Chapter 579 We Are the Same (Part 2)
In the laboratory of Gotham University, the confrontation continued. Now Lex had the upper hand. His advantage was too great.
The Joker had the property of mental crit against Batman, while the physical crit was left to Mr. Freeze's technology. Lex's wisdom coordinated the two and made them achieve perfect tactical cooperation. Therefore, Batman was in a very bad situation now.
Lex waved his hand, and the ubiquitous cold mist slowed down Batman's movements. His evasive action was delayed for only a moment, and an ice cone flew past his waist, cutting open his bat armor and leaving a big hole on his waist.
The crazy laughter made Batman dizzy, and with the extremely low temperature, he felt that his thinking was a little sluggish.
In order to avoid the ice cone, Batman moved his body to the side, but his center of gravity was a little unstable. Because the ground was too slippery, he staggered, his shoulder hit the desk, and he groaned.
"Batman! Hahahaha! Batman! Is this you? Who is unarmed now? Who is losing again and again? Do you want to save Gotham with this? What a joke, hahahahaha!
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Lex attacked with words and physical attacks at the same time. Although he was not as crazy as Jack, his physical attack was much higher than Jack, so Batman was even more embarrassed.
Batman's tactics against the Joker are mainly aimed at clowns like Jack, who have high mental attacks and low physical attacks. The result of only focusing on magic defense but not physical defense is that when encountering an enemy with physical armor-piercing attacks, there is no good defense and you can only dodge.
What no one noticed was that a short figure who was in the laboratory before disappeared at this time. Cobblepot had already sneaked away, but he was not running for his life.
In order to avoid the cold mist, Batman's physical strength was consumed more and more. Finally, he couldn't hold on and revealed a flaw. He slid to the ground with a "bang", and Lex laughed crazily and raised the ice cone.
Suddenly, the door of the laboratory was opened again, and the two people who were fighting didn't react before they were frozen into ice.
Victor, with a gloomy face, appeared outside the door. Looking at the messy laboratory, he was furious and had a bad temper.
No researcher could allow his laboratory to be ruined like this. Victor didn't care about Batman or Joker.
Now, he only had two mischievous students in his eyes. Because of personal grudges, they made their teacher's experimental site like this. They were not only lawless, but also had no respect for teachers.
Victor took a deep breath, calmed down his murderous mood, and came to the middle of the two ice bodies.
He looked to the left first. Batman was still lying on the ground, looking like a victim of school bullying. Then he looked to the right. Although Lex was thin, he raised the ice cone high and looked very fierce.
Victor stood between them with his arms folded, saying, "Can anyone explain to me what the hell you are doing???"
"You! What's your name? Lex, right? You've messed up my lab on your first day here, and you're still going to college here for four years!"
"Oh my God, I should go to the communications office to check your parents' phone numbers and have them drop you out immediately!"
"And you, Bruce..."
Just as Victor said this, Batman's mouth moved, and judging by his lip shape, he was saying "Please call me Batman".
"Okay, Batman, if you insist on me calling you that." Victor understood what Batman meant, and he said, "But I hope you know that no matter what you are called, you are a student of Gotham University. You must abide by the school rules and not fight in school. This is the basic quality of every student!"
After that, he turned his head and looked at Lex and said, "What do you want to do by holding that thing? Can I understand that you are bullying in school? You are only in the first grade, and you dare to do such a thing. If Cobblepot hadn't come to me, what else would you do? Are you going to kill someone here?"
And Cobblepot, who ran to tip off the news, sat on the chair next to him, gloating at the two people who were scolded, and showed a very rare happy smile.
"Listen to me, both of you. Tomorrow... No! Right now! I'll call the teacher in the Academic Affairs Office right now! Ask him to come here and register your punishment. Don't try to talk back to me!"
"Oh, there's another one. Isn't this Thomas? You made a murder case before and put yourself in jail. What? Do you want to come here again to add some more time to your sentence?"
Just as Victor said this, the door was knocked. He turned around and Cobert stood up to open the door. It was Schiller who appeared outside the door.
