Chapter 2420: Battle for the Cloak (VII)

Chapter 2451: The Battle for the Cape (VII)

About ten minutes ago, Poison Ivy and Schiller arrived at the ACE Chemical Plant, the largest chemical plant in Gotham City. Although Poison Ivy had been here several times, she had never walked through any of its areas.

Because this chemical plant was built earlier, its internal facilities were not modern enough, the architectural design was not scientific, and the division of various areas was not clear. Even their own workers occasionally got lost in other areas, so Poison Ivy always couldn't tell the directions when she came in.

But she just watched Schiller move freely inside as if he was back home. He first passed through the reception office area at the front and came to the archive room at the back to find the raw material storage file.

Then, according to the number on the file, he passed through most of the factory area and found the storage warehouse for flammable and explosive dangerous goods. Then he found the control room in a corner opposite and successfully opened the safety lock of the warehouse, and successfully obtained the raw materials needed for explosives.

Poison Ivy didn't see what happened afterwards. Anyway, Schiller mixed all kinds of strange raw materials in an even stranger way and made a bomb that didn't look like a bomb at all.

They detonated the bomb in the chemical plant. Looking at the smiling face formed by the smoke of the bomb, Poison Ivy couldn't help but ask a question - are you a little too skilled?

Poison Ivy didn't see the whole process of the Joker making bombs, but she heard Harley say a few words that it was impossible to compete with a master like Batman without speed.

But Poison Ivy also has a background in chemistry and biology. She knows that making explosives is a very troublesome thing. Even the simplest homemade explosives have to be prepared many times according to the properties of the raw materials before they can be successfully detonated.

But Batman will not give the Joker enough time to prepare, so Poison Ivy has actually been a little puzzled. How did the Joker make bombs one after another when Batman was chasing so closely?

Now she understands that there is no other skill for this thing, only practice makes perfect.

Not counting the time spent shuttling inside the chemical plant, the entire bomb-making process only took two minutes. Even if all the time spent searching for information and moving raw materials was counted, it was less than 10 minutes. Not to mention making an explosion, it was not that fast to walk to the security booth to steal a pen.

Knowing that Batman would be here soon, the two got in the car again and drove towards Wayne Tower. Poison Ivy asked while driving: "Didn't you say you were a university professor? Do you often make explosions?"

"Not very often." Schiller said as he adjusted his tie.

Poison Ivy turned her head and looked at him with a puzzled look. She opened her mouth and wanted to ask something, but soon her eyes were attracted by other things. The sparse plants on the green belt outside the car also began to turn their heads to look at her.

"What the hell, this place is obviously far away from the portal." Poison Ivy's face became solemn. She said: "A few dozen minutes ago, the pollution was far from spreading here. How come it is so fast..."

"Is there any possibility of saving these plants?" Schiller asked.

Poison Ivy shook her head and said, "The metabolic system of plants is too slow. Even if we find a way to completely eradicate pollution, it is difficult for them to completely metabolize the pollution. Their fibers and cells cannot withstand such a torment."

Schiller heard the faint sadness in Poison Ivy's tone, and knew that these polluted plants were probably hopeless. This was the same answer he got from Gray Mist.

Gray Mist can perfectly replace the polluted energy in plant cells. The problem is that the number of cells in small flowers and grasses is too small and they are generated slowly. After the replacement, the cells without energy sources will shrink quickly, and the remaining ones will not be able to support the reconstruction of new cells.

"From your perspective, is this a brutal massacre?" Schiller asked knowingly.

"It's worse than that." Poison Ivy looked away and said, "Plant extinction is not uncommon. Whether it is the several mass extinctions in the history of the earth or the local extinction caused by various pollution after the emergence of humans, it can be called a natural selection."

"No matter how many times they have been extinct, no matter how tragic each time, in the end the oldest indigenous people on the earth can always come back to life and grow everywhere again, and those animals that have experienced extinction with them have disappeared in the long river of history."

"You may find it a little strange that as an extreme plant protectionist, I am so indifferent to this matter, but in fact I regard plants as a whole. Everything they experience in the cycle of nature is their destiny. As long as they can grow new buds again in the next season, it is not a disaster."

"What annoys me most about this matter is that the person who released the pollution tried to use this pollution to transform plants and make them go against their instincts." Poison Ivy looked at the plants that kept trying to stretch their stems and get into the car to hit her, and anger gradually rose in her eyes.

"The evolution of plants is a masterpiece of nature. Everything they do is for their survival. This is the only reason they can survive extinction after extinction."

