Chapter Twenty-Five: Deliverance

“.. What are you doing."

When it came to the corner, Nightwing didn't immediately rush to the innermost room, but took a closer look through the corner cover.

“... Guarded"

"I've probably counted that there are ten children besides me, so there shouldn't be too many people to guard them."

Jason poked his head out from behind Nightwing, peeking as he lowered his voice as he could.

"There are two people at the door, and there should be at least one inside if nothing else"

Nightwing looked carefully at the two men standing in the doorway, they were at least a lap larger than the patrolling ones, and... Even in such a dim light, he still wears sunglasses....

"There should be no one inside"

Jason chimed in.

"Why are you so sure?"

Nightwing asked curiously.

"I was taken out when I heard what was being controlled with medication...."

Jason's words caused some confusion among Nightwings:

"Jason, how many people are with you?"

"Together?"

"Yes, how many people were brought here with you?"

"I don't know, I was caught on a plane and brought with me and thrown directly here"

"Are you alone the whole time, and the plane didn't stop anywhere in the middle of the way?"

"Nope"

“..... Why are you locked up alone? ”

“...... I'm making a lot of noise.... It's a little weird, though."

"What's weird?"

"I made such a fuss, but none of the children cried, and there was a weird smell in that room"

“.... Do they all look like they are sleepwalking? ”

"yes, how do you know?"

Jason's answer has confirmed Nightwing's guess, as well as Batman's guess about Scarecrow's behavior, and this is one of his labs.... If this is the case, then these two "watchdogs" are probably not so easy to solve.

He took out two tablets from the pocket, threw one to his mouth and stuffed one into Jason's mouth, then took out a portable respirator and said:

"Eat it, hold your breath when you find a strange gas and take this with you and breathe through your mouth, Batgirl should have taught you how to use it."

After taking the portable respirator handed over by Nightwing, Jason was stuffed back behind Nightwing before he could put it in his mouth and try it:

"Stay in the back"

Nightwing slowly crouched down, took out two projectiles and quietly threw them along the ground towards the two people standing in the doorway.

The ball is made of a special material and rolls on rough ground without making a sound. The two balls rolled smoothly to their intended positions, and the high-pressure gas contained inside gushed out.

When the smoke filled the trail completely, Nightwing was greeted by a few gunshots.

The mask's infrared night vision function played its due role at this moment, and Nightwing quickly dropped two darts out, accurately knocking out the opponent's firearm.

Taking advantage of this gap, he rushed towards the two goalkeepers, knocked down one of them with a flying kick, and turned around and kicked the other guy in the stomach.

But this time the attack didn't have the effect it should. Nightwing's ankle is gripped tightly by a hand, and the janitor throws him back like garbage, crashing into the debris piling up in the hallway.

“... Damn, did you really use any medicine? ”

Looking at the other guy who got up from the ground, it was obvious that the preemptive sneak attack just now didn't cause him much damage.

The tingling pain in his ankle reminded Nightwing of the strength of the hand that had been holding his ankle just now, and it didn't hurt so much when he hit the debris' back.

Nightwing decides to change tactics and distances himself first, picking up Jason with a grunt and turning around and running across the hallway.

"Hey! Aren't you trying to save the children?"

"What kind of potion do these two guys use, they have a lot of strength, and it is estimated that there may not be any pain, we need some way"

Thanks to his well-trained body, Nightwing was able to move quickly even with Jason in tow, disappearing into the dimly lit hallway before the two big men behind could react.

After pulling a distance, Nightwing stopped.

"Why don't you run away?"

Jason could still hear footsteps getting closer and closer.

"There's their support over there, we need to get rid of these two guys quickly."

“..... Are you teasing me? ”

Jason listened with his ears pricked up for a long time, but he didn't hear anything other than the two footsteps behind him.

"I've been trained"

Nightwing said as he took out something and busied it in the hallway, and after a while, he handed Jason a syringe with a half tube of dark red liquid:

"Wait a minute, I'll find a way to hold them down, and then you can give them a needle in the neck without too much dose, and be careful not to prick yourself."

"What is this?"

