[Batman] I, The Joker, how is that possible?

Chapter 27: Reactions from all parties

The evils in the world are mostly similar, just like the first victim of Yunhai, just like the second victim of Yunhai.

Ah, no, it should be a guest.The only difference is that he is an official, a high-ranking official, a servant of the people.

And it is this subtle identity gap that makes everything different.

"Citizens and fellow citizens," said the mayor, delivering his speech, which had been handed to him by someone.

From time to time, he glanced at the speech on the table from the corner of his eyes, and the mayor raised his head and said according to the script: "Please be rational, and don't judge a citizen's life or death at will. The Minister of Security monitors everyone's life to ensure everyone's safety. potential criminals and combat any possible terrorist attacks."

"You are voluntarily willing to trade your privacy for the convenience of life, aren't you? The only mistake our Minister of Security made was that he believed too much in human nature. He handed over the data to people he thought were reliable, but these people deceived him at the same time. hurt your children."

"Go to the fucker and make sure! Go to the victim of the fucker!" Lukes, who was drunk on the sofa, threw a broken glass bottle and hit the face on the TV: "Damn it, we never Voluntarily authorized such a thing!"

"Go back and use this method to protect yourself!" He cursed and opened another bottle of beer.

"Therefore, I would like to appeal to everyone to stay rational, consciously hand in your mobile phones, and not to cast a vote of death for this respected and loved Minister of Security." When certain words are read, this A young mayor accentuated his tone.

"Mom, did I hear you wrong? Why do I feel that the mayor is talking ironically?" Emma, ​​who was washing fruit in the kitchen with the TV hanging in the living room, poked her head out and said to her mother Laura in the living room.

Laura, who was sitting in front of the unfinished oil painting, answered her daughter's question indifferently: "It doesn't matter whether it is irony or truth, we just need to follow our own heart."

"Listen up, daughter, I'm going to teach you a lesson today: we do what we think is right, and then we're done! Who cares what other people think is a good thing or a bad thing? Even the best things have their opponents No matter how bad things are, they have their supporters." As Laura spoke, she picked a clean brush and dipped it in the clear water tank, and then pressed it into the dark red viscous paint .

The brush was still dripping, and a round mixture of paint and water was tremblingly flowing to the tip of the pen, almost dripping. Laura bent down without pausing to add a touch of deep red to the extremely abstract black and white bat background.

"This Minister of Security has served the people with trepidation for more than ten years..." The mayor was still reading a line into the microphone that was slightly different from the script, and at this moment, a certain person who had been pacing anxiously in the audience Elliott finally got impatient and decided to end himself.

He rushed forward with a stride, and with a big wave of his hand, he pushed the mayor who was in the way aside.Holding the microphone with both hands, his eyes were red like a bull: "Listen, citizens of Gotham, I'm not going to play politics with you, let's do something practical."

That's a game he's grown tired of, he understands what people need at their core, and that's why he's been winning and always will be.This time is the same.

"Whether it is those who are going to choose alive (of course, I am very grateful for your support), or those who are going to choose death, listen to me, so what if you choose? To satisfy your stupid and useless sense of justice ? Can the sense of justice be eaten? Can it bring you any benefits? No! Then why not convert the illusory right of choice in your hands into real benefits?"

"Now there is an opportunity in front of you, it depends on whether you will fight for it."

"I will only say the following once. In front of the city government building, an alive option can be exchanged for 1000 US dollars in cash."

"No expiration, remember this: youmakeyourownchoice"

"$1000? Your teammates are really willing to give the money, aren't they?" If you really want to bribe half of the people in Gotham to choose alive, that would be a price in the unit of [-] million!

But the problem is——Yunhai turned back and patted the hostage whose mouth was tied up with aluminum tape, and then his voice turned evil: "But will they really give all the money?" I guess it's just another old trick she played. .

The hostage made a completely inaudible babble.

On the other side of Gotham, the scene where the strong man pointed at the camera was frozen on the TV.The teenager who was lying on his side on the sofa and playing with his mobile phone got up neatly and said to his father, "Dad! It's $1000 for an alive, shall we change it?"

"Let me see." His father wiped his hands on the apron and came out to call back the news. After reading it for a few minutes, he said, "We will make a decision after your mother comes back."

"Cut—"'There's no reason to hesitate. The boy didn't understand his father's hesitation, and pouted at the latter's back.

Just at this moment, a piece of news was pushed to the mobile phone on the coffee table.After looking at the options of his mobile phone, the equipment interface where he could not synthesize the divine outfit because he did not have game coins, and then looked at the screen of his mobile phone that suddenly lit up, he suddenly had a good idea.

When the people in Gotham hesitated after seeing the news, the police (PC) were not idle. They mobilized almost all the police force (including the civilian staff in the archives), formed dozens of small groups and dispersed them to Gotham. Tan's various districts.

However, it's not about catching clowns.

"Police!" The door slammed and slammed.

"Here we come." Laura rolled her eyes and got down from the wooden ladder in front of the oil painting, wiped her hands casually and opened the door.

Almost at the same moment, three PCs squeezed in quickly and showed signs: "According to the regulations, ma'am, we need to check your mobile phone!"

"My cell phone? Where did I put it? Hey, I'm getting old and my memory is bad." Laura scratched her hair and walked inside. She had already hidden her cell phone. It's nothing at the moment I was so flustered, I was afraid that my daughter——

Alas, really, what to be afraid of.Emma was secretly trying to hide her mobile phone, but she didn't want to be caught by a PC.

"Stop! What are you doing?"

Facing the PC's questioning, Emma stammered: "I—" But the next moment Laura snatched her cell phone hidden behind her back.

