Chapter 954: Schiller's Bad Luck (Part 2)

After Batman and Zatanna's souls returned to their bodies, they ignored Constantine who left in a hurry. Batman helped Zatanna, whose soul power was exhausted, to the lounge and let her rest in the life support chamber. Then he received a call from Schiller.

Schiller told him on the phone that the key to the citizens' madness and plant mutations this time might be that it had been raining since the disaster, and Batman just speculated so.

Since the beginning of the disaster, there are actually only two types of disasters surrounding Gotham, one is fog and the other is rain.

It is known that the fog was arranged by Zatanna to block the spirit world and prevent the black magician from getting the evil curse, so the only thing that cannot be explained is rain.

Gotham often rains, but it is not raining 24 hours a day all year round, never stopping. However, since the beginning of the disaster, the dark clouds over Gotham have never dissipated, and the rain has not even stopped for a few minutes, but for several days.

Schiller's method of dispersing rain clouds or blocking rain can indeed stop disasters the fastest, and Batman does have a corresponding plan, but his plan is basically based on the transformation of Gotham's basic buildings.

Originally in his plan, as long as Gotham could be built into a complete beehive, everyone could live in the city buildings without having to go out in the rain. Ventilation and water use were solved by equipment made by Batman, which was not only convenient but also avoided danger.

However, to achieve this effect, at least all the basic transformation projects in Gotham need to be completed, and now there is still a long way to go before this effect can be achieved. In short, this is a slow-acting medicine, and Gotham's experience this time is an acute disease.

But when it comes to the method of reversing the weather in a short period of time, one person has to be mentioned, that is Lex, who is also studying at Gotham University.

Before, he and Bruce had a competition on a subject, and the subject he was studying at the time was how to change Gotham's weather. Although it was not completely successful in the end, Batman knew that he should have achieved some results.

So, Batman planned to leave the Batcave and go to Lex to see if his previous research results could be used. As long as he could solve the problem of the citizens going crazy first, he could free up his hands to track down the real culprit.

But as soon as he left the Batcave, he was stunned by the scene in front of him. Standing on the hillside with a good view, he could clearly see that the whole city was swallowed up by green. It was not vines, but one after another of broccoli of different heights.

It didn't look like broccoli had invaded Gotham City, but it looked like Gotham City had entered the territory of broccoli. From a bird's-eye view, broccoli looked like the natives of this land, while those high-rise buildings looked like spikes that suddenly grew between the dark green canopies.

Seeing this picture, Batman's first reaction was that Schiller might be in trouble.

So he hurriedly drove the Batcopter to Rodriguez Manor, and as expected, he saw Schiller slumped on the sofa.

At this time, Schiller was leaning on the armrest of the sofa, holding a cup of water and shaking constantly. Next to him was Merkel, who looked guilty. When Batman turned his head, he could see the huge broccoli blocking the entire right side of the living room.

Batman was sure that Schiller's hands were shaking unconsciously, and judging from the frequency of his chest rising and falling, he should be having difficulty breathing. Cold sweat kept coming out of his forehead, and his mind was a little unclear.

Batman had never expected that Schiller's allergic symptoms to broccoli were really so serious.

According to the information he knew, there was no need to confirm that Schiller hated broccoli, but there were degrees of hatred.

Before, he had heard that Victor had always talked about Schiller rushing to the kitchen during a dinner and shooting at broccoli, but this sounded more like an exaggerated joke between friends, and Victor occasionally liked to make such jokes.

Moreover, when Schiller switched his personality before, he had eaten broccoli, which meant that it was not his body that was allergic to broccoli, which meant that there could be no serious physiological allergic reaction.

Batman thought that at most, he just didn't like it and felt disgusted. After all, no one would have thought that a mysterious person who could turn into mist and whose true strength had never been seen through by anyone would actually have a weakness of broccoli. This sounded absurd.

Constantine had the same idea as him. Constantine didn't even consider any physical or psychological allergies. He just wanted to disgust Schiller and avenge him for hitting him with an umbrella.

In his opinion, how much can a person hate broccoli? At most, he would not eat or see it. If such a person's life is full of broccoli, what serious consequences will it bring? At most, he would feel incredible and disgusted.

Broccoli only invaded Gotham, not the whole world. At most, he would leave Gotham, and there would not be any great harm.

The deal that Constantine made with the Green of All Things was to let him turn all the mutated plants into broccoli. On the one hand, it could limit the crazy patients running around the streets and prevent them from infecting others. On the other hand, it could disgust Schiller and avenge his previous attack on him.

So, Constantine also rushed to Rodriguez Manor at a very fast speed. He was afraid that if he was a little later, Schiller would leave Gotham. In that case, there would be no point in doing all this. His purpose was to rush to laugh at Schiller as soon as possible.

So, when Constantine saw Schiller, who was in extremely poor condition and looked even terminally ill, he also froze in place.

Constantine turned to look at Batman and said, "What's wrong with him? I feel like his pupils are a little dilated?"

Batman looked at Constantine with a cold look and said, "You ask me? There are only three people who have seen the huge broccoli. Excluding me and Zatanna, who else is left?"

