Chapter Two Thousand and Seventy-Seven: The Night of the Knight's Horror (19)

"I'm not a Gotham."

The first rule of Schiller's fabrication: nine points of truth, one point of falsehood, or nine points of falsehood, one point of truth.

"I came from a very distant place, and it was only because I was on a transverse trip with Batman that we were able to meet."

"The distance of that place is beyond the imagination of time and space, and it cannot be reached by any conventional means, and the reason why I am here is naturally because of Batman's invitation."

Peter's voice echoes in the empty lower levels of the Batcave, and Batman doesn't say anything because he also wants to know what Peter's plan really is.

But soon he will regret this decision, because Schiller Hu made up the second rule of the law: it can be anyone, but definitely not me.

Batman made this decision, naturally because he had a plan in mind, and every big plan of Batman had to start with the Joker's conspiracy.

Peter's brain was spinning rapidly, connecting every clue he had learned, and in addition to adding his own understanding, there were also certain contributions and associations.

Because Schiller made up the third rule of nonsense: in addition to rigor, but also wonderful.

"Before I came here, the city had just gone through a mess, and the culprit was naturally the notorious super-criminal clown, who got his hands on a poison called Titan Poison and claimed to use it to destroy Gotham."

But no one but Batman knew that his fanfare was just a front for another evil conspiracy.

Sure enough, all three of the cage frowned, and Jason didn't realize that he was constantly leaning forward, listening to what Peter had to say in an overly attentive manner.

Peter relieved himself a little, and sure enough, it worked very well, Schiller's fourth rule of nonsense: don't lie, just change the narrative to create enough suspense.

"This nefarious plan against Batman didn't start months ago, but about a year ago."

Peter stared at Jason's face, Jason was a little dazed by him, Peter said in a deep voice, "The Joker needs a knife to cut through the hard bat armor and cause real mental damage to Batman." ”

"He knows that Batman has extremely strong willpower, and ordinary disasters can't break through his impregnable mental defenses, so the Joker has only one choice left - to take a father's child."

"Candidates need to have the following characteristics: a close relationship with Batman, a perennial follower of Batman, a lack of vigilance, and an unstable mental state."

Jason glared at Peter, he knew that Peter was talking about himself, and just as he was about to retort, Peter interrupted him.

"In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't meet these characteristics, whoever takes the initiative to leave the warm and safe nest will be unlucky."

Jason pursed his lips and stopped talking.

How could he not have regretted it? At that time, I was in a hurry, and when I left, not only did I not bring any weapons, but I didn't even put a communicator and a beacon on my body, it was not that I ran away from home without money, but I didn't even wear any clothes.

"The clown got his way." Peter raised his head slightly and said, "But he will always succeed, and as long as he waits long enough, there will always be unscrupulous young people who will make mistakes." ”

The heat that had just swelled up in Jason's heart calmed down a little, and he felt that Peter had a point.

If his kidnapping is indeed a long-planned conspiracy of the Joker, then it will be someone else if he is not him, there are a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent thieves.

Batman frowned slightly, he did know something about some of the Joker's schemes, but at that time he didn't connect Jason's disappearance to anything else.

"The assistant is missing, Batman will definitely look for it." Then Peter had an idea and connected another incident with what he was talking about.

"Of course the Joker can't get Batman to find his missing assistant, he'll hide him well, but at the same time he'll let Batman find someone else, some bomb he'd already planted - the Joker virus infected."

"It's not abrupt, Batman is just on his way to find his Robin, and he stumbles upon some unexplained mental patients, and after analysis, it is found that their symptoms are somewhat similar to a certain side of the Joker."

"Batman would be cautious about anything to do with the Joker, so he took them with him, and that was exactly what the Joker wanted."

Batman was not surprised by this analysis, because he was not afraid to speculate on the Joker with the greatest malice, and in his confrontation with the Joker, any seemingly accidental event could be carefully arranged, and it was natural and reasonable for both of them to treat themselves like this.

"Batman brought this group of patients back to the base, but there is no way to do anything to them, although they are infected with the Joker virus, they are still victims, and Batman will not do anything inhumane to them."

"But he also can't solve the Joker virus, or he can solve it, but it just takes time, and the Joker won't give Batman time, and the Titan Virus project is activated."

Jason frowned deeply, and he realized that there was a dark line that he had never thought about that seemed to be around the city all along, affecting everyone.

"The Joker deliberately made a big fuss, and Batman had no choice but to stop the Joker's actions first in order to prevent the Joker from really using the Titan virus to create more evil criminals or plunge the city into injustice."

"Then there's the biggest trap – the clown is dead."

