The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 2448: Battle for the Cloak (4)

Chapter 2448: Battle for the Cloak (IV)

Poison Ivy was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. A vine suddenly sprouted out from the bookshelf. Poison Ivy turned around suddenly and was dazed for a moment when she saw the figure standing in the darkness.

"Batman? I should be happy to say that you are not dead yet?"

"You know I'm not that easy to die." Batman walked out of the shadows for the first time, but still wrapped his cloak tightly, looking like an elegant eaves beast standing on the eaves of a church.

"But unfortunately, I'm not the Batman you know." Batman shook his head gently and said, "Regarding the underground portal, I think you need to tell me something."

Poison Ivy's expression froze slightly. She opened her mouth slightly, then pursed her crimson lips and said, "So that's a portal?"

"When did you discover it?"

"A long time ago." Poison Ivy sighed and told Batman, "At that time, the Joker was still alive. I mean, he hadn't died yet. Someone was looking for trouble with me. When I used vines to repel them, I accidentally discovered that there was a mysterious basement right below Wayne Tower. The portal you mentioned is in there."

"But believe it or not, I didn't look into it and I didn't tell anyone about it."

"why?"

"Obviously, that's more likely to be Batman's work, isn't it?" Poison Ivy said, "He suddenly wanted to expand his base into a basement and put a weird device in it. Why is it necessary to explore this?"

Batman understood, and he said, "Have you seen it activated?"

"I don't know if it can be called activation, but a few days ago, it began to emit strange radiation, a strange dark force, which seriously affected the roots of nearby plants and groundwater."

"I thought it was a radiation leak caused by Batman's experimental accident, so I went to him and hoped that he would deal with it quickly, otherwise it would definitely cause large-scale environmental pollution."

"You mean he knew it was a portal before it happened?" Batman narrowed his eyes.

Poison Ivy shook her head and said, "I didn't think it was a portal at the time, and I don't know if he knew it was a portal."

Batman knows his other self very well, because if someone puts a weird thing on his territory and it continues to release radiation, he will definitely find a way to find out what it is.

Since he has been prepared, Arkham Batman will not be killed so easily. It is more likely that he is trapped now.

"The portal will open again." Batman said to Poison Ivy with certainty: "A lot of evil things will come out of it."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Some blocking measures." Batman said: "If there are a large number of monsters, then try to destroy their manpower as much as possible. If it is just one monster, then delay its time to reach the ground."

"And you have a way to destroy them?"

"There's a way inside Wayne Tower," Batman said. "If the other Batman realized this was a portal, he must have put some security measures in place."

"But it didn't work at all." Poison Ivy questioned; "Otherwise, how would that guy get to the Capitol?"

Batman knew that Poison Ivy was referring to Robin King, but he still insisted on his point of view and said: "That is their leader, so he must be special. I am more inclined to believe that he has used some means to hide himself, so that the security alarm was not triggered at all."

"It looks like you're going to adjust your defenses." Poison Ivy guessed his next move and said, "I can help you, and even call more people for you. You just need to promise me not to let that damn big-headed punk bastard really take over Gotham. That would be a disaster."

Batman's gaze fell on the sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window. It was dusk again, but the city of Gotham was particularly gloomy. Compared with his hometown, the buildings and streets lacked the weight of history and were filled with the coldness of technology and machinery.

King Robin must have been eager to complete his yet another coronation on the ruins of Gotham, but the preparations and arrangements made by Arkham Batman before this prevented him from being killed easily, which delayed King Robin.

All Batman and all the reinforcements have to do is prepare a feast for King Robin before he arrives, warmly welcome his arrival, and present wonderful fireworks for his coronation ceremony.

After Batman left, Poison Ivy still stood quietly in front of the window, listening to the names of superheroes who died one after another on the news, appearing indifferent.

She just looked at the few green things in Gotham City with a little worry. Those flowers that were trying their best to thrive in such a harsh environment must not lose the sunlight they had fought so hard for because of the sinister intentions of mankind. She would do everything in her power to prevent this from happening.

Poison Ivy suddenly saw that the originally clear glass began to become blurry at the bottom, and a faint mist climbed up the window frame until it spread to the entire glass.

Poison Ivy frowned slightly. She subconsciously reached out to wipe the glass, but found that the fog appeared outside the window.

The next second, the fog suddenly attacked her. Poison Ivy instinctively used her arms to block it, but found that the fog passed through her. She turned around and saw the thick fog condensed into a shape behind her.

Dense vines surged out along the walls, and just as the tip of the nearest vine was about to pierce into the thick fog, the tip of the black umbrella was aimed directly at Poison Ivy's brow.

