Chapter 448: Prelude to the Blizzard (Part 2)

The faint laughter was swallowed by the blizzard and did not travel very far in the howling cold wind, so it was not heard by Bruce.

At this time, he was in a guest room on the other side of the manor, putting on his Batman suit.

Before, when he went to the helicopter to get the engine, it wasn't entirely to compete with Lex. In fact, it was because Selina could only carry some portable equipment that wasn't too heavy. The entire set of Batman suit and equipment was left on the helicopter, and it was brought over when Bruce went to get the engine again.

Just like Lex, after the three split up, they actually didn't follow the original plan. Except for Clark, who went to the reception room to check because he suddenly received a mysterious phone call, Lex and Bruce both had their own extra plans.

Lex's primary goal was to go to the washroom to deal with Lionel's corpse. He didn't intend to find the entrance himself at all, but wanted to wait for Bruce and Clark to finish the work and then pick up the bargain.

Bruce certainly anticipated this, so he didn't intend to work for Lex either. His plan was to return to the guest room, put on the full set of Batman equipment, and then use his own method to create an entrance.

Although walking through the door was a more civilized way, Batman rarely used this method. Compared to betting on which of the three would find the entrance first, or betting on whether they would share it with others after finding it, it was better to do it himself and be self-sufficient.

Since the entrance was underground, theoretically, as long as he could blast a passage leading underground, it would be equivalent to an entrance. So Batman's plan was to make a bomb and then blast it directly down.

There were no usable materials in the mayor's manor, but Bruce going to get the helicopter engine wasn't to compete with Lex at all. He was originally intended to use the helicopter engine to modify a bomb.

Of course, having an engine wasn't enough; he also had to dismantle some other parts from the helicopter. But fortunately, besides him, no one else could go to the roof of the adjacent building, so the several helicopters there became his material warehouse.

At this time, he was assembling this slightly large bomb in the guest room. His movements were very fast, striving to make it before the other two found the entrance, and then become the first person to enter the underground.

After Batman busied himself here with concentration for a while, he finally made a bomb that looked slightly rough on the outside, but in reality, this thing was very powerful, much stronger than the micro-bombs he brought, enough to blast open the ground and open a passage.

He carried this bomb to the balcony, then lowered it with a rope, then jumped down himself, and then brought the bomb to the courtyard in the middle of the manor.

The reason he didn't go indoors was that he was worried the power of the explosion would be too strong, thereby affecting the building structure. Once the manor collapsed, the residents might be in danger, which was not what Batman wanted.

After the bomb was set up, not long after, a violent explosion sounded. The ceiling of the entire manor shook hard, and countless powder and dust fell down.

Facts proved that this kind of directional blasting bomb was very useful, and the manor's basement wasn't very deep. After the explosion, a visible entrance appeared in front of Batman, but it was pitch black underneath, and the situation was unknown.

With a "hiss," Batman threw a flare down. After a brief flash of strong light, the scene inside was illuminated. It seemed to be just an abandoned cellar. Batman frowned, unsure if he had found the right place.

Taking a detector out of his belt again and throwing it down, he observed the changes in the readings on the screen. After watching for a while, Batman jumped down.

After going down, this place was just like the scene seen outside, really just an abandoned cellar of the manor, with a pile of wooden shelves and wooden barrels and such, looking like it had no secrets.

A door in the corner caught Batman's attention, because he discovered that there was a faint light behind the door, which didn't look like the light of oil lamps or candles that an English manor would use, but rather like the cold light emitted by a modern lighting system.

Batman walked over, but he didn't rush to push the door, but stood in a relatively far place and threw a Batarang at the door.

With the sound of "Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!", Batman rolled flexibly to the side, reached the corner of the room, and dodged the strafing of the micro-machine guns on the roof.

After the door was opened, what appeared behind the door was a corridor full of a sense of technology, with a floor made of metal splicing, and light strips for lighting on the walls and ceiling. Not far away, there were also two automatic micro-machine guns set up on the ceiling.

The style here was completely different from the manor on the ground. Batman raised his vigilance. He stuck to the blind spot of the machine gun's strafing and threw Batarangs at the machine guns. After a few darts, both micro-machine guns flashed with electric sparks and could no longer fire.

After Batman walked into the corridor, he threw another flare forward. He discovered that the front seemed to be a place like a central hall, but the lighting there didn't turn on, as if the lighting system was broken.

Walking along the corridor, that place was indeed a central hall. Besides the corridor he came from, there were three other corridors, each in three directions. One of the corridors had its lights on, while the other three corridors were pitch black.

