Peter was in a daze.
But not entirely because of Batman's actions, but because the timing of his spider-sense kicking off wasn't right.
Spider-Man's spider sense is a very magical thing. It cannot be regarded as a sense, but more like a prophecy. Its prevention of danger is the root cause.
For example, when Peter passed by the Scarecrow's fear gas, the fear gas had not exploded yet and did not cause harm to anyone, but the spider sense would sound weakly, indicating that there might be danger around him.
Under the joint guidance of Schiller and Stark, Peter can partially actively use his spider sense. For example, when he focuses his attention on something, he can vaguely judge whether there is a problem with the direction of the thing.
Similarly, this can also be used to determine whether a person is malicious. When Peter's attention is completely focused on a certain person, once the other person is malicious towards him, Peter can almost immediately detect it through the spider sense.
But when Batman asked him to sit down, the Spider-Sense didn't respond at all.
Doesn't this count as an attack? Peter thought blankly.
Wait, it doesn’t seem to count.
Although Batman's tone of voice is like "I'm going to lock you in a scary little dark room for eternity," his starting point may indeed be to protect Nightwing and Peter.
This is not difficult to understand. Barbara and Gordon are missing, Robin has lost contact, and Jason’s mysterious case has not yet been solved. It is obvious that someone is targeting members of the Bat Family. Although finding the victims is important, protection has not yet been solved. The member in question is equally important.
Is this reaction a little too quick?
Peter thought with some pain, could it be that Batman had guessed from the context of the incident that there was a mysterious mastermind stirring up the situation?
Peter glanced at the clock. It was 2 o'clock in the morning.
Three hours ago, Batman watched Gothamites fall, two and a half hours ago he learned he had been kidnapped, and two hours ago he watched Gotham being bombed with missiles.
An hour and a half ago, we learned that Barbara and Gordon were missing, an hour ago we were shocked to hear about the death of Jason Todd, and half an hour ago we discovered that Robin was missing.
Then he used the half hour to calm down completely, eliminate the influence of all emotional fluctuations, accurately discover what was wrong with all the events, and did not doubt himself at all, but immediately made a very accurate move. best choice.
What kind of nerve of steel is this? !
And how did he make sure his Spider-Sense wouldn't evade his attack?
"You don't think you can avoid his attack if you have that wonderful premonition of crisis, do you?" Nightwing showed a wry smile to Peter and said: "Believe it or not, you can find it if you go to the Bat Archives now. A more specific and clear analysis of your capabilities than you realize?”
"This is Batman." Nightwing sighed and said: "As long as he is prepared, no one can be his opponent."
Peter raised his hand in disbelief, but the metal didn't move at all, not even a little deformed.
Then he suddenly discovered that his seat was higher than the usual seat, which prevented his feet from touching the ground.
As we all know, the effects of force are reciprocal. A fulcrum is needed to break away from something, and if it cannot touch the ground, the only fulcrum is its own bones.
In other words, the largest and most powerful muscle group in the human body, the hip muscles, cannot function at all because there is no fulcrum there.
Moreover, the fulcrum of Peter's movement of raising his hand is his elbow, and the bottom of the elbow is hard metal. Either he cannot exert force or it will be very painful, and now there is no symbiote to help him immune to pain.
Peter began to apply force to the outside again, and then he discovered that this chair was definitely custom-made. The moment his chest muscles expanded with force, the bones of his wrist pressed against the inside of the metal buckle, causing him to gasp in pain.
"Don't waste your efforts."
After Batman left, Nightwing tilted his head to one side and said, "If you go to his Bat Furniture Warehouse, you will see more than two hundred versions of chairs designed specifically to lock you up one day. , I guarantee that once you sit on it, it will be absolutely impossible to break away."
Peter sighed, slowly twisted his wrist, and pressed a button on his wrist strap.
Poison Ivy, who was still sitting in the van, noticed that the communicator was on. She looked out the window and saw the flashing lights of the Batmobile, and she opened the door of the van and walked out.
Zila——
After the rapid braking sound, the Batmobile's lights flashed twice, and under the light, a huge tree root lay across the middle of the originally flat road.
Batman got out of the car and looked up to see the blurry figure on the tall building and the rapidly shrinking vines.
Then he walked towards the root of the tree, jumped onto the root of the tree neatly and rolled down, then drove the Batmobile towards his destination again.
Realizing that Batman was not fooled, Poison Ivy took a deep breath, and finally did not go down to face Batman directly. She glanced at the flashing lights of the truck below, grabbed the vines, jumped off the building, and drove towards the Batcave.
Ten minutes later, Poison Ivy was thrown into the prison of the Batcave, fell to the ground and let out a cry of pain.
When Peter next to him clenched his fists slightly, he found that his palms were all sweaty.
It was difficult for him to describe the terrifying deterrent power that Batman now possessed.
"Relax." Yeyi kindly reminded: "Adjust your heart rate, don't be afraid, he won't hurt us."
It's true that he won't hurt you, Peter thought to himself, but whether he will hurt me depends on whether Poison Ivy will confess.
Indeed, he trusted the spider sense a little too much, Peter thought. Dr. Schiller had clearly said this before. He must conduct multi-faceted inspections and make comprehensive judgments. Relying on danger sense will always lead to failure.
Batman can make countless mistakes, but he can only make one mistake.
Wait, if Batman expected Poison Ivy to come, what made him make this judgment?
Batman knows every villain in Gotham, so he must know that Poison Ivy doesn't have the guts to attack the Batcave.
If he had already expected that Poison Ivy had a reason to come to the Batcave, and then pretended to leave and then turned around, it means that he had already guessed the reason why Poison Ivy had to come, and he must have thought that this reason was tenable. Only feet will lay traps.
