Chapter 476: The Three of Us (Part 3)

Just as Jonathan and Hugo were discussing the specific plan, suddenly, they heard a movement outside the door, and the two immediately looked toward the outside of the door vigilantly.

Hugo walked to the door. The moment he opened the door, he dodged backward, but saw a somewhat familiar-looking man standing outside the door. The man reached out his hand to greet him and smiled, revealing eight teeth.

"Sorry, my roommate, I didn't mean to follow you. Has anyone told you? Your acting is really bad. I wanted to not discover it, but I couldn't."

Hugo's face immediately turned black.

With a "bang," the muffled sound of a silenced pistol came. The one who fired wasn't Hugo, but Jonathan standing behind him.

Looking at Constantine lying in a pool of blood, Jonathan said to Hugo with some dissatisfaction: "You actually brought a tail with you?! You make me doubt your professionalism again and again, Hugo. I think I should reconsider the necessity of cooperating with you."

Hugo frowned, looking at Constantine's corpse. Just as he wanted to say something, suddenly, a sound came from behind Jonathan again.

The two turned their heads in unison and saw Constantine standing behind them, saying: "Old man, your marksmanship is as rotten as his acting."

When Hugo turned back to look at that corpse, he discovered the corpse had slowly turned into ash, and the blood had also disappeared.

Before he could ask, Constantine spread his hands and said: "As you can see, I am a magician."

"You all know how much prejudice people have against magic. I said I knew magic, and they treated me as a mental patient and locked me in here. I heard you want to escape? How about it, take me with you?"

Jonathan put away the pistol, looked at Constantine's smile, lowered his eyelids, and then said: "It seems you are a better partner than him."

"You intend to just believe him like this? Jonathan, believe this guy of unknown origin?"

"Aren't you also of unknown origin?"

Jonathan put away the pistol and stood by the window, saying: "We three are all outsiders of unknown origin. No one can truly believe anyone."

"But we can cooperate temporarily, can't we?" Constantine walked up and said to Jonathan: "What kind of 'tribute' is needed to join your organization? For example, killing someone or something?"

"Have you killed anyone?" Jonathan looked at Constantine and asked.

"Of course not. I am a law-abiding good person. I enjoy making friends, but the fate of my friends isn't very good, always dying in all kinds of accidents."

"I am full of poetry, wandering the world. The journey is long, and there are many accidents. Sometimes, I always feel I am cursed, but now thinking about it, it's just bad luck."

His words were incoherent, but Jonathan's face relaxed slightly. He said: "Me too. I once thought I was suffering from some curse, but now it seems this curse is called talent and intelligence."

"It can be seen that we are the same kind of people." Constantine folded his arms and said: "We treat this world with the greatest kindness, but the world doesn't return it to us like that. Since that's the case, what's wrong with playing some pranks?"

"Is now the time to discuss this question?" Hugo spoke up: "Our plan..."

Suddenly, a ghost emitting faint light appeared, grinning hideously in the center of the room, stretched out its arms to grab Hugo, pushed him against the wall, and then choked his neck tightly.

"I feel he is not the same kind of person as us, don't you think?" Constantine turned around, looked at Hugo, who was struggling and screaming continuously, and said: "He looks like an evil bad guy. I think I have a necessity to eliminate harm for the people..."

Jonathan also turned his head and said: "A stupid, self-righteous psychologist who scared himself into screaming after seeing a few illusions, and didn't even dare to escape while living in an ordinary ward. A total fool and waste."

"However..." Jonathan changed the subject and said: "He is still useful. Let him go."

As soon as Jonathan finished speaking, Hugo was released. After Hugo fell, he knelt on the ground and coughed continuously.

Jonathan's face showed a trace of a satisfied expression. In his view, this newly appeared stranger was more compatible with him.

Scarecrow Jonathan, a down-and-out guy who had been caught and locked in Arkham Asylum since Batman first debuted, missing all the exciting major events.

Of course, not entirely down-and-out. After all, he was still safely staying in Arkham Asylum.

Even more fortunately, because the ward he was in was located on the top floor of Arkham Hospital, he hadn't bumped into Yin Wensi, Cobblepot, and Jack who lived on the lower floors before. These people didn't even know there was such a person on the top floor. Otherwise, whether he was safe or not would be hard to say.

As a famous villain in DC comics, Jonathan couldn't be content with the status quo. He certainly wanted to escape. But the security measures of the wards in this hospital that truly detained dangerous patients were still quite complete.

Jonathan, as a university professor who had just debuted as a villain, neither had a robust physique nor possessed the powerful execution ability to perfectly execute the plans in his brain. Therefore, it was very difficult for him to break out of prison alone.

Just when he was still observing the situation, someone took the initiative to find him, and that was Hugo Strange.

Hugo had been pulled by Schiller into a dream to be a tool man before, but after the Yellow Lantern and the Laughing Egg appeared, there was nothing for him to do. Thus, he was kicked out of the dream by Schiller. Because the action was too rough, Hugo fainted in the consulting room and was then carried back to the ward by Brand.

