The disastrous night is over.

The dawn of Gotham was the brightest time for the city, and the clouds had not yet had time to obscure the sky, so a bright, blinding red sun hung over the horizon, like those fresh, beating hearts.

Batman takes the Scarecrow and Penguin to the Gotham Police Station, and Peter is tasked with picking up a group of people from the Darkhaven underground cold storage.

Before Peter left, Jason, who was still in the cage, stopped him, Peter looked back at him and said, "I'm sorry, but you can't come out just yet, it will take time for the symbiote to repair your body." ”

"Get that thing out there." Jason said in a hoarse voice, "I don't need him to give me ......"

"It's Batman's order." Peter shook his head and said, "He hopes this thing will heal your wounds, but he doesn't worry about alien life running around outside the cage, so I'm afraid you'll have to stay here until the repair is complete." ”

"And as you can see, there's no way I can change his decision, and I don't have the key to the cage, the symbiote will provide all the energy you need, so you won't feel hungry and thirsty, maybe after a good night's sleep, it's all over."

"Batman's pug, huh?" Jason stared at Peter and said, "You listen to him for everything, will you kill for him?" ”

"I don't kill people." Peter turned his head back, straightened the gear on his wrist and said, "Normally I don't argue with him, because it doesn't make sense, and I do whatever he tells me to do." ”

Jason's lips pursed white, he shook the cage rails again, and watched Peter turn around to leave, he finally took a deep breath, lowered his head and lowered his eyes and asked.

"Has Batman really changed? Because I? ”

"I don't know, when I met him, he was like that."

"He told you to dissect the penguin-man's body and put poison in it?"

"You may sound a little surprised, but as far as I know, this Mr. Oswald is not a good man, and he doesn't shed tears when he sees a coffin, and no one is in a position to accuse Batman of being too extreme in this situation."

Jason choked on a bit, and he thought, "I'm accusing Batman of being too extreme?" Ever since I knew Batman, there's not a day that I've not accused him of not being extreme enough.

"Have you ever seen someone who has had a nervous breakdown?" Peter finally turned around completely, stood in front of the cage, looked at Jason through the railing, and said, "Have you ever visited a mental hospital?" ”

Jason shook his head slowly, but still looked at Peter with stubborn eyes and said, "You can't convince me, boy, for Batman, you are the latecomer, and you don't have any doctrine in front of me that can be upheld." ”

"I'm just describing a fact." Peter lowered his head slowly, as if remembering something, and showed a hesitant expression, as if he did not want to say.

Jason stared at him staring straight at him, annoyed by his attitude, and said, "Do you think there's anything I haven't been able to accept until now?" I spent a year tormented by clowns, could there be anything worse than this? ”

"What would you think if I said that the clown didn't really take you seriously at all?"

Jason's hand holding the railing was bruised, and Peter still maintained that expression and said, "His opponent has always been Batman, not you, you are just a means to torture Batman." ”

"Of course, you'd think, I must be bragging." Peter licked his lips slowly, relieving his nervousness, but he continued, "One day, out of sheer curiosity, I came into the bottomless abyss of a man's mind. ”

Peter's movements were noticeably more, and he shrugged his shoulders upwards slightly, and then turned his hands upwards to show that he was not hiding it.

"You can understand that that's part of the Joker, and that's the most important reason why I'm actively associated with Batman."

Jason was attracted by what he said, and he knew that Peter was telling him that the appearance of this young man named Peter Parker in this world was not accidental, and that it might still have something to do with the Joker.

"But he's not exactly a clown, he ...... I don't know what he is, maybe it's human, maybe it's not. ”

Jason was a little confused by Peter's upside-down words, and he finally lost his patience, patted the railing and said, "What the hell do you want to say?" ”

Peter pursed his lips and said, "Death is not the best retribution, and you have the power to turn it into a gift." ”

"What?"

"Have you ever seen someone who has had a nervous breakdown?"

Jason finally understood that Peter would not give up without an answer, so he shook his head slowly.

"I've seen madmen." He replied, "Wicked, brutal, indifferent, unreasonable. ”

"No, that's not the kind of person I mean." Peter denied it, saying, "Those people are perverted inherently bad seeds, and they don't deserve sympathy for how crazy they are, and I mean those who are spiritually completely crushed." ”

Jason stared at him, and a bad premonition rose from the bottom of his heart, Peter put his hand on the table next to him, his knuckles pressed slightly, pursed his lips repeatedly, and then said.

"I saw a memory of Schiller there, maybe he showed it to me, maybe he kept it there for everybody."

"What?"

"A child died, and it was his patient, a very poor child with congenital heart disease, very unfortunate, but lucky, his parents allowed him to receive treatment in time."

