Volume 1: Welcoming Gotham Chapter 3 Let’s say, my grandma can also team up with Batman to beat up the Penguin!
The top floor of the police station was in ruins, like a post-war ruin, and the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated.
Although Commissioner Gordon couldn't hear the conversation between Batman and Mason, he grinned when he saw the scene in front of him, and handed the sword-shaped hard drive that he had kept in his pocket to Batman, and he breathed a sigh of relief just as Mason breathed a sigh of relief when he gave it to him.
The latter frowned when he saw this thing, and seemed to have some objections to the shape of the hard drive.
The master looked up and saw Catwoman waving at him as she was carried out by the police. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Then, under the gazes of a group of policemen who were either in awe or admiration, the cold-blooded master stepped forward, picked up his lover and walked towards the wall.
The black bat fighter was already hovering there, and the unmanned cabin was sliding outward. He wanted to send the seriously injured Selina back to a safe area, and at the same time chase the Penguin who had already started to escape.
But the next second, Mason reached out and grabbed Batman's black cloak.
"Special material tailor-made Batsuit Cape detected, basic blueprint analysis in progress. Tailoring skill branch opened, currently at Lv0."
The moment Mason grabbed Batman's cape, a line of words jumped into the light curtain in front of him, causing the young man to raise his eyebrows. The old man turned around and glanced at him, his cold and emotionless eyes putting great pressure on the young man.
"I want to go too, with you."
Mason calmly looked at the progress bar of the tailor's creation analysis on the screen in front of him, and he whispered:
"I don't want to work for the mafia anymore. There's no future for me. I want to resign in person to Oswald and be a good person from now on, starting tonight."
"You've done enough tonight."
Although Mason had shown great sincerity, Batman remained unmoved and said calmly:
"You are needed more here. I will talk to you again when I return."
The master pointed to the messy battlefield around and below and said:
"That's not something a 17-year-old would do, so if you're going to lie to me about your origins, you better take the time to come up with a good one."
“I’m just trying to help!”
Mason was shocked.
He pretended to be angry and stepped forward, grabbing the master's wrist.
At the same moment of contact, another line of prompts popped up:
"Special material engineering/forged artifacts detected - Batsuit combat arm armor, basic blueprint analysis in progress. Forging skill branch opened, currently at Lv0."
An unexpected gain!
A gleam flashed in the young man's eyes, and he stared at Batman menacingly, shouting like an impulsive and misunderstood young man:
"I saved Catwoman! You can ask her yourself. I risked everything to make up my mind. My father, who you put in jail three times, died in the gunfight between Penguin and Falconi over the dock last month.
I know I have a bad background, but that doesn’t mean I can’t change my ways.”
"maybe."
Batman remained unmoved and twisted his wrist to free Mason's hand.
The young man took a step back, then stepped forward as if enraged and grabbed the master's armor and multi-functional combat belt with both hands, shouting angrily:
"Bah! I admired you so much! I didn't expect you to be the same as the others who judge people by appearance."
At the moment he shouted, three prompts appeared in front of Mason again:
"Special material engineering/tailor-made Batsuit main armor detected, basic blueprint analysis in progress."
"A special material engineering artifact, the Bat Hook Gun, has been detected. The basic blueprint is being analyzed."
"Special structural engineering artifact detected: multifunctional combat belt, basic blueprint analysis in progress."
"A special material forged artifact, the batarang, has been detected. The basic blueprint is being analyzed."
The master who was being harassed did not see through the young man's "fleecing" behavior at all. He just looked up and down at the young man who was very angry because his ideas were not recognized.
A few seconds later, Batman reached out took Mason's hand off his suit, and said coldly:
"Who you are and who you want to be is not determined by my opinion. Actions are more important than words. A good person will not sit idly by and watch others suffer."
After saying that, the master took out an emergency syringe for stopping bleeding from his belt and threw it to Gordon, then jumped up and landed in his own Batfighter. The moment the hatch closed, he soared into the sky like a ghost.
Mason stood there "disappointed", watching Batman leave.
Director Gordon, who had recovered some of his hearing, patted the young man on the shoulder with some emotion and whispered:
"Don't mind him, he's just a cold person, but he's a good man. You too, kid, you helped us a lot tonight, maybe you need to rest now, your head is still bleeding.
Here, give this a shot.
I have used it before and it is very useful.”
