Robbing banks, bombing streets, poisoning, killing.
Which one hasn't Scarecrow done?
But today he ran into a tough nut like Connors, and the blackmail came right to him.
Usually, even a big score wouldn't net five million US dollars, let alone Scarecrow who spent his entire fortune preparing a full tank of "Fear Toxin" in the car.
Let alone five million US dollars, even getting five hundred US dollars out of him now would be tough.
Even if he could come up with that much money, Scarecrow would never willingly hand it over to Connors, just to open a car door lock.
But the tank truck's glass was exceptionally strong, Scarecrow couldn't break it with his bare hands, and there wasn't a single useful tool inside the car. The small cab had practically become his cage.
Connors stood beside the front of the truck, looking at Scarecrow's eyes, wide under his hood, and couldn't help but exclaim:
"This Grandmaster of Unlocking ability isn't just ordinarily useful..."
His original intention was just to lock the liquid inlet and outlet of this tank truck; the various locks inside the car were just done as an afterthought, but the effect was surprisingly good.
At this rate, Scarecrow would be trapped inside the truck, unable to get out, before Batman arrived.
Connors wasn't in a hurry and planned to wait slowly, but Harley Quinn next to him disagreed:
"Xiao Pa, let him out quickly."
Connors was puzzled: "Why?"
Harley Quinn grinned. Seeing that Connors didn't open the car door immediately, she directly took off her shoe and aimed the heel of the sole at the car window glass, striking it once.
Crack!
Dense cracks immediately appeared on the car window.
Scarecrow was overjoyed:
"Well done, Harley, keep going!"
Harley Quinn didn't disappoint Scarecrow either. A few more strikes with the high heel completely shattered the glass, which clattered onto the ground.
Connors stepped back a few paces. He wanted to see what Harley Quinn's purpose was in letting Scarecrow out.
"After Gotham falls, you'll definitely have a share of the credit, Harley Quinn. You really didn't disappoint me!"
After Scarecrow finished speaking, the "Fear Toxin" in the bottles and jars on his body seeped out of the tank truck before he did, intending to plunge the people before him into fear before he leisurely climbed out of the car.
But Harley Quinn was standing near a fire hydrant mounted on the wall not far away, aiming the hose nozzle at the tank truck's glass.
A large amount of water vapor prevented Scarecrow's Fear Toxin from spreading in the air, and naturally couldn't make Harley fall into fear.
When Scarecrow realized this and hurriedly tried to climb out of the tank truck, Harley Quinn also dropped the water hose nozzle and then picked up a rock by the roadside.
"Thud!"
"Joker's minion?"
"Thud!"
"You people?"
"Thud!"
"Respected Lord Scarecrow?"
Holding the rock, Harley Quinn repeatedly smashed Scarecrow's head, which had just emerged from the tank truck, while letting out a maniacal laugh.
The makeup and eyeshadow on her face were affected by the water splashed from the fire hydrant just now, flowing down her cheeks like two streaks of tears.
Oh my child, don't smash Scarecrow to death... Connors quickly stepped forward, stopping Harley Quinn while casually swiping at Scarecrow's body.
Those bottles and jars filled with Fear Toxin were "locked" in an instant.
Strictly speaking, it wasn't a lock. Connors just destroyed some switches and safety features that Scarecrow had set up on these pieces of equipment.
Based on his increasingly deep use of the "Grandmaster of Unlocking", these things were just second nature.
Currently, the only types of locks that can stump him are the extremely large, extremely complex ones, and the extremely simple ones.
"Harley, what's wrong?" After destroying Scarecrow's equipment, Connors didn't bother with him anymore but was concerned about Harley's state.
"Why is it that Scarecrow and Riddler have both worked with Joker, but people still call them 'Scarecrow' and 'Riddler', not 'Joker's Scarecrow'?"
"But the fact that I helped Joker escape Arkham has branded me with Joker's label. Even though I announced on TV that 'Harley' is independent, they still treat me as Joker's minion."
Harley Quinn smiled as she dropped the rock in her hand, saying the not-so-lighthearted words in a light tone.
"..." Connors really didn't know how to answer this question.
In the comics, Harley Quinn and Joker split up just like that, without so much follow-up?
He couldn't just tell Harley:
"Go create a big news story yourself. That way, Batman will see you as his number one enemy, independent of Joker, and your name will be thoroughly known among other villains."
Although it would satisfy the needs of his 'Gossip System', being closely involved with Harley Quinn would make him a 'villain', which didn't fit Connors' requirement of being a 'gossipmonger'.
"I've decided, I'm going to create a big news story!" Harley Quinn seemed to have a new idea. "This time, I won't rely on anyone!"
Connors covered his face. What he feared had come true.
What made him feel even worse was that the Batwing was already hovering thirty meters above the ground, and then Wayne also descended from the air, just in time to hear Harley Quinn talking about creating a big news story.
Batman appeared, Harley Quinn decisively left. The little crazy person didn't know what kind of news she was preparing to make.
Ostensibly, only Connors, Batman, and Scarecrow remained at the scene.
"You're here?" Connors greeted casually.
"..." Batman felt a bit helpless. His good mood from seeing that Scarecrow hadn't had time to release the Fear Toxin was completely wiped out by Harley Quinn's 'crime announcement', and now he saw Connors present as well.
He instinctively had a premonition that Connors being present meant nothing good.
Sure enough, Batman soon saw Connors reach out and open the car door, pull Scarecrow out, and then wave his hand over him.
Not to mention Bruce Wayne standing in front of him, even Scarecrow himself, the owner of the "Fear Toxin", didn't notice that the equipment he was wearing had started working.
Different liquids quickly mixed through pipes to form "Fear Toxin", which then filled the air under the action of the atomization device.
Almost instantly, Scarecrow and Connors disappeared from Batman's sight, replaced by the surroundings turning into a dark cave, with giant bats pouncing at him from all directions.
"I remember that people caught in Fear Toxin will have their five senses unable to receive external signals..."
Connors didn't cheer on Batman like he did during Batman vs. Joker before, but chose to quietly watch the battle from the side.
Unfortunately, Batman was in a hallucination, unleashing a barrage of attacks on thin air. Scarecrow, constrained by Connors' presence, didn't dare to get entangled with Batman and kept his distance.
This fight was really uneventful. If Connors hadn't been covering his mouth and nose with a wet cloth at the moment, he would have even wanted to yawn.
Then, out of the corner of his eye, he inadvertently saw the traces left by Harley Quinn on the ground:
"Bane and Penguin are also in action."
...
At this moment, Bane was standing on top of a tall building, observing with a pair of binoculars. After seeing Batman and Scarecrow, and a seemingly idle muscular young man beside them, he decisively chose to leave.
Penguin was ordering his subordinates to break into the Gotham City Stadium, intending to open fire indiscriminately. However, the entire Stadium was completely covered in black solid ice.
The person who created this solid ice was none other than the star singer 'Ice Moon Flower Snow', Xue Xi.
Unlike her glamorous image on the concert stage, at this moment, she was tied upside down in the air by green vines that looked like living creatures, still tied in a fancy way. Most of her clothes were torn, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth, clearly having just gone through a big battle.
The person who forced her into this situation was none other than Gotham's number one, Poison Ivy.
She came following the restlessness in her heart, but because of the solid ice in Gotham Stadium, a large number of plants around it were frozen to death, making her decide to first take care of this woman she had never seen before, and then go find the source of her restlessness.