Chapter 2189: Battle of the Two Cities! (Part 67)

Black hair, blue eyes, handsome face, well-proportioned and strong body, wise gaze—the above are the typical appearance characteristics of Batman. The person opposite him must be Batman, or at least Bruce Wei En.

This made the Joker feel like he had woken up too fast and seen Batman grinning.

The scream he swallowed stuck in his throat like sticky candy, making the Joker cough loudly a few times.

Batman stared at him.

The Joker wheezed and gasped for a good while before raising his head and glaring at Batman: "What are you staring at? Test the blood!"

Batman turned to the instrument.

But the Joker shouted again: "Come back!"

Batman looked back at him. The Joker pointed to the side, "Test his blood!"

"I didn't take drugs!"

"I fucking didn't take drugs either!"

The two turned their heads to look at each other, left and right. The expressions on their faces were surprisingly consistent—"How the fuck could you not have taken drugs?!"

Both turned their heads at the same time to glare at Batman.

Batman's footsteps paused, but he still walked to the instrument and took another needle to draw blood from Bruce. Bruce looked at him with incomparably hurt and incredulous eyes.

"The anesthetic Tim injected will partially remain in your blood. I need to perform a blood test to ensure you can metabolize them within a safe time."

"What did I say! What did I say!!!" The Joker immediately became arrogant, poked his head out of the railing, craned his neck, and shouted at Bruce opposite: "I said you took drugs!"

Bruce made a "tsk" sound, shook his head, and said: "You don't know pharmacology at all. Intravenous anesthetics don't contain hallucinogenic ingredients. Even if 80% of my blood is anesthetic now, it's not as high as half of yours, you poison ghost!"

The Joker was shocked.

He was actually scolded by Batman!

And it was because of taking drugs!

The most outrageous thing was because of taking drugs!

You can scold me for being evil because I created a city-wide explosion, and you can denounce me as a lunatic because of the art I created, but how can you scold me for suspecting I took drugs?

More importantly, I fucking didn't take any!

The Joker glared fiercely at Bruce and said: "Isn't this our pharmacology-perfect great detective?! Didn't the knowledge you learned tell you that real drug users, besides seeing hallucinations, also have physical reactions? Do you want me to dance for you?"

"You're too ugly, don't pollute my eyes!"

Batman really couldn't help but look at the Joker from the corner of his eye.

The Joker covered his eyes with his hands.

Then he aimed his spear at Batman, "Where did you find such an inexplicable teenager? Or do you think he's your son?!"

"Ha, you think he's my father? Besides being ignorant, is your eyesight bad? Or do you think having corners of your mouth drooping like a bucket helps you get included in the protection range of the Romeo Act?"

The Joker glared at Batman, and Batman stared at Bruce.

Bruce, just like a real teenager, puffed out a breath through his nose, spread his hands in front of his chest, pushed them back, and said: "Fine, fine, just treat it as if I'm preparing a rap show for the opening of a music festival, you two buckets."

The Joker took a deep breath and decided to ignore him. He shook the prison bars violently and shouted: "I'm not joking with you, Batman. From my blood test results, you should be able to find that I didn't take drugs at all. Everything I said is true!"

"But I don't know if there's any exaggeration." Bruce spoke again: "You should focus on the alcohol content in his blood. I bet the things he described to you were exaggerated by at least ten times in the tavern. They walk at night, they see this, they see that."

"I don't know what you mean by different? Similar to your eye-like abilities? I forgot to say, there was another lady accompanying us."

The Joker didn't know Batman had such an annoying age group.

Still the same sentence, Batman is taciturn and doesn't talk nonsense. This is a fact recognized by both the Bat-family and the Joker. But if he finally changed his nature, how many people could out-argue him?

For a super genius like Batman, the speed of thought operation being too fast means their experience of time is different from ordinary people. If they really intend to carry out a long string of passionate output, it will even be faster than the improvisation bridge of a rapper, and the logic will be more rigorous.

"Look, he was originally trapped in the alien shield, right? There's a war going on there, cannons roaring, darkness everywhere. How could he happen to run to the ritual site of the Court of Owls?"

"Even if they aren't hiding very well, this Mr. Joker doesn't seem to have any magic tracking means, right? To be honest, he doesn't look like he has anything to do with magic at all. So how could he happen to see their true faces at the very moment a wicked god descended?"

"The rest is even more dramatic. What does he think the wicked god is, a middle school travel group? If it takes four wicked gods to combine to study any conspiracy against you, then I can only say these gods are really too weak, and what is there to worry about?"

Bruce's output was almost non-stop, while Batman was looking at the test results at the instrument.

Facts proved that neither of them took drugs. This wasn't unexpected. Batman had long known that the Joker didn't take drugs, and Bruce was under surveillance the whole time, with no opportunity to use any chemical agents.

More importantly, Batman knew that Bruce was like this normally, and it wasn't that he had to take something to be so annoying. The Joker was the same.

