The moonlight is particularly bright tonight. Under the huge pale moon, Wayne Tower is like the last giant standing when the sky is broken.
The lights of the Financial Harbor in the distance gradually went out. After the lights that represented the bustling side of the city faded, only countless flashing police lights and cold neon remained.
Da da da.
The sound of footsteps and the sound of the turning pointer gradually overlapped, and Barbara suddenly realized it. She turned around and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the red figure.
She turned back to typing on the keyboard, and Robin walked out of the shadows. Barbara asked without looking back: "You told him we won't have reinforcements, right?"
Then she sighed to herself and said: "But who doesn't have innocence? I only hope he can keep this innocence until tomorrow morning."
Robin's expression was complicated. He stood in the room and looked at Barbara and said, "Didn't you listen to his phone call?"
"I don't need any more worries." Barbara's tone was still calm, only a little more anxious than before. In this situation, it was already a rare calm.
Robin sighed and said nothing. He turned around and saw the photo of Barbara and Nightwing that she had placed on the bookshelf.
Barbara continued to operate the computer and said: "Batman has obtained a sample of the fear gas. He should take it back to the Batcave. I'm not sure Peter Parker has the ability to study it. I want to go back. What do you think?
How about it?"
"He found another assistant for the boy named Peter." Robin crossed his arms and said, "Or maybe he found some trouble for him."
In the Batcave, Poison Ivy looked at Peter Parker, shook her head slightly and said, "Don't expect me to cooperate with you. After Batman left, we broke up."
"I'm afraid you have to cooperate, ma'am, you know you can't leave easily." Peter said while observing the test tube.
"The security facilities in the Batcave are indeed very tight, but I..."
Whoosh!
A shining batarang shaved off a strand of red hair on Poison Ivy's temple. Poison Ivy slowly turned her eyes to one side and saw a thin thread of faint light floating slightly under the light.
.
Poison Ivy stretched out her hand, and several vines on the floor grew rapidly toward Peter. Peter jumped sideways, stood on the wall, and climbed to the ceiling like a spider. Poison Ivy, who was so quick, didn't even have time to raise her head.
.
The next second, a black shadow fell behind her, and her arms were already strangling Poison Ivy's neck. Poison Ivy bit Peter's arm. Her saliva was poisonous, and it was highly poisonous.
"Plant toxins?"
Peter retracted his hand and frowned as he looked at the rapidly blackening wound on his arm. Poison Ivy raised her chin slightly and said, "Let me go and I'll give you the antidote."
"I'm afraid it's not necessary." Peter called his symbiote in his heart, and the symbiote factors quickly filtered out the toxins.
Peter took a test tube from the side and dropped the drop of plant toxin into the test tube. Poison Ivy opened her eyes slightly, and waved her hand, and the drop of toxin returned to her body.
"Interesting little guy." Poison Ivy raised her eyebrows at Peter and said, "Maybe Batman told you that I am immune to fear toxin, so I hope you can study me and find out the formula to crack the fear gas before letting him bring it.
I'm here."
"But I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you. The way I'm immune to fear gas cannot be explained scientifically, and it's of no use if you keep me here."
"I don't want to study you." Peter shook his head and said, "I don't need the information from you, I just hope you can make a deal with me."
"Why should I make a deal with you?"
"Because you are already here, it means you agreed to my deal, otherwise you should be in prison now, I mean the prison in the Batcave, which would be more troublesome."
"It seems that Batman has found a powerful assistant this time. Has he told you about the fate of his previous Robins?"
"I don't care about that." Peter took two steps forward and said, "I asked Batman to bring you here because I saw your information in the Batcomputer's database, so I could call the plant
The name of the toxin."
Poison Ivy frowned, she couldn't understand more and more what the young man in front of her was going to do. Peter came to Poison Ivy, looked into her eyes and said: "I just found the replay of the Scarecrow's declaration.
"
"so what?"
"He said the city would be destroyed in 24 hours."
"He is an idiot, but he can do it." Poison Ivy turned her head to the side and said, "Fortunately, the plants are not affected by his toxins, so I don't care what he wants to do."
"I think 24 hours is too long."
Poison Ivy looked at Peter suspiciously.
"I'm going to destroy Gotham in two hours, and I need your help."
Poison Ivy opened her eyes wide.
"Peter, have you found out the ingredients of the poison?" Batman, still driving the Batmobile on the road, pressed the communication button and asked.
"I have some clues, Batman. In addition, I have made a gas mask. Robin will bring it to you. It can only partially prevent the fear gas, so that you will not fall into panic immediately, and it also delays the release of fear gas in your body."
Attacks occur, but you're not completely immune, so you still have to be careful."
"Regarding fear gas, I discovered that its essence is actually a kind of brain wave radiation. The frequency and wavelength of this radiation are extremely special. The most special thing is that one of the peaks can be detected by ordinary human electrical signal instruments.
arrive."
Batman frowned slightly, and then said: "That means we can track this signal and find the place where the fear gas is most concentrated."
"That's right, Batman, but this signal is extremely unstable and distributed very widely. If you want to use the power of satellites, then I'm pretty sure your antenna's transmission power is not enough."
"I'll adjust them, and once I'm done, you activate the monitoring device and tell me the results."
"Yes, I will stay in the Batcave until you bring me good news. Goodbye, Batman."
Peter hung up the phone and walked upstairs with Poison Ivy. The lights in the towering Wayne Tower stairwell were lit upwards one after another until they reached the top floor.
Poison Ivy looked around and then said: "This is the Gotham Weather Control Center. What do you want to do?"
