Chapter 580 - I, Joker (End)

Chapter 580: I, Joker (End)

Two hours ago, in the bat cave.

“You are a clever person, you should be able to understand my plan.” Feng Bujue told Joe as he put on the batsuit.

“I can understand it, but... is it really necessary?” Joe was doing the same thing. “From how I see it, a Gotham without ‘supervillains’ is already chaotic enough.”

“Ah~ That is why you still have much to learn.” Feng bujue replied. “Gotham who has been under control by The Bruce with religion for so many years will not change overnight. To have the people get used to the new batman, you need time, patience and...” He opened his arms. “...fear.”

“But how is that different... from what the Bruce is doing now?” Marya questioned.

“There is a big difference. He has been using sacrifices without any power of resistance.” Feng Bujue answered. “But I shall... present you with actual competition.”

“You need friend to succeed.” To everyone’s surprise, it was Xiao Tan who offered the best advice, “But to reach your full potential, you need enemies.”

“See, even he knows it.” Feng Bujue shrugged and smiled.

...

Now... A slow and easy footsteps echoed down the empty corridor in the bat castle. A figure in batsuit walked down the corridor and moved towards the central room inside the castle. At that moment, the large castle was immensely quiet because dead bodies would not make any noise.

“Hmmm... most of them were killed by guns, from the wound positions and the shape, 90 percent of them died under Soulie’s guns...” Feng Bujue did not spare his attention when he was walking. His eyes wandered about to capture all the useful information. “Along the way... the visible death count is only 81, the number is much lower than the one given by Klibon, looks like most of them have chosen to surrender or escape... Tsk... what smell is this?” When Brother Jue turned the corner, he was hit by a stench. “Oh... it’s a leaking stomach...” he saw a dead body on the ground at the corner. “He should be killed by Ruoyu. The bone and muscle fibres were cut very cleanly, the blade qi entered from the side and sliced through the lungs, heart, stomach and intestines...”

While Feng Bujue was conducting his observation, he already came up with such information, what he was doing could not be called ‘thinking’ anymore. In current Brother Jue’s eyes, the data world of Thriller Paradise was already different from before, it was as if... it had changed into the world that he could when he was under the status of Descent of the War Demon. Now whenever he focused his attention on something for more than long enough, he could see minutely into the following code; when he walked into a chaotic environment, he could categorize each object neatly in an instant; when he came to this kind of crime scene situation, with just a glance of the body, he could swiftly reconstruct the crime committed in an instantly, in fact with enough information and clues left, he could rewind the whole murder before his eyes if he wanted to. If someone was standing next to Feng Bujue now, they would realize... there were light flowing through his eyes, making him look like... those Anomalies. But the data flow in the Anomalies’ eyes were white but the data flow in Brother Jue’s eyes was black...

“Please enter the entry password.” When Feng Bujue reached the door of the castle’s main lab, the electronic door rang out with the following.

“All hail the bat.” Brother Jue took out the Pocket Watch of Deceit from his inventory and announced in the Bruce’s voice.

“Command accepted, analysing voice pattern... identification successful, welcome back, Mr. Bruce.” The electronic door answered and opened. After he walked into the room, before Feng Bujue could say anything, Ruoyu cut to him first, “What took you so long?”

“No!” To his surprise, Joe let go. He stood up and replied firmly, “I will not kill! I will never kill! Because... I am batman.” Joe of course still remember the gaze that ‘Joker’ tossed them before the fight and the words that he said.

“Gotham will witness... the birth of Batman.” Joe said as he picked the Bruce up. “The dark knight is a guardian, not an executioner or a tyrant.”

“bastard, kill me!” Rage suddenly coursed through the Bruce. Rage translated into power and suddenly he used the fins on the front of his arms to slash at Joe’s neck. And Joe... was flustered, he was not expecting a man who had lost all intention to fight in his eyes would suddenly ambush him at the last moment.

Tsk—

The timing was again perfect. A lazer shot out from behind Joe, and hit The Bruce on his body.

“Argh!” A scream. In the warm daylight, a billow of smoke rose from the Bruce’s head that was shot and his body fell from the edge of the platfrom...

“Hah... hah...” Joe gasped for air as he recovered from the brush with death. He turned back to look. It was none other than Marya who landed on the roof not too long ago who fired at the Bruce, it was her who saved his life again.

“The game is over.” The system narration said, “Seeing the Bruce fall from the platform, the crowd sunk into a strange silence. The scene signified the end of an era and also represented... the beginning of another legend. A god had fallen and then... the mobs went insane.”

“The bat!””The Bat””The bat” The people in the city started to scream.

“No! I am a man, nothing more nor less than a man!” Joe raised both of his hands and shouted at the camera. He wanted to stop their litany and stop they do— but only to trade old chants for the new. But this chant did not continue for long because...

“Ha ha ha ha ha... ha ha ha ha ha...” Feng Bujue (Joker)’s face appeared on the big screen again, he laughed and said, “People of Gotham, looks like the game is over, the new batman has been birthed....” He suddenly changed his tone, “But... don’t you guys think this ending is rather boring?”

Then more than 10 metallic rockets flew out from the sides of the bat castle. These capsule like cabins were like tornadoes and they down the horizon.

“Batman.” Feng Bujue no longer called Joe by his name. “Guess what I have just transported into the city?”

Joe looked at the big screen with complicated emotions in his eyes but silently.

“Hue hue hue...” Feng Bujue raised his voice and continued in a maddening cadence, “...they are the people on this screen!” The next second, the big screen was split into more than 10 smaller screens and each one had the face of a supervillain on them (of course, not including the Joker). The public went panicking again. They once again called upon the bat, to pray for protection and salvation.

“You people should know that... I am not a liar like the Bruce.” Feng Bujue’s face soon appeared back on the screen. “My game is far more interesting than his ever will be... He he...” He pointed at his face and said through a big grin. “In the past night, you have witnessed the revival of the bat and in this dawn, you will all bear witness to my and... their revivals!” He he... ha ha ha... ha ha ha ha ha!”

Using his quintessential laugh, he ended his speech. The laughter echoed through the air and started a new chapter at the city of Gotham...