Chapter 769: Schiller the Match Seller (Part 2)

Because it was still raining outside, before leaving the dormitory building, Victor took an umbrella and put on a raincoat, and buckled the hood of the raincoat to cover the rain hitting his face.

This is a truth he learned after coming to Gotham. In the rainy night of Gotham, umbrellas cannot completely protect against rain, at least, except for Schiller's umbrella, they can't.

Victor walked out the door and planned to check who was still wandering around the teacher's dormitory building so late.

He thought it might be a student who got drunk at a party. Such things often happen in Gotham University, and if he was left alone, he would probably freeze to death in the rainy night of the typhoon.

Victor walked around the dormitory building and came to the direction of the dormitory window from the side path, but there was no one here.

Victor checked the ground and found no obvious footprints, but in the puddle next to it, there were some inconspicuous traces of walking.

Following the trail all the way west, Victor found that he was close to the laboratory building of Gotham University. He frowned, but there was no nervous look on his face. Obviously, he was prepared.

Suddenly, there was a "bang" sound from the second floor of the laboratory building. Victor picked up his umbrella and walked into the laboratory building quickly. When he came to the second floor, he saw a stranger frozen into an ice sculpture in the corridor.

He didn't look like a student. In addition to his age, his clothes were not the same.

He was wearing a blue uniform and a white hood on his head. There was a circle of furry edges, which looked a bit like the costumes of the Inuit. He also wore blue goggles with two black horizontal bars on the glasses.

This outfit stunned Victor. Even in Gotham, this can be classified as a strange costume.

Victor took another look at the weather outside. He was very sure that it was definitely not cold enough to wear such clothes. So why did the other party dress like this? To prevent his own freezing device in advance?

However, Victor thought that when his freezing device freezes people, the people inside are not cold.

The biggest advantage of the freezing device is that everything inside can be completely maintained in its original state, with first-class preservation performance. People staying inside will not feel cold, but just can't move.

Victor came to the man, one hand on his waist, one hand holding the freezing gun, showing a very puzzled expression, he asked: "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

The person trapped in the ice sculpture was also very helpless. He had never seen such ice-making technology, although he himself was also famous for making low temperatures.

Captain Cold, a villain who also came from Central City, has a freezing gun that can create absolute zero. In a certain universe of the comics, he also teamed up with Mr. Freeze to fight Superman.

But now in this universe, whether in terms of technical level or social status, Captain Cold can only be said to be a low-profile version of Mr. Freeze.

After all, Mr. Freeze is no longer Mr. Freeze, but Professor Victor, a guest of honor of the entire Gotham gang.

It can be said that Victor Freese is absolutely safe walking on the streets of Gotham City at night, because all the gangs will provide him with protection. If something happens to him, no one will maintain the huge cold storage.

Since the last time the cryogenic laboratory almost lost power, Victor has installed various protection devices for his laboratory, including the freezing ray guns arranged in two corridors.

There are not many people coming to the laboratory, and most of them are on the white list. Even if a student accidentally breaks in, it will not cause any harm if he is frozen. Just adjust the freezing gun to another gear to thaw smoothly.

However, the person caught this time is obviously not a student who accidentally broke in. It seems that he is a miscreant with other intentions.

"How did you do it?" Captain Cold in the Ice asked: "This is impossible. How can this be ice? How can ice not be cold?"

Victor observed him carefully and found that he was also holding a gun in his hand, and at this time, some white mist was coming out of the muzzle of the gun.

Victor squatted down and carefully observed the gun. From some parts, he saw that this should also be a gun that can be refrigerated.

"Are you also a cryographer?" Victor looked up and down at Captain Cold, and Captain Cold snorted and said, "Of course, no scientist in the world has the ability like me. I can create absolute zero in an instant..."

Victor opened his mouth, touched his chin, and then said, "Have you not paid attention to journals recently? Haven't you paid attention to the recent low-temperature physics community?"

"Absolute zero is no longer a difficult problem for humans in low-temperature physics. Among the six cutting-edge papers published recently, only one is related to this. The hottest topic now is dense ice, which may be the development direction of new materials in the future..."

"Dense...dense ice?" Captain Cold repeated the word and asked, "What is that? Is it also a kind of ice? As long as it is ice..."

Victor covered his forehead and said, "Are you really a physicist? Do you really not read any papers? And you don't pay attention to the news in the industry?"

"Now, ice is divided into two types: narrow ice and broad ice. The so-called narrow ice is what we often call ordinary ice cubes, while broad ice includes dense ice or the same special ice that can meet certain material science requirements. Now, low-temperature physics is moving towards material science. You..."

Victor hesitated and said, "You wear this clothes, can't it be because you can't resist the low temperature you create?"

Captain Cold immediately showed a gnashing expression. He tried to tighten his muscles and asked loudly: "So, how did you do it? How can ice not be cold? Is it still ice if it's not cold?!"

