Volume 2 Honoring Robin Chapter 47: Bat Family Bloodline
"Boss! Boss, how are you? Don't die!"
The Kite Man, whose face was bruised and bloody after being beaten by the King of Assassins, grabbed the grappling hook and lifted Mason from the air to the roof. He looked at the black snake-shaped throwing knife stuck on the chest of Mason's jersey and suddenly felt a little nervous.
I dare not pull it out directly.
He could only draw out his own allocated healing potion and pour it into Mason's mouth.
But the young man was not in danger of his life. Lei Xiaogu's final blow did pierce his heart, but before he died, he held the cursed gold coin to lock his vitality and drank a tube of unicorn blood, which saved Mason's life.
He is just weak from recovering from his injuries.
"Stop shaking! If you keep shaking, you'll really die!"
Mason complained which made Kite Man overjoyed, and under Mason's instruction, he grasped the alien-shaped throwing knife with both hands, took a few deep breaths, and pulled it out violently.
Blood spurted out of the wound, shocking Charles, but the bleeding quickly stopped.
Mason gritted his teeth and gave himself emergency first aid, so as not to waste this opportunity to improve his first aid proficiency.
He kept adjusting his breathing and watched the [Near Death] status of the character card on the screen in front of him change to [Serious Injury], and then after a dozen seconds of rest, it changed to [Minor Injury].
This made him marvel at the magic of unicorn blood.
Of course, this legendary item does not just repair injuries. Mason can also feel his vitality being strengthened, but this process takes time to take effect.
Unfortunately, he had too little unicorn cord blood and was unable to give each of his team members a bottle.
"Go... pick up the bodies!"
Mason sat up, panting. He cut open his palm and let the cursed gold coin fall back into the gold box with blood to eliminate the curse. He pointed to the pile of ashes left by the Assassin King in front of the launch pad and told the Kite Man:
"Then hurry to the Wayne Industries medical department warehouse and take out all the vaccines we need while the chaos is going on. The more the better. Now is the perfect time, no one will notice your actions at this time.
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity…”
"Boss, are you sure it's okay for you to be here alone?"
Kite Man was still a little worried about Mason's condition.
After all, the broken heart was a fatal injury no matter how you looked at it. The young man shook his head and wiped the blood off his face, pulled out a revolver from his waist, loaded it with bullets, and gave Charles a reassuring look.
The latter took action immediately, and without looking carefully, he rolled up the robe left by Lei Xiaogu along with various odds and ends and threw them into his bag, then took a few steps and jumped down.
In the light of the burning Arkham Asylum, he flew into the darkness before his eyes and disappeared.
Mason was left there, holding a gun and observing his surroundings.
He saw Catwoman fighting desperately with Talia, and also saw Batman struggling to stand up on the roof. Tonight's events should come to an end here...
"boom"
The crisp sound of gunfire coming from the other side of the roof interrupted Mason's thoughts, and then he saw a ball of blood exploding in front of Batman.
An Arkham prisoner who was trying to sneak attack the master while holding a grenade from behind was shot in the head and his miserable body fell into the burning sea of fire below.
The Scarlet Knight who fired the shot threw aside the high-tech rifle with an empty magazine. He dragged the Nightwing who was knocked down by him and limped away the warrior who was blocking his way.
The cracked helmet was raised, looking at Batman kneeling on the roof.
He shouted:
"Come here! Or I'll kill him!"
"Who are you going to kill?"
The master asked in a hoarse voice:
"You want to kill your brother? Jason, that's enough! Stop it."
"No, of course not! Dick was just a witness tonight."
Scarlet Knight threw Nightwing aside.
He swung his flying knife and cut the rope of the guy hanging higher up, causing the masked guy to fall down at his feet.
The Scarlet Knight, whose armor was torn to pieces by Young Master Nightwing, pulled out a black pistol, pressed it against the guy's head, and tore off the cloth on his mouth.
He yelled to Bruce Wayne:
"I will kill Zhou Ke'er! Right in front of you, Batman! Unless you can stop me."
"Ah~Batman~Mighty Batman! Come and save me! Look, I'm about to be killed, I'm so scared! Come and save me, please?"
The clown, who had been hung in the air for nearly ten hours, was now kneeling on the ground, his whole body shaking with excitement. His face was painted with all kinds of colors and he was wearing a messy set of clothes.
But he didn't care about the gun behind his head or his weak body.
He didn't even care about the death that was right before him.
He just stared with wide eyes at Batman who was slowly standing up in front of him, like a super fan meeting his super idol.
He whistled, his eyes sparkling as he shouted:
"Stop this lunatic! Batman, you are the only one who can save me!"
"Shut up!"
