Chapter 930: Deep in the Fog and Rain (5)
"Bang!"
The moment the shotgun fired, and the flash of fire, Merkel saw the scene in the manor, and the leaves of all the plants began to swing, stretching and spreading towards him.
Finding that the gun was useless against plants, Merkel did not panic at all, he picked up the bag that had just been sprinkled with powder, and at great speed, sprinkled the powder on the ground around him.
He retreated all the way to the building of the manor, scattering the powder on the ground he passed, and after retreating into the building, there was a "bang", and the shotgun hit the powder in front of the door, and the spark of the bullet ignited the chemicals that were specially used for incineration, and in an instant, the flames rose.
Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the burning garden, Merkel sighed deeply, then walked to the middle of the hall, picked up the phone and said, "Hey, Mr. Alfred?" The very bad news is that I just burned down all the gardens in my employer's house......"
In Wayne Manor, Alfred put down Aisha, who was holding in his other hand, and he covered his forehead and said, "Oh my God! You haven't called in so long, I thought you were finally going to become a qualified housekeeper! Knife. ”
"I didn't expect you to prepare such a big surprise...... Reason? What is the reason for you to burn down the large garden of the Middle Manor?! The large garden of the Rodriguez Manor, which is very famous in the private mansion circles of Gotham, actually burned it down?!!!
"Well, listen, Merkel, you're a housekeeper, now just a housekeeper, and if you can't adapt to the profession yet, then I'll have to contact ...... What? The plant's first hand?? ”
Alfred raised his voice and said, "Knife, are you going to drink the bar?" This is a serious violation of professional ethics! You can't..."
"Whew!!"
There was a scream from the back garden of Wayne Manor, and Alfred immediately put down the phone and ran towards the back garden, but it was Aisha who was faster than him, and the grandparents and grandchildren had just rushed into the back garden when they saw that Dick was hanging on the fence wall.
Alfred hurriedly ran over and rescued him, and then said, "Master Dick, even if you want to practice gymnastics, you can't always jump off the wall, I said a long time ago, one day, you will be hung in the air, because the former Lord Wayne has been hanged......"
"No......" Dick scratched his head and said, "I didn't jump off the wall, I was rehearsing the club's dance moves, and I felt like a hand was carrying me to the wall?" ”)
Dick turned his head in confusion and looked at the garden wall, but there was nothing but vines, and he said, "What the hell, is it because I was so focused in rehearsals that I didn't even notice when I walked up to the wall?" ”
Alfred was much more vigilant than Merkel, and he immediately pulled Dick away from the wall, but as soon as he turned his head, he saw a thick vine on the wall, which directly rolled up Aisha.
Aisha didn't know why, she thought she was playing a game, and she raised her hands and cheered, Alfreder immediately picked up the gardening shovel next to her, and with a vigorous swing, the sharp edge of the shovel cut off the vines, and before Aisha fell to the ground, he rushed up and caught Aisha.
With Aisha in one hand and Dick in the other, he sent the two children back to the building of the manor, telling them to stay in front of the window and remain in his field of vision.
He walked to the tool room next to him, picked up the gun, and the same incineration powder as Merkel, first shot at the vine, and after finding that it had no effect at all, he poured the powder directly next to the root system of the plant, and then lit the flame.
Walking around the garden, and before all the plants were moving, a raging fire engulfed them, and when Alfred walked back into the house with a shotgun and a gardening shovel, Dick opened his mouth wide and said, "Oh my God! Mr. Alfred, you burned down the gardens at Wayne Manor!"
"Master Dick, you can go to the parlor to practice dancing, by the way, remember to bring Miss Aisha with you, I'm going to make a few phone calls, you must not run out......"
Seeing Alfred's frowning brow, Dick also sensed that something was wrong, he nodded sensibly, picked up Aisha, went upstairs and went back to the bedroom, closed the doors and windows, and then began to build blocks with Aisha.
Downstairs Alfred came to the phone and began to call all the housekeepers he knew.
"Hello? Is it Loew Manor at 3 Osprey Street? I'm the steward of Wayne Manor, have you noticed any mutations in the garden? …… Oh, you see the vines moving, right? Yes, they're mutated......"
"Remember when we used to deal with incineration powder for some fertilizers? Yes, that's a great thing, just sprinkle it on the roots of the plant, yes, sprinkle a little more, after all, it's not easy to catch fire in this weather."
"Hey, is it Mrs. Teach? I'm Alfred, what's wrong? Why do you sound like you're a little tired? Another thief wants to get in, it seems that they want to take advantage of the fire to rob, have you dealt with it? ”
"I'm calling to warn you that the plants in the garden may have mutated, and you'd better burn them all and use the kind of incineration powder I recommended to you earlier, yes, the kind you use to deal with those thieves, don't be too polite......")
"Hey, I'm Alfred, I need to warn you."