Mason nodded and took the emergency hemostatic syringe from Gordon. At the moment of injecting the therapeutic drug into the blood vessel, another prompt flashed across the light screen in front of his eyes:
"Special compound detected: Batman's own quick-stop bleeding painkiller. Basic blueprint analysis in progress. Alchemy branch opened, currently at level 0."
He looked at the seven special equipment blueprint analysis progress bars that were slowly advancing at the same time under the character card light screen in front of him, and felt in his heart that the master was indeed a tycoon who was generous with his billions.
When we met for the first time, he gave me seven advanced drawings of various professions.
Look at how generous they are. How can a miser like Penguin compare to them?
Of course, he still had to show disappointment at not being recognized, and turned around to help the injured police officers evacuate.
The hospital's ambulance has received the news and rushed to the police station building, and the place has become busy again.
"Chief, we found this down there."
A lame police officer came up with something like a tablet, handed it to Chief Gordon, and said:
"It was seized from the Penguin Gang leader who was knocked down and tied up by Batman. He was unwilling to tell us what it was, but the brothers who knew about it said it should be a tracking device."
Gordon frowned and took it in his hand. He took a look at it and saw a red dot moving on the miniature map. He felt that this thing was very important, but the Gotham Police Department was unable to send police to track it, so he put it on the desk.
“It’s that hard drive!”
Mason, who was helping out nearby, squinted his eyes and glanced at the tablet computer next to Commissioner Gordon. He thought to himself:
"Catwoman told me that the Penguin made a positioning device for his baby, and the hard drive is now in Batman's hands, so we can find Batman and the Penguin by following the coordinates.
I have achieved my goal of clearing my name, and I have even fought alongside the Gotham police. No one can accuse me of being a villain anymore, and I can now put a new career plan on the agenda.
Tonight was really exciting.
But now it's Batman vs. Penguin's boss battle, do you want to go and watch it up close?"
More than ten minutes later, Commissioner Gordon, who finally breathed a sigh of relief after sending the last injured person to the ambulance, sat in a chair and let the medical staff next to him suture his wounds.
But soon, the director realized:
"Eh? Where's the tracking tablet? Who took it? Damn it, that's important evidence!"
——
"Oswald is in that car down there."
The black bat fighter flew quickly across the dark night. Around the border of the DC area, Batman had locked onto the Penguin's location through Alfred's signal tracking.
As he left the driver's seat and prepared to land, he said to Catwoman lying on the passenger seat:
"Afu will take you back to the manor, where a treatment cabin has been prepared."
"Something's not right this time, Bruce."
Catwoman, who was very weak and sleepy after being injected with sedatives, whispered:
“You have to be careful. Oswald attacked the police station like a madman, which means that there must be something important in the hard drive that is enough to make him lose his mind.
And that kid, Mason.
I saw the way you looked at him just now, he reminds you of Jason, right? Are you going to make him your next Robin?"
The master was silent for a moment, then said:
"I don't plan on training any more new Robins. I don't want to see any more of those kids bleed for my cause. Jason's death once was enough.
But Mason...
The ability that young man showed tonight is really unique, and I think I may need to keep an eye on him for a while. Stop it, you need to rest. "
After saying that, the Batfighter opened an airborne door downwards, and the master jumped down wrapped in a cloak.
The moment he left the fighter plane, the ghostly aircraft was taken over by Batman's old butler Alfu, who drew an elegant arc in the air and quickly flew towards Wayne Manor outside the city.
Batman continued to fall headfirst in the air, and opened his cloak at a safe height. The soft black cloak straightened into a glider-like structure, allowing the master to fly downward like a predatory bat and finally land accurately on the top of the high-speed extended Lincoln car below.
The collision immediately alerted the Penguin and his thugs in the car, but before they could react, a black bat dart flipped over and stuck into the hood of the car in front.
The detonation of the micro EMP bomb caused all electronic equipment in the car to fail instantly.
The Lincoln car, speeding at high speed, lost control and rolled twice on the street like a drunk snake, then crashed headfirst into a fire hydrant on the side of the street.
"boom"
The car door was kicked open roughly, and four or five gangsters holding submachine guns jumped out and shot at Batman dizzily, but were knocked down one after another by the master who swung over from the telephone pole with a terrifying surprise attack and heavy punches in close combat.
It was a one-sided massacre.
