[Betterman] The Little Mermaid

Batman looked at Gotham, winter and summer passed by several times in his sight, the city-states in the distance were reborn or dying, but Gotham was still shining brightly on the crown of the global empire.

"If I had a choice, I hope I can die now." Gotham heard Aleppo say this to Mosul. Their bodies can vaguely see the huge scale of the past, and the intact parts can feel To the profundity created by a long history.But most of their bodies have disappeared, and their tentacles have been basically torn off, just like human beings have been gouged out of flesh and blood, and their spines have been broken. Only the autonomic nerves are still running, but they still maintain a clear consciousness.Gotham knows that Aleppo's aspirations cannot be fulfilled as long as there are human beings among the ruins.

"I haven't thought about it that way," said Mosul. "Assyria, Persia, Macedon, Seleucid, Sasanian, Arab, Mongol, Ilkhanate, Ottoman, I've followed So many kingdoms were conquered, destroyed, and then rebuilt. Every time I was entered, I felt that the enemy this time was so powerful, with elite soldiers and generals, as if they could live longer than the Roman Empire and more majestic than the Han Empire. "

"I've seen these too," Aleppo reminded.

Mosul ignored him: "I watched these empires stepping over the city walls, brandishing whips and turnips to enforce the code, and building incomparable palaces in the land of milk and honey. Then after hundreds of years, or just a few years, these kingdoms Then they collapsed. The Kingdom Consciousness I chatted with fell and died, because death is a greater existence than any empire, it accepts glory and brilliance, and also swallows lowliness and abjection."

Aleppo exhibits his famous Aleppo Citadel with difficulty.

"Death is also too big (toobig) for us." Aleppo said, "I have seen too many cities," - Aleppo consciousness was born in 6000 BC, he was the Ottoman Empire The third largest city - "Some have lived up to the present beyond recognition, while others are short-lived and have been sleeping in the mystery of death. But the castle that was once built is still standing in the wind and sand, and the sandy slope where Abraham milked goats is also passed down. In the story. Death may capture us, but the auspicious feathers of civilization can always escape its claws, proving that such a group of human beings once existed here, and the world has changed because of them."

Aleppo felt Gotham's presence, and Gotham's tentacles were entwined around him like silk around his kingdom.

"I saw the castle destroyed in the war, the houses burned, the roads were broken, and the consciousness of the city knew everything but could do nothing. The crusaders from foreign countries exchanged fire among the ruins, and the coffins covered the faces of children. A never-fading plant called 'Killing' grows in the alley. If only death can be exchanged for a little mercy of the Lord of Hosts who sent down brimstone and fire, then I hope to die now, and the ancient city of Aleppo will Eternal between history and future."

"If you can't stop the punishment of God if you live," Aleppo heard the pearl on the other side of the ocean say slowly, "no offense, but how can you expect death in exchange for the mercy of the hunter? You don't Not a city of sin like mine with blood on every tentacle, but a land flowing with milk and honey, if you have any sins, that God-given hub of the earth and gold under the earth is your only original sin . " As if the blade of a knife is gently and coldly grazing the vitals, the tentacles of Gotham entangled in Aleppo are sweet and treacherous, "This is the source of the disaster that you will never be able to escape several times."

Aleppo reminds me of the other side of the ocean, thousands of miles of fertile land, beneath which lies the blood and bones of industry.The gold in the ground, the war of one country, and the wealth of another country.Or maybe the city on the top of the hill is really Allah—the land favored by God. In the hands of Satan, the grace of the gods is the fire of hell, and in His hands is the scepter to rule the nations.

"Even if we are free to choose life and death, I will never choose death. The peace that death can bring is too false. The real world will only have hyenas and vultures that come smelling the stench of corpses." Gotham Said, His tentacles utterly serene, "A meeting was held in Washington, D.C. to discuss whether to 'humanize' Gotham City. Congratulations," the rotten golden apple on the throne to Aleppo, and the just-arriving Cities such as Damascus and Jerusalem said, "Uncle Sam was never the Lord's 'righteous man', a false mask will not last long, welcome to hell."

After returning to silence, Gotham received a contact from Washington, who urgently informed Gotham of the results of the meeting.Human beings have made up their minds this time to take action against Gotham City, the capital of crime and the city of sin.Politicians in Washington have begun contacting the media and Internet companies, requesting that all information about Gotham be cut off.

When they are ready for everything, it's time to raise the butcher's knife.And Gotham has no resistance, it is just a city, a city that depends on the whole world, not an ecological ball that can be self-sufficient even if it is separated from the outside world.

It has the largest grain company in the world, but no arable land; it is one of the top ten ports in the world, but it has no fresh water; its electricity and oil need to be imported from land, even though it is one of the cities with the highest consumption of the two one.

Gotham City is so bustling, but the bustling is rootless.When humans make up their minds to abandon the 900 million people in Gotham City, the city will have no power to fight back.So Gotham is about to die, just like humans, in eternal silence.

