"Bang, bang, bang!"
Barbara was on the phone with Joker when suddenly there was a knock on her room door.
Startled, she immediately activated the surveillance system.
The monitor of the surveillance system clearly showed the ill-intentioned visitors outside.
A burly man wearing a Joker mask stood outside the door, ready to break in at any moment.
Joker Gang members?
Seeing the ill-intentioned group outside, Barbara immediately became alert.
The Joker Gang was a group of crazy thugs who obeyed Joker's every command, and Barbara had thought that they had disappeared from Gotham City with Joker's disappearance, but she didn't expect them to appear now with Joker.
Taking a deep breath, Barbara pushed her wheelchair to the storage box.
She took out a handgun for self-defense from the storage box and loaded it.
The handgun was a Springfield XDM model, given to her by Black Canary, and it was small and exquisite.
She had told Black Canary that she would never need a handgun, but she didn't expect to use it now.
Holding the handgun in her left hand, Barbara pushed her wheelchair behind the door, slowly raised the handgun, and aimed it at the Joker Gang members outside the door.
As she held the handgun aimed outside, countless thoughts flashed through Barbara's mind.
She had never thought that the day she opened that door would come again.
The day Joker shot her was the last day she could stand on her own two feet.
For a moment, she fell into a dream.
She dreamed of the surgery, of herself suffering excruciating torment on the cold bed, of her father's pained eyes and Batman's guilty gaze.
Only the pain remained real.
The rest had already begun to blur when she thought about it now.
Clutching the handgun with both hands, Barbara took deep breaths to calm herself down.
No matter what, she would face this day.
And fear was the existence she most needed to overcome.
"Bang!"
There was a violent crash outside the door, shaking the wall and causing dust to fall, and the picture frame hanging on the wall shook violently.
The Joker Gang members, seeing that Barbara didn't open the door, used their brute force to ram the metal door.
And as they rammed, they cursed from their mouths.
As the Joker Gang members' impact force grew stronger, Barbara's inner tension also continued to rise.
Under the strong impact of the other party, the metal door began to sway, and it seemed that these burly men might break through the door and rush in at any second.
Barbara took off the safety of the handgun, her hands trembling as she aimed outside the door.
She was ready to fight these bastards!
Although she was severely lacking in self-confidence at this moment.
However, just as the door was about to be knocked open, a violent crash suddenly sounded outside the door.
Followed by the sound of flesh colliding with the wall, the dull thud of bodies flying and hitting the ground heavily, interspersed with the curses and wails of the Joker Gang members.
It sounded like someone had attacked the Joker Gang members.
After a series of crashes and impacts, it became quiet outside the door.
Barbara's hand, holding the handgun, hung motionless in the air.
She didn't know what was happening outside and was extremely nervous.
Sweat seeped from the tip of her nose, and her body was tense and motionless.
"Barbara, are you alright?"
Her father, Commissioner Gordon's anxious voice, sounded outside the door.
Hearing her father's voice, Barbara immediately breathed a sigh of relief, put down the handgun, pushed her wheelchair to the door, and opened it for her father.
In the hallway outside the door lay unconscious Joker Gang members, and Commissioner Gordon stood anxiously to the side.
Seeing his daughter safe and sound, he immediately walked over quickly and embraced her.
"That's great, Barbara, are you okay?!"
Commissioner Gordon's hanging heart finally settled.
"I'm fine, Dad."
Barbara felt her father's warm embrace, and a warm current flowed through her heart.
She put down the handgun, gently hugged her father's dusty clothes with her arm, and whispered to herself, "I'm safe, Dad."
After the father and daughter embraced for a while, they separated, and Commissioner Gordon asked Barbara, "Are these Joker Gang members? Why are they here?"
"I don't know, maybe everything is related to Joker."
Barbara said to her father.
"Joker?"
Hearing this name, Commissioner Gordon's heart trembled with shock.
He hated this name immensely.
That was the culprit who caused his daughter to be unable to stand up, and also the criminal he swore to bring to justice.
"He... didn't he disappear? Did he appear in Gotham City?"
Commissioner Gordon pondered for a moment and asked Barbara.
"I don't know, he just called and said that Mom was in his hands, and if I didn't do as he said, Mom would be in danger."
Barbara said emotionally to Commissioner Gordon, "We must rescue Mom. She... I heard Mom's voice, she's not doing well now, we have to hurry."
"He kidnapped your mother?"
Hearing Barbara say this, Commissioner Gordon's face showed a shocked expression.
He was about to say something when suddenly the phone in Barbara's hand rang again.
Seeing "Unknown Caller" on the phone, Barbara knew it was Joker calling.
After exchanging glances with Commissioner Gordon, she took a deep breath and answered the phone.
"Well done, Barbara, you and your police dad put on a good show together. But sometimes you still have to thank me, after all, I made you a determined girl."
Barbara tried to calm herself down, and she asked Joker, "What exactly do you want?"
"Why are you so eager to end the drama? I'm in high spirits now and don't want to end it yet."
Barbara frowned and asked the other party, "I said, I don't know Batman's whereabouts. If you're here for that question, I can't answer you!"
While talking to Joker, Barbara simultaneously motioned to Commissioner Gordon to walk to the sunny side of the room, blocking her body.
She was sure that Joker could monitor her from that direction.
Only from a line of sight coming from the sunny side could one observe the milk placed next to the refrigerator in the kitchen.
As Commissioner Gordon blocked her body, she immediately moved to the computer and began to operate it, tracing the address of Joker's call.
Although she was not good at combat, she had full confidence in computer operations.
While talking to Joker to stall for time, she began to trace the other party's call address.
Finally, Joker clearly informed her that she had fifteen minutes left!
If she couldn't give him the answer he wanted, then Joker would end the show.
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