Chapter 1008: Is This Batman? (Part 1)

Watching Shiler being carried into the emergency room, rapid footsteps came from the corridor behind Batman. Oliver and Clark ran over, and Zatanna followed behind them. Clark, who ran over first, said with a face full of anxiety: "How is it? Is the professor okay?"

"I don't know yet." Batman shook his head again. Clark took a deep breath, walked forward, gently pushed Batman's shoulder, and then said: "Can you tell me what exactly is going on? How did Professor Shiler suddenly..."

Batman was about to open his mouth, but Clark said first: "Listen, Bruce, I was a bit impulsive before. I know this matter might be very complicated, and you are not the murderer, but since you were on the scene, you should have protected Professor Shiler, who is an ordinary person. This is our responsibility."

Clark relaxed his shoulders, lowered his head a bit, and said: "These things shouldn't have involved a university professor at all. That would bring him great danger."

"Things are complicated, but I don't have time to explain from the beginning." Batman tilted his head, glanced at Zatanna, and Zatanna took off the top hat on her head, sighed, and said: "Fine, this is all my fault. When Shiler and Constantine return, I will apologize to them. But my anxiety was not without reason. Everything has indeed developed in the worst direction, hasn't it?"

Zatanna looked very exhausted, or rather, she was the one in the worst state among everyone. Although Batman experienced all kinds of hardships in hell, at that time, he was in a soul state and could not eat, drink, or rest. But Zatanna in the real world couldn't.

Zatanna deployed several portals, almost exhausting all her strength, traveling back and forth between the human world, the spirit world, and hell. At this time, she had no power to release magic.

"Apologies can wait. We first need to know what happened to Shiler, and then we need to solve the chaos in Cat Getan." Batman turned his head to look out the window.

At this time, Cat Getan City had strangely calmed down. During the time Batman left Cat Getan and went to hell, the citizens of Cat Getan hadn't been idle either, especially those former super-criminals with special abilities. After the righteous Batman left, they became the saviors of Cat Getan.

The virus that could make people crazy indeed brought no small panic when it first started spreading. But after experiencing the initial chaos, many people also reacted. The first to discover something wrong was Jason.

He thought about how he went to deliver food to the gangsters before, was scratched by someone, had a high fever, and was finally saved by Professor Shiler. He recalled this experience in his brain and instinctively discovered suspicious points.

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If inferred according to normal logic, it should be that the person who scratched him transmitted the virus to him. But if the inference continued, then the person who scratched Jason should also have been scratched by someone else, which led to going crazy.

But at that time, the house on Broken Fish Basket Street collapsed, and the gangsters in the nearby area went to disaster relief. Gangsters were not easy to mess with. If someone suddenly fought while they were disaster relief, it would definitely cause a riot, and Jason would definitely have heard of it.

If a fight had broken out because someone scratched someone else before Jason went there to deliver food, Jason could never have not heard of it. In other words, the person who scratched Jason hadn't been scratched by anyone else before.

Since that was the case, he should be the source of the virus. How exactly the virus came to be should be investigated from him. But at this time, Jason recalled another detail.

After Jason was scratched, he felt intense pain. When he fought in the streets before, it wasn't that Jason hadn't been injured. He was clear about what degree of pain the wound scratched should bring, but at that time, the pain brought by the wound on his body far exceeded his imagination.

After Tire discovered he was injured, he brought him back to the building of the first phase of the renovation project in a hurry. But just after entering the room, Jason felt the pain of the wound weaken a bit, so he was able to lie on the bed and fall asleep.

And another more obvious clue was that the wound Jason was scratched with was very deep, and his fever lasted for a very long time. Shiler's rescue couldn't be considered timely.

But during this period, he didn't fall into madness. According to his investigation afterward, he found that the vast majority of people would fall into madness within one or two hours of being scratched.

So, what exactly led to him being different from other infected people?

Jason thought carefully. The biggest difference between indoors and outdoors was that indoors wouldn't get rained on, and the biggest difference between him and other patients was that the place where he recuperated was in a room inside the building of the first phase of the renovation project.

What was different about the interior of the renovation project building from other buildings? Thinking of this, Jason grasped the key. Indeed, there were too many things inside the first phase of the renovation project building that were different from other buildings, but if one had to say the most critical one, it was the water source.

All buildings in the first phase of the renovation project had new water purifiers. They hadn't directly consumed water sources participating in the natural cycle for a long time. And after Jason had a fever, Tire kept feeding him water, which made Jason feel much better.

Based on this point, Jason launched an investigation. He found that all residents who had lived inside the first phase of the building would have a fever period for a long time after being infected, and they hadn't received any rescue during this period, so they might fall into madness, but the symptoms were also much lighter than people in other places.

Discovering that drinking water sources and rainwater might both have problems, Jason immediately wanted to find Batman. But when he arrived at Wayne Manor, he only saw Zatanna who had just woken up from a coma.

