Chapter 40: Once

"Uh-uh-uhh

Jim. Gordon looked in pain, and a memory rushed out of the deepest part of his consciousness.

In sight, everything was gray, at her feet, was a graceful body, she was dripping with bright red blood, in this pale world bright and creepy, the blood flowed to her feet, spread up her legs, as if to swallow herself, Gordon frantically shook her body trying to break free from the blood.

Suddenly, he found himself wearing heavy black gloves on his hands...... Immediately afterward, he noticed that he was not wearing the old trench coat, but a strange outfit, with lines on his chest outlining a strange bird with wings spreading...... No...... It's a bat.

"Who am I?"

"Why am I wearing a Batman suit?"

This is Jim. Gordon was questioning himself in his mind, but at the same time, the voice in his head was asking the same question as he was.

Ziliang looked at the "Director Gordon" who was almost speechless on the ground, and walked over slowly.

He pulled out the note, known as the "compass," and opened it casually.

"It's such an interesting world...... In other words, Gotham City is so interesting, I've been on this plane for three months, and the compass still can't match it completely......." Ziliang said, "However, I can still find some 'branch events' that seem to have no connection." Like what...... One day 8 years ago, Jim. Gordon attended a funeral, and the deceased was none other than his daughter...... Barbara Gordon. โ€

"Bastard! Shut up! Gordon seemed to roar out with the last shred of his sanity.

"Shut up? Hahaha โ€“ Director Gordon...... Oh, I mean Mr. Wayne, do you know how many villains have died from the '' factor? Ziliang muttered slowly: "I can't shut up, because I'll give you another chance to kill me...... But obviously, you can't kill me now, so I suggest you listen to the voice in your heart, the demon, the memory that you have sealed..... Don't worry, I'll keep babbling on and on here until you fully remember who you really are. โ€

"So, where are we? Oh yes...... Jim. Gordon's daughter Barbara died, hehe, it's just a very small thing, because the presence of this character is really low, if she died in a car accident or something else, it won't even leave any traces in this story, but luckily...... She was killed by another giant S-class shard of sin in this plane. Speaking of this, Ziliang paused and smiled inexplicably: "His name is โ€”โ€”โ€” joker!" โ€

"All sins have a 'centripetal nature', so anything that is associated with joker can't always be just a small thing, so I can easily associate it with other big events...... So, let's start with the biggest...... You say, if joker killed Barbara, would it cause another S-class shard of sin to mutate? โ€

"Hahaโ€”of course it's possible!" Ziliang continued: "Dig along this line of thought...... After Barbara's death, Jim. Gordon must have been angry, and although he has always been a good old man, he ...... To be a sheriff in Gotham City, or even a candidate to become the next chief, you tell me that he is just a good guy with a heart for justice...... Ha, I don't believe in beating me to death, so, after his own daughter died, Gordon finally stopped being silent, and he was going to kill this guy called Joker.

But it's a pity that he knows that he doesn't have this ability at all, and the only person in the entire Gotham who can have this ability is Batman. โ€

"Well, that's a really good idea, so our great forbearance, and the loss of family affection, Director Gordon came up with a very simple, but very effective...... He designed Batman to kill Harry. Quinn, because this crazy girl is the only person he can relate to Joker! Hahahahaโ€”โ€”โ€” this is such a genius idea, and even he himself doesn't know how great this idea is. Originally, the two pieces of Joker and Batman were just maintaining a balance in this city of sin, however, Gordon gave a gentle push and everything collapsed! โ€

"On that very day, Harry Quinn escaped from prison! Of course, this is Gordon's move, so of course Batman is involved, because if there is another person in this city who can find Joker, then that person must be Quinn.

And in the process, Harry. For some reason, Quinn lost consciousness, suffered cardiac arrest, died suddenly, and fell to his death. Whatever, Jim. Gordon wasn't a fool, if he wanted to create such an illusion, he had a hundred ways, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to kill Harry. Quinn let it out.

So our beautiful Harry. Miss Quinn successfully "died" in front of Batman.

And this is the most interesting part of the whole plan.

It may be hard to believe that Batman, who can do anything in the dark, is actually an extremely fragile guy who has been afraid of something...... That's himself.

He was afraid that he would fall, that he would break through the bottom line, that he would lose his mind and become a madman...... Well, in fact, this kind of person who supports all his emotions and even his life with only one belief is already a madman.

So, when he saw Harry. The moment Quinn died, the string that had been strained for decades broke.

Hahaha - but Batman is worthy of being the person with the most powerful spiritual power in this plane, and he is still trying to save himself at the moment when this edifice is about to collapse...... He will Harry. Quinn took it away, used the most powerful technology to save her last breath, and hypnotized her, freezing ...... In short, as long as she is not dead in the real sense, or rotten, then she is not a murderer.

Whatever, for such paranoid people to the extreme, this method of self-deception also seems to make sense.

At least...... That's what he thought at the time.

However, it's clearly not that simple.

In the days since, Batman has experienced the most brutal torture of his life.

In fact, he knew that Harry. Quinn was not solely responsible for his death, and he found out the ins and outs of it all almost the same day. What role did Gordon play in this incident.....

However, these things are a torture in themselves, Batman's mind is already beginning to change, he wants to kill, he wants to kill the criminals who have turned this Gotham City into a miasma, he wants to kill all the evils, he wants to travel back decades and kill the criminal who robbed his parents...... And what is it that I have been wandering on the edge of the law for so many years...... Haha, he even wanted to kill himself. โ€

Ziliang said slowly, like telling a bedtime story to those children at the bedside.

And at this moment, Director Gordon (Batman) seems to have fallen into a state similar to deep hypnosis, he is crying, laughing, and trembling...... In other words, he is irrepressibly suffering the backlash brought about by years of mental confinement.

Ziliang continued to smile: "So, you already know that what you have to face at this moment has nothing to do with whether you have killed someone or not, because you will eventually go to an extreme."

...... And next......

Hahahaโ€”โ€”โ€” you did something that even I had to adore you.

Before you fell, you went to the Arkham Asylum and found someone......

The Silent โ€“ Silence. โ€