[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

Seas, systems, clowns, sanity points, skill books, special accessories, mixed memories, wives and mothers without faces...

After hearing this mysterious and mysterious story, Batman fell into deep thought.

After a long while, Batman glanced at him and asked the first question about Jack: "Can you recall any more details about the Joker?"

Jack was suspiciously silent for a while, the base of his ears began to turn a pitiful pale red, Batman looked at him, suddenly realized, and made a gesture to signal him not to speak: "I didn't mean you kissed the clown details."

...then it's just a matter of shooting.Jack stuffed the unspoken words back into his throat, "You thought I was resting,? Actually I was having fun with the clown on the beach..." He couldn't say such words for the rest of his life.Similarly, he will probably never forget the expression of "I don't understand, but I am greatly shocked" on Batman's face when he heard about his relationship with the Joker.Jack exhaled a smoke ring in a little embarrassment, coughed twice, and tried to hide the fever in his ears: "Do you think I have delusional disorder?"

"No. Jack, everything you confessed to me today,? Just answered my previous question. That is 'Why is the clown so strong'."

Jack froze for a moment: "What do you mean?"

"Before the clown fell into the waste pool, he was just a nameless ordinary person, but after he injured his brain,? He suddenly possessed the power of the devil,? In just a few months, he became my most terrifying Enemy,? This is unreasonable. The clown before you came,? Was a master of gymnastics,? Proficient in more than forty languages,? Can speak English with more than six accents,? He was also an expert in mathematics and chemistry,? If He can write out his theories and win the Nobel Prize directly. How can ordinary people learn this in a few months, and he is not jumping into the magic pool."

Bruce Wayne has been training himself since he was a child, traveling around the world to learn all kinds of fighting and detective skills from various strange people and hermits. Even though everyone praised him for his talent, it took him more than twenty years to learn all .However, after the clown fell into the chemical pool, only one month later, he prepared a brand new laughing gas and poisoned nearly a hundred people in the chemical plant.When he met Batman for the first time, he used a special English accent, which made Batman mistakenly think that he was from near Texas, USA, but after just a week, he changed it again, laughing at Batman in a different way. I want to find his origin from some clues.He once tricked almost all the prison guards into serving him with his clever tricks, and he also drove several excellent psychiatrists crazy with only one tongue... This is why Batman can't find his origin, before Jack appeared , The scope of his investigation is limited to famous criminals all over the world. No one would have thought that such a person would be an ordinary person.

Jack pondered for a while: "You mean he also has a system, or... the system is his?"

Batman didn't answer right away, but lowered his head, and said after a long time, "No, I think... maybe you're the clown."

"what?"

"The clown once said that he crossed the wall of origin, so it is very likely that he is an outsider. When the clown in our world fell into the chemical pool, he was taken away. It was not that he was crazy, but the clown personality Occupied the body, but squeezed the original personality to death." Batman made a gesture, "And the squeezed original personality may be...Jack, you."

As if in a dream, Jack squeezed out from his throat after a long time: "Me?"

"Yes, you, Jack Napier. The clown may have thought you were dead, but due to the effects of the drug, you have been separated from the clown's memory again. Although not completely, you have forgotten many things." Batman paused Dun, "If the truth is what I think, then, Jack, you are the master of the body, and you should be able to fight against him. So far he has never forced you, maybe not because of love, but because he can't do that." Do it. Among you, you are the one with power."

Batman's words penetrated into his ears, and for an instant, the attic in the afternoon flashed before Jack's eyes. The clown was wearing a heavy winter dress sitting on a rocking chair, and the sun cast a golden spot on the wooden floor.He looked up and saw the clown's lips opening and closing, what was he saying?Jack desperately recalled, salvaged a wet fragment from the depths of memory, and finally he remembered, and a vague voice came from those two lips: "...On the contrary, this is the space you built, you put me Locked here, I am bound by you."

If that's the case, Jack was a common man's clown before he fell into the chemical pool.He is not a derivative personality of the clown, but if he really existed, then...

