I, V, Gotham Legend

Until the vines were close to her head and the strong wind blew her hair and clothes, Valerie suddenly moved.

"I noticed something." Valerie took out a silver-white long-barreled gun from her pocket, with a tube at the end connected to a backpack.

Valerie didn't put on her backpack. She just raised her gun and pulled the trigger at the vines that were pressing down on her.

"When I drink too much, I do feel drunk. Taking sleeping pills also works when I suffer from insomnia." Liquid spurted out of the gun barrel and sprayed onto the vines like a high-pressure water gun. The moment the liquid came into contact with the vines, cold ice crystals formed.

"That is to say, logically speaking, I don't have a strong resistance to poison." Valerie moved the gun in her hand carefully, as if she was washing a car. "Then why am I fine when I was attacked by various poisons?"

The same thing happened to the poisonous gas from the scarecrow I encountered a long time ago, the pollen not long ago, and the liquid that was sprayed all over my face just now.

Each one was designed to manipulate Valerie's brain, but she never felt any discomfort, the most she felt was a bad smell.

"What are you doing? What are you talking about?!" Ivy screamed, "Let her go! Come to me if you have anything to say!"

"Ah, this is what I thought of after you splashed my face on me. If we light this vine on fire, we will all be blown to death. So, why don't we just freeze it?"

Valerie kindly answered Ivy's question. Her hands did not stop moving. The huge vine was frozen like a crystal tree. "You said I should come to you, so where are you?"

NO104. Snowy

Of course, the vine was unwilling to be frozen like this. It used the frozen part to twist like an earthworm, trying to avoid and break the ice.

Valerie felt that the power was not enough, so she took out a freezing gun, one in each hand, and froze the target from both top and bottom like pulling apart a door curtain.

But the vines are too large, and their skin is too thick. Freezing is effective, but it is difficult to completely freeze them in a short period of time.

"You can't do it! I'll kill you first!" As Ivy pronounced her sentence, the unfrozen parts grew dense flowers like a rash, spraying a large number of spores at Valerie.

The spores were as dense as raindrops. Although the speed was not fast, they were so dense that people had no way to avoid them.

Valerie didn't need to hide, she raised the gun barrel and drew a perfect S in the air.

Although a considerable number of spores were frozen back onto the vines, the barrage was too dense this time, and countless innocent passers-by were stunned on the ground.

Valerie's freezing gun is no less effective than the one Mr. Freeze usually uses, but the giant tree in front of her is too big. She rubbed the gun in her hand and planned to make further modifications on the spot.

The speed of the spores was not slow, and the feeling of racing against time made Valerie feel a rare sense of pressure.

"Hey! Ivy!" At this time, a high-pitched voice sounded. Not only Ivy, who didn't know where she was, but even Valerie subconsciously looked over.

The floor was already tilted very steeply, and those who had fainted during the battle between Valerie and the giant vines slid to the bottom.

But Harley, wearing a red and black uniform, had climbed to the top at some point, holding an instrument embedded in the ground in her hand.

"You know those things will kill us all, right? Well, it seems you don't care. I've heard you say that before." Harley said, holding the instrument to stand up, and holding the lever of the instrument with her right hand. "But to be honest, I've been in this hospital longer than you, and I still know what mechanisms are in this botanical garden."

As she spoke, Harley pulled the lever. With a crisp click, the world seemed to have become different. The most intuitive feeling was that the wind became stronger.

Valerie looked up and saw that the roof of the glass shed was slowly opening.

"I see. Smart." Valerie realized that it was still raining heavily outside. "But too slow."

As she spoke, she continued to modify the freezing gun with one hand, and took out the remote control with the other hand, pointed it at the ceiling and pressed the confirmation button.

"Copy that, Prophet?" Valerie said into the comm.

"No problem, let me add some spice." Barbara said excitedly, and Valerie could even hear the sparking sound of the keyboard over there.

"Done. Luckily the power is still on." As Barbara finished her words, the ceiling accelerated as if it had been injected with chicken blood, and quickly opened its shell like a ladybug taking off.

The heavy rain had no hindrance and fell into the greenhouse with a violent storm, hitting the huge vines like a pile-driving machine.

The spores as dense as raindrops were wrapped in real heavy rain. Each bullet-like spore was originally a large number of spores gathered together. When hit by bean-sized raindrops, they were broken and diluted like stains.

The heavy rain hit the vines at the same time, and the vines' huge size became a burden, and they were instantly wet as if they were taking a shower.

"This is a lot more convenient." Valerie stood on the sloping floor at a tricky angle. She was also drenched by the heavy rain. Her hair and clothes stuck to her body, outlining her delicate figure.

She exerted a little force with her shoulders and lifted a silver-white cannon barrel that was as big as a warship's main gun. Energy gathered at the muzzle, charging for the final blow.

"What are you doing? I can't see anything!" Ivy shouted, the heavy rain seemed to have affected something.

