Chapter 2078 Knight's Night of Terror (Twenty-Two)

The disastrous night is over.

The dawn of Gotham is the brightest time of the city. The dark clouds have not yet covered the sky, so a bright and bright red sun that makes people unable to open their eyes hangs in the sky, like those fresh hearts beating again.

Batman took Scarecrow and Penguin to the Gotham Police Department, and Peter was responsible for picking up a group of people in the underground cold storage of Blüdhaven.

Before Peter left, Jason, who was still in the cage, called him. Peter looked back and said, "Sorry, but you can't come out for the time being. It takes time for the symbiote to repair your body."

"Get that thing out." Jason said in a hoarse voice, "I don't need him to give me..."

"This is Batman's order." Peter shook his head and said, "He hopes this thing can heal your wounds, but he is worried about alien life running around outside the cage, so you may have to stay here until the repair is completed."

"And as you can see, I can't change his decision, and I don't have the key to the cage. The symbiote It will provide you with all the energy you need, so you won't feel hungry or thirsty, and maybe after a good night's sleep, everything will be over. "

"Batman's lapdog, huh?" Jason stared at Peter and said, "You listen to him in everything, will you kill for him?"

"I don't kill people." Peter turned his head back, tidied the equipment on his wrist and said, "Usually I don't argue with him, because it's meaningless, I do whatever he tells me to do."

Jason's lips were pursed pale, he shook the bars of the cage vigorously again, and watched Peter turn around to leave. He finally took a deep breath, lowered his head and asked with his eyes down.

"Has Batman really changed? Because of me?"

"I don't know. He was like this when I met him."

"He asked you to cut open the Penguin's body and put poison in it?"

"You sound a little surprised, but as far as I know, Mr. Oswald is not a good man, and he won't cry until he sees the coffin. In this case, no one has the right to accuse Batman of being too extreme."

Jason choked and thought, I accuse Batman of being too extreme? Since I met Batman, there has been a day that I haven't accused him of not being extreme enough.

"Have you seen someone with a mental breakdown?" Peter finally turned around completely, stood in front of the cage, looked at Jason through the bars and said, "Have you visited a mental hospital?"

Jason shook his head slowly, but still looked at Peter with stubborn eyes and said, "You can't convince me, kid, you are a latecomer to Batman, and you don't have any doctrine to uphold in front of me."

"I'm just describing a fact." Peter slowly lowered his head, as if he was recalling something, and showed a hesitant expression, as if he didn't want to say it.

Jason stared at him, annoyed by his attitude. He said, "Do you think there is anything I can't accept until now? I spent a year under the torture of the Joker. Is there anything worse than this?"

"What would you think if I said that the Joker didn't really do anything to you?"

Jason's hand holding the railing was bulging with veins. Peter still maintained that expression and said, "His opponent has always been Batman, not you. You are just a means of torturing Batman."

"Of course, you will think that I must be bragging." Peter licked his lips slowly to relieve his nervousness, but he continued, "One day, I came to the bottomless abyss in a person's mind just out of curiosity."

Peter's body movements obviously increased. He first shrugged his shoulders lightly, and then turned his hands over with his palms facing up to show that he was not hiding anything.

"You can understand that it is part of the Joker, which is the most important reason why I will take the initiative to associate with Batman."

Jason was attracted by what he said. He knew that Peter was telling him that it was not accidental that this young man named Peter Parker appeared in this world, and all this might still be related to the Joker.

"But he is not completely a Joker. He... I don't know what he is. Maybe he is a human, maybe not."

Jason was confused by Peter's confusing words. He finally lost his patience and patted the railing and said, "What do you want to say?"

Peter pursed his lips and said, "Death is not the best evil, and you have the ability to turn it into a gift."

"What?"

"Have you seen a person with a mental breakdown?"

Jason finally realized that Peter would not give up until he got an answer, so he shook his head slowly.

"I've seen crazy people." He answered, "evil, cruel, cold, unreasonable."

"No, I'm not talking about that kind of people." Peter denied, saying, "Those people are perverted and born bad. No matter how crazy they are, they don't deserve sympathy. I'm talking about those human beings who are completely mentally defeated."

Jason looked at him, and a bad premonition rose from the bottom of his heart. Peter put his hands on the table beside him, slightly exerted force on his knuckles, pursed his lips repeatedly, and then said.

"I saw a memory of Schiller there. Maybe he showed it to me, or maybe he kept it there for everyone to see."

"What?"

"A child died. That was his patient, a very poor child with congenital heart disease. It was very unfortunate, but fortunately, his parents let him receive treatment in time."

