Chapter 204: Bait

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

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Roar!

As if they heard something, the ears of the two Man-Bats twitched at the same time, and they turned to look in the direction of the Phantom Thief.

They even let out a growl.

But at this time, the Phantom Thief had already run behind the corner, and the Man-Bat did not notice his presence.

After shaking their heads, they went back to their meal.

"Darn it, I thought the biggest challenge would be the group of Man-Bats outside Wayne Tower, but it's even more troublesome inside."

The Phantom Thief leaned against the wall in the corner and gritted his teeth.

"By the way, what kind of Man-Bat would eat a human like this? I remember that Kirk Langstrom only inherited the bloodsucking habits, but what changes did these masterminds make to the serum?"

No matter how large Wayne Tower's area was, it could not have an open space like a square. The interior space must be narrow and limited.

At first glance, the Man-Bat had large bodies and relied on flying, but it was almost useless in this limited area.

But it was the same for the Phantom Thief.

In small spaces, his angles and directions for hiding were very limited, and the Man-Bats' massive bodies almost blocked nearly three-quarters of the corridor's cross-section.

In other words, he would have nowhere to hide if they ran into him on a long corridor and the Man-Bat flew towards the Phantom Thief at full speed.

There was no need to think too much, and the Man-Bat's flying speed far exceeded the Phantom Thief's movement speed.

However, the Phantom Thief would not be scared of Man-Bats in open areas due to his extraordinary superhuman reflexes.

He wasn't as fast as Man-Bats, but he was still able to avoid all of their attacks with ease.

Just like how the Phantom Thief couldn't move faster than a bullet, he could still dodge bullets.

At this moment, two Man-Bats were blocking the Phantom Thief's path, and he only had two choices.

One was to avoid and go in another direction, and the other was to find a way to deal with the two Man-Bats.

'This path leads to the control room, and if I take a detour, I'll have to climb out through the hole and come in through another window...'

Phantom Thief contemplated.

"But there's a serious problem with this plan. I can't be sure how many Man-Bats are currently inside Wayne Tower and where they are. Wayne Tower's windows can't be seen from the outside, so there might be Man-Bats right behind the window when I'm cutting open."

"I need to reach the control room as soon as possible. That way, I can figure out which route has the fewest Man-Bats and also find Lucius Fox's location."

Wayne Tower had more than eighty floors and was nearly three hundred meters tall.

At least half of the floors were highly confidential and hidden, with countless secret routes and hidden rooms, and no one knew what was on each floor.

Without Lucius as a guide, finding the Aerosol Dispersal Device on his own would be nearly impossible.

"Let me think... The Man-Bat serum allows humans to gain the biological abilities of bats. If they modified the Man-Bat virus in the same way, it would enhance hearing to receive ultrasonic waves. Is it possible that it also gave humans the physiological flaws of bats?"

Suddenly, a brilliant idea flashed through the Phantom Thief's mind. If it worked that way, it would make things much simpler...

After a while, Phantom Thief walked out from the corner, and he didn't even bother to control his footsteps this time.

The sound of his footsteps echoed throughout the corridor.

The two Man-Bats who were eating immediately stopped; if they couldn't detect such an obvious approach, the crisis in Gotham would have been resolved long ago.

Roar!

Roar!

Two strange roars suddenly sounded, and the two Man-Bats dropped the half-eaten bones and flew towards the Phantom Thief.

The Phantom Thief remained calm and immediately turned around to run back.

Thud, thud, thud, thud!

Phantom Thief ran forward with a poker expression, but strangely, his speed wasn't very fast.

Of course, compared to an ordinary person who lacked exercise and had a bad physique, Phantom Thief's running speed was already quite fast.

However, when compared to the speed he had displayed in his previous performances, it was indeed much slower.

As a result, the Man-Bats were about to catch up with the Phantom Thief in the blink of an eye!

Fortunately, Phantom Thief managed to run back to the corner where he came from and immediately turned around to enter the corner again.

The two Man-Bats couldn't brake in time and continued flying a distance before catching up by flapping their wings and flying into the corridor behind the corner.

This short pause wasn't enough to shake off the Man-Bats.

At most, Phantom Thief was ahead by less than ten meters, and this distance was only a few flaps of a wing for the Man-Bats.

Just as the two Man-Bats flew into the corner, a strange shining light suddenly appeared in midair.

Looking closely, there was a steel wire horizontally across the wall of the corridor in front, at a height of about two and a half meters, just at the level of the bat people's necks when flying.

However, the Man-Bats' eyes remained unchanged, without a hint of disturbance, and they continued flying as if they didn't see the steel wire in front of them.

If the Man-Bats continued their high-speed charge, it was predictable that their heads would be cut off by the sharp wire!

Up ahead, it looked like the Phantom Thief wasn't concerned about what happened to the Man-Bat as he kept running at a steady pace.

Just as the Man-Bats were about to hit the steel wire, they suddenly lowered their flying height and flew under the wire.

At this point, their feet were only about twenty centimeters above the ground.

Under normal circumstances, the Man-Bats wouldn't fly so low, but they also didn't want to hit into that steel wire.

Similar to bats, Man-Bats had poor vision and sense of smell.

They couldn't see the wire, but they had echolocation abilities. They could sense the wire's presence and could easily avoid it, even if they couldn't see it.

It seems that the Phantom Thief's plan has failed.

At this point, there were no more obstacles between the Man-Bats and the Phantom Thief, and there were no more corners ahead!

The flying of the Man-Bats was unaffected, and they continued to chase the Phantom Thief at top speed.

In just a few breaths, they caught up to him from behind.

Suddenly, their sharp fangs and claws came out, ready to tear into the Phantom Thief's neck. They instantly latched onto him.

At the last moment, a white figure suddenly dropped from the ceiling and arrived between the two Man-Bat before they could react.

At the same time, two bright blue flashes of electricity lit up.

Crackle, crackle, crackle!

Thud! Thud!

Suddenly, the two Man-Bats fell to the ground with a loud crash.

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