Thin rain drips down on the metal armor, and the iron is as cold as a knife in this turbulent night.

"You injected Batman with fear gas?"

Arkham Knight looked at Spider-Man's bright uniform, a color that was originally incompatible with the gray tones of Gotham, but now it also matched the neon sign of Chinatown behind him.

Isn't that a straightforward coldness and seriousness, it's never been a bat style, hasn't Batman seen it all along?

Arkham Knight couldn't accept that Batman was being hoodwinked, let alone that he had been planted in such a ridiculous way, so he stepped forward and loaded his pistol.

"It's just a small reward." Spider-Man said.

Knight Arkham heard an indescribable indifference in these words, and his memory began to grow a little confused again.

"He has abandoned you, you useless wretch, you trusted him so much, but he did not come to you, did not come to save you, is this a reward for your love and trust?"

The high-pitched, hoarse voice rang in his ears again, and Arkham Knight struggled to tighten his eyelids, almost audibly hearing the sound of blood flowing through his own cerebral cortex.

"Jason, Jason Todd, your departure is in his hands, and so is your disappearance, he has reappeared over Gotham with his new Robin."

The skin on the right side of his lower back began to throb uncontrollably, and Knight Arkham took a deep breath.

"Read me what this newspaper is about, good boy, and see how they report on Batman and his new Robin, and either you remember it or I'll sew it into your body."

Breathing began to grow more and more rapid, Arkham actually heard his own heartbeat again, and then the vertigo with euphoria, all the pain disappeared, and the memories began to become more and more blurry.

"No...... Don't ......," Knight Arkham muttered to himself.

Then he shook the gun in his hand vigorously, aimed it straight at Spider-Man's forehead and said, "What did you do to me?" ”

"Everything has started to go wrong since I met you, what the hell have you done?"

"Do you think there's something wrong with you?" Spider-Man's tone was implicitly disdainful, he said, "You've proven that you're not as strong as me, and now you want to argue that you're nobler than me?" ”

"Your master is dead, he's been reduced to ashes and died in the fire, but that doesn't mean you're not a lackey of a supercriminal, Jason Todd, we're all the same."

"What are you talking about?!" Arkham Knight's anger grew, but the over-secretion of painkillers in his body made him sound weak, and he had to mobilize his emotions more to regain his power.

"I've looked into it." Spider-Man crossed his arms and said, "You took refuge with the Joker about a year ago, but he was a fool and burned himself to death, so you have to find yourself a new backer." ”

Anger exploded in Arkham Knight's head, but Spider-Man was still chattering: "You want to say that you are not voluntary, but at first no one is anybody, chosen, hurt, choose to betray, change sides, we are for ourselves." ”

"But I've been waiting too long for this opportunity, Jason Todd, and I'm not going to let you ruin my long-prepared plan and go to hell with your master."

Rumble!!!!

The loud explosion attracts the attention of Batman and Nightwing, but by the time they reach the vicinity of Chinatown, all that's left is charred wreckage.

Batman jumped off the roof of the building, walked over to the remains of an exploding car, and bent down to pick up a shiny metal shard from the ground.

As the fabric of his armor brushed against the metal surface, Batman grimaced thoughtfully.

Suddenly, the scene in front of me was accompanied by the distortion of the rain line, and it began to ripple incessantly.

A young man covered in blood sat on a chair with his hands hung up, and another figure slowly stepped out of the darkness behind him.

It's Batman's unexpected skinny — it's not the Penguin Man, it's the Joker.

Batman's heart seemed to be clenched tightly by a large hand, and he heard the Joker's whispers again.

"It's been six months, what is he going through when you forget him? Let me tell you, Batman. ”

"You know what? When you break through the bottom line of hypocritical humanism, you will find that the human spirit is so fragile and primitive like a beast. ”

"When he feeds, you pick up the whip, and one day he will be tamed by you, and if you apply enough pain when he recalls a memory, he will forget one day."

"And then what? Yes, of course, it was implanted with new memories, but it wasn't a boring fabrication, it reinforced his anger and resentment, and he imagined everything himself into something darker. ”

"It's all thanks to you, Batman, you didn't come to him, you didn't save him, now look at my great achievements."

Batman felt every inch of skin on his body hurt, and some memory fragments flashed by, and the pain made people want to go crazy.

Suddenly, the pain subsided, his heart rate began to slow gradually, and a hazy halo appeared in front of his eyes, and Batman looked down to see that the painkiller injection button on his arm armor was not lit.

"What did you do to me?" Batman asked mutteringly.

Nightwing stood behind him and called him, but he didn't react, just stood still and waited, apparently having noticed something unusual in his body.

A series of vague thoughts appeared in Batman's mind, sounding so immature and innocent, but with an unknown horror.

"Don't ...... Think about it...... He is...... Bad. ”

"Who are you?"

"I need ...... Energy...... Grow. ”

Well, Batman thought, the Joker virus, fear of poison gas, and now there is an inexplicable parasite, and the flora always grows exceptionally vigorously in places with more difficult environments?

Which hallucinations are caused by the clown virus? What are the fear gasses? What reactions of the body are brought about by symbionts? What exactly is the relationship between them?