Constantine opened his mouth and then argued, "Why exclude you and Zatanna? The three of us are eyewitnesses. Maybe you want to take revenge on Schileka for your thesis..."

Constantine deliberately raised his voice in the second half of his sentence. Obviously, he wanted to put the blame on Batman, but Batman was not fooled at all. He said, "Zatanna and I are eyewitnesses to each other. During the time when our souls returned to our bodies, neither of us left the Batcave. Only you had time to commit the crime... …”

“But you have no evidence.” Constantine refuted again: “If you didn’t also not allow me to smoke in the Batcave, how could I leave there? Besides, you said you and Zatanna were in the Batcave, who knows if it was a projection you made or something else? Your alibi is also incomplete…”

Just as the two of them were blaming each other, suddenly, the door of the manor was pushed open, Jason ran in, and then screamed, “Oh! God! Professor, I knew it!”

“When I saw so much broccoli, I knew you must have had an accident!”

Jason hurried to Schiller’s side, first touched his forehead with his hand, and found it was a little hot, then touched his pulse, and found that his pulse was normal, but his breathing rate was a little too fast.

So he looked up and said to Merkel: "Mr. Butler, there should be sedatives in the manor. If not, sleeping pills will do. Can you go get them?"

Merkel subconsciously went to get them, but suddenly he paused and said with some doubt: "But shouldn't anti-allergic drugs be used for allergic reactions? I'll go get anti-allergic drugs..."

Jason shook his head and said: "This is not a physiological allergic reaction. It seems to be a stress reaction caused by psychological stimulation, so sedatives are needed..."

Constantine walked up and looked at Jason and said: "Can psychological allergies be so serious?"

"This is not a psychological allergy." Jason emphasized again, he said: "There is no such disease as psychological allergy, only mental allergies. The stress response symptoms caused by stimulation or re-experience are completely different from normal allergic reactions. "

"For example, if something has caused you deep harm, then when you see it again, you will associate it with these harms."

"This kind of association and memory will cause a certain stimulation to the mind. At this time, it is possible to trigger a stress response. It looks like you are allergic to this thing, but in fact, the physical weakness comes from the mind, not the body organs. "

Merkel turned to find sedatives, and Batman turned to look at Constantine. Constantine cleared his throat and said, "You can't blame me. I haven't studied psychology. Okay, I will take care of this matter."

He shrugged and said: "Although I haven't studied psychology, I can also solve this problem through mystical means. Give me some time, I will prepare the magic circle..."

Just as he turned to leave, Merkel frowned, came down with a box, and said, "I remember that there were some sedatives here before, but it seems that they are all used up..."

Jason took the box, rummaged through it, and said, "None of these medicines will work. Otherwise, let's send Professor Schiller to the hospital first."

Merkel suddenly thought of something, he walked quickly to the phone, and said, "I'll call Dr. Brand and ask him to send some medicine. He is Mr. Schiller's old classmate and should be happy to help."

After that, he called Brand, and after a while, Brand Victor and Brand arrived. As soon as Brand arrived, he complained: "What happened to this city? What kind of weird disasters are these?"

"I have seen large-scale invasions of ghosts and lonely souls. I have seen demons trying to devour cities, but I have never seen broccoli invade cities. What do they want? They ask humans not to dip them in sauce when eating them?!"

Victor bent down and touched Schiller's forehead, while Brand walked up and fed Schiller a sedative. He said helplessly: "After being with Schiller for so long, didn't you realize that he is actually a mental patient?"

He glanced at everyone in the room, then sighed and said: "Forget it, this is the harm of being uneducated."

"The emotions of autistic people are usually different from those of ordinary people. They are also stimulated by different things than adults. Things that are very common to ordinary people, can be seen everywhere in daily life, and no one is afraid of them, can also stimulate their spirits and make them suddenly excited."

"In some schools that allow autistic people to enroll, you can see that many children will suddenly yell and burst into intense emotions. You think it is inexplicable, but in fact, he may just be stimulated by something or a behavior in daily life."

Constantine wanted to quibble, but seeing Batman's increasingly aggressive death stare, he waved his hand and said, "Okay, I am uneducated. I am not a person who can be ... Because it's just a joke, forget it, I'll take care of it. "

After saying that, he was about to set up the magic circle, but at this moment, with a "bang", the door of the manor was pushed open, and a group of fully armed agents rushed into the manor. The leader, a black man, walked in, showed his ID to Schiller and said:

"FBI."

Then, he put the ID back into his chest pocket and said to Schiller:

"Schiller Rodriguez, after our investigation, you violated the Espionage Act and were formally arrested on multiple charges including espionage, illegal surveillance, and endangering federal security."

Everyone was stunned, but at this time, Schiller seemed to have just come to his senses. He stood up weakly, with his hands on the umbrella handle to stabilize the center of gravity of his body.

After a pause of a few seconds, Schiller said in a slightly hoarse voice:

"I am an agent of the Soviet State Security Committee..." Then, he looked into the eyes of the agent leader and said word by word: "...I am also the organizer and leader of the Central American revolutionary activities. I want to apply for important witness protection."

When his voice fell, everyone, including the FBI agent opposite, was stunned.

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