Schiller nodded to Cobert and walked into the laboratory. After he came in, he looked at the two big pieces of ice in the room and was a little stunned. He asked: "What's going on? Why is it so lively here?"
"Schiller, you're just in time!" Victor walked to Schiller's side, pointed at the two ice and said, "Look at the two good students you taught!"
"He! He just came to my lab today and broke the most expensive and important equipment in the lab, and he still wants to bully people in school!"
"And look at his expression, he's still smiling, and he has no remorse, it's outrageous!" Victor's eyebrows were raised in anger.
"And him! Our Mr. Bruce Wayne..." At this point, the Batman in the ice moved his mouth again, and Victor took a deep breath and said: "Okay, Batman, our Mr. Batman!"
"He rushed into my lab in the middle of the night and fought with this Lex! I know he's not a good student, but I didn't expect him to be so bad!
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Schiller patted Victor on the shoulder, first calmed him down, then some gray mist spread around him, covering the entire room, and then he turned to Victor and said: "First, take them away. The freezing was unbuttoned, I heard what they said ... "" Do you still want to be a judge here? When I was in a teenager, I was a good student with excellent academic science! "Victor said angrily, and glanced at the two people while talking." Okay, OK, Victor, but you always allow this naughty ghost in the world, eliminate qi, first unlock the frozen, I guarantee that they can't run between the two ice, and then said: "You have to assure me that after the freezing is unlocked, you will not move, otherwise you will really be dropped out of school." Batman blinked first, and when he saw Schiller, he smiled and blinked. Victor snorted coldly and picked up the freezing gun in his hand again. After two rays were fired, the ice broke and both of them stood there motionless.
"Look, I said, they both admitted their mistakes well." Schiller turned around and patted Victor on the shoulder.
At this moment, the Joker instinctively wanted to laugh, and Batman quickly stepped forward and covered his mouth. "
"Shut up! I don't want to drop out of school! "Batman said in a low voice.
At this moment, Lex seemed to have regained some of his sanity. Before, he had used a lot of that freezing mist to deal with Batman, and the raw materials of this mist were all the blue liquid stored in his body.
As the liquid decreased, the Dionysus factor that fought against it no longer worked violently. Therefore, the crazy part of the Joker gradually faded away, and Lex slowly regained his sanity, and then he found that he seemed to have caused a big disaster.
He looked around the scene in the laboratory and knew that if he didn't admit his mistake now, his college career would end here.
Although this is the Gotham stage, the duel between Batman and the Joker is very interesting, but fighting in the laboratory and damaging research equipment will result in expulsion.
"Okay, tell me, what's going on? Why did you two fight? "Schiller looked at the two of them and asked. He really didn't know. He came to the lab to find Victor.
Schiller called Victor's dormitory, but no one answered. He thought Victor must have stayed up late to work in the lab, so he came here. Unexpectedly, he caught Batman and the Joker fighting.
Asked what was going on, Batman and Lex turned their heads and looked at Thomas, who was lying in the wreckage of the liquid storage device.
The two of them talked back and forth, trying to shift the blame to each other, and explained what was going on. Combined with the information Schiller had received from Hugo and Tetch, the truth of these murders was about to come out.
In order to obtain the basic resources to gain a foothold in Gotham, Hugo set his sights on the Elliot family. Because this family has only one heir, Thomas, he guided Thomas's heart. Some emotions made him want to kill his parents.
However, Thomas did not want to go to jail for murder, so Hugo gave him another plan to escape the crime, that is, first use Doris's murder case to go to jail, create an alibi for himself, and then Hugo made another murder case, linking the two murders together to become a serial murder case.
And because Thomas was already in jail, but the case continued to happen, there was a reason to escape the crime that he did not do the first case, so Thomas could escape the crime.
In order to achieve this goal, Hugo killed the second victim in the lounge of the gymnasium. The reason why he could come and go without a trace was that he did not do it himself, but used the same hypnosis method to control other students to do it.
The students who did it were very familiar with the situation in the stadium, and after doing it, they could immediately blend into the crowd, making it difficult for the police to find them.
