Chapter 148 Chapter 148 Face to face
Not long after, with a flash of green light, the back end of the bird-beak flying stick suddenly sank. Li Hua remained calm and steadied the stick. "You're just going to let Robin go like that?"
"What are you talking about!" Benjamin grabbed Jason's shoulders to steady himself and shouted, "I only came out after discussing it with him. I was just about to send him a message to let him know I was safe!"
Benjamin's transformation has a time limit, so Stingray can only take Robin on the road. Afterwards, he can't help with the bomb disposal and can only watch from the side.
After defusing three bombs, Benjamin calculated that the time for transformation was almost up. He realized that he did not have enough physical strength and staying beside Robin would only affect Robin's speed in using the grappling gun.
So he immediately decided to separate from Tim temporarily, and used the last bit of transformation time to deal with all the aftermath of the gas tank bombs, and then go find him again after he transformed again.
Meeting Li Hua Jason was purely a coincidence.
"Just drop me off on any rooftop."
Benjamin pressed the communicator next to his ear and sent a message to Robin that was as safe as if it was bombarded by Xu Jin's barrage of messages. After receiving the other party's reply, he naturally chose to get off the car.
"Wait a minute, there's a carpooler who cut in line," Li Hua asked. "Why don't you use the Kryptonian?"
"You think I don't want to use it?" Benjamin said. "Gotham's buildings are filled with lead, which severely hinders Kryptonians' super vision. And the Joker's map only shows the coordinates of the building where the bomb is located, not the specific location. No matter how I think about it, I can't use the super speed of the Man of Steel to maneuver around in a residential building packed with evacuees and with complicated internal conditions!"
Not only would it waste more energy, time, and effort, but it would also be incredibly noisy! So noisy that Benjamin couldn't hear his teammates.
Although Benjamin had been taught how to control his abilities by veteran Kryptonian Clark and veteran half-Kryptonian Connor, he was not a Kryptonian 24 hours a day like them, so he lacked experience.
Not to mention learning a skill that requires extremely high control across species, even among humans of the same species, age, and time, not all can control their breathing rhythm while running.
Jason sighed, "It's not easy. You can actually think before you transform now."
Li Hua: "I am no longer a reckless man. My youth is over."
Benjamin: "...Calculating the time, I should get off. Please drop me off in front."
He wanted to leave this flying stick that had no friendship with his teammates.
"Wait a minute," Jason said. "Let me ask you, which is more important, saving lives or losing face?"
Benjamin said without hesitation: "Of course saving lives is more important."
“Very good.” Jason removed the BUG staff from the inside of his left arm and stuffed it into the collar of Benjamin’s lining, shouting amidst the blooming green phantom petals—
"Then in order to save more lives, Ben 10, quickly use the BUG wand to transform into a magical girl!"
If you don’t have enough stamina, BUFF will make up for it!
.......
As a red-skinned alien in a green magical girl dress streaked across the night sky, gas tank bombs exploded one after another in the sky over Gotham.
Some of them are gorgeous fireworks, while others are magnificent explosions.
Li Hua felt his teeth ache when he saw this scene.
The bombs closest to them, the ones they checked first, were fireworks, and the ones that followed were deadly. If they had let their guard down after checking the first few and finding them to be fireworks, who knows how many lives and homes would have been taken by the later bombs.
This is the Joker's "Killing Joke".
Robin: "According to Arkham's records, the Joker's escape took no more than three hours, so he couldn't have set up more traps."
Judging from the Joker's usual style, this arrangement was a bit perfunctory, and the paint on some gas tanks was not even dry.
Benjamin's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. "No one's urging the clown to come out and do something like he's being asked to punch in at work, so why did he have to go to all this trouble?"
If you have nothing to do, you can go bang your head against the wall.
"Normal people can't understand the thinking style of a psychopath. Not to mention that the Joker is considered a psychopath even among psychopaths," Dick said. "Don't let your guard down. That perverted lunatic never takes his deadly jokes lightly. We haven't seen any members of the Joker Gang or the Joker yet, so we don't know where they are or what they are planning."
All the famous villains in Gotham have their own followers. The "Joker Gang" is the Joker's followers. They wear brightly colored clown costumes or clown masks and take orders from the Joker and Harley Quinn.
After the previous round of evacuation, the Joker and the Joker Gang members who set the bomb could easily have blended into the crowd that had just been evacuated by the police and escaped from the scene. Finding them in the huge Gotham City is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Maybe we can start with those gas tanks," Robin suggested. "While household gas tanks are common, having so many empty ones is unusual. I think we can investigate further."
But sometimes, things don't go as planned.
At this time, fireworks suddenly started to be set off in the sky again.
The news of the Joker's prison break had already spread throughout Gotham. Who would have the leisure to go out and set off fireworks at this time?
.......Who else could it be!
When the oracle reported that the hateful green-purple figure had appeared at the door of the warehouse where the fireworks were launched, everyone immediately took action, fearing that the hated thing would escape.
Li Hua once again experienced firsthand the unpredictable nature of the Joker's behavior.
When they arrived at the scene, they found the clown sitting on the concrete steps of the warehouse, watching the fireworks in the sky, with no intention of escaping or resisting.
Even after seeing them arrive, the Joker enthusiastically jumped up from the stairs and bowed to Dick, who was dressed as Batman, as if at the beginning or end of a performance:
"Haha! I knew you were the best playmate, little bat!"
"Your game is over, Joker."
Dick used special handcuffs to handcuff the Joker to the streetlight next to the warehouse, and then began to search him. During the whole process, the Joker not only did not resist at all, but the smile on his face did not diminish at all.
