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

Chapter 58: From Dusk to Evening

Gotham's sea is quiet, especially in the evening.The Huoshaoyun spread infinitely along the broad horizon, and it was blurred with tens of millions of color transitions between crimson and orange.

The people who went out to sea during the day have returned, and their large and small boats are densely tied to the pier, colliding with each other with the swaying sea.

The masts and nets were all stowed and cluttered on the cleats.The colorful engine oil leaked out and spread flat on the sea surface, turning into a disgusting oil film, shaking with the aquatic plants.

From time to time, waves with an oily film rush up to the sandy beach covered with all kinds of garbage, and some discarded small fish carcasses are rolled back into the sea.

The smell of the sea is really disgusting, especially in late summer and early autumn, when the rotting progresses faster.In addition to the fishy smell, there is also the smell of unburned oil in the air, mixed with the smell of rotting corpses, which is really unsatisfactory.

When night falls, the sea breeze will start to blow towards the mainland. Although it is not completely dark yet, the wind direction seems to be gradually changing.

On the distant horizon, there was an undulating floating object, which was pushed to the shore a little distance from the pier with the tide.Five seconds later, Yun Hai panted and turned over and lay flat on the beach, brushing her wet hair with her hands.

God, this is suffering, hours of floating in the ocean, the wound is inflamed, she wants to call 911 to go to the hospital immediately if she can, as long as the ambulance doesn't take her directly to prison.Isn't it the hell?What the hell have you been living this day.

"If I had known earlier, I would have set the explosion time earlier, right, Tong'er." Yun Hai grinned while covering the most painful wound on his abdomen.

After a pause for a few seconds, she rolled her eyes: "Oh, I forgot that you have been shut down."

"Oh, I really, really miss you when you're not here." Even though no one was listening, Yun Hai still pretended to say something that no one would believe, and then she burst out laughing.That was something she didn't even believe herself.

Yunhai was lying on a large rock by the sea, and heard the faint voice of someone talking in the distance, and then gradually approached with one footstep.

Not intending to open her eyes at all, she shook her wrist and said, "You stranger, can you do me a favor and call the police over here? A group of people imprisoned me, and I turned into the sea to save myself, and finally got ashore .”

Wait, something doesn't feel right.After squinting for a while, Yunhai opened his eyes at the other party's curly red hair: Wow, it's exciting, isn't this the good friend of Joker's ex-girlfriend?Just the one I saw in prison.

"Miss." Yun Hai hung one eye and tried to show misery, but was interrupted just as he started.

"Stay away from Harry."

ah?Opening her intact left eye, Yunhai complained depressedly: "Does the whole world know that I am Joker?" Why didn't she realize that her identity was full of loopholes like a sieve before.

But she guessed wrong, the other party recognized her for a reason, because—"My plant recognized you." Poison Ivy turned her head impatiently and said: "Stay away from Harley, or I will Kill you."

Yunhai looked over her shoulder and saw Harley not far away, and then she smiled and said, "What's the use of you just being jealous of me, just go and talk to Harley."

"I will, in the future."

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Batman had expected to see a pile of short messages when he finally emerged from the lab.His eyes were a little red and swollen due to dozens of hours of uninterrupted experiments and intense concentration, and some tiny bloodshots were distributed in the corners of his eyes.

Tear off the plastic packaging and take out the phone, the action was almost eager, and then opened the screen.There is nothing there, except for a few specially-made apps, hanging alone on the empty interface.Ah, maybe a greeting from Alfred, but nothing else.

Batman's lower lip was starting to stiffen, even if he didn't realize it.

After staring at the empty phone for a few seconds, the Dark Knight of Gotham raised his arm in an attempt to reach Alfred.What to say in a moment: How is everything in Gotham during my absence?Anyone looking for Bruce Wayne or Batman?What's more... Yun Hai went to Wayne Manor to look for him, didn't he?

He did enough mental construction to ensure that every sentence after the connection came as expected, and then he thought slowly that he was in Superman's territory now and it would be better not to contact people he knew.However, asking where the Joker is is not in this list.

At the door of the laboratory, Superman was circling his arms and performing the trick of floating and then landing. At this time, he heard the old bat in Gotham say: "I need you to find someone for me and find out his exact location."

"Who?"

Superman couldn't help asking curiously, and Batman didn't hide, and said the name that had been on his lips: "Joker."

"Oh, I heard, that's your biggest enemy, right, like me and Lex, oh, where did we go, yes, looking for your mortal enemy, what are you looking for?"

It seems that when facing other people, Batman's patience is always extremely limited, and that limited patience was quickly worn away by the eloquence of the other party in the conversation, and he became irritable: "Will you help, or will you help me?" No, I want a definite answer, Superman."

