[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

Batman's heart is very hard,? and very soft.

In "Batman tas", there used to be such a story: Batman, Nightwing and Tim fought against the double-faced man together. On the way, the nightwing was hit by the double-faced man and fell into a coma,? Batman did not hesitate Let Tim stay to take care of Ye Yi, who doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, and chase the double-faced man alone.Afterwards, Tim asked him with reproach: Nightwing's situation was very serious at the time, he was your son, when he was dying, why didn't you stay by his side?

Batman told him: You have the ability to treat Nightwing's injuries,? I won't be able to play a bigger role than you if I stay there.Moreover, the job of hunting down two-faced people is even more important.

Is it more important than Nightwing's life?

There is no comparative,? It's just that this arrangement is more appropriate.

Tim finally understood Batman's approach under Nightwing's persuasion, but after they left,? Accompanied by Batman's cold and piercing ridicule: They all understand and forgive you, but you will never forgive yourself.When your son needed you the most, you chose to leave him behind.

This is where Batman is contradictory. If his relatives and friends commit crimes,? He will find evidence,? Then take the criminal to court,? But once he harbors guilt, he will unconsciously give birth to favoritism.The person who can best embody this kind of conflict is Jason. He treats Jason as his son. Jason's temper and actions make him angry,? But everything Jason has suffered in the past makes him feel suspicious of Jason. Tolerance wrapped in apology.For example, in the DC Comics "Three Clowns", Jason hit the clown's head into a rotten watermelon with a bullet, Barbara said he should go to court, and Batman didn't say too much when he knew about it. He didn't throw him to the police station to fend for himself, but let Barbara comfort him. His feelings for Jason can be reflected through this plot.

So use his guilt, not Batman's, Bruce's.

If his calculation is correct, as long as he escapes this time and Batman clears his suspicion, he will loosen his supervision because of subtle compensatory psychology. At most, he will inquire about his movements through Jason and allow him to raise A request that crosses the line slightly.Jack called this period of safety time, representing the temporary disappearance of the sword of Damocles hanging over his head at all times, and he had a short respite for a few days.

He let out a deep, deep breath when Batman glanced at the scar on his wrist and said "You self-harm?"

Confronting Batman is hard work.

He purposely remained silent for a moment, then lowered his voice and replied, "I can't sleep well, I can't eat well, and my sanity value is frighteningly low. I have no choice but to do this."

"How many?"

Jack paused: "47."

Batman fell silent. He knew that Jack had a sanity limit, but he had few ways to recover. Eat sweets, sleep, bask in the sun... To put it bluntly, he just wanted to enjoy life. It didn’t take much thinking to know that sanity represented his spirit. state.Now he is suffering from depression and has a lot of mental stress, which has greatly affected his diet and sleep.He looked at the dark blue circle under Jack's eyelids, and then thought about how he was alone guarding Jason's rotting corpse day after day. After all, his heart softened. Anyway, the boy who was attacked was a bad bastard. He has done everything from stealing to bullying, and he deserves a severe beating. He has no sympathy for this kind of young reserve scum.So Batman sighed softly: "Although the victim is a habitual robber, don't do it again."

"Although it's true that I didn't do it, but you came to ask me for this kind of thing? Don't you break the bones of criminals less often?"

"I'm different from you."

Jack snorted, put the letter opener in his pocket, and passed Batman with the folding shovel. He didn't smile, but looked serious: "The difference is that you don't wear hockey gear?"

(*hockey stick, movie Batman: The Dark Knight meme)

Jack walked out of the gate of the Sharon Cemetery with the scattered props. The dark shadow quickly melted into the pool of night. He had just left when a person jumped down from the shadow of the camphor tree. He patted the leaves on his body and approached a few Step up and say to Batman, "He's mad at you."

"He's just pretending to be angry."

"Don't be so cold-blooded, Big Black Batman, questioning a friend like a prisoner without direct evidence, a normal person would have a temper." Ye Yi said and poked Batman with his elbow, "Besides, that victim There are a lot of criminal records, if Jack really punishes him, it will be regarded as eliminating harm for the people, and you don't have to lecture him, just to make the relationship between the two of you stiff because of scum."

Batman lowered his head and didn't look at Night Wing: "I didn't get angry with him because of this. I'm just afraid that he didn't do it temporarily. He was doing a rehearsal for a serial wounding case. Attacking juvenile criminals is just the beginning. If he keeps Hurt people, then soon he will enjoy it, and eventually he will kill, at that time, he is no different from the clown. If he really wants to do this, then it will happen very quickly, very Fast—so fast that I have no time to stop it."

