Chapter 49 Chapter 49 The same logic applies (no)
Maybe God finally heard Benjamin's extremely boring wish, or maybe Gotham is just a place with talented people and beautiful scenery.
Anyway, that night, when Benjamin Lihua Jason, who was preparing to go to Blüdhaven to play jungle, flew over Gotham, he saw a riot in the city center.
Judging from their clothing, the attackers seemed to be ordinary citizens, but at this moment they were screaming, dancing, running around, and even pulling out their guns to shoot indiscriminately at the surroundings.
Seeing this situation, the three of them immediately changed their destination and rushed towards it.
Jason guessed who had done it at a glance. He pulled out a throwable tranquilizer from his pocket and sent a peaceful sleep to the poor man who had tried to attack passersby. Then he pulled out three mini Batcave gas masks from his jacket pocket and put them on himself and Li Hua. "Fear gas! It's Scarecrow's fear gas. Breathing it will cause panic!"
"Poison gas, huh? Inhalation, huh? What if I summon a noseless swampfire?"
Benjamin turned the dial, remembering Azmis's words and pressed it gently. After a flash of green light, the humanoid plant Swamp Fire appeared.
"Swampfire!"
Jason couldn't help but complain, "Why do you always have to shout, 'Who is the real magic boy?' every time you transform?"
“Because it’s super cool!”
Before he finished speaking, Swampfire jumped down from the flying staff, spewing bright pillars of fire from his hands and flew towards the most chaotic place. Before landing, he threw out a few seeds, and the alienated plants broke out of the ground in an instant, controlling those who were out of control without hurting them.
Benjamin's judgment was correct. Swampfire was indeed the best choice to deal with this kind of problem. It didn't take long for him to control the out-of-control people, and he used Swampfire vines to strangle the wounds of the injured people to stop the bleeding.
Li Hua pulled out his phone and dialed Batman's number: "Someone's going crazy on the street. Red Hood said it was a gas leak."
Jason leaned over and said, "Did the scarecrow escape?"
"Arkham says Scarecrow didn't escape. This gas is different from the previous ones. It might be a new type of gas they sold before." Alfred's elderly but calm voice came from the other end of the line. "The master is already on his way to Arkham to ask him about the formula for this gas. There are many leaks, and Robin is rushing to the scene."
"Send me the address of the gas leak panic and we'll rush over to help." Jason reported his own coordinates while inserting a communicator into Li Hua's ear and helping him switch to the internal communication frequency. "Okay, magic boy, you can hang up the phone now. Newbies, don't learn from me and throw objects from high altitude. When you need to speak on the internal line, just press the largest button."
Li Hua put away his phone and flew low to connect with the swamp fire vines to the next place of riot - there was no need for navigation, he could see the rioting crowd by flying higher and then fly towards the place where the screams were coming from.
"He'll have to pay the price," Benjamin said. "The one who caused all this must pay the price."
Jason: “He will.”
Li Hua: "If Scarecrow didn't jailbreak, and something leaked, how do we know who did it? The attacks won't end until the culprit is caught."
I don’t even know how much poison gas the guy hiding in the dark has in his hands.
Jason: "Do you have a magic card that can heal injuries?"
No. 666 replied: "No, if there was, I would have added it to this suicidal brat eight hundred years ago."
While they were talking, they had already arrived at another riot scene, this time on a commercial street. The rioting crowd ran into the street and caused even greater chaos.
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Bob is eight years old and has a six-year-old sister, Sally. The brother and sister often quarrel about what is on TV.
Bob thinks he is a mature child. He wants to watch Animal World, Ultraman, and the news broadcasts of Batman and Robin. But his sister only wants to watch those pink, unrealistic cartoons.
What butterfly fairy, what transforming mermaid, what magical girl. Please, such things simply cannot exist, and as a man, he can't be a magical girl, so why not like real idols like Batman, Robin, and Ultraman?
This way, maybe one day I can join them!
But his sister was obviously not smart enough. Every time Bob argued with her, his sister would try to get away with it by saying, "Ultraman is not real either."
What a joke, Ultraman is not a cartoon, the characters in Ultraman are all real people, so Ultraman is obviously real!
Bob, who still didn't understand what a special effects film was, firmly believed this.
Today is Bob's eighth birthday, so he got permission from his parents to choose a toy for himself while shopping after dinner. Bob was excited and decided to choose the Robin suit that he had been coveting for a long time in the toy store.
This way he can play Robin pretend games at home, and maybe one day Batman will ask him to be Robin!
With such expectations, Bob quickly finished his children's meal, even eating the broccoli that he hated the most. Except for the fact that he ran out of the restaurant because his parents couldn't wait to take his sister to pay the bill first, every step he took should have been praised by his parents as a good boy.
But just as they finished their meal and walked towards the toy store that Bob had been longing for, a strange phenomenon occurred.
A group of panicked people suddenly attacked them from behind. Even though the couple wanted to pick up their children and hide after realizing the danger, when they turned around, they found that there was also a panicked crowd in front of them. Caught between the two groups of chaotic people, the couple and other sober people around them hid in the surrounding shops to avoid being trampled and wait for the chaos to pass.
They took refuge in a restaurant with floor-to-ceiling windows that allowed those hiding there to see the chaos on the street.
"Could it be that there were two attacks at the same time? Who escaped from Arkham again?"
Bob heard some adults talking.