Batman didn't choose to go to the corridor with the lights on first, but walked toward the corridor closest to him. After throwing another flare, he discovered that it was a dead end, except that there were two rooms on both sides of the wall.

After walking into the first room, it was a preparation room, with supplies like gloves, protective suits, masks, face shields, etc. Seeing these, Batman directly took out a gas mask and put it on, because he knew there might be a biochemical laboratory ahead.

Sure enough, a radiation symbol was drawn on the door of another room on the same side. At this time, the lighting system in the corridor didn't turn on. Looking at the situation in the preparation room, the entire corridor was out of power, meaning the door to this room was very likely no longer radiation-proof or sealed.

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Batman took out the reading device, but the radiation amount displayed on it was completely normal. After hesitating for a while, he still decided to break in.

Although the door might no longer be airtight, opening this door still took Batman some effort. After successfully making a hole in the door, Batman walked in. It was still dark here, and various experimental equipment were scattered on the ground.

There was no radiation source here, or rather, the radiation source had been moved. Batman looked at the broken containers on the ground and frowned deeply.

The entire laboratory was very ordinary, and he didn't see any specimens or live animals used for experiments. But soon, Batman discovered some data.

"Experiment Log 1 for No. 3221: Today, the test subject showed no obvious abnormalities. Diet and activity reactions were normal. After discussion, increase the radiation amount..."

"Experiment Log 2 for No. 3221: Today, the test subject had slight dizziness and nausea symptoms, appetite decreased, limb activity reactions were stiff. Increase for the second time..."

Batman flipped through it. This seemed to be an experiment log for a radiation experiment, in which the test subject and the radiation source were not clearly explained. Batman finished reading the previous parts and then saw the last log.

"Experiment Log 35 for No. 3221: Today, the spread of cancer cells in the test subject's body has become uncontrollable. Judged as incurable. The subject has no obvious conscious activity, cannot eat, and has no limb activity reaction..."

"Conclusion: No beneficial mutation phenomenon was seen in the No. 01 radiation source. All test subjects have incurable cancer..."

After finishing the summary at the back, Batman put down the data. He turned and left this corridor, because he had just seen from the later records that there was a morgue in this underground base.

Although he had expected it early on, when he entered the morgue in another corridor and saw the dense morgue cabinets, Batman still felt a moment of suffocation.

From the degree of wear on the handles of the morgue cabinets, it could be seen that this place used to be overcrowded. There might have been hundreds or thousands of people who had accepted this kind of inhumane radiation experiment.

Batman, filled with anger, walked up and pulled open one of the corpse cabinets. With a "bang," Batman instinctively rolled to the side, but nothing attacked him.

What popped out of the pull-out drawer cabinet was a sign written full of words in red paint. It said: "Please go to the surveillance room at the end of Corridor 3. There is a surprise I prepared for you there."

A very rough smiley face was drawn below the sign. Batman didn't need to think to know that this was left by the Joker for him.

Batman took a few deep breaths. He didn't follow the instructions immediately, but explored the morgue, but there were no corpses here.

Now the only thing he knew was that the mysterious radiation source might cause ordinary people to develop cancer. As for what Lex said about Lionel discovering that some kind of radiation could improve a person's physique and intelligence, it looked more like a scam.

After searching in the other corridors, most of the other rooms were laboratories with various functions, but the equipment inside was already a bit dusty, looking like they hadn't been used for a long time.

Batman found paper data clues in the last laboratory. It was an incomplete piece of data, but the information mentioned on it was very important. They claimed that the so-called No. 01 radiation source was actually an extraterrestrial mineral called "Kryptonite."

Because some scientists discovered that this extraterrestrial mineral had special radioactivity, they wanted to study whether this mineral could cause ordinary people to mutate. However, after the first experiment failed, they didn't give up, but instead conducted more experiments.

Batman didn't know where their confidence came from, thinking that this radiation would have a positive effect on people. Perhaps there was a lot of information behind this that he didn't know.

After investigating all the rooms in this corridor, he proceeded to the next corridor step by step, not having his rhythm disrupted by the Joker's hint.

After walking to the end of another dark corridor, there was a large door there, with an exaggerated shape, seemingly leading to a huge space, but there was no keyhole on it, and the micro-bomb didn't cause any damage to that door either.

Batman tried for a while and found that with his current equipment, he really couldn't open this door, so he still came to the corridor with the lights on.

Arriving at the end of the corridor, what appeared in front of Batman were surveillance screens covering three entire walls. The light from the screens focused on a chair in the center of the room.

Just after Batman walked into the room, the chair slowly turned around, but there was no one on it.

Placed on the chair were three round Batman dolls and a large pile of Batman lollipops. ===== CHAPTER 449 =====