Chapter 75 Birds Torture Each Other: Gotham's Mutual Destruction Alliance
"Look, aren't I a clown too?"
She spread her arms and spun around.
“The leader,” Batman emphasized. “According to you, that guy wants you to kill ‘the leader of this group of clowns,’ and I think that’s far too reckless.”
“Ha!” Martha the clown looked at him mockingly. “You have no idea what I saw. I will never allow my children to be threatened in the slightest again.”
"Night Owl" silently noted down these words, intuitively feeling that this information would be very useful.
“As for the leader, hahaha, isn’t that even simpler?” She tilted her head and pointed at one of the clowns with her free hand. “Tell me, which of the two of us is your leader?”
“He——”
"Bang!"
Martha twirled the gun in her hand and raised it above her head: "Now, who still thinks I'm not the leader?"
"Night Owl" tried to stop her, but Batman held him back.
A moment of silence fell over the room, and no one made any rash moves.
Martha the clown walked up to the group of clowns with a smile, scrutinizing their expressions one by one, and nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, I think no one should have any objections... The vows made on the wedding day are null and void, Thomas..."
Martha the Joker turned her head and met Batman's gaze. The madness vanished from her completely, replaced by a peaceful smile.
"Whose counterpart is this?" Red Hood managed to calm down. "Don't you think this face looks familiar but not quite..."
"Take good care of them for me."
She raised the knife...
"Bang!"
Someone kicked the door open, drawing everyone's attention.
"Thomas Wayne?" "Night Owl" frowned (but no one could see him frowning under his Night Owl-style helmet). "What are you doing here? You didn't leave?"
The name seemed to catch the attention of Batman and the Joker, who both looked at the person who had barged in.
“Forget about who the damn leader is,” Thomas the Blindfolded ignored him and walked up to Martha the Clown. “Come with me.”
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Thomas Wayne Jr. occasionally has some minor questions.
Why is it that once parallel universes are involved, his meticulously designed plans turn into something like a cow that has eaten wild grass, or a computer that has been infested with insects... In short, all sorts of low-probability problems arise, shattering all his ideas.
Lex Luthor bringing in reinforcements, Batman turning the tide, and even managing to attract Batman's attention for less than ten minutes while seeking refuge in the multiverse (even falling into a trash can!), and this time...
...Well, at least this time, the seeds of error were sown from the very beginning of the plan.
Initially, Thomas wanted to find a Wayne couple who were just as weak and despicable as the one he knew, bring them back to Wayne Manor, and then gradually guide them to expose their true nature, allowing the increasingly perfect image of his parents in his memories to slowly decay.
However, considering that Martha was smarter and better at assessing situations, and that even if old Thomas committed murder on the operating table, it would be difficult to file a case and he could easily get away with it, young Thomas abandoned this slow-to-result plan and instead found a more visually striking couple, the Wayne couple.
...As it turns out, choosing unfamiliar tools out of eagerness for quick results is completely unwise.
In his post-planning analysis, Isaiah Thomas concluded that the core reason for the plan's failure was clearly his lack of familiarity with the Wayne couple in that world, as well as with the Joker in that world.
At first, everything went very smoothly.
He successfully used Bruce Wayne's imagery from the multiverse (with Batman-related content edited out; in his vision, it would be best to have Batman fight the Wayne couple) to persuade Martha the Joker to kill the Joker in front of Batman and to keep their conversation a secret from Batman.
Together they knocked out Batman, Thomas the Tank Engine, and returned to this universe.
Thomas Jr. also successfully used the Court of Owls to determine the Joker's plan. In order to ensure that Batman arrived before the Waynes and his wife, and that the Waynes could kill the Joker after he had been subdued, thus excluding the possibility of self-defense, he sent the location to Batman as soon as the Joker began his operation...
But the Wayne couple arrived first.
These two people had no information whatsoever about the existence of a Batman here; they only knew that Wayne Tower was the Joker's target, so they came here in advance to stake out the location.
From here on, everything became a chaotic mess, like headphone wires stuffed into a backpack.
Thomas Jr. nestled in his safe house, watching everything slip away in an unpredictable direction.
The first thing to corrupt his mind was the indestructible clown.
Compared to this, even the sudden appearance of the counterfeit "Night Owl" failed to cause him any mental disturbance.
This is disgusting! Why can't some of the most deserving things die?
Clearly, Isaiah Thomas wasn't the only one who suffered psychological attacks.
And there's Martha the Clown.
...Little Thomas never expected that this madman would choose to die under such circumstances.
In his memory, Martha was a sadist who valued her life. Since there wasn't much difference between Bruce in the two universes, the Wayne couple should be similar to the couples he knew.
This was his third mistake, a mistake that left people with mixed feelings.
But it doesn't seem like a big deal. Actually, it doesn't matter who dies. In this corrupt society, anyone making this choice is reasonable, and I should respect that...
wrong.
Thomas Jr. jumped up from his chair.
The fake owl is still there!
