Chapter 15: Cats
The nosebleed, like pouring out of a faucet, poured hot on Li Zu's chest.
Dizziness and twitching of limbs.
Holding on to the wall, he struggled to move through the alley next to the municipal building.
It's hard to turn a whole person into a toy, obviously overdrawing too much of his energy, energy, and even vitality!
With his back against the wall, he slumped into the corner.
Even on a sunny day, the alley hides in the dark.
The three brothers in the alley had already left, and there was an extra drunk man who exuded the smell of alcohol, and after muttering a few words to Li Zu unclearly, he continued to sleep soundly with the wine bottle on his pillow.
With his heart beating wildly and his eyelids heavy, Li Zu took a deep breath to adjust his state.
Meow~
A cat jumps over, pure white.
It crouched in front of Li Zu and tilted its head to look at him.
The cat licked its paws, jumped against the wall and quickly left.
"What a cute kitten~"
He stood up against the wall, and it was dangerous to continue to stay in the neighborhood to make such a big deal in the municipal building.
The show is on, and he also wants to see how the Joker uses Harvey Gordon's son and daughter to pull the nerves of the whole Gotham, and turn the whole world upside down when he turns the city upside down!
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Municipal Building,
Thomas Wayne, walking out with Penguin Man, Jim Gordon.
The penguins left in a car on the pretext of taking care of their business.
Jim followed Thomas into the car.
"Harvey Dent is dead, but you don't look sad."
"Uh-huh," Thomas replied succinctly.
"With all due respect, Arkham is an ornament, and clowns and toy people are always locked up there" Jim's justice no longer allows him to watch the suburban madhouse become the "umbrella" of the madmen.
"Maybe Batman should be ......like he did with Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, and Riddler," Jim looked at Thomas, meaningfully.
"Jim, is there any news of the Joker?" Thomas didn't want to say too much on this topic, maybe without wearing that black uniform, he would try to dissociate himself from that identity. But it's more likely that there are other causes.
"No, there were other things that made us nervous, a lot of people were missing from the sewers in the countryside," Jim said, "and all we found was wallets stuffed with money and thrown away like garbage, and eyeballs that were crushed in the wallets." ”
"I'll check it out later"
"Get off at the front intersection, thank you" Jim nodded, knowing that Thomas had his own business to do.
After dropping off Jim Gordon, Thomas drove back to Wayne Manor.
The house is quiet, with the smell of wine, classical music, and ...... Ointment and disinfectant alcohol smell.
There is no old housekeeper.
Thomas walked up to the second floor and pushed open the door to the guest room.
A mummified figure wrapped in bandages is asleep in bed.
He chose to believe the young boy, but Thunder Split did not allow the other party to gain speed beyond time, but instead made him unconscious, and he still does not wake up.
"You should be glad I used to be a doctor"
As he spoke, Thomas closed the door, and he prepared to go to the sewers in the suburbs to see the strange cannibalism going on there.
But the ringing of the phone interrupted his plans.
It's Jim Gordon.
"Harvey Dent's son and daughter have been kidnapped, and the school bus kids who were rescued just now said that the clown did it!"
Just by listening to the voice, you can guess how much Jim is gritting his teeth now.
"Toy people enter the municipal building to cause chaos?" He has some guesses about the reason for the toy man's actions, but who else can he threaten by turning Harvey Dent into a toy and kidnapping Harvey Dent's child?
Can only be used to threaten Batman!
"I'll go find the oracle, she might have news," Jim replied.
Thomas put down the phone, and while his countless troubles were unresolved, a new problem arose: he had to keep Harvey Dent's children safe, at least satisfactory until the new sheriff arrived, so that he could maintain the privatization of the police force.
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Jim put down his phone and slipped it into the right pocket of his trench coat.
He leaned on his glasses and walked into the basement of a building.
Here the room is cramped.
Didn't turn on the lights,
Next to the bed was a large table with five or six computers displaying different images.
The light of the computer screen illuminates most of the room.
"Meow~"
A kitten jumped over and gently rubbed Jim's calf.
There were also a few "meows" at him, apparently he was a regular customer here.
In front of the computer, a woman slumped.
"I want you to help find the clown." Jim walked behind the woman's chair, the reflection of the lens blocking his gaze.
"Jim, why is that monster still alive?" The woman asked rhetorically, looking sad.
"Selina ......" he gently pressed the woman's shoulder to hand over his comfort.
"You don't have children, do you?" Selina asked him.
"No, and there is no time"
Jim's answer was not only helpless, but also fearful.
The devil is not judged, the evil cannot be eliminated, and he is afraid that his family will also be involved, and the wisest choice is ...... Don't have loved ones.
"Even if you save those children, Thomas will do his best to restore them, but nothing can be recovered."
"Never"
"Forever ......"
Jim gently wiped Selena's tears with a tissue, the cat closed her mouth, and the room was silent, except for sobs.
After a while,
"I don't know where she is," Selina said, "but I found the toy man, and he looked bad, his eyes, ears, nose, mouth were bleeding. ”
"Maybe you can tell me where he is," Jim's eyes lit up.
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The car staggered to a halt in front of the abandoned villa.
Li Zu pushed open the car door, his knees weak.
Just stepping on the accelerator, he wasted almost half of his strength, and the other half of his strength was used to turn the steering wheel.
The staircase creaked and wobbly, and it was still sturdy when you left.
He pushed the door open, and Lady Clown sat in front of the window, which she liked very much.
There were also two tied children, huddled in a corner.
"Your condition looks really bad~" The clown lady stared at Li Zu, who was drenched in blood, and showed a silent weird smile.
"What about your plan, how to turn this world upside down?"
He threw himself on the sofa covered with a dust-proof white cloth, and his blood instantly stained the dusty white cloth.
Li Zu is well aware of the danger he is in, Batman will kill him, Arkham Asylum is still hunting, and he has just turned Harvey Gordon into a toy.
and, the most mentally unstable "boss" in front of him, the clown.
Coma comes at a great cost.
"The game always has to go step by step to be interesting, let's play the house~" Ms. Clown opened her hands towards Li Zu, as if to say something more interesting than subverting the whole world.
She pointed to the two crying children in the corner: "They have been waiting for too long~"
"Some people play fathers, some people play mothers, and some people play children~" She slumped her shoulders and walked up to the two children: "We'll have a lot of fun, and then ...... He will come! ”
Suddenly, Ms. Clown's smile retracted, and she glared at Li Zu: "You are always so reckless, the difficulty of the game has been reduced!" ”
Li Zu looked out the window, and through the window, he saw the kitten squatting on the tree.
It's a raccoon cat.
"I just want him to come sooner, and when you settle your personal matter, we have more important things to do...... Of course, it's not a playhouse! He added emphatically.
He suddenly began to regret working with a madman, and perhaps it would be easier for him to just kill Ms. Clown.