After the hastily concluded conversation, Gotham looked at the world that had hardly changed outside, and quietly cast its gaze on the quiet and deep tide of Gotham Bay.Death is a terrifying curtain call for any life with self-awareness, but Gotham is not as panicked and frightened as he imagined at this time, he just looks at the waves in a daze, and all his mind is wandering in the bat In the cave, he looked at his knight carefully.

He was also wearing black armor, but no helmet.He leaned deeply in the soft leather seat, his eyes were blue and black, and he breathed evenly.His features quivered uneasily, as if in a nightmare, Gotham controlled the steam, just like Bruce Wayne did when he was a child, and gently dropped a kiss on his forehead.

The delicate and soft cheeks of a young child have changed into the somewhat rigid facial features of an adult man, but they are still beautiful and upright, just like the static moving statues Gotham saw in Greece, full of vitality.He missed him for ten years, so that he didn't know how he got out of the pain and grew into what he is now.

Gotham controls the water vapor to swim on the sleeping big bat, just like his tentacles are intertwined with his brothers and sisters. How much he hopes to talk to the dark knight. He wants his breath to blow him away. Wrap it up, like his brothers and sisters, and Gotham will tell him all about it, that he's watching him, that he's proud of him.

He will ask his knight to leave here, even if he is so afraid of death, looking forward to dying under the protection of Batman's cloak, but his knight should not accompany him, everything has been taken away from him, Only after the death of Gotham will those normal people's lives return to Bruce Wayne, sunshine, safety, peace and joy.

And this city... Gotham will stay here, He needs to help those who still maintain order at the last moment, until the city and its people are dying, He will be scorched by hunger with them, and then die.No one knows that a nameless corpse is the city, but the city's people will remember that He was watching them all the time, like Batman.

He had to come to His territory in person.Once this idea was born, it quickly occupied all of Gotham's thoughts. He finally touched Batman's lips painted with pale cedar-flavored lipstick, and left Gotham without delay, looking for the only existence that could help him .

Gotham's consciousness sank, and he carefully curled up his tentacles to avoid disturbing Mother Gaia's consciousness.After the consciousness of the earth, time and space are distorted under the gravity of the planet. Under the action of gravity, Gotham's body begins to collapse and shrink. In this space where the speed of light is constantly changing, time also loses its meaning. Maybe it has passed for a long time, or maybe In just a moment, Gotham collapsed into a small ball with the density of a black hole, time and space were torn apart around it, and the curled high dimension began to stretch and penetrate, while a part of energy gushed out from Gotham's small ball up and down, making it uncontrollable to bring Angular momentum rotation.

I don't know how long it took, Gotham was stopped by a human hand in this grotesque space. That hand led the black ball forward, and it came to a huge human-like goddess light and shadow.From the perspective of human beings, the surroundings of the goddess are pitch black, but from the perspective of the conscious body, gamma rays rage in the darkness, hit the high-temperature and high-pressure plasma, and emit electromagnetic waves beyond the spectrum of human vision, such as X-rays and ultraviolet rays. , when the wavelengths of these electromagnetic waves fall within the human body's field of vision, it looks like a colorful aurora -- which may indeed be the same thing on a theoretical level -- dance.

The gravitational force and time and space around Gotham returned to normal, and he also became a normal consciousness, a cloud-like air mass the size of a super city, which became gorgeous in the surrounding electromagnetic wave storm; his innumerable Tentacles with a length that can encircle the earth float without gravity, just like an octopus stretching its body in the sea, but Gotham's tentacles correspond to every town on the earth, as well as the sea kingdoms outside the towns.On Earth, these tentacles are intertwined with each other, forming an invisible network, and any global level of capital circulation and information dissemination cannot completely avoid this network.

And the image of the goddess—Rama Kushner has also grown larger with Gotham. In this place that lacks other references, it seems to be a natural law. Her size must maintain a certain ratio to the size of the visitor. of.

"I know what you want," Ramakushner said, "the city of empires, the center of the world, the fashionable city, and modern Gomorrah. You want to become a human being when you are threatened with death, and then feel the power of human beings." Illusory emotions, let you understand your people, accompany them and watch them on the road to the underworld, just like you have always done." The goddess' eyes spread, and the words she conveyed were graceful and touching. Unreal, like an echo mixed with the valley of the thousand stacks: "You should know that there is no port on the west coast that is superior to you to communicate with the North American continent and the Atlantic Ocean. When human beings are trapped in the current level of technology, the wings of death will only pass by Your body will not really cover you. You just need to persist for a weak time, and when the population moves in again, your consciousness will wake up again, and everything will be the same as before."

"I know." Gotham said, "I have met many ancient cities. They all fell asleep in the flames of war and woke up in peace."

