Chapter 2066: Knight's Night of Terror (10)

Fine raindrops dripped on the metal armor, cold as a knife in this exciting night.

"You injected fear gas into Batman?"

Arkham Knight looked at Spider-Man's bright uniform, which was originally incompatible with the gray tones of Gotham, but now it was very consistent with the neon signs of Chinatown behind him.

It was not a straightforward coldness and seriousness, and it was never the Bat style. Didn't Batman see it all the time?

Arkham Knight couldn't accept Batman being deceived, let alone falling for such a ridiculous method, so he stepped forward and loaded his pistol.

"That's just a small reward." Spider-Man said.

Arkham Knight heard an indescribable indifference from this sentence, and his memory began to become a little confused again.

"He abandoned you, you useless wretch. You trusted him so much, but he didn't come to you, didn't come to save you. Is this the reward for your love and trust?"

The sharp and hoarse voice sounded in his ears again. Arkham Knight tried to tighten his eyelids and could almost clearly hear the sound of blood flowing through his cerebral cortex.

"Jason, Jason Todd, your departure is exactly what he wants, and so is your disappearance. He has reappeared over Gotham with his new Robin."

The skin on the right side of his waist and abdomen began to ache uncontrollably, and Arkham Knight took a deep breath.

"Read me the content of this newspaper, good boy, and see how they report the heroic figures of Batman and his new Robin. Either you remember it, or I sew it into your body."

His breathing began to become more and more rapid. Arkham actually heard his heartbeat again, and then there was the dizziness with euphoria. All the pain disappeared, and his memory began to become more and more blurred.

"No... don't..." Arkham Knight muttered to himself.

Then he shook the gun in his hand vigorously, pointed it straight at Spider-Man's forehead and said, "What did you do to me?"

"Everything started to go wrong since I met you. What did you do?"

"Do you think there is something right about you?" Spider-Man's tone was full of disdain. He said, "You have proved that you are not as strong as me. Now you want to prove that you are nobler than me?"

"Your master is dead. He has turned into ashes and buried in the sea of ​​fire, but this does not mean that you are not a lackey of a super criminal, Jason Todd. We are all the same."

"What are you talking about?!" Arkham Knight's anger became stronger and stronger, but the excessive secretion of painkillers in his body made him sound a little weak, so he had to mobilize his emotions more to restore his power.

"I've already investigated." Spider-Man crossed his arms and said, "You joined the Joker about a year ago, but he was a fool and burned himself to death, so you had to find a new backer for yourself."

Anger exploded in Arkham Knight's head, but Spider-Man was still chattering, "You want to say you didn't volunteer, but no one was at the beginning. We were chosen, hurt, chose to betray, and changed camps for ourselves."

"But I've been waiting for this opportunity for too long, Jason Todd, I won't let you ruin my long-prepared plan, go to hell with your master."

Boom! ! ! !

The violent explosion attracted the attention of Batman and Nightwing, but when they arrived near Chinatown, there was only a charred wreckage left.

Batman jumped off the roof, walked to the remains of an exploded car, bent down and picked up a shiny metal fragment from the ground.

When the fabric of the gauntlet gently brushed the metal surface, Batman showed a thoughtful expression.

Suddenly, the scene in front of him began to ripple with the twisting of the rain lines.

A young man covered in blood sat on a chair with his hands hung up, and another figure slowly walked out of the darkness behind him.

It was thinner than Batman expected - it was not the Penguin, but the Joker.

Batman's heart seemed to be tightly grasped by a big hand, and he heard the Joker's whisper again.

"It's been six months. What has he been going through while you've forgotten him? Let me tell you, Batman."

"Do you know? Human pain reflexes can be acquired. When you break through the bottom line of hypocritical humanitarianism, you will find that the human spirit is so fragile and primitive like a beast."

"When he is protecting his food, you swing the whip. One day he will be tamed by you. As long as you inflict enough pain when he recalls a certain memory, he will forget it one day."

"What's next? Yes, of course it's implanting new memories, but that's not boring fabrication, but strengthening his anger and resentment. He will imagine everything to be darker."

"All this is thanks to you, Batman. You didn't come to find him and failed to save him. Now look at my great achievements."

Batman felt that every inch of his skin was hurting. When some memory fragments flashed by, this kind of pain made people want to go crazy.

Suddenly, the pain subsided, the heart rate began to slow down gradually, and a hazy halo appeared in front of his eyes. Batman looked down and saw that the painkiller injection button on the arm armor was not lit.

"What did you do to me?" Batman muttered to himself.

Nightwing stood behind him and called him, but he did not respond, just stood there and waited quietly. Obviously, he had discovered the abnormality of his body.

A series of vague thoughts appeared in Batman's mind, sounding so immature and simple, but with an unknown horror.

"Don't... think... he is... bad."

"Who are you?"

"I need... energy... to grow."

Very good, Batman thought, the Joker virus, the fear gas, and now there is another inexplicable parasite. The bacterial flora always grows particularly vigorously in places with more difficult environments?

Which hallucinations are caused by the Joker virus? Which are the fear gas? Which reactions of the body are caused by the symbiont? What is the relationship between them?

