amaotonovel Chapter 2500: Battle for the Cloak (56)
Chapter 2500: Battle for the Cloak (56)
Chapter 2500: Battle for the Cloak (Fifty-Six)
Although Poison Ivy has worked with Schiller before, she knows that he is a native of this universe. The biggest opponent she will face in the future will still be the Batman of this universe. Even if she builds good relationships with people from other universes, she cannot avoid being exacted upon by Batman later.
But it is difficult to establish a good relationship with the Batman of this universe. On the one hand, I have no idea where he is. On the other hand, if I let this irritable Batman know that it was my mistake that opened the portal, I am afraid there is little chance that he will listen to my explanation.
Poison Ivy decided to take a different approach. Batman valued the Bat-Family very much, so she decided to help the Bat-Family in this incident, so that she could get some reduced sentence when the time came.
It’s not that Poison Ivy is so afraid of Batman, the problem is that Batman now uses his real name to go online, and his other identity is 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 goes for the president.
In order to live a normal life in the future, and even to gain some favor from the President and pass more plant protection bills, Poison Ivy decided to start with 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 effective thing is the hole.
After Poison Ivy told the Robins this information, they did not associate it with any dreams. They just thought that King Robin came from the portal. Since the portal was fake, he must have escaped through that hole.
It doesn't matter if he leaves, the cape is still in his hands. Even if there is no important information on the cape, Robin cannot allow this guy called Robin King to take away their Batman's cape.
"I think we should go over and take a look." Dick said, "We can't just let King Robin dig a hole and run away."
"I think so." Nightwing from the main universe thought and said, "But there may be some danger over there."
"I can go with you." Poison Ivy said. Actually, she didn't want to help to this extent. The problem was that those contaminated plants were still chasing her.
Before, she lured a group of plants to the Whirlpool Hospital to keep herself quiet for a while, but they gathered again not long after. Poison Ivy was too lazy to make plans to eliminate them again. If she couldn't afford to provoke them, she could afford to hide.
Robins knew what Poison Ivy's abilities were and that she was very powerful, which gave them a certain amount of confidence, so they decided to go over and take a look.
After Robin jumped down the hole, they arrived at the dream world as expected. They arrived there at the same time as Arkham Batman, but one arrived through the hole and the other through Batcat.
Batcat originally firmly disagreed with Arkham Batman's going there, but suddenly he seemed to have changed his character. Not only did he agree to Arkham Batman's going there, 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 over, 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 over, he will get into trouble."
Bat Cat snorted and said, "Causing trouble? Don't you realize it yet? We are in big trouble now."
Jersey City was also in trouble.
A criminal who calls himself the Joker claims that he has planted bombs at twelve locations in the city. Once the bombs explode, everyone around the bombs will die.
The range of the bomb explosion is a circle with a diameter of four kilometers. Anyone within this circle will surely 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 their locations being announced.
However, if there is no one within the bomb range when the bomb explodes, the location of the next bomb will not be announced, but will be detonated directly.
The Joker revealed the location of the first bomb, which was in the Jersey City Police Department - a combination of the Gotham and New York Police Departments.
Everyone was fleeing in panic.
Four kilometers is a range that is neither too big nor too small. If you say it is small, it is impossible to walk out of it within just 10 minutes. You must use means of transportation. But if you drive and step on the accelerator to the bottom, this range is not a big deal.
However, if you drive out on a straight road, it will of course be fast, but this is the city center after all, and it is difficult to drive out of the range on a straight road. You have to go around two turns at least, and it will take six or seven minutes to drive at a speed of 60 miles per hour.
Another point is that this is true when there is no traffic jam, but in the current situation it is impossible to not have a traffic jam. 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 spent on taking a detour plus the time spent in traffic jams makes 10 minutes too short. However, no one dares to bet whether what this madman who can occupy the screens of major media outlets says is true. If this is really a terrorist attack like the one on the Pentagon, they don't want to be the first victims.
The crowd swarmed onto the road like a swarm of ants, got into their cars and rushed towards the highway at the fastest speed. At this point, no one obeyed the traffic rules anymore, and no one thought about being courteous anymore. They just wanted to go faster and faster.
No matter how fast they were, 10 minutes was still not a very long time. With arrogance, roaring, spitting and arguing, the convoy was still lined up on the road, but the time was up.
People started praying this was a joke, but it wasn’t.
The bomb exploded with a loud bang, and everything within a range of 4 kilometers was reduced to ashes, whether it was cars or people, or the building that boasted of being so solid, everything collapsed.
Gordon saw Gunn's body on TV. Bruce helped him into a wheelchair. He walked out of the bedroom for the first time in decades and saw the TV with images.
Even though the long-term exhaustion had made him numb, he still closed his eyes when faced with this scene.
"Why not watch?" Bruce asked. "All you can do is watch. When you were a police officer, you might not be able to save them. 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: "Humans' compassion makes it impossible for them to look directly at the tragedy suffered by their compatriots!!!"
"Really? What about those people who plundered my inheritance? Why didn't they show mercy because of the tragedy I suffered?" Bruce asked.
Gordon uttered a short syllable as if his neck was strangled, but his eyes were still full of grief and anger, and tears kept welling up in his eyes.
"Go save them, go save them...Bruce." Gordon kept 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, and I can't help much if I rush over. If only 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 scenes from the past came to his mind one after another, but in the end he could not say anything, he just shook as if he was about to die.
"Should we drive out of town?" A gentle lady gently covered her belly, which was not yet visible, and said to the tall man in front of her, "Our neighbor Mrs. Wilson said that it is unlikely that the bomb was placed outside the city. Maybe we can drive out first and everything will be fine."
The tall man turned around, touched his face with his hand and said, "The road out of the city must be very congested right now. It would be terrible if a bomb was placed on the crowded road out of the city. Let's take a look first."
The woman didn't say anything else and led the child to the backyard. The child's carefree laughter was soon heard from the yard, but the man standing on the porch touched his face and stared at the table in a daze.
There was a photo of a family of three placed there. They looked very happy, but the man always felt that something was wrong.
He held 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 even more scared was that his panic was not about the danger that a bomb might explode and bring to his family, but a more bizarre fear.
When the name "The Joker" appeared in the news, Jason shook instinctively and threw the fork in his hand, almost hitting his child.
But he actually had no impression of where he had heard this name before. After all, he had a serious illness many years ago and had a high fever. He couldn't remember many things. Maybe he had seen a horror movie about clowns 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 smooth and there was nothing on it, but Jason just felt uncomfortable, as if there should be something there. This time when he reached out to touch it, he felt a tingling pain.
Some images flashed back in the mirror. He seemed to be tied up somewhere, with a knife carving words on his face. He suddenly looked up at the owner of the hand, and a scary smiling face appeared in front of him.
Jason let out a painful groan 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 a bomb attack. The host said that because people were killed in this bombing, the location of the next bomb would be announced truthfully.
Jason felt an inexplicable urge, as if something was urging him to leave the room and the house, rush to the street, and 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?
What was more important was what he could do if he rushed out. Although he often got into street fights when he was young, how could a small gangster handle a terrorist attack of this scale? Of course, he would just leave it to the police and take care of his family first.
(End of this chapter)