Laughing American comics, I am becoming more and more like a clown

She was a filial daughter and knew how to read people's expressions. She kept talking without being interrupted, using various methods.

"I will heal Lucien. I will treat him as if he were my father... I will turn him into a normal person..."

"What a perceptive child! I believe in your ability." The murderer said, "I will give your mother a medical kit, but whether she can save her leg depends on her."

"Thank you! Thank you!"

"Well, good boy, see you next time."

No more sound came from the headset.

Taylor sat in the chair, his lips trembling and a little dry, and drank the water in the teacup in one gulp.

"Tuk-tuk-"

There was a knock on the door. Taylor gathered himself together, pulled out a mask from under the table, put it on his face, and said, "Come in."

The door opened, and Lucien, who had just left, walked in again. He calmly closed the door and looked at Taylor: "Ma'am, don't you have anything to say?"

Taylor's expression went blank. She looked toward the door and forced a smile, forgetting she was wearing a mask. No one else could see it. "Do you... do you have any questions about medications and treatment options?"

"That's not the question." Lucian sat back in his seat, smiled slightly, and took out a black, oblong object from under the table under Taylor's horrified gaze, and kindly explained:

"Acoustic intelligence gathering. Of course, you could also call it a bug... Anyway, I heard everything." He pulled out the gun from his arms and pointed the dark muzzle at me. "So, is there anything you want to tell me now?"

……

Lucien was not afraid to assume the Joker's worst intentions, and he was prepared for it.

He watched Taylor's current embarrassing state with interest, and was quite patient in trying to win back the game.

……

"Sorry, sorry..." Taylor really didn't know what to say.

"Don't be afraid, please continue to hide it for him. You know, your mother has raised you for so long, you should be filial to her, you can't use her life to exchange your own life... You have to hide it from me and be ready to die, so that your mother has a chance to survive in his hands." Lucien encouraged.

But what Taylor was thinking in her heart was - what if she died at Lucien's hands, she didn't think her mother, who was no longer useful to that man, could continue to live, so she wanted to tell everything, but still had doubts.

Looking at Lucian, he hesitated and asked, "You, what is your relationship?"

She was afraid that the two were just having a conflict... after all, that person was just threatening her normal psychological treatment.

"It's hard for me to describe it." Lucian was also unable to describe it.

Senior, junior, or older friend? Friend? Lover? Rival?

But there was no need for him to dwell on it with Ms. Taylor; doing so would only frighten her further. So he said, "We are mortal enemies. I'm hunting him down. Don't worry."

Taylor breathed a sigh of relief: "If I say, you can promise..."

She probably wants Lucien to guarantee her safety, but is interrupted: "I can't promise that, look here, ma'am."

He shook the gun: "Now you are being threatened by me. I don't need any guarantees. You just need to tell me what your choice is."

"..."

Taylor's eyes were blinking uncontrollably, which showed that she was uneasy. Indeed, no matter where she was, she didn't feel any sense of security... There were only threats, no guarantees, not even a little comfort.

She forced herself to calm down and think.

Then, with trembling lips, he said, "I said, but."

"No buts, dear."

"……it is good."

Taylor still told everything he had experienced recently.

Chapter 156 Contradictions

The night before, someone broke into Taylor's home, killed her father, and took her mother hostage, threatening to make her wear a headset and give Lucien psychological treatment.

"What does it look like?"

"I don't know." Taylor shook his head. "He wrapped himself in a big cloak. He sounded like an old man."

Lucien thought for a moment and asked, "Is there any way to contact them?"

Taylor pulled out the headset, and he took it and looked at it.

……

To be honest, Lucien didn't understand what the Joker was trying to do.

Killing Harley Quinn before he did and threatening Tyler...what's the purpose? For fun?

Lucien thought that if the Joker's goal was to become the Joker himself, he shouldn't do these things... He should allow himself to kill Harley Quinn and Tyler, so that he would become indifferent, crazy, empty and confused, and then he would have to put on the identity of the Joker and move towards his predetermined fate.