The Scarlet Knight angrily hit the clown on the head with the butt of his rifle , knocking him to the ground with blood all over his face. But the madman not only did not cry out in pain, but instead lay on the ground and laughed crazily.
It seemed that the scene before her eyes was the miraculous turning point of some story that Zhou Keer had been expecting. That surprised expression was as if the moment she had been waiting for her whole life was finally coming.
In order to complete this brilliant turn of events, he was not reluctant to sacrifice his own crazy life which would end sooner or later.
"Jason, stop!"
The master's figure glided down from the high eaves and landed in front of the Scarlet Knight and the Clown.
The sea of fire burning and spreading everywhere became the tragic background of this scene.
The noisy screams of the black warriors who were evacuating from the various vine monsters summoned by Poison Ivy and the Arkham psychopaths below served as the harsh soundtrack for this scene.
Young Master Ye Yi, who was thrown aside, still remained conscious.
He tried very hard to get up and stop his brother from doing something stupid.
But the furious Jason was really ruthless and had learned some vicious techniques from the League of Assassins, which paralyzed him and made him only able to watch everything in front of him.
Then, the struggling young master saw Mason, who was hiding next to the launching pad with a gun in his hand, watching the fun with great interest on the other side of the roof.
"Mason! Help!"
He cried out in pain over the commuter.
"No hurry, let's see what they say first."
Mason said slowly and weakly:
"This is a matter between Jason Todd and Bruce Wayne, and you've shown me the consequences of intervening rashly, and I don't want to be beaten up by Two Barrels.
Besides, the grudges buried in the heart need to be spoken out, Grayson, just like Barbara.
If you don't let them speak out these things clearly at this time, and let the dark pain ferment over time, you will only get a jar of poisonous wine.
The next time it erupts, it won't just hurt these two people.
Be patient!
I will take action before it is too late."
"Jason, put the gun down!"
There were still traces of the Master's breastplate left by the King of Assassins' finger, just like the miserable marks left by an anti-material bullet.
But he didn't care about the pain and weakness left in his body. He just quietly grasped the bat dart at his waist under the cover of his cloak and shouted at the Scarlet Knight who was a little out of control:
"There's a toxin in the Joker's body! Whoever kills him will be infected and become the next Joker... I know you want revenge, but not in this way!"
"Why not?"
The Scarlet Knight's high-tech round helmet was covered with cracks, which made the optical shielding ineffective and even allowed one to vaguely see the young and distorted face inside the helmet.
He grabbed the laughing clown from the ground , put a gun to the back of his head and shouted:
"He killed me! A year and a half ago in that damn warehouse, he used my biological mother as bait to lure me into that place. He wanted to use me to leave you a 'gift' that you will never forget.
That bloody crowbar..."
"Well, little Jason, even though your speech is very sad, I still want to correct you."
The held hostage Zhou Ke'er had a malicious smile on her blood-stained face.
He shouted:
“It wasn’t me who used your mother as bait, it was the great woman who tried to save the innocent children from my bomb who took the initiative to sell you to me.
Alas, at that time she didn't know that you were her biological son who was lost.
For the lives of those little bastards she treated, she willingly sold her son to me! Well, after I hit you on the head with a crowbar... well, almost a hundred times and planted a bomb in you while you were out of breath, I told her the secret.
Her heart-wrenching cry was so beautiful to hear."
The clown tilted his head as if he was thinking about something. After a second, he asked doubtfully:
"After you were rescued by the Assassins, did you go to look for your mother? Is she still alive? She is such a great lady. I was thinking of sending her a greeting card or something this Christmas."
"boom"
The Joker's answer was a hot bullet.
The bullet shot out from Jason's gun and entered the Joker's thigh, causing Zhou Keer to scream in pain as blood splattered everywhere. However, it was more like a means of "creating an atmosphere".
After screaming, the madman started laughing again.
He raised his blood-stained face.
The increasingly bright eyes stared at the silent Batman in front of him, and he shouted:
"You failed to save him, Batman! You failed in that duel eighteen months ago, and you watched me kill your assistant, your second Robin.
I watched you pick him up from the rubble, covered in blood, and I thought you would break your ridiculous rule and put a bullet in my eye.
I even wrote my suicide note in advance!
But you, the jerk, didn't do it, and all the preparations you made me do were in vain! It was such a bummer, and I felt that it was the worst joke of my life.
But guess what?
Zhou Keer laughed crazily.
It was obvious that he was being held hostage by the Scarlet Knight, but the current situation seemed as if this bastard was in control of everything.
His face was covered in blood as he screamed:
"Who would have thought there would be a sequel to this saga! You'll never guess how surprised I was when I saw an angry Jason Todd appear in my cozy hospital room.
