The Alchemist Singed

From beginning to end, he had never harmed any of these officers.

Ironically, the only injuries the officers had suffered were probably from stray bullets caused by the gang members' barrage of gunfire.

With the tacit cooperation of both sides, the Maroni Family members dwindled in number. By the time they were about to rush beneath Li Wei's building, only four survivors armed with firearms remained.

This scene was broadcast live across Gotham City through television station cameras.

Apart from the Maroni Family members, every viewer standing before a television unconsciously grew tense.

It had to be said that Khada Jhin's performance was simply too beautiful. In such a short time, he had already gained a group of loyal fans!

Under the nervous gaze of his fans and the teeth-gritting hatred of the Maroni Family members,

the four gang members finally charged beneath Li Wei's building.

Li Wei calmly put away the exaggerated sniper rifle in his hands and stepped to the edge of the rooftop.

Every viewer's heart leaped into their throat.

Could Khada Jhin be planning to surrender or run away?

Although they had to admit that Khada Jhin's sniping skills were extraordinary, faced with the frenzied bombardment of four enemies at close range, his fans simply could not think of any way for him to win. The only outcome they could foresee was Khada Jhin being riddled with bullets or blasted into a pile of mangled flesh.

Yet there was not the slightest trace of panic on Li Wei's face. Everything was within his plan.

Even these four "fish that slipped through the net" had been deliberately allowed through by him.

This performance needed a perfect ending.

Before the four gang members rushed into the building, Li Wei swept a hand across his waist. A purple grenade appeared in his hand, and he casually tossed it downward.

"Dancing Hand Grenade."

The purple grenade fell from the rooftop, and the camera lens remained tightly fixed on it.

Before everyone's eyes, something bizarre happened. Like a homing missile, the grenade completely ignored gravity and flew toward one of the gang members.

"Boom!"

After the explosion, only a brilliant flower of blood and flesh remained on the ground.

But it was not over yet!

After the explosion, the grenade eerily shot out of the smoke and dust again, flying toward another gang member.

"Boom!"

Then it flew toward another gang member.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

After four consecutive explosions, the remaining four gang members had completely vanished, leaving only four flowers of blood and flesh at the building entrance.

That single step of distance was like an uncrossable chasm.

At this moment, the minds of everyone who saw this scene were filled with question marks.

What kind of goddamn grenade was that?

If there had been a fifth person, would that goddamn grenade have kept exploding?

Unfortunately, Li Wei was not kind enough to answer them.

The performance was over.

A line of text appeared before him.

Khada Jhin's obsession (Completed): Put on a grand performance and make Khada Jhin's name resound throughout Gotham.

Reward (Issued): Khada Jhin Permanent Hero Template.

The mission was complete, and the reward was his.

Since his purpose for coming here today had also been achieved, there was no point in staying any longer.

Li Wei put away the handgun in his hand and was about to turn and leave when he suddenly heard a loud shout.

"Khada Jhin!"

It was Gordon's voice!

Li Wei paused. After thinking for a moment, he stopped, turned around, returned to the rooftop's edge, and looked down.

"Sheriff Gordon, are you looking for me?" Li Wei's voice was low and hoarse.

Noticing the conversation between Li Wei and Gordon, everyone at the scene subconsciously held their breath, their attention completely focused on the two of them.

The television station's camera also remained locked tightly onto them.

"Khada Jhin, you killed so many people." Gordon looked around, then angrily pointed at the corpses scattered everywhere and the wounded people in the square. "What exactly are you trying to do?"

"Their lives could not bear meaning, but their deaths could!"

"I have never harmed anyone. It was merely the performance that left people breathless."

Though Li Wei's voice was soft, it struck everyone's ears like thunder!

At this moment, Jerome was cowering in a corner of the square. He had been lucky and had not been injured in the chaos just now.

Hearing Li Wei's philosophical words, his eyes lit up. He seemed to understand something, yet he also seemed not to have fully grasped it.

Gordon stared fixedly at Li Wei atop the building, fire seeming ready to burst from his eyes.

A madman!

Though he could not see the face behind the mask, Gordon knew this was a madman!

From his words, Gordon could feel his indifference toward life.

An indifference... as though he had merely eaten lunch!

Although this was his first time facing a madman, he knew that if such a madman continued to exist, he would inevitably cause even greater chaos!

Several times, he wanted to draw the handgun at his waist and fire at Li Wei, but he could never find a suitable shooting angle and could not guarantee a lethal hit.

At this moment, however, Li Wei seemed to have seen through Gordon's thoughts.

