[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

Clowns are a mystery.

When you meet him for the first time, you feel that he is an ordinary man. He will hurt, die, bleed, break bones, howl, and most importantly, when these things happen, he will laugh all the time.Just listen to that kind of laughter once and you will never forget it. He will become a ghost hiding in the depths of your brain,? Scratching the inside of your skull with sharp nails? Thin and high-pitched laughter, the laughter distorted like the sound of burning pine branches,? Many people couldn't tell whether he was laughing, screaming, or crying at the first time.

Jason Todd has never had a formal confrontation with the clown. As the time spent as Robin grows longer,? He also sees more and more lunatics in strange costumes: Penguin, Mad Hatter, Ventriloquist, Frozen Man, Poison Ivy... When the Joker escapes from the madhouse, Batman will leave him in the Batcave to whine with Alfred alone.Jason talked to him about it later, and Bruce just said: You're not ready to face him yet.

why?

He won't show mercy to you just because you're under 16.

It was as if those gaudy lunatics really saw me as a minor.

Jason,? It's hard for me to describe to you—the one time I was going to grab him,? He put the gun to Harley's temple and said if I took a step forward, he would shoot Harley.

You backed off?

Yes, I backed off.

Why?Because he can actually shoot?

No... Jason,? It's not a question of whether he'll shoot or not.I have faced many criminals, and they have done things like threatening me with people around them,? But no one is like him... expecting me to move forward.So he's scary.

The rain is getting bigger and bigger,? The rain is torrential.

Bean-sized raindrops hit the Batmobile,? Crackling,? Jack sat in the Batmobile, watching the raindrops fall in streams outside the window, and sighed softly.

They soon arrived at the mine not far from the town. The mine had been abandoned for half a century. Rows of trams were covered with thick dust. The open space was full of domestic garbage and construction waste. It is full of rust, and the hoist wheel at the top has disappeared.Nearly 50 years of rain have consumed all the sulfur in the gangue, and now the gangue is covered with moss and low shrubs, and the iron-gray black is covered with wet green.This reminded Jack of the words of Poison Ivy: Maybe human beings can cause some small pains to the earth, but nature will always be the final winner.

"Look there." Jack pointed to a hillside in the mining area, and said to Jason who was parking.

Jason looked in the direction of his finger, and there was a white van parked on the hidden plants and iron-gray stones.

With serious eyes, he stepped off the Batmobile with Jack - the latter even took out an umbrella with a relaxed face, like an elegant gentleman strolling on the streets of Paris.Jason didn't bother to laugh at him for putting on a pose. The rain was getting heavier, and the crackling raindrops hit his face painfully. They approached the van. The windows of the car were covered with reflective black stickers to prevent people outside the car from peeping. The scene in the car.Cautiously, Jason turned on the thermal imaging system. The screen was a cold blue, and no one was in the car.

"Little bird, there is an interesting thing." Jack patted him on the shoulder and pointed to one side. The direction he pointed was a low mountain, and a thin road winding on the mountainside, "This mine , and it is also the place where the police patrol in Yankee town will pass through."

The white car is parked on the black mine, so conspicuous.The police in the small town of Yangke didn't even notice it.

"You think the road killers are cops?" Jason said.

"There is a kind of car that can appear repeatedly on the highway. Even if someone sees it in the early morning, no one will be surprised. It is a police car." Jack couldn't deny it. Settled in other places, but the highway killer still brought those fetishes/pedophiles back to the town of Yankee to torture. Once the crime happened, the car with reflective stickers was the first to be suspected, but there was a man tied up in the police car. Strange."

"If the car that dumped the body is a police car, then what is this car for?" Jason pointed to the white van parked in the mining area.

"Trap." Jack smiled hoarsely, "As I said, Mr. Milton already knows the purpose of our coming here. Under such circumstances, I don't think the road killer would park his car in such an easy-to-find place. , the black mountain and the white car are too conspicuous, so I guess, this is a trap."

"They improvised a trap?"

"No, I guess they have a plan. This plan also includes being traced by the police. This car should have been stolen a long time ago. If they are ready, they will also have a dead body in the car, waiting for the police to approach Just detonate this car, the police can only find a charred body, and a suicide note that says 'I am a road killer'." Jack licked the corner of his mouth, "That's why they use clown gas, clown gas can destroy dental records .”

The clown gas does have the effect of destroying dental records. It can damage the facial nerve muscles, pull on the jaw and tear the muscles in the jaw, destroying the dental records and leaving the victim grinning wildly.The identification of the charred corpse relies on dental records.

