Thin raindrops fell on the metal armor, as cold as a knife in this turbulent night.
"You injected Batman with fear gas?"
Arkham Knight looked at Spider-Man's bright uniform. This color was originally incompatible with the gray and dark tones of Gotham, but now it actually matched the neon sign of Chinatown behind him.
That's not a straightforward coldness and seriousness. It's never been the style of Bat. Didn't Batman see it this whole time?
The Arkham Knight couldn't accept that Batman had been deceived, let alone that he fell into such ridiculous means, so he stepped forward and loaded his pistol.
"That's just a small repayment," Spider-Man said.
Arkham Knight heard an indescribable indifference from these words, and his memory began to become a little confusing again.
"He abandoned you, you useless wretch. You once trusted him so much, but he didn't come to you or save you. Is this a return for your love and trust?"
The sharp and hoarse voice sounded in his ears again. The Arkham Knight tightened his eyelids hard and could almost clearly hear the sound of blood flowing through his cerebral cortex.
"Jason, Jason Todd, your departure played into his hands, and so did your disappearance. He has reappeared over Gotham with his new Robin."
The skin on the right side of his waist and abdomen began to throb uncontrollably, and the Arkham Knight took a deep breath.
"Read me what's in the paper, good boy, and see how they report the exploits of Batman and his new Robin, and either you remember it or I sew it into you."
His breathing began to become more and more rapid, and Akam actually heard his own heartbeat again, and then he felt dizzy with a sense of euphoria. All the pain disappeared, and his memory began to become more and more blurred.
"No...don't..." Arkham Knight muttered.
Then he shook the gun in his hand hard, pointed it straight at Spider-Man's forehead and said: "What did you do to me?"
"Everything has gone wrong since I met you. What did you do?"
"Do you think there is anything about you that is right?" Spider-Man's tone contained disdain. He said, "You have proven that you are not as powerful as me. Now do you want to prove that you are nobler than me?"
"Your master is dead. He was reduced to ashes and buried in fire, but that doesn't mean you're not the lackey of a super criminal, Jason Todd, as are we all."
"What are you talking about?!" Arkham Knight's anger grew stronger and stronger, but the excessive secretion of painkilling substances in his body made him sound a little weak, so he had to mobilize his emotions more to restore his power. .
"I've already investigated it." Spider-Man crossed his arms and said, "You took refuge in the Joker about a year ago, but he was a fool and burned himself to death, so you could only find yourself a new backer."
Anger exploded in Arkham Knight's head, but Spider-Man was still chattering: "You want to say that you were not voluntary, but in the beginning no one was. You were chosen, hurt, chose to betray, and changed sides. We do it for ourselves.”
"But I have been waiting for this opportunity for too long. Jason Todd, I will not let you ruin my long-prepared plan. Go to hell with your master."
boom! ! ! !
The violent explosion attracted the attention of Batman and Nightwing, but when they arrived near Chinatown, there was only a piece of charred wreckage.
Batman jumped from the roof, walked to the remains of an exploding car, bent down and picked up a shiny metal fragment from the ground.
Batman looked thoughtful as the fabric of his gauntlet brushed against the metal surface.
Suddenly, the scene in front of me was accompanied by the distortion of the rain line, and ripples began to appear.
A young man covered in blood was sitting on a chair with his hands hanging up, and another figure slowly walked out from the darkness behind him.
It's Batman who's unexpectedly thin - it's not the Penguin, it's the Joker.
Batman's heart seemed to be squeezed tightly by a big hand, and he heard the clown's whisper again.
"It's been six months. What was he going through while you were forgetting about him? Let me tell you, Batman."
"Did you know? People's pain reflexes can be built up day after day. When you break through the bottom line of hypocritical humanitarianism, you will find that the human spirit is so fragile and primitive, like a beast."
"When he is protecting food, you pick up the whip, and one day he will be tamed by you. As long as you inflict enough pain when he recalls a certain memory, he will one day forget it."
"What's next? Yes, of course it's to implant new memories, but that's not a boring fabrication. It strengthens his anger and resentment, and he will imagine everything into a darker look."
"This is all thanks to you, Batman. You didn't come to him or save him. Now look at my great achievements."
Batman felt pain in every inch of his body, and when certain memory fragments flashed by, the pain made him want to go crazy.
Suddenly, the pain subsided, his heart rate began to slow down, and a hazy halo appeared in front of his eyes. Batman lowered his head to see that the painkiller injection button on the arm armor did not light up.
"What did you do to me?" Batman asked in a whisper.
Nightwing stood behind him and called him, but he didn't respond. He just stood there and waited quietly. It was obvious that he had discovered the abnormality in his body.
A series of vague thoughts appeared in Batman's mind, which sounded so childish and innocent, but also contained an unknown terror.
"Don't...think...that he is...bad."
"Who are you?"
"I need...energy...to grow."
Very good, Batman thought, Joker virus, fear gas, and now there is an inexplicable parasite. The bacteria always grow particularly vigorously in places with more difficult environments?
What hallucinations are caused by the clown virus? What are the fear gases? What reactions in the body are caused by the symbiont? What is the relationship between them?