"Then do you still insist on your behavior? You know, after becoming a human being, you will have a carbon-based body, which will be injured, bleed, and die in pain. The operation of the human body has its own laws, and you will also Follow these laws, as seen from the perspective of your conscious body, and your muscles may tear, your bones may snap, your brain may be overwhelmed by hormones; your cartilage will wear down and your blood vessels will clog up during the time you are about to pass , the proliferation of cells will accumulate all kinds of errors, and the gene itself will be shortened day by day in the collision of free radicals. You still enjoy the power of the city, and everything in the city is still projected in your mind, but human beings The brain cannot remember. The lifeless dirt and vapors of the city are still partly at your disposal, but only within the limits of your human vision."

Gotham's tentacles were entangled, and he was extremely calm during the listening process. He had already thought about these: "Yes, I insist."

"The last chance to repent," said the goddess. "Becoming a human is an irreversible process. You will not be able to come here, and you will not be able to pay the price of becoming a conscious body. You will no longer be able to perceive your brothers and sisters." tentacles, and cannot join their gatherings. You will, as a heterogeneous human being and a monster in the consciousness, either die with Gotham City, or survive by luck, experience the gradual aging in loneliness, and the invincibility of death. Escaping approach. You will rot like a man in a coffin, dark roots piercing the eye sockets of the skull, and worms gnawing at the carrion from you."

"On the root of the tree that passes through my eye sockets, the lark nests among the branches and leaves, and sings to me day and night; the worm may fall into the bird's mouth, and together with my flesh and blood, it will become its delicacy." Tan smiled. In his city, outside the Mobius ring-like chain of sin, the thin and tough goodwill was connected into a net, encircling the fallen dark knight and the city.

"Then I can fulfill your expectations, Gotham." The goddess said, "but this is not a gift, but a transaction. You have feelings for a certain subject that are beyond the law, and you don't hesitate to violate the law for this; as the price of the transaction , you must give me the feelings you have. When you become a human, you can only have human senses and cognition. Human thinking organs are destined to be unable to bear your memory and thinking as a city, and your memory will be buried In the depths of consciousness, it leaks out little by little along with the pain."

"Feelings and memories," Gotham said, "I shall not recognize my knight, nor know my purpose in coming from chaos."

"The temporary storage of memory will not change your thoughts and ideas; after becoming a human, all your choices will be based on your free will. And when you get affection again, your memory will return .are you ready to go down to earth with nothing but an uncertain future?"

"I really want to say forget it." Gotham sighed.A phantom human form emerged in His consciousness and told Ramakushner the answer.

Ramakushner then told Gotham a spell, as long as he recites this spell, he can achieve what he wants.

The author has something to say:

0. Pseudoscience, don't take it seriously! ! !

Pseudoscience, don't take it seriously! ! !

Pseudoscience, don't take it seriously! ! !

1. This poem is adapted from the Arabic poet Ali Ahmed Saeed Isber. I love the temperament of his poetry (just like I like Baiteman)

2. Another name for New York:

The Babylonian Bedlam

Rottonapple rotten apple

The Baghdad of the Subway

The Banking Center of the World

The Big Apple

The Big Town

The Capital of Finance

The Capital of the World

The Center of the World

The City

TheCitySoNice,TheyNameItTwice

The City That Never Sleeps

The City of Cities

The City of Dreams

The City of Everything

The City of Islands

The City of Light

The City of Orchestras

TheCityofSkysc□□rs

The City of Towers

The City that Belongs to the World

The Coliseum City

The Commercial Capital of America

The Cuisine Capital of the World

The Cultural City

America's Leading Tourist Resort

America's Mecca America's Mecca

Cab City

Empire City

Father Knickerbocker

Fun City

Gotham is influenced by Batman comics and symbolizes the crimes of New York, but the actual source is a little earlier

HongKongOnTheHudson

Little Spaces Big City

Metropolis is the opposite of Gotham, influenced by the comics, and symbolizes New York in the daytime.But derived from the 1927 film of the same name, it became another name for New York in 1939.

NY

NYC

The Nation's First City

The Entertainment Capital of the World

The Fashion City

The Hub of Transport

The Media City

The Melting Pot

The Metropolis

TheModernGomorrah means modern Gomorrah, the city of sin

TheMoneyTown

TheMovie-Making City

The Port of Many Ports

The Restaurant City

The Science City

The Seat of Empire

The Super City

The Vacation City

The Wonderful Town

The World's Fair City

TheWorld'sMostExcitingAllYearRoundVacationCenter

I originally wanted to write a long list of introductions like the Queen of England, but then I thought I'd better forget it

& ramakushner is the goddess of deadman

3. The computer is turned off once, and I forgot what to write here

4. The urban consciousness is self-evolving, and the tentacles are the product of self-evolution. Gotham uses this mechanism to evolve empathy for human beings.That's why Rama Kushner says Gotham breaks the rules.

5. Aleppo couldn’t help talking a lot