Chapter 346

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 penetrated and damaged her spine, causing her to lose sensation in her lower body and leaving her legs paralyzed.

For a girl in the prime of her youth, the impact of this can be imagined.

At first glance, paralysis seems to be just the loss of mobility, 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 deep 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 wounded me and kidnapped my father."

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

Barbara Gordon shouted at Batman in the shadows with some excitement: "The Joker has killed many people, and 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, 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 be paralyzed, and Commissioner Gordon wouldn't have been kidnapped.

But this was wrong!

If he killed the Joker, how would he be any different from the Joker? Both would be executioners who disregard life!

Once he started killing, once he started taking other people's lives, the pleasure of controlling other people's life and death would constantly influence him, and from then on, he would be unable to turn back.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster, and if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Moreover, he also knew that fighting violence with violence without a bottom line or constraints could not bring true peace!

Batman, who had been silent for a long time, watched Barbara Gordon, who was hysterical, gradually become silent and sob while covering her face, and said slowly and hoarsely: "I will save your father, I promise!"

"But you won't kill the Joker."

Barbara Gordon spoke 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 being strong, she 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. Barbara Gordon would not place all her hopes on Batman.

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

The button that she could have reached 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 say hello, when a blue ponytail bounced out.

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

"It's you!"

"You—you're actually a doctor here?"

Barbara Gordon looked at Harley Quinn, who was wearing a white lab coat, in surprise!

Harley Quinn smiled 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 the 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: "Isn't 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; she smiled and 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 handed the computer over very generously: "It's yours. This is a gift I prepared for you."

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

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

The computer's desktop was actually the image of her being shot and falling into a pool of blood, and—it was the kind where she was completely unclothed!

"Slap!"

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

"Isn't my photography technique good?"

"You—you were at the scene at the time?! You—you're in cahoots with the Joker?!" Barbara Gordon reacted, gritting 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's 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 once by Batman."

"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, gritting her teeth: "What exactly do you want!"

"Say thank you!"

"Give the photos back to me, otherwise I'll call the police immediately!"

"Say thank you!"

"You—"

"Say thank you!"

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

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

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

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

"What will it take for you to completely destroy the photos?" Barbara Gordon asked in a low voice.

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

"Your daddy—" Barbara Gordon only felt the world go black, and she almost fainted from anger.

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

The show 【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.