I, V, Gotham Legend

Batman was speechless, his little finger trembled, and finally tapped it twice on the bed.

Valerie knew that Batman's injuries made it difficult for him to move, but even so he still tried his best to refuse.

"..."

Out of courtesy and respect, Batman's mask was not taken off. He lay on the gurney expressionlessly, like a statue.

"This is not a solution, is it? It's obviously a win-win situation with no harm. If the female hunter hadn't arrived in time this time, your best chance would be to become a vegetable." Valerie frowned, but did not stop mixing the medicine, and insisted on continuing.

"..." Bruce, who was almost a vegetative state, suddenly began breathing heavily. Valerie turned around and saw his arm sliding off the bed and hanging down to the side of the bed.

"..."

Valerie pursed her lips, frowned, stared at Batman's lowered hands, and had a fierce struggle in her heart.

In the end, I could only sigh helplessly.

"You're just stubborn." Valerie poured the medicine in her hand into the sewer, then took out a familiar pneumatic syringe from her pocket. "Be more careful next time."

On the other side, in Harvey's ward, Harvey, who had just finished the operation, was sitting on the hospital bed. He no longer needed to cool down in the bathtub.

At this time, he felt dizzy and breathing was painful. According to V, this was a normal phenomenon after the operation. After the anesthetic wore off, the inflammation of the wound would still cause him pain for a while.

Although he needed to rest, Harvey still struggled to leave. It was not until he saw Jenny open the door and walk in that he relaxed and fell back on the bed.

"Harvey..." Jenny couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw that her husband's face didn't have the horrific wounds that were rumored. She immediately ran to Dent and said, "Let's leave Gotham and stop suffering this... It's okay, those criminals won't catch up with us."

"No... I won't run away." Harvey put his hand on his forehead, his face looked very bad, "I will stay here and fight all the evil forces to the end."

"Your life is almost ruined!" Jenny looked at Harvey's face worriedly, "Let's leave here first and avoid the limelight, okay? For the sake of our children."

"..." Harvey looked at Jenny's slightly bulging belly, but he couldn't say no.

Harvey hesitated as his family responsibilities and his prosecutor's responsibilities conflicted in his heart. He suddenly felt very tired.

"Could it be..." Harvey lowered his head and let out a sticky and hoarse hum in his throat, "Is it just like that?"

"Relax, Harvey, your dream is not over, you have done well enough." Jenny hugged Harvey and comforted him.

"Are we just going to watch that guy return to prison triumphantly, and then be released on bail or jailbroken one day?!" However, Dent shouted something unexpected, "That guy should die! Let maggots chew him into ashes!"

Jenny was stunned. She looked at Harvey in disbelief, as if she was looking at a stranger.

Harvey was also stunned, and he covered his lips in disbelief.

"What's going on? No, this isn't me, I never thought of it that way..." Harvey clenched his fists.

"Relax baby..." Jenny patted Harvey's back worriedly, "You're just saying that in anger."

NO68. Two-Faced Man

Unlike Harvey, Batman did not wear a prosthetic body until the end, and he was able to get up normally soon after receiving the injection.

It was already dark, and Valerie couldn't help but call out to Batman as he was about to leave.

"You really don't regret it? What will you do if you encounter such a situation again next time?" Valerie sat on the chair unwillingly.

"I don't need these. The prosthesis will only create weaknesses for me." Batman remained motionless.

"Weaknesses? I don't think I have any obvious weaknesses." Valerie waved her hand.

"What you have on you are not the things you sold or researched." Batman said.

"Don't be ridiculous. You haven't studied me." Valerie waved her hands as if she had heard a joke. Then she realized something and her expression became serious. "You probably haven't studied me... Have you?"

"..." Batman turned his head away, "The sniper that Maroni arranged at Dent's house..."

"You have studied it, haven't you? When?" Valerie stood up like a cat.

She wouldn't doubt Batman's bragging; this guy wouldn't do anything too unreliable.

"You are the most dangerous and unstable factor in Gotham, and you are also very popular." Batman turned around and looked at Valerie. "It is necessary to understand you."

After all, seven or eight months have passed, and Batman understands Valerie better than before.

"You didn't secretly install a hidden camera in my house or something?" Although she searched her room every day, Valerie crossed her arms with a look of disgust.

"No, you have cleaned out everything I installed on you." Batman shook his head.

