Chapter 594: The Crazy Cat Appears! (Part 2)

"Professor Schiller, I must remind you that all the cats in this Crazy Cat Asylum are very dangerous. They are the most heinous criminals I arrested during the process of transforming this city. Contacting them is probably not a good idea."

In the gloomy hospital, the black cat with blue eyes walking in front was fully armed, with countless visible and invisible equipment hanging on his sturdy body. And the other black cat was only equipped with a simple gray exoskeleton. His gray eyes looked a bit bright in the corridor.

"Don't mind it, Batman cat. I've already told you about my background. I'm just curious about these lunatics. Of course, if I can cure one or two of them, it's good for you and for this city, isn't it?"

Batman cat was just about to speak when Schiller asked, "Speaking of which, why don't you just kill them? If you ask me, these heinous criminals have no need to live in this world. Wouldn't it be better to free up the hospital for more patients in need?"

Batman cat seemed to be stumped by this question. He paused, then said somewhat unnaturally, "No, if they committed crimes because of mental problems, then they don't deserve to die."

"Then if their mental problems are innate and they can't control them themselves, then they are actually innocent and should enjoy the same rights to freedom as others, aren't they?"

"But I can't let them go out and commit crimes again. This is irresponsible to the citizens who abide by the law." Batman cat answered.

"Then you kill them, and they will never commit crimes again."

"You seem to hate criminals more than I do?" Batman cat paused and turned to look at Schiller.

Schiller didn't stop. While walking toward the depths of the corridor, he said, "I've already told you about my background. Why do you think I'm investigating those serial murder cases?"

Batman cat didn't answer because he didn't know the answer either, or rather, the answer he guessed made him feel that it didn't fit his understanding of Schiller.

(Author's note: 156n)

Schiller wouldn't be bringing all serial murder case killers to justice because he hated criminals, right? Compared to such an act of justice, Schiller gave him the feeling that he was more like a high-IQ criminal addicted to the excitement of serial murder cases.

Batman cat stopped his steps and didn't follow Schiller forward. He just stared at Schiller's departing back, as if comforting himself, stepped on the ground with his paws, and then turned and left.

When he left the hospital gate, he flicked a controller next to his neck with his paw. All the monitoring equipment here was turned on. Batman cat felt that perhaps he could find evidence of Schiller's crimes from Schiller's so-called treatment.

Standing outside the hospital gate, Batman cat recalled his encounter with Schiller the cat. Not long after that strange tower appeared, a cat that had never appeared on the Gotham citizen list appeared in the monitoring equipment.

This city wasn't without outsiders, but they would soon be assimilated. And unlike other outsiders, Schiller didn't have any intention of avoiding the monitoring equipment. Or rather, it was precisely by looking directly at the monitoring equipment that he attracted Batman cat's attention.

Batman cat found him personally, but Schiller clearly had some understanding of this city through other citizens. Schiller proposed to do that potential crime possibility test. Batman cat had no reason to refuse.

The higher the score, the more likely to commit a crime. Batman cat had great confidence in this test system of his, until Schiller got a score of 0 in this test.

Schiller told him about his background. He claimed to be a university professor who had been investigating serial murder cases from all walks of life before coming to Gotham, and only came here to take refuge after provoking a troublesome opponent.

He sincerely asked Batman cat to take him in and proposed that he actually had a better way to end the chaos here. Batman cat couldn't possibly believe a stranger and outsider just like that, but that test method he had always been proud of told Batman cat that Schiller should be the person he trusted most, because the possibility of him committing a crime was zero.

Before meeting Schiller, Batman cat had deep faith in this system. And when the impossible happened, he instinctively didn't want to admit that there was a problem with this system of his. He tried several test methods and used all means, but Schiller's score was always zero. In other words, he was even more qualified to rule this city than Batman cat, because Batman cat's score wasn't lower than his.

Batman cat regarded Schiller as an experimental subject, and at the same time didn't mind getting some suggestions from his mouth. The plan Schiller gave to transform the patrol route achieved good results, which made Batman cat realize that there was a reason why Schiller could get a zero. Perhaps he really had enough experience in stopping crimes.

Batman cat never trusted Schiller, but he hoped to use this person to achieve his goal.

At the same time, he fell into some entanglement. His intuition told him that Schiller must be a criminal, and the kind of most dangerous criminal who should be locked in the bottom layer of the Crazy Cat Asylum.

But the test system told him that the facts were exactly the opposite. There was no one kinder than Schiller.

If he believed his intuition, it proved that the entire test system was wrong. That is to say, all the identifications he had made before were wrong. Those he thought were good people might be bad people, and those he thought were bad people actually needed protection.

Batman cat couldn't afford such a result. He refused to admit that his transformation over these few years was useless work. So, he could only pretend to trust Schiller to add confidence to himself and not let himself fall into a logical contradiction dead loop.

