Chapter 2073 Knight's Night of Terror (XVII)

With Gordon's help, Peter sorted out the timeline.

Two months ago, the Joker created the Titan virus. When he got the virus, he realized that a good opportunity had come.

So he pretended to use the virus to create more villains, and even broke into Arkham Asylum, but was eventually subdued.

This seems to be another evil plan of the Joker to destroy Gotham, but Xiang Zhuang dances with the sword to aim at Pei Gong, and these are just appearances.

The Joker privately used the Joker virus in his blood to infect five ordinary people, and determined that the Joker virus would make the infected people have some of the Joker's characteristics.

A month and a half ago, Batman accidentally discovered ordinary people infected with the Joker virus, but at that time he had not fully anticipated the Joker's plan, but was still running around for the Titan virus, just sending these infected ordinary people to the base.

A month ago, Batman was transfused with blood by the Joker, and the two had a decisive battle in the Gotham Grand Theater. In the end, the Joker died because of the outbreak of the Titan virus and failed to get the antidote in time.

Three weeks ago, Batman entered the fighting world and met Peter, and was even willing to pay a huge price to let Peter come to his universe.

Two weeks ago, Peter began to explore the city and found the clues that Scarecrow buried the fear gas to create an accident. He formulated and began to implement his plan. The first step was to kidnap Black Mask.

A week ago, Scarecrow and Penguin reached a deal. Penguin provided Scarecrow with arms and military transportation to implement his fear gas destruction plan.

A few days ago, Gordon discovered the base where Batman detained Joker virus infected people, and the two had a disagreement.

It can be seen that there are two strange things about Batman's behavior in this series of events.

First, Batman already had two Robins, but he still insisted on getting Peter here, even at a huge price.

Second, Batman locked up all the Joker virus infected people, but neither gave them treatment nor took very strict detention measures. He just left them there.

It is difficult for Peter not to connect these two points together.

It is certain that Batman did not expect Peter to have his own plan at first, and he acted so decisively.

But Peter must have a place in Batman's original plan, otherwise he would not have needed to spend a lot of money to hire Peter when he already had two young helpers.

So why did Batman hire himself when he had two Robins and a prophet Barbara?

Peter thought, what is the biggest difference between him and the two Robins and Barbara?

What made Batman hire him?

Peter's first thought was his scientific research ability, but he thought it was wrong. Before he told about his scientific research experience, Batman had already shown a clear tendency to recruit him.

So before he introduced himself, what was worth Batman's attention?

At that time, because of the conflict between Jack and Jason, he and Batman tried to stop the fight at the same time, which led to a fight between him and Batman. It was at that time that Batman's attention shifted to him.

So what does Batman value? His force?

Peter's head was already a little fuming.

Is this the world of conspirators? This is no longer a matter of taking one step forward and looking three steps ahead. This is a three-year plan of laying clues and a five-year plan. No matter what it is, it must be deduced to the initial time point to find a trace.

Weaving a web is too difficult! A spider roared in his heart.

But complaining is complaining, Peter still has to think about it. If Batman values ​​his force, especially the part that is stronger than his two Robins, then who is Peter Parker going to deal with in Batman's original plan?

This range of choices is too wide. Gotham is not short of criminals with high force values, but if you think about it carefully, no villain must hire a martial arts master from another universe to fight.

With the experience of being plotted against by Batman just now, Peter understands that no matter which villain Batman wants to deal with, as long as he prepares early, it is difficult to fail. It seems that there is no force-based villain that cannot be dealt with by him.

Then Peter thought of Batman's act of imprisoning patients with the Joker virus. He thought that this act should have something to do with his hiring himself.

And if we follow the previous line of thought, Batman actually wanted to get rid of the Joker's entanglement by letting others become the Joker, so why didn't he do it immediately?

Although Batman has been busy with Peter's special plan since the outbreak of the Fear Gas disaster, he still has time to go to the base to carry out the operation.

Peter felt that he still lacked some understanding of Batman, so he told his analysis to Poison Ivy and Gordon, wanting to see if he could use their understanding of Batman to analyze the reason why Batman did this.

Poison Ivy didn't give any useful clues, but Gordon said: "No, Batman won't do this."

"Those infected with the Joker virus are patients, not criminals. Even if they are criminals, even criminals like the Joker, Batman wants to save them."

"If he resurrects the Joker in someone else, wouldn't it be equivalent to not only not saving them, but also harming them? Batman is a superhero, how could he do this?"

Peter was stunned, then he patted his forehead and found that he was limited by his own thinking.

His previous plan to resurrect the Joker was to resurrect out of thin air, because Peter had participated in Helen and Venom's plan to steal electricity before, and the red bee in his body had eaten a lot of magic power, which made Peter understand magic a little.

So the resurrection in his concept was similar to drawing a magic circle to perform some operations, and then resurrecting people out of thin air.

So when he thought of Batman's resurrection plan, he didn't notice that if the resurrection had a carrier, it would definitely involve some ethical and moral issues.

