Chapter 2035: Knight's Horrifying Night (XIX)

"I'm not from Gotham."

The first rule of Schiller's fabrication: nine parts true, one part false, or nine parts false, one part true.

"I come from a very far away place, and we only met because Batman and I took a cross-universe journey at the same time."

"That place is so far away that it is beyond the imagination of time and space, and cannot be reached by any conventional means. The reason why I am here is naturally because I was invited by Batman. "

Peter's voice echoed in the empty lower level of the Batcave. Batman did not speak, because he also wanted to know what Peter's plan was.

But he would soon regret his decision, because of the second rule of Schiller's Law of Fabrication: Anyone can be wrong, but it's definitely not me.

Batman made this decision, naturally, because he had a plan in mind, and every one of Batman's elaborate plans had to start with the Joker's conspiracy.

Peter's brain was spinning rapidly, connecting every clue he knew, in addition to adding his own understanding, there were also certain fabrications and associations.

Because of the third rule of Schiller's Law of Fabrication: In addition to being rigorous, it must also be exciting.

"Before I came here, the city had just experienced a chaos. The culprit was naturally the notorious super criminal Joker. He got a poison called Titan Poison and claimed to use it to destroy Gotham. "

But except Batman, no one knew that his fanfare was just a cover for another evil conspiracy.

Sure enough, the three people in the cage frowned, and Jason didn't realize that he was constantly leaning forward, listening to Peter's words with an overly concerned attitude.

Peter was relieved a little, and it really worked. The fourth rule of Schiller's fabrication: Don't lie, just change the narrative method to create enough suspense.

"This evil plan against Batman did not start a few months ago, but about a year ago."

Peter stared at Jason's face, Jason was a little confused by him, Peter lowered his voice and said: "The Joker needs a knife to cut through the hard bat armor and cause real mental damage to Batman."

"He knows that Batman has extremely strong willpower, and ordinary disasters can't break through his iron wall of defense, so the Joker has only one choice-to take away a father's child."

"The candidate needs to have the following characteristics: close relationship with Batman, always with Batman, lack of vigilance, and unstable mental state. "

Jason glared at Peter. He knew Peter was talking about him. Just as he was about to open his mouth to refute, Peter interrupted him.

"In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't meet these characteristics. Whoever takes the initiative to leave the warm and safe nest will be unlucky."

Jason pursed his lips and said nothing.

How could he not regret it? He was so angry at the time that he left without any weapons, even the communicator and beacon. This was not running away from home without money, but not even wearing a piece of clothing.

"The clown succeeded." Peter raised his head slightly and said, "But he will always succeed. As long as he waits long enough, there will always be careless young people who will make mistakes. "

The intense emotions that had just surged in Jason's heart calmed down a little. He felt that what Peter said made sense.

If his kidnapping was indeed a long-planned conspiracy by the Joker, then it would be someone else if not him. There is a thief who can steal for a thousand days, but there is no such thing as a thousand days of defense.

Batman frowned slightly. He did know something about some of the Joker's conspiracies, but at that time he did not connect Jason's disappearance with other things.

"Batman will definitely look for his assistant if he is missing." At this time, Peter had a flash of inspiration and connected another thing with what he was talking about.

"Of course, the Joker will not let Batman find his missing assistant. He will hide him very well, but at the same time he will let Batman find other people, some bombs he had buried long ago - people infected with the Joker virus. "

"This is not abrupt. Batman just stumbled upon some mental patients with unknown symptoms on the way to find his Robin. After analysis, he found that their symptoms were somewhat similar to one side of the Joker. "

"Batman will treat anything related to the Joker with caution, so he took them away, and this was exactly what the Joker wanted. "

Batman was not surprised by this analysis, because he did not hesitate to speculate the Joker with the greatest malice. In his confrontation with the Joker, any seemingly accidental event may be carefully arranged. They both judged others by themselves, which was natural and reasonable.

"Batman took these patients back to the base, but it was impossible to do anything to them. Although they were infected with the Joker virus, they were still victims. Batman would not take any inhumane means to treat them. "

"But he also couldn't solve the Joker virus, or he could solve it, but it just took time, and the Joker would not give Batman time. The Titan virus plan was launched. "

Jason frowned deeply. He found that there was a dark line that he had never thought about carefully, which seemed to have been surrounding the city and affecting everyone.

"The Joker deliberately made a big noise, and Batman could only choose to stop the Joker's actions first to prevent the Joker from really using the Titan virus to create more evil criminals or let the city fall into injustice. "

"The next is the biggest trap-the Joker is dead. "

Both Penguin and Scarecrow frowned. Penguin raised his eyebrows and was about to make a sarcastic comment. Scarecrow grabbed the prison railing with one hand and said: "I was thinking at that time, that guy will not die so easily. All the things in his body are..." There is a certain virus that has very peculiar properties.”

