Chapter 149 Chapter 149 One of the most dangerous things in the world...
"I've heard rumors about you," the Joker said with a gruff laugh after a burst of laughter. "I didn't believe it at first. But after seeing it with my own eyes, I think my dear roommates might be right. You do have a talent for being a psychopath."
"But your sense of humor is so different from mine. Your audiences all have serious faces, but I'm not such a spoiler. I understand that hard-working comedians need encouragement. It's a pity that this is not the right time, otherwise Uncle Clown would definitely give you candy."
Li Hua fully demonstrated the good quality of having read and replied randomly: "Throat lozenges?"
The Joker smiled again. "It's not a surprise if I tell you. Maybe you can ask Batman for candy. He took everything I had. Oh Bat~ You wouldn't be so cruel as to refuse such a cute child's request for candy, would you?"
The look in the Joker's eyes and the sweet tone in his voice when he looked at Batman gave Li Hua goosebumps.
I've heard for a long time that the Gotham Joker is Batman's extreme and toxic fan. Now it seems... could he still be Batman's dream man?
I thought it was a serious matter that Luthor and his arch-enemy Superman caused a loss of life in the neighboring Metropolis, but now it seems that compared to the Joker, Luthor is still too normal.
Who would look at their nemesis like that?!
Doesn’t “enemy” mean “always wanting to stab the other person to death”?
Is there something wrong with the knowledge I have learned, or is there something wrong with your world?
At first, Li Hua thought that the Joker's insistence on being serious with Batman was due to his obsession with finding an "equally matched opponent". Although he currently had no one with whom he had such feelings, he didn't think it was strange.
Throughout history, both in China and abroad, it is not uncommon for enemies to develop a sense of mutual respect.
But the Joker doesn't fit that profile!
Flashing red and blue police lights flashed by, and Li Hua wanted to ask the clown clearly before he was taken away by the police.
Only by asking clearly can we remind Bruce or Dick to be more careful!
But just as Li Hua was about to speak, Jason covered his mouth from behind and pulled him away without saying a word:
"Our parents taught us not to accept food from strangers."
Having a back-and-forth conversation with the clown and trying to analyze the clown's logic, boy, don't you want a healthy mental state anymore?
Are you tired of being a magic boy and want to switch jobs to become The Clown's Boy and compete with The Clown's Girl for the position?
"No, wait! I really have something important to ask him!" Li Hua struggled to break free and questioned the Joker, "Are you a gay who's attracted to Batman's body?"
The scene fell into silence for a moment...
Well, actually, Li Hua, who just shouted this sentence in front of everyone, felt that the scene fell into a brief silence because of the temporary emotional withdrawal caused by social death.
In fact, everyone else was very calm. Even the Gotham police officer who came to pick up the Joker sighed helplessly: "Again."
Before Li Hua understood what this meant, he heard the handcuffed clown making a negative "slurp" sound and shaking his head, as if Li Hua had asked a very childish and wrong question.
"No, no, no, my feelings for the little bat aren't as superficial as you say."
"We are a ball of thread that can never be untied, gamblers at both ends of the gambling table, and each other's best playmates!"
"So I said you are not a clown, because you will never understand these things, so you will never be a clown! Hahahahahaha——"
Li Hua watched the clown laughing loudly as he was tied up and taken to the prison van for serious criminals. He looked around and found that only Benjamin was as confused as he was. Everyone else was watching it all very calmly.
An older police officer looked at him curiously and said, "You're not from Gotham, are you?"
Li Hua shook his head, and Benjamin asked, "What's wrong?"
"Because only someone who has just arrived in Gotham and seen the Joker would ask that question." Jason shot arrows left and right, hooking his arm around the two men's necks and walking back, "Alright, alright, there's nothing for us to do here anymore, let's go!"
Li Hua used the last bit of his magic power to knock out the [flying] wand, and flew towards the horizon with three people on board amid the exclamations of the police officers.
The older police officer couldn't help but ask Robin, "I thought there was only one magical boy in a skirt in Gotham?"
Robin thought to himself, if you don't count so strictly, there are actually three magical boys in Gotham who can wear skirts, but the other one didn't wear one today.
If we strictly break it down based on the magic wand and transformation properties, there is actually only one magical boy, Li Hua, in Gotham tonight.
Because the official name of the star staff full of bugs is "Magical Girl Wand", and it can only transform into a "magical girl", so Benjamin, who was transformed by the bug staff, is strictly speaking a magic "girl".
But these words couldn't be told to outsiders, so Robin could only say vaguely: "It's normal for magical teenagers to act in groups."
The older officer glanced at Batman and said sarcastically, "Like a bat?"
Older police officers still remember Batman's "I work alone" statement, but the children who keep coming out from under the bat cape are like boomerangs of time.
Dick, who had once crawled out from under the cloak and was now wearing a cloak, pinched his thigh hard with his hand under the cloak, and only then did he successfully keep his expression tense.
If Dick weren't wearing the cape of "Batman" right now, he would join the police in making fun of Batman.
......
"Why are you two trying to provoke the Joker to get his attention?"
Jason asked loudly once he was back in the Batcave, not even taking off his Red Hood, thinking he was probably in tachycardia by now.
"The Joker isn't the same guy we dealt with before. What if he sets his sights on you?"
Jason was now very glad that he didn't have live ammunition on him, otherwise when he saw the Joker showing interest in Li Hua and Benjamin, he might not be able to control himself and shoot the anthropomorphic creature!
Then the next anthropomorphic creature will jump out from somewhere in Gotham, and then the next one...
But if the Joker wasn't defeated, Jason couldn't help but wonder, what if "this Joker" also targeted Benjamin and Li Hua like he targeted himself?
