Chapter 1016: The Clown Is Unlucky (Part II)
In the ward of Arkham Asylum, Brand held the notebook and looked at Schiller lying on the bed, he shook his head lightly and sighed, and at that moment, a nurse rushed in.
"Dr. Brand! A madman burst through the door and said...... He said his name was Jack! He said he needed treatment!"
Brand frowned and said, "Jack? Does he have green hair and clown makeup?"
"That's right, and he's soaking wet, and when he came in, he was shivering, and I heard the old nurse say that he's a very difficult patient, would you like to see it yourself?"
Brand turned his head and glanced at Schiller on the hospital bed again, but then put down the notebook and pen in his hand and said to the nurse, "Lead the way."
But in fact, there was no need for a nurse to lead the way, and as soon as Brand walked out of the room, at the end of the hallway, he saw Jack the Clown, who was staggering over.
"Doctor! Doctor! Come on! Help me! I'm having very bad auditory hallucinations and I need some medication! I've got to get some medicine!!"
Brand held out a hand to stop Jack the Clown from rushing towards him, and said, "Listen, Jack, your attending physician is Schiller, he's still unconscious, and although I can take over your treatment, I suggest you wait a while......
Jack froze, he looked at Brand and said, "Is Schiller really unconscious?"
Brand was a little puzzled and said, "What do you mean, he's really unconscious? You knew he was unconscious before you came here, no, there are very few people who know about this, and they shouldn't talk nonsense......
Jack squatted directly on the ground, covered his face with his hands, and then said very devastatedly, "You know what? Before I came here, a madman told me a story, a crazy story! He must be crazy to make up a story like this!"
Brand was very patient with a patient who was in a state of madness, and he said, "Well, come with me to the clinic first......
After saying that, he turned around and walked to the treatment room, Jack obediently followed behind him, and Brand said as he walked, "But I have to remind you that I'm not like Schiller, I'm just a psychiatrist, I have prescribing authority but no license in mental medicine, so all I can do is listen to you and finish what happened to you, and then prescribe some medicine for you."
The two came to the examination room, sat down facing each other, and the clown sniffed vigorously, and then said, "Just ...... Just now! Batman stopped my card and asked me to give him a ride......
"He didn't have the money to pay for the fare, and he owed me $100, so he asked me if I could use a story to offset his fare, and I agreed, we're friends, aren't we?"
Brand nodded and motioned for Jack to continue, but Jack wiped his eyes and choked up a little, "But this despicable fellow, he fooled me with a completely fictional crazy story, and caused me to have auditory hallucinations and hallucinations, doctor! You must help me!
"Oh, what crazy story did he tell?" Brand asked with some interest.
"He actually said...... He actually said......" Jack gritted his teeth and said, "He actually said that he left Gotham, regardless of the chaos here, because Schiller jumped into hell, so he also jumped into hell, he was trapped in hell, and he couldn't come back!"
"Uh......" Brand muttered, as if sensing something unusual about Jack, and said, "If this is indeed a crazy story for an average patient, it is you...... Well, what I'm trying to tell you is that hell is actually real, and I've been there."
With a bang, Jack slammed the table and said, "That's not the point! It doesn't matter what hell, tall building, or garbage can, how could Batman jump for someone else?! What's more, it's for Schiller??!!
"Don't think I don't know, Batman is most suspicious and wary of Schiller! He knew that Schiller was a criminal!"
Jack took a deep breath, then sped up his speech, and said with some trembling, "Doctor, doctor, you may not know, it's ...... Among all our criminals, we are ...... We'll be in touch......
"We have always been in touch, through newspapers and letters, we all know each other's existence, and no one does not know Schiller Rodríguez!"
"Initially...... Initially...... It was he who started a club of serial murderers! That's right, it's him, even though I didn't even go to his stupid and boring club because ...... The Joker should have his own club!"
"My club should be in a glorious hall,......" said the clown, holding out his hand and waving his arms, "It's going to be filled with balloons and a salute, and every time someone walks in, there's a ribbon on his face!" Hahahahaha!"
Brand coughed slightly, and Jack froze for a moment, then said, "I digress, I mean ......."
"Schiller!! He's a criminal boss!!!! Jack suddenly jumped up and yelled.
"The whole world knows that! There's no way Batman doesn't know! He's going to jump into hell for the criminal he hates the most?! Is he crazy?!!
Jack stood there and blinked, took a deep breath, then looked at Brand again and said, "Oh, sorry, doctor, I was wrong, it's not me who needs treatment, it's Batman, go and save him!!"
"Well, if that's the story, then all I can tell you is that it's not a story." Brand didn't seem to be very proficient in psychotherapy, scratched his head, and said, "It may be a bit abrupt, but I'm actually a magician."
With that, he conjured a cluster of flames in the palm of his hand, then looked up at Jack and said, "I know another mage, her name is Zatana, she passed out because she used too much magic before, I just went to visit her, and she told me all this."
"One of us, the other bastard magician Konstantin, made a deal with the green of everything, which controls plants, and you should have seen those giant broccoli on your way, right? That's his masterpiece."
"Schiller was allergic to broccoli, so he was very angry with Konstantin's actions, and in order to get revenge on Konstantin, he killed himself, went to hell, and wanted to pay off all his debts for Konstantin."
"To pay off the debt, you must jump into hell, so Zatana watched Schiller jump off hell, and Batman jumped with him......
"Seriously, when she said this, I didn't believe it, I didn't know that they had such a strong teacher-student relationship!"
The Joker has been completely stunned, if the version that Batman told him before, it sounds like it was made up in order to break through his psychological defense, then the story that Brand told is logical, and there are many details, it is indeed difficult to say that it was made up.
