Creating the League of Heroes in Gotham

Ian's face instantly turned red, like a purple eggplant.

The next process was very familiar to the other three people present, except for Ian.

It was still a transformation at the genetic level, a surge in physical fitness, and Ian's screams.

Even the mouse ball stuffed in Ian's mouth was crushed by him under the intense pain!

One could imagine the agony brought by the transformation and evolution.

Of course, the effect was also very significant.

First, Ian's physique changed. His original height of about 1.8 meters shrunk to about 1 meter.

His body was covered in a surge of fur, turning him into a fluffy ball. His mouth involuntarily stretched into an exaggerated smile, and a row of neat white teeth was particularly conspicuous under the laboratory lights.

Except for his face, the rest of his body had already turned into a pure Yordle.

Although Yordles were cute, with their round heads and fluffy bodies, when Ian's face was added, it looked particularly grotesque...

This forced Li Wei to shift his gaze away from his face to prevent himself from bursting into laughter.

Secondly, Ian's physical fitness changed.

Don't underestimate Jigs' physical fitness just because he's a mid-lane mage and a Yordle.

While his physical fitness might be weak compared to the "muscle-bound heroes" in League of Legends, it still brought a qualitative improvement to Ian compared to an ordinary person!

The ordinary ropes binding him had already snapped during the transformation.

The wheelchair was also ruined. Li Wei was already contemplating whether his asylum needed to purchase wheelchairs in bulk as consumables...

Finally, and most importantly!

It was the knowledge passed down with the Hero Template, belonging to the demolition genius Jigs.

It included the production of explosives and various detonation techniques.

For Ian, who was already a demolition genius, this knowledge was incomparably attractive. These knowledge and abilities opened up a new world for him!

Li Wei glanced at Ian, whose eyes were vacant as he absorbed the new knowledge.

He himself wasn't idle and shifted his attention to Jigs' abilities.

Ignite.

Bouncing Bomb.

Sticky Bomb.

Hextech Cluster Bomb.

The Perfect Storm.

There were still five abilities, all related to explosions.

But as expected of a hero positioned as a mid-lane mage, the lethality was terrifying!

Compared to the other three Hero Templates Li Wei possessed, its large-scale destructive power was greater than the combined power of the three heroes!

Especially the passive ability of Ignite and The Perfect Storm.

The passive ability of Ignite allowed Li Wei to turn anything he grabbed into an explosive and throw it, creating explosions anytime, anywhere!

As for The Perfect Storm, it was even more outrageous!

When this skill manifested in reality, its power was comparable to a missile!

The activation range of the skill was even larger than the entire Gotham City! At least the areas around Gotham were within the effective strike range!

If he wanted to, he could launch this terrifying giant bomb right now and reduce Gotham City Hall and the surrounding areas to ruins!

"Hiss..." Looking at Jigs' abilities, Li Wei unconsciously gasped.

The destructive power was too terrifying!

Jigs was only a mage with a 1350 price tag. How powerful would the more expensive Hero Templates be?

Especially those mid-lane mages that deviated from reality and involved magical powers, they could probably destroy the world without exaggeration!

What about those demigods? Perhaps those demigods could contend with the well-known superheroes and villains...

Li Wei got lost in thought for a moment.

But he quickly snapped back to reality.

Thinking about these things now was too far-fetched. He hadn't even unlocked Hero Templates above the 1350 price point, and he had no clue about the unlock conditions.

After receiving the new knowledge, Ian looked at Li Wei with complex eyes.

Li Wei didn't need to say anything. After loading the Hero Template, Ian naturally understood everything. He also understood what Dr. Hugo had said earlier.

"Join the glorious evolution!"

This was indeed an evolution, a transformation of essence.

As for Ian's mental instability? It had long been cured by the power of the Hero Template!

From a certain perspective, Arkham Asylum was indeed the best psychiatric hospital in Gotham and even the entire world, curing Ian's mental problems in less than an hour.

Never mind anything else, just tell me if he was cured or not!

Although Ian had now been converted into Li Wei's allied unit, he still had some reservations about Li Wei's methods…

Why go through all the trouble to be so terrifying? If he had told him earlier, he wouldn't have needed to be tied up. He would have come himself and tied himself to the wheelchair, even if he had to take a taxi!

Especially the bombs with various magical functions in Jigs's memory, which simply mesmerized Ian.

Explosion is art!

The bigger the bomb, the better; the shorter the fuse, the better!

When Li Wei saw the change in Ian's expression, he knew that the first true patient of Arkham Asylum had completed their transformation.

"Ian, welcome to Arkham Asylum, welcome home. But do you want to change back to your original form first…"

Li Wei looked at the frenzied Ian, struggling to hold back his laughter, and said.

Chapter 49: Why Arkham Asylum Again?

As the first "patient" to arrive at Arkham Asylum, Ian was naturally assigned a room.

Even though Ian's mental issues had been completely cured, he couldn't be discharged.

