291, the death of the clown

Just when Damian thought he was about to be killed by the "wild laughter" in front of him, Roy said in a normal voice:

"You've been living with Bruce for a while, and you're still so reckless, you haven't learned to plan before you act."

After hearing Roy's words, Damian was momentarily stunned.

Crazy laughter is Roy?

Although he recognized Roy's voice, Damian still couldn't accept this fact.

How so?

Roy's actions tonight, in his opinion, didn't look like anything Roy would do at all.

Although Roy used to be quite freewheeling, tonight's wild laughter gave Damian the feeling that he was a complete madman.

"Are you really Roy?"

"Why are you doing that?"

Damian asked, puzzled.

"This is not something you should inquire about, the restraining effect on your body will disappear in about half an hour."

"I've sent the coordinates to Bruce in advance, and he'll come and pick you up later."

After saying that, Roy ignored Damian and decisively cast a flash.

After solving the episode brought by Damian, Roy did not immediately return to Kyle's Manor, but continued his actions for the night.

After using his domineering and telepathic skills to kill the criminals who had not yet stopped, he returned to Kyle's Manor in a flash.

Kyle Manor.

Underground laboratory.

Roy first lifted the "Crazy Laughter" suit he was wearing, and made the suit change back to the appearance of a bracelet.

Then, start removing your makeup and get the half of the clown off your face.

After doing this, he said to Hancock:

"Hack major websites and TV stations, and then edit and broadcast the footage that the suit just recorded."

"I want all of Gotham to know what happens to those who don't follow the rules."

"Yes, sir!"

Hancock replied immediately.

After removing the armor bracelet from his right hand and placing it on the table in front of him, Roy flashed out of the lab.

……

The next day.

Midday.

Restaurant.

Roy savoured the chef's elaborate lunch while reading today's headlines.

As he expected, his maniacal laughter unsurprisingly dominated today's headlines.

As for the reports related to the Joker and Batman, they were moved to the back.

Crazy laughter can be the headline today, on the one hand, the crazy laughter in the live broadcast room, crushing the heads of the guests in front of the audience, and on the other hand, the video edited by Hancock last night.

Although Hancock didn't play all the footage of Roy's actions last night, the clips that were edited out were enough to explain the problem.

Unlike the Gotham police, the criminals who were targeted by the wild laughter last night were all dead without exception.

After the action footage of the wild laughter was broadcast, whether it was a good law-abiding citizen, or a gangster who did evil, they all understood one thing very clearly.

That's laughter, not a joke!

After reading the reports of the major media on the laughter, Roy said to Hancock:

"Send a message to all the gangsters and underground organizations in the name of laughter, and say I want to see the clown."

"If they can't find the Joker before midnight tonight, tomorrow will be their last day."

It's not easy to find the clown who doesn't know where to hide.

However, that doesn't mean there's nothing to be done about it.

Whether it's the Gotham police or Bruce, their methods of finding the Joker are, in Roy's opinion, a little too merciful.

As the saying goes, there must be brave men under the heavy "reward"!

The best way to find the Joker is to ask all the gangsters and underworld forces in Gotham to help you find him.

The strength of the gangsters and forces in the Gotham underworld is not very good, but it is not very difficult for everyone to mobilize to find someone.

"Sir, maybe you don't need to inform the gangsters and forces of the underworld."

Hancock said quickly.

"Why?"

Roy asked rhetorically.

"The Joker is right now at the gates of the manor."

Hancock continued.

What?

After hearing Hancock's answer, Roy was stunned for a moment.

"Project the surveillance in front of the gate."

"Yes, sir!"

The vibranium bracelet quickly projected a holographic screen, displaying the surveillance in front of the manor gate.

Looking at the surveillance footage on the holographic screen, Roy frowned slightly.

Is it a deity?

Long green messy hair, casual clown makeup, purple suit.

From the outside, the clown in front of the gate is indeed similar to the image of a certain clown in Roy's memory.