"...You're so shameless." Valerie curled her lips. "Then how do you know that the prosthesis on my body is different from the one I made?"

Although Valerie still likes to rely on prosthetics to fight, there is an essential difference between the prosthetics on her body and the prosthetics made. If you have to say it, it is a kind of conceptual feeling.

In addition, her unusual strength and manual skills are more like panel abilities than prosthetics.

Batman didn't answer. He turned away and walked towards the door not far away: "I will remember this time. I owe you a favor."

"We're friends now. Just remember to pay the money." Batman took the initiative to admit that he owed a favor, which made Valerie very happy. She immediately forgot about the fact that he was secretly targeting her. After all, it wasn't like she had just learned about it.

Batman knew Valerie had passed on the incident, so he relaxed, opened the door, and left the room.

Maroni - or whoever made the plan for Maroni must have a deep understanding of Batman, and the sniper he deployed knew how to shoot him in a desperate situation.

Batman feels that the only people who understand him so well now, besides Lucius and Alfred who designed equipment for him, are Valerie and an organization that Valerie likes very much.

He has to investigate incidents like this... In addition, there is also the matter of the Penguin who has an appointment with Robin.

Valerie couldn't help scratching her head when she saw Batman disappear as soon as he went out the door. She felt that this guy was always busy. Every time she met and chatted with him, he was busy with several things at the same time.

However, Batman's car overturned also made her more vigilant, and perhaps she should upgrade the equipment of the people around her.

……

A strange world emerged in Harvey's eyes. There was no heaven or earth, and it was a chaos like the beginning of creation. He stood in place, and the world seemed to turn into black and white with him as the boundary.

Harvey tried to move, but the dividing line moved with him like the moon at night.

He knew he was dreaming, but he didn't know how to leave.

Harvey tried to jump out of the white world to the right, but the world continued to jump with his steps, as if it hadn't moved at all.

Harvey stopped and thought about how to wake up, but the world suddenly changed at this moment.

The boundary line started between his feet and slowly moved to his left, and his body was gradually bathed in light.

Harvey raised his head and looked at the clear sky. He didn't think about what was going on. There was no need to consider logic in a dream.

But he heard a sticky sound in his ear, which sounded like saliva suddenly secreted from a dry mouth.

He turned his head uneasily and looked at the dark world beside him. There, another person was standing there, turning his head to look at him in the same posture as him.

The man had no skin, and his entire body was a burnt blood red, like a skeleton painted red.

"..." Harvey opened his mouth in shock, but couldn't say anything.

The red-faced man seemed equally shocked. He stared at Harvey blankly for a moment, then uttered a hoarse voice from his bleeding vocal cords: "It's my turn..."

……

Harvey opened his eyes suddenly. He felt himself sweating all over and his heart beating violently, but he didn't have the strength to get up.

There was no light on in the room, the darkness swallowed up everything, Jenny lay beside his bed, her golden head buried in her arms, looking very at ease.

"Ding……"

The sound of a card being swiped was heard, and Valerie walked slowly into the room, pushing a cart like a nurse.

"Are you awake? I thought you would sleep a little longer." After seeing Harvey, Valerie spoke with a smile. It was obvious that she had just been there for a while.

"I had a strange dream..." Harvey sat up gently from the bed, covering his forehead in shock. "It was terrible, I felt like I wasn't myself."

"…It's just a nightmare, it will go away slowly." Valerie didn't take it too seriously. She turned on the light in the room, and the bright light illuminated the room again. "Stay here for one night. If there is no severe rejection reaction, you can be discharged tomorrow."

"..." Harvey nodded and took a deep breath to calm his frightened heart.

"Here's what you need." Valerie pushed a cart in front of Harvey with a box of medicine on it. "It's for a host of problems including rejection. Take it half an hour after a meal, three times a day. Come back to me after you finish."

Harvey had prosthetic surgery, so he can't just take some medicine like Batman did. He has to wait until his body completely adapts to the prosthesis.

Harvey nodded weakly and raised his head to look at the medicine box.

When he raised his head, the first thing he saw was the mirror on the cart.

"!" Harvey's body trembled as if he had been electrocuted. His eyes widened, he was sweating all over, and his bones were shaking.

The exaggerated movement woke up Jenny and scared Valerie, and they both asked worriedly at the same time: "What's wrong?"

Harvey looked in the mirror, breathing heavily, his eyes filled with disbelief: "Double... Two-faced man..."