At the beginning, he was indeed a bit crazy, because the process of interrupting the dream connection was too rough, damaging his spirit. But actually, he recovered very quickly, just because Brand had been treating him as a patient without any selfishness, so he didn't have much chance to run out.

Enduring humiliation for quite a while, Hugo gradually figured out the patterns of the nursing staff and doctors' activities, and then he started night-wandering. His goal was very clear, which was the patients in the strictly guarded wards on the top floor.

He had also worked in mental hospitals in various places and knew that those detained in such wards were all dangerous figures. He originally thought the process of seeking cooperation would be very difficult, and even prepared to treat them only as cannon fodder. But he didn't expect that the first target he found could communicate, and the two successfully reached cooperation.

But what he didn't expect even more was that Constantine would kill his way out halfway. These two lunatics looked even more compatible, and Hugo himself appeared somewhat redundant.

But there was no way. The friendship of three people is always like this. The principle of first-come-first-served doesn't apply here.

Constantine walked up and helped Hugo up, saying: "Oh, I apologize to you. My little pet has a bad temper."

Hugo glared at him fiercely, but in the end, he didn't say anything. Now it seemed Constantine would be their important military guarantee. Hugo took a deep breath and suppressed his anger.

"Continue talking about your plan." Jonathan walked up and looked at Hugo.

Hugo's face was gloomy as he said: "If we just rush out like this, we will definitely attract Batman. Perhaps we can run away, but we will also have to pay a not-so-small price. And Cat Getan is Batman's turf. We won't be able to run very far before we are caught up by him."

"So, we must first make a scene to attract his attention before we can implement our plan."

"What do you intend to do?" Jonathan asked.

"Very simple. We let all the patients here out."

Hugo started pacing in the room, saying while walking: "I have stayed in mental hospitals in various places. Most mental patients don't have very strong aggressiveness. They just can't take care of their own lives, which is why they need to be hospitalized."

"However, there is also a portion of people who are not like this. They are natural criminals—irritable, indifferent, and cruel. Because they have committed crimes of harming others many times, and because they have confirmed mental illnesses, they won't be accepted by prisons. Such people are often detained in local mental hospitals."

"The vast majority of them don't think they are sick, and at the same time, they are full of anger and revenge toward this society."

"Of course, even so, after they leave here, they still can't make a big scene. After all, they are just flesh and blood, without any special abilities." Speaking of this, Hugo glanced at Constantine.

"But Cat Getan is different, right?" Jonathan keenly grasped the point. Hugo nodded and said: "An important reason for Cat Getan's high crime rate is that there are far more lunatics here than in other places, and they are more dangerous."

"Although I don't know the reason, the residents here are not very mentally normal. When I was still a doctor, I checked the medical records over the years. The probability of Cat Getan citizens suffering from mental illness is about 1500% higher than in other cities, and the probability of them producing aggressive behavior or directly evolving into antisocial personality disorder is almost 100%."

Hugo looked toward the wall and said: "If there are no accidents, those detained in this mental hospital are all the most dangerous mental patients. As long as we let this bunch of lunatics out, it will be enough to give Batman a headache."

Constantine opened his mouth, but didn't speak. His reason told him that what Hugo said made sense, but his intuition was also telling him that if there were no accidents, there would definitely be accidents.

"Alright, then how do we execute it?" Constantine stood with his hands on his hips, pulled the hem of his trench coat to the back, and asked.

Hugo said with full confidence: "This mental hospital should have been built very early. The wards still use a key-plus-door-lock structure."

"The reason I was able to come here was because I had already found the place where they kept the keys. But to be safe, I only took one, which is the key to this room. But actually, I could also get all the keys..."

【Tomato】

"Then we go and open the doors one by one? When we open the doors, won't they attack us?" Jonathan asked.

"Originally, I wanted to adopt some other methods. But now it seems our newly joined friend should have a way." Hugo turned to look at Constantine.

Constantine stretched out his hands and waved them, saying: "Alright, I can let my little pet from just now go open the doors. Its speed is very fast, and it won't take long to open all the doors. But are you sure the patients here will make enough of a scene?"

Hugo said with great confidence: "Rest assured, those most dangerous lunatics will definitely rush to run out..."

"And then, add fuel to the chaos of this city."

Hugo turned to look outside the window. Cat Getan's night was still very dark, but the light in the city center was like the sun in the dark night.

Between the flickering light and shadow, the wind whistled across the center of the street, and two pitch-black shadows swept across the roof of the building. A few darts flew past, and a grappling hook flew out from the arm of a black shadow, entangling the person who was running away.

Batman grabbed the grappling hook and swung it fiercely. The Joker, entangled by the grappling hook, was thrown to the ground nearby, falling head and face covered in blood, unconscious, and the bomb remote control in his hand also flew out.

Batman walked up, grabbed the grappling hook on his waist, lifted him up, and walked slowly into the night of Cat Getan.

Looking in the direction he was moving forward, in front of the only window lit up in the Arkham Asylum building, stood three figures, each with their own ulterior motives. ===== CHAPTER 477 =====