With a thud, the clown fell to the ground.

Half of his face, distorted and distorted by venom, resembled an inflated and swollen cream cake - and now, the cream cake had been sliced open, revealing a dark red, bright yellow grease.

"Poison ivy! It's the last moment, hurry up and locate! ”

"Wait, it's going to be ...... right away" Poison Ivy's voice came, "I'm done!" ”

Lucius stared at the many flashes of light on the screen.

"Okay, okay, okay, okay......"

He whispered to himself to cheer himself up, then opened his eyes, slammed his fist on the launch button, and said to the comms:

"Batman, are you done with the Joker? If there are fish that slip through the net, you may need to ......"

"I'm ready."

Chen Tao told him: "In every sense. ”

He turned his head and watched the clown lie on the ground in a large shape, his face full of the afterglow of being beaten violently:

"I lost."

The clown said.

"But you won't kill me, woo-woo."

He sobbed and sobbed, "Why can't it be me?" ”

"You make me sick."

Chen Tao said.

"Don't act like a complete failure, clown. You think I don't know what you're planning? ”

The clown lying on the ground turned his face away.

"You don't care about Bane, you don't care about the fight between me and him. It's all just a game for you, and you can play it at any time, and you don't care if you win or lose. ”

陈韬 says:

"The only thing you care about is the game itself.

What you can't accept is that there is a risk that you will never be able to play the game again. ”

"For the first time in years, you've had a clear purpose, Joker, and that's why I can predict you this time."

The clown curled up on the ground.

……

……

……

At the same time, we switch back to the Batcave.

"If you want me to get involved in your business, Joker."

The Riddler said, "That's no way." ”

He wears a dark yellow prison uniform full of question marks. Strangely, even though he was imprisoned by Batman, he still received this very personal dress as a preferential treatment.

"I'm not going to take the initiative to get involved in your game with bats. If I wanted to play, I'd go to him myself, and honestly - I don't play anymore. ”

The Riddler said, "I want to wash my hands in a golden basin." ”

"Poof! Don't lie, old Eddie, come on, I'm here to get down to business today, stop making me laugh. ”

A mocking smile appeared on the clown's face. He was smiling, and he was smiling, but he didn't look like he was smiling.

Only full of viciousness.

The Riddler stared at his face.

He said slowly, "What do you want to do?" ”

A smiling poison gas pops out of the clown's hand:

"No, I'll make things more interesting."

"You madman."

The Riddler quickly retreated to the side of the cell, his face ugly, "You damn you—"

"This recipe may be older and less effective, but if you wait a few more minutes, he's still very powerful."

The Joker said as he threw the gas bomb into the Riddler's room through the vent above the transparent cell.

"Stop, clown, you madman - ahem, ahem!"

The green poison gas exploded quickly through the room.

"Hahaha! That's right, you come out in person, and that's the point. ”

The clown pressed his face against the transparent glass wall: "After all, if you're not in good shape, I don't want to take you to the party, right?" ”

A green mist rises in the room, darkening the Joker's face:

"You've always had a lot of potential, and that's what I love most about you. No one has ever pushed a bat to the extreme like you—"

"And no one has ever had a wisdom comparable to that of the Great Bat King!"

Amid the Riddler's violent coughing, the Joker shouted:

"If you don't give him hints, he'll never find you! Isn't it? You always have your eyes on the most important games, just like me! ”

"Oh, Eddie! Eddie. Your mind is your most dangerous weapon, and in this regard, you are better than all of us. You are the master of riddles in this wicked city, smarter, better, and more dangerous than Batman. ”

"So-"

"Why are you wasting your life here, Eddie? I can't bear to see you like this, I'd rather you die. ”

The Joker said, "And now it's almost time for you!" ”

Whew!

The transparent glass door was opened, and the Riddler stood in the center of the parted clown gas.

"There are 46 ways to get out of this cell, Joker."

The Riddler said, "And only 4 can be completed within the time limit you set." ”

"There's nothing easier than hitting the fragile part of the glass with the least amount of effort. But I chose method three. ”

The clown pulled his smiling face: "Hahaha, I knew it, I knew that you haven't changed!" You can always be one step ahead. ”

"Four hours ago, I dug a hole in the wall."

The Riddler said, looking at the door to the cell, "I reconnected the circuit of the gate through this hole. ”

The Joker's complexion changed slightly.

"And the tool I use to dig the wall is an iron spoon."

It doesn't make sense.

Batman wouldn't be stupid enough to give the Riddler an iron spoon.

The clown didn't want to hear what he was saying, so he turned around and ran away.

He spread his slender legs, jumped with agility, jumped directly over the fence, and jumped up the ladder in three steps and two steps. It was the gateway out of the Batcave, and the entrance for him to enter.

The Riddler lowered his head.

"Why are all the Arkham lunatics mobilized to deal with Bane, but I'm the only one left in the Batcave?"

"Why isn't Robin here, and why isn't that butler of his?"

The Riddler's voice rang out in the back:

"So you understand? Clown? ”

"For so many years, I never admitted that Batman was smarter than me, and even now I don't. But I'm still going to say ......"

"In some places, Batman's intelligence is really better than mine, like in what I know about you. He said you'd be sure to check if the clown had been killed.

He said you'd come and see for yourself......

He talked to me a lot, about you...... Or you guys. ”

Drip! Squeaky ......

A loud mechanical sound sounded, like some massive machine was running.

The clown's fingertips reached for the doorknob.

Drip! Click!

Then the next second, the world is turned upside down in front of the clown.

The stairs rolled upside down, and the clown was thrown back to the ground like a spoon in the sound of machinery, and the ground opened and sank, devouring the clown into it like an insect sealed in amber.

With the sound of machine springs, the floor closed back as if nothing had happened.

"You're always thinking about games, Joker."

The Riddler stood silently, "But there are no more games." It doesn't matter if it's me, or Batman, Bane, it's all of us. ”

"You've been abandoned. All the while, you're the only one who wants to play the game. ”

"You think it's impossible for me, as another player in the game, to cooperate with the boss at the end of the game."

"But that's a fallacy."

The Riddler's eyebrows are lowered.

The bat computer makes a synthesized sound:

"The air purification system has been activated...... Removing residual clown gas......"

"Done."

It cheerfully said:

"Have a great afternoon without clowns!"

"The upright, once meek man."

The Riddler whispered.

"Follow the dangerous trail and go all the way down the valley of death."

“…… The toddler snake, humble, moves slowly......"

“…… And the upright are angry in the field......

"Lions are roaming there!"

(An excerpt from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)

(End of chapter)