[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

Jack looked at the rippling ripples, his own face was reflected in the turbid lake water.His red-gold eyes shone like two unsteady phosphorescent fires. His algae-like black-green curly hair reached his shoulders and slid down his pale neck, like an oil painting with too rough brushstrokes.He tried to grin the corners of his mouth, and the reflection came alive the moment he laughed, this clay-like pale body was injected with life, and there was a devilish smile in his eyes.

The clown is right, he can't remember his wife's face, and he can't remember his mother's death. He doesn't know whether his mother drowned or died in a fire, or was killed by him.His memories were intricately intertwined and turned into an unresolved mess.He was once convinced that he was the second personality of the clown, and that Jack Napier did not exist in other worlds.But...if he's the Joker's personality, why can't he swim?

He remembered... At that time, his mother had no other choice and chose to commit suicide, and she was planning to die with the young Jack. It was because of this incident that Jack resisted going into the water.But,? Mother's death serves no purpose other than to create a weakness for Jack. Is it necessary to invent such unpleasant memories for the Joker's personality?If this thing was just faked by the Joker, what was his purpose?

Which side is the truth between Batman and the Joker?

Jack lowered his head deeply, squeezing his temples with his hands.There seems to be a thin piece of iron scraping the bone deep in the skull, recalling those scenes is like pulling out the poison ivy with barbs, and it will not stop without tearing off a large piece of flesh and blood.Suddenly,? A ray of light pierced the darkness,? He suddenly thought of the most critical memory,? Yes, mother's face!Although he couldn't remember Jenny's face at all, he still vaguely remembered his mother's appearance!

Jack vaguely remembered that she was sitting on the snow-white hospital bed, and a soft, pale daylight splashed in like running water, flowing on her silk pajamas.Her fluffy curly hair is scattered randomly, and under the dazzling hair is a slender neck like a swan, but her face is too hazy, as if covered with a layer of tulle.Jack tried desperately to recall, trying to retrieve a clue from the ocean of memories, but he couldn't remember, his mother's face was just blurred, not like Jenny could not remember at all, he only remembered that she was beautiful, very beautiful ... She is the artist's mistress, empty, superficial, vain, with only one face, she is as beautiful as an unattainable dream.

water.

The face of the mother in the water is like an oil painting that has been splashed with water. The colorful oil paint has turned into sticky teardrops, and the filaments are drawn wetly on the canvas.

Jack stood up suddenly, took off his snow-white dress, and the night wind brought stuffy and damp water vapor, carrying a faint stench.He handed the coat to Batman, and then said to the surprised man: "I have to jump down, maybe I can remember something in the water, you will pull me up later."

Batman opened his mouth: "Okay."

Jack jumped like a fish, he sank slowly into the water, and the turbid lake swallowed him up.The familiar feeling surged up again, he felt that he was still in the water, and turned into a baby curled up in the warm amniotic fluid, the mother's hand was hidden in the silent and turbulent water, that hand gently stroked the top of his head, bringing There was a gentle sleepiness to the extreme.Fighting against the drowsiness of sleepiness, Jack struggled to open his eyes and looked around. There was only darkness here, as if he had fallen into an invisible void, and only the dull sound of bubbles rubbing past his ears remained.

where is it?

Whoever I am, whether it's the personality of the clown, or the soul named Jack Napier, give me a clue... give me a clue to prove my identity!

Jack swam deeper, or kept falling for an unknown amount of time. When he felt pain in his chest, he touched the soft sand, and there were hair-like algae growing on the mud pond. Soft as silk in the current.It's the end, he can't see anything, there is only darkness around him, and the approaching suffocation.He turned and went upstream, just as he turned around, he suddenly saw the sparkling light on the water surface, the light of the street lamp was shaken to pieces by the water waves, casting a dark figure.

Jack stopped suddenly as if he had been shot through his chest by a bullet. This moment vaguely coincided with the past, and a dark memory flooded into his mind.That's right, he sank to the bottom of the water and looked at the surface of the water in the same way. At that time, he saw a shadow in the water waves, the figure of a tall, old man, and when he was struggling, there was a man standing on the river bank Look at them condescendingly!

who is it?

who is there !

Who is... looking at me?

The last breath of oxygen in his lungs was exhausted, and Jack felt a sharp pain. He swam desperately, but thousands of hands grabbed his ankles and dragged him into the dark hell.He couldn't stay any longer, the feeling of suffocation forced Jack to open his mouth, and took a breath subconsciously, but what poured into his body was not life-saving air, but heavy water.

When Batman fished up a wet Jack, the Injustice Bat stood beside them.

"How's the situation?" Unrighteous Bat came out of the darkness without making a sound.

"Drowning, loss of consciousness." Batman explained concisely, while lifting Jack's eyelids to observe the state of the pupils, and confirmed that there was no death, but a coma, plus after choking on water.He opened Jack's mouth, examined his mouth and throat, then turned Jack over and squeezed his stomach, causing him to spit out the lake water he had swallowed.There were hair-like algae hanging on Jack's trouser legs. Just now, he had the illusion that the hand holding his ankle was entangled in the algae at the bottom of the lake.