"I'm sorry doctor, I just said it wrong again, it seems that I'm still sick, I can't tell the difference between reality and imagination, you can quickly prescribe medicine for me!" Jack said, staring at Brand deadly.
"I'm going to stay here! From now on, Arkham Asylum is my home! No one wants me to leave here!"
With that, Jack turned and walked away, rushed into the hallway, and shouted, "Nurse! Nurse! Prepare an empty ward for me!!
"What? Which gangster am I from? I...... Well...... I...... Actually, you know the truckers' union, right? Ah, yes, that's right, I'm from the Truckers' Union, so get me a ward, thank you!"
Brand, who was sitting in his office, shook his head and said, "I hope he doesn't really stay here for too long, I've already promised Alberto to leave two more rooms for his men......
After telling the story, Batman was kicked off the truck by the Joker, and his landing posture was very handsome, but he couldn't hit the car's posture, but he was very embarrassed.
Fortunately, it was not far from his destination, the Rodriguez Manor, and soon Batman was in the manor, while Merkel was still laboriously eradicating the broccoli in the garden.
Seeing Batman coming, he greeted him warmly, and then asked, "How is Mr. Schiller?" I'll go see him later, but I'll have to get rid of the trouble in the manor first, or ......."
Merkel shook her head, bat
Batman glanced into the garden and saw that most of the broccoli had been removed, except for the largest one.
"I'm here to get something." Batman looked Merkel in the eye and said, "You should know that Schiller has a special kind of wine that can make people go into dreams, and I need to get this wine and go into Schiller's mind hall and call him out."
Merkel looked at Batman with some puzzlement, and before he could ask, Batman said: "Schiller's current coma is probably because the personality who once controlled his body is unwilling to float, and other personalities can't float, no one controls him, and his body can only be unconscious."
"I'll have to talk to that personality and get him back to take control of his body, otherwise, Schiller will be in a coma forever."
Merkel hesitated for a moment, and said, "One of the most important rules of stewardship is that no one else should be allowed to touch the owner's personal belongings, but if it is really like what you say, it is not impossible to make an exception."
"Well, the broccoli here is a little troublesome, for the sake of Mr. Schiller's future mental health, I want to transport them out quickly, it is estimated that the next three hours will not be able to take care of anything else, you better leave quickly!"
With that, Merkel picked up the gardening shovel and began to eradicate the largest broccoli, and Batman turned and skillfully went upstairs to open the door and began to rummage through Schiller's study.
The bottle of wine is actually not difficult to find, it is placed on the shelf in the study, but Schiller used this method before to trap Konstantin, who wanted to steal the wine, this bottle of wine cannot be directly touched with his hands, otherwise he will fall asleep immediately.
Although Batman's purpose is to enter Schiller's dream, he doesn't want to enter here, because if he really wakes Schiller up, that Schiller's speed can be rushed back in an instant, and then block Batman who just came out of the dream here.
Batman had already anticipated that the rest of the conversation would not go well, and if he was blocked here, it would likely add to Schiller's resume.
And to take the bottle safely, you have to solve the 48 puzzles in the room, and while Batman is busy solving the puzzles, he is in the Batcave, looking at the surveillance equipment Lex and Clark, but finds an anomaly.
Clark pointed to one of the screens and said, "Where is this? Oh my God, who is that? Professor Schiller has been kidnapped!"
Lex, who was debugging the equipment, immediately turned his head, he looked at the screen that Clark was pointing at, and his eyes widened because he realized that in the screen, the unconscious Schiller, tied up by rope, was hanging in the air.
And beneath his feet, the broken ground, and the glowing pool, Lex looked closely, and behind Schiller, there was a huge cross and a crucifixion of Jesus, and the rope hanging from him crossed the beams of the cathedral, and the other end was tied around the neck of Jesus.
"Gotham Cathedral!" Lex said in a deep voice, "Call Batman and tell him to come over immediately, Professor Schiller has been kidnapped!"
"What else did you tell him to do? I'll fly over right now!" Clark was about to leave, but Lax grabbed him and said, "Can you use your brain? Do you know who the other party is? Do you know what the pool water under Professor Schiller's feet does? What if that's a source of radiation? If you are polluted, the whole of Gotham City will be destroyed!"
Clarke's movements were stunned, he felt that what Lex said made sense, the two of them didn't know the truth about the Gotham citizens going crazy, so in their opinion, it was very likely that the murderer who put the pollution source had shown up.
They knew little about this mad-going toxin, and no one could say whether Clark would be contaminated if he leaned over, and if he went mad, no one would be able to stop him.
Clark stomped his feet in a hurry and immediately called Batman, but unexpectedly, Batman did not appear in the surveillance screen, but came to the bat cave, Clark looked at his figure and said anxiously, "What are you doing here? Go and save the Professor!"
"I'm here to save the Professor." Batman said with a cold face, and as he walked into the Batcave, one light after another turned on, and all the equipment began to run
The buzzing of the machine became noisy, and the bat cave was instantly lit up.
Batman stood in front of the largest control panel and picked up the communicator that was making a noise, and the voice of the Joker came from the opposite side.
"Batman, do you really think you can shake me? Of course you can't! It's just my plan, hahahahahaha!"
Standing under the statue of Jesus, the clown took the phone, looked up at Schiller, who was hanging in the air, and said, "I pretended to be broken, came to the Arkham Asylum, deceived the bad attending doctor, and brought your good professor here!"
"Do you think he's invincible? Do you think that if he can turn into gray mist, no one will be able to hurt him? It's a pity that if he falls into the pool, no one can save him, this crazy virus will infect everything, including the gray mist!"
"Batman, this time, you can't save him!"
As soon as the Joker said this, he heard Batman's emotionless cold voice coming from the other end of the phone:
"Missile silos warmed up, aim at the target, Gotham Cathedral, ready to launch!"