Falling into the water again and again, Jack felt suffocated again, and the invisible water flooded up, oppressing his lungs and heart.He once said to the clown, "The person who fell into the waste liquid pool and the person who climbed out of the pool are definitely not the same person."It's just that the soul hatched by that bucket of evil amniotic fluid is not Jack, but the clown. Jack has been soaked in the waste liquid, like a corpse fixed in formalin solution, and he has never surfaced.

"If the truth is like this, then the clown... deceived me?" To Jack's shame, after thinking about it, his first thought was this.Then came: "And there is a good chance that Jenny is still alive?"

No.There is no doubt that she is dead.Batman thought about it, but didn't say it.

Luckily Jack was in the center of the vortex of frenzied emotions and didn't notice Batman's tiny gaffe.He grabbed his hair and turned the heart that had turned to stone in his chest, as if knocking on a door locked by the devil.At this moment, it was as if he had returned to the time when he first met the clown. He stood outside the door, watching the light leaking from the crack of the door, and faint laughter like brimstone came from behind the door.Jack thought dumbly: Yes, yes... In the beginning, he was outside the door.

The one locked in the box is a clown.

Jack sat silently for a long time, as if he had become a stone statue.After about a cigarette, he raised his head and showed a miserable smile that Batman had never seen before: "Bat, I am like this... with the clown, how can I face Jenny? If she is still alive, pregnant My child, but I betrayed her..."

Between the words, a thought floated up from the sea of ​​consciousness, like a runaway corpse.He thought: Has the clown tricked me?Is everything he confessed to me true?

does he really love me

Batman can't tell the news of Jenny's death, all of this is just his reasoning, and he still can't fully confirm Jack's identity.This conclusion is contradicted by the details that the Joker revealed, and worst of all, Batman knows that the Joker may be telling the truth.Speechless, he could only stretch out his arms to hug Jack, pat his back, and comfort him who was already on the verge of collapse.Jack hugged his neck, buried his head on his shoulder, and took a breath: "What should I do, Bat?"

"Go on and stay awake. Your memory is fragmented, and a large part of it is scattered in the clown's consciousness. You have to wait. The longer it takes, the easier it is to remember. One day, you will know the truth." Batman felt that he was Pressing the switch of the flashlight, a beam of light connected him and Jack, just like the golden line with "Friend" written on the "Masquerade" panel.He paused, and continued: "There is no need to take down the cross. You may face severe tests in the future. You need the attribute bonus of the cross."

Jack sniffed: "Okay."

He was too nervous, all kinds of messy emotions filled his brain, and his thinking became a mess in the short hug.So much so that he didn't realize that Batman didn't answer the question he raised at the beginning, but instead made a subtle detour, crossed this easily overlooked point, and cleverly erased it from Jack's mind.That is, "Why does the clown have such terrifying abilities"?

Batman held him, but his mind was elsewhere.He remembered that in the world of Injustice, Jack had briefly released the clown. At that time, the clown was in the hands of the Injustice Superman. His two arms were removed and he was dancing wildly. They were finely sliced ​​into more than 3000 pieces and are still alive, every bone in the body was broken into at least three pieces, and they were also skinned alive by punching holes in the top of their heads and pouring mercury... It was a wonderful experience, and I miss them all the time..."

Is he telling the truth?

Where Jack couldn't see, Batman's brows slowly tightened. He knew the Joker. The Joker is a guy who is full of lies and cannot be trusted, but in some specific situations, he is more honest than most people, saying cruel things. The truth pleases him more than fabricated lies.He once thought about the meaning of the existence of clowns, and he didn't understand why there would always be another clown, why he would always come back from hell.The only thing that can be explained is that, compared to the idea of ​​connecting the flames, the clown is like a virus floating in the multiverse, and the most important thing is never to eliminate his parasitic host.

The clown said that he had crossed the wall of origin, and Jack also knew part of the trajectory of the future.If that's not the future, what is?It is what the clown has experienced in other worlds, or the memory between restarts.

An ominous premonition arose in Batman's heart. If he guessed right, then what he was facing...

Possibly a clown who has traveled through many worlds and even escaped a reboot.

Suddenly, a smell of sea salt perfume filled his nostrils, and Batman saw a third person who did not exist in reality, that green-haired lunatic, standing beside him and Jack.Show them a cruel sneer.