Unrighteous Bat showed no expression: "I'm asking how is your persuasion going?"

"Not very good, he is dubious, wavering between the two options." Batman took out a simple respirator from his waist, buckled the respirator on Jack's face, and gave Jack artificial respiration with a hand-pressed airbag, "Our Where's Superman?"

"Tell him back, brought him here just to prevent Jack from shooting, and now your clown has given up on this idea." Unjust Bat said.Superman can fly at the speed of light, and can fly to Jack to take the bullet away at the moment the bullet is ejected, or simply wrap the muzzle of the gun with his hand, anyway, the Man of Steel doesn't care about bullets.Superman is very familiar with doing this kind of thing. Every year, he saves people who want to commit suicide by swallowing guns in the metropolis.The Unrighteous Bat looked at Batman, who was pursing his lips, stepped forward, took the airbag from his hand, and said, "What's your plan for Jack?"

Batman took off his soaked gloves and gave Jack CPR, saying, "The Frozen Prison*."

(Frozen Prison: Appeared in "New 52 Batman/Superman")

"detailed?"

They are all Batman, and they all know how Batman behaves. He will prepare several plans for each hero to prevent them from suddenly losing control and defecting.Batman's behavior, some people call it justice, some people call it abnormal/perverted desire for control, Batman never responds to others' doubts, nor is he shaken by any rumors and accusations, he still unswervingly implements his concept.He is the only human without superpowers in the Justice League. This is a kind of representative. He must become the last wall to protect mankind, stand in front of the powerless people, stop the out-of-control heroes, and prevent them from running wild and causing irreparable disasters.

In the same way, he will also prepare a plan for Jack. The nearly two years of getting along has given him enough understanding of Jack.

"The technology of the frozen prison is provided by the freezing man, allowing Jack to take hibernation drugs and then be sealed in the freezing cabin, just like the freezing man's wife Nora. But the freezing cannot permanently suspend time, his internal organs will be in the Slowly aging in the frozen cabin, and finally dying in a deep sleep. The time is about 80 years, which is equivalent to life imprisonment." Batman said succinctly.

The Injustice Bat hit the nail on the head: "I guess it's not constitutional."

"Yes, it's unconstitutional. But it's not entirely unconstitutional. The Frozen Prison cannot be used as a 'jail', only as an 'unconventional treatment'. Use of this treatment requires a doctor's note, and immediate family members within three generations Or his own signature. Jack has no immediate family members, so he can only be signed by himself, but he is a mental patient, and only three psychiatrists with more than 8 years of clinical experience testified that he was sane and free from illness when he signed. His signature is legally binding."

"Are you going to ask him to sign a letter to send himself into the freezer as a frozen kebab?"

"Not now, but when he gets out of control, we have the right to freeze him. There will be no future troubles."

Unrighteous Bat was silent for a while: "He will sign, because you may be his only friend."

We all know all too well how to exploit the trust of others, play on their weaknesses, and guard against them.Batman saw this sentence in the same blue glasses of each other.

"Sometimes it's immoral, but I have to do it." Jack's vital signs have basically recovered, Batman picked him up while talking, and the two walked side by side to the Batmobile, and then pressed on the console, The back compartment of the Batmobile automatically unfolded like a flower, spitting out the automatic emergency system inside.

Batman put the soft-footed Jack on the hospital bed, put on an automatic respirator for him, and ensured that he would not stop breathing suddenly on the way, then he walked to the passenger seat, and the unrighteous Bat sat in the main driver's seat, I exchanged glances with him, and the heavy sound-proof lead plate automatically lowered, separating the main and co-cabs from the Batmobile’s backup compartment. After confirming that the interface is well airtight and that Jack will not hear any sound from the driver’s seat, Unrighteous Bat stepped on the accelerator and said, "Where's Plan? B?"

Batman reached out and clicked on the computer screen of the Batman. After scanning the fingerprint, voiceprint and iris, a gap popped up on the door of the Batmobile, and slowly spit out a small alloy sealed box. Batman opened it, and a A cloud of cold white air rolled out from the gap in the opening of the box, during which green and blue injections were sealed at low temperature.But Batman didn't take out these two medicines, but opened the hidden lock with his fingerprints, and the aluminum plate on which the two medicines were fixed was lifted slowly, revealing the hidden space below.Scarlet lights flickered on the tempered glass, and red and green warning stripes were pasted on the middle, with the words written in three languages:

WARNING: TERMINATE PROGRAM.

Under the tempered glass is a slender syringe, which is very different from the locking agent and stabilizer. It is very small, only as long as a man's index finger, but the liquid in the syringe is golden, the same color as Jack's eyes, It's like pure gold blood.Moreover, the liquid can be seen to be very viscous, more like some kind of colloid.It glows by itself, as if hiding many small sequins, shining small dots of light in the dark.Batman picked it up, and for a split second he remembered the brass bullet he had left on the table in Arkham's waiting room a year and a half ago.

"what is this?"

"Terminate the procedure. According to the psychotropic drug that Jack took, the potion was reversed." Batman paused, and then said calmly in an extremely cold tone: "Its function is to make Jack's personality completely disappear from the clown's body." .”