Black American Comics: Start with a Snap

Chapter 239 The City of Desire!

In the hotel, Su Ze sat down on the bed and sighed heavily.

"It seems that we have found the right direction. We have finally found the outbreak point. Everything started around Gotham University. Arkham Asylum, the Batcave, and even the Gotham Police Department are being affected by this university."

"I investigated the situation at Gotham University. In just five months, a total of 32 people died at the university. Except for one who died in a car accident, the others were rumored to have been killed by the Headless Horseman. Students at the school can confirm this, but they don't seem to care at all."

"Are you not paying attention or are you being subconsciously ignored?" asked Rocket Raccoon.

"It's possible that it's both. Because of the effect of the truth serum, they won't tell lies, but the memories in their heads have obviously been modified. This must be the power of the Mind Gem." Su Ze said.

"Have you got a target?" Rocket Raccoon raised his head.

Su Ze did not answer immediately, but handed over the notebook. Rocket Raccoon took the notebook and looked down, and found that a name was circled heavily by Su Ze with a red pen.

"Jack?"

"Jack Atlus, a student majoring in physics, will be graduating and doing internship next year. This year is his last academic year in this school." Su Ze said.

"Do you suspect he was responsible for all this?" Rocket Raccoon was stunned for a moment and frowned.

"I'm 80 percent sure."

Su Ze raised his hand and made an 'eight' gesture, then continued with a gloomy face.

"I have checked with many students and teachers. Those who died at Gotham University were more or less related to Jack. Some were his friends, some were his classmates, and some were his mentors and professors. For example, that Sside was warned because he beat him, and Sside is now a corpse."

"Where's David? I remember this guy was a school bully. Have you bullied him too?" Rocket asked again.

"There is no evidence to prove this, but it seems that Jack has a good impression of Daisy. I guess this may also be a motive. After all, if Jack has killed so many people, he won't care about one more or one less." Su Ze spread his hands.

Listening to Su Ze's words, Rocket Raccoon frowned deeply.

Carefully racking his brains to recall the information about DC comics, Rocket Raccoon asked uncertainly.

"I haven't seen the name Jack Atlus in the comics. Is he some super criminal I don't know about?"

"No, he is not a super criminal, nor a superhero. This guy is just an ordinary passerby living in this universe." Su Ze responded calmly.

"A passerby? I don't understand. Since he is not a super criminal, why would he do these things?" Rocket was a little puzzled.

But Su Ze's expression became a little subtle at this moment.

Not knowing what he was thinking of, Su Ze shook his head gently and said in a deep voice.

"We were wrong from the beginning, Rocket. The invasion of these powers was not premeditated. They would not fall smoothly into the hands of named villains every time. These things appeared randomly. It's just that this time, the person who got the psychic power became an ordinary person.

And an ordinary person, a guy who is bullied in school, what do you think the first thing he will do after gaining that kind of multiverse-level power?"

"Find a rich man to sell it for money?" Rocket said without hesitation.

But when he saw Suze's weird expression, Rocket Raccoon rolled his eyes. "Okay, okay, just announce the answer. I don't really understand your human logic, but if it were me, I would sell it."

Su Ze was quite familiar with Rocket Raccoon, so he just sighed helplessly.

"For so many years, Jack has been bullied and suppressed. He has no power and dares not to resist. Even if he meets a beautiful girl, he cannot approach her. This kind of life only makes his desires stronger and stronger, like a compressed spring."

"So what you mean is that the arrival of the Mind Scepter gave him great power, and the spring in his heart was released, which caused him to burst out and commit all these evil deeds."

"It's very likely, isn't it?" Su Ze's eyes moved. "Humans are called intelligent creatures because they can suppress their desires and not let themselves become beasts. But if humans gain powerful power, then what they do is no different from beasts."

"I like to hear that." Rocket Raccoon's ears twitched, and then he stared at Suze. "But we also know a lot of superheroes, whether it's the Avengers or the Justice League of this world, aren't they also a group of humans with powerful powers?"

