Chapter 293: A Great Responsibility Is Given to This Person (Part 2)

In the morning, in the office of Gotham University, Schiller was holding a coffee cup and reading the newspaper. Victor had just arrived and asked Schiller: "Have you read the report about the fire in the commercial street?"

"I'm reading this part."

Schiller shook the newspaper and then set his eyes on the front page headline of the Gotham Daily. It used a whole page to report the fire in the central commercial street, but the accompanying picture was not the damage to the commercial street, but the back of a man in black leaving.

The title was written in bold text: "Is Batman a vigilante who saves Gotham, or a hypocritical actor who puts on a show?"

Although the title is a question, the text has given the answer. It vividly describes a reporter who rushed to the scene of the fire and saw that Batman just stood on the roof and took a look at the fire scene, and then left in a hurry.

In the reporter's description, Batman looked at the damaged commercial street below with indifference, and did not hesitate when he turned around and left. It seemed that he only showed up from beginning to end and had no intention of saving people at all.

His description, combined with the picture of Batman walking in the opposite direction of the fire, was very convincing. When Bruce put down the newspaper, he pressed his temple and sighed deeply.

When Aisha activated the dad summoning spell, Bruce happened to change into Batman's suit. Therefore, he appeared in front of the two children as Batman, and Dick also knew that Bruce was Batman.

He also saw the report in the newspaper, and said indignantly: "You obviously saved so many people, but they actually said you were a coward who turned around and ran away because you were afraid of rescue? How could they..."

"Okay, Dick, are you ready for school?"

"...Yeah." Dick nasally said, looking a little frustrated, "Batman, can't I really go out with you to seek justice? I think you need a helper. If I'm here this time, I can stay here to rescue, and then you go to another fire scene, so that they won't misunderstand you..."

"I don't care if they misunderstand me."

Dick looked at Bruce's extremely tired face. If Bruce's too young face made Dick a little awkward before, and he couldn't treat him as an elder, then facing Bruce in this state, Dick really didn't dare to raise any more objections.

Bruce's face now is no longer bad. He seems to have aged several years overnight. After all, the days he has lived in the past two days can be described as inhumane.

During the day, he had to deal with the clowns who were causing chaos everywhere, play those life-threatening games with him, and make up for the lack of detectives in the Gotham Police Department, helping Gordon investigate the serial murder case related to the Twelve Apostles. On the other hand, he had to track down the Twelve Families and the big boss. At night, the first thing he saw was those four unlucky guys...

The busyness during the day and at night was different, but they were intertwined. The complicated things during the day left him no time to carefully analyze the weaknesses of the four killers in his dream, and he couldn't make a plan to deal with them.

At night, because he had no plan, he was always in an awkward situation of encounter. Many attempts had no progress, and there was still no good way to deal with the two strongest killers.

And the frequent failures of attempts would only make him exhaust all his energy, and then he would faint before he could return to the real world. Because he consumed too much energy, he felt dizzy during the day and was inefficient in doing things. In short, he entered an extremely vicious cycle.

The public opinion about Batman also began to intensify. Although it is not known whether this was deliberately directed by the Joker, Bruce did fall into a kind of mental torture, because everything was falling infinitely downward, developing in the opposite direction of his expectations, as if nothing would get better.

Whether it was physical or mental, Bruce's condition began to get worse and worse, but at the same time, because of this multiple torture, a certain string in his mind began to be tempered and tougher.

When a person is oppressed to the limit, his potential will begin to be exerted at a very fast speed. Batman debuted for a year, and his growth trajectory was like a small slope, and from these two days, the line of the trajectory directly rose on the spot and became a vertical line.

After three days, Bruce was visibly thinner, but at the same time, his eyes under his brows began to contain another kind of perseverance.

During the day, he followed the clues to trace the intricate relationship between the twelve families, investigated the scenes of each murder, and inferred the methods and purposes of the murderers. In the evening, he and Gordon summarized the case. After returning home at night, he began to make a plan to deal with the four murderers.

After falling asleep at night, Batman began to gradually realize his plan. With repeated failures, Batman's energy limit became higher, and he could even try dozens of times in a row without feeling dizzy or tired.

After repeated attempts, Batman found the best solution to deal with these murderers.

He found that although these murderers were cruel, they did not cooperate with each other. They killed each other. Once a conflict occurred between them, no one would give in, which gave Batman a lot of room for operation.

Moreover, he found that using his willpower to resist attacks or materialize weapons was a thankless act. Schiller's will kept interfering with him, causing the weapons he materialized to have various defects or simply be disposable and not easy to use.

But Batman never lacked backup plans. He began to try to use his willpower to create obstacles in this alley. At first, he tried to change the wall structure to create a corner with a blind spot, but soon he found that this consumed energy too quickly, so he began to create some smaller but more usable obstacles.