But he can't confirm whether the clown in front of the gate is the clown himself.

"Open the door and bring him to the living room."

Roy said to Hancock.

"Yes, sir!"

A few minutes later.

Meeting room on the ground floor.

Roy looked carefully at the clown sitting across from him.

"You're the Joker?"

Roy said.

"No, I'm laughing."

The clown replied with a serious face.

Forehead......

"Just if you're really good, what are you looking for me?"

Roy continued.

"You want to see me, so I'm here."

The clown said immediately.

This guy?

Although there is no way to judge whether the guy in front of him is a clown himself from the breath of life, Roy's intuition tells him that the guy in front of him is most likely the clown himself.

"How do you know I'm just laughing?"

Although those who are familiar with him will suspect that Crazy Laughter is him, the Joker is not familiar with him.

"Is that hard to guess?"

"The guy who dares to kill people with such fanfare in Gotham, there is no second one except you."

The clown said quickly.

"Don't waste everyone's time, let's be honest, what the hell are you trying to do?"

"If your answer isn't very satisfying, you should know what your ending will be."

Roy didn't bother to guess what the joker was up to, and asked bluntly.

"You taught Bruce that answer last night, right?"

The Joker didn't answer Roy's question, but asked rhetorically.

"So what?"

Roy replied.

"It won't be like that."

"I just want to say that the advice you gave him last night was boring."

The clown said with a serious face.

"Boring? I don't think so. ”

For some reason, after chatting with the Joker for a few words, Roy found that he didn't have the idea of killing the Joker right away, and instead began to look forward to continuing the conversation with him.

"It's boring, it's boring."

"You let him choose nothing, just to let him take back the initiative, or rather, disrupt my game, so that I can't get satisfaction from this game."

"But unfortunately, you, like him, guessed my plan wrong."

"I don't care what he chooses, and I don't have the idea of torturing him on purpose, I just want to play a game like this."

"I don't care if I win or lose."

The clown said unhurriedly.

"If you really don't care, then why are you releasing the phone call recordings later?"

Although the Joker has some truth in what he says, Roy doesn't believe what he says so easily.

"It's fun, of course."

"It seems that you, like him, think I'm interested in him and want to defeat or torture him."

"You're too low-level to think about that."

The clown shook his head and said with a look of regret.

"Low-level?"

"So you have a high-level idea to hear?"

Roy asked with a smile.

"If you want to know the answer, you can't ask others, you need to find it yourself."

"Forget it, for the sake of your performance last night, which was quite to my taste, I'll prove it to you tonight."

The clown said quickly.

"Tonight?"

"What are you going to do tonight?"

Roy immediately frowned.

"Don't be so anxious, you'll know tonight."

With that, the clown stood up and planned to leave the parlor.

Watching the Joker get up and walk towards the door, Roy thought for a moment, did nothing, and watched the Joker leave the living room.

"Sir, do you need me to keep an eye on his whereabouts?"

Hancock's voice rang out.

"No, you don't."

"Since he said he would prove it to me tonight, then he will act tonight, and there is no need to waste energy monitoring his whereabouts."

Roy said slowly.

"Yes, sir."

Hancock replied immediately.

Want to remind Bruce?

Roy pondered the question silently.

After thinking about it for a few minutes, he decided to do nothing.

Although he didn't know what the Joker was going to do tonight, he was sure of one thing, and that was that he was indeed aroused by the Joker's curiosity.

……

Time flies.

Eight o'clock in the evening.

Roy and Selina enjoy tonight's dinner in the dining room.

At this moment, the same urgent news was broadcast on Gotham's major television stations.

The clown is dead!

And it was in full view, killed by Batman!

When he heard Hancock's report, Roy's first reaction was whether Hancock had a bug.

How is this possible?

The clown only told him at noon today that he wanted to prove to him what a high-level idea is.

As a result, at night, the Joker is killed by Batman.

Let's not talk about whether the Joker is dead or not, it is very abnormal for Batman to kill the Joker in front of everyone.

