[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

Jack is gone.

Jason scolded himself for being lax, even though Jack didn't show his scary side when he was with Jason, he was still the most terrifying criminal Gotham has ever seen,? He shouldn't have let Jack leave his line of sight.

He didn't leave for a long time,? There was no movement on the way to and back, so there are only two possibilities: Jack left by himself; or he was attacked by a road killer, but the fighting time was too short,? Sen heard the voice.Jason thought for a while about the clown's brave performance in repeatedly challenging Batman, and silently pointed his doubts at the former.

Clowns cause more than a thousand casualties in Gotham every year, and last year the Wayne Group paid more than $8000 million for the destruction caused by clowns.As of last year, there were more than 6000 clown victims registered by the government, 30% of whom were children poisoned by gas, and their age was generally under 14 years old.In the face of clown gas,? Children showed a stronger tolerance than adults,? But this does not mean luck. In the case of clowns, survivors may suffer more than the dead,? Victims have to Keep a grim smile all your life,? And will continue to seek medical treatment for bone problems for the next 30 years. The government calls this special pathological phenomenon "laughing syndrome", which is a "regional disability" that only appears in Gotham "For the citizens of Gotham, the most vicious curse is not wishing God to send you scum to hell, but wishing the clown knocks on your door in the middle of the night.

Jason brought Jack out of Arkham in order to find clues about the road killer. Once the clown took the opportunity to escape, the damage he caused would not be comparable to that of a fetishist/pedophile killer!

He pressed the communicator to let the bat computer use the GPS system to lock the position of Jack's bracelet. At the same time, he took out a fist-sized folding metal box from his waist. He pressed several buttons, and the edges of the metal box lit up one by one. When it gets up, it emits a faint green fluorescent light and a sound full of technological sense, and then the lid of the box automatically rotates open, exhaling a gust of cold white steam from it.

Jason didn't have only one way to counter Jack. This was a portable version of the "rice cooker" just now, which kept the liquid in it below zero.Lying quietly in the metal box are two injections of different colors, one green and one blue. The green one is a "stabilizer", which is the concentrated version of the medicine Jack takes, and it is used when Jack is mentally unstable; The other is the "locking agent", which injects Jack after he has completely turned back into a clown, putting the clown into a coma and awakening another personality in him.

Stabilizers and locking agents cannot be used too much, they are both highly toxic and will seriously damage Jack's liver and kidney functions.

At this moment, the bat computer sent Jack's GPS location, Jason was stunned for a moment, and said, "Hey..."

The sound of dripping water.

Jack sat with his back to the wall, his hands tied behind him, a dull pain in the back of his head, and in the darkness he felt someone lift his chin.

He opened his eyes, and in front of him was a haggard man. The man was only in his 40s, but he seemed to be over [-] years old.He was already so thin that his muscles seemed to have all fallen off, leaving only the skin covered with brown spots loosely covering the bones, and there was a strong smell of medicine on his body.Jack looked down, and it was a pistol/gun against his chin.

"Mr. Stephen." Jack seemed to have never seen the muzzle of the black hole pointing at him, "Maybe I should call you 'Road Killer'?"

He was smiling and unflappable. Stephen hadn't frisked. The knife he hid in his sleeve was still there. The letter opener slipped out of his sleeve without a sound, cutting the cord on his wrist.

"Are you a secret police officer hired by the Gotham Police Department? I've heard of you, and you dress like big rats flying in the sky." Stephen said calmly, "You can find out here. You have a good brain, but you are not very skilled. Sample."

"No, I was taken away by you on purpose. I really want to talk to you about the details of the road killer case alone. It's not convenient to say these things in front of that child."

"Do you think I'll tell you the truth and let you arrest me? This is not a hero movie." Stephen put the muzzle of the gun to his face.

"I don't need you to tell me anything, I just want you to confirm my guess, which is:" Jack licked the corner of his mouth. "What part did your daughter Valentina play in the Highway Killer case?"

Stephen paused.

Jack continued: "In the beginning I suspected Valentina that the clown's business card was made of old coated paper, which was popular 26 years ago, when she was just born. But she actually knew this and used this paper to forge If she got a business card, it means that she has been in contact with a real clown business card, so she knows the paper quality. But the clown’s practical business cards are important evidence, how can she be contacted by an ordinary person? And there is another very interesting point, She printed business cards as souvenirs for those who participated in the rally, but the number of printed cards was more than the number of replies. She knew that this kind of business card would cause fire, but she not only let you get it, but also printed too much, Whoever gets the rest is going to be interesting."

