Chapter 1659: No Time to Die (Twenty-Two)

Chapter 1632 No Time to Die (Twenty-Two)

"Mr. Police! Mr. Police! Here! Here! There are two hostages in the cellar here. Sir and Madam, don't be afraid, we are here to save you!"

Standing at the entrance of the dark cellar, Spider-Man shouted to the two figures inside. His spider sense did not call the police, indicating that the two people inside might indeed be innocent people kidnapped here by the Joker.

At his call, Gordon led the police officers into the cellar and rescued a couple. Spider-Man watched the hostages being sent to the ambulance, and Gordon stood beside him and patted his shoulder.

"Hello, Sheriff, we meet again."

"Can I call you Robin now?"

"Of course not, I'm Spider-Man, okay, whatever you want, but I want to ask who the criminal named Joker is. Is he the boss of criminals in this city?"

"He is the most dangerous criminal in this city and Batman's nemesis." Gordon sighed. He was about to light a cigarette, but he turned back and saw Spider-Man. He put the lighter back in his pocket and continued, "Only Batman can deal with the evil Joker."

Spider-Man blinked his spider compound eyes, and his body movements showed that he did not agree with this statement. At this time, a black shadow slid down from the sky above the theater, and Batman was back.

"Spider-Man, come back with me. I want to tell you something."

Batman turned and left. He thought Spider-Man would follow him, but Spider-Man was still looking at Gordon. He scratched his head and said to Gordon: "Sheriff, do you have a list of super criminals in this city? I think I should know more about them."

"You should ask Batman for this." Gordon reached out and hit Spider-Man's shoulder and said: "You did a good job this time, kid, see you next time."

After Gordon turned and left, Spider-Man seemed a little confused. He turned around and found that Batman was still waiting for him. He said with some surprise: "I thought you went back first."

"Follow me."

Batman didn't say much, just motioned Spider-Man to follow him. Spider-Man could only follow Batman with a lot of questions in his heart. Batman returned to the Batcave. As soon as he entered the Batcave, Spider-Man took off his mask and asked in confusion: "What's going on? Why do I feel that you are all weird? What can't you say directly?"

Batman looked a little hesitant, but in the end he said: "Didn't your spider sense warn you of danger when you approached the Joker?"

Spider-Man scratched his chicken-coop-like hair, thought about it and said: "No, I didn't feel any particular danger."

"Didn't you feel the pain caused by the needle in your body?"

Spider-Man shook his head again. Batman could only take him back to the physical examination room and conducted a detailed scan. Then he found a very small pinhole in an inconspicuous place above his right arm.

Spider-Man turned his head hard to look at his arm, and then used his fingers to pick at the muscles of his arm. Batman tore his hand off and then pulled his arm into the instrument.

"Please, I should know what happened to me. You are so stern and silent, as if I have a terminal illness."

"...It's no different from a terminal illness." Batman paused while checking the wound on Spider-Man's arm. He glanced at Spider-Man's expression, as if thinking about how to explain it without scaring him.

"The Joker injected a special drug into your body. You can understand it as the source of darkness in this city. It is very likely to erode your spirit and make you embrace the dark side of human nature."

Batman rarely spoke such a long string of words in one breath, but Spider-Man didn't seem to understand it at all, and he immediately expressed his doubts.

"I don't quite understand. You mean he turned the source of darkness in a city into a potion and injected it into my body, but what's the point?"

"He wants to contaminate you and let you deal with me."

"But I won't deal with you."

"If you are affected by the potion, you will..."

"I won't deal with you." Spider-Man repeated his words again. He stared at Batman with his eyes straight, and then said: "I can see that the police officers and the sheriff of the Gotham Police Department trust you very much. This shows that you must have guarded this city and done a lot of great things. Heroes should not hurt each other."

Batman was silent for a while, then said: "I'm afraid nothing in this city will conform to your beautiful fantasy."

"But this is not a fantasy. I will never raise my fist to my friends at any time, place or under any difficult circumstances. This is unjust." Spider-Man emphasized.

"The reason why the Joker is the most dangerous criminal in this city is that he sees through everyone's weaknesses."

Batman's tone became low, but a little soft, as if he was telling a less dark story.

"He realized that he couldn't influence my will, so he took other means to achieve his goals. This is not the first time he has wanted to destroy the Bat Family, nor is it the first time he has planned to harm the Robins."

Spider-Man's mood also fell. He seemed to hear the sad story behind Batman's tone, so he asked: "Has he hurt your children?"

"More than once."

"But you don't have to worry about me as much as you worry about them. Spider-Man is stronger than you think. Countless disasters that almost destroyed the world have not defeated me."

"Heroes are more likely to be defeated by themselves."

Spider-Man heard the empathy and sadness from Batman's words, as if there were countless tragic stories hidden behind them.

