novellhall Chapter 137 Jason: Oh no, Batman's gone mad!
Chapter 137 Jason: Oh no, Batman's gone mad!
Chapter 137 Jason: Oh no, Batman's gone mad!
"I found a lot of information on the computer."
Red Hood attempted to remotely control the counter-attack weapons he had placed in the room, but there was no response.
"Don't bother trying out your retaliatory weapons." Then he heard Batman's voice: "I've already taken apart all your little toys."
Jason's hand began to reach towards his waist.
"Don't move."
Batman stared intently into the void ahead, not even glancing at Jason. But the menacing presence he exuded, like a thorn in Jason's side, made Jason dare not draw his gun again.
Jason slowly retreated. It's a tradition of the bat family; all bats dislike engaging in skirmishes.
He was thinking as quickly as possible about how to escape from Batman.
But why do people's eyes want to stare at Batman's face?
Run! It's obvious Bruce came prepared. Jason knows he can't possibly defeat the scheming Batman here.
Based on his understanding of Batman, if he were here, it would mean that Batman was fully prepared. At this moment, shouldn't he, as the prey, do his best to escape immediately?
But why?
Jason felt like he was going crazy.
"You should know that I am different from those criminals, I am different from those scumbags."
Red Hood himself wasn't sure why he was explaining that, but to explain it further would be to reveal his entire plan.
It was obvious that he couldn't possibly tell Batman about his plans.
So he immediately shut up after saying that.
Jason slowly arched his back. He pulled his hand back and gripped his cuff. He had concealed the venom inside his jacket; a simple flick of the switch on his cuff would inject Titan Venom steroids into his body. Although the dosage was insufficient, and the duration and effects would be far less than Bane's, it would at least boost his combat capabilities for a short time.
He was ready to fight Batman.
He knew Batman would attack him without a word. Batman's attitude towards criminals has always been cruel and ruthless. Apart from not killing, he would do everything that could be imagined to criminals.
Of course, most of the time he wouldn't beat the prisoners in a way that was meant to vent his emotions, but would instead break their limbs.
He was always as ruthless as a scalpel, and as precise as completing a job, unlike himself.
To Jason's surprise, Batman did not pounce on him as he had anticipated.
"I know you're not a criminal. So, let me guess what you're going to do."
Batman finally looked at him.
"You're allied with Bane. But you never even considered actually working with this criminal, even though your goal is the same as his: to defeat me and Superman. So you betrayed him without hesitation. No, or rather, you were never allied with him in the first place. You're still as furious as ever."
Batman guessed right.
Jason thought to himself.
He felt himself trembling slightly.
past.
The information revealed in the other person's words made him tremble all over.
"You originally planned to find an opportunity to murder him, but Bane's plan to deal with Superman and Batman made you change your mind. You suddenly realized that this plan could attract countless villains to gather together, and you might be able to kill all the most heinous ones among them."
He heard Batman say:
"Therefore, you revised your plan once again. You cooperated with Bane and successfully attracted a large number of villains. Then, before everything began, you instilled in Bane the idea that these recruited villains might be competitors, and provided him with the weapons that were designed to target Superman villains."
One by one, sentence by sentence, Batman recounted everything he had done and his plans as if peeling back layers of an onion. Jason couldn't believe that the other man could do this so easily.
Batman's voice is still ringing out:
"This will greatly boost their confidence and prompt them to make more radical choices. Then, with your instigation, after successfully defeating Superman and Batman, their conflict will immediately erupt, and they will fight each other for control of Superman and Batman."
"But you still can't pull chestnuts out of the fire."
Chen Tao said, "Therefore, you brought in an outside helper."
He beckoned with his finger, and the monitor next to him turned on by itself, showing Jason Blake's image on it.
"You've discovered Black's team of government-authorized killer heroes, whom Amanda Waller is grooming into rising stars in an effort to diminish Superman's influence. Despite their somewhat fascist mindset, you're drawn to their ruthless methods and intend to utilize their force."
