Chapter Twenty-Three: The City of Sin

Eight years ago, the song ......

No one can really paint a picture of what kind of city it was.

If the current Gotham is a contradiction between prosperity and decay, then the former Gotham is a dying city. It is like an old man with cancer, abandoned by God but unwilling to die, struggling on the threshold of hell, allowing those cancer cells to grow, diffuse, and devour each other.

Cancer ...... in the city It's called sin.

But it's not just sin, you never know it's if you haven't been in Gotham, the despair that pervades the air, the lifelessness, the depravity, the filth, the evil, the corruption that can be seen everywhere on the way to work, it's the epitome of all the disgusting things in the world, they're rubbed together in a way that doesn't fit in, and it's so brilliant that it's fascinating.

It is precisely because of this that there are countless "weirdos" here, and it is difficult to describe them one by one, but in short, each of them is like the darkest and most brutal collection that God has ever created, and they have nowhere to throw them, so they have to be thrown all together in one place.

That junkyard is Gotham - the darkest and most evil place in countless planes, and if you divide the world into categories, then it is heaven, hell, earth, and Gotham...... This is the "capital of sin." ”

The "sin" here cannot be put in prison, killed, or avoided, because the sin is the city itself, and it has infected all the people in the city. This has even led to the fact that the citizens of Gotham can only live in Gotham, and if they breathe in the fresh and sweet air of the sun, they may poison themselves to death.

Of course, if you're a new traveler, you'll need to be careful

1. You must understand that this is a dangerous city, please use your first salary to buy an insurance and a better quality urn.

2. Don't go out at night, especially when the sky is lit with bat lights.

3. If you go out at night, please take the main road and avoid all places where the lights can't shine.

4. Don't go to the following places, chemical plants, psychiatric hospitals, docks at night, banks during the day, and near GCPD.

5. Don't look out the window when you hear the following sounds: gunshots, hahaha, screams, cats, owls, pigs.

6. Don't trample on the lawn and remember to water your own plants.

7. Don't guess the riddle casually, if you have to guess, remember to answer correctly.

8. Move out quickly, if you don't want to move out, then please learn to steal, hurt, betray, kill, etc. as soon as possible, otherwise you will definitely not survive the second rent period.

That's the norm in Gotham City.

But...... That all changed one day 8 years ago. Because a man died that night......

This is normal, Gotham is dying every night, and if you don't see news about last night's murders, explosions, etc., in the morning newspaper the next day, then there is only one possibility, that is, the reporter sent by the newspaper last night was also killed.

However, there was something special about the people who died that night...... It was a "weirdo" who died, and it was a woman...... The most important thing is that the woman's name is - Harry. Quinn!

Harry Quinn is a very beautiful girl who likes to wear circus costumes, likes to dye her hair in two completely different colors, likes weird stage outfits and gorgeous double ponytails, likes to kill, fire prevention, explosions, weird laughs, and smashes people with a hammer in her hand...... But she's a good girl.

Belch...... At least she used to be a good girl, and you may not believe it, but Harley Quinn was originally a top student who graduated from a prestigious university, and she was also a well-known authority on criminal psychology in Gotham City. She was once hired by Arkham Asylum as a counselor for inmates......

But Arkham Asylum was not the "kindergarten-level" place it is now. Let's put it this way, if you dare to put a prisoner in any prison district at that time anywhere but Gotham City, and a week later, that place should basically be on the government's nuclear bomb list.

And Harry. Quinn certainly deserves to be the authority on criminal psychology, and during her tenure, she has been able to maneuver among all kinds of eccentrics...... Until one day, she meets a patient she has always wanted to study - Joker.

Joker is a man...... Well...... Actually, it's not necessarily, because people need at least physical and spiritual support, but Joker's spiritual world doesn't seem to belong to the category of human beings, because no one can understand what he wants to do, so no one knows what kind of existence he is, in short, in Gotham City, no one wants to face this guy. Even the supercriminals don't want to.

Yes, I know he's just an ordinary guy who likes to wear heavy makeup, but believe me, even if you bring a company of soldiers to surround him in the middle, you will never have the idea of "I can kill this bastard" at this time, because you are afraid that in the next second, this company will be destroyed...... You know it's ridiculous, but you're scared.

Everyone was afraid of Joker, and for no apparent reason, and to ease his horror a little, people even gave him a hilarious nickname - Joker.

Unfortunately, however, he seems to like the nickname very much, because it matches his image, so soon, the word "clown" is also infected with the intimidating attribute.

As for Harry Quinn'......, I don't know if all psychiatrists are a little psychotic, anyway, she became the first person to have a strong interest in the clown spirit world.

In fact, the Gotham government has banned it at that time, and any attempt to study the Joker's mental state and psychological world is illegal, and it is best not to talk to him. But this good girl just thinks that the Joker's unruly and unreasonable crazy thinking logic is a treasure of psychology, and she wants to understand the Joker's mental structure and the secrets hidden in it.

So soon...... She felt that she was obsessed with the clown.

Yes, it sounds stupid, but it's a fact, and even later Harry Quinn took the risk of helping the Joker escape from prison. After that, she was arrested and imprisoned, had her medical license revoked, and was considered mentally ill, and she soon came to have another name, Harley Harleyn.

For almost all of the time since, there has been a charming figure next to the Joker, and they have killed people and set fires together, doing all kinds of evil, and some people even think that Harley Quinn is like the Joker's girlfriend.

However, the clown's attitude towards this girl is more like a tool that is quite easy to use.

Of course, this is all speculation, after all, no one is going to try to understand what the relationship between the two madmen is, but one thing is clear that the Joker's feelings for Harley Quinn are a little different from those of the others...... Because she's the only one who spends a lot of time with the Joker, but isn't dead yet.

And that very night, Harriquinn still died......

It's a terrible thing.

What's even more terrifying is that it wasn't the clown who killed her......

but

Batman!