Chapter 2081

Among Cat Getan's numerous villains, Poison Ivy cannot be called the one with the most ideals.

Most of Poison Ivy's criminal motives are defensive counterattacks; for example, if someone harms plants, she goes to kill that person. If someone wants to kill all plants, she will even help Batman save Cat Getan.

And among the righteous figures, Poison Ivy cannot be called a hero either. She appears indifferent to everything except plants. She won't save anyone who dies before her eyes, turning and walking away with a sense of justification and naturalness; not delivering a finishing blow could even be considered a display of great righteousness.

It can be said that Poison Ivy neither wants to destroy Cat Getan nor save it; she is a rare slacker in this chaotic city of Cat Getan.

But this time, Cat Getan, if it could speak, would have to sigh and say, "Having you is my radiation."

After testing, it was determined that a certain component within the plant toxin produced by Poison Ivy had undergone a sexual mutation, causing the people of Cat Getan to go completely insane.

So, at this time, Poison Ivy should stand up and reverse the situation, but the biggest problem is that she doesn't know which component went wrong, let alone how to reverse the situation.

This is once again the old cliché of science versus theology. Poison Ivy is a botanist, but the ability she possesses to control plants actually comes from the Green.

The Green certainly couldn't have let her go through four years of college, five years of "Pope's Three-Year Simulation," and finally pass both written and oral exams before starting the job.

This line of work isn't that competitive at all; Poison Ivy basically knows that the power of the Green exists, but she doesn't know why.

Poison Ivy doesn't know which component went wrong, and she doesn't dare to change it randomly. If she doesn't fix it well, destroying Cat Getan would definitely offend the supervillains, and saving Cat Getan would definitely offend Batman.

Wait, is something wrong somewhere?

Of course, Poison Ivy had thought about finding the Green to let him come over and see what was going on, and incidentally solve the problem, but the Green hung up halfway through hearing about it, and the phone call never went through again.

Thus, Poison Ivy could only set about solving this problem herself. Of course, it wasn't entirely just her; although she is a botanist and toxicologist, some experimental processes involving professional chemical analysis still require a real chemist to perform.

Poison Ivy found Peter, and Peter also agreed to help her.

Some might ask, isn't Peter busy looking for the Riddler's trophies?

In fact, a month ago, Peter discovered that the Riddler had prepared more than 100 trophies. He didn't just prepare 100-plus; he came prepared.

Within a month, Peter had found more than 200 trophies, and according to his observations, the number was still continuously increasing; his search speed wasn't even as fast as the speed at which the other side was placing them.

Of course, it is absolutely not the case that Peter got angry and caught the Riddler directly, leading to no more trophies to find.

It was mainly that Peter had already encountered more than one instance where Cat Getan citizens felt the trophies left by the Riddler were cursed items of the Indians, preparing to put on robes and take up wands to fight demons, only to end up fighting with the newly arrived pirate warriors next door who claimed the trophies were markers for pirate treasure.

It seriously endangered social security, so they had to be detained; they absolutely had to be detained. Delaying the handcuffs by even a second would be a disservice to his reputation as Cat Getan's friendly neighbor.

After he stopped looking for trophies, Peter decided to stroll around Cat Getan and write his own travelogue. He didn't get a perfect score on the theoretical exam, so he still had to handle the additional art subjects.

As a result, he also discovered that the mental state of the people of Cat Getan was truly worrying. After being stopped by three different traffic police officers in one week, who lectured him for four consecutive seasons on the "Game of Thrones" of the Stone Pier Kingdom and the Curb Kingdom, Peter felt that art was ultimately not the right path; he should study how to save Cat Getan instead.

It was mainly because he had been cooped up in the lab in Marvel for so long, and having finally come out to be a superhero once, he only managed to get one chance to explain Batman's plan in front of a group of villains.

After that time, Spider-Man, known for being a chatterbox, never chatted with even a single ordinary passerby on the streets of Cat Getan again. He didn't enter the lab and had nowhere else to go; his head was truly buzzing.

Then why was Scarecrow in the lab?

Because it wasn't just the superheroes whose heads were buzzing.

Unfortunately, Batman's new Robins had also been anesthetized; their extraordinary talkativeness wasn't a natural disaster, but a man-made one.

The mysterious component in the plant toxin clearly also affected their spirits, causing them to turn the tables and start making the supervillains make choices.

It would be one thing if they were seriously posing some human dilemmas, but the methods of fighting crime thought up by brains affected by the mysterious toxin were completely devoid of human decency.

Scarecrow didn't even know how they came up with such terrible ideas as throwing crocodiles into the sewers to fight Killer Croc for territory, or rushing into the Penguin's strip club to dance, causing all the other strippers to lose their jobs.

In short, the vast majority of Cat Getan's villains are now hiding away, feeling aggrieved. Although they curse under their breath in private, they keep their heads down tightly, and no one dares to show their face.

And, the vast majority of criminals like Scarecrow harbor some resentment in their hearts.

In the past, the masters in Arkham Asylum were masters; every day, they did nothing but engage in philosophy or art. Now, the criminal world of stinking Cat Getan has come to beg for food?!

Simply put, most supervillains who can be locked up in Arkham have their own artistic pursuits, while those seeking wealth are at the bottom of the contempt chain. It's no wonder people often say that a superhero's resume is incomplete without having beaten the Penguin, because the Penguin is all about making money.

But the Penguin is somewhat tainted with pure criminal blood and can be considered a remnant of the old gang era. He might not be "Plain Yellow Banner," but he can be considered one of the "Upper Three Banners." The street thugs of Cat Getan are truly just stinking beggars.

