Chapter 6: Gordon's Worries

Batman stood there like a statue, the light from the light-emitting diode in his hand casting a halo at his feet. The first wave of attacks came from behind, and the mud of the mud face turned into a sharp spear that burst out of the stagnant water on the ground and shot through Batman's back aimed at his heart.

Batman rubbed sideways with the hard "hidden weapon", and the sharp tip of the spear wiped off a wisp of the fibers of the cape.

Another explosive dart was hurled at Mudface's location, and the dart passed through Mudface's body and caused a small explosion in the sewer behind him, and Mudface absorbed the surrounding mud as much as he could, expanding its volume, and pounced on Batman like a giant piece of mud cloth.

Two darts blow a hole in Mudface's body, from where Batman passes through the encirclement set up by Mudface before the mud hole closes. Homeopathy planted something in the huge body of the mud face, and the thing quickly exploded, and the mud face began to harden rapidly from the location of the explosion.

The parts that were hardened by the quick-drying material were quickly replenished in this sewer.

"I thought you didn't have this."

The huge body did not affect the agility of the clay face, and he quickly turned the target of the attack towards Batman, who had not yet landed, and launched another attack.

Two giant clay hands turned into two boards and struck Batman from both sides, trying to squash him like a sandwich. Batman managed to dodge Mudface's surprise attack without any fulcrum, and threw out two more freezing bombs to freeze Mudface's two huge "hands".

This time, Mud Face still didn't care about giving up his frozen arm, this is the underground pipe network, and the countless silt accumulated over the years allows him to regenerate indefinitely.

In the dark underground pipe network, the two of them repeated this kind of offensive and defensive battle, and the mud-faced attack grazed Batman's body several times, almost giving him a fatal blow, but each time he narrowly avoided it.

Looking at Batman running towards a more remote corner, Clay Face stopped his pursuit, thought for a moment, and then began to scatter the mud on his body.

Batman sniffed at the extent of the accumulation of mud in the area, and estimated the amount of mud that Mud Face had absorbed into it, it should be about the same, he thought.

There was a sound of footsteps behind him that made him frown, how could anyone come to such a place? But the footsteps were completely different from those of Clay Face, and Batman found a corner and tucked the glowing diode into his cloak, returning the surroundings to darkness to the uninvited guest.

A figure appeared in the night vision, and the familiar figure made Batman's hand holding the dart tremble slightly under his cloak.

"Strange? Isn't it here? ”

The boy looked strangely at the dark passageway, and the familiar voice made the man hiding in the darkness almost lose his mind.

"Batman?"

The boy lowered his voice and shouted quietly.

"I'm here"

Batman came out of the darkness after gathering his emotions for a long time, and he knew that it must not be Jason, even though they looked exactly the same from the outside.

"My Trap Trapped Mudface"

"Robin" jumped over to Batman, complaining about the filthy sewer and happily talking about his work.

Bruce looked at the familiar figure through the goggles, who was he? Is it a corpse manipulated by Mudface or is it just Mudface becoming a puppet?

"What's wrong? Batman? ”

Seeing that Batman had been looking at him, "Robin" raised his head curiously. The light-emitting diode in Batman's hand casts the shadows of the two men into the surrounding environment.

Looking at the freely changing expression, listening to the familiar voice calling his code name, it took Bruce a little effort to use his reason to suppress the emotions that came out.

"Where?"

Bruce asked mechanically as he heard his own voice.

"Over there"

The boy said, pointing to the dark sewers. Instead of demolishing him, Bruce walked in the direction he was pointing.

Seeing Batman with his back to him without doubt, the "boy" showed a weird smile.

"Where?"

Batman took a few steps and continued to ask.

"A little further"

The boy's shadow began to change slowly, starting with his hair and gradually losing its original shape, and finally when Batman walked to a position, he stopped and asked again:

"Haven't you arrived yet?"

