Chapter 298: Great Responsibilities Fall Upon Such a Person (Part 3)

In the morning, in the office of Cat Getan University, Schiller was holding a coffee cup and reading the newspaper. Victor had just arrived. He asked Schiller: "Have you read the report about the commercial street fire?"

"I'm just seeing this part."

Schiller shook the newspaper, and then his gaze fell on the front-page headline of the Cat Getan Daily. That page used the entire page to report the fire on the central commercial street, but the accompanying picture wasn't the disaster situation of the commercial street, but the back of a man in black leaving.

It wrote the title with bold text: "Batman—The Vigilante Saving Cat Getan, or a Hypocritical Actor Putting on a Show?"

Although the title was a question, the content inside had already given the answer. It vividly described a reporter who arrived at the scene of the fire seeing Batman just standing on the roof looking at the fire scene, and then hurriedly leaving.

In the description of this reporter, Batman looked at the commercial street suffering from the disaster below with indifference, and when he turned to leave, there was no hesitation at all. It seemed that from beginning to end, he just showed his face and didn't intend to save people at all.

His description, combined with that picture of Batman walking in the opposite direction of the fire, was very convincing. When Bruce put down the newspaper, he pressed his temples and sighed deeply.

At that time, when Aisha activated the Daddy Summoning Technique, Bruce had just changed into the Batman suit, so he appeared in front of the two children in the image of Batman at that time. Dick also knew that Bruce was Batman because of this.

He also saw the report in the newspaper and said somewhat indignantly: "You clearly saved so many people, they actually said you were a coward who feared rescue and turned to flee?? How could they..."

"Dreaming"

"Alright, Dick, is everything you need for school ready?"

"... Hmm." Dick made a nasal sound, appearing somewhat frustrated. He said: "Batman, can I really not go out to uphold justice with you? I think you need a helper. If I were there this time, I could stay in place to rescue, and then you go to another fire scene, so they wouldn't misunderstand you..."

"I don't care whether they misunderstand me or not."

Dick looked at Bruce's extremely exhausted face. If Bruce's too young face before made Dick a bit awkward and unable to treat him as an elder, then facing Bruce in his current state, Dick indeed didn't dare to raise any objections anymore.

Bruce's face now couldn't be described as just bad. He seemed to have aged several years overnight. After all, the days he had lived in these two days could simply be described as inhuman.

During the day, he had to deal with the Joker who was making trouble everywhere, play those life-and-death games with him, and also make up for the lack of detectives in the Cat Getan Police Department, helping Gordon investigate that serial murder case related to the Twelve Apostles. On the other side, he had to track down the Twelve Families and the Big Boss. At night, once he opened his eyes, it was those four unlucky things...

The busyness of the day and night wasn't the same, but they were intertwined. The complicated affairs of the day gave him no time to carefully analyze the weaknesses of the four serial killers in his dream, and he couldn't formulate a plan to deal with them.

And at night, because there was no plan, he was always in the awkward situation of an encounter battle. Many attempts had no progress, and currently, there was still no good method to deal with the two strongest serial killers.

And frequent attempts at failure only exhausted all his energy, and then he fell into a coma, so he could return to the real world. And because he consumed too much energy, he was dizzy and had no efficiency in doing things during the day, in short, he entered an extreme vicious circle.

And the public opinion event regarding Batman also began to intensify. Although it wasn't known if this was deliberately directed by the Joker, Bruce indeed fell into a kind of mental torture, because everything was falling infinitely downward, in the opposite direction of his expectations, as if nothing would get better.

Whether it was the body or the spirit, Bruce's state began to become worse and worse, but at the same time, because of this multiple torture, a certain string in his brain began to be tempered to become tougher and tougher.

When a person is oppressed to the limit, his potential will begin to be exerted at a very fast speed. Batman debuted for one year, and his growth trajectory was like a slope with a small amplitude, and just from these two days, the trajectory line directly rose on the spot, becoming a vertical line.

Three days passed, Bruce had visibly lost quite a bit of weight, but at the same time, another kind of firm spirit began to be contained in his eyes under his brow ridge.

During the day, he followed the clues to track down the intricate relationships between the Twelve Families, investigated the scenes of various murder cases, inferred the methods and purposes of the murderer's crime, summarized the case situation with Gordon in the evening, and after returning home at night, began to formulate a plan to deal with the four serial killers.

After entering the dream at night, Batman began to gradually realize his plan. With repeated failures, Batman's energy limit became higher, and he could even try dozens of times in a row without dizziness and exhaustion.

After repeated attempts, Batman found the best plan to deal with these few serial killers.

He discovered that although these few serial killers were cruel, they had no cooperation and were all killing their own. And once a conflict occurred between them, no one would retreat, which gave Batman a lot of room for operation.

And he discovered that using his own willpower to resist attacks or materialize weapons was a thankless task. Schiller's willpower had been interfering with him, leading to various defects in the weapons he materialized, or they were simply one-time use, which wasn't easy to use.

But Batman never lacked backup plans. He began to try to use his willpower to create obstacles in this alley. At first, he tried to change the wall structure to create a corner with a blind spot, but soon, he discovered that this consumed energy too fast. He began to turn to create some obstacles that were smaller in volume but better to use.

