The top floor of the police station, which is in tatters like a post-war ruin, has not yet dissipated.

Director Gordon couldn't hear Batman and Mason talking, but when he saw the scene in front of him, he grinned and handed Batman the sword-shaped hard drive that he had been keeping in his pocket, just as Mason had breathed a sigh of relief when he gave it to him.

The latter frowned at the sight of this thing and seemed to have a problem with the shape of this hard drive.

The old man raised his head and was secretly relieved to see that Catwoman was still waving to him when he was carried out by the police, and then under the awe or adoration of a group of policemen, the cold old man stepped forward and picked up his lover and walked to the wall.

The black Batfighter was hovering there, and the unmanned chamber was sliding outward, and he was going to return the badly injured Selena to safety while hunting down the penguins, who had already begun to escape.

But in the next second, Batman's black cape was pulled by Mason's reach.

"The special material tailor creation - Bat suit cape has been detected, and the basic drawings are being analyzed. The Tailoring Skill branch is now Lv0. ”

A line of words jumped into the light curtain in front of him the moment Mason grabbed Batman's cape, causing the young man's eyebrows to furrow. The old man glanced back at him, and the indifferent look in his eyes, which seemed to be emotionless, made the young man extremely stressed.

"I want to go too, with you."

Mason quietly looked at the progress bar of the tailor's creation analysis that was constantly advancing on the light curtain in front of him, and he whispered:

"I don't want to do anything for the gang anymore, there is no future, I want to resign to Oswald in person, and be a good person from now on, starting tonight."

"You've done enough tonight."

Although Mason had shown himself quite sincerely, Batman was unmoved and said in a calm tone:

"I need you more here, and I'll talk to you when I get back."

The old man stretched out his finger and pointed to the messy battlefield around and below, and said:

"It's not like a 17-year-old can do it, so if you're going to lie to me about your origins, you'd better take the time to make up a good reason."

"I just wanted to help!"

Mason was shocked.

Pretending to be angry, he stepped forward and grabbed the master's wrist.

Also at the moment of contact, another line of prompts jumped out:

"Special Material Engineering/Forged Creation: Bat Suit Combat Gauntlets detected, basic drawing analysis. The Forging Skill branch is opened, currently at Lv0. ”

Bonus!

A glimmer of light flashed in the young man's eyes, and he stared at Batman menacingly, shouting like an impulsive and misunderstood young man:

"I saved Catwoman! You can ask her yourself, I almost blocked everything before I made up my mind, my father who you took three times to jail is dead, just last month in the shootout between the Penguins and Falconi over the docks.

I know I don't have a good background, but that doesn't mean I can't change my mind. ”

"Perhaps."

Batman remained unmoved, and with a flick of his wrist broke Mason's hand free.

The young man took a step back, stepped forward and grabbed the master's armor and multi-functional battle belt with both hands, and shouted angrily:

"Phew! I still adore you so much! I didn't expect you to be judged by your appearance like everyone else. ”

At the moment when he shouted, three prompts appeared in front of Mason's eyes again:

"Special Material Engineering/Tailor Creation: Bat Suit Main Armor Detected, Basic Drawing Analysis."

"A special material engineering artifact - Bat Hook Lock Gun has been detected, and the basic drawings are being analyzed."

"A special structural engineering creation and multi-functional combat belt has been detected, and the basic drawings are being analyzed."

"A special material forged artifact - batarang has been detected, and the basic drawings are being analyzed."

The entangled old man didn't see through the young man's "wool" behavior at all, he just looked up and down at the young man in front of him who was very angry because his ideas were not recognized.

After a few seconds, Batman reached out and took Mason's hand off his suit and said coldly:

"Who you are and what you want to be doesn't depend on how I look at it, actions are more important than words, a good person will not sit idly by and watch others suffer and remain indifferent."

With that, the old man took out the syringe for emergency hemostasis from his belt and threw it to Gordon, jumped up and fell into his own batfighter, and flew into the air like a ghost the moment the hatch closed.

Mason stood "disappointed" and watched Batman leave.

Director Gordon, who had regained some of his hearing beside him at this time, patted the young man's shoulder with some emotion and whispered:

"Don't worry, he's just so cold, but he's a good guy. You, too, kid, you've done us a great favor tonight, maybe you need a rest now, your head is still bleeding.

Here, get a shot of this.

