Chapter 592: Crimes of Taste
At Batman's house, housekeeper Ah Fu has just opened the last letter Rachel left before her death.
Dear Bruce,
I'm going to be honest with you, and the person I really want to marry is Harvey Dent. I love him and want to spend the rest of my life with him.
I told you that if Gotham City never needed Batman again, we could be together, and I mean it by heart.
But now I know that day probably won't come, because you'll always need to be Batman.
But I wish I could wait until that day and not need you to be Batman again. I'll be by your side then. That's just as a friend, not a lover, though. I'm sorry I disappointed you.
Maybe you've lost trust in me, but don't lose faith in anyone else!
Love you forever, Rachel!
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"I'm bringing breakfast!" Afu took his breakfast and walked over to Bruce.
Bruce didn't speak, and sat in his chair dumbfounded.
"Well, don't bother!" Ah Fu turned to leave.
Bruce suddenly said, "Ah Fu!"
"Master Wayne, what do you say?" Ah Fu immediately turned around.
"I caused all of this, right?" Bruce asked in frustration, "I thought I was bringing hope." And not madness, not death. ”
Ah Fu immediately replied: "You have brought hope, you have dealt a heavy blow to the criminals of Gotham City. But it also angered them. Haven't you thought that many times, some casualties are inevitable. Before dawn, it is always the darkest hour. ”
Bruce said sadly, "But Ah Fu, this time Rachel also died..."
"But Rachel firmly believes that everything you defend is everything we defend, and Gotham City needs you. Ah Fu comforted.
"No, what Gotham City needs is heroes above board. And I let a madman burn that hero half to death. Bruce reproached himself.
"Yes, so now, Gotham City is up to you. Ah Fu encouraged.
Bruce looked at Ah Fu and said sadly: "Ah Fu, Rachel was supposed to wait for me, but Dent didn't know about it yet. He'll never know. ”
Hearing this, Ah Fu carefully took the letter that Rachel had left for Bruce and picked it up from his plate.
Bruce asked, "What's that?"
"Nothing, something that doesn't need to be there yet. Ah Fu explained lightly.
Bruce didn't think much about it, and suddenly looked at Ah Fu and asked, "The robber you once told me... The robber in the jungles of Burma, who doesn't care about any money or fame, but just likes to kill people and set fires, have you caught him?"
"Yes, I got it!" Ah Fu nodded.
Bruce asked curiously, "How did you catch him?"
Ah Fu thought for a moment and replied, "We set fire to the entire forest. ”
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Gotham City TV No. 1 news channel.
The host looked at the camera and explained to the audience in the city: "The whistleblower we found today is a lawyer from a top consulting firm specializing in M&A business, and his words are extremely credible. He claimed that he had been waiting for Batman to turn himself in, but had not waited. So now, he has decided to expose Batman's identity personally.
We will be at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, live broadcast the process of exposing Batman's true identity, thank you for watching!"
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In the intensive care unit of Gotham Central Hospital.
Gordon looked at Harvey on the bed and said awkwardly, "I'm sorry about Rachel." The doctor says your injuries are serious, but refuses to be treated. He also said that you would not undergo skin graft surgery. Why?"
Harvey hid the right side of his face in the pillow and said coldly, "Do you remember?" When I was working in the Home Office, what did you give me the nickname, Gordon?"
Gordon muttered awkwardly, "Harvey, I... I don't remember. ”
Harvey continued, "Say, what do you all call me?"
Gordon didn't speak for a long time, and Harvey suddenly roared angrily: "Say!"
Harvey had no choice but to whisper: "Two-faced man, two-faced Harvey." ”
When Harvey heard this, he suddenly turned his face and looked at Gordon with a face that had been burned out of his bones, his eyeballs and facial muscles were all exposed, as if he were a real "two-faced man".
Harvey looked at Gordon and asked loudly, "I ask you, why am I hiding the other side of myself?"
Gordon apologized, "I know, you're trying to remind me to be vigilant and not to take my men lightly. I'm sorry, but I didn't expect it to be Ultz who drove you, who turned out to be the one who was also a clown. ”
Harvey looked at Gordon coldly, completely ignoring his alleged apology.
Gordon had no choice but to continue asking, "Do you know who Rachel was with that day? Harvey, I need to find out the inner ghost of my men!"
Harvey sneered: "Are you willing to listen to me again now?Now go to find the inner ghost, don't you feel a little late?ah?!"
Gordon said in frustration: "I'm sorry, Harvey. ”
Harvey yelled, "No, you don't regret it, at least I don't see it......"
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Gordon was kicked out of the hospital room by Harvey, and he knew what he said, and Harvey couldn't forgive him.
Just as Gordon walked out of the hospital in frustration, the boss of the Italian gang walked up to him.
"The clown made things too big and too much. The Italian gang boss looked at Gordon and said.
