Chapter 44 : Enhanced Fear Gas
"Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. "The devil made me do it." I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them."
---by Lucifer in Sandman
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"Friend, I think we need to talk," Dr. Fly said with his hands up.
"I don't want to delay time."
Jude didn't engage in a fight. The freezing gun fired in all directions, freezing the protective shield completely after a while.
"Fuck you!"
Jude kicked the frozen shield and approached Dr. Fly cautiously. Observing that Dr. Flies was about to retrieve something, Jude pointed the gun at him.
"Take out your hands; otherwise, one shot will blow your head."
Fly showed a distressed smile, holding a small pistol as if offering a tribute.
"Don't get me wrong; I just want to provide you with weapons. After all, you can't just use your hands to destroy this thing, right?"
Jude snorted and kicked him. The dwarf fly groaned, rolling away like a ball.
"Bruce, I'm going to destroy this thing; remember, you owe me a great favor."
Jude raised the laser gun, ready to pull the trigger. Suddenly, a dozen ninja darts whistled towards him.
"FUCK, do, you want me to shrink with this stuff?"
Jude activated the simple protective device on his clothes, causing the ninja darts to stop just an inch from him, crashing to the ground. Unfortunately, the protective force field disappeared after one use.
At the same time, the laser gun fired at the spray device.
Unexpectedly, a white figure jumped out, raising his arm to block the laser. Despite the laser piercing his armor and destroying one of his arms, Schrader endured the pain. With one leg, he kicked the gun out of Jude's hand, while using his intact arm to deliver a powerful punch to Jude's abdomen.
"Wow, it hurts!"
For the first time since his debut, Jude experienced a direct attack. This punch almost made him vomit his last meal.
"You can't stop it; no one can stop it."
"The mutation is about to start, darkness will come soon, hope will be annihilated, and evil will eventually live forever!"
Amid Schrader's loud shouts, the large airship finally arrived at the top of the room. It shot four arm-thick steel cables, rolled up the spray device, and pulled it into the interior.
Not far away, Bruce witnessed the airship's departure. He wanted to stop it, but the Ra's Al Ghul desperately intervened.
"Don't force me, Ra's Al Ghul!" Bruce roared.
Ra's Al Ghul attacked him even more fiercely, leaving no room for respite. He aimed to force Bruce into killing him.
"What…"
Bruce suddenly screamed, catching the blade with his bare hands, clamping the scimitar with both hands, and delivering a powerful elbow blow to Ra's Al Ghul's face.
"Woo... that's it, Bruce, attack me hard!"
Ra's Al Ghul roared and punched, but Bruce's left hand stopped midway through his fist.
Bruce lifted his right arm and slammed it down, instantly breaking one of Ra's Al Ghul's arms. Not stopping there, Bruce kicked Ra's Al Ghul fiercely in the leg, resulting in a cacophony of bone-cracking sounds as Ra's Al Ghul knelt on the ground.
However, this outcome was not what Ra's Al Ghul desired. Despite his broken arm, he used his intact arm to retrieve the scimitar, dragging a dead leg and continued chopping at Bruce's back.
"I said, if you can't kill me, even if only my mouth can move, I will still stop you!"
Observing the airship ascend, Bruce's remaining sanity vanished. He turned around, grabbed the scimitar, and a cold light flashed as he severed the intact arm of the Ra's Al Ghul.
Blood sprayed onto Bruce's face, covering his eyes. He threw down the scimitar and struck the ninja master with a heavy blow to the back of the head, rendering him unconscious.
Looking at the fallen Ra's Al Ghul, Bruce retrieved a pill from his utility belt to feed him and sprayed a hemostatic agent on his broken arm.
After completing these tasks, Bruce understood that Ra's Al Ghul, with his body, would not die. However, observing the airship drifting away, a bitter feeling filled his heart. What was right and what was wrong? Even he was confused, and the only thing he could do was adhere to his principles.
"Batman, what the Fuck are you doing? If you can't help me, you won't be able to catch up with the airship anymore."
Bruce was about to call Alfred to set off on the plane, attempting to catch up with the airship. However, he heard Jude's plea for help. Hastily, he inquired, "Do you have a way?"
"Nonsense, in your bat cave, I was not just drinking."
Bruce was overjoyed. He trusted Jude, and if he said there was a way, there must be a way.
A few arrows rushed towards them, but Bruce was already entangled with Schrader.
Jude adjusted the gravity-adsorption shoes. When he was in the bat cave, he had nothing to do but improve his equipment, anticipating this situation.
Turning on the switch, a white wave of air sprayed from the bottom of the shoe, propelling Jude into the sky.
Twisting and turning in the air, Jude familiarized himself with the new functions.
"Very good; now, increase the power."
The white air wave intensified, propelling Jude directly toward the airship. Soon, he was only a few tens of meters away. With a little more effort, things could turn for the better.
But at this moment, wings vibrated in the night, and the Scarecrow suddenly flew out from behind Jude, tossing a medicine packet directly into his face.
"This is the enhanced version of the fear gas I carefully deployed. As the first recipient, you should feel honored, hahaha."
The ear-piercing crow-like cry assaulted Jude's brain. His sight immediately turned blood red; even the whole world appeared blood red.
In an instant, the horrors he had endured, the terrors the original body had suffered, and the nightmarish memories of Grandpa flooded into his heart.
Three times the memory, three times the terror!
Even for a genius, facing fear directly is impossible because IQ has nothing to do with fearlessness. In many cases, the higher the IQ, the more paralyzing the fear.
"What…"
With a howl of pain, Jude plummeted from the air.
Bruce was shocked, abandoning Schrader to catch him. As for the airship that had departed, he could only accept fate and do his best.
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