amaotonovel Chapter 2548: Xiao Xiao Down (32)
Chapter 2548: Xiao Xiao Down (32)
Chapter 2548: Xiao Xiao Down (Thirty-two)
As soon as Schiller went out, he saw the clown standing under the street light. He was wearing an ordinary jacket, standing there a little crookedly, and seemed to be playing with a lighter in his hand.
At this time, a drizzle had already fallen from the sky. Schiller opened his umbrella and walked over and said, "You won't get what you want by pestering me now. It's not me who provided you with the plan for that cosmic Batman."
"So this is not what I want to worry about now." The Joker kept twiddling the lighter in his hand and said, "Another me came to me and said he wanted to form a team. I think this is boring, but I still want to know why he did this."
"I'm afraid you don't want to know the answer." Schiller said, and added in his heart that not everyone wants to get involved in shit.
"Then let's talk about that plan." The clown came over with a smile and said, "The day after tomorrow I will plan another bank robbery to make up for the loss caused by your damn plan. How about choosing the bank on the next street?"
"I'm actually very curious about one thing." Facing the Joker, Schiller finally returned to his overly sharp language style. He said, "How did you accurately find so many stupid thieves in Gotham? Is this what they call people are divided into groups?"
The clown laughed, and seemed to be very satisfied with Schiller's joke. He said, "Not only can I find so many stupid thieves, I can also find more. Stupid people are always self-righteous, but they are easier to control. I like them very much."
"You want them to be shot or kill each other, and then the ground will be covered with blood." Schiller sighed, shook his head and said, "I still can't accept this style, but if you want to do this, why should I stop you?"
"If this happened tomorrow, you'd have something very interesting to talk about at your housewarming party the day after tomorrow." The Joker snapped off his lighter and said, "You wouldn't even have to do anything but open the door and welcome the guests, and they'd talk for hours about this brutal crime that happened not far from their neighborhood."
"They will start to worry about the safety of the community, hoping that someone will come out to seek justice, complain about everything, and then talk about the recent economic downturn. In that way, you will be completely liberated from social interaction and just follow a few words to cater to them."
The clown walked up to Schiller, deliberately stuck his head in front of Schiller and said, "I'm good at making things worse, you know my ability, so do you want me to do that?"
The Joker accurately said what Schiller was thinking, "A perfect escape opportunity is more effective than all the trivial things you are doing now, and you don't really care how many people will die. There is no universal morality at all."
"If you move the event forward by one day, all the anxiety you are facing will be solved. Do you want to do this, Professor?"
Schiller remained silent, and the Joker continued, "You could have done it yourself. You know, if you commit a major crime in the community, you'll have to buy a ton of decorations and think about topics all day long."
"You have this ability, and you also said that there are geniuses among ordinary people, and you can be a talented ordinary person. In this case, do you still want to choose the stupid way? Then what is the difference between you and those stupid thieves?"
The clown dodged the umbrella that Schiller swung at him with a nimble step back. He could see that Schiller didn't really want to hit him, he just wanted him to stay away.
"I said, I just can't accept the way you committed the crime." Schiller pursed his lips and said, "It's too ugly."
"Really?" The Joker began to get a little dissatisfied. He said, "Don't you think it's funny to see those people killing each other for those useless pieces of paper?"
"But it's too noisy." Schiller showed an expression of obvious disgust. He said, "It will last at least three days. When the action starts, the police will shout with loud speakers. If someone dies, ambulances will come several times with sirens blaring, and reporters with microphones will swarm in."
"They not only interview bank employees, but also nearby residents. If the security guards don't let them in, you'll see them shouting at the gate of the community, saying that the government is deliberately hiding the truth."
"People will feel unlucky because someone died in the bank, so they will take a detour to go to a bank farther away, so they will all choose to drive, and the community gate will be blocked, and everyone will complain and argue."
Schiller felt something was wrong. He said, "Neighborhood relations will deteriorate rapidly. In order to retaliate against their neighbors, people will start to not take care of their lawns in front of their houses and park their cars randomly. Then the value of the community will drop rapidly... Wait, you can't do this!"
"why?"
“Because it will drive house prices down.”
"What????"
"I mean, this will affect the value of our neighborhood and make the value of my newly purchased house drop," Schiller said. "The chaos you're causing will reduce the value of my house."
The clown widened his eyes and looked at Schiller in disbelief. He almost rushed over and was blocked by Schiller's umbrella.
"Didn't you say you didn't like my way of committing crimes? If you don't like noise, shouldn't you talk about your ideal quiet way of committing crimes?"
In fact, Schiller was also thinking about this. According to the development of the previous topic, after Schiller talked about the chaotic consequences that the clown's method of committing crimes might bring, it was time to talk about the art form he admired.
But the problem is that the chaotic consequences brought about by the clown's way of committing crimes are too serious. He only bought his house a few days ago, and it is now depreciating?
Indeed, he bought the house at a price far below the market price, but because of this, he might have made $50 by buying it at this price, but if the house price drops, wouldn't he only make $40? Wouldn't that mean he lost $10 in three days?
