Chapter 68 Chapter 68 [VIP]
"You were deceived by his lies."
When Scarecrow finished speaking, many people in the conference room focused their attention on Megan. Could she really understand what he said?
He was about to taunt Megan and the clown, but the child blinked, looked at the indifferent clown on the stage, then at the scarecrow, and finally at the cane in his hand. Slowly, as if letting out a long breath from his chest, he said doubtfully, "Lies."
Scarecrow believed she had long since emerged from her unconscious state. She used to be able to speak and cry on her own initiative, and then she completely recovered. Now she can communicate normally with others. But what about her self-awareness? As her perceptions returned, and she absorbed more information from the outside world, her mind and spirit broadened, she should have her own ideas.
Everyone present was waiting for what would happen next. They all silently and tacitly put pressure on the Joker, trying to break his authority in Arkham. After all, as a criminal who had existed long enough, the Joker was not only a nightmare for the people of Gotham, but also feared by them.
If the Joker hadn't said anything else today, then his 'daughter' would have been sacrificed.
Megan seemed not to feel their gazes and remained dazed, holding her cane in one hand and touching her cheek and hair with the other. She thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out. Finally, she looked up at the clown and said, "Dad..." She chose to ask for help from the adult she trusted and relied on the most.
As a trusted adult, the clown, still holding the 'father' script, gave her a fake, gentle smile, and even his strange green eyes flickered with love, but the gesture was too fake, and it could only coax Megan. He said in an exaggerated tone and slowly: "Oh, my child, what do you want to ask?"
He is also waiting for Megan's response.
But Scarecrow, who knew Megan's brain wasn't very good and was very likely to miss the point, spoke first: "Meghan, your good father is asking you, what do you think about the fact that your family was destroyed by him and he beat you?"
Megan tilted her head, clearly expressing her confusion. The clown on the stage also seemed to glance at him. The Scarecrow stood at ease, waiting to see how this father and daughter, who clearly had a grudge against each other, would react.
The first one to give the Scarecrow's reaction was the clown. He raised the brim of his hat, but the lighting in the conference room was not very good. It shone from the top behind him, hiding the upper half of his face in shadow.
All that could be seen were those eyes filled with madness that slightly reflected the ambient light, and the corners of his scarlet mouth were pulled further to the sides, making one wonder whether he would reveal the gums of his back teeth, as if that pale face was just a disguise, which was chilling.
The clown waved his hands pretentiously, finally pointing his palm inward to indicate himself, and lowered his head to ask Megan: "So what do you think of me, child?"
Megan: "Dad, Jonathan said you hit me."
The clown nodded. His smile was extremely joyful, yet also extremely cold. "Yes, not only did I abuse you after bringing you back, but before I took you away..."
"Oh my God, you once had such a happy family. Even when you were sick, your parents still stayed with you and insisted on raising you and making you better."
The criminals in the conference room stared at the Joker. They knew that the Joker was not the same as he was around Megan. He was happy to play with the child he brought back, just because he was waiting for bigger fun! But someone in Arkham thought that he had been mesmerized by this clumsy trick, so he sent a test.
They were all waiting for the Joker to reveal his flaws and weaknesses, and then they would swarm over him like hyenas, kill the veteran criminal, tear him apart, and plunder and devour everything he controlled.
There are no weaklings or good people in Arkham. There is no room for innocence or weakness here. The only exception is Megan.
They had all investigated Megan's life experience and experiences before she was brought back by the Joker, trying to use this as a breakthrough point, but the Joker had done a very clean job of cleaning up the mess, and the only clue left was -
A family that fits Megan's situation, but not only did the couple die, but no one in her family escaped, and there is no living person who can testify to Megan's life experience.
"It's a pity that they're all dead, but who told me to see you? From the first moment I saw you, I knew..."
"You're quite interesting." He pointed his finger at Megan.
He had already committed unforgivable sins, and countless victims awaited him in the underworld. But how long would they wait? After all, the dead couldn't rise from their coffins to exact revenge on him. And as for heaven and hell? Did God punish him? He simply allowed him to continue sinning, which proved that God didn't exist.
He once deceived Megan, and now, the Joker has admitted what he did. How will Megan, as a child who has a 'grudge against him for killing her parents', react?
Look, how dramatic this is! The Joker completely destroyed her family, adopted her, and abused her when she was a child. But before that, her brain was not good, and now her consciousness has been restored and she has her own self. Will she have a sense of good and evil? Does she know that there is a deep hatred between her and her good daddy?
The clown looked nonchalant, but said in a high voice: "Hate me, kid, now you know the truth! Hahahahahahaha!" He burst into wild laughter, and the other people in the conference room had different expressions.