But ever since the mysterious component in the plant toxin turned everyone's brains into mush, it completely opened up the "Ren and Du meridians" of crime.

Cat Getan can now be called a grand stage; if you have a dream, come on over. It can be said to have completed a huge transformation of the Cat Getan criminal world from the Nine-Rank System to the Imperial Examination System.

In the past, whether a madman had taste was determined by genetics; effort could at most raise the lower limit but couldn't break through the upper limit. But now, the genetic lock no longer exists; who is more creative in their madness depends entirely on their work.

Let's put it this way: the Joker died at a good time. If he were still alive now, he would be rolled over by this group of hardcore ruthless people.

The era of sober madness and human interrogation has passed. Now is the era of "putting on a show." What's the skill in killing a policeman? If I commit a crime and make the policeman kneel and beg me not to die, that is the authentic Cat Getan flavor.

Facts have proven that a system based on lineage will eventually be washed away by the tide of the masses. A sufficiently large base plus the enlightenment brought by basic criminal education is destined to allow the Cat Getan criminal world to enjoy an unparalleled demographic dividend.

And once they change from a market that passively accepts to a producer that actively creates, then regardless of whether it's Chicago, which enjoyed the first-mover advantage, or Miami, which is famous for high-end crime, there is absolutely no possibility of defeating Cat Getan in terms of criminal industry advantages.

This is a good thing for the bottom-tier citizens of Cat Getan, but for old madmen like Scarecrow who hold most of the criminal data of the criminal world, it is not good news.

Doing art in the criminal world is our privilege. You, a street thug digging for food in the dirt, want to be mentioned in the same breath as us? You must be dealt with!

Scarecrow used his expertise to join this antidote research group. The three people, each with their own thoughts but surprisingly consistent goals, discovered after some research that the antidote really couldn't be researched at all.

As mentioned before, plant toxins are actually products of mysticism; they do not possess any elements that can be scientifically extracted and analyzed. It is unrealistic to want to manufacture a serum based on this data.

Then one must mention a therapy used to rescue poisoned patients—hemodialysis therapy.

Simply put, it is to establish extracorporeal circulation of blood, using other means to filter out toxins from the blood when the human body's toxin filtration function is ineffective or slow.

The few people studied for a long time and couldn't figure out which component in the plant toxin opened the "Ren and Du meridians" of the Gothamites, and it didn't look like there was any hope of researching it, so they unanimously decided to find a way to precipitate the plant toxin.

But it is unrealistic to catch so many Gothamites to do hemodialysis. They conducted further research on the plant toxin and found that a known chemical component could become a carrier for the plant toxin, precipitating them from the blood and excreting them from the body through excretion.

And this component is exactly 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, commonly known as MDMA.

So the problem arises: this thing is a hallucinogen and is usually used as a drug. Even if the entire city of Cat Getan is already this crazy, large-scale distribution of drugs into the city is still a bit too advanced.

Batman couldn't possibly agree, and the Gothamites wouldn't be willing to drink it either.

And Peter accurately provided the solution: first, don't tell Batman; second, mix it into orange juice so others won't discover it. As long as you aren't caught, the plan is a great success.

Also, this hallucinogen can cause drug addiction, and if the concentration is too high, it might even lead to death. This is indeed a practical problem that needs more consideration.

But soon he discovered that although the components of the plant toxin were unclear, their properties were very magical. The plant toxin components combined with MDMA still retained hallucinogenic characteristics, but the addictiveness was very small, and there was no risk of death from overdose.

No matter how small the addictiveness is, it is still addictive. Peter was still very worried about this, but it was clear that the two locals understood Cat Getan better. Scarecrow gave his own explanation.

"Don't think that Gothamites are all illiterate. In fact, in chemistry and pharmacology, even the lowest-level junkies in Cat Getan can say a few things. Otherwise, with so many cities with poor public security, why did only we become a legend?"

"This means that the vast majority of people who use drugs know the boosting effect of orange juice on the absorption of MDMA, which leads to people who buy orange juice knowing at a glance what this thing is."

"This basic addictiveness is completely ineffective for them. They've been using it for half their lives; what's one more hit?"

And at this time, Poison Ivy raised another objection, "Then won't those who don't use drugs at all never buy it and never be cured?"

"So what? What kind of trouble can those wealthy people in Cat Getan who don't smoke, don't drink, don't use drugs, and exercise for three hours a day cause? At worst, they'll just fall headfirst into the trash can at their own front door."

Scarecrow knew his target audience very well. Those who have no bad habits, even if they have criminal talent, won't work hard in this direction.

What he feared was those old hands who were originally at the bottom of the criminal world suddenly lighting up high-level talents. At that time, there would really be nothing for him, a professionally trained person, to do, just like those birds in the Robin gang.

Peter and Poison Ivy thought about it, and it was indeed the case. Anyway, the situation was already this bad; let's save as many as we can.

Thus, the few people produced this orange juice containing a large amount of MDMA and found ways to distribute it to various drug dealers, telling them to sell it quickly.

But just at this time, Cat Getan's eternal prankster—Harley Quinn—wasn't having it.

The Joker was dead, Batman had gone to be president, and she was bored to death. She was counting on the people of Cat Getan to put on a show for her amusement. If you cure them all, where will I go to watch the fun?

This time, Harley Quinn stood sincerely on the side of the bottom-tier people of Cat Getan. She didn't agree with their way of going crazy, but she would defend their freedom to go crazy with her life.