"So when I heard about his death, I went to find his ashes to see if I could get rid of the virus."

"Of course you can't get it, because the virus has been transferred." Peter sighed, and half-truthfully speculated: "There can be many clown viruses, but there can only be one clown."   "On the other hand, any one Anyone infected with the clown virus may become a clown."

"So the clown prepared several virus-infected bodies for himself to resurrect." Penguin said with some surprise: "Why is he going around in such a big circle? Either don't die from the beginning, what's the point of resurrecting after death? significance?"

"Those infected with the Joker virus are indeed the bodies he prepared, but they are not his best choice." Peter stopped and turned to look at Batman.

Batman's expression told everyone present that their suspicions at this time were correct.

"Batman is the Joker's favorite resurrection body."

Jason felt suffocated for a moment, and then a greater fear struck him. He rushed to the railing, grabbed the railing with both hands and looked at Batman and asked: "Is he inside you? Can you see him? Right? That’s why you know that I...I..."

Facing Jason's sad and angry eyes, Batman nodded slowly and looked towards the darkness behind Jason, where a pale hand stretched out and was constantly tracing the letters on Jason's face.

And Batman clearly felt the urge to do this.

Jason closed his eyes in pain, and the fingers gripping the railing began to turn blue and white from blood loss.

"What did you say?" Scarecrow said in disbelief: "The Joker wants to be resurrected in Batman's body? He is crazy..."

"Don't you want to?" Peter hit the point.

The Scarecrow choked.

The Penguin rolled his eyes, cleared his throat and said, "We all know how powerful Batman is, but we won't choose to do this, because we know that if we enter Batman's body, all that will be left is It's Batman."

"But it may not be the case for the Joker, so it is worth a try, but the conditions are not sufficient." Peter shook his head and said: "To defeat Batman on a spiritual level, virus infection alone is not enough, he needs at least two Become an assistant.”

"First of all, fear gas." Peter snapped his fingers, then pointed at the Scarecrow and said: "This is also a poison that can affect the human spirit and disintegrate people's willpower, which can give the clown a greater spiritual advantage. "

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Scarecrow raised his voice and said, "I infected Batman with fear gas. What does it have to do with the Joker?"

"How do you know you're not under his influence?" Peter spread his hands and said, "Why couldn't the disaster you provoked be the knife that the Joker had planned to use to stab Batman?"

"How is that possible?!" the Scarecrow roared: "This is the plan I designed and I executed it..."

"Stop putting so much money on your face." Penguin mocked disdainfully: "Have you ever been tricked by that lunatic? How many times have you made wedding dresses for others."

"Besides, did you execute the plan yourself? Just by your shabby laboratory, or by your two twisted arms that are not as thick as Batman's eyelashes?"

Scarecrow glared at Penguin.

"No matter what, the fear of poison gas disaster must be within the clown's expectation. As I said, sooner or later, as long as he is willing to wait, such a day will come."

Peter continued: "The fear gas gives Batman internal pressure, while the destruction of Gotham City gives him external pressure."

"Using the memory of torturing Batman's assistant as a knife, and with the help of continuous pressure from multiple parties, the Joker's purpose is to torture Batman."

"If Batman's spirit breaks down, then the Joker can complete his rebirth. If he doesn't collapse immediately, then the Joker will continue to interfere and torture him, making him unable to concentrate on dealing with real-life disasters until he makes a mistake. That day."

"In this city, the disasters are endless and the pressure is endless. Even the toughest strings will be worn out one day, and Batman also knows this."

"So how to solve it?" Peter asked, and Schiller made up the fifth rule: tell less facts and ask more questions. The imagination of others is the best answer.

Penguin snorted twice and said: "Of course he has a way to solve it, but he has a room full of unlucky people infected with the Joker virus. As long as one of them is resurrected as a Joker, wouldn't Batman's crisis be solved?"

"You idiot, you only thought about the first level." Scarecrow immediately seized the opportunity to taunt: "Didn't the Joker think of this? He just wanted Batman to do this."

"Kill others to save yourself." Scarecrow showed a sneer and said: "If Batman really does this, then don't call him a superhero or the Dark Knight, and go to Arkham Asylum."

Jason's Adam's apple moved and he looked up at Batman. He never believed that Batman would do this.

"Of course Batman didn't do that," Peter said firmly.

Just when Jason felt relieved, Peter drawled and continued.

"In fact, Batman already had a perfect plan when the Joker took the first step, and when I came here as the last piece of the puzzle, the plan could finally begin."