Chapter 147 Chapter 147 Debuff Stacking is Prohibited...
"sorry."
Benjamin said.
"I'll be honest. I made up that part about me being a vehicle thief. It was just an excuse to decline because I wasn't interested in the Batmobile's paint job and I didn't want to upset you."
"You said you made it up?"
Standing in front of the burning Batmobile, Li Hua said.
"You're not making this up. Look at the steaming hot scene. You clearly came here with a reason, a basis, and preparation."
Tonight was supposed to be quite ordinary.
They spread out normally, took turns riding in the Batmobile, and stopped crimes normally.
Then the Batmobile drove Benjamin normally, passing a manhole cover normally -
Then the manhole cover exploded, sending the Batmobile flying into the sky.
Fortunately, there was no one in the back seat of the Batmobile at that time. Benjamin snapped his watch in time and turned into a Stingray to take Dick away from the driver's seat. Otherwise, even if the Batmobile had extremely strong defensive capabilities, the passengers would still be injured.
The night patrol itself was nearing its end, and the few on duty were gradually gathering and preparing to return to the Batcave. Therefore, when the Batmobile crashed, the others quickly rushed to the scene and gathered together to watch the night bonfire party hosted by the second generation Batmobile.
"I thought my jokes were enough to warm up the crowd."
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a particularly conspicuous tablet placed on the sidewalk near the burning Batmobile.
Walking over, I found that the tablet was in the middle of a video call. The man, whose lipstick contrasted sharply with the pale foundation on his face, straightened his purple suit and gave Dick, who was wearing a bat costume, a terrifyingly wide smile.
"Long time no see, little bat. It seems like just yesterday that we had our last romantic evening conversation, but you seem to have become a little thinner than then. Is taking care of the children too much for you? If so, I would be happy to help you lighten the burden. You know, I have a lot of experience in this area."
"Joker." Dick called out the man's name. "What tricks are you playing?"
The last time the Joker escaped was during Bane's Arkham Asylum breakout. Calculating the time, the Joker has been in the asylum's special ward for over six months, long enough for this lunatic to get bored and start causing trouble.
"Why so serious? I just want to play a game with you."
The clown adjusted his bow tie.
"Although Arkham's network conditions are really bad, I also heard that you recently got two new birds that are very good at moving. You know, I have always liked children and birds, so I kept their little wings, but for the sake of game balance, you can't use your cute little car."
"I've hidden gifts in these places on the map. If you can find them within the allotted time, you win. If you can't find them within half an hour, I win."
The Joker unfolded a Gotham map with a dozen red marks on it in front of the camera and introduced it enthusiastically.
"It's simple, right? It's a classic old game. What's that saying? - Hey! Classics never get old."
"Don't cheat, little bat. If I catch you cheating, I'll end the game early."
With a sharp laugh, the tablet screen disappeared.
"Red Hood and BEN 10 are in one group, Magic Boy and Robin are in another, and I'm going alone to find the bomb."
Dick immediately decided to act in groups.
It is safest for two people with super powers to follow different teams.
Dick's proposal to form a team was well thought out.
Jason was killed by the Joker before, although he was not the "Joker of this week", but their almost identical appearance, outfit and madness are enough to make the most important thing for a vigilante - calmness - disappear in this situation, so it is safest to let Benjamin, who has more combat experience, go with him.
"No, I'm in a group with Red Hood."
As soon as Dick finished speaking, Li Hua explained with rare decisiveness and clear attitude.
"Unlike Ben, I have no experience in teaming up with others. I'm afraid I'll hold Robin and everyone else back."
Everyone thought about it and found that what Li Hua said was true. Li Hua had never teamed up with anyone other than Benjamin and Jason, and Benjamin was better at dealing with changing combat situations than Li Hua.
This new grouping seems to sound more reasonable.
Therefore, no one had any objection to Li Hua's proposal, and they quickly dispersed according to the newly divided teams.
When Li Hua carried Jason into the sky, he solemnly revealed to Jason the reason for his actions:
"Ben has a severe phobia of clowns, so I'm sorry I can't let you two go fight clowns together."
Otherwise, by then the enemy won't do anything and we will have already stacked two negative BUFFs.
Jason: “Huh?”
Coulrophobia is a psychological disorder caused by the exaggerated makeup and costumes of clowns, which trigger the "uncanny valley" effect and cause intense anxiety or avoidance behavior.
Typical symptoms include autonomic nervous system reactions (such as palpitations, sweating, etc.), persistent avoidance behavior and uncontrollable fear.
This mental illness is more common in children. Of course, due to the special talents in Gotham, this mental illness also appears quite often in Gotham.
But Jason never expected that Benjamin, a 15-year-old teenage superhero from another world who had gone to heaven and earth to beat up alien warlords at the age of ten and had a family background in superheroes, would also have a phobia of clowns.
Although Benjamin was occasionally startled and behaved in a rather childish manner, and once even jumped in fright when he saw a cockroach crawling under his feet... Jason still thought this was a bit outrageous:
"Don't you only know some things about the summer when he was ten? Maybe he has recovered by now."
