Catwoman and Poison Ivy

The night after Christmas, the explosions at Kuhn Manor in Gotham's eastern suburbs gradually subsided.

Standing atop the collapsed castle spire, holding a severed head in his hand, Shazo sighed incessantly, "What the hell is this? Yet another substitute."

"Just how many lairs does this old bastard have, and how many doubles does he have?"

"Damn it, they're taking advantage of the fact that I haven't seen him in person and can't access his electromagnetic field information!"

"You forced me into this, I'm fucking bored."

Shazo wasn't a patient person. In his previous life, when playing the Superstar III, he often encountered situations where he couldn't beat the computer. At those times, he would open the map editor and start cheating.

In the DC universe, Shazo is mentally ill, and his mental stability is even worse.

After failing to capture Carmine Falcone 10 times in a row, he was also fed up with the failures and completely tired of the cat-and-mouse game.

So he began to resort to unreasonable methods.

[Mantra]

Within a 15-kilometer radius, all information is readily available.

Unlike other extraordinary powers derived from Chakra, [Mantra], through repeated exchanges with Pirate Shazo and Misaka Shazo, has long since broken free from the limitations of Chakra and is infinitely close to Talent Divine Ability.

In the DC Universe, this ability, which originates from the essence of life, is not only accepted by the Universe, but also strengthened like never before.

Within a 15-kilometer range of effective perception, Shazo can read people's thoughts through the [Mantra], and even read shallow memories.

This intelligence-gathering ability is absolutely phenomenal. No one can hide any information from Shazo. For Du Fu, a regional gang leader, it's a complete game-changer.

The DC universe is characterized by a dark and tragic tone, a sense of balance, where any powerful ability inevitably comes with powerful negative consequences.

[Mantra] also has a huge problem: the amount of information it receives is too much for ordinary people to handle, and they will be driven crazy by the massive data flow.

But Shazo Zuo had already been driven mad by 28 years of suffering, and a madman would not go mad again. Moreover, his mental strength was extremely high after he developed mental illness, so this amount of data was nothing to him.

Even expanding the radius by another 5 kilometers would be a piece of cake, right?

It's more than enough for now.

After simply running half a lap around Gotham, Shazo found Carmine Falcone.

Even he, a mentally ill man, never imagined that Carmine would hide in the Sewer and mingle with outcasts.

Gotham's Sewer are very wide, and in some places they are even quite dry. In the cold winter, almost all the homeless people gather in the Sewer to avoid freezing to death on the streets.

Especially in areas with heating steam pipes, the temperature can even reach above 18 degrees Celsius, which is quite comfortable in terms of temperature alone.

Carmine Falcone and his cronies occupied this section of the underground passage, covering it with thick layers of plastic mats and carpets, wallpapering the surrounding area, and even running electrical wires, installing lights and a television.

At first glance, this place looks no different from an apartment; Carmine even has gin and rum to sample.

But Carmine didn't feel comfortable; his hair was disheveled, his cheeks were sunken, and his eye bags were so large they almost drooped down.

Ten days have passed since they were hunted down by a terrifyingly powerful madman.

From initially dismissively ordering his men to find "Kong" and torture him, to finding and killing "Kong," and then to later hiding and desperately trying to escape, Carmine experienced the greatest upheaval in his life.

For the past 10 days, bad news has been coming in Tenten. His children, relatives and allies have all been killed. Even with a security team of hundreds of people, they still couldn't save his life.

Carmine Falcone was terrified; the older one gets, the more afraid of death one becomes. So he sent out all his doubles and left the family business, hiding in the Sewer.

On such a joyous day as Christmas, he had to endure the pungent stench, huddle in the filthy Sewer, unable to eat or sleep properly, and could only drink endlessly.

Carmine felt he was about to give up; he was about to die!

With trembling hands, he poured himself another glass of wine, tilted his head back, and gulped it down.

But when Carmine put down his glass, he was shocked to find someone standing in front of him. He pinched his nose and said in a muffled voice, "Old man, you actually hid in such a stinking place. It suits your shady identity perfectly."

Carmine's glass clattered onto the table and rolled off with a thud.

There was a carpet, and it wasn't broken.

