Chapter 205 [Extra] Multidimensional Travel · Thirteen [Extra]

Some people are setting off fireworks late at night, while others are still busy late at night!

But the clown didn't care. He waited until the other party finished complaining before hanging up. The fireworks show was almost over. When the last row of fireworks rose into the sky and exploded, the show was completely over. Megan looked away and leaned against his neck, asking in confusion, "Dad, what are the surprises and gifts?"

The clown pondered for a moment, then gave a reply that wasn't quite a rejection. "You'll know when we get back."

Megan nudged him gently. "Why do we have to wait until we get home to find out?" Is there something Little Bear can't hear? Or is the clown hiding something bad from her?

Hearing her coquettish words, the Joker couldn't help but laugh. The muscles around his lips pulled the corners of his mouth apart. It wasn't a good smile at all; it seemed stiff and inexplicably terrifying. But he said, "The gift is about surprises, Megan. It's the unknown that's worth looking forward to."

He calmed the child down with just a few words, and Megan felt sleepy again, her eyelids drooping slightly. She buried her head in the clown's neck and said, "My eyes are sleepy, Daddy. They want to sleep, and I want you to stay with them." She loved to act like a spoiled child, especially when she felt insecure.

The clown patted her still thin back, coaxing Megan to sleep even more, and said in a slow tone, "How could I not agree to you? You will see me when you wake up tomorrow morning."

When Megan woke up the next morning, she not only had a new set of clothes, but also a sumptuous breakfast. She was of course happy about it. They were all tangible proof of love. But she even went a step further and put her head close to ask her father to comb and braid her hair.

Her hair had grown well, and thanks to careful care, it looked soft and shiny. Even with its natural curls, it was easy to comb out. In fact, when it was straightened and combed out, it would bounce back a little. After combing it, her hair became even more plush and fluffy. Megan sat on a stool, swinging her legs, looking carefree. Suddenly, she looked up and asked her father, "When are we going home?"

Because of her sudden movement, the clown's knuckles misaligned, and the braid he had already braided was ruined. He pinched the braid with one hand and gently but unquestionably pushed her head back with the other. He rarely showed his emotions on the surface and seemed calm and composed, and he was still like that now.

"You ask me? This is an unexpected change for me, but I think... the time to return may be today?" Although it was a rhetorical question, he was almost certain of it.

Megan said "Oh" and asked, "Is Gotham still in chaos today?" If Gotham was still in chaos when she left, even though she didn't contribute and couldn't make any difference, if she left like this, it would be like she was leaving her new friends in trouble and not caring about them.

This child has a soft heart. She wants to be a good person and do good things. The Joker sees her growth trajectory clearly, and even he himself plays a partial role in it. Even if he originally had other plans, by accident, Megan was protected and grew up. She has seized some of his efforts and energy, and he can no longer abandon her lightly. Her existence is already a kind of value.

The Joker knew what she was thinking, but he didn't get angry. After braiding her hair, he looked at her carefully. When he was satisfied, he patted her shoulder and said, "Don't worry about this. The Bat Family has gathered in Gotham and they want to put Bane and other criminals back in Arkham Asylum. It won't be difficult."

"You can turn on the TV and watch it yourself."

They didn't have so many rules when eating. While eating breakfast, Megan saw a news report saying that the firefly who set fires everywhere last night was arrested. When he was in the mood for arson, the sudden fireworks show suppressed his momentum, causing him to fly to the fireworks site in anger, and then he was caught on the spot by the blue boys who were waiting there.

After all, this fireworks show did not go through the approval process, which made it an illegal fireworks display. GCPD personnel happened to go and check it out. It has to be said that this incident was extremely comical.

The other big news was that this morning, an airship harboring a number of criminals, including the Scarecrow, the Mad Hatter, and the Ventriloquist, was intercepted and forced to land. They were all taken back into custody. What else could Scarecrow have been doing on the airship? He'd brought two accomplices with him, intending to spread fear gas throughout the city. However, his gas reserves were low, and he was trying to steal the raw materials.