"But they have strong willpower to control themselves, and they have families and things they care about. These ties will keep them on the right path, rather than being manipulated by desire and turning into demons that wreak havoc on the world."

Su Ze said calmly, and then sighed again. "Young people in their late teens, they have not been tempered by society, and they don't know what the rules of this world are."

In fact, Su Ze had already guessed this when he first saw Jack, but he did not act rashly, but started looking for evidence as soon as possible. As more and more witnesses came from Gotham University, Su Ze's guess was confirmed. This guy named Jack was most likely the culprit of all this.

As a science man, Jack's plain appearance and reserved and introverted personality allow him to protect himself well. No one will notice this humble guy, and this has become his best umbrella of protection.

When such a person obtained the scepter of mind that was powerful enough to distort his mind, Su Ze couldn't imagine what he would do.

And what happened in this universe also proved Jack's greatest desire suppressed deep in his heart.

Male heroes were killed or injured, Batman, Flash and other top players were missing, no one could stop him, and Jack even reached out to those super criminals who were capable of threatening him.

Be it Luthor, the Joker, or even the Scarecrow and the Riddler, he did not let them go.

Jack's strong rational thinking makes him good at using logic and rational thinking to solve problems, and his transparent presence allows him to hide in the dark. After all, in this world where people with super powers are everywhere, no one will care about an ordinary student.

Perhaps it was this non-threatening temperament, coupled with the power of the Mind Scepter, that slowly, the entire world began to develop in a strange direction.

Now Su Ze knows why there are only girls left in the three superhero organizations, because this is a huge harem that Jack has formed for himself to vent his desires. His target is no longer limited to charming senior sisters, those heroes are what he pursues.

"Since you already know this, why don't you just kill him?"

Rocket Raccoon couldn't help but speak.

"You were wearing an invisibility cloak at the time, and that guy didn't seem to notice your presence. Wouldn't it be better to walk up behind him and cast a killing curse on him?"

"Do you think I don't want to?" Su Ze rubbed his temple helplessly and spoke slowly. "That Jack is fake."

"Fake!?" Rocket Raccoon was stunned.

"Originally, my idea was the same as yours. No matter where that guy hid the Mind Scepter, the most important thing was to kill him first and solve all this. However, I was cautious at the time and did not take action directly. Instead, I chose to observe for a while."

"It turns out that my action was correct. I later investigated the so-called 'Jack'. I guess you didn't check Jack's student ID before that?"

"What do you mean?" Rocket Raccoon frowned slightly and stared at Su Ze with confusion.

"That man is not Jack at all, or rather, others think he is Jack." Su Ze shrugged, then took out an identity information from his pocket and placed it in front of Rocket Raccoon.

Rocket looked and saw a student card with a boy's head printed on it. It was the boy that Su Ze had seen in school before, the boy who had quarreled with Daisy.

However, the name below this avatar is another one.

"Rowan Creta?" Rocket Raccoon read out the name on the identity information, and his expression became a little complicated.

"This guy is not Jack, he is just a 'clone' of Jack." Su Ze said. "I don't know how Jack uploaded his spirit to this boy, and he reached a state similar to being possessed by a ghost, but I guess it has something to do with the Mind Staff."

"That means the real Jack might be hiding somewhere else?" Rocket Raccoon licked his teeth and said in a low voice.

"Yes, and we have no idea what he looks like." Su Ze nodded.

"That doesn't matter. I can find his identity information on the computer. It's not difficult. I just need to search his age and admission application." Rocket Raccoon waved his hand and didn't take it too seriously.

But Su Ze shook his head slightly.

"Do you think I would not have thought of this? I have already investigated Gotham University. There was no student named Jack in that class. Even now, there is no such person in the entire Gotham University."

"Maybe I could look into the birth certificate?" Rocket Raccoon thought of another idea.

Su Ze still shook his head. "Since he wants to hide himself, he will definitely not expose himself. Don't forget that he is a science and engineering student. It goes without saying that he must have erased all traces of him on the Internet."

"That is to say."

Rocket Raccoon's eyes widened.

"Even if this guy appeared right under our noses, we couldn't find him?"

(End of this chapter)