Chapter 2075: Knight's Night of Terror (XIX)

"I'm not from Gotham."

The first rule of Schiller's nonsense: 90% true, 10% false, or 90% false, 10% true.

"I come from a very far away place, and we met only because Batman and I took a cross-universe journey at the same time."

"The distance of that place is beyond the imagination of time and space, and it cannot be reached by any conventional means. The reason why I appear here is naturally because I was invited by Batman."

Peter's voice echoed in the empty lower level of the Batcave. Batman did not speak, because he also wanted to know what Peter's plan was.

But he will soon regret his decision, because the second rule of Schiller's nonsense: Anyone can be wrong, but it is definitely not me.

Batman made this decision naturally because he had a plan in his mind, and every elaborate plan of Batman must start with the conspiracy of the Joker.

Peter's brain turned rapidly, connecting every clue he learned, in addition to adding his own understanding, there are also certain fabrications and associations.

Because the third rule of Schiller's nonsense is: in addition to being rigorous, it must also be exciting.

"Before I came here, the city had just experienced a chaos. The culprit was naturally the notorious super criminal Joker. He got a poison called Titan poison and claimed to use it to destroy Gotham."

But except for Batman, no one knew that his fanfare was just a cover for another evil conspiracy.

Sure enough, the three people in the cage frowned. Jason didn't realize that he was constantly leaning forward and listening to what Peter said with an overly concerned attitude.

Peter was a little relieved. It really worked. The fourth rule of Schiller's nonsense: Don't lie, just change the narrative method to create enough suspense.

"This evil plan against Batman did not start a few months ago, but about a year ago."

Peter stared at Jason's face. Jason was a little confused by his look. Peter lowered his voice and said, "The Joker needs a knife to cut through the hard bat armor and cause real mental damage to Batman."

"He knows that Batman has extremely strong willpower, and ordinary disasters can't break through his iron wall of defense. Then the Joker has only one choice left-taking away a father's child."

"The candidate needs to have the following characteristics: close relationship with Batman, always with Batman, lack of vigilance, and unstable mental state."

Jason glared at Peter. He knew Peter was talking about him. Just as he was about to refute, Peter interrupted him.

"In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't meet these characteristics. Whoever takes the initiative to leave the warm and safe nest will be unlucky."

Jason pursed his lips and said nothing.

How could he not regret it? At that time, he was so angry that he left without any weapons, communicator and beacon. This was not just running away from home without money, but he didn't even wear a piece of clothing.

"The Joker succeeded." Peter raised his head slightly and said, "But he always succeeds. As long as he waits long enough, there will always be careless young people who will make mistakes."

The intense emotions that had just surged in Jason's heart calmed down a little. He felt that what Peter said made sense.

If his kidnapping was indeed a long-planned conspiracy of the Joker, then it would be someone else if not him. There is a thief who can steal for a thousand days, but there is no such thing as a thief who can steal for a thousand days.

Batman frowned slightly. He did know something about some of the Joker's conspiracies, but at that time he did not connect Jason's disappearance with other things.

"Batman will definitely look for his assistant if he is missing." At this time, Peter had a flash of inspiration and connected another thing with what he was talking about.

"Of course the Joker will not let Batman find his missing assistant. He will hide him well, but at the same time he will let Batman find other people, some bombs he has buried long ago - people infected with the Joker virus."

"This is not abrupt. Batman just stumbled upon some mentally ill patients with unknown symptoms on the way to find his Robin. After analysis, it was found that their symptoms were somewhat similar to a certain aspect of the Joker."

"Batman will treat anything related to the Joker with caution, so he took them away, and this was exactly what the Joker wanted."

Batman was not surprised by this analysis, because he did not hesitate to speculate the Joker with the greatest malice. In his confrontation with the Joker, any seemingly accidental event may be carefully arranged. They both judged others by themselves, which was natural and reasonable.

"Batman brought these patients back to the base, but he couldn't do anything to them. Although they were infected with the Joker virus, they were still victims. Batman would not take any inhumane measures to treat them."

"But he also couldn't solve the Joker virus, or he could, but it would take time, and the Joker wouldn't give Batman time, so the Titan virus plan was launched."

Jason frowned deeply. He found that there was a dark line that he had never thought about carefully, which seemed to have been surrounding the city and affecting everyone.

"The Joker deliberately made a big noise, and Batman had no choice but to stop the Joker's actions in order to prevent him from really using the Titan virus to create more evil criminals or to make the city fall into injustice."

"The next is the biggest trap - the Joker is dead."

The Penguin and the Scarecrow frowned. The Penguin raised his eyebrows and was about to sneer. The Scarecrow grabbed the prison railing with one hand and said, "At that time, I thought that the guy would not die so easily. The virus in his body had very strange properties."

