Chapter 2442

Just about ten minutes ago, Poison Ivy and Shiler arrived at the ACE Chemical Plant. This is the largest chemical plant in Cat Getan City. Although Poison Ivy has been here several times, she has never finished walking through any of the areas.

And because this chemical plant was built earlier, its internal facilities are not modern enough, the architectural design is not scientific, and the division of various areas is unclear. Even their own workers occasionally get lost in other areas, so Poison Ivy always can't tell east, west, north, or south as soon as she comes in.

But she watched Shiler move freely inside as if he had returned to his own home. First, he passed through the reception office area at the front, came to the file room at the back, and found the record files of raw material storage.

Then, according to the numbers on the files, he passed through most of the factory area, found the warehouse for flammable and explosive dangerous goods, and then found the control room in a corner on the opposite side, successfully opened the warehouse's safety lock, and smoothly obtained the raw materials needed for explosives.

Poison Ivy didn't see clearly what happened in the subsequent process. Anyway, Shiler mixed various strange raw materials together in an even stranger way and made a bomb that didn't look like a bomb at all.

They detonated this bomb at the chemical plant. Looking at the smiling face formed by the smoke and dust of the bomb, Poison Ivy couldn't help but ask a question—are you a bit too proficient?

Poison Ivy hasn't seen the whole process of the Joker making an explosion, but she has heard Harley say a few words. To compete with experts like Batman, it is impossible not to be fast.

But Poison Ivy also has a background in chemistry and biology. She knows that making explosives is a very troublesome thing. Even the simplest homemade explosives must be adjusted many times according to the properties of the raw materials before it is possible to detonate successfully.

But Batman wouldn't give the Joker enough preparation time, so Poison Ivy has actually been a bit puzzled. With Batman chasing so closely, how did the Joker manage to create consecutive explosions?

Now she understands, this thing has no other skills, only proficiency.

Not counting the time spent shuttling inside the chemical plant, the entire bomb-making process took only two minutes. Even if all the time spent searching for information and moving raw materials is counted, it is less than 10 minutes, let alone creating an explosion. Stealing a pen from the security booth is not that fast.

Knowing that Batman would come over soon, the two got back into the car and drove toward Wei En Tower. Poison Ivy asked while driving: "Didn't you say you are a university professor? Do you create explosions very often?"

"Not very often either." Shiler adjusted his tie and said.

Poison Ivy turned her head and glanced at him with suspicious eyes, opened her mouth and wanted to ask something, but was soon attracted by other things. The sparse plants on the green belt outside the car also began to turn their heads to look at her.

"What the hell, this place is clearly far from the portal." Poison Ivy's face became serious. She said: "A few dozen minutes ago, the pollution hadn't spread here at all. How could it be so fast..."

"Is there any possibility for these plants to be saved?" Shiler asked.

Poison Ivy shook her head and said: "The metabolic system of plants is too slow. Even if we find a way to completely eradicate the pollution, it is difficult for them to metabolize these pollutants completely. Their fibers and cells cannot withstand such tossing."

Shiler heard the faint sadness in Poison Ivy's tone and knew that these polluted plants were probably hopeless. This was the same answer he got from the gray fog.

The gray fog can perfectly replace the pollution energy in plant cells, but the problem is that the cell volume of small flowers and grasses is too small, and they generate slowly. After such replacement, the cells without an energy source will soon wither, and the remaining ones cannot support the reconstruction of new cells.

"From your perspective, is this a tragic massacre?" Shiler asked knowingly.

"Worse than that." Poison Ivy looked away and said: "Plant extinction is not rare. Whether it is the several mass extinctions in Earth's history, or the local extinctions caused by various pollutions after humans appeared, they can be called a kind of natural selection."

"No matter how many times they have gone extinct, no matter how tragic each time is, in the end, the oldest indigenous people on this earth always manage to come back to life and grow everywhere again, while those animals that experienced extinction with them have disappeared in the long river of history."

"You might find it a bit strange why I, as an extreme plant protectionist, am so indifferent to this matter. But in fact, I regard plants as a whole. Everything they experience in the cycle of nature is their destiny. As long as they can sprout new buds in the next season, then this is not a disaster."

"What annoys me most about this matter is that the person who released the pollution intends to use this pollution to transform plants and make them go against their instincts." Poison Ivy looked at the plants that were constantly trying to stretch their stems to drill into the car to hit her, and anger gradually rose in her eyes.

"The evolutionary process of plants is a masterpiece of nature. Everything about them serves their survival. This is the only reason they can survive time and time again in extinction."