If you resurrect the Joker in someone else, isn't it equivalent to killing that person himself? Killing an innocent patient to revive a super criminal is completely beyond the moral bottom line. Not to mention superheroes, ordinary people would not be willing to do this in most cases.

"Wait a minute." Poison Ivy obviously knows more about the criminal Joker, so she said: "This is the Joker's real conspiracy."

Poison Ivy analyzed quickly: "In fact, after the Joker virus infection experiment, he could have killed the experimental subject. He is not a merciful person. Killing is easier than drinking water."

"But he didn't do it. It is very likely that he knew that Batman would not ignore these patients. Even the clues of these Joker virus infected people were deliberately left by the Joker to Batman."

"So what is the purpose of the Joker doing this?" Gordon asked.

"This will put Batman in a dilemma." Poison Ivy stretched out two fingers, snapped one of them, and then said: "Either endure the Joker living in your body, or kill the soul of the innocent person in the body of the Joker virus infected person and let the Joker be resurrected in someone else."

"In other words, the Joker wants to lure Batman to kill innocent people in order to get rid of the pain."

"And the Titan virus is not the beginning of this plan. This plan should have started when the Joker kidnapped Jason Todd."

"Because only when the Joker keeps playing the tortured images of Jason in Batman's mind can Batman feel pain and take extreme measures to get rid of the Joker."

"Whether it is Jason Todd's disappearance, the outbreak of the Titan virus, the appearance of Joker virus infected people, and now the disaster of fear gas, they are all for Batman to make a choice."

"Sacrifice yourself, forever trapped in the pain of memories, or even become the next Joker, or harm others, kill an innocent person with your own hands, and resurrect your enemy at the same time?"

Poison Ivy's voice fell, Peter and Gordon were speechless.

"What a lunatic!" Gordon cursed. Even now, he still had a new understanding of the Joker's madness.

"What if someone else resurrected the Joker?" Peter thought and said, "Not those patients with the Joker virus, but resurrected out of thin air. That's what I planned from the beginning."

"How do you plan to resurrect out of thin air?" Poison Ivy asked a little surprised: "Do you have the relevant power?"

"I have a certain amount of magic energy, but I'm not sure it can be used in this world." Peter said seriously: "But I know that there must be magic in this world."

Poison Ivy nodded and said: "Indeed, if you use magic, you may be able to resurrect out of thin air, but the problem is that the essence of magic is borrowing. Who are you going to borrow from?"

At this moment, Peter suddenly had a glimmer of enlightenment.

"Wait a minute, ma'am, does your universe magic also rely on borrowing money?"

Poison Ivy nodded again and said, "Most of them do, or they reach a contract. For example, after I reach a contract with some mysterious beings, I can use their power, but I have to do things for them accordingly."

"That seems to be similar to my universe." Peter's face suddenly showed a complicated expression, and he continued.

"So what if, I mean if, I borrowed their debt, but went to a place they couldn't go to, what would happen?"

Poison Ivy opened her mouth slightly, and she instinctively answered, "A place they can't go? But where are they... Wait, you don't want to default on your debt, do you?"

Peter showed a helpless expression and said, "It's not that I want to default on my debt, but someone wants me to default on my debt."

He pressed his forehead and thought, the biggest difference between him and all Batman's assistants and people he knows is that he is not a local resident, but comes from a very distant universe?

Batman can't be completely ignorant of the magic of this universe. He certainly knows that resurrection requires a price, and the price of resurrecting a person out of thin air is probably very high. It is unfair for anyone to pay the price for his plan.

But is this price necessary?

It might have been the case before, after all, even if the local indigenous residents ran to the ends of the earth, they would still be caught up by these powerful beings.

But Spider-Man would not.

Then Peter realized that this Batman had watched the entire game of the existences in the universe of Dr. Schiller, Iron Man, etc.

Whether it was Dr. Schiller, Mr. Stark, His Highness Loki, or His Majesty the Supreme Sorcerer, they all had some magical attributes and looked difficult to mess with.

In other words, Batman had decided from the very beginning to spend money to hire Peter, with the purpose of letting Peter borrow money from those powerful beings, resurrect the Joker out of thin air and return to the city on the spot to default on the debt.

Then there would be two consequences. One is that the creditor simply had no ability to chase to another universe, and the debt was completely ruined. The other is that the creditor chased after them, and was beaten up by these difficult people, or even directly put into the pot.

Wait, Peter thought again, Batman saw Dr. Schiller's performance throughout the game, and even bargained with him, and probably understood that Schiller's style was to take money instead of life.

So suppose Peter returned to the city with a group of creditors, Peter went in, and the creditors were locked outside.

Did Batman have already thought that there would be a group of people who were not easy to deal with and did not pick up things on the road, and kindly picked up the creditors who knocked on the door?

And as Batman who made this plan and delivered the goods to the door, shouldn’t he also receive some rewards?

Thinking of this, Peter could no longer hold back his sighs.

Batman and the Joker, these two madmen, every duel between them is a seamless piece of clothing woven with time as the spool, emotion as the spindle, observation as the needle, and reasoning as the buckle.

Dressed up, appeared on the stage, and then danced together, creating a double spectacle of human wisdom and madness.