Chapter 443: Snowstorm Begins (Part 2)

The faint laughter was swallowed up in the blizzard, and did not spread too far in the howling cold wind, so Bruce did not hear it.

At this time, he was in the guest room on the other side of the manor, changing into his bat suit.

Before, he went to the helicopter to get the aircraft engine, not entirely to be angry with Lex. In fact, because Selina could only take some portable equipment that was not so heavy, a whole set of bat suits and bat equipment were left on the helicopter, and Bruce took them together when he went to get the engine.

Just like Lex, after the three separated, they actually did not follow the original plan. Except for Clark who went to the reception room to check because he received a mysterious call suddenly, Lex and Bruce had their own additional plans.

Lex's primary goal was to go to the bathroom to deal with Lionel's body. He did not intend to find the entrance himself, but wanted to wait for Bruce and Clark to finish their work and then take advantage of it.

Bruce had expected this, so he didn't plan to work for Lex. His plan was to put on a full set of bat gear after returning to the guest room, and then use his own method to make an entrance.

Although going through the door is a more civilized way, Batman rarely uses this method. Rather than betting on who of the three of them will find the entrance first, or whether they will share it with others after finding it, it is better to do it yourself and have enough food and clothing.

Since the entrance is underground, theoretically, as long as a passage leading to the underground can be made, it is equivalent to an entrance, so Batman's plan is to build a bomb and blow it up directly.

There are no usable materials in the mansion of the mayor's manor, but Bruce went to get the helicopter engine, in fact, not to compete with Lex, he originally wanted to use the helicopter engine to transform a bomb.

Of course, the engine alone is not enough, he also has to remove some other parts from the helicopter, but fortunately, except for him, no one can go to the roof of the building next to him, so the several helicopters there have become his material warehouse.

At this time, he was assembling this slightly larger bomb in the guest room. He moved very quickly, trying to make it before the other two people found the entrance, and then become the first person to enter the underground.

After Batman worked hard here for a while, he finally made a bomb that looked a little rough, but in fact, it was very powerful, much more powerful than the micro-bomb he brought, enough to blow up the ground and open a passage.

He carried the bomb to the balcony, then lowered it with a rope, then jumped down himself, and then brought the bomb to the courtyard in the middle of the manor.

The reason why he didn't go indoors was because he was worried that the explosion was too powerful, which would affect the building structure. Once the manor collapsed, the residents might be in danger, which was not what Batman wanted.

After the bomb was set up, not long after, a violent explosion sounded, and the ceiling of the entire manor shook violently, and countless powder and dust fell down.

It turns out that this directional blasting bomb is very useful, and the basement of the manor is not very deep. After the explosion, a visible entrance appeared in front of Batman, but it was pitch black underneath and the situation was unclear.

With a "hiss", Batman threw a flare down. After a short period of strong light, the scene inside was illuminated. It seemed to be just an abandoned cellar. Batman frowned, not sure if he had found the right place.

He took out a detector from his belt and threw it down again. He observed the changes in the readings on the screen. After watching for a while, Batman jumped down.

After going down, it was just like the scene seen outside. It was really just an abandoned cellar of the manor, with a pile of wooden shelves and barrels, and it didn't seem to have any secrets.

A door in the corner caught Batman's attention, because he found that there was a faint light behind the door, which did not look like the oil lamp or candle light used in British manors, but rather the cold light emitted by modern lighting systems.

Batman walked over, but he didn't push the door rashly. Instead, he stood at a distance and threw a batarang at the door.

"Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh!" The voice rang out, and Batman rolled to the side flexibly, came to the corner of the room, and avoided the shooting of the mini machine gun on the roof.

After the door was opened, a corridor full of technology appeared behind the door, with a floor made of metal splicing, and lighting strips on the walls and ceiling. There were two automatic mini machine guns mounted on the ceiling not far away.

The style here is completely different from the manor on the ground. Batman was alert. He was stuck in the blind spot of the machine gun shooting and threw batarangs at the machine gun. After a few darts, both mini machine guns flashed with electric sparks and could no longer fire.

After Batman walked into the corridor, he threw another flare to the front. He found that there seemed to be a place like a central hall in front, but the lights there were not on, as if the lighting system was broken.

Walking along the corridor, there is indeed a central hall. In addition to the corridor we came from, there are three other corridors in three directions. One of the corridors is lit, and the other three corridors are dark.