He clapped his hands on the podium a few times and said, "Alright, alright, you should have said that you wanted to give Megan a surprise. Otherwise, I wouldn't have almost left her behind on the way out. Without this protagonist, it wouldn't be fun anymore, and it wouldn't be like this."
How about now?
Megan seemed still in a daze, and when the Joker asked her, "Oh my dear, do you remember your family?", the familiar tides returned, flooding her ankles, chest, and finally reaching under her eyelids.
Turned into tears.
She didn't remember it. After all, she was still sick at that time and was not even conscious. She gradually got better after coming to the clown, but her body would remember it instinctively, and the love she once felt was also imprinted in her soul, and it would flow out at any time.
This resulted in the current joke which is even more black humor in the eyes of others:
Her former family failed to heal her, but it was the criminal who killed and destroyed her family who awakened her. But now all the lies are shattered and she has to face the truth.
The child started to cry, so the clown looked away in boredom and asked the scarecrow, "Dear friend, could you please tell me your problem? I'm addicted to being a teacher."
“This is your only chance.”
The Scarecrow watched as the truth was revealed, but it still had no effect on the clown. He was resentful and dissatisfied, but sneered and said, "I'm only curious about one question, which is what did you do to her? It's your poison, right? But its formula..."
If he could obtain the Joker's poison and formula and study it thoroughly, his fear gas would surely be taken to the next level. He would replace the Joker and completely defeat Batman, becoming the most feared existence in Gotham City.
The Joker was well aware of his ambition, but he refused without hesitation, "You don't have enough chips, Jonathan, and you are targeting me today." He will also hold a grudge.
As for the original protagonist, Megan? She was left aside, unattended. After all, the Joker's stance was clear—to this madman, she was just a toy for his own amusement and jokes. Even if they targeted Megan, they wouldn't get what they wanted. As intelligent people, they naturally withdrew, and the previous tit-for-tat ended there.
Scarecrow's face was gloomy. He knew that he didn't have any chips that the Joker was interested in, and he couldn't use Megan to control the Joker. So he would act with the goal of impressing the Joker.
After suppressing the cheerful clown, the clown looked at the others with a smile, and then suddenly realized, "Harvey, do you have something to say to me?"
Two-Face smiled faintly, but the half of his face, burned to a bloody mess by the sulfuric acid, showed a hideous and terrifying expression. He stroked a coin with the image of Ms. Gotham printed on both sides, his posture unmoved and still polite. "It's just that I haven't seen your child for a long time."
"Meghan is growing well under your care."
As a former prosecutor, he was very good at finding clues and tracking traces until he found the truth, but in the matter of the Joker, he chose to only look at the surface. Even though the Scarecrow gave his investigation results, what he saw with his own eyes was——
It was the madman Joker who raised a child. Her condition was getting better day by day, almost like a normal child. She was also protected by the Joker, and no one could harm her. Even though the Joker had abused Megan before, he was now obsessed with being a good daddy, which was shocking enough.
So does the Joker have feelings for her?
If this question is put forward for survey and statistics, only half of the people will directly deny it, while the other half of the respondents will burst into laughter on the spot, thinking that this is an absurd joke, comparable to an April Fool's Day prank.
The clown touched his chin and thought, "You're right, she has consumed a lot of my energy." He couldn't help but complain.
"...But I can't give her to you. Alas, you all pay too much attention to me, but it's too early for my fun."
He seems genuinely bothered by this and feels welcome in Arkham, but there's a deeper conflict behind the joke, which the Joker avoids.
Two-Face tried to seize the initiative, and the coin in his hand was bounced up. As it spun in the air, Killer Croc placed his huge claws on Two-Face.
Some people have absolutely no idea what's going on.
The Joker raised his hat slightly and gestured. On his head he was wearing the masterpiece of a criminal in Arkham, and the medium that could control people's brains had been placed on Two-Face.
After all, it was a crudely made controller made from parts given by the Mad Hatter when he was in solitary confinement and they were neighbors. It couldn't directly emit brain waves for control, but it was enough for the moment.
He laughed and asked in confusion, "Why do you always treat me as a nice guy?" He looks like he can be offended easily, but doesn't he?
The Joker came down from the stage with brisk steps. He didn't stop when he passed Megan. He just pulled his cane out of her arms and walked over to pat Killer Croc's scaly arm. "Well done, Waylon."
Because of this incident, the Penguin fell silent, Scarecrow and Riddler were unable to speak, and only the Ventriloquist was always out of state. He happened to be in Arkham, so he was called to the meeting and was told that Scarface might be returned to him, but now it seems that he can't get it.
The Joker left with his cane, and the controlled Two-Face followed closely behind. Only Killer Croc picked up Megan and followed calmly.
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+1 for black humor
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