Chapter 1622

Spider-Man followed Batman to a special room. The light in this room was very full, even a bit too intense, already showing signs of light pollution, because there were at least hundreds of screens of various sizes in the room.

The largest main screen was filming the place where the robbery happened during the day. As soon as Spider-Man walked in, he let out an exclamation and then rubbed his eyes hard, seeming a bit unaccustomed to such light.

"God, how many cameras did you put in Cat Getan?" Spider-Man was still a bit unaccustomed to the word "Cat Getan" and almost bit his tongue when saying it, but his attention was quickly drawn to the images on the surveillance screens.

"As you can see, this is a dark city with a very high crime rate."

"Very high? How high?"

"The Cat Getan Police Department reported 6,113 crimes this year, half of which were serious crimes."

"... Isn't that about the same as New York?"

Batman turned his head to look at Spider-Man. Spider-Man sighed and said: "This morning I heard Uncle Ben say that New York reported about 5,739 crimes this year, up about 40% from last year."

Batman turned back and was just about to continue speaking when Spider-Man added: "But those are just ordinary criminal cases, not counting alien invasions, biological mutations, cyborgs going crazy, mutants losing control, etc. If you count those, there might be seven or eight thousand."

"And the number of times New York has been destroyed this year is also more than usual. Just the alien invasions and Thanos's arrival have destroyed New York five or six times. If you look at the victimization rate, at least 90% of New York's population has been affected."

"Don't go over there." Spider-Man looked back at the scene on the stage and said: "That kid is with him!"

"Hahahahaha... Batman, Batman! I told you long ago, the Bat-family and those birds of yours are just a burden to you. Soon you will understand, without them, how free you will be, how... how great you will be!!!"

"First of all, I'm not a policeman, I'm Batman. Secondly, he's not a kidnapper, he's the Joker."

Spider-Man knocked out the Joker, turned around, and kicked Clayface in the back. But Clayface was really like a lump of mud. Although he was kicked and mud splashed everywhere, he remained firmly fixed to the ground and was not knocked away or knocked down.

"Concentrated Cat Getan rainwater... the truly pure source of darkness, Batman, your children are about to become your enemies, hahahahahahahahahaha!"

Out of sympathy, Spider-Man instinctively took a step forward, but the next second, he froze in place.

The rope was tied very tightly, and the skin on the little girl's wrists looked very delicate, but when the rope rubbed and created a red mark, the wound almost disappeared immediately.

"Zzzzt—"

Batman narrowed his eyes. Previously, his attention had been drawn by the Joker, but when he cast his gaze toward the little girl, he almost immediately discovered something was wrong.

"But he couldn't save that poor child's parents. How will that child look at him? Is his help pity or compensation? Does he really feel he can replace his parents?"

At this time, Batman rushed to the front of the second floor and was lucky enough to see a slightly bewildered expression on the face of his nemesis, the Joker, who always wore an evil smile.

Spider-Man focused his attention on the kidnapped girl. It was a very cute little white girl, wearing overalls and a beret, her face full of tear stains, holding a huge button in her hand. She was tied to a chair, only her fingers could move, and fear flickered in her eyes.

Batman turned his head to look at Spider-Man and said: "You have to learn the rules of this game first, don't act rashly."

Spider-Man seemed to feel something, turned his head to look at the largest screen. Batman then looked up and saw the Bat-signal pattern flickering in Cat Getan's pitch-black sky on the main screen.

"What is that?" Batman asked.

Batman looked at his back, thinking that this boy named Spider-Man was like the perfect assistant who had fallen from the sky.

A sharp alarm sounded. Batman turned around quickly, narrowed his eyes, and looked at the warning light flashing outside the door.

"Of course it's inside a big bomb, hahahahahahahaha!!!" The Joker let out a series of crazy laughs.

"Bang!"

Seeing his conspiracy exposed, Clayface didn't stay long, decisively betrayed his teammate, and fled rapidly along the ceiling like a lump of gel. Spider-Man's two sticky bombs failed to hit, and Clayface jumped out of the window, disappearing into Cat Getan's rainy night.

Batman narrowed his eyes slightly. He looked at Spider-Man and said: "Then who is responsible for the security of New York City? I mean, who among the superheroes? Is it the 'Mr. Stark' you mentioned?"

Spider-Man hit the Joker's chin with an uppercut, then hugged his upper body and performed a back throw, smashing him onto the stage floor.

"Batman, Batman!" The Joker began to pant non-stop, as if laughing or crying. He shouted Batman's name and then said: "Those birds under your wings can enjoy the light that others can't enjoy. This doesn't conform to the justice you pursue at all. Since that's the case, I will let them—share the darkness!"

Then, he jumped up on the spot, jumped back two or three meters, then quickly stretched out an arm, and a web stuck to the ceiling again, swinging to the second floor in an extremely agile posture, blocking Batman who was about to jump down.

A sharp screech of brakes sounded. Batman made a smooth drift and turned into the alley behind the theater, then quickly and accurately reversed into the parking spot. After parking the Batmobile, Batman rushed out of the car, Spider-Man followed closely behind, and the two rushed into the back door of the theater together.

"It's the Batmobile," Batman answered.

Spider-Man kicked the railing on the second floor of the theater, a web stuck to the ceiling, and with a "whoosh," he swung onto the stage, stood in front of the Joker, and pointed at him with his finger: "Damn kidnapper! Let that girl go, or I'll make you regret it!!!"

