288. Turn over the table and don't play
Although the Joker is now the Gotham citizen who chooses to blow up the West Charity Hospital and the Black Gate Prison, his approach reminds Roy of scenes from the movie "Batman: The Dark Knight".
The Joker in the movie also starts this either-or game, leaving the decision to the Gotham citizens and criminals on the ferry, leaving both sides to decide whether to press the button and smash each other to death.
In the movie, the Gotham citizens and criminals on the ferry do not make a choice, proving to the Joker what is called goodness in human nature.
Leave the choice to all the citizens of Gotham?
Although the clown of this universe adopts a different scheme, the essence is the same, they all test human nature with life.
The only difference is that in the movie, the citizens of Gotham and the criminals are trapped on a cruise ship and cannot leave.
And here, the patients and medical staff of the West Charity Hospital and the criminals of the Black Gate Prison have the opportunity to leave early.
It's not that long, it's only five minutes.
But enough people left.
Provided, of course, that the Joker did not impose a blockade on the West Charity Hospital and the Black Gate Prison.
"Which one would you choose to blow up?"
"West Charity Hospital or Black Gate Prison?"
Hallie also received a text message and asked Roy.
"I don't choose any of them."
Roy replied.
"Don't you choose?"
Harley continued.
"I'm not interested in this kind of boring game."
Roy said with a serious face.
"Well, then I won't either."
Hallie put her phone back in her jacket pocket and grabbed Roy's right arm with a look of ready.
Roy looked at Harley suspiciously, unable to grasp her intentions for a moment.
Seeing his puzzled expression, Harley immediately said:
"Aren't you going to take a look at the West Charity Hospital or the Black Gate Prison?"
"I'll go later."
Roy replied.
After recovering Harley, he mobilized the power of the stars in his body and cast a flash.
In an instant, he and Harley vanished into thin air, arriving on the rooftop of a building outside the park.
When he came to the rooftop, he said to Hancock:
"Hancock, message Bruce and tell him I'm here."
"Yes, sir!"
Hancock's voice rang out from the vibranium bracelet.
It didn't take long for Bruce, dressed in a Batman suit, to reach the roof of the building with a hookrope gun.
After seeing Harley beside Roy, Bruce frowned slightly.
Then, he went straight to Roy and said in a deep voice in disguise:
"What are your plans?"
"Not yet, what about you?"
Roy asked rhetorically.
The Joker's opponent tonight is not him, but Bruce, and he doesn't intend to dominate the crowd.
"Time is limited, so I'm going to go to the West Charity Hospital to have a look first."
Bruce said quickly.
"I'll send you there."
As soon as the words ended, Roy created a star portal to the West Charity Hospital.
"Hmm!"
Bruce nodded, and walked straight into the Star Portal, to the roof of the West Charity Hospital.
Although Roy didn't plan to make a noise, he was also curious about what else the clown had to arrange, and he also came to the West Charity Hospital.
As soon as you enter the roof of the hospital, you can hear various sounds coming from inside the hospital building.
The once quiet West Charity Hospital is now as lively as a Black Friday supermarket.
It's just that it's not the same as the customers who enter the mall on Black Friday to go on a shopping spree.
Medical staff inside West Charity Hospital are working to evacuate patients from the hospital building.
The name of the man, the shadow of the tree!
If the citizens of Gotham were to choose between the West Charity Hospital and the Black Gate Prison now that the person to blow up was not a clown, but some other supervillain or terrorist, it might not cause such a big stir.
But unfortunately, this was planned by the Joker.
Although the Joker has not shown up until now, the West Charity Hospital and the Black Gate Prison have fallen into fear and confusion as he expected.
Roy, who came to the roof of the hospital, showed his domineering spirit and sensed some of the situation in the hospital.
There were a lot of people in the hospital, but he didn't find anything worth noting.
The whole hospital is now in chaos, and people are fleeing the hospital as if they were fleeing.
However, at this moment, a huge explosion was heard at the same time in the parking lot and gate of the hospital.
Rumble!
The hospital gate was completely blown up!
