novelonline Chapter 2494: Battle for the Cloak (5)
Chapter 2494: Battle for the Cloak (5)
Chapter 2494: Battle for the Cloak (Fifty)
The Robins all gathered around the bed, while Barbara was beside her, covering her head with her hands, a look of confusion in her eyes.
"I really can't understand why they both fell unconscious during a nap."
Barbara's tone was filled with self-blame and anxiety. Tim stepped forward to comfort her and said, "This means that the enemy has found your weakness and took advantage of you when you were resting."
Nightwing was bandaging his wound. When he heard that something had happened to Arkham Knight, he hurried back. As expected, he encountered a monster in the thick fog on the way. After a struggle, he managed to escape, but his arm was dislocated and his neck was cut.
The Robins from the Schiller Universe were not having a good time either. Although they decided to remain on hold for the time being after receiving the information, the thick fog obviously would not let them do as they wished. Another attack came later. Jason was already injured, and this time all three of them almost fell.
After waiting for a long time, the thick fog showed no signs of dissipating. They also realized that the pattern of the thick fog might have changed. Even if the three of them worked together, they were still a little outnumbered, so they should go back and meet up with the others.
Not to mention the various strange events that occurred one after another on the way to the rendezvous. If it weren't for their strong willpower and quick reaction, it would have been difficult for them to return to the clock tower intact.
In addition to the troublesome cut on Jason's leg, Dick was tripped by a sudden attack during the chase and sprained his ankle, and Tim had a scratch on his arm, which was being disinfected and bandaged.
The three from the main universe were the least injured, because they had received the most comprehensive training and had the most complete and best equipment. With the cooperation of the three, only Nightwing was hit by the alien's tail, and his back was a little swollen. The others were uninjured.
Although that's what they said, there were only two people with full combat power left and they couldn't do anything. They simply gathered in the bell tower to rest for a while, hoping to carry out the next plan after the fog dissipated.
But as soon as they went upstairs, they saw Barbara looking a little panicked.
Barbara has the habit of taking a nap. Since she doesn't need to keep an eye on the Arkham Knight all the time, she plans to take a short nap to replenish her energy and then continue to provide remote support to Robin and others.
But when she woke up and wanted to call Spider-Man to eat something and give Arkham Knight some water, she found that the two men didn't respond no matter how she called them.
Barbara immediately realized that something was wrong, so she quickly called up the Robins who had rushed back to find out what was going on.
The other Robins may not know what is going on, but the Red Hood and Red Robin in the main universe have read a lot of magic books and have some understanding of this. After they checked, they could only confirm that the souls of these two people were missing.
Robin from the Arkham Universe also brought detection equipment and used scientific methods to reach the same conclusion, that is, there was nothing wrong with the bodies of these two people, but there were no changes in brain waves and their brains were not working.
The Robins began their own reasoning. Both the main universe and the Arkham universe believed that they might have been attacked by a thick fog, causing their souls to be forced to leave their bodies, or that the evil god behind the thick fog absorbed their souls.
But the Robins in Schiller's universe thought differently. Jason stroked his chin and said, "If the fog wanted our souls to be useful, it would not have absorbed our souls now. It could have devoured every part of us when it first came and we were completely unprepared."
"Before the fog changed, the two of them were fine, but after the fog changed, their souls disappeared. This shows that this disappearance must be related to the change. The question is what caused the change and what happened after the change."
"I came back from around Wayne Tower and did find some anomalies." Nightwing said, "Remember those crazy Robins with big grins? They acted a little strange."
"Why is it weird?"
"They seem to be a little dazed and aimless. Some are wandering around in groups, while some are just standing there in a daze. Could there be something wrong with their owners?"
"Yes." At this time, everyone suddenly realized, "Where is King Robin?"
"He blew up the Capitol, gave a speech on TV saying he was going to be crowned king, and brought a large group of monster Robins to Gotham. Why is there no movement now?"
"It looks like something happened to King Robin." Red Robin speculated reasonably, "The thick fog was not created by him, but it has been interfering with his plans. Maybe King Robin and the thick fog had a confrontation, and both of them died."
"I don't think they will die together, but they must have been affected by this confrontation. I don't know where King Robin has gone. He might have gone back to recover from his injuries. The thick fog has also undergone some changes, and maybe it was also injured by King Robin."
"Does the fog need their souls to heal?"
When this speculation came out, everyone felt a little horrified. Could it be that the thick fog had eaten the souls of Spider-Man and Arkham Knight?
"But why the two of them?" Jason asked again: "In terms of soul energy, we should be much stronger than them, right?"
Everyone's eyes were focused on the Arkham Knight's face. There was no doubt that the man on the hospital bed could not be called healthy. In terms of spiritual energy, everyone present was better than him.
