No one understands fear better than Dr. Jonathan Klein.

Oh! Or maybe, and probably we should call him Mr. Scarecrow.

The famous Gotham villain Scarecrow, the ultimate nightmare of countless people, he will be one of the kind monsters that parents use to terrorize their children on every darkest night in Gotham.

But in fact, what many people don't know is......

Klein lives in constant fear all the time.

He hated it, and it reminded him that his life was no different.

His childhood was a constant state of fear. Fear of dogs, fear of falling, fear of germs, fear of bad guys, fear of other children, fear of teachers, fear of his parents, fear of doing wrong things, fear of being teased, fear of change, fear of ......

Crane closed his eyes.

Even after a long time, the roars of the past still lingered in his ears.

"Be careful, Crane, or I'll use your skin and bones as a toothpick. Maybe you're a bit famous out there, but without your fear gas defense and your mask to hide here, you're a fart! ”

Klein trembled with fear. It was one of the things he feared the most...... Fear of what others say about yourself is real.

"Actually, it's not as good as a fart! Instead of even putting you in the Arkham Special District like they did with other famous psychopathic criminals, they threw you into the Normal District with us people! ”

Fear.

fear。

f-e-a-r。

"Please...... Please don't hurt me, I won't dare anymore. ”

"Hurt you, you don't deserve to let me do it. Idiot, you won't pee your pants, will you? Hahaha! ”

"The scarecrow was so frightened that he knelt down on our ground and begged for mercy? Hahahaha! ”

"I can't believe this guy actually got the name of a super criminal, so what am I, a super super criminal?"

"My grandmother is more daring than him!"

"Seriously, this guy is a scarecrow? Are you sure? ”

There was a time when there was a ...... Fear is his friend, his puppet, used against others, which was not the case before, he embraces fear and swims in his world, letting the whole world know that he is the most terrible person.

And then it was all gone, taken away by someone who understood fear as well as he did. That man even knew how to use fear as his weapon, and because of Batman, everything was back to square one.

Fear of being hurt, fear of the big guys, fear of their attitudes, words, fists, crude homemade weapons, fear that they see themselves as real.

I'm afraid that without his fear gas, he's really a fart, and I'm afraid that I'll be crowned a weak person for the rest of my life, what if that's really the case?

"Nope! No! No!!! Please! Help me! ”

"It's a scarecrow!! Scarecrow!!!! He's coming for us!!! Idiot!!! We're all going to die—"

"Ahhh

Crane shook his head, shaking off the dying wails of his former cellmates.

But it's not real, it's not just skinny, Jonathan Klein isn't just a scarecrow, he's also a scientist, a trained psychologist who specializes in the psychology of fear.

Poison gas is just one of my many tools, and I'll prove it to you.

You suspicious people, bullies, people who don't have enough to say, I'll prove it to you, and the whole of Gotham City, yes, there's another one who can manage fear...... Batman.

I will show everyone that I don't need a special gas to bring fear to others, and I will show them what true fear is.

At this moment, at this moment.

Jonathan Crane, also known as the Scarecrow, is sewing a scarecrow.

This may sound like nonsense, but the truth is that the person in Klein's hands at this time is technically a scarecrow who really fills the straw.

This time, he's going to change his behavior patterns. There were no more subordinates, no action for revenge.

Klein's gaze froze on the sharp knife on the table not far away, and then continued to lower his head and sew the scarecrow.

This time the victims will be completely random, without any connection, killed in the most brutal way.

All the information that Batman had ever collected about Jonathan Klein himself and his party was useless.

Batman has been away from Gotham City for far too long and away from their game for too long. The Riddler is missing, the Joker is missing, the Two-Face, the Penguin, the Freeze Man become Batman's lackeys......

Gotham has been quiet for far too long, and it's time to remind the city of the fears of that chaotic era.

And Nightwings......

Batman actually let his henchmen do chivalrous deeds in this city, and he actually thought that his stupid henchman alone could solve all the problems of this city?

No, Scarecrow doesn't allow Batman to ignore the city of Gotham so much.

The city is his, and it's Batman's, and it's time for Batman to let go of all those boring Justice League things and get back to his job.

Klein is going to be a new scarecrow, a scarecrow that everyone knows nothing about, can't predict, can't even find.

He's going to restart the Gotham game that has been stalled for many years.

He's making scarecrows, and he's going to place them in every corner of the city. On the roof, parking lots, storage rooms, phone booths, bedroom closets, living rooms, obstructing people's views, watching people's windows, every corner.

He's going to send a message to the city, he's going to raise people's fears, he's going to show people that he can be everywhere, at any time, and no one can stop him.

He is a master at instilling fear in others.

He's going to tell everybody......

"There's no safety anymore."

The scarecrow jerked his head.

In an instant.

Bang Dang!

The lights in the room went out.

"Who's ......?"

The scarecrow held up the needle in his hand.

"Who is it?"

He trembled, waving the thin needle in his hand in the darkness.

But no one responded to him.

The scarecrow tried to pull out his phone, knowing that it was afternoon outside, and there should be light coming through the window...... But it was pitch black.

No! No! Now is not the time to think about that. It's Batman! How exactly did he find himself?

The phone won't light up at all.

And in the dark, Chen Tao quietly observed Klein.

He needs Klein...... Such a master of fear is needed to help him.

Nothing is better than a master of fear when it comes to confronting the possible Senisto legion, which represents fear.

And Chen Tao even faintly has some ideas......

Like the bloody slaughter of cattle by the Red Lantern Legion, the Parallax will succumb to those best at manipulating fear.

Maybe he can do something to the Yellow Lantern Legion's Light Beast Parallax through Crane.

