"Tha... Thank you for saving Jenny!" Joe Cole said in a panic. "My God, if Jenny had left me, I don't know what I would have done."
Gratitude welled up in his heart for Batman and Fang Yuan, but it was immediately followed by fear.
Because it seemed... his own involvement had come to light.
However, Batman did not hold him accountable. Instead, he said, "We understand your plight, so I plan to..."
"Introduce you to a company to be an actor!" Fang Yuan interjected.
His voice also dropped low.
Bruce instantly looked over at Fang Yuan, who nodded back, signaling him to follow his lead.
Joe Cole was indeed a failed comedian, but if he were to play other roles, it would still be fine.
In this World, Vought Corporation was affiliated with the Wayne Group and had no shortage of resources; supporting a single Joe Cole was trivial.
Fang Yuan, however, intended to experiment and see if Joe Cole could be signed.
He knew the company panel required someone to be an ability user to be signed as an employee, but since Thomas's Batman could be signed, why not the Joker?
Fang Yuan had figured out by now that as long as they could be signed, what the person looked like to the public didn't matter; all they needed was fame.
He was also curious about what the Joker could unlock.
The Dionysium factor?
The only problem was that Joe Cole had not yet become the Joker, so he likely didn't meet the signing conditions.
But Fang Yuan was in no hurry; he would have plenty of opportunities to make Joe Cole meet the conditions.
If all else failed, he could inject Joe with a Super Soldier Serum to forcibly turn him into an ability user... Fang Yuan was now quite adept at exploiting bugs.
If he couldn't exploit the bug, it didn't matter. After all, it was the Joker; if he died, he died.
Joe Cole, of course, had no idea what Fang Yuan was thinking. He only felt deeply moved right now.
He had clearly almost committed a crime, yet Batman and this stranger had saved his wife and were even willing to offer him a job!
Who could resist that?
Joe Cole bowed his head in gratitude. Without even asking what kind of actor Fang Yuan wanted him to be, he immediately accepted the invitation.
After a moment of silence, Bruce also approved of this solution.
After all, this was the future Joker. Although they had prevented Joe Cole's evolution this time, they couldn't be careless. Placing him in Vought Corporation under his own watch was indeed better.
Joe Cole's onboarding went smoothly, but as Fang Yuan had expected, he did not currently meet the signing conditions.
Fang Yuan wasn't in a rush. He could even wait for Superman, so a Joker didn't matter.
"By the way, how is Clark doing?" Fang Yuan asked after dealing with the Joker's business.
Mentioning his best partner, Bruce couldn't help but smile.
"Clark is doing quite well in school. He's becoming more cheerful and recently joined the school's baseball team."
Fang Yuan could completely imagine that.
Clark wasn't that old. He had been staying with his parents and had no peers around him, so it was inevitable he would be a bit gloomy.
Now that he was in a university campus surrounded by carefree peers, he would naturally become sunny again.
After all, Superman's nature was kind and gentle. Compared to being a god among men, he himself was more willing to accept the identity of a boy from a small town.
From Bruce's account, Fang Yuan knew that Clark's rehabilitation project was progressing smoothly. Clark had even started using his superpowers secretly to help others.
Under the cover of the Wayne Group, the outside World hadn't noticed him, nor had a meteor shower fallen to create a bunch of superpowered enemies in town to cause trouble for Clark.
"Now my focus is on building technical reserves, increasing strength, and preventing the birth of villains," Bruce said.
Since Batman had a second chance, he certainly wouldn't let the original villains continue to turn dark.
Moreover, there were indeed many villains whom Bruce could easily prevent from going astray if he knew their origins.
"A DC without supervillains?" Fang Yuan frowned slightly. This might affect his grand plan to farm fame.
But he had no grounds to stop Batman. After all, he wasn't exactly a big villain himself.
"At worst, I'll just create some big events later to make the superheroes famous," Fang Yuan thought secretly.
Meanwhile, in a small alley in Gotham, two figures abruptly appeared out of thin air and fell to the ground.
"Ouch!"
"Damn it, where is this?"
The two men, one tall and one short, were both quite thin.
The shorter man sniffed the air and suddenly grinned. "This smell... Haha, this is Gotham! We escaped, Ed!"
"Yes, but... how can this be?"
Ed wore a pair of glasses, his small eyes filled with confusion.
He began to sort through his thoughts.
"We escaped from the cages of the Court of Owls, killed the guards, and then opened the cell door, and somehow we ended up here?"
"Oswald, don't you find it strange?"
"It is quite strange."
The small man named Oswald suddenly stared intently at Ed, who quickly waved his hands.
"Did you forget? We have a six-hour window!"
Oswald nodded helplessly upon hearing this. "Yes, within six hours I cannot... kill you."
It was clear that their relationship was very delicate, with a familiar desire to see the other dead.
"So... do you mind cooperating for another three hours?" Ed suggested.
Oswald's expression changed, showing a hint of inexplicable excitement.
"No problem!"
The Batcave received a tip that two people in prison uniforms had robbed a clothing store and fled.
The Gotham Police Department was willing to handle such minor matters, but they soon lost the target, so the Police officer in charge of the case simply gave up.
"I've already investigated, what more do you want from me?"
However, within the Batcave's surveillance, the robbers of this heist were captured clearly. Fang Yuan happened to be there, and his expression changed instantly upon seeing the two robbers.
"What's wrong?" Bruce asked.
Fang Yuan pointed at the robbers on the screen and asked, "Do you know them?"
Bruce shook his head. "No."
He didn't know them, but Fang Yuan recognized them. These two were clearly the Penguin and the Riddler from the American TV series 'Gotham'!
The problem was, this wasn't the 'Gotham' World!
A crossover?
When Fang Yuan told Bruce this news, it immediately made him frown.
"Could it be that the Omega Effect damaged the stability of the multiverse, causing people from other Universes to accidentally cross over?" Bruce speculated.
This was not good news for him. Just as he had the chance to solve local villains at their source, villains from other Universes were now finding their way in. This was just adding to the chaos.
Fang Yuan, however, was secretly delighted.
If that were the case, he wouldn't have to worry about the lack of villains to farm fame.
And perhaps, there would even be a chance to see characters from different Universes appearing at the same time, for instance—
Five Jokers competing on the same stage?
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