I've used it before and it's useful. ”

Mason nodded, took the emergency hemostatic syringe handed by Gordon, and at the moment of injecting the treatment into the blood vessels, another prompt flashed through the light curtain in front of his eyes:

"Special Compound Detected Batman's Self-Use Rapid Hemostatic Pain Force, Basic Drawings Analysis. The Alchemy branch is opened, currently at Lv0. ”

He looked at the progress bar of the analysis of the seven special equipment drawings that were slowly advancing at the same time under the light curtain of the character card in front of him, and felt in his heart that the old man was really a tycoon with hundreds of millions of people.

At the first meeting, I gave myself seven high-level drawings of various majors.

Look at the generosity of others, what can a miser like the Penguin Man compare to?

Of course, he still had to look disappointed after not being recognized, and turned to help the injured police officers evacuate from here.

The hospital's ambulance had received the news and rushed to the bottom of the police building, and the place was busy again.

"Director, we found this below."

A lame police officer came up with a tablet-like object, handed it to Chief Gordon, and said:

"It was seized from the Penguin Gang brother who was knocked down and tied up by Batman below, and he was reluctant to tell us what it was, but the knowledgeable brother said it should be a tracking device."

Gordon frowned and took it in his hand, glancing at the thing, a red dot moving around the miniature map. He felt that it was important, but the current Gotham Police Department couldn't afford to send a police officer to track it down, so he kept it on his desk.

"It's the hard drive!"

Mason, who was helping out next to him, narrowed his eyes and glanced at the tablet next to Director Gordon, and he thought to himself:

"Catwoman told me that the Penguin Man had made a positioning device for his baby, and that the hard drive was now in Batman's possession, so just follow the coordinates to find Batman and the Penguin.

My goal of whitewashing has been achieved, and I am still fighting side by side with the Gotham police, and no one can accuse me of being a villain in the future, and a new career plan can be put on the agenda.

Tonight was a thrilling night.

But now it's the boss battle of Batman VS Penguin, why don't you go and watch it up close? ”

Ten minutes later, Director Gordon, who had finally breathed a sigh of relief after putting the last injured person in the ambulance, sat in a chair and let the paramedics next to him stitch up his wounds.

But soon, the director realized that in hindsight:

"Huh? What about the tracking tablet? Who took it? Bastard, that's important physical evidence! ”

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"Oswald is in the car down there."

The black Batfighter flew through the dark night, and around the borders of the DC zone, Batman had locked on to the Penguin's location through Alfred's signal tracking.

As he got out of the driver's seat and prepared to parachute, he said to Catwoman lying on the co-pilot:

"Ah Fu will take you back to the manor, where the healing pod has been prepared."

"Something isn't quite right this time, Bruce."

Catwoman, who was very weak and sleepy with a sedative, whispered:

"Be careful, Oswald is attacking the police station like crazy, indicating that there must be something important enough in that hard drive to make him lose his mind.

And that kid, Mason.

I just saw the look you look at him, and he reminds you of Jason, right? Are you ready to make him your next Robin? ”

The old man was silent for a moment, and said:

"I'm not going to train new Robins anymore, I don't want to see those kids shed their blood for my cause anymore, and one death for Jason is enough.

But Mason...

The ability that the young man showed tonight was truly unique and I felt I might need to keep an eye on him for a while. Don't say it, you need to rest. ”

After saying that, the Bat fighter opened an airborne door downward, and the old man jumped down wrapped in a cloak.

The moment he left the fighter, the ghostly flying machine was taken over by Batman's old butler Ah Fu, and it swept through the air in an elegant arc in the direction of Wayne Manor outside the city.

Batman kept falling headfirst in the air, opening his cloak at a safe height, and the soft black cloak instantly straightened into a glider-like structure, allowing the old man to fly downward like a predatory bat, and finally lie down precisely on the top of the high-speed extended Lincoln below.

The collision alerted the penguin and his thugs in the car, but a second before they could react, a black batrang flipped over and stuck into the hood of the car in front of them.

The detonation of the miniature EMP bomb instantly disables all the electronic equipment in the car.

The speeding Lincoln lost control and rolled twice down the street like a drunken snake before crashing headfirst into a fire hydrant on the side of the street.

"Bang"

The car door was violently kicked open, and four or five gangsters armed with submachine guns jumped out and shot at Batman dizzily, and were knocked down one by one by the lord swinging from the telephone pole with a hand-to-hand fear and heavy punch.

It was nothing short of a one-sided massacre.

