Chapter 2061: Knight

Jason sat on the sofa eating a sandwich.

He felt very hungry, and that strange parasitic life called a symbiote said to him in his brain: "The body repair has already reached 80%. I'm not sure if you need me to enhance your imperfect body structure and muscle strength..."

"Can it still be enhanced?"

"Theoretically speaking, it is possible, but after enhancement, you will have a period of adaptation. After the adaptation period passes, you will still need to exercise diligently and maintain physical health..."

"You're as long-winded as Dick. Do your work."

Jason turned his head and saw Schiller walking up from the basement, holding a thick stack of documents. He walked to the sofa opposite Jason and sat down, placing that stack of documents on the tabletop.

"Do me a favor, Jason."

Jason frowned and looked at that big pile of materials that seemed to be written in English, but which he actually couldn't understand at all.

From the vaguely visible pictures on them, it could be seen that these seemed to be some analysis reports of medicine and biology. Jason even saw the cross-section of the organs he had cut off with his own hands on them.

"What is this?"

"Medical biology and chemical analysis test reports."

"Yes, I know, I mean, what are you analyzing?"

"A substance that can be analyzed."

Jason took a bite of the sandwich and looked at Schiller with some doubt. A certain terrifying atmosphere was gone; he looked just like an ordinary doctor.

Schiller stopped the movements in his hands, looked up at Jason, and said: "Do you know about the Joker virus?"

"Heard of it." Jason swallowed the food in his mouth and said: "But I don't think the Joker is a patient. He didn't become that crazy because he was infected with some disease."

"A very accurate understanding, Jason, but this madness of his is contagious, usually through death." Schiller looked down at the data and said: "I told you before, I came here not just to treat you."

Jason stopped chewing and looked at Schiller. He also looked at the documents in Schiller's hands and said: "You want to study the Joker virus. Is this your deal with Batman? Did he entrust you to do this?"

"The opposite; he allowed me to study the Joker and the Joker virus, and I treat you to the best of my ability."

Schiller sighed lightly, looked into Jason's eyes, and said: "You wouldn't want to know how high a price Batman paid to hire me. If you had known me earlier, you would know that I charge a high price."

"Isn't it just money? He has plenty of money." Jason curled his lips and said.

"Not this time, Jason."

Jason's gaze immediately fell on Schiller's face, as if hoping he would give an accurate answer, but Schiller shook his head, handed the organized documents to Jason, and said: "Go on, take these to Batman."

Jason had just finished eating a sandwich. He stood up and took the documents from Schiller's hands. Schiller also stood up, simultaneously took out the communicator Batman had left him, and said: "I will give him a call, and then he will send his location to you. If you have anything, just ask him directly."

Jason pursed his lips and rubbed under his nose with his hand, appearing somewhat uncomfortable. He muttered in a low voice: "I have no interest in knowing."

"But you had better perform in a way that makes his payment worth it. Believe me, Jason, the cost is bigger than you think."

Soon, Robin and Nightwing piloted a helicopter and picked Jason up from the island.

And after Jason left, Schiller returned to the basement and took out a notebook from the filing cabinet. All the handwriting on this wasn't printed, but handwritten, and the professionalism wasn't as strong as those materials; it was more of some speculations.

This was the most important purpose of Schiller coming here.

Previously, there had been a Batman-Joker Law, the main content of which was: Batman's gaze creates the Joker, and the Joker comes from Batman's choices.

But later, through practical verification, Batman's gaze was a necessary condition for the Joker's birth, but not a sufficient condition; the conditions for the Joker's birth were very complex.

Under normal circumstances, Batman's gaze was just one of the factors for the Joker's birth.

Just like stir-frying a dish, Batman's gaze was like a tomato; it could be used to stir-fry eggs, or it could be used to stew meat, but it almost couldn't become a dish on its own.

So the question came: how did Schiller become the Joker?

Of course, the process Schiller knew before was that he was chosen the first moment he met the Batman of the universe he was in; that is to say, at that time he had already received Batman's gaze, and then he became the Joker.

But as mentioned before, having Batman's choice alone wasn't enough; even if it could, the fatalism and entanglement required couldn't be achieved the first time they met.

What's more, at that time Bruce had just debuted and wasn't yet a very "Batman" Batman. According to the Batman-Joker Aggregation Law, the power of his gaze wasn't enough to directly transform Arrogance into the Joker.

Before knowing the truth of his origin, Schiller could only speculate that perhaps the Batman of his own universe was relatively special, and plus he, this transmigrator, was also very special; the two added together caused this disaster.

But after learning about the original body's earth-shattering "wool-shearing" plan, Schiller found that this matter might not be that simple.

Him becoming the Joker might not have been an accident.

Then if Bruce's gaze was treated as a tomato, what exactly was stir-fried with the tomato into a dish?

Of course, Schiller admitted that his own mental state couldn't be called healthy, but Cat Getan never lacked madmen. If he and they were all locals, then why was it him?

And Schiller didn't have any of the elements common to the Joker either; Schiller had no acting experience, had never performed comedy, wasn't from a circus, and hadn't fallen into a chemical pool.

