A few hours later, the Bat Cave.

The man-bat, Kurt Langstone, wakes up to find himself lying in a strange cave, with pitch-black rocks replacing the ceiling of the laboratory.

He tried to stand up, but he couldn't even move, as if something was binding his hands and feet.

At this time, Kurt was lying flat on a bed similar in appearance to the operating table, his hands and feet were firmly held in place by metal shackles, and it was difficult for Kurt to shake it even if he tried to do so.

The bed was strategically placed so that no matter how much Kurt turned his head, he couldn't see anything but a pile of rocks.

Out of Cotter's line of sight, not far from him, Batman sat in front of the Batcomputer, quickly operating the keyboard.

One of the Batcomputer's monitors was filled with text and charts with terms such as DNA information.

Other monitors contained test reports of human bat serum and the results of a blood sample from Kurt Langstone.

"The human bat serum alters Kurt Langstone's base sequence, if the scrambled sequence is rearranged back to the original human DNA sequence...... Maybe it will restore him to his human form. ”

Batman conceived in his head a plan to reverse the effects of the human bat serum.

Kurt Langstone has committed a crime, and he must be judged by the law regardless of whether he is sane at the time or not, but the moment he accepts the verdict, Batman wants him to be human.

Batman won't send Kurt to GCPD or Black Gate until he gets him back to normal.

Beside him, Robin watched boredly as Batman typed characters on the batcomputer that he didn't understand, glancing at the tied up human bats from time to time.

"Where are you? Batman? Robin? I know you're here! ”

Kurt, who had just woken up, was still a little groggy and shouted weakly.

No one paid any attention to him.

"The Human Bat Serum is my life's work, and I can't give it to anyone, even if it's you, Batman!"

Kurt continued to shout at the top of his voice.

Still no response.

"There's no point in pretending you can't hear, I know you're here! I...... I just wanted to ask, where is Francine? Can I meet her? ”

Kurt's tone softened, pleading to see his wife.

It seemed that sedating him was the right choice, and his mind was much clearer than before.

Robin nodded secretly.

I shouted for a long time, but there was still no answer.

Kurt's eyes darkened, and he fell silent.

Aren't Batman and Robin here?

"You can see Francine, but that's when you're in prison."

At that moment, a low, hoarse voice suddenly sounded from behind Kurt.

Then a tingling sensation came from Kurt's neck.

I saw Batman holding a syringe in his hand and injecting the reagent inside into Kurt's body.

"Whew! What is it? Uh-huh! ”

Before Kurt could react, a feeling of nausea swept over him, causing him to retch.

At the same time, it is accompanied by a sharp pain that rises from all over the body.

The huge body of the human bat, which is more than two meters tall, shrinks little by little at a speed visible to the naked eye, the fur on its body has all faded, and its wings have gradually degraded until it disappears.

The whole process lasted about ten minutes, and the human bat with the terrifying face was gone, replaced by a middle-aged man with a thin body.

And that's what Kurt Langstone really looks like.

Although Kurt had regained his human form, he had fainted from the severe pain he had just had, and he didn't know when he would wake up again.

"Robin! Prepare the Batmobile, it's time to send Kurt to GCPD. ”

Batman shouted without looking back, and then untied the shackles that bound Kurt's hands and feet.

In fact, it is not a big deal not to untie it, after all, Kurt's body has shrunk by more than half, and he can easily stretch his hands and feet out of the original shackles.

After some more time, the Batmobile stopped in front of the gate of the GCPD headquarters, and it was already half past three in the morning.

Jim Gordon, who got the news, was immediately as excited as if he had been beaten with blood, and hurried over to hand over to Batman.

Because of Barbara's relationship, Gordon has been tracking down the 'bat monster' attack since a few days ago.

But what was both unexpected and reasonable was that after checking and checking, he found that what he was really investigating was not the 'bat monster' incident at all, but the corruption of the Upper West Side Police Bureau in Gotham!

There is no way, Gotham is such a big city, there are dozens of sub-bureaus up and down, and the headquarters where Gordon sits is located, under his influence for many years, the atmosphere is okay, and the corruption in the early years has improved a lot, as for the remaining eighty or ninety percent of the Gotham police......

Alas! Don't mention it!

That is, in Gotham, it can only be seen that the chief of the police department of a developed city personally led a team to investigate the case on the front line, and it is a shocking case to see a police supervisor on the front line in a normal city.

In short, Gordon wanted to focus all his energy on the 'bat monster', but his inner sense of responsibility forced him to pay attention to the issue of the Upper West District.

He actually knew that even if he rectified it here, it would only last for a short time at most, and maybe he would be what it would be like when he returned to the headquarters, and after so many years, he would never be able to change the status quo.

But not being able to change is not the same thing as not being able to change, at least Gordon did everything he could.

The temptation to be a police officer in Gotham is too great every day, even if it is the lowest street patrolman, a nearby restaurant owner will regularly stuff him with money to ask him to take care of his own restaurant, let alone a high-ranking police officer.

The bribery of the gangsters, the attraction of capital, the rewards of the upper echelons, almost every moment there are a lot of people who give him money openly and secretly, who can guarantee that he will definitely be able to stabilize his original intention?

The entire GCPD, as well as Gordon and Bullock, as well as the core members of the Serious Crime Team, have this qualification, and it would be good for these few people to manage themselves, so how can they change the entire Gotham police community?

Naturally, it was difficult for Gordon to conduct an in-depth investigation of the human bats, and he thought that it would take several months for new developments to occur, but he did not expect good news to suddenly come.

Batman is back!

And he also caught the human bats!

Gordon has long been accustomed to Batman's elusiveness, when exactly did he come back, Gordon doesn't want to know, he just wants to greet the villain who hurt his own daughter at the moment!

When he saw that the so-called bat monster was actually just a thin scientist who was obviously a little malnourished, Gordon didn't believe it.

Then Batman told him the whole thing, and Kurt had a good attitude, confessing to all the guilt, and finally stating that he was not sane in the human bat state, and he didn't remember anything about his attack on humans.

Gordon then took Kurt to Black Gate Prison and held him in temporary detention pending trial.

As the rumors of the bat monster intensified in Gotham, the citizens had to be given an account as soon as possible, so the trial of Kurt began the next day.

Without the interference of certain forces, the entire trial process was unusually smooth.

The final verdict was unsurprising, and Kurt Langstone was given lifelong treatment at Arkham Psychiatric Hospital.

(End of chapter)