Batman did not choose to go to the corridor with lights first, but walked towards the corridor closest to him, and then threw a flare over. He found that it was a dead end, but there were two rooms on both sides of the wall.

After entering the first room, there was a preparation room with gloves, protective clothing, masks, masks, etc. Seeing these, Batman took out a gas mask and put it on, because he knew that there might be a biochemical laboratory ahead.

Sure enough, there was a radiation sign painted on the door of another room on the same side. At this time, the lighting system in the corridor was not on. Judging from the situation in the preparation room, the entire corridor was out of power, which means that the door of this room is likely no longer radiation-proof and sealed.

Batman took out the reading device, but the radiation level displayed on it was completely normal. After hesitating for a while, he decided to break in.

Although the door may no longer be airtight, it still took Batman some effort to open it. After successfully making a hole in the door, Batman walked in. There was still no light here, and various experimental equipment were scattered on the ground.

There was no radiation source here, or rather, the radiation source had been moved. Batman looked at the broken container on the ground and frowned deeply.

The entire laboratory was very ordinary, and there were no specimens or live animals used for experiments, but soon, Batman found some information.

"No. 3221 Experimental Log 1, today's test subjects showed no obvious abnormalities, and their eating and activity reactions were normal. After discussion, the radiation dose was increased..."

"No. 3221 Experimental Log 2, today's test subjects had mild dizziness and nausea, decreased appetite, and stiff limb activity reactions. The dose was increased twice..."

Batman flipped through it. It seemed to be an experimental log of a radiation experiment. It did not clearly explain what the test subjects and radiation sources were. Batman read all the previous parts and then saw the last log.

"No. 3221 Experiment Log 35, the cancer cell proliferation in the test subject today is unstoppable and is determined to be incurable. The subject has no obvious conscious activity, cannot eat, and has no limb movement reaction..."

"Conclusion, no beneficial mutation was found in the No. 01 radiation source, and all test subjects suffered from incurable cancer..."

After reading the summary, Batman put the information down and turned to leave the corridor, because he just saw from the records that there was a morgue in this underground base.

Although it was expected, Batman still felt suffocated for a moment when he entered the morgue in another corridor and saw the densely packed morgue cabinets.

From the degree of wear on the handles of the morgue cabinets, it can be seen that this place was once overcrowded, and there may be hundreds of people who have undergone this inhumane radiation experiment.

After Batman walked up with anger, he opened the cabinet of one of the corpses. A "bang" sound came, and Batman instinctively rolled to the side, but nothing attacked him.

What popped out of the sliding drawer cabinet was a sign with red paint, which read: "Please go to the monitoring room at the end of corridor 3, where I have a surprise for you."

There was a very rough smiley face painted under the sign, and Batman knew without thinking that it was left by the Joker.

Batman took a few deep breaths, but he did not do it immediately. Instead, he explored the morgue, but there was no body here.

Now the only thing he knew was that the mysterious radiation source might cause ordinary people to get cancer. As for what Lex said, Lionel found that a certain radiation could improve people's physique and wisdom, it looked more like a scam.

After searching in several other corridors, most of the other rooms were laboratories with various functions, but the equipment inside was a little dusty, and it seemed that no one had used it for a long time.

Batman found a paper document clue in the last laboratory. It was an incomplete document, but the information mentioned above was very important. They said that the so-called radiation source No. 01 was actually an alien mineral called "kryptonite".

Because some scientists found that this alien mineral has special radioactivity, so they want to study whether this mineral can make ordinary people mutate. However, after the first experiment failed, they did not give up, but conducted more experiments.

Batman didn't know where they got the confidence from, thinking that this radiation would have a positive effect on people. Perhaps there is a lot of information behind it that he doesn't know.

After investigating all the rooms in this corridor, he went to the next corridor step by step, and was not disrupted by the Joker's prompts.

After walking to the end of another dark corridor, there was a door with an exaggerated shape, which seemed to lead to a huge space, but there was no keyhole on it, and the micro-bomb did not cause any damage to the door.

Batman tried for a while and found that he could not open the door with his current equipment, so he came to the corridor with lights on.

At the end of the corridor, Batman appeared in front of three walls of surveillance screens, and the light of the screen was focused on a chair in the center of the room.

Just after Batman walked into the room, the chair slowly turned around, but there was no one on it.

On the chair were three round bat dolls. And a lot of bat lollipops.

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