Chapter 1009 Is This Batman? (Part 1)

Watching Schiller being carried into the emergency room, Batman heard hurried footsteps in the corridor behind him. Oliver and Clark ran over, followed by Zatanna. Clark, who ran over first, said anxiously, "What's wrong? Is the professor okay?"

"I don't know yet." Batman shook his head again. Clark took a deep breath, walked forward and gently pushed Batman's shoulder, then said, "Can you tell me what's going on? Why did Professor Schiller suddenly..."

Batman was about to speak, but Clark took the lead and said, "Listen, Bruce, I was a little impulsive before. I know this matter may be complicated, and you are not the murderer, but since you are here, you should protect Professor Schiller as an ordinary person. This is our responsibility."

Clark relaxed his shoulders and lowered his head. He nodded and said, "These things should not involve a university professor at all. It will bring great danger to him."

"Things are complicated, but I don't have time to explain it from the beginning." Batman tilted his head and glanced at Zatanna. Zatanna took off her hat and sighed, "Okay, it's all my fault. When Schiller and Constantine come back, I will apologize to them, but my anxiety is not without reason. Everything is really going in the worst direction, isn't it?"

Zatanna looked very tired, or in other words, she was the worst among all the people. Although Batman experienced all kinds of hardships in hell, at that time, he was in a soul state and could not eat, drink or rest, but Zatanna in the real world could not.

Zatanna arranged several portals, almost exhausted all her strength, and traveled back and forth between the human world, the spirit world and hell. At this time, she had no power to release magic.

"We'll talk about the apology later. We first need to know what happened to Schiller, and then we have to solve the chaos in Gotham." Batman turned his head and looked out the window.

At this time, Gotham City was strangely quiet. During the time when Batman left Gotham and went to hell, the citizens of Gotham were not idle, especially those former super criminals with special abilities. After the righteous Batman left, they became the saviors of Gotham.

The virus that makes people crazy did cause a lot of panic when it first spread, but after experiencing the initial chaos, many people also reacted. The first one to find out that something was wrong was Jason.

He thought that he had been scratched and had a high fever when he went to deliver food to the gangsters before, and it was Professor Schiller who saved him in the end. Recalling this experience in his mind, Jason instinctively found the doubts.

If we infer according to normal logic, it should be the person who scratched him who spread the virus to him, but if we continue to infer, then the person who scratched Jason should also have been scratched by someone else, so he went crazy.

But the situation at that time was that the house on Poyulou Street collapsed, and the gangs from the nearby area went to rescue the disaster. The gangs are not easy to mess with. If someone suddenly fought while they were rescuing the disaster, it would definitely cause a riot, and Jason would definitely have heard about it.

If someone had scratched someone else before Jason went there to deliver food, causing someone to go crazy and a fight to break out, then Jason would definitely not have heard about it, that is, the person who scratched Jason had never been scratched by others before.

In this case, he should be the source of the virus, and the virus should be investigated from him, but at this time, Jason recalled another detail.

After Jason was scratched, he felt severe pain. Jason had been injured in street fights before, and he knew how painful the scratches should be, but at that time, the pain caused by the wounds on his body was far beyond his imagination.

After the tire found that he was injured, he hurriedly took him back to the building of the first phase of the renovation project. But after entering the room, Jason felt that the pain of the wound was reduced a little, so he could lie on the bed and fall asleep.

And another more obvious clue is that Jason was caught and the wound was very deep, and he had a fever for a long time, and Schiller's rescue was not timely.

But during this period, he did not fall into madness. According to his subsequent investigation, he found that most people had fallen into madness within one or two hours after being scratched.

So, what exactly made him different from other infected people?

Jason thought about it carefully. The biggest difference between indoors and outdoors is that indoors will not get wet in the rain, and the biggest difference between him and other patients is that he recuperates in a room in the building of the first phase of the project.

What is the difference between the building of the renovation project and other buildings? Thinking of this, Jason grasped the key. Indeed, there are too many things inside the building of the first phase of the renovation project that are different from other buildings, but the most critical thing is the water source.

All the buildings undergoing the renovation project are equipped with new water purifiers. They have not directly drunk water that participates in the natural cycle for a long time. After Jason had a fever, Tire kept feeding him water, which made Jason feel much better.

Jason started an investigation on this point. He found that all residents who had lived in the first phase of the building would have a long period of fever after being infected. If they did not receive any treatment during this period, they might fall into madness, but the symptoms were much milder than those of people in other places.

After discovering that there might be problems with the drinking water source and rainwater, Jason immediately wanted to find Batman, but when he arrived at Wayne Manor, he only saw Zatanna who had just woken up from a coma.

