Chapter 28 Chapter 28 The Strange Boy's Night Adventure
Benjamin: "Poison Ivy? Who is that? Another superhero in your world?"
"He's a Gotham supervillain with abilities similar to yours, capable of controlling plants," Jason said. "Just in case, it's best if you don't become this alien hero in Gotham."
Although Benjamin said that this alien hero codenamed "Swampfire" can also control plants, who knows who will win in a sniper duel between him and Poison Ivy?
It's okay if Poison Ivy loses, but if Benjamin loses, then there will be one more superpowered enemy, and Gotham will really explode.
A literal explosion. After all, Jason still remembered that No. 666 said that this alien was full of methane and could play with fire.
Li Hua: "Jason, I think it might not be helpful if you just talk to Ben. After all, we all know that the accuracy of Ben's transformation is a mystery."
Jason: "That makes sense! Do you understand, Omnitrix?"
Benjamin: “…Hey!”
It’s not like he gets it wrong every time!
"Okay, let's go and see which unlucky guy meets us tonight."
Li Hua tapped the [Flying] card, and just as he and Jason mounted the flying staff, they saw a green vine wrapped around the staff.
"Ben, what are you doing? Can't you fly yourself?"
"Swampfire can only fly short distances," Benjamin said. "Besides, he'd be very conspicuous if he flew everywhere. Too much of a high profile would attract unnecessary attention. But Jay... Red Hood told us that, didn't he?"
Li Hua: "But the staff can't hold a big guy like you."
Jason: "And a really big, stinky one."
But the hitchhiker had no idea how to back down. He extended two more vines, wrapping them around the front, middle, and back ends of the flying staff. "Don't worry, I'll just buy a ticket. This way, I can even help you observe the situation underground."
Li Hua wouldn't actually abandon Benjamin and fly away. Seeing that Benjamin had made his own arrangements, he simply said, "Then wrap a few more vines around your waist so you can hold on when you transform back."
"no problem."
The three of them soared into the night sky in this wondrous formation. After soaring for quite a while, Benjamin suddenly said, "I think there's something fishy about those two people in that alley over there. They're acting suspiciously, and they seem to be handing something over."
Li Hua lowered his altitude. Jason narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction the swamp fire vine pointed. He pulled out a crowbar and a patch that had once been part of the Iron Nest axe from his back. "There's probably a problem. Let's go over and ask."
Benjamin still remembered Jason's previous bare-knuckle brawl in the tavern. "Then I'll go down first. Swampfire isn't afraid of bullets. Come back after I subdue them."
"good."
Benjamin's heroics were like him: seemingly grandiose, but knowing when to stop. Even after being shot in the head the moment he landed, Benjamin simply used the vines his arms transformed into to pin the two men to the walls at either end of the alley. Even when the small packets of powder they were holding fell to the ground, they remained unharmed.
When Li Hua and Jason arrived, Benjamin was still making jokes: "Don't get so excited, man. I'm just curious about what you are doing."
"Another drug addict?" Jason guessed it after seeing one of the men's faces and the plastic bag on the ground. "Another addiction... Bludhaven is the same old story. Looks like we're going to be busy tonight."
"yes."
The Manseruo Immortal had no nose, which made Benjamin, who had transformed into Swampfire, speak in a muffled voice, as if he had a cold. He shook the two men upside down, and several plastic bags of powder fell out of the man with a healthier complexion.
"It seems you are the seller."
Li Hua's scalp tingled when he saw this scene. He had only seen this kind of situation on TV and in promotional videos before, but he felt nervous but also excited.
"Calm down, young man." Jason noticed that Li Hua subconsciously clenched and raised his staff, and knew that he was in the same situation as himself on his first night patrol. "It's not time for a big scene yet."
Benjamin shook himself a few times to make sure these people didn't have any equipment that could be dropped. Then he turned the two men over. By then, the drug addict had already fainted. "Okay, you're a local, what do you say we should do?"
Jason: "If this were Gotham, we could just send these two people and the evidence to the police station, but this is Blüdhaven. That drug addict dropped him off on the side of the road, and this merchant took him away. We need to find his source. Oh, and remember to cover this guy's eyes."
This scumbag can be used as a teaching tool for Li Hua and Benjamin. The course is "How to use physical means to obtain intelligence without causing death."
It's good to make the best use of things.
Li Hua: "What do we do with that pile on the ground?"
He felt uncomfortable standing around this pile of stuff.
"...Yeah, it's a problem." Jason realized that he was not responsible for the aftermath of this when he was in Gotham before, because the Gotham Police Department had an incinerator specifically designed to destroy this kind of thing. It would burn instantly at a temperature of thousands of degrees, and then the exhaust gas after incineration would be specially treated to turn it into harmless water vapor for discharge.
But now they obviously don't have the technical conditions. If they don't do any special treatment, burning this thing will be tantamount to seeking death.
"Just tear it apart and dump it down the drain."
