However, the reason why Eddie was so determined to join PDD was not just money and ideals.
Eddie paid close attention to the battle between the Dark Knight and the Joker Research Building and the death of a minor villain, Carlton.
According to the timeline, when the Black Cat Lady came to recruit him, the Dark Knight had already gone to deal with Carlton Drake. Coincidentally, he bumped into Joker, who had his eyes on Carlton, and a huge battle ensued.
What made Eddie feel awkward was that when Knight threw the rope dart to save Carlton, he had been hoping that Knight would fail.
It was only when Joker successfully stopped Knight from rescuing him and Carlton fell to his death below the research building that Eddie could not help but heave a sigh of relief.
As a reporter, he knew all too well how troublesome a rich and unscrupulous boss of a corporation was.
As long as Carlton was alive, Eddie would have to worry about himself and even Annie.
He did not care if Carlton was his ex-girlfriend or ex-wife. He would try to capture her as long as there was a possibility.
In fact, it was not only Eddie. For the past few days, most of the bystanders in the United States had their eyes on the battle between good and evil in the research building.
Most of them were after Joker.
The Dark Knight was considered an old face, so it was not unusual for him to do good deeds.
What was unusual was that Joker, who could fight the Dark Knight one-on-one, appeared out of nowhere.
The public could not be blamed for being ignorant. In the past few years, they had become more knowledgeable and rarely made a fuss.
However, they had never seen a great villain with style who could fight a main superhero one-on-one without being at a disadvantage.
Whether it was the Testers, the Zetaris, or the witch siblings from Daxi City, they had a large group of underlings when they caused trouble.
The incident was a large-scale battle from the beginning. It was intense enough, but there were not many memorable one-on-one battles.
Loki and Killian, on the other hand, did not have battle videos that were publicly circulated. Naturally, they were not within the scope of discussion.
The yellow giant that Bronski had transformed into was too ugly. It was a waste of his size, and he was defeated the moment he appeared.
Ivan tried to cause trouble twice, but he was defeated faster than Bronski.
No matter how they thought about it, among all the villains that everyone had seen, only Joker could fight a superhero on equal footing and escape unscathed.
During the battle, Joker spat out mouthfuls of blood, his arms and chest were fractured, and the scene of him escaping was played in slow motion. One could even see that his entire left hand was almost cut off by the rope dart.
But he did run away with the "complete body".
The experts invited by the various television stations analyzed Joker's conversation during the half an hour of battle from various aspects.
There was a generally accepted conclusion: this was not the Dark Knight and Joker's first battle. Last time, Joker had also escaped unscathed.
This shocked everyone: there was actually someone who could escape from the Dark Knights twice, and both times after a head-on battle.
Then … how strong was Joker?
Due to someone's bad taste and habit of leaving behind eyewitness evidence, the San Francisco reporters took a lot of pictures, and after editing, it was enough to make a thirty-minute action video.
This allowed the public to see with their own eyes just how strong Joker was.
The battle between the two of them in the research building alone was enough to prove the destructive power of the twelve floors of the research building.
Countless buildings had collapsed during the battle of New York, but that had been caused by warships and weapons.
The battle between the Dark Knight and Joker was basically a close-range combat.
In other words, the two of them had destroyed the entire three-story building with just their bodies.
It was even more certain that Joker would be able to tear down the armor with his own body.
The appearance of the powerful Joker finally made some emotions that had been suppressed by the Bat Squad explode.
A few days later, some people jumped out on TV, the Internet, and in print to mock the Dark Knight and praise Joker.
Of course, it was usually the official media that mocked the Dark Knight for destroying buildings without caring about the casualties in the buildings.
Only the Internet and some so-called "reposted from the Internet" would praise Joker.
The two sides had a clear division of labor and had nothing to do with each other.
For a moment, the public opinion was very much like "Bitter Bats have been around for a long time."
Faced with this situation, Selina, who was soaking in a massage tub in her backyard in Los Angeles, simply asked lazily, "Are we just going to let them write nonsense?"
"Of course, I paid them," Luke said casually.
Selina: "What?"
Luke had never expected much from the media. From the first day they had appeared, their biggest role was to fool people.
Only by fooling ordinary people could society be stabilized, because no society needed too many smart people.
If there were too many smart people, there would be too many who wanted to climb up.
Once there were too many smart people on both sides, the ruling class would pull out their hair.
The media was a tool that could be used by others to cover up the ears and eyes of most people and suppress their intelligence.
It could also be used by Luke, so he wouldn't be overjoyed, nor would he be devastated by it.
As long as he wanted, a bunch of articles praising the Dark Knight would appear tomorrow — as long as he paid them.
But he was paying them this time to let people say bad things about the Dark Knight.
This was to give some people a chance to fight back, and also to lower the Dark Knight's limelight.
If a person was praised too highly, they would die from overestimation.
If the Dark Knight was praised for loving the people, would he do the same the next time the other party kidnapped two people and asked the Dark Knight to commit suicide?
If he didn't, he would be hypocritical and unworthy of the Dark Knight's reputation of loving the people.
He would do it … Only a lunatic would do it.
If they really ran into a meticulously set up Prisoner's Dilemma, both the Dark Knight and the enemy would die.
If Batman was dead, why wouldn't the Dark Knight die?
After the limelight was over, Luke's "Batman Miznake" would make a dazzling appearance and continue to beat up those guys.
Luke didn't care about his reputation when he did good deeds. Besides, he was just a private detective who didn't have any business.
It just so happened that Joker had officially entered the public eye. Whenever Luke wanted the Dark Knight to be sacrificed, Joker would play along.
After the incident, Joker could easily become the number one villain.
With Lord Chou's dominance, wouldn't the experience and credit monsters automatically submit to him?
Then, he would let these cannon fodder provoke the Bat Squad, and Joker would personally provide detailed intelligence to ensure that these experience and credit monsters would die a reasonable death.
It didn't matter if many of his subordinates died. Joker was a big villain; how could he die so easily?
When popular villains died in movies, most of them would be resurrected in an Easter egg or something.
Given Joker's looks and acting skills, it was only natural that he didn't die.
In fact, apart from Luke, the people who stirred up the storm this time were also the sponsors of the Life Foundation.
The dirt that Joker had exposed that night was too fatal.
And the words of a big villain were often more trustworthy than a police investigation.
That was because … villains knew villains the best.
Joker had already killed Carlton on the spot. There was no need to waste time slandering a dead man.
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