Chapter 1662 No Time to Die (Twenty-Five)

The Joker called the police.

That's right, he almost rolled over the sofa and ran to the telephone station, dialing the Gotham Police Department with the old and worn-out telephone.

When Gordon arrived at the Joker's house, Spider-Man was holding the Joker with a knife in one hand and the Joker with the other. The experienced sheriff couldn't help but open his eyes wide in shock and yelled at Spider-Man.

"Spider-Man, what are you doing? Do you want to kill him?!"

Seeing a circle of policemen pointing guns at him outside the door, Spider-Man immediately let go of his hands, raised his hands, and said to them: "Hey, you misunderstood, I just saw that the stubble on his face hadn't been trimmed for a long time, but I didn't find a razor in his house, so I could only use this knife."

The Joker got up from the ground in a hurry, rushed to the farthest wall, hit it head-on, turned around and pressed his hands tightly against the wall, then pointed a finger at Spider-Man and said: "Take him away!!!"

Gordon put down the gun and glanced at the Joker , looked at Spider-Man, then looked at the Joker, he sighed, and then said to Spider-Man: "No matter what you want to do, it's wrong to break into someone's house with a knife."

"But I didn't break into someone's house with a knife. This knife was in the kitchen..."

"Okay, listen, Spider-Man, you come out first, have you asked Batman for his opinion on this matter?"

Spider-Man put the knife on the coffee table next to him, followed Gordon out the door, and then said: "No, I didn't tell him, but I think he should be able to guess it."

Gordon looked back at Spider-Man, and the surveillance screen in the Batcave showed that Gordon glanced at the camera.

Gordon called Spider-Man out and said, "Listen, kid, I know you may be angry about what the Joker did, but we can't arrest him without evidence."

"And similarly, you can't assume he's a criminal and threaten him with a weapon when he hasn't committed a crime. I believe Batman has told you this truth, and please promise me not to be blinded by anger, okay?"

Gordon seemed very calm, obviously expecting the current situation. Basically, every Robin who has just joined the Bat Family will have such an experience.

After spending some time with Batman, Robins will have an idea, that is, "Maybe I can do better than Batman", and some young police officers in the Gotham Police Department also think so.

But the Robins' reckless actions to arrest criminals did not bring any results. First of all, they rashly broke into the villains' base camp and easily fell into a trap. Even if they were good at martial arts, the villains could call the police without evidence.

Gordon couldn't remember how many times he had appeared in the Iceberg Restaurant to stop Robins from beating the Penguin. At that time, the Robins' eyes also made him feel stinging, as if he had become the vicious dog of this group of bad guys.

But this is not the case. Could Gordon not know that the Penguin was not doing good things? Could he not know that there were countless illegal transactions in the Iceberg Restaurant? Could he not know that even if the Penguin was beaten to a pulp, he deserved it?

But if he did not abide by this remaining little order, then the Penguin would not abide by it either. The result would be that illegal transactions would no longer be limited to the Iceberg Restaurant, but would appear in every place where collusion between officials and businessmen could reach, and in the homes of every lower-class citizen in Gotham.

At that time, even Batman would not be able to check door to door, or save every lower-class citizen who was coerced by the ruling class.

Gotham is now a poisonous flower that has rotted to the root. The few conscientious people who remain are constantly loosening the soil and removing insects, not to restore it to health, but just to prevent it from completely dying, but to survive, and it must survive.

So in a sense, Gordon and Batman are both accomplices of Gotham's darkness, because they did not choose to destroy Gotham, but to maintain the current situation as much as possible to slow down its decline.

Both of them have long seen this and have been indifferent to all accusations related to this, which is also the most important reason for the disagreement between Batman and his Robin.

Robins often ask Batman two questions: "Why don't you try harder to save it?", "Why not destroy it if you can't save it?" Batman never answers.

Robins often make a few messes: rushing into the villain's house, beating them up and letting the police come to clean up; rashly stepping into the villain's trap and sacrificing the police to rescue, Gordon never complains.

Because they both know very well that it is difficult and should not be said to a group of teenagers that you should soberly see the reality, accept the dark status quo, and struggle hard to survive.

These are not things that children should consider. The almost utopian saviorism in their minds is the most precious thing of the human species and should not be destroyed rudely, at least not at the hands of their close ones.

Therefore, all the smart and sober people in this city tacitly do not answer any questions from this group of doubtful birds, and remain silent, forever silent, just like Batman, just like Gotham.

In Gordon's opinion, Spider-Man's break-in into the Joker's home was just another fruitless and reckless attempt by these brave birds, so he didn't say much, just patted Spider-Man on the shoulder and left.