Dressed in a black tuxedo, with a high hat and monocles, with a sharp and weird nose, and walking with a black gentleman's umbrella, the gangster penguin man stumbled away from the other side of the car, carrying a suitcase in one hand and an umbrella in the other.

Batman beats his bodyguards and subordinates behind him, but the penguin doesn't even look at him.

But this guy wasn't just running away, the moment the old man finished throwing two batrangs at him with all his men, the little penguin man turned around and opened his Bulgarian umbrella like an unpredictable prophet.

The bell sounded twice, and the seemingly weak but tough umbrella actually bounced the batarang.

The Penguin then pulled the crooked handle of the umbrella, held the open umbrella in his hand like a machine gun, and fired several shots at the onrushing Batman.

But the old man is also experienced in a hundred battles, and when he turns his body, he uses his cloak defense to speed up approach.

"Huh"

The snow-white blade popped out of the head of the umbrella put away by the penguin, and the short gangster also surged with a fierce force, like grabbing a short spear, stabbing Batman three times in a row, and was blocked by the sharp blade that the master used the fighting gauntlet to pop out, and then twisted the umbrella handle switch, so that the umbrella head spewed out raging fire and finally forced Batman to retreat.

"That thing is on you! They won't let you go! ”

The sweaty penguin man kept shooting with his umbrella at a distance, and shouted to Batman like he was at the end of his rope:

"But you might as well let me go here, bat.

I can pretend it didn't happen, I can prevaricate over there, you know, my territory is the most orderly place in Gotham, I just want to make money and never mess around.

Haven't we all been fine for the past few years? ”

The old man did not answer.

The grim Batman is not a superhero who likes to talk in battle, and this is part of the eerie style he deliberately maintains.

When the penguin saw Batman retreating and disappearing in the shadows, he vigilantly grabbed his umbrella and kept retreating.

He was under a lot of pressure.

All attention was drawn to Batman hiding in the shadows in front of him, ignoring the emaciated figure hiding in a flower bed across the street on the other side of the street.

Mason, who was lying in the grass, squinted his eyes and quietly raised his engineering gun in his hand, the aiming frame of the combat aid had locked onto the dwarf penguin man, and the preset trajectory also pulled a red dotted line in front of his eyes, like a straight line falling between him and the penguin man.

This was actually the first time Mason had met his titular boss in the true sense of the word, not counting those previous meetings.

"Bats! Don't hide, come out! ”

The penguin, who was cornered, shouted again:

"The other madmen in this city don't understand what you think, but I do! I know you've drawn a line for us, and as long as we don't cross it, you can tolerate us living our lives in the gray zone.

I assure you, tonight was just a minor accident.

I stabbed your little lover, but that was just a misunderstanding. You don't know what's in that hard drive yet, do you?

You'd better see for yourself.

Then you'll understand that we can actually work together.

Our city is on the brink of collapse! ”

"Whoosh"

The penguin-man's murmur was interrupted by a batrang thrown from another corner, and Oswald turned his head around and fired wildly at that side.

And at the moment when he turned his back to the street, Mason also decisively pulled the trigger.

There was a soft thud.

The bullet spun out of the chamber at high speed, flew along the preset trajectory for a distance of dozens of meters in an instant, and bit the penguin man's hand like a poisonous snake.

The blood-splattered Penguin jumped on the spot, two severed fingers dancing on the ground like a dying snake, but he was knocked down by Batman in the next moment.

The bulletproof bat cape bulged over his enemy, preventing the second bullet from flying and killing him.

But Mason had no intention of continuing to shoot.

When he had finished firing this shot, he stood up from the grass generously, held the gun in his left hand, raised his right hand, and shouted as he walked towards the master:

"That shot was my resignation to the penguins. You said, actions are more important than words. ”

The young man looked at Batman, and Batman looked at him.

Looking at each other, Mason dropped his gun on the ground and said:

"The whole city knows that you don't kill people, and I don't plan to kill in front of you, I just want to tell you that Mason Cooper, who served the Penguins, is dead.

In the future, I just want to live a peaceful life. ”

Batman didn't answer.

While stabbing a tranquilizer into the neck of the penguin-man who was howling like a pig, he glanced at the two bloody severed fingers at his feet.

In the dim streets, he said to Mason in a dumb voice:

"No, this shot will make you no longer able to live a peaceful life, if you know how the gangsters in this city deal with traitors..."