In his eyes, a horrible human face was reflected in the mirror. Half of it was still the young and handsome prosecutor, while the other half was red and rotten, like a devil's hideous face.

No. 69. Dual Personality

Harvey gripped the bed handle and stared at the mirror in amazement, his eyes almost popping out of his head.

Valerie waved her hands in front of his eyes, but Harvey didn't react at all. Unable to bear it any longer, Valerie slapped Harvey.

"Snapped!"

Harvey was slapped in the face. He lowered his head and looked back. Half of his face in the mirror was still red, but it was no longer a horrible rotten face, but a swollen slap mark.

"I..." Harvey was about to say thank you when the world changed again and he saw his face distorted again.

Valerie was really helpless. She held Harvey's shoulders and shook him violently a few times: "Wake up, what did you say about a two-faced person? Your face is still normal!"

Jenny was so frightened that she sat up from the bed. She didn't know where to put her hands and she was restless.

Harvey was shaken several times and finally closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he was back to normal.

"Sorry... I don't feel good..." Harvey murmured guiltily.

Valerie squatted in front of Harvey, her expression extremely serious: "What is a two-faced man? What did you see? Tell me clearly."

"V...you should let him rest..." Jenny said to Valerie nervously and worriedly, "Give him some sedatives or something..."

"No, there is something more important now. It concerns your husband's life." Valerie turned her head, her expression as serious as iron.

Harvey pressed his forehead and trembled as he spoke: "I had a dream. There was a monster with a burnt body. I could recognize it was me. It should have been just a dream... But just now... I saw him on top of me!"

Valerie gasped. She could probably guess what it was.

"Calm down, there's no such thing as a two-faced person. You're just scared...or maybe you're scared crazy." Valerie held Harvey's shoulders and comforted him.

She had seen the Batman movie and found that Two-Face did not show any signs of madness, so she felt a little guilty for a moment.

Could it be that this guy went crazy because of the surgery he performed?

Valerie remembered that there was a kind of cyberpsychosis in the game. After suffering a major blow in life, the patient was attacked by the prosthesis, and finally lost self-awareness and went crazy.

Cyberpunk works have a common theme: a person is no longer himself spiritually, which is the core of the story known as "alienation."

But since Valerie dared to perform this operation on Harvey, it meant that she was sure that such a problem would not occur. The level of the prosthesis and the drugs used were carefully prepared after examining Harvey's physical condition.

Valerie looked at Harvey's struggling face and was at a loss for a moment, but she quickly calmed herself down, took out an anesthetic needle from her pocket, and gently stabbed Harvey's neck.

Harvey did not show an exaggerated rejection reaction, and people who had undergone prosthetic surgery before had never experienced such an exaggerated reaction. Valerie felt that she still had to take a long-term view and find out why Harvey went crazy first.

"Damn...why is this happening?" Valerie turned her face away and questioned herself deep in her throat.

She had been very careful, and the operation should have been foolproof. Unless Harvey had gone crazy a long time ago, this situation should not have happened.

But how could Harvey, who was so high-spirited before, look like he was going crazy?

"Ms. V, my husband..." Jenny couldn't help but ask worriedly when she saw Harvey's trembling body calm down.

"I'll take care of it. Don't worry. Nothing will happen." Valerie comforted the patient's family, then turned and walked out. "Sorry, I have to leave for a moment."

Valerie needs to call Victor over. Now that Harvey has run into this problem, they may even have to re-examine the prosthesis.

……

When Harvey opened his eyes again, the first thing he saw was a frosted wall. He found himself trapped in a glass case.

The famous V and a man in white armor were busy outside in what seemed to be a laboratory. Valerie was the first to notice Harvey who had woken up, and she patted the man in white armor beside her.

Perhaps because he was not used to it, Mr. Freeze replaced his locust-like mask with a fish tank-like hood, but he still wore the slim and powerful armor on his body.

He walked up to Harvey, and his processed, mechanical voice passed through the glass cover and reached Harvey's ears: "What did you see? Answer truthfully."

"A wanted fugitive who should be locked up." Harvey frowned and said to Mr. Freeze.

"..." Victor was silent for a moment. He didn't expect Harvey to still care about these things even in his mental state. "It's not me, it's on the glass. You should be able to see yourself."

"..." Harvey's attention returned to the reflection in the glass in front of him, it was still that familiar and handsome face.