Chapter 1700: S: The Apocalypse Event (Part 3)

The next two hours of the journey opened the eyes of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. But to talk about what they saw, they had to start from the current situation of the chaotic gang war in Cat Getan.

After experiencing the initial large-scale war, the gang families reached a strange balance. After the waves washed the sand, about thirteen families finally stood firm and became the largest gang families in Cat Getan, which of course included the Wayne and Kane families.

But precisely because it was these two families leading the gangs, the situation began to gallop in another direction, and it was out of control.

Still, Batman and Joker would engage in confrontation in any field that humans could involve themselves in, and the initial confrontation was an arms race.

Technical confrontation was not just a simple competition of the foundation of the military industry. Everyone knew that technology makes a country strong, and core technology was the biggest trump card in the arms race.

Weapons that seemed very cool but didn't have much use, such as bombs with +16 firestorm enchantments, couldn't be called core technology. They needed more decisive technology.

But wanting technology meant facing a problem, which was that creating technology required talent.

Most Gothamites' education started at prenatal education and ended at driving school. Occasionally, there were a few super geniuses who had a flash of inspiration, but most of them were too young and hadn't received systematic education.

For half a month, Thomas and Martha lived like those frustrated fishermen who had prepared the pot but couldn't catch a single fish. It wasn't that they didn't have money, nor was it that they didn't have resources. Whether it was experimental raw materials or experimental sites, they were already prepared. The problem was that without scientists, everything was in vain.

If it was said that there was still a possibility of hiring talent from outside in the past, with Cat Getan's current situation, those with brains wouldn't come, and those who came definitely didn't have brains.

Still, you never know what price Batman and Joker were willing to pay to defeat each other. The destination of every frustrated fisherman was the landing net and the harpoon. The two gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, and the eight major sects besieged Arkham!

Both were locals, especially Thomas. He of course knew where to find the most highly educated scientific talent. What better think tank was there than Arkham Asylum?

At that time, the monsters of all kinds in Arkham Asylum were preparing to break out. Originally, they expected that they might encounter gang obstruction, or Batman would descend from the sky and drag them back again. Of course, they had made full preparations for this.

But still, what could be more terrifying than seeing Batman or Joker when you open your eyes? That was seeing Batman and Joker twisting together to fight when you open your eyes.

These two people fighting always had a kind of beauty that didn't care about the lives of others. In order to grab more scientists, Thomas and Martha didn't care about anything, took out the most manpower and the most sufficient force, and surrounded Arkham Asylum tightly.

These villains had never seen such a spectacle; Batman would rather install a mute device on every one of his own toes for fear that others might know he had caught a criminal, but now, a life sentence had been upgraded to a thunderbolt from the heavens.

Actually, speaking of which, the lunatics still staying in Arkham Asylum now couldn't be considered the martial arts faction. Even the physical strength set by Killer Croc wasn't very high. Super villains in the martial arts faction, such as Bane, hadn't been trapped, and Mr. Freeze had long since left.

These literary faction members had no way to deal with real guns and cannons. The biggest trouble they could cause Batman was mental torture. When they found that they couldn't reason with rocket launchers, missile launchers, and machine guns, they fully understood the great significance of contributing to the development of Cat Getan gang families.

Thus, the gang families almost greedily divided up this group of super villains who had intelligence if they had intelligence, and martial arts if they had martial arts.

Originally, this group of people following the gangs was just an expedient measure. Could their eloquence fool even Batman, and couldn't it fool ordinary people?

They were originally taking this opportunity to slip out of the asylum first. Once they reached the place, who could stop them?

What stopped them was their rigorous scientific spirit.

To be honest, although this group of super villains in Cat Getan didn't do proper things every day, judging from their academic qualifications, which were more outrageous than the next, they were very rich in academic spirit and also had academic levels. And the vast majority couldn't be considered completely wild paths, and they were more or less stained with some academic style.

The biggest enemy of scientists is folk science.

This group of villains were stupid when they arrived at the laboratory prepared for them by the gangs. The place was very spacious, the equipment was very expensive, and the raw materials were very sufficient, but they were useless. The thing that scientists couldn't tolerate most was the waste of funds.

This couldn't be blamed on the gangs. Except for the leaders of a few families who had knowledge in this area, most of them had no concept of scientific research. Basically, they bought whatever equipment was expensive and hoarded whatever raw materials were scarce, without any systematic structure at all.

The laboratory was built even more like a donkey's lips not matching a horse's mouth. Installing an advanced disinfection room outside the physics laboratory, and separating the medical laboratory and the preparation room by two miles were basic operations. Even more, the high-energy laboratory was next to the dangerous chemical raw material warehouse, and the low-temperature laboratory had a smelting furnace underneath.

It could be said that Cat Getan's gangs could still have the opportunity to continue rolling, and the technology all depended on God's reward. The main theme was a kind of high skill and bold courage, only bold.

How could this group of serious scientists tolerate this? Suddenly, Batman was no longer looked for, and the slogan of retaking the city was forgotten. Suddenly, various villain roars resounded throughout the process, "Clean up your broken laboratory and post the safety regulations! Hand sanitizer! Protective clothing!"

This was why Amanda couldn't find any villains who made movements in this city. Everyone was busy cleaning up folk science.