The fog dissipated, and Poison Ivy opened her eyes slightly. She saw a man with gray eyes. He looked somewhat familiar. Poison Ivy remembered that she seemed to have seen him somewhere, but she probably had never really dealt with him, so she didn't have a deep impression of him.

"who are you?"

Schiller folded up his umbrella, not even looking at the vines above him, and held it upright in front of him, resting his hands on the handle, looking directly at Poison Ivy and saying, "My name is Schiller, where's Batman?"

"He just left." Poison Ivy showed an expression that said, "I knew it would be like this." She shook her head and said, "You don't look like his enemy, so I can tell you that if nothing unexpected happens, he should have gone to Wayne Tower."

Schiller was not in a hurry to leave. He said, "I need some of your neurotoxin. The higher the concentration, the better."

"What do you want to do?" Poison Ivy frowned and said, "You don't want to use this to take down Batman, do you?"

"Of course not. You know that's impossible. I will spread the neurotoxin throughout Gotham through the thick fog, anesthetize the citizens first, and then transport them out."

Poison Ivy slowly opened her mouth. She looked Schiller up and down, looked to the side, then looked back again. She shook her head slightly and said, "Do you have a student named Peter Parker? He came here some time ago and spent a crazy night here."

Schiller nodded slightly and said, "I'm very proud of him."

"What a pride!" Poison Ivy raised her voice and yelled, "You were the one who taught him to destroy Gotham before the criminals destroyed it, so that the criminals couldn't succeed, right?! He almost destroyed Gotham overnight! Twice!"

"So I say I'm very proud of him."

Poison Ivy covered her eyes and let out a long sigh. Her shoulders drooped. She put one hand on her waist and waved her other hand vigorously, saying, "Go away! I don't have what you want here, so don't bother me!"

"I see." Schiller showed no surprise. He said, "It seems that Peter's actions have left a big psychological trauma on you, but I still insist that this is a special method for a special period, and in my opinion, it is far from being a radical measure."

"This is not considered a drastic measure?! Do you know what he did that night?!!"

"Of course, I watched the whole thing." Schiller remained calm and said in a flat tone: "Objectively speaking, his plan was quite good, but he was a little hasty in executing it. However, considering the pressure he faced, this performance was already quite good."

"What is this?" Poison Ivy asked, spreading her hands. "Is this an entrance test for antisocial lunatics? Don't tell me you have a club."

Schiller remained silent.

Poison Ivy narrowed her eyes.

After a long while, she could only sigh again, turned around and walked back to the sofa to sit down and said, "If you want to anesthetize everyone in the city like Peter did and then send them out of the city to ensure their safety, then I don't think you need to do this."

"When the citizens were sent out, the timid ones basically ran away with their families. After all, Gotham has the Wayne Group, and the economic situation is not bad. It is a big city with high housing prices, so it is not difficult to sell the house and live somewhere else. Even the lower-class people in the slums can live in the small villages around Blüdhaven."

"Gotham doesn't have walls, nor is it a whirlpool that must pull people in. Those who come back after experiencing what happened are either crazy or they are afraid of death for their own sake. You have no obligation to guarantee their safety. Even if you send them out, they will come back later."

"I'm not trying to keep them safe." Schiller stroked the umbrella gently and said, "Chasing prey, listening to screams, appreciating blood and death, and feeling the fear of one's own kind is slaughter. Picking up a piece of meat weighing more than 100 pounds from the muddy ground, next to a trash can, or in a narrow house and chopping it with a knife is called butchering."

"King Robin was excited to come to Gotham to cause a massacre, but he found that those living people who were supposed to run away, scream, and bleed turned into motionless dead meat. Guess how disappointed he would be?"

"You just want to spoil his fun?"

"if not?"

Poison Ivy looked at Schiller speechlessly. Schiller added, as if reluctantly, "As long as he is disgusted, he will definitely find out who ruined his fun."

"You want him to come to you?"

"That's my biggest concern right now," Schiller sighed. "For some reason, they're more interested in Batman, but I think he can be of greater help to the world with me."

"You sound like a psychopath... aren't you?"

Schiller remained silent.

"No, I won't give it to you." Poison Ivy shook her head and said, "Don't look at me like that. Even if you knock me out right now, or even cut me open, you won't get what you want, because I don't have it at all."

Poison Ivy looked at Schiller's expression and said speechlessly, "What do you think neurotoxins are? My hair? Can it grow a new one every few days?"

"I provided the neurotoxin used to anesthetize the entire city, and I also provided the serum used to remove the remaining toxins. Where did I get so much toxin?"

(End of this chapter)