Chapter 181 Chapter 181 Absolutely a Scam
I don't know if it's because this Grayson has developed a strong physique through his exciting police career in Gotham and his recent overtime work, or if Grayson in every universe has extraordinary strength, but after riding his rickshaw to drop Li Hua off at the hospital, he actually still had the strength to turn around and continue to rescue people in the next round.
Li Hua's injuries were just as he'd suspected, bruises and scrapes at worst. The overwhelmed Gotham doctor tossed him a bottle of iodine and a cotton swab before continuing to treat the other seriously injured patients.
The hospital was so busy that ambulances had to be replaced by rickshaws. In addition, although the Batman in this universe was extremely irritable for some unknown reason as Grayson said, all the patients who came were still alive and after receiving treatment from the doctors, they finally survived.
Living patients need more care than dead patients.
So Li Hua only needed to do some simple chores, such as helping the doctor deliver something to a certain ward, or helping a prisoner remove a needle or move a bed, and the people around him would tacitly accept his presence.
As a result, Li Hua had the opportunity to observe the "Batman attack victims" up close, and also had the opportunity to lend a hand and ask them for information.
Li Hua originally thought that Grayson's description of the local Batman as "two meters tall and as big as a brick" was an exaggeration. After all, anyone who was beaten to a pulp by a black-clad burly man who fell from the sky would definitely be afraid, and fear would enhance memories.
The most typical example is snakes. Some people who see snakes will exaggerate the length of the snake out of fear, making the snake so big that its ancestors would not be able to recognize it.
But so many eyewitnesses were all telling the same story, and the injuries were irrefutable... If Li Hua wasn't being hypnotized and his judgment wasn't affected, and if the textbooks Bruce gave him on injury diagnosis, polygraph training, and introductory reasoning weren't wrong...
The Batman in this universe is a two-meter-tall, heavily armored humanoid self-propelled double-door refrigerator that drives a mining truck called the Batmobile, which is several times larger than a tank?
Even the bat logo on his chest is a detachable axe that can chop off a person's arm in one blow???
Is this still the low-key assassin Batman that Li Hua remembers? This is the Berserker, right?
"Why are you so surprised? Aren't you from Gotham?"
"No, I just got here a few days ago," Li Hua said. "But this isn't my first time in Gotham either. Maybe I was younger back then, so I hadn't heard of Batman."
The injured person said, "No wonder, this guy just showed up recently. He's been causing a lot of trouble lately! But you're really lucky. If you had come a few weeks earlier, you would have run into those crazy people from the Party Animal Gang."
Party Animal Gang?
"It's a newly emerged gang," said another patient, his cheek swollen and his speech limping due to missing teeth. "A few weeks ago, they were the most rampant criminal organization in Gotham."
Li Hua took the opportunity to pass on the conversation. He didn't need to put on an act, just express his surprise. "They just emerged not long ago and became the most rampant criminal organization in Gotham? Is this gang really that powerful?"
Most of the wounded lying here are gang members. As the saying goes, colleagues are enemies. Li Hua is sure that they will be so angry that they will complain a few times and send more information up.
But he seemed to have underestimated the resentment among his fellow gangsters in Gotham. This sentence immediately ignited the atmosphere in the ward, along with more information.
"You know nothing, little brat!"
A man with a bandage on his head and his entire left arm and right leg in plaster was cursing loudly. It was because of his loud voice that Li Hua could hear what he was saying among the vulgar words and low curses in the room.
"That's the boss behind them, Ziqiang. They're just a bunch of rabble-rousers hiding behind those ridiculous animal masks and acting without thinking! After their boss died, they instantly became idiots like headless flies!"
"They're just like headless chickens, but your boss has become a headless chicken," said another wounded soldier. "Ha, but our boss is the same in this regard. That beast Roman is really creepy. I hope Batman takes off his big round black head and goes bowling."
When it comes to "black mask", "Gotham gangs", and "men with Roman in their names", the first name that pops into Li Hua's mind is his old acquaintance Roman Sionis, also known as "Black Mask".
There was no way. Li Hua had just been cheated by Black Mask and had also beaten Black Mask not long ago. It was too familiar.
But as it stands now, Black Mask will not be able to become the second honorary guest after Scarecrow to be beaten by him across the world.
Judging from the local Batman's numerical value, Li Hua had reason to suspect whether the local Black Mask had already left this not-so-beautiful world.
Based on the complaints of the injured, Li Hua learned that Black Mask had previously killed the two major Gotham gang bosses, Maroni and Falcone, and their lives had become difficult since then.
After dealing with the Party Animals Gang and Black Mask, the local Batman launched a heavy blow against their remaining remnants within the past two weeks, which can be said to have completely welded the coffins of these two major gangs.
Unable to obtain more information here, Li Hua, having eaten his fill, quietly left the hospital and wandered on the streets.
He had a way to find Jason and Benjamin.
If you get lost with someone you know, besides calling out loudly, the fastest way to find each other is to find the nearest, most conspicuous object.
