A glimmer of light gradually appeared in front of his eyes, slowly expanding into a hazy halo. His eyelids opened and closed several times, and a familiar face appeared in Batman's field of vision.
Hearing the familiar sound of equipment operating and the faint sound of water dripping, Batman finally came back to his senses.
"...Dick?" The voice was too dry.
The young man in front of him took off his mask and leaned down very close to Batman. Batman turned his head away. Nightwing shook his head and said, "Thank you for remembering my name, Batman. How do you feel?"
"What's wrong with me?"
"An earth-shattering chemical plant explosion." Nightwing said while packing up the medical equipment on the tray, "It's a miracle that you are still alive."
"Why are you here?"
"I don't think you want me to come back to help, but the fact is that if I don't stop the riots in Gotham City, Bludhaven will not be able to live in peace for a few days."
"how did you find me?"
"Put your questions aside, Mr. Batman. You are not in the right state to talk too much. Drink some water first."
Nightwing poured some water for Batman, and he helped Batman up. Batman looked down and saw that the clothes on his abdomen were full of blood, as if some blown-up building debris had opened his abdominal cavity.
"There is a very strange phenomenon." Nightwing touched his lips and said, "Did you inject yourself with any strange medicine?"
"What's wrong?"
"To say it's a miracle is not an exaggerated adjective. You should have been much more seriously injured than this, and didn't you notice? Your wound is healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. I didn't even have time to debridement you."
Batman looked down at his wound again, and then he suddenly realized that the wound didn't hurt at all.
"Where's me... Alfred?"
"He's coming over right away. I originally planned to decorate your wound to make it look better to prevent scaring him, but now it doesn't seem necessary. Come on, bring the monitoring equipment, and then I'm going to do my thing."
"Where are you going?"
"Tim just called me and said that you and the Prophet were missing together. When I received the call, I witnessed the explosion. I knew it must be related to the two of you."
"But I only found you at the scene of the bombing, not Barbara. I guess she probably went to find her father."
Batman slowly closed his eyes and said, "Find her, protect her, and go."
I don't know how long the consciousness has been dormant, but a familiar fragrance awakened Batman. In his dream, he saw a plate of fluffy pancakes, the kind he usually eats. When he woke up, he found that the source of the fragrance was lying on the hospital bed.
On the nursing table next to it.
"Have something to eat, sir." Alfred was packing things aside.
Batman lowered his head again and was surprised to find that the wound on his abdomen had healed to the point where only a shallow scar remained. After hesitating for a while, he finally said:
"I think there may be something wrong with me, Alfred."
"What's wrong?"
Batman paused and then said: "I was infected by some kind of virus, and then I was affected by the gas."
Batman lowered his head and looked at his wound and said: "The previous host of this virus had such amazing healing ability, so I think this may be a sign of deterioration. I don't know how long it will take for the virus to take control of me."
brain."
"Don't worry too much." Alfred handed the food to Batman and said: "At least we are still here, we can always do something, right?"
Batman almost devoured the food and drank two cups of hot tea. By this time, he was even able to sit up from the hospital bed and walk smoothly.
"You're right, Alfred, I have something I have to do, and I have to do it now."
"Be safe, sir."
When the black shadow fell on the roof of the building again, the rain had become much lighter, but without the sound of rain, Gotham City was eerily quiet at this time.
Batman has just checked the people lying on the street. They were all unconscious after being poisoned by an unknown toxin. It didn't look like fear gas, but Scarecrow must know what was going on.
Batman took a deep breath and wanted to turn on the positioning device to see where the peak radiation of satellite positioning was, but a certain anxiety arose in his heart, and an indescribable strong desire prompted him to board the landing as quickly as possible.
Get on the Batmobile and speed off in one direction.
Drip - drip - drip -
When the siren sounded, the Scarecrow suddenly turned his head and opened the curtains. He saw the Batmobile approaching at extremely fast speeds.
"What's going on? The explosion didn't hurt him? Why did he catch up so quickly?"
"You, and you, stay behind and the others follow me, hurry up! We have to find that idiot Stagg as soon as possible, and then restart my cloud explosion plan, hurry up!"