Batman thought of a plan he had made, but now he had to find Barbara's whereabouts, so he turned to Nightwing and said, "Whether Barbara was taken away by Harley Quinn or she left the base by herself, she must have had time to leave clues."

"I will let Peter keep an eye on the Sky Eye system in the Batcave to find Harley Quinn's whereabouts. You go to the clock tower and contact me immediately after finding useful clues."

Nightwing nodded and turned to leave, and Batman got on the Batmobile again. He pressed the button on the communicator and said, "Peter, are you there? ... Peter?"

Batman frowned, switched the channel, and dialed Peter's private communication number.

"Hello?"

As soon as Peter opened his mouth, Batman heard the sound of wind on the other side, and Peter's tone was not normal, as if he was doing strenuous exercise.

"Peter, answer me, where are you now?"

"I'm... I'm being chased! The psychopath named Arkham Knight is chasing me!"

"You left the Batcave?"

"Yes, because Poison Ivy asked me to help her rescue the plants in Gotham. I think she saved me, so I have to help..."

Batman subconsciously pressed his finger on his forehead. After a moment of silence, he asked, "Can't you subdue him?"

"He's like crazy! He wants to attack me like crazy. I'm afraid I can't control the power of the counterattack. I can't kill him, can I?!"

"What's wrong with him?"

"I don't know!" The running Spider-Man looked back at the Arkham Knight chasing behind him. The originally shiny metal armor was now blown into black, and the lining in some places was torn, but the Arkham Knight could still move freely, with a furious expression on his face.

It seems that the power of the explosion of the seven cars is still a little small. Spider-Man thought that perhaps the Red Bee was too good in his body, and it took a lot of impact for Arkham Knight. The speed of the other party's pursuit was a little beyond his expectations.

"Can you get rid of him?" Batman asked, but then added: "Move towards Chinatown, I'll wait for you on the roof here."

Turning the front of the Batmobile, not long after, Batman saw a red and blue figure on the skyline, and a spider silk stuck to the tail of the Batmobile. He heard Peter shout "Take off!!"

The Batmobile took off, and Spider-Man grabbed the spider silk and looked at the ground. The sound of whizzing bullets sounded, but the Batmobile suddenly accelerated, and the Arkham Knight on the ground became more and more distant.

After gathering the spider silk and jumping onto the roof, Peter opened the door and climbed into the seat. He took off his hood and said with a sigh, "Thank you. I thought he would chase me all the way to California."

"I asked you to stay in the Batcave."

"I wanted to, but I think Poison Ivy has a point. Plants are innocent after all."

Batman remained silent. Peter glanced at the navigation map in the Batmobile and asked, "Where are we going now?"

"I'm waiting for news from Nightwing. Before that, we have to catch the Penguin. I want to figure out what's going on."

But Peter suddenly said, "Uh, can you take me back first? The fear poison still needs to be analyzed."

Batman paused. He felt that Peter was a little unnatural, but he still said, "Then get off here and be careful on the way back."

Peter looked out the window. It was not far from the Batcave, so he nodded and got off the car when the Batmobile hovered above the roof. His figure disappeared in the vast rainy night.

Batman stared at his back for a long time, then retracted his gaze and drove towards the Iceberg Restaurant.

But when he landed in front of the Iceberg Restaurant and looked inside, he found that the gangsters he had knocked down before and the guests who were knocked unconscious were all gone.

Crossing the dance floor of the bar and walking towards the back of the restaurant, he remembered that when he had just broken the Penguin's legs, Nightwing said that he found traces of the bank vault door being violently broken, so Batman went to investigate.

According to Batman's previous behavior, he should have sent the Penguin to the Gotham Police Department first, but he had dealt with all the thugs here, and most of the people in Gotham City were unconscious. The Penguin's legs were broken and he couldn't run away. No one would come to save him at this time, so it was okay to leave him here first.

But not long after he left, the Penguin appeared on the screen alive and well. Even if he could barely sit up and talk, the building he appeared in had long been out of power. Who restored the power? It's not possible that the Penguin dragged his two broken legs to connect it himself, right?

Obviously someone is helping the Penguin behind the scenes, and the other party has quite good action ability and technology, otherwise Batman's trajectory would not be so accurate, and he would not do such a thing under his nose.

If Batman wants to know what happened to the place where the Penguin was when he left, he must return here. Most of the criminals' nests are monitored by the Sky Eye system, but the Penguin renovates his safe house every month, and Batman has not had time to install surveillance this month.

But Batman knew that Penguin must have installed surveillance himself, so he only needed to hack into the surveillance system to see what happened at that time.

Batman walked through a messy first floor and entered the safe house whose door had been removed by him, then followed the wires to the power distribution room at the back, and then found the line of the surveillance camera in the power distribution room, and then found the computer that controlled it.

Turning on the computer, Batman easily hacked into the system, but the video file happened to be missing the footage of dozens of minutes after he left, so Batman began to retrieve the access records.

At this time, Nightwing called.

"Batman, I found abnormal access records on the Prophet's computer. Someone deleted a lot of surveillance video files. Who do you think did it?"

Batman frowned deeply.