Accompanied by one phone call after another, ringing in the south and west of the manor area, Batman, who was crouching in the helicopter and about to land on the roof, saw that all the manors in the south and west were burning one after another at a very fast speed.
Almost instantly, the entire southern and western districts were lit up, and the smoke that rose from the raging fire was thicker than the rain and fog that had just risen, and countless columns of smoke rose into the sky, tearing through the dark clouds like sharp swords, and in a brief moment, the dense rain lines were stagnant.
Batman, who fell on the roof, silently put down his hand holding the communicator when he saw the charred and blackened garden, and swallowed back what he had just wanted to remind Alfred that the plant might have mutated and that the flame might be effective.
After returning to the manor, Alfred immediately greeted him, and before Batman could speak, Alfred smiled and said: "The plant samples and incinerated samples have been sent to the underground laboratory, the power supply has been activated, the hot tea and towels are placed on the table on the right hand side of the laboratory table, and Dick and Aisha have gone back to sleep......"
Batman opened his mouth, retracted what he was asking, nodded, and headed towards the underground lab.
He turned his head and saw Alfred smiling at him, and now he understood what Schiller said, he stopped the mastermind behind the scenes, and all this he did to Gotham may not be to save Gotham, but to save the mastermind from falling into the abyss with self-righteousness and never being able to extricate himself. )
Zombies out of the cage, plant mutation, placed in other cities, must be a catastrophe that destroys the world, but in Gotham, it is more like the daily life of people here, defeating dangerous and terrifying mutant plants, not how great and wise the hero, but the housekeeper who has to help the master deal with the thieves every day.
Walking into the underground laboratory Batman and looking up at the ceiling, he remembered that when he built this laboratory to open up the underground soil layer, he realized why in a city like Gotham, he had never heard of thieves breaking into Wayne Manor since he was a child.
I finally know how terrifying it is that Catwoman, the head of the Four Snitches, can steal the level of Gotham's invincible opponents.
Picking up the plant samples that Alfred had collected in advance, Batman began to study non-stop, but just remembering Catwoman's thoughts, spread again.
Although he knew that Catwoman might not be stumped by this level of attack, Batman couldn't help but be a little worried, and in a way, his concern was justified, because Catwoman was startled when the plant first started.
After Bruce came to the slum to live in her house, the rented house could no longer be lived in, so Catwoman moved to living hell, but it was too far from the North Side, where she often worked, so she later moved to an apartment closer to the north.
The houses here are relatively old, built by Falcone not long after he first came to Gotham, that is, more than 40 years ago, and are relatively traditional stone buildings, and there are many illegal constructions.
When the rain first started, Catwoman happened to come back from a walk around the North District, and today's harvest was quite good, so she was in a good mood, but when it was time to open the door with the key, she had to stand at the door and unlock the key because the jewel necklace in her pocket scratched the key.
Catwoman was concentrating on untying the necklace that was entwined with the keyring when she felt something move in the shadow of the light on her right, and she paused for a moment, took a slight step back, and then turned her head to see that there was nothing there.
"What the hell is an old house...... "Catwoman muttered under her breath, and in the afterglow of her vision, the moss that had grown in the cracks of the bricks stretched out its dense legs and crawled towards the door lock.
"Ahh!!!!h
The scream pierced the sky above the apartment building, and in the next three seconds, the door of the inner Catwoman's apartment was conservatively estimated to have been stabbed more than a hundred times.
The panicked Catwoman's first reaction was not to run away, but to attack the moving moss wildly, and her behavior was crooked.
The sparks carved into the iron door forced the moss back, and the moss ran like a mouse into the shadows along the corner of the corridor and disappeared.
Catwoman gasped for breath in horror, and then she realized that it was not a ghost, but a moss, and she cursed in a low voice, looking at the dark corridor, and the key that was still much more than enough to unlock, and had to rush to the window of the corridor, and after opening the window, she jumped out and climbed along the water pipe to the roof.
Then I saw that the ground was bursting with firelight, and three gangsters were chasing two legged trees, running from south to north) A group of children ran from north to south with torches and vines that continued to stretch forward.
"What's going on? Why do all the plants have long legs?!" Catwoman's eyes narrowed in surprise.
Catwoman is somewhat afraid of ghosts, but she is afraid of the kind of ghosts that cannot be seen and touched, and will come out of the shadows to make people jump.
As long as this kind of thing can be attacked, then they should run, her psychology is also the psychology of the vast majority of people in Gotham, they are afraid of ghosts, but those who can be attacked are not ghosts.
The nature of things changed after discovering that the muzzle fire was useful for these mutated plants, and the Gotham's first reaction was not "What the hell is this?" It's "It's not a ghost at all!"
Catwoman crouching on the roof scratched her head, a little confused, but she knew that someone could figure it out.
Without hesitation, she ran in the direction of Wayne Manor.