Victor Zsasz wanted to hurt a young girl, but was caught by Poison Ivy and was taught a lesson. When the GCPD found him, he had multiple fractures and internal bleeding.

There are many more people...

Finally, there's Bane, who launches an attack on Gotham's clock tower, tearing a huge hole in the place, but he too is subdued.

After breakfast, the Joker took Megan out. They bypassed most of the surveillance cameras along the way and arrived at the route where the GCPD transported mentally ill criminals to Arkham Asylum. Standing in a corner that most people would not notice, the Joker looked calmly and scrutinizingly at the prisoner transport vehicles passing by one after another.

When the prison van carrying Bane passed by, even though he had suffered serious injuries and was still experiencing withdrawal reactions after the venom was cut off, his senses were still sharp and he undoubtedly noticed two obscure gazes. One of the gazes remained cruelly clear-headed, but the other was strange, somewhat cautious and unfamiliar, with no other meaning. But when he looked up, he only saw the corner of the street.

Bane didn't see anyone there, but suddenly a child jumped out and looked straight at him. When she realized that their eyes met, a smile unconsciously appeared on her face and she waved at him.

Soon the prison van drove past the street, and Bane had no idea who she was.

Megan watched the martial law convoy leave and looked up at the Joker, "So what do we do next?"

The Joker reached out and held her to his side, then he turned his head to look behind him, and said without a smile, "The guests we were going to entertain have arrived." Megan looked over and found that it was Batman, but there was more than just Batman.

Behind this tall, dark figure, young vigilantes appeared one after another, including Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood, Red Robin, Orphan, Troublemaker, Robin... Most of them had experienced hard battles and had obvious traces of battle on their bodies. When they appeared, it seemed as if they were carrying a strong smell of gunpowder.

Megan looked at them with wide eyes. Batman stepped forward and questioned the Joker, "Where are the other Jokers? What's your conspiracy?"

When Batman realized the truth that there were "multiple clowns" in the other world, he could undoubtedly distinguish different clowns with his observation skills. The clown in front of him was obviously a different person. He no longer showed a hideous and terrifying smile, and the exaggerated and performative madness and comedy were also well restrained. Even the costumes were different, but it was still a pale and weird face.

The Joker raised a hand to rub his chin, his skin pale between his cuffs and leather gloves. It was certain that each of them looked much the same, so the Batman of that universe hadn't noticed the difference between them. He pondered for a long moment before saying, "They? They're having a party."

"What about your conspiracy against Gotham?" Batman asked relentlessly.

The clown unexpectedly smiled, but the muscles on his face were stiff and even unfamiliar. Laughing might not have brought him any good experience, but sometimes people just can't help laughing, right?

His tone was slow and measured, clearly unafraid of the disparity in the situation before him. "I had a plan, originally, but we had some fun, so the surprise gift was replaced with fireworks. I think that's understandable."

It was inevitable that they could not find any related traces in Gotham City because the gift the Joker mentioned was replaced by fireworks - real fireworks.

However, Batman's gaze was fixed on the Joker's face. He instinctively knew that this Joker was the 'boss' of all the Jokers, simply because he didn't smile, simply because of Batman's years of experience fighting the Jokers of this universe, and because of his understanding of the Joker...

If multiple Jokers are active in Gotham in another universe, yet remain undetected, then there must be a pattern to their activities, a plan for who will appear and what to do, but what if a dispute arises? This means there must be a leader who coordinates and directs them.

Even if they were all clowns, who would these madmen with chaotic and twisted minds obey orders from? It could only be someone who was clearly in a higher position and had more oppressive power.

So does the Joker before him fit the bill? Granted, he's not smiling, lacking the maniacal, twisted quality of the Joker with a smile, his moods unpredictable and seemingly devoid of the intimidating presence the Joker had amassed in Gotham. But Batman finds the Joker even more terrifying when he's not smiling. He's less like a person and more like a fixed symbol.

