Chapter 3870
Shiler killed the game.
But regarding why the Penguin could understand this Russian sentence, and why he understood that the Eden Killer wouldn't look for them after understanding this Russian sentence, Seeing Natasha couldn't think deeply.
In short, they successfully refused the Penguin's proposal, but were still required to stay to protect the safety of the Penguin and Barbara—after all, no one knew if there were people who had been instigated among the bodyguards. The person with the highest combat power present was Seeing Natasha.
Seeing Natasha felt it was good this way, at least she could track the progress of the matter throughout. If she went back to the room, she could only rely on guessing.
The Penguin took all the guest lists and excluded them one by one. A total of 60-something rooms, 120-something people, excluding same-sex rooms and those who weren't couples, only 13 rooms were left.
And among these 13 rooms, actually only 4 rooms of couples were relatively satisfying the conditions—that is, the relationship was bad, each had weaknesses, and it was possible to kill the other party under manipulation.
And the others were either relatively good in relationship, or the interests were tied too tightly to turn against each other, or they had tried to kill the other party but didn't succeed. These shouldn't be the objects chosen by the Eden Killer.
Among these four couples, two brought a child each, but these two children performed plainly. According to Shiler's judgment, they weren't induced, not like the little boy before who could take action to kill his parents.
And children who aren't killers obviously increase variables, the Eden Killer is highly likely not to choose these two couples with children, because this might lead to one side of the couple softening their heart, thereby leading to the murder not succeeding.
Then the last two couples without children, the situation is about the same, belonging to loving and killing each other. This kind of couple relationship is very easy to be alienated.
However, since it's a setup, it's impossible to sit here and wait for the Eden Killer to come to the door. The Penguin's plan is: he will take action himself, killing all the alternative targets of the Eden Killer.
Seeing Natasha immediately realized that this was the same line of thinking as the agent. Electronic life is operated according to logic, and this electronic life is exceptionally pursuing the optimal target—if he wants to do something, it must be the person he designated to do the designated thing. Before the goal is achieved, he cannot let the designated person die, he will find a way to protect them.
The pattern of the Eden Killer killing one man and one woman each time has been maintained until now without being broken, which proves he doesn't intend to change. Then if the Penguin takes action in advance, killing all the man-and-woman combinations, he will definitely find a way to stop it.
Because he knows his actions might be monitored and wiretapped, this is a face-up plan: if you don't show up, I will kill all your targets, you have to show up even if you don't want to.
Of course, if the Eden Killer doesn't take action to stop it, then the Penguin is digging his own grave—because he locked these people up to protect them and suppress the turmoil, and taking action to kill them himself is seeking his own death.
But the Penguin couldn't care about that much. As a supervillain who has been in Cat Getan for many years, he has encountered too many perverted killers. The feeling the Eden Killer gave him was similar to the perverted killers he had encountered before—they wouldn't allow anyone to intervene when they were creating great works. The Penguin's behavior was a completely rude provocation, they were easily stimulated, and then didn't care about anything.
Although Seeing Natasha and the Penguin analyzed in different directions, they reached the same conclusion, that this move should be useful.
The Penguin didn't even let the bodyguards take people, but he personally took Seeing Natasha to bring these couples to the top floor, his room. Everyone looked very blank, but they weren't innocent.
Seeing Natasha of course knew this—just looking at the degree of Cat Getan's decay, these people hadn't done any good things either. Dying here without a legal trial was also somewhat cheap for them.
Originally she didn't want to care—until she heard the Penguin call one of the men among the couples "Mr. Wei En."
Seeing Natasha followed the Penguin's gaze and looked over: a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes stood against the wall, his face about three or four points like Batman, but the mouth of the lady next to him was almost exactly the same as Batman's.
"Wait!" Seeing Natasha roared, "Who are they?!"
"You don't know them?" The Penguin looked at Seeing Natasha with some doubt, "Ah, but that's also true. You are Batman's subordinate, not his lover, he seems to really not need to introduce his parents to you."
Seeing Natasha walked up, snatched the list from the Penguin's hand, and then saw that one of the couples most likely to be chosen by the Eden Killer was named Wei En.
"Batman's parents have a bad relationship?!" Seeing Natasha looked at the Penguin and asked.
"If you think leading their respective families to fight in Cat Getan for three months and throwing missiles at each other's heads is a good medicine for promoting feelings, then our Mr. Wei En and Mrs. Wei En are clearly model couples," the Penguin said not without sarcasm.
