Chapter 2501: The Battle for the Cape (Part 68)

Some people might say, why must the riddle be drawn? Can't you change to another way that doesn't destroy the city's appearance to notify Superman? For example, sending a letter or something.

In the original comic, Riddler's means of sending riddles to Batman can be considered diverse, but the premise is that it is Batman.

First of all, people have a fixed address, at least a fixed patrol route, and a proper contact method. So no matter whether Riddler sends a letter, sends an email, or projects fireworks, he can at least find a fixed location.

But Superman, because his body is weak, can't find a proper job. In the Dream World, he has been wandering. In the early stage, he could run to the shelter. Later, because someone in the shelter has been harassing him because of his appearance, he simply didn't go to the shelter.

Riddler has no way to send a letter to a homeless person by normal means. He can only entrust someone to run errands. This is too troublesome. It is possible that the person running errands arrives, but Superman doesn't know where he ran. It is possible that Superman is there, but the person running errands takes the money and doesn't do things.

Speaking of taking money, Riddler wants to cry even more. He is neither a lawyer with a brilliant professional resume like Harvey, nor a successful businessman like the Penguin who can mix well everywhere, and he doesn't even have Harley Quinn's flexible thinking. But in the Dream World, they also have to eat.

Riddler's income source in the real world is relatively confusing. Comics rarely have a portrayal of his personal career experience. At most, he says he has been a courier and consultant. In the TV series, he has a stable job in the Gotham Police Department, but it doesn't look like he can support him in engaging in various crimes.

In the Dream World, Riddler's main income comes from contributing to major newspapers. Superman became a street wanderer, but Riddler became a reporter, which can be called reversing the universe.

But because of his mental problems, he has no way to pass the interview for any formal job. Very few people ask him for manuscripts, and his income is very meager, barely enough for him to eat.

So he also can't take out extra money to engage in riddle forms other than street graffiti, and sometimes his life is as embarrassed as Superman wandering on the street.

The situation became even worse later. Because time jumped 20 years, although Superman became very weak, he was at least immortal, but Riddler couldn't. He directly became an old man in the Dream World. Because he had been dealing with spray paint for a long time, his lung function had a big problem.

Now he has even less ability to earn money. He can only wander the streets like Superman, until one day, when he was dragging his weak, exhausted, and terminally ill body to draw his riddles on the street again, Superman caught him when he fainted and sent him to the hospital.

Superman has been taking care of him.

Riddler is actually very confused. Even if the time skipped in the middle is not what they really experienced, but even before this jump, he didn't give Superman less trouble. Why did Superman save him?

As a result, Superman told him that many people don't understand that society's view of people will also shape people. People only say that you are committing a crime, and you will become a criminal. And if I treat you as an artist, there will be one more artist in the world. Graffiti is a hobby you have insisted on for decades. Your persistence itself is a part of artistic creation and possesses aesthetic value in the sociological sense. I think an artist should get enough respect.

Riddler is really moved.

Although he knows it's not the time when he should be moved, but please, Batman and everyone else think he is just a mental patient. They haven't praised him as an artist.

Riddler was smashed by this straight ball and broke his nasal bone, so for the vast majority of the rest of the time, he was on the hospital bed, pulling Superman to tell him the design ideas of his riddles, and could talk for two hours continuously.

Finally, the Joker created a terrorist attack case. Superman intended to fight for the last time, but he understood that compared to the Joker, the bomb the Joker placed was more important. Only by removing the bomb could he save so many people's lives.

At that time, Superman had a premonition that he could break through the limitations of Kryptonite, but he knew that this madman was not so easy to deal with. Even if he could fly into the sky and use laser lasers to destroy the bomb, he must first determine the location of the bomb. Otherwise, just the few seconds delayed by searching for the bomb would be enough for that madman to detonate all the bombs.

And at this time, Riddler, who had already weakened to the extreme and had to rely on a ventilator to breathe, still brought paper and pen. Based on the location of the TV station and radio station where the Joker appeared, he deduced the location of the remaining five bombs.

"Now, who is the real Riddle Master?"

The movie came to an end after this sentence. Although the expression on Riddler's face was indignant and exhausted, there were also some thoughtful thoughts. He seemed to have found a new way to prove his genius wisdom.

Everyone applauded. Riddler stood up, took off his hat, placed it on his chest, and bowed to all places, living like a big star. The atmosphere in the room became lively again.

Shiler cleared his throat, and the room became quiet again. Clearly, it was time for the last character to appear.

"Are you the Talon killer?" The Batman Who Laughs asked.

