Chapter 17: Searching for Harley Quinn

"Jason Wood, also known as Plant Master, is an out-and-out environmental terrorist. Compared to what he did, Ivy's (Poison Ivy) gardening hobby of turning living people into trees is just like Harley Quinn's diapers, deadly but harmless."

"..."

Chen Tao didn't notice Gordon's expression. As a super American comic fan, his instinct was activated, and he began to constantly reveal the assets of the two plant villains.

"The basic power of the green of all things is mainly divided into the [Tree Council] representing trees and the [May Queen] representing vines."

"But the instinct of vines is to be attached and obedient, so the [May Queen] who listens to the [Tree Council] most of the time is often ignored by people. But this does not mean that they have no power."

"You must know that the spokesperson selected by the [Tree Council] is the swamp monster, and the scum like Plant Master is just a low-level agent to make up the number."

"But Poison Ivy is different. She is the spokesperson of the [May Queen] People, that is to say, in terms of the essence of power, she is on par with the swamp monster, and superior to low-level agents like the plant master--"

Gordon was stunned by the mess of settings that suddenly came out. He opened his mouth and said like an idiot, and then said:

"Batman, your information is really... I almost didn't understand you--"

"What? You can't understand such a simple setting? I have explained it so clearly, only a fool can't understand it. "

Chen Tao complained, and then took the stack of information in his hand.

"Ha! I knew it!"

"In order to repay Mother Earth, Plant Master will never do useless work. If he can't do it himself, he will ask Poison Ivy to help. It just so happens that Bane blew up the asylum, so he didn't even have to rob the prison."

Gordon interrupted and said:

"Here I have another thing to tell you. I don't think this detailed dossier can be written by those idiots who gave it to me. But after I matched the above content with the situation we have, I found that it was all true. In fact, many places were investigated very carefully, and many blind spots that even professionals didn't find were found.

Talking about the field he is familiar with, Director Gordon pushed his glasses.

"But this intelligence came too coincidentally. Not only did it provide new evidence and clues, but the report used several methods to prove that only Batman could solve this serious problem. I was even forced to admit that many of the contents written on it were correct-"

"I have to question the motives. ”x2

Batman's unanimous voice made Gordon feel like he was in sync with his heart, as if he had returned to the golden age when he and Batman Harvey Dent formed an iron triangle and vowed to change the entire Gotham.

Although all these achievements and beauty were shattered into dust as Harvey Dent fell into Two-Face... Damn, why did I think of these?

Gordon quickly put these middle-aged people's feelings behind him, and then continued:

"And this information is too detailed, such as the character's posture, attack sequence, and even the escape method, detailed like an accomplice."

"Maybe an accomplice." Chen Tao replied: "This attack was carefully planned and well-planned. I don't believe that these two wooden heads would suddenly become so professional. Excuse me, this is more like an attack plan than an investigation report."

"And, Master Plant is such a big living tree, you didn't even discover its existence before?"

"A scientist who has such a terrifying biological weapon, you actually figured out his details after he was tied up for a few days? "

"Is the intelligence network of the Gotham City Police Department really that bad?"

Chen Tao said: "Someone is deliberately deceiving you, just to expose the matter at the right time-"

Batman suddenly paused.

Then immediately-

"I understand." Gordon heard Batman say this.

Oh? Are you going to start reasoning? Gordon's eyes showed a gleam of light.

No matter how many times, reasoning cases with the world's greatest detective Batman is an extreme enjoyment.

Even though he is the chief of the Gotham City Police Department, he is still a humble apprentice in front of a great detective like Batman.

Come on! Batman! Although he is already middle-aged, Gordon still has a feeling of boiling blood. His reasoning soul is burning, craving a collision of sparks of wisdom, a feast of reasoning!

He heard Batman lower his head and start "reasoning":

"I understand! Bane is not sure that he can defeat me, so they plan to launch other plans to defeat me, but they need time, so they have to find something for me to do so that I don't have time to keep biting them.

"This report must have come from Bane's subordinate [Caveman]. Maybe he helped plan this whole thing. The purpose of Plant Master and Poison Ivy is also obvious. Using biological weapons? Too low. They captured the botanist alive, and they must want to green the entire earth!"

"I understand! The plant master must want to replicate the birth process of the swamp monster on everyone on the earth, and then turn all the people on the planet into walking trees, and his plan must have gone wrong, resulting in the temporary transformation of others, but soon turning into pus and blood-"

"That's why they need scientists!"

"Obviously, they must be planning their evil mission in the Massacre Swamp outside Gotham!"

"So that's it! I have gradually understood everything! No one, better than me, understands villains!"

"?"

Gordon was a little suspicious, he opened his mouth, then took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes.

Are we reading the same information?

How did you come to this conclusion?

What is the basis? What is the reason?

"Obviously"?

The reason is of course because Chen Tao has read the original comics.

Looking at the decades of comic book history of the character Plant Master, every time he appears, he says "My Mother Earth!" and then starts to get horny for the Earth. Then, every time he does something similar, he is beaten by Poison Ivy and Swamp Thing...

Any story that has something to do with the greenness of all things always involves pulling out Plant Master Jack Wood to whip his corpse. After all, he is a walking tree, and it is difficult for him to die.

As long as you see his behavior pattern more often, you can almost recite it by heart.

But Chen Tao soon realized that he couldn't explain why he knew so much.

So, he could only make up a nonsense: "Human intuition is a trait that cannot be mastered through learning, and it is also my most effective weapon."

Don't ask, just ask intuition.

Gordon listened and couldn't help but stand in awe. Finally, he stopped acting? I said that the magical reasoning of Batman in the past was not what normal people could think of. I always thought it was magic, but you always lied to me that it was reasoning!

Chen Tao pondered for a while and found that this matter had a lot of potential.

In fact, even if Bane didn't try to delay him, he would never fight with Bane right now. From Bane's point of view, Batman seemed to be awesome and good at fighting, and now he had exposed his ability to transform, which they had not discovered during their preliminary intelligence work. His face was full of invincibility.

But only Chen Tao knew that he was a weakling now. The big green dinosaur might have some fighting power, but Bane was a veritable martial arts master. After using Titan Venom, his maximum physical strength would exceed 90 tons. If he was willing to give up his brain and IQ, this number would become 120.

So Bane didn't want to fight Batman now, and why would Chen Tao want to? Chen Tao didn't even think about fighting with Bane himself. If he could solve it with money, why did he have to do it himself?

Bane planned to use Plant Master and Poison Ivy to trip him up, which was exactly what he wanted. Superpowers like Poison Ivy, who are rare among Gotham villains, were naturally on Chen Tao's list of allies.

As an avid fan of comics, Chen Tao dared to say that even the worms in Ivy's stomach didn't understand Poison Ivy as well as he did, and Bane's behavior was simply giving him a helper for free.

But now the problem is here.

The Massacre Swamp is so big, where exactly are Poison Ivy and Plant Master?

This time Chen Tao is really helpless. He is just a comic reader, not Wei Banxian who sets up a stall at the intersection of Gotham to tell fortunes.

He can speculate the general behavior plan of the villain based on the huge amount of comic reading, and it is impossible to speculate more detailed points.

But Chen Tao knows that there is someone who knows, he murmured:

"I have a plan, I am sure, I have a damn good plan!"

"We need Harley Quinn, the former Harley Quinn, the humanoid navigator of Gotham City villains, a special weapon that increases damage to the Joker, Poison Ivy's best friend and super nemesis. Only she can find her!"

And he happened to know how to find Harley Quinn.