The Death Knell

Dark clouds kept surging, and a stormy atmosphere enveloped the entire Gotham City. The city was dark, which was very different from what Batman usually saw.

In the past, the lights were brightly lit here even late at night, and evil happened day and night. People were driven by desire and did all kinds of crazy things, and then were directly swallowed by the darkness, becoming the nourishment for more darkness.

But today is different.

If we were talking about pure senses, it was deathly silent, and the whole city seemed to be dead.

There were no cars, no pedestrians, nothing on the road, everything was so quiet.

The chimneys no longer emit thick smoke into the clouds, and there are no gunshots on the road. Both those who have committed crimes and those who have not had time to commit crimes seem to have left here.

Batman stood on the head of the dripping stone beast on the top floor of Wayne Tower. The night wind raised his cape high, and his throat moved slightly as he communicated with Alfred.

"Master Bruce, we have too little information to tell how many of your old friends have escaped from Arkham."

Alfred was in the Batcave at this time, operating the Brother Eye, excluding people on the list one by one.

Arkham has received several injections of capital from Wayne Group. There are too many criminals and it must be constantly expanded and upgraded. But because of this, all procedures and files were managed by computers, and all those sophisticated instruments were scrapped in the flood.

After Batman returned to Gotham, he immediately made a list based on his memory and gave it to Alfred to compare with the people he might find in the city.

Yes, he was already prepared. By using the remote-controlled Bat-flyer, he could quickly rearrange the cameras in Gotham.

Those miniature cameras are expensive to build, have smart networking, and come with their own energy. The cost of building something the size of a thumbtack is thousands of dollars.

And he prepared tens of thousands of them.

There are weapons on his aircraft, which are usually used to destroy villain vehicles or buildings. But at this time, he only needs to change the ammunition to a camera of the same caliber, fire it through the barrel of the gun, and fix it in the hiding place of some key buildings.

When he was working at the Hall of Justice, Afu had already been doing this work for a long time, and now there was only a small area of ​​the city left to activate the surveillance network.

At this time, Batman was watching and waiting, because the clown seemed to be making no movement. Maybe he guessed Batman's back plan, so he deliberately gave him time to arrange?

After all, the joke still has value if Batman sees it, right?

Even though he knew that the Joker should have formed a coalition of villains, Batman still answered Ah Fu with a calm voice as before.

"Now that I captured them once, I can deliver them back to Arkham tonight."

"Then I guess you have to find a way to stop the sunrise." Ah Fu immediately started complaining: "It's three o'clock in the middle of the night, and the preliminary estimate is that there are hundreds of patients who escaped from Arkham, and the escapees from Black Gate Prison have not been counted. Inside.”

"I know."

"Many of your old friends are also old friends of the clown. I guess he has prepared an unprecedented show for us." Ah Fu became so cruel that even the clown wanted to complain.

"...He's waiting for me to be ready."

"Yes, the actors gave the audience time to warm up, which made me nervous."

Alfred clicked buttons one by one to connect the new camera, and he typed out lines of code.

Batman stood up expressionlessly. He seemed to see a familiar figure not far away: "After the network is completed, report the situation at any time and try to contact the Bat Family. I see an acquaintance here."

"Okay, Master Bruce."

Under the deep night, Batman jumped down from the roof, his black cape spread into the shape of bat wings, and chased towards the small black shadow in the sky in the distance.

Judging from the flying posture, it was not a human bat. It flapped its wings more slowly and seemed to have a lighter body.

Using the bat hook and gliding with his cape, Batman can move very quickly in the city, but compared to the opponent's autonomous flying monster, it's still a little behind.

However, as the distance got closer, Batman had already recognized the identity of the opponent through the body analysis on the eyepiece. It was Chrysalis.

For Gotham, many people may not be able to remember which character it corresponds to when they hear this name, but in fact, many people know his original code name.

He is the former Killer Moth.

Because he was defeated by Batman again and again, Killer Moth, a high-tech thief, was mentally broken. No matter how hard he trained or transformed into more advanced Moth armor, Batman still failed his plans again and again.

Fortunately, he is quite popular. Arkham's mad bosses often take him with them when they escape from prison, so he may have the shortest time to receive treatment among all mental patients.

But even though he was free, he considered himself to be only a second-tier villain, but he always failed and felt aggrieved.

So the more he thought about it, the more depressed he became, and the more depressed he became, the more he wanted to think about it, and finally succeeded in becoming autistic.

Also thanks to his good connections, he got a piece of news before he planned to commit suicide. Others told him: "Since you no longer plan to live, why not trade your soul with the devil? Increase your strength and defeat Batman once?"

When Killer Moth heard it, it made sense.

As an art thief, he was rich, and he quickly found a sorcerer who was willing to accept employment and helped him connect with the demon king Neilong.

For Neilong, this is just a normal business. As a devil, buying and selling souls is his job. As for who the mortal intends to deal with after exchanging his power, what does that have to do with him?

So Neilong, as the demon king of another dimension, very generously carried out a comprehensive transformation of Killer Moth, mutating him with hell energy, which greatly enhanced Killer Moth's abilities.

He was originally just a little thief who relied on his armor ability. After the mutation, he truly became a monster. He has all the abilities imaginable for superpowers, as well as corrosive body fluids and a 'butterfly sense' similar to Spider-Man next door. .

Of course, the Demon King's contract is not so easy to sign. Neilong played a little trick and took away Killer Moth's soul in advance. What is now active in the world is actually his demonized body.

Calling itself the Chelical Butterfly, it likes to refer to itself in the third person, and its diet is only human flesh and blood. It is a monster that wanders around the city at night and makes a living by hunting.

The last time Batman caught him, the process wasn't too difficult. He just needed to use the moth's phototaxis to set up a trap.

But what to do after catching it is more difficult. Logically speaking, demons can be killed, but this monster's body is that of a killer moth, which is a human.

Even Batman didn't know what to do and ended up being locked up in Arkham.

This time it seemed that he had escaped too. After all, floods were no threat to people who could fly.

Batman also knows that anyone can recruit Chrysalis, because the reward he needs is just human flesh, which is something the Joker can easily come up with.