He even shouted excitedly, "You almost always win the racing game—oh, except for that one in the Middle East not long ago. What a pity, you were just that close to winning."
At this point, the Joker deliberately tilted his head to look at Jason wearing the red hood: "Don't you agree, kid?"
Even though he knew that the clown in front of him was not the one who killed him, their identical appearance and the things they mentioned still made Jason's head explode, and those buried memories were about to emerge before his eyes -
"Clowns who are outdated, humorless, and not in line with market trends should graduate as soon as possible."
Benjamin, who was originally blocked by Li Hua, took the initiative to walk in front of Jason, and anger began to replace fear.
"As a clown, why don't you stand on the stage? Is it because you know no one will applaud your jokes, so you have to walk off the stage to promote your jokes?"
"Good question." The Joker snapped his fingers and introduced in a high-pitched voice, "Because this whole Gotham is the stage for him and me, so I have never left my stage-"
"Then why did you go to the Middle East? Don't tell me that's Gotham's branch."
Li Hua interrupted without any hesitation.
"Oh, no, I remembered it wrongly. It seems you really have never left Gotham."
The Joker from last week died there, so the Joker from this new week might not have really been there.
"Ha! Look what I found?"
The clown twisted his neck strangely, and his sinister gaze focused on Li Hua.
"A snitch rat, a hateful cheater."
He explained why his little bat suddenly discovered "his" secret not long ago.
He himself does not care about the secret being discovered, because "he" is the Joker, and the Joker is him. There is no one else in this game, only the Joker and Batman.
But the Joker has always been looking forward to his playmate Batman discovering this little surprise. What a fun Easter egg and surprise! He couldn't help laughing just thinking about the little Bat's expression after learning the truth.
Therefore, the Joker could not accept that the answer to this little game was leaked in advance by an outsider through cheating.
Even this damn leaker has nothing to do with bats. This guy doesn't even have a bat logo on his chest!
In the eyes of the Joker, whose mind is full of "Batman", this is an act as excessive as NTR!
"Don't talk nonsense, I didn't tell anyone, this is all your fault!"
Even though Li Hua didn't know the clown's weird and twisted train of thought, he didn't want to take the blame for this outrageous thing.
It was obviously AK Joker himself who threw the Joker virus in AK Batman's face, and then AK Batman launched it and told the Batman of this universe. What does Li Hua have to do with it?
At that time he was fighting the scarecrow!
Moreover, Li Hua felt that the clown's anger was completely meaningless:
"You were shot six times, crashed into the sea with a helicopter that went out of control, and Superman couldn't find your remains. And not long after doing all that, you returned to Gotham alive and well. You even got involved in trouble while Bane was there. Which person on Earth could do that? What makes you think Batman wouldn't notice you've been replaced?"
Benjamin: "Which clown are you?"
"The clown hasn't changed." The clown shook his head and hummed a tuneless song, "There has only been one clown from beginning to end!"
"How does that saying go... I am chaos, I am madness, I am a clown! Hahahahahaha!"
Li Hua and the others just watched the clown laughing silently.
He is beyond help.
Number 666 said in Li Hua's mind, worried that Li Hua might develop some sympathy for this second-round clown.
His cognition has completely become that of the Joker. This level of self-loss is no different from death, just like the zombie virus in your human movies. When he is infected and the disease fully develops, he can be declared dead.
"I know." Li Hua said in his heart, "Actually, I'm just curious how long he can laugh without gasping for breath."
With such a high-pitched laugh for so long, Li Hua had reason to suspect that the clown must have swallowed 300 throat lozenges a day.
But we can't let the clowns continue to act so arrogantly. Not only may it disturb people and plants, but it may also cause mental pollution.
Especially polluting Jason and Benjamin's mental state.
To prevent his two friends from losing all their San points, and also to give the clown some psychological support, Li Hua cleared his throat and said, "Since you say you are a clown, then I am also a clown."
Although he didn't actually come into direct contact with the Joker virus...he did serve as AK Batman who was infected with the Joker virus.
That is AK Batman, but he is the only carrier of the Joker virus. It is not wrong to say that he is the "Joker". Then Li Hua, who used to be AK Batman, can also be called the Joker if rounded off.
Logic is not important, the Joker never talked about logic anyway.
As for face and reputation...not to mention that these things are not as important as the mental health of good friends. Li Hua now feels that there is no lower limit to how much his image can be damaged.
"Haha—are you kidding me? You're really good at telling bad jokes, kid."
Even the clown didn't realize that he could hear such remarks. He was very nervous and seemed to want to see through everything about Li Hua.
"You don't look like a clown at all!"
"Pathetic fellow, devoid of humor and imagination. Who told you that all clowns have to be like you? How dare you assume that about all clowns? Why can't there be a kind clown like me?"
Li Hua said as he moved closer to Dick, who was filling in as Batman, and poked his armor in the ribs with his elbow.
"Right Batman, Batman, say something!"
Dick, who saw Li Hua’s fancy moves up close for the first time: “…” What do you want me to say?
Li Hua, don't do this, I'm scared!
The Joker certainly wasn't that easily fooled, but his attention was indeed diverted from Jason and Benjamin.
The Joker was amused and laughed so hard that he couldn't breathe: "It's really an innovative performance, but you overlooked one point - how can the Joker leave Batman?"
"Yeah! So I'm with Batman now, right?"
Li Hua put on a big smile on his face, took Dick Batman in his arms and said.
"On your stage, with your Batman."
The clown's laughter stopped abruptly.
Everyone: “…”
It was actually NTR in person!!!
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Author's Note: Li Hua: How can I not be considered a clown for doing things to keep my teammates in good spirits? Sunshine Clown is also a clown!
【Catch a bug once】
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