For example, the supermarket service counter, and this Batman who has no idea what it means to be low-key.
Li Hua doesn't need to meet Batman at all. He just needs to wander around where Batman might appear, and he will most likely find traces of Jason and Benjamin.
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"After wearing this monkey skull, does your IQ become the same as a monkey's?"
Jason broke the gun he had snatched from the Party Animals gang member into several pieces and threw them away, leaving only one, with the muzzle pointed at the guy's head at his feet.
"Submachine gun, you're actually using such a good thing as a salute? Aren't you afraid of killing yourself and your friends?"
Jason had beaten up so many famous villains, and he knew something was wrong the moment he started.
These guys were not well-trained gang members. They even held their guns incorrectly, and their hit rates were shockingly low. The female gang member, who was wearing a gorgeous, long-skirted cake dress, even sprained her ankle on her own high heels while dodging.
Even Li Hua doesn't dare to dress so fancy in battle, how dare you?
Amateurs, in every sense of the word.
These people are just like the "party animals" they call themselves, and if you ignore the deadly weapons in their hands, they really look like people who have walked out of some animal-themed party.
Their amateurism was not only reflected in the fighting. Jason asked several questions in a row. They were so frightened that they almost shook their heads in confusion. Only one person who was a little drunk answered some questions.
Jason then learned the name of their gang, "Party Animals," and that there was a network in the animal mask that functioned like a bounty.
Arson, robbery, murder... all crimes have clear price tags. Just like in-game missions, completing them rewards the mask wearer with "black coins" of varying values. Mask wearers can trade these "black coins" for real money.
"Are you idiots? Killing for something that has no guarantees?!"
After hearing this, Jason was so angry that he crushed the person under his feet a few times.
"I don't expect you beasts, who rushed to the streets to kill people randomly because of a bounty, to understand the meaning of propriety, righteousness, and shame. Haven't you considered that the right to interpret that damn 'black money' lies with the one who gave you this mask and told you to fight to the death?"
One of the animal party members stared. "What do you mean? We actually received money. Someone made a fortune from this!"
Jason was almost killed by their stupidity.
"You've never seen that man in the entire story. What can you do if he doesn't pay you? You're so stupid you didn't even realize you were being used as a pawn! If I cracked your skull open and poured some sewer water into it, the sloshing of the sewage would produce a sound more intelligent than your original brain!
"Bullshit!" Another member of the Animal Party glared at Jason. "How do you know he would lie to us? I think you're just jealous because you don't have such a good opportunity!"
If Benjamin were here, he might say, "You are so stupid"; if Li Hua were here, he might say, "I have taken anti-fraud classes, this is a pyramid scheme"; Jason could also say a few words to the two guys to calm his blood pressure.
But they were not there.
Jason could only knock the group of people unconscious with the butt of his gun, searched one of them's suit jacket and found a cell phone. He unlocked it with the man's fingerprint and changed the lock screen password on the spot.
He didn't want to argue with this group of people who had been incited to insanity. Every word he spoke to them was a torture to his mammary glands.
However, the technology and network of that mask...these low-level minions are idiots, but the person behind the scenes is not.
Jason heard the sirens outside, put away his phone, walked deeper into the alley, and took another exit to return to the street.
Let’s put the investigation aside for now and go find those two “lost children” first.
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Benjamin was beginning to miss Ghost a little.
Don't get me wrong, he didn't miss the ghost that nearly took over his body. To be more precise, he missed the ghost's invisibility ability.
After carefully exploring his surroundings with the Ice Ghost's translucent form, Benjamin could basically conclude that he was staying in a building with functions similar to a prison or a mental hospital.
In Gotham City, Benjamin could only think of Arkham Asylum, a building with such high-standard cells.
Benjamin had never been to Arkham Asylum, but he had only heard of it from other people. It was said that the place was filled with all kinds of high-risk, high-IQ mental patients who liked to play tricks on people.
Benjamin didn't really want to cause any disturbance to the tightly controlled building unless absolutely necessary. Leaving here couldn't be easier for him anyway.
But just as Benjamin transformed into an ice ghost and roughly surveyed the surrounding situation, he saw a prisoner in a bright orange uniform sneaking around in the corridor.
Even if prisoners in the prison go out to avoid the wind, they must be accompanied by prison guards. What's more, Benjamin saw the guy take out his mobile phone and didn't know whether to take pictures or videos, and then kicked it back into his arms.
This person obviously did not come out through "formal channels". He was either trying to escape from prison, preparing to escape from prison, or preparing to assist others in escaping from prison.
Benjamin remembered Jason saying that every time a psychopath escaped from Arkham Prison, there would be casualties, and Ben 10 would never sit idly by and watch a disaster happen in front of him while he did nothing.
So Benjamin took advantage of the deliberate criminal walking around a corner, turned invisible and rushed out of the wall, pulling him into a small compartment without a camera, and blew a deterrent cold air on the man's panicked face.
"I think the prison escape rules should have told you not to escape."
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