Eudemons Qinglong in American manga

Chapter 288 Turning the Table and Not Playing

Although the clown is letting the citizens of Gotham choose to blow up West Charity Hospital and Blackgate Prison, his approach reminds Roy of the scene in the movie "Batman: The Dark Knight".

The clown in the movie also started this kind of alternative game, handing over the decision to the Gotham citizens and criminals on the ferry, allowing both parties to decide whether to press the button to kill each other.

In the movie, neither the citizens of Gotham nor the criminals on the ferry made a choice, proving to the clown what kindness in human nature is.

Leave the choice to the citizens of Gotham?
Although the clowns in this universe have adopted a different plan, the essence is the same, and they all use their lives to test human nature.

The only difference is that in the movie, Gotham citizens and criminals are trapped dead on the cruise ship, unable to leave.

Here, the patients and medical staff of West Charity Hospital and the criminals of Heimen Prison have the opportunity to leave early.

Although the time is not very long, only 5 minutes.

But enough for some to leave.

Of course, the premise is that the Joker does not block West Mercy Hospital and Blackgate Prison.

"Which one would you choose to blow up?"

"West Mercy Hospital or Blackgate Prison?"

Harry also received a text message and asked Roy.

"I don't choose either."

Roy replied.

"Don't choose?"

Harry continued.

"I'm not interested in this kind of boring game."

Roy said seriously.

"Well, then I don't choose either."

Harry put the phone back into his coat pocket, grabbed Roy's right arm, and showed an expression that I was ready.

Roy looked at Harry suspiciously, unable to understand her intention for a moment.

After seeing his puzzled expression, Harry immediately said:

"Aren't you going to West Mercy Hospital or Blackgate Prison?"

"Wait a while before going."

Roy replied.

After replying to Harley, he mobilized the power of the stars in his body and cast Flash.

In just a split second, he and Harry disappeared out of thin air and came to the rooftop of a building outside the park.

After arriving on the rooftop, he said to Hancock:
"Hancock, text Bruce and tell him I'm here."

"Okay, sir!"

Hancock's voice sounded from the vibrating gold bracelet.

Not long after, Bruce, wearing a Batman suit, came to the roof of the building with a hook gun.

Seeing Harry beside Roy, Bruce frowned slightly.

Then, he came straight to Roy, and said in a low disguised voice:

"do you have any plans?"

"Not yet, what about you?"

Roy asked back.

The clown's opponent tonight is not him, but Bruce, and he doesn't intend to steal the show.

"Time is limited, I plan to go to Xi'an Charity Hospital to have a look first."

Bruce said quickly.

"I'll take you there."

As soon as the words fell, Roy created a star portal to Xi'an Charity Hospital.

"Ok!"

Bruce nodded, walked straight into the Xingxiu portal, and came to the roof of the West Charity Hospital.

Although Roy didn't intend to steal the show, he was also curious about the clown's other arrangements, and he also came to the West Charity Hospital.

As soon as you come to the roof of the hospital, you can hear various sounds from the hospital building.

The originally quiet West Charity Hospital has now become as lively as a Black Friday supermarket.

It's just that it's not the same as the customers who entered the mall on Black Friday to make crazy purchases.

Medical staff inside West Mercy Hospital are working to evacuate patients from the building.

The name of a man, the shadow of a tree!
If the citizens of Gotham are now allowed to choose a person to blow up in West Mercy Hospital and Blackgate Prison instead of the Joker, but other super villains or terrorists, it may not cause such a big commotion.

But unfortunately, this happened to be planned by the clown.

Although the clown has not shown up until now, West Mercy Hospital and Black Gate Prison, as he expected, have fallen into fear and chaos.

Roy, who came to the roof of the hospital, displayed his domineering arrogance and sensed some of the conditions in the hospital.

There were many people in the hospital, but he didn't find anyone worth noting.

The entire hospital is now in chaos, and people are fleeing the hospital as if they were fleeing.