He put away the umbrella and the indifferent expression on his face, squatted down in the heavy rain, put his ears on the car door, and knocked on the car door with his fingers curled up and down. His figure was like a ball of melted black wax. tears.He walked past the side of the car with small steps, stopped suddenly, stood up, and knocked on the door of the cab with his hand. Sure enough, the voice from behind the door was slightly muffled, and it was difficult to hear clearly amidst the sound of rain: "Sly/Thunder. Give me the scissors, you stand far away."

Treacherous/mine is a lethal weapon used on the battlefield. The specific method is to place high-explosive grenades in unexpected places, such as behind closed doors and on the path that the enemy must pass.In addition, Gui/Lei also has a very insulting another name, which is "booby? trap", which literally translates to "big silly hat trap".

"I'll do it." Jason wanted to push him away.

"Okay, okay, step back, step back, the 15-year-old kid defuses some kind of bomb." Jack waved to him impatiently.

Jason took a deep breath in his heart: "I can dismantle, I have received professional training from Batman."

"The point is not whether you can dismantle it, but that you are only 15 years old!" Jack said as he carefully cut the glass with a glass knife, reached in and opened the car door, "If you have time to quarrel with me, why not talk about the road?" Do you know who the killer is?"

Jason was silent for a while: "Yes."

"Who is it?" Jack bit the flashlight, checking the lines on the bomb one by one. The bombs in movies and TV dramas only have red lines and blue lines, which are all deceptive. The reality is that the lines on the bomb are too many and messy, but they are all the same color.

"Valentina's father, he is a retired soldier and used to be a policeman. Before he visited Valentina, he was diagnosed with liver cancer." Jason stood in the rain, the rain was pouring, his hair was wet against his forehead, watching It really looks like a bird that accidentally fell into the water. "In the file, he is already dead."

"First witness?"

"Mr. Johnson. He went to visit Valentina's father and found him dead in his bed, decomposed beyond recognition."

"And whoever signed his death certificate?"

Jason said heavily, "Doctor Milton."

String up.thought Jack.

"I don't understand. He rejected Valentina when she needed her most, but he will avenge his daughter 20 years later." Damn it, at this moment, Jason thought of him no matter what. father.He was born in the lower part of Gotham City, his father was an idle gangster. When he was young, his father was thrown into prison by the police for committing a crime, leaving only the young Jason and his poisonous mother.After losing his father, Jason had to be the head of the family at an early age, but despite his efforts, his mother died of drug use.

Jason never went to visit the prison. It was hard for him to convince himself not to hate his father. If his father hadn't left, maybe he wouldn't have lost his mother.Later, his father died in the third year of his sentence. Jason, who heard the news, stared at the outline of Blackgate Prison in the distance for the first time. In the drizzle, he remembered that his father was taken away by the police, and his childhood was over. But on the day when he was an adult, the father sitting in the back seat of the police car stared at the mother and son.

"No, it's not revenge, it's something deeper. What is his motive for committing the crime? What is he greedy for?" Jack sighed deeply, "Robin, do you know why criminals commit crimes?"

"Because of cowardice and incompetence, they can only inflict this anger on the weak." Jason's green eyes were like soft velvet.

Jack smiled: "Now tell me, little Robin, the road killer, this criminal, what did he do?"

"He kills fetishes/pedophiles...and their children." Jason frowned, "Say it straight up if you have something to say, don't meander, I'm not Batman, I won't play guessing games with you."

"I'm not playing the game, I'm teaching you." Jack gave way loudly: "It doesn't matter if you say he killed pedophiles, it really doesn't matter. It's not the main content of the road killer case either. Think about it. Answer me after thinking about it, what is he greedy for?"

Jason thought for a while: "Revenge, blood, killing... torture the victims, and then kill them..."

"Not this, you still only see the surface, you should look deeper, like that big bat. Don't worry about the minutiae, grab the main thing. You will find that everything is simple, and the truth is often that simple Yes." Jack lowered his voice, "Think about something else, think about...love."

"Love... he is, wanting to save his daughter...?"

"You are right this time." Jack was like a persuasive teacher, and he got a satisfactory answer from the students, "I want revenge, I want to save my daughter, and I want to make up for the mistakes of the past."

"Hmph, it's too late to think about redemption at this time." Jason sneered, not knowing whose father he was laughing at, "Valentina doesn't want a grand revenge, she wants her... father the night she was 8 years old." hug."