Chapter 2526: Battle for the Cloak (Fifty-Six)
Chapter 2500: The Battle for the Cape (Fifty-Six)
Although Poison Ivy had worked with Schiller before, she knew that he was a native of this universe, and the biggest opponent she would face in the future would still be the Batman of this universe. Even if she had a good relationship with people from other universes, she would still be punished by Batman later.
But it was difficult to have a good relationship with the Batman of this universe. On the one hand, she had no idea where he was, and on the other hand, if this irritable Batman knew that it was her own mistake that opened the portal, there was a small chance that he would listen to her explanation.
Poison Ivy decided to take a different approach. Batman valued the Bat Family very much, so she would help the Bat Family in this incident, so that she could get some commutation of sentence when the time came.
It wasn't that Poison Ivy was so afraid of Batman, the problem was that Batman now used his real name to surf the Internet, and his other identity was President Wayne.
If you ask criminals if they are afraid of Batman, eight out of ten will say no. If you ask them if they are afraid of the richest man, twelve out of ten will immediately say that they are excellent employees and have never done anything illegal. The same is true for the president.
In order to live a normal life in the future, and even to gain some favor from the president and get more plant protection bills, Poison Ivy decided to start with the Robins and give them more clues to improve the favorability of these little brats.
In fact, the most important clue in Poison Ivy's hands is about the portal she opened, especially now that she knows that the portal is actually a cover, and the real thing is the hole.
After Poison Ivy told the Robins this information, the Robins did not associate it with any dreams. They just thought that Robin King came from the portal. Since the portal is fake, he must have escaped through the hole.
It doesn't matter if he left, the cape is still in his hand. Even if there is no important information on the cape, Robin can't allow this guy called Robin King to take away their Batman's cape.
"I think we should go and have a look." Dick said, "We can't just let King Robin dig a hole and run away."
"I think so too." Nightwing of the main universe thought and said, "But there may be some danger over there."
"I can go with you." Poison Ivy said. In fact, she didn't want to help to this extent. The problem was that those polluted plants were still chasing her.
Before, she led a group of plants to the Whirlpool Hospital to keep herself quiet for a while, but it didn't take long for them to gather again. Poison Ivy was too lazy to make plans to eliminate them again. If you can't afford to provoke her, you can afford to hide.
The Robins knew what Poison Ivy's ability was, and they also knew that she was very powerful, which gave them some confidence, so they decided to go and have a look.
After the Robins jumped down the hole, they came to the dream world as expected. They and Arkham Batman arrived one after another, but one went through the hole and the other went through Batcat.
Batcat was originally determined not to let Arkham Batman go, but suddenly he seemed to have changed his nature. Not only did he agree to let Arkham Batman go, he also used the authority of the Thousand Cats Dream to help him find the location of the dream bubble and then sent him there.
After sending Arkham Batman there, Xiao Krypton looked at Batcat in confusion and said, "Why are you crazy? You know that he is not in a good mental state now. If you send him there, he will get into trouble."
Batcat snorted coldly and said, "Get into trouble? Don't you realize it yet? We are in big trouble now."
New Jersey City is also in trouble.
A criminal who calls himself the Joker claims that he has buried bombs in twelve locations in the city. As long as the bombs are detonated, everyone around the bombs will die.
The range of the bomb explosion is a circle with a diameter of four kilometers. Everyone in this circle will die. If you want to survive, you must make sure you are outside the circle.
The locations of the twelve bombs will be announced one by one, one every hour, and the bombs will explode within ten minutes of the bomb location being announced.
But if there is no one in the bomb range when the bomb explodes, the location of the next bomb will not be announced, but will be detonated directly.
The Joker announced the location of the first bomb, in the New Jersey City Police Department, which is the combination of the Gotham and New York Police Departments.
Everyone is fleeing in panic.
Four kilometers is a medium-sized range. If it is small, it is unlikely to get out in just 10 minutes. You must use transportation, but if you drive and step on the accelerator to the bottom, this range is nothing.
However, if it is a straight road, it will be fast, but this is the city center after all. It is difficult to drive directly out of the range. You have to go around two turns, and it will take six or seven minutes to drive at 60 miles per hour.
Another point is that this is true when there is no traffic jam, but it is impossible not to have a traffic jam in this situation. Everyone in this range is rushing out of the range at the same time, and there is only one fastest way to leave this range. How can there be no traffic jam?
The time for detour plus the time for traffic jam, 10 minutes becomes stretched, but no one dares to bet whether what this madman who can occupy the screens of major media is true. If this is really a terrorist attack like the Pentagon, they don't want to be the first victims.
