[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

The depths of Arkham Asylum.

"New to the inner area?" A guard led another younger guard to patrol the corridor. There was no one around, and the sound of footsteps echoed in the empty corridor. "This is your first time here?"

"It's been a month and a half." The young guard nodded.

Arkham Asylum guards are high-risk occupations, but due to the financial support of Wayne Manor, the wages and pensions here are three times higher than those in other regions.Because of the sufficient manpower, the shifts are not so tight, and the rest time is relatively more.That's why people have always come to be guards. The so-called great rewards must have brave men.

According to the staff, the Arkham Asylum is divided into two layers. On the surface, there are harmless mental patients. They are sent to the asylum just to seek treatment. After recovery, they may still be mentally normal and return to society.The transition zone is the patients with criminal history. Their tendency to violence is very serious, but there are previous cases to follow, and there is still a chance of complete cure; Famous and notorious in Gotham City, no one expects their mental illness to be cured, or even improved.Society just wants to keep these murderous demons in cages, and don't let them escape.

"This floor is the Riddler, the Mad Hatter, the Scarecrow, the Ventriloquist, the Penguin, the Two-Faced Man, the Harley Quinn..." The old guard called the names one by one, and told the young guard, "Poison Ivy, Freeze! The crocodile and the clown are held alone. The poison ivy girl is held alone in a place without plants. The room of the freezer is opposite her. Remember not to get too close, the low temperature will frostbite you. The crocodile has someone to deal with it, so you don’t need to go Worry. And—clown, he’s in the deepest place, and he’s been quiet lately.”

"Quiet?"

"Well, yes, he has been a little quiet recently, probably because Batman comes once a week. He has been reading during this time. If you are unlucky enough to be there to stand guard, you can just find any books he wants. , Oh yes, and," the old guard patted his forehead, "if he tells you a joke, whether it's good or not, you must laugh."

"Why are you here again?" Jack put down the "Pathophysiology" in his hand, "Don't you patrol all day long?"

"How are you doing?" Batman said blankly.

"It's pretty good." Jack said this sincerely. His quality of life can beat at least 90% of Gotham people.The Arkham Asylum has always given them special treatment. His cell is not narrow at all, but very spacious. Not only is there enough food, there are often snacks and snacks, and it is even specially equipped with a refrigerator, refrigerant, and coffee machine.Arkham will not force him to undergo treatment—to be precise, since he drove several of his psychiatrists crazy, and then went crazy and bit the faces of the remaining few into low-quality double-faced people, after that, he never No doctor would want to come near him—no violent interference with his routine, and Arkham was all right except that there was no freedom.

"Your doctor said you've been reading."

"Anyway, with so much time, it's not easy to waste it. It's boring to sleep all day long."

Recently, he discovered that reading related books can also upgrade skills, but it is not as fast as the skill books directly given by the system, so he spends his time in jail reading.Learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and don't overwhelm yourself with too many skills.

"Did you remember anything?"

"No, bat, we don't share memories." Jack said while opening a bag of potato chips. The food supply in Arkham Asylum has always been sufficient. They will prepare three days' worth of food for people in special cells to deal with unknown When the emergency shutdown state comes.Once the special cell is shut down, the lowered metal shell will cover the entire cell. At this time, there is no small window for feeding in. They can't watch the prisoners starve to death in the closed state.

"I heard that your mental condition has improved recently." Batman waved at him a stack of reports in his hand, which were the results of the recent mental examination given to the clowns by the Arkham Asylum.

"You know I can fake that thing?" Jack sighed.

The clown is a master of psychiatry and psychology. The psychiatrist sees what he wants them to see. The psychiatrist who treated him failed to make him improve, but was driven crazy by him. The famous one is Harley Quinn, who was originally Arkham doctor Harleen Quinzel until the Joker twisted her mind and turned her into the famous Harley Quinn.So the mental test is useless at all. If the clown is willing, he can even turn back to a normal person immediately.

A few years ago, the Arkham Asylum banned doctors from conducting research on the clown's spirit, because almost all the psychologists who approached him staged a good show of "the patient is not cured, and the doctor is also crazy".

As for whether Jack can fake it... He couldn't help but glanced at the skill bar. There was a long list of skills on it, including Psychology Lv.4.

This is the result of brushing books.

"At least you never bothered to fake it before." Batman put down the report and handed him a mug of warm milk tea, "Full sugar, with a lot of pudding added*."

"...", Jack felt that he was hurting himself, "thank you anyway."

(*Note: Batman is playing a pun here. Harley Quinn's pet name for the Joker is "Little Pudding". The clown in the comics is very disgusted with this name, and has repeatedly said to Harley Quinn, "Don't call me Little Pudding". "Crazy Batman called him "little pudding" in "Love" and he got angry)

"how is he."

Jack knows who "he" Batman is talking about: "Hasn't come out, he's quiet. I'm a good jailer."

"Remember to take the medicine." The conversation was dry, and it was obvious that the two of them were not talkative.

