The clown's angry room paced back and forth, the successive blunders making the smile on his face even more hideous.

"Hallie, why didn't you get my goods these two times?"

The clown stopped, and asked Harley Quinn with restless restlessness in his words.

"Uh... Someone has been messing around lately! ”

"That's a good answer, so the question is who is messing around!"

This sentence was almost shouted by the Joker, who could not accept a game in which he himself did not know the rules. Now he's forced to get involved in a game he doesn't even know the rules of, and the initiator of this game is called...

"Red Hood"

"That's right! That's him! ”

Since that deal with the gangsters failed, the low-hanging fruit laughing gas has flown away as a boiled duck, and the clown's treasure inventory of "clown laughing gas" has almost dried up.

The Joker doesn't like things he can't control, he's crazy and crazy, but he likes things to go his way.

Later, he used the privileges he had obtained from the woman to steal a batch of laughing gas from the chemistry lab. But this thing was blown up before it could be transported a few kilometers away.

Then he got some materials from other places, and he didn't even see the slag, and the raw materials that could be turned into his treasures were thrown into the sea.

Then, there were several failed raw material collections, and the number of successes could be counted on one hand. The Joker was pretty sure he was being watched, and he didn't like that.

He was forced into a game, a game he didn't really like, the game was not dominated by him at all, he didn't even see the face of the red hood, but he was overwhelmed. He didn't like all this.

"Hallie... What the hell do you think he's trying to do?"

"Well~~ According to psychology, he should be for revenge"

Hallie is a Ph.D. student in psychology who is very good at speculating on people's hearts, deducing what people are thinking at the moment through their body language. But the red hood doesn't need any speculation at all, his purpose is so obvious, every finger, the direction of the arm sliding and the posture of his combat power when facing the clown, undoubtedly does not reveal the same purpose - to kill the clown!

The Joker is a sober madman, that's how Batman defines him. He's crazy but rational, and he's still going to work with guys who're just as crazy as he is, trading and then cheating each other. It's all taken for granted.

He knows human nature very well, especially the ugliest side of human nature. He knows very well how to drive a normal person crazy, how to use the weakness of human nature to brainwash people, and how to use the ugly side of human nature to achieve his own goals, but all of this is aimed at a normal person, not a madman.

All of Red Hood's actions so far, nothing but hindering him, his purpose? Why did he do it? Who is he?

Oh yes, the guy said they'd met before, had he ever seen such a madman?

The Joker is a madman, and he only hangs out with a bunch of madmen, and he's seen all sorts of madmen, some with extreme emotions, some with crazy ambitions, and some with a simple purpose.

This guy called Red Hood has a clear purpose, he wants revenge. But he easily found himself, so why not do it? What is he waiting for?

The Joker has never failed at guessing people's hearts, and this is the only time he can't guess the hearts of people with purpose, which makes the scales of his rational madness begin to tilt.

Harley Quinn looked at the corners of the clown's grinning mouth and the yellow teeth that were neatly exposed to the air, and took two steps back without subconscious.....

"What are you doing?"

Alfred looked at the last few records in the bat computer, and wondered when Bruce began to put this ordinary robbery on the first sequence of solving the case.

"There have been several recent cases of theft of chemical labs, including those owned by Wayne Enterprises."

Bruce continued to search for something on the computer. Alfred didn't ask any questions, he waited patiently for his young master to answer his questions.

It didn't take long for Bruce to answer Alfred's doubts. The laboratory where the female worker who died due to overdose of laughing gas has just developed a new batch of laughing gas, which is more anesthetic than ordinary pure laughing gas, and the purpose of research and development is to find an alternative to conventional anesthetics, which can be used for clinical surgery in people who are immunized with conventional anesthetics.

After the theft of this batch of goods, the research institute immediately called the police, and the case was quickly solved, and a burned transport vehicle was found in the river less than ten kilometers away from the research institute, and it was determined that it was filled with this laughing gas through residue detection. Although it is a new type of laughing gas, its main component is still laughing gas, and judging from the burned state of the vehicle, it is likely that it has already been decomposed into two harmless gases, oxygen and nitrogen.

Several more labs were stolen later, and interestingly, all of the vehicles suspected of transporting the stolen gases were found not far away, and all of them were blown up.

Bruce guessed that the person who stole the laughing gas was the Joker, and he stole it in order to make his own "Clown Laughing Gas". He had no reason to blow up the vehicle responsible for transporting raw materials to himself, even though he was a madman.

If the clown diverts the laughing gas, there is no need to destroy the transport vehicle with the clown's personality.

“.... Someone is hindering the clown...."

"Oh, that means there's another vigilante in Gotham who can compete with the Joker?"

Alfred was happy to see this conclusion, and he had learned the madness of the clown. It's not a pleasure for anyone to deal with such a guy.

If Gotham had another vigilante who could compete with the Joker, it would be much easier for Bruce.

"I'm afraid not..."

Bruce's deep voice replied to Alfred's words, things weren't going to go too perfectly, and according to his guess, they were going in the worst direction.

Alfred just wanted to ask when, but closed his mouth in time, because he also guessed the name of the person who could compete with the Joker... And that name is probably not synonymous with their conventional sense of "vigilante".

“... Can.. Why did he do it? ”

Alfred asked, somewhat curiously, why didn't Jason just kill the Joker if that person was Jason. Each of the Joker's shipments was destroyed shortly after leaving the institute, which shows that the Joker's every move was under Jason's watch, so why didn't he kill the Joker?

“.... When a cat catches its prey, it will always tease first."

“... Oh no"

Bruce's words immediately made Alfred understand Jason's intentions, he hated the Joker so much that he couldn't just kill him to eliminate his hatred, Jason wanted to torture the Joker, let the madman taste what he had been through.

"And, he has another purpose... He's telling me that he can always find the clown before I do."

“.... God, that's terrible news."

"Yes, it's terrible"