The gangster Penguin, who was wearing a black tuxedo, a top hat and a monocle, had a strange sharp nose and was walking with a black gentleman's umbrella, like an elegant and proud emperor penguin, took advantage of the chaos to escape from the other side of the car, staggering forward with a suitcase in one hand and an umbrella in the other.
Batman was beating up his bodyguards and underlings behind him, but the Penguin didn't even look at him.
But this guy was not just running away. The moment the master dealt with all his men and threw two bat darts at him, the short penguin turned around and opened his Bulgarian umbrella as if he had predicted it.
With two clang sounds, the seemingly thin but tough umbrella actually bounced the bat dart away.
Then the Penguin pulled the bent umbrella handle, holding the open umbrella as if it were a machine gun, and fired several shots at the rushing Batman.
But the master was also a veteran, and he used his cloak to defend himself and speed up his approach while turning his body.
"Shua"
A snow-white blade popped out from the Penguin's folded umbrella, and the short gangster also felt a surge of ruthlessness, as if he was holding a short spear, and stabbed the rushing Batman three times. After being blocked by the sharp blade that popped out from the combat arm armor, the master twisted the switch of the umbrella handle, causing the umbrella head to spew out flames and finally forced Batman back.
"That thing is on you! They won't let you go!"
The sweaty Penguin pulled away and continued to shoot with his umbrella, and as if he was at the end of his rope, he shouted to Batman:
“But why don’t you just let me go here, Bat.
I can pretend this never happened, and I can get away with it. You know, my place is the most orderly place in Gotham, and I just want to make money and never mess around.
Haven't we been living in peace for the past few years?"
The master did not answer.
The grim Batman is not a superhero who likes to talk during a fight, which is also part of the gloomy style he deliberately maintains.
When the Penguin saw Batman retreating into the shadows, he vigilantly held on to his umbrella and kept backing away.
He is under a lot of pressure.
Almost all the attention was attracted by Batman hiding in the shadows in front of them, and they ignored the thin figure hiding in the flower bed across the street.
Mason, who was lying in the grass, squinted his eyes and quietly raised the engineering pistol in his hand. The combat-assisted aiming frame had locked onto the short Penguin Man, and the preset trajectory also drew a red dotted line in front of his eyes, like a straight line falling between him and the Penguin Man.
This was actually the first time Mason had truly met his nominal boss, not counting previous meetings.
"Bat! Stop hiding and come out!"
The Penguin, who was forced into a desperate situation, shouted at the top of his voice:
"The other crazy people in this city don't understand your thoughts, but I do! I know you have drawn a line for us, and as long as we don't cross it, you can tolerate us living our lives in the gray area.
I assure you, this evening was just a little accident.
I stabbed your lover, but it was a misunderstanding. You don't know what's on that hard drive, do you?
You better see it for yourself.
Then you'll understand that we can actually work together.
Our city is in danger!"
"Whoosh"
The bat dart thrown from another corner interrupted the Penguin's muttering. Oswald roared, turned the umbrella head and fired wildly at that side.
And the moment he turned his back to the street, Mason decisively pulled the trigger.
There was a soft thud.
The bullet flew out of the barrel at high speed, flew along the preset trajectory over a distance of several dozen meters , and bit the Penguin Man's hand like a poisonous snake.
The Penguin jumped up in pain with blood splattering everywhere, and his two broken fingers twitched on the ground like a dying snake, but he was knocked down by Batman who came down from the sky the next moment.
The bulletproof bat cape bulged up and covered his enemy, preventing the second bullet from flying over and taking his life.
But Mason had no intention of continuing to shoot .
After firing the shot, he stood up from the bushes with his left hand holding the gun and his right hand raised, and walked towards the master, shouting:
"That shot was my resignation letter to Penguin. You said actions speak louder than words."
The young man looked at Batman, and Batman looked at him.
As their eyes met, Mason dropped the gun in his hand and said:
"The whole city knows you don't kill people, and I don't intend to kill anyone in front of you. I just want to tell you that Mason Cooper, who worked for the Penguin Gang, is dead.
From now on, I just want to live a peaceful life.”
Batman didn't answer.
While injecting a sedative into the neck of the Penguin Man who was howling like a pig being slaughtered, he glanced at the two bloody severed fingers at his feet.
In the dim street, he said to Mason in a hoarse voice:
"No, this shot will make it impossible for you to live a peaceful life. If you knew how the gangs in this city deal with traitors..."
