Chapter 2: You belong to the Red Lantern Corps
Red's time in Arkham's asylum was shorter than he had expected, ending on the third night of his asylum, to be exact.
It's not because he can't adapt to life hereβ
On the contrary, there are people who think that he is too comfortable here.
"He's the dangerous guy Black Mask said it was? Kill him and get 10 million? It's too simple, isn't it? β
"Whatever, anyway, with this dose of poison, even if he is Batman, he can only be like a dead dog, hurry up, you only have 15 minutes."
Red felt so weak that he didn't even have the strength to stand up or speak, and in retrospect, tonight's dinner did smell a little off, but in Arkham he would only think that the ingredients were not fresh.
And in the next second, Red felt a sharp pain in his scalp, and someone tugged at his hair to lift him up.
"All right, poor boy, do you know who I am?"
What caught Red's eye was a bald man with a lean physique and a fierce and cruel smile, and what was striking was that the skin on his upper body was densely scarred in the shape of a zigzag.
Red certainly knew who he was.
Victor Zas, a well-known psychopathic murderer in Gotham. He likes to use cruel methods to torture innocent people, and every time he kills someone, he will cut a wound on his body as a mark, and the imprint left on his body shows that he has a lot of blood on his hands.
It was clear that he was the executioner who arranged for his unnatural death.
The thought of finally falling into the hands of such a scumbag made a wave of anger rise in Red's heart.
Zas got the answer from Red's eyes and threw it to the ground satisfied.
"Generally speaking, I kill people in a principled way, and I can't just do it to people casually - but this time, Black Mask gave me too much, not only in cash, but also promised to help me escape from prison."
It stands to reason that Zath was also a prisoner of Arkham, but when Red was lying on the cold ground, he could see a man in Arkham guard uniform behind him.
I saw that not only did he not stop Zas's intentions, but also handed Zass an iron water pipe.
"Do it, remember not to beat him to death too soon, Black Mask said, let him feel as painful as possible before dying."
It's terrible that the guards have been bribed - not just this Arkham asylum, it's the whole of Gotham.
The anger in Red's heart rose further.
"Don't worry, I'm a professional at this - he won't die until every bone in his body is shattered, and he won't even have a chance to faint from the poison due to the effects of the poison."
Zas rubbed the crowbar in his hand as if he were admiring a work of art, and then slammed it into Red's flesh.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A heavy blunt object slammed into Red's skull, spine, and joints of his limbs, and as the guard said, the poison seemed to stop him from fainting, allowing the intense pain to continue to pass through Red's brain.
"Don't hate us, kid, blame you for how dare you offend a character like Black Mask."
The sight was so terrible that even the guard couldn't bear to look at it, and he turned his head and lit a cigarette and waited for the one-sided torture to end.
Why would you be hostile to Black Mask?
When the bones were brutally shattered by Zath, Red's brain was crystal clear, and he began to remember the beginning of everything - from his return to Gotham.
After five years of disappearance, although Red lost the ability of the blood and qi system, his combat skills were still imprinted in his soul.
He calculated that even if he was not as good as a superhuman with his skills, he would probably have no problem being a high-level mercenary.
Red doesn't have an excessive sense of justice, nor does he have a noble idea of sacrificing for others, he just wants to make his life more comfortable.
But before leaving Gotham, Red decides to find his former parents.
Red was born in this world as a pair of ordinary middle-class children, after all, they raised them for fifteen years, and Red couldn't ignore them no matter what.
But in the end, Red only found a joint tombstone in the cemetery on the outskirts of Gotham.
It turns out that after Red's disappearance, the poor couple tried to find his whereabouts, and they believed that Red was involved in a gang fight, so they spent all their money to investigate the nearby gang.
Teenagers who get caught up in gang fights or go astray and disappear for no apparent reason are common in Gotham.
The difference between this incident is that the Douglas couple did not simply give up, and with their unremitting efforts, they really traced down an industrial chain of buying and selling living people.
But the bad thing is that Gotham has another black chain - killing ordinary people who dare to touch these secrets.
After knowing all this, Red does not intend to give up on this, and if there is kindness, he will repay his kindness and revenge, and this simple value has always been Red's life philosophy.
The Douglas died because of themselves, and they had the kindness to raise themselves, so the task of revenge fell on him. As for how much power will be involved in the revenge and what the consequences will be, it doesn't matter.
He investigated and found out that the people who bought and sold the living and killed people were all the forces under the Black Mask, and there were unjust debtors and owners, of course, Red would not only attack Xiao Shrimp, and his target was to lock on this evil leader who is currently extremely powerful in Gotham.
It's a pity that Red is just an ordinary person after all, although he was armed with two kitchen knives to destroy several of Black Mask's crime dens and kill several of his high-ranking members of the organization, but in the end he was not caught by someone subdued and caught at the end.
What made him even more depressed was that it wasn't even the Black Mask who grabbed him, but the Dark Knight he had once longed to worship.
"Look at your eyes, it's very unwilling, right-but unfortunately, you can only regret it in the next life."
Zas seemed to misunderstand Red's gaze, and with an excited and cruel smile on his face, he seemed to enjoy the process of killing.
Regret? How could it be regretted.
However, even now, Red has no regrets about his actions, he just feels regret and anger.
Regret that you have not been able to achieve your goal of revenge, and be angry at your weakness after losing the ability to control your blood.
He felt like the bones in his body were almost shattered, but instead of breaking down, the pain made him feel a little nostalgic.
This is nothing compared to the blood burning ritual he went through in Arad in order to control the power of the flesh.
It should be said that this pain reminded him more clearly than ever of his days as a berserker, the anger that could never be relieved in his heart, the impulse of destruction that had to be ventedβ
If I still have the strength of a berserker......
The blood seemed to begin to boil, and the more life and death came to the intersection, the more clearly he could recall his abilities as a berserker.
At this moment, Red seemed to see what appeared to be a red light outside the iron window.
"Alright, almost. Hurry up and give him the final blow, I'll have to write a report later to make up a reason for the accident...... Hey, what's this? β
Bang!
At this moment, in Red's vision that had been blurred by blood, he faintly saw a red light through the iron window of the hospital room, levitating in front of his eyes.
[Intelligent life is locked.] γ
[From Red Rosso in sector 2814.] γ
"Anger is rolling in your heart. γ
Then the point of light moved towards his arm, and Red felt something hot on the middle finger of his right hand, and in the next second, he felt as if the blood vessels in his body were injected with hot magma, and his internal organs were boiling and melting.....
So painful.
So scorching.
So refreshing.
Yes, after what was like hell at first, it was replaced by a feeling of refreshment that permeated Red's whole body, and in that moment, the body felt so familiar to him.
You belong to the Red Lantern Corps. γ