This lovely child crawled back from the dead to seek revenge on me, and I knew that the game between us was finally coming to an end.
Come on, Batboy!
try again!
Try again to save Jason Todd from me!
But this time it's not just his life!
You know, this time we're betting on his soul struggling in the abyss!"
“Shut up! Shut up!!!”
Jason swung his gun again and hit the Joker on the forehead.
The creepy sound of bones cracking interrupted the clown's wild laughter, and the Scarlet Knight took off his broken helmet and threw it on the ground. The thin face with black hair and black eyes appeared in this bleak night, and Mason, who had been watching this scene, frowned slightly.
No wonder everyone he meets says he looks like Jason Todd...
It turns out they weren't just talking about style.
He did bear some resemblance to Jason in appearance, but his eyes were larger than the crazed Scarlet Knight's, and his overall features were more handsome.
"You left me there!"
Jason roared at the silent Batman like a raging beast:
"You threw me into that cold coffin! You covered my life with dark soil, and you let those assassins steal me! They threw me into that devilish pool... They made my confused mind follow their consciousness!
But I can live with that, Batman.
I can bear it!
The pain that doesn't kill me will only grow stronger! I made it through, I became one of them but I just wanted to come back here to tell you the good news!
But what did you do to me! "
His roar grew louder and louder, as if it echoed through the sky.
He shouted:
“You didn’t punish the Joker at all!
Even after he killed me, even after what he did to Barbara. I'm sorry I lied to Barbara, but I know she was willing to help me because she felt the same hatred that I did.
You always do, Batman.
You always put those damn rules above everything else!
Lei Xiaogu was right.
He said being Batman has a price, he said we are your price... you hear me? We are your price, scarred and broken!"
"That's not the case, Jason."
Nightwing was struggling while lying there. He shouted hard and sadly:
"Don't think like that, Jason, don't let those vicious assassins disturb you! You are Robin too, you know that the pain is not just for him!"
"I'm not Robin anymore!"
Jason turned his head and looked at his former brother. His eyes were red as he said:
"He already had a new Robin less than two months after I died, didn't he? I thought I was important to him, I thought I was family. I thought he would grieve for me when I was gone.
But it turns out, he didn’t!
He just found another kid he bewitched to replace me.
It turns out that I am nothing...
the same as you!
He bewitched us with a great ideal, trained us to be his assistants and sacrificed us to Batman's cause.
Me, Barbara, and you...
We will all be sacrifices to Batman."
"Shua"
"boom"
Just as Jason turned his head and was attracted by the young master's attention, the bat dart and the bullet flew out at the same time.
The bat dart thrown by the master accurately hit the trigger of the pistol in Jason Todd's hand, causing the Scarlet Knight to pull the trigger but unable to fire the bullet that would blow up the Joker's head.
But the silent Mason fired the shot for him.
As Batman pounced on Jason like a ghost and pulled Nightwing away from the Joker, the chest of the madman with colorful face paint exploded.
As Mason watched calmly and almost indifferently, the clown fell to the ground with blood all over his body. As the burning shell fell to the ground, the vicious poison gas exploded from Zhou Keer's body and spread out rapidly in the blood.
This was the last "joke" that madman left to the world.
The specially made clown gas was spreading like its villain master, trying to find the next unlucky person and turn him into a madman like the clown.
But when the poisonous gas spread all around and was about to cover the young master, Mason stood up and threw several bottles of antidote over to suppress the poisonous gas.
Until the last moment, Zhou Ke'er, whose head was blown up by a bullet, still had that signature chaotic smile on his face, but his dimmed eyes were full of dissatisfaction.
"Boring... Really... A bummer..."
These were his last words.
The five bullets that followed completely shattered his disgusting face in the night.
Mason emptied his hand cannon of bullets, turning the corpse into a disgusting mosaic, and threw in an alchemical Molotov cocktail to ensure that he couldn't be resurrected again even if he had any damn tricks.
The Joker story ended before it even began in Mason's life.
Just as the Kite Man once warned Mason: when you meet the Joker, shoot him immediately, and don't miss. Then the whole world will thank Mason.
"Successfully complete a chest-piercing execution with a long-range weapon, and your shooting skill proficiency will be improved."
The prompt jumped out in Mason's field of vision, making the young man, who had put away his gun, relax and smile.
He took out a specially made enchanted potion jar and walked forward, throwing the jar next to the clown's body, gathering the scattered poisonous gas into the jar again.
Behind him, the furious Jason was fighting a desperate battle with Batman, while the young master, who had recovered a little from the paralysis, staggered to his feet and tried to stop them.
Further away, the duel between Talia and Selina is about to be decided.
This long night should come to an end.
