There were occasional car lights on the dark road, and the dazzling lights flashed by. The truck was speeding through the rainy night, splashing huge waves on the thin rain on the road.
The shadow of the town loomed on the distant skyline. The moment a truck stopped at the toll gate, a vine stretched out from the gap in the window and pricked the neck of the policeman who walked to the truck to check the goods.
Another figure had already rushed into the toll booth, and soon the pole was raised, and the truck
Continue to gallop towards the distant town.
When the light of the car lights also disappeared into the dark rainy night, above the toll station, the signboard with the name of the city glowed coldly - "Bloodhaven".
The truck drove smoothly into the underground cold storage. When Poison Ivy got out of the car, she looked at Peter in disbelief and said, "Didn't you say you've only been in Gotham for less than a month? You were even in Bludhaven.
The base is ready."
"I didn't prepare this." Peter shook his head and said, "It was only after I obtained the permission to use the Batcomputer that I discovered that Batman's first assistant had been active here and had set up more than ten robots in this city.
Safe houses, and I’m just borrowing the most secret one.”
"Ma'am, please give them another injection of anesthetic to make sure they don't wake up within 24 hours. Then you can choose to stay here, or continue to go back with me."
There was a trace of hesitation on Poison Ivy's face, but to Peter's surprise, Poison Ivy said, "I'm going with you, I have to go back to Gotham."
"Can I take the liberty of asking why?"
Poison Ivy rolled her eyes slightly, then looked at Peter and said: "I know how dangerous you are, boy, no matter what storms and waves you set off in Gotham tonight, you can't really hurt the plants there.
"
"And I'm not a loner as you think. The chaos you provoked between Scarecrow, Penguin, and Batman will inevitably spread to the entire Gotham. I want to go back and stay with Harley, and make sure that she never
would be interested in you and your plans, which is difficult."
"Then get in the car." Peter opened the door of the truck again and climbed into the car, and then said: "It's not far from dawn."
The truck slowly drove out of the darkness at the exit of the underground cold storage. What Peter didn't notice was that an inconspicuous red light spot lit up in a corner of the extremely deep darkness and flickered several times.
As soon as he returned to Gotham City, Peter received a communication from Batman.
"Where are you, Peter? Answer me."
"I'm on Lexie Island." Peter replied: "Poison Ivy told me that there is a Harley Quinn base there, and we are heading there now to see if we can find any trace of Barbara and Gordon."
"Come back now, I have other tasks for you."
Peter's hand holding the steering wheel paused, and then replied: "Okay, I'll turn around right away."
Poison Ivy next to him looked at him and said, "Are you planning to go back to the Batcave? Then drop me here."
"You go back with me, but don't go in. Once I give you the signal, I'll try to make some noise and lure Batman over."
"You are absolutely crazy. I will not fight against Batman!" Poison Ivy turned her head back, shook her head and said, "I have been avoiding doing this before. It is not a good thing to be a thorn in his side. He has everything at hand.
Ready-made hostage—his estate has the most exotic flowers and plants in Gotham."
"But we moved them all."
Poison Ivy was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Peter and said in surprise: "You shouldn't have gotten to this point a long time ago, right?"
"I'm not asking you to fight with him. Just like other super criminals, make some noise, be discovered by him, and then leave before he comes. It's that simple."
Poison Ivy sighed and said: "I will help you one last time. Then you must promise me that after this matter is over, go to my laboratory to help me conduct chemical analysis of plant toxins."
"Perfect deal, ma'am, please."
Peter went all the way back to the Batcave, first went to the changing room, changed out of his uniform, and then went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Amidst the rushing sound of water, Batman's voice sounded outside the door: "Peter, how long do you want? We have to hold a combat meeting."
"Right away, sir, by the way, can you help me ask Mr. Alfred if my clothes have been dried? Where should I find them?"
Batman left. Amidst the sound of water, Peter, who was lying in the bathtub, sighed in relief and began to review the process of executing the entire plan in his mind, making sure that nothing was missed.
The topic chosen for Peter's exam this time is Batman. Of course, it's not about curing Batman.
It's not just because it's too difficult to cure Batman, but because Peter is not a psychiatrist. It's meaningless to specialize in this area. It's not worthwhile to pay more and gain less.
What Peter has to show is his ability to control the situation independently, which is very important.
Because it is obvious that as the Spider Army operates in more and more universes, the status of this group will also increase, and neither Schiller nor Nick will want to hand over the leadership of this group to anyone else.
In fact, most Spider-Man are not suitable to be leaders. They can work together and help each other, but to lead a huge group across the multiverse, kindness and friendship alone are not enough.
It doesn't mean that you have to be immoral or very evil, but to maintain kindness in the complex multiverse environment requires stronger abilities. To a certain extent, you have to be stronger than these immoral people.
Much stronger.
Since ancient times, people have called leaders who have no morals but strong abilities as heroes, but those leaders who are ethical and kind enough are enough to be canonized, because if you have to resort to unscrupulous means, the difficulty of leading a team will suddenly rise to another level.
