In the pitch-black passage, two pairs of glowing eyes suddenly lit up. Batman emerged from the darkness first, looking down the corridor through the smoke and dust from the explosion. Behind him came an extremely tall figure who had to stoop as he moved through the roughly two-meter-high tunnel.
The first thing to emerge into the light was a crocodilian mouth, followed by limbs that looked both crocodilian and human, as well as a massive tail. Batman turned to him and asked, "Killer Croc, can you still smell their trail?"
The massive Crocodile Man lowered his head and lightly flared his nostrils, then said in an exceptionally deep voice, "They left through this passage. My sense of smell can't be wrong..."
Then his bumpy face creased, making him look even more vicious. He said, "It's too dry here. I really don't like it."
"Dry?" Batman asked doubtfully. "Are you sure? This is beneath Gotham's underground water veins. There's an enormous groundwater reserve above us. No matter what, it shouldn't be this dry."
"That's exactly what's strange." The passage trembled slightly as Crocodile Man stepped forward. He said, "I used to live in Gotham's sewers. They were damp and dark, and I liked them very much. But this place is completely different. I feel like I'm about to dry out."
Batman narrowed his eyes. He walked forward alongside Crocodile Man and said, "Thanks to you, Killer Croc. Otherwise, in an environment this dark and narrow, I really wouldn't know how to track them down."
"No need to thank me, Batman. You saved me during that warehouse fire. If it hadn't been for you, I might have been crushed to death long ago." Crocodile Man glanced at his waist and abdomen. Thanks to his powerful regenerative ability, there were no scars there,