Chapter 2538: Battle for the Cloak (Sixty-Eight)

Chapter 2512: The Battle for the Cape (Sixty-Eight)

Some people may ask, why must the riddle be drawn? Can't we use other ways to inform Superman without destroying the city appearance? For example, send a letter or something.

In the original comics, the Riddler has many ways to send riddles to Batman, but the premise is that it is Batman.

First of all, he has a fixed address, at least a fixed patrol route, and a proper contact method, so whether the Riddler is sending letters, emails or shooting fireworks, he can at least find a fixed place.

But Superman can't find a proper job because of his weak body. He has been wandering in the dream world. In the early days, he could go to the shelter. Later, because the shelter owner kept harassing him because of his appearance, he simply stopped going to the shelter.

The Riddler can't use normal means to send a letter to a homeless person, so he can only ask someone to run errands, which is too troublesome. It is possible that the errand runner arrives and Superman doesn't know where he has gone. It is possible that Superman is there, but the errand runner takes the money and does not do the job.

Speaking of getting paid, the Riddler wants to cry even more. He is neither a lawyer with a brilliant career resume like Harvey, nor a successful businessman like Penguin who can get along anywhere, nor even as flexible as Harley Quinn. But they also need to eat in the dream world.

The source of Riddler's income in the real world is more confusing. Comics rarely portray his personal career experience. At most, he has worked as a courier and consultant. In the TV series, he has a stable job in the Gotham Police Department, but it doesn't look like he can support all kinds of crimes.

In the dream world, the Riddler earns income mainly by providing articles for major newspapers. Superman becomes a street urchin, and the Riddler becomes a reporter, which can be called the reverse of the heaven.

However, because of his mental problems, he can't pass any formal job interviews. Very few people ask him to write articles, and his income is very meager, barely enough for him to eat.

So he can't take out extra money to do riddles other than street graffiti, and sometimes his life is as difficult as Superman wandering on the street.

The situation worsened afterwards, because time jumped 20 years. Although Superman became very weak, he at least did not age. But Riddler was not like that. He turned into an old man in the dream world. Because of his long-term dealing with spray paint, his lung function was seriously affected.

Now he has no ability to make money, and can only live on the streets like Superman. Until one day, when he was drawing his riddles on the street again with his weak, tired and terminally ill body, Superman caught him and sent him to the hospital.

Superman has been taking care of him.

Riddler was actually very confused. Even if the time skipped in the middle was not what they really experienced, he had caused trouble for Superman even before this jump. Why did Superman save him?

As a result, Superman told him that many people do not understand that society's view of people will also shape people. People only say that you are committing a crime, and you will become a criminal. If I regard you as an artist, there will be one more artist in the world. Graffiti is a hobby you have persisted for decades. Your persistence itself is part of artistic creation and has aesthetic value in the sociological sense. I think an artist should be respected enough.

The Riddler was really moved.

Although he knew it was not the time for him to be moved, please, Batman and everyone else thought he was just a mental patient, and they never praised him as an artist.

The Riddler's nose was broken by this straight ball, so for most of the rest of the time, he pulled Superman to the hospital bed to tell him the ideas of his riddle design, and he could talk for two hours.

In the end, the Joker made a terrorist attack, and Superman planned to fight for the last time, but he knew that the bomb placed by the Joker was more important than the Joker. Only by defusing the bomb could so many lives be saved.

At that time, Superman had a premonition that he could break through the limitations of kryptonite, but he knew that this madman was not so easy to deal with. Even if he could fly into the sky and use lasers to destroy the bombs, he had to determine the location of the bombs first, otherwise the few seconds of delay in finding the bombs would be enough for the madman to detonate all the bombs.

At this time, the Riddler, who was so weak that he had to rely on a ventilator to breathe, still took out paper and pen. On the city map, he guessed the location of the remaining five bombs based on the location of the TV and radio stations where the Joker appeared.

"Now, who is the real master of riddles?"

The movie ended after this sentence. Although the expression on the Riddler's face was sad and tired, he was also thoughtful. He seemed to have found a new way to prove his genius and wisdom.

Everyone applauded. The Riddler stood up, took off his hat, put it on his chest and bowed to everyone, like a big star. The atmosphere in the room became happy again.

Schiller cleared his throat, and the room became quiet again. It was obviously time for the last character to appear.

"Are you the Claw Killer?" asked the Laughing Bat.

