Chapter 22: The Night of the Clown's Return (Part I)
The dark clouds in the sky were thicker than ever, and even the sporadic sunlight could not penetrate them, as if something big was going to happen in Gotham today.
In a dilapidated slum apartment on the island of Naho, Joseph turned around and closed the door and said to the people in the hallway, "I... I said, I'm going to quit, I'm quitting. ”
In front of him, there were three guys with red hoods.
The leader took a hard puff on the cigarette in his hand and said, "Are you kidding, Joseph, to play our Red Hood Gang like monkeys?" ”
"I didn't, I... I just..."
Joseph didn't dare to say that he already had 50,000 yuan, and he didn't need to cooperate with them anymore, otherwise these guys would definitely steal his money by the way.
He is an engineer in a chemical factory, and before he met Depp, he was targeted by the Red Hood Gang because of his poverty.
The men demanded that he open the door of the chemical plant for himself at night and lead the way, thus stealing the most valuable raw materials, and promised to pay Joseph five thousand dollars for his hard work.
But when Joseph decided to sell his wedding ring, he had already told the guys that he didn't want to work with them and do those illegal things.
Still, the guys found him today.
"Don't talk so much Joseph, let's go on as usual tonight, don't tell me you're not coming." The red hood of the leader crossed Joseph and looked at the closed door: "You don't want anything to happen to your wife and the child in her womb, do you?" ”
Hearing this, a hint of murder flashed in Joseph's eyes: "Stay away from them, you bastard!" ”
Hearing this, the red hood punched Joseph in the stomach and said, "Haha, that's this momentum, Joseph, we'll see you in the evening." ”
Seeing Joseph curled up on the ground due to severe pain, the Red Hoods left the apartment laughing, they knew that Joseph's softness cared most about his wife, so he would definitely come in the evening.
Ten minutes later, Joseph stood up again with his stomach in his hands, wiped the saliva from his mouth, and opened the door to go home.
"What's the matter, darling, who are they?"
Joseph's wife asked with concern, she could keenly sense that the guys were menacing, and they knocked very the door, and they were by no means good.
Joseph sat on the edge of the bed, gently stroked his wife's hair, and said, "It's just some friends who want to ask me if the factory is still hiring." ”
The woman enjoyed Joseph's touch, squinted and said, "Those guys don't seem to be very easy to get along with, I think you should consider it as appropriate and recommend them to your boss." ”
Joseph snorted and said, "I will, their temper is really not very good." ”
With a drip, the electric kettle placed on the edge of the table boiled.
The overflowing hot water gurgled and splashed onto the table.
Joseph picked up the old electric kettle, poured half a cup of hot water into the cup, and after blowing it warm, took out the medicine his wife needed in the drawer.
"Honey, it's time for you to take your medicine."
"Okay, dear."
After a few days of conditioning, my wife's body recovered quickly, her complexion was much better, and she was able to walk on the ground.
But Joseph still gave all the work to himself, and he was reluctant to let his wife suffer.
After feeding his wife the medicine, he opened the bottom drawer of the bedside table.
Several metal pipes containing unknown gases lay quietly in the drawer, and Joseph took one of them in his hand, hesitated, and then put it back again.
"Honey, what's that?" The wife asked, she had never seen that thing before.
Joseph said: "It was just a factory sample, nothing special. ”
He lied, and this was not an experimental sample of the plant, but his own......
The woman touched Joseph's messy hair and said gently, "Honey, you should smile more, don't always be sad." ”
At night, Joseph went out with a black umbrella.
When he arrived at a bungalow about 300 meters from the chemical plant where he worked, he took out a crumpled red hood from his coat pocket and put it on his head.
In the shadows behind him, a heavy, powerful hand slapped Joseph's shoulder: "I knew you would come, Joseph." ”
Joseph looked back at the burly leader of the Red Hood and said, "Okay, I'll only accompany you to make this vote!" ”
"No problem at all!"
The leader of the red hood agreed very happily, anyway, the robbers don't need to be honest, just threaten Joseph with his wife and children when he wants to make the next vote.
He handed Joseph his phone, and the photo showed a red hood sitting at his house with a Gotham police station tag.
"We'll keep an eye on your wife, and we have someone in the police station, so lead the way and don't think anything crooked."
When Joseph heard this, he tightened his grip on a metal tube with the hand that reached into his coat, and hesitated to give up using it.
They sneaked into the chemical plant from the trail and started the operation tonight.
But unbeknownst to him, all this had already been known to Bruce Wayne.
The notorious Red Hood Gang has always been the focus of Bruce's surveillance.
And today, these guys really acted!
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In Depp's antique shop, Depp practiced generating electricity while chatting with Tony and others.
He can now charge his phone and computer.
"Good night Oloro, going to bed early and waking up early is good for the skin."
"Good night, Brother Depp."
"Good night, I'm going to assassinate an idiot tomorrow."
"Good night, Natasha."
The little girl fell asleep here, and Tony showed off in the video again.
"Depp, your previous proposal on nanomaterials is very interesting, but there are a lot of technical difficulties, and it will take a while to start experimenting, but the Mark 7 has already been made by me!"
Depp pushed aside the clutter on the front desk, pulled the video to the maximum, and said, "So, can you let me see it?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Tony in a bathrobe in the video jumped from the roof of the building, and then the Mark 7 flight capsule armor flew out of the studio, and after the infrared scanned the positioning device on Tony's wrist, the armor was successfully put on, and as the flames in the jet shot out, Tony stopped the fall and soared into the sky.
"How's that, isn't it handsome!"
"Handsome is very handsome, but jumping from such a height without wearing pants, isn't it a bit jelly." Depp said: "And the positioning device is a watch, if the positioning device is damaged by the enemy and Mark 7 can't find you, you will just fall into a patty." ”
Hearing this, Tony thought for a moment, and said solemnly: "That's true, it seems that we need to continue to improve." ”
Depp gave his own advice at the right time: "Maybe you can inject the positioning device into your body, so that no one can destroy it unless you have someone cut off your limbs." ”
"You're always like this, Depp, sometimes I even suspect that the Mark series is your work, you can always think of it with me!"
"I'm just guessing." Depp was noncommittal.
Tony, who flew back to the villa, took out a box of playing cards from the cabinet and said, "I just learned the magic trick, you can help me see how it works, if it's good, I'll go and show Pepper." ”
As he spoke, Tony rubbed a stack of playing cards in front of Depp, and at the front was a ghost card, and in the center of the card was a clown with a red nose.
Ghost cards, Jokers, chemical plants, Joseph Cole...
The images of comics, movies, and reality in Depp's mind kept flashing back, and finally fell on the pawn agreement signed by Joseph Cole.
Joseph Kerr
JOKER......
Exercise! Aren't you named Arthur in the movie?
Depp scolded and ran directly to the chemical plant where Joseph worked!
He wanted to save Joseph before it happened.