Chapter 572: Lex's Gotham Journey (Part II)

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When Lex and Copote meet and look at each other, they suddenly have a hunch that the other person may be very similar to themselves.

This resemblance does not refer to the background or the resources at their disposal, but to the similarity in spirit and personality, that is, they are all born perverts.

There are many similarities between people with antisocial personalities, that kind of cold, cruel and irascible temperament, which cannot be concealed by any kind of appearance, when two murderers meet together, they can always find resonance in each other's souls for the first time.

In a way, this kind of person can be said to be the opposite of sexual goodness, many of them do not become perverted because of some childhood trauma or psychological shadow, they are born like this, and they cannot be saved.

Cobot has been doing well lately, he has become Alberto's right-hand man, and his status in the Twelve Families has risen all the way, and it is predictable that when Alberto does become the next godfather, Colbert will be able to engrave his surname in the Twelve Families.

In terms of emotion, he is very familiar with the gang at the vocational school, and he has adopted all the children in Gotham, satisfying his desire for power, and at the same time being able to learn from Victor, who is like his father, constantly guiding and educating him.

But as mentioned before, Cobott has a better life, a teacher and friends, and a predictable future, but he does not become a sunny and lively person, he is still gloomy, cold, and lacks empathy for others, and can derive pleasure from violence and control.

This kind of personality does not change by the change of external environment, if it is outside of Gotham, his best place is a mental hospital, but in Gotham, this disease cannot be treated, and does not need to be treated, or just a simple antisocial personality, is already a model patient.

After both of them were stunned for a moment, they both looked away and did not continue to look at each other, when Victor came out of the other room, and when he saw the two of them stunned, he first stepped forward and took the stack of papers in Copote's hand, and then patted Lex on the shoulder.

Lex followed him into the inner room, while Colbert continued to prepare the experimental supplies outside, he turned his head to look at the door from time to time, and through the frosted glass, he could see Victor and Lex sitting facing each other, Victor seemed to ask Lecks some questions, and Lecks answered very fluently.

When the two came out, Victor seemed in a good mood and introduced to Copote: "This is Lex Luthor, he will also be the assistant of the laboratory in the future, after 5 o'clock in the evening, he needs to borrow the laboratory for independent experiments, so remember not to lock the door." ”

Copote rarely didn't turn his head to look at Victor, but nodded as he was busy with what he was doing.

He quickly finished sorting out the utensils, then turned and walked out the door to leave, but Victor followed, put his arm around his shoulders and said, "Don't be sad, Colbert, I won't let you do independent experiments because you are too young now, even younger than him. ”

"I don't know what's wrong with you, you are going to do such dangerous experiments as teenagers, and when I was your age, I only knew how to read scientific magazines or burn my dad's tires with fire."

"Don't be too anxious, kid, you should study step by step, get admitted to high school, and then go to college, and when you go to college, you have time to do experiments."

"It takes time for water to freeze into ice, and it's the same for people to grow."

Copote pursed his lips and said, "No, I'm not jealous of him, I'm just ......"

Copote shook his head, he didn't know how to explain his instincts to Victor, he was always ashamed to talk about his past in the face of Victor, for example, he used to be the killer of the Godfather, for example, he killed many people, and for example, he still kills.

Whenever he enters a normal life, Colbert feels repulsed by his perverted desire to be free from society, but whenever he does it, he always can't control himself, and he can't quit this kind of persecution and the pleasure of controlling others.

He couldn't tell Victor, because he was this kind of person, so he could keenly feel that the other side was also this kind of person, and he couldn't use his black history as evidence to remind Victor.

He took a deep breath, but finally shook his head, said nothing, and slowly left down the hallway.

The sky gradually darkened, and after Victor was busy with his own business, he said to Lex, who was standing in front of the laboratory table to sort out the materials: "Thank you for your help, it's your free time next, everything you want is ready, remember to pay attention to safety, I'll go first." ”

"Thank you." Lex smiled at Victor, who shook his head slightly and turned to leave.

After Victor left, as the sky grew darker, Lex was concentrating on his experiments, concocting a chemical agent that could be launched into the sky to disperse the rain clouds.

He had to prepare the shells first, and then he had to prepare the launcher, so now he was conducting chemical experiments first, and then the mechanical construction was going to be carried out in a separate laboratory.

Mixing chemicals is a very focused job, he must constantly observe the reaction, not distracted for a moment, Lex stared intently at the reaction in the test tube, the cold light of the laboratory shining through the glass of the test tube on his face, leaving a scar of light.

