What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 566: The Smiling Justice League, Bat-like Reasoning, and Secret Spying
The outskirts of Gotham.

on the road.

A raccoon came out of the bushes foolishly. The cute little animal found a donut thrown by an unknown driver on the road.

It ran over excitedly, and then saw the roar of a car in the distance, followed by flashing headlights.

A heavy truck, a tanker truck, came towards the raccoon with smoke coming out and headlights flashing.

The panicked raccoon picked up his donut and quickly dodged. The truck whizzed past, leaving behind fallen leaves blown by the wind and a few drops of strange green liquid on the ground.

The raccoon watched the heavy tanker truck go away.

He finished his dinner with his head down in a daze, and then turned his gaze to one or two drops of green liquid dripping from the tanker truck next to him.

It licked two drops ignorantly.

But it seemed that nothing had happened. The raccoon stood up, his bright eyes flashing with a humane look of thought, and then the corners of the animal's mouth slowly curled up.

Jie Jie Jie...

He laughed, and then the laughter grew louder and louder.

The raccoon turned his head again and saw that the huge tanker truck turned its head and drove towards him, but this time the raccoon did not dodge again. Instead, it rushed towards the wheel while making the sound that sounded most like laughter based on its physiological structure.

“Hehehe… Hohohahahaha…”

The tanker truck stopped in a wooden house deep in the forest, and a hand wearing a purple suit and purple gloves stretched out from the cab.

He waved, as if to signal other drivers behind him who didn't exist at all.

Then he parked the car and got out.

"Haha, what a wonderful life."

He said.

When the Harlequin, one of the three clowns in peaked caps, knocked on the door of the cabin with a cane in one hand and the other, he saw the Laugher, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, a bowler hat, and holding a cane exactly like his, greeting him.

"I picked up small animals that were crushed on the road and brought them back to barbecue."

"…but just now when I was roasting it, he jumped up and said to me, 'The fire is too small, hurry up, I'm in a hurry to be reincarnated!'"

The comedian finished the joke before the clown could.

The Harlequin said, "You've heard this."

"Have you heard of it?" Xiaoke said, "This is what I wrote."

"You comedians always like to take all the credit for other people's work." The clown took out a toothpick and shaved his teeth.

"This is my shirt, by the way."

"Your shirt?" Xiaoke pursed his lips. "Who is stealing the credit for someone else's work now? Come on, get ready to come in and listen to what the boss is doing. He hasn't come yet. Maybe he was delayed by something, but the boss is always the one who is late, isn't he?"

"He thinks he's the boss," said the Harlequin.

"Well, one of us has to be responsible," replied the laugher.

Two clowns walked into the room, and Harlequin turned on the radio.

The sound of the news channel came from the radio.

"I don't know what to think right now, guys, but we…we've now received our third reported clown sighting tonight."

"...security cameras captured the latest Arkham escapee at the Ace Chemicals plant, contradicting previous sightings.

"Details of what happened at the chemical plant are being kept secret, but informants say a body has been found... The Joker's latest spate of terrors began earlier this week when author Dr. Roger Hendon was found stuffed in a janitorial closet at Arkham with a rubber chicken down his throat."

The clown said, "I am much more creative than you."

The laugher remained silent.

The radio was still playing.

"Dr. Henton has been interviewing several Arkham inmates for a sequel to his bestselling book, Bang! Psychology: Understanding Male and Female Superhumans. In it, the controversial author rails against the culture of cross-dressing heroes. In his book, Dr. Henton argues that masks separate men and women from their consciences, allowing them to unleash their dark side without further complications..."

With a creak, the wooden door was pushed open.

Finally a clown walked in.

"My work is done."

His code name is [Criminal].

The oldest clown, the serious clown who never laughs.

He held a cane in one hand and with the other threw Batgirl Barbara Gordon onto the floor of the cabin.

"I'm late, I know. This bitch went crazy and beat down five or six of my minions, so it took a little time."

The criminal said.

He glanced around at the other two clowns present.

"Well, now that everyone is here."

"It's time to talk."

……

……

……

Ace Chemical Plant.

Gotham City Police Department Captain Harvey Bullock removed the red hood from the head of the female corpse in the Batgirl uniform.

Under the hood was a pale female face with wine-red hair and a pretty face.

If it weren't for the fact that the corners of her mouth were stretched all the way to her ears.

Beside him, Gotham City Police Commissioner Jim Gordon almost fainted.

He held on to his last breath and whispered to Harvey Bullock: "Who is it? Who is the victim?"

"I do not know."

Then he heard Harvey's voice say.

He reached out his gloved hand and pinched the corpse's face.

"This is not the primary crime scene. All employees in this factory have been accounted for. The clown must have brought the victim in from outside and killed her here, poor girl."

Then Harvey checked the two male corpses next to them. They died in exactly the same way as the female corpse, even the smiles on their faces were the same.

Harvey Bullock used his police expertise to briefly examine the body in front of him.

"The chemicals that bleached their skin burned their fingerprints, which also destroyed all DNA tests. Nerve damage to their facial muscles caused their jaws to break, making the laughing expression almost impossible to match dental records. Like the Joker, they are unidentified."

"Jim, what's wrong with you?"

He said a long string of words, then turned around and noticed that something was wrong with Commissioner Gordon.

"I'm fine, I can handle it." Chief Gordon took a breath, and a policeman came over to help him. "Thank you, young man." Chief Gordon said, then he turned his head to look at Harvey Bullock and said to the policeman who was supporting him, "Excuse me, help me over and take a look."