Aisha and Dick were trapped in the school. All Gotham schools have adapted to this situation very well. At the first moment of chaos, the campus was directly blocked, so the loss was not heavy, but the students could not come out.

So Jason came to Gotham University and found his little friend Little Slippery. Little Slippery was not very proficient in chemistry, so he led Jason to find Victor. At that time, Victor was still holding a freezing gun to deal with the problem of infected people in Gotham University.

Victor, who had been busy for several days without sleep, also found that freezing all the infected people one by one would not solve the fundamental problem. He had to find the source of the virus to end the chaos.

The clues provided by Jason and Little Slip gave Victor inspiration. On the one hand, he took out a batch of freezing weapons from his cryogenic laboratory and handed them to Jason. He was very confident in this child recognized by Schiller and hoped that Jason could hand over these weapons to people who could make the most of him.

On the other hand, Victor himself took his students to various parts of Gotham to collect water samples and took the samples back to the laboratory for analysis to investigate whether there were really crazy substances in the water.

Jason and Little Slip got the freezing gun, but they did not publicize it immediately. They found a group of local children in Gotham, such as Tire and Red Truck, and listened to their opinions.

Finally, these weapons were handed over to Cobblepot. Under Alberto's instructions, the most elite direct members of the Falcone family led the elite of the twelve families and began patrolling in Gotham with freezing weapons.

Although it is necessary to find a way to cure the root cause, the chaos on the street must be stopped first. These gang members are elite killers trained by the twelve families with great efforts, so their shooting skills are naturally beyond words.

After getting the extremely convenient and efficient freezing weapons, each of them divided the area and began to patrol. Once an infected person was found, he would be frozen immediately.

At this time, the truck driver transportation network throughout Gotham came in handy again, and the clown Jack played an indispensable role.

After running a truck for a day, Jack went home and fell asleep. When he woke up, he found that Gotham was full of crazy people. He was ecstatic and thought it was a good time to chat with Batman, but unfortunately, his favorite bat was not in Gotham, which disappointed Jack.

Jack was very disappointed that no one shared such a big fun. He bought two bottles of wine and wanted to get drunk with Batman, but Batman was not there, so he could only drink alone.

After drinking two bottles of wine, Jack was drunk and turned into a puddle of mud. On the way home, he was scratched by a crazy drunkard, and two wounds appeared on his calf.

The crazy virus that infected Jack went in with its fangs and claws, and came out crying.

Although Jack was not infected at all, he was still very unhappy, not because of the capsize in the ditch, but because Batman was not around when he was injured.

Jack was very unhappy, but he did not go crazy, because he did not want to go crazy at a group of irrational and stupid lunatics. The best way for him to punish this group of lunatics was to find the truck drivers he was familiar with, so that all the frozen patients were transported to the cold storage where goods were usually stored.

This time, Batman owed the Joker another favor.

Until Batman returned to Gotham, the chaos in most urban areas had been resolved.

The infected patients were all frozen and stored in the cold storage, and they would be thawed together after the antidote was found.

The rest of the people were warned by the gangsters to stay indoors, so the streets were very clean, with nothing left except broccoli.

Batman was about to tell his solution when a series of hurried footsteps came from the end of the corridor. The one running up was Jason, who was wearing a raincoat and holding an umbrella. Batman glanced at the familiar umbrella in his hand, and then looked at Jason.

Jason, who had been running all the way, stopped to take a few breaths, looked at Batman and asked, "How is Professor Schiller? I heard he is in a coma."

"Yes, the doctors are rescuing him." Batman nodded. He thought Jason would be very anxious and ask him about the cause and effect of the matter, but unexpectedly, Jason took a deep breath, then looked at Batman and said:

"The preliminary test results of rainwater and drinking water sources in the Gotham University Low Temperature Laboratory have come out. Professor Victor called me and said that the situation is a bit complicated."

"I have never studied chemistry, and I used to listen to the gossip books. I just happened to hear Mr. Alfred say that you are back, so I found this place. You'd better go over there quickly and listen to Professor Victor's conclusion."

Batman bent down and looked into Jason's eyes. Jason seemed to know what he was going to ask and said, "I know that Professor Schiller is in a bad condition, but the most important thing now is to solve the troubles in Gotham City."

"I am anxious or worried here, and I can't provide any help to the doctor, but if we can solve those crazy citizens and broccoli, at least Professor Schiller, who has woken up, can have a better recuperation environment."

Batman's hand on his shoulder stiffened for a moment. Jason looked into Batman's eyes and said, "You and I know what the consequences will be if Professor Schiller, who has just recovered from a serious illness, looks out the window and sees broccoli for the first time."

Batman immediately straightened his body and said to Clark, "Follow me, we must solve these problems immediately."

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