"You wanted to kill me just now, didn't you? But you will eventually understand that art is immortal..." Li Wei smiled and shook his head.

Hearing Li Wei's words, goosebumps instantly rose across Gordon's back and crawled all the way up to his scalp.

For no reason at all, he felt that those words would cause some serious trouble!

At that moment, a man suddenly rushed out from among the officers behind Gordon.

Unlike the other officers, this man was not broad and burly. Instead, he wore gold-rimmed glasses and carried an air of refinement.

It was Edward Nygma!

"Khada Jhin, what exactly is the answer to the riddle you left behind? What walks into an alley on six legs and comes out on two?"

Edward shouted at Li Wei.

Ever since the case began yesterday, he had been troubled by this question. Edward prided himself on his intelligence, yet he had been stumped by a single riddle, leaving him almost unable to sleep.

Li Wei: ...

This time, it was Li Wei's turn to fall silent.

That dark joke had merely been a bit of casual mischief on his part. He had not expected someone to actually take it seriously!

How was he supposed to say it...

Yet it was precisely Li Wei's silence that successfully aroused the curiosity of everyone watching.

"Don't you have an answer either?" Edward shouted.

"Do you really want to know?" Li Wei awkwardly touched his nose, though the mask on his face blocked the gesture.

"Of course!"

"The answer is... Bruce Wayne and his parents."

The moment Li Wei said this, everything fell silent.

But after that brief silence, an uncontrollable laugh rang out. Then the entire square seemed to lose control as thunderous laughter erupted.

The shooting of The Waynes not long ago had caused a huge uproar. Everyone in Gotham had heard about it.

The Riddler and Gordon, meanwhile, stood frozen in place.

The Riddler had never expected the answer to be so... dark.

As for Gordon, the veins on his forehead were throbbing violently.

Even though The Waynes were dead and had left behind only Bruce Wayne, Wayne Enterprises was still an unquestionable behemoth.

Wayne Enterprises had a hand in nearly every industry in Gotham City.

Khada Jhin was practically taking a dump on a tiger's head, then asking the tiger for its dick to wipe himself.

Could his next target be Wayne Enterprises?

In that instant, Gordon thought of many things.

Gordon was stunned, but Li Wei had no intention of wasting any more time here.

He lightly waved at Gordon below and in the direction of the cameras. Then, amid waves of startled cries, he leaped from the rooftop on the other side and vanished from sight.

He had not merely completed Khada Jhin's mission now.

After killing those gang members, Li Wei had finally gathered enough Soul Essence!

It was finally time to reap the rewards. He could purchase Alchemist Singed's Hero Template!

Alchemist Singed

When Gordon saw Li Wei disappear from view, he immediately realized something was wrong.

He quickly led the officers behind him into the building and rushed upstairs.

But it was already too late.

Li Wei had long since descended to the ground along a zipline he had set up beforehand. In a secluded spot, he transformed back into his original appearance.

Now, even if Gordon stood face-to-face with him, he would never recognize him!

Watching Gordon search through the square and the building like a headless fly, Li Wei smiled, turned, and disappeared into the crowd, concealing his achievements and fame.

Li Wei had left, but the impact he caused had not ended.

First came the impact on Gotham's citizens. After experiencing that night's madness, although the citizens of Gotham remained obedient, certain hazy thoughts had inevitably been planted in their hearts.

Or rather, certain evil thoughts that had always existed deep in their hearts had been drawn out. Perhaps at some appropriate moment in the future, those evil thoughts would erupt all at once.

Then there was the sea of blood and flesh flowers Li Wei had left behind in the square, almost stretching across the entire plaza!

Although this sea of flowers possessed a strange kind of beauty, due to its material, it clearly could not be left there for long.

The task of cleaning up the scene naturally fell to the unfortunate Gotham Police Department.

Gordon could only lead the officers at the scene and grimly begin scrubbing the place down.

Finally...

There was the dark joke Li Wei had told.

As an event that had shaken all of Gotham, Bruce Wayne had not come to the scene himself, but he had been watching this grand "performance" through the live broadcast from Wayne Manor.

Bruce Wayne had only recently lost his parents and was not yet the Batman of the future.

He was merely a wealthy young man with a tiny little bit of money.

Naturally, he could not become Batman and punish evil. Looking at the horrific scene in the live broadcast, his eyes held only confusion. He had no idea what he was supposed to do.

Especially after the figure in theatrical costume told that dark joke, Bruce Wayne's eyes instantly turned red as blood rushed to his head.

Half anger, half grief.