He walked up to the female corpse and examined it carefully for a while, and finally found that the body in front of him wearing a Batgirl uniform was not his Barbara.

Commissioner Gordon was ashamed of himself for breathing a sigh of relief.

"So Batgirl is dead." Superintendent Bullock said nearby, "And it's impossible for us to find Batgirl's family, because we haven't known Batgirl's true identity for a long time, and now we can't find it through the body."

He said, "Jim. This is no longer a problem that Gotham can solve. This is a Justice League-level issue."

Gotham's ghost rain began to fall drop by drop. This city is always like this, dark, damp, full of madness and despair.

Harvey Bullock repeated, "Justice League, or just Batman—"

Then Superintendent Brock suddenly stopped talking. He felt that he was shrouded by a huge shadow in the dark shadow.

He stared blankly at the shadow of the pointed ears projected on the ground.

"Batman?"

He asked in a low voice uncertainly. Batman had been away from the city for a long time. Mr. Freeze and the Penguin took over the superhero affairs in the city, but they did not bring fear to others like Batman did.

Batgirl has been active in Gotham for a long time. She cooperates with Nightwing who appears occasionally, trying to inherit the mantle of Batman. Harvey knows this, but at this time Batgirl has become a corpse, at least that's what he knows.

So at this time, still dressed as Batman...

It's him.

It must be him.

The man who left Gotham City, the legendary man.

"Batman, you go back—"

Then Harvey Bullock saw five Batmen appear in front of him.

"?"

He looked at the strange-looking Batmen in front of him in silence.

The overly strong Batman over there, the golden beard on your chin is showing. Are you Batman? And your lower body, the golden scales on your ankles are showing -

You are Aquaman, definitely Aquaman.

And the leading female bat—I thought Batgirl’s style was very biased, but at least she’s still pretty flat.

But doesn't it feel more awkward to have two big lumps on your chest?

Five Batmen fell to the ground at the same time.

This bat army left Harvey speechless for a moment.

"Batgirl has been kidnapped, but she's still alive. The Joker doesn't know what he's going to do to Batgirl. We don't know where Batgirl is now." Commissioner Gordon said very quickly, "Save her!"

"I am," Wonder Woman said.

Commissioner Bullock didn't know how Commissioner Gordon concluded that Batgirl was still alive.

But he was sure that the Batmen in front of him must be members of the Justice League in disguise.

He saw Bat Wonder Woman walk up to the body.

"I'm the Joker."

"?"

Wonder Woman’s first words made Brock have question marks on his mind again. He originally thought that he was a dark, cold and righteous Gotham City policeman, but what was wrong with these five people opposite him?
They don't fit the image of Gotham at all, and not even wearing Batman uniforms can change that.

"I can't kill writers and take them to Arkham, kill comedians in Somerset, and poison innocent people and take them to the Ace Chemicals plant at the same time."

"Three crime scenes, three clowns, what does this mean?" asked Commissioner Gordon.

The answer is ready to come out.

"It means there are three of us," said Bat-Green Lantern Hal.

"Please, please don't reason like a clown." Superintendent Bullock said, "I'm a little creepy."

He saw a smile on the corners of the mouth of every member of the Justice League under the bat cowl.

He wasn't sure if it was a friendly, normal smile or the precursor to some crazy laughter.

But no matter which one it is, the effect they present under the Batman mask is scary enough.

"I want you to focus on these dead people... not the missing tanker truck." Superman Clark said:

"Half the security cameras were broken, but for the ones that still worked, I used to stare at them. I wanted people to see me. So I left live witnesses when I murdered Merkerson, and recorded the killing of comedian Apaca."

“I want to be seen.”

Bat Shazam said: "Wait, how come you all become masters of reasoning one after another? Am I the only one who still can't figure out anything after possessing the Joker's mind?"

"..." The Bat Aquaman beside him opened his chin covered with golden beard under the bat mask, and then stopped talking.

He wanted to come up with the same reasoning as Wonder Woman and the others, but he couldn't think of anything.

Brock, who was listening nearby, nodded repeatedly.

Although it sounds very creepy at first to hear Batman... Ugh, the members of the Justice League collectively speaking in the Joker's tone, if you remove all that, you can clearly feel that this is a form of substitutionary reasoning.

They were steadily moving towards the truth, and this high-level reasoning greatly attracted Superintendent Bullock.

Fiji.

Chen Tao squatted on the beach and watched intently.

It is better to make sure there is no problem before it happens than to find out about it after it happens.

"This is impossible. How could the Joker avoid my eyes and ears in Gotham City? Even if he used murder to divert my attention, how could he kill people right under my nose? This is not something he can do. My Metal Spirit is already watching..."

"Okay, Master Bruce, the Justice League is doing a great job, can we go surfing on the yacht now?"

And in Gotham, Wonder Woman's reasoning continues.

"By distracting others, I got the tanker truck. I can transport the Joker venom. But I need a place to store my venom."

"And the Gotham City Aquarium was closed two days ago for water main maintenance."

"Of course this can't be a coincidence, because I am the one behind this." Bat-Green Lantern Hal said, "Obviously, where else in Gotham can I store my Joker venom?"

Harvey Bullock: ""

How did this thought jump?
Is there any connection between these...

How do you skip the process and get to the conclusion directly?
"Obvious"?
what?
Is this reasoning?

Commissioner Gordon patted his shoulder sympathetically.

"We have to go to the aquarium. The Joker is there, at least his venom is there," Wonder Woman concluded.

(End of this chapter)