What other reason could Poison Ivy have to come?
There are now three people in the Batcave, and two of them are more father and son than father and son, so who else can be the traitor?
Peter thought with some distress, is Batman's willpower made of vibranium? There were ups and downs at least ten times in the middle of the night, and it only took half an hour to sort out my thoughts and save the situation.
Peter thought about his actions carefully and found that there were no mistakes at all, and every time point was just right.
Whether it is leveraging emotions, creating clues, or guiding actions, it is almost always the right place and the right people at the right time, coupled with perfect performance, how can it become like this?
Suddenly, Peter remembered Schiller's reminder - "... Peter, you have to remember that death is never the best reward for evil. You have more ways to turn it into a gift. When things start to become ordinary, It’s going in an uninteresting direction, maybe you should be more bold.”
Aren't you bold enough?
Peter began to think seriously about Schiller's words, because he knew that the person who gave these words was not the Dr. Schiller he was familiar with, but the professor.
Peter had also learned about Batman and the story between them from the professor's words. There was no doubt that the professor knew Batman well, so this reminder could not be so simple.
Wait a minute, Peter's keen inspiration told him that something was wrong. The point of this sentence did not seem to be "bold".
Because if the professor wants to tell him that his behavior should be more radical, there is no need to say the previous sentence, just say the last sentence, and as far as Peter knows, this professor does not like to talk nonsense.
"Death is never the best evil, and you have more ways to turn it into a gift."
Peter thought about this sentence many times in his mind, feeling that he was gradually detecting some clues, but there was still one missing piece.
Peter initially understood this sentence to mean that there are actually many things in this world that are more painful than death, and of course you can do it with your own abilities. Then you can not be afraid of killing people, and even turn death into the end of pain. of gifts.
But when I thought about it carefully, I felt something was wrong. Another professor, Schiller, was also a master of psychology. He should have known that he would not kill anyone, and he had no motive to persuade him to kill someone.
After all, if you want to lead the Spider Army, then most of Spider-Man does not kill people. You can't turn all Spider-Man into killer embryos, right? This is completely meaningless.
So if this sentence is not to persuade yourself to let go of the bottom line of not killing people, what does it mean?
Just as Peter was thinking carefully, he saw the apologetic look cast by Poison Ivy in the cage, and the emotional impact interrupted his thoughts.
For the first time, Peter felt this emotion called "fear" very intuitively.
In the past, he had a spider sense and could predict most dangers. Even if he couldn't avoid them, he could still be mentally prepared.
But Peter really had no idea what Batman would do to him.
Peter felt his heart begin to beat rapidly, his breathing became rapid, and cold sweat soaked his back.
He then understood that even if Poison Ivy didn't spit, his reaction would have made Batman aware that he was holding a bag full of silver coins.
Peter began to struggle to control his physical signs, and then he realized that he had been a little too dependent on the symbiote.
He vaguely remembered Steve telling him how to forcibly control his heartbeat and maintain a stable physical condition to face the battle. Natasha also told him how agents should calmly face forced confessions without showing any flaws in their appearance.
He had memorized all the theories, but he had never had the opportunity to practice them. Now that he actually put them into practice, Peter discovered that it wasn't that the method was not easy to use, but that Batman's sense of oppression was too strong.
Batman wasn't looking at Poison Ivy at all. He turned directly to look at Peter, stared at him, and then walked towards him.
The heavy footsteps sounded like the countdown to execution, and the still air instantly condensed into a sharp blade hanging above his head, while the gaze projected on him was like the knife cutting off the chain of the guillotine.
Boom, boom, boom...
The heartbeat began to overlap with the dull sound, but when Batman's voice sounded, there was a frivolity that shouldn't be there, like a cat teasing a mouse.
"What's wrong with you, Peter?"
Peter felt that all the pores on his back turned into waterfalls, and after the cold sweat flowed out, they turned into ice thorns like thorns on his back.
"Stop! Get him back!"
Greed suddenly stood up and walked towards the outside of the theater. He was about to surface and consciously operate the Doujie system to bring Peter back.
At this time, Arrogance grabbed his arm, Greed looked back at him, Arrogance shook his head and said: "You know, there will be no progress without pressure."
"But that's Batman." Greedy's expression turned serious for a rare moment, and he said, "No one dares to say that they can completely control the situation with Batman around, and neither can you, right?"
"I have absolutely no objection to the heir being tested. Blood and tears will be shed sooner or later, but everything must be under control."
"Anything involving Batman is extremely dangerous and uncontrolled, and there is no way we can guarantee that anyone in this situation will not be seriously harmed."
"High risk, high reward, this is what you always say." Arrogance did not let go, but continued: "Facing Batman directly is extremely terrifying for any intelligent creature, because he is the embodiment of fear. , and what we have in front of us can be called terrifying among the incarnations of fear.”
"Such huge pressure can break anyone's mind. We all know that when facing Batman in the main universe, even with the blessing of autism, it cannot be said that he does not feel pressure at all, let alone Peter."
Greedy looked at Arrogance with some confusion, and Arrogance continued: "But if Peter can get through it, his gains will be amazing."
"You had expected it, right? That's why you gave him that reminder." Greedy sighed, but did not go any further. Instead, he said, "You should have made it clearer."
"Peter is very smart." Arrogance shook his head slightly and said: "And the huge pressure will be the catalyst for his wisdom. Once he passes this hurdle, no one knows how far he will grow."
Then he looked Greed in the eyes and said, "Like you said, we plant a seed without knowing what kind of flower it will eventually grow into."
"Perhaps one day, I will be surprised to find a flower branch reaching here on the balcony on the third floor. This is what you want to say in return, isn't it?"
(End of chapter)
