"Joker, that's fair."

Zhou Ran nodded.

He began to look through the black notebook that recorded the Joker's misery, and he looked at it very carefully, taking out a ballpoint pen from time to time to write and draw and make some marks.

About an hour later, Zhou Ran completed his plan to atone for his sins.

In those miserably, the gangsters and ruffians who have done all the bad things do not need to atone for their crimes, these people are all marked with a red pen by Zhou Ran.

The whole family was wiped out, and there was no need to atone for the sins of those who didn't have any relatives, and all these people were drawn by Zhou Ran with a black pen.

After all, to be dead means that there is nothing left, and there is no atonement for sin.

What Zhou Ran can do is probably to burn hundreds of millions of them at the crossroads, but this actually makes no sense.

According to the degree of misery, Zhou Ran divided the atonement into three degrees.

The first degree, poor adults without parents and children.

The second degree is a poor child without parents.

The third degree, the poor old man who has no children.

The first level is the highest level of atonement, and although adults are very capable of carrying it, they often break down in an instant.

Having lost both a parent and a child, no adult can afford to be in such a desperate situation.

Zhou Ran expressed his sadness for this kind of object, but he had no way to resurrect the dead, and the only thing he could do was to help them fulfill their dreams for the rest of their lives.

Previously, Zhou Ran had put forward a dream proposal plan, and Stark Industries also built an underground vault for this proposal, with a reserve of 10 billion US dollars.

Well, he also circled a 10 billion dream fund from Justin Hammer and Norman Osborne.

Zhou Ran made this dream fund, definitely not because he was really great.

In the United States, a country where moneyism is supreme and capital decides everything, Zhou Ran's heart naturally darkened, of course, he also has a little conscience, but not too much.

Why did Zhou Ran want to get this thing about dream funds?

First, the Dream Fund can improve the cohesion of employees.

Stark Industries can not only give you Franklin, but also help you achieve your life dreams in advance.

The second point is that the Dream Fund can absorb more talents.

Talent is the cornerstone that determines the ceiling of a company, the current talent will jump to Stark Industries, and the future talents will take joining Stark Industries as the ultimate ideal in life.

The third and most important point is to increase one's reputation and further enhance one's influence.

From Stark Industries' Dinghaishen Needle to New York's Dinghaishen Needle, and even the Dinghaishen Needle of this world.

It's like Harvey Dant, the light of Gotham, the people worship you as the light of Gotham, and the superheroes will naturally protect you.

If you get hurt, everyone will call them back.

This is a very important part of Zhou Ran's previous plan to run for mayor of New York.

This dream proposal is just right to help him with the atonement and the dream of the first type of atonement goal.

While the Dream Fund is currently offering employees from within Stark Industries first, there is always a random selection of lucky ones from New York.

How to draw?

It was, of course, Director Jake of Stark Industries, calling out random people's names. ….

Finding the photos of these people again, Mr. Jake randomly selected them again with his eyes.

Fairness and justice.

The second type of atonement is for poor children who have lost their parents, and Zhou Ran decided to sponsor the lives of these children, so that they can enjoy the best educational resources and the best material foundation.

Zhou Ran will sponsor these children to grow up and have children of their own.

That's all he can do.

Of course, these children are all lucky ones who are randomly selected.

The object of the third type of atonement is the elderly who have lost their children, Zhou Ranhui

Support these old people until they step on the train of death.

These old people are also the luckiest old people in all of New York.

Unlucky?

Compared with those who died, they are still alive, they can still live without worrying about food and clothing, and they can fulfill their dreams.

They are lucky to see it this way.

Lucky?

Although they are still alive, they have lost their loved ones forever. They will never know who is the one who made them lose everything? They live in sadness, fear, anger and despair all day long.

It is unfortunate to look at them this way.

"Alas~" Zhou Ran let out a long sigh, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and muttered, "I'm really sorry."

In addition to the above atonement schemes, Zhou Ran also had a very interesting idea in his mind.

The objects of the three degrees of atonement are: lonely adults, lonely children, and lonely old people.

It is entirely possible to make a new permutation and combination.

The elderly, the adults and the children, it is possible to form a new family, a new family with no blood relationship.

The idea of sponsoring this new family and making them happy is definitely achievable and the perfect way to atone for their sins.

Give them back what they have lost.

But this idea is still difficult and not so easy to implement.