I have to say that Valentina's disguise was perfect, but like that doctor, they didn't have enough experience in the interrogation room. At the beginning of the road killer case, it was her confession that made him suspicious of Valentina. In the dossier, the police asked Valentina: "You worship lunatics", but did not specify which lunatic it was, but Valentina understood it immediately-you must know that the souvenirs of the rally are not only the clown's business card, but also a pair of clowns. face coin.

In fact, this is not a fatal flaw, but some subtle incongruity, and it can be rounded back if it has to be rounded.But Jack sees a ghost in this lady he's never met, the unknown man who's haunting the roadside and the town of Yonkers, and he's standing right behind Jack, and Jack's in the Batmobile, and he can hear His sharp and vicious laughter, as well as the faint smell of sea salt perfume on his body, then he had a guess, like a bright lightning tearing through the darkness, enlightened in an instant.

The rain stopped, and the enveloping dark clouds gradually disappeared. From behind the dark clouds, a bright and clear moon disc was revealed. The like washing moonlight passed through the window of the Batmobile and splashed in, like glistening mercury flowing all over the place.Under the silent moonlight, a question appeared before Jack's eyes:

Was Valentina an insider?

Stephen didn't speak, and Jack knew he wouldn't speak easily, so there was no accident.Based on the current case, the Gotham Police Department has no evidence at all to accuse Valentina of not reporting it. Even if there was evidence at the beginning, it may have been destroyed by Stephen. He came here just to confirm.

So he still said: "There is also the clown toxin-the clown toxin you use is in a liquid state at low temperatures, only then can it be stored stably, and liquid nitrogen is required for preservation. The previous corpses did not have traces of being frozen, then It means that the freezer in the air-raid shelter is not used to preserve the corpse, but to preserve the clown toxin. I think you are also troubled by this matter. Because the freezer consumes a lot of electricity, and the toxin is also required to be sealed. Journalists and doctors have to embezzle Donate money to resell drugs. So I wonder, is the clown stashing toxins in Yangktown?"

It took him two hours to drive from Gotham City to Yangktown in the Batmobile. With such a long distance and no complete storage system, could the clown hide the toxin here?

According to the statistical report submitted by Batman, the Joker spends an average of 18 hours in the outside world every time he escapes from Arkham, and the shortest escape time is only 40 minutes before being escorted back to Arkham by Batman.With such a tight schedule, would it take the clown nearly four hours to go back and forth?

"And what's even more interesting is that I marked the places where the clowns had been active for a few times, and drew a circle with them as the center. Valentina's address before she moved just happened to be on the overlapping shadow. Do you think this is a coincidence, Highway Mr. Killer?" Jack looked at Stephen with a smile on his face, "Your daughter has been in contact with clowns, she undoubtedly regards clowns as a resistance to the powerful class, and the meaning of the so-called 'repression' on the clown's business card on the corpse is here. The business card It's a tribute to you to Valentina, and it's what Valentina is to the rich and powerful. That's the role your daughter plays in the highway killers, the ghost that haunts you and the victims."

Hearing this, Stephen suddenly became furious. He slammed the gun into Jack's mouth. The long and hard barrel was icy cold, and he pressed his tongue down hard, and the end reached his throat, causing a reflex Sexual retching.The back of his head was pressed against the wall, and there was nowhere to retreat. The barrel of the gun pressed against his throat, the corners of his mouth were forced open, his teeth were pressed against the hard metal, and his gums were injured. breath, leaving only a strong smell of blood in his mouth.At such a close distance, there was no way to avoid it. If he shot, Jack would have no chance of surviving.

"Shut up! You secret police, if you didn't come back then, all the rich and powerful will come!" Stephen's eyes were full of anger, and his index finger was on the trigger, as if he was about to blow Jack's head off.

Jack didn't panic, his face was flushed by physiological reflexes, and a little tear dripped from his eyelashes, but the corners of his slender eyes were raised in such a dangerous situation, showing the fact that he was extremely excited at the moment.His gestures are really weird, the people who are threatened are more excited than those who threaten others.The muscles in his mouth stretched, and the tongue under the gun barrel could be seen when he turned it—he was actually licking the gun that was stuck in his mouth.

"Although I like the smell of gunpowder, let's talk about something else. Just as the most terrible criminals never commit crimes, and clever killers never kill, I have a guess about your daughter and you, Mr. Stephen." With the barrel in his mouth, Jack spoke in a very vague voice, "When you visited her in Gotham, she asked you to kill people, right? She gave you a stack of clown business cards and gave you the location where the clown toxin is hidden. I told you that there is absolutely no evidence for all of this. She is smart enough, she only uses hints—nothing explicit, everything is done by you, it is your idea. She just hints at you, hints at you like this... "

Jack took a deep breath, and in Stephen's gaze, said what he had read in his daughter's eyes:

"'Dad, you're going to die anyway, why don't you avenge me'?"