Doing a blood test for the Joker was just a cover. Batman had studied the Joker's blood many times long ago. Checking Bruce's blood was the real purpose, because Batman understood that something was wrong.

Judging by common sense, there was a door to the shield below, and it wasn't hard to find. The Joker might have snatched the other party's spacecraft and flown out from the door to return to the floating island of Gotham.

Then the local Batman that Bruce brought back might have done the same, but Batman always felt something was wrong.

The cameras above the floating island and in the hangar didn't capture the process of Bruce flying. Originally, he should have asked the local Batman, but now he was in the hospital, and Thomas and Martha were guarding him.

This made Batman suspect that this situation might have been caused by Bruce on purpose, deliberately bringing the local Batman back, using Thomas and Martha's sympathy for the weak, making him unable to approach the only witness.

There was another point that was very suspicious. Tim did push Bruce off the cliff under Batman's arrangement, successfully subdued him, and brought him back to the Batcave.

But according to the monitor on Tim, Bruce barely resisted. Even if the moment he was pushed down wasn't in the expectation, with Batman's reaction ability, he absolutely had enough time to do something in mid-air.

And Bruce's recovery ability was a bit too amazing. He shot himself in Penguin's office, had surgery for more than 20 hours, and soon appeared in Wei En Manor alive and kicking.

And the most conclusive evidence was actually that when Batman investigated the previous things, he had been to the hospital where Bruce had surgery. The hospital would leave reports during consultations, and there were Bruce's examination imaging data on them.

The imaging data of the nervous system showed that Bruce had abnormalities in five pairs of thoracic nerves. Doctors thought this was the lesion that caused Bruce to be unable to wake up for a long time, but Batman saw that the mess of nerves had a function.

Looking closely at this data now, Batman discovered details that doctors didn't care about. The abnormality shown by those five pairs of abnormal thoracic nerves was that they constantly extended toward the epidermis, with 140 more pairs of peripheral nerves.

Judging from the state of the distribution of peripheral nerves, this was likely a functional evolution. In other words, this wasn't a disease, but a new organ evolved to adapt to something.

This made Batman recall the scene on Apokolips.

At that time, the Hellbat armor he wore was driven by his blood and anger, which caused his perspective to be different from usual, or rather, he almost completely lost his vision at that time, and there was only a piece of blood red in front of his eyes.

But he vaguely remembered that he wasn't fighting alone.

Batman actually already believed what the Joker said, not just because his understanding of the Joker made him understand that the Joker disdained to lie about such things.

He had long ago seen through that the Joker's recent actions were aimed at tracking certain things. If he came to find him so hurriedly, it meant he had caught up and found the right person.

But Bruce's attitude was a bit strange. He was desperately refuting what the Joker said, wanting to describe him as a junkie or a drunkard.

In fact, compared to the Joker's bizarre description, Bruce's inexplicable aggression was even less tenable. This only made Batman suspect that all of this was likely related to him.

To get more truth, one had to take more risks. Batman understood this better than anyone, so he made a bold decision—completely without selfishness, absolutely just to explore the truth, and not targeting anyone.

He was preparing to let the Joker and Bruce go down together to find the owls.

The Joker had always been a person with rich expressions, and Batman had seen too many of his smiles. Even so, Batman saw today that the Joker could have even richer expressions.

With a scientific spirit of inquiry, Batman decided to see if the Joker could show richer expressions in the upcoming adventure, and what his upper limit was, so this plan was absolutely scientific, at least full of exploratory spirit.

"You two go down." Batman opened his mouth and said: "Find the members of the Court of Owls, bring them to me, and then I will decide whether to cooperate with either of you."

The Joker shook his head faster than a rattle.

"Look, I said he was lying!" Bruce immediately shouted.

The Joker looked at Batman. Batman decided to watch from the sidelines. The Joker's gaze was full of sadness and anger at being betrayed. He really couldn't believe that his Batman had decided to let him and this damned teenager go find evidence together.

"Then that's it." The Joker glared fiercely at Bruce. They would go their separate ways as soon as they landed. No one should think about practicing rap skills on him. Even if he really was a bucket, he would pat Bruce into the ground with one bucket and not be able to dig him out.

"I have no opinion." Bruce rested his elbows on the crossbar of the cage, propped his head with his palms, and then he said.

"But we all know him. This lunatic will definitely try every means to get rid of my supervision to forge evidence."

Batman and the Joker both stared at him, seemingly wanting to know what high opinion he had.

"So I propose..." Bruce pointed his finger at himself and the Joker and said: "You should perform surgery on both of us, put two bombs in our hearts. As long as we are separated by more than ten meters, they will explode on the spot, so no one can run away."

The Joker widened his eyes and looked at him.

Bruce lowered his head and smiled, raised his head and looked at the Joker with eyes full of smiles and said: "Why so serious?" ===== CHAPTER 2190 =====