"I thought he recovered after killing that clown villain Samposo."
Li Hua sighed.
"But after you told us about the Gotham Joker, we anticipated that we would have to face this unlucky creature in the future, so we conducted a special test. The test results showed that his symptoms had not been alleviated at all."
It’s just that when Benjamin faced the clown elements, he was able to control his facial expressions better than when he was a child, and he acted more realistically.
In addition, due to what happened between Jason and the Joker before, no matter whether the three of them were hanging out or at Wayne Manor, everyone would subconsciously avoid the Joker element.
This resulted in no one realizing that Benjamin was also allergic to clowns, except Li Hua, who had known about it for a long time.
Jason: "It's so serious, his parents never took him to the hospital for treatment?"
Li Hua: "The prerequisite is that his parents know."
Over the years, driven by his desire to save face, Benjamin's skills in concealing his fear have reached perfection, and his mouth is harder than steel. There wouldn't be so many clown elements in Bellwood's daily life that Benjamin couldn't avoid.
Therefore, although Benjamin's phobia of clowns has not improved at all over the years, it has never been discovered by his parents and has not been sent to psychological treatment because it has affected his life.
Jason: “…”
Benjamin, you idiot, why are you using your intelligence for unnecessary purposes again?
"Great! Two of the three of us have psychological trauma from that unlucky thing."
Jason cursed, wiped his face, and asked.
"So how severe is his clown phobia?"
Li Hua: "He gets creeped out by clown masks, emblems, and designs. If you pay attention, you'll notice that every time we pass a McO's with an Uncle McMahon mascot, he'll quickly walk away or look away. He's just trying to save face, so he keeps pretending nothing's wrong."
Are you afraid of Uncle McO'Laur?!
Jason thought to himself, this is the end, Benjamin has been weakened even more than me!
He might just have some PTSD-like visual and auditory hallucinations when he sees the Gotham Joker, but that definitely won't affect the strength and speed of his punches, and it might even add some berserker rage buff.
So Jason naturally asked, "So why is his clown phobia worse than mine? Was he also killed by the villain in clown makeup from his own universe?"
"...It's probably not the latter. Did you forget? He said we were the only two people in this team who had experienced a second cycle of life."
Li Hua could already see one of the marked buildings with his naked eyes and began to dive. The fierce airflow blew his voice backwards.
"Perhaps you could ask him later?"
"Forget it."
Jason said.
"He doesn't want us to know, right? Everyone has things they don't want to talk about."
Just like he didn't want others to know that he sometimes still had nightmares filled with hilarious jokes.
"Even though it's already been seen, let's still give him some face."
......
Since the clown originally jumped out to cause trouble after the night patrol, everyone's physical strength and magic power had been consumed a lot at this time, which made the already urgent half-hour bomb disposal time even more life-and-death speed.
The principle of bomb disposal requires an on-site assessment of the bomb structure and then taking appropriate measures, such as neutralizing the explosives, or more commonly known as cutting the fuse to remove the detonator from the explosive.
But this time the time is too tight, and we have to take into account the time it takes for the Gotham Police Department to evacuate the surrounding people. As time becomes increasingly tight, no one knows whether the Joker will detonate the bomb in advance or where he has hidden the bomb again.
Taking all factors into consideration, the most common method they should adopt at this time is to deal with explosives - that is, to move the bomb to a safe location and detonate it.
But the plan suffered a major setback when they found the bomb that the Joker had prepared this time.
"Is this circus freak serious?!"
Benjamin's cursing could be heard through the headphones, but Li Hua, who was annoyed by the noise, understood Benjamin's feelings very well.
Because the explosive material used by the Joker this time was not C.4, not gunpowder, nor TNT, but something sprayed with green and purple paint that could blow up a two-story building after detonation -
Ten-liter household gas cylinder!!!
Li Hua couldn't hold it in any longer: "No, the Joker is short of money? Why would he use a gas tank to make a bomb?!"
Is this the Gotham variation on “high-end ingredients often require only the simplest cooking”—“high-explosive bombs often require only the simplest modifications”?
This thing is heavy and difficult to move, and after being modified, we don’t know if it will explode after being moved. It is much more difficult to deal with than the usual bombs that can be thrown directly into the air or thrown into the water.
The most important thing is that if the bomb itself is smaller, even if there is not enough time to defuse it, Li Hua can still spend more magic power to use the [Dismiss] card to eliminate the explosive or the bomb.
But the magic power consumption of eliminating the gas tank is too high, which will delay Li Hua and Jason from defusing the bomb elsewhere. They also don't know whether the clown has other tricks in the tank. What if there is a problem with the position where Li Hua eliminates it and it explodes again?
"The Joker has rarely used logic in his actions."
Jason was not surprised. He took out professional tools from his belt and started to defuse the bomb skillfully. In no time, he removed the device outside the gas tank.
"Let's go to the next location."
