Chapter 580: All Sewn Up (Part 2)

It was mentioned before that there are many laws in Cat Getan, but above these laws, there is another law that can be said to be above all standards and rules, and that is that Batman is above all laws.

In Cat Getan, the priority of Batman and everything he creates is higher than anything else.

The liquid storage device manufactured by Victor was very sturdy; he had long considered the issue of safety. Some might wonder, why didn't he just wrap this device with the hardest iron sheet instead of using transparent glass material? Wasn't this disregarding safety for the sake of looking cool?

But in fact, that layer of transparent glass material was much harder than any steel. It was a type of extremely sturdy material developed by Victor on the basis of dense ice, possessing even more toughness than hard diamonds, making it not brittle even if it was very thin, and it had excellent sealing, definitely not something that could be easily destroyed.

However, once its opponent became a Batarang personally crafted by Batman, it would become truly as brittle as glass.

Victor could think of everything, but he could never have imagined that Batman would use a Batarang to attack this thing. He even anticipated that someone might use a nuclear bomb here, so this material was even resistant to high temperatures, impacts, and radiation, but it just wasn't resistant to Batarangs.

Batman and everything he creates are the natural nemesis of everything in Cat Getan. So, the moment the Batarang touched this sturdy material, it shattered.

It shattering didn't matter, the liquid inside sprayed out. The liquid spraying out didn't matter, but Cat Getan had another law: a villain's backstory will never be wasted; what's meant to come will always come.

In the backstory of Mr. Freeze, Victor became Mr. Freeze because of a leak of freezing gas after a power outage. And this time, it was also Victor's laboratory, also a leak of freezing material, and very unsurprisingly, it created another Mr. Freeze.

Or rather, more than one.

The one being cleansed and transformed by this material was Thomas. He possessed all the conditions to become Mr. Freeze, perfectly inheriting Mr. Freeze's backstory, although this story was slightly bizarre and tortuous.

The only one who had a problem was Lex.

Several years ago, Lex had encountered the original Schiller who was about to leave Metropolis. At that time, the original Schiller discovered that Lex had been given an excessive amount of sedatives, causing his development and body organs to be seriously affected.

Perhaps out of sympathy, Schiller fed Lex a certain amount of fine wine, which was the Wine God Factor.

Because the amount Lex used was very small, the improvement it brought him wasn't great, slightly accelerating his recovery ability a bit, and additionally giving him some night vision ability.

Even Alberto, who had fallen directly into a pool of fine wine full of the Wine God Factor, didn't become a monster with super recovery ability like Deadpool. Looking at it this way, the self-healing effect brought by the Wine God Factor didn't seem to be that strong at all.

However, the Wine God Factor couldn't exert its efficacy, not because the two couldn't absorb it, but because, besides its pharmacological and pathological effects, the Wine God Factor was more like a mystical existence. It could only exert its effect on a designated person, and that was the Joker.

If it wasn't the Joker, even with the Wine God Factor, the improvement brought was not great, and it couldn't achieve the Joker's ability to be beaten half-dead by Batman one day and continue to jump around and cause trouble the next.

However, Lex's encounter this time conformed to another backstory, and that was the Joker.

Don't forget, the Joker had an origin story of falling into a chemical pool. Although Lex didn't fall in this time, he was completely submerged by chemical agents, and the effect was the same.

And this accident was personally caused by Batman, which was equivalent to overlapping with the Red Hood's background. Lex also became someone chosen by Batman.

You can view the birth process of Cat Getan villains as cooking: one ingredient, plus another ingredient, put into a pot and stir-fried, and you can stir-fry a villain.

Sometimes, a dish only needs one ingredient, like Mr. Freeze; you only need to throw in a "low-temperature laboratory raw material leak," and you can stir-fry a dish.

And the dish called Joker needs two ingredients to be stir-fried well. First, throw in a mandatory main ingredient into the pot, which is "Batman's selection," and for the rest, you can choose traits like the "falling into a chemical pool" backstory, "Wine God Factor," or "mentally abnormal to begin with."

The main ingredient plus any one secondary ingredient can stir-fry a dish named Joker. And now, Lex not only added the main ingredient but also added two secondary ingredients, which were the "falling into a chemical pool" backstory and the "Wine God Factor." Therefore, unsurprisingly, another Joker was born.

But at the same time, Lex also conformed to Mr. Freeze's backstory. The chemical pool that the Joker in the original backstory fell into, besides dyeing his hair and face a color, had no other effect. But the one Victor manufactured was different; this chemical pool could create Mr. Freeze.

Thus, Lex, who simultaneously possessed two backstories and was stir-fried from the same materials, became an unprecedented trinity villain—the Frozen Joker Luthor.

