Chapter 3467

The Pale Knight's expression eased slightly; it was unclear whether he accepted Superman's explanation or was satisfied with their proactive attitude of apologizing, but at least he was no longer wearing a sullen face.

"As mayor, I must say that Cat Getan welcomes every tourist. I hope you can have a good time here, but on the premise that you do not violate the law and do not cause too much of a commotion, creating safety hazards."

The words were all good words, it was just that it was too strange for these words to come out of the mouth of someone with this face. Batman, who was accustomed to observing micro-expressions to collect information, now preferred to look down at the food on his plate, not wanting to look at the Pale Knight even for half an eye.

Superman was of course a bit better; after all, it wasn't him facing the Joker every day, and plus the Pale Knight didn't wear that kind of terrifying makeup, so he accepted it well.

The Pale Knight was elegant in his manners, witty in his conversation, and also had quite his own insights into Cat Getan's tourism industry. Superman and he could be considered to be chatting happily.

This situation of course made Batman feel extremely awkward, but he didn't know why he was awkward; anyway, this meal was eaten without tasting anything.

It was hard to wait until it was almost over when the Pale Knight stood up and answered a phone call. Batman hurriedly nudged Superman with his elbow.

Superman understood his meaning; Batman wanted him to use his super hearing to listen to the content of the Pale Knight's phone call.

"... What? Why is it like this? Sheriff Gordon has already gone over. Okay, you remind him to be sure to preserve the physical samples. I'll go arrange for people to seal off the road now so that the ambulance can arrive as soon as possible."

Superman's brows gradually furrowed. Batman looked at him, and Superman lowered his voice and said a few words to him. Although Batman also frowned slightly, his expression was clearly more relaxed than before.

"It seems this peculiar Mayor has encountered some trouble," Batman said to Superman, "And solving trouble happens to be what we are good at."

"Are you sure?" Superman asked, looking at him, "Are you going to ignore Metropolis?"

"It seems Metropolis doesn't need us that much either," Batman stood up, but soon sat down again and said, "I think Cat Getan needs us more."

Superman could see that he wanted to win back a game in front of the Joker Mayor, but he didn't expose him, but smiled and nodded, saying: "Okay, he will definitely come to you for help later. After all, no matter what, you are Batman."

The Pale Knight did have such inertia, because in the universe he was in, Batman was somewhat useful; at least in terms of being a detective, he could still help.

He walked back in a hurry with his phone, just wanted to say something but stopped, then looked at Batman and said: "Okay, Mr. Batman, your travel plan needs to be suspended first. We encountered some trouble and might need your help."

Batman tidied up his collar—the lining of the Batman suit he was wearing was a bodysuit, there was no collar to tidy up, but he still completed the full set of actions and nodded reservedly.

The meal was cleared away, and several people were still sitting at the table. Batman spoke first: "Let's talk about what's going on first."

"Just now, I received a call from the principal of Cat Getan University. He told me that nearly half of the teaching staff showed symptoms of food poisoning at tonight's banquet. In addition to vomiting and diarrhea, there were also symptoms of confusion, delirium, and muttering, and they are currently on their way to the hospital."

"Food poisoning?" Superman was the first to care about this problem.

And Batman's focus was clearly different from everyone else's; he said: "Banquet? Today is not a holiday, what kind of banquet is being held at the school?"

"It was a professor who had worked at Cat Getan University before, who returned to the university to take up his post this time, a thank-you banquet held by him personally."

"Professor..." Batman repeated the word.

He suddenly remembered that when he heard the Justice League of this universe chatting before, they seemed to have mentioned a certain "Professor"; could it be this one?

"What is the name of this professor who is taking up his post again?"

"Jonathan Crane."

To be honest, this name didn't surprise Batman very much; after all, the Joker was already standing in front of him as mayor, so what was the problem with Scarecrow being a professor at Cat Getan University?

Or rather, Scarecrow seemed to be a professor originally, so it was normal for him to be working at Cat Getan University now.

But a food poisoning case? It didn't sound like Scarecrow's style.

Batman speculated silently in his heart.

Judging from the tone of the Justice League before, this so-called professor had a good relationship with them, and seemed to be the teacher of Bruce Wei En in this universe, and was very familiar with Diana and Clark.

In this world, the Joker could turn over a new leaf and be mayor, so it didn't seem very outrageous for Scarecrow to become a good teacher and helpful friend of the Justice League.

And based on Batman's understanding of Scarecrow, he usually wouldn't adopt such a shallow and inferior means of poisoning food.

In fact, from the perspective of ordinary people, poisoning food or drinking water is the simplest way to poison someone; the probability of the other party being hit is high, and once hit, it is not easy to save them.