Schiller shook his head, took out the last film, and put it into the projector. At the beginning of the film, there was only a vast fog.

Freddy walked out of the thick fog, and as he sneaked into a house, some scenes began to flash back, but this was not a special editing technique of this film, but an illusion that really existed in the thick fog at that time.

The illusion introduced Freddy's background story, but anyone could see that this was not the point. The point was the ability that Freddy had after his resurrection, that is, the claws covered with daggers and the ability to teleport for his elusive appearance.

Freddy appeared in a bathroom.

He slowly floated up from the water and comfortably put his arms on both sides of the bathtub, but soon, there was a sound outside the bathtub.

"Okay, auntie, I will be quick, I won't soak for a long time, and I won't delay dinner, don't worry!"

Spider-Man wrapped in a bath towel walked in.

At this time, Freddy had already disappeared, and Spider-Man did not notice that the duck floating in the bathtub was flashing red light.

Bang!

The bathtub duck exploded.

To be honest, this opening is a bit too stream-of-consciousness. The previous films showed the protagonist's life at the beginning, either studying hard, studying hard, or still studying hard.

Why did this film start by going to someone's bathtub and blowing up someone's bathtub toys?

Soon, Freddy committed a murder, but the object of the murder was not a real person, but a doll.

The puppeteer appeared in this story. The first victim, a little girl, was actually played by the puppet he controlled. After all, it was a puppet, and he could make it look anything he wanted, so the crime scene looked particularly tragic, and naturally attracted attention from many aspects.

These cases instantly made the front page headlines of many newspapers, and of course a newspaper also came into Bruce's hands.

But everyone still didn't understand what this was about. The stories of Two-Face, Harley Quinn and Penguin were basically centered around Bruce, the stories of Scarecrow and other academic experts were centered around Arkham Batman and Arkham Knight Jason, and the story of the Riddler was centered around Superman.

But Schiller or the Claw Killer he controlled did not seem to intend to carry out his activities around a certain main character in the play, so what was his mission?

Everyone had to continue reading.

The Claw Killer continued to commit crimes, and there were more and more reports about him, from newspapers to radio stations, and finally to TV stations, and then to the emergency headlines.

Most of the victims were children, so the social attention was very strong, and the discussion among the people was also very extensive. Everyone was scolding this pervert who killed children.

Except Bruce.

The Claw Killer was the only character that Bruce could feel was not in his script at this time.

From the timeline, the first two-faced man who entered now has a hold on the American legal system. He is a big man who is too far away from the life of the bottom of the city. Bruce can't feel him at all.

Female police officer Ge Yin was not far away, but she was a psychology major and disguised very well, making Bruce think that she was a character in the dream world, and he had no curiosity about her past.

The Penguin was the mastermind behind the scenes. Bruce knew there was a powerful gangster boss, but he didn't know that this person was the Penguin, and he thought that he was just a plot character.

But the Claw Killer was different. This guy used a shell that was completely different from all the plot characters in the dream world. He used his elusive teleportation ability to write the words "I am not simple" on his face, and committed crimes crazily. He was so high-profile. How could Bruce not see that he was here to mess things up?

This was of course within the expectations of the Laughing Bat.

Any normal person would not think that he would not encounter any resistance if he set up such a big stall. If it was really smooth sailing from beginning to end, he would think that there was something wrong.

It can be said that the behavior of the Claw Killer made Bruce feel relieved. The resistance that interfered with him finally came, but unfortunately, it was in such a straightforward and low-level way. He had expected the other party to come up with some different means.

Bruce thought so at the time. He thought that the Claw Killer was messing around in the city just to make his play unfinished. This logic made sense.

But Bruce didn't think that this perverted killer could cause much trouble, nor did he think that he could force him to play.

At this time, Bruce was proud of his idea of ​​designing his own identity, because he was now a pauper with a paralyzed burden. Let alone one killer, even if there were hundreds of killers running around the city, he couldn't control it. He didn't have the ability.

So he could let this killer continue to commit crimes and be completely indifferent, because this was his character setting. If he really set himself up as a superhero, he would really fall into the other party's trap.

So he could say "I have no ability, so I have no responsibility" after meeting Jason and others. He had to show off this. If it weren't for his good character design, he would probably be chasing the troublemaker in a hurry, so that he would destroy the original script and be unable to control the overall situation, right?