The crowd rushed to the road like ants, drove the car at the fastest speed and rushed towards the highway. At this point, no one obeyed the traffic rules, and no one thought about courtesy. They just wanted to go faster and faster.
No matter how fast they are, 10 minutes is still not a very long time. With arrogance, roaring, cursing and arguing, the convoy is still lined up on the road, but the time has come.
People began to pray that this was a joke, but it was not.
The bomb exploded, and with a bang, everything within a range of 4 kilometers turned to ashes, whether it was a car or a person, or the building that boasted how strong it was, everything collapsed.
Gordon saw Ge Yin's body on TV. He was helped into a wheelchair by Bruce. For the first time in decades, he walked out of the bedroom and saw a TV with images.
Even though he was numb from long-term exhaustion, he still closed his eyes in the face of this scene.
"Why not watch?" Bruce asked, "All you can do is watch. When you were a policeman, you might not be able to save them, and now it's even worse. All you can do is watch, why not?"
"Because I'm still a human being!!!" Gordon finally couldn't help but roared in a weak voice, "Human sympathy makes it impossible for them to look directly at the tragedy suffered by their compatriots!!!"
"Really? What about those who plundered my inheritance? Why didn't they show mercy because of the tragedy I suffered?" Bruce asked.
Gordon seemed to be strangled by the neck and uttered a short syllable, but his eyes were still full of grief and anger, and tears kept flowing in his eyes.
"Go save them, go save them... Bruce." Gordon was still muttering.
"I can't do it, uncle." Bruce shook his head and said, "I'm just an ordinary person, and I don't have a car. I can't rush to the scene. I can't help much if I rush there. If I had learned some medical technology before, it would be great. Unfortunately, I can't afford to go to medical school."
Gordon's hands were shaking constantly, and the past scenes emerged one after another, but in the end he couldn't say anything, just shaking like he was about to die.
"Should we drive out of the city?" A gentle lady gently covered her belly that had not yet shown her pregnancy, looked at the tall man in front of her and said, "Neighbor Mrs. Wilson said that it is very unlikely that the bomb was placed outside the city. Maybe we can drive out first and it will be fine."
The tall man turned around, he unconsciously reached out and touched his face and said, "The road out of the city must be very congested now. It would be bad if the bomb was placed on the crowded road out of the city. Let's take a look first."
The woman didn't say anything more, and led the child to the backyard. The child's carefree laughter soon came from the yard, but the man standing on the porch was touching his face while staring at the table in a daze.
There was a photo of a family of three, looking very happy, but the man always felt that something was wrong.
He picked up the photo and saw names written on the back, one of which was signed by him personally - "Jason Todd".
He always felt that he should have another photo, with three people in it, but not these three. Which three were they?
Jason couldn't remember, but the current situation made him feel panic, and what made him feel even more scared was that his panic was not about the danger to his family from the bomb that might explode, but a more bizarre fear.
When the name of the clown appeared in the news broadcast, Jason shook instinctively and threw the fork in his hand away, almost hitting his child.
But he actually had no impression of where he had heard this name, but after all, he had a serious illness many years ago and had a severe fever, and he couldn't remember many things clearly. Maybe he had seen a horror movie about a clown before.
But since the shock just now, Jason felt a little dazed, and when he touched his face involuntarily for the third time, he couldn't help but go to the bathroom to look in the mirror.
His face was very smooth, with nothing on it, but Jason just felt uncomfortable, always thinking that there should be something there. When he reached out to touch it again this time, he felt a tingling pain.
Some scenes flashed back in the mirror. He seemed to be tied up somewhere, and there was a knife carving words on his face. He suddenly looked up at the owner of the hand, and a terrible smiling face appeared in front of him.
Jason groaned in pain, and his wife rushed out immediately. He waved his hand to indicate that he was fine. In order not to disturb his family's rest, he chose to go back to his room.
There was also a TV in his room, which was broadcasting news about the bomb attack. The host said that because people were killed this time, the location of the next bomb would be announced truthfully.
Jason felt an inexplicable impulse, as if something urged him to leave the room and the house, rush to the street, and then find the real murderer.
No, of course he couldn't do that, Jason thought rationally. His wife was pregnant and the child was still young. How could he abandon them at this time?
More importantly, what could he do if he rushed out? Although he did often fight on the streets when he was young, how could a small gangster handle a terrorist attack of this scale? Of course, he should just leave it to the police and take care of his family first.