Comic: Becoming a Phantom Thief to Steal Hearts

"That's enough." Batman said seriously, "Red Robin reported the intelligence..."

Before he could finish speaking, Barbara's communication came in.

"Bruce, what happened in the city?"

Batman remembered the strong shock just now, coupled with Barbara's paralyzed state at the moment, and quickly asked, "Are you okay, Oracle?"

"I'm...fine." Barbara looked at her legs.

The shock just now was so sudden that Barbara fell directly from the wheelchair to the ground. She awkwardly supported her upper body with her arms and looked reluctantly at the overturned wheelchair not far away.

Barbara was not born in a wheelchair. Her paralysis was caused by the clown visiting Gordon's house on a rainy night in order to retaliate against Bruce. Barbara, who knew nothing about it, was shot by the clown as soon as she opened the door. , this shot luckily did not hit the fatal part, but unfortunately got stuck in her spine, causing her lower body to be paralyzed to this day.

Before this happened, she was also one of Batman's partners. The enthusiastic and lively Batgirl once jumped over Gotham with laughter, but now she can only sit in a wheelchair.

Once she loses her wheelchair, she will be like this, lying on the ground in a panic, unable to do anything.

"Damn it!" Barbara looked at her unconscious legs angrily, "Move it!"

The shock came suddenly. As the family's support, she must not be disconnected at this time!

Under this strong belief, Barbara actually felt that her legs had some feeling.

"Huh? My legs..." Barbara tried to move her legs in disbelief.

"Stand up, stand up!"

Her legs, which had become slightly thin due to not moving for a long time, really started to move slowly. Until she stood up with her own strength, Barbara thought she was in an illusion.

She couldn't help pinching herself.

"Ow!"

The pain really comes from the body.

"I'm fine? Am I really fine?!"

But after getting excited, the caution of a bat immediately took over. She quickly used the equipment in the tower to do a simple check on herself, but the results were incredible. The data on the report showed that her body was very healthy, as if she had not. Before the accident, it seemed that everything that happened that rainy night was just a nightmare.

Is she really in reality?

So, Barbara contacted Batman.

"I stood up," she said.

Batman was stunned, "You...you stood up?"

Even Batman couldn't help stuttering. After all, the shot fired by the Joker was too tricky. If he wasn't careful, Barbara would be paralyzed, so he could only stay in this state for the time being. And now Lucas Kryptonite bomb in the heart for a reason.

"Yes, I don't know why, but I can stand up suddenly. You are all real, right?" Barbara's voice was full of expectation.

"...Oracle, I can't guarantee it." Batman said hoarsely.

Of course he hoped that Barbara could stand up healthy, but her communication convinced Batman that this was not real, at least not in reality.

Barbara also glimpsed something from Batman's attitude, and her expression suddenly darkened.

"Sure enough...how can there be such luck in the world..."

But Barbara quickly cheered up, "Whether it's an hallucination or a collective dream, we will definitely return to reality. If there is anything you need me to do, just say it."

"Ah."

After Batman replied to Barbara, he set his sights on Tim again, waiting for his information.

Tim let out a breath, knowing now was no longer the time to hide.

"I'll tell you everything I know," he said.

By the time Tim confessed to Bruce, Lucas had landed in another Gotham.

Touching the ground with his toes and landing gently, Lucas looked around the surrounding environment and found that he was at the entrance of the ACE Chemical Plant, opposite to where he had been before.

"Yo~" An indistinguishable electronic sound sounded above the head.

Lucas raised his head and saw the Arkham Knight sitting on the wall with his legs bent, looking down at him.

Lucas patted the dust on his body and looked back at him calmly.

"You don't look scared at all." The knight raised his eyebrows.

"Because I already know your true identity, Jason Todd." Lucas said word by word.

"Oh?" The knight smiled slightly, as if he was not surprised by Lucas' keenness, "How did you know?"

"Tim, he has doubted you." Lucas said, "And what you are doing now just makes me more sure of this."

He paid attention to the knight's helmet, as if he could see a familiar face underneath, "You are Jason Todd, but you are not the Jason Todd of this world. How did you do that?"

A world cannot have two identical people at the same time. The world will instinctively reject outsiders, and they cannot stay in this world for a long time. Lucas just took advantage of this loophole because he did not exist in this world at all.

"Oh, wouldn't it be too boring to tell you the answer to the puzzle directly?" The knight did not intend to tell Lucas directly.

"Try to survive here first." He stood up, turned around, turned his head, and said meaningfully, "Let me see how far you can go, savior."

"Wait a minute! You are from the Dark Universe too!" Before Lucas could finish speaking, the knight left without mercy.

He climbed up the wall where the knight had just been, and he had long since disappeared.

"This guy..." Lucas bit his lower lip.

There are too many mysteries about Arkham Knight. There are two Gothams facing each other. Such a similar picture can only be seen by those who have traveled through the main universe and the dark universe. This undoubtedly explains the origin of Arkham Knight.

But this is only the simplest part. Lucas is very concerned about how he stayed in this world for so long, and what happened to Jason in this world.

And...the savior...

Lucas summoned his persona and looked at the Messiah with his eyes closed and covered in holy light, with a complicated expression.

This can only be said to be his obligation and his responsibility, and does he really want to be such a person?

Lucas sighed and waved his hand, letting the persona return to his own.

Next.

He looked at Gotham City, which was filled with fire and smoke. If Arkham Knight said it was true, it had become a paradise for criminals, but...

