I, V, Gotham Legend

"Of course not to you." Valerie curled her lips, aimed at the door and pressed the button.

Then the gate was instructed to rise slowly, as if someone at the back had flipped a switch.

"You stole the key to the hospital? Is this thing shaped like a remote control?" Harley stared at the remote control in Valerie's hand in amazement. Then she thought of Valerie's unparalleled scientific research ability, "Or did you make this?"

Two-Face was also shocked when he saw the door being pulled up. He looked at the remote control in surprise: "What on earth is this?"

"This is God's scepter." Valerie put away the remote control, walked in front of the two in a good mood, and waited for the gate to be pulled over her head.

Harley was still immersed in the technology she had never seen before: "God's authority... turned out to be a remote control?"

"I think Miss V was just making a metaphor," Harvey said with an awkward smile.

The gate quickly rose to the top, creating a space equivalent to the area of ​​a carriage. It seemed that if violent means were used to open the door, it would take quite a while.

At the end of the space is an ordinary door, which looks like the original exit of the corridor. The extremely thick gate should be some kind of emergency measure.

This time, Valerie took the lead and walked to the thin door. She put her hand on the door and suddenly turned around: "Let's make a bet. There should be a lot of plants like vines and controlled people waiting for us behind the door."

NO97. Greenery and pollen

The door was pushed open, and a green environment that was so lush that it was a bit disgusting appeared in front of the few people.

This is a cylindrical hall, and its layout is like a hotel lobby, but every building and every load-bearing column is tied with vines. They look like cilia in the digestive system and are so dense that it makes people's scalps numb.

The scene before them made them dare not go in immediately. They stood behind the door and observed.

"Are these plants too nutritious? How do they grow so lush?" Harvey, who was standing behind Valerie, felt disgusted.

"It's not just the problem of plants in the hall." Valerie looked up at the ceiling, "It's the same there. Just now when we set the fire, no water came out. It's very likely that the fire pipes are also filled with plants.

Places we can’t see may already be filled with these plants.”

"That description sounds like a cockroach," Harry complained.

Unexpectedly, Valerie, who had no expression on her face, suddenly frowned after hearing Harley's complaints, and acted as if she wanted to say something but hesitated, and she even got goose bumps all over her body.

In the end, Valerie just rubbed her forearms wrapped in a yellow jacket and said, "Not really. Plants are much cuter than bugs."

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but after Valerie said this, the plants in the hall in front of me swayed a lot more gently.

"When can we go in?" The two-faced man clenched his fists, as if he couldn't wait any longer.

"It will only take a while, as long as I..." Valerie was about to pick up the flamethrower when Two-Face rushed into the hall with great interest.

"Let me go on a killing spree! I can't wait!" The two-faced man ran into the hall with fangs bared, trampling many flowers and plants along the way.

"Hey!" The two-faced man's sudden action startled Valerie. She subconsciously took out the remote control, but changes had already occurred in the hall before that.

The vines that were obediently hanging on various pieces of furniture bloomed at the same time as if they had made an appointment, and the pollen that was almost invisible to the naked eye was sprayed out like a spray.

Perhaps it's because the number of plants is too large, the pollen they all shed at the same time gathers together and looks like a thick fog.

"Dust mask! It's on your suit!" Valerie shouted to Two-Face as she took out two masks from her pocket, handed one to Harry, then put on the other and stepped into the hall.

Theoretically, Valerie's lungs can filter out poisonous gases, but whether this unprecedented pollen can be considered poisonous gas is another matter. It is better to be safe than anything else, and Valerie dare not take the risk.

Harvey heard Valerie's voice and subconsciously held his breath. He reached out to press on his mask, but his hand froze in mid-air.

Valerie stopped immediately, noticing something different about Harvey.

"Gah..." Harvey smacked his lips, as if he was debugging something, then raised his head and looked at Valerie: "Get out of here, now!"

"I gave you face, didn't I?" Valerie pressed the remote control to Harvey, controlling him to press the button on her helmet.

With his bare chin covered in scaly red scales, Daredevil's outfit became that of Deadpool.

But Harvey still didn't break free of his control. He stared at Valerie, his voice ethereal as if he was shouting from afar: "It's useless. As long as your skin can touch my spores, you will definitely become mine."

"So it's not poison gas?" Valerie raised her hand and looked at the smooth back of her hand. "Then why am I fine?"

"..." The mysterious man who controlled Harvey did not answer immediately. Obviously, he did not know either. But perhaps because he was unwilling to accept the answer, he continued, "You are different, but that's all..."

"I don't think I'm fine!" Harley's voice came from behind Valerie, and they both turned their heads to look at the woman who was still in her hospital gown.