"It's not like a normal attack. There's something wrong with the group outside. Some of them are screaming and attacking anyone who gets in their way but they don't pursue them. They look scared... Shit! Fear gas!"
The surroundings were in chaos again. If it was the fear gas, it meant that they were in danger in the enclosed space. Even if there was no poison gas, fear was spreading in this crowded and small space.
"Break the windows and let some air in!"
"Are you crazy? This whole wall is full of windows. If you break them, not only will the air come in, but so will the people outside!"
"Go to the top floor! The top floor is safe!"
"The stairs and elevator to the top floor are not inside the store. You have to go outside to get there."
The boss's response brought a momentary silence. Even though some people couldn't control their fear of hiding in a confined space where they didn't know if there was a poisonous gas, the chaos outside continued. But right now, no one wanted to go out.
After all, who knows if anyone might be carrying a gun, a knife, or any other sharp object, and who knows if those controlled by the fear gas might use these things in a panic?
"Look at it this way. It's the poisonous gas of fear exploding in a dense crowd like this, not anything else. Stay calm and remember the people around you," someone in the crowd said. "If you see monsters or something else all around you, tell yourself they don't exist. Control your urge to retaliate. Stay where you are, curl up, and wait for help. If you can't help the fear and urge to attack, just run away and don't attack."
"How come you're still so calm?"
"I've been hit by fear gas twice."
“…I understand.”
Fear gas allows everyone to see what they fear most, and it does not affect the IQ of the poisoned person itself. Therefore, each poisoned person will do something completely different when attacked by fear.
For example, under the influence of fear toxin, people with weapons will brandish and use their weapons, while others with vehicles around will try to drive the vehicles to escape from the fearful place in their eyes.
It's like the driver who tried to drive his car into the restaurant's floor-to-ceiling windows.
The driver, who was infected with the fear toxin, just wanted to escape as quickly as possible and stepped on the accelerator to the bottom. Everything happened so fast that Bob only had time to hug his crying sister before the car hit him.
But the expected pain did not happen. When Bob looked up, he saw a tall figure wearing a colorful cake tulle skirt and flying pink hair standing in front of them in the ruins of half the restaurant. She held up a transparent barrier to keep out the out-of-control vehicle and the risk of death.
After the barrier disappeared, the man lowered his raised hand, and everyone saw that he was holding a pink bird-beaked staff in his hand, the empty driver's seat of the scrapped car, and the driver who appeared in the back of the car intact, screaming and trembling with fear of the poisonous gas.
The little girl Sally opened her red eyes wide and cried: "Magical girl! I knew magical girls existed!"
The figure turned around and gently shattered the little girl's magical girl dream: "Sorry, little one, but I'm a boy."
Not to mention the six-year-old girl Sally, even the adults next to them were dumbfounded. However, Bob quickly reacted: "You are a magic boy!"
“…”
The boy in the pink mask pretended not to hear the question, left a sentence "It's dangerous here, leave here quickly" and turned away. He waved the bird-beak staff and knocked out the driver who tried to climb into the car with the blunt end. He picked up the unconscious driver with one hand as if he was carrying a doll and moved him to a safe place.
When people came out of the restaurant, they found that the reason why the street was quiet was because many people were tied to the spot by the alien plant vines growing from the ground. Among this horrible plant, a green figure of command could be vaguely seen, and a red block could be vaguely seen where the head was.
Controlling plants, having red hair, and being in Gotham, it can only be—
"Poison Ivy!?"
The people who had just escaped were suddenly terrified.
Just escaped from the tiger's mouth and fell into the wolf's den!
The vines of this extreme environmentalist are different from Scarecrow's fear toxin, which can be overcome or detoxified to return to normal. Those vines are all numerical values, and if you are hit once, you may be able to overcome them in your lifetime.
"I'm here to save your Swampfire. Why does everyone say Poison Ivy when they see me? What's wrong with you in Gotham?"
The green figure emerged from the vines, and the crowd saw that what they had thought was red hair was actually a corolla-like structure with a towering bright yellow horn on its forehead. Its helpless voice sounded muffled, as if it had a cold. The humanoid plant, whose form and voice didn't resemble a woman's, waved its hand, and the surging vines immediately bound the terrified crowd, preventing them from further harming themselves or others. He then attempted to reiterate his gender to the rescued crowd.
"I'm a man. If you can't tell the difference between plants, can you also tell the difference between men and women?"
"...Poison Ivy?" someone in the crowd whispered.
"It's swamp fire... Never mind. If you're not injured, evacuate immediately. Remember to ask the paramedics to bring some chainsaws. My vines are quite strong."
The magic boy asked, "Where's Red Hood?"
"He went to evacuate the people. Now he should..."
"It looks like you guys handled it well over there."
A figure wearing a red motorcycle helmet ran towards them and looked Bob and his group up and down.
"Is this the last group to be evacuated? Is anyone injured and in need of emergency medical attention? If not, keep going straight down that road. You'll reach the police cordon. Once you've completed your statement, you can leave."
Thanks to the magic boy's bravery, Bob and his crew were unharmed in the riot except for the mental damage that may have been caused by excessive shock. Therefore, they declined Red Hood's help and walked towards a safe area.
With the foreshadowing of the first two people, when following the main group past Red Hood, Bob naturally asked: "So, big brother, are you the male version of Little Red Riding Hood?"
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