"Damn child, so the phone is with you? Do you know how long I've been looking for it?" Laura muttered dissatisfiedly, turned around and handed the phone to the police officer and asked, "Well, is there any new policy?"

"You, haven't you watched the news?" PC questioned, then took the phone, pointed at the dazzling Death on the screen and asked, "Why did you choose the death option?"

"What death? Oh, what are you talking about? Earlier, my daughter and I were cooking in the kitchen. Suddenly, the phone turned on and an option popped up. I was going to turn it off, but you also know that when washing vegetables, there is nothing on your hands. It was water, and then a drop of water just fell on this D option."

"Is this serious? Police officer." Facing the PC's penetrating scrutiny, Laura pinched her clothes a little uneasy.

"Forget it, forget it, it's none of your business."

When the person left, Laura returned the phone to Emma, ​​then poked the other person on the forehead and said helplessly, "Be more careful!"

Emma clutched her red forehead and dared not speak out. Seeing her mother taking out her mobile phone to fiddle with her, she realized later: "Oh, that's not right, Mom, you obviously chose D on purpose." , Why did you just say that water drops fell on it?"

"Silly girl, go peel your cucumbers. If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb." It's not easy to raise a stupid child. Laura watched her daughter give her a slap on the back of the head "lovingly".

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"For the sake of our human rights, I appeal to everyone to choose death!" The young man in hip-hop style jumped onto the stage and raised the sign in his hand and shouted excitedly: "Think about it, our every move every day, every sentence Words, every word, are monitored by them, what kind of bullshit protection is this? Is the money paid by our taxpayers being used so casually? We should stand up and oppose—”

"Bang!" A deafening gunshot interrupted his speech, and then a team of PCs suddenly appeared from the street, and they had just fired warning shots.

Among the panicked voices, one voice stands out: "Illegal assembly, arrest them, seize their mobile phones!"

In front of the city government building is another scene.

"Sir, can I really get a compensation of 1000 dollars?" Brandon held his and his father's two mobile phones in his heart, and asked the staff on tiptoe in front of the temporary table.

"It's not compensation, it's a bonus." Compensation is to make up for what should be done but can't be achieved. This is a reward after doing the right thing!The staff stretched out her left hand without looking up, while her right hand was still recording, "Give me the phone."

Brandon obediently handed in the phone, watched the other party manipulate it a little before returning it to him.

"Money, take it." The staff maintained her usual concise style.

Nervously clutching the thick stack of money, there were whole bills and small change, Brandon made room for the people behind him and walked aside excitedly to start counting money.The first time, 1800 US dollars, he thought he was wrong, the second time, 1800 US dollars.

After hesitating for a while, Brandon returned to the table, "Well, you seem to have underpaid $200."

"Really?" The staff rolled their eyelids and took the money from Brandon.

At first, Brandon thought that the other party was going to give him some money, but when he saw the staff pull out two more banknotes from the stack of money, his eyes were about to drop!

"Alright, let's go now, don't bother me."

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"They're really active." A fat police officer in the PC Bureau who was watching the live news took a big bite of a donut and said with emotion that his mouth was full of food.

The content of the live broadcast was a sea of ​​people in front of the city government building. Of course, he focused on his dozens of colleagues who were maintaining order.

Like him, Ram stayed at the PC office and didn't join in the fun. He was passing by with a cup of hot cocoa at this time. After hearing this emotion, he responded casually: "There are many reasons for eating well and climbing up."

After taking a sip of cocoa, Ram asked, "By the way, why don't you go?"

"Because I haven't finished my meal." The big fat PC pointed to the plate in front of him, which was full of donuts of various colors, and he asked, "What about you?"

In response, Ram put Coco on the table, turned around on the seat and stretched: "Of course it's because my menstrual cycle is too painful, so I asked for leave!".

Well, these excuses are getting more and more perfunctory. Sure enough, the world is full of lies, and only desserts are true.The big fat PC stuffed another donut into his mouth, this time a chocolate one.

"Where is our chief?"

"He also went, but for a different reason."

Ram couldn't help recalling a conversation between the two before going to the police:

"Joker suddenly started to compete with Batman for jobs, do you believe it?" Ram leaned on the partition and took a sip of coffee, she casually pointed to the live broadcast above her head twice and asked.

"I don't believe it." Gordon shook his head and his expression gradually became serious: "In fact, no matter what the purpose of the clown is, this is a very bad crime, and individuals have no right to judge others."

"Director." Ram hesitated and said, "I remember that you were in favor of the death penalty for Lucas." At that time, Gordon looked around for witnesses to collect testimonies, and everyone in the bureau remembered it clearly. .The Lucas that Ram mentioned is the first lucky audience in the sea of ​​clouds.

"You also said it was before." Gordon was quite firm on this point, "but now the law has given its verdict."

Then he added with disgust, "Although deep down in my heart, I strongly disagree with this judgment."

On this point, Ram definitely agrees with both hands, but she has a different view on today's matter: "However, Director, it may be that men and women see things from different perspectives. I think what the clown did this time is light It turned out to be quite right.”

"We can think that way, but we can't say that to the public." Gordon's expression was very bright, and what he said was indeed the truth: "It is very necessary to maintain the effectiveness of the law. When it loses its effect, it must be completely When chaos strikes, no one benefits from it."

"Even if it is at the expense of the reasonable human rights of a small number of people, the protection of the privileges of a small number of people?"

Gordon nodded gravely.

Ram stared at Gordon silently for a while, and then suddenly showed a sly, fox-like smirk: "Hey, Director, you are lying."

She then pointedly pointed out: "Then why do you often turn to Batman? Then why do you often defend Batman?"

Why?What else could be the reason—Facing the teasing eyes of his colleagues, Gordon raised his glass to cover his embarrassing old face: "Okay, okay, just give your poor old director some face."