The Death Knell

"Hehe! Haha! Come and catch me! If you can't catch me within thirty seconds, I will detonate the bomb and send half of Gotham to the sky."

The clown danced happily. He was as nimble as a soaked noodle, twisting his waist in the pouring acid rain, and his long green hair stuck to his face like seaweed.

A bolt of lightning lit up in the sky, illuminating a figure in the darkness not far away. It was Batman. The two old enemies were playing a traditional game of hide-and-seek.

Even if the Joker is a criminal genius, he doesn't have a new job to do every day, because it requires inspiration. He often modifies the games he has played before, adds some patches, and then plays them.

Of course, Batman always comes by invitation and never misses, so the key is not what to play, but who to play with.

Is the Riddler diligent enough? He can come up with hundreds of new riddles at every turn for Batman to play guessing games with.

But bats don't like riddles. If he has to make a choice, he won't choose anyone else. He will only choose the only answer, the clown.

"I'll catch you, beat you up, and send you back to Arkham."

Batman, a man of few words, spoke lightly. He moved his wrists and neck, and then rushed towards the Joker. He was a black shadow in the dark night, and ordinary people could not see his movement trajectory at all.

"Hoo ho! Hee hee! Hahaha!" The clown turned around and ran away happily. He looked back while running: "Guess which of us is the rabbit and who is the tortoise? Do you think fairy tales are true? Do you think that is reality? ? No, it is indeed realistic because I guess the turtle must have taken unsportsmanlike doping! Hahaha!"

After saying that, he took out a thick syringe from his purple suit pocket and squeezed a needle into his mouth while running.

This is the new good thing he got recently, the Speed ​​9. With one of them, he can become a speedster and steadily outperform Batman!

It was originally a pill, but the clown soaked it in water and dissolved it to make it easier to eat.

He is excited and has gained super speed, but the Joker will not run so hard. He chooses to run for a while, stop and wait for Batman. If he really gets rid of the Dark Knight, it will not be fun.

Well, I originally planned to play hide-and-seek, but I could temporarily change it to a race. Anyway, cheating makes people happy.

Lift your feet slightly, take a few steps, and you're already a hundred meters away.

He was very satisfied, so he stopped at the corner of the street and waited for Batman to run over. While running, he took out a mousetrap from his pocket and dropped it on the ground halfway, preparing to use this improved gadget to trap Batman. playing with toes.

The mouse trap was modified to look like a bear trap, covered with sharp metal teeth, and the poison was tempered on it. It was the scorpion venom I bought from the black market.

It wouldn't be fatal, but it would make the wound very painful, and he wanted to see Batman make faces.

Thinking of this, the clown thanked God in his heart, because the recent events had caused the prices of food and guns to rise on the black market, while the prices of poisons and other items had dropped.

Money means nothing to the clown. If he wants to, he can easily get a lot of it, but he likes this feeling of taking advantage.

After waiting for Batman for a while, in his expectant eyes, Batman stepped on the dark mousetrap.

"Oh! Hee hee!" The clown jumped out from behind the telephone pole and clapped happily. He was about to laugh at this stupid bat.

In the end, he was happy too early. The mousetrap didn't know whether the material was not chosen correctly, or whether the heavy rain today caused it to look like a roller skate.

I saw Batman stepping on this mousetrap, losing his balance in the rain, sliding out in a hurry, and then hitting the wall of the alley.

"Crack!"

From a distance of dozens of meters, the clown clearly heard such a crisp sound, and then saw the bat's head hanging on his chest at a very unnatural angle.

The laughter stopped suddenly, and the Prince of Crime covered his mouth with his hands. His eyes widened in fear, and his mouth was so dry that he couldn't help but make swallowing movements.

"Bat? Hey, are you okay?"

"." Batman lying in the alley had no reaction. He could only see blood flowing out from under his mask and spreading in the water on the ground, like flowers in the darkest hour before dawn.

"Don't make such a joke, damn, it's not funny at all!" The clown turned off the timed detonator of the bomb. He still had some fantasy in his heart and walked towards Batman: "Hehe, okay, it's quite funny. Are you still pretending to be dead? A new trick learned by an old dog?"

"." Batman still didn't move. He lay there quietly, and the batarangs in his hand fell into the rain.

"No, it shouldn't be like this." The clown went crazy. He ran to Batman, grabbed his cloak, and went to get the mouse trap: "That's not how the game works, no, there must be something wrong, haha ! Right! Wrong! Hehehehe."

No matter how much he denied it, Batman was already dead. When his strong upper body was held in the arms of the Joker, his head drooped back on the ground, and his cervical vertebrae were obviously broken.

The Joker has never seen the movie "The Amazing Spider-Man", but he also knows that Batman is an ordinary person and he will definitely not survive such an injury, but he doesn't want to give up.

".Ha. What does this mean if you really can't afford it?"

His mind was in chaos in a short period of time, and the various emotions made the clown unable to react. He used to be able to come up with several jokes in a second, but now he didn't know what to say.

A long time passed, and after the rain soaked them both from head to toe, the clown found his answer.

"I understand, you are tired, right?"

He spoke in a brisk tone, but there was no other smile except the scar at the corner of his mouth:

"Okay, I'll take you to my place to rest, and we can watch TV series together, you know? I recently saw a new show called Gotham Love Story, which tells the story of a cannibalistic serial killer falling in love, haha, I strongly recommend, we can watch it together, um, that’s it, let’s go and find a car, we can also buy some popcorn on the way and charge it to your account.”

After saying that, he carried Batman's body on his back, because the other man's head kept falling down. In order to prevent it from being lost halfway, the Joker specially used the super glue he carried to help fix it.

Batman's corpse has no problem with that, what else can he say if he's dead?

"You are so quiet, so quiet." The clown was walking in the rain with the bat on his back. The silence made him feel extremely frightened. He grabbed Batman's drooping hand, clenched it into a fist and hit himself in the face: " Come on, hit me quickly, hit me, good bat, don’t be so serious.”

The soft fist was a little hard to hold, so the clown used his best strength, but for some reason, the fist didn't hurt at all, and he didn't feel anything.