[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

The depths of the sea of ​​consciousness.

Holding the straight black umbrella, the clown walked slowly through the silent cemetery. The moonlight illuminated the dark marble tombstones, and the silver moon hung high in the depths of the night, like pearls falling on velvet.

He walked for a long time, until he stood still in front of a certain tombstone, and slowly wiped off the thin floating soil with his gloved hands.He sighed, sat down in front of the tombstone, and lit a cigarette: "To be honest, I was mentally prepared for him, I wouldn't feel how hurtful what he said. But he said I Didn't fly,? I'm still upset."

The wind blows the grass leaves covered with night dew, and the ivy ripples like water waves, revealing the inscription on the tombstone: Jokester*.

(Jokester: Clownman,? Also translated as Laughing Man. Earth 3 characters,? From the animation "The Crisis of Two Earths". In the Earth 3 world, the identities of heroes and villains are reversed. Luthor and the clown are on Earth 3 Heroes,? And the Justice League on Earth-3 is the crime syndicate.)

"Should I remind him,? Other people will never trust him, what about this? Building trust is hard. A friend is a relationship that needs to be worked on. It may take years,? Decades? But making Suspicion is very simple, all it takes is a word,? understand everything."

At the same time, the underground of Wayne Manor, the Batcave.

The pitch-black Batmobile drove into the Batcave, and the loud noise of the tires rubbing against the ground caused a group of bats to fly around. Batman Bruce Wayne got out of the car and took off the black mask.He has no expression on his face, his lips are tightly pursed into a short straight line. It is raining heavily in Gotham tonight. He braved the heavy rain to solve a smuggling case at the pier. Sliding down, like a black, wet crow, hovering over Gotham.

"Master Bruce, should we eat first or take a bath first?" Alfred raised his eyebrows.

"Now is not about this time, I made a discovery." Bruce said as he opened the trunk of the Batmobile and pulled out the stretcher. On the stretcher lay a corpse covered in a white cloth. The outline under the white cloth was broken and could not be seen at all. The scene of the victim before she was alive, her chest was bumpy and her abdomen was suddenly flattened. Alfred lifted a corner of the white cloth and frowned.

It was the corpse of a woman who had obviously been dead for a long time.The corpse should be placed in a dry area all year round, most of the flesh and blood have not decomposed, the principle is similar to that of Egyptian mummies.The female corpse was dehydrated and shriveled, the dry yellowish-brown skin collapsed and covered the jagged skeleton frame, looking like an over-smoked cured fish.The female corpse didn't have a particularly strong smell, but to Alfred's surprise, the female corpse's abdomen swelled abnormally, as if a deflated football had been stuffed in it.

A dead pregnant woman?

"Master, who is this lady you invited home as a guest?" Alfred joked as usual.

Bruce was not in the mood to laugh: "Ah Fu, her name is 'Jenny Napier'."

Alfred's smile faded.

Jenny Napier, what a familiar name.In the investigation of the past half a month ago, he had seen this woman's name several times, and it was often juxtaposed with Jack Napier, and the column that framed their names together was "Spouse".Alfred remembered the photo next to the name, of the pale, thin woman.She has a pair of blue eyes like sea water, soft and curly short blond hair, her chin is pointed, her complexion is very white, almost without much blood, she is wearing a black mermaid skirt, looking straight ahead, she is as beautiful as snow-white with morning dew rose.

Jenny Napier, born Jenny Rodney.She is the wife of Jack Napier.

"Jenny Napier is dead?" Alfred looked grave.Although he had a bad premonition - according to the files, both Jenny and Jack had been missing for several years. Generally, if they disappeared in Gotham for more than three years, there was a high possibility that they had already been killed.More bad luck than good luck.

"There's worse news, Fu. Although I haven't done an autopsy, it's clear that Jenny died of torture." Bruce licked his lips.

Alfred knew what he meant. According to the files they had obtained before, Jack Napier had a family hereditary disease. After five years of marriage to Jenny, schizophrenia made him lose his job. The tendency towards violence is getting more and more serious. He has committed domestic violence against Jenny Napier several times. The most serious one caused the latter to suffer a fracture and be hospitalized for three months. He was also sentenced to six months of community labor.

Alfred said softly, "He killed his wife himself?"

According to Jack's accent, his living habits and the life he narrated, his approximate age, experience, place of residence and work experience can be deduced, so it is not difficult to find Jack's true identity from the university files.