Valerie pulled the trigger like she was drawing a bow, and a stream of cold water spurted out of the muzzle, freezing all the raindrops along the way and hitting the vines directly.

The huge vine struggled violently again, but it was too late. The freezing cannon started from the part that hit the vine, and quickly froze the already wet vine, just like an electric current spreading when it hits water.

Valerie felt that this was not enough, so she took out some orange materials from her pocket, fiddled with the ice cannon, then lifted the ice cannon with force and raised it above her head.

She spun around on the ground like she was dancing ballet, and then suddenly threw out the ice cannon.

The ice cannon drew an arc and hit the huge body of the vine like ammunition thrown by a catapult.

The vines were still fighting a desperate battle, growing vines from the trunk in an attempt to pull the ice cannon away.

Valerie took out the remote control and pressed a button on the ice cannon. Then she turned on the Sianwestin and climbed up the slope as fast as she could and ran to Harley.

"Get ready." Valerie held Harley's head and opened an umbrella to block the two of them before she could react.

"Beng!!!"

A violent explosion like the collapse of a building resounded throughout the room, accompanied by a bone-chilling cold wind.

Harley didn't react to what happened. She only knew that Valerie suddenly came to her and held an umbrella. However, she still saw the water under her feet freezing rapidly. The rain falling into the room turned into ice flakes at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Feeling that it was about time, Valerie put down her umbrella and saw a world so white that it was reflective, as if it was not the same season as outside.

The huge vine returned to the deepest part of the room. It was frozen in the ice as if it was chained, and it was obviously no longer able to stir up trouble.

Valerie looked at the people who had slid to the bottom of the floor. They were frozen under a layer of ice like thousand-year-old corpses.

"I hope everyone is okay." Valerie prayed for those people wholeheartedly. She patted Harley's shoulder and stood up. "Let's go and find Ivy."

"No need to look for it." The ethereal voice came again, and it didn't sound like it was frozen.

Following Ivy's declaration, the already devastated floor began to shake again.

The huge vines have been frozen and will not be able to cause any trouble in the short term. This time the shaking of the floor obviously came from underground.

As if to prove it, the floor, which was covered with a thin layer of ice, shattered with a ping-pong sound, and branches like wood stretched out from the ground.

Valerie was ready for a fight, but she suddenly felt that these branches were completely different from the vines before, like the roots of an ancient tree.

The tree roots entangled Valerie, and she did not struggle to break free immediately. Instead, she blinked rapidly, searching for Ivy's location.

Ivy didn't make anyone wait too long. The bricks on the ground shattered and a huge tangled tree root rose from the ground.

The roots slowly opened up like blooming flowers, revealing a delicate light green face.

NO105. Is there anything else?

The roots of the tree were completely open, like a blooming throne, and a beautiful woman with green skin and long red hair was sitting in it. She tilted her head slightly, with a hint of disdain for the world.

If you look closely, you will find that the woman's hands and feet are grown together with these tree roots.

"It's really Ivy!" Harley, who was also entangled beside Valerie, said in surprise, "Are you wearing makeup too?"

"Harley, this has nothing to do with you. I didn't mean to treat you so roughly." Ivy said, picking up Harley with the tree roots that tied her up and throwing her out like a baseball.

Harley broke through the frozen door and left the room like a flying saucer.

"She's been thrown like this at least twice today," Valerie said, glancing back.

"You got her involved!" Ivy suddenly shouted, her attitude very dissatisfied.

"She wanted to come here on her own. I just accepted her offer of help." Valerie put her hands in her pockets. She looked past the tree roots that covered the ground and looked at the Poison Ivy in the distance. "I can't see clearly from this distance. Are you naked? Do you need me to make you a set? Do you want to get closer?"

Valerie's eyes can zoom, so she can certainly see clearly at this distance, but she needs to ask questions first to confirm the other party's situation.

Valerie's body was still tied to the tree roots. She had plenty of ways to break free, but she could also guess that if she made any unusual movement, this woman who had finally appeared might run away.

This woman's abilities are unprecedented, and Valerie wants to get more information first.

"I don't need you, and you shouldn't have come. I almost succeeded." Poison Ivy said coldly. I don't know if she knew that Valerie could break free, so she didn't get closer.

"What do you want to do with these people? Is there any way to decipher your pollen?" Valerie wanted to beat around the bush and ask questions like a smart person, but she really couldn't think of any words, so she asked directly.

"Of course, only I can decipher my pollen. These formulas are not easy to prepare, and I have been preparing them for a long time." Ivy raised her eyebrows and said, "I invited these people here, and I will naturally let them go after they complete their goals. You are just meddling in other people's business."

"What about outside?" Valerie asked.

The people outside had sallow complexions and looked weak. The only thing they had in common with the people in the room was that they were all controlled by Poison Ivy.