The cars parked in the parking lot also exploded one after another like firecrackers!
It is clear that the explosions at the hospital gate and in the parking lot were arranged by the clowns.
As for the reason, you don't have to think about it to know.
Although there are many ways to leave the hospital in addition to the hospital gate and parking lot.
But after the place was blown up, only a small percentage of people were able to leave the hospital within five minutes.
What's more, by blowing up the hospital gates and parking lots, the clown proved one thing with facts.
That is, he does have the ability to blow up the hospital completely.
Bruce has a lot of plans for tonight's fight.
But he didn't expect that the clown would actually use this method to take the initiative.
"Open a portal to let the people from the hospital leave!"
Bruce immediately came up to Roy and said quickly.
"I can open a portal in the hospital, but even if there is a portal, only some people will be able to leave the hospital within five minutes."
Roy replied.
"I know, I can go as much as I can."
Bruce said helplessly.
Looking at Bruce, who had completely lost the initiative, Roy didn't say anything more, mobilized the power of the stars, and opened the star portal in the hospital lobby.
In the blink of an eye, the pale cyan star portal took shape in the hospital lobby.
Although the medical staff in the lobby did not know what the Star Portal was, they soon discovered that they could travel to the outside world through the Star Portal.
"I've set up a portal in the lobby."
Roy said to Bruce.
"Is there only one?"
Bruce said with a frown.
If there is only one portal, at most only patients near the lobby can evacuate the hospital.
"If it's just a portal, I can open a lot of them, even one in every aisle."
"But the problem is, if I did, there's a good chance that the clown would blow up the hospital right away."
"He won't watch the game he prepared be ruined in advance."
Roy reminded Bruce.
Just as Bruce was about to say something, Roy continued:
"I think instead of worrying about whether or not to let me open a few more portals, you should think about how to break the game."
"I don't know why the Joker planned such a game, but one thing I'm sure of is that there must be a way to break the game in this game."
"The clown is crazy, but his purpose is not to blow up the West Charity Hospital and the Black Gate Prison, but to use the West Charity Hospital and the Black Gate Prison as bargaining chips to have a good time with you."
"You know better than I know who he is."
"If anyone can think of a way to break the game now, it's you."
On the surface, Bruce now has no chance but to watch as West Charity Hospital or Simon Prison is blown up.
But that's not the case.
If the Joker's purpose is really to kill people or blow up the West Charity Hospital and Black Gate Prison, there is no need for such trouble.
After planting the rear bomb, he can directly blow up the West Charity Hospital and the Black Gate Prison.
He did so much, on the one hand, to play with human nature, and on the other hand, to torture Bruce.
And this also means that this seemingly two-choice game has a way to break the game.
"What would you do if you were me?"
After more than ten seconds of silence, Bruce asked.
"Are you sure you want to hear my answer?"
"I told you in advance, my answer may not be what you want to hear."
Roy asked rhetorically.
"Don't waste your time, say, if you were me, what would you do?"
Bruce continued.
"It's very simple, I'll choose to flip the table and not play!"
Roy said with a serious face.
Flip the table and don't play?
Upon hearing his answer, both Bruce and Hallie looked puzzled.
"My past experience has taught me that if I play a game under the rules set by someone else, then no matter how I play, I will win more and lose more."
"The opponent is the one who makes the rules, so this game is unfair from the start."
"In that case, I would choose to flip the table and not play!"
"If the opponent really wants to play with me, then you have to play with rules that are acceptable to both parties."
"Besides, I'm different from you, I don't have that many concerns."
"It doesn't matter if it's the West Charity Hospital, or the Black Gate Prison."
"Even if the Joker used the lives of all the citizens of Gotham as a bargaining chip, it would be impossible for me to force me to play according to his rules."
"To put it mildly, I don't care if the citizens of Gotham are dead or alive."
"You're going to be led by the nose by him now because you're playing by his rules too much."
"The fact that you'd rather be a vigilante than run for mayor shows that you don't like to play by the rules of the game that someone else dictated."
"You could understand this at the beginning, but now you are constrained."