Especially Benjamin! I don't know if the Joker discovered Benjamin's fear of clowns at that time. What if he found out and used this to set a trap for Benjamin...
"But we can't just sit there and watch the Joker mess with your mind!" Benjamin said, "Jason, brother, I hope you understand that we're worried about you just as you are about us."
Although Benjamin had not died so far, and although Jason and Li Hua always made their own hellish jokes from time to time, Benjamin understood that death was never a pleasant feeling.
So even though Benjamin was covered in hair and sweat from the moment he saw the Joker, his fear was burned away by the anger in that moment when he heard the Joker wantonly revealing and mocking Jason's scars.
Benjamin didn't care if the clown was the one who killed Jason, bullying his friends was not an option!
Benjamin, you are so scared of Uncle McO'Laurel, what are you talking about? You didn't even take off your magical girl skirt!
Jason felt a little sour in his nose, but he also wanted to laugh.
"Let's not talk about sentimentality. I'm allergic to it." Jason turned his head away, not wanting others to see his strange expression, but he still added quietly in a voice that others could hear, "...But that doesn't mean I don't know. I've always known."
Jason knew it from the very beginning in the Gotham church, before they revealed their identities to each other and Li Hua and Benjamin talked to him separately.
Maybe the three of them chose three different paths, maybe the three of them have different styles, but the beating hearts in their chests are all kind and passionate.
Jason turned his head and saw Li Hua staring at the cards in his hand. This was a good opportunity to change the subject and divert Benjamin's attention, so Jason asked, "What are you doing?"
"nothing."
Li Hua stuffed the new card back into the pocket of her beach pants under her skirt.
It's just a card I drew...a card that I can't use for the time being.
"Is there anything else the clown needs my help with?" Benjamin tugged at the hem of his skirt. "I'm already dressed, and I can't take this off anytime soon."
Just like the time when Bruce ambushed him before, the BUG wand is now at the chest and abdomen of Benjamin's magical girl skirt. The magical girl skirt caused by the BUG wand cannot be taken off, so Benjamin can only wear this dress until his magic power is exhausted before he can change back to his original state.
"Although this is my first time dealing with a clown from your world... I always feel that there's something a little off about him walking into a trap."
Jason: Benjamin, you have been exhausted for two rounds, and you have weak clown attributes. If you go to investigate the clown and the clown gang, aren't you walking into a trap?
Li Hua: "The Joker is back in prison now. All that's left is to investigate the case. Are you good at investigating cases?"
Benjamin: "I can use Crab Armor Mastermind, okay?"
Jason: "The orange crabs are just smart, but being smart doesn't mean their deductions are necessarily correct. Have you forgotten? Previously, you tried to use your crab-shelled brainpower to analyze the situation of Gotham's supervillains and superheroes, and came up with the idea of temporarily withdrawing the entire Bat-Family from vigilante action. Because you believed that if the supervillains were left unchecked, they would engage in fierce infighting and consume each other within a few months, and there would be no point in launching vigilante action at this time."
There was no need for Jason to come up with real data and cases to refute it. After Benjamin himself turned back, he felt that this was a bad idea.
Super villains are not crickets. They will not fight with each other for months until they kill each other.
But the ordinary people in Gotham are really going to be killed!
Li Hua: "Just like No. 666 said, your stupidity is a personality problem, not an IQ problem. So even if you become a Crab Mastermind, you will still be stupid if you are not good at reasoning!"
Benjamin: “…”
How could a teammate with a temperature of over 30 degrees Celsius say something colder than slush?
Snow mud is sweet after all!
......
At the breakfast table the next day, Li Hua and others finally knew what the clown was up to last night.
Last night, a Gotham bank vault was robbed, and according to the CCTV footage, it was the Jokers. The Joker's bomb and his presence distracted all the vigilantes and police, giving the Jokers a half-hour of undisturbed shopping.
"By the time they were discovered, there was no trace of the group or the stolen gold." Dick, who had been up all night, yawned loudly. "Another bank robbery with no trace... This is Gotham."
Li Hua: "My complaints about the gas bomb last night were just talk... But the Joker actually did it and made all that noise just because he was short of money??"
Li Hua understood the truth that money can make a hero fall. Jason had told him before that Gotham villains sometimes make money in order to cause trouble.
But Li Hua didn't expect that a frivolous psychopath like the Joker could come up with such a big plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain and let his men steal the vault...an activity with a very special humanistic color.
"What's so strange about this? To do something, you need equipment and manpower, right? These things don't just grow out of the ground. You have to buy equipment and hire manpower, and all of that costs money."
Jason added.
"Except for Poison Ivy, whose equipment and men can literally grow out of the ground."
"There are generally three ways for the Arkham psychopaths to make money. The first is to have their own technology and industry, like Black Mask, Penguin, and Scarecrow. The second is to be hired by others - but because the Joker has a history of backstabbing employers, most people won't hire him. The third and most common way is to rob banks and start their own business."
"The clown not only makes money, he also pays taxes." Tim cut into the fried egg depressedly, "and he has never missed a single tax so far."
Dick: "How do you know?"
Tim gave Dick a strange look, swallowed the fried egg in his mouth, and said, "Of course it's because I've been reporting them to the IRS."
When the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) goes to war, nothing will be left.
If any of the people who benefited from Arkham had underpaid or refused to pay taxes, they would not be able to stay in Gotham peacefully.
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The author has something to say: At this moment, Mr. Cheng outside the screen said: I have a question.
Cheng: During the Court of Owls, didn't Benjamin detach his clothes and staff after transforming into a monster? Why didn't he use them now?
Future Li Hua:...
Future Li Hua:.......
Future Li Hua: (clenching fist and clapping) That’s right!
Mr. Cheng: ...You just realized it too!
【Catch the bug twice】
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