"
"Maybe it's Harley." Little Bruce gave Barry a wink, and Barry had no choice but to stand up from the bed and open the door.
Standing outside the door was a little girl of about their age, with blond hair and brown eyes. She wasn't very pretty, but had a childish cuteness. She stared at Barry, who was a little taller than her, and said, "My roommate, Sirila, asked me to bring you something."
After that, she took out a magic wand and pointed at the empty space in the room. Trash cans, trash bags, kettles, toilet paper, tea sets and other trivial daily necessities appeared on the ground.
"Oh, thank you, are you a freshman too? My name is Barry Allen, this is Bruce Wayne, what's your name?"
"Jennifer Mavey, you can call me Jennifer."