300,000 Volts!

Tonight, Gotham was ablaze with lightning and thunder.

A storm raged outside, while inside, the bed was rocking.

He'd just gotten paid, so Bai Lang had replaced everything on his bed: the quilt, sheets, and pillows.

Bai Lang gripped the soft, snow-white pillow with both hands. His senses were far sharper than an ordinary person's, and the sensations only grew more intense.

And because of the current flowing through his body, they both seemed to feel an unusual tingling sensation...

[Ability Points +4]

A pale blue notification appeared before Bai Lang, but he had no mind to pay it any attention.

The bed gradually settled. Catwoman Selina lay on it, drifting off to sleep.

Bai Lang, however, sat up and felt the changes within his body.

Just now, every cell in his body had been in a state of heightened excitement, and the current inside him had flowed at his will.

He had not only gained Ability Points, but his strength had also increased dramatically.

[Current Propulsion: 266,000 Volts] → [Current Propulsion: 276,000 Volts]

A full 10,000-volt increase in Current Propulsion was a significant boost to his strength.

Moreover, he could feel that every cell in his body was still in that frenzied, heightened state, rubbing against the others.

It was as if... these cells had finally found their moment to prove their worth.

Bai Lang wasn't about to let this opportunity to grow stronger pass him by. He immediately straightened his posture and focused his mind on the friction between his cells.

Threads of reddish-gold current emerged between his cells, then flowed through the gaps between them and converged, forming a terrifying circuit of electricity.

That night, Gotham was destined to remain sleepless.

The sun rose in the east, its brilliant golden rays passing through the window and shining on the snow-white walls.

[Current Propulsion: 276,000 Volts] → [Current Propulsion: 300,000 Volts]

After a night of intense exertion, Bai Lang had seized the chance to make use of his body's heightened state and raised his Current Propulsion to 300,000 volts.

His muscles had been stimulated further, but they hadn't grown any larger. Instead, they seemed compressed, confined within his powerful Man of Steel physique.

The terrifying current circuit inside him had also grown from the size of a chicken egg to that of a goose egg.

"My physical abilities have climbed again, but I'm nearing this body's limit..."

Bai Lang opened his eyes. Though he hadn't slept all night, his immense stamina kept him bright-eyed and alert.

He could feel that his physical abilities were approaching the limit of what a human body could reach.

This wasn't the same as the physical peak of a human like Batman, Bruce Wayne. It was the maximum amount of stimulation and enhancement the human body could withstand.

After all, continuously stimulating cells with electricity would make them multiply and develop in a particular direction. But once the cells in that direction neared saturation, they would collapse as quickly as a burst bubble.

At this moment, Bai Lang's nerve cells, muscle cells, and all his other cells were constantly rubbing against one another and multiplying at high speed.

They were already close to saturation.

In other words, Bai Lang had hit a bottleneck in improving his physical abilities.

"To break through this bottleneck, I'm afraid I'll have to reach the realm of Magnetic Field Rotation..." Bai Lang's gaze turned distant.

At that level, his cells would rotate and rub against each other faster and with greater force. The current would then become a pure force, capable of altering his own magnetic field and the fields around him.

Changing his own magnetic field would let him break through this bottleneck.

Once he'd thought it through, Bai Lang made up his mind and turned to look to his left.

Catwoman Selina was still sound asleep beside him. Judging by appearances, they'd been at it quite a few times the night before.

He got up, got dressed, and prepared to go out and buy something to eat.

When Catwoman Selina woke, the first thing she saw was his bulging, granite-hard muscles and handsome face.

She couldn't help recalling the unforgettable sensations from the night before.

She'd never experienced anything like it. For the first time, she'd felt as if she'd been electrocuted in the middle of it.

In fact, the current flowing through Bai Lang had affected her.

"Want to go a few more rounds?" She still wasn't satisfied, turning the night's events over and over in her mind.

Bai Lang shook his head, mercilessly refusing Catwoman Selina's request to keep going until late morning.

Judith had said yesterday that a gang wanted to work with them.

He had a poor impression of all the gangs, big and small, in Gotham, but Mick and Molly's similar pasts had taught him something.

These gangs managed to survive for so long not just because of the needs of those at the top, but also because people at the bottom needed them to get by.

So he would look into the gang called Night Crow.

What did Gotham have more of than anything else?

Criminals? No, gangs.

Gotham had a population of thirty million, and before Batman appeared, there had been more than five hundred gangs, large and small.

Gangs were tied to the lives of Gotham's poorest residents.

If they had any other choice, who would risk their neck every day to join a gang and commit crimes?

Not everyone was the Joker, after all.

Once he understood the gang's situation, he would use his methods to change it.

That would mean another huge haul of Ability Points.

Before long, Bai Lang arrived at the Park Street precinct in his black trench coat.

To his confusion, several police cars were parked outside. It seemed a few people from headquarters had come over.

He entered the precinct. In the main hall, Ryan was looking through the files on the recent theft case, while Judith and the others had gone out on patrol with Edward.

Several middle-aged men sat in the middle of the hall, their faces troubled.

Bai Lang recognized them. One was the potbellied Detective Bullock; beside him sat the Black detective Ollie; and in the middle was the commissioner from headquarters—Director Gordon.

"What's going on, Director Gordon?" Bai Lang asked as he entered.

"And Detective Bullock, Detective Ollie—why are you all here in Park Street?"

"Bai Lang, we've received word that a mysterious organization is planning to assassinate Dr. Arkham." Director Gordon looked deeply troubled.

It was clear the news had given him a headache. Dr. Arkham was, after all, in charge of Arkham Asylum.

The asylum housed some of Gotham's most notorious criminals.

If Dr. Arkham were killed, Gotham would be thrown into chaos.

"You know, if anything goes wrong at Arkham Asylum, Gotham will be finished. So I'm pulling officers from across the city to guard Arkham Island."

Bai Lang nodded and said to Ryan, "Ryan, notify Judith, Susan, and the others. Have them go to Arkham Island with Director Gordon."

"Aren't you going?" Gordon asked in surprise.

"If all the city's police are guarding Arkham Island, what happens to Gotham? Someone has to stay behind and keep order in the city, right?"

Bai Lang gave a faint smile.

At that, Detective Bullock clapped him on the shoulder.

"Attaboy. I knew you had potential from the start!"

Director Gordon was also taken aback by Bai Lang's words. He took another look at the young man standing before him.

He nodded and smiled. "Then Gotham is in your hands, along with all the officers staying behind, for the next few nights."

Ryan soon headed to Arkham Island with Judith and the others in Director Gordon's police car.

Bai Lang stayed behind to guard Gotham for the next few nights.