Chapter 2418: Battle for the Cloak (V)

Chapter 2449: The Battle for the Cape (V)

Schiller and Poison Ivy stared at each other.

"Don't look at me, Mr. Madman. If I say there is no poison, then there is no poison. Even if Batman takes my blood for testing now, he can't find any poisonous components. Otherwise, would I just stand here and do nothing to stop that crazy little bastard from destroying the city?"

Schiller saw that Poison Ivy didn't tell him the truth. The neurotoxin might be gone, but it wasn't because it was used up. Poison Ivy was obviously hiding something.

"Why did Batman come to you?"

"Whatever you come to me for, he will come to me for." Poison Ivy said in a roundabout way: "The whole Gotham City knows that the vines represent my sight. I know everything that has happened there. Batman came to me because he obviously needs the information in my hand."

"And you gave it to him."

"Yes, because now I can only rely on him."

"You are more powerless than you appear." Schiller raised his head and looked around and said: "These vines are just bluffing. You are very weak now. Maybe you think the situation is very critical. Whether it is Batman or the Bat Family, they will do their best to resist Robin. The king is the best help for you. You don't think they have the time and ability to help you. "

Schiller paused for a moment and continued to speculate: "But this is not the main reason. You think they don't want to help you."

"Yes." Poison Ivy followed his words and said: "In their eyes, I am a criminal. Why should they help me solve the problem?"

"No, it's not that." Schiller looked up and down at Poison Ivy and said: "When I came here just now, I found that you were very nervous, looking out all the time, tapping the ground with your toes, which is a manifestation of an urgent desire to get away."

"I didn't expect there is a great detective here." Poison Ivy said sarcastically.

"Don't be impatient." Schiller continued, "You feel trapped and very anxious. The source of this anxiety is not only the tension of fooling a great detective like Batman, but there should be deeper reasons."

"You are afraid of Batman, but not the kind of fear as a criminal... at least not because of your previous crimes."

"I didn't commit any crimes before. Even if I did, Batman should have given me a security guard award after I took care of the little lunatic named Peter Parker for a night."

"Have you noticed?" Schiller approached Poison Ivy, paced behind her and said, "You keep showing that you and Batman are on the same side. You emphasize the help you provide to him and the contributions you have made to this city."

"Because this is the truth."

"Yes, but from You were not proud of this before, and you were indifferent to these things, but now you are repeatedly emphasizing it. Who do you want to believe? Me? Or yourself? "

Schiller thought and said: "There is no significant benefit in emphasizing to me that you and Batman are in the same camp, because even if you can see that I am Batman's friend rather than his enemy, since you don't need Batman, you also don't need me. What's the point of expressing your camp position?"

"Unless your position has changed, you think you are on the opposite side of Batman, but you are afraid that he may find this out, so you subconsciously emphasize how much you have contributed to this city and Batman, to put yourself in the camp of good people and eliminate Batman's hostility. "

Poison Ivy opened her mouth to say something, but soon shut up again because she found that she had exposed too much.

"Do you think I betrayed Batman?"

"When did you care about Batman?"

"When committing a crime." Poison Ivy answered almost instinctively, but after hesitating for a moment, she still said: "Except for the madman Joker, no one is not afraid of Batman."

Schiller clearly saw the flash of fear on Poison Ivy's face, but it was extremely clear. At least in the universe of Arkham Knight, Batman, as the Dark Knight, was quite conscientious and responsible. He almost perfectly realized his original intention of becoming Batman. Every criminal would have that terrifying figure flashing in his mind when committing a crime.

Perhaps it is also because the setting of Arkham Batman itself is relatively violent. He does not kill people, but he does everything except killing people, such as directly stepping on people's spines, breaking all limbs, and driving the Batmobile over other people's heads. It would be strange if the criminals were not afraid.

"What did you do?" Schiller asked.

Poison Ivy shook her head and didn't want to say anything, but Schiller wouldn't let her go. Schiller continued, "After you did something, you knew Batman couldn't let you go. Before he found you, you were ready to confess, but you fooled Batman and let you have hope again." "Maybe you think he's gentle, but he may just not care." Schiller said, "Many times he will do his best to dig out all the secrets of others, but at the same time he can also distinguish the priorities. If he interrogates you now, he won't get any benefit, and the city may go further and further on the road of destruction."

"He thinks you are worth fighting for. Even if you have a secret to hide from him, at least one thing remains unchanged. You both don't want King Robin to come. He wants to keep Gotham, and you want to keep the plants in Gotham. On this point, you are on the same side."

