Chapter 449: Prelude to the Blizzard (Part 3)

Batman didn't walk over, but threw a Batarang at that pile of things. The expected explosion didn't appear; they just "clattered" and scattered on the ground.

The round dolls rolled a few times on the ground and rolled to the wall. The Batman lollipops wrapped in colored paper fell to the ground, making a crisp sound, and the wrapping paper shone under the light.

Even for Batman, he couldn't quite understand this scene, but Batman, who had already clashed with the Joker several times, knew that the best defense against this madman was not to overthink.

Although he understood the logic, asking Batman not to overthink was simply harder than ascending to heaven. Finally, he still walked up and picked up a doll to look at it.

There was no bomb hidden inside; it was just a very ordinary plush toy, a round Batman body, plus two Q-version Batman wings. The other two toys were Batman-shaped figures, one was a normal skin version of Batman, and the other was a Batman laughing heartily.

After looking at these three dolls, Batman picked up a few lollipops again. He discovered that the wrapping paper on one of the lollipops had been torn off, and it seemed to have been licked a few times, but for some reason, it wasn't finished before being thrown here.

After checking all these things, Batman didn't get any useful clues, just gained a new understanding of the Joker's degree of madness.

After checking the chair again, Batman sat on it. From this angle, he could just see all the surveillance screens. Batman understood that before, the Joker was sitting here like this, and then holding the phone to tell the agents their location.

Batman looked at the screens one by one. He discovered that the screens on the three walls corresponded to the three main buildings of the manor. The screen directly in front corresponded to the building in the center of the manor, which was the building with the banquet hall.

Just when Batman was browsing this part of the surveillance screens, suddenly, his gaze captured the picture in one of the screens directly in front.

This screen corresponded to the surveillance of the banquet hall. Because the banquet hall was on the first floor and the top was not a ceiling but a skylight, the surveillance was not installed on the first-floor ceiling, but installed in a higher place.

At this time, it could be seen in the screen that a rope was hanging in the center of the banquet hall's skylight, and two people were tied back-to-back at the end of the rope.

Batman narrowed his eyes. He moved the chair forward, closer to the screen, and then he discovered that the two people hanging were Clark and Lex, respectively.

"The First Minister of Great Ming"

Batman's fingers stiffened, because this scene really exceeded his expectations.

To be honest, Batman wasn't surprised that Lex was caught by the Joker. Although Lex was smart, he was young after all, and his physical fitness was also very weak, even worse than ordinary people. This defect was too great, causing his wisdom not to be fully utilized.

Batman knew that the madman with Joker makeup didn't look as simple as he appeared, not to mention he had an information advantage, and it was very likely he could catch Lex alone. But Clark...

Batman supported his chin with his fingers. He narrowed his eyes and saw Clark in the center of the screen with a green stone tied to his chest. Clark's expression was very painful. He seemed to have been weakened to the extreme, his face was pale, his chest heaved non-stop, and even breathing was very difficult.

That green stone emitted a glowing light, giving Batman some bad associations. Radiation source, Clark's previous weakness, his current pain...

It seems that the so-called Kryptonite would cause ordinary people to develop cancer, and would also make people like Clark, who possessed special abilities, feel weak and painful.

Soon, Batman's speculation approached the truth infinitely. Just when he wanted to think more deeply about the principle of Kryptonite, the situation in the picture changed.

A figure walked into the picture. He was wearing a long suit, had green hair, and had Joker makeup on his face.

And what made Batman feel strange was that he didn't use the limping or unsteady posture of the past, but walked to the center of the banquet hall like a stage actor, taking the slightly comical large strides of stage performance.

At this time, a gift box with a strange shape was placed on the floor in the center of the banquet hall. It looked like it was pieced together from all kinds of trash. Two sides of the box were made of cardboard, and two sides were plastic. The ribbon wrapped on it was also wrinkled, not knowing where it was torn from.

However, the Joker walked to the gift box very solemnly, tore open the butterfly knot of the ribbon on top of the box, and after opening it, what was revealed inside was a bomb.

The Joker lit the fuse, then ran to the corner of the wall and squatted down, covering his ears. With a "Boom," a violent explosion sounded.

Batman was nervous for a moment, but when the smoke slowly dissipated, he discovered that the bomb wrapped in the gift box was placed in a very low place, far away from the position where Clark and Lex were hanging. The explosion didn't harm them.

This explosion didn't blow up anything, no shrapnel flew out. There was only a huge sound and rolling thick smoke. Therefore, the only consequence caused was that the doors of all guest rooms on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors were opened.

