Joker planned to say something on the TV show, but that wasn't very important to Connors.
Because after he finished packing up, he discovered something:
The Spider-Sense had once again become like a magnet, distantly attracting "Silk" Cindy Moon who was heading towards him, while Harley Quinn was nowhere to be seen at this moment.
He immediately decided to go out and look for Harley, not because he was worried she might be in danger, but because he was afraid he would be a step late and miss out on the hot gossip.
Second-hand gossip and gossip you witness yourself yield different rewards.
Get dressed, go downstairs, get in the car, hit the road.
Just as Connors was congratulating himself on leaving before "Silk" Cindy arrived, gasps of surprise suddenly came from beside him.
Looking over, pedestrians on both sides of the Gotham street were all covering their mouths, looking up at the sky in disbelief.
Then large swathes of webbing rained down from the sky, and the car Connors was driving went directly airborne.
With the Spider-Sense present, he knew Silk had found him, so he simply turned off the car in mid-air, reclined the seat, and decided to see what kind of spectacle would happen this time.
Soon, the car was pulled by the webbing and flew nearly twenty meters into the air, stopping between two tall buildings, above the street.
At this point, Cindy had already cast a large web here, and Connors and the car he was driving had become prey in the web.
...
"Damn it, Joker again?"
"It's not the Joker this time, it's someone we've never seen before, they seem to have spider-like abilities. According to the reporting citizens, it seems to be a female, who cast a large web between two buildings in just a few breaths, and even pulled a two-ton sedan into the air."
"That area is yours, Gordon. Deploy a helicopter for rescue if necessary. I still need to deal with him."
The Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department pointed at the Joker on the computer screen in front of him and said to Captain Gordon.
Gordon didn't delay either, quickly assembled his men, and police cars roared to the scene accompanied by sirens.
When they arrived at the scene, they found it was just as the reporting passersby had said: a sedan was fixed in the air by a giant web.
But...
Captain Gordon looked at the car body swaying and shaking rhythmically in the air and fell into deep thought.
The surrounding crowd didn't leave; instead, they all stood there holding up their phones, as if enjoying the spectacle and not minding the trouble.
"Deploy the helicopter. First, observe if the hostage inside the car is safe. Do not use weapons of mass destruction. You can try using a flamethrower to burn through the web."
"Lay out air cushions below the sedan to ensure the car doesn't explode if it falls."
Captain Gordon took out his walkie-talkie, and just as he finished speaking, the sedan that had been swaying in the air also stopped moving.
After a while, the car door opened under everyone's gaze, and a masked man and an equally masked woman jumped out embracing each other.
At this time, the air cushions below hadn't been laid out yet, and even the evacuation of the onlookers hadn't been completed.
Amidst Gordon's widened eyes and the gasps of the onlookers, the two people in the air shot out a strand of webbing that attached to a tall building, and then swung away.
By the time the helicopter arrived belatedly, the two were long gone.
...
"Cindy, next time can you please not kidnap me in broad daylight? This is a bit too high-profile."
Connors held Cindy and spoke the first words between the two of them so far.
"..." Cindy said nothing, continuously shooting webbing from her fingertips, but her breathing began to quicken again.
Connors was startled. Having car sex in a web spun from webbing in the air was already exciting enough. Surely it wouldn't happen again while flying?
Fortunately, although Cindy Moon's breathing was rapid, they had just gone through a big fight, so she was still able to control herself.
Being in the air, Connors' mouth and nose were constantly filled with wind. Seeing that Cindy was ignoring him, he simply shut his mouth as well.
On the large screen on the street, the Joker was still talking eloquently:
"Today, your dear Joker has something quite special to do..."
"Those rich and powerful guys have ruled us common people for too damn long, now it's their turn to be tormented!"
"So, I'm going to have a buy-one-get-one-free event: today, I'm going to deal with Judge Thomas Reik, and Gotham's favorite billionaire, Bruce Wayne."
Connors said to Cindy, who was continuously shooting webbing in his arms:
"Go to Gotham Reservoir."
He had no idea where the reservoir was, but Cindy's Spider-Sense, both now and in the comics, was countless times stronger than Spider-Man's, so he wasn't worried at all that Cindy wouldn't know the location of the reservoir.
Soon, their direction of travel changed, and they quickly swung towards the Gotham Reservoir.
Although the process wasn't entirely consistent with the comics, the events developed similarly. Connors had just read the comic "Laughing Man" before transmigrating, which was why he was able to realize from the very beginning that it was the Joker's "laughing gas" causing the trouble.
According to the plot development, killing Judge Thomas Reik and Bruce Wayne were not the Joker's real goals.
This lunatic's real goal was to pour the laughing gas virus into the reservoir, causing everyone in the entire city to die laughing.
He wanted revenge on everyone who had shaped him into this Joker, so the entire city would "go to hell with him".
According to the story's development, Batman would undoubtedly recapture the Joker and stop this disaster.
But that wouldn't do. Even if Connors was present, he would only be getting first-hand gossip.
To get a bigger reward, he had to participate!
He had given the old master a hint about the "reservoir" yesterday, but given Batman's intelligence, he would definitely guess that the combination of "laughing gas" and "reservoir" was a heavy bomb that could paralyze the entire city.
Batman must have already made arrangements there, but on the other hand, the suspicious Batman definitely wouldn't be led by the nose; he must have backup plans.
It's possible he might take down both himself and the Joker, and that would go against Connors' purpose.
While it was still early, Connors had to hurry to the reservoir's location.
Of course, there was another reason why he gave up looking for Harley Quinn at this point and went to find the Joker instead:
Behind the Joker on the large screen on the street just now, Harley Quinn flashed by!
Harley appearing behind the Joker wasn't because of lingering feelings, but because she was swinging a baseball bat, preparing to ambush him, only to be hit on the back of the head by a green cane herself.
Getting gossip, saving Harley, neither of these two things would be delayed!
Before reaching the reservoir, after treating "Silk" Cindy Moon to a cucumber on a tall building, Connors bid farewell to Cindy, who hadn't said a word the entire time, and headed straight for the reservoir.
...
Gotham Reservoir.
A place resembling a magic stage had been temporarily set up here.
The Joker had long since been moved here from Arkham Asylum; otherwise, he would have definitely been caught by Batman already.
At this moment, he was wearing a purple suit, had green hair, and behind him stood a guy wearing a green suit and a green top hat.
Unlike the Joker's solid-colored suit, the green suit was covered in question marks of various sizes.
"You are Gotham's cancer, spreading from Gotham's lymph nodes to its spleen. If you spread to the bladder, God himself couldn't save us... But I am the chemotherapy."
The Joker splashed cold water on the fallen Harley Quinn to wake her up, saying with a cackle.
Bang! Batman spread his cape from the air and landed on the ground:
"It's over, Joker... and Harleen."
"...Riddler? Why are you here?"