The Collection of The End

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Gotham.

Arkham Asylum.

This is a psychiatric nursing home located in the northern suburbs of Gotham. Its full name is "Elizabeth Arkham's Criminal Asylum for Mental Patients." criminal behavior.

Take the madman caught by Batman as an example. The Scarecrow spread poison gas, the Riddler planted bombs, and the Mad Hatter hypnotized kidnapping. In addition, all these charges must be preceded by a "massive".

Batman originally sent them to the Gotham Police Station, but Gotham Police stated that they were all lunatic with a doctor's certificate and could not deal with them according to normal legal procedures.

According to the law, mentally ill criminals must be sent to mental sanatoriums for custody, but ordinary mental hospitals dare not accept these dangerous criminals.

In desperation, Batman had to acquire a mental hospital that was originally out of town and relocated it to Gotham to transform it to imprison lunatic criminals.

The founder of that mental hospital was Dr. Amadeus Arkham. The purpose of his creation of the mental hospital was different from that of other mental institutions. It was not to "detain" and "recuperate" abandoned people, but Really trying to "cure" them, which may have something to do with the founder having a severely schizophrenic mother.

The difference from other schizophrenics with different personalities is that Ms. Elizabeth Arkham's personalities are all her own, mainly as a woman, mother and MD, "they" can clearly perceive each other , and could not agree on anything, as long as she was awake, she would fight, and Amadeus even had to use restraint clothing and sedatives to control her to prevent herself from hurting herself.

Logically speaking, this battered doctor would not accept the recruitment and acquisition of the Wayne Group until Bruce Wayne met with him to discuss, and Ms. Elizabeth broke off her restraint again and rushed to the dean's office to teach her son a lesson.

A "little girl" personality who instantly suppressed all other personalities was born, and then she sold her son.

"So, why does the richest man in Gotham carry cookies to coax children?"

"Maybe because I always have a childlike innocence?"

Amadeus didn't want an answer either. He quickly completed the handover procedures and moved the nursing home to Gotham. After all, it was a surprise that his mother only needed to eat cookies every once in a while to maintain a normal life.

Although his mother always called Bruce uncle, it still made him very dissatisfied.

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"Hi~bat~ here's a bad news and a worse news~ which would you like to hear first?"

After Batman stepped off the Batmobile, he saw the Joker hanging himself on the street lamp with a handful of cards in his hand.

He was quite self-conscious.

"[Worse news.]" Batman said, looking at the Joker.

"The worse news is that~ the staff of the madhouse have been influenced and controlled~" After the clown finished speaking, he began to wriggle in mid-air: "Damn it! Your order is wrong!"

"[What's the bad news?]" Batman continued to ask.

"The bad news is that the Scarecrow, the Riddler and the Mad Hatter are all running out~ They are using their methods to influence and control the staff of the madhouse~" The clown continued to twist: "Damn it! You got the order wrong and made me look like a clown!"

"[Then what was your role in this matter?]"

"A poor boss who tried to recruit but got rejected~" The Joker twisted and swung around: "They're obviously not interested in my proposed positions as mascot, announcer and ventriloquist~"

"[Because I run a zoo, you want to open a circus to compete?]" Batman thought for a while, then said.

"Gah!" The rope on the clown's body was loosened, and it spun off from the street lamp, and the rope stretched straight when it was about to touch the ground, turning him into a very funny posture of head and feet, and at the same time his hands The poker was scattered all over the place.

"It's impossible!" he yelled. "Why does the bat understand what I'm doing?!"

"[Because I'm Batman.]" Batman pushed down his mask and walked over to the door of the Arkham Asylum over the upside-down Joker.

The real reason is that as long as it is not "chaotic evil", a person's "behavior" always has its "purpose", skipping the process and directly making it "achievable" or "completely unachievable" can make the "behavior" stop, and this It is much faster than taking time and effort to stop the "behavior". If the "behavior" is really blocked, the other party may perform more intensified "behavior" in order to achieve the "purpose", which will only be more troublesome.

The Scarecrow, the Riddler and the Mad Hatter, these three madmen's methods are all attacks on the mind in a sense, but they have no effect on themselves.

The Riddler has little power on its own, and it takes time to set up crime scenes and riddles. It can be said that he is the weakest of the three.

The Mad Hatter... He somehow got the wrong nerve and wanted to hypnotize Batman into the heroine of "Alice in Wonderland", but every time this hypnosis would bounce back, turning himself into a rabbit with a pocket watch.

The scarecrow's fear gas is really powerful, and it can make people see the most feared things, and after Batman accidentally inhaled it, he saw the crime alley of the year...and the strangeness of the three Brando's who suddenly jumped out and shot the criminal's head For women, it's more of an unreal sense of humor than the "fear" of seeing their parents die.

Of course, this kind of "weakness" is only for Batman himself. Ordinary people are afraid that they will be powerless to fight back, so he now has to rescue the controlled and influenced asylum employees and lock them up again. .

Among these employees, the most special one is Hugo Strange, a professor of psychiatry at Gotham State University and the chief of the "Indian Hill" laboratory set up by the Wayne Group to cure madness. Superintendent, his research direction is to use hallucinogens to make people completely another person, so that those "chaotic evil" lunatics may "return to normal" and to a certain extent for their own use.

But the problem is that Hugo is a "chaotic neutral" that is extremely close to "chaotic evil". If the technology in his hand is used for evil, it is quite troublesome. If he is subtly influenced by the contact with those lunatics, the faction An offset has occurred...

No, no if, the clown just appeared as a chandelier and the owner of the circus, already implying that Hugo caused the escape, but he still chose to put the crime on his own head. What is the purpose...

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Batman's way of subduing the mad hospital nurses and doctors went smoothly, but when he passed a corner, he was sprayed with fear gas in his face without sensing any threat.

No, it's not just fear gas in it...

The corridor of the hospital gradually twisted and transformed, and finally turned into the appearance of a crime alley, but he was not Batman standing on a high place overlooking all this, but little Bruce Wayne who was holding his parents' hands and jumping.

"[The poison gas of fear is really a magical thing, it can make people see what they fear the most, but people's memory has a self-protection function. If the event happens for too long, this sense of fear will be dulled, even if It's me, and I can't deduce the state of the affected person.]" Hugo's voice came from all directions indiscriminately: "[But if my special hallucinogen is used at the same time, the mental state of the affected person will be changed. Really go back to the moment when the most feared thing happened, when even a few words can deduce a lot, you say? 'Have lost the beloved Batman'?]"

Tsk... When Hugo accepted the employment of the Wayne Group, he published an analysis of Batman, and made it clear that he hoped to find out the true identity of Batman through his own means. It's an employee's personal hobby, but now, it's clear that he has to pay for his arrogance.

"[It's useless to resist, this is not to hypnotize people into another person, but to remind people of their former self. The more you 'force', the clearer the past situation will be, and when I do not intend to cause you any When threatened, your alertness to danger won't make you 'wake up',]" Hugo continued: "[Then, come on, Batman, say whatever, when you are weak and helpless and face the loss of your loved one What will you say when you are in this situation?”

Batman, whose mind has almost completely returned to his childhood, maintains the only remaining sobriety, watching the appearance and approach of the weak criminal who is deeply ingrained in his memory, and little Bruce is even scared to the point of trembling.

This time there are no three weird women to save the field, he has to save himself, although it won't really hurt, but Batman shouts "Dad" or "Mom"...

He is just a [little boy], and in this situation there is no [power] to protect himself, unless he has a way to become [instantly] powerful...

"[Anything you can say, even broken ravings and words, I can—]"

“【SHAZAM!】”

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