For the unchanging cloudy sky in Gotham, the night is nothing to appreciate, so standing on the Wayne Building at this time, it can only blow a cold wind, and it can't even alleviate a trace of pain in my heart.

"Harvey may not know enough about you to make fun of him, but I know it." Rachel Dawes walked over, looking sideways at Bruce Wayne with brown eyes, and her words were filled with dissatisfaction.

For Bruce Wayne, she naturally has emotions that cannot be ignored, but she understands that Bruce Wayne will never be able to remove the armor from his body, and Gotham City will never have a day when Batman will not be needed, so the promise between them from the beginning is impossible to fulfill.

She's a sane woman, and she knows what she has to do. Sometimes desperation doesn't mean no emotion, it's just helplessness. She loves Bruce Wayne but can't be with him, she can't stand being a liability, so she can only choose the most decisive way, so she throws herself to another man.

And after Harvey Dent has been in contact with her for a long time, she also found that Dent is the person she wants. As a supporter of the law, she has doubts about everything about Batman, and she yearns for justice achieved by law, not by violence, which Bruce Wayne cannot give her.

Bruce Wayne turned his head and looked at the cold-faced woman with complicated eyes, unable to tell what it was like in his heart.

After a long time, Bruce Wayne sighed lightly, took off his blazer and draped it over Rachel, and then looked at the dim night sky again, and said clearly but tiredly: "No, I mean it all sincerely." ”

Rachel Dawes's eyes loosened when she heard this, tightened her suit, and was silent.

A wry smile appeared on the corner of Bruce Wayne's mouth and he continued, "Remember what you said to me that day? When Gotham doesn't need Batman anymore, we can be together, hehe, maybe that day will come, but I can't make you wait for me. ”

There was a deep disappointment in his words, not only for Rachel, but also for himself, and for the darkness of the city, which seemed to have no end to the darkness that weighed on him like a mountain, making it difficult for him to even breathe, but he would never put this pressure aside, so everything was his own choice, no one wondered.

Rachel was even more silent, just looking at Bruce Wayne's side face, and she didn't know what to expect.

At that moment, a voice broke the silence.

"This banquet was really good, Wayne, I want to say, thanks again." Harvey Dent walked over with a smile on his face.

"Can I borrow Rachel for a while?"

"Of course." Bruce Wayne nodded, pulled out a smile, and said casually.

Rachel glanced at him, but Bruce Wayne turned his head away first, looking at the dark night sky, only the palms holding the fence turned white from overexertion.

"Damn! How did so much happen again!! ”

Meanwhile.

Gordon had already gotten the message left on the Joker's card on the fake Batman's corpse, or rather understood the Joker's purpose.

The clown card has three people's genes detected, the judge, Harvey, and the mayor, and the meaning is self-evident.

"This is a declaration of war by the Joker, immediately send two teams of police officers to protect the judge and Dante, put them in protective custody, and at the same time seal off the town hall and not allow anyone to enter until I get there, including the mayor."

"I see" The female police officer next to her nodded when she heard this, and immediately took action.

However, it is precisely because of this that the clown gets the opportunity and starts the game of juggling.

At the same time that Gordon arrived at City Hall, something unexpected had already happened in the Wayne Building.

"Hey! Hello everyone! Let's come in! ”

The elevator opened, and a voice with a strange tone like a funny actor instantly attracted everyone's attention, but after they saw clearly who was coming in, the smiles on their faces instantly stiffened.

The clown walked in with a troll and a grinning face in heavy makeup, and the clown faces with guns behind him also walked in, pointing their guns at the crowd, and one of them even held a gun little by little, as if picking which one to shoot.

Bang!

The clown's gun went off, followed by a panicked scream.

"Good evening! ~Ladies and gentlemen. The clown grinned and bent down for a gentlemanly salute, then walked forward, his eyes quickly searching the crowd, and continued: "We are today, well, entertainment, I have only one question. ”

Picking up the exquisite snacks on the table and taking a bite, the clown turned his head to look at the crowd again, and said coldly, "Where's Harvey Dante?!" ”

The audience was silent, and there was silence and no one answered the clown's question.

"Do you know where Harvey Dent is? Say it, you know? The clown walked up to a girl and asked helplessly, while the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the girl.

"I, I ......"

The girl looked at the muzzle of the gun, her face panicked, and she looked at the person next to her but found that the person around her was also nervous, obviously not helping her, so she could only speak with a trembling voice.

"We will not accept the intimidation of gangsters." Suddenly, a white-haired old man spoke.

"Huh?" The clown turned to look at the old man, stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, as if he had seen something interesting.

"You know what? You remind me of my father. The clown said, and suddenly a step came to the old man's face, and at the same time put a knife on the old man's mouth, glared and said fiercely: "I! Hate my father! ”

"Alright, stop."

At this time, a slightly chilled woman's voice suddenly sounded, stopping the clown's next move.

Rachel Dawes walked out of the crowd with a frown, glaring at the clown.

"Hey, beauty." The clown grinned again, stuck out his tongue and licked his hand, then ran his hand through his hair as he walked over to Rachel.

"You must be Harvey's girlfriend, you're so pretty!" Circling around Rachel, the Joker praised.

"Are you nervous? Because of the scars on my face? Seeing Rachel's nervous expression, the clown pointed to the scars on both sides of his mouth and said, "Want to know how it came about?" Come here! ”

The clown pulled Rachel over, grabbed the struggling little face, gestured with a knife, and said in a faint voice: "I used to have a beautiful wife, she was as beautiful as you, she said that I was always worried too much, I should smile more, I loved her, so I laughed at her, but she gambled and owed a lot of loan sharks, one day they scratched her face, we didn't have the money to give her plastic surgery, she couldn't afford it, I just wanted to see her smile, I wanted her to know that I didn't care, so, I put a razor in my mouth, this, let me be like her, but you know what? She was scared of me, she didn't dare to look at me, she left me, so I always see the optimistic side now, so I'm laughing all the time now, laughing all the time, hahaha, uh-"

The laughter stops abruptly as Rachel kicks the Joker hard in the crotch, but the Joker doesn't care about it now.

"You have a sense of rebellion, I like it."

As he spoke, he was about to go up and grab Rachel, but at this moment, a dark shadow suddenly burst out of the crowd and knocked it over with a punch, followed by a hoarse word.

"Then you're going to fall in love with me."