Peter searched left and right, passed through a power distribution room, came to the equipment control center, and then walked through the hall to a door.
He took out the Batcomputer he carried with him, disassembled the electronic lock control device of the door and began to hack into it. After about ten minutes, the door was opened.
What came into view was a huge spherical device with continuous vortices surging inside. It looked like some kind of water purification device.
Poison Ivy had never been to this place. She walked in slowly, looked at the device and said: "Sometimes I really don't know whether Batman is the savior or the devil who destroys the world. This thing looks like it can destroy the entire world."
Tan City.”
"Slightly modest." Peter obviously knew better than her. He said: "Almost the entire state of New Jersey, what's in it is not water, but some kind of special particle flow, which can adjust the composition of the air to control the weather.
Effect."
"Once the particle flow becomes disordered and triggers an explosion, New Jersey will experience a huge tsunami, and at least tens of millions of people will die."
"And now you're going to start this machine."
"More than that, I hope you can add prepared plant toxins to it."
Poison Ivy was completely stunned. She stared at Peter and said, "Actually, you are Clayface, right?... You know this will make Batman crazy, and I don't want to die with you!"
"I said, they are prepared plant toxins, you can control them, right?" Peter showed no intention of retreating. He looked at Poison Ivy and said, "Intensify the anesthetic ingredients in them to ensure that they are harmless to the human body.
And I will be responsible for controlling the dosage."
"You're going to anesthetize everyone in Gotham?!!"
"Except Batman, I gave him a gas mask."
Poison Ivy looked at Peter stiffly and said, "How on earth did you deceive Batman? How did he recruit you as his assistant?"
"Don't ask so many questions, this is the only feasible way now." Peter turned to look at the weather controller and said: "Scarecrow is preparing to let the fear gas spread throughout the city within 24 hours, thus destroying Gotham City.
Then we have to be faster than him."
"As long as there are no hostages, the time limit of this game is no longer 24 hours, and if they are not prepared, it will be dawn in half an hour."
Poison Ivy shook her head and took two steps back and said, "I won't do this with you, you lunatic, don't you..."
Whoosh!
Several strands of shining spider threads brushed past her ears, bringing flying strands of hair with them. The figure of Peter extending his hand was reflected in Poison Ivy's pupils, which were dilated in fear.
"I'm ready to confess." Barbara's voice echoed in the room in the clock tower. She put her hands on her legs and said in a low tone: "I can't keep hiding it from James. It's not fair to him."
"But not now." Robin stepped forward and said, "We are facing unprecedented challenges, and you know that this will cause rift between Commissioner Gordon and Batman."
"You are wrong. This is the best opportunity. Neither of them are people who don't care about the overall situation. Under the pressure of crisis, they will temporarily join hands. No matter how big the conflicts are in the future, it will be easier to reconcile."
"You think of things too simply." Robin sighed and said, "Do you think you are the only one who is in tragedy? Gordon's sad and disappointed expression will make Batman suffer another blow."
"But I have to do it."
The sound of the howling wind failed to penetrate the well-insulated glass inside the Batmobile, making this space the quietest place in the world, but sometimes silence is not always a good thing.
Batman saw the Joker's face in the rearview mirror, and the Joker smiled at him again and said: "Is there a new victim? A child who is also young, immature, and ignorant of the world, do you still want to bury him?
How many of him?"
Zila——
Batman slammed on the brakes, and the Batmobile stopped at the first place where the antenna needed to be adjusted. He pushed the door open, then turned to look at the Joker in the rearview mirror and said: "You are just my illusion, you are the one who
The most miserable person."
After saying that, he walked towards the studio.
Just as Batman adjusted the first antenna, a signal came from the device on the armband, which showed that someone had violently broken into the door of the Wayne Tower Weather Control Center.
Batman pressed the button on his arm and found that there were no signs of entry or exit from the Batcave. He then moved to a place where the clock tower and Sky Eye system could monitor, and found no abnormalities.
Could it be that the scarecrow took action?
No, that chemistry professor doesn't have the ability to hack into Wayne Tower's security system. That would require very advanced hacking skills, and even Barbara might not be able to do it.
Scarecrow has other helpers, and Batman's mood becomes heavier. He is not sure whether Scarecrow's helper can activate Gotham's weather control device.
According to common sense, it is not possible. That thing is very complicated. It does not trigger an explosion by pressing a button. There are countless scientists who can understand the parameter table on one hand. Apart from Batman, there is no other person in Gotham.
can do it.
Batman gently touched the gas mask on his face. He could feel that it was modified from a bat suit. He hoped that this would have a certain effect, at least making hallucinations less frequent because he had to be highly concentrated.
Only by paying attention can the situation be turned around before dawn.
Suddenly, a weak air flow passed through the gap in the studio window, and Batman smelled a distinctive smell.
He put down what he was holding and stood up, looking out the window. The rain outside the window was getting heavier and heavier.
The wind howled, lightning flashed, and in the unstoppable dense darkness, figures fell down one after another.
In the bright windows nearby, on the streets farther away, and into the distant sky - Gotham people kept falling down, like wheat saplings falling in the storm, or broken driftwood in the waves.
Batman felt confused, and at this moment, he even felt scared.
Then, unparalleled anger rose from his heart. He was not afraid of any game rules set by super criminals, because he was Batman.
But if he follows the rules and the super criminals don't, it's their doom.
The Joker appeared again in the reflection of the window glass, but Batman no longer cared.
He rushed into the rainy night.
Suddenly, the noise of a helicopter was heard in the distance. Batman looked up and saw an armed helicopter with the FBI emblem on it, just flying over the bridge in Gotham City.
