Chapter 1623

"Officer! Officer! Here! Here! There are two hostages in the cellar here, sir, ma'am, don't be afraid, we are here to save you!"

Standing at the dark cellar entrance, Spider-Man shouted at the two figures inside. His spider-sense didn't alarm, indicating that the two people inside might indeed be innocent people kidnapped by the Joker.

Under his call, Gordon led the officers to rush into the cellar and rescued a couple. Spider-Man watched the hostages being sent to the ambulance, and Gordon stood beside him and patted him on the shoulder.

"Hello, Commissioner, we meet again."

"Can I call you Robin now?"

"Of course not, I'm Spider-Man. Fine, whatever you want, but I want to ask what the background of this criminal called the Joker is. Is he the boss of the criminals in this city?"

"He is the most dangerous criminal in this city, Batman's arch-nemesis." Gordon sighed. He just wanted to light a cigarette, but saw Spider-Man again, put the lighter back in his pocket, and continued: "Only Batman can deal with the evil Joker."

Spider-Man blinked his spider compound eyes, his body language indicating that he didn't agree with this statement. At this time, a black shadow slid down from the theater sky, and Batman was back.

"Spider-Man, come back with me, I have something to tell you."

Batman turned and left after speaking. He thought Spider-Man would follow, but Spider-Man still looked at Gordon. He scratched his head and said to Gordon: "Commissioner, do you have a list of super-criminals in this city? I think I should know more about them."

Batman still stared at Spider-Man, his expression writing: "Besides that, don't you feel anything abnormal about yourself?"

Batman's gaze was fixed on the surveillance screen. Not long after, the entrance of the Bingshan Lounge appeared in Spider-Man's field of vision.

"Thank you."

Spider-Man, who was putting the last document back on the shelf, froze for a moment. He looked down at himself and rubbed his eyes: "Change? Do I feel like my eyes are a bit dry?"

"The reason why the Joker is the most dangerous criminal in this city is that he understands everyone's weaknesses."

After speaking, he turned and walked out. Batman didn't stop him, but after Spider-Man left, he activated the surveillance equipment on Spider-Man's uniform and then went to the surveillance room to closely observe Spider-Man's every move.

He had to ensure that the moment Spider-Man had an episode, it would be captured by him, so that he could immediately stop Spider-Man and prevent him from causing any trouble with his super strength.

After entering the archives, Spider-Man finally quieted down, but the kind of grief and indignation lingering in his chest did not dissipate. His special inspiration from his spider-sense made him see countless dark hands on Batman's body wanting to pull this superhero into hell, and he felt angry about it.

"Go to the archives." Batman flicked his cape, as if he had a plan already made, and took Spider-Man to the archives.

Batman was silent for a while and then said: "I'm afraid nothing in this city will conform to your beautiful fantasies."

"Then you should find Batman." Gordon reached out and hammered Spider-Man's shoulder: "You did well this time, kid, see you next time."

"I don't quite understand. You said he turned the source of a city's darkness into a potion and injected it into my body, but what's the point of that?"

"But I won't deal with you."

Batman narrowed his eyes, revealing a disapproving look, while Spider-Man shrugged: "I won't waste time on such meaningless worries. The friendly neighborhood is about to debut in Cat Getan City!"

"But it's best not to leave the Batcave for a while." Batman felt that he had shown enough patience to explain to this fledgling bird who had just arrived in this city how dangerous it was here.

And unsurprisingly, the scene on the surveillance screen showed that Spider-Man's first stop was the Penguin's Bingshan Lounge.

"Come on, I should at least know what happened to me. You keep a straight face and don't talk, as if I have a terminal illness."

"I don't think such rashness is a good choice."

"More than once."

Batman looked a bit hesitant, but finally he said: "Didn't your spider-sense alert you to danger when you approached the Joker?"

"Didn't you feel the pain caused by the needle on your body?"

Another stubborn one, Batman thought. He had thought many times about renaming the Justice League the Stubborn League, and also thought many times about renaming the Bat-family the Stubborn Family. He didn't know if it was bad luck, but everyone around him was incredibly talented at going against him.

"Can you give me the information on those super-criminals?"

If the dark side guided by the source of darkness was destined to erupt, and Spider-Man possessed super strength, then if he went crazy in the Bingshan Lounge, it could reduce the damage to Cat Getan's order and also strike at the Penguin's arrogance.

But Spider-Man finished reading all the information at a quantum reading speed and said he had already memorized most of it. Although Batman was suspicious of this, he was more concerned about Spider-Man's current condition.

"... It's no different from a terminal illness." Batman's action of checking the wound on Spider-Man's arm paused. He glanced at Spider-Man's expression, seemingly thinking about how to explain it without scaring him.

Batman very rarely said such a long string of words in one breath, but Spider-Man seemed not to understand at all, and he immediately expressed his confusion.