"Clayface!" Batman shouted his name angrily.

"Gordon said on the phone that the Joker kidnapped a couple and their child here. If I don't go over, he will force that little girl to press the button and kill her parents."

"Where did you hide her parents?" Spider-Man asked with wide eyes.

But before his words landed, with a "bang," a huge flowerpot drew a beautiful parabola and smashed straight into the center of the stage. The moment the soil and dust flew up, a black shadow swung over almost at the same time as the flowerpot, landing silently on the stage.

The Joker and Batman were both stunned.

"Cat Getan's crime is mainly based on vicious robbery, kidnapping, and bombings. Most of the criminals who commit these serious crimes are super-criminals with super-high IQs. They are cunning, cruel, and evil. Never underestimate their talent as criminals."

Arriving at Arkham Asylum, Batman threw the Joker onto the floor of the special care ward. Just as he was about to turn and leave, a faint laugh came from behind.

"What did you inject him with?" Batman kicked and broke the Joker's leg bone. The Joker let out a sharp scream, followed by continuous gasping.

The little girl who was originally sitting on the chair looking pitiful finally revealed her true form. Just as Batman had expected, she was one of Cat Getan's super-criminals, Clayface, who possessed the ability to imitate others' images.

"God, this car is the coolest I've ever seen... uh, uh, is it a sports car? Or a branch of a tank?!" Spider-Man, sitting in the Batmobile, shouted.

Batman's hand on the console paused again. He shook his head gently and said: "Black Mask is far from being cunning and evil. These two words are always more suitable for..."

Spider-Man turned to look at the Joker, but Batman had already appeared in front of the Joker. He picked up the Joker, who had fainted on the floor, and said to Spider-Man: "You look around here to see if they really set up bombs. I'll take him to Gordon, and then lock him in the asylum."

"Just now my spider-sense told me that this kid has huge danger." Spider-Man lowered his voice and said to Batman: "This might be a play they directed together. If you really save her and take her home, it's equivalent to bringing a bomb home."

"Bang!"

"This is too strange, right?!" Spider-Man, wearing his new uniform, raised his voice: "What kidnapper strongly demands to see the police? Can't he just surrender and go to jail to see you?"

Batman's footsteps paused. He turned his head and stared at the Joker with deep eyes: "Joker, what conspiracy are you plotting again?"

Batman walked back quickly, broke the Joker's shoulder blade with an elbow, picked him up by the neck, and began to search his body. The Joker struggled desperately. Between the two of them fighting, a syringe fell out of the Joker's clothes.

Fierce, infinitely strong, agile, and powerful, and more importantly, possessing early warning capabilities, not easily falling into criminal traps, and having no disagreement with Batman regarding the handling of criminals—he was simply like a natural Robin.

Spider-Man nodded and turned to get to work.

"In a while, I will make him press that button in front of Batman, blowing his parents into pieces. Then what will Batman do? Take that poor girl home?"

"Okay, don't worry!"

"Secondly, let that girl throw away the button in her hand. Kids can't do such dangerous things. Finally, your hairstyle is cool. Which barbershop did you cut it at, and what shade of dye did you use?"

"Your name is Joker, right? Listen, this Mr. Joker who doesn't know which circus he ran out of, first of all, put down that broken gun in your hand. Don't point it at anyone, it's very dangerous."

The Joker rolled on the floor, laughing as if he were about to stop breathing. In that sharp laughter, he occasionally spat out a few incoherent words. Batman only heard the Joker say: "It's you! It's you! Batman! It's the darkness of Cat Getan City! It's the darkness that will never dissipate!"

Batman silently turned his head back again and said: "Then you should be more suitable for Metropolis."

Suddenly, the Joker wrinkled his nose hard, revealed a very evil smile at Spider-Man, and said: "I smell it! I smell that stench of bird feathers!"

"Tick—tick—tick—"

"Sigh, speaking of which, I haven't been a good neighbor to help out in a long time." Spider-Man sighed and said: "Every day it's either fighting aliens or fighting evil gods, either stopping this world destruction or stopping that world destruction."

Batman took the Joker to the police car while thinking. He was too immersed in thought, so he didn't notice that the Joker, who was lying on the floor and should have been fainted, had an unusually cruel smile on his pale face.

"Indeed." Spider-Man nodded in agreement and said: "That day, that Black Mask actually kidnapped such a young child, it was simply too evil. You have to deal with them every day, it must be quite hard, right?"

"Batman has adopted another poor little bird with no home. Ha, he adopts you, dresses you up, and then turns you into that serious, stinky face too!"

"Plotting? Isn't everything happening naturally, starting from that little bird you just brought back? He will fall into an inescapable trap, embracing the endless darkness in human nature one step earlier than you."

"Ah..." The Joker dragged out a long sound, raised his chin, and glared at Spider-Man with his bloodshot eyes: "You want to use your language to distract my attention? You know it won't work, right? Because that poor girl is about to suffer the pain you and Batman have suffered. He will lose his parents forever."

"Responsible? If you want to talk about responsibility, it should be S. H. I. E. L. D. that is responsible. It is an officially established supernatural monitoring organization. It was also them who organized the Avengers. In those few huge disasters, it was basically the Avengers who saved New York."

Hahahahahahaha *hiccup*