Shiler shook his head, took out the last film, and put it into the projector. Only a vast mist appeared at the beginning of the film.

Freddy walked out of the thick fog. Accompanied by his sneaking into a house, some pictures began to flash back, but this was not a special editing technique of this film, but a hallucination that truly existed in the thick fog at that time.

The hallucination introduced Freddy's background story, but anyone could see that this was not the point. The point was the ability Freddy possessed after resurrection, which was the claw full of daggers and the teleportation ability used for coming and going without a trace.

Freddy appeared in a bathroom.

He slowly floated up from the water surface, comfortably resting his arms on both sides of the bathtub, but soon, a sound came from outside the bathtub.

"Okay, Auntie, I will be quick, I won't soak for too long, and I won't delay dinner, don't worry!"

Spider-Man, wrapped in a bath towel, walked in.

At this time, Freddy had long since disappeared, and Spider-Man did not notice that red light was flashing in the body of the duck floating in the bathtub.

Bang!

The bathtub duck exploded.

To be honest, this beginning is a bit too stream-of-consciousness. The previous films showed the living state of the protagonist at the beginning, either burying his head in hard study, or burying his head in hard study, or still burying his head in hard study.

What is this film doing by running to someone's bathtub and blowing up someone's bathtub toy as soon as it comes up?

Soon, Freddy committed a murder, but the object of the murder was not a real person, but a doll.

The puppeteer appeared in this story. The first victim, the little girl, was actually played by the doll he controlled. Because it was a doll, it could be posed in any way, so the crime scene looked exceptionally tragic, which naturally attracted attention from many aspects.

These cases instantly hit the front page headlines of many newspapers. Of course, a newspaper also came to Bruce's hands.

But everyone still didn't understand what this was doing. The stories of Two-Face, Harley Quinn, and Penguin were basically unfolded around Bruce. The stories of Scarecrow and a group of academic experts were unfolded around Arkham Batman and Arkham Knight Jason. Riddler's story was unfolded around Superman.

But Shiler, or the Talon killer he controlled, didn't seem to intend to unfold his activities around any major character in the play. Then what was his task?

Everyone had to continue watching.

The Talon killer was committing crimes continuously, and reports about him were becoming more and more frequent, from newspapers to radio stations, and finally to TV stations, and then to breaking news headlines.

Most of the victims were children, so the social attention was very high, and the discussions among the public were also very extensive. Everyone was cursing this pervert who killed children.

Except for Bruce.

The Talon killer was the only character Bruce could feel at this time who was not on his script.

From the timeline, the first one to enter, Two-Face, now has a handle on the legal system of the United States. He is a big man too far away from the bottom life of the city. Bruce can't feel him at all.

Policewoman Gu Yin is not far away, but she is from a psychology major and disguised very well, making Bruce think that she is a plot character in the Dream World, and has no curiosity about her past.

Penguin takes the route of a mastermind behind the scenes. Bruce knows that there is a very powerful gang boss, but he doesn't know that this person is the Penguin, and he also feels that it is just a plot character.

But the Talon killer is different. This guy uses a shell that is completely different from the painting style of all plot characters in the Dream World, and uses his teleportation ability that comes and goes without a trace to write the words "I am not simple" on his face, and commits crimes frantically, being high-profile. How could Bruce not see that he is here to smash the field?

This was naturally within the expectation of the Batman Who Laughs.

No normal person would feel that he would not encounter any resistance when setting up such a big stall. If it were really smooth sailing from beginning to end, he would feel whether there was fraud in it.

It can be said that the behavior of the Talon killer made Bruce breathe a sigh of relief. The resistance to interfere with him finally came, but unfortunately, it was in such a straightforward and low-level way. He originally hoped that the other party could come up with some different means.

At that time, Bruce thought so. He felt that the Talon killer was frantically making trouble in the city just to make his play unfinished. This logic is smooth.

But Bruce didn't think this perverted killer could make any big waves, nor did he think he could force himself to go off-stage.

At this time, Bruce felt proud of the idea of designing his own identity, because he is now a pauper, and also carries a burden paralyzed in bed. Don't say you have a killer, even if hundreds of killers are running around the city, he can't manage it, he doesn't have that ability.

So he could completely let this killer commit crimes continuously and remain completely indifferent, because this is his persona. If he really set himself as a superhero, he would have really fallen into the other party's trap.

So he could say "I have no ability, so I have no responsibility" in a dignified manner after meeting Jason and them. He must show off this. If he hadn't designed his character well, he would probably be busy chasing that troublemaker in a hurry now, so that he would destroy the original script and be unable to manipulate the overall situation, right?