Batman thought of a plan he once had, but now he had to find Barbara's whereabouts, so he turned to Nightwing and said: "Whether Barbara was taken away by Harley Quinn, or she left the base on her own , she must have time to leave clues."
"I will ask Peter to stare at the Sky Eye system in the Batcave to find the whereabouts of Harley Quinn. You go to the clock tower and contact me as soon as you find any useful clues."
Nightwing nodded and turned around to leave. Batman got into the Batmobile again. He pressed the button on the communicator and said, "Peter, are you there?...Peter?"
Batman frowned, changed the channel, and dialed Peter's personal communication number.
"Hello?"
As soon as Peter opened his mouth, Batman heard the sound of wind on the other side, and Peter's tone was unusual, as if he was exercising vigorously.
"Peter, talk back, where are you now?"
"I'm... I'm being chased! That psycho named Arkham Knight is chasing me!"
"You left the Batcave?"
"Yes, because Poison Ivy said she wanted me to help her save the plants in Gotham. I think she saved me, so I have to help..."
Batman subconsciously put his finger on his forehead. After a moment of silence, he asked, "Can't you subdue him?"
"He's like crazy! He wants to attack me crazily. I'm afraid I can't control the power to fight back. I can't kill him, can I?!"
"What's up with him?"
"I don't know!" Spider-Man, who was running, looked back at the Arkham Knight chasing behind him. The originally shiny metal armor was blown into darkness, and the lining was in tatters in some places. , but the Arkham Knight was still able to move freely, with a furious expression on his face.
It seems that the power of the explosion of seven cars is still a bit small. Spider-Man thought that maybe the red bee had eaten too much in his body and suffered a lot of impact for Arkham Knight. The speed of the opponent's pursuit was a bit beyond his. Anticipate.
"Can you get rid of him?" Batman asked, but then added: "Move towards Chinatown. I will wait for you on the rooftop here."
After turning the front of the Batmobile, Batman saw a red and blue figure on the skyline within a short while, with a thread of spider web stuck to the rear of the Batmobile. He heard Peter yelling "Take off!!"
The Batmobile soared into the air, and Spider-Man grabbed the webbing and looked at the ground. The sound of whizzing bullets sounded, but the Batmobile suddenly accelerated, and the Arkham Knight on the ground became more and more distant.
He gathered up his webbing and jumped onto the roof of the car, then opened the door and climbed into the seat. Peter took off his hood and said with a sigh, "Thank you, I thought he would chase me all the way to California."
"I'm letting you stay in the Batcave."
"I was just thinking about it, but I think Poison Ivy is right. Plants are innocent after all."
Batman remained silent. Peter glanced at the navigation map in the Batmobile and asked, "Where are we going now?"
"I'm waiting for news from Nightwing. Before that, we have to catch the Penguin. I have to find out what is going on."
But Peter suddenly said: "Well, can you send me back first? The fear poison still needs to be analyzed."
Batman's hand movements paused, and he felt that Peter was a little unnatural, but he still said: "Then get off the car here, and be careful on the way back."
Peter glanced out the window and saw that it was not far from the Batcave, so he nodded and got out of the Batmobile when it hovered above the roof of the building, disappearing into the rainy night.
Batman stared at his back for a long time before looking away and heading towards the Iceberg Restaurant.
But when he landed in front of the Iceberg Restaurant and looked inside, he found that the gangsters he had knocked down before and the stunned guests were all gone.
Crossing the dance floor of the bar and walking towards the back of the restaurant, he remembered that as soon as he broke Penguin's legs, Nightwing said that he found signs that the bank vault door had been violently broken, so Batman went to investigate.
According to Batman's past behavior, he should have sent Penguin to the Gotham Police Station first, but he solved all the thugs here, and most of the people in Gotham City were unconscious, and Penguin was interrupted again His legs are broken and he can't run. No one will come to save him at this time, so it's okay to leave him here first.
But not long after he left, the Penguin appeared on the screen in full force. Even if he could barely sit up and talk, the building where he appeared had already lost power. Who restored the power? There's no way Penguin would drag two broken legs to pick them up himself, right?
Obviously there is someone helping Penguin behind the scenes, and the other person has quite good mobility and technology, otherwise he would not have grasped Batman's action trajectory so accurately and done something like this under his nose.
If you want to know what happened where Penguin was when he left, Batman must return here. Most criminal lairs are monitored by the Sky Eye system, but Penguin renovates his safe house every month. Batman hasn't had time to install surveillance this month.
But Batman knows that Penguin must have installed surveillance, so he only needs to hack into the surveillance system to see what happened at that time.
Batman walked through the messy first floor and entered the safe house where he had removed the door. Then he followed the wires to the power distribution room at the back. From the power distribution room, he found the wiring of the surveillance camera, and then found the control computer.
Turning on the computer, Batman easily hacked into the system, but the video file happened to be missing dozens of minutes after he left, so Batman began to retrieve the access records.
At this time, Yeyi called.
"Batman, I found abnormal access records on the prophet's computer. Someone deleted a lot of surveillance video files. Who do you think did it?"
Batman frowned deeply.
