Chapter 572: Lex's Journey to Gotham (Part 2)

When Lex and Cobblepot met and looked at each other, they suddenly had a premonition that the other person might be very similar to themselves.

This similarity does not refer to the background or the resources controlled, but the similarity in spirit and personality, that is, they are both born perverts.

There are many similarities between people with antisocial personality. The temperament of indifference, cruelty and irritability cannot be concealed by any type of appearance. When two murderers meet, they can always find resonance in each other's souls at the first time.

To a certain extent, this kind of people can be said to be the opposite of the theory of human nature. Many of them did not become perverts because of childhood trauma or psychological shadows. They were born like this and cannot be saved.

Cobblepot has been doing well recently. He has become Alberto's right-hand man and his status in the twelve families has been rising. It is foreseeable that when Alberto really becomes the next godfather, Cobblepot can engrave his surname in the twelve families.

In terms of emotions, he got along well with the people in the vocational school, and recruited all the children in Gotham, satisfying his desire for power. At the same time, he could learn from Victor, who was like his father, constantly guiding and educating him.

But as mentioned before, Cobblepot got a better life, had teachers and friends, and had a foreseeable bright future, but he did not become a sunny and lively person. He was still gloomy, indifferent, lacked sympathy for others, and could get pleasure from violence and control of others.

This personality does not change with the change of the external environment. If it is outside Gotham, his best destination is a mental hospital, but in Gotham, this disease cannot be treated, nor does it need to be treated, or it is just a simple antisocial personality, which is already a model patient.

After the two of them were stunned for a while, they both turned their eyes away and did not continue to look at each other. At this time, Victor came out of another room and saw the two of them stunned there. He first walked up to take the stack of documents in Cobblepot's hand, and then patted Lex on the shoulder.

Lex followed him into the room, while Cobblepot continued to prepare experimental supplies outside. He turned his head to look at the door from time to time. Through the frosted glass, he could see Victor and Lex sitting face to face. Victor seemed to be asking Lex some questions, and Lex answered very fluently.

When the two came out, Victor seemed to be in a good mood. He introduced Cobblepot: "This is Lex Luthor. He will also be an assistant in the laboratory in the future. After 5 o'clock in the evening, he needs to borrow the laboratory for independent experiments, so remember not to lock the door."

Cobblepot rarely turned his head to look at Victor, but nodded while busy with the things in his hands.

He quickly packed up the tools, then turned and walked out the door to leave. Victor followed him out, put his arm around his shoulders and said, "Don't be sad, Cobert. I don't let you do independent experiments because you are too young now, even younger than him."

"I don't know what's wrong with you. You are a teenager and you are planning to do such dangerous experiments. When I was your age, I only knew how to read scientific magazines or burn my father's tires with fire."

"Don't be too anxious, kid. You should study step by step, get into high school, and then go to college. When you go to college, you will have plenty of time to do experiments."

"It takes time for water to freeze into ice, and it's the same for people to grow up."

Cobert pursed his lips and said, "No, I'm not jealous of him, it's just..."

Cobert shook his head. He didn't know how to explain his intuition to Victor. Facing Victor, he was always ashamed to talk about his past, for example, he was once the Godfather's killer, for example, he killed many people, and for example, he is still killing people now.

Whenever he entered a normal life, Cobert felt repulsive to his abnormal desire to be outside the society, but whenever he took action, he could not control himself. He could not give up the pleasure of persecuting and controlling others.

He could not tell Victor, because he was this kind of person, so he could keenly feel that the other party was also this kind of person, and he could not use his black history as evidence to remind Victor.

He took a deep breath, and finally shook his head, said nothing, and slowly walked away along the corridor.

The sky gradually darkened. After Victor finished his work, he said to Lex who was standing in front of the laboratory table to organize the materials: "Thank you for your help. Next is your free time. What you want is also ready. Remember to pay attention to safety. I'm leaving first."

"Thank you." Lex smiled at Victor, and Victor also shook his head slightly and turned away.

After Victor left, as the sky became darker and darker, Lex was busy with his own experiments. He was preparing a chemical agent to be launched into the sky to disperse the rain clouds.

He first has to make the shells and then prepare the launching device, so now he is conducting chemical experiments, and the subsequent mechanical manufacturing will be carried out in another laboratory.

Mixing chemical preparations is a job that requires a lot of concentration. He must constantly observe the reaction and cannot be distracted for a moment. Lex stared at the reaction in the test tube intently. The cold light of the laboratory shone on his face through the glass of the test tube, leaving a scar of light.

