The shotgun fired and the moment the fire flashed, Merkel saw the scene in the manor clearly. The leaves of all the plants began to swing, stretching and spreading towards him.
Finding that the gun was of no use against plants, Merkel did not panic at all. He picked up the bag where the powder had just been sprinkled and sprinkled the powder on the surrounding ground at an extremely fast speed.
He retreated all the way to the buildings of the manor, spreading the powder on the ground as he passed. After retreating to the building, there was a "bang" sound, the shotgun hit the powder in front of the door, and the sparks of the bullet ignited the powder specially used for incineration.
of chemicals, and instantly, flames burst into flames.
Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the garden burning with raging fire, Merkel sighed deeply, then walked into the hall, picked up the phone and said: "Hello, Mr. Alfred? There is a very bad person.
According to the news, I just burned down the entire garden of my employer’s house..."
In Wayne Manor, Alfred put down Elsa who was holding him in his other hand. He covered his forehead and said, "Oh my God! You haven't called for so long. I thought you were finally going to become
A qualified housekeeper!”
"I didn't expect that you would prepare such a big surprise...the reason? Is there any reason for you to burn down the big garden of the middle manor?! The big garden of Rodriguez Manor is in Gotham.
Your private residence is very famous in the circle, and you actually burned it down?!!!"
"Okay, listen, Merkel, you are a housekeeper, and now you are just a housekeeper. If you can't adapt to this profession, then I can only contact...what? The plant moved first?"
Alfred raised his voice and said: "Could you have been drinking? This is a serious violation of professional ethics! You can't..."
"Ouch!!!"
A scream came from the back garden of Wayne Manor. Alfred immediately put down the phone and ran towards the back garden. But the one who was faster than him was Aisha. The grandfather and grandson had just rushed into the back garden.
Then I saw Dick hanging on the fence wall.
Alfred quickly ran over, rescued him, and then said: "Master Dick, even if you want to practice gymnastics, you can't always jump off the wall. I have said before that one day, you will be hanged."
It’s in mid-air, because the old Mr. Wayne was hanged..."
"No..." Dick scratched his head and said, "I didn't jump off the wall. I was rehearsing the club's dance moves. I felt like there was a hand lifting me to the wall?"
Dick turned his head in confusion and looked at the garden wall, but there was nothing there except vines. He said: "What the hell, could it be that I was too focused on rehearsing that I didn't even notice when I walked up the wall?"
?”
Alfred was much more vigilant than Merkel. He immediately pulled Dick away from the fence, but as soon as he turned his head, he saw a thick vine on the fence, which directly rolled up Elsa.
Elsa didn't know why and thought she was playing a game. She raised her hands and cheered. Alfred immediately picked up the gardening shovel next to him and swung it hard. The sharp edge of the shovel cut off the vines. Before Elsa fell to the ground, he
He rushed forward and caught Aisha.
He held Elsa in one hand and Dick in the other, and sent the two children back to the buildings in the manor, asking them to stay in front of the window and remain within his sight.
He walked to the tool room next to him, picked up a gun, and the same incineration powder as Merkel's. He first fired a shot at the vines. After finding that it had no effect at all, he poured the powder directly next to the roots of the plants.
, and then lit the flame.
After walking around the garden, just when all the plants started to move, the raging fire engulfed them. When Alfred walked back into the house with the shotgun and garden shovel, Dick opened his mouth and said, "Oh my God.
!Mr. Alfred, you burned down the garden at Wayne Manor!"
"Master Dick, you can go to the living room to practice dancing. By the way, remember to take Miss Aisha with you. I'm going to make some phone calls. Don't run out..."
Seeing Alfred's frown, Dick also felt that something was wrong. He nodded sensibly, picked up Elsa, went upstairs to the bedroom, closed the doors and windows, and then started building blocks with Elsa.
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Downstairs Alfred came to the phone and started calling all the butlers he knew.
"Hello? Is this the Love Manor at No. 3 Osprey Street? I'm the housekeeper of Wayne Manor. Have you noticed that the plants in the garden have mutated?...Oh, you saw the vines moving, right? Yes,
They just mutated..."
"Remember the incineration powder we used to treat some chemical fertilizers before? Yes, that stuff is very easy to use. Just sprinkle it on the roots of plants. Yes, sprinkle more. After all, it is not easy to catch fire in this weather..."
"Hey, is this Mrs. Teach? I'm Alfred, what's wrong? Why do you sound a little tired? There are thieves trying to get in again. It seems they want to take advantage of the situation. Have you dealt with it?"
"I'm calling to remind you that the plants in the garden may have mutated. You'd better burn them all. Just use the burning powder I recommended to you before. Yes, it's the one you use to deal with those thieves.
That kind of thing, no need, you are too polite..."
"Hey, I'm Alfred, I have to remind you..."
