[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

A week later, deep underground in Wayne Manor, the Batcave.

"Here?" Batman stood in front of the bat computer, a huge amount of bytes scrolled on the screen,? He turned his head to look at the open elevator door, "The analysis report you want is out."

The weather was getting colder. In order to keep warm, Jason had to wear a brown-yellow leather jacket. He seemed to have grown a little taller, and his bulging muscles were as beautiful as a cheetah.He took the stack of materials handed to him by Batman, flipped through a few pages, and was dazzled by a series of dense lines, numbers and symbols, so he spread his hands and asked Batman for the conclusion: "Jack's body How about it?"

"It's better than you imagined." Batman directly turned to the last page of the medical examination report, on which the conclusion was written: Jack suffered from microcytic anemia and mild malnutrition, there were slight contusions and bleeding in internal organs, liver function , renal function and blood routine values ​​are within the normal range.The arm fracture is not serious. It is recommended to recuperate for a month or two and take in calcium-supplemented food in a quantitative manner.Batman looked at Jason's face, didn't feel too surprised, and asked, "You already knew?"

"Only a partial guess. How's his mental state?"

Jack's health isn't as bad as he thought,? That's good news and bad news.The good thing is that Jack's mental apathy isn't due to physical reasons,? But the bad is here too - it's most likely psychogenic anorexia that's weakening him.

Batman shook his head: "It's not getting better."

Jason was silent for a while: "I'll ask him about this alone in the car, have the drug test results come out?"

Batman shook the transparent evidence bag. Inside were several pills of different shapes, sizes and colors. These were psychotropic drugs that separated Jack from the clown.

Perhaps the termination procedure has weakened the clown,? Now the time interval for Jack to take medicine has been extended to once every eight hours,? This undoubtedly gave Jack room to breathe.After all, he has been under great mental pressure for a long time,? He has already suffered from depression,? If he can't get a continuous eight hours of sleep, Jason will probably be on guard against him lying on the train to commit suicide in a short time.

It was Jason's idea to give the drug to Batman in this world for testing.Because Jack was anorexic and couldn't swallow the pills and capsules, Jack changed them into granules, so that Jason could take some of the medicine without leaving a trace.He didn't doubt what Batman meant, but he really wanted to know why Batman created the termination procedure.Although Jack is more aggressive than the Joker on paper, in fact he behaves much more docile than the Joker. Why does Batman think it is a better choice to take Jack away?

"It's almost the same as you think. The drug contains alkaloids similar to belladonna, which can cause central nervous and sympathetic nervous excitement, causing mania, delirium, dizziness, hallucinations, ataxia, dancing, and other mandala And the changes caused by scopolamine poisoning..."

Jason said slowly, "...dilated pupils."

In England under the rule of Queen Elizabeth in the 18th century, the society regarded sick and pale skin as beautiful.In order to pursue beauty and fashion, women will use cosmetics containing mercury and heavy metal lead powder, and make belladonna juice into drops into the eyes, just to make the pupils look bigger, rounder and more charming, but this is actually atropine Symptoms of poisoning.Belladonna juice is highly toxic and can cause blindness, coma, heart failure, and death from shock.In this way, the morbid pursuit of beauty has killed thousands of women, leaving their skin to fester and die in pain.

"The change in the color of Jack's eyes, which may be caused by dilated pupils and changes in the blood flow behind the iris, is actually a symptom of atropine poisoning. The increase in aggression after taking the drug should be a state of mania and delirium. And, Patients with datura and scopolamine poisoning usually completely forget the history of their illness. It's like..." Jason paused, "...it's like Jack and the clown don't share memories."

Both were silent about the horrific truth.At this time, Jason remembered what his Batman said to him, "Jack can believe it, but not completely." He once didn't understand what this sentence meant, and he didn't understand why Batman's attitude towards Jack was gentle and gentle. Cruel, giving friend-like care while thinking about how to terminate him.If, as they think, Jack and the clown are not isolated personalities, but different manifestations of the same person before and after being poisoned, then the attitude of Batman in Jason's world towards Jack is understandable-the clown suffers from The same disease as Two-Face, Jack is just his other half face.

but……

Jason had to think, if it was true, the person who hurt him and the person who saved him were the same person... What expression should he use to treat Jack?

Pain and tenderness, why both parties are sincere?

"No, abalonene can't fully explain what happened to the clown, it can only explain part of it, and there are still areas we don't understand." Batman knew exactly what Jason was thinking, and interrupted his thoughts in time, " Jack does have symptoms of intoxication, but I think belladonna means something else to him."

Jason was taken aback: "Other meanings?"

"For example, meanings such as tokens. Belladonna may be a special language for him. He uses this to communicate and reach a consensus with the clown. As you said, Jack did not communicate with the clown at first, so belladonna It may have really changed Jack's life, like a watershed moment, so it became a sign of 'change' for the two of them."