Harley even took off her dust mask and spun around in the pollen excitedly.

"...You are just an exception. This is my mercy." The mysterious woman had no doubts this time. She obviously knew why Harry was okay, but she didn't plan to say more. "You may be the only two people in the world who can't be controlled by me, so I..."

"Who the hell are you?" The mysterious man controlled Harvey to say only half of his words before his voice suddenly changed into a rude voice, "A third party? There are already enough people in this body!"

"..."

The mysterious man's voice fell completely silent, as if he had suffered a huge blow.

As if in a bad mood, the disgustingly dense vines growing in the lobby began to twitch, just like what was seen in the corridor before.

They looked like filaments of flesh wriggling in a burn wound, or like maggots wriggling in rotten flesh, the difference was that they were green.

"I can burn all of this," Valerie said to Harvey.

"You can't do this!" the mysterious man shouted, and then the floor under his feet began to shake like an earthquake.

The floor broke into pieces, and one waxy yellow hand after another stretched out from the broken cracks and clawed at the cracked floor.

These sallow-skinned figures crawled out of the floor and walls in the same movement, twisting their bodies to stand around Harvey.

"Honey, help me stop them!" All the sallow people spoke at the same time. They looked at Valerie and Harley with silver light in their eyes.

"I seem to have heard this tone before..." Harry held his breath.

Valerie had already stepped forward, facing the crowds rushing towards her from all directions, with no fear on her face.

"What did you do to these people? It's definitely not just control, right?" Valerie asked coldly.

From the surveillance footage, it took no more than an hour for the people in the hospital building to be controlled and arrive here, but they all looked gravely ill.

"Someone has been running this place for a long time. These are just their accumulations. I am just making some use of them." Everyone spoke at the same time, like a chorus, shaking the walls. "They provide nutrients for my plants."

"What do you mean..." Valerie frowned. "Aren't the people in the ward here? Are you the Joker's henchman?"

Judging from the current communication experience, this mysterious man is not a clown, but he still doesn't seem like a good person.

"I have nothing to do with the Joker, and there's no need for you to know who I am." The chorus continued, looking extremely weird. "You don't need to know who I am. Go ahead and deal with the Joker. He's in the intensive treatment center, and we can live in peace. It's just that you hurt several of my children, and your partner should pay the price."

She was obviously referring to Daredevil, who was already surrounded by the sallow crowd.

"That won't do. He has special meaning to this world. I want to use him to prove that fate is not fixed." As she spoke, Valerie drew a ray of light from her palm and aimed it at the vines that were escaping in the sky.

At this moment, Harley, who had been listening to the conversation between Valerie and the mysterious man, suddenly stepped forward and said in disbelief: "Although it's a little... uh, hard to say, but, you are not Ivy, right?"

NO98. Isolation

"..." The mysterious man didn't say anything, obviously not wanting to answer Harry's question.

“Hey! I can feel that this guy wants to move.” Two-Face suddenly spoke in the crowd, and then his tone became mocking, “But we can’t move! Hahahaha!”

But before Two-Face could finish his mockery of the mysterious man, he suddenly felt a cold hand touching his face.

Some of the rotten smell even penetrated the dust mask, and Two-Face's voice became horrified: "Wait! Don't pick on me! You smell so bad!"

The two-faced man's shouting was of no use. The people around him stretched out their hands and grabbed his head, chest, waist and abdomen without being affected, like little devils from hell.

"V! Are you just going to watch?" The Two-Faced Man became anxious.

"Don't be impatient. If you are impatient, you will look like a loser." Having said that, Valerie finally moved, waving her hands like a band conductor.

Although no one knew how he did it, the mysterious man was obviously able to see Valerie's movements. The vines on the ceiling subconsciously fled, but were still hit by the single molecule line.

The roots were cut off, and the surviving parts twitched and fled as if in pain. The huge and dense vines were like collapsing sky, magnified in Valerie's eyes.

Valerie took a half step back and watched the vines, intertwined like a sweater, fall in front of her eyes, burying the sallow sea of ​​people.

The noisy footsteps and groans stopped as if they had been paused, and pollen and dust were blown into the air, looking enough to make people sneeze.

"They..." Harley looked at the silent hall in surprise.

"I won't die... maybe." Valerie walked back into the hall, and the pollen covered her like sand. "At least Daredevil won't die."

As she spoke, Valerie walked to the severed vines that were wriggling like octopus tentacles, aimed in a direction, and used her feet to pry open that piece, and Daredevil's fully enclosed helmet appeared in front of her.

Valerie pulled a baseball bat from her pocket and hit Daredevil on the head, "Can you still talk?"