"You have thoroughly analyzed the personality profile of their leader, Blake, and judged that as long as he listens to Bane's plan, he will definitely choose to wait for more villains to gather before making a move."
"Therefore, you deliberately exposed your presence in the underworld, attracting Blake and his team to trace it back to the Void Bar, and then timed it precisely to ensure that he would witness the birth of your bet."
"I suspect you even have connections with Amanda Waller, in order to counter Blake..."
Chen Tao recounted each point one by one, and then slowly clapped his hands.
"Brilliant, every move is meticulously planned. You've got everyone wrapped around your little finger."
No wonder he's Batman's son.
Chen Tao added a sentence in his mind.
"But what makes you think Bain would be completely unaware?"
"He may not know it's you, or how far the plan has been leaked, but Bane is not an easy opponent. I don't believe he wouldn't have discovered Black's existence. Do you think you can wipe out Bane and all the supervillains he's gathered with Black alone? You might be the one who gets wiped out."
"Stop having contact with Blake." Jason heard Batman say, "I've hacked that anonymous account you used to contact him directly. It's mine now. Consider it me leaking the location of the Void Bar to Blake and his Allied Forces..."
Jason Todd.
Jason paused for half a second.
Then he took off his red hood and threw it on the ground.
"So you already knew my identity?"
He heard Batman say:
"Yes, that's right. I recognized you the first time you and Shiva came into my view. I'm not so senile that I wouldn't recognize my own Robin."
Jason gritted his teeth, then suddenly pulled out two guns and pointed them at Batman:
"You're wrong, Batman. You guessed most of my plan, but you missed the most important part. I'm no longer your Robin."
He became somewhat agitated:
"The day I was beaten to death by the Joker with a crowbar and crawled out of my grave, I was no longer Jason Todd."
"I don't plan to have Black kill all the villains. I'll have Bane die, and then Red Hood will lead the villains against Black, becoming their leader completely."
Jason said:
"Criminals will never be eradicated, and evil will never be eradicated, Bruce. You've been fighting crime in Gotham for years. Do you think I don't know what you've had Superman do in Gotham?"
"Do you think that having Superman forcefully suppress criminals will completely end crime? That's impossible! The most profitable professions are all written in the criminal code. As long as crime can yield profits a thousand times or even a hundred times greater than obeying the law, there will always be people taking the risk, and there will always be people pursuing these profits! Evil and justice are like light and darkness, day and night; evil can never be eradicated!"
"Therefore, I will no longer fight evil; I will take control of evil."
He said, "Those villains will become my strength. With their support, I will be able to reshape and even unify the entire North American underworld, and then gradually erode the South. We will control the drug trade, and under my control, it will never flow into schools, children, or the clean.
"Prostitution, gambling, drugs—all evils will be curbed and safely regulated under gray rules. No one new will be poisoned by these evils except for those who willingly fall into depravity."
"The Roman Falcone thought the same thing when he was young!"
(Roman: An early villain in Gotham, and the godfather who unified the Gotham underworld)
Jason heard Batman say, "If you actually did that, it means you're just ruling the underworld through coercion and murder, no different from what the Romans did."
Then he saw Batman extend a hand to him: "It's not too late, we can still repair this relationship."
Jason held the gun up.
Their negotiations had broken down, and Jason was acutely aware of it. A fight was about to break out. He wasn't confident he could win.
Then, the next second, he heard Batman say something.
The world blurred at that moment, and Batman's voice seemed to come from the seabed, distant and ethereal.
He heard the other person say:
"I love you, Jason."
Jason thought he had misheard, and lowered his gun.
"I'm so sorry. Your death is the biggest regret and failure of my Batman career, and it breaks my heart."
"You can't imagine how happy I was when I found out you were still alive."
Jason staggered back a few steps.
He heard Batman say, "I know you have your reasons to hate me, you have every right to hate me. I'm sorry. But there are some things I've always regretted not being able to tell you in person, but now I can finally tell you, my child."
