"The title of the Bandage Killer satisfies Elliott, but not enough because the title he really wants is - Batman."

"I don't know what kind of misunderstanding he has about Batman's identity, but since he values this title so much, then I don't mind giving it to him."

"But I can't walk up to him and say, 'You go to Batman, I'm going to jail,' and his not-so-brilliant brain can tell that this must be a trap."

The red-eyed Bruce leaned back and stretched out his arms in a completely relaxed posture, and said, "So, I devised a series of more complex traps, first, through the content of the article published by the Serial Killer Club, he learned that there is a killer in Gotham who is very good at skinning, known as the 'Nobody Lady'." ”

"She has a collection of thousands of different human skins, each one flawless, which is a wonderful attraction to Elliot, who is disgusted by his ruined face."

"And coincidentally, in the newly built New Arkham Psychiatric Hospital, this nameless lady happens to share a lab with another killer 'puppeteer' who is good at cosmetic surgery, and when Elliott broke in, they should be conducting research on the activity of subcutaneous tissue."

"I've prepared my tissue samples for the Nameless Lady and the puppeteer, so. They reproduced Elliott's face exactly like Bruce Wayne's, more like me than I did. ”

"Of course, it's his prosthetic leg that needs to be solved, but it's much easier than making a new face, Elliott won't let go of the puppeteer's collectibles warehouse, which happens to have a perfect mechanical leg that perfectly adapts to his condition, and no one will see that his leg is abnormal."

"When he came out of there, he was already Bruce Wayne, but he wasn't going to let it go that way, and he had one last thing left to do, which was to kill the little girl from the farmer's house who had escaped from him, because she was the only survivor, and Elliott had to solve this hidden danger if he wanted to start a new life for Batman."

"I put on a bat costume and pretended to be chasing him all the way, and met him at the home of the little survivor girl Belica, but he took Belica hostage first."

"And I cut my own face with a batrang to save this innocent little girl and told him all the passwords that Batman has, and then he knocked me to the ground until FBI agents chased me and escorted me to the helicopter."

"From then on, Elliott and Bruce's lives have been reversed, Elliott will become Wayne, the richest man in the world, Batman, the hero of Gotham, and Bruce will replace him as a bandage killer and pay the price for the crimes he committed."

"Not surprisingly, Thomas Elliott killed a lot of people, but still didn't meet the standards of solitary confinement in this prison, and Amanda threw the bandage killer into a group cell, and I had three roommates."

"Luckily, it's a fairly standard prison configuration, with one of the four being very strong and one being particularly weak."

"I chose Jimmy as a target, exacerbated the conflict between him and the big dog, put some psychological cues on him, and stood on the side of the big dog at the last minute, so that he felt isolated and desperate."

"The whole process wasn't difficult, but like I said, killing the big dog wasn't that hard, and if I had done it, I'd be much sharper than Jimmy."

"So what's the point of all this? Just to follow formalism and not kill people with your own hands? ”

"But we all know that the shackles of morality are long gone, at least not in one of Bruce Wayne's personality traits."

"Why, then, do we use this complicated, thankless, and overly sophisticated way to manipulate others?"

"I think it's the wrong way." Bruce, who had gray eyes, said, "There must be a better way, simple and quick as instinct, and our goal is to find out this method, find out the key to it, and then become our instinct." ”

The discussion in the spiritual world fell silent, and several Bruce understood that the answer was not to be reached by discussing theory.

So, the two extra figures slowly disappeared, and when Bruce opened his eyes, his pupils were covered with bloodshots, and only a little blue remained in the center of the bloodshot one-eye, and if you didn't look closely, there were only cruel and cold red eyes.

In the dimly lit corridors of the prison, prison guards were still pacing, tapping their batons against the railings and making annoying noises.

"Bell, bell, bell......"

Bloody covered the edges of her blue eyes, which were much more cloudy than the clear blue eyes of the ocean, and Elliott woke up to the disgruntled expressions of the crowd.

"Bruce, what's the matter with you?! You're a big brother now! Luthor and Pamela are your younger siblings, can't you set a good example for them? If you don't hand in the paper, the group will sleep, if you don't want to read it, just say it! ”

Victor tapped the table with the pen in his hand, threw a wad of paper in front of Bruce and said, "What do you think you've written about this week?!" And I asked you to work on that formula, what about the progress? What about the report? ”

"It's okay if your own project doesn't advance, didn't you promise your junior brothers and sisters to help them advance? Why are the two of them still like this this week? The dogs are better than the three of you! ”

Victor stood up from the table, raised his voice, and said, "Haven't you guys figured out what's going on now?" Do I have to take you to Arkham Psychiatric Hospital to meet Professor Schiller face to face? ”

"Putting aside the fact that he is angry, do you think I am a soft persimmon, so I gave me three pieces of when I urged you four or five times a week?!"

