The huge scarecrow is like a ferocious golem, casting a huge shadow, forcing the little scarecrow Jonathan Crane back into the corner step by step, with no way to retreat.
"This...this is impossible..."
Jonathan knew that he should not say such a sentence, but at this moment, he had completely lost his language system and logic system, and fell into a huge panic.
He had thought Batman was someone like him, someone who dared to face his inner fears.
But as for the facts, the moment the cruel facts were placed in front of his eyes, he collapsed almost instantly.
"Ah, ah! No! Don't!"
The giant scarecrow with Lynn's face let out an evil laugh, rattling in a row, sounding like the crow of an old crow with a broken throat before it died. This cry resounded through the soul and made people shudder. , I just want to pull my tongue out of my mouth, wrap it around my neck, tie it to the gallows and hang myself.
Huge, withered palms shaped like tattered straw stretched out and grabbed the little scarecrow. With his almost speechless gibbering, he picked him up and threw him into the sky.
And when he fell, what was waiting for him was a mouth with sharp teeth and surging darkness.
"No!"
Jonathan Crane stretched out his hand helplessly, grabbed a straw scattered in the air, and together with it, fell into the mouth of the huge scarecrow.
………………
"No! No... no!"
In the open space, a man wearing a straw mask was lying on the ground, twisting his body, struggling, begging for mercy, and crying.
Beside him, Lin En, who was holding a camera, was recording his [skill effects] in a decent manner.
Obviously, Scarecrow is not as powerful as he thinks he is. At least for now, he can be called weak.
As far as Lynn Goo knows, Scarecrow, the villain, can definitely be called the apex predator among criminals in Gotham.
He has a very good appearance, unlike Penguin, Killer Croc, and Bane, who are born to be evil.
He has a very smart mind, a very decent job, and a very good social status, which can fully support him to be a normal and outstanding person.
He also has an offensive ability that is considered outstanding in the entire Gotham.
Compared to other Gotham villains, those guys might just die if they were thrown into other cities or encountered other superheroes. But the scarecrow is different. Very few people can resist fear of poisonous gas.
Unfortunately.
The Linn he met today was one of them.
As for Old Bat, of course he is another one. Not to mention the fear gas, the old bat can even resist the seven-color light ring, subdue them in turn, and then abandon them like worn-out shoes, leaving them to be thrown away casually.
When it comes to willpower, Green Lantern is simply not good enough in front of Old Bat.
This is the strength of Mr. Bateman!
Scarecrow's activities in Gotham are really a bit...
"Eh?"
Having already raised his hands, ready to end Scarecrow's sad life, Linn suddenly thought that this guy could seemingly be kept to contribute to Gotham's prosperity, laughter and laughter.
"Hehehe...I thought of something fun..."
Linn put down his hand, picked up the comatose Scarecrow with a smile, and dialed a phone number.
"Wai, old bat. I want to give you a gift...
Well...it's not a loan, really not.
It's great to be rich, you...
It’s not that I won’t pay it back, it’s up to you.
How can you look at me like this, Amitabha.
Um... It's really not, um, um... If you say that again, I will go to your house and beat you in front of Alfred!
Half an hour! Come quickly! "
Angrily, Lin En hung up the phone. He picked up the scarecrow in a vicious manner and shook it, shaking it to wake the person up. He then slapped the scarecrow and knocked the person unconscious again.
With Lin En's current strength, he finally understood Clark's pain.
It's really easy for him to kill someone accidentally.
Fortunately, his big mouth has its own healing power, which is very good.
………………
After an unknown amount of time, the Scarecrow woke up from his coma.
After only being confused for a few seconds, he twitched his body in a daze, and while slapping things around him randomly, he shrank back in horror until his back was against the wall.
"I'm not...huh?"
The Scarecrow looked around in confusion. There was nothing here that he remembered, nor anything that made him feel painful.
He was still behind the stacked old furniture, quietly looking at the street ahead.
But he clearly remembered that he had already waited for Batman, and he saw Batman's true face, which was Linn...
Lynn! right! That evil side of Batman!
He quickly patted his face again.
It’s still impossible!
How come there aren't any injuries?
"Could it be..."
He looked down at the pile of small bottles hidden on his body.
Could it be that this thing was leaked, so I fell into the fear that I spun?
Thinking of the huge scarecrow he saw with Linn's face, he hesitated and felt slightly relieved.
