Chapter 79

Messiah's anger was instantly ignited: "I am not wrong."

At this moment when his emotions were easily affected, Messiah finally realized that he could not face Batman with an indifferent attitude. Even if they were on opposite sides, he could not abandon his emotions and fight against Batman.

Batman didn't argue with the Messiah, but continued calmly at his own pace: "From the moment you took someone's life, you embarked on the wrong path, falling under the pull of gravity, trying to control everything."

"Human beings are individuals with self and dignity, but you have deprived them of their self and dignity."

Batman stares at his children who are going further and further down the wrong path: "You control them, monitor them, deprive them of the possibility of a future, take the Earth into your palm, and make both humans and the Earth into toys in your hands."

Messiah listened to Batman's accusatory words and clenched his fists. His golden eyes turned cold. "Are you blaming me? Batman, what right do you have to replace human thought with your own? Turning humans into my toys is just your personal assumption."

This was the first time Messiah addressed Bruce as "Batman." He had a cold face, with a hint of ferocity on his fair face: "Under my protection, criminals cannot harm them, accidents cannot take their lives, and even natural disasters cannot approach them."

"I control them to protect them. But rather than just control, I've given them so much more," Messiah said coldly. "I've freed humans from living in fear. I've brought them equality and happiness, and given them the opportunity to realize their dreams."

"I've given so much for them, brought so much to them, and yet you want to accuse me of 'depriving them of their self-esteem and dignity'?"

Messiah is unbelievable. If it weren't for him, there would definitely still be many people living in poverty and pain, some even begging for a living. If it weren't for him, 10 million people would die unnatural deaths every year, and now those 10 million people are still alive.

He saved tens of millions of lives, so who has Batman to blame him?

"Free medical care, free education, wealth, the realization of ideals, good health..." The Messiah quickly reeled off a list of things he had done for mankind. "Every single one of them has benefited mankind. What gives you the right to say I'm wrong?!"

Batman snapped, "But you're not a god. You have no right to control humans! You've just treated them as your pets and become a dictator and tyrant!"

Messiah stared coldly at Batman who was scolding him harshly, and two lights were shining in his golden eyes.

He can no longer allow Bruce to go against him. He has heard enough of Bruce's accusations and now he has to brainwash Bruce!

Jason stared blankly at the fierce quarrel between Messiah and Batman. Why...was his brother...and B...arguing?

The smell of gunpowder became stronger and stronger. Jason suddenly broke free from Nightwing's arms, and pounced on Batman and Messiah, forcing himself between them.

The hurtful words Batman was about to say were cut short, and the golden light in Messiah's eyes instantly went out.

Both of them looked at Jason who was standing between them in silence.

Under Batman's stunned gaze, Jason's hand, which still bore the scar left by the Joker, took his hand.

Messiah frowned, but Jason also held his hand.

Jason held Batman and Messiah's hands, one on each side, as if they were two little children, and tried hard to stack them together.

"Don't, don't quarrel." Jason clumsily tried to reconcile his father and brother, "B-Xiao Mi... Don't, don't quarrel."

"Together..."

Jason's brain was severely damaged and he had almost no ability to think. He didn't know why his father and brother were arguing, but he knew they were a family.

Messiah's indifferent expression shattered. Looking at Jason's clumsy attempt to reconcile, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and then he lowered his eyes, letting his long eyelashes block the emotions in his eyes.

Batman felt Jason's warmth and his instinct to reconcile them. Seeing the Messiah's fragile and dazed expression, he...

His heart was about to break.

The atmosphere suddenly fell silent. Nightwing took a deep breath and prepared to walk over, but Batman was faster than him.

Batman removed Jason's hand with a firm and irresistible force. Messiah's expression suddenly turned cold and he also let go of Jason's hand.

Jason looked left and right anxiously, but his damaged brain prevented him from thinking about what to do next.

Nightwing took Jason's hand and gently pulled Jason towards the battlefield between Batman and Messiah.

Batman took a deep breath and continued their conversation as calmly as possible: "...You are wrong, Messiah."

“Human beings are not your possessions; they are independent individuals, yet you treat them as if they were your possessions, as beings whose fate you can easily manipulate and decide.”

Messiah wanted to refute Batman, wanted to say, "If I'm wrong, then aren't you making a mistake by allowing criminals to escape from prison and take other people's lives again and again?" But Jason's anxious expression was like a bucket of cold water, making him swallow the hurtful words that were about to come out of his mouth.

Batman stared into the Messiah's face and said, "If you don't consider them your property, then why do you decide their lives and futures alone? Why do you deprive humans of the right to have and raise children?"

"You say you've brought equality and wealth to humanity, but the result is that doctors who work all day and hedonists who have fun at home get the same money."

"You claim to have brought hope to humanity, yet the result is that before a five-year-old can even begin to understand what ideals are or what the world looks like, their childish musings about wanting to be a magician or an astronaut determine their future."

Messiah wanted to refute Batman at first, but as Batman spoke, he suddenly fell silent.

"You claim to protect human life, but in reality, to prevent accidental deaths during childbirth, you forcibly deprive all humans of their reproductive rights, requiring them to go to the Garden of Eden to receive genetically modified artificial fetuses."

"You said you brought a future to humanity, but in the end you forcibly separated children from their parents, ignoring their cries and their despair."

