I, V, Gotham Legend

Valerie walked to a computer, plugged the USB cable in her hand into the host, and then used the mouse to open the screen.

Valerie hadn't used her hacking skills in a long time, especially since Old Joe and Barbara came along.

Although she has not yet officially installed the hacker prosthesis, with her IQ now at eight, she clearly feels that it is not as difficult for her to control the computer as before.

Valerie was checking the surveillance cameras while Harley and Harvey were sitting face to face behind her, chatting in a very low voice.

"You're going to keep this tied to your body?" Harvey asked in a low voice.

"It's hard to remove the plaster," Harry said, and suddenly raised her leg and kicked Harvey's temple like she was swinging a hammer.

Daredevil raised his hand to block the plaster-wrapped leg that was coming towards him.

"What are you doing?" The two-faced man raised his head and glared at Harry with his nose bulged.

"It's just a joke! Hahaha." Harley laughed awkwardly and tried to put her legs down, but her ankles were firmly clamped by the Two-Face Man.

Two-Face didn't speak immediately. He turned his head and secretly observed Valerie. After confirming that Miss V was not looking in this direction, he immediately moved closer to Harley and said in a very low voice: "I have wanted to beat you up for a long time, you bitch who likes to eat potatoes!"

"You must be kidding! I like the crispy texture of potato chips!" Harley protested, and she pulled her feet a few more times.

"Then why don't you eat corn chips! Obviously... the taste is the same." The two-faced man raised his voice, and then immediately lowered it.

"It's different, okay? Corn flakes are too sweet!" Harley didn't care. She loudly denounced the heresy, "It's just like tofu pudding, you know? It's a Chinese food. Once sugar is added to it, it's inedible!"

"I don't eat Chinese food for breakfast." Harvey interjected to express his opinion, but in Harley Quinn's eyes it was the same person speaking.

"People with different ideologies cannot work together... Get out of here!" Harley scolded.

"No!" Harley's commanding attitude aroused the Two-Face Man's rebellious psychology, and he instead tightened his grip.

The white plaster climbed up the cracks like a spider web.

"Hey! You're going to break my Jessica!" Harley shouted out the name she gave to the plaster in desperation.

"Jessica? What's your name for this thing?" Harvey asked in shock.

"What's the big deal? Jessica is my best friend in my boring hospital life. We can talk about anything! Let me go!" Harley said with a pout.

Unexpectedly, this time Two-Face actually let go of her hand. Harley was caught unprepared, and her foot fell and hit the floor.

"Jessica... don't you have freedom either? Just like me..." Two-Faced Man cried, "Damn potato chip girl, you must be nice to her!"

"What are you doing?!" Harley looked at the unpredictable expression of Two-Face in confusion, and suddenly raised her eyebrows seriously. "You are not..."

"I flipped over." Valerie suddenly turned around and said to the two people behind her, "Are you done arguing?"

Realizing that Valerie was still here, Two-Face immediately sat up straight: "She was the first to do it!"

"It's just a joke, and Jessica also wants to say hello to the classmate in red!" Harley said confidently.

"It doesn't matter who started it first. You're all abnormal anyway." Valerie thought she was a normal person. "Let's look at the surveillance. You're right. There were people here half an hour ago."

Harvey Dent immediately came up, leaned close to Valerie, and stared at the monitor screen.

Harley Quinn was too lazy to stand up. She turned the boss chair under her butt and leaned towards Valerie while holding the table.

Valerie didn't touch the mouse, she just rewound the video via the data cable connection.

More than half an hour ago, there were still a few people walking in the corridor. Although there were not many staff members in the building, it was not as deserted as it is now.

But just half an hour ago, a large amount of gas suddenly rose in the corridor like fog. The people in the picture obviously inhaled the poisonous gas, and their expressions became distorted with pain.

Then, without any surprise, they walked in the same direction, and a large group of doctors stood loosely in several rows.

Even the patients in the ward were the same. They were like zombies, and they would follow the team and crawl in that direction even if they had to.

Looking at the weird scenes in the surveillance video, not only the two crazy guys named Ha, but even the battle-hardened Valerie showed expressions of horror.

"What is this? Did I also inhale this poisonous gas?" Harry asked nervously, her tone not so crazy anymore.

"Where did this come from? Will it come again?" Harvey asked worriedly. Even the usually daring Two-Face couldn't hold back any longer. "I need to get out of here!"

However, the Two-Face Man did not immediately put his escape plan into action, as Valerie had already anticipated this and had frozen him.