However, at this moment, a huge explosion sounded from the hospital parking lot and gate at the same time.

boom!
The hospital gate was completely blown up!
The vehicles parked in the parking lot also exploded one after another like firecrackers!
Apparently, the explosions at the hospital gates and in the parking lot were arranged by the Joker.

As for the reason, you don't need to think about it.

Although there are many ways to leave the hospital besides the hospital gate and parking lot.

But after the place was bombed, only a small number of people were able to leave the hospital within 5 minutes.

More importantly, by blowing up the hospital gates and the parking lot, the Joker proved something.

That is, he does have the ability to completely blow up the hospital.

Bruce has prepared a lot of plans for tonight's match.

But he didn't expect that the clown would use this method to take the initiative.

"Open a portal to let the people in the hospital leave!"

Bruce immediately came to Roy and said quickly.

"I can open a portal in the hospital, but even if there is a portal, only some people can leave the hospital within 5 minutes."

Roy replied.

"I know, walk as much as you can."

Bruce said helplessly.

Seeing Bruce who had completely lost the initiative, Roy didn't say anything more, mobilized the power of the stars, and opened the star portal in the hospital lobby.

In the blink of an eye, a light blue constellation portal took shape in the hospital lobby.

Although the medical staff in the lobby didn't know what the Constellation Portal was, they soon discovered that they could go to the outside world through the Constellation Portal.

"I set up a portal in the lobby."

Roy said to Bruce.

"Is there only one?"

Bruce frowned.

With only one portal, at most only patients near the lobby can evacuate the hospital.

"If it's just a portal, I can open many, and even open one in each aisle."

"But the problem is, if I did, the clown would probably blow up the hospital right away."

"He will not just watch the game he prepared be destroyed in advance."

Roy reminded Bruce.

Just when Bruce was about to say something, Roy continued:

"I think instead of asking me to open more portals, you should think about how to break the situation."

"Although I don't know why the clown planned such a game, one thing I'm sure of is that there must be a way to break the game."

"The clown is crazy, but his purpose is not to blow up West Charity Hospital and Blackgate Prison, but to use West Charity Hospital and Blackgate Prison as chips to play with you."

"You know who he is better than I do."

"If there is anyone who can think of a way to break the game now, then this person must be you."

On the surface, Bruce has no chance now, and can only watch West Charity Hospital or West Gate Prison being bombed.

but it is not the truth.

If the Joker's purpose is to kill people or blow up West Mercy Hospital and Blackgate Prison, it doesn't need to be so troublesome.

After installing the rear bomb, he can directly blow up West Mercy Hospital and Blackgate Prison.

He did so much, partly to play with humanity, partly to torture Bruce.

And this also means that there is a way to break this game that seems to be only a choice between the two.

"If you were me, what would you do?"

After ten seconds of silence, Bruce asked.

"Are you sure you want to hear my answer?"

"I told you in advance, my answer may not be what you want to hear."

Roy asked back.

"Stop wasting time, tell me, what would you do if you were me?"

Bruce continued.

"It's very simple, I will choose to turn the table and not play!"

Roy said seriously.

Turn the table and not play?
After hearing his answer, Bruce and Harry showed puzzled expressions at the same time.

"My past experience tells me that if I play the game within the rules set by others, then no matter how I play, I will lose more than I win."

"The opponent is the one who makes the rules, so the game is not fair to begin with."

"In this case, I will choose to turn the table and not play!"

"If the opponent really wants to play with me, it has to adopt rules that are acceptable to both parties."

"Besides, I'm different from you, I don't have so many worries."

"Whether it's West Mercy Hospital or Blackgate Prison."

"Even if the clown uses the lives of all citizens of Gotham as a bargaining chip, it is impossible to force me to play according to his rules of the game."

"To put it bluntly, I don't care whether the citizens of Gotham are dead or alive."

"You will be led by the nose by him now because you are too observant of his rules of the game."

"You would rather choose to be a vigilante than to run for mayor, which means you don't like to play according to the rules of the game specified by others."

