Bat planes.

After a short rest, Roy had basically eased up. Barbara and her father, Jim Gordon, were also taken on the plane, but Gordon is now sedated and sleeping in the back cabin.

If it weren't for Kassandra, Roy and Barbra might have died here.

Now, they are heading in the direction of the stronghold, preparing to use the blood sample from Joe Chill to see if they can use it to create a corresponding antidote.

"What are you thinking?" Roy suddenly asked Barbara.

"Ahh She pondered for a moment and said, "Nothing is right, I mean, more than it looks. Dad had just told me with certainty that he had shot the clown, and that he should have hit the artery and that he shouldn't have acted like he was fine. And then"

She stopped talking, as if she didn't know whether to go on or not.

"What's wrong?"

Barbara sighed, "Well, maybe you'll think I'm crazy." ”

She turned on the computer screen on the plane and pulled up several old messages and black-and-white photos from the historical records.

"I looked into some of the background of the Gotham Presbytery, and it says it's one of the most haunted places in the city, not just the Children's Hospital." She said, "First of all, the fire of 1910, when nearly fifty patients died, and legend has it that the demon deity would come to the hall from time to time, which is not the point, you look at this picture. ”

Roy and Kassandra huddled in front of the screen.

I saw that in the newspaper photo with the words "Fire Tragedy", in the shadow behind the mayor of Gotham, who was shaking hands with the director of the hospital, half of his white face was exposed, and his mouth seemed to show their familiar grin.

Kassandra exclaimed under her breath.

"Then there was the tragedy of 1946, when the medicine in the Bolieu ward was replaced with highly toxic rat poison." Barbara said, bringing up the relevant photos.

In that photograph from 1946, in a window on the first floor of Bolieu's ward, the pale guy was standing behind the window, as if mocking the whole city.

Roy frowned slightly.

"I know it's a crazy idea." "But what if it's true? What if the legend of the pale man is true? ”

The residence of Dr. Paul De.

Just now, Damian was in the bat cave conducting various tests on the virus that was permeating the air. After a closer examination of the structure of the virus, he discovered some of the components that caused the cells to decay. If the poisoned person is not rescued in time, the cells of the whole body will decay and die within a few hours.

Interestingly, however, there are only three people in the world who have studied this structure in the current record of the bat computer, and all three of them happened to be working on a biological project that Wayne started ten years ago, led by Dr. Carl Helfern, nicknamed "Doctor Death".

Now, Helfern has been dead for a few years, and the only person involved in the project in Gotham is Paul Decor, who was the head of the soft tissue part of the project.

That's why now, Batman and Robin are in Paul Deco's bedroom.

Paul Deco's bedroom is so messy that you can barely easily rummage through it to find anything you're looking for. In the most prominent part of the room was a glassware with a liquid that fluoresced pink, and countless blue jellyfish swayed in the liquid. In one corner of the room was an oil painting of an old man bathing in an eerie dark green pool.

It's like a portrait of Lei Xiaogu who just came out of the Lhasa Road Pool.

The shadow of a gun was cast on the bedroom wall with the only light left.

"Bang!"

, a circle of bullets whistled out, and the two hurriedly fell left and right, and found cover. Three bullets left cracks in a glassware that glowed pink, and the jellyfish floating in the liquid swung violently.

Paul Deco, dressed in a flowered nightgown, cautiously walked out of the doorway,

"Like my jellyfish? Batman? Deco shouted, "Lighthouse jellyfish, one of the few animals that can truly grow in reverse." Changing from jellyfish to hydra. It is independent of the cycle of natural life, just like he. ”

With a slight "clang" sound, a folding batrang in Damian's hand bounced off, as if ready to strike, but Batman gestured for him to stop.

"I'm just here to investigate the virus, Deco." Batman said, "I know you helped him create the virus, what the hell was you mixed up in it at the time"

"Mixed?" Deco was like he'd heard something funny, "No, Batman. The core substance of the virus is absolutely impossible for me to make in the laboratory. It was much older, and it took me a lifetime to find him, and the clown showed it to me. ”

"So the winged knight's conjecture is correct." Batman said, "The ingredient you dug up from the ground wasn't discovered by yourself at all, it was found by the Joker, right?" ”

Deco chuckled, "You don't understand, Batman. What we love most in this line of work is the story of the past! After all, the effect we are desperately trying to achieve now, the people in the ancient songs have long been able to sit down! Miraculous healing, hundreds of years of youth, victory over death The interesting thing is that the routines in the old stories are the same. It is said that the body encounters some substance in nature, a special substance hidden in the plants of the land, and then it changes. The fountains of Gilgamesh's time had fairy grass that could regenerate life, and the River Styx was said to be invincible; For example, Herodotus wrote in 400 BC that there is a secret eternal spring hidden in a town in Macedonia, and there are so many stories in different cultures, Batman, which is difficult to let go. And today, we're dealing with this kind of thing."

He paused and said, "I call it the 'Dionysian factor', the humor of scientists, understand?" Dionysus, the god of wine in Kugek, symbolized rebirth, and his heart was sewn into the thigh. You must think it's a myth, but it's not, it's a story about the carrier of the 'Dionysian factor' and Gotham. Those who encountered this chemical a long time ago are now among us, such as some barbarian who has been alive since ancient times, in its most primitive form, has come into contact with this power; Another example is the Demon Bar Chemical, which is stored in secret springs around the world, and although the form is incomplete and far less effective than the 'Dionysian Factor' found today, it is just as effective. Finally, it all comes back to Gotham, and to him, the eternal people who have been in contact with it long before Gotham came into existence."

When he said this, he deliberately accentuated his tone to create an atmosphere of mystery.

"Pale Man." (To be continued.) )