"Yeah, I'm a punctual jailer. As a reward, you should hear me finish a joke, like this, there was a guy once, he walked into a bar--" Jack hadn't finished speaking, and there was no one outside the door. silhouette.True classic remake, "Okay."

Arkham Asylum has weekly outings.

At the beginning, Jack wanted to complain about this completely unreasonable system. He gathered a group of lunatics who murdered and set fire to play house. Was it really not afraid that they would take the opportunity to discuss the escape?

When it was time to release the wind, oh, it turned out that other prisoners were given a wind break once a week, but he... once every two months.Not only that, but every big boss with a name and surname in the inner district has at least two guards behind him.That's fine.

The afternoon when Batman was sent off was the time for the wind. Jack took off his straitjacket and put on heavy shackles instead.He didn't have the privilege of going out in the wind, but he kept his own law and order recently. As a reward, he can go to get together with other criminals, and he is also allowed not to wear a straitjacket.Although the handcuffs and shackles are still heavy, at least my arms can move freely, instead of being hugged to my chest all day and night, and my arms are almost unconscious when I sleep.

Who would have thought that a month ago he was still looking for excuses not to go to the gym on weekends to exercise, but now that he can go for a walk with free hands, he will be moved to tears. Sure enough, the happiness is all in comparison.

The ventilating library is expanded from the living room, with a cool brown wood floor on the ground. The stools, tables and chairs are geometric shapes of various colors, without patterns or decorations, which are convenient for scrubbing and inspection.Jack staggered in and saw Double-Faced Man, Penguin Man and Riddler Man sitting at a table, and waved to him as if they were extremely friendly and affectionate.

The corners of Jack's eyes lowered silently, looking at a string of characters on the reputation system:

The Riddler (Edward Nygma): Current Reputation Disgust

Penguin (Oswald Chesterfield Copperpot): current prestige loathing

Two-Face (Harvey "Apollo" Dent): Current Reputation Disgust

Jack: ...hehe.

No decent villain except Harley has a good impression of him, and everyone shouts and beats the real street rat, clown, you are indeed strong in a sense.

"Gentlemen, ladies—oh, no ladies, do you want to hear a joke? Once upon a time there was a man who walked into a pet shop—" Jack rolled up his sleeves, sat down in front of the Riddler and the others, and skillfully began to shuffle the cards and hair. Card.

Thanks to those surprise boxes that can be repeated to complete the task, he now has skill Poker Lv. There wasn't a better poker-playing guy from top to bottom.The Riddler and the others all know that the clown likes to play tricks, otherwise it can't explain why he always wins.However, they don't care much, there is too little fun in such a ghostly place, and they would rather play cards with the clown than read a book.Anyway, they also play thousands of dollars, and each of them depends on their ability at the poker table, so don't play if you are unhappy.

By the way, "Out of Thousands" was his first skill to reach level 5 or above, and the system also gave him an achievement reward for this.Jack glanced at the skill bar, the weird skill was lying in the corner of the skill bar.

Teammate Betrayal (Lv.1/Passive Skill/Upgradeable): There are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies.You can choose a teammate and betray his whereabouts to the enemy, destroying his beautiful vision for the future, or ruining his grand plan because of you.Every time you launch this skill, you can get a certain amount of free random distribution points.

Jack: ...So what does this skill mean?Whoever teams up with me is unlucky, right?

This skill is really weird, but the original clown often took a blood wave like a dog, and manipulated his teammates along the wind. Sometimes when the situation was good, he went up and gave the enemy the head, and sometimes he repeatedly jumped up and down for fun. Be twenty or five.Not only has he singled out the Justice League (New 52 Batman: Endgame), but he has also challenged the Legion of Doom (Justice League v4 Issue 13) alone. Even Luthor, the villain with the pinnacle of intelligence, has suffered a big loss in his hands. The villains for the supervillains despise him.So Jack is not very surprised to have this passive skill.

"Why don't you laugh?" Harvey Dent looked at the cards in his hand.

"I can't laugh in front of you people who have no sense of humor." Jack grinned, he was very upset. He interrupted his joke. If the joke made three people laugh, he would have three surprise boxes, "You guys Is there any good news out there? As good as our esteemed Mr. Harvey's fiancée has run away?"

"Half of me said he was trying to run you over with a car." Harvey's intact half of his face was expressionless.

"What about the other half?"

"Grind it with a truck."

Jack laughed a few times, and shuffled the cards in his hand into flower shapes. At this moment, the Penguin looked at the cards in his hand and said, "I have some interesting news."

"tell me the story."

"I have a buddy who works at the docks. They said that some time ago someone smuggled a group of people to Gotham in order to challenge Batman."

Jack's heart skipped a beat.

"Having to deal with hundreds of challengers every day, being Batman is hard work." He pretended to be casual and said, "What's the name of that person?"

"The guy told me that he doesn't remember very well, it seems that his name is... Bane."