"I love you."
"Stop, Jason. What you're doing is not what my Robin would do. My Robin..." Jason heard Batman slowly say, "He's a hero of justice, he wouldn't associate with criminals. My Robin, my Jason..."
I hope you can come home with me.
A surge of intense emotion rushed into Jason's mind, and he tried his best to make his voice sound like he wasn't choking up.
"No! Liar."
He said:
"Do you think that's why? Because you couldn't save my life? I don't know what can cloud your judgment more, your guilt, or your outdated morality."
"Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me. I forgave you a long time ago. But why? Why is the Joker still alive? You let him go? Time and time again?"
"Do you know how furious I was when I heard from the penguins that the Joker was still alive?"
"You ignore all the evil the Joker has committed so far, blindly and foolishly disregarding the vast graveyards he has filled, the hundreds of victims, the countless separations of life and death, do you even realize that?"
Jason finally choked up a little.
"I thought... I thought my death would stop him from harming people. If you were the one he beat to a pulp, if you were the one he killed, I would only do one thing: dig three feet into the ground to find this heinous executioner and send him to hell!"
Then Jason saw Batman stand up and approach him step by step, ignoring the muzzle of his gun.
"What do you want to do, Bruce—don't you have the guts to answer me, Bruce? Your moral compass won't allow you to do that, and crossing that line is too difficult?"
He saw Batman grip the barrel of his gun and then take the gun from his hand.
Crunch, crunch, crunch—
As Batman bent the gun barrel, Jason's eyes revealed utter disappointment.
He tilted his head back, trying his best to keep the tears from falling.
"I'm not saying I'm going to kill the penguins, the ventriloquist, or Dent, or Mr. Freeze. I had the chance to kill them when I invaded the Batcave in Gotham, but I didn't."
"I just said kill the Joker, all those years ago. This villain, kill him."
Jason was somewhat incoherent:
"I'm talking about killing him, just him. Killing him is because... because... he caused us to be separated forever."
Jason lowered his head. He knew Batman wouldn't break his principles, and nothing he said could sway Batman.
He just felt very sad, extremely sad.
Then he heard Batman say:
"Okay. But we won't use guns."
Batman snapped his fingers, and in that instant, the entire room was illuminated by lights.
Jason saw the wall next to him flip over, revealing the classic storage design commonly found in bat bases, showing two crystal coffins.
And lying inside is...
clown.
And there are two of them.
Jason's brain stopped working.
He turned his head to look at the screen next to him, where a video had started playing.
In the video, Batman walks up to a crystal coffin, pulls a lever, and then the Joker…
Jason suddenly realizes that Batman killed the Joker for him after his death. But the Jokers weren't just one person, but a group.
He saw Batman's chilling smile as he walked up to one of the Jokers.
The other person was asleep, like a cold corpse.
"Shooting the Joker with a gun could lead to some unforeseen and terrible consequences, so I recommend using a tool specifically designed to kill the Joker."
Jason heard Batman say in a neurotic, epileptic tone, "Convenient, fast, permanently sealed, eliminating all virus risks."
"Crack! The clown is dead!"
Jason watched helplessly as the other person pulled the joystick, and in an instant, after a burst of laser light, the Joker turned into a pile of tiny fragments right in front of him.
"Good! Another clown killed!"
Jason saw a morbid, twisted smile on Batman's face, with drool dripping from the corner of his mouth.
The Batman in the video on the screen pulled the joystick along with the real Batman, and the Joker on the screen also turned into pieces.
Batman gripped the joystick while making incoherent noises:
"Alright, we still have one more clown to kill. I caught two last time. Jason, I'll kill one for you right now..."
Jason grabbed Batman's arm: "Stop. That's enough."
Jason wiped the cold sweat from his brow and said righteously:
"Stop killing. We're superheroes, we have a no-kill rule."
(End of this chapter)