Li Hua struck out his flying staff and asked, "We still don't know if there are any hands or feet in that jar. Is it okay to just leave it like this?"
"Once you find the bomb, tell me its exact location. I'll go back and deal with these weird gas tanks," Benjamin said in the comms. "I'll use the Stingray to drop them into the sky and blow them all up at once. Then, I'll go beat up the Joker and send him back to Arkham."
A cordon had been set up next to the residential building, and people in home clothes gathered together. When Jason put his hand on the headset to report the specific coordinates, Li Hua was flying over the heads of these tired and frightened people with his flying stick. The two of them couldn't help but greet the clown warmly again in their hearts.
At this moment, a huge firework exploded in the night sky not far away, followed by another location, and then a gorgeous firework exploded on the building that Li Hua and Jason had just left.
Li Hua flew against the light of the fireworks to his next destination: "Are you people in Gotham so relaxed that you set off fireworks to celebrate the moment you found out you're not dead?"
"Those aren't fireworks."
A red figure caught up from behind. Benjamin, who had transformed into a stingray, and Li Hua and Jason maintained a speed that allowed them to remain relatively still, which allowed the two to see the disgusted expressions on each other's faces.
"That's the Joker's gas can firework bomb."
That's why he hates clowns. Anyone who plays a villain related to clowns always does all kinds of nonsensical and scary things!
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The author has something to say: The clown in Benjamin's universe - Zombozo (Zampolo), a zombie clown that feeds on human emotions, is the enemy that Benjamin first encountered when he was ten years old.
In fact, he is not dead. The text says he is "dead" because Benjamin and Li Hua thought he was dead. After all, he was frightened by the ghost and exploded into a ball of ribbons. Anyone would think he is dead.
He appeared in the first, third, and fourth BEN 10 movies.
This guy's defeat was also very funny. The first time he attacked Benjamin's family and tried to scare the ten-year-old Benjamin crazy, the child was already scared. At this time, Samposo jumped out and mocked him, saying something like "Haha, I kidnapped your sister" (at this time, his grandfather had already been killed).
Then Benjamin was so angry that his anger overcame his fear and he scared Samposo to death with his ghost.
The second time was when Benjamin's true identity was exposed. He kidnapped Benjamin's mother and tried to torture her to death to break Benjamin. This time he learned his lesson and did not scare Benjamin directly, but -
He tied up Gwen (Benjamin's cousin, translated as Tian Xiaowen in Chinese) and made her watch her aunt being forced to walk a tightrope (literally).
Then Gwen was so angry that she exploded into Anno alien form, which scared Samposo crazy and forced him to go out and tell everyone not to attack their families again. From then on, everything was quiet.
In the fourth film, Samposo created the zombie clown virus (yes, Samposo is actually a zombie clown), which infected almost the entire Bell City (along with Benjamin's family and partner), and the scene was extremely mentally polluted.
This time he successfully defeated Benjamin. Benjamin had temporarily lost his fighting ability and turned into an alien hero [Toby]. He became cocky again and tried to lift his mask in order to scare Benjamin completely crazy.
...Then, upon seeing the face of [Toby] (a creature whose face is defined as a conceptual horror), he was terrified and launched a missile at himself, ending the story. (Actually, there was originally a planned sequel to the anime, but... it was axed. You know, Warner Bros.)
The following is excerpted from WIKI:
Ben suffers from clownophobia (fear of clowns),[19] which is indirectly caused by Max.[Note 4]
Zombozo bears some resemblance to the Joker from DC Comics.
Both are psychotic, disfigured clowns with a twisted sense of humor who enjoy torturing/killing others.
He was voiced by John Kassir in the original series and by John DiMaggio in Ultimate Alien. Both of them voiced the Joker after voicing Zombozo.
In Ultimate Alien , Zombozo's weapons, gadgets, and laugh are similar to those used by the Joker (his electric joy buzzer and giant mallet are Joker mainstays).
He tried to intimidate Ben into submission in the original series, which is closer to another famous Batman villain, Scarecrow.
In Hit 'Em Where They Live, Ben pretends not to remember fighting Zombozo in the original series because he doesn't want Kevin to know that he used to be afraid of clowns. [DM 1]
Zombozo appeared in several Cartoon Network 20th Anniversary commercials. In one, he walks into a party between Batman, Ben, the Powerpuff Girls, and Rex, causing their laughter to stop. He distracts them by claiming someone needs help, then steals some of the party favors and escapes.
[He knew the reason behind their laughter]... I'm dying of laughter, hahahahahaha. Are you afraid of getting beaten?
This chapter's visual experience:
Dick: Let's put Benjamin and Jason in one group (the strongest fighter and the one most easily controlled by the clown together)
Tim: I think it's great.
Jason: I don't care.
Benjamin: No problem (as long as I forget I'm not afraid of clowns, then I'm not afraid of clowns... I guess)
Li Hua, the only person who knew about it: No! I don't agree! They can't be grouped together! (Is this a mental attack from the other party, afraid of not getting the food?)
【Catch the bug twice】
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