He began to look through the black notebook that recorded the clown tragedy. He read it carefully, and from time to time he took out a ballpoint pen to write and draw and make some marks.
About an hour later, Zhou Ran completed the atonement plan.
In those tragedies, the gangsters and hooligans who had done all the bad things did not need to atone for their sins. These people were all marked with an X by Zhou Ran with a red pen.
Those whose whole families were wiped out and who had no relatives and no need to atone for their sins were all drawn with a black pen by Zhou Ran.
After all, death means that there is nothing left, and there is no way to atone for sins.
What Zhou Ran can probably do is burn hundreds of millions for them at the crossroads, but this actually doesn't make much sense.
Zhou Ran divided atonement into three levels according to the degree of tragedy.
The first level is the poor adults who have lost their parents and children.
The second level is the poor child without his parents.
The third level is the poor old man without a child.
The first level is the highest level of atonement. Although adults can withstand pressure very well, their collapse often only occurs in an instant.
Having lost both parents and children, no adult can bear this desperate situation.
Zhou Ran expressed his heartache for this kind of people, but he had no way to resurrect the dead. The only thing he could do was to help them fulfill their dreams for the rest of their lives.
Previously, Zhou Ran had proposed a dream proposal plan, and Stark Industries also built an underground vault for this proposal, with a reserve of 10 billion US dollars.
Well, he also collected a $10 billion Dream Fund from Justin Hammer and Norman Osborne.
Zhou Ran did not set up this dream fund because he is a really great person.
In the United States, a country where money is supreme and capital determines everything, Zhou Ran's heart naturally darkened. Of course, he also had some conscience, but not too much.
Why does Zhou Ran want to get something like the Dream Fund?
First, the Dream Fund can improve employee cohesion.
Stark Industries can not only give you Franklin, but also help you realize your life dreams in advance.
The second point is that the Dream Fund can absorb more talents.
Talent is the cornerstone that determines the upper limit of a company. Today's talents will jump to Stark Industries, and future talents will regard joining Stark Industries as their ultimate ideal in life.
The third point, and the most important point, is to increase one's reputation and further enhance one's influence.
From the anchor of Stark Industries to the anchor of New York, and even the anchor of this world.
This is like Harvey Dent, the light of Gotham. People regard you as the light of Gotham, and then the superheroes will naturally protect you.
If you are hurt, everyone will curse those superheroes.
This was a very important part of Zhou Ran's previous plan to run for mayor of New York City.
This dream proposal can just help him make atonement and fulfill his dream of the first type of atonement goal.
Although the Dream Fund currently provides employees within Stark Industries first, some lucky people will always be randomly selected from New York.
How to extract?
Of course it was Director Jake from Stark Industries, calling some random people's names.
After finding the photos of these people, Mr. Jake randomly selected them again based on his eyesight.
fair and just.
The second type of atonement targets poor children who have lost their parents. Zhou Ran decided to support the lives of these children so that they can enjoy the best educational resources and the best material foundation.
Zhou Ran will help these children grow up and have children of their own.
This is all he can do.
Of course, these children are all lucky ones drawn at random.
The third type of atonement targets the elderly who have lost their children. Zhou Ran will support these elderly people until they embark on the train of death.
These elderly people are also the luckiest elderly people in New York.
Unlucky?
Compared with those who died, they are still alive, can still live without worries about food and clothing, and can still fulfill their dreams.
Looking at it this way, they are lucky.
Lucky?
Although they are still alive, they have lost their loved ones forever. They will never know who is the person who made them lose everything? They live in sadness, fear, anger and despair all day long.
It's unfortunate to see them like this.
"Oh~" Zhou Ran let out a long sigh, with a bitter smile on his lips, and murmured: "I'm really sorry."
In addition to the above atonement plans, Zhou Ran also had a very interesting idea in his mind.
The objects of these three levels of atonement are lonely adults, lonely children, and lonely old people.
A new permutation and combination is entirely possible.
The elderly, adults and children can form a new family, a brand-new family without any blood relationship.
The idea of supporting this brand new family and making them happy is definitely achievable, and it is also the most perfect way to atone for one's sins.
Give them back what they lost.
However, this idea is still somewhat difficult and not easy to implement.