After hearing these words, the rose gold belladonna ring flashed through Jason's mind.

Yes, at that time, the clown said... "He only saved you because he loves me".

Forget it, if you think about it any further, it will only be a dead end. Don't pursue the matter of belladonna for now. As for the identity of Jack and the clown, we will think about it later.After all, both of these two people have serious mental problems. It may be difficult to find out the answer with normal people's thinking. The important thing is not whether they are alone, but how Jack sees himself.If he thinks he's different, identify with him and prolong Jack's isolation so he can contain the Joker as much as possible.

Jason rubbed his hair and changed the topic: "There will be heavy fog in this week, maybe I have to take Jack out of here."

Batman tacitly followed his words and said: "Is there anything I need, I can prepare it for you."

Jason touched his chin and thought for a while: "Liquid food. And a new dress, remember to tear off the black yarn."

After a lapse of a month, the outskirts of Gotham became foggy again.

Jack yawned and got into the passenger seat of the Maybach, wearing a new suit made by Bruce.Due to time constraints and lack of tailors, winter dresses were remade from previous mourning dresses.Jack pinned the silver swan-shaped brooch to the front of his shirt, put on a crimson bow tie, and looked at himself in the reflection in the car window.Some ribbons and patterns were added to his cuffs, placket and swallowtail, and the black gauze on the top hat was removed, replaced by bowknots and pearl decorations, still looking serious and heavy, but at least not as plain as if he had just died wife.

During this time he was very comfortable.Batman, the hero who protects Gotham, and the dark knight who fights criminals, goes to bed at 04:30 all the year round, wakes up at 3 o'clock to attend the board meeting, and sleeps peacefully for no more than [-] hours a day.On the contrary, he was a criminal who went to bed after ten o'clock, woke up at nine o'clock in the morning, and slept until midnight.I don't do heavy work all day long, and I open my mouth when I come to clothes.Regular meals, a combination of meat and vegetables, healthy work and rest, freedom to come and go, living a small life is so comfortable.

It's no wonder that the criminals in Gotham want to commit crimes when they have nothing to do. They eat and drink enough every day and don't do their work, and they don't work through labor reform. Why don't they just recharge their batteries and plan to add trouble to Batman at all times.

"Take care." Bruce knocked on the car window and handed him a bag of something that looked like sipable jelly.

"Your expression looks like a dead body saying goodbye." Jack took the dangling palm-sized water bag and sighed.

After a brief farewell, Jason stepped on the accelerator, and the Maybach drove slowly into the thick fog. The winding road was like a black string, and the end disappeared into the depths of the hazy Cebu. The once broken highway was intact. presented before the eyes.Jack breathed a sigh of relief, he was already mentally prepared that this non-existent road would not appear again, but fortunately the ghostly fog once again led the thread to Gotham as they knew it.

Jack usually slept until the sun was shining on his buttocks, but he got up early today, sat on the Maybach and swayed, and fell asleep again.He opened the lid of the water bag in a daze, and took two casual breaths. An indescribable salty taste flooded into his mouth. The viscous liquid was mixed with minced fish meat and tiny shrimp skins, and there were also pieces that were so shattered. Scallions and spinach leaves through a sieve.Jason glanced at him, saw his Adam's apple move up and down, swallowed the food, and said, "You can't eat liquid food forever."

"Forgive me, little red bird, it's very hard just to swallow these." Jack rubbed his temples.

"Bruce already told me you're on antidepressants. What the hell is going on, Jack?"

Jack was silent for a while: "When I resurrected you, I stayed in the empty laboratory every day without a single living person, and I had to deal with your rotting corpse... Now thinking about it makes me vomit. That will accumulate a lot of psychological pressure, It has evolved into what it is now. In fact, it is not very serious. I prescribed medicine for myself and did not commit suicide. Now it has improved a lot.”

Jason was skeptical about his words. Jack did not have obvious self-inflicted symptoms. He would take medicine to cure his illness. Although eating was painful for him, at least he was holding his nose to eat every day, and he was trying his best recently. Eat some semi-solid transitional food.Being able to realize that he was sick and trying to save himself, without making obvious self-harm and self-abuse, maybe this means that his depression is not as serious as Jason thought.

Jason glanced at him, his wrists were wrapped in layers of lace, and he was wearing expensive sealskin gloves, but they were still horribly thin, not at all what he should have at his age.Alfred told Jason about Jack's weight, and now only a skeleton remained under the gorgeous crown-like dress.Jason hesitated for a moment, and said: "When you get to Gotham, don't rush back to Metropolis. I'll find you a reliable psychiatrist and let him diagnose you. You stay in Gotham to recuperate. When you recover, I I won't force you to stay, you can go wherever you like, but I will watch the whole process before you recover, understand?"

"I'm at least 12 years older than you, don't talk to me like an old lady."

"Live 12 years longer than me and use it to deny care when you know you're sick? Jack, I'm not talking to you."