Chapter 2067 Knight's Night of Terror (XI)

Someone touched Barbara's computer, and someone touched the computer of the Iceberg Restaurant. Could this be a coincidence?

Batman had never heard of such a wise hacker in Gotham City. It didn't make sense to say that Scarecrow was the culprit. Even if he had such powerful technicians under his command, his ordinary military vehicle could not be as mobile as the Batmobile.

Batman reorganized the timeline in his mind.

At 8:02 tonight, individual victims appeared, and Scarecrow released the plan to destroy Gotham with fear gas.

At 9:10, the bat light was on, and Batman began to fight against Scarecrow. He first solved the street conflict caused by fear gas, and asked Barbara to track Scarecrow in Gotham City.

At 10:00, Batman was scratched on his arm in the street confrontation, and saw the phantom of the Joker in the mirror for the first time. At the same time, Barbara found clues about the military vehicle.

At 10:20, Batman caught up with the military vehicle and subdued two of the personnel. After getting the next clue, the military vehicle was taken back to the Batcave.

At 10:40, Batman rescued Poison Ivy in Scarecrow's safe house, and at Peter's request, sent Poison Ivy and the poison seized from the driver back to the Batcave.

At 11:00, the unknown poison gas anesthetized the whole city, and the FBI plane appeared.

Obviously 11:00 was a watershed. Before that, everything was still within Batman's expectations, but after the spread of the unknown poison gas, things began to gradually get out of control.

At 11:10, Barbara called and Batman learned that Peter was kidnapped.

At 11:30, Batman found the clues left by Scarecrow and followed the clues to the ACE Chemical Plant, but was ambushed. After waking up, he saw Nightwing who came to support him.

At 11:40, he started tracking Scarecrow again and found his four safe houses while chasing Scarecrow all the way.

At 12:00, Batman confronted the Arkham Knight who came to stop him on the rooftop, and Gotham was bombed by missiles.

This was another watershed, and Batman found that he had begun to lose control during this period.

At 11 o'clock, an unknown poisonous gas spread in Gotham, causing almost all the people in the city to be anesthetized. Shouldn't we investigate the source of the poisonous gas at this time? The best choice is to rush to the weather control center as soon as possible.

But Batman didn't do that. He chased the scarecrow like crazy.

No, he was not chasing the scarecrow. Batman suddenly thought that when the Arkham Knight appeared on the rooftop to stop him, the inexplicable anxiety disappeared.

That sense of urgency was directed at the Arkham Knight.

But why is this happening? There are too few clues now, and Batman can only start to recall.

At 12:10, Batman woke up from the Batcave again. He remembered that when he beat the Arkham Knight, the effects of the fear gas and the Joker virus broke out, causing the Arkham Knight to run away, and he returned to the Batcave.

12:20, after talking with Peter, Batman learned that the Penguin might be the culprit of the military bombing of Gotham, and he set off for the Iceberg Restaurant.

12:30, arrived at the Iceberg Restaurant, but did not find any suspicious traces here. The Penguin spoke rudely, and Batman broke his leg. Just when he was about to take him away, a message came from Nightwing, and Batman left for the vault.

12:40, arrived at the vault, found traces of violent demolition of the vault door, and after investigation, suspected that Harley Quinn had kidnapped Gordon and his party and kidnapped Barbara.

12:50, the Penguin appeared on the screen and announced that he had killed Jason Todd.

1:00, the Joker's illusion appeared, saying that he imprisoned and tortured Jason Todd, an explosion occurred on the street next door, and Peter was chased by the Arkham Knight.

There is another obvious problem. The biggest problem Batman faces at this time is the disappearance of Gordon and Barbara. What does the Penguin have to do with this? Why is he chasing him?

Oh, it was because the Penguin was in collusion with the military, and the military bombed Gotham, but the bombing was over, no one was injured, and the evidence could be found at any time. Why did he go to the Iceberg Restaurant instead of going to the vault to rescue Gordon and then look for Barbara?

Batman felt that since 11 o'clock, his actions had become very strange. He chased this and that, but he didn't catch anyone. Gordon and Barbara were missing, Peter was kidnapped, and was chased again after escaping. Robin's communication channel was silent for a long time, and none of the Penguin, Scarecrow, and Harley Quinn were caught.

He investigated this matter halfway through the investigation and went to investigate another matter, but he didn't fully investigate any of them. He didn't know who released the mysterious anesthetic, how to crack the fear gas, who kidnapped Gordon and Barbara, and what the Arkham Knight was going to do.

He worked hard for half a night, not only did he not achieve any practical results, but he didn't know anything.

Could it be that the Joker virus and the fear gas really made him lose his mind?

No, that's not right, Batman became alert.