The regained relatives must have similarities with the lost relatives, so that they can get along with each other tacitly, and there will be no estrangement, let alone terrible secondary harm.
Zhou Ran frowned, he needed a system.
This system needs to have two sections.
The first section retrieves the best matching objects, that is, the objects with the highest tacit understanding value and the highest similarity, and then simulates their future life to check the happiness index.
In the second section, big data is used to randomly match people, and then simulate their future lives to see the highest happiness index.
Zhou Ran nodded, stretched out his hand to push up his glasses, and murmured in a low voice: "I need a Jarvis of my own, a Jarvis whose orders are the highest, a Jarvis who only listens to my orders."
Jarvis."
"It's impossible for me to ask Tony for help for everything, just like this time... If I ask Tony to help me, then I need to make up a reason..."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "No matter how true my words are and the reasons are good, it will not change the false facts. As long as it is false, it will be exposed sooner or later..."
"There is no way I can become the kind of person who is all flash, and there is no way I can give up the darkness... because the darkness is also protecting me..."
"I can't give up the power that protects me. No matter how dark, bad or terrifying he is, it can't change the fact that he has been protecting me silently and he loves me wholeheartedly."
"This system absolutely cannot allow Tony to help. I need to find a way on my own."
"But... I still have to rely on Tony to help me find this person."
Zhou Ran picked up the ballpoint pen and turned to the last page recording the tragedy of the clown.
He drew a black circle very vigorously on the last tragedy, and also marked the person's name with an emphasis number.
The tip of the ballpoint pen penetrated the paper and made a "chacha" sound.
【August 6, 2008, evening, 11:39.】
[Hell's Kitchen, the back alley of Osborne Industrial's abandoned chemical plant, under the dim streetlight, Arthur.]
Zhou Ran had some impression of the name Arthur.
Because he once attended a media interview program, the host at the time asked him a question, "Mr. Jake, there was a gangster named Arthur who shot and killed two young people. What do you think of this matter?"
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This kind of question was too simple for Zhou Ran. He took a long sigh and gave a very formulaic answer, "I express my condolences to the two young people who died tragically. They should have a bright future. I am sorry for them."
The gangster named Arthur expressed strong condemnation."
"I hope he can surrender as soon as possible, and I also hope the police can act quickly so that taxpayers' money is not wasted."
Zhou Ran answered very quickly at that time without pausing at all.
But after receiving the memory of the Joker killing Arthur, Zhou Ran felt sympathy for Arthur.
Arthur's death is not as simple as other people's deaths.
When others are dead, they are dead, because the clown is in the mood.
But Arthur is different. Arthur's death is longer.
The Joker secretly observed Arthur for a long time, the total time was about three months.
The clown has installed tiny surveillance cameras at Arthur's home and workplace. Every night the clown goes to see those surveillance cameras and Arthur's life.
Arthur's profession is a circus clown.
The circus sometimes performs at night. During these night performances, the clown will also come to the circus and act like a clown like Ya. The two of them play clown games together.
From these memories, Zhou Ran also gained a better understanding of Arthur, an ordinary person who couldn't be more ordinary.
Arthur is a very poor man. He was born with laughing disorder. He cannot express other emotions and cannot control his horrible laughter.
There was nothing wrong with him being born, but it was his biggest mistake that he survived.
He was regarded as an alien, his mother did not love him, his stepfather beat him, and all his peers were hostile to him.
But even so, he is still working hard in his life, working hard to flatter everyone, and he wants to bring laughter to everyone with his funny actions.
This is the meaning of his life, but this meaning was not found by himself. It was given to him by his mother.
He has no idea what people are living for?
He did not receive any education because no school would accept people like him. He only listened to some stories told by others and gained knowledge and principles from those stories.
For example: Parents are the people who love their children the most in the world. Parents may dislike their children. What parents say is always right...
Arthur only has a stepfather, but his stepfather is obviously not his biological father.
Therefore, in his eyes, the father in those principles was abandoned, leaving only the mother.
He believed that even if everyone in the world gave up on him, his mother would not give up on him.
His mother is the one who loves him most, and everything she does is for his good.
Whether it was his mother's brutal beatings or her harsh insults, Arthur regarded all of it as his mother's love.
But his mother didn't love him, but Arthur didn't want to believe it. He didn't want to wake up from this last dream.