Instead of killing Harley Quinn, who created the "worst day", one step ahead like now, and Ms. Taylor, who controlled the absurd beginning of the tragedy.

Lucien felt that rather than turning himself into a clown, the clown's behavior was more likely to prevent him from becoming a clown.

?

What are you doing?

Isn't it his purpose to become a clown?

Lucien couldn't understand, but previous events told him that it was impossible for the Joker to do something contradictory and meaningless.

Beneath his rhetoric and aimless actions there is always a core that is constantly being pushed.

Unfortunately, it is difficult for normal people to infer the core of the clown's behavior based on existing conditions and known questions.

Especially since this clown is subtle and good at disguise.

Lucien could only try to think with the clown's mindset, thinking over and over again, discarding all impossibilities, and finally coming to the correct option no matter how impossible it was.

……

Perhaps the Joker is simply being ambivalent.

Perhaps it was just curiosity that drove him - he wanted to see if the Lucian he once was could save himself in a desperate situation.

For this curiosity, the clown is willing to help as a senior and friend.

After all, we all know that clowns have mental problems, so correspondingly, people with normal mental problems cannot become clowns.

……

This is the greatest possibility.

Lucien let go of the headset and looked at Taylor, who was sincere to the point of nervousness. She was turned around in a hurry, and the certificate of her university graduation and degree reflected the light on her surface.

He didn't know what expression to make.

Finally, he sighed and said, "Okay, continue with your treatment. I have no objection. If he contacts you next time, remember... remember to tell me what they talked about."

He put away his gun, stood up unhappily, closed the door and left.

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Remember, the windows of the consulting room face the patients, so it's impossible to snipe at the doctor from any angle?

If you set up a sniper rifle from a distance and look at the patient's position through the sniper scope, you can see all the patient's movements.

Old Lucian from forty years later stood behind the sniper scope, quietly watching his own actions from forty years ago.

He naturally knew what his mentality was at this moment, and this was within his expectations.

The frail, old body under the cloak was as thin as a straw, but he was exceptionally steady under the mahogany cane. He probably wanted to express his feelings or say something.

But watching myself leave the hospital forty years ago, I moved my lips but didn't even let out a sigh.

He took his eyes away from the sniper scope and took out a booklet from his pocket.

It densely records his reasoning process for all this and what will happen next.

——Batman.

……

The person who knows the Joker best is Batman.

Forty years later, old Lucian took over the identity of the Joker. Forty years ago, he had already accepted that he was the Joker, so naturally he would look for Batman.

At this time, Batman is somewhat corrupt and dangerous.

In the original timeline, Lucien would talk to Batman and place his feelings for young Bruce on him, then break down in an explosion of betrayal and truly start a massacre.

……

"I don't know if I should say this... After Batman showed up in Gotham, the Joker showed up right after."

Lucian sat beside Bruce's bed, looking at the human-pig-bat:

"He killed Catwoman."

Although Lucian has learned that Catwoman's true identity is Harley Quinn, others may not know this. Even if they do, they may not know that Lucian knows this. Even if they do know, that person will not be Batman who has just arrived.

……

Catwoman was once Batman's lover.

Batman then asked, "When did it happen?"

"I found it this morning when I went to look for her."

"Why did you go to her?"

"Please, I'm not your prisoner. Okay, about you." Lucian lied fluently:

"Regarding your psychology, I always feel that you want me to kill you...but I can't make up my mind. Catwoman knows you best, so I want to ask her opinion."

"Why do you think the Joker killed her?"

Because of the letter written by -22 Clown himself, Lucian still had doubts about whether the bat had turned evil, so he didn't tell the truth, so he said:

"Because I am also the Joker... Just like Batman can recognize the Joker from a crowd, the Joker can also recognize Batman. We also have a special sense of each other, and I can recognize it."

Batman looked at him and shook his head: "Compared to this, I think you are hiding something."

Then you are absolutely right.

Lucian had made some preparations for this situation. Being a suspicious bat, he always had to come up with some excuses and took out a piece of paper from his pocket.