"I heard it..." The voice was thick and sticky, it should be the two-faced man, "It was a woman's voice, she seemed to be in pain and screamed miserably."

"Did she leave?" Harry came closer and asked worriedly.

"No, ha w... That young man didn't say anything..." Two-Faced Man said in a confused tone, "But that woman didn't look like she would let me go."

"Then don't thaw." Valerie pressed the remote control at the two-faced man, "Just follow me like this."

"Ah? What?" Two-Faced Man stood up uncontrollably and walked to Valerie with his hands and feet together. "No... This feels awkward?"

"Then get used to it first." Valerie walked up to Daredevil and placed her hand on his temple.

The scales peeled off layer by layer, and the wrapped chin was exposed again, like a demon opening its evil mouth.

Valerie pulled out a pneumatic syringe from her palm and stabbed Harvey in the chin.

"It hurts so much!" The two-faced man seemed to be caught off guard and screamed out.

"That's enough. It hurts more when I was hit by the ceiling just now." Valerie patted the two-faced man's face and said, "Are you there? Handsome guy, talk."

She was asking Harvey, and Two-Face of course knew this, so he deliberately relaxed his control.

But after waiting for a long time, Harvey still didn't reply.

"That's it." Valerie turned around neatly, and the two-faced man returned to following her movements with his hands and feet.

"Hey! Can you think of another solution?" The Two-Faced Man couldn't help but complain.

"We have to leave here first if we want to find a solution. There is pollen everywhere." Valerie said without turning her head.

The direction in which the vines are running away can be seen with the naked eye. They are like children returning home to find their mother after being bullied.

Valerie blinked and turned on the voiceprint scanner, which she rarely used. She looked at the direction in which the sound waves from the vines rubbing against the obstacles were gradually moving away, and dialed the signal to contact Barbara.

"Prophet, I will send you a DNA sample later. Ask Lao Wei to study it. It will be very useful to us."

"Okay, Mr. Freeze should still be busy preparing for the neural transplant surgery, but I think he should be willing to take some time out for you." Barbara replied quickly. She hesitated for a moment and asked out the worry she had been holding back for a long time. "V, my dad won't be in danger, right?"

"…The Joker is not a good guy, but Batman won't leave him alone." Valerie comforted, "And I'm here, don't worry, I'll rescue him after I deal with the weirdo who controls the plants."

"I have sent the surveillance footage from the hospital wing to the police station. However, Arkham is undoubtedly the most dangerous place in Gotham right now. The police and the government have entered a state of emergency." Barbara reported the outside intelligence. "The heavy rain has made the police ships and helicopters afraid to act rashly. The government is trying to get military support."

"Why does it sound so familiar... They seemed to have done the same thing the last time Anazi and the Riddler were causing trouble." Fortunately, Valerie never expected these things to help, so she didn't feel disappointed.

However, this conversation with Barbara further deepened the impression that Arkham Asylum is now an isolated island. The most terrifying lunatics in Gotham are locked up together and are likely to be out of control.

"Speaking of madmen..." Valerie suddenly remembered the trigger for their entry into Arkham this time, the government agent and prospective mercenary who came to her to report his itinerary.

I don't know if they have managed to sneak in. If they have, it's hard to say whether they are a help or a burden...

……

In the sewers of Arkham, a chase that rivals that of a horror movie is in full swing.

The huge shark king tried his best not to step into the sewage, but he ran so fast that he forgot his route and got lost in the complicated sewers.

When he finally had some time to rest, he found that he had lost his teammate Deathstroke who had been following him.

"Damn it, where am I now?" The Shark King wanted to test the water temperature in the sewer with his feet, but when he saw the objects floating on the surging water, he retreated.

Obviously, as long as King Shark returns to the water, he can get back a lot of things as if he were returning to his home ground.

However, in order to control King Shark, Luthor gave him a series of brainwashing training. Although he can still maintain his subjective will now, some memories still remain deep in his memory.

Mysophobia is only one of the factors. Although he has initially overcome the obstacle and dares to enter the sewer, he absolutely dare not touch the water that seems to be contaminated with human excrement. This means that Luther does not have to worry about him escaping from the sewer system of Metropolis.

"Let's go find Slade first... He should know the way... Is he still waiting for me back there?"

Just when the Shark King Nanavi wanted to pretend nothing happened and return the same way, the water in front of him began to ripple like a whirlpool.

NO99. Riddler's Scepter

A huge monster that even the King Shark had to look up to jumped out of the sewage, and hit the ceiling the moment he jumped out of the water.

The monster stretched out its scaly hands and tried to grab the shark king, but the germaphobia engraved in the shark king's body made him react first, and he almost crawled to the side to escape.