Jack returned to his small villa and fell asleep in a daze in the morning. This was a rare sleep. The soft mattress under his body seemed to have turned into a light cloud. He hadn't slept peacefully without dreams like this for a long time. last time.

So when the phone ringing woke him up ten hours later, he was furious.He forcibly suppressed the irritability in his heart, pressed the answer button, and said lazily on the pillow: "Hey, what's the matter?"

Jason's voice came: "Someone has surrendered."

"What? What surrendered?" Jack's eyelids opened, but his mind was still in a dream.

"The murderer who killed the second victim turned himself in." Jason said, "The suspect said that he loved domestic violence when he drank alcohol. He once ran away from his wife because of it. The girl went home, but when she woke up, the girl disappeared. He didn't care, but saw the dead body in the newspaper today. He thought he was drunk and then threw the body in the river. He was scared to death, so he came to the Gotham police station Turned himself in. I'll send you the video of the interrogation."

Jack felt like his brain was rusted, and it took him a long time to realize that the victim Jason mentioned was not the victim 24 years ago, but the one he saw in the morgue not long ago: "Wait Wait, the victim is a girl?"

"Director Gordon has dispatched police officers to visit and investigate, and there should be results in a few days."

Jack stared in confusion: "Where's Batman? Doesn't he check?"

A sigh came from the other end of the phone: "Didn't you watch the news broadcast this morning? The Scarecrow escaped from Arkham again."

All right.Hard-working Batman, he just had dinner with his son who was resurrected from the dead yesterday, and he will get up this morning to wipe Arkham's ass.

Jack washed his face with cold water, sat in front of the computer, opened the mailbox, and received the video file from Jason.In the video is a skinny middle-aged man, whose stomach is not as fat as other middle-aged people, but he has been crying, his facial features are wrinkled together in panic, like a rag after wiping the table, covered with shiny tears and snot , still shaking uncontrollably, seeing Jack's stomach churning, making him feel nauseous.It was obvious that this was just an ordinary middle-class citizen, and before the policeman asked him a few questions, he uttered everything he had to say.

According to the suspect's testimony, he was drinking and took her home when he saw the suspect while walking on the street.Because the suspect had a mole under his eye, he could still remember it clearly when he was drunk. They seemed to have done it after they got home, but they didn’t seem to. He couldn’t remember what happened afterwards. Anyway, he fell asleep in bed. When he woke up, there was no sign of the victim beside him. He felt that he was victimized and left, but he looked through his wallet, and found that there was no shortage of money, and even a few brand new banknotes came out.

He didn't take this abnormality to heart, but he saw the corpse search advertisement in the newspaper today, and he was so frightened to death, thinking that he was insane after being drunk, and after killing the female branch girl, he killed her and threw her body away, he hesitated for a while Afterwards, he surrendered himself based on the principle of pleading guilty and giving a light sentence. He cried at the police station until his nose was full of tears, and he behaved so cowardly that he almost hugged Director Gordon's thigh and said that he would not sentence me to death.

Jack was speechless. Apart from being able to speak vividly about the process of pulling the victim home, the client didn't know the details. How did the victim die? I don't know. Is there any trace of fighting in the house? No, there is blood. The murder weapon or coat or something?nor.The police probably also felt that this was clearly an unlucky ghost involved in a murder case. With the mentality of a dead horse as a living horse doctor, they wanted to set up a set of connections between the client and Mrs. Shrike 24 years ago, and finally came to the conclusion: It doesn't matter, the client was working in another city when Mrs. Shrike committed the murder in Gotham, as evidenced by the work files.

So why did this idiot rush forward to surrender, which made Jack excited in vain.

Unlike 24 years ago, the Gotham Police Department, which had been thoroughly plowed, acted quickly and immediately launched an investigation.According to the identification of the suspect, the victim's real name, age, place of residence and relationship were investigated.But although the GCPD is no longer in bad shape, the air leaking from all sides is still the same as before. In less than an hour, the clues they investigated were placed on Jack's desk.

James Maria, 43 years old, living alone, female, unmarried and childless, is a lesbian.

Lesbian? !

Jack was stunned, and that's when new testimony was delivered.Neighbors of the victim said that they had seen strange women coming and going with the victim, because the number of exchanges was very small, and most of the time was at night. The apartment was very old and there was no surveillance in the corridor. No one could clearly describe the strange woman's appearance. The only thing that impressed them was the strange woman's height.

She is almost 1m8.