Chapter Twenty-Six: The Psychedelic Room
Bruce finally used sedative gas to finally bring down the security guards, and after taking a look at the messy environment, it was finally the strangeness of several people that made Bruce stop chasing the Mad Hatter and carefully examine them. Eventually, he found the answer at the back of the guards' necks against the cervical vertebrae, and there was a clear lump under the cortex in that part, which was inferred from the size of the chip developed by the Mad Hatter.
Bruce originally guessed that the chip itself could emit radio waves close to human organisms, but it was just to supplement the hypnosis of low-frequency sound waves and enhance the success rate of hypnosis, but now it seems that this chip can also work as a part-time "remote control". The Mad Hatter was indeed a genius, but he still did not believe that he could develop a chip of this magnitude alone.
There aren't many chips of this kind of precision, and Bruce sifted through the tech companies he knew had this kind of strength in his head and turned on the communicator's signal:
"B, what's wrong with me?"
Clark's voice came out of the communicator with a little cheerfulness, and there wasn't much chance that Bruce would take the initiative to find him.
"Did Luther's company lose any chips?"
"Hmm.... It seems that a chip sample that can affect the central nervous system was lost and was developed by the military to obtain intelligence, but this matter was suppressed"
"When?"
"Hmm..... It's been almost half a year."
Clarke's answer confirms Bruce's guess, and the timing is about the same as the time the Mad Hatter entered the Institute, which, according to Davis, came in with the project.
"Something to do with Luther? Need help? B”
"No"
"I'll be there soon"
Silence returned to the communicator, and soon a man appeared behind him.
"B, what are you doing here?"
Clark looked at the building, which looked like a very formal research facility, and was curious about Bruce's presence in a bat uniform in the middle of the night.
"Didn't you hear any strange sounds?"
Bruce is no longer surprised that Clark always ignores his opinions and acts on his own, but since he is here, let's let Superman's super vision and hearing play a little role.
"It's like the low-frequency sound waves of that chip?..... No! ”
Clark was pretty sure he didn't hear the sound waves. This answer did not surprise Bruce, he had already tested it with an instrument, and there were indeed no hypnotic sound waves.
"Can you see the chip on the back of these people's necks?"
Bruce asked, pointing to a few people lying in the security room, of course, this level of question could not have stumped Superman, and his perspective could easily see through the skin of the human body and the chip that encased the cervical vertebrae under the skin.
"Can you take it off?"
Clark did a full examination of the guard's neck and concluded that:
"I can disable the chip with a thermal sight, but it's best to have a professional doctor do the extraction, and the chip seems to be connected directly into the spinal cord."
"Then let them fail"
Bruce left the guard room and went after the Mad Hatter. Scrapping two chips at superhuman speed is just a blink of an eye. After that, he followed Bruce all the way, solving the guys who pounced on them and destroying the chip that controlled them.
"Mad Hatter B may have left"
"It's been monitored all the time, and no one is leaving"
Bruce picked up a female researcher who had pounced on him and threw it to Clark with one hand, and a very thin red light flashed, and the woman was completely motionless.
"Wow.... I guess it's not very comfortable, maybe he has already left the ground with something."
Although there was no scream, the chip directly connected to the spinal cord probably did not make these people feel good.
I don't know if it's because Clark is the only Gotham person he knows, Bruce is the only one, and he always feels that the people of Gotham have an inexplicable love for underground drainage systems. There are even several ancient underground palace drainage systems that have become Gotham's famous attractions, such as the famous opera house built on the ancient Gotham underground drainage system.
In order to build this opera house, the Gotham city government even invested heavily in the renovation of that section of the underground pipe network, and of course, the Wayne Group also paid a lot of money to prevent dirty water from flowing through the opera house, which is now one of Gotham's most famous attractions.
"I've checked, and this study doesn't have a direct access to the underground drainage system, and he can't take so many things with him alone.... Go and see where the Mad Hatter has hidden all his jewels."
Clark's words alerted Bruce that he had completely disappeared from the surveillance footage after the Mad Hatter had removed the goods, and that there must be a dead spot on the Institute's building for the Mad Hatters to hide their stolen goods.
Clark went to find the possible darkroom, the peculiarity of the research institute made his perspective ability not very smooth, so he had to spend some time looking for it one by one.
Bruce continues to search for the Mad Hatter at the Institute.
At this moment, the mad hatter was sitting in one of the institute's offices, looking at the man on the screen who was gradually approaching him.
As he himself said, Batman knows them, and they know Batman just as well.
"Hmm... You know what? Human beings are sensory animals, hearing, sight, and smell are all part of the human senses, they collect signals from the outside world and then convey them to the brain, which then makes judgments to decide what to do. When there is a problem with the preaching of the signal, humanity is paralyzed; There was an error in the transmission of the signal... Then humans have hallucinations."
"I only care about what I can get afterwards"
A deep voice came from behind the Mad Hatter, not caring for what the Mad Hatter had just said.
“.. You don't really look like a scientist at all."
The Mad Hatter was a little unhappy with the partner he had found this time, he smelled of copper like the penguin.
"Don't worry, if you solve Batman, you won't be missing a single point if you say good"
"You still have faith in me"
"It's not that I'm confident in you, but I'm confident in my hypnotism"
The Mad Hatter continued to look at the surveillance footage of the man who was slowly walking towards him in his intended route.
"Yes, that's it, along this road....."
What did he just say? Human beings are sensory animals, and human familiarity with the outside world is based on the sensory access to information from the outside world. The devil knows what you're going to see in your head!