Pixel Maniac in the Comic World

Chapter 191 Sick human heart

Technically, Bruce hasn't taken off Batman's helmet for five days straight.

The Joker's escape from prison put the Dark Knight's nerves into a tense state. He tried to track down the Joker's traces and figure out what the guy wanted to do when he came out this time.

That crazy guy not only had different ideas from ordinary criminals, Batman knew very well that the other party must have wanted to do something very bad, so he specifically used the clown gang's power to stage this prison robbery.

Even if other things are put aside, letting clowns be active outside is a very dangerous thing in itself.

Since the clown's first crime, his irrational madness has attracted many ordinary citizens in the city who have to suppress themselves in order to survive.

This makes the clown gain a large number of fans without any logic. Ordinary people who seem to be kind and submissive are always easily attracted or even brainwashed by the clown, and are therefore willing to do things that are difficult for ordinary people to understand for some of the clown's dangerous plans. matter.

The year-round gloomy weather, the distorted and repressive system, and the lifestyle that is enough to overwhelm everyone make the birth of the Joker seem like the entire Gotham City is secretly fueling the fire.

If other criminals were influenced by the environment of Gotham City and came into being, then the emergence of the Joker is more like the embodiment of a part of the city's premature collapse.

The Joker himself is not that difficult to deal with. What really makes Batman exhausted is that there are nearly one-fifth of the people hiding in this city, who can be infected by the Joker's crazy spirit at any time and indirectly behave irrationally. Working for the clown.

The Joker Gang is just composed of some bolder and more radical guys. Even if they are all sent to prison at once, the Joker can still easily pull them up - no, it should be said that there will be a large number of citizens in Gotham City immediately. Spontaneously began to worship clowns, and then a new clown gang was born.

Perhaps the clown did not confuse or threaten those guys at all. They were completely spontaneous and willing to help each other at the first sight of the clown.

Such a simple reason is really laughable, after all, the Joker himself has never taken the initiative to organize such an event.

But in the lowered heads and flashing eyes of those citizens, Batman discovered something terrifying.

The Joker is also one of the few criminals that Batman has a hard time tracking down to his hiding place.

Hidden deep in the eyes of those people is the deepest malice towards Gotham City, life, and even Batman that they are not even aware of.

Whether it is defeating the Joker, imprisoning the Joker, or even killing the Joker, Batman's goal cannot be achieved.

In those carnival parties organized spontaneously by citizens to worship clowns and commemorate clowns, a new clown may be born at any time.

Carnival, shouting, alcohol, food, and finally a large group of people got drunk and caused some trouble, and then either dispersed on their own or were driven away by the police.

They cried bitterly in front of Batman one by one, and sincerely confessed that they were only bewitched or threatened by the madman.

After Batman captured the Joker and imprisoned him, he went to investigate the guys who helped the Joker.

Bruce has infiltrated the Joker Gang on more than one occasion, a process that didn't even require much effort, just a bit of paint and a wig.

From that moment on, Batman understands that he is not dealing with the Joker so much as he is dealing with Gotham City's most primitive evil itself.

From this point of view, many people in Gotham City are crazy enough. Now that the Joker has come out, not to mention what will those ordinary people who seem to be good gentlemen do under the deliberate instigation of that madman. Worse things are coming.

Those who gathered did not care about the clown. Although they all chanted the clown's name, in fact, they were just venting the pressure brought by life.

It's not that the clown himself can do this because of his unique ideas. Under the surveillance scope of the entire city, the clown, a guy who doesn't have much technical ability, can hide without a trace because the entire city is helping. he.

There are millions of people who are willing to hide in order to help the Joker, contribute a little bit in every step of Batman's investigation, or make a little bit of trouble for Batman.

that's enough. Even if twice the number of surveillance cameras were installed, it would still be impossible to detect a person who was trying to hide with the concerted help of one-fifth of the city's citizens.

It is a fact that everyone is afraid of clowns, and it is also a fact that everyone is looking forward to madness.

But recently, the so-called official Joker gang has been hindered by a force that Batman didn't expect.

That is the organization of Black Mask, which has been in charge of more than half of the gangs in the entire city since the death of Penguin.

If ordinary people in Gotham City are deep in their hearts longing to subvert the madness of the entire city, then Gotham's gangsters are the guys who most hope that order can be maintained within a certain range.

This may be hard to believe, but it is true.

Even the lowest-level gangsters, in a sense, are higher than ordinary white-collar workers in Gotham's distorted social status.

In order to stabilize the organization's structure, the gang's top brass cannot starve even the lowest thug who belongs to their organization.

Therefore, the life pressure that gangsters need to endure is much less than that of ordinary people.

However, who actually led Black Mask to fight against the Joker Gang?

Obviously they had cooperated once before, and the Joker Gang successfully broke into Arkham Asylum with the weapons they bought from Black Mask and fished out the Joker.

Batman, who was squatting on the edge of a rooftop of a certain building, was frowning and thinking when Penny One's slightly tired prompt came from the headset.

"There was a fight in Wharton's Thirteenth Street between ordinary members of the Joker Gang and Black Mask."

Batman jumped down from the rooftop without hesitation, unfolded the cape behind him, and flew towards the address provided by Penny One like a real big bat.

It wasn't far, only two or three blocks from his location.

Soon, Batman descended from the sky and successfully stopped this small commotion.

The two sides have been very angry recently, and they always draw their guns when they meet, but as long as Batman comes over, both sides will immediately turn their guns on the Night Knight with a tacit understanding.

He knocked these guys down with three punches and two kicks, and notified the Gotham Police Department to come over and clean up the mess.

Not only is Batman very tired recently, but the police officers led by Gordon are also very tired. The temporary shelter used for punitive detention has been overcrowded by the Joker Gang and the Black Mask people, so Gordon has to choose Some plots are relatively minor and released in advance.

But today this group of people used hot weapons, and it is obvious that they need to be detained for a longer period of time for education.

Just as Batman was about to leave, Penny One's voice came again.

"Bat Girl seems to have observed something unusual. Someone has mixed into this group of trucks transporting daily necessities to Arkham."

Arkham again?

Batman looked a little gloomy.

(End of this chapter)