The current Spider-Man Legion is still mainly guided by Nick, but Nick knows that he and Spider-Man are not of the same mind, and he is not the kind of leader who can fully inspire the members' justice and positivity. However, most of Spider-Man's power comes from this.
Although Peter loves scientific research, he knows his responsibility. In addition to making all Spider-Man's lives better, he also needs to make full use of the abilities of so many Spider-Man to make all universes better.
To be a leader, one must not understand people's hearts. A team with such a wide range of interests will inevitably encounter various difficulties in witnessing biological diversity.
It is not impossible to constantly explore in practice and accumulate experience through making mistakes, but Peter also has his own pride. He always only chooses the hell difficulty when playing games.
So Peter came to Gotham to face Batman, and he was the more difficult one among Batman.
Peter was not overly ambitious. He chose a more difficult target and a more sinister environment, and planned to set a lower goal, so he spent almost a week exploring Gotham to see if there was anything suitable for solving it.
The problem.
During this process, Peter discovered that when he passed certain places, the spider sense would always sound weakly, which greatly attracted Peter's attention, and he soon discovered the fear poisonous gas planted by the Scarecrow.
When Peter discovered it, almost all the scarecrows had been buried. Thousands of fear gas bombs were buried in every corner of this huge city. Even if Peter had three heads and six arms, he wouldn't be able to dig them all out in an hour and a half.
Even if Batman is notified and the Bat-family digs together, it will only alert the snake and allow Scarecrow to detonate the bomb in advance, causing an even greater disaster.
Since the disaster was inevitable, Peter took this as his topic. The goal was to keep the situation under his control as much as possible on the night when the disaster broke out, do his best to reduce casualties, and end the disaster as soon as possible.
It's not impossible to follow Batman's footsteps, but it won't exercise your abilities at all. Besides, he's not just a Robin. Running around Gotham City to complete tasks is far less than what he can do.
But Batman will definitely not listen to his explanation, so Peter can only choose to go it alone. This is Batman's Gotham, and if he does so, he will definitely end up with Batman.
Therefore, Peter's best choice is to take advantage of his information gap, strike early to catch Batman off guard, and quickly finish the work he needs to do while he is being led by various clues laid out in advance.
This time, Peter went all out, in addition to the psychological knowledge he learned from Schiller, the techniques he learned from Stark, the pursuit and fighting skills he learned from Steve, and the skills he learned from Nick.
With manpower and time management skills, he used all the symbiotes, healing potions, improved spider suits and other means, and maintained the advantage of information gap, so that Batman could mess around in Gotham for half a night.
But he knew that this was just the beginning. After observing Batman in the past few weeks, he found that the Dark Knight was unreasonably strong. He was probably the strongest and most comprehensive human being that Peter had ever faced.
The people Peter knew before included several of his teachers, most of whom were good at only one or a few areas.
But Batman is not. Batman is a real hexagonal warrior. Peter has been thinking hard for weeks, but he has not thought of any weaknesses that can be exploited.
Peter, who was lying in the bathtub, took a deep breath and went through the entire planning process in his mind. After making sure that there was no problem, he closed his eyes and rested for a while to regain his strength and energy, then changed his clothes and walked out of the bathroom.
.
Arriving at the battle meeting hall of the Batcave, there were only two people waiting there, Batman and Nightwing.
"How's the research on the fear agent going?" Batman asked.
After Peter made sure that his expression was okay, he said: "The chemical analysis still has no results, but the radiation theory is basically certain that there is no problem. I will now transmit the data of common radiation bands to your computer."
"Once the antenna modification is completed, the satellite will be able to point out to you the locations where fear gas bombs may be located. Our next step is to focus on modifying the antenna and then dig out the bombs."
"Robin has lost contact, and so have Gordon and Barbara." Batman said again. He looked at Peter and said, "You were almost kidnapped and were hunted down."
"But that's not important." Peter shook his head and said, "Being a superhero means you must be prepared to shed blood and make sacrifices. We must continue to work hard for those who are still alive."
Batman looked at him silently, and Peter met his eyes fearlessly, but Batman shook his head and said, "My plan is different from the two of you."
Nightwing had an anxious look on his face and kept winking at Peter. Peter frowned slightly. He couldn't understand what Nightwing meant because he had never dealt with the first Robin before and had too little information.
Already.
"This combat meeting is used to announce my plan, and you two just need to listen and sit over there."
The atmosphere was a bit stiff, and Peter could clearly see the corners of Nightwing's twitching mouth. Under Nightwing's disapproving gaze, Peter turned and walked towards the chair pointed by Batman.
Nightwing had no choice but to walk over and sit down, and when he turned to look at Peter next to him, the expression on his face was "You will soon know why I left Gotham."
And Peter really wants to hear Batman's plan, he thinks this will allow him to take targeted precautions.
The next second, the spider sense beeped sharply.
Click, click, click!
Several metal locks protruded from the neck, wrists and legs, and they closed instantly, completely immobilizing Peter and Nightwing.
Peter's pupils shrank suddenly.
"No matter what my plan is, you two stay here honestly and don't even think about leaving until the matter is resolved."