Don't kill the oath!

How could Batman, who had an oath not to kill, kill the Joker in full view.

It's not scientific!

Very unscientific!

"What the hell is going on?"

Roy asked quickly.

Instead of answering, Hancock projected the urgent news that was being inserted.

Looking at the urgent news that appeared in Hancock's projection, Roy's expression became a little complicated.

The content of the news is simple, it is that Batman and the Joker got into a fight in Wayne Tower.

Then, the Joker is thrown off the Tower of Wayne by Batman and falls to his death on the spot.

Wrong!

Something is wrong!

Roy's instincts told him that the Joker would never die so easily at the hands of Batman.

However, before he could tell Hancock to contact Bruce, the voice of the system sounded in his head.

"Main Quest: Fateful Showdown!"

"Mission content: Remain neutral in the confrontation between the Joker and Batman, and watch the fatalistic duel between the Joker and Batman from the perspective of the audience."

"Quest Reward: Super Vision and Heat Rays!"

"Mission Progress: Completed!"

"Mission reward sent!"

……

This......

Mission completion is indeed something to be happy about, but Roy is not happy at all now.

It's not that he's lost interest in the rewarded super eyesight and heat rays, it's that in his judgment, the task isn't complete at all.

Not to mention that he played Crazy Laughter last night, and officially began to intervene in the fateful showdown between the Joker and Batman.

Just the task of "spectatorship" is not complete.

He wasn't watching at all!

If it weren't for Hancock's notification, he wouldn't have known that Batman had killed the Joker.

What's going on?

Am I ignoring something?

Roy's brain was running wildly.

But no matter what he thought, he couldn't figure out what was going on.

The system doesn't lie!

Since the system has determined that the task has been completed, it means that the guy killed by Batman is indeed the Joker himself.

Although this is not in line with Batman's long-standing no-kill oath, and from the perspective of mission requirements, he has not completed it well, but the system still determines that the mission is completed.

This means that whether he helped evacuate the patients of the West Charity Hospital last night, or played the role of Crazy Laughter to kill in Gotham, in the system's judgment, it is not considered to interfere in the fateful duel between the Joker and Batman.

Extrapolating from this result, there is only one plausible explanation.

That's what he did last night, and it's all in the Joker's plan.

Or rather, it was all expected by the Joker, and it didn't disrupt any of his deployments at all.

Otherwise, it doesn't make sense, and the system will determine that the task is complete.

Wait a minute!

Roy suddenly thought of a very important question.

There is absolutely no way that the Joker will know about the existence of the system, which means that the Joker has thought that he will meddle in the situation from the beginning.

In other words, the Joker is in control all the time.

Is that what you want to prove?

It's all in your plan!

Seeing that Roy's expression became a little ugly, Selina immediately asked:

"What's wrong, what's wrong?"

"It's fine, it's just that the news is a bit more than I expected."

Roy replied.

Then, he said to Hancock:

"Help me contact Bruce, and I'll say I have something to talk to him about."

"Yes, sir."

Hancock said quickly.

It didn't take long for Hancock's voice to sound again.

"Sir, Mr. Wayne can't be reached, do you want to contact Alfred or Damian?"

Can't get in touch?

Roy frowned.

"If you can't get in touch, forget it, after eating, I'll go to the Bat Cave in person."

"Yes, sir."

After having dinner with Selina, Roy did not go to the Batcave immediately, but calmed down some complicated feelings in his heart.

After calming down, he flashed to the Bat Cave.

The huge bat cave, now there is no one.

Bruce wasn't there, and neither were Alfred and Damian.

Glancing at the empty bat cave, he turned and walked towards the main building of the manor.

Not long after arriving at the main building, Roy saw Alfred with a sad face.

"Isn't Bruce home?"

Roy asked at Alfred.

Alfred didn't speak, and shook his head helplessly.

"What about Damien?"

Roy continued.

"Master Damian is also out."

Alfred replied quickly.

(End of chapter)