[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

The medical equipment in the bell tower is limited, even without shadowless lamps, Jack can only bring a few desk lamps to make use of.Penguin uses vicious flowering bullets, brittle bullets that shatter when they hit a human body, and the fragments swirl and honeycomb holes in the human body.After taking out the bullet, Jack could only cut the wound in a cross shape to facilitate the flow of pus and blood, and at the same time do some simple debridement and disinfection.After doing this,? He walked to the sink to wash away the blood from his hands. Batman was lying on the hospital bed with his eyes closed, his chest heaving slightly, his brows furrowed as always, and Jack didn't know whether the anesthetic was right or not. Batman worked, and Batman remained conscious throughout the operation, just not saying a word.

hero.thought Jack.

Gotham seems to be the city of sin. Arkham Asylum and Blackgate Prison are full of bad guys. Veteran characters have a full schedule all year round, and they come out every three days to do bad things and destroy things.But someone has calculated that the frequency of villains like the clown riddleman coming out to work,? Maybe once or twice a year,? The rest of the time they wash their asses and sit in jail.It's just that the timeline of the American manga has always been deformed, so it looks like "today the clown escaped from Arkham Asylum,? Tomorrow he was captured and returned, and the day after tomorrow he escaped again".

Many people think that Batman is an unscrupulous capitalist,? But as long as you have a deeper understanding, you will know that it is not the case.It was mentioned in the comics that under the intervention of Batman, the number of deaths due to crime in Gotham City has been reduced to more than one hundred people every year. Wayne Enterprises is also committed to charity and the transformation of the old city of Gotham.The reason why Batman is Batman has nothing to do with whether he is the richest man in Gotham. When he was rich, he wore a Bat armor worth more than 200 million US dollars, and drove the high-tech Batmobile that Wayne Technology invested tens of millions of dollars to chase criminals. When I was poor, I wore white shirts and jeans, had no legal identity, lived in a windowless basement, painted a bat logo on the police vest I picked up, and went to fight criminals as usual.Wealth does help Batman, but it's not all he has.

He sat on a chair beside him and lit a cigarette as usual: "What are you going to do next?"

Batman closed his eyes, his lips moved: "Why don't you contact me?"

"Bain and the others took Harley as a hostage. I don't know where she is being held. If I make any changes, they will kill her. Bat, unfortunately, maybe I can't help you this time." For Jack, emotion and morality have been completely separated into two independent parts. Emotionally, he doesn't care about Harley at all, but morality can't let Jack let her be killed.

Jack let out a puff of smoke, and for other reasons, he wasn't telling the truth.Whether it was protecting Harley from the explosion, or taking her to track the Riddler with her, moral and behavioral heroism did not bring him any joy. An unspeakable emptiness, as if what was pumping in the chest was not the heart, but a mass of cold ice slag.No matter how hard he tried to think, darkness still existed in his heart.He once said that he would do bad things, but he didn't want to be a bad person, but after only half a month passed, he realized that he might not be able to become a good person either.And what made him realize this was not the clown, not his murmurs or temptations, nor the irretrievable upheaval of his life or mental shock, it was purely—boring.

so boring.

It's really late to realize that his brain is the clown's brain, his heart is also the clown's heart, and even his soul is the clown's fragments.As long as he's contained in this body, it's hard not to think like a clown.

Batman thought for a while: "I know someone, she should know where Harley is."

Jack lost interest: "Who?"

"Poison Ivy. She can communicate with all the plants in Gotham City. If Harley is still in Gotham City, she can't escape her eyes." Batman said, "Leave that aside, Jack, I have something to do." Let you help."

"You might as well just yell 'banana muffins' in here and wait for the Boy Scouts in red underwear to come down from the sky and hammer Bane or something into mud for you."

"No, the U.S. government has issued a ban on superheroes, supervised by Captain Atom*, and all members of the Justice League are not allowed to enter Gotham."

(Captain Atom: A superhero serving the U.S. government under the DC world view. He was originally an officer who experienced military experiments. In theory, his combat effectiveness is stronger than that of Superman, but many of his appearances are self-exploding as bombs, so he is also dubbed by DC fans. Self-destruct captain.)