On the contrary, the kind of inhaled poison gas that Scarecrow made is not particularly practical; it has high requirements for the concentration of the poison gas and the airtightness of the current space, and it is not practical enough at all.

But the reason Scarecrow has always used this method is because he is a conceited genius. He feels that if he can poison someone using the most difficult and impractical method, and still poison the greatest detective in the world, that is what is called powerful.

That's why he has always devoted himself to researching fear gas, instead of researching how to poison the food and drinking water in a restaurant.

Assuming that the Scarecrow in this universe is the same, he would never choose this method, which he considers very boring, to deal with a group of university professors who are neither superheroes nor special figures.

Batman tends to think that Jonathan might be wronged, and someone deliberately used chemical poisoning to frame him, but because they didn't have such a high level, they couldn't create a fake fear gas, so they could only adopt a relatively simpler method of poisoning food and water.

And if it comes to motivation, Batman can't help but think of the current situation in Metropolis.

The invaders this time haven't shown up for so long, which shows that they should have given up on a frontal assault, or they don't intend to start a decisive battle at the beginning, but want to stir up trouble in the dark first, weaken the combat power of the Justice League to the minimum, and then take action.

In addition to provoking differences within the Justice League, adding more external trouble to the Justice League is also one of the methods.

Batman could tell from Diana's attitude before that the so-called professor was very difficult to deal with, and even Clark intended to apologize properly; he was simply the best candidate for an external enemy.

And, if he is indeed close to the members of the Justice League, and is even Bruce's teacher, then if something happens to him, it will definitely affect the feelings of the members of the Justice League and achieve the goal of disrupting their judgment.

To sum up, this is very likely a mess deliberately created by the invaders this time, shaking the Justice League by threatening Professor Jonathan.

Thinking of this, Batman couldn't sit still. He stood up and said to the Pale Knight: "Where is this Professor Crane now?"

"Cat Getan Police Station. Such a thing happened at his invitation banquet, and he is hard to blame. Sheriff Gordon took him to the police station first."

"I want to go to the police station," Batman said, "Trouble you to call and tell Sheriff Gordon our identity, and ask them to cooperate with my investigation."

The Pale Knight thought that Batman always understood Scarecrow, and if he went to interrogate him, he would definitely be able to ask more things, so he nodded and said: "Okay, James will cooperate with you."

"In addition, there are several professors who were not hit, or whose symptoms are relatively mild, who also went to the police station. You can also go and ask them if there is anything abnormal at the scene."

Batman nodded and left with Superman.

About 20 minutes later, they arrived at the entrance of the Cat Getan Police Station. Rows of police cars were parked in front of the door, each equipped with heavy weapons, the firepower of which made Batman stare in astonishment.

Batman had long realized that there were some other forces constantly transforming this city, making it into what it was now. Upgrading Cat Getan's police force was clearly one of the most important things he had done, which ensured that no criminal could survive under such firepower, which must have greatly improved Cat Getan's public security.

Unfortunately, his Cat Getan couldn't use this method. The police would take black money from anyone, but when facing the Wei En Group, they would express that they were loyal defenders and would never take a needle or a thread from the people.

Many thoughts flashed through Batman's mind quickly. He didn't walk in from the front door, but went around to the back door and saw Gordon's figure in the office with the lights on.

Batman pulled Superman over and said: "You go in from the front door and say you want to find a certain professor, and pester them for a while. Later I will let Sheriff Gordon call you up."

Superman nodded and turned to walk from the front door, while Batman jumped onto the balcony on the second floor and tiptoed into the office.

When Gordon turned his head and saw the black shadow in the corner of the wall, he was startled.

"God!!!"

From this reaction, Batman could tell that this universe had indeed not had a Batman for a long time.

"I want to see Professor Crane," Batman went straight to the point.

"No problem, Mayor Napier has already instructed me. There will only be the two of you in the interrogation room; what you said and what you did will not be passed on."

This surprised Batman a bit. Gordon clearly had done this many times, and was much more flexible than the one in their universe.

Gordon said a few words on the walkie-talkie, and then took Batman downstairs. Batman pulled Superman, who was talking to a police officer, over, and the three of them walked toward the interrogation room together.

When walking to the observation window, Batman saw Jonathan Crane sitting in the interrogation room with a gloomy face.

This Professor Crane was indeed different from the Scarecrow he knew; at least on the surface, he didn't look very crazy, his figure was tall, his cheeks were thin, and he wore a pair of silver metal-framed glasses, looking even a bit refined, not at all like a supervillain.

(End of chapter)