If you want to defeat a madman, you have to be crazier than him. Bruce is crazier than the Joker right now.
Copperpot wasn't very crazy to begin with. He had a physical and mental problem and was at the bottom of the villain's contempt chain. Faced with a crazy Batman, he had to admit that he was defeated.
"Wayne, our game is over here. I admit that you won. I don't care what the fate of the children you took away was. As long as you are in your current state, you did win."
Cobot raised his hands and took a few steps back and said, "If you want to embarrass me in this way, you really don't have to. We are all businessmen, so don't make it so disgraceful..."
Bruce just stared at him with piercing eyes and said, "Why can't you understand me? I am indeed here to do business with you. I have told you that I have memorized all the information near the living hell. , I have all the information you want here, you just need to pay for it..."
Cobot showed a helpless expression. He stood there, took a deep breath, then walked to the phone desk behind him and called the Gotham Police Department.
Cobblepot wasn't asking the police to take Bruce Wayne away; he was asking the police to take him away.
I can't afford to offend him, but I can afford to hide. The worst I can do is go to jail for a few months, and at the same time, I can drink and flirt with the gang boss I haven't seen for a long time.
In this way, Cobot was taken away by Gordon, Bruce's plan to make extra money came to nothing, and his far superior memory was useless.
Looking at Cobot's leaving back, Bruce had no joy of victory at all. He was only filled with annoyance and thought Cobot was crazy.
Cobot wanted to reorganize the rules around the Fire Hell, and Bruce just came to him with a solution and sincerity, but he chose to call the police and surrender. Isn't this crazy? What is it?
Standing in front of the Iceberg Restaurant, Bruce sighed and looked at the still gloomy sky in Gotham. He knew that he had to find another way out.
It wasn't that he was tired of his job as a truck driver. The main reason was that the truck he got had reached the end of its life, and he really didn't have that much money to fill the bottomless pit of repairing the truck.
Fortunately, the place he moved to now has water leaks and constant noise every day, but one advantage is that the location is very good.
It is very close to the dock, much closer to Celina's residence, which means that Bruce can work as a porter.
After discovering this, Bruce felt a sense of excitement and happiness that he had never experienced in the past month, because the threshold for porters was much lower than that of truck drivers. They did not even check their place of residence, as long as they were individuals, they could go. Dry.
On a morning when the temperature started to rise, Bruce came to the dock to apply for a job. The person in charge of recruiting took one look at his figure, shook his head and said, "You are too thin and don't have much muscle in your arms, so you won't be able to sell for a good price. "
"But I'm very strong," Bruce said.
The recruiter impatiently turned over the book in his hand and said, "Everyone who comes here says this, even if they are as skinny as a bamboo pole... Forget it, if it weren't for the shortage of people here, I would be really impatient. Deal with you."….
"First of all, do you smoke? Where do you live? Do you know anyone from a gang?" The recruiter asked a series of questions, and Bruce answered truthfully. After hearing that he didn't smoke or drink, the recruiter flipped through the pages. Eyelids, he said, "Are you from out of town?"
Bruce could only nodded and said, "But I have been a truck driver for a while before, and I am familiar with the roads."
"This is an advantage." The recruiter replied to him: "But you can't do the unloading work on the ship. You will have to work until you cough up blood in a week. You can go to the indoor warehouse to tally. Oh, by the way, are you brave? ?」
"Courage?" Bruce asked, "Does it take courage to be a porter?"
"Don't ask so many questions." The recruiter became a little impatient again. He rolled his eyes and said, "The salary of indoor tallying is very low, but now there is a special job. Your partner has a special situation. As long as you are brave, The salary will be increased by 30%."
"I'm very brave," Bruce replied immediately.
He didn't think anything in the world could scare him. Well, there were papers before, but there shouldn't be anything after that.
It wasn't until he came to the warehouse where he was going to tally goods that Bruce discovered that his partner was a crocodile.