"The surgery was very successful, and it is foreseeable that he will grow into a healthy child if the next few rounds of surgery are done in the same way over the next few years."

"But it didn't work out that way." Peter shook his head and said, "His parents gave up on him. ”

Jason couldn't help but be attracted to attention, he looked at Peter and asked, "Why?" ”

"Doesn't make sense, right?" There was a hint of anger in Peter's tone, but it quickly faded away, and he said, "I have long realized that everyone's love is limited, and some people are extraordinarily limited. ”

"In a peaceful and prosperous situation, they are not stingy in making good decisions, or that kindness itself preserves their reputation and brings them benefits."

"But as soon as the situation changes, not even to say that it endangers themselves, but kindness can't bring them enough benefits, they will make the opposite choice."

Jason understood what he meant, in fact, he has always been very intelligent, and even the opposite of Batman in terms of understanding and empathizing with others.

Or maybe he should have been, because he wasn't a pampered rich young master, he was born at the bottom of Gotham, and for a long time he mingled in the most chaotic and evil parts of the city.

He has seen a limited amount of kindness, but he has seen countless moments when others abandon kindness.

"That's it, the child's parents gave up on treatment." Peter blinked and said, "In the event that they still have the strength to do so, or even if they don't have to." ”

"Doctors get angry, right? Usually they are sad, helpless, disappointed in humanity, and it is a very bad feeling to watch the lives they have tried so hard to save die because of the indifference of others. ”

"But there's something special about this doctor." Peter rubbed his fingers against the edge of the table and said, "This is the first time he has known society and human beings in this way." ”

"He didn't feel sad or helpless, he was just curious, he wondered if they could behave so indifferently in any situation, so he did an experiment and used his expertise."

"Maybe not so professional, at least...... Didn't learn that part of work ethic. ”

Peter's narrative was so cryptic that it took Jason a moment to understand what he was talking about, and he asked, "You saw the doctor's memory, what did he do to the parents, right?" ”

Peter nodded and said, "I won't tell you what I saw, I won't say it to anyone, but I can describe to you what the ending of that pair of parents was." ”

"They had a nervous breakdown?"

"Yes, and it's all human-influenced, and the way to do it must be much simpler than you think, it's almost easy."

Peter took a deep breath, rebuilt his mind, and began to describe what he saw.

"In the beginning, they would constantly tear their clothes with very large movements, bang their shoulders or heads against walls, and pick at their skin with their fingernails until their flesh was blurred, and put their fingers into any gap that they could reach, just to rip off one of their organs."

"In the second stage, they begin to become foggy, and instead of making loud noises such as roaring and screaming, they stay in one place and cry for more than twenty hours, in a very strange and very uncomfortable position, and if someone pulls them, they will let out screams and cries that are not at all like human beings can make if they are being attacked."

"Then they began to hallucinate, constantly running away, or waving their arms and kicking with enough force to hurt themselves, at empty air, hard walls, or other things that hindered their movement."

"They begin to regain the ability to speak, but the language has no logic, constantly muttering a sentence, or a hallucination of an intonal depiction, constantly muttering about a certain period of their life, and talking for hours on and on."

"Eventually, they begin to become like an ignorant baby, losing the ability that all social beings should have, seeing everything in front of them as thin but equal, and obscuring all the perception of objects."

"They will completely lose their sense of shame and morality, they will lose everything that society has taught them, they will not be aware of what they are doing, they will search for anything by instinct, they will have no sense of smell, they will not have a sense of taste, they will see but they cannot recognize, they will remember but they will have no concept."

Peter's tone was shaking uncontrollably, and Jason could hear him trying to suppress his fears, for so did he, and he couldn't imagine what could torture humans like this.

"What scares me the most is that." Peter took a deep breath with the same trembling movements and said.

"When I saw such a person jumping from a tall building and falling into a flower of blood, I wanted to thank God from the bottom of my heart, thank him for his forgiveness, and praise him for his kindness."

The hairs stood on end, and cold sweat poured down the hair on the back of his neck like a waterfall, and Jason could hear the sound of blood clotting in his veins, which made him feel like he was falling into an ice cave.

"So......" Peter stepped forward, just separated from Jason in the cage, he said, "don't complain that anyone is not cruel enough, please, this world really doesn't need more cruelty, there are already people in places you can't see, human beings have suffered this kind of torture that breaks the bottom line." ”

"If you regard not killing people as the bottom line, then if something makes you break the bottom line in anger one day, it is just to give them a good time."

"And if your bottom line is to kill to kill, then sooner or later you will meet someone who makes you feel that death is not enough to atone for his crimes."

Peter took two steps back, shook his head, and said, "Then you will go down the path that death is not the best retribution, and you have the power to turn it into a gift." ”