As one phone call after another rang in the manors in the south and west, Batman, who was squatting in the helicopter and planning to land on the roof, saw that all the manors in the south and west were moving at an extremely fast speed.
, one by one, the flames burst into flames.
Almost instantly, the entire southern and western districts were lit up. The thick smoke from the raging fire was thicker than the rain and fog that had just risen. Countless smoke pillars rose into the sky, tearing through the dark clouds like sharp swords. In a short time,
For an instant, the dense raindrops stopped for a moment.
Batman landed on the roof. When he saw the burnt garden, he silently put down his hand holding the communicator. He also thought that he had just wanted to remind Alfred that the plants might have mutated.
The flame may be an effective reminder and swallowed back.
After returning to the manor, Alfred immediately greeted him. Before Batman could speak, Alfred smiled and said: "The plant samples and burned samples have been sent to the underground laboratory, and the power supply has been started.
, hot tea and towels are placed on the table on the right side of the experimental table, Dick and Elsa have already gone back to sleep..."
Batman opened his mouth, took back what he wanted to ask, nodded, and walked towards the underground laboratory.
He turned his head and saw Alfred smiling at him. Now he understood what Schiller said. What he did to stop the mastermind behind the scenes and do to Gotham may not be to save Gotham.
It is to save the man behind the scenes and prevent him from falling into the abyss due to his self-righteousness and being unable to extricate himself from now on.
When zombies come out of the cage and plants mutate, it would be a devastating disaster in other cities. But in Gotham, it is more like the daily life of people here. Those who defeat dangerous and terrifying mutated plants are not so great and wise.
A hero, but a butler who helps his master deal with thieves every day.
Walking into the underground laboratory, Batman looked up at the ceiling. He remembered that when he was building this laboratory to open up the underground soil, he realized why in a city like Gotham, he had never heard of it since he was a child.
News about thieves breaking into Wayne Manor.
I finally know how terrifying it is that Catwoman, the leader of the Four Snitches, can steal all over Gotham.
Picking up the plant samples that Alfred had collected in advance, Batman began to study them non-stop, but just as he thought of Catwoman, his thoughts spread again.
Although he knew that Catwoman might not be stumped by such an attack, Batman could not help but be a little worried. To a certain extent, his worries were justified, because when the plants first started to move, Catwoman was frightened.
A big jump.
After Bruce came to live in her house in the slums, the original rented house could no longer be lived in, so Catwoman moved to Living Hell, but it was too far from the North District where she often worked, so later
She still moved to an apartment closer to the north.
The houses here are relatively old. They were built more than 40 years ago, not long after Falcone came to Gotham. They are relatively traditional stone buildings, and there are also many illegal constructions.
When the rain first started, Catwoman just came back from wandering around the North District. Today's harvest was quite good, so she was in a good mood. But when she got the key to open the door, the key of the gem necklace in her pocket
The key got scratched and she had to stand at the door to unlock it.
Catwoman was concentrating on untying the necklace entangled with the key ring when she felt something moving in the shadow of the light on her right side. She paused, took a step back slightly, and then turned around.
I looked around and found there was nothing there.
"This damn old house..." Catwoman muttered in a low voice. In the corner of her vision, the moss that originally grew on the cracks of the bricks stretched out its dense legs and crawled towards the door lock.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"
Screams pierced the sky above the apartment building. In the next three seconds, the door of Catwoman's apartment was conservatively estimated to have been stabbed more than a hundred times.
The frightened Catwoman's first reaction was not to run away, but to attack wildly at the moving moss, and her behavior was completely unintentional.
The sparks carved by the blade on the iron door pushed back the moss, and like a mouse, the moss ran into the shadows along the corner of the corridor and disappeared.
Catwoman gasped in shock, and then she realized that it was not a ghost, but a piece of moss. She cursed in a low voice and looked at the dark corridor and the key that was still far away from being unlocked.
I had to rush to the corridor window, opened it, jumped out, and climbed to the roof along the water pipe.
Then I saw fire splashing on the ground, three gangsters running from south to north chasing two trees with legs, and a group of children holding torches and chasing vines that kept extending forward, running from north to south.
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"What's going on? Why do plants have legs?!" Catwoman narrowed her eyes in surprise.
Catwoman is somewhat afraid of ghosts, but what she is afraid of are the kind of ghosts that are visible and intangible, and will come out of the shadows to scare people.
As long as such things can be attacked, they are the ones who should run away. Her mentality is also the mentality of most people in Gotham. They are afraid of ghosts, but those who can be attacked are not ghosts.
After discovering that the muzzle flash was useful for these mutated plants, the nature of the matter changed. The first reaction of Gotham people was not "What ghost is this?" but "This is not a ghost at all!"
Catwoman squatting on the roof scratched her head, somewhat confused about the current situation, but she knew that someone could figure it all out.