Arkham Knight, standing by the door with his arms folded, snorted and said, "Coward."
Scarecrow glared at him coldly, but did not refute, because the plan was for Scarecrow to take hostages to contain Batman and Arkham Knight to find Stagg.
But the hostage ran away in his hands. Without the hostage, Scarecrow dared not face the possibly crazy Batman head-on. He could only ask Arkham Knight to stay, and then they went to find Stagg together.
Fortunately, the Stagg Building is not far away. Scarecrow snorted as he led his men onto the military vehicle. The people he left behind were enough to cause some trouble for Batman. It will not be so easy to catch up with him next time.
Already.
Then within ten minutes, the scarecrow was found again.
Once again abandoning four or five of his men to contain Batman, Scarecrow began to move to the next safe house, and this safe house was the Chinatown loft where Poison Ivy was once imprisoned.
And he only stayed here for less than ten minutes before the Batmobile appeared at the end of the street again.
Scarecrow almost collapsed. He didn't know how Batman could locate his position so quickly and rush over at all costs.
Peter returned to the Batcave and released the three FBI agents in the Batcave prison.
"Hello, I am Peter Parker. I'm sorry that the greeting process is a bit thrilling, but we have to do this."
"The greeting process?!" the helicopter pilot said, raising his voice: "You mean having a madman in a flying car and wearing a tight suit shoot at us?!"
"I told you, this is a necessary procedure. If you don't get caught by him, you won't be able to see me."
"Oh my God! People here are crazy!"
"Stop being so nagging, bring this to Ms. Waller. Your plane should be in the cabin at the back. Let's leave now."
The three agents looked at me, and I looked at you, and then looked at the things Peter handed over, and found that they were actually marking equipment and codes for military vehicles.
They nodded to Peter and walked out of the room quickly. Peter said to them on the way to where the helicopter was parked: "The fact is that someone has stolen the military's equipment, but the military is not stupid either. They are very capable."
Might have been discovered."
"As long as the top military officials are not stupid, they will never allow this kind of thing to be announced, so you'd better be careful."
The agents nodded to Peter, and when the helicopter's rotors spun, Peter stood on the ground and waved to them.
Then he returned to the Batcomputer as quickly as possible to call Prophet Barbara. After finding no one answered, Peter waved to Poison Ivy and said, "We have to go to the Prophet's base before we can use her
system."
Poison Ivy was too lazy to ask him what he was going to do. Anyway, following Peter was the only option now. Otherwise, she would be caught by Batman alone, which would definitely not be as good for her. With Peter here, they would be caught together, she said.
Maybe he could escape while Peter was being beaten.
Peter used the Batcomputer to decipher some of the information from the Prophet system satellites and located the location of the clock tower. The two drove there as quickly as possible.
After arriving at the bell tower, Peter did not choose to hack into the security door again, but opened the door with his bare hands.
Passing through the gap in the security door, Peter found that there were no signs of damage inside. It was obvious that Barbara left on her own. Judging from the previous phone call, she should have gone to save her father.
Peter started the computer, successfully entered the Prophet system, and began to search for phone numbers in it.
He quickly locked a number, and after the call was connected, a steady male voice came from the other side.
"Hello, I'm Peter Parker. You don't need to know who I am, but I have some bad news for you."
"You should have heard about the accidents that happened in Gotham City. Unfortunately, the terrorist Scarecrow stole the permission to use military equipment and is now driving military vehicles and using military satellites to roam Gotham City."
"Yes, Gotham City's energy has been cut off, and no one can spread the news, but unfortunately, the all-pervasive FBI sent an armed helicopter to land in Gotham."
"Batman provided them with identification equipment and unique codes carried on military vehicles, and perhaps more. Now the agents have taken off, and in an hour, Amanda Waller will get the evidence."
"Don't think about killing people and silencing them. As long as the equipment is still in the hands of the terrorists in Gotham, Waller can send people to get evidence at any time. You know how stubborn and paranoid she is."