"They have been inside the wall the whole time. I am just using them." Although Valerie is not very good at making flattering comments, Poison Ivy does not seem to be hiding anything. "They should thank me for letting them see the light of day again."

"...Let me guess." Valerie narrowed her eyes, "Let me guess why you called these people here, you can't leave here?"

"..." Ivy twitched her shoulders, and the tree roots on the ground moved like snakes, but stopped immediately.

"It seems that I guessed right." Valerie nodded.

Ivy's body has grown together with the tree roots. If it is not necessary for her to use her abilities, then she could only be forced to do so.

If the floor hadn't been riddled with holes from the battle, Ivy might have found it difficult to even get back to the ground.

"I was originally an employee of this botanical garden, serving these children diligently until I discovered my boss's crime." Ivy raised her head slightly and spoke to herself.

"He turned you into such a monster?" Valerie asked curiously.

"Maybe. I like myself now - provided that I can move freely." As he spoke, a branch bud rubbed Ivy's face like an intimate puppy.

"I can rescue you, as long as you behave yourself and don't run away as soon as I get out." Valerie felt that the conversation was almost over, so she started to negotiate.

"...Do you think I'm sitting here just to chat with you?" Ivy suddenly changed the subject. "My toxins have already mixed into your blood. Soon you will become weak all over and die of organ failure."

Valerie's heart skipped a beat and she immediately switched to scanning mode, scanning the air, but she did not see any sign of the temperature rising due to the poison gas.

She lowered her head again and looked at the tree roots that tied her to her body. Only then did she notice that each tree root had densely packed barbs growing on it like snake fangs, which flashed with cold light.

Seeing this method of poisoning, Valerie's heart relaxed. She raised her head and looked at Ivy provocatively: "You don't think this will work, do you?"

Valerie has done experiments on herself and it is clear that neurotoxins can affect her body, otherwise the anesthesia for surgery would be useless.

However, poisoning methods such as injections using tree roots cannot even break through the subcutaneous armor, let alone cause poisoning.

Poison Ivy was frightened by Valerie's confident expression, and she realized that this last trump card was useless.

Valerie also realized that negotiation was impossible, so she exerted force with both hands and violently pulled off the tree roots that were entangled with her body.

“Aaaaaaahh ...

The tree roots connected to Ivy's body wrapped themselves into a cocoon again and tried to retract into the ground, but Valerie was one step faster.

"You didn't think I was just chatting with you, did you?" Valerie threw a handful of cylindrical bottles from her pocket.

The bottle slid across the floor with a strong wind and got stuck in the crack under the roots of the Ivy tree, then it lit up with a white light with a chill wind.

The ice froze the tree roots and the floor as if filling the gaps. Valerie jumped in front of the cocoon-like tree roots. Mantis blades popped out from her arms and she cut the tree roots in front of her like peeling shrimps.

"Ah!" Ivy was obviously in pain. Valerie hesitated for a moment, but still did not stop her gentle movements.

Anyway, he will be beaten after being caught, so it will hurt the same sooner or later.

Valerie tore open the outermost packaging and finally saw the beauty hidden inside.

Ivy's hands and feet grew together with the roots of the tree, but they were not complete fruits. She was wearing clothes made of green leaves, but the color was too close to her skin.

Poison Ivy looked at Valerie who was so close to her and forgot how to speak for a moment. Her round pupils were full of confusion.

Valerie put away the knife with her left hand, grabbed Ivy's red hair, and lifted her up like a rabbit.

"Ahhhhh!!!" Ivy screamed in pain, not only because her hair was grabbed, but also because of the pain of her limbs being pulled.

"Your hair is very good." As she said that, Valerie swung the knife with her right hand and ruthlessly cut through the tree roots connecting Ivy's limbs.

"Ahhh!" Ivy screamed even more miserably. Valerie grabbed her hair and pulled a piece of paper out of a tissue box and threw her to the ground.

NO106. Good Girlfriend

Pamela Isley's parents died when she was very young. She was first adopted by relatives who were eyeing her parents' property. After the inheritance was transferred, she was kicked out to an orphanage. She was then adopted repeatedly by different families, and then returned because of her personality.

This is how she spent her childhood moving between different families.

Perhaps because she had been betrayed or abandoned too many times by those who claimed to be family, Ivy's already sensitive heart became even more closed. Later, everyone who knew her would label her as someone who didn't like humans.

Over time, Ivy accepted all of this and gradually developed her own world. Compared to noisy and complicated humans, she liked the purer and less changing plants more.

Relying on her own efforts and her love for plants, she was successfully admitted to her ideal university, and her life became one with the things she loved most.

To this day, Ivy has become a PhD in botany from a prestigious university. The human nature of competing for fame and fortune seems to have disappeared around her, and everyone is respectful to her.

But Ivy no longer cared about these things. She accepted an offer from a research institute in Gotham and devoted herself to her work. Her life was filled with the cultivation of various plants.