"So even if you may have done something before, when faced with a life-and-death choice, you will definitely lean towards him, so no matter what secrets you keep, you can talk about it later."

Schiller stared at Poison Ivy's face and said, "You acted surprised, because isn't Batman such a person in your heart?"

"Of course not." Poison Ivy said, "In this city, he is a cruel tyrant, and no one can disobey him. We all know how much of the Joker's death was his own fault, and how much was Batman venting his anger."

"You are right about this." Schiller said, "Batman has too much anger to vent, but if you make a list like this, will you be at the top of the list? Even now, when you may have done something to betray him."

"Of course not." Poison Ivy was very confident about this. She said, "I almost never commit crimes. I am an excellent patient of Arkham. But last time I got drunk and vomited, I poisoned more than half of the plants in his garden. I guess this will make me move up at least two on the list."

"I guess he doesn't like plants as much as you do, and he is very rich, so, one." Schiller paused and said, "In this case, then adding another chip to your crime will not immediately tilt the scale. No matter which Batman, he will not immediately settle accounts with you."

"You can take this time to make up for your mistakes, or use a more fundamental way to fool Batman, instead of just talking about it and deceiving yourself that Batman didn't see it."

"A more fundamental method?"

"You have to tell me what you did first."

Poison Ivy took another deep breath and became hesitant again, which made Schiller know that she must have done something bad beyond imagination, otherwise she would not be so confused about whether to say it or not.

Schiller did not try to persuade her further, but waited for Poison Ivy to calm down. It was obvious that although Poison Ivy was guilty, her mind was still there, and she knew that such a passive attitude was not a solution.

"I opened the portal." Poison Ivy, who was sitting on the sofa, covered one eye and said, "I didn't expect such serious consequences."

"What happened? Tell me in detail."

"About two months ago, I noticed that the roots of underground plants began to wither, which seriously affected the growth of plants on the ground. They began to shrink gradually, no longer grew upward, and finally died in a strange posture."

"I started to investigate this matter, and then I found that some dark energy began to gather in one direction. I found the source of the energy gathering, and I thought it must be solved, but I didn't think of it as a big problem at the time. . "

"I gathered the power of plants and planned to absorb and decompose the power. Perhaps you don't know that plants have a very strong decomposition ability. Almost any energy can be decomposed into nutrients by them."

"It went smoothly at the beginning. The large number of vines, trees and flowers I sent perfectly absorbed the energy and supported the power of the outer layer, but when the things in the inner layer were exposed, I knew I was wrong."

"It was a bait and a time bomb. The energy surging in the inner layer was completely different from the outer layer. It was not pure, but more like a pollutant. The plants I sent were all polluted. They spontaneously formed a transmission system. The shape of the portal, and the energy that was once decomposed and converted into nutrients by them became the flame that ignited the portal. "

"Then King Robin rushed out from inside?"

"It's worse than that. The first thing that rushed out was a strong pollution. Now the roots of most of the plants in Gotham are polluted and no longer under my control, so I can only hide here because those crazy plants are looking for me."

Poison Ivy showed a painful expression. She said: "I am now using uncontaminated energy to manipulate the remaining plants to fight against them, but there are too many of them. I can't completely eliminate them. Now I can only protect myself."

Poison Ivy also looked up at The plants in the room, and said: "These things are not used to threaten you, but the protective net I set up. Once those polluted plants rush in, they will be the last line of defense to protect me."

"But Batman can come in easily."

"Batman can easily enter anywhere." Poison Ivy sighed and said: "Okay, but this pollution seems to be directed at me. They don't care about others, and crazy plants won't attack others, otherwise you would have seen it on the news."

"But if they completely pollute and control you, you won't be like this, right?" Schiller proposed a possibility.

"I don't know, they are too weird." Poison Ivy shook her head and said: "I even suspect that they are not targeting me, but the existence behind me. All I can do now is to delay as much as possible."

"So far, I can still hold my own against them, but if Batman comes back, I don't think he will listen to my explanation. After all, it was me who opened the portal. In essence, I am the murderer who almost killed him."

"The murderer is King Robin and the person who released the polluted energy." Schiller made a judgment and said, "If someone carefully set a trap for you thousands of miles away, and you are completely unaware of it, then it is understandable that you failed to respond in time and got into trouble, and it is not a big deal to make mistakes under pressure."

"But how can I explain all this to Batman." Poison Ivy spread her hands and said.

"Of course you don't need to explain all this to Batman." Schiller also walked to the sofa and sat down, looking at Poison Ivy and said firmly: "It is Batman who wants to give you an explanation."

Poison Ivy widened her eyes.