Suddenly, the shadow obscured part of the light. Lex suddenly flashed to the side. With a "sizzle", the sharp knife cut his upper arm and blood and liquid splashed out.

The test tube was thrown out, and the reagent inside fell to the ground. After contacting the ground, it made a sizzling sound and emitted a wisp of smoke.

With a "click", the whole laboratory fell into darkness. Lex gritted his teeth and looked back. An extremely gloomy face appeared in the darkness. It was Cobert.

When he appeared in the daytime, he just looked a little gloomy, but when night came, the dark and crazy temperament reached its peak. He was like a penguin jumping from the surface of the glacier into the water, from slow to fast, from prey to predator.

"Are you crazy?! Copperpot!!!" Lex shouted, "We just met today, no grudges or hatred!"

"It seems that you don't have a correct understanding of your mental state." Copperpot said in a hoarse voice, "But I went to see a psychiatrist not long ago, and he told me that I was a lunatic."

Copperpot approached Lex with a knife. Lex stepped back, staring at his gloomy and twisted face. Copperpot continued:

"Not only that, he told me that if I meet someone who looks like me one day, he must be a lunatic."

"We are the same kind of people, born killers who cannot be cured, so I must kill you."

Lex felt that Copperpot was unreasonable. He said, "Why do you say I am a killer? I haven't even killed anyone!"

"One day, you will." Although Copperpot's figure is thin, the knife in his hand flashes with cold light. From his posture, it can be seen that this is not the first time he has done this kind of thing. He knows how to use posture to put pressure on the other party.

Lex gritted his teeth and said, "Sure enough, Gotham people are all crazy! Don't you need a reason to kill people?!"

"I said, because we are the same people, I must kill you."

Lex didn't know what to say anymore. Perhaps, this reflects the difference between Metropolis and Gotham.

All the villains in Metropolis have reasons for committing crimes. They are either for profit, for hatred, or for love and pursuit, but they are still committing crimes with ordinary people's logic.

But Gotham is not like that. The crazy people in Gotham may kill people because they ate a piece of steak they liked this morning, or because of some crazy hallucinations and unfounded intuition.

Maybe many people think that it is a crazy behavior to hate because of love and then break the bottom line of law and morality, but in fact it is not the case. When a person's emotions, the driving force generated by emotions, and the behavior generated by the driving force can be perfectly connected into a line, it means that he is still logical and not crazy.

For real lunatics, their emotional driving force and behavior have nothing to do with each other, just like the difference between Lex and Cobblepot.

Because Lex disagreed with Clark's views, he felt very disgusted with him and would go to trouble him, and perhaps he would commit crimes in the future because of dealing with Clark.

His hatred for Clark created a driving force, which led to his criminal behavior.

However, Cobblepot was different from Lex. He was completely unfamiliar with Lex, and there was no hatred, and he didn't even know him. However, he would have intuition and guesses based on this, and this intuition made him want to kill Lex. There was no emotion, no driving force, and no logic that could be connected. It was just a fleeting illusion that became the reason for him to kill.

All the lunatics in Gotham were like this. Their behavior had no internal logic, so no one could completely guarantee that they would not become their target. This was the real horror of Gotham, because you couldn't tie your life safety to whether a lunatic had eaten his favorite steak this morning.

At the moment when Cobblepot raised the dagger, a "snap" sound came from outside the window, and the crisp sound of glass being broken came.

Cobert turned around, and at the moment he turned around, Lex grabbed the test tube rack on the laboratory table behind him and threw it at Cobert.

The test tube rack and the test tubes hit Cobert's back together. The test tubes broke and scratched Cobert's skin, and blood flowed out. Cobert turned his head suddenly, and the gloom completely turned into cruelty and madness. Just as he raised the dagger again, a low and angry voice came from outside the room:

"Thomas! Stop! Stop your evil behavior!!!"

With a loud "bang", there was the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, followed by several heavy footsteps. With a "bang", the door of the room where Lex and Cobert were was knocked open, and a man rushed in.

He was stunned when he came in, as if he didn't expect there were other people in the room, and he knew that the pursuers behind him would not give him too much time to react, so in order to escape, he hesitated for less than a second, and then rushed straight towards Lex.

Lex dodged to the side, but he couldn't avoid it. The tall man grabbed his arm and strangled him from behind. He held Lex hostage and turned around.

At this time, the light outside the door followed the open door and left a bright square on the floor inside the house. A black shadow with pointed ears stood in the square, like a played card.

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