Two days later, the Joker rushed directly into the Gotham Police Department and turned himself in.

Without waiting for the police to ask, he told all his crimes in detail.

"Chief Gordon, you have to believe me, I really want to help him." Spider-Man was almost wronged. He grabbed Gordon's arm outside the police station and started complaining.

"I went to his home that day. From the environment in his home, I found that he might not be in a good financial situation and was in a tight financial situation. I thought it was because he didn't work hard, so when he went out that day, I followed him."

"I have spider sense that can predict danger, so I can feel that he didn't find me. I thought he was going to rob, kidnap or rob a bank or something, but he was working part-time in a chemical dye factory, helping the chemical factory dump unqualified sewage."

"Of course, this job is not very legal, but he did work very hard. Because it was secretly dumping sewage, the factory's large trucks could not be used. Small container trucks could only be used to pull it to the beach and then dump it into the sea by manpower."

"He worked for five or six hours in such hot weather and ran at least three or four times. Of course, he seemed to have intercepted some dangerous chemicals himself, but the boss of the factory also deducted his salary..."

Accompanied by Spider-Man's narration, Batman, who appeared in the monitoring room of the Batcave without wearing a bat suit and in the image of Bruce Wayne, recalled what happened two days ago with a slightly hopeless expression.

In the dark factory, only a small security room was lit. Two figures were entangled in front of the security room. One of them was a slightly plump man shouting.

"This job is twenty dollars! You can do it or not! Do you think I'm afraid of you just because you painted your face, put on lipstick, and pretended to be the terrorist clown?!"

"I tell you, even if the real clown comes, I will blow his head with a shotgun! Only that sissy Batman will play a trick with him, don't fucking expect to scare me!"

"Take the money and get out of here. You don't have to come here anymore. I hate you money-hungry vampires the most. Get out of here!"

Two bills fell weakly. The clown, wearing a wrinkled short-sleeved shirt, bent down to pick up the money, rubbed his nose, and flicked the bills in his hand with his fingers.

When he turned around, in the night of Gotham behind him, a figure squatted on the top of the factory building. It was Spider-Man who followed the clown here.

Spider-Man frowned and stared at the scene below with an unprecedented serious expression. His eyes were more focused on the arrogant security guard, so he didn't see the evil smile on the corner of the Joker's mouth when he turned around.

If Batman is the greatest detective in the world, then the Joker is the most manipulative criminal in the world. He is good at using all the emotions of all people.

Many people think that the Joker is best at stimulating the dark side of people's hearts, but at the same time, he is also very good at using the bright side of people's hearts, and he knows that the righteous heart burning with anger will be more hurtful than evil.

From the first time I saw Spider-Man, the foreshadowing began.

The Joker is just a poor mental patient. In addition to fighting against Batman, he still has to work hard, buy groceries and cook. He will be hungry without the discounted goods in the supermarket. He is just an ordinary person who is poor and destitute. He commits crimes because of life-this is the first step to gain recognition and goodwill.

In addition to rebelling against Batman, he also abides by the rules of this society and works honestly, but he is still oppressed. What is wrong with the disadvantaged and poor ordinary people? It must be caused by the unfairness of this society! ——This is the second step to wash away his crazy and cruel criminal experience.

The Joker knows very well that Batman's group of simple Robins are like all heroes in this world. They emphasize that they should deal with things based on facts. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Even if criminals are oppressed, they should be stopped.

If it were Batman's Robins in the past, they would have jumped down from the building and punched the security guard. After knocking the security guard down, they would say to the Joker from a high position: "Even if you are a lunatic and a criminal, I will not sit idly by when you encounter injustice, because I am a hero."

The Joker would only laugh wildly in his heart.

Yes, this bad-mouthed security guard often deducted the wages of the workers he hired to dump sewage, but without him, even this tiring and unprofitable work would not fall into the hands of those weak and low-level people who could only do odd jobs, and the supervisor would only contract it to relatives who had a good relationship with him.

They will hate the hero, the Joker thought in between laughs, he so easily reversed black and white, good and evil, and played with people's hearts, but no one could stop him, not even Batman, because this is human nature.

But Spider-Man did not jump down, the Joker felt the anger burning in the child's heart from a distance of hundreds of meters.

But Spider-Man didn't jump down, nor did he punch the security guard. He just squatted quietly on the roof of the building and watched the farce.

It doesn't matter, the Joker thought, the cleverness of the Robins is their disaster, and soon this simple bird will find that Batman is not the same as he imagined, and the Joker is the same.