It is not accurate to say it is a crocodile, it should be said to be a crocodile, because this crocodile has the head of a crocodile, is very tall, and has very strong muscles. Bruce stared at him for a minute and found that the crocodile was alone. It can do the work of three people.
Therefore, Bruce's first emotion was not fear, disgust, or doubt, but envy. Bruce felt that if he looked like this, the agency would not dare to cheat him.
In fact, Bruce recognized him. When he was in the dream world, there was such a crocodile in Cat City Gotham, but at that time, he was a crocodile cat. Bruce thought that there might be a corresponding criminal who appeared in the real brother. Tan City, but I never thought he would appear like this.
But Bruce was really not too nervous, because he knew that the crocodile cat was quite easy to get along with, so he walked up and said hello to the crocodile. He said, "Hello, I am your future colleague, and I am here too. Work in this warehouse."
The crocodile rolled its eyes, glanced at him, and asked angrily: "Aren't you afraid of me?"
Bruce raised his head and glanced at his big mouth, but then his eyes fell on the box he was carrying. In that box was a pile of metal parts, which looked very heavy. Bruce glanced at the side. He walked over and tried to move a similar box, but then he realized that he couldn't move it at all.
"Don't move." The crocodile man suddenly said, "It will hit your waist, and if it breaks, you will have to pay for it."
The crocodile man's voice is a bit hoarse and his accent is very strange. It seems that his vocal cords are different from ordinary people, but Bruce feels that he is already very good. After all, he can't ask for more from a crocodile.
The two began to work in silence. Bruce kept asking about the crocodile man, and then he learned that this crocodile was even more unlucky than him.
Crocodile Man is not a local, but also comes from the surrounding areas of Gotham. He was originally a normal person, but he suffered from an atavistic disease that caused him to grow more and more like a crocodile. ….
The town where he lived could not tolerate a person with such a look, so they drove him out with guns and cannons.
Crocodile Man, who had nowhere to go, could only come to Gotham to try his luck. At first, he lived in the sewers, and everyone should know what happened next.
In order to deal with the Court of Owls, Schiller froze the entire Gotham sewers. Although the Court of Owls no longer exists in history, the frozen sewers have remained.
The crocodile man was very miserable and was sealed in a small room and starved for a whole month. It was only when the gang renovated the cold storage that they dug him out.
But Gotham has one advantage, that is, the people here are well-informed and rarely make a fuss. The first thing they see is not the Crocodile Man's grotesque head, but his strong arms, so the Crocodile Man Joined the ranks of Gotham development.
Because he was arrested and sent to labor reform before he could kill anyone, he did not get the title Killer Crocodile. Now he is just a strong and capable crocodile man. He gets the salary of one person and does the work of three people, and the gangsters have to pay him. The title of labor pacesetter.
"You mean, food and shelter are provided here?" Bruce asked, looking at the crocodile man. The crocodile man glanced at him again, shook his big head and said, "Don't think about it, they will provide food and housing for me. , because I look vicious and no one will rent a house for me. If I leave Gotham, no one will do so much work for them."
Bruce felt a little regretful, but didn't say much. In the next few days, he discovered that this was indeed an ideal job for him. The crocodile man was so capable that Bruce didn't need to spend too much effort. When moving heavy items, you only need to arrange the order in which they are put on the shelves and label them.
The wages here are not low, and they are not dependent on the weather like truck drivers. The volume of goods transported here is very large, and there is work to do every day. Bruce's slum life is on the right track again.
However, there is not a day without unforeseen events in Gotham.
Yun, the weather forecast here is far from predicting the fickle weather. The warehouse near the seaside dock caught fire in a weather with a humidity as high as 87%.
The specific cause of the fire is unknown. When Bruce heard the news, he only heard the doorman say that it seemed that the storage specifications of a chemical agent were incorrect, which caused the leak. In addition, some of the tallymen in the warehouse smoked. Sparks landed on the chemicals, causing not only an explosion but also a fire.
