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

It was subjective and presumptuous enough, but the Silent Bat was not angry - he was very kind to the madman.

"Is that the reason?" just asked.

"Isn't this enough?"

Silent Bat met the fiery green eyes hidden beneath the calmness and said, "That's a good excuse. If that's all, I will indeed let you go."

But it is not enough now. Lucian did not explain why he used the answer to deduce the process in the first place.

……

Lucian deliberately made Silent Bat realize that he was deducing the process based on the answer.

His sudden appearance in Gotham without a past or identity would arouse the suspicion of the Batman. Even if he succeeded in cooperating, it would be a time bomb.

Lucian simply put his origin and answer together and said, "Do you know about time travel? I come from the future."

……

The story of the Silent Bat does not involve the timeline. If it were in the Red Death, Lucian would not dare to say so.

The Flash in this universe was not born, and there was no such thing as "the present me created a new timeline, and let the past me catch up with the future me to stop this thing in order to avoid the timeline being replaced."

The battles that HushBat is involved in are only within Gotham, and there is no record of alien invasions in this world.

When he heard Lucian's words, his first feeling was absurdity, and his second feeling was novelty.

Even though he believed more that Lucian got the information from the League of Assassins or the Court of Owls.

"I know this is outrageous," Lucien said, "but it's like a fish living in water—it can't get ashore, but it can't deny the existence of the land."

"I do come from the future, a realm you haven't touched upon."

The air fell into silence. The Silent Bat tapped the bat in his hand. "That's a good reason. Now you have to explain why you're here, who you will be in the future, and what your relationship is to me."

Lucian breathed a sigh of relief, and he didn't hide his emotion: "I didn't think you would believe this."

Silent Bat placed the article cut from the newspaper on the table: "Just by reading the text, I can sense your literary accomplishment and imagination. I am honored to hear the live version here."

"Do you think I'm joking?" Lucian looked at him in surprise. "You don't think I'm a spy sent by the Assassin's League or Owl to deceive you, gain your trust, and free the prisoners underground, do you?"

Silent Bat didn't show any different attitude towards this.

"So you don't really think so?" Lucian asked again tentatively.

Silent Bat looked at him and said, "You'd better hope that the story you come up with is good enough to convince me."

Lucien stopped teasing. He didn't want to reveal that he couldn't die before doing anything.

Chapter 176 I Am Revenge

Inside the Batcave, Jack looked at the newspapers collected by the heroes and raised his eyebrows.

Batwoman and Catman's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea / Author: The Cowardly Husband

Expert Interview with Joker Batman: Laughter Can Relieve Pain / Author: Pale Knight

Different contents and different titles, but the writing style showed they were all written by the same person. Jack whistled, "It turned out to be a Watson."

(Watson is a character in Sherlock Holmes who records cases and writes brilliantly)

……

"I'm not trying to make up any lies to deceive you, Bat." Lucian pointed at his face. "But seriously, when you saw my appearance, didn't you think of someone?"

Prominent cheekbones and brow bones, a high nose bridge, deep eye sockets, and skin as tight as a shroud.

Even without worrying about eye color and hair color, just based on these characteristics——

"You are not Jack." said the Silent Bat.

There is no Batman or Joker in Gotham, only Hush and Jack Napier.

"I didn't say it was him, but he definitely knows who I am. Did you show him my photo?" Lucian nodded, indicating, "Perhaps you could listen to what he said."

……

Lucien had never had any communication with Jack, nor did he trust any clown at all, let alone expect a strange clown to stand on his side just because they were also clowns.

But it doesn't matter, Lucian is sure of one thing - the Joker's feelings for Batman.

All it takes is for the Joker to realize... that he's targeting Batman.

Even if the clown is only Jack Napier now, he must have noticed the confusion and bewilderment of the Silent Bat over the years. Perhaps Jack cannot describe his strange emotions, nor does he know what he should do.

But these emotions will be answered in those articles.

……

Lucian copied those comic plots not only to attract the Hush Bat, but more importantly to show Jack the charm of the normal Batman.

The Joker couldn't refuse this.

Jack would side with Lucien.

