Chapter 2069: Knight's Night of Terror (Thirteen)
Occasionally, car lights flashed on the dark road. Trucks sped through the rainy night, splashing huge waves on the thin rain on the road.
The shadow of the town loomed on the distant skyline. When a truck stopped at the toll booth, a vine stretched out from the gap of the car window and pierced the neck of the policeman who walked to the cargo box to check the goods.
Another figure had already rushed into the toll booth, and soon the pole was raised, and the truck
continued to speed towards the distant town.
When the lights of the car lights also disappeared in the dark rainy night, the sign of the city name above the toll booth glowed coldly - "Brudhaven".
The truck drove into the underground cold storage without any obstruction. When Poison Ivy got off the truck, she looked at Peter in disbelief and said, "Didn't you say you've only been in Gotham for less than a month? You even prepared a base in Blüdhaven."
"This is not what I prepared." Peter shook his head and said, "After I got the access to the Batcomputer, I found out that Batman's first assistant had been active here and set up more than ten safe houses in this city, and I just borrowed one of the most secret ones."
"Ma'am, please give them another shot of anesthetic to make sure they don't wake up within 24 hours, and then you can choose to stay here or continue to go back with me."
Poison Ivy showed a hint of hesitation on her face, but what was somewhat unexpected to Peter was that Poison Ivy said, "I'll go with you. I have to go back to Gotham."
"How can I be so presumptuous? Ask why?"
Poison Ivy rolled her eyes slightly, then looked at Peter and said, "I know how dangerous you are, boy. No matter what kind of storm you stir up in Gotham tonight, you can't really hurt the plants there."
"And I'm not a loner as you think. The chaos you stir up between Scarecrow, Penguin, and Batman will inevitably spread to the whole of Gotham. I want to go back and stay with Harley, and make sure she will never be interested in you and your plan. This is difficult."
"Then get in the car." Peter opened the door of the truck again and got on the car, then said, "It's not far from dawn."
The truck slowly drove out of the darkness of the underground cold storage exit, and what Peter didn't notice was that an inconspicuous red light spot lit up in a corner of the extremely deep darkness and flashed a few times.
As soon as he returned to Gotham City, Peter received a communication from Batman.
"Where are you, Peter, answer me."
"I'm on Lexie Island." Peter replied: "Poison Ivy told me there is a base of Harley Quinn there. We are heading there now to see if we can find any traces of Barbara and Gordon."
"Come back now, I have other tasks for you."
Peter paused for a moment while holding the steering wheel, then replied: "Okay, I'll turn around right away."
Poison Ivy next to him looked at him and said: "Are you going back to the Batcave? Then put me down here."
"You go back with me, but don't go in. Once I send you a signal, find a way to make some noise and lure Batman over."
"You're crazy. I won't confront Batman!" Poison Ivy turned her head back, shook her head and said: "I've been avoiding doing this before. Becoming his A thorn in the eye is not a good thing. He has a ready-made hostage at hand - his manor has the most exotic flowers and plants in the whole of Gotham. "
"But we moved them all away."
Poison Ivy was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Peter, and said in surprise: "You didn't expect this step a long time ago, did you?"
"I don't want you to fight with him, just like other super criminals, make some noise, be discovered by him, and then leave before he arrives, it's that simple."
Poison Ivy sighed and said: "I will help you one last time, then you have to promise me that after this is over, go to my laboratory to help me do chemical analysis of plant toxins."
"Perfect deal, ma'am, please."
Peter went all the way back to the Batcave, went to the dressing room first, changed his uniform, and then went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Amid the sound of running water, Batman's voice rang out from outside the door: "Peter, how long will it take? We need to hold a combat meeting."
"Right away, sir. By the way, can you help me ask Mr. Alfred if my clothes are dried? Where can I find them?"
Batman left. Amid the sound of running water, Peter, lying in the bathtub, sighed with relief and began to review the process of executing the entire plan in his mind, making sure nothing was missed.
Peter's choice of topic for this exam was Batman, of course, not curing Batman.
It's not just because curing Batman is too difficult, but Peter is not a psychologist, and it doesn't make sense to specialize in this area. It's not worth it to pay more and get less.
Peter has to show his ability to control the situation independently, which is very important.
Because it is obvious that as the Spider-Legios is active in more and more universes, the status of this group will also rise, and neither Schiller nor Nick will want to hand over the leadership of this group to others.
In fact, most Spider-Men are not suitable to be leaders. They can work together and help each other, but it is not enough to lead a huge group across the multiverse with kindness and friendship.
It does not mean that you must be immoral or very evil, but to maintain that kindness in the complex multiverse environment requires stronger abilities, to some extent, much stronger than these immoral people.
Since ancient times, people have called leaders without morality but strong abilities as heroes, but those leaders with integrity and kindness are enough to be canonized, because if you can't do anything, the difficulty of leading the team will suddenly rise to another level.
