[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

sound of water.

The sound of waves bursting in my ears,? Jack woke up in a trance, and found himself sitting on a dilapidated boat.

The water was as viscous and black as petroleum, with wet, white spray.The wooden boat was dilapidated like a ghost ship, and the decayed and blackened deck was covered with green algae, like a product of centuries of floating in the sea.He looked back. Standing at the stern was a tall man wearing a pitch-black cloak. He held the same pitch-black and rotten oar in one hand. A Victorian-style kerosene lantern was placed at his feet, a strange blue Color light illuminated their eyes.

"Joker?" Jack recognized the face hidden under the cloak. "Where is this?"

The man said with a pale face as bloodless as a clown,? "Not a clown,? I'm Thanatos. This is the River Styx."

Jack knows that Thanatos is the god of death in Greek mythology. There was also a thing called "The Thanatos Agreement" when he jumped the world. Before the clown talked to him about the transfer of funds, he used "Cain "Cross" to serve as the coin under the tongue of the dead, but in Greek mythology, it is usually the ferryman Charon who collects the ferry money and carries the dead to spend the capital, not the god of death in front of him.However, Greek mythology has always been a mess in your circle, and there are several theories about the Styx.So he collected himself and continued to ask, "Why am I here? Where's the clown?"

"He's asleep." The clown's face was devoid of expression, like a piece of white paper with a human face painted on it.

"Sleep?"

"Well, you let him sleep, you always have this magic power."

"Wait a minute, where are we going?" Jack suddenly realized that the boat was still moving forward, and everything was shrouded in a deep, iron-gray fog. He couldn't see where he came from, or the other side, the only All that can be seen is a thick fog that never clears up.

"Go to the world, you are with me." Thanato paused, "You are my brother."

Jack woke up suddenly at this moment.

When he woke up, he was facing the wall clock on the wall of the cafe. The minute hand was already pointing to the top number, and the hour hand was straightened into a straight line with it—it was 6:00 in the morning.The moon had already set, the sky was gradually turning white, and the streets were covered with a thin layer of Cebu.At this time of year, Gotham is always shrouded in thick fog in the early morning. Coal dust brought about by over-exploitation in the last century is still floating in Gotham, like a lingering ghost in an ancient industrial city.

After sitting and waiting all night, I couldn't hold back the drowsiness just now, and fell asleep on the coffee table for 15 minutes.

Sure enough, no one came.

Jack packed his laptop and other things. 24-hour cafes are not uncommon in Gotham. After midnight, cafes become homeless shelters. There are always homeless people ordering the cheapest drink in Stay overnight here, but these homeless people have to leave in the early morning, otherwise they will disturb the normal guests.These homeless people occasionally have dirty hands and feet. A student like himself who stays up all night writing a graduation thesis is undoubtedly a piece of fat. He has to confirm that there are no omissions before leaving.

Jack ordered a cup of hot cocoa and waffles to take away. As soon as he walked out of the cafe, he exhaled a mouthful of cold white air and clicked on the system interface.

【Current Status】

Current Sanity: 108

Oops.Jack thought, the sanity value is already so low, and this is the upper limit, and it is impossible to go higher than this number in the future.

He crossed the Styx River and returned to the world with the price of the lock-san artifact, but he couldn't even see his only friend.It's really ironic.

But if you think about it, it’s just that the clown did all those underworld jobs, and if he was Batman, it was kindness for him not to cut the clown into 18 yuan and put it in the frying pan.Even if you don't kill him for Jack's sake, you will definitely not meet him again in the future. After all, the clown and Jack share the same body. In a broad sense, they are the same person. go.In the past, Batman was willing to help Jack selflessly. Before the clown could hurt Batman's family, it was definitely a prerequisite. If the clown had paralyzed Barbara and knocked Jason to death with a crowbar, would Batman be willing to bear the burden of Jack later? Medical expenses are still a problem.

Jack seriously wanted to break into Wayne Manor to explain to Batman, but after thinking about it for a minute, he came to the conclusion that "it is very likely that he was shot and killed by Alfred before he saw Bruce" , decided it was better not to risk his own life.

Jack sighed, pulled the hood to cover his face, he took the bus to a medical university on the outskirts of Gotham City, walked through the barren grass, and got in through the gap in the barbed wire.This is an abandoned teaching building, where weeds, bushes and thorns have grown up to his knees. He skillfully removed the iron lock covered with brown rust and pushed open the door. The smell hit his face, Jack walked around several corners with his backpack on his back, and finally came to a laboratory at the end of the corridor.

The laboratory has been cleaned up, the bottles and jars are clean and tidy, and the desktop is wiped spotless.Jack wired up the lab and installed heavy curtains so that the abandoned classroom building wouldn't turn into a campus ghost story when the lights turned on in the middle of the night. He should have used the basement, but the terrible damp and piles of rat droppings made him give up this. idea.

There are not many equipments in the laboratory, all of which were bought by him. Some time ago, when the Penguin regime was handed over to the Gotham regime, there were frequent chaos. The Penguin temporarily absconded with the people’s fat and people’s anointing that he searched for when he was in power. Of course, he bought such a huge wealth. There is no way to take care of it in a short time.This gave Jack room to do his best.He transferred about 6000 million US dollars from Penguin's offshore account, using the public IP of the Central Library, and Penguin will never be able to find out who stole his money in his entire life.