"Do you think ice must be cold?" Another voice appeared in the corridor. Victor turned around and was at the end of the corridor. He saw Schiller's figure, and then he heard Schiller say:

"In this world, not everything should be the same as it was when it was born. Ice is like this, and so are people. Ice can change, and people can be educated. I think you just lack a certain education."

Schiller's voice became colder and colder. Victor unconsciously stepped back and made way. He saw Schiller walked in front of Captain Cold's ice sculpture, took out a piece of paper from his pocket, and then took out a pen and asked: "Name?"

"Why should I answer you?" Captain Cold raised his voice.

"I guess you are here to pick up your friend, right? The guy named Sam?" Schiller said without raising his head: "I don't know if he has told you that he has a curse left by me. If I don't remove it for him, he will die tomorrow."

"You..." Captain Cold gritted his teeth and said: "You despicable guy! Murder is a crime!"

"Oh, I forgot, you guys don't kill people." Schiller looked up at Captain Cold and said: "But I'm sorry, I kill people."

Captain Cold and Mirror Master both belong to the Rogue Gang in Central City. The name of the Rogue Gang sounds a bit vicious, but in fact, this gang is very principled.

The gang rules they formulated are even stricter than the student rules of elementary school. In addition to not being able to kill people, they can't even urinate anywhere. It can be said that they are a group of villains with a very high moral bottom line in DC.

A high moral bottom line has its advantages, but it also has disadvantages, especially when they are locked up.

"Leonard Snart." Captain Cold said reluctantly.

"Age?... Never mind, it's definitely not the school age anyway." Schiller drew a line on this line and said, "But it doesn't matter. We don't look at age here, we only look at level. Your education background is..."

"High school graduate." Captain Cold replied.

Victor widened his eyes and said, "You didn't go to college?? Then how did you develop this gun? The liquid storage technology and firing device technology here are very advanced, and they are very similar to the one I'm using now. If you didn't go to college, where did you learn these things?"

Captain Cold moved his eyelids, as if he didn't want to talk about this question, but seeing Schiller and Victor staring at him, he said, "My parents don't care about me. I went to prison and taught myself there."

Victor widened his eyes, looked at him again, and said, "Self-taught? Can this be self-taught? This..."

Suddenly. He took a deep breath, looked at Schiller and said, "Have you filled out the registration form? I will take him to the Academic Affairs Office to register. He will first go to the Technical College to adapt for two days. He can follow the first batch of students to enter the college, and then he can look at the scientific research qualifications..."

Schiller handed him the registration form and asked with a smile, "Now, who wants to sell matches?"

Victor smiled, took the registration form, waved it in front of Captain Cold, and said, "Now, I can help you unfreeze, but you have to come with me to register..."

"Register? Register for what?"

"Register to go to college." Schiller replied, "No matter what the reason is, you didn't go to college, and now this Professor, Victor Fries, the world's most famous cryogenics expert, has determined that you have the potential to become a cryogenic physicist and has extended an olive branch to you. "

Before Captain Cold could say anything, Schiller continued, "I want to warn you in advance that this opportunity only comes once. If you miss it, you will be forever isolated from the academic world."

"What I want to say is that I really want to learn this technology." Captain Cold replied, "This is really amazing. It can freeze people into ice, but they don't feel cold at all. I have never seen such a technology!"

"It seems that you don't need to force a sale." Schiller rolled his eyes. He looked at Victor and said, "Your luck is always better than mine."

Victor said happily, "Of course."

After Victor used the freezing gun to thaw Captain Cold, he did not run away, but looked at the ice on the ground very seriously. He said, "How to solve this thing? Will it melt?"

"No, it will sublimate directly, but it will not absorb heat. I can't tell you the specific principle now, but you will definitely learn it in the future. "

When they arrived at Victor and Schiller's office, Mirror Master and Captain Cold stared at each other. Schiller stood between them, stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers, saying, "I don't want to pursue who called whom. Since you are all enrolled, you are classmates. Go back to sleep now. Tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock, class will start..."

Mirror Master and Captain Cold looked at each other, and finally, the two left the office. On the way to the dormitory, Mirror Master said, "What's wrong with you? How did he catch you?"

"He has mastered a new cryogenic technology that I have never seen before, but this is not the point..." Captain Cold looked around and said, "Sam, you are still young and don't understand many things. You don't really think that following Savage will get any good results, right?"

"But he is really an immortal! He knows a lot of things we don't understand, and he may really rule the world!" Mirror Master retorted.

"You think he knows a lot of things we don't understand, just because you know too little." Captain Cold said very calmly, "Do you remember what I said at the beginning?"

"Even if we want to be a villain who rules the world, we must rely on our own strength. Others can never be relied on."

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