"But the damn energy that this guy injected into them made them attack me with trunks, leaves, and flowers that are not suitable for attack at all. If they can't do it, he transforms them into strange and twisted shapes. This is really disgusting."

Poison Ivy couldn't go on at the end. Shiler nodded, indicating that he could fully understand what she meant.

Poison Ivy can read the beauty of plants from another non-human aesthetic perspective. Those naturally formed plant structures are the root of this beauty, and the fact that they can play their roles naturally is also part of the aesthetic process.

But to destroy this body structure in order to give them some functions that they shouldn't have, from Poison Ivy's point of view, it might be as disgusting as ordinary people looking at modified people who have been transformed into tumors and cysts.

"You know who did it, right?" Poison Ivy suddenly asked: "You came with the answer."

"But I only have this one answer. We are here."

The two got out of the car. The area near Wei En Tower was quite quiet because there were no plants here at all.

Obviously, when Batman came here, he also used an intrusion method to destroy the security system, because his face is different from the Arkham Batman, and his body data is also inconsistent, so he couldn't muddle through.

He left too hurriedly and couldn't have time to carefully repair the security system. Being able to restore the security defense system near the portal before leaving was already the limit, so Shiler and Poison Ivy quickly took advantage of the loophole and entered Wei En Tower.

Poison Ivy was not familiar with the internal structure of Wei En Tower. While she was still thinking about where the liquid storage tank for the weather control center would be stored, Shiler had already taken her through the internal elevator all the way to the special chemical spare parts storage room.

"What on earth is going on?" Poison Ivy was obviously asking Shiler. She even stood on the spot and stared at Shiler suspiciously and said: "What is your relationship with the Batman and Joker of your universe? Why are you so familiar with the places they often go?"

"I have some relationship with both of them." Shiler said while checking the liquid storage tank, and this sentence sounded to Poison Ivy like I had once been involved in the relationship between these two madmen and had retreated unscathed.

The liquid storage tank Shiler found was very small, slightly larger than a handbag, and could be carried in his hand. After he opened the storage tank, he let Poison Ivy confirm that it was indeed concentrated neurotoxin. As long as it was reasonably diluted, it could basically take down everyone in Cat Getan City.

"The weather control system can no longer be used." Poison Ivy said: "Since Peter easily cracked the protective lock last time and used this thing to anesthetize the whole city, Bruce Wei En simply dismantled the core components inside. How do you intend to release the toxin?"

"This is simple." Shiler opened the opening of the liquid storage tank. Under Poison Ivy's gaze, it turned into a cloud of mist. When this cloud of mist touched the liquid in the storage tank, the liquid began to decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Poison Ivy widened her eyes again. This thing was made by her, so she knew how powerful it was. After all, such a small half-can of stuff could still anesthetize the whole city after dilution, which shows how poisonous this neurotoxin is.

As a result, Shiler drank it all like a drink. Poison Ivy even suspected that the burp she just heard was an illusion.

Soon Shiler's figure disappeared in the room. Poison Ivy walked to the floor-to-ceiling window to see where Shiler had gone, but saw nothing. It was just that after a while, she found that it was foggy outside the glass again.

The thick fog spread along Wei En Tower, spreading toward the city at an incredible speed. Poison Ivy saw that the entire Cat Getan was being covered with a misty filter, and the surging gray fog passed through every street and alley.

Although it was obvious from directly above, for pedestrians walking on the road, the thin fog was not so easy to attract attention, and it was no different from Cat Getan's usual bad weather.

The main universe Nightwing, who was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of Wei En Manor, just glanced at the glass that was gradually covered with fog, and then put his attention back to the matter at hand.

But Jason and Tim, who were putting away luggage on the second floor, widened their eyes. They rushed downstairs like flying and shouted at the others: "Quick! Quick, find a sealed room, or wear a gas mask!!"

Now in the living room of Wei En Manor, Robins from two universes were gathered, namely the main universe Robin and the Arkham universe Robin. Now they were all stuffing food into their mouths, and some were still pouring nutrient solution, because they knew that there would probably be no time to eat in the next few dozen hours.

Hearing Jason's shout, they were all stunned for a moment, and turned their heads to look at the two who ran down.

"Gas mask! Quick!!!!"

Dick also ran out of another room and shouted. Seeing that they all had this attitude, the others instinctively began to look for protective measures.

"It's too late, enter the Batcave, close the door!" Jason waved his hand at them and said.

All the Robins poured into the Batcave. After entering, they stared at each other, and finally, their eyes all gathered on Jason.

Jason breathed a sigh of relief as if he had survived a disaster.