Hacking is good.Three days ago, he was so poor that he almost went to the street to beg for food. Three days later, he was an unknown multi-millionaire.

Jack sat on the chair and turned on the computer. There were a few sticky notes on the edge of the laptop, on which were written several known resurrection routes.

In DC's world view, death is not an insurmountable barrier, and resurrecting the dead is not a shocking thing. The Robin is everyone dies once.Excluding those methods that are basically unfeasible - such as restarting the world and waiting for the Supreme Superman to change his life against the sky - the options that remain in front of Jack are the following:

Lazarus Pond.

In the original book, it was Lazarus who revived Jason, but at the cost of going crazy.That's why Jason acts so differently as Red Hood than he does as Robin.Moreover, Lazarus Pond is under the control of Lei Xiaogu, the leader of the demons, the leader of the Assassin League, Damian's grandfather, and Batman's father-in-law. The next best physique master.Going with Jack's current combat power is to deliver food, unless he can use his power to hire Deathstroke to clear the way for him.

Jack looked through the dark web dedicated to mercenaries, and Death Knell's offer a year and a half ago was 500 million per order.

Dionysian factor.

It is located at the bottom of the Batcave. Although that is what he said, he was lucky enough to glance at it during the battle to retake Wayne Manor, and then he understood why the mission level was "S".The bat cave is a naturally formed cave, extending in all directions, comparable to the labyrinth of the Minotaur. The worst thing is that the bat cave has undergone a series of repairs in two years. The original cave has been greatly modified, and the unnecessary passages are filled with cement Die, the place where the clown fell in the comics is completely lost.Besides... Jack is now approaching Wayne Manor, and the most likely outcome is to be beaten out with a stick.

As for the Dionysian factor in his spine...

Jack scratched his scalp with a pen, pushed away the chair and walked to another pile of wire cages, where each of the palm-sized wire cages held an experimental mouse.His eyes moved to the corner of the cage, where a dead mouse lay quietly.

Failed.

Dionysus factor will only be enriched in Jack's spinal cord, and it will fail immediately once it is out of this environment.With the mentality of giving it a try, Jack endured the severe pain and performed a lumbar puncture, and took out 10ml of spinal cord extract, which was of no use except to slow down the rotting of the mice.Sure enough, Dionysus factor, as a special metal on an equal footing with N metal, has a hidden attribute similar to the principle of uncertainty. It will only play a role when the host is dying, and it cannot be observed or extracted at other times. precise.

Jack rolled up his sleeves, revealing the layers of gauze on his arm, with large and small bloodstains under the gauze.In order to let the Dionysus factor show the characteristics of "resurrection", he cut his arm more than 20 times with a knife. The wounds were densely packed together, and the entire skin was almost lifted.But the result is very hurtful, and the Dionysian factor is still in a state of "absence"-no matter how serious the injury is, as long as it is not life-threatening, it will not appear.

If you want to extract the Dionysus factor, you have to die once.But Jack had no one around to help him draw spinal fluid when he was dying, and death didn't help.

The only good news now is that the clown is asleep.

Probably because of the tsunami, the clown fell into a deep sleep state, which means that Jack does not need to take those psychotropic drugs that are comparable to poison for the time being, otherwise a mental patient would have to get up every four hours every day, and he would not be able to eat well or sleep well I have to endure the side effects of liver and kidney failure to do bone piercing, and I want to go bald and look for a needle in a haystack in the comics I have read to find a way to resurrect the dead. Who can bear it.

This is one of the reasons why Jack likes clowns. Although he often doesn't do other things in the world and has all kinds of habitual pua people, he doesn't make trouble when it should not, and he is very general.

Is it really necessary to hire Deathstroke to shoot the League of Assassins away?

Jack pressed his temple.To be honest, he didn't really want to use this method. No one knew the reason why he would go to the base of the Assassin's League. Another reason was that he didn't like Lazarus very much. The side effect of going crazy was too great.Jason wasn't crazy when he died, and bringing a crazy Robin back to Batman is like supergluing broken jewelry and returning it to its original owner, although the apology is commendable, the means There is nothing wrong with being limited, but it is not very moral to think about it.The real apology should be to buy a new piece, or have a professional restore the jewelry to the way it was before it broke.

Jack admitted that he was a bit greedy, and he wanted to find a way without any negative effects.

He sighed, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and walked slowly up the stairs to the third floor to smoke.When he came to the third floor, a furry thing suddenly caught his attention. It was curled up in a corner of the stairs, its whole body was covered with soft gray fur, and it was shivering in the cold wind blowing through the broken window.Jack casually picked up the ball of fur and looked at it carefully for a while, only to find that it was a young owl with a black hole in the socket of its right eye.Apparently a cub born with one eye missing and abandoned by its parents.

Owl, owl...

Beware of the Court of Owls, who are always watching your travels.Peeping at Gotham City from the shadows, hiding in the attic with low walls.He is present at home, and He is also present in the bed and in the bed.Don't mention his name, the sharp claws will come to find you.

Owl... Court of Owls... Claws, Dionysian Factor... Amber Gold.

Yes, amber gold!

Amber Gold from the Court of Owls mixed with inferior Dionysian Factor can bring Talon back from the dead!