"Stop, stop, Batman." Superman waved his hands repeatedly, "I can hear the voices of people thousands of miles away, but the problem is that I don't even know who the Joker you are talking about."

"Even if you threaten me, it's useless! It's one thing to hear it, but another thing to recognize it. Even if I hear it, how do I know if he's your Joker or someone else?"

Some of Superman's phrasing made Batman's furrowed eyebrows relax a bit, but what he said next was not so pleasant.

"And—" Superman's tone began to become a little annoying: "Even if I can do it, why should I do it for you? I found these metals for you and you didn't even have a word of thanks .” He looked triumphantly at the silent Batman.

A few seconds later, the latter asked: "What do you want to hear?" The words came out of my mouth.

He bowed his head and pretended to think for a while, then Superman raised his head and said, "Please or thank you, this should be quite simple—— right?"

The last word vanishes into thin air, as there is no one in sight, Superman shrugs and stretches, decides to put on his press pass and Lois to interview Lex, maybe grab a cup of coffee on the way give her?Dealing with Gotham's bats is hard anyway.

Batman drove away in the jet, with a bad feeling lingering in his heart, his heart beating faster than ever as he accelerated towards Gotham.

Under the moonlight, the fighter planes in camouflage quickly flew in the direction of Gotham like ghosts.A group of bats gathered from nowhere surrounded the black fighter plane and walked with it, covering its shadow perfectly like a dark cloud, disappointing anyone who tried to spy from below.

The streets of Gotham are quieter than ever, or deserted. Batman's sight sweeps across dozens of cars temporarily abandoned by their owners at the bridgehead, as well as certain iconic buildings (even in the late night Wayne Building is lit. It is very unusual to see people coming and going, but now it is empty, which is very unusual).

Something happened when Batman temporarily left Gotham.The sense of loss of control mixed with a little remorse made Bruce purse his lips in annoyance: If anyone was hurt by his absence, it must be because of him.

"Alfred?" Bruce pressed the communication device on the fighter plane and tried to connect to the old butler in Wayne Manor but failed. In fact, the wireless signal from Gotham seemed to be interfered by something, and then he suddenly received it from outside Gotham. Here comes the news:

"Scarecrow will rule Gotham? Our Batman abandoned Gotham?"

"Two hours have passed since the Scarecrow threatened to envelop Gotham with poisonous gas. Millions of citizens rushed to the docks, battlefields, and highways. As of 29:8 pm on the [-]th, the number of casualties caused by the stampede has risen to— —”

"And our Batman hasn't shown up yet," interrupted her partner, another man in charge of the news.

"Yes, he hasn't shown up yet, is he entangled in things? Or has he given up on Gotham?"

"I hope it's the former," said the partner.

"Not only you and I hope, but I know everyone in Gotham wants—" The voice faded away, and Bruce had switched frequencies.

Bad things happen, and the ominous premonition has become real.Things always seem to develop like this: the good ones don't get the bad ones, and the bad ones happen one after another.

At this time, the lights on the TV tower ahead began to flicker abnormally and rhythmically. Batman jumped out of the fighter plane when he recognized the Morse code. He could hear the mammals flapping their wings in panic. The voice, and the intertwined sharp whistle.

The head fell straight to the ground, and the biting evening wind filled Batman's open cape.Looking at the flickering light in mid-air, he read the information contained in the password:

'Waiting for you on the top of the TV tower'

'Batman, what is your deepest fear? '

'What I bring will far exceed what you fear. '

After waiting for a while, the three sets of Morse codes began to repeat again, obviously programmed.

It wasn't Joker manipulating the lights, and Batman knew it right away, because the former, always direct and honest with himself.Then the person behind these signals is clear: the scarecrow in the news.

"Ifearnothing." That's Batman's response.

Even if there is something Bruce fears, the Batman side of him forces himself to face it.That's how things work, that's how it worked in the past, that's how it's working now, and it's bound to be the same in the future.

Two hours ago, on the coast of Gotham, Harley kicked the trash can in boredom, waved at Ivy who was walking towards him, and complained: "Xiaohong, what's there? You've been there for so long to buy a drink .”

"The corpse of a stray dog." Ivy said casually and threw a bottle of iced Coke to Harry.

"Stray dogs? Pu——" After taking the drink, Harry stuck out his tongue in disgust: "That's disgusting, is it the kind of dirty and boring thing? Just hearing it makes me feel so boring!"

"Then let's find something interesting to do."

"Like robbing a jewelry store?" Harry suggested. At this moment, she noticed that the tourists on the beach suddenly stopped what they were doing and gathered in front of the huge advertising screen erected by the pier.

She straightened up and looked over, only to see a scary face appear on the screen. It was the face of a scarecrow.

The author has something to say: in?Minerva's owl?It's time for you to wake up~

Bruce, who was on a business trip, is finally back!