Chapter 271: No Batman Event (Part 4)

Selina picked up her bag and got out of the car, turned back and gave Bruce a flying kiss, saying: "Thank you, baby, I had a great time, I'm going back to pack my luggage, see you tomorrow afternoon!"

Bruce turned sideways, stretched out one of his hands, and pushed open the car door on Selina's side. Selina understood what he meant, walked back, leaned out, and then leaned into Bruce's arms, kissing his cheek.

Then she left quickly. Bruce touched the place on his cheek that had just been kissed by Selina and sighed. He thought he was really a bit obsessed.

If a year ago, someone had told him to spend a few days driving around the East Coast, he would definitely have felt it was more uncomfortable than being in jail. But who knew that love is so unreasonable? When Selina said she had a great time, the guilt Bruce felt about wasting time was swept away.

Of course, since the vacation was over, he still had to return to his original life. Bruce slowly started the car and drove back to Wei En Manor. When the sky was completely dark, he drove the Batmobile, wearing the Bat-suit, and left the manor, intending to continue perfecting his Batcave.

After so long, the Batcave had basically been built, but there were still some light equipment that hadn't been put in. The Batmobile roared on the streets of Cat Getan at night, but just as he drove past an intersection, he felt a strong beam of light shaking his eyes. He couldn't help but narrow his eyes and look at the intersection on his right, where a huge truck was parked.

The strong light was the high beam of that truck. The two headlights flashed, and when the light went out, Batman saw that terrible smiling face on the truck's driver's seat.

Intuition began to alarm wildly. Batman stepped on the accelerator, but it was too late. The huge truck had already rushed in front of him. Batman slapped the button in front of him, and in an instant, the seat ejected. When he landed, he rolled twice on the ground and then stood up.

The heavy truck hit the Batmobile, and the Batmobile was flipped over. When it landed, fragments of the windshield and roof parts splashed out. Immediately after, the head of the giant truck exploded, and the flames of the explosion were like a firework blooming in place on the pitch-black highway.

"Welcome home, Batman, hahahahahaha!!!"

A series of ear-piercing laughter came from the dark night. Batman narrowed his eyes and saw that figure.

Just like a fateful duel, they faced each other in the dark night of Cat Getan. The person opposite, wearing clown makeup, was not holding any weapons and looked weak.

But Batman's heart beat faster and faster, blood rushed to his head, and he didn't know whether he was afraid or excited now.

"Did you have a good vacation? Batman?"

The Joker looked into Batman's eyes and said, a smile hanging on his face, seemingly expecting an affirmative answer, but soon he made a sad expression and said: "But I'm not happy at all, Batman, do you know? Do you know what I've encountered recently?!!"

"I was caught by a crazy psychiatrist and taken to the hospital! To conduct his terrible dream experiment, I was thrown into the deep consciousness space, and then went to face a terrible monster!!"

Suddenly, he stopped, then turned to look at the wreckage of the truck explosion, screamed, stretched his eye sockets with his fingers, and then slid his four fingers down from his eyelids, making a terrified expression and saying: "My God, what did I see?!"

He ran over quickly and began to rummage hard in the wreckage of the explosion. Suddenly, he found a tire fragment that hadn't been completely burned. He hugged the fragment and said: "My tire lady, she's dead, woo woo, in the days when you weren't here, it was she who accompanied me..."

Batman stood in place watching the Joker perform. He said nothing, just turned the corners of his mouth down.

Cat Getan began to rain. Not long after, it turned into a torrential rain. Lightning began to streak across the sky, and the rain hit the wreckage in the center of the highway, spreading the smell of burning further and further.

And at this time, the Joker stood up. He stood in the rain, without armor, without a cape, without weapons, alone, like a thin and pale lonely ghost.

The rain made the makeup on his face begin to run, as if his entire skin had been dissolved, but he still carried that crazy smile and said to Batman: "You think I'm an annoying madman, right?"

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"Always popping up from all kinds of places, adding a bunch of trouble for you, making you watch some performances you don't like and don't understand, saying some crazy words you don't want to hear and don't understand..."

"But, Batman, I will make you understand..."

The smile on his face became more and more crazy. In this terrible expression and action, after fading away those absurd and bizarre comical feelings, only tangible danger and madness remained.

He took a button out of his pocket and said to Batman: "Have you made any important decisions in your life? The kind of decision that can change your life path?"

"I just made such a decision."

"I made a bet with someone, Batman..."

"I bet you won't let me down, so now..."

The Joker looked directly at Batman through the layers of rain and said to him: "... the game has begun."

The button was pressed, and with a "boom" loud noise, Batman turned his head. He saw violent firelight rising somewhere in the city.

When the button landed, it splashed imperceptible water droplets. When the ripples returned to calm, only the Joker's crazy smiling face remained, and Batman had disappeared.

The next night, it was also cold torrential rain, accompanied by sharp alarm sounds. A huge Bat-Signal lit up over Cat Getan. Gordon held the phone and said to the other side: "Hurry up and let the negotiator go up!! What on earth is that madman trying to do??"

He stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the office, looking at the roof of a building not far away. There was only one figure standing there, but many ropes were hanging on the side of the building, with people tied to them.

The TV was playing the Joker's more terrifying face in the rain. He hugged the camera and said: "Do you know? Just yesterday, I asked all the homeless people in the underground passages of twelve major streets in Cat Getan, who is the person they hate the most? Asked them, who do they think caused their current down-and-out life..."

"Many people complained to me about all kinds of things, their bosses fired them, their landlords kicked them out, convenience stores and restaurants don't provide them with free food, yes, yes, all kinds of things like that..."

"And I! Hero Jack! I cry for their miserable encounters, so, hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!" The Joker let out a series of crazy laughter and said: "I tied their enemies here!"

He took a deep breath, then shrugged his shoulders, held the camera with one hand, pointed to the edge of the roof with the other, and shouted loudly: "See! Homeless people! Your enemies are about to... are about to die!"

"Hahahahahahahahahahaha!"

In the camera, the Joker walked to the edge of the roof in the torrential rain, then took out a dagger, pressed the dagger against the rope. The person tied up was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, looking like an elite employee.

He looked up and saw the Joker's crazy smiling face and the dagger aimed at the rope hanging him. He collapsed and shouted: "No!! Don't!!! I will fall, I will fall to my death!!"

"Oh, hero... right, I am a hero, I want to give the person on trial a chance to say their last words, do you have anything to say?"

"Please, let me go! Please, don't do this... don't do this to me, I don't want to die!!"

That employee kept begging. His spirit had completely collapsed, and he couldn't even say a complete sentence.

This made the Joker feel very bored, so he waved the dagger and cut the rope. The employee fell from the 30-plus-story high building and then fell to the ground, becoming a pool of meat.

The police and negotiators on the ground, before they could take any action, the ropes and people fell down densely like the rain falling from the sky. Standing on the ground, one could only see the desperate expressions on their faces before they died.

Shortly after the Bat-Signal lit up, a second figure appeared on the roof. It was Batman.

Just as everyone expected, a pitch-black figure stood opposite the Joker.

I don't know what they said, but the two wrestled together, and the whole world was filled with the sound of rain and thunder.

The fight between the two was more like a mime performance, a not-so-wonderful and even somewhat comical duel unfolded like this.

Finally, the Joker was knocked to the ground, his arms tied, but Batman's shoulder was also slashed, and blood was washed away by the rain.

The Joker lying on the ground was still smiling and said: "Batman, you won, but do you think this is what everyone expected to see?"

"Even if you are the hero of everyone else in Cat Getan, you are definitely not the hero of those homeless people, because they almost saw their enemies fall from high buildings and then fall into pools of meat, getting a more miserable ending than them!"

"You will never be a hero, hahahaha, the innocent people you saved might be the objects others dream of killing, do you guess they will hate you? Hahahahahaha!!"

After the Joker was taken away, Batman walked through the streets alone, got into the car, started the car, and then drove into the endless dark rainy night of Cat Getan.

He was not shaken by those crazy words; he just spent too much physical strength.

He didn't choose to return directly to Wei En Manor, but drove to the Batcave, and then treated his wounds, just like usual, first using spray, then bandaging, and when all this was done, he disposed of the blood-stained clothes, changed into a new set, and then drove back to Wei En Manor.

Wei En Manor was still brightly lit, and Alfred stood at the door to welcome him. Seeing his somewhat pale face, Alfred said to him: "Young Master, you need some hot drinks, how about a cup of hot chocolate?"

"Thank you, Alfred."

He didn't refuse, just walked to the sofa and sat down. When Alfred brought the hot chocolate over, he instinctively wanted to use his dominant hand to take it, but it pulled the wound. At the moment his movement paused, he immediately changed to the other hand to hold the cup.

But he knew this was still discovered by Alfred, although his butler didn't say anything, and still sent him upstairs to his bedroom as usual.

A deep exhaustion surrounded him. He walked to the sink in the washroom and looked at himself in the mirror. Inside, he was pale and expressionless, but somehow, that crazy smile appeared in his heart, floated in his eyes, and then refracted into the mirror. He seemed to see himself smile.

He shook his head, suppressed those messy thoughts, and then walked out of the washroom.

His finger stopped on the switch of the desk lamp, but he hesitated and didn't press it. Just like that, he lay on the bed without turning off the light, and then slowly fell asleep in exhaustion.

The sound of light breathing echoed in the room, the night grew deeper, and the rain fell heavier.

The whole house was filled with soft light. Whether it was the bed, the walls, or the carpet, they all reflected a thin halo of light, and the darkness seemed to have nowhere to hide.

And when a bolt of lightning streaked across, in the darkest corner under the bed, a scarlet mouth slowly revealed a crazy smile.

--- Side Note ---

Because of my day job, the update time has been adjusted. Everyone can watch it tomorrow morning, no need to wait. ===== CHAPTER 272 =====