That's definitely an illusion, yes.
"So, this is all a dream?"
Biting his lip, the Scarecrow fell into a certain degree of self-doubt.
At the same time, behind a long old-fashioned drainage valve channel on the roof of a building not far away, Linn and Batman were squatting here, staring at the Scarecrow intently.
"Lynn, is this okay?"
Even though Batman couldn't see Linn's smiling face through the mask, the big funny smile on Linn's weird mask also proved that Linn was definitely not doing anything serious this time.
"You really want me to go..."
"That's right. Don't worry, his poison will only make you fall into the deepest and most desperate fear.
Don’t you review it in your mind several times every day? There is nothing to be afraid of. "
Although he really wanted to refute Linn, Batman still couldn't.
Because what Lin En said was true, his inner world was absolutely in chaos, with despair and fear running side by side.
"All right."
Just think of it as an experience. With Linn here, Batman could rarely feel a little relaxed.
It's also interesting to say that Batman, who is shrouded in anxiety and despair almost all the time, actually only lets down his guard a little when he is around Linn, and is no longer so cautious all the time.
The reason may be because Batman is sure that Linn is trustworthy and worthy of entrustment.
The silent inner monologue passed over and over again. Batman nodded without saying anything, pulling the hook and lock and climbing down the high wall.
Lynn, holding the camera, remained on the high platform.
Behind the old furniture below, Scarecrow's eyes widened because he saw Batman again and saw an almost replica of the scene.
However, the Batman in front of him seemed to be closer to the one he knew, the one described in the information.
So, was it really an illusion just now?
Probably...
The Scarecrow has already accepted this fact in his heart.
So, when he saw the real Batman in the same way as described in his dream, almost exactly the same way, the same appearance, the same coming to him, the same...
Get ready to take off your bat mask.
"No way, it's really Lin En, huh, there's nothing further away than this...
Bruce Wayne? ! !
Is he Batman...? ! !
Gift crab special! Damn it..."
Yes.
An even more outrageous plot emerged.
Even if it’s an illusion, it can’t be this illusion!
This, this, this... this illusion is too magical, Fake's illusion is a bit...
How can this be! Gotham's most frightening, suffocating, ghosts and demons hovering in the night sky, making everyone frightened, and the ultimate fear that all the good and villains talk about: Batman.
He is actually the one who only knows how to spend money and pick up women, who always lingers in the wine pool, who can hire an entire ballet company to perform strip dances for himself, and who buys 30 wineries in a year just for the convenience of drinking...
That super playboy, super loser, walking idiot: Bruce Wayne? !
What a bullshit joke this is!
This is not funny, this is scary!
Resisting the urge to give himself a big mouthful to wake up, the Scarecrow swallowed hard and looked down at his pocket with difficulty.
Could it be that I unknowingly developed a new type of poison, a powerful hallucinogenic one?
Or is the coffee I drank today expired?
"I'm not actually still in Arkham and haven't come out yet!"
After all, I pinched my face and it hurt.
Not feeling reassured, I pinched my thigh again and twisted it twice. It hurt so much that I wanted to cry.
Look again.
Still Bruce Wayne.
"What the fuck!"
This is so dreamy. Who would have thought that Batman's true identity would turn out to be like this!
Why? !
The doubts and curiosity in the Scarecrow's heart burned brighter than ever before after discovering the shocking secret.
Even a psychological genius like him couldn't imagine why a person like Bruce would do such... something weird.
"But I'll find out soon enough."
Looking at the small bottle in his hand, the Scarecrow checked it and then quietly threw it out.
…
What did Batman see?
Nothing more than the things he repeated in his head every day.
He saw Lin En, who was wearing a bat suit, laughing wildly and walking towards him. He saw Lin En take off his mask, take out his lipstick, and paint a big, blood-red smile on himself.
I saw a mirror and saw myself in the mirror with bright red color on my lips.
Why…so serious…
He heard three identical voices...
I saw three people gradually overlapping each other in the mirror...
Then, he raised his hand, clenched his fist, and hit the mirror hard, hard.
…
What did the Scarecrow see?
He saw Bruce Wayne taking off his mask and closing his eyes in pain.
Just like what he saw in the hallucination, there was neither a hoarse cry for help nor painful and uneasy crying and trembling.