His judgment was wrong, but it was obviously not a forced error. In the past half night, he had not encountered any dilemmas related to human life, nor had he made any judgments under extremely thrilling circumstances.

When people are panicking, their brains often go blank. They will not consider the reasons. They will choose one at random with a revengeful or gambling mentality, and then watch the situation develop with a desperate mentality. The mistakes made in this situation are called forced errors.

Batman feels that every choice he makes is well thought out.

Now he thinks back and thinks that the reason why he has not found the problem for several hours is that he feels that every choice he makes has a reason.

The Joker virus and fear gas that only exist in his brain obviously do not have the ability to create a cause in reality. If they are strong enough to control Batman's body to do bad things, then why do they play with illusions?

In other words, it is not him who has the problem. There is indeed someone who creates problems without problems in reality, and creates a lot of side quests, which completely disrupts the entire plan to fight against the Scarecrow.

Every problem he created successfully led Batman to a fork in the road that was unrelated to the main plot. The reward seemed to be at the end of the fork, but before Batman got there, another fork appeared.

So Batman began to cycle back and forth in vain, discovering an accident, learning a clue, following the clue, discovering another accident, and finding another clue.

This is equivalent to Batman repeatedly clearing the novice tutorial with a full-level account. You can't say that he didn't give rewards, but the rewards are almost equivalent to nothing compared to Batman's level.

At the same time, the hostages or brave companions waiting in each level also disappeared for various reasons because Batman was trapped in the novice tutorial.

Then think about it the other way around, there must be a boss at the end of the level who deliberately set up such a trap, because if Batman kills all the way through the level, he will be the one who suffers the most.

Who will this boss be?

Batman first ruled out Scarecrow and Penguin. According to Batman's better understanding of them, these two people have three tricks in total - poisoning, bribery, and opening champagne at halftime.

The Joker? No, the Joker is not like this. Batman did not feel any mental pain or face any human torture in this series of inductions.

This is a very special style. He does not want to make anyone suffer, nor does he have a clear interest orientation. He does not even have any emotions. He has a slightly playful indifference and academic indifference.

He does not hate any chess piece, and does not rely on winning to gain any benefits. He does not make a rational judgment to make a move or simply throw the chess piece out, but rather it is more like interest.

A thought suddenly emerged in Batman's mind - "Experiment? ... An experiment?"

And his next thought was that Gotham was going to have another tricky super criminal, even the most tricky one after the Joker's death.

Batman did not make this judgment out of thin air.

First of all, the timing of each tempting clue was just when Batman wanted to take the next step, but had not yet taken action.

So why did he not take action? Because there was an accident, such as the first accident of anesthetizing the whole city, which successfully interrupted Batman's pursuit of Scarecrow.

Then a clue appeared. The FBI came. They showed up at such a perfect time that Batman would definitely suspect them, so Batman went to deal with the FBI.

Batman was about to attack the FBI plane when Barbara called and told Batman that Gordon was trapped and Peter was kidnapped. Batman had to interrupt the FBI investigation again.

Just when Batman wanted to support Gordon and investigate Peter's kidnapping, the clue left by Scarecrow appeared again. He chased Scarecrow to the ACE Chemical Plant and was ambushed.

Obviously, this was another accident, which completely interrupted Batman's multi-step plan to investigate the FBI and rescue Gordon and Peter. Then there was a new clue...

Then it was a complete cycle, accident, clue, another accident...

In the process of reviewing the game, Batman keenly discovered that the role of the accident was not only to interrupt his investigation, but also to manipulate his emotions ingeniously.

"Very good, Peter." A deeper and even gentle voice sounded in Peter's ears.

Peter shuddered. He had met this personality once in the tower, and he knew that his name was "Manipulation".

In that second, Peter Parker knew for the first time that his spider sense could be so loud.

They hardly spoke directly to each other, because Peter Parker couldn't hear what he was saying at all, and the deafening sound of the spider sense completely covered the sound of the speech.

And the moment his voice sounded, Peter shuddered again, his ears buzzed again, and he couldn't hear the words after that.

Then Peter heard the other party sigh helplessly, and the voice fell silent, as if he was communicating with other Schillers. After a while, the voice of Dr. Schiller, who he was most familiar with, rang out.

"Peter, don't worry, your plan went very smoothly, right? We all gave you a very high evaluation."

"But we want to know whether you have adopted the guidance method of emotional manipulation in this plan, and want to hear your specific ideas. Do you have time to talk to us now?"

"Well, I'm happy to talk, but I'm a little busy now."

"What are you busy with?"

The perspective of the bystander switched from Batman to Peter, and Peter was dragging a man and throwing him into the truck.

Looking closely, the unconscious man being dragged was Robin, and in the shadows of the truck, there were also Barbara and Gordon who were also unconscious.

"Busy sending them to where they should go."