Jack sighed inwardly, he thought to himself: Come on, even if there was no government ban, you wouldn't ask him for help.Superman represents eternal hope, and is also the safety net that finally catches mankind, but Batman is unwilling to rely too much on him, just like a machine that has not been used for many years will gradually rust, and relying too much on Superman will make him lose his heroic ability. Batman can no longer stop him.

"Okay, what do you want me to do?"

Batman turned his head, looked at him, and said, "Look for Jason."

After several hours of rest, Jack walked out of the clock tower.

This clock was prepared for Barbara in the original world line, but Barbara in this world was not pierced through the spine by a clown and became an "oracle" who could not walk, but was studying abroad alive and well, so the clock tower Naturally, it was vacant.After returning from the world of injustice, Jack had the idea of ​​building a safe house for himself, and then naturally set his sights on the clock tower where he had been.However, the renovation of the safe room was not going well. The first problem was that not only he knew about it, but Batman also knew about it.Strictly speaking, the clock tower is not a safe room; the second is not going well, it is much simpler. Without money, it costs tens of thousands of dollars to repair a hidden elevator up and down. It is conceivable that the "secret base" is a gold-swallowing beast .

Fortunately, a big guy got tricked in today, and I hope he is willing to give Jack a small amount of money after he gets back his ancestral property smoothly.

With a long sigh, Jack pressed the concealed elevator button, and the elevator went up silently and stopped at his floor.The door opened slowly, and a gust of cold white steam came out of it, rolling over Jack's feet violently.The floor lamp is full of green, and there is a thin shadow hidden in the depths of the white mist. It turns out that there is already a person standing in the elevator.Jack was not surprised. He walked into the elevator with a cigarette in his mouth, stood next to the passenger, and slapped the straight bone black umbrella on the ground like a cane.No one spoke, and the elevator slowly descended. The elevator, which usually takes only 35 seconds to reach, seemed to be descending endlessly at this moment, as if it was about to slide directly into hell.

It seems that the world has disappeared, leaving only a small space in the elevator. He and the passengers beside him are the post-apocalyptic Adam and Eve.After the cigarette was burned out, Jack tilted his head and said in a low voice, "Why did you come out? I didn't use fear gas."

The passenger squeezed out a sneer: "You change the interval between taking the medicine from 4 hours to 6 hours, of course you will see me. Jack, you didn't help Batman because Harley was kidnapped, and it wasn't because you were bored, it was just because you didn't." I took the medicine."

Jack remained silent, as a tacit consent.So far, all the psychotropic drugs he has taken have been provided by Batman and synthesized in a private chemical laboratory.Batman has the technology to make medicines, but this can't control Jack, because he can also make medicines in the laboratory, but there are two important problems: first, medicines have great toxic side effects, which will burden the liver and kidneys. Only Batman has the technology to make this toxic effect harmless; second, the raw materials of the medicine are more expensive than he imagined. He used to eat and drink while lying on the bed in the Arkham Asylum, basically never thinking about the medicine in his hands. Calculate the cost now, he will probably be paid [-] US dollars a month, and the Wayne Group will pay the full amount without medical insurance.

To add insult to injury, some materials were not originally from Gotham and could only be imported from outside. However, Gotham was recently blocked by the Penguin, and legal transactions and illegal smuggling have stopped.

The clown's voice came to my ears: "It's not just about the medicine, your psychological defense is also crumbling against me. You will definitely say that emotion and morality can be separated. Just because you love me doesn't mean you agree with me. But you can hide me How long will it be in your heart? After all, in this world, you may only have feelings for me. "

Jack walked through the center of Gotham and found Poison Ivy in the botanical garden on the edge of East City.

Poison Ivy was originally a botanist, but by mistake, she gained the ability to communicate with plants, and since then she has devoted herself to the cause of environmental terrorism. Maybe she has a common language with Lei Xiaogu, who tried to eliminate humans in order to protect animals.Jack approached the botanical garden. The exterior of this botanical garden was covered with thick black and green vines. The dense green vines pressed against the steel bars, and layers of broad leaves wrapped the botanical garden tightly.Jack took out a bottle of insecticide-like spray from his pocket, and sprayed it on the vines, which unfurled like fearful snakes, revealing the door below.

