Chapter 346: The Paralyzed Teenage Girl and Harley Quinn

Gotham General Hospital, observation ward.

After emergency treatment, Barbara Gordon was out of danger and had woken up.

The surgery went smoothly, but the result was not ideal.

Although the bullet hit her abdomen, it injured her spine due to penetration, causing her to lose sensation in her lower body and leaving her legs paralyzed.

For a teenage girl in the prime of her life, the impact of this blow can be imagined.

At first glance, paralysis might seem like just losing the ability to move, but there are many inconveniences in life. Not to mention anything else, just the incontinence after losing sensation is enough to make many optimistic and cheerful people break down.

"You're awake."

A low voice rang out abruptly in the ward. Barbara Gordon, who already knew the result, slowly raised her head and looked at the figure in the dark corner of the room.

"Batman—it's the Joker! It was the Joker who shot and injured me and kidnapped my father."

"Why! Why didn't you kill him!"

Barbara Gordon shouted excitedly at Batman in the shadows: "The Joker has killed many people, he even killed your assistant Robin. You clearly had the opportunity to kill him to avenge Robin, clearly had the opportunity to prevent more tragedies from happening."

"Why?"

"Why didn't you kill him?"

"If you had killed him then, I wouldn't be paralyzed, I wouldn't have become a cripple, and my father wouldn't have been kidnapped by him."

"This is all your fault!"

"Batman, this is all your fault!!!"

Barbara Gordon's hysterical questioning left Batman speechless. From the perspective of causal logic, she was right: if the Joker had died, she wouldn't have been paralyzed, and Commissioner Gordon wouldn't have been kidnapped.

But this was not right!

If he killed the Joker, then how would he be any different from the Joker? He would also be an executioner who disregards life!

Once he started killing, once he started taking away other people's lives, the pleasure of controlling other people's life and death would constantly influence him, and from then on, he would never be able to turn back.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster, and if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

And he also knew that violence for the sake of violence without bottom lines and constraints could not bring true peace!

Batman, who had been silent for a long time, looked at the hysterical Barbara Gordon, who gradually became silent and sobbed while covering her face, and said hoarsely and slowly: "I will save your father, I promise!"

"But you won't kill the Joker."

Barbara Gordon said faintly, but received no response.

Slowly raising her head, the figure in the dark corner had already disappeared.

The next day, early morning.

Barbara Gordon, who didn't remember when she fell asleep, woke up slowly. She hadn't accepted the fact that she was paralyzed, but she was strong and knew that what she needed to do now was not to wallow in self-pity, but to find a way to find her father.

Although Batman had promised her that he would definitely save her father, the one who kidnapped her father was the Joker, and Barbara Gordon wouldn't place all her hope on Batman.

Struggling to sit up, she reached for the call button not far away.

The call button, which she could have touched easily before, now exhausted almost all her strength.

"Click!"

Just then, the door opened.

A white lab coat came into view. Barbara Gordon breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew her hand, just about to greet them, when a blue ponytail popped out.

Immediately after, she saw another pink ponytail and that face she wouldn't forget so quickly.

"It's you!"

"You—you are actually a doctor here?"

Barbara Gordon looked at Harley Quinn in the white lab coat in surprise!

Harley Quinn giggled and said: "I'm not a doctor here. Let me introduce myself; my name is Harley Quinn, and I'm the deputy director of Arkham Asylum. By the way, I only became deputy director about twenty minutes ago."

Harley Quinn pretended to look at the exaggerated big gold watch on her hand and showed it off to Barbara Gordon: "Is this watch beautiful? My daddy gave it to me."

"Disgusting!"

Mentioning 'daddy', Barbara Gordon immediately thought of that young man.

Harley Quinn wasn't angry and giggled as she took a laptop out of her white lab coat.

This made Barbara Gordon's eyes light up instantly. This was what she needed most right now!

As long as she had a computer, she could find a way to find her father's whereabouts.

"Can you lend me the computer?" Barbara Gordon said hurriedly.

Harley Quinn very generously handed the computer over: "It's yours. This is a gift I prepared for you."

Barbara Gordon didn't think much and struggled to sit up and open the computer directly.

The computer turned on, entered the desktop, and Barbara Gordon was instantly stunned!

The computer's desktop was actually a picture of her lying in a pool of blood after being shot, and—it was the kind where she was completely naked!

"Slap!"

Barbara Gordon closed the computer and looked angrily at Harley Quinn, who was still giggling: "Where did you get the photos?"

"Is my photography technique not bad?"

"You—you were at the scene too?! You—you are in cahoots with the Joker?!" Barbara Gordon realized, gnashing her teeth and glaring at Harley Quinn.

Harley Quinn shook her head and said: "Remember? I said I'd make you break down and live the rest of your life in regret."

"Unfortunately, when I found your house, you had already been knocked unconscious by the Joker with a shot."

"Do you know? You should thank me. If I hadn't gone, it would have been the Joker taking these photos. And oh, I was the one who called the ambulance for you, and I was even killed by Batman once."

"So, hurry up and say thank you to me!"

Barbara Gordon said coldly: "Why should I believe you!"

Harley Quinn said dismissively: "You don't have to believe me, and you don't have to thank me, but—everyone in Gotham will see your photos, see the photos of Commissioner Gordon's daughter!"

A threat, this was a naked threat!

Barbara Gordon stared at her, gnashing her teeth: "What exactly do you want!"

"Say thank you!"

"Give me back the photos, otherwise I'll call the police right now!"

"Say thank you!"

"You—"

"Say thank you!"

No matter what Barbara Gordon said, Harley Quinn only said one thing: say thank you!

Barbara Gordon took a deep breath and compromised: "Fine, thank you, I thank you!"

Harley Quinn didn't care about her gnashing her teeth at all and giggled: "Since you sincerely thanked me, I can only say sorry to the people of Gotham; they won't have the opportunity to appreciate the photos of Commissioner Gordon's daughter."

Barbara Gordon breathed a sigh of relief, but the situation of adding insult to injury made her mood, which she had been preparing to pull herself together, become even heavier and more broken.

"What do you want me to do to completely destroy the photos?" Barbara Gordon asked in a deep voice.

Harley Quinn shook her head: "You can handle the ones on the computer however you want; as for the negatives in the camera, hehe—they've been collected by my daddy."

"Your daddy—" Barbara Gordon felt the world go black before her eyes and almost fainted from anger.

PS: There aren't many live-action actors for the character of Barbara Gordon. The more suitable ones are from the American TV version of Birds of Prey, which is 【Birds of Prey】, and the movie 【Batman & Robin】.

【Birds of Prey】 is a story that happened on Earth-203, which might be written later, so the image of Barbara Gordon from 【Batman & Robin】 was used for this universe.

The actress is Alicia Silverstone, who was still very beautiful when she was young. ===== CHAPTER 348 =====