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

Lucien can be sure.

He looked around and found that it was full of loopholes from every angle.

"Get out of here." Pointing in the direction of the door, he said to Jenny, "Stay away from me."

"But, but." Jenny looked at the millet porridge, sighed, and finally closed the door and left.

As for Lucian, he tried to fall asleep, but his thoughts were so scattered that he couldn't fall asleep, so he got up from the bed and looked outside -

The windows are arched, as are the exteriors, and many have inner courtyards decorated with colorful tiles.

Lucian traveled to many countries and experienced the local customs and cultures. The architectural features of this building are Mediterranean Revival style.

And Gotham is Gothic.

"...they went to such lengths that they even moved me to another city."

"What are you doing?"

……

"I want to go back to Gotham."

"Where is Gotham?" Jenny asked in confusion, "Have you forgotten? This is Key West."

Where is Key West?

Lucien had never heard of this place, but he took a step back: "I'm going out."

Jenny didn't stop.

……

This city should be very suitable for retirement. Lucian rarely sees sewage or moss. The plants here are lush and the sunshine is warmer than in a metropolis.

Lucian felt the sunlight and remembered his initial discomfort with Gotham - he had a premonition at that time that he lived in a place with strong enough sunlight.

"Hi, Lucien." Someone greeted him through the fence.

Lucien looked over and his eyes suddenly widened: "Julie?"

This woman who has appeared since the very beginning cannot appear in the non-22 universe. No one in this world knows of her existence except Lucian.

He calmed down again: This must be the clown's plan.

The Joker also knew of Julie's existence, but Lucien still walked over and asked across the lush flowerbed, "Do you know Batman?"

"Who?"

"Bruce Wayne."

Julie thought for a moment and asked, "Who are you asking about?"

Who else?

"How many are there?" Lucien asked again.

"Three."

-22 Batman, Bruce Jr., the human-pig bat.

"where are they?"

Julie pointed him in the direction, and before leaving, Lucien looked at the house behind her: "Do you have a boyfriend?"

Julie's smile faded, but she said, "You know, he's dead."

"Sorry." There was no sincerity.

……

In this small town, Lucian saw many people he had seen before: Winifred, Jesse, Angie, Zsasz, Lilith... This seemed to be a weird paradise created for him by the Joker.

-22 Batman is a middle-aged man, Bruce Jr. is a college student, and the Man-Pig Bat is a disabled person... They are related by blood and have similar personalities and appearances, but none of them is Batman.

Lucien has developed a unique sense for people with mental problems... a sense of sympathy.

Even Bruce, the most miserable disabled person among them, is optimistic.

He didn't learn anything familiar from little Bruce.

……

Lucien pursed his lips as he realized he should go find the Joker's unique incarnation in this place.

But no, he asked all over the town but couldn't find the clown.

After the sun went down, Lucien wandered around and finally reached the edge of the town and stepped out.

But after taking a step, he felt dizzy and collapsed.

……

Ever since Lucian killed the Joker, he has become accustomed to the presence of the Joker in his dreams.

But this time he didn't dream about it, and when he woke up, the sky was still not the familiar one.

Jenny sat beside him and said, "Eat something." She tried to put the porridge in the spoon into his mouth.

Lucian was silent for a moment, his mouth opening in compromise, gentle but tasteless. After a quiet night, he asked, "I saw you following me."

Jenny was speechless.

"Okay, I'm touched. I'm beginning to fall in love with you." Lucian reached out and played with her hair, his behavior a little frivolous.

"Snapped--"

Jenny knocked his hand down, paused in the air, and then moved closer: "Isn't this what you want? Let me indulge in your tenderness, have sex with you, and let your belly grow a child."

"Why are you being so reserved?" Lucian said disdainfully, "To be honest, the reason I didn't love you last time was because I didn't like the idea of ​​a 'mother' existing in my life. Come here, kiss me."

"Snapped--"

Then he got slapped in the face.

Red appeared on his pale skin. Lucian smiled slightly, not angry, but opened his arms: "Come, hold me."

Jenny’s face turned cold: “If you want me to stay away from you, then you succeeded.”

She threw down the bowl and spoon, closed the door and left. Behind her, she heard Lucian's dissatisfied voice again:

"I don't like this! I want a whore!"

"Snapped!"

The door slammed shut.

Lucien looked at it for a while and laughed with an indescribable emotion.

……

After getting along with Jenny, he naturally knew what his wife hated the most.

Lucian was testing the waters. He crossed his hands behind his head and looked at the curtains—he didn't think this abrupt object was aimless.

The sun was shining brightly outside, but it was much weaker under the cover of the curtains, with only the Tyndall effect appearing through the gaps in the curtains.

Lucian endured the dizziness brought on by the patterns and colors and looked at them carefully - he couldn't see any special meaning.

……

This is a weird curtain. I don’t know if it’s some kind of optical illusion or psychological effect.

Even after Lucian couldn't bear it anymore and looked away, strange patterns were still reflected on his retina above other objects.

Considering that he fell into a coma when he stepped out of the town yesterday, the Joker might have imprisoned him here... The puzzle should be the representative of "Joker", and the clue should be this abrupt curtain.

……

Lucien began to study this, and copied the pattern above with a pencil, in both black and white and color versions, and then folded it at various angles to see if it could form words or patterns.

No.

He studied the stitching and tassels, touching them inch by inch to see if there were any hidden secret words or stitches.

nor.

So I consulted books to study the production process and development history of this thing...

But in the eyes of others, it is just a strange obsession...a strange obsession that makes people wary.

Although Jenny was angry, she quickly calmed down. She understood that Lucien didn't want to see her. Although she didn't understand, she didn't take the initiative to talk to him after that, except for putting in and taking back three meals a day.

Knowing that Lucian had discovered his research on the veil, she was a little worried and hesitated to tell Ms. Taylor about it.

Lucien naturally didn't know what she was thinking. After many experiments failed, he looked at it with a frown.

Under the effect of the pattern, the focus gradually defocuses and the field of vision becomes blurred.

He saw a black hound.

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Another dog?

Can't the clown be separated from the image of "dog"?

At that moment, Lucien remembered all the words about dogs that had come out of his mouth.

“The dog chasing the car and the dog being dragged by the car,” “the puppy and the old dog,” “the struggling and the tamed dog.”

It's interesting that the Joker uses the word "dog" to describe himself, but uses the word "canine" to describe anyone other than himself.

Lucien wrote the two words on the paper and drew heavy strokes under the words with his pen.

He looked at "dog".

“Dog” turned upside down means “God”.

"Dog" comes from the Old English "docga", and "God" comes from the Germanic "gudan". In fact, there is no essential connection between the two, it is just a coincidence.

Coincidence?

Lucian used his memory to sketch out the shape of the black hound he had just seen in the blank space beside him.

……