The penguin and the scarecrow both frowned, and the penguin man raised his eyebrows, and just as he was about to speak sneeringly, the scarecrow grabbed the prison railing with one hand and said, "I was thinking that this guy didn't die so easily, and that he had a virus in his body that had very strange properties. ”

"So when I heard about his death, I went out of my way to find his ashes to see if I could get the virus out."

"Of course you can't get it, because the virus has already transferred." Peter sighed and speculated half-truthfully: "There can be many clown viruses, but there can only be one clown." ”

"Conversely, anyone infected with the clown virus can become a clown."

"So the clown prepared several bodies of infected people for himself to resurrect." The penguin man was a little surprised and said, "What is he doing in such a big circle?" Either don't die from the beginning, what's the point of resurrecting after dying? ”

"Those clown virus infected people are indeed the bodies he has prepared, but they are not his best choice." Peter stopped and turned to look at Batman.

Batman's expression made everyone present understand that their inner guess was right at this time.

"Batman is the Joker's favorite resurrected body."

Jason felt a moment of suffocation, and then an even greater fear came over him, he rushed to the railing, grabbed the railing with both hands and looked at Batman and asked, "Is he inside you?" You can see him, right? That's why you know about me...... I ......"

Facing Jason's grief and indignation in his eyes, Batman nodded slowly and looked into the darkness behind Jason, where a pale hand stretched out and was constantly tracing the letters on Jason's face.

And Batman clearly felt the urge to do so.

Jason closed his eyes in pain, and his fingers gripping the railing began to glow with a pale glow of blood loss.

"What did you say?" The scarecrow said incredulously, "The Joker wants to be resurrected inside Batman?" He's crazy......"

"Don't you want to?" Peter hit the nail on the head.

The scarecrow choked.

The penguin's eyes rolled slightly, and he cleared his throat and said, "We all know how powerful Batman is, but we won't choose to do it, because we know that if we enter Batman's body, only Batman will be left." ”

"Not necessarily for the Joker, so it's worth a try, but it's not sufficient." Peter shook his head and said, "To defeat Batman on a mental level, it is not enough to have a virus infection, he needs at least twenty percent assistance." ”

"First of all, fear of poison gas." Peter snapped his fingers, then pointed at the scarecrow and said, "This is also a poison that can affect the human spirit, break the human willpower, and give the clown a greater spiritual advantage." ”

"What nonsense are you talking about." The scarecrow raised his voice and said, "It was me who infected Batman with fear gas, what does it have to do with the Joker?" ”

"How do you know it's not under his influence?" Peter spread his hands and said, "Why can't this disaster you provoke be the knife that the Joker has planned long ago to stab Batman?" ”

"How is that possible?!" The scarecrow roared, "This is the plan I designed, and this is the ...... I execute"

"Less gold on your face." The penguin man mocked disdainfully, "Have you been played by that madman less?" How many times have I made wedding dresses for others. ”

"Besides, did you execute the plan yourself? Your dilapidated lab alone, or your two arms that aren't as thick as Batman's eyelashes? ”

The scarecrow glared at the penguin.

"In any case, the fear of poison gas must be expected by the Joker, or that sentence, sooner or later, as long as he is willing to wait, there will be such a day."

Peter went on to say, "Fear gas puts pressure on Batman internally, and the destruction of Gotham City puts pressure on him externally. ”

"Using the memories of Batman's assistant to make a knife, with the help of constant pressure from many sides, the Joker's purpose is to torture Batman."

"If Batman's spirit breaks down, then the Joker can complete the rebirth in him, and if he doesn't collapse immediately, then the Joker will constantly interfere and torture him, so that he can't concentrate on the disaster in reality until the day he makes his mistake."

"In this city, disasters are endless, so is the pressure, and even the toughest strings will be worn one day, and Batman knows that."

"So how do you fix it?" Peter asks questions, and Schiller's fifth rule of fabrication: Ask more questions less about facts, and the imagination of others is the best answer.

Penguin Man snorted twice and said, "Of course he has a solution, but he has a room full of unlucky people infected with the Joker virus, and as long as one of them is resurrected as a Joker, won't Batman's crisis be solved?" ”

"You idiot, you've only thought of the first layer." The scarecrow immediately seized the opportunity to mock, "Wouldn't the clown not think of this?" He's just going to make Batman do it. ”

"Kill others to save yourself." The Scarecrow sneered and said, "If Batman really did this, then he wouldn't be called a superhero or a dark knight, and go to Arkham Asylum." ”

Jason's Adam's apple moved, and he looked up at Batman, who he never believed Batman would do.

"Of course Batman didn't do that." Peter affirmed.

Just as Jason was relieved, Peter continued with a long note.

"In fact, Batman had a plan in place long before the Joker made his first move, and when I arrived here as the final piece of the puzzle, the plan could finally begin."

(End of chapter)