But at the same time, that suspicion made him want to find Schiller's flaws.

So, he didn't refuse Schiller's proposal to see the place where the most dangerous criminals were locked up. He thought that if Schiller stayed with those criminals, he would likely expose his true colors.

Then, ten minutes after Schiller entered the Crazy Cat Asylum, all the monitoring went offline.

Batman cat, who had just returned to the Batcave, looked at the pitch-black screen and narrowed his eyes. But the emotion that appeared in his heart wasn't anger, but joy, as if it were the excitement of finally catching an opponent's flaw.

Thus, he began to prepare equipment, preparing to go to the Crazy Cat Asylum personally to deal with Schiller.

In his view, Schiller couldn't cause any trouble, because he had very strong confidence in the imprisonment measures he had set up. He had captured many criminals, and all facilities were set up according to the weaknesses of these criminals. They had undergone countless safety checks to ensure nothing went wrong. Even if Schiller cut off the monitoring, it was impossible for him to release these dangerous criminals.

In the pitch-black Crazy Cat Asylum, Schiller was walking leisurely in the corridor. Rather than a hospital, it was more like a very perfect prison. There weren't even any medical staff here; all nursing was automated by machines, and therefore there were almost no routes to escape.

The Superego who threw him out still had a bit of conscience, letting him bring the gray fog along. Schiller used the gray fog disguised as an exoskeleton to paralyze all the monitoring and security equipment here, and then started searching room by room.

Since all the residents were cats, it didn't look much like a mental asylum, but rather like the base of a black-hearted cat dealer. All the cats were locked in cages. Different cats had different cages. Looking at it, it was a bit cute, but it was also filled with a strange atmosphere.

Every time Schiller passed a hospital room, he would shout to the sick cats inside: "Hello, have you seen a green cat? The kind that laughs!"

"Hello, have you seen a green cat? Or one with a green head and ears is fine too. Likes to laugh loudly, should be Batman cat's old rival..."

"We are all Batman cat's old rivals." A low voice came from the end of the corridor. Schiller walked over and saw that the cat in the cage was lying there with black and white patterns. However, the difference was that there were many tubes inserted into its body.

Looking at the familiar line direction, Schiller had a guess about this cat's identity, so he said: "Hello, I'm looking for a green cat. Do you know where it's locked up?"

"Are you a new machine made by Batman cat? You look quite like one, but this kind of old-fashioned trick has no novelty."

"Can you tell me where a cat with green on its body and who laughs loudly is?" Schiller just kept repeating this question. Finally, the black and white cat with a pile of tubes inserted into its body said: "Fine, if you insist, that lunatic is on the bottom floor, right below my cell."

"You're lying. If there really were such a cat, you two should be locked on the same floor. After all, for Batman cat, your danger level might not necessarily be lower than his."

At this time, the cat, who was lying lazily on the ground and only moving its tail, finally raised its eyes and looked at Schiller. Then he heard Schiller say:

"All the monitoring robots and security robots here have been destroyed by me. I know you don't believe it, thinking this might be Batman cat's trap, but if I'm not mistaken, Batman cat thinks you have a dependency on the liquid in the tank behind you, but actually, that's just a trap of yours..."

That cat finally climbed up slowly, shook the fur on its body, stared at Schiller with dangerous eyes, and asked him: "Who are you? Another Joker cat? Only he has seen through my disguise..."

"That's not important." Schiller stood in front of the cell door. Borrowing the bars of the cell, he stood up and then used his claws to hook the door lock. The black and white cat inside the cell said: "Don't waste your effort. Even if you cut off the signal, the physical protection performance of this door lock is also..."

"Click."

The door lock was opened from the inside. The cell door opened a crack directly. At that moment, the cat inside rushed out with lightning speed.

Then, it stood in the corridor, turned back, and looked at Schiller, saying: "If letting me out is part of Batman cat's plan, I can only tell him that he is dead wrong."

As he spoke, he turned to leave. Schiller called him back and said: "Let's introduce ourselves first. What's your name?"

"You can call me Bane cat." That cat licked its paws. Schiller looked at him and said: "I let you out, which is equivalent to doing you a favor. So, shouldn't you also do me a favor?"

"What do you want to do?" Bane cat turned to look at Schiller. He had a strange feeling. His intuition told him not to get close to the cat opposite him. He might be even more dangerous than Batman cat or Joker cat.

Then, he saw the cat opposite smile, revealing two sharp teeth hidden in its mouth. The gray pupils emitted a faint light in the darkness. He heard Schiller say:

"Go, let all the cats here out..."

"I want to let Batman cat understand a truth, that is..."

"A cat dressed as a bat is truly crazy." ===== CHAPTER 595 =====