However, Jason did not dwell on this issue too much. He stuffed the wallet dropped by the merchant on the ground into the pocket of the unconscious drug addict, picked up the packaging on the ground and walked to the sewer drain in the alley, pouring the bags in one by one, and finally stuffed even the packaging bags in and threw them away. Then he called Li Hua over to play [Flying] cards.
Increasing the mana output, one person brought three people, two of whom were hanging tickets. Li Huafei suddenly thought inappropriately: "This scene looks like hanging bacon."
…
Dick Grayson, AKA Nightwing and the original Robin, is currently developing in Blüdhaven.
But this doesn't mean he won't return to Gotham, nor does it mean he will sever ties with his family in Gotham. In fact, not only does he often go to Gotham to help, his family also often comes to Blüdhaven to see him.
For example, tonight.
"I heard you were admitted to the police academy in Bludhaven. I thought I wouldn't be able to see you at night. After all, they have a closed management system - of course, it's obviously not for you." The little boy in green tights jumped lightly next to Nightwing. "How is life in the police academy?"
"It was so easy that it was a little frustrating, especially when I realized I could take down the entire class without breaking a sweat," Nightwing said. "And you, why did you come to Blüdhaven? Did you have another argument with Batman, or do you want to have another exciting heart-to-heart with your dear big brother?"
"Can't I just come to visit you?" Robin said, "If you mean the way I fought with someone blindfolded on a speeding train last time, forget it."
"So what's going on this time? Did Batman scold you about Jason again?" Nightwing recalled the past. "He always does this. Jason was scolded by him about me before, and it really pissed him off. The one that left the deepest impression on me was when Penny called me and asked me to come back, and we secretly drove the Batmobile together... How about this, when I finish my police academy course in a few days, I'll secretly take you to drive the Batmobile too, how about that?"
"Oh, about this." Tim's eyebrows were full of joy. "You didn't know that now you can only use the 'spare' Batmobile if you want to drive it. I think Batman must be very angry."
"No, scrapping the Batmobile is a basic operation." Nightwing said, "Then what is the reason this time?"
What other reasons for the Batmobile's scrapping had he never heard of or seen?
"It's not a total loss, or I don't know if it's a total loss," Robin said. "The Batmobile is completely gone. It's gone. Batman went into the alley and five minutes later came out and the Batmobile was gone. Only the wheels were left."
Nightwing: Huh?
"Are you saying it the other way around? If the wheels are gone, only the car is left?"
Robin insisted, "No, it's just the wheels. Those four wheels are still lying in the Batcave."
Nightwing: ...
Taking back what he said before, he had never seen such a way of scrapping!
He originally thought that the most daring and innovative person who had previously harbored improper desires for the Batmobile was Jason, who stole the wheels of the Batmobile. He never expected that there was actually someone who directly stole the entire Batmobile.
Nightwing immediately stood in awe of this guy: "There must be a tracker on the Batmobile, who did this?"
"The trackers and cameras on the Batmobile barely recorded anything, but street cameras and eyewitnesses provided useful information," Robin said. "In short, the Batmobile wasn't stolen, it was eaten."
In the surveillance footage of the roadside camera, not long after Batman entered the alley, a strange black and blue winged creature suddenly fell from the sky. Before it flew into the area that the Batmobile could monitor, it spewed a stream of extremely cold gas from its mouth, destroying the Batmobile's external sensory control equipment. The entire creature pounced on the Batmobile and ate it up in a few bites.
Robin: "But that's not entirely accurate, because we also found some broken glass and other debris at the scene. The creature seemed to only feed on metal, and it shook off everything else after it was frozen into slag. After investigation, this is the first and only time this creature has appeared in Gotham."
Although it is not actually the case, Batman cannot find the surveillance of the Court of Owls' lair, and the owls will not report it, so Batman has no way of knowing.
Nightwing: "No one was hurt?"
Robin: "No, the creature didn't even show the slightest interest in the passersby. If anything, one witness was so surprised by the strange creature and the Batmobile that he dislocated his jaw, but he reattached it before Batman could exit the alley."
Witness interviews for this incident were particularly easy. After all, who could forget something so shocking yet completely harmless? As Batman questioned them, the witnesses danced with delight, almost wishing they could swallow a car on the spot to demonstrate it to Batman.
Robin: "Witnesses said they looked up at the sky before the creature flew away. Some said they saw a blurry white dot in the sky that seemed to be chasing it. But when Batman came out, he didn't see any white dot. It may have flown away. After that, we investigated whether there had been any recent metal thefts in Gotham, but we found nothing."
"Then, what follows is my speculation, which I have absolutely no direct evidence for..."
Nightwing encouraged, "Tell me about it."
"He wants metal. Considering the three of them and the Batmobile, he'd need a lot of metal. If he wants to take in so much metal without being noticed, he'd need to have a lot of metal that's either discarded or something that won't be noticed in the short term..."
"So I think the creature might come to Bludhaven, where there's a car dismantling and recycling industry. Perhaps you could try to keep an eye on it?"
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The author has something to say: PS: The destruction method of banned drugs mentioned in the article is true. I checked the destruction method in our country on the Internet. It is not an ordinary incinerator. Special treatment will be followed after burning.
【Catch the bug twice】
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