The Sword of Sigurd appeared in his hand again, his blue eyes full of determination.

Since he wants to see things, he should see enough. When it comes to enlightenment, he will not admit defeat.

……

Tim reported most of the information to Batman, such as repentance, persona, memory space... The large amount of information made him dizzy.

Since everyone came in this time, there was nothing to hide, so Tim directly opened the public channel so that Dick and Damian, who were still wandering elsewhere in Gotham, could hear this.

"Wait a minute, my brain is going into overload. What is all this?" Dick said confused.

"Sure enough, you both have the same secret." Damian snorted and frowned slightly. Although he had already guessed that there was something hidden between the two of them, he never expected that it would be such a big deal.

"Didn't I share my information?" Tim said, "Besides, without the ability called Persona, even Superman would have difficulty taking advantage of those shadows."

So, he was here to protect them.

Batman was still sullen, obviously still a little concerned about Tim's concealment, but Dick quickly calmed down.

"Oh, another world, this sounds really magical." He asked curiously, "So are we in another world now?"

"Honestly, I don't know," Tim said.

"Eh?"

"You don't know? Then what are you doing, Derek?" Damian said unceremoniously.

Barbara had remained silent while the boys were chatting, and it was only now that she suddenly spoke, "Tim, you are telling us this all of a sudden, not just because we have entered a different world at this moment, right? Lucas and you He also has a persona, so what does he think?"

The more delicate observation of women brought this to Barbara's attention.

Tim sighed, "Have you seen that upside-down Gotham in the sky? Lucas is there now."

"What?!" Dick exclaimed.

"What's going on?" Damian asked sharply.

"How could..." Barbara couldn't believe it.

"How to get there?" Batman intervened in the conversation between the children.

Again, although Lucas comes from the dark universe, he has the blood of Bruce, and the Wayne family has accepted him, so Bruce will definitely protect him and bring him back.

"I don't know." Tim repeated with a wry smile.

"Lucas told me when he floated away just now that this is not an impression space, but... I'm not sure what type of alien space this is." He said helplessly.

"This... does it matter what type of different space it is?" Dick couldn't help but ask.

"Of course, this determines what strategy we need to use to deal with it." Tim said, "Previously, Lucas and I thought we had entered the impression space, which is the palace of everyone in Gotham, but just now Lucas seemed to notice I got other information, but unfortunately he left for another Gotham before he could tell me."

He knocked his head in frustration, "I also feel like I've overlooked something. Damn it, what is it? I'm so worried!"

"Stop torturing your own head, Xiaohong." Dick said dumbfounded.

Although he also cares about Lucas' safety, now they have to try to calm down so that they can find a way to save Lucas.

"If this is not the impression space, then what is it? This is what worries me." Tim said with a frown.

"Drake, according to what you said, there are shadows in different dimensions, but there is nothing in the city now." Damian said.

Yes, since most of the ordinary Gotham citizens have been evacuated before, the villains and thugs are now suspected to have been transferred to the upside-down Gotham City in the sky. Now the entire Gotham is empty except for the police officers and the Bat Family who stayed here. No one.

The quiet city seemed like time had quietly pressed the stop button, and it looked strange.

"Shadow, shadow...why did I forget the shadow!" Tim's eyes lit up.

In the impression space of Gotham, the passers-by look the same as in reality, but under Lucas's eagle-eye effect, you can clearly see the shadows under the skin of some people, which is very consistent. The style of this city, beneath the skin that looks no different from ordinary people, is a filthy and dirty heart.

"The shadows in the interstitial space and the impression space are all naturally distributed without any human interference. It is completely impossible for the entire Gotham to have no shadows, unless..." Tim finally put together the crucial puzzle piece, " This is someone’s palace, and only the palace owner has the ability to command the shadows in the entire palace!”

"Then there is only one answer. This is the palace of the Arkham Knight." Damian said.

"It's unbelievable. Tim, I still can't believe the information you just added and the conclusion you've drawn now." Barbara couldn't help but said, "Such a scene was seen by the Lord of the Palace with his twisted mind's eye. , this really makes people doubt the psychological problems of Arkham Knight."

"What kind of place is Arkham? People call him Arkham Knight. He obviously has a psychological problem." Dick complained.

Tim silently took out his mobile phone and opened the Different World APP, but the APP seemed to have a poor signal and kept spinning loading circles. Obviously, the knight's palace was different from ordinary palaces.

Soon, Dick and Damian reunited with Batman and Tim.

Dick looked at the monocle on Tim's face with curiosity, "So, this is your persona?"

"Ah, it can speed up my thinking and obtain surrounding intelligence." Tim said.

"That doesn't sound like much of a fight."

"Really not." Tim shrugged, "I'm not the one in the team who needs to fight."

"Everyone else's persona is much stronger than mine," he said modestly.

"Is the same true for Lucas?" Batman suddenly asked.

"Of course, he is the strongest of all Persona users."

Tim had no intention of hiding this, because at this point, there was no point in hiding it.

He looked at Batman, "He has the ability and consciousness to face the future, so we shouldn't protect him behind us."

Batman was silent.

Dick seemed to understand something and sighed, "Batman, you're starting again, right? We will all grow up, and you can't always protect us like a mother bird."

That's right, the original bird mother should actually be Bruce. In the field of protecting young, Dick can't compare to Bruce.

Dick patted Tim on the shoulder, "Well, at least we know that Lucas is very strong, and we won't have to worry about his safety for a while."