Bronze door through time and space

Chapter 863 The Underrated Batman

Unlike Yan Xu, who was still in the mood to watch the game, the Norwegian Forest Cat couple began to busy themselves with organizing weapons and equipment after obtaining permission.

As Gotham's Batman and Joker, even in a parallel world, the changes here cannot escape their notice, and they naturally know who this storm is aimed at.

As parents, how could they sit idly by while a bunch of supervillains target their son, even if he doesn't seem to need their help?

As for what role they can play, because of Yan Xu's divine power, the cat couple are not ordinary cats, but cat people similar to Palicoes, so they can use various weapons and tools. Yan Xu even specially prepared a batch of suitable weapons and equipment for them, which are now coming in handy.

Old Bat was organizing his weapons: katana, warhammer, heavy crossbow, musket, and explosive barrels. Though primitive, these weapons had unique and ingenious uses.

Martha is also preparing, including various medicines and props, as well as feeding the cat cart.

The cat car, which looks like a toy car, is made of wood, leather, gears and belts. It is powered by hamster wheels, so its speed depends on how many hamster wheels are used. For example, first gear has one hamster wheel, second gear has two, and third gear has four.

However, if you want hamsters to run for a long time, you naturally have to feed them first.

While the cat couple busied themselves preparing, Batman once again struck down evil.

After imprisoning the hog-headed woman in Arkham Asylum, Batman rushed to the next battlefield. He was not unaware of the problems, but just as the Court of Owls had predicted, he had a fatal weakness: besides not killing, he was obsessed with the perverts of Gotham.

As long as you cause trouble in Gotham, you can always attract this Batman, whether he's tired or injured. So this is an open strategy; as long as you don't abandon your principles, Batman has to come.

However, this time everyone underestimated the superhuman Batman, and also underestimated the impact of too many unexpected factors. The so-called genius project was heading wildly in an unknown direction from the very beginning.

After activating the Batmobile's autopilot, Batman quickly replenished his energy, swallowing large gulps of the gray, viscous liquid, completely ignoring its strange, sticky texture and unpleasant taste.

This high-energy nutrient solution is rich in all the substances the human body needs. Batman adjusted it according to his own situation, increasing the concentration. It is a veritable calorie bomb. An ordinary person can take a sip when exhausted and still be able to run another marathon.

Of course, humans have their limits. Even the best nutritional supplements cannot make a person run like a perpetual motion machine. Even if one's physical abilities reach the limits of human beings and one possesses an unwavering will, it only prolongs the time it takes for the limits to be reached. This is also the purpose of the Court of Owls: to use a series of crimes to deplete Batman's physical strength and energy.

But Yan Xu is fair; it bestowed upon the Joker abundant estrogen, neutralizing his madness and allowing him to remain rational when he is insane, and to maintain his madness when he is rational, so much so that even Batman gave up trying to guess his way of thinking.

However, it also granted Batman dozens of times more testosterone and extraordinary vision than ordinary people, allowing him to surpass humans with a human body.

The surge in testosterone did not cause Batman to lose his hair or become greasy, because it was a super-androgen that was both scientific and unscientific.

The super-androgens permanently altered Batman, causing strange changes to his muscles, bones, blood, internal organs, nerves, and brain.

It's not a mutation; Batman's genes haven't changed, nor has he awakened any superpowers. He remains the purest human being. However, his strength, reaction time, speed, explosiveness, stamina, recovery, and so on are constantly pushing the limits, as if there are no limits.

Batman is now 1.95 meters tall and weighs 180 kilograms. He's not a mountain of fat and muscle like a superhuman; his muscle fibers are like steel wire mesh, layer upon layer wrapping around his bones. This extreme compression gives him an unrealistically broad-shouldered, wolf-waisted physique, especially his incredibly developed latissimus dorsi muscles, which spread out like bat wings. Breaking through brick walls with his bare hands is nothing special for him; Batman has attempted to demolish buildings, including reinforced concrete structures, and even smashed a car into a solid metal ball with his bare fists.

These originally incredibly hard substances seem to succumb to the high-purity muscle, becoming soft and delicate—this is the superhero Batman.

The only problem was that his perception and gender judgment were flawed. It was as if he was the only male in Gotham, and everyone else was female. Even Professor Pigface, who wore a pig-head mask, appeared as a plump, mature pig-headed woman in his eyes.

This has caused Batman considerable trouble. He not only needs to recalibrate facial features to identify criminals, but also needs to determine the gender of the person through other means. He now has difficulty distinguishing whether a shirtless person walking down the street is a curvaceous professional or a 300-pound drunkard.

In any case, Batman has never used his full strength so far. Even if he did expend some energy, he recovered after drinking a bag of high-concentration nutrient solution.

In terms of energy, Batman, who is proficient in various meditation techniques, can enter a deep sleep state within a few breaths. A few minutes is equivalent to an hour of quality sleep. In other words, he can maintain this intensity of daily routine for as long as he wants.

Furthermore, Batman can choose to break the deadlock through violence, because he holds an ace up his sleeve: two Kryptonians.

With Batman's methods, he could make two Kryptonians work for him without brainwashing them.

It can be said that from the very beginning, Batman never lost control of Gotham; he simply wanted to know who was behind it all and what their purpose was.

The more Batman fights crime, the deeper he delves into the darkness, the more he senses something is amiss in Gotham, yet no matter what he tries, he can't get close to the truth.

But today he discovered that the truth hidden deep within Gotham was gradually being revealed, and all he had to do was wait patiently, which is why he acted as if he was being led by the nose.

But Batman didn't tell anyone about this, not even Alfred.

Out of concern, the old housekeeper sighed and dialed Dick's number. She had just left and immediately took leave to return to Gotham.

However, this time Dick is acting as Nightwing, mainly helping to deal with some gang issues, and not interfering in anything else, because she is well aware of Batman's attitude towards those supervillains.

Dick understands Batman, but she knows that this approach won't save Gotham. In fact, this cycle of arrest and escape won't save anyone or anything; it will only exacerbate the crime.

Why is it so hard to help others? Why are staged accidents so rampant? Why can people so easily frame others? There is only one reason: the cost of crime is too low. If you succeed, you make a fortune; if you fail, you can simply apologize. You can even get away with it by pretending to be deaf and dumb because of your age. This is practically tempting people to commit crimes, and even good people can be tempted to do evil.

The scariest thing is that there are always those who stand there and talk without understanding the situation, advising people to be magnanimous. I wonder if they would think the same way if it happened to them. Probably not, because this time it's their turn to suffer. The mediator got beaten up, and they're yelling that they're going to call the police. Magnanimous my ass! So it wasn't you who got beaten up, huh?

Although Gotham's situation is more direct and severe, the underlying principle is the same.

(End of this chapter)