Martin Variety in American Comics.

Chapter 24 Lost his vest!

Hey!
Martin pushed open the door of the monitoring room and turned on the light, illuminating everything in the room, including Candy who was modifying the surveillance records.

The secretary's eyes were irritated by the sudden light, but she immediately pulled out her pistol, pointed it behind her and pulled the trigger.

Of course, she couldn't see clearly, and she fired a whole magazine of bullets but hit nothing.

Martin walked in from outside and saw the door that was beaten into a honeycomb. He shook his head and said, "You are much braver than I thought. You actually dared to poison and kill Penguin."

Candy recognized Martin and hurriedly reloaded his pistol, while replying: "I just remembered your reminder. I won't have a good life until the Penguin dies."

"Hey Hey hey!"

Martin raised his hands to block in front of him, frowned and said: "I just reminded you to be careful of the revenge of the Penguin Man, but I didn't ask you to kill anyone. Don't push the blame on me."

"Here, the best way to avoid a person's revenge is to kill him first."

Candy raised a loaded pistol and pointed it at Martin, threatening: "Get out of the way or I'll blow your head off."

"Innocent!"

Martin uttered these two words, flicked his wrist, and the bat dart flew past like lightning and pierced Candy's back of the hand.

The female secretary screamed in pain and the gun fell to the ground.

Martin grabbed her shoulders and pushed her out the door, handing her over to Nightwing.

"As Penguin's secretary, she must know the information about the Assassin's League."

"Then you are wrong. I don't know anything."

Candy's lips trembled in pain, but she refused to give in, or perhaps she felt that what she said was the truth.

Nightwing also whispered beside Martin: "We have been monitoring her, and we didn't find out where she and Penguin have been."

Martin shook his head at Nightwing and said, "She just thinks she doesn't know. The large-scale cooperation between Penguin and the Assassin's League must involve money transactions. As the Penguin's accountant and lawyer, Miss Candy must have records of those secret accounts."

After that, he looked down at Candy who was glaring at him: "Don't look at me so angrily, I don't care if you kill the Penguin. If you are willing to cooperate, I can arrange for you to leave Gotham, or even go abroad."

"Really?" Candy's eyes lit up with hope again.

Nightwing frowned and whispered, "Is this inappropriate?"

"What's inappropriate? Don't the Gotham police and district attorney have enough agreements with criminals?"

"We are not a law enforcement agency!" Nightwing widened his eyes. He actually didn't know how to refute Martin.

Unexpectedly, Martin nodded: "Great, this way we don't need to follow the police code."

"You are sophistry!"

Ye Yi was very excited, his hands were shaking, and he didn't know what to say.

The identity of vigilante is inherently semi-illegal, and if it weren't for the special circumstances in Gotham, Batman would never have been able to do it for ten years.

During these ten years, Batman just focused on fighting criminals without discussing other things, resulting in a disconnect between practice and theory.

Batman himself has a will as strong as steel and can withstand such a split and continue to act, but others cannot.

So, each Robin left Batman to find their own path.

But Martin didn't want to be a theoretical mentor now, he just said to Nightwing: "When Gotham's troubles are over, we will have plenty of time to discuss these issues."

"Now, we should deal with those damn gangsters first."

Nightwing nodded in agreement, and the two of them put Candy in the criminal seat at the back of the Batmobile, and then received an urgent call from Oracle. "Nightwing, Martin, you guys watch the news right now."

Nightwing pulled down the LCD screen in the car with confusion, turned on a random news channel, and saw Batman tied to a cross.

No, to be more precise, it's Bruce Wayne!
Poor Wayne, his bat mask was pulled off, his nose and face were bruised and swollen, and he looked very weak.

Nightwing was instantly anxious: "Oracle, can't you find a way to cut off this live broadcast?"

"Our network was under full-scale attack, and it was already difficult to keep the Batcave safe."

"People of Gotham, you can call me Arkham Knight!"

Seeing the figure appear on the screen, Nightwing kept silent.

"Today, I am here to reveal a truth to you, a truth that should have been told to you long ago."

The Arkham Knight came to the cross, grabbed Bruce's head, and pointed his face to the camera.

"For ten years, Batman has told everyone that he is the one who fights criminals and protects Gotham. But he is unwilling to reveal his identity to the public. All we can see is a madman in a bat costume, triggering one gunfight, car racing, and even explosions and fires after another in the dark."

The Arkham Knight's voice became louder and louder, like a rooster crowing to the sun in the early morning, immediately attracting everyone's attention.

"But today all secrets will be exposed to the sun, any shadows will be dispelled, and the face behind Batman's mask is here. I believe you can all recognize who he is."

"Bruce Wayne, a hypocrite, his group sucks the blood of Gotham, while he pretends to be a vigilante and makes Gotham even more chaotic."

Arkham Knight said as he shook Bruce's head away, pointed at the screen and said: "Now, the dark cloud of fear no longer belongs to Gotham. Freedom is there. Go and take back everything that belongs to you!"

After throwing out these inspiring words, the live broadcast came to an abrupt end.

"Damn it!"

Nightwing slammed his fist on the stage.

Seeing this, Martin comforted him, "Don't worry, let's see what the Arkham Knight wants to do first."

Nightwing said grumpily, "Of course he's going to reveal Batman's identity and destroy everything Bruce has worked so hard to build."

"Why aren't you in a hurry at all? If Bruce's identity is exposed, the gangs will become even more lawless."

Martin shook his head helplessly and said, "When I learned that Batman was captured, I guessed that Arkham Knight would do this. Only in this way can we destroy Gotham, which Batman cherishes, and make Bruce feel the deepest pain."

Nightwing whispered, "We should stop him in advance!"

"Why stop it?"

Martin shook his head: "Now I can guess what the Arkham Knight is going to do. That is to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, watch the order get out of control, the gangs fight, Gotham sink, and then pull Bruce out to execute him."

"So next, the other party will not take any action. Batman can take this opportunity to kill those gang bosses first."

"Now is not the time to joke." Nightwing was confused by this sudden change.

"Are you stupid?"

Martin put on Batman's helmet: "Don't forget, today I am Batman!"

"Those gangs may be freed by this live broadcast, but I want to tell them that fear is everywhere and Gotham does not belong to them."

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