The Death Knell

Kendra laughed, dug into her pants pocket, took out a candy wrapped in rustic plastic paper and handed it to Deathstroke:

"It doesn't have to be free. Well, this is the reward. Tell me about Cyborg's multiple personalities, and how did this Mother Box become their mother?"

Hawkgirl is indeed quite interesting sometimes. Although there is darkness left over from countless reincarnations deep in her heart, she is still a superhero after all, and she barely has a sense of humor.

The candy in his hand was very ordinary. If the bright red plastic wrapper hadn't faded, Su Ming would have thought it was a product from the former Soviet Union. It didn't even have a brand. Who knows where Kendra bought it? .

"Since you are so curious, I will tell you."

After opening the wrapping paper and stuffing the candy like 'prawn cake' into his mouth, Su Ming sat on the empty chair and told the woman about Cyborg.

There is no need to tell the origin story. All the members of the Zhenglian know it. After all, before taking Cyborg from the Titans team to the Zhenglian, Batman had already checked all eight generations of Victor's ancestors. It is not known how many people have been fired within the Zhenglian. We will discuss this matter next time.

It is not easy for a person to join Zhenglian. It requires the consent of the three giants. Ron En's words are of no use in this matter.

Since there is no need to tell the origin story, let’s talk about the issue of multiple personalities.

"The biggest cause of Cyborg's split personality is that his left and right brains are out of sync." Su Ming gave a direct diagnosis. While chewing halva, he raised his hand and tapped his temple with his index finger: "Half of his brain is completely electronic. The other side is made of the same flesh and blood as us. Do you know what would happen if ordinary people lacked one side of their brain?"

"Uh, hemiplegia?" Hawkgirl thought for a moment, then jumped onto the display cabinet and squatted with her arms folded.

Although she is not a doctor, she seems to have heard someone say that the two hemispheres of the normal human brain have a functional division of labor. The left hemisphere feels and controls the right side of the body, and the right hemisphere feels and controls the left side of the body.

"Absolutely. The left half of the brain is mainly responsible for logical understanding, memory, time, language, judgment, arrangement, classification, logic, analysis, writing, reasoning, inhibition, five senses, etc. The way of thinking is continuity, continuity and analysis. The right half The brain is mainly responsible for spatial image memory, intuition, emotion, physical coordination, visual perception, art, music rhythm, imagination, inspiration, epiphany, etc. The way of thinking is disordered, jumpy, intuitive, etc.”

While talking, Su Ming played with the mother box in his hand. It would beep from time to time, as if it was running some calculations:

"Cyborg's right brain is gone and replaced by an electronic computing center constructed from a mother box. Although the attributes of this new right brain and left brain are complementary, they also have a lot of opposition. The biggest difference in thinking is The difference, over time, Cyborg has two personalities, one is absolutely rational and the other is relatively emotional."

"So, we all have split personalities." Hawkgirl thought for a moment, then she moved and squatted on the display stand like a real hawk: "Not to mention Batman, even Superman has two people. One is the honest newspaper reporter Clark, the other is the omnipotent Superman."

Don't worry, she was right. If something bad happened to Lois, Superman's other personality, the 80th Generation, would emerge. That was the unjust Superman who completely abandoned his mortal side and became a god on earth.

Of course, it doesn't rule out that Hawkgirl knew about the parallel world in the first place.

But Kendra must know another thing, that is, Martian Manhunter actually has an evil personality. He was originally the spy weapon of the White Martians and had fought against Zhenglian.

She knew, but didn't say anything. Instead, she brought the topic to Superman. It seems that she also learned something from Deathstroke...

"You're right. 80% of superheroes are masked vigilantes. Masking means being separated from your ordinary identity. If you have been a hero for a long time, you will have split personality even if you think about it. Disaster."

Su Ming, who knew it well but did not expose her, replied that this statement is well-founded. If you don't believe it, go and see the old people in the first generation of the American Justice Society. They are dead and crazy, even if they are still sober. He has been unable to reintegrate into society.

Even after they retired, these old men still wore masked uniforms and were on duty every day in the base underground in Battery Park, New York. Some even couldn't remember their own names, only their code names.

Although it sounds respectable, in reality, this is mental illness.

Hawkgirl nodded. It was true that being a superhero was not that easy. She thought for a while and asked, "So how did the Mother Box become the common mother of these two personalities?"

"This is mainly because of Cyborg's father. Have you met his father?" Deathstroke asked.

"I thought both his parents were dead. He never seemed to have mentioned his father." Eagle Girl recalled for a moment, then shook her head.

"His father is not dead. He is the chief researcher of the Detroit Star Laboratory. His major is mechanical theory and engineering." Su Ming swallowed the candy and took out a bottle of wine to taste: "But his father is completely a machine." The scientific research machine, Cyborg, has a very bad relationship with him, and even simply treats him as dead."

His father would not leave the laboratory throughout the year. Every time he saw Cyborg, he would check his body. He would discuss the topic of quantum physics within three sentences and would not say anything about Cyborg at all.

In his eyes, Cyborg is just a ball of air, the kind that can be forgotten at any time.

His situation as a child was similar to that of Dr. Aphra in Star Wars. Victor did not become Aphra's character because of his mother's good education.

Victor grew up in a similar single-parent family environment. His only relative was his mother. As a result, his mother died in the car accident. Although Cyborg was resurrected, without his mother, his body also became The psychological gap of an incomplete man can be imagined.

"With his biological mother gone, all he has left is the mother who gave him a second life, the Mother Box. With the help of the Mother Box and his new body, he became active on the Internet and rediscovered the value of his existence. Gradually, he The mother box responsible for protecting and supporting him becomes the image of mother in his heart."

"Oh, it's not easy for him." Kendra sighed. Listening to other people's stories, she would think of herself. Sometimes she couldn't tell who she was, because there were many reincarnations. Fragments of memory remain.

It’s nothing else but the memory of the tragic deaths over and over again.

"Actually, you are the one who has the most difficulty, Kendra. You are very strong. I admire you very much."

Deathstroke stood up and patted her shoulder, pouring chicken soup in time:

"Having said this, the birth of Grid is the best to understand. On the contrary, those alien-shaped elderly Cyborgs, alternative personalities born in the super-time flow, actually exist in Cyborg's subconscious. This shows that Victor was captured by Dak When Seid took control, he really took that step. Although he forgot those things after I rescued him, the things in his subconscious have not been erased. Next, our research on Cyborg should be placed here direction."

Eagle Girl, who was praised by Su Ming, blushed a little. She scratched her face with her index finger and jumped off the display stand:

"I'm not as good as you said. Diana is stronger and braver than me... Let's not talk about that. I already have a rough idea of ​​what's going on. Shall we go back now?"

"Well, I need to give this mother box in consciousness to Barry. After all, it is something that cannot be taken out. Use it to strengthen Cyborg and see if there will be any surprises."