"Back then you were able to understand this, but now you have become restrained."

"It shouldn't be, it shouldn't be!"

Roy looked at Bruce seriously, and said earnestly.

After listening to Roy's explanation, Bruce fell silent again.

After about half a minute like this, he took out the mobile phone that the doll man gave him before.

This is the only way he can contact the clown now.

After finding the communication record, he pressed the call button.

Soon, the call was connected.

Without waiting for the person on the other end of the phone to speak, Bruce said directly:
"I don't choose any, you can bomb whichever you want!"

After speaking, he hung up the phone directly and threw the phone on the ground.

Then, he stepped on the phone and smashed it.

After seeing Bruce's actions, Roy created the star portal again.

"You want to stay here and wait for the final result, or go with me to the next building and wait for the final result."

"Personally, I suggest that you go with me to the nearby building and wait for the results."

"If the clown really blows up the hospital, you'll have a chance to catch him alive."

Roy said to Bruce.

"Ok!"

After the Constellation Portal took shape, Bruce walked in first.

Building roof.

Bruce glanced at the time and said to Roy:

"If clowns wait a minute and really blow up hospitals and prisons..."

Before he could speak, Roy interrupted him and said slowly:

"You have to understand one thing, even if the hospital and the prison were really bombed, it was the clown who killed those people, and you did nothing wrong."

"In 5 minutes, you can't rescue all the people in hospitals and prisons, and you can't dismantle the bombs in hospitals and prisons."

"You are a human being, not a god!"

"As for guilt, you don't need to feel guilty."

"Just remember that it's the clown who kills."

"All you have to do is catch him."

"As for the others, it's not something you need to consider."

That's what he said, but what Roy wants to say more is that if Bruce killed the clown in the first place, there wouldn't be so many things, and the clown should not be left alive for the so-called human rights and laws.

Bruce didn't speak, but gave him a complicated look.

Soon, the 5-minute countdown was over.

Just when Bruce finished the hospital in front of him or received the news that the prison was bombed from Afu, the West Charity Hospital in front of him did not explode.

Ah Fu in the Batcave did not hear the news that the Black Gate Prison was bombed.

Both West Mercy Hospital and Blackgate Prison exploded as the clown said.

This……

While that's a good thing, Bruce has a look of disbelief.

why?
Why didn't the Joker blow up West Mercy Hospital and Blackgate Prison?
This is not the style of a clown!

Bruce looked at Roy with a puzzled expression, hoping to get a reasonable explanation from Roy.

"Don't look at me, I'm not a clown, and I don't know what he thinks."

"But judging by the results, it's obviously a good thing, isn't it?"

Roy said with a smile.

However, not long after he finished speaking, a huge explosion sounded from the West End where the Black Gate Prison was located.

boom!
The sound of a huge explosion spread throughout Gotham, and the orange-red explosion flames soaring into the sky were clearly visible like a mushroom cloud.

Looking at the soaring flames that exploded in the Black Gate Prison, Roy's expression became a little complicated.

What a clown!

He actually blew up the Black Gate Prison that held the most criminals!

Although it was more than ten seconds late, the clown still blew up the Black Gate Prison.

The bombing of Blackgate Prison shows two things.

First, the Gotham citizens who responded to blowing up the Black Gate Prison accounted for the majority.

Second, Bruce is about to usher in a storm of public opinion.

Roy was not surprised that Gotham citizens who chose to blow up Blackgate Prison accounted for the majority.

He wasn't particularly concerned about whether Blackgate Prison was blown up, there was only one thing on his mind right now.

That is, if the clown is really as keen on playing with Batman as he guessed, then the clown will never let go of Bruce's initiative to send him to the door.

The call Bruce made to the clown just now was a handle to the door.

As Roy guessed, not long after the Black Gate Prison was blown up, the Joker sent the call recordings to all Gotham citizens.

"I don't choose any, you can bomb whichever you want!"

Although Bruce used the low voice after disguise, the Joker did not forget to note that this is Batman's choice.

(End of this chapter)