A mild plant blocker, specially used to deal with poison ivy plants, is sold at a discount in the Arkham store, only 400 yuan.

Jack approached the botanical garden, and the whole botanical garden looked like a tropical rainforest, with wanton-growing plants criss-crossing and weaving into a strong and green net.Jack walked to the end of the path, and there was a giant tree transformed from a huge green vine. It was lush and verdant, covering the sky and the sun. The crown of the tree moved slightly at the beginning, and the intertwined vines opened a gap, from which the yellowish The light comes from the glowing moss that grows inside the giant tree.

From a gap in the tree came a graceful woman with green skin and red hair like fire.She met Jack's eyes and said with a sneer, "clown, what are you doing here?"

She raised her hand, and the ivy jumped towards Jack like a snake, but stopped halfway, and Jack shook the flower pot in his hand. The flower pot was dusty and inconspicuous, with a touch of green emerging from the soil , it was this small, pitiful bud that made Poison Ivy stop her attack.Seeing her bewildered expression, Jack whistled: "This is Davidia involucrata, take it easy, little Qingteng, I just want to make a deal with you."

Davidia involucrata, a rare plant.This pot of saplings was stolen from the cultivation room of Gotham University.

"What if I say no?"

Jack raised his eyebrows and pulled out a new bottle as if by magic. The sloshing liquid in the bottle gave off a smell that made the Poison Ivy woman frown. She immediately understood that it was a bottle of powerful weed killer.

What he meant was simple, if Poison Ivy agreed to make a deal with him, he would give her the pot of Davidia involucrata, if she refused, not only would there be no Davidia involucrata, but half the botanical garden would suffer.Poison Ivy was furious, but she still chose to give in and said, "The content of the transaction."

"You can listen to the voices of all the plants in Gotham. I want you to help me find where Harley is."

"Looking for Harry?"

"Yes, she was kidnapped, and Bane used her as a hostage to threaten me."

Poison Ivy looked at Jack with strange eyes, as if watching a lion jumping through a fire hoop in a circus: "Are you... in love with Harley?"

Jack couldn't laugh or cry, why everyone asked him that, he kind of missed Batman, at least Batman never asked about other people's family affairs: "Of course not."

Poison Ivy was silent for a while. She thought Jack would make a bad request, but she didn't expect to just look for Harley.When Harley was a doctor in Arkham Asylum, she was a gentle, kind, kind girl like a white lily. She took good care of Poison Ivy, and Poison Ivy warned Harley repeatedly: stay away from the clown , the clown does not love anyone, he only tells jokes, he can tell the same lie to thousands of people, thousands of times, he has no ability to love others, all he can give others is pain and hurt.But Harley still ran towards the clown without hesitation, and was kicked away like a dog over and over again.Poison Ivy mourned and hated Harley for her misfortune, but for Harley's misfortune, her pity was greater than her hatred.

With complicated emotions, she closed her eyes.Red hair like seaweed flew in the air.Under the two people's feet, the grass as soft as a thick blanket swayed without wind, and the huge vine tree made a slight rustling sound, as if all the leaves were trembling.This strange scene gradually spreads slowly to the whole of Gotham with Poison Ivy as the center. Tonight, the moonlight is silent, and the sound of the wind continues. The distant wind blows over the hills, crumpling the mirror-like lake.The moon hangs high in the velvety depths of the sky, like a huge eye.All the plants are humming in the intoxicating evening wind, and the gradually undulating leaves are like wheat waves under the moonlight.After what seemed like a long time, Poison Ivy finally opened her eyes and said to Jack, "No."

"Didn't find Harley?"

"Yes, the plants told me no one saw her."

Jack stroked his chin, lost in thought.Poison Ivy didn't lie, the plants in the entire Gotham City didn't see Harley, but Bane would definitely keep Harley under his nose for the convenience of control, which means that Harley probably didn't leave his brother. Tan.If these two situations make sense, then there is only one place in Gotan City where Poison Ivy's plants are unable to take root.

Harley is in the Batcave.