The regained relatives must have similarities with the lost relatives, so that they can get along tacitly, so that there will be no estrangement, and there will be no terrible secondary injury.

Zhou Ran frowned, he needed a system.

There are two parts to this system.

In the first section, retrieve the best matching object, that is, the object with the highest tacit understanding value and the highest similarity, and then simulate their future life and check the happiness index.

In the second section, big data is used to randomly match, and then simulate their future lives to see the highest happiness index.

Zhou Ran nodded, stretched out his hand and pushed his glasses, and muttered in a low voice: "I need a Jarvis of my own, a Jarvis whose order is the highest command, and a Jarvis who only obeys my orders."

"I can't ask Tony for everything, like this one...... If I ask Tony to help me, then I'll need to make up a reason......

"No matter how true my words are and the reasons are well made, it can't change the false facts, as long as they are false, there will be times sooner or later......

"I can't be the kind of person who is all flashes, I can't give up the darkness...... for the darkness protects me...... too....

"I can't give up a force to protect me, no matter how dark he is, no matter how bad or terrifying he is, he can't change the fact that he has been silently protecting me, and he loves me with all his heart."

"This system must not allow Tony to help, I need to figure it out myself."

"But...... I still have to rely on Tony to help me find this person."

Zhou Ran picked up the ballpoint pen and turned to the last page of the record of the clown's tragedy.

He drew a black circle very vigorously on the last one, and marked the names of the people with an emphasis number.

The tip of the ballpoint pen pierces through the paper and makes a "check" sound.

[August 6, 2008, 11:39 p.m.] 】

[Hell's Kitchen, back alley of Osborne's abandoned chemical plant, under the dim street lamp, Arthur.] 】

For the name Arthur, Zhou Ran was originally a little impressed.

Because he had been on a media interview, the host at the time asked him a question, "Mr. Jake, there was a bandit named Arthur who shot and killed two young men, what do you think about this?"

This kind of question is too simple for Zhou Ran, he let out a long sigh and gave a very formulaic answer, "I express my condolences to those two young people who died tragically, they should have a good future, and I am very sorry for the one named Ya

The bandits of Se strongly condemned it."

"I hope he can turn himself in as soon as possible, and I hope that the police can act quickly and not let down the taxpayers' money."

At that time, Zhou Ran replied very quickly without pausing at all.

But after receiving the memory of the clown killing Arthur, Zhou Ran felt a kind of sympathy for Arthur.

Arthur's death is not as simple as the death of others.

Others are dead and dead, and it's the clown who is in the mood.

But Arthur was different, and Arthur's death was longer.

The Joker secretly observed Arthur for a long time, all of which added up to about three months.

The Joker has tiny monitors installed in Arthur's home, workplace, and body, and every night the Joker goes to see those monitors to see Arthur's life.

Arthur's profession is that of a circus clown.

The circus sometimes performs at night, and during these night performances, the clown also comes to the circus, playing the role of the clown like Ya, and the two of them play a game of clown together.

From these memories, Zhou Ran also got to know more about Arthur, an ordinary person who could no longer be ordinary.

Arthur was a very poor man, he was born with laughter, he was unable to express other emotions, and he could not control his horrible laughter.

There was nothing wrong with him being born, but it became the biggest mistake that he survived.

He was seen as an alien, his mother didn't love him, his stepfather beat him, and all his peers were hostile to him.

But even so, he is still working hard in life, trying to flatter everyone, and he wants to bring laughter to everyone with his funny actions.

This is the meaning of his life, but this meaning is not found by himself, it is given to him by his mother.

He doesn't know what people live for.

He didn't have any education, because there was no school to take in people like him, he just listened to stories and gained knowledge and truth from those stories. ….

For example, parents are the people who love their children the most in the world, parents will not like their children, and what parents say is always right......

Arthur only has a stepfather, but the stepfather is clearly not his biological father.

Therefore, in his eyes, the father in those truths was abandoned, leaving only the mother.

He believed that even if everyone in the world gave up on him, his mother would not give up on him.

Mother is the one who loves him the most, and everything his mother does is for his good.

Whether it was his mother's brutal and vigorous beatings or the vitriolic insults, Arthur regarded it all as his mother's love.

[In other words, it is the best way to read aloud and listen to books, change the source, and install the latest version.] 】

But his mother didn't love him, but Arthur didn't want to believe it, he didn't want to wake up from this last dream.

Just imagine, if a person's memory is full of beatings and scolding, how tragic it is?