"If you have any countermeasures, it's best to implement them quickly before the plane lands. I can only remind you so much. Goodbye."
The phone hung up and Peter let out a sigh of relief.
"I really don't understand you anymore and more," Poison Ivy said.
Unexpectedly, Peter's expression finally turned serious, as if his plan was really starting now.
Peter put on his jacket again and said to Poison Ivy: "Come here quickly and help. We are going to evacuate all the residents of Wayne Manor and a large area around it."
Poison Ivy looked confused.
Although she didn't know what Peter was going to do, Poison Ivy still tried her best to help. On the one hand, the vines were easy to use, and more importantly, people who were anesthetized by plant toxins had little ability to resist, so it was easier to carry them than to carry items.
As Peter drove, Poison Ivy, who was standing on the roof of the car, manipulated the vines and took every living thing out of every house and stuffed it into the car. After stuffing one car into another, she even dug out the plants and moved them away.
.
In about forty minutes, a large area of the estate surrounding Wayne Manor was completely cleared, leaving only houses and land.
Standing in an underground parking lot filled with trucks at least three miles away, Peter looked at Poison Ivy and said, "Just stay here and don't go out no matter what you see. I'll be back to meet you soon."
After saying that, Peter left. Poison Ivy always felt something was wrong. She walked to the edge of the underground parking lot and watched Peter disappear into the distance.
And just when she turned around to go back underground, she saw a few black spots appear on the gray skyline, flying towards Gotham with a thick smoke tail.
Those were dozens of missiles without any markings.
"I will end you with my own hands, Batman."
The neon lights of Chinatown reflected on the black and gray metal armor of the Arkham Knight, making him look like a warrior covered in light. Opposite him, Batman stood in the still thick rain and fog, and some terrible desire made him
Looks like an old ghost.
"Take off your mask." Batman said.
"Take off yours first, don't you dare?"
"Where's the scarecrow?"
"You're not here..."
Batman could no longer hear the Arkham Knight's voice, and he saw the Joker's face in the reflection of the metal armor.
"You don't dare, of course you don't dare, Batman." The Joker smiled and said to him: "Didn't you see the scene after the identity was exposed in the scene of the fear of poison gas? Or..."
Zhi——
Batman was awakened, and the moment a sharp voice sounded, the two of them turned their heads to look at the sky at the same time.
Missiles, more missiles, countless missiles are flying towards this dark city with the breath of destruction.
Batman's communicator rang.
"...Penguin! I monitored the communication between Penguin and the military! They want to destroy the evidence..."
Batman heard Peter's voice on the communicator out of breath and gradually getting weaker.
"They found me following the listening signal and kidnapped me, but I ran out halfway. I am now activating the anti-missile equipment in the Batcave. Give me permission...Batman..."
Batman pressed the button immediately, but then Peter's slightly painful voice came.
"No...it's too late, too late to intercept...I activated the bait...the bait in the Batcave..."
After Batman was stunned for a moment, he shouted into the communicator: "No!! Peter! The navigation location of the bait system is the Batcave! You can't..."
"I know...but this is probably the least damaging way..."
"Peter! Stop!!...Peter!!!!"
Toot—toot—
The missiles passing overhead suddenly turned around and flew towards one point.
boom!!!
Looking at the mushroom cloud rising in the distance, Batman froze completely. He lowered his arms and stood there blankly.
In the hazy dark vision, the clown appeared in front of him, he grinned and said.
"I told you, look, you've killed another child, and another, and another, and how many more are there?"
The clown's blood-red mouth became clearer and clearer, and the figure became real. Batman reached out to grab it, but he didn't realize that he was already standing on the edge of the roof.
Or maybe he actually found out, but he didn't care anymore - this night really should be over.
"Batman, this is our fate, come on, come on..."
The clown's whisper is like the last requiem, one step after another, there is no way ahead.
Suddenly, a harsh communicator alarm sounded, and Batman woke up suddenly.
"Batman...Batman! I'm fine! Poison Ivy fished me out! But I'm sorry, your manor may have been destroyed, and your Batcave. Fortunately, the rich people around here seem to
