Robbing banks, bombing streets, poisoning, killing people—what hadn't the Scarecrow done?
But today he ran into a tough character named Connors, and he was being blackmailed. Normally, a big scam wouldn't net five million dollars, not to mention that Scarecrow had spent all his personal fortune preparing a full can of "fear gas" in his car.
Let alone five million US dollars, it would be hard for him to pay even five hundred dollars now. Even if he could come up with that much money, the Scarecrow would never hand it over to Connors just to open a car door lock.
But the tanker's glass was extremely strong, and the Scarecrow could not break it with his bare hands.
There were no handy tools in the car, and the car had almost become his cage. Connors stood beside the front of the truck, looking at the Scarecrow inside with his wide eyes peering out from under the hood, and couldn't help but sigh: "The ability of this Lock Picking Master is extraordinary…"
His original intention was just to lock the liquid inlet and outlet of the tanker truck; the various locks in the car were just an afterthought, but the effect was surprisingly good. If this continued, the Scarecrow would be trapped in the car until Batman arrived.
Connors wasn't in a hurry and planned to wait patiently, but Harley Quinn next to him disagreed: "Paddy, let him out quickly."
Connors was puzzled: "What?"
Harley Quinn smiled, and when she saw that Connors didn't immediately open the car door, she took off her shoe and pointed its high heel at the car window.
Bang!
Dense cracks suddenly appeared on the car window.
The Scarecrow was overjoyed: "Good job, Harley, keep going!"
Harley Quinn did not disappoint the Scarecrow. She completely shattered the glass with several more strikes from her high heel, sending shards all over the ground.
Connors stepped back a few paces, intending to see Harley Quinn's purpose in freeing the Scarecrow.
"After Gotham's fall, you'll definitely have a share of the credit, Harley Quinn. You didn't let me down!"
After the Scarecrow said this, the fear toxin in the bottles and jars on his body began to emanate from the tanker, intending to plunge the people in front of him into fear, allowing him to calmly exit the vehicle.
But Harley Quinn was standing at a fire hydrant installed on the wall not far away, with the nozzle of the water pipe aimed at the tanker's shattered window.
The large amount of water vapor prevented the Scarecrow's fear gas from spreading in the air, and naturally could not make Harley succumb to fear.
When the Scarecrow realized this and hurried to get out of the tanker, Harley Quinn threw away the water gun nozzle and picked up a stone from the side of the road.
"Bang!"
"The Joker's mnion?"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Dear Scarecrow?"
Holding a stone in her hand, Harley Quinn smashed the Scarecrow's head as it emerged from the tanker, laughing crazily.
The makeup and eye shadow on her face, affected by the water from the fire hydrant, streamed down her cheeks like two tear marks.
'Oh my god, don't smash the Scarecrow to death…' Connors quickly stepped forward, stopped Harley Quinn, and waved his hand over the Scarecrow's gear. The bottles and jars filled with the fear toxin were "locked" in an instant.
Strictly speaking, it wasn't a lock. Connors simply destroyed some switches and safety mechanisms that the Scarecrow had set on the equipment.
These actions came naturally, based on his increasing mastery of Lockpicking. The only locks that could truly stump him were the super-large and super-complex ones or the extremely simple ones.
"Harley, what's wrong?" After Connors disabled Scarecrow's equipment, he no longer cared about him and instead focused on Harley's condition.
"Why is it that even though Scarecrow and Riddler have worked with the Joker, people still call them 'Scarecrow' and 'Riddler' instead of 'The Joker's Scarecrow'?"
"And the fact that I helped the Joker escape from Arkham made me be labeled as the Joker's. Even after I announced on TV that 'Harley' has become independent, they still treat me as his subordinate."
Harley Quinn laughed and threw away the stone in her hand, uttering the not-so-light words in a light tone.
"…" This question was difficult for Connors to answer. In the comics, Harley Quinn and the Joker split up just like that, without so many follow-ups, right?
He couldn't tell Harley, "Go make a big splash yourself so that Batman will regard you as his primary enemy, independent of the Joker, and your reputation will be known to other villains."
Although such an event would satisfy his needs for the "gossip system," becoming closely associated with Harley Quinn would make him a "villain," which didn't align with Connors's self-proclaimed role as a "gossip monger."
"I've decided. I'm going to make big news!" Harley Quinn seemed to have a new idea. "I won't rely on anyone this time!"
Connors covered his face; his fears had come true. What made him feel even more uncomfortable was that the Batwing was already hovering thirty meters above the ground, and then Batman himself landed from the sky, just in time to hear Harley Quinn's declaration about making big news.
Batman appeared, Harley Quinn left decisively, and Connors wondered what kind of news the little lunatic was going to make. The only ones left on the scene were Connors, Batman, and Scarecrow.
"You are here." Connors greeted casually.
"…" Batman was a little helpless. His good mood from seeing that Scarecrow hadn't yet released the fear gas was completely wiped out by Harley Quinn's "crime preview," and now he saw Connors was present.
He instinctively had a premonition that something bad was about to happen with Connors around.
Sure enough, Batman soon saw Connors reach out to open the car door, pull Scarecrow out, and then wave his hand over the other person.
Not to mention Bruce Wayne standing in front of him, even the Scarecrow himself, the owner of the "fear gas," did not realize that the equipment he was wearing had started working.
Different liquids quickly mixed into "fear gas" through pipes, and then filled the air under the action of the atomizer.
Almost instantly, the Scarecrow and Connors disappeared from Batman's sight. Instead, the surroundings turned into a dark cave, and huge bats swooped toward him from all directions.
"I remember that when people are trapped in the gas of fear, their facial features will be unable to receive signals from the outside world…"
Connors did not cheer for Batman like he did during the previous match between Batman and the Joker, but chose to watch the fight quietly from the side.
Unfortunately, Batman was hallucinating and attacking the air. Scarecrow did not dare to get entangled with Batman due to Connors' presence and always kept his distance.
There was truly nothing interesting about this battle. If Connors hadn't covered his mouth and nose with his wet clothes, he would have even wanted to yawn.
Then he inadvertently saw the traces left by Harley Quinn on the ground from the corner of his eye:
"Bane and Penguin are also taking action."
At this time, Bane was standing on the top of a tall building, observing with a telescope in his hand. After seeing a muscular young man who seemed to be doing nothing next to Batman and Scarecrow, he decisively chose to leave.
The Penguin was ordering his men to break into the Gotham City Stadium, intending to open fire indiscriminately, but the entire stadium was completely covered by black ice.
The person who created this ice was the star singer Seol, Luna Snow.
Different from her glamorous image on the concert stage, at this moment she was tied upside down in the air by green vines that looked like living things, still tied in a peculiar pattern.
Most of her clothes were torn, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth. It was obvious that she had just experienced a battle.
The person who forced her into this situation was none other than Gotham's notorious villain, Poison Ivy.
She followed the restlessness in her heart, but because of the solid ice in the Gotham Stadium, a large number of plants around were frozen to death, so she decided to neutralize this woman she had never seen before and then find the source of her restlessness.
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