Suddenly, a shadow obscured some of the light, and Lex flashed to the side, a sharp knife slicing through his upper arm with a sharp "bang", and the liquid splattered out.

The test tube was thrown out, and the reagent inside spilled on the ground, and after it came into contact with the ground, it made a soft sound and emitted a wisp of smoke.

With a "snap", the whole laboratory fell into darkness, and Lex gritted his teeth and turned back, and an extremely gloomy face appeared in the darkness, it was Colbert.

When he appears during the day, he only looks a little gloomy, but when night comes, that gloomy and crazy temperament reaches its peak, and he is like a penguin leaping from the surface of a glacier into the water, from slow to swift, from prey to predator.

"Are you crazy?! Copote!

! Lex shouted, "We just met today, no grudges!" ”

"It seems that you don't have a correct understanding of your mental condition." "But I went to the psychiatrist not too long ago, and he told me that I was a madman," said Copote, in a hoarse voice. ”

Colbert pressed his knife towards Lex, who stepped back, staring at his gloomy and distorted countenance, and Colbert continued:

"Not only that, but he told me that if I met someone who looked like me one day, he would be crazy."

"We're one of those people, incurable natural murderers, so I have to kill you."

Lex thought Colbert was unreasonable, and he said, "Why do you call me a murderer? I haven't even killed anyone! ”

"Someday, you will." Although Copote's figure was thin, the knife in his hand flickered coldly, and it could be seen from his posture that it was not the first time he had done this kind of thing, and he knew how to use his posture to bring pressure to the other party.

Lex gritted his teeth and said, "Sure enough, the people of Gotham are crazy!" Don't you need a reason to kill?! ”

"I said it, because we're the same people, so I have to kill you."

Lex doesn't know what to say anymore, probably, which shows how Metropolis is different from Gotham.

All the villains of the metropolis are justified, they are either for profit, or hatred, or for love and pursuit, but they are still committing crimes with the logic of ordinary people.

But Gotham is not, and Gotham's lunatics might kill because they ate a steak they loved this morning, because of some crazy illusion and unfounded intuition.

Many people may think that it is a manifestation of madness to break through the bottom line of law and morality because of love and hate, but in fact it is not, when a person's emotions, and the driving force generated by emotions, and the behavior generated by the driving force, can be perfectly connected into a line, it means that he is still logical, not crazy.

Real madmen, whose emotional drive and behavior are completely unrelated, like the difference between Lex and Copote.

Because Lex disagrees with Clark's point of view, he feels that he hates him very much, and will go to him for trouble, and maybe in the future he will commit crimes for dealing with Clark.

His hatred of Clark creates a boost that leads to his criminal behavior.

However, Colbert is different from Lex, he is completely unfamiliar with Lex, he doesn't have any hatred, he doesn't even know him, but he will have intuition and speculation based on this, and this intuition makes him want to kill Lex, there is no emotion, no impulse, and no logic that can be connected, just a fleeting illusion, which becomes the reason to push him to kill.

All the madmen in Gotham are like this, they don't have an internal logic to their actions, so no one can be completely sure that they won't be their target, and that's the real scary thing about Gotham, because you can't tie your life to whether or not a madman has a favorite steak this morning.

At the moment when Copte raised his dagger, there was a "pop", and the crisp sound of glass being broken came from outside the window.

Copote turned his back, and the moment he did, Lex grabbed the test tube rack on the bench he was leaning against and threw it at Copote.

The test tube rack smashed into Copote's back along with the test tube, the test tube shattered and cut Copote's skin, blood flowed out, Copot turned his head suddenly, and the gloom completely turned into murder and madness, and just as he raised the dagger again, a low voice full of anger came from outside the room:

"Thomas! Stop it! Stop your evil deeds!

! ”

There was a loud "bang", the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, followed by several heavy footsteps, and with a "bang", the door to the room where Lex and Copote were was slammed open, and a man rushed in.

He was stunned as soon as he entered, as if he didn't expect anyone else in the room, and he knew that the pursuers behind him wouldn't give him much time to react, so he hesitated for less than a second in order to escape, and then rushed straight towards Lex.

Rix flashed to the side, but couldn't dodge it, the tall man grabbed him by the arm and strangled him from behind, and he held Lex hostage and turned around.

At this moment, the light outside the door left a bright square on the floor of the room along the open door, a black shadow with pointed ears, standing in the square, like a played card.