First, there were some garbage piles made of construction waste. Although they could not completely block the line of sight like walls, they gave him the opportunity to hinder the opponent's movement. Then there were small traps such as broken glass and flying newspapers, or flashlights to dazzle the eyes, and loudspeakers to make noise to divert attention.

Batman deeply realized the benefits of diversified and localized operations. Compared with killing the opponent with bat darts or daggers that were materialized with one mind, sometimes the interference of these small objects can provide better tactical opportunities.

In this way, after countless attempts, Batman carefully created a trap.

He took advantage of the behavioral logic of the four killers. As soon as he appeared, the four people would start to chase him frantically until he was killed.

When he stood at the door of Wayne Manor, the order of the four killers was that the white-faced mask and the hockey mask were on the outside, the chainsaw killer was third, and the iron claw monster was on the innermost wall.

When he stepped out of the door and came to the alley, the four people began to move towards him at the same time. The two tall killers came out first, followed by the chainsaw killer, and finally the iron claw monster.

Batman placed two garbage piles on the left and right at the entrance of the alley, which occupied most of the alley. He rushed over at full speed with the best physical strength. After using flexible movement to pass the two tall masked killers, the killers who were originally walking towards Wayne Manor would turn around and chase him.

Except for the iron claw monster who can walk on the wall, the other three have to land on their feet. The tall white-faced killer and the hockey mask killer have almost the same chasing speed, so they will be stuck at the junction of the two garbage dumps.

At this time, Batman has rushed to the central part of the alley and faced the chainsaw killer.

But Batman did not choose to knock him down with fighting skills as before, because there is no point. Even if Batman can grab the chainsaw, it is not a very useful weapon. Even with this weapon, he can't deal with the other three killers.

He placed four oil barrels at the end of the alley on the right side. When attracting the attention of the chainsaw killer, he slowed down and moved towards the oil barrels.

At this time, the attack of the steel claw monster at the end of the alley should just come. Batman rolled and hid behind the oil barrel. Although the claws of the steel claw monster can easily penetrate the flesh, when Batman concentrates on strengthening the defense of the oil barrel, his steel claws can only scratch a mark on the oil barrel.

This is the conclusion Batman has come to after several failures. It is well-founded to believe that the metal surface of the oil barrel is hard enough to block the steel claws, which is much simpler than believing that his own body can block the steel claws.

If the attack fails, the steel claw monster will go around to the side and try to bypass the oil barrel to continue attacking Batman. At this time, the chainsaw killer with a chainsaw just arrived. According to the walking speed, the white-faced mask killer and the hockey mask killer should also be following behind the chainsaw killer.

There will be sparks when the chainsaw rubs against metal, so when it cuts the oil barrel, it will detonate the oil barrel, create an explosion, and blow everyone out.

The key point of the whole plan is that the speed of each killer must be calculated at each step. When the oil barrel explodes, the four killers must be close enough. Another difficulty is that Batman will also be blown away at the same time, and he must believe that he is not injured after being blown away.

Batman made many mistakes when calculating speed and movement. In fact, he had already calculated the whole process in his mind the first time. The difficulty was that he had to concentrate and keep these props materialized while moving accurately to control the speed of the killer.

After failing dozens of times, Batman found that not only his energy limit was improved, but also his concentration and control ability had a qualitative leap. In the end, he could even make the oil barrel float up and hit the chainsaw.

As willpower continued to grow, the tolerance rate became higher and higher. Finally, accompanied by the roar of the chainsaw, the oil barrel exploded, and the four killers and Batman were blown away at the same time.

At this time, he should firmly believe that the killer would be eliminated, and he would be unharmed. After the smoke of the explosion dissipated, Batman stood up from the ground.

He was not unharmed. On the contrary, the entire bat armor was blown to pieces. At the last moment, Batman decided to gamble and focus on improving the effect of the explosion and the lethality to the opponent.

The consequence of weakening his defense was that he suffered serious external injuries, but at the same time, he was determined to inflict the greatest damage on his opponents, and the four killers on the opposite side were also seriously injured.

The one who was least injured was the hockey mask. His clothes were only a little torn by the explosion. He was getting up from the ground. The white-faced mask was similar to the chainsaw killer. He was seriously injured and was lying in the corner. The monster with steel claws was emitting black smoke all over his body, and it seemed that he could not control the direction of his movement.

Batman's purpose was not to destroy them, but to leave the alley as soon as possible. He looked up and saw that the high tower in the city center was still standing silently in the black night sky. He knew that his destination was there.

After leaving the alley, those terrifying eyes that were originally a little far away from him were getting closer and closer. Endless monsters appeared in the streets and alleys of Gotham.

Batman, who was facing them, found that at this moment, the emotion that surged in his heart was not the initial confusion and fatigue, but an indescribable... excitement.

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Sorry, I am not feeling well today and it is a little late.

If there is no update around 12 o'clock, you don't have to wait. It will be the same if you watch it the next day.