Batman and Batwoman in the police office also speculated this. If the soul was useful to the thick fog, then since the thick fog had the ability to devour people's souls without making any sound, it might as well go find some who were healthier and had more energy instead of targeting the sick.
Batman knows one more piece of information than Robin, which is the hole he saw at the original portal that may lead to the dream world.
This clue is crucial. As long as we add the keyword "dream", it is not difficult to infer why it is the Arkham Batman and the Superman of the Arkham world who have lost their souls now.
Because both of them were very weak and needed to recuperate, Arkham Batman himself was on the verge of coma due to excessive blood loss. Under Batman's treatment and care, he needed to use sleep to replenish his strength. He knew this himself, so he could not resist sleep.
Superman was attacked by kryptonite. Although it was not clear what so many colorful kryptonites were used for, it was obvious that Superman fell into a half-asleep state due to extreme weakness.
Sleep is a prerequisite for falling asleep. These two people lost their souls probably because they fell asleep.
After Batman made this speculation, he was immediately refuted by Batwoman, "Look at the anesthetized people lying on the street. How come their brain waves are normal? Aren't they sleeping too?"
Batman shook his head and said, "I haven't told you the conclusion I want to draw yet. Just because everyone is sleeping, but only these two have lost their souls, it proves that this is not a large-scale dream."
"so……"
"So this may not be caused by the thick fog." Batman deduced, "Although I suspect that the citizens being anesthetized may be related to the thick fog, but judging from the nature of the thick fog now, it is not targeting any particular person. All the abnormal phenomena it has produced are large-scale, and it has not yet shown the ability to pull people into dreams."
"On the contrary, the hole that appeared at the location of the portal." Batman drew a circle on the map in the police station office and said, "This thing appeared much earlier than the thick fog. According to Poison Ivy, it first discovered that energy a few months ago."
"This hole is likely to lead to the dream world, which means that someone had planned to pull people into the dream world a few months before the thick fog appeared, but they just happened to collide with the thick fog."
Batman paused, and quickly overturned his previous conclusion, "No, it's possible that it's not a coincidence. He just wants us to think that the thick fog outbreak is the culprit for these people's dreams, to cover up his secret deeds behind the scenes."
"How did he know the fog would break?" Batwoman asked.
"I'm afraid that's not certain." Batman tapped the table with his pen and said, "I'm afraid he was the one who caused the fog to break out."
"Think about it, before the large-scale eruption of the fog, these people were fine, but after the eruption, they all fell into a coma. According to common sense, what would you think?"
"Perhaps the thick fog absorbed the souls of these people." Clark said, "Anyway, if I were to speculate, that's all I could think of."
"This is probably the real purpose of the mastermind behind this." Batman frowned and stared at the map. "He first buried a ball of energy under the city and guided Poison Ivy to detonate it. It looked like a portal was blasted out, but the portal and Robin King who passed through the portal are probably just a cover."
"What Poison Ivy blew up wasn't a portal to other universes, but a passage to the dream world. It's just that Robin acted in a high-profile manner, and Batman's death attracted everyone's attention."
"At this moment, the mastermind removed the disguise of the portal, revealing the dream world passage that had already appeared there. At the same time, he stimulated the thick fog through some unknown method, causing it to erupt."
"The thick fog itself will block vision, block communications, and greatly reduce the senses of people with superpowers. This is the best protection for infiltration. He can appear in the thick fog without anyone noticing, secretly steal the target's soul, and transport it to the dream world through the channel."
"On the surface, what people saw was just a sudden explosion of thick fog. To them, very important people fell unconscious at the same time. Combined with the strange state of the thick fog before and the dangerous situation after the explosion, everyone would regard the fog as a real enemy."
"And the real mastermind behind this will be able to sit back and relax." Batwoman followed his train of thought and said, "It can even let these people fight to the death with the mysterious entity behind the thick fog."
"Do you think they will do that?" Batwoman looked down at the unconscious Arkham Batman. She knew that the so-called group of people referred to Batman's Robins. If they knew that Batman was unconscious, they would definitely try their best to find the real culprit behind Batman's murder.
In fact, Batman couldn't say for sure. He was not completely sure that the Robins would not do this, because he actually saw the secret competition among the Robins.
When Batman was around, the Robins didn't dare to act rashly due to his authority, but once he was absent, these birds would probably fight to the death even for his cape or to inherit his legacy.
As expected, a debate broke out in the clock tower. Robin from the Arkham Universe thought that this was probably caused by the thick fog. In order to save the Arkham Knight and find the missing Batman, they should try to find out the secret behind the thick fog.
The Robins in the main universe were not so sure, but they also felt that they had to find Batman.
Only the Robins in Schiller's universe proposed a different idea. He said, "Since you care so much about Batman, why not care about Batman's purpose? Remember the previous phone call? Batman wanted us to find the cape. As Robin, shouldn't we complete the task assigned by Batman first?"
(End of this chapter)