Seeing Natasha stared at the couple in front of her in some shock.
"That's all in the past, Mr. Cobblepot," Martha said very calmly, with her hands folded together on her lower abdomen, very reserved, "Now we still believe that the Wei En family and the Kane family uniting can create a better future. In fact, our relationship is not bad now."
Thomas also nodded and said: "Yes, we did separate for a period of time before, but now we have made up. I haven't asked you what you are doing by calling us over."
"Of course, it's to kill you," the Penguin said, "As long as I eliminate the Eden Killer's targets, he will definitely react."
"You must have lost your mind," Martha said very calmly, "If the Eden Killer knew that he could drive you crazy so easily, he should be very happy."
"Stop talking nonsense," the Penguin took a gun from his subordinate.
Thomas just wanted to take action, but Shiler shook his head at him. Thomas frowned and looked at him.
The Penguin raised his gun and aimed at Thomas's head. The moment he pulled the trigger, Thomas instinctively pounced to the side, but there was only a very subtle "click"—the bullet jammed.
The Penguin ejected the bullet and reloaded it, then aimed at Martha. Thomas wanted to push Martha away, but Martha frowned and didn't move, she seemed to have thought of something.
"Click"—another sound, the bullet jammed again.
The Penguin seemed to not believe in evil, and took guns from other bodyguards, but either the parts were broken or the bullets couldn't be fired. In the end, he roared frantically: "So you are protecting my safety with these broken things?!"
"With all due respect, you also buy weapons from arms dealers, right?" Seeing Natasha looked at him and said, "How do you know the supplier wasn't manipulated?"
The Penguin threw the gun to the ground and cursed angrily. He directly popped out the umbrella knife, preparing to use cold weapons to solve the battle. Seeing Natasha of course wouldn't let him kill Batman's parents, so she shot at his umbrella.
"Damn it! Our agreed plan!"
"Sorry, the plan has changed."
The Penguin waved his hand, the bodyguards rushed toward Seeing Natasha, and Seeing Natasha was also at ease one against many. The whole room was as chaotic as several action movies compressed together.
And because the room wasn't big, no matter how Seeing Natasha moved, it was still difficult to protect the safety of the Wei En couple with her own body. The bodyguard's knife almost shaved off Martha's hair.
Just at this time, the screen in front of Barbara, who was silently manipulating the computer in the corner of the room, lit up—the series of data tracking Martha Wei En's mobile phone signal suddenly began to change rapidly.
In another universe, Arkham Batman sat in the center of a room floating with countless magic screens. While operating the magic light points like operating a computer keyboard, he focused on the information on the largest screen in front of him.
The network composed of magic connected to the external internet in the same way as in the magic academy, and it was just like that time—the fundamental difference in energy form caused the magic network to have an excellent one-way firewall against the external internet, just like a one-way mirror: inside can see outside, but outside cannot see inside.
Arkham Batman was using this power to track all signals related to the Arkham Knight Jason Todd.
Half a day ago, the indictment document regarding Shiler had been submitted to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, all witness testimonies were complete, but Jason Todd had been delayed in submitting victim testimony because his injuries were too severe—this would be the key evidence deciding whether Shiler would be charged as guilty.
And after the Arkham Knight was put down by anesthetic, countless people manipulated by the mastermind tried to approach the operating room, but were blocked by Nightwing and Robin, and arrested by Gordon.
Knowing this method was useless, the mastermind had only one way left, which was to find a way to contact Jason Todd himself and convince him. And the Arkham Knight had always been using the "Oracle" system from Barbara Gordon.
Barbara was sitting beside Arkham Batman at this moment. She saw Arkham Batman use the magic network to access her Oracle system. Although Barbara didn't understand magic very well, she was more familiar with this system she had created herself.
Guided by Arkham Batman, Barbara also began to try to manipulate magic power to explore in her own system, using the advantage of the one-way firewall to dismantle the code she had once written bit by bit, not letting go of any trace.
A thread composed of magic light suddenly trembled slightly. Barbara's gaze instantly became solemn, while tapping the light points in the air and saying: "He is trying to invade the Oracle system to directly access Jason's personal terminal... He's here."
At the same moment in two universes, the two pairs of identical pupils of the two identical red-haired women turned into continuous mountains from the light of cold data. The same string of data was like the same rain falling at the two ends of the world.
In the accompaniment of the mechanical sound of the keyboard and the humming of magic. The voices of the two Barbara Gordons sounded at the same time:
"Caught you."
?? Here it comes, here it comes!
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