If one looked at his past life's experiences with the eyes of an ordinary person, then except for the bumps in his childhood, it couldn't be called a "killing joke"; if one had to say, it was others who were killed.

More importantly, Schiller felt that his views were completely different from the Joker's; the Joker was somewhat involved in revenge against society, while Schiller had been trying to integrate into the society of ordinary people.

Then if both experiences and concepts were different, the other factor that caused Schiller to become the Joker could only be physical.

Combined with the fact that the original body exploded in Cat Getan, it was really hard not to make Schiller think: could this also be a part of the original body's plan?

When speculating to this point, Schiller had a flash of inspiration and thought of another matter, and that was Lex Luthor.

Lex Luthor had once described to Schiller the scene where he met the original Schiller.

At that time, it was Lex's father, Lionel, who invited the psychology expert Schiller to treat his child's illness. Of course, it wasn't really treating the illness; he just wanted to use Schiller's mouth to declare that his son was ill.

At that time, Schiller might have felt compassion for the young Lex, and after discovering that Lionel had used an excessive amount of sedative drugs on him, he directly used a vase to knock Lionel unconscious.

Immediately following that, the important thing came: Schiller injected Lex with a type of medicine that had a strong wine aroma. At that time, Schiller speculated that it might be the Dionysian Factor.

But now Schiller flipped through the dialogue between Lex and the original Schiller back then, and only then did he discover a key point.

That was that the original Schiller had once emphasized to Lex that this type of medicine would make people produce manic emotions, which was just right for treating the numbness Lex had produced due to excessive use of sedative drugs.

Regarding the Dionysian Factor, Schiller had some understanding, because under the Cat Getan Cathedral, there was an entire pool of fine wine, and that was basically all Dionysian Factor.

The Dionysian Factor was actually something designed by DC writers to patch the Joker's self-healing ability. At that time, Schiller felt it was a bit strange; the original comics mainly emphasized the healing ability of the Dionysian Factor.

Then could it be that the needle in the original Schiller's hand back then wasn't the Dionysian Factor, or rather, wasn't completely the Dionysian Factor?

Assuming the biggest source of the Dionysian Factor was Cat Getan's wine pool, and the original body's action route was going to Metropolis first and then to Cat Getan, then when he was in Metropolis, how could he be holding Cat Getan's specialty?

And there was another detail: Lex told Schiller that when the original Schiller took out the needle back then, he sighed, "Only this little bit left, huh."

And according to Lex's observation at the time, the medicine remaining in the needle was indeed very little, I'm afraid less than one milliliter, and it didn't look like there was only this much to begin with; it looked more like what was left after use.

Then where was this mysterious needle used before?

The biggest problem was, what exactly was that mysterious needle in the original body's hand, whether it had been used, and where it had been used?

And combined with the fact that Arrogance became the Joker the first moment he was gazed at by Batman, Schiller could only make a crazy speculation—the needle in the original Schiller's hand wasn't the Dionysian Factor, but the Joker virus, and he had used this thing on himself.

This could also explain why Lex later became the Joker after receiving Batman's gaze, because the combination of the Joker virus plus Batman's gaze was the easiest to stir-fry into the dish that was the Joker.

This speculation sounded too crazy, and to verify whether such a possibility really existed, one had to first understand what the Joker virus was.

The simplest method was of course to draw a tube of blood from Jack. Schiller believed that as long as the price was high enough, Jack wouldn't care, but this involved another problem of experimental rigor.

First of all, Bruce was no longer Batman, so whether Jack, this Joker, could still be counted as a pure Joker was actually in doubt.

Because the relationship between Batman and the Joker in this universe wasn't normal, the concentration of the Joker virus in Jack's body couldn't be used as a standard for experimental data.

Then the principle was the same; the blood of Schiller, who had been chosen by Bruce, might also not be standard enough because Bruce had given up on becoming Batman.

But if one wanted to draw blood from a standard Joker of another universe, to put it bluntly, the biggest resistance wasn't the Joker, but Batman.

Batman and the Joker were forever inseparable. Under normal circumstances, wanting to break them apart wasn't just thankless work; after breaking them apart, it was also very easy for the one left behind to be chosen and become someone else.

Schiller didn't want to find out that the Joker was me again after winding a huge ball of yarn to break them apart.

So certain conjectures had always lingered in Schiller's heart, but there was no opportunity to realize them, until the Batman of the Arkham Knight universe sought out Schiller.

At that time, Schiller quickly went through the experiences of the Arkham Knight universe's Batman in his brain, and then he found that this was truly "drowsy and someone brought a pillow."

The Joker of this universe was dead, only Batman was left, and Batman was also infected with the Joker virus. Dealing with one Batman was much simpler than dealing with a Batman-Joker combination.

Thus, Schiller not only agreed to Peter's request to go for an internship but also told Peter that this was actually an exam, and Peter lived up to expectations.

Subject 1 plan, Subject 2 incite war, Subject 3 shift blame, Subject 4 stir things up—after a set of silky smooth small combos, Batman indeed came to the Western Heaven to invite the Buddha Schiller. ===== CHAPTER 2062 =====