Nightwing didn't have time to answer Jason's question, the footsteps behind him were getting closer and closer, and after everything was ready, Nightwing simply stood still and waited for the two guys to deliver to the door, while Jason hid in a dark compartment not far away.

The two men quickly caught up, and when they saw Nightwing standing still, they both stopped at the same time and picked up their guns and aimed them at their target.

This time, Nightwing didn't give them a chance to shoot, and the two darts quickly drove into the muzzles of the two black holes, and the red light on the dart flashed a few times before a slight explosion announced the pistol's death.

Aiming at the waist to dodge the attack from above, he rolled out of the opponent's attack range between the two guys, turned around and took down one guy with a leg sweep, and threw a bundle to tie the other guy's legs. The guard, who had lost his balance because his legs were tied, fell heavily on the guy who was already lying on the ground in front of him, and the whole movement was done in one go, without the slightest drag.

"Do it!"

Taking advantage of the sudden collapse of the two men, Nightwing went up to make up for each of the two people, and hurriedly called Jason, but found that Jason had already squatted next to the two men at some point, and pricked the two of them one by one with the syringe in his hand.

“... Very quick response"

"And then what?"

"Go back and save the kids, Batgirl is already waiting outside impatiently"

"What did you just do?"

On the way back, Jason still couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Set up a small trap for them to use for reinforcements, so that we can buy some time"

"What's in the syringe?"

"The scarecrow developed something that has no other use, but it can put people in a state of chemical paralysis"

The two of them came to the door again, and Nightwing took out a hook and tinkered with the old door lock a few times, then opened the door easily, and a sweet smell came to his face.

"With a respirator, there is a problem in the air"

Even without Nightwing, Jason could guess from the reactions of the children in the room that there was something wrong with the air, and took out the respirator and stuffed it into his mouth.

The room was dark, the only light coming through the dimly lit hallway behind them, and the children in the room sat or lay in place, seemingly uninterested in the intruding Nightwing, still maintaining their original positions.

Seeing all this, Nightwing's brow furrowed tightly. After roughly counting, there were indeed ten children as Jason said.

The number was far less than they had guessed, or there were places where they were being held elsewhere, or they had been sold, or like the six children had already ..........

Nightwing carries the children to a corner one by one, then pulls out a spray-like object and sprays a pile of mushy on one wall.

Jason tries to ask what it is, but Nightwing pulls him into the children's corner and protects him.

With a loud bang, fresh, icy air poured into the room, diluting the disgustingly sweet smell of the room.

"It's too slow, I thought something was wrong with you?"

A familiar female voice came over, and Jason followed the voice to find Batgirl and several men standing outside the large hole in the wall.

"Ah, I did run into a problem"

Before Nightwing's words could fall, there was another loud noise from the hallway behind them.... Looks like the trap Nightwing had set just now.

"Hurry up, everyone is here?"

"It should be all there, at least all on this island"

Batgirl nodded to the men beside her, who quickly entered the room and carried the children out one by one.

"What's wrong with the kids?"

Seeing the children's strange condition, Batgirl asked worriedly.

"It should be an improved version of the new poison gas of the scarecrow"

“.... I wonder how the antidote was developed over there? What are you doing? ”

Batgirl looked strangely at Jason, who was standing outside and looking around.

“.. Isn't this a basement? ”

"When this prison was built, it was built directly according to the topography of the island, and because of the uneven terrain, only part of that floor was a basement."

“... Who are they? ”

Jason decided to change the subject.

"They? Gordon's people"

“... The police? Why don't the police just come to the island and search? ”

"Boy, if this island didn't belong to the Lawrence family, Gordon would have come up with a large army to sweep it, because this island belongs to the Lawrence family, if he casually took the police to the door to search or something, he would have been laid off and went home to eat himself, but now he is waiting for our evidence in the sea not far away, understand?"

“.... I don't understand."

"It doesn't matter, but aren't you cold?"

Hearing Nightwing mention it, Jason felt that the wind blowing on his skin at this moment was like a small Xiaoice needle, piercing his skin painfully. Having lived in Wayne Manor for a while, he had almost forgotten how biting the winter winds were in Gotham..........