He just stood there quietly, clenching his fists tightly.
"Bruce Wayne, I never thought it would be you."
Scarecrow stood in front of Bruce Wayne. Until now, even if he looked at Bruce Wayne's face that was so familiar to Gothamites, even if he had confirmed it countless times, he still couldn't believe it was true.
After all, this is Batman, Bruce Wayne.
It's really hard to overlap the two of them.
"Let me see what the fear deep in your heart is... huh!"
A punch hit the face, causing the Scarecrow's head to fall back and his body to sway.
Bruce remembered Lynn's instructions and did not knock out the scarecrow's teeth.
"Why are you...this is impossible! My poisonous gas has obviously been...ugh!"
Another punch made the scarecrow lie on the ground again and passed out.
Bang.
Lynn jumped down and walked to Bruce with a camera in his hand with a smile. He looked at Bruce who was putting a mask on his face. He held up a branch picked from the ground as a microphone and interviewed Bruce in a serious manner.
"Mr. Bateman, may I ask, how did your phantom journey feel?"
Click. With an imperceptible sound, Bruce tightened his mask, turned his head, and turned back into Batman.
Serious, calm, and even indifferent.
"nothing."
He seemed reluctant to talk about these things and took the initiative to show Linn his inner analysis. Immediately, he changed the subject and stared at the sleeping Scarecrow on the ground. Batman asked: "This guy should be the one who escaped from Arkham. I should send him back..."
"Hey! That won't work. At least not for the time being."
Linn didn't pursue what Batman saw. Everyone has their own secrets deep inside.
After stopping Batman, Linn stepped forward with a smile and lifted the unconscious Scarecrow onto the back seat of his bicycle, looking like he was transporting pork.
"Don't you think that the existence of this guy is very suitable for examining your own heart from time to time and having a conversation with yourself deep in your soul?"
"Lynn, what on earth are you..."
Batman's eyebrows are furrowed so much that it can be seen through his mask.
"Don't worry, you will know in the future. Anyway, if you capture him in Arkham, I will rush to Arkham and release him again. If you capture him again, I will release him again. If you capture me again, I will..."
"Okay, okay. OK, I'll listen to you."
Batman felt that it would be too cruel for Scarecrow to "release" Linn again and again.
"Lynn, don't get too...you know. Don't get too carried away."
After giving Linn a rare word of advice, Batman helplessly shook his head at Linn and left.
Today, he did gain something. I need to go back and summarize it carefully and slowly.
As for Lin En, he was smiling, dragging the scarecrow and riding a bicycle, and arrived...
The outskirts of Gotham.
The entrance to the underground maze.
"How can you treat one person favorably over another when giving gifts? Hehehehe..."
…………
Wake up again.
The Scarecrow felt dizzy, but unfortunately, there were no wounds on his body.
But he clearly remembers...
So there really is something wrong with the coffee?
still……
Standing up, the Scarecrow found that he had actually changed places.
So everything just now was actually an illusion? !
still……
"Is this an illusion now?"
Too bad, I can no longer distinguish between reality and fantasy.
Groping forward, the Scarecrow braced himself for anything that might happen.
At the same time, his mind was really spinning, and all kinds of distracting thoughts and unreasonable speculations came one after another, forming a mess in his mind, each one more outrageous and more absurd than the last.
"Is this place the legendary Bat Cave?"
After passing through a broken secret door, the Scarecrow saw a mural.
On the mural, there is Lynn, Batman, and... a guy with green hair.
What does it mean?
Why is there such a mural in such a place?
Why is it painted like this?
besides……
"Who is this weird guy with green hair..."
"you……"
A voice sounded from the darkness behind.
"...You're talking about me."
In the darkness of this unfamiliar environment where he was both focused and distracted, with a high degree of concentration, this sudden response made the Scarecrow reflexively throw his poison gas bottle behind him.
For some reason, he vaguely felt that he shouldn't do this.
Scarecrow is one of my favorite Gotham villains. He is really interesting, capable, and also really unlucky.
In the original work, he sneak attacked the old bat, but nothing happened to the old bat, and he almost died.
Then he was selected by the yellow light once, and it turned out that the old bat played the yellow light ring better than him. Beaten by the old bat again.
Attack the clown and throw the poison gas, but he doesn't react at all. The clown beat him so badly that he doubted his life. It's really fun.
(End of chapter)
