Chapter 2033

In the hazy halo, Robin felt he was being dragged by someone. He moved his dry lips and struggled to lift his heavy eyelids.

The light was very dim, but this allowed his eyes to adapt in less time. He saw a dark shadow, wearing spandex, without a mask. Judging by the physique, it wasn't Nightwing.

Robin didn't dare to make a sound at all, because he had already realized something. He just pretended he was still unconscious, but besides that, he had nothing else he could do, because he couldn't control his limbs at all.

He heard a slightly familiar voice coming from the darkness.

"I'd be happy to talk... but I'm a bit busy..."

Peter... it really was Peter Parker. Robin closed his eyes in pain. Was it his own act of seeking him out that caused Batman to relax his vigilance? Why hadn't his new assistant been tested?

Batman wouldn't be so careless. Then what means did this Peter Parker use to confuse Batman?

After the accident where everyone in the city was anesthetized, Robin went to investigate. He knew where the equipment that monitored the airflow of the entire city was, and he rushed to the weather control center of Wei En Tower the first moment the incident occurred.

And Robin was smart because he didn't go directly to the central hall of the weather controller, but went to the monitoring room of the weather control center to directly call up the surveillance of the weather control center.

Thus, he witnessed the entire process of Peter putting that red slime into Arkham Knight's body.

More importantly, he saw Peter take off Arkham Knight's mask. The face revealed behind it was one he was all too familiar with—it was Jason Todd. There was a photo of him in the Batcave.

Robin was stunned on the spot. Could Peter Parker have something to do with Jason Todd's disappearance?

Even if it had nothing to do with it, he attacked Jason and put a mass of something that looked very terrifying—even if he didn't know what it was—into his body.

Robin immediately realized Peter Parker wasn't right, but just as he wanted to contact Batman, he discovered the signal frequency of his communicator had been blocked, and then he was attacked.

Very good, Peter Parker was definitely not right, because Batman would give anything to have his Robins call him at all times; it was absolutely impossible for him to block anyone's communication frequency.

Oracle had no motive to do so, and even more so, Barbara had just given him the communicator that could contact Nightwing. She hoped everyone would stay in touch; it was even more impossible for her to block communication.

Then who else had this access right? I'm afraid only the recent uninvited guest in the Batcave, this kid codenamed Spider-Man, remained.

Peter Parker hadn't just come today; he had been here for a while, but Robin had never crossed paths with him until the operation to arrest the Riddler a few days ago, when Robin witnessed his power.

This guy had mutation abilities like a spider, not only able to shoot webs but also able to crawl on walls very fast. More importantly, he was immensely strong. At that time, Robin felt this didn't look much like Batman's style of finding assistants.

But now it tasted right. Batman's assistant being a super-criminal or something was very consistent with his consistently unlucky style.

At this moment, another figure walked over. Robin struggled to roll his eyes up, wanting to see clearly but afraid of being discovered. Fortunately, that figure spoke very quickly.

"Sigh, Gordon and his daughter, and Batman's Robin. What else do you want to do? Stop it! Peter! I can't keep going crazy with you like this."

"Ms. Poison Ivy, please have some awareness of being a super-criminal. Besides, you only anesthetized them, you didn't kill them."

"Then why don't you have the awareness of a superhero assistant?! You destroyed Cat Getan City twice, and now you want to wipe out the Bat-family. Your brilliant record has already surpassed the Joker!"

Spider-Man sighed, shoved Robin into the deepest part of the cargo compartment, then got into the car, sat in the driver's seat, and looked at Poison Ivy, saying, "If you don't leave with me and are caught by Batman alone, your limbs will definitely not be preserved."

"But if I leave with you, my life won't be preserved!"

"That's a matter for later. Trust me, Batman won't go crazy. He is currently in an emotional soothing period and is falling into thought, which will cause him to temporarily ignore what is happening in reality. We must take this opportunity to quickly resolve the evidence."

Poison Ivy was helpless, but in the end, she still got into the car. She knew that without this Peter, who was able to foresee everything, taking her to run, it wouldn't be long before she was caught by Batman.

The city destroyed, family members captured—Poison Ivy couldn't even imagine what Batman would do to force out clues. She wasn't the Joker family, who were known for their recovery abilities.

The truck sped through the city, driving very far, very far, until even Robin couldn't figure out the direction the vehicle was driving. But from the light leaking through the cracks in the truck door, it could be seen that the vehicle was driving away from the urban area.

Robin listened intently to the movement in the cargo compartment. He heard Peter and Poison Ivy should have both gotten out of the car, so he struggled to wake up, wanting to restore control over his limbs and escape.

But that numb feeling followed him like a shadow. Robin guessed he must have been hit by plant toxins. This stuff was very troublesome; without specific drugs, it was impossible to get rid of it just by relying on his own metabolism.

He struggled to recover for a while without progress, and Robin began to think of other ways, such as using the communication device on his body to contact Batman. But just at this moment, the truck door was opened again.

A heavy sack was lifted up, and Poison Ivy and Peter both climbed into the cargo compartment. The sack was opened, and it was another corpse.

No, it wasn't a corpse. Robin could hear the faint breathing of a third person, and seemingly because Poison Ivy didn't have night vision, they still brought an emergency flashlight, illuminating the darkness in the cargo compartment.

Borrowing this glimmer of light, Robin recognized the person who was tied up with five flowers and three ropes—mainly recognizing the black mask on his face.

How could Black Mask be here? Wasn't he dead?

Black Mask's mouth was sealed with tape, and his whole body was wrapped in wires. Judging from the marks, he had been tied up for at least half a month. Even if he couldn't see his eyes, Robin could read his terror from his body movements.