Compared with the academic award of only more than 1000 US dollars for writing a paper, this 10 is equivalent to more than 100 papers. God knows how much hair he lost in writing these papers or guiding his graduate students and doctoral students to write so many papers.
"You can't do this." Schiller emphasized again: "If you dare to cause trouble in the nearby bank, I will give you a more terrible plan from the Batman of that universe."
"You just said that wasn't you!"
"Yeah, so it's the scarier option," Schiller said. "You don't want to know what my universe's Batman does."
The Joker narrowed his eyes.
"I think you can take a look at the recent entertainment news." Schiller continued, "Especially the talk show part. There is a big star there."
"No, I don't care about them, I just want to say..."
"If you still don't understand the consequences of your actions, I can do the math for you, but I need to go back and get my house purchase contract. You just wait here..."
The clown turned and walked away.
He walked away, cursing. Who on earth wanted to hear about the purchase contract and the depreciation of house prices? Was he here to hear that?
The clown ignored Schiller behind him. He walked angrily into an alley, leaned against the wall, and neurotically uttered some broken words.
"This damned monster... a monster in human skin... vulgar, smelly, boring, and uninteresting..."
It has been like this since they first met. The Joker just wanted to peel off Schiller's skin, and this is also the purpose of his coming tonight.
Schiller said that to be an ordinary person, ordinary people have a lot of troubles, and it is also very simple to figure out the specific troubles. The clown followed Schiller all the way to the night market and saw that he bought so many strange decorations, and his body language and facial expressions showed that he was anxious, which showed that he had encountered certain problems.
The Joker then attacks the postman and finds a letter from Schiller to other people inquiring about allergens in his bag. It's clear that he wants to have a party, so it's obvious why he buys so many weird things and feels anxious.
Topics, something that is ubiquitous yet precious to ordinary people, is simply hell for these social creatures who can only survive by relying on others and tremble in fear when left alone. Not having common topics with their companions is simply hell.
If the organizer of a social event fails to find enough common topics for the guests, making the entire party a dull occasion, it would be a complete social disaster.
Schiller was destined not to be good at this because he was just wearing a layer of human skin. It doesn't mean that he was really like those vulgar and boring ordinary people who were immersed in worrying about the future every day, and countless topics of communication could be developed from this.
The Joker knows very well that people like him think in an extremely efficient way, so they almost never speak without thinking. This also leads to no redundant thinking on their part, and naturally they won't talk nonsense.
But social interaction requires nonsense. There is no point in worrying, but you will still worry even if it is useless. This is the daily life of ordinary people. If everything is under control, you are destined to raise a mute, like Batman.
The Joker thought that the measures taken by Schiller, such as preparing food and buying all kinds of exotic decorations, were useless. The time ordinary people spent on this kind of communication would be very short, and interest would come and go without a trace.
The only thing that can make them communicate in large quantities is fear.
So the Joker prepares a gift for Schiller's housewarming party - a bloody murder that will cause panic among the Lambs.
Once they feel fear, they will talk incessantly with their companions, so that even if the organizer of the banquet does nothing, the whole banquet will definitely not be dull. They may even want to stay in the professor's yard because of fear, and may even elect him as the leader of the entire community and ask him to find a way to ensure their safety.
This would allow Schiller to quickly integrate into the community and almost perfectly achieve his goal of being an ordinary person, with the only cost being the sacrifice of a few hostages and police officers.
How could the clown's gifts not have traps? He always gave scare boxes, and if Schiller chose to do so, the clown would have a way to reveal a corner of his skin.
The letter asking about allergens that the Joker received in the postman's bag had the other party's name and address on it. Although not all the guests, it accounted for a large part of the neighbors.
Now the clown has money, and the group of stupid robbers who escaped with the help of Schiller finally fell into his hands and brought him a lot of income.
Tonight or tomorrow, those neighbors who have received the letter will get an unexpected windfall. Nowadays, no one is well off and no one will refuse a piece of pie falling from the sky. But since this pie is in cash, they have to go to the bank to deposit it, right?
Because of the high crime rate, people in Gotham have no habit of keeping cash at home. Leaving too much money at home can cause trouble, so they will definitely go to the bank as soon as possible.
The bank will have a power outage in the morning and they will be told that they cannot deposit money, so they will have to go there in the afternoon. Unfortunately, brutal robbers will kidnap bank customers in the afternoon in order to negotiate with the police and brutally kill them.
The Joker believes that the shrewd sheriff or Batman will soon discover that the dead have a common feature. They all received Schiller's letter at almost the same time.
This is not conclusive evidence, and the housewarming party and the letter asking about allergens have nothing to do with the bank deposit, so it is impossible to convict based on this.
But reporters don't care about all that. They only care about whether there is enough eye-catching news. With a little trick, other residents in the community will soon realize this common feature.
The clown's goal is to burn a hole in Schiller's perfect human skin. As long as there is this hole, someone will always discover what kind of monster lives underneath the skin.