The Joker is obviously very fond of the optimistic Arthur, the Arthur who can laugh all the time, and the Arthur who will never cry.

After all, although the Joker often laughs, he occasionally cries quietly at night when he can't find Batman.

Arthur doesn't cry, more than Jokers.

But one thing that displeased the Joker about Arthur was that his behavior wasn't Gotham at all.

The Joker decides to make Arthur a pure Gotham, a Gotham with a simple folk style.

This is also the point where the Joker looks down on New York the most.

New Yorkers are so spineless, they will only accept their fate, they will not resist, they will only kneel and kowtow, and they will not hold their heads high.

Take the underground world of New York as an example, there is always only one emperor, that is the fat-headed and big-eared Jin He, a newcomer criminal who has just debuted, and will only kneel at Jin Ji's feet.

The gangster here is like everyone talking about business together, fighting for small problems, and going to Jin for big problems.

But the Gotham people are different, and the Gotham people are all very strong and want to be the first.

Gotham people don't play

Kneel, the Gotham people are very fleshy, it's a big deal to die with you, Lao Tzu will exchange your life for your whole family, it's worth it.

Take the underground world of Gotham, where is there any fixed underground emperor?

The emperor takes turns to do it, and he will come to my house tomorrow.

What? You said that you are the underground emperor, see if Lao Tzu does *** or not, it's over!

In Gotham, any newcomer criminal who has just debuted has the ambition to become an emperor.

In Gotham, any criminal thinks of himself as the emperor of the underworld.

In Gotham, the big gangs are on fire, and it's like two armies going to war, with all kinds of light and heavy weapons, all kinds of tanks...... The police station has no gangster firepower.

What? You said that everyone will get rich together, cooperate and win-win together, impossible, this is absolutely impossible!

I can eat it all by myself, so why should I give you a share?

Although the Joker has always been regarded as an underground emperor by criminals, he has never made himself an underground emperor.

And those criminals just talk about being the emperor, that is, they say that the clown is the boss.

Each of them wanted to kill the Joker, kill the madman, and replace him.

When the Joker didn't discover the Dionysian factor on his body, as soon as he was seriously injured, the first thing to avoid was his clown army. ….

In the eyes of the Joker, New York is really not good at all, there are problems everywhere, or Gotham is good, Gotham is comfortable.

Little New York is simply not a place for people to stay, and Big Brother Tan is a blessed place.

So, he must help his half-friend Arthur become a Gotham.

The Joker's thinking at the beginning was very simple, the most powerful Gotham person is himself, only the Joker can represent Gotham, and it just so happens that Arthur also has the potential to become himself.

So, the Joker wants to make Arthur a Joker.

The Joker infects Arthur with the Laughing Virus, releasing the darkness in Arthur's heart and releasing his repressed nature.

But New York is not Gotham.

Born in New York and living in New York, Arthur has never experienced a Gotham education.

No matter how much the Joker said that night, Arthur would not have become a Joker in Gotham.

……

6 August 2008, 11:39 p.m.

Hell's Kitchen.

"Ho ho ho, dear child...... You're laughing, but I know you're so sad at the moment.

"I think you must be very confused right now, unable to find the meaning of life...... You feel like the whole world has turned its back on you......

A strange laugh rang out from behind Arthur.

In the dark of night, under the orange street lamp, Arthur saw a clown.

No, that's not a clown.

It is His kindred, His Lord, His Father, His God, His God......

That's what he always calls for "himself" in his works, that's the "self" he always wants to see.

"Ho ho ......" Arthur had a lot of blood flowing from his neck, but he didn't know the pain at all, he had a hideous expression and laughed maniacally.

"Child, you are normal, you are not sick, you are not a madman, you are not an anomaly, you are not an anomaly, the sick are this strange world."

"This is New York, not Gotham, and if you're in Gotham, you'll be happy."

"But what's wrong with laughing, no matter where it is? So, laugh out loud! Clowns are meant to laugh, aren't they?"

"Arthur, you have a little potential to be a clown, and when you become a clown, someone will love you."

"But can you be a real clown? I don't know, after all, you've never seen a real Gotham!"

"Of course, it's more because, sometimes I don't even understand myself, and I'm weird."

"Anyway, go and make some changes in the world according to your ideas...... I'll always look at your ......."

"Arthur, when you get closer to a clown a little bit, you slowly become a clown

Wait, and you'll gain the power of the clown......

…….

This man doesn't