Shazo looked at the wine glass, his eye twitched, and with a flick of his finger, the wine glass flew up with a "whoosh" and landed on the cement ground several meters away without a carpet, shattering into pieces with a "crack".

Shazo immediately narrowed his eyes in satisfaction; it felt so good to have his obsessive-compulsive disorder cured.

Glassware that falls from a table should shatter into pieces, like icicles or large blocks of ice in winter.

Carmine trembled when he saw Shazo's performance.

Gotham City has no shortage of lunatics, and Arkham Asylum is teeming with them; even the psychiatrist was infected and turned into Harley Quinn.

But the monster before them bore the most resemblance to the dead Joker.

They're not the same in their madness, but the same in their degree of madness.

He asked, trembling, "Empty?"

Shazo Zuo laughed, "Actually, my name isn't Kong, but I like to write the character 'Kong' after I kill someone. You're very perceptive."

Suddenly his face darkened. "But you're annoying too, Carmine."

"You made me fail ten times with your substitutes and your lair!"

"You actually forced me to use [Mantra] to violently drag you out of Gotham City!"

"I'm very unhappy, and the consequences will be severe!"

Carmine's hands trembled as he struggled to control his emotions. "What can I do to earn your forgiveness?"

Shazo said, "I can't forgive you, but I can give you a quick death instead of torturing you slowly."

Carmine took a deep breath and said, "Alright, dying a quick death is a good thing. What do you want?"

Shazo smiled with satisfaction, "Very good, I want your connections."

Carmine replied without hesitation, "Sure, how should I give it to you?"

He placed his hands on Carmine's head and said softly, "You don't need to say anything. Just don't resist me and keep your network of contacts in mind."

"Once you've thought it through, you'll be free."

At this point, Carmine's eyes had rolled back, and his entire body was convulsing uncontrollably.

But this was just a natural reaction of the body when it sensed the threat of death; he himself felt no pain at all.

Under Shazo's control, Carmine even felt very comfortable, more comfortable than ever before.

His thoughts were exceptionally clear, and his mind was incredibly sharp. Many people and their contact information that he would normally need to think about for a long time or even need to use coded reminders to recall were all clearly presented in his mind.

Shazo thus acquired the greatest wealth of the Falcone Family, along with the network of connections he had built up through bribery, coercion, marriage alliances, and assassinations of political enemies.

These people include police officers, gangsters, drug dealers, big businessmen, government employees and officials, politicians, police executives, journalists, newspaper owners, Prosecutor, tax officials, and so on.

This is an incredibly vast network that touches every aspect of Gotham City, enabling it to obtain the most accurate intelligence in a timely manner and to promote specific individuals to high positions.

If there's any problem, it's that it's limited to Gotham City.

But for Shazo, this is good, very good.

However, he doesn't need all of them; those connections directly involved in crime and the dark side are precisely the targets for his next elimination.

Carmine Falcone slowly died, his last words being the names of his family members.

"Carl, you've arrived."

"Alberto, you unfilial son, how could you betray the family?"

"Mario, Sofia, Vincent, Luisa, Rocco—you're all here—"

Carmine spoke to each name he called out, as if the souls of these dead men were right before him, talking to him, or even arguing with him.

Carmine Falcone is dead. Shazo drew his blood and wrote a large "empty" on the wallpaper.

When Shazo returned to his abandoned factory base, he immediately discovered that it had been intruded upon.

The intruder was highly professional, moving with exceptional gentleness, checking every nook and cranny without leaving a single hair or fingerprint.

However, physical contact inevitably leads to the transfer and generation of electric charge.

In Shazo's vision, a series of footprints, handprints, and traces of hair brushing across the water, like dragonflies skimming the surface, were all clearly visible.

Judging from the traces outlined by these electrical charges, the intruder was a light and agile woman with exaggerated jumping ability and amazing flexibility.

Hmm, that waist must be very flexible, very flexible.

Shazo took a deep breath, savored it for a moment, and said, "It smells like cat, and there's also the fresh scent of herbs and trees."

"Hmm, cats smell a bit musky----"

"Meow!!" A dark figure leaped down from the rooftop, and a sharp, scolding voice rang out. "You're the slut! Your whole family is slutty!"