Valerie controlled the surveillance playback again. After the initial shock, she calmed down and thought about the situation carefully.

In fact, she felt like she had seen this thing before.

"Five months ago...last year, Batman and I came here to arrest Scarecrow." Valerie explained to the two people behind her.

"I know, Dr. Klein." Harley nodded. At that time, she had considered whether or not to date Klein.

"He and I came to Gotham at about the same time." Daredevil nodded.

Harvey remembered that on the day he was disfigured, it seemed that Maroney's men had attacked the courtroom with Scarecrow's fear gas.

"At that time, Scarecrow modified some of Arkham's buildings... like converting the fire sprinklers on the ceiling into spraying poison gas." Valerie pointed to the mist on the screen, "It looks very similar to this."

Barbara, who was on the line, expressed her doubts at the right time: "Someone poisoned the asylum? Didn't they strengthen their measures to prevent internal traitors?"

"Anything else?" Harry also stood up. "I don't feel anything. I didn't see any poison gas either."

Hariko has been staying in the ward, but she still looks very normal... at least more normal than the people in the surveillance.

Valerie turned around and zoomed in on the surveillance footage, showing everyone's expressions as the poison gas spread.

"It doesn't look like they saw any poisonous gas, especially such a thick and slowly spreading fog." Valerie said, pointing at the people in the picture.

NO91. April Spring

"This stuff is very strange. It's neither like fear toxin nor white metal." Valerie searched through all the poisonous gases she had seen since coming to Gotham. "The poisoned people seem to be controlled by their minds... Is it another new type of poisonous gas? The people of Gotham are really masters of chemistry."

"Is there any residue left now?" Although Harley still felt nothing, she was still a little panicked when she saw the picture on the screen.

Valerie said nothing more, she recorded the video and later sent it to Barbara through her private channel.

Then she stood up from the chair and unplugged the data cable, and the dazzling computer screen instantly went black.

Seeing Valerie about to leave, Harvey Dent interrupted at the right time: "Should we leave this building first?"

"Yes, we have to leave, but we have to figure it out. Otherwise, we might not even know how we died." As she said that, Valerie suddenly jumped up on the spot, and a mantis knife popped out of her hand, which she stabbed into the ceiling above her head.

Valerie's sudden action startled the two men. They watched as Miss V cut a hole in the ceiling as neatly as if she was dissecting a turtle, and finally pried off something like a water pipe from it like prying off a bamboo shoot.

The water pipe fell from the ceiling to the ground, making a harsh sound when it collided with the tiles. Valerie retracted the mantis knife and landed lightly on the ground.

"There's no water flowing out. Did it run out or was it tampered with?" Valerie said to herself as she picked up the water pipe.

She turned the pipe in front of her eyes and looked through the opening as if through a telescope.

"Is this the water pipe of the fire extinguisher?" Harry reacted quickly.

"In theory, yes, but it's too dry inside. There has been no water flowing through it for at least two months." Valerie frowned and said, "There is no trace of chemicals either."

"Can chemical agents be seen with the naked eye?" the two-faced man said with sarcasm.

Harley glared at Harvey with a sense of superiority: "You idiot, if V says no, then no. How dare you stay with her?"

Two-Face looked at Harley in bewilderment: "She gave you money? You're protecting her like that."

Harley didn't say anything else. She stuck out her tongue at Two-Face in disgust.

Two-Face only knows that V is powerful, but Harley has seen with her own eyes how powerful V is.

Valerie looked through the pipes several times without giving up. The dust in the pipes flew up in circles, choking her nose, but there was really no chemical in the pipes.

"It can't be a large-scale hypnosis, right? What's going on with that fog?" Valerie put the tube on the table in frustration and scratched her head in pain.

"Let's go out. At least we can see where those poisoned people have gone according to the surveillance, so we are not without direction." Seeing that there was no way out of the situation, Harvey Dent took the initiative to suggest.

Valerie nodded and walked out of the room first. The two-faced man, who didn't want to stay any longer, immediately followed her.

Harry looked at the two people's backs as they turned around without looking back, pursed her lips and looked back at the water pipe on the table, then looked back at the two people who were walking away.

"wait a second!"

As she spoke, Harley grabbed the water pipe and smashed the plaster on her leg that was blocking the joint. After kicking her exposed leg as if to examine it, she immediately followed the two people outside the door.

Hearing the hurried running sound, Two-Faced Man turned back subconsciously, and then his face changed drastically: "Jessica! Potato Chips! What did you do to Jessica?!"

"What potato chips? My name is Harley Quinn." Harley waved the water pipe in her hand in disgust. "There is no Jessica. It's just a piece of plaster."