Batman thought of a plan he had planned, but now he had to find Barbara's whereabouts, so he turned to Nightwing and said, "Whether Barbara is taken by Harley Quinn or she leaves the base on her own, she must have time to leave a clue." ”

"I'll have Peter keep an eye on the Sky Eye System in the Batcave to find Harley Harleyn's whereabouts, and you go to the clock tower and contact me as soon as you find useful clues."

Nightwing nodded and turned to leave, and Batman got back on the Batmobile, pressing the communicator button and saying, "Peter, are you there?" …… Peter? ”

Batman frowned, and he switched channels and dialed Peter's private messenger number.

"Hello?"

As soon as Peter spoke, Batman heard the wind on the other side, and Peter's voice was not normal, as if he was in a vigorous exercise.

"Peter, where are you now?"

"I'm ...... I'm being chased! That psycho called Arkham Knight is chasing me! ”

"You left the Batcave?"

"Yes, because Poison Ivy said she wanted me to help her rescue the plants in Gotham, I think she saved me, I have to help......"

Batman subconsciously pressed his fingers to his forehead, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Can't you subdue him?" ”

"He's crazy! Crazy to attack me, I'm afraid I can't control the power of the counterattack, I can't kill him, right?! ”

"What's wrong with him?"

"I don't know!" Spider-Man, who was running, glanced back at Arkham Knight chasing behind him, the original shiny metal armor was blown into darkness at this time, and the inner lining was tattered in some places, but Arkham Knight was still able to move freely, and the expression on his face was furious.

It seems that the power of the explosion of the seven cars is still a little small, and Spider-Man thinks that maybe the red bee has eaten too well in his body, and has borne a big impact for Arkham Knight, and the speed of the other party's chase is a little beyond his expectations.

"Can you get rid of him?" Batman asked, but then added, "Move towards Chinatown, I'll be waiting for you on the roof here." ”

Turning the front of the Batmobile, it didn't take long for Batman to see a red and blue figure on the skyline, a spider silk stuck to the tail of the Batmobile, and he heard Peter shouting "Take off!!" ”

The Batmobile soared into the air, Spider-Man grabbed the spider silk and looked at the ground, the sound of swishing bullets rang out, but the Batmobile suddenly accelerated, and the Arkham Knight on the ground became more and more distant.

Gathering the silk and jumping on the roof of the car, then opening the door and climbing into the seat, Peter took off his hood and let out a long breath and said, "Thanks, I thought he was going to chase me all the way to California." ”

"I'll keep you in the Batcave."

"I wanted to come, but I think Poison Ivy has a point, the plant is innocent after all."

Batman was silent and didn't speak, Peter glanced at the navigation map inside the Batmobile and asked, "Where are we going now?" ”

"I'm waiting for news from Nightwing, we need to catch the Penguin before we do, and I need to figure out what the hell is going on."

But Peter suddenly said, "Well, can you send me back first?" The fear poison still needs to be analyzed. ”

Batman's hand moved, and he felt that Peter was a little unnatural, but he still said, "Then get out of the car here, and be careful on the way back." ”

Peter glanced out the window, not far from the Batcave, nodded and got out of the car as the Batmobile hovered over the roof, disappearing into the rainy night.

Batman stared at his back for a long time before retracting his gaze and heading towards the Iceberg Restaurant.

But when he landed in front of the Iceberg Restaurant and looked inside, he found that the gangsters and stunned guests he had defeated before were all gone.

Walking across the dance floor of the bar towards the back of the restaurant, he remembers that he had just broken the Penguin's legs when Nightwing said that he had found traces of a violent break in the door of the bank vault, and Batman went to investigate.

According to Batman's previous behavior, he should have sent the penguin man to the Gotham police station first, but he dealt with all the thugs here, and the vast majority of people in Gotham City were unconscious, and the penguin man was broken and couldn't run, no one would come to save him at this time, so it would be okay to put it here first.

But not long after he left, the penguin appeared on the screen vividly, even if he could barely sit up and speak, the building where he appeared had already lost power, who restored the power? It wouldn't be the penguin dragging two broken legs to pick it up in person, right?

Obviously, someone is behind the scenes to help the penguin, and the other party has quite good mobility and skills, otherwise he would not have grasped Batman's trajectory so accurately and did this kind of thing under his nose.

Want to know what happened to the Penguin Man's place when he left, Batman must return here, most of the criminals' nests are monitored by the Sky Eye system, but Penguin Man renovates his safe house every month, and Batman hasn't had time to install surveillance this month.

But Batman knew that the Penguin must have installed the surveillance himself, so he only needed to hack into the surveillance system to see what was really going on.

Batman walked through the messy first floor, entered the safe house where he had demolished the door, and then followed the wires to the rear power distribution room, where he found the wiring of the security camera, and then found the computer that controlled it.

Turning on the computer, Batman hacked into the system very easily, but the video file happened to be missing dozens of minutes of footage after he left, so Batman began to retrieve the access record.

That's when Nightwing called.

"Batman, I found an anomalous access record on the Prophet's computer, someone deleted a lot of surveillance video files, who do you think did it?"

Batman frowned deeply.