"The operation was very successful. It is foreseeable that as long as the next few rounds of operations are completed in the same way in the next few years, he will grow up to be a healthy child."

"But things didn't turn out that way." Peter shook his head and said, "His parents gave up on him."

Jason couldn't help but be attracted. He looked at Peter and asked, "Why ? "

"Unreasonable, isn't it?" Peter's tone was filled with anger, but it quickly disappeared. He said, "I have long realized that everyone's love is limited, and some people's love is particularly limited."

"In a peaceful and affluent situation, they are not stingy in making good decisions, or kindness itself protects their reputation and brings them benefits."

"But once the situation changes, it is not even a threat to themselves, but when kindness cannot bring them enough benefits, they will make a completely opposite choice."

Jason understood what he meant. In fact, he has always been very smart, and even in terms of understanding and empathizing with others, he is completely opposite to Batman.

Or he should be like this, because he is not a rich young man who lives a life of luxury. He was born at the bottom of Gotham and has been in the most chaotic and evil areas of the city for a long time.

The kindness he has seen is very limited, but the moments when he has seen others abandon kindness are countless.

"That's it. The child's parents gave up treatment." Peter blinked and said, "When they still had the strength, or even when there was no need to do so."

"Doctors will feel angry, right? Usually they will be sad, helpless, and disappointed with human nature. It is a very bad feeling to watch the life they tried their best to save disappear because of the indifference of others."

"But this doctor is a little special." Peter rubbed the edge of the table with his fingers and said, "This is the first time he has known society and human beings in this way."

"He didn't feel sad or helpless, he just felt very curious. He wanted to know if they could be so indifferent in any situation, so he did an experiment using his professional knowledge. ”

“Maybe not so professional, at least… I didn’t learn the part about professional ethics.”

Peter’s narration was too obscure, and Jason took a while to understand what he was saying. He asked, “You saw the doctor’s memory and what he did to the parents, right?”

Peter nodded and said, “I won’t tell you what I saw, and I won’t tell anyone, but I can describe to you what the ending of the parents was.”

“They had a mental breakdown?”

“Yes, and it was completely artificially influenced. The way to do this must be much simpler than you think. It can be called easy.”

Peter took a deep breath, prepared himself mentally, and then began to describe what he saw.

"At the beginning, they would tear off their clothes with great movements, hit their shoulders or heads against the wall, dig their skin with their nails until it was bloody, and stick their fingers into any gaps that the opponent could reach, just to tear off their organs."

"In the second stage, they began to become confused and no longer made loud noises such as roaring and screaming. Instead, they stayed in one place and cried for more than 20 hours, maintaining an extremely strange and uncomfortable posture without moving. If someone pulled them, they would scream and cry as if they were attacked, which was completely unlike what humans could make."

"Then they began to have hallucinations, constantly running away, or waving their arms and kicking their legs with enough force to hurt themselves, facing the empty air, hard walls, or other things that hindered their movement."

"They began to re They regained the ability to speak, but their language had no logic. They kept mumbling a sentence, or describing hallucinations in a toneless way, or kept mumbling about a certain period of their lives, and talked intermittently for several hours. "

"Finally, they began to become like an ignorant and unconscious baby, losing all the abilities that social people should have, seeing everything in front of them as thin but equal, and blurring all the understanding of objects."

"They will completely lose their sense of shame and morality, lose all the acquired things taught by society, and have no awareness of what they are doing. They explore everything by instinct, have no sense of smell, no sense of taste, see but cannot recognize, remember but have no concept."

Peter's tone was shaking uncontrollably, and Jason could hear that he was trying to suppress his fear, because he was the same, he couldn't imagine what could torture humans like this.

"What scares me most is." Peter took a deep breath and said with the same trembling movement.

"When I saw such a person jumping from a tall building and falling into a blood flower, I wanted to thank God from the bottom of my heart, thank him for his forgiveness, and praise his mercy."

The hairs stood up, and cold sweat poured down the hair on the back of his neck like a waterfall. Jason could almost hear the sound of blood coagulation in his veins, which made him feel like he was falling into an ice cave.

"So..." Peter took a step forward, and there was only a cage between him and Jason. He said: "Don't complain about anyone's lack of cruelty. Please, this world really doesn't need more cruel things. There have been people who have made humans suffer this kind of torture that breaks the bottom line in places you can't see."

"If you regard not killing as your bottom line, then if something one day makes you angry and break the bottom line, it's just to give them a good time."

"And if your bottom line is to stop killing with killing, then sooner or later you will meet someone who makes you feel that death is not enough to make up for his crimes."

Peter took two steps back, shook his head and said: "Then you will take this path - death is not the best retribution, you have the ability to turn it into a gift."