"So when I heard about his death, I went to find his ashes to see if I could get that virus out. Come."

"Of course you can't get it, because the virus has been transferred." Peter sighed and half-truthfully speculated: "There can be many Joker viruses, but there can only be one Joker."

"On the other hand, anyone infected with the Joker virus may become the Joker."

"So the Joker prepared several bodies of virus-infected people for himself to resurrect." Penguin said in surprise: "Why did he go around in such a big circle? Either don't die from the beginning, what's the point of resurrecting after death?"

"Those Joker virus-infected people are indeed the bodies he prepared, but they are not his best choice." Peter stopped and turned to look at Batman.

Batman's expression made everyone present understand that their inner guess at this time was correct.

"Batman is the body that Joker likes to resurrect the most."

Jason felt suffocated for a moment, and then a greater fear came over him. He rushed to the railing, grabbed the railing with both hands, looked at Batman and asked: "He is in your body? You can see him, right? So you know I... I..."

Facing Jason's angry eyes, Batman nodded slowly and looked at the darkness behind Jason, where a pale hand stretched out, constantly tracing the letter on Jason's face.

And Batman also clearly felt the urge to do so.

Jason closed his eyes painfully, and the fingers holding the railing began to turn pale due to blood loss.

"What did you say?" Scarecrow said in disbelief: "The Joker wants to be resurrected in Batman's body? He is crazy..."

"Don't you want to?" Peter hit the point directly.

Scarecrow was choked.

The Penguin rolled his eyes, cleared his throat and said, "We all know how powerful Batman is, but we won't do this because we know that if we enter Batman's body, only Batman will be left."

"But it may not be the case for the Joker, so this is worth a try, but the conditions are not sufficient." Peter shook his head and said, "To defeat Batman on the spiritual level, it is not enough to have a virus infection. He needs at least 20% of assistance."

"First, fear gas." Peter snapped his fingers, then pointed to the Scarecrow and said, "This is also a poison that can affect people's spirits and disintegrate people's willpower, which can give the Joker a greater advantage on the spiritual level."

"What nonsense are you talking about." The Scarecrow raised his voice "I infected Batman with the fear gas, what does it have to do with the Joker?"

"How do you know it's not under his influence?" Peter spread his hands and said, "Why can't the disaster you provoked be the knife that the Joker had planned to use to stab Batman?"

"How is it possible?!" Scarecrow roared, "This is a plan I designed, and I executed it..."

"Don't flatter yourself." Penguin sneered disdainfully, "Have you been fooled by that lunatic? How many times have you made wedding dresses for others?"

"Besides, did you execute the plan yourself? Just relying on your shabby laboratory, or your two arms that are not as thick as Batman's eyelashes when twisted together?"

Scarecrow glared at Penguin.

"No matter what, the disaster of fear gas must be within the Joker's expectations. As I said before, it's just a matter of sooner or later. As long as he is willing to wait, there will always be such a day."

Peter continued: "The fear gas gives Batman internal pressure, and the destruction of Gotham City gives him external pressure."

"Using the memory of torturing Batman's assistant as a knife, with the help of continuous multi-party pressure, the Joker's goal is to torture Batman."

"If Batman's spirit collapses, then the Joker can complete his rebirth in him, and if he does not collapse immediately, then the Joker will continue to interfere and torture him, making him unable to concentrate on dealing with the disaster in reality until the day he makes a mistake."

"In this city, disasters are endless, and pressures are endless. No matter how tough the string is, it will be worn out one day. Batman also knows this."

"So how to solve it?" Peter raised a question. The fifth rule of Schiller's fabrication: less facts, more questions, and other people's imagination is the best answer.

The Penguin snorted twice and said, "Of course he has a way to solve it. He has a room full of unlucky people infected with the Joker virus. As long as one of them is resurrected as the Joker, wouldn't Batman's crisis be solved?"

"You idiot, you only thought of the first level." Scarecrow immediately seized the opportunity to sneer: "Wouldn't the Joker have thought of this? He wants Batman to do this."

"Kill others to save yourself." Scarecrow sneered and said: "If Batman really does this, then he shouldn't be called a superhero or the Dark Knight, just go to Arkham Asylum."

Jason's Adam's apple moved, he looked up at Batman, he didn't believe Batman would do this.

"Batman certainly didn't do this." Peter said affirmatively.

Just when Jason was relieved, Peter dragged out a long tone and continued.

"In fact, as early as when the Joker took the first step, Batman had a perfect plan, and when I came here as the last piece of the puzzle, the plan could finally begin."