Aisha and Dick were both trapped in school. All Cat Getan schools were already very accustomed to this situation. At the first moment of chaos, they directly blocked the campus. Therefore, the losses were not heavy, but the students couldn't come out either.

Thus, Jason came to Cat Getan University and found his little partner, Little Slippery. Little Slippery wasn't very proficient in chemistry, so he led Jason to find Victor. And at that time, Victor was still holding a freeze gun, dealing with the problem of infected people inside Cat Getan University.

Victor, who had been busy for days without sleep, also found that just freezing all the infected people one by one like this couldn't solve the fundamental problem. He had to find the root of the virus to have a possibility of ending this chaos.

The clues provided by Jason and Little Slippery gave Victor inspiration. On one hand, he took out a batch of freezing weapons from his low-temperature laboratory and handed them to Jason. He trusted this child recognized by Shiler very much and hoped that Jason could hand these weapons to someone who could maximize their use.

On the other hand, Victor himself took his students to Cat Getan to take water samples, took the samples back to the laboratory for analysis, and wanted to investigate whether there were really substances that made people go crazy in the water source.

Jason and Little Slippery got the freeze guns and didn't publicize them widely at the first time. They found Tire, Red Truck, and a group of local children in Cat Getan, and listened to their opinions.

Finally, this batch of weapons was handed to Cobblepot. Under Alberto's instruction, the most elite direct members of the Falcone family led the elites of the twelve families and started patrolling in Cat Getan with freezing weapons.

Although they needed to find a way to cure the root cause, they also had to end the chaos on the street first. These gangster members were originally elite killers cultivated by the twelve families with great effort, so their marksmanship naturally didn't need to be discussed.

Having obtained extremely convenient and efficient freezing weapons, they divided the area and started patrolling. Once they discovered infected people, they immediately froze them.

And at this time, the truck driver transportation network spread all over Cat Getan played a role again. Jack the Joker contributed a lot.

Jack ran a truck for a day and fell asleep as soon as he got home. When he woke up, he found Cat Getan full of madmen. He was overjoyed, feeling that this was a good time to find Batman to chat, but unfortunately, his favorite bat was not in Cat Getan, which made Jack very disappointed.

Such a big fun thing had no one to share with, Jack was very disappointed. Originally, he bought two bottles of wine, wanting to get drunk with Batman, but Batman was not there, so he could only drink alone.

After drinking two bottles of wine, Jack was drunk into a puddle of mud. On the way home swaying, he was scratched by a drunkard who had gone crazy, and two wounds appeared on his calf.

The madness virus that infected Jack went in baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, but it came out wailing and sobbing.

Although Jack was not infected at all, this still made him very unhappy—not because he had capsized in the gutter, but because when he was injured, Batman was actually not by his side.

Jack was very unhappy, but he did not go mad, because he did not want to go mad at a group of irrational, stupid lunatics. The best way for him to punish this group of lunatics was to find the truck drivers he was familiar with; in this way, all the frozen patients were transported to the cold storage usually used for storing goods.

This time, Batman owed the Joker another favor.

By the time Batman returned to Cat Getan, the chaos in most of the city districts had already been resolved.

The patients who had already been infected were all frozen and stored in the cold storage, waiting to be thawed all at once after the antidote was found.

The remaining people had all received warnings from the gangs to hide indoors and not go out, so the streets were already very clean; apart from broccoli, nothing else remained.

Just as Batman was about to state his own solution, a series of hurried footsteps came from the end of the corridor again. It was Jason, wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella, who ran up. Batman glanced at the familiar umbrella in his hand, then looked at Jason.

Jason, who had run all the way here, stopped to catch his breath, looked at Batman, and asked, "How is Professor Schiller? I heard he is in a coma."

"Yes, the doctors are currently performing emergency treatment." Batman nodded. He had originally thought that Jason would be very anxious and ask him about the cause and effect of the matter, but he did not expect that Jason would take a deep breath and then look at Batman and say:

"The preliminary test results for the rainwater and drinking water sources from the Cat Getan University Cryogenics Laboratory have already come out. Professor Victor called me and said the situation is somewhat complicated."

"I haven't studied chemistry, and in the past, it was like listening to a heavenly book to me. It just so happened that I heard Mr. Alfred say you were back, so I found my way here. You had better go over there immediately and listen to Professor Victor's conclusions."

Batman bent down and looked into Jason's eyes. Jason seemed to know what he was going to ask and said, "I know Professor Schiller's condition is not good, but what is most important right now is to resolve the trouble in Cat Getan City."

"Me being anxious or worried here won't provide any help to the doctors, but if we can resolve those crazed citizens and the broccoli, at the very least, we can let Professor Schiller have a better environment for recuperation when he wakes up."

The hand Batman had pressed on his shoulder stiffened for a moment. Jason looked into Batman's eyes and said, "You and I both know what the consequences would be if Professor Schiller, just recovering from a serious illness, looked out the window and saw broccoli as the first thing he saw."

Batman immediately straightened his body and looked at Clark, saying, "Follow me; we must resolve these troubles immediately."