First were some piles of garbage made of construction waste. Although they couldn't completely block the line of sight like walls, they gave him the opportunity to hinder the other party's movement, and then small traps like glass shards, flying newspapers, or flashlights used to dazzle eyes, and speakers used to create noise to divert attention, etc.

Batman deeply realized the benefits of diversified combat and localized combat. Compared to focusing on materializing Batarangs or daggers to kill the opponent, sometimes the interference of these small objects could provide better tactical opportunities.

Just like that, after experiencing countless attempts, Batman carefully created a trap.

He utilized the behavioral logic of these four serial killers—as long as he appeared, these four people would start to hunt him down crazily until they killed him.

When he stood at the entrance of Wei En Manor, the order of the four killers was that the white-faced mask and the hockey mask were on the outermost side, the chainsaw serial killer was third, and the iron claw monster was on the wall at the very inside.

When he stepped out of the entrance and arrived in the alley, the four people began to move toward him at the same time. The two tall mask serial killers walked out first, then the chainsaw serial killer, and finally the iron claw monster.

Batman placed two piles of garbage at the entrance of the alley, one on the left and one on the right, occupying most of the alley's area. He used his best physical strength to rush over at full speed, used flexible movement to cross the two tall mask serial killers, and then the serial killers who were originally walking toward Wei En Manor would turn around to chase him.

Except for the iron claw monster who could walk on the wall, the other three had to land on two feet. The tall white-faced killer and the hockey mask killer had almost the same chasing speed, so they would get stuck at the junction of the two piles of garbage.

And at this time, Batman had already rushed to the central part of the alley, facing the chainsaw serial killer directly.

But Batman didn't choose to knock him down with fighting skills like before, because this had no meaning. Even if Batman could snatch the chainsaw, this wasn't an easy-to-use weapon. Even with this weapon, he couldn't deal with the other three serial killers.

He placed four oil drums at the end of the right side of the alley. When attracting the attention of the chainsaw serial killer, he slowed down and leaned toward the oil drum direction.

At this time, the attack of the steel claw monster at the end of the alley should have just arrived. Batman rolled to dodge behind the oil drum. Although the steel claw monster's claws could easily penetrate flesh, when Batman concentrated his attention to strengthen the defense of the oil drum, his steel claws could only leave a mark on the oil drum.

This was a conclusion Batman reached after several failures. Firmly believing that the metal exterior of the oil drum was hard enough to block the steel claws was based on evidence, much simpler than firmly believing that his own flesh could block the steel claws.

Missing one strike, the steel claw monster would bypass to the side, wanting to bypass the oil drum to continue attacking Batman. And at this time, the chainsaw serial killer holding the chainsaw happened to arrive. And according to the walking speed inference, that white-faced mask killer and hockey mask killer should also happen to be behind the chainsaw killer.

Chainsaws have sparks when rubbing against metal, so when it cuts open the oil drum, it will detonate the oil drum, create an explosion, and blow everyone away.

The key point of the entire plan is that he must calculate the speed of each killer's movement in every step. When the oil drum explodes, the four killers must be close enough. And another difficulty is that Batman will also be blown away at the same time. He must firmly believe that he was not injured after being blown away.

When calculating speed and movement, Batman failed many times. Actually, the first time, he had already completed the complete process in his brain. The difficulty is that he must concentrate his attention while maintaining the materialization of these props, while accurately moving, controlling the speed of the serial killers.

After failing dozens of times repeatedly, Batman discovered that not only did his energy limit increase, but his concentration ability and control ability also had a qualitative leap. In the end, he could even make the oil drum float and hit the chainsaw.

With willpower growing constantly, the fault tolerance rate also became higher and higher. Finally, accompanied by the roar of the chainsaw, the oil drum exploded, and the four serial killers and Batman were blown away at the same time.

At this time, he should firmly believe that the serial killers will be eliminated, and he will be unscathed. After the thick smoke of the explosion dissipated, Batman stood up from the ground.

He wasn't unscathed. On the contrary, the entire bat armor was blown to pieces. At the last moment, Batman decided to gamble, focusing his attention on improving the effect of the explosion and the lethality to the opposite side.

The consequence of weakening the defense was that he suffered not-so-light external injuries, but similarly, after he firmly believed that he would cause maximum damage to his opponent, the four serial killers opposite also suffered not-so-light injuries.

The one with the lightest injury was the hockey mask. His clothes were blown a bit rotten. At this time, he was climbing up from the ground. The white-faced mask and the chainsaw serial killer were about the same, suffering not-so-light injuries. At this time, they were lying in the corner of the wall. The monster with the steel claw on his hand was covered in black smoke, as if he couldn't control the direction of his advance.

Batman's purpose wasn't to eliminate them, but to leave this alley as early as possible. He looked up and saw the tower in the city center still standing silently in the black night sky. He knew that his destination was there.

After leaving the alley, those terrifying eyes that were somewhat distant to him became closer and closer. Countless monsters appeared in the streets and alleys of Cat Getan.

And Batman, facing them, discovered that at this moment, the emotion surging in his heart wasn't the initial confusion and exhaustion, but a kind of... excitement that was hard to describe.

———Side Note———

Sorry, I'm not feeling well today, so it's a bit late.

If there's no update around twelve o'clock, you don't need to wait. It's the same to look at it the next day. ===== CHAPTER 299 =====