The Messiah’s starting point is always “for the good of mankind”, but do humans really need his “for your good”?

It doesn't take Batman too much thought to rattle off a long list of things the Messiah has gone too far.

With every word he said, his expression became heavier and sadder.

In Batman's eyes, these were all his mistakes. It was because he failed to teach his children well and because he failed to protect his children that they embarked on the wrong path before their values ​​were mature.

He didn't want to blame the Messiah, he just wanted to make his child turn back and take back the crystal ball of mankind from his child, but the moment the words came out of his mouth, they all turned into harsh accusations.

Batman had been silent for too long, and had been separated from the Messiah for too long. Time had made him forget the colorful memories they had, and he had forgotten how to communicate with his child.

"They only need to eat, sleep and have fun every day to survive, and they can be manipulated into what others like, sterilized, their children taken away, and their whereabouts and future decided at will." Batman's tone was very cold and hard. "Only pets would be treated like this."

"Yet you treat humans this way."

“…”

The Messiah couldn't contradict Batman's words...everything Batman said he did.

This is an irrefutable fact.

Could it be that... he really regards humans as his property?

He just wanted to protect them, and at most he had too much control over them, but he never thought of treating humans as his pets.

Messiah's indifferent expression gradually shattered, a trace of confusion and struggle appeared in his eyes, and he whispered: "...But I just want to bring happiness to mankind. I don't treat them as pets."

"I don't consider myself their controller or dictator. I just treat them well in the way I think..."

The Messiah did not understand why money was so important to humans, why humans could not realize their ideals, why humans wanted to have children, and why bad families and criminals were able to raise children.

Although he didn't understand or comprehend them, in order to bring happiness to mankind, he tried his best to understand them.

That is why the Messiah will pay everyone the same salary, help children realize their dreams, distribute artificial fetuses to parents who want to have children, and allow children to move away from poor families to a better environment.

His starting point was to do good to mankind, and everything he did was good, so why did he evolve into what Batman calls a "pet"?

Messiah didn't want to admit it, but he had to admit that Batman's description of his "pet" was not wrong. He couldn't find any grounds to refute it, and was even about to be convinced by the irrefutable facts.

In the sky, a blue-purple space channel opened, and densely packed resistance fighter planes flew out. The fighter planes circled over Gotham, and the explosion sounds made by the wings cutting through the air resounded throughout Gotham.

In the streets and alleys of Gotham, the people of Gotham who were watching the live news broadcast of "We have taken back the city from the white tyrants" looked out and saw that the black fighter planes of the resistance army were all pressing towards Gotham's Eden headquarters.

On what was once Crime Alley and is now Park Street, a former homeless man, who was having dinner with his family after returning home from get off work, suddenly froze.

The news reports that the White Tyrant has been defeated and the resistance has officially arrived in Gotham... Has the Messiah truly been defeated? Is Eden truly about to be lost?

The former homeless man, now a decorator, ate the food in his bowl without any appetite and exchanged glances with his wife, who also looked panicked.

The former prostitute, now a college student, put down her fork tremblingly. "...The Messiah has been overthrown. Then we, then we..."

Then can we still stay in our current home and continue our current life?

What will the rebels do after they overthrow the Messiah? Will they take away everything the Messiah has given them, depriving them of their right to an education?

She didn't want to go back to the days when she had to sell her dignity.

Will the rebels kill the Messiah, or harm the very people who saved them?

Since Gotham was not recaptured by the rebels, most people in Gotham scoffed when they saw the news on TV.

There were only these so-called news reports, but no one on social media mentioned this incident. Messiah didn't prohibit freedom of speech, and they had seen too many fabricated fake news stories slandering Messiah and the Garden of Eden. How could they possibly believe this?

If the rebels had really recaptured Messiah, social media platforms would have exploded long ago. How could it be possible that only this so-called "official media" reported it?

But after the rebels' fighter planes entered Gotham and were not intercepted, they finally realized that something was wrong.

The Messiah...seems to have really been overthrown?

There are many situations similar to those of the decorators and college students. They happen in every corner of Gotham and in every corner of the earth before the Messiah forcibly controlled everyone.

Another space channel opened, and the rebels armed with guns walked out of it.

Thousands of rebels and their fighter planes surrounded Messiah.

Batman stared at Messiah's face and said slowly and firmly, "Messiah, you are not a god, and even if you are a god, you cannot treat humans as your property."

"Humanity belongs to themselves."

On one side is the opposition of the whole world, thousands of rebels and Batman Nightwing, and on the other side is the Garden of Eden where only Messiah is.

Batman looked at the Messiah's moved expression, as if he saw a glimmer of hope.

However, the Messiah's eyes, who should have been persuaded by Batman and successfully retreated, turned cold.

——The world's boiling curses and opposition echoed in his ears. People cursed his rule, cursed his family, and cursed everything he had.

The Messiah was enraged.

"That's enough! Stop talking!" Messiah suddenly shouted, "Shut up!"

He didn't know if he was talking about Batman or the curses that kept echoing in his ears.

【Author’s words】

In many cases, amidst a silent majority, 10% of the people made 1000% of the voices.

The same is true in the main text, where opponents overwhelm the silent supporters and make 1000% of the voice heard.

The second week ending is expected to be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow [Sunglasses]