Before this, Hugo also contacted the Mad Hatter Tetch, seemingly wanting to pull him into the plan, or to reach some other cooperation with him. However, Thomas's killing of Doris angered Tetch, who regarded his assistant's girlfriend as his lover because of his paranoia.
In Tetch's view, Thomas killed his lover, so if he wanted to avenge Thomas, he had to kill his lover.
So, Tetch used the brain wave controller to hypnotize Angel, guiding her jealous emotions and asking her to kill Thomas's fiancee, Berena.
However, because Tetch relied too much on the hypnotic controller in his hand, he ignored Angel's special personality attributes, which led to Angel's own perception of something wrong.
In the process of fighting with Tetch's control, Angel encountered many hallucinations. In order not to hurt her friends, she hurt herself on the way to kill.
In this way, three cases that looked very much like serial murders occurred.
Lex wanted to use Victor's laboratory to do experiments because of the topic assigned by Schiller. However, Thomas learned from his fiancée Belena that she was threatened and thought she would be in danger, so he escaped from prison and hurriedly found Belena's laboratory building where she often did experiments, and happened to meet Lex.
Batman, who chased Thomas here, accidentally broke the storage device of frozen raw materials, causing Lex to become a three-in-one villain. The two fought and almost destroyed the entire laboratory.
Cobblepot, who came here to kill Lex, saw this scene and certainly couldn't sit idly by. He directly adopted the most efficient method, which was to tell the teacher.
He found Victor who was sleeping in the dormitory and called him here. Victor was worthy of being an old frozen man. He froze both of them with two shots.
Schiller, who had just dug a pit for the culprits Hugo and Tetch, wanted to ask Victor for help, or to say, he left a viewing seat for his good friend Victor and planned to ask Victor to watch the fun together.
As a result, when Victor's dormitory was called, Victor had just been called away by Cobert, so the call could not be connected.
Schiller, who knew Victor's schedule well, knew that if he was not in the dormitory, he must be in the laboratory, so he also came here.
Several people gathered together like this.
After saying these things, everyone was indifferent. Schiller sighed and said to Batman in a very disappointed tone: "Bruce, how many times have I said, is there a future in practicing fighting every day? Did you beat him?"
Batman stood there silently, put on a serious posture, and said: "Call me Batman."
Schiller turned his head and looked at Lex and said: "And you, do you want to train yourself to the level of Superman, and then go and fight him?"
"The smart brains that you two are proud of are completely not working, right?" Schiller said, looking around the messy laboratory.
Batman looked up to observe the pattern of the ceiling, and Lex looked down to admire the brick seams on the ground.
"Both of you failed all the projects this time!" Schiller's last sentence finally broke their psychological defenses: "Your final grades are also!"
Lex and Batman turned to look at Schiller, and Schiller continued: "You didn't follow the school rules, caused such a big trouble, and your grades are so bad, you are only one step away from expulsion, do you know?"
Hearing this, Batman and Lex breathed a sigh of relief. Lex looked at Schiller and said: "Professor, I'm sorry, but I am very willing to make amends. I will donate a laboratory building... Oh, no, it's two most advanced laboratory buildings, including all the equipment and the necessary experimental raw materials, for ten years..."
Batman curled his lips and said: "Energy system and lighting system, permanent."
"Do you think this can impress me?" Schiller's expression remained unchanged. He said, "Even if this can solve the problem you have caused, what about the problem of grades?"
After a pause, Schiller continued, "You should have swung your fists enough. Next, it's time to test your genius brain to make sure it is not rusty."
"Batman, later, one of the culprits of this incident will come to you in your dream. I don't think you need me to teach you what to do, right?"
"In addition..." Schiller looked into Batman's eyes and said, "There is another person who also took this exam. His name is Clark. I don't think you should want to lose to him."
Batman immediately narrowed his eyes, turned his mouth down, and revealed that classic expression.
After Batman left, Lex looked at Schiller and asked, "Professor, what about me? What should I take the exam? I think I can also deal with Clark's opponent..."
Schiller, who was walking forward, stopped, turned around, looked into Lex's eyes, and said, "Lex Luthor, we are the same person..."
"So, your opponent is me."
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