"But the damn energy this guy injected into them made them attack me with trunks, leaves and flowers that are not suitable for attacking. If they can't do it, they will transform them into weird and twisted appearances. This is really disgusting."

Poison Ivy was a little unable to continue at the end. Schiller nodded, indicating that he could fully understand what she meant.

Poison Ivy can understand the beauty of plants from another non-human aesthetic perspective. Those naturally formed plant structures are the root of this beauty, and the natural functions they can play are also part of the aesthetic process.

But in order to make them have some functions that they should not have to bear, and destroy this body structure, from the perspective of Poison Ivy, it may be as disgusting as ordinary people looking at those transformed into tumors and cysts.

"You know who did it, right?" Poison Ivy suddenly asked: "You came with the answer."

"But I only have this answer. We are here."

The two got out of the car. It was very quiet near Wayne Tower because there were no plants here at all.

Obviously, Batman also used intrusion to destroy the security system when he came here, because his face and physical data are different from those of Arkham Batman, so he can't get away with it.

He left too quickly, and there was no time to repair the security system in detail. It was already the limit to restore the security defense system near the portal before leaving, so Schiller and Poison Ivy quickly took advantage of the loophole and entered Wayne Tower.

Poison Ivy was not familiar with the internal structure of Wayne Tower. When she was still wondering where the replacement liquid storage tanks for the weather control center would be stored, Schiller had already taken her to the special chemical spare parts storage room through the internal elevator.

"What is going on?" Poison Ivy was obviously asking Schiller. She even stood there and stared at Schiller in confusion and said, "What is your relationship with Batman and the Joker in your universe? Why do you know the places they often go?"

"I have some relationship with them." Schiller said while checking the liquid storage tank, and this sentence sounded to Poison Ivy as if I had been involved in the relationship between these two crazy people and got away with it.

The liquid storage tank Schiller found was very small, slightly larger than a handbag, and could be carried in his hand. After he opened the tank, he asked Poison Ivy to confirm that it was indeed a concentrated neurotoxin. As long as it was properly diluted, it could basically knock down everyone in Gotham City.

"The weather control system is no longer usable." Poison Ivy said, "Since Peter easily cracked the protective lock last time and used this thing to anesthetize the whole city, Bruce Wayne simply dismantled the core components inside. How do you plan to release the toxin?"

"This is simple." Schiller opened the opening of the liquid storage tank, and under the gaze of Poison Ivy, it turned into a ball of fog. When this ball of fog came into contact with the liquid in the storage tank, the liquid began to decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Poison Ivy widened her eyes again. This thing was made by her, so she knew how powerful it was. After all, such a small half tank of stuff can still anesthetize the whole city after dilution, which shows how toxic this neurotoxin is.

As a result, Schiller drank it all like a drink, and Poison Ivy even suspected that the burp she just heard was an illusion.

Soon Schiller disappeared in the room. Poison Ivy walked to the French window to see where Schiller went, but she saw nothing. After a while, she found that the glass was fogged again.

The thick fog spread along the Wayne Tower and spread to the outside of the city at an incredible speed. Poison Ivy saw that the whole Gotham was being covered with a foggy filter, and the surging gray fog passed through every street and alley.

Although it was obvious from the top, for pedestrians walking on the road, the thin fog was not so easy to attract attention, and it was no different from the usual bad weather in Gotham.

The main universe Nightwing, who was standing in front of the French window of Wayne Manor, just glanced at the gradually foggy glass and put his attention back on the matter at hand.

But Jason and Tim, who were putting their luggage on the second floor, widened their eyes. They rushed downstairs like flying and shouted to others: "Quick! Find a sealed room or wear a gas mask!!"

Now in the living room of Wayne Manor, there are two Robins from the universe, the main universe Robin and the Arkham universe Robin. Now they are stuffing food into their mouths, and some are still drinking nutrient solution, because they know that they may not have time to eat in the next few dozen hours.

Hearing Jason's shouting, they were all stunned for a moment, and turned their heads to look at the two people running down.

"Gas mask! Quick!!!!"

Dick also ran out of another room and shouted. Seeing that they all had the same attitude, others instinctively began to look for protective measures.

"It's too late, go into the bat cave and close the door!" Jason waved at them and said.

All the Robins rushed into the bat cave, staring at each other after entering, and finally all their eyes were focused on Jason.

Jason breathed a sigh of relief as if he had survived a disaster.