Chapter 55: Funeral
Yes, so.
That's the endgame.
The Riddler was somewhat stunned to see Batman and the Joker talking to the Joker on TV for a while, and then he started the machine.
In front of him, the clown was in that crystal coffin, turned into a disgusting lump of meat sauce.
No borrowing, no fake death, no disappearance. Didn't disappear in an explosion, or accidentally fell off a cliff.
Some are simply deaths.
The Riddler has planned his own fake death a few times, using the Clayface, or using snakeskin (another shapeshifting Gotham villain), but never like it is today.
Batman kills, and it is Howe's murder without hesitation.
The Riddler sees the video being pulled closer, and the Joker appears in front of him.
Let's turn back the clock to the moment when the Joker died.
"So it's all a lie to me? You didn't turn into a clown? β
"Never." Chen Tao said.
The silver-white particles flickered, and as the crystal coffin completely closed, Chen Tao breathed a sigh of relief.
Lucius's technical means are unquestionable, and it is absolutely impossible for the clown to escape through such a thick crystal coffin.
That's right, he did. He fooled the Joker, the Joker who had failed the original Batman Bruce Wayne and suffered countless times, was now trapped in the crystal coffin by him, as long as he gently pressed the button......
Through a piece of transparent glass, the clown is sure that this is a strong sealing material of high molecules. The Joker looks at Batman.
"Haha, ahhahahahaha...... Batman! You've managed to catch me again, hahaha, what a fool I'm hahaha - but it's really funny, the joke is funny - damn it! You're pretending to be like that. I won't be β "
The clown laughed out of breath, but Chen Tao opposite him was unwavering.
"There's no next time, Joker."
"What?"
The clown's movements paused.
"As I said, you're going to die. This is by no means a matter of whimsy or murder of passion, but the result of early preparation. β
"I've decided to kill you using femtosecond laser shredding technology."
Chen Tao stretched out his hand and caressed the transparent coffin: "This is not a birdcage, but a coffin." β
Killing the Joker was a decision he had made a long time ago. Since the more than 20,000 soldiers killed by the clown on the battlefield with laughter have almost become wasted, he has never thought of continuing to appease the clown to live in this world.
Of course, as a super American comic book fan, he has heard many times about the controversy over whether Batman should kill people.
Countless people have repeatedly argued from the political, military, philosophical, and even social theory relationships, or the practical factors of comic book sales, that they either said that they should be killed or should not be killed, and such debates have never stopped for decades.
But here's the problem - Chen Tao, he's not Batman.
Therefore, these arguments make no sense. There are no moral choices, no fateful epics, in Chen Tao's opinion, the clown is a trouble, if he can, he even thought of using a knife or a gun to find a way to kill the clown, Bainbat's memory gives him the skill to murder others, no matter what weapon he uses, he can be handy.
But he still chose the safest approach, and the story of the laughing bat made Chen Tao nervous, and Batman in the comics mentioned more than once that even if he murdered the Joker, Gotham would give him something worse.
He didn't want to travel for a while and find out that he was the Blessing of Laughter himself, and then start gittling and destroying the multiverse.
It's so much fun, even a junk fiction author who drank three catties of fake wine can't write such a nonsensical plot.
Therefore, he had to be cautious and careful when it came to the murder of the Joker. Could there really be poison gas on the back of the clown that can turn others into clowns?
Maybe there is, maybe not, but he's not going to gamble with himself.
The clown in the crystal coffin choked his neck. He began to have some difficulty breathing.
Chen Tao walked to the side of the crystal coffin and began to operate silently. Once the energy source is connected, the machine will start working, smashing the contents of the coffin in one go.
Whether it's a clown gas or something else, as long as this coffin is not opened, then never want to escape.
When the clown dies, Chen Tao will seal it with multiple layers of steel, and then cement it in the darkest corner of the bat cave until the end of time.
The Joker is so rightful that he discovers the killing intent in Batman's eyes. He talked about some crazy jokes for a while, and reminisced about the past with Chen Tao for a while, but Chen Tao completely turned a deaf ear to these things, so in the end-
He suddenly seemed somewhat unusually peaceful.
"I see. It's over now. You're not going to play games with me anymore, are you, Batman? Well, I accept, now it's the last. But you're always running away from the people around you, and have you ever thought you've never told meβ"
"I hate you. Those words, I hate you, clown. β
"Listen up to Batman, if today is the end, then I think I still have the right to prepare my last words."
"Femtosecond laser cutting is ready."
There was a mechanical sound from the machine.
"Please note, please confirm that everything is ready, countdown: 10 seconds."
"Batman!"
Chen Tao stood in front of the crystal coffin, indifferent, watching the clown pounce on the transparent coffin door.
"I'm dying, I'm going to be killed by you, but listen to BatmanβI, hate, you."
"It's your turn, bat! Hurry up, it's your turn, say that! β
As the seconds passed, Chen Tao turned his head. Little by little, the hope in the clown's eyes was extinguished.
"Seven seconds."
"Six seconds."
"Me too." Chen Tao replied to him: "Clown." β
"Haha, hahahahahaha
The clown let out a hysterical laugh that he had uttered many times in his years, but never so mad and twisted as he was now. Tears of laughter flowed from his eyes, his stomach hurt from laughter, and he banged his head against the coffin door again and again.
"That's right, that's right, that's right."
"I'm glad you'll finally find out about this today, because in the past, you know, I never let you find out about my death."
"I fell off a helicopter, I fell off a cliff, I disappeared into an explosion, but I always came back. I shouldn't have let you see my death, but it seems inevitable today. β
"Listen, I'm not going to die, Batman, it's a fact."
"I'm a thought, an idea, and I'm going to continue in the shadows, living in Gotham's grievances...... You'll see me again soon, hahaha, hahaha, ahahahaha-
First a line of blood began to spread from the door of his head, and then his head began to collapse.
The clown is dead.