Just imagine, if a person's memory is filled with beatings and scoldings, how miserable would that be?
The clown obviously likes the optimistic Arthur, the Arthur who laughs all the time, and the Arthur who never cries.
After all, although the Joker often laughs, he will occasionally cry quietly at night when Batman can't be found.
Arthur can't cry, which is better than the clown.
But there is one thing about Arthur that dissatisfies the Joker, and that is that his behavior is not Gotham at all.
The Joker decided to make Arthur a pure Gothamite, a Gothamite with simple folk customs.
This is also what the Joker despises most about New York.
New Yorkers are so spineless. They will only accept their fate and will not resist. They will only kneel and kowtow instead of holding their heads high.
Take the underground world of New York as an example. There is always only one emperor, the fat and big-headed Kingpin. New criminals who have just debuted will only kneel at Kingpin's feet.
The gangsters here are so polite, just like everyone discussing business together. They fight with each other for small problems, and go to Kingpin for big problems.
But the people of Gotham are different. Everyone in Gotham is very strong and wants to be the first.
Gotham people don't know how to kneel down. Gotham people are very brave. At worst, they will fight you to the death. It's worth it for my life to trade for your whole family.
Take the underground world of Gotham as an example. Is there any fixed underground emperor?
The emperor takes turns to do it, and he will come to my house tomorrow.
What? You said that you are the underground emperor, and you will be finished if I do it or not!
In Gotham, any new criminal who just debuts has the ambition to be the emperor.
In Gotham, every criminal regards himself as the emperor of the underworld.
In Gotham, when large gangs get into a fight, it's like two armies going to war, with all kinds of light and heavy weapons, all kinds of tanks... The firepower of the police station is not as powerful as the gangs.
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I can eat it all by myself, why should I share it with you?
Although the Joker has always been regarded as the underground emperor by criminals, he has never regarded himself as the underground emperor.
Moreover, those criminals just talk about being the emperor, that is, they say that the clown is the boss.
Each one of them wants to kill the Joker, kill this madman and replace him.
When the clown didn't discover the Dionysian factor in himself, and was seriously injured, the first thing he avoided was his clown army.
In the eyes of the Joker, New York is really not good at all. There are problems everywhere. Gotham is better and more comfortable.
Little New York is simply not a place for people to live, but Big Gotham is a paradise.
Therefore, he must help his half-friend Arthur become a Gothamite.
The Joker's thinking at the beginning was very simple. The most powerful among Gothamites is himself. Only the Joker can represent Gotham, and it just so happens that Arthur also has the potential to become himself.
Therefore, the clown wants Arthur to become a clown.
The clown infected Arthur with the laughter virus, releasing the darkness in Arthur's heart and releasing his suppressed nature.
But New York is not Gotham.
Arthur, who was born and lived in New York, had never experienced the education in Gotham.
No matter how much the clown said that night, Arthur could not become the clown of Gotham.
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August 6, 2008, evening, 11:39.
Hell's Kitchen.
"Hohoho, dear child... Although you are laughing, I know that you are extremely sad at this moment.
"I think you must be very confused now and can't find the meaning of life... You feel that the whole world has abandoned you..."
A burst of strange laughter sounded from behind Arthur.
In the dark night, under the orange street lights, Arthur saw a clown.
No, that's not a clown.
That is his kindred, his Lord, his Father, his spirit, his God...
That is the "self" he has been calling for in his works, and that is the "self" he has always wanted to see.
"Hoo ho ho..." A lot of blood flowed out from Arthur's neck, but he didn't know the pain at all. He had a ferocious expression and laughed crazily.
"My child, you are normal. You are not sick. You are not a lunatic. You are not an alien. What is sick is this strange world."
"This is New York, not Gotham. If you were in Gotham, you would be very happy."
"But what's wrong with laughing, no matter where you are? So, laugh as much as you want! Clowns are meant to laugh, aren't they?"
"Arthur, you have some potential to become a clown. After you become a clown, someone will love you."
"But can you become the real Joker? I don't know. After all, you have never seen the real Gotham!"
"Of course, it's more because sometimes I don't even understand myself. I'm weird."
"In short, go and bring some changes to this world according to your ideas...I will always watch you..."
"Arthur, when you get closer to a clown, and slowly turn into a clown, you will gain the clown's power..."