A few years ago, a terrorist organization emerged in Europe that specialized in attacking universities and research institutes. All universities were attacked by unknown hackers of the organization. Many teaching materials were destroyed by computer viruses in that attack.After the hacker attack, the terrorist organization rushed into the university to shoot people freely, and set fire to various teaching buildings, causing more than [-] casualties.The terrorist organization was eradicated after only three weeks of activity, and all leaders were sentenced to life imprisonment without bail.

He didn't pay much attention to the news at the beginning, but now that he thinks about it, there may be a shadow of a clown behind this terrorist organization.In doing so, he destroyed his past.

Many universities already have severe bureaucracy and chaotic management systems. After such a toss, many precious teaching materials were lost in those terrorist attacks, and student files were burned to varying degrees.Batman had to find a needle in a haystack in the dumbest possible way.After checking all the people with the same name one after another, he finally found Jack Napier's file in a British university.

Jack Napier, born Jack Arnold Christian, followed his mother's surname.

His parents gave birth to him in the sixth year of their marriage. His mother, Sally Arnold Christian, suffered from schizophrenia. During his childhood, Sally was repeatedly sent to a mental hospital for assaulting others, but her mental condition Not only did it not get better, but it got worse.Finally, after her husband could no longer afford to pay her treatment bills, she chose to commit suicide by drowning herself. Jack was present when she committed suicide. Jack's father had accused Jack of killing Sally, but due to insufficient evidence, Jack was finally acquitted.After his mother died, he changed his father's surname: Jack Napier, and was sent by his father to distant relatives to raise him alone,

Jack has achieved excellent grades since high school, received a government grant, and was later admitted to the University of Crensonburg, UK, majoring in chemical engineering.Crensonburg University is located in a small town in the north of England. Jack Napier stayed on to teach after graduation, but he quit his job after only two years as a teaching assistant and took his wife to work in the front line of a chemical plant.Since then, he has been a conscientious chemical engineer. People around him basically commented on him as "smart, calm, polite, and very capable." In the fifth year of marriage, his wife became pregnant, which was good news. It means that the young couple finally had the crystallization of love.But two months into his wife's pregnancy, Jack began to suffer.

Jack had a slight autistic tendency when he was young. The doctor suspected that he had Asperger's syndrome and arranged psychological counseling and drug treatment for him.As an adult, the pathology report stated that he suffered from a family hereditary disease: a very rare neuromania.The disease left Jack impulsive, delirium, irritable, sleep-deprived, high energy, aggressive, and often entangled in his own delusions.Naturally, such a mental state could not work, and he was soon fired for attacking his colleagues.

Once the track of life deviates, you can never return to the original place, and can only continue to accelerate and slide into the abyss.

Since then, Jack's mental problems have become more and more serious, and he even began to be violent towards his pregnant wife. After his wife made it clear that the child may also inherit his mental problems and hoped to abort the child, Jack implemented a marriage plan. The most serious domestic violence, the violence caused his wife to have a broken leg bone and multiple soft tissue contusions all over her body.I had to spend three months in a plaster cast in the hospital.The court therefore sentenced him to six months of community labor reform. His wife separated from him after submitting a divorce application, and then the story stopped abruptly here-Jack and his wife both disappeared, no one was alive or dead.Up to now, their husband and wife have been missing for six full years.

"Where was the body found?" Alfred asked while holding the iron plate.

"The morgue at the police station." Batman put on a mask and latex gloves, and picked up the surgical scissors on the plate, "The records show that the body was found at the gate of the almshouse 6 years ago. They didn’t cover their bodies, and the body search announcement was published for a long time without any results, so they thought it was a female homeless person.”

"Do you think Jack killed her?"

"Impossible. When the incident happened, Jenny had already separated from him, and he didn't know where Jenny lived. They live in a city apart, so it's unlikely that they would run into each other on the street." Batman said as he cut open the female body. When Gotham was still under the rule of the Romans, the Gotham Police Department would find several unidentified corpses every week. Check for yourself, "Jack disappeared earlier than Jenny."

Alfred raised his eyebrows: "It seems that you haven't found Jack's body."

"Nothing was found, he disappeared from the world."

"Master Bruce, you are more depressed than usual, have you found anything?"

Batman's hand stopped, and finally turned into a sigh: "Ah Fu, the date of Jack's disappearance is the day before the Red Hood fell into the ACE chemical plant. It matches so well that I..."

Alfred opened his eyes wide and was silent as if Batman had just glanced at the news for a long time. He muttered to himself, as if he wanted to chew this sentence over and over again: "Jack Napier may be The origin of the clown? Jesus, we-"

Both Batman and Alfred know it - the way to defeat the Joker is simple.The last thing the Joker wants to face is his own past.Once the clown's real name is revealed, the concept of clown will disappear from the world.