"It's right here"

This time it was not Robin's familiar voice that answered Batman, but the voice of the muddy face, and the "Robin" who had been following Batman turned into a ball of mud and wrapped Batman's whole body in it, and the huge body of the mud slowly rose from the ground, and the mud that wrapped Batman was connected to his right hand.

He took the tiny light-emitting diode from Batman's hand, and looked at Batman carefully as if he was admiring his perfect masterpiece.

"It's weird, it's supposed to be the same person no matter how you look at it, or are you actually replicants?"

After looking at it for a long time, I didn't see any difference between the one in front of me and the previous ones.

"Forget it, I'm going to die anyway"

The mud that wrapped Batman around his face suddenly became like a hydraulic press, and began to exert tremendous pressure on Batman.

"What a newbie, it's so easy to be deceived"

Ignoring the clayface's taunt, Batman asked instead:

"Mudface, you've almost absorbed the mud here."

"Huh?"

Batman pulled out his right hand, which was not trapped, and when he saw what Batman was holding in his right hand again, Batman pressed the switch when Clay Face hurriedly wanted to spit out all the clutter that he had just been wrapped in.

A massive blast erupted from Mudface's body, absorbing the ammonia of the mud and amplifying the power of the explosion, tearing a huge hole in a wellhead directly above them, and Mudface and Batman were sprayed out of the gap along with Batman.

Pedestrians on the street riot in the face of the sudden explosion, and the trap makes Mudface even more angry, he needs more mud, but Batman uses a cryo bomb to freeze the only hole leading to the underground network system as he flies out of the hole.

"Damn!"

Combine the mud that can be recovered again and attack Batman again.

But in this open area, Batman's agility took its greatest advantage, and with the help of the surrounding buildings, he quickly left the range of Mudface's attack.

When he landed, the labor pain from his waist made the man almost kneel on the ground, and when he lowered his head, he found that the muscles in his flank had torn a hole in something, although the wound was not big but deep.

He took out the hemostatic agent from his pocket and sprayed it on the wound, and before he could wait for the wound to stop the bleeding, the second attack of the muddy face followed. A flip dodges the attack, and Batman pulls out a cryo bomb and a quick-drying cement bomb and starts fighting back.

The police in Gotham quickly arrived, pulled up the cordon and immediately evacuated the crowd at the scene, holding the tools used to capture the mud face and waiting around the perimeter.

Gordon looked at the black figure fighting with the mudface, and the uneasiness in his heart became even greater.

He'd seen, and more than once, seen how bats dealt with the criminals of Gotham, but not once did he feel "this was a little too much" about this man's behavior.

But when Batman blows up one of Mudface's desiccated arms with an explosive dart, Gordon suddenly has this thought.

"That's supposed to be a security measure to prevent the mud face from regrouping"

But even Gordon himself couldn't believe this kind of self-comforting words, he didn't capture Mud Face once or twice, the dried Mud Face couldn't be controlled at all, and it didn't make sense to blow it up into powder.....

Under Gordon's gaze, Batman finally froze the last part of his clay face with a freeze bomb and then blasted it into powder, and then looked at the hardened head on the ground.

"Etc.. Wait a minute, we'll take care of the rest."

Although Gordon didn't know if smashing the head of the mud face would kill the mud face, Batman today made him feel very dangerous, so he immediately jumped out to stop the kick that Batman might step on.

Batman turned his head, glanced at Gordon with his peripheral vision, and then pulled out his grappling gun and disappeared from view with a few clicks.

“.. Head, what do I think of Batman today..."

The little policeman who was always by Gordon's side also came over a little scared to ask.

“... Hurry up and pack up the mud face and send it to Arkham, don't leave a single scum behind."

Gordon didn't answer the little cop's question, and waved his hand to tell everyone to get down to business.

Watching the police busily pick up all the debris of the mud face into the plastic bag, Gordon looked worriedly at the place where Batman disappeared, and muttered to himself:

"Hopefully it's not what I thought it would be...."