At this time, the blue liquid was absorbed clean by the two people close to the liquid storage device. As the liquid became less and less, the two people covered underneath gradually revealed their true faces.

The first to recover his senses was Thomas. After being stunned in place for a moment, he began to scream crazily.

That kind of screaming was as if a person had been thrown into a pot of oil. He kept curling up his body, constantly scratching his skin. Smoke was visibly rising from his body, as if he were burning.

However, this wasn't strange. In the original comics, Mr. Freeze had one biggest weakness, which was that he had to wear low-temperature armor. Once the room temperature was higher than 0 degrees and there was no protective device, he would die.

If the person suffering this was indeed Victor, he could immediately analyze what was going on and then find the fastest way to maintain his life. After all, he was the world's most powerful cryogenics expert, and this was his base camp.

But Thomas was different. He was a college student, and his major had absolutely nothing to do with physics or chemistry. Although his grades were much better than Bruce's, he was just at the level of an ordinary college student and had nothing to do with cryogenics. Moreover, it was his first time in this laboratory, so he couldn't find anything useful here.

He didn't even know what had happened, and the cells transformed by the low temperature had already begun to die gradually. But at this moment, Batman walked over, grabbed Thomas, and threw him into the liquid storage device, which still had a little blue liquid left.

Batman's level was definitely much higher than Thomas's, so he saw the problem at the first moment. Sure enough, after Thomas was soaked in the remaining blue liquid, he stopped screaming and lay there blankly looking at the ceiling.

In the final analysis, Mr. Freeze's power lay in his technical level, not in himself. The low-temperature transformation he received could be said to be a burden.

If one only obtained this low-temperature transformation, it would be worse than being an ordinary person. Thomas was in this situation now; leaving this blue liquid, he couldn't survive at all.

Batman didn't pay attention to Thomas's hateful gaze. He turned his head and looked at the other figure standing in the shadows of the room. The laughter that had just rung out made his back feel cold.

Now, Lex's skin was paler than before. When he looked up, Batman saw a familiar crazy smile on his face.

The reason Lex didn't fear room temperature and didn't almost self-combust like Thomas was precisely because the Wine God Factor in his body was working at full capacity. And this contest between low-temperature transformation and self-healing ability brought him even more powerful abilities.

Taking advantage of the moment Batman was stunned looking at that smile, Lex stretched out a hand, and cold mist drifted toward Batman. In just one second, a thin layer of ice had formed on the outside of the Batman suit.

Batman retreated at high speed. When he landed and stabilized his figure, he exhaled a visible white mist. At this time, the temperature in the room had dropped to near freezing.

The blue liquid absorbed into Lex's body didn't completely transform his cells, because the Wine God Factor in his body was constantly making his cells heal themselves. Therefore, this liquid capable of achieving freezing was stored in Lex's body and became a kind of power for him.

Simply put, Lex had now turned himself into a freeze gun with sufficient fuel, and the processing was not limited by the form of the weapon; he could also change various forms of freezing.

Mr. Freeze's technology, the Joker's madness, plus Luthor's wisdom—Batman took a deep breath. He knew that a bitter battle was about to come.

《This Star Wants to Retire Very Much》

At this time, in a ward of the Cat Getan City Central Hospital, Schiller was sitting in front of a hospital bed, Gordon was standing opposite the bed, and lying on the bed was the third victim, the girl who had been stabbed several times. The data in Schiller's hand showed that her name was Angel.

Gordon widened his eyes and asked exaggeratedly: "Are you saying that no one wanted to kill you, and you stabbed yourself???? You..."

He paused for a moment and then said: "Angel, I know Cat Getan is a very dangerous place. There are many people here who might take your life. Maybe they threatened you, making you unable to tell the truth, but with Professor Schiller and me here, you should trust us."

"Tell the truth, we will bring the real culprit to justice, you are safe..."

The pale-faced Angel shook her head, her expression somewhat dazed. She said: "No, what I said is true. The one who wanted to kill me was myself. I might be crazy."

"Tell me specifically, what exactly is going on?" Schiller didn't refute Angel like Gordon did, because he could see that Angel's mental state was indeed not good.

Her pale face wasn't entirely due to excessive blood loss from being stabbed several times. Judging from the details of her skin, her poor complexion should have been going on for a period of time.

Angel closed her eyes and said in a very weak voice: "About a few days ago, I started to have a strange feeling. Whenever I saw my good friend Belena, I had a kind of... a kind of..."

Angel revealed a very painful expression, and with a crying voice, she said:

"I... had an urge to kill her." ===== CHAPTER 581 =====