Quite a few people poked their heads out by the doors, seemingly puzzled about what had happened here. Soon, those who looked toward the corridor exit discovered that two people were hanging in the center of the skylight.

The vast majority of people were a bit hesitant. They stood at the door and didn't easily walk out, because they didn't know if there would be another explosion.

Just then, they heard a generous and impassioned voice coming from the center of the banquet hall:

"Ladies and gentlemen! Tonight is a terrible blizzard night! We gather here. Although the blizzard is cold, our hearts are tightly connected..."

"Hello everyone! I am a comedian from Gotham!"

Just as the figure in the middle said this, everyone rushed toward their rooms without looking back. The sound of "bang bang bang" closing doors sounded one after another, and the Joker's subsequent words were directly stifled.

He flipped his hand and said: "Alright, I knew you bunch of cowards with no taste. Go back to your rooms, go..."

"You will never understand what a great comedian Jack is! But it doesn't matter, I always have one last audience..."

Batman in the surveillance room saw the Joker slowly turn his head, and then his gaze met with him behind the screen.

Just then, like those famous people, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket, looked down at the handkerchief in his hand, threw it away in disgust, and then took out a Batman lollipop from his pocket.

He tore open the wrapping paper, bit the candy into pieces with a "crunch crunch" sound, then swallowed it, and made a puffing sound in his mouth. Suddenly, as if thinking of something, he shook his finger, walked quickly to outside the picture, and brought a phone, placing it on the ground.

He really looked like a Joker performing a mime now, Batman thought, using those exaggerated body movements and expressions to guide people's sight, but unfortunately, just as he said, the only audience now was Batman.

After placing the phone on the ground, the Joker picked up the receiver and dialed. Suddenly, a harsh telephone ring sounded from every guest room.

Obviously, that phone with a somewhat special shape was dismantled from the surveillance room. Batman tilted his head and saw the telephone control console that had been dismantled into a mess beside him.

"Listen up, if you don't want to be an audience, then come and be an actor, cowards!"

"Now, there is a bomb hanging on the roof above the skylight. Its power is not great, but it is just enough to blow a person's head into pieces."

"As you can see, there are two ropes hanging two people now. They are the main actors in this scene, and you are the supporting roles..."

"Next, I will tell you the background stories of these two people respectively. After listening to the stories, you can use the service buttons on the guest room phone to vote!"

"Press the yellow 'Call Service' button once, and it means you want to vote for Lex Luthor, and press the blue 'Do Not Disturb' button once, and it means you want to vote for Clark Kent!"

"Every time a person gets a vote, I will pull his rope up a bit. The person who touches the bomb first—BOOM!

!"

After speaking, he paused for a moment, suddenly threw the phone receiver on the ground, then stood up and bent over, brought his head close to the receiver, and then said:

"Oh, I forgot! This is a comedy performance, not some wireless communication tea party, so, please take the phone, sit at the table, and it's best to pour yourself a glass of wine..."

"Of course, I know what you are thinking. You don't want to honestly be an audience, and you feel that cooperating with my performance has no performance fee. You just want to cover your head with a quilt and sleep soundly..."

"But I won't let you do that!"

The Joker lay on the ground, supported the ground with his forearms, opened his mouth wide at the phone placed on the ground, and said word by word with an extremely exaggerated mouth shape: I won't!

Let you!

! do this!

He put his hand behind his ear, brought his ear close to the phone receiver, and said, "Let me hear, who is laughing? Do you think my threat has no deterrent power?!"

The Joker stood up again, ran to outside the picture with a "deng deng deng" sound, and then brought over a strange button. He pointed his finger at the button toward the phone receiver and said: "Look, what is this?"

"Yes, this is a switch, a switch that can let deadly radiation leak out..."

"Under this old manor, there is a huge secret base. Some people might think they have explored everything, but that is actually only a very small part..."

"Behind that large door, there is a huge extraterrestrial meteorite. The entire mayor's manor sits on this meteorite. Once I press the button, the door opens, and deadly radiation will leak out!"

"People who have been irradiated by this kind of radiation will develop incurable cancer. You will struggle painfully on the hospital bed! Until cancer cells swallow your whole body!"

"And the range of the radiation is—everyone in this manor!"

Clark in mid-air looked down and saw that the madman with Joker makeup closed his eyes.

He opened his arms and slowly rotated in the empty banquet hall, like a lonely dancer, dancing with the cold wind in the snow.

Soon, he stopped, stood quietly in place, his tone low as if reciting the opening dedication poem.

"The blizzard will never stop. There is no god here who can save you."

"Now... prepare to make your choice." ===== CHAPTER 450 =====