Five white lights flashed, slashing towards Shazo's neck, but stopped abruptly before they reached her, because Shazo had already grabbed the shadowy figure by the neck, and her arm was a little too short.

Actually, this beautiful woman has a slender figure, legs that are 1.2 meters long, and arms that are longer than her hips. Her figure is top-notch, but unfortunately, her height is just too much for her to reach.

The beautiful woman, dressed in a tight leather outfit and wearing a black mask with her signature triangular cat ears, is none other than the famous Catwoman, Batman's love interest.

Since the Catwoman couldn't reach Shazo's neck with her two paws, she switched her target and scratched at the arm that was grabbing her neck, causing strips of cloth to fly everywhere and Mars to fly.

Of course, aside from tearing Shazo's clothes, those delicate white claws couldn't hurt Shazo's skin.

Since there was no threat, Shazo was able to relax and Spotter the Catwoman in his hands. He was then attracted by her curvaceous figure and admired her with a rather improper gaze.

The Catwoman is angry.

Just because she can dress like this doesn't mean Shazo will find it appealing!

But Catwoman's anger was only so-so; she used all her strength, but couldn't even hurt a hair on her head. Even her punches and kicks couldn't make the arm gripping her neck budge.

The earliest T0 version encountered a mentally unstable character, who could only resort to impotent rage and cursing.

However, as we all know, the vocabulary for swearing in English is limited, and foreigners' imagination for swearing is even more limited.

Moreover, the Catwoman's voice was sweet, and her cursing sounded to Shazo like, "Meow meow meow-! Meow meow meow, meow, meow meow!"

Even the harmless meows stopped abruptly when Shazo retracted his left hand and tightened his grip on the Catwoman's neck.

The Catwoman's attack came to an abrupt halt. Her face flushed, and she weakly clung to Shazo's arm, her large eyes brimming with tears as she looked at Shazo pitifully.

However, Shazo kept in mind the motto of a great beauty: the more beautiful a woman is, the more likely she is to deceive.

Such a beautiful Catwoman, whatever she's doing, is definitely lying.

Unless she stops breathing.

She was really about to die; her face was deathly pale, her eyes rolled back involuntarily, and even her struggles with her hands and feet became weak and powerless.

"Stop!"

With a sharp shout, vines began to creep in from the warehouse doors, windows, and ventilation ducts.

The lush vines, adorned with colorful flowers and dense foliage, didn't seem particularly dangerous, yet they pounced on Shazo with Inazuma speed.

Shazo immediately recognized that the pollen from those Flower was a neurotoxin; inhaling just a small amount could produce intense hallucinations.

Hidden beneath the leaves are sharp thorns, and the Wooden Spikes are covered with dewdrops that shimmer with a faint purple light, clearly indicating an even more potent and deadly poison.

A rather dangerous plant, but also a rather powerless one.

Shazo Teuchi his the Snap with his left hand, and the severely weakened Wood Release Chakra surged out like a torrent.

[Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence]

The warehouse and factory buildings shook violently, large chunks of the dilapidated roof fell off, and tree roots and branches as thick as a person's waist pushed through the concrete floor, growing wildly from the ground.

Amidst the creaking and groaning of the wood, the trees grew rapidly, stretching their branches and leaves, unfurling their massive canopies, each vying for space at the top.

In the blink of an eye, the roof of the abandoned factory's warehouse was pierced, and then the walls were pushed down by the tree canopy, making a huge noise.

The trees spread outwards from the warehouse, quickly transforming the entire abandoned factory into a green ocean and a dense Forest.

Meanwhile, Shazo's right hand also grasped another Red-Haired Shanks beauty, who had been wrapped in a thick tree branch and brought to Shazo's side.

The beautiful woman on the right is wearing a strapless, high-cut bodysuit made of ivy leaves, long gloves, bright green pantyhose, and tall boots.

She is none other than Poison Ivy, known for her sexy and glamorous appearance.

Shazo raised an eyebrow, looked at the Catwoman on his left, and said, "Catwoman Selina Kyle."

He then looked at Poison Ivy on his right and said, "Poison Ivy, Pamela Lilian Isley."

"How did you two end up together?"