"Yes, Bruce, yes." Jack's voice came from the headset, very softly: "He really means no harm... I know him."

Jack will take the initiative to cover for Lucien.

When it comes to Batman, the Jokers are natural allies.

Lucien didn't hear Jack's voice, but the emotions shown by the Silent Bat made it clear what he heard.

He spread his hands and said, "I just feel that you are incomplete, you are confused, you don't understand, you have no goals... I just want to see you, I have no ill intentions."

"As for those stories..."

"That's my complete picture of what you're going to go through. I mean...what you're supposed to become."

His eyes fell on one of them and he added, "Of course, it doesn't refer to gender."

……

The Silent Bat was looking at Lucian without any emotion, but rather an incomprehensible obscurity.

Gray mist rose from the smoke between Lucian's fingers... He came to save the world, not to destroy it. With Batman's fragile mentality now, even if Lucian threatened to blow up Gotham, he would just watch.

Lucian needs to be gentle, to be subtle and to stand on the same side as the Silent Bat... The clown who is not so crazy is the best helper.

He didn't know what Jack said, nor what Silent Bat was thinking. In the long silence, there was only the sound of rain and thunder coming through the broken window.

The curtains couldn't block the wind. This place was high up, and the wind was especially strong, blowing the piles of newspapers on the bookshelf... and onto the ground.

All Gotham newspapers from the time of the Waynes' deaths to the present day, including:

Bruce Wayne is adopted by the Elliots, the Elliots die, Bruce Wayne is admitted to Arkham Asylum for treatment, Elliot Jr. inherits both the Elliot and Wayne family fortunes, James Gordon is killed while investigating the Wayne couple's deaths, Barbara Gordon founds the Resistance, and Elliot marries Talia...

The legendary bat monster appears in Arkham Asylum and kills people, celebrities led by Elliot mysteriously disappear, and Alfred inherits the estate of Wayne Manor...

Newspapers spanning twenty years were blown up and down by the wind, and some of the yellowed and brand new newspapers were stained with ink by the rain that blew into the room.

It's like a flurry of snow or fallen leaves in autumn.

Lucian broke the silence. "Or could you explain... why the body is wrapped in bandages even though it's intact? And what are you observing from the top every night?"

"Look into your own heart, Bruce," he said. "You are the one who should know best what you are blocking and what you are observing."

……

What is the Silent Bat thinking?

Not Elliot, the culprit of his tragedy, nor Arkham Asylum, which shaped the first half of his life.

Just like that, quite inappropriately, he remembered the night his parents collapsed when he was eight years old.

……

The body blocking the way, the gangster's dark gun muzzle, the scattered pearl necklaces... I can even recall the dark sky that night, the texture of the bricks and stones under my feet, and the dull sound when the body fell to the ground.

Reminds me of the heroic movie "Zorro".

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Why does Batman keep trying to save Gotham like Sisyphus, knowing it's hopeless?

In fact, saving Gotham came later, and he never thought that what he did was a heroic rescue.

At first, Bruce just wanted revenge on Gotham, revenge on this city for the death of his parents.

That's why he became Batman.

Just like the saying – “I am vengeance, I am night, I am Batman.”

……

This bat just didn't expand the target of revenge from specific people to the city, and just didn't understand what it really wanted.

He spent the first twenty years of his life immersed in revenge against Elliot, so he was confused after the revenge was over.

What Lucian needs to do is to expand the seeds of hatred from specific people to a larger "concept".

He didn't even need to point it out.

Bruce will figure it out on his own.

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Wayne family cemetery.

Thomas's Grave, Martha's Grave

and "Bruce Wayne's Grave"

The Silent Bat's legs and feet were covered in mud from walking all the way, and he just stood in the rain and watched silently.

Like a helpless baby bird, or a wet bat that fell on Lucian's umbrella.

Alfred slowly approached and held the umbrella over the head of the Silent Bat.

The black umbrella is like a canopy, blocking the rain.

This elder, who looked much thinner and older than Alfred in other universes due to years of hard work and tragedy, held up the umbrella firmly... even though his tuxedo on his back was soaked and the cold wind was extremely biting.

Chapter 177 ACE Chemical Plant