As for what he said about replacing bombs or poison gas with fireworks, Batman saw the fireworks show last night, but he didn't believe that the other clowns were all partying and not doing anything else. However, all the vigilantes searched Gotham City and couldn't find any trace of them. Where they were and what they were doing was something he could never feel at ease about.

The two sides, with a huge disparity in numbers, were facing each other. The Joker even had a useless burden with him. She moved her head back and forth, looking at Batman and then at the Joker. Finally, she pointed at herself and said, "I couldn't sleep last night, so my dad showed me a fireworks show."

The vigilantes, including Batman, had no idea that she was involved. The Joker had prepared a big gift, but gave it up because he found new fun. However, he went to extra mile and turned the gift into fireworks, which he set off for Megan in the middle of the night, as if he had anticipated everything.

Batman felt that the "party" he mentioned was suspicious, and even had a terrible premonition that was terrifying, but he could not find any flaws in this Joker, and had not yet found a clue.

Finally, Red Hood asked in a normal tone: "Then why can't you sleep in the middle of the night?" The two of them started chatting here.

Megan was a little embarrassed, holding her cheeks with her hands, and said, "I want to go home." But she was embarrassed for only a moment, and then she was very confident.

With her here, they couldn't fight. Megan herself also had this understanding. When she was in Arkham, few criminals would quarrel or fight in front of her. Sometimes when a conflict broke out, they would cover up a little and pretend nothing happened when they saw her walking over. After she walked around the corner, they would stop there and prick up their ears, but her hiding skills could not be hidden from anyone, and in the end one of them came out to coax her away.

Megan raised her hand and tugged at the clown's clothes, signaling to him, then ran to the side of the Red Hood. Because she obviously had something to say, the Red Hood squatted down. His attitude was calm, and when he was talking to Megan, he didn't have that sharp feeling that seemed to pierce others and himself at the same time.

She said, "Dad said we might have to go back today. Sorry, Jason..."

She only said this one sentence, perhaps still feeling guilty that Red Hood gave her a good gift but she didn't give a gift in return. However, Red Hood's heart skipped a beat for some reason, and he suddenly stretched out his hand to grab Megan, but his arm missed. In just a moment, Megan and the Joker in front of him disappeared in full view of everyone.

"Abnormal fluctuations in space-time data have been detected. They have already gone back."

Batman was suddenly shocked, and he finally figured out one thing -

The Joker and Megan came to Gotham and easily attracted their attention, but the situations in different universes were different. None of them had thought of the possibility of "multiple clowns" until Megan revealed the secret to them. However, Bane escaped from prison and led everyone in Arkham to stir up chaos. At the same time, multiple clowns, including the original clown in this universe, disappeared and participated in the "party".

As for whether there are other people who came to this universe besides multiple Jokers and Megan, the vigilantes including Batman can rule out this possibility. If more people came to Gotham, their whereabouts would be impossible to hide, and the time was too short, so short that some of them thought...

"The 'good fun' he finds might be being the clown of this universe."

This is something more terrifying than multiple clowns brewing a huge conspiracy together. If the clowns can really predict the time of their return, then they must have a careful plan to accomplish what they want to do, but their conspiracy is not aimed at Gotham. That means there are things more interesting than Gotham that attract them and even change their plans for this.

Would they be interested in their counterparts from different universes? What could this universe's clowns have in store for them?

Batman's heart sank.

Damian didn't quite grasp the deeper meaning of this, so he asked bluntly, "Why? If they're interested in his counterpart, would they kill him?"

This speculation was obviously even more groundless, so a group of young vigilantes started discussing it. Even though the clown they saw at last was a little weird, Megan was a good kid. She was soft, innocent, and full of enthusiasm. She was the one who revealed the secrets of many clowns to them without being afraid of how the clowns would treat her.

Batman said, "Something's happened to the Joker."

The author has something to say:

Anyway, Batman can perform miracles in a night (referring to the game Arkham Knight), and here the Bat-family gathers together, it can only be simpler, right?

Suddenly switched to a suspense film set, it was so difficult to write orz