When Bruce heard the word chemical, he knew that something might have happened to the warehouse where he worked. Before leaving yesterday, he made sure to check whether his labels were properly affixed, and those labels read "Chemical preparations. To ACE Chemical Plant".
Bruce rushed into the warehouse area and found that the fire was very strong, but he knew that he had to go in, because the crocodile people had food and accommodation inside the warehouse, and he definitely didn't have time to run out now.
Bruce didn't know whether the Crocodile Man would have the same habits as a crocodile, but whether he liked water or not, he definitely didn't like fire.
Bruce rushed in as quickly as possible, and found the room where he worked with familiarity. The fire here was not the biggest, but the smoke was very thick. Bruce remembered that a batch of wood had just been shipped yesterday morning, and there was no fire at all. It's time to send it away, which becomes the best fuel. ….
The blazing flames reflected on Bruce's face. When the flames hurt in his blue eyes, it was like the afterglow of the setting sun under the blue sky. However, this beautiful scene did not last long. Bruce heard a "bang" , the beam of the warehouse was smashed down, which meant that the place could not hold on for too long.
Bruce picked up his coat, covered his mouth and nose, and rushed in despite the choking smoke. He thought he could rescue the crocodile man, but he overestimated his physical strength and underestimated the danger here.
As soon as he rushed in, Bruce saw that the crocodile man was pressed under the wood. Many beams of the wood shipped yesterday had collapsed at this time. The crocodile man must not have paid attention when he ran out and was pinned down. , the beam just pressed on his waist, preventing him from exerting any strength.
Bruce wanted to lift the piece of wood, but the loss of muscle mass meant that he no longer had that much strength. And judging from the weight of the piece of wood, even Batman in his heyday might not be able to lift it quickly. Lifting up, Bruce already felt like he was about to run out of oxygen.
The only way now is to forcefully pull the crocodile man out. Bruce half-knelt down beside him and said to him: "Hold on, it may hurt a little, but it will be fine in a while..."
He grabbed the crocodile man's strong arm and pulled him out hard. The crocodile man screamed fiercely, but he couldn't move at all.
Bruce covered his mouth and nose with his coat and stood up unsteadily.
Noisy sounds rang in his ears, but he couldn't hear what they were saying. He only smelled the smell of extremely pungent chemicals. He understood that this thing was poisonous when burned.
It seemed that everything had come to an end, Bruce thought, he finally got what he wanted, he finally touched the bottom of this terrible abyss.
What's underneath? There is only death down there.
No, no, no, Bruce thought, there's more than just death, there's more than just death... there must be something else here.
Suddenly, the loud noise became clear, and Bruce heard it. It was a laugh, a very happy laugh.
This kind of laughter is so sincere, it sounds like the last lamentation left by countless innocent souls who died in the snowy night.
After his power was exhausted, his mind began to fade. In the shadow of the campfire, Bruce slowly fell down.
He lay on his back, the firelight shining on his face and caressing his cheeks, the smoke choking his throat, and the fire burning into his eyes.
Just like all Gothamites, in the fire of karma in this world, sins and punishments are burned out, bones and blood are turned to ashes, and the eighteen levels of hell cannot burn a single tear.
The fire destroyed the shelves, and the shelf closest to Bruce collapsed. Countless chemicals on it fell on him like raindrops.
In the midst of the blazing flames, Bruce ushered in a Gotham night rain, which was unbearably cold and cold.
The meaning is deep to the bone.
The corners of his mouth slowly rose, because he saw the truth about the fire, and he was facing the craziest thing in the world - reality.
Thousands of ordinary people go about their ordinary lives day after day. There are no huge wars or glorious stories.
Tired, hungry, sleepless, taking drugs, gambling, and whoring day after day, there is no recovery. I am exhausted looking for a job, a house, and a partner. I have no money, no love, no hope, and I am alone.
At this moment, Batman finally understood why the Joker wanted to laugh.
Because the clown saw a god standing above the clouds, vowing to save everything for ten years.
Batman spent ten years becoming a joke.
It was really funny, so Bruce laughed too.
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