After Gordon turned and left, Spider-Man seemed a bit confused. When he turned back and found that Batman was actually still waiting for him, he said in surprise: "I thought you had gone back first."

"But you don't have to worry about me as much as you worry about them. Spider-Man is stronger than you think. Countless disasters that almost destroyed the world haven't defeated me."

Batman stood in place, silently watching him. He was as firm and silent as a dark mountain standing in place. Spider-Man saw the shadows of both a hero and a father on him.

Spider-Man's mood also dropped. He seemed to hear a sad story behind Batman's tone, so he asked: "Has he hurt your children?"

In the information provided by Spider-Man, the Penguin was indeed worthy of being called heinous, or rather, young heroes like Spider-Man would naturally be more disgusted by super-criminals with gang backgrounds. This was also the result of Batman's deliberate guidance.

Batman didn't say much, just signaled Spider-Man to follow him. Spider-Man could only follow Batman back to the Batcave with a belly full of questions. As soon as he entered the Batcave, Spider-Man took off his mask and asked very confusedly: "What exactly is going on? Why do I feel like you're all acting weird? What can't be said directly?"

Spider-Man heard a sense of empathy and sadness in Batman's words, as if countless tragic stories were hidden behind it.

Batman watched Spider-Man silently. From Spider-Man's eyes, Batman could see that if he didn't give Spider-Man that information, he would investigate it himself until he got what he wanted.

"Follow me."

Spider-Man twisted his head hard to look at his arm and used his fingers to pry at the muscles of his arm. Batman pulled his hand away and then dragged his arm into the instrument.

"Heroes are more likely to be defeated by themselves."

Spider-Man shook his head quite innocently and said: "I don't feel any pain. Maybe his needle pierced my skin, but the poison wasn't injected? Or maybe my spider mutation makes me immune to the toxicity inside?"

Spider-Man scratched his bird's nest-like hair, recalled it, and then said: "No, I didn't feel any particularly great danger."

"Do you feel any changes in your body?" Batman asked.

"I won't deal with you." Spider-Man repeated his words again. He stared straight at Batman with his eyes and said: "I can tell that the officers and commissioner of the Cat Getan Police Department trust you, which means you must have guarded this city and done many good things. Heroes shouldn't hurt each other."

"Sorry, Batman, I know you might be worried that I'll be poisoned and do bad things, but I can't sit idly by knowing that so many super-criminals are active in the city. I have to go defeat them."

Spider-Man shook his head again. Batman could only take him back to the physical examination room, conduct a detailed scan, and then find a very tiny needle hole in an inconspicuous place on his left arm.

"The eye drops are in the drawer on your right."

Batman had been observing Spider-Man's actions from the side. In fact, his plan was to delay Spider-Man as much as possible and activate the countermeasures in the Batcave. Once the dark potion injected by the Joker took effect, he could immediately subdue Spider-Man, study what changes had occurred in his body, and combine it with the residual potion in the syringe to find the antidote formula.

"I don't care what's wrong with this world." Spider-Man panted angrily. He glared at Batman and said: "What determines my good or bad is always myself, not this world, nor the potion created by some criminal. I will prove that!"

"He understands he can't influence your will, so he takes other means to achieve his goal. It's not the first time he's wanted to destroy the Bat-family, and it's not the first time he's planned to hurt the Robins."

This place possessed the information on Cat Getan's super-criminals collected by Batman. Of course, they were all relatively superficial information. Batman's analysis and plans to deal with each super-criminal were not among them.

This anger drove him to increase his focus. In the next few hours, he seriously read through all the information on Cat Getan's super-criminals left in Batman's archives and memorized 80% of the content.

"If you are affected by the potion, you will..."

"The Joker injected a special potion into your body. You can understand it as the source of this city's darkness. It is highly likely to erode your spirit and make you embrace the dark side of human nature."

"On the contrary." Spider-Man took a few steps back, broke free from Batman's arm-pulling action, and said: "If I retreat now, it's exactly what that dangerous criminal wants. So not only can I not stay here, but I should take the initiative to attack, let them understand that their conspiracy has no effect on me."

"He wants to contaminate you and have you deal with me."

Batman's tone lowered, but it also carried a bit of gentleness, as if he were telling a story that wasn't so dark.

"But that's not a fantasy. At any time, place, or under any difficult circumstances, I will never raise my fist against my friends. That's not justice." Spider-Man emphasized.

The information on super-criminals in Batman's archives was very detailed. He had collected almost all the action trajectories of all super-criminals. If an ordinary person were to read it, this pile of information would take at least months of sleepless reading to get a rough idea.

Spider-Man put in the eye drops, blinked his eyes hard, shook his head, and said: "Wow, I feel much better. What brand of eye drops is this? Can I take some back when I leave? I think this can help me cope with the review before the final exam."