If Martha really dies here, the fake Night Owl can escape, but the real Night Owl will be facing an enraged Batman!
Batman is about to arrive, and he doesn't even have time to deal with the surveillance footage and the body!
So he ran to the chaotic room as fast as he could, kicked the door open with all his might, snatched the knife from Martha's hand, intimidated everyone present, and successfully brought order to the chaos.
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Thomas Wayne Jr.'s arrival clearly exceeded everyone's expectations.
Martha, in particular, covered her mouth, unable to utter a complete sentence, only able to spout a few meaningless words.
“This is complicated,” Thomas said, pulling Martha’s hand that was holding the knife. He carefully took the knife from her and whispered, “Come with me first, we’re running out of time.”
If we don't leave now, we'll run into Batman.
The real Night Owl doesn't want to be Batman's primary target, not at all.
Martha nodded. She still didn't know what to say, but she knew this was the child she had never met.
From her eyes, from that face... one could almost piece together her past fantasies about the two children.
Seeing that she was emotionally unstable, Thomas didn't urge her any further. Instead, he painstakingly regained his emotional intelligence and waited for Martha to calm down.
Batman also left "Night Owl" and approached the mother and son.
...Well, he didn't know what to say either.
And so, things gradually became incomprehensible to "Night Owl".
These three obviously abnormal people, when they got together, actually created a strangely warm atmosphere... Considering that the first impressions these three left on "Night Owl" and Red Hood were all of madness, the two of them couldn't help but wonder if this was a mutual appreciation between mentally ill people.
"So what exactly happened!" Red Hood tried to sort through the mess that had happened today and deduce some logic from it. "They knew each other all along? Thomas Wayne teamed up with the Joker to kill the Joker? Did I miss an episode? Isn't this a zombie movie (referring to the unkillable Joker)? Why did I suddenly change the channel?"
Yes, what exactly happened?
"Night Owl" hugged the three mentally ill men (objective description), then, led by Thomas Wayne, they walked towards the door...
“You come here too.” Thomas Wayne looked at “Night Owl” and said in a somewhat unfriendly tone, “If we don’t leave now, it will be too late.”
?
Does it have anything to do with me... no, with the night owl?
So Thomas Wayne and the Night Owl are indeed connected.
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Thomas Jr. walked in front, leading them up the elevator.
The way he led them was strange. They first went to the fourteenth floor, went through a hidden door down to a rather suspicious mezzanine filled with owl-related items, and then took an elevator.
This time it's going downwards.
“This is the road to the Court of Owls,” Night Owl said in a deep voice.
“I didn’t expect you to know about the Court of Owls.” Thomas turned to look at him. “Yes, this is the way. I’m glad you know that. It seems I don’t need to tell you some basic facts.”
“I don’t need you to tell me about the Court of Owls. This is my territory, Thomas Wayne. What exactly do you want?”
Thomas looked at him in surprise, then gave a strange smile.
“Do you still need to pretend in front of me?” He stared at “Night Owl”. “We’re in the same boat now… It’s too late to leave now. I can tell those claws that you’re a fake.”
“And I can leave at any time.” “Night Owl” retorted, “I can cooperate with you, but you must tell me what your relationship with Night Owl is, and how much you know about the QED(1) plan.”
The Waynes held their breath.
Yes, what is the relationship that allowed Tommy to tell at a glance that this wasn't the real Nite Owl?
“So it really is you guys again,” Thomas said, his smile fading. “I knew it, nothing good ever comes from running into you guys, but it’s okay… You definitely can’t bear to lose me as your source of information, and that QED is very important to you, isn’t it? You dressed like this because you were looking for Night Owl, right? Have Claws prepare a room and a good computer for us, and I’ll tell you some things. Otherwise, we’ll fight to the death, and your world will be completely exposed to Night Owl.”
"What if a real owl suddenly..."
“No need to worry about that,” Thomas interrupted him. “I believe Batman will hold him off.”
The elevator doors opened, and a group of claws stood there.
Clearly, Thomas Jr., Nite Owl, Batman, and a woman dressed like a clown make for an utterly absurd combination. In this situation, they don't even know whether they should draw their weapons.
“Prepare a room for us,” “Night Owl” accepted the offer, “for our newest ally.”
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The author has something to say: (1) It is the quantum state bomb. Xiao Hong deliberately uses the English abbreviation. If Xiao Thomas mentions this abbreviation and says something about the bomb, it proves that the owl of this universe is related to the quantum state bomb and needs to be guarded against.
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The evil owl's original plan:
Batman captures the Joker, but Martha, the Joker, is right behind him and tries to take his life. After a fierce battle, they recognize each other, shattering the perfect image of Batman's parents. Batman faces moral and emotional dilemmas...
Reality:
Chaos! Everything's a mess! After returning to this universe, not a single step has gone according to his plan.
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Actually, I initially envisioned the Wayne couple from the third-ranked basketball team coming, but that seems too crazy (I'm not going to report on the team since it's not exam week yet _(:з」∠)_)
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