"It shouldn't be, it shouldn't be!"
Roy looked at Bruce with a serious face and said in a serious tone.
After listening to Roy's explanation, Bruce fell silent again.
After about half a minute, he took out the phone that the doll man had given him.
This is the only means he can contact the Joker now.
Finding the communication log, he pressed the dial button.
Soon, the call was connected.
Without waiting for the person on the other end of the phone to speak, Bruce spoke directly:
"I don't choose any of them, you can blow whichever you want!"
After saying that, he hung up the phone directly and threw the phone on the ground.
Then, he stomped on the phone.
After seeing Bruce's actions, Roy created the Star Portal once again.
"Do you want to stay here and wait for the final result, or come with me to the next building and wait for the final result."
"Personally, I suggest that you go with me to the next building and wait for the result."
"If the Joker really blows up the hospital, you'll have a chance to catch him alive."
Roy said to Bruce.
"Hmm!"
After the Nakshatra portal took shape, Bruce was the first to walk inside.
The roof of the building.
Bruce glanced at the time and said to Roy:
"If the clown waits and really blows up the hospital and prison......"
Before he could speak, Roy interrupted him and said slowly:
"You have to understand one thing, even if the hospitals and prisons are really blown up, it is the clown who killed those people, and you didn't do anything wrong."
"In five minutes, you can't get all the people in the hospital and the prison, and you can't defuse the bombs in the hospital and the prison."
"You are a man, not a god!"
"As for guilt, you don't need guilt."
"You just have to remember that it's the clown who kills people."
"All you have to do is catch him."
"As for the rest, it's not something you need to think about."
That being said, but what Roy wanted to say more was that if Bruce had killed the Joker in the first place, there wouldn't have been so much of a thing, and the Joker shouldn't have been spared for the sake of so-called human rights and the law at all.
Bruce didn't speak, and looked at him with a complicated expression.
Soon, the five-minute countdown was over.
Just when Bruce was ready to prepare the hospital in front of him or received the news from Ah Fu that the prison had been bombed, the West Charity Hospital in front of him did not explode.
Ah Fu in the bat cave, there is no news that the Black Gate Prison has been bombed.
Whether it's the West Charity Hospital or the Black Gate Prison, they all exploded just as the clown said.
This......
While this is a good thing, Bruce has an expression of disbelief.
Why?
Why didn't the Joker blow up West Charity Hospital and Black Gate Prison?
This is not clown's style!
Bruce looked at Roy with a puzzled expression, wanting to get a reasonable explanation from Roy.
"Don't look at me, I'm not a clown, and I don't know what he thinks."
"But judging by the results, it's obviously a good thing, isn't it?"
Roy said with a smile.
However, not long after he finished speaking, a loud explosion was heard in the western side where the Black Gate Prison is located.
Rumble!
A huge explosion echoed throughout Gotham, and the orange-red flames of the explosion were clearly visible like mushroom clouds.
Looking at the skyrocketing flames that exploded in the Black Gate Prison, Roy's expression became a little complicated.
What a clown!
It really blew up the Black Gate Prison, which held the most criminals!
Although it was more than ten seconds late, the clown still blew up the Black Gate Prison.
The bombing of the Black Gate prison illustrates two things.
First, the citizens of Gotham who replied to blow up the Black Gate Prison accounted for the majority.
Second, Bruce is about to usher in a storm of public opinion.
The citizens of Gotham who chose to blow up the Black Gate Prison were in the majority, and Roy was not surprised.
He didn't particularly care if the Black Gate Prison was blown up, and he only had one thing on his mind right now.
That is, if the Joker is really as keen on playing with Batman as he guessed, then the Joker will definitely not let go of Bruce's initiative to send the handle to the door.
The call Bruce had just made to the Joker was a door-to-door call.
As Roy guessed, not long after the Black Gate Prison was blown up, the Joker sent a group of phone recordings to all the citizens of Gotham.
"I don't choose any of them, you can blow whichever you want!"
Although Bruce used a deep voice in disguise, the Joker did not forget to note that this was Batman's choice.
(End of chapter)