"I don't care what happened to this world." Spider-Man panted angrily. He glared at Batman and said, "It is always me who determines whether I am good or bad, not this world, nor the potion made by some criminal. I will prove this!"

"But you'd better not leave the Batcave for the next period of time." Batman felt that he had taken out enough patience to explain to this fledgling who had just arrived in the city how dangerous it was here.

"On the contrary." Spider-Man took a few steps back, broke free from Batman's pulling of his arm, and then said: "If I retreat now, it will let the dangerous criminal succeed, so I can't stay here, but I should take the initiative to attack and let them know that their conspiracy can't have any impact on me."

Batman stood there and looked at him silently. He was firm and silent like a dark mountain standing there. Spider-Man saw the shadows of a hero and a father in him.

"Sorry, Batman, I know you may be worried that I will be poisoned and do bad things, but I can't sit and wait for death when I know so many super criminals are active in the city. I have to defeat them."

"I don't think it's a good choice to be so aggressive."

"Can you give me the information of those super criminals?"

Batman looked at Spider-Man in silence. From Spider-Man's eyes, Batman saw that if he didn't give Spider-Man the information, he would investigate it himself until he got what he wanted.

Another stubborn person, Batman thought. He had thought about changing the name of the Justice League to the Stubborn League several times, and he had also thought about changing the name of the Bat Family to the Stubborn Family several times. I don’t know if it’s bad luck, everyone around him is talented in opposing him.

"Go to the archives." Batman waved his cape and took Spider-Man to the archives as if he had already made a plan.

Here are the materials collected by Batman on Gotham super criminals. Of course, they are all some relatively superficial materials. Batman’s analysis and plans to deal with each super criminal are not among them.

After entering the archives, Spider-Man finally calmed down, but the grief and anger lingering in his chest did not dissipate. His special inspiration from spider sense made him see countless dark hands on Batman who wanted to drag this super hero into hell, and he was angry about it.

This anger drove him to improve his concentration. In the next few hours, he carefully read the materials of all Gotham super criminals in Batman’s archives and wrote down 80% of the content.

Batman has been observing Spider-Man's movements. In fact, his plan is to delay Spider-Man as much as possible and activate the countermeasures in the Batcave. Once the dark potion injected by the Joker into Spider-Man takes effect, he can immediately subdue Spider-Man, and then study what changes have occurred in him, and find the formula of the antidote based on the remaining potion in the syringe.

The information on super criminals in Batman's archives is very detailed. He has collected almost all the action trajectories of super criminals. If ordinary people read this, it will take at least several months of sleepless reading to get a rough idea of ​​this pile of information.

But Spider-Man read all the information almost at the speed of quantum speed reading, and said that he had memorized most of it. Although Batman had some doubts about this, he was more concerned about Spider-Man's current situation.

"Do you feel any changes in your body?" Batman asked.

Spider-Man, who was putting the last document back on the shelf, was stunned for a moment. He looked down at himself, rubbed his eyes and said, "Changes? I feel my eyes are a little dry?"

"The eye drops are in the drawer on your left."

"Thank you."

Spider-Man ordered the eye drops, opened his eyes a few times, shook his head and said, "Wow, I feel much better. What brand of eye drops are these? Can I take some back when I leave? I think this can help me cope with the review before the final exam."

Batman still stared at Spider-Man, with an expression on his face saying "Apart from that, don't you feel anything abnormal?"

Spider-Man shook his head innocently and said, "I don't feel any discomfort. Maybe his needle pierced my skin, but the poison was not injected? Or my spider mutation made me immune to the toxicity in it?"

Batman narrowed his eyes and showed a disapproving look, but Spider-Man shrugged and said, "I won't waste time on such unnecessary worries. Good neighbors are about to appear in Gotham City!"

After saying that, he turned and walked out. Batman did not stop him. He just activated the monitoring equipment on Spider-Man's uniform after Spider-Man left, and then came to the monitoring room to closely observe Spider-Man's every move.

He must ensure that he captures the moment Spider-Man gets sick, so that he can stop Spider-Man immediately and prevent him from using his superpowers to cause any trouble.

As expected, the scene displayed on the monitoring screen shows that Spider-Man's first stop is Penguin's Iceberg Restaurant.

Based on the information provided by Spider-Man, Penguin can indeed be said to be full of evil, or in other words, young heroes like Spider-Man will be more disgusted with super criminals with gang backgrounds, which is also the result of Batman's deliberate guidance.

If the dark side guided by the source of darkness is destined to erupt, and Spider-Man has superpowers, then if he goes crazy in the Iceberg Restaurant, he can reduce the damage to the normal order of Gotham and also hit the arrogance of Penguin.

Batman's eyes were fixed on the monitoring screen, and before long, the door of the Iceberg Restaurant appeared in Spider-Man's field of vision.