Or rather, for the sake of the city hall's medical subsidies, Arkham Asylum had no option for discharge!

As long as the patient continued to stay there, the city hall had to allocate the corresponding medical subsidies to Arkham Asylum on time every month according to the cooperation agreement.

This was more stable than becoming a civil servant!

Fortunately, Ian had no intention of leaving Arkham Asylum. His mind was now filled with bomb knowledge inherited from the explosive genius Jigs, and he couldn't wait to put these ideas into practice!

Coincidentally, the Indian Hill Hospital beneath Arkham Asylum was fully equipped. Although it was currently just a biological laboratory, with a little modification, a portion of it could be converted into Ian's bomb factory.

Dr. Hugo showed extraordinary enthusiasm for the arrival of this "new colleague" and experimental subject, personally taking Ian to the elevator to head to Indian Hill Hospital.

Li Wei was too lazy to bother with the rest.

After all, as long as Ian didn't leave Arkham Asylum, it was fine by him. As for whether he could actually research anything interesting, that would be an added bonus.

Apart from the two in the underground laboratory, Li Wei and Stan went their separate ways and returned to their rooms.

Li Wei's guess was correct.

As soon as the night sky began to fade, Fish's body, hanging from a lamppost, was discovered.

Normally, the death of one or two people in Gotham wouldn't be a big deal. The police would be called, they'd make a symbolic record, and the body would be collected.

But if the deceased was Fish, the second-in-command of the Falcone Family, it was a different story!

Especially during the current sensitive period when the Maroni Family and the Falcone Family were at war!

When Gordon heard from the responding officers that the deceased was Fish, his face changed, and he immediately called Harvey to rush to the scene as quickly as possible.

Upon arriving at the scene, Gordon saw Fish's familiar face and, after confirming her identity, his head instantly felt twice as big!

Fish was dead!

This was a huge problem!

In Gotham's underworld and its upper world, at least one rule was universally applied.

That is, the death of someone from the lowest strata of society had a completely different impact than the death of someone from the upper echelons.

Fish, in Gotham's underworld, could be considered upper echelon.

Especially since she was currently the second-in-command of the Falcone Family.

Initially, Gordon suspected she had been killed by the Maroni Family, but when Fish's body was taken down from the lamppost, Gordon saw the gruesome wound on her neck.

It was the Gotham Beast!

Gordon was familiar with it, but it also gave him a bigger headache!

Tsk, trouble!

Speaking of which, one had to mention the recent events and "achievements" Gordon had experienced.

The murder of a city councilor, the war between the Maroni and Falcone families, Cobblepot's return to Gotham alive…

Everything that had happened recently made Gordon feel that Gotham was becoming increasingly surreal!

During this time, Victor had forced his way into the police station. None of the police officers, except for Harvey, dared to stand up to him, making him realize that in this city, the reputation of gangsters might be more effective than law and police!

It also made Gordon understand that to truly change this city, the road ahead was long and arduous.

It wasn't just the system that was surreal. Not long ago, he had apprehended a criminal named Silas, who was a complete psychopath and enjoyed making applicants participate in death games.

However, all of that had been settled. Apart from the two behemoths, the Falcone and Maroni families, which were beyond Gordon's current ability to take down, all other criminals had been sent to prison by Gordon.

Although there were some minor setbacks, he had managed to get through it safely.

In the police station, Gordon's courageous resistance had gradually awakened the remaining conscience among his colleagues, and he finally gained the support of other police officers.

Apart from the gang war, everything was moving in a positive direction.

He was even getting closer to the truth behind the murder of the Waynes. He had found a Gotham street girl, Selina Kyle, who claimed to be an eyewitness to the murder of the Waynes.

Although for some other reasons, Selina had run off before she could give a statement to the police, at least there was hope, right?

As it turned out, at this critical juncture, Fish, the second-in-command of the Falcone Family, was killed by the Gotham Beast!

This forced Gordon to shift his focus from investigating the truth behind the Waynes' murder to this new development.

The Gotham Beast. Gordon certainly knew of it.

Currently, within Gotham's underworld, the Gotham Beast, responsible for a spree of frenzied crimes, had become a terrifying urban legend that struck fear into the hearts of many Gotham mobsters.

As for clues, none could be found at the moment. The Gotham PD only knew that a deadly beast roamed Gotham under the cover of night, with its targets exclusively being mob members and various criminals.

Perhaps Fish had simply been unlucky enough to encounter the Gotham Beast.

That's what Gordon initially thought.

However, after his officers made a new discovery in a nearby abandoned factory, Gordon quickly changed his mind.

When Gordon arrived at the abandoned factory, a Flesh Lotus bloomed silently in the open space.

Aside from this Flesh Lotus, nothing else grew in the factory. Even the soil had turned a corrupted, dark green!

Gordon and Harvey exchanged a look, finally realizing that Fish's death was not as simple as he had imagined!

Even Khada Jhin, who had disappeared, had arrived!

This was the true scene of Fish's death!

The two immediately called for backup from the police department.