In the underground biological laboratory of the Spencer family, Harley Quinn sat on a chair, chewing a lollipop, looking at Poison Ivy who was knocking on bottles and jars in front of the experimental bench, and said dissatisfiedly with a wrinkled face: "Little Green, are you serious? You intend to do experiments here?"

Poison Ivy sighed, looked at Harley Quinn and said: "I do experiments here to prevent them from doing experiments here. As long as I occupy the laboratory, that crazy nephew of old Spencer won't come here."

Harley Quinn just wanted to say something, but Poison Ivy interrupted her and continued: "His crazy plan to stimulate the madness of Gothamites by polluting Cat Getan's groundwater to improve the intelligence of the whole city should be discussed with that lunatic Scarecrow, instead of himself preparing those so-called poisons in the laboratory that stink for a street—he is insulting poison!"

"Okay, okay." Harley Quinn waved her hand, the ankle of one leg resting on the knee of the other leg, she shook her leg and said: "It's a pity I don't have talent in this area..."

She had just said this when the door of the laboratory was knocked. After getting Poison Ivy's response, a gang member walked in. His face was full of smiles, and he said to Harley Quinn: "Miss Quinn, it's like this, we have a fire fight in about two days, look at this result..."

"You wait a moment." Harley Quinn waved at him quite impatiently, and then one hand reached out to grab something unknown in the void, supported her head and stretched over, looking in one direction like stretching out of a window and said: "Can't win, no play."

"Okay, okay, thank you so much, you are busy!"

Poison Ivy looked at her with a smile and said: "No talent, hmm?"

"You don't know yet? I don't have the patience to do this! Forget it, tell me what you are doing, I don't have the patience to listen to you mutter about plants every time."

"Usually you don't." Poison Ivy lowered her voice, but she wasn't complaining. There was a hint of hesitation in her tone, which was not common.

Harley Quinn saw her hesitation, so she stood up from the stool and came to the opposite side of the experimental bench, supported her hands on the experimental bench and looked at Poison Ivy's eyes and said: "What's wrong? Little Green, could it be that you are still troubled by things in botany and biology?"

"A little bit." Poison Ivy shook her head gently. She picked up a test tube at hand and stared at the liquid inside: "I extracted some things from Cat Getan's plants."

"Is it some kind of darkness?" Harley Quinn asked vaguely while chewing the lollipop.

"Yes, what I saw and heard at that aerial fortress before gave me some ideas. I always felt that the mysterious darkness presented by Cat Getan's plants was because there was rain containing mysterious power here. Of course, it is also possible that there is a part of the reason, but not all."

"What do you suspect?"

"Soil." Poison Ivy put down the test tube, her eyes empty, thinking while saying: "If all the metal in Cat Getan has problems and it constitutes a huge magic position, then the person who wants to control this position can't be knocking on every piece of metal. They must have set up a master control room."

"Do you think it will be underground?"

Poison Ivy nodded, seeming to be happy that Harley Quinn understood her so well, but she had no time to say love words now, but focused on academic content. She said: "Look, if a master control room that gathers dark power is buried underground, then it can simultaneously affect groundwater and soil. This can better explain why plants are affected only second to humans. Water and soil occupy most of the conditions for plant survival."

"So you are trying to infer the location of the master control room through the concentration of darkness on the plants?" Harley Quinn's train of thought immediately followed.

"Just an idea." Poison Ivy calmed down again. She turned to look at a row of test tubes on the test tube rack and said: "This is not the most urgent work so far. I guess that group of lunatics should have already achieved some results."

Just at this moment, another gang member walked in and said: "Hello, excuse me, two ladies, we just received an invitation, it seems to be inviting you to an academic conference."

"Here it comes." Harley Quinn made a "you really have yours" gesture to Poison Ivy, and the two left the laboratory together to go to the agreed place.

The conference venue was set in the conference room of Cat Getan University. The whole university was almost not damaged, and the facilities were intact. As soon as the two walked in, they found that most of the famous super villains in Cat Getan were there.

But the person presiding over the meeting this time was not those familiar faces, but a man wearing an Arab robe and wearing the same white mask, completely unable to see his image. Harley Quinn recalled it and whispered to Poison Ivy: "His code name is Wizard, hmm... is it Felix or Felix? It should be Felix Faust."

"He is a peer of Constantine. I heard that he is an evil black magician. He was tinkering with his evil plans in the Amazon rainforest before, and he hasn't returned to Cat Getan for a long time."

Just at this moment, Hugo patted the microphone hard and said something shocking:

"Inviting everyone here today is to conduct a round of voting. The content of the voting is—should all Cat Getan residents exercise their legitimate democratic rights and publicly vote to secede from the Federal United States of America and the New Jersey state it belongs to!"

Harley Quinn widened her eyes, "No, wait a minute, why should we... hmm, wait, hiss... I mean... how to secede?"

Hugo turned to look at Felix Faust, the wizard standing on the side.

Standing in the aerial fortress located in Earth's synchronous orbit, the Robins looked at each other. Dick was the first to swallow, and said: "I have a bad premonition..."

"How long do you think it will take for Gothamites to discover..."

The next second, a black dot became larger and larger in their eyes, and a huge city covered with a black magic shield rose into the sky like a rocket.

The Robins watched in a daze as a brand-new flag slowly rose on the highest building of Cat Getan City, a super-large city on the east coast of the United States that had just flown up.

And then, millions of people cheered together—

"Long live freedom!!!!!" ===== CHAPTER 1701 =====