Pamela put her chin on the table listlessly and muttered, "I said I had no funds, and the cabbage I grew last time beat the people in the lab next door in less than two weeks, and the medical bills were all lost." ”

"Then you can't grow plants that can't go crazy and can't hit people?! When you choose cabbage, I tell you, don't pick this plant with long leaves! ”

"Besides, how many times have I stressed that any plant can go crazy at any time when it arrives in Gotham, why don't you bring a freezer gun when you enter the cultivation room?!"

A burst of laughter came, and Victor immediately glared at Lex and said, "You're still embarrassed to laugh?!" Lex Luthor, you studied the Ark Reactor when you were under Schiller, and you started studying sociology under me, you are quite rebellious?! ”

Lex also lowered his head and stopped talking, and the other graduate students were all trembling, for fear that their physics professor would take out the cryo gun on his waist and freeze them here, and it was not uncomfortable to be frozen, mainly because it was too embarrassing.

Victor paced around the table with his hands behind his back, then put his eyes on Elliott's face, and the more he looked at it, the more angry he became, and he pulled out the freezer gun, and with a "whoosh", an ice pick froze Elliott there.

Elliott didn't react at all, in his eyes, Victor was not a frozen person, just an ordinary college teacher in the daily life that Batman had to deal with, Elliott had planned to sleep through the whole group meeting, so that he could have the energy to go out to be Batman at night, but he was frozen before he could react.

After everyone went out, Victor slapped the table and said, "Let Mayor Roy move you to the building, just in time for your fans to see Batman's heroic posture sleeping at the group meeting!" ”

With that, he turned around and left in a rage, leaving Elliot in the ice with a bewildered expression, completely unable to break free.

Fortunately, Victor didn't plan to let him spend the night here, and the ice cracked at about twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and Elliot fell directly to the ground, and his head hit the leg of the chair.

He stood up with his head covered, cursed in a low voice, and walked out of the empty conference room, where Elliot stood at the door of Gotham University in a daze, not even knowing where else he could go.

First of all, Wayne Manor can't get in, he's already tried, Thomas is also Batman after all, he installed an automatic security system directly on the gate of Wayne Manor, and Elliot can't even get close.

Secondly, all the bank and credit cards in Bruce Wayne's name were frozen, so even if Elliott had the password, he couldn't swipe the card to stay at the hotel.

Not to mention the laboratory and the mysterious outer space base, Elliott's IQ is not bad, it can even be said that it is beyond the ordinary level, and his academic performance is also good, but it is limited to university knowledge.

But there are only two kinds of people at Gotham University today, either pure illiteracy who has given up completely, or super geniuses who can rename a series of awards after their last name.

Elliott couldn't have gotten along with that group of pure illiterates, but he couldn't touch the genius side at all, he couldn't understand any of the projects that Bruce had taken on before, and he didn't even dare to communicate with Lex and Pamelado, otherwise a few words would be exposed.

Elliott originally thought that the difference between him and Batman was only his appearance, and as long as he had Batman's appearance, he could completely replace him and inherit his wealth, status and fame.

And he also had another thought, that is, if he became Bruce Wayne, he would do better than Wayne, and he would do better than Batman, and he felt that he could save the city better than Bruce and Batman.

Elliott thinks that Bruce is not doing his job, and he fantasizes that as long as he is on the job, he will actively develop business, expand charity, help orphans, and let the media actively promote him, he will definitely make everyone believe that he is the savior of Gotham.

Elliott also believes that Batman is too indecisive to create weapons of mass destruction to kill the gang leaders, bring every street under his jurisdiction, and those madmen have no chance of entering a mental hospital, just seize and kill them all.

He can let his batwings infiltrate every class of Gotham, and then completely take control of the city and become the Dark City, the true king of Gotham.

Elliott thought that this road would not be smooth sailing, maybe the hapless loser would find him and constantly interfere with his great career, and maybe there would be many difficult villains that he needed to solve with his own hands.

But the reality is more cruel than he thought, or rather, it's not cruel, but the reality is too realistic.

What bothers the impostor now is not how to wit and catch supercriminals, how to dominate Vanity Fair and dominate the business world, not how to negotiate with gangsters to make them subservient, or even how to subdue street brawls.

Rather, an adult in his twenties has to be managed by his father, chased by a teacher for papers, has no money to take a taxi, has no place to live, and it starts to rain in the sky but can't find an umbrella.

If Batman's series of experiences in the slums were only because he wanted to imitate the lives of civilians and was unwilling to use his genius brain to make a huge mess of himself, then these ridiculous disasters that Elliot suffered were purely because of his food.

But the difference between a genius and a fool lies not only in IQ, but also in the subtlety, keen perception of one's own situation, and consideration of the causes of the environment.

Bruce carefully observed the situation of real life where ordinary people are cautious and cannot make mistakes, but still fall unstoppably, and begins to think about the causes of this.

And Thomas Elliott, he began to curse why Bruce couldn't give him that brain, which could solve all problems.

(End of chapter)