The current Spider Corps is mainly guided by Nick, but Nick knows that he and the Spider-Men are not like-minded, and he is not the kind of leader who can fully inspire the justice and positivity of the members. Spider-Man's power mostly comes from this.
Although Peter likes scientific research very much, he knows his responsibilities. In addition to making all Spider-Men live better, he must make full use of the abilities of so many Spider-Men to make all universes better.
To be a leader, you must understand people's hearts. A team with such a wide range of interests will inevitably encounter various difficulties in witnessing biodiversity.
It is not impossible to keep exploring in practice and accumulate experience through mistakes, but Peter also has his own pride. He always chooses the hell difficulty when playing games.
Therefore, Peter came to Gotham to face Batman, and he was the more difficult one among Batman.
Peter was not arrogant. He chose a more difficult object and a more dangerous environment, so he planned to set a lower goal, so he spent almost a week exploring everywhere in Gotham to see if there were any suitable problems to solve.
In this process, Peter found that when he passed by certain places, the spider sense would always sound faintly, which greatly attracted Peter's attention, so he soon discovered the fear gas buried by the scarecrow.
When Peter found it, the scarecrows were almost buried, and thousands of fear gas bombs were buried in every corner of this huge city. Even if Peter had three heads and six arms, he couldn't dig them all up in a short time.
Even if he notified Batman and asked the Bat Family to dig together, it would only alert the enemy and let Scarecrow detonate the bomb in advance, causing a greater disaster.
Since the disaster was inevitable, Peter took this as his own topic. His goal was to keep the situation under his control as much as possible on the night of the disaster, do his best to reduce casualties and end the disaster as soon as possible.
It was not impossible to follow Batman's pace, but it would not exercise his ability at all. Besides, he was not just a Robin, and running around in Gotham City to complete tasks was far less than what he could do.
But Batman would definitely not listen to his explanation, so Peter could only choose to do it alone, and this was Batman's Gotham, and he would definitely face Batman if he did this.
So Peter's best choice became to take advantage of his information gap, take action early to catch Batman off guard, and while he was being attracted by various clues laid in advance, quickly finish the work that should be done.
This time, Peter went all out. In addition to the psychology knowledge he learned from Schiller, the technology he learned from Stark, the pursuit and fighting skills he learned from Steve, and the human and time management skills he learned from Nick, he used all the means such as symbiotes, healing potions, and improved spider suits, and maintained the information gap advantage, so that Batman could run around in Gotham for half a night.
But he knew that this was just the beginning. After observing Batman in the past few weeks, he found that this dark knight was unreasonable and was probably the strongest and most comprehensive human Peter had ever faced.
Most of the people Peter knew before, including several of his teachers, were only good at one or several aspects.
But Batman was not like that. Batman was a real hexagonal warrior. Peter spent weeks thinking hard and could not think of any weaknesses that could be exploited.
Lying in the bathtub, Peter took a deep breath and went through the process of his entire plan in his mind again. After making sure that there was no problem, he closed his eyes and rested for a while to restore his physical strength and energy, then changed his clothes and walked out of the bathroom.
Arriving at the combat meeting hall of the Batcave, there were only two people waiting there, that is, Batman and Nightwing.
"How is the research on the fear poison going?" Batman asked.
Peter confirmed that his expression was fine before saying: "The chemical analysis still has no results, but the radiation theory can be basically confirmed. I will now send the data of the common radiation bands to your computer."
"Once the antenna modification is completed, the satellite will be able to point out the location where the fear gas bomb may exist, and our next step is to concentrate on modifying the antenna and then dig out all the bombs."
"Robin has lost contact, and so have Gordon and Barbara." Batman spoke again, looking at Peter and said: "You were almost kidnapped and hunted by someone."
"But it doesn't matter." Peter shook his head and said: "Being a superhero, you have to be prepared to shed blood and sacrifice. We have to continue to work hard for those who are still alive."
Batman looked at him silently. Peter met his gaze fearlessly, but Batman shook his head and said, "My plan is different from yours."
Nightwing looked anxious and kept winking at Peter. Peter frowned slightly. He didn't quite understand what Nightwing meant because he had never dealt with the first-generation Robin before and had too little information.
"This combat meeting is to announce my plan, and you two just need to listen and sit over there."
The atmosphere was a little stiff. Peter clearly saw Nightwing's twitching mouth. In Nightwing's disapproving eyes, Peter turned and walked towards the chair Batman pointed to.
Nightwing had no choice but to walk over and sit down. When he turned his head to look at Peter next to him, the expression on his face was "You'll soon know why I left Gotham."
And Peter really wanted to hear Batman's plan. He thought it would allow him to take targeted precautions.
The next second, the spider sense rang sharply.
Click, click, click!
Several metal buckles extended from the neck, wrists and legs, and closed instantly, completely fixing Peter and Nightwing.
Peter's pupils shrank suddenly.
"No matter what my plan is, you two stay here and don't think about leaving until the matter is resolved."