"No! She is Jessica! Aren't you two good friends who can talk about anything?!" Two-Face was very excited.

"Not now." Harley carried the water pipe like a shoulder pole, with a very nonchalant expression. "How can anyone consider plaster as a friend?"

"You woman, your logic is totally lacking! Are you sick?" the Two-Faced Man scolded.

"You have a split personality, right? I'm much more normal than you." Harry pouted.

Two-Face wanted to continue scolding, but Harvey felt it was too embarrassing, so he forcibly suppressed his other self.

Harvey Dent was not surprised that Harley Quinn could see his mental state. He knew in advance that Harley was an excellent psychologist - although he always felt that this person was a little weird after actual contact.

"Rather than that, let's meet my new friend." Harley waved the hose, "I haven't thought of a name yet, but she will be my good friend from now on."

The way Harley was playing with the water pipe with a smile on her face made Dent think that she just thought it was fun, but he could sense that another part of him was being touched.

"Remember I was your friend at the beginning, too, ha... young man." The two-faced man changed his irritable look, and there was a hint of melancholy in his tone. "We really should... A-choo!"

Two-Faced Man rarely looked sentimental, but it turned into a sneeze. He raised his hand to cover his lips and stepped back with a look of disgust: "That broken pipe is full of dust!"

"You deserve it! Hahaha!" Harley laughed triumphantly.

Just as the two lunatics were still bickering, Valerie, who was walking in front and leading the way in the direction of the surveillance screen, suddenly stopped. She looked down at the ground, as if she had discovered something.

"Gray... Honestly, this place was full of people half an hour ago, right?" Valerie said, looking at the closed window next to her that kept the storm out.

"What's wrong?" Barbara was the first to ask on the line.

Valerie pursed her lips and squatted down, wiping her fingers on the floor and raising them to her eyes for a closer look.

"Pollen...is this the seventh floor?"

It is April, the season when pollen is rampant.

Valerie twisted the pollen between her fingers and looked up at the floor far down the corridor.

It is normal to see pollen during the Spring Festival, but normally it is difficult for pollen to blow to such a high floor. What's more, the doors and windows are closed now, and there are no water marks on the windowsills. It is obvious that the windows were closed before the rain.

If the corridor was full of people before, it is impossible that they didn't clean it. Even if they were sweeping the dust, they would have swept up the pollen at the same time. Even if they didn't have time to clean it, with so many people moving around, such a thin layer of pollen would not have been spread on the ground.

This is a hospital.

This can only mean that the pollen fell to the ground after everyone had left.

Valerie studied the fine foam on her hands, something she would not have noticed if she had not suddenly thought of the dust.

"Hey! Are you saying that these scum are the poison gas?" Seeing Valerie's actions, the two-faced man with low IQ behind her reacted. "I just inhaled some! I'm not poisoned, am I?!"

NO92. Titan

"You're alive and kicking. You don't look like you've been poisoned." Valerie held down Harvey as he examined her body. "And we're not sure if it's poisonous or not. It's just a guess."

As she spoke, Valerie looked out the window again. The heavy rain blocked her view, and thunder occasionally flashed in the foggy world.

"Are there a lot of flowers outside?" Valerie asked Harley.

"There are some green areas, but I haven't been out for a long time." Harry pouted, "Someone sent me flowers."

"Flower basket?"

"The flower pots were given to me by a friend. I have them on the windowsill of my ward. Didn't you see them?" Harry tilted his head and said, "They are all my good friends."

"...It always feels weird when the hospital sends flower pots," Valerie complained, but didn't dwell on it.

It is normal for friends to send flowers to each other when someone is hospitalized.

Hallie's speaking style was very jumpy and theatrical, and Valerie thought it was due to her illness.

"Is there any place with a lot of flowers in this asylum?" Valerie said as she pulled up the Arkham map she had collected before coming here.

The rebuilt Arkham is slightly different from the currently released maps, but there are only a few buildings, and not everyone has Valerie's technical ability, so the main layout of Arkham has not changed much.

Valerie spotted the building on the map that best matched the criteria and zoomed in on that area.

"Botanical Gardens." At the same time, Harry said the name of the place, "It's not far from here. Ivy likes it there very much... Do you want me to lead the way?"

Valerie already knew where to go after looking at the map, but she said nothing. She just stepped aside and motioned for Harry to come forward.

The three of them started again, but this time they didn't grope in the dark like before. They found the nearest elevator with a tap, and Harley did it expertly, as if she was clocking out...