Robin had never thought he would empathize with a super-criminal, but at this moment, he was indeed a bit terrified. Peter Parker had kidnapped Black Mask as early as half a month ago.

And actually, regarding the Black Mask death case, Robin's investigation was more detailed than Batman's. For a period of time before, he had been busy pursuing this case, which was why he hadn't crossed paths with Peter.

Robin actually always wanted to prove himself in front of Batman, to prove that he could independently solve cases. The Black Mask case couldn't be called a major case, but at least he was a famous villain. Robin felt that if he could complete the investigation independently, he could also prove his ability in front of Batman.

But Gordon clearly didn't attach such importance to this case either. Even though anyone could see Black Mask didn't jump off a building to commit suicide but was pushed down, Gordon just treated this as a gang vendetta case caused by mutual attrition.

So when Robin rushed to the scene, Gordon didn't preserve the scene as he usually waited for Batman, but sent the body away early to prevent Black Mask's men from counterattacking and starting a firefight.

Just at this juncture, the Riddler incident occurred, and Robin was called by Batman to go catch the Riddler with Peter.

At that time, Batman's excuse was that Peter had just arrived not long ago and wasn't familiar with the road conditions in Cat Getan, so you need to help him find the Riddler hidden in the streets and alleys together.

Not to mention that Peter could completely use the Eye system to find him himself, was this timing too coincidental?

And when Robin wanted to go to the morgue to see Black Mask's body again, Gordon helplessly indicated that the dirty cops in the police station had destroyed the body.

At that time, Robin and Gordon discussed the Black Mask case. The information Gordon gave was that the dirty cops who took action in the police station were very likely Penguin's people.

Robin also suspected Penguin, but clearly, the cunning of the super-criminal exceeded his expectations. Whether it was surveillance cameras or the Eye system, they hadn't been able to capture images of Penguin entering or leaving Black Mask's lair.

Now it seemed that the person entering and leaving Black Mask's lair wasn't Penguin at all, but Peter Parker. This made sense.

This guy could climb walls, swing webs, and was immensely strong. Dodging a surveillance camera was easy, right?

And there was one last question: why did he kidnap Black Mask?

And Peter was very cooperative, tearing off the tape on Black Mask's mouth, and said to him, "Mr. Black Mask, if you don't want to be locked up for such a long time again, hand over the evidence of Penguin's crimes to me. I need your help, please."

"You lunatic!!!" Black Mask screamed. "You damn, shameless, evil lunatic!!!"

"You had better reconsider, Mr. Sionis. Think about the concentrated fear toxin capsule buried in your lungs. It can completely burn your brain within 0.02 seconds..."

Black Mask twitched on the spot a few times, took a deep breath, and said, "Damn Scarecrow, damn, damn..."

Peter knelt halfway on the spot, looking at Black Mask's face, and said, "Penguin intends to break the contract first, and Professor Crane needs some help to make him understand what kind of price a faithless person will pay."

Black Mask gritted his teeth and said, "I can give you the evidence, but only after you let me go."

"You know you don't have room to negotiate."

Black Mask sighed deeply and said, "Tell Jonathan that I lost this time. He has a good student. Go to my safehouse on Riegel Street, find the tape on the second row of the bookshelf..."

Robin was completely stunned.

The interpersonal relationships displayed by the conversation just now were a bit too complex. Even for him, he had to sort them out for a while before he could react.

In other words, this suddenly appearing Peter Parker was actually a student of Scarecrow, Jonathan Crane.

Scarecrow preparing his fear gas plan to destroy the city certainly wasn't a matter of one or two days. Then it wasn't impossible for him to cultivate a student in advance to lurk by Batman's side.

A few weeks ago, Peter Parker suddenly appeared by Batman's side. Perhaps it was because he helped him complete a case, or perhaps it was because he provided other help, letting Batman discover his talent and naturally becoming his assistant.

Then, under the name of an internship, Peter Parker began to familiarize himself with the terrain and situation in Cat Getan, while simultaneously targeting Penguin's old rival, Black Mask, finding a way to make Black Mask fake his death and kidnapping him.

And all of this was actually to help Scarecrow perfect his plan. As long as Black Mask could provide evidence of Penguin's crimes, then Scarecrow could threaten Penguin to cooperate with him.

After Black Mask was kidnapped, Penguin couldn't be sure whether Scarecrow had already obtained the evidence, so he played along and provided a certain amount of help to Scarecrow.

Now Penguin had become restless, so Peter Parker found the imprisoned Black Mask again, wanting to obtain the real evidence.

Connecting this to the two military vehicles that appeared earlier, Robin could be certain that the help Penguin provided to Scarecrow was providing him with military vehicles and arms. This was the capital for the Scarecrow team to run rampant in Cat Getan City.

And Peter mentioned in his words that he had buried a concentrated fear toxin capsule in Black Mask's body. This certainly also came from Scarecrow's hand.

And Peter Parker had already been by Batman's side for a few weeks. Would Batman also...

Robin desperately wanted to lift his hand to press the communication device on his arm to remind Batman that this operation to destroy Cat Getan was absolutely not as simple as it looked.

A mastermind had begun to lay out the plan as early as a few weeks ago, planning strategies and moving step by step, weaving a dark web, swearing to put the entire Cat Getan City and the Bat-family to death.

Various clues swept through Robin's mind like the wind. In the second before he lost consciousness, he looked at the truck door that was closing again, and silently recited the name of this terrifying mastermind in his heart—"Super-criminal Scarecrow!"