Gordon replied angrily, "When you asked him to do something, you should have thought about the current fate a long time ago. ”
With that, he turned around as if he were leaving.
The Italian gang boss suddenly asked, "Don't you want to find the clown? I can tell you where he is this afternoon!"
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In a huge warehouse in the port of Gotham City.
Two banknotes, four meters high and shaped like a giant mountain, are placed in the center of the warehouse.
The clown stood at the top of one of the mountains of banknotes and watched as the boss of the Russian gang walked into the warehouse with his younger brother.
The Russian boss looked at the clown and laughed playfully: "You are very ugly, but you are quite beautiful!"
"Hey-roar!"
The clown didn't pay any attention to the boss of the Russian gang and jumped straight down from the top of the banknote mountain.
He is like a child playing on a slide in a playground, borrowing the slope of the banknote mountain and sliding directly to the ground.
"I told you earlier, I mean what I say. Where's the Italian boss?" the clown smiled as he looked at the Russian gang boss.
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At the Gotham City Temporary Police Station, Gordon is issuing orders to all the police officers.
"All action teams, make sure to reach the target location within 20 minutes. The reserve group blocked all the escape routes. We must live in Clown today and arrest Mr. Liu from Xiangjiang. Whether the clown lives or dies, shoot him immediately when he sees him!
Do you understand everything?!" Gordon yelled as he looked at all the police officers present.
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In the port warehouse, the clown threw stacks of banknotes from the banknote mountain into the sky, as if all he threw out were meaningless waste paper.
The boss of the Russian gang looked at him wasting money, and couldn't help but ask: "Clown, how are you going to spend half of your money?"
The clown turned around, looked at the Russian, like an artist, tilted his head and said: "I am a person with very simple requirements. I like it... Explosives, gunpowder, and gasoline. ”
With that, one of his men took a bucket of gasoline and poured it all on the mountain of banknotes beside the clown.
"What the are you going to do?" the Russian yelled to stop the gasoline man, but was pointed to the head at gunpoint by the clown.
The clown smiled and walked up to the Russians and asked, "Do you know what explosives, gunpowder, and gasoline have in common? They are all cheap, and they don't cost much at all." ”
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Gotham City TV No. 1 news channel.
The host looked at the lawyer who was about to reveal Batman's identity and asked, "May I ask Mr. Lawyer, how much money can you get for exposing Batman's true identity?"
The lawyer said nervously: "I used to work for Batman, so I knew his identity, but I never wanted to make money, I just wanted to reveal his identity." ”
The host continued to press: "Harvey once turned himself in instead of Batman in order not to give in to the Joker. Do you think you're smarter than Harvey to reveal Batman's identity?"
The lawyer sneered: "If I can interview Harvey today, then his answer will definitely not be what you say." ”
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In the port warehouse.
The clown looked at the Russian, who was extremely excited, and wanted to stop him from igniting the fire, and said: "You said that "talk counts". ”
The Russian boss replied: "Yes, I said it." ”
The clown laughed and took the cigar off the Russian's lips and threw it into the mountain of freshly poured gasoline bills.
Then the clown looked at the Russians excitedly and said with a smile: "So I only burned half of me." ”
The raging fire rose in an instant.
The Russians watched the hundreds of millions of dollars in front of them turn into a ball of fire, and felt that their hearts were like knives, and they were in a trance under the light of the raging fire.
He looked at the clown in front of him, and only then did he realize that there were criminals in this world who didn't love money at all.
The clown seemed to see through the brains of the Russians, and he said in a sharp voice:
"Money is money in your mind, and this city should be deserved with a more tasteful criminal, a criminal like me. Tell your people that I've taken them in. From then on, this is my city. ”
The boss of the Russian gang said in horror: "They will not die for a freak like you." ”
The clown smiled at the Russians and said coldly: "You say 'freak'? Or I'll chop you into puree with a knife and feed it to the dogs? What do you think? Then see how much the hungry dog can do to you." ”
Speaking of which, the Russians' men have already erected him.
Obviously, the clown has promised the remaining half of the money to these people.
They easily betrayed their boss.
The clown looked at the Russians who were constantly struggling and screaming, and said with a smile: "I never want money, but to convey a belief that it will all be burned down!"
After saying that, he took out his phone and made a call to Gotham City's First TV news channel.
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TV news channel.
The clown's cold and deep voice is transmitted throughout the city through the television signal.
"You listen to me, I feel an omen... If in a world without Batman, the gangsters will continue to be free to steal as if it were routine, and the police will be slow to solve one case at a time. It's a boring world.
So, I changed my mind. I don't want to be ruined by Mr. Lawyer. But I'm not just playing by myself, right? I have to give someone a chance to kill! So, if within an hour, the lawyer is still alive. I'm going to blow up a hospital. ”
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