Of course, in order to realize these ideas, before using Klein......

He had to scare the other party first, otherwise he wouldn't give in easily.

A barrier constructed by nanobots was used by Chen Tao to wrap around the room Klein was in, blocking the last rays of light.

Chen Tao synchronized the speed bullets, and under X's line of sight, any action of the scarecrow was visible.

The vast majority of people agree that one of the most primitive fears is the fear of the dark......

But when you think about it, it's not the darkness itself that people are afraid of, but what might lurk in the darkness.

Time passes.

Chen Tao never said a word to the scarecrow again, he had been like this for an hour or two, slowly, torturing the scarecrow in the most insignificant way.

Gently caress the scarecrow's cheek with a feather, gently prick him with a pin, and exhale softly into his cheek. Make a slight rubbing sound on the floor with your shoes.

"Where are you? Where are you? Don't play these tricks, it's all tricks I've played, I know it's needles - and feathers! ”

"No!"

"Ah——!h

"Ah——!h

"Ah——!!!h

It didn't seem like much, but in the scarecrow's mind, he thought the feathers and pins were biting rats or bugs that were biting him.

The breath could have come from anything, and the sound of the shoe rubbing against the floor let him know that there were other people in the room, and that it was all done by Chen Tao on purpose.

"No ......"

"Come out and face me! Face me! ”

"You monster!"

And now it's time to put on another mask, it's time for the scarecrow to see himself.

And he let out a low chuckle.

He was ghostly, and his voice was like the shrill murmur of a night owl at dusk before the sun set.

Then he let out another high-pitched laugh.

Followed by......

In the dim light caused by the flickering of silvery-white particles, the scarecrow saw the figure that had caused him cardiac arrest appear in front of him.

He didn't know how Batman found himself.

And what is even more terrifying than Batman's appearance here is that the scarecrow is so deeply aware that maybe he can rule fear and become fear......

But there is another person who can command fear as he wishes. A person who is better at harnessing fear than he is......

Batman!

"No!! It's horrible! ”

The scarecrow finally broke down, and he clutched his head, desperately trying to escape.

He broke through the house and ran for his life in the afternoon sun.

But all he could see was the shadow that appeared in front of him like a ghost:

"Your tricks may have changed form, your sick mind games may be more corrupt than your last one, but I can see in your horrified eyes that everything is as it is.

Yourself.

You're still the same melancholy little coward as ever. ”

Burn.

Intense burning.

Sunlight reflected into the scarecrow's pupils, and then reflected the bat monster that still looked like a living shadow in the sunlight.

He clutched his head and howled.

Chen Tao said the formulaic arrest declaration, looking at the scarecrow who was scared and urinated on the buttocks, he only felt inexplicable.

Really.

The scarecrow is not good at this.

is so easy to scare others, but he is also so easily frightened.

He just used a little bit of Batman's trick to intimidate others that he learned in the comics, and he actually scared the scarecrow like this......

Isn't that an exaggeration?

I'm super, why is the scarecrow howling and tearing his clothes, and running away with his hands and feet?

Is it really necessary?

Acting in a movie?

？？？

Am I that scary? Isn't it just a reproduction of Batman and your own operation in the comics......

Forehead......

But well......

Chen Tao picked up the snotty Klein.

This time he was scared, he should be considered to be served, and he can use it.

Uh-huh, the scarecrow was successfully captured, and +1 for the parallax monster treasure, which is really good.

Ever since Bane's prison break freed the scarecrow in incident, he has been on a treacherous track, and it won't be easy to find him.

The scarecrow didn't know how, how to remove Chen Tao's tracking nanobots on him, in the end, Chen Tao's control of the nanobots back then was indeed too simple, so that Crane took such a loophole, made Crane disappear from his field of vision for a while, and even participated in the outsider's calculation of Thunder Shazam.

(Note: During this time, the Scarecrow was ordered by the Outsider to be Billy's psychic teacher, thus weakening his will.) Later, the scarecrow managed to pull himself out of the outsider's trap and disappeared again. ）

However, during this time, he took the initiative to find trouble in Gotham City, and it was useless to hide it. Although he avoided the monitoring probe, he couldn't avoid the eyes that were used as monitoring by Chen Tao.

What's more, the straws he used to make the scarecrows were once living plants, and he only needed to gently mobilize a part of the power of the green of all things to resurrect the dead straws, and then ask them where they were before......

The green of all things, boy.

Well......

Chen Tao was suddenly silent.

He looked at the scarecrow that was shaking like a sieve under his hands, and suddenly a trace of doubt appeared in his heart.

Scarecrow......

Is it really the best person to be liked by the feared embodiment of the Yellow Lantern Beast Parallax Monster?

Don't let him do it for a long time, and finally come to a "What, it's not the scarecrow that I like, but me?" "That's hilarious.

Well......

However, Chen Tao's set of techniques to intimidate others were all learned in comics, at most he added a little opinion from his previous life when he was an actor, which is essentially a crude reproduction of comic techniques, which is not mastering fear, it should be at best a reproduction of the manufacturing process of fear.

The scarecrow in front of him is the real master of creating fear!

So, Chen Tao, who roughly copied the fear technique, became happy again, and hurriedly carried the scarecrow of the master of fear who was so frightened that his urine flowed out and disappeared into the portal.

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……

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The other side.

"You must get the dreaded lamp beast, parallax."

As Sinisto left the hall, a voice suddenly rang out in Mongo's ears.

"Our cooperation must be based on this premise, otherwise everything is empty talk."

"You've got to be better at controlling fear than Senisto, you've got to be a true master of fear."

"Of course."

Mungo turned his head.

He whispered, "No one is better at controlling fear than I ......"

(End of chapter)