Doctor Quinzel

Doctor Quinzel

Blackgate Penitentiary,

The helicopter landed. After Li Zu got off, he entered through the rooftop passage he knew best, braving the howling cold wind.

Police-uniformed thug impostors escorted him the entire way. Posing as Gotham police officers, they cleared every obstacle, preventing the armed forces stationed outside from shooting down the helicopter.

Li Zu's trip to Blackgate Penitentiary was as easy as entering an empty place.

The moment he entered the prison, he saw "Merry Christmas" sprayed in green paint on the opposite wall, along with a crude Joker grin.

Ignoring the blood at his feet and the prisoners' crazed, excited faces, the wall might have seemed like an ordinary joke—one that did not look quite so deadly.

The cheering prisoners in their uniforms were like wild horses let loose.

They cheered around Li Zu. Some recognized him and shrank away to hide at the side.

Following the arrows, Li Zu walked forward and stopped before a television set placed on what had once been a guard's desk. Blood spattered the screen. It seemed the prisoners had gone to great lengths to get that television—and sacrificed quite a few guards in the process.

"Welcome back, welcome back!! Hee hee hahahahaha!!"

After a burst of static, that chalk-white smiling face appeared on the screen: green hair and carefully applied heavy lipstick... meant to hide the scars at the corners of his mouth.

"You're putting on a big show?" Li Zu turned his head from side to side. "Where are the guests and the audience?"

"I need you to do me a tiny little favor." Joker did not answer Li Zu's question. Instead, he raised a finger and pinched his fingernail tips together. "Just a tiny little thing. Don't you want to have a little clash with our superhero?"

Li Zu stared at the television. He was certain Joker was staring back at him.

"That would definitely be... fun!"

Smack!

The television lost its signal, and static filled the screen again.

Joker believed Li Zu would never refuse his request. That was a madman's confidence.

And Li Zu truly would not refuse, because there was no need for him to hide. A grand finale was far more interesting.

"Take me to the stage." Li Zu spoke to the prisoner in the distance, who had turned timid the instant he saw him. "I want to watch a grand finale too."

The prisoner stood up and rubbed his bald head. "Follow me."

They crossed two flights of stairs and passed through the most insane section.

Then they were drawn in by a woman's angry cursing.

"Why are you still keeping a lady tied up?"

Li Zu's gaze stopped. Looking down over more than thirty steps, he saw a figure bound to a chair.

She was a sexy female doctor in a white coat, glasses, and black stockings.

"Get lost! Get lost! Get lost!" She sounded panicked.

Li Zu walked toward the female doctor and stopped before her.

His eyes swept over her pale, slender neck, tightly cinched by hemp rope, and her beautiful face.

"It was Joker. He only tied up this female doctor, said a few words, and left." The prisoner beside him spat, greedily eyeing the doctor. "A woman showing up in a place like this will have serious consequences!"

"This is Joker's gift to us. A Christmas gift!"

The prisoner's words struck a chord. Seeing the sexy, alluring doctor, the excited prisoners slowly began closing in.

She was a little lamb thrown into a pack of wolves, and one bloody maw after another had opened.

Bang!

"Ah!!" The woman screamed. The sudden gunshot had truly frightened her.

The revelry came to an abrupt halt. Everyone stared at Li Zu, who held a pistol out to the side. Just seconds earlier, his hands had been empty.

Li Zu did not even look in that direction, yet the bullet fired from his side-raised pistol struck the man preparing to take off his pants with perfect accuracy, punching through his temple.

The body collapsed, giving off a stench even carrion eaters would hate.

Blood gushed out, pooling on the floor.

"Hmm, I actually hit him this time~" Li Zu was very satisfied with his marksmanship. He turned the pistol back into a toy and slipped it into his pocket before walking toward the female doctor with a smile.

He bent down, brought his face close to hers, and said in a very gentle voice, "I really hate rapists. They get the death sentence from me~"

In the distance, someone who had been about to come over for a share shuddered.

Mist had already risen in the female doctor's eyes.

That was not gratitude. It was fear.

"Please rest assured~"

Li Zu's eyes swept over the female doctor's chest, and he deliberately stressed his words. "Doctor Harley Quinzel~"

He strode away, leaving behind Doctor Harley Quinzel, frozen in place, and prisoners who did not dare move.

Whoosh~

A gust of black wind swept through.

A dark figure clung to the ceiling, hanging beyond the reach of the lights.

"What happened here?"

He sprang forward, swept his leg out to knock down the two prisoners behind Doctor Quinzel, then quickly punched out and dealt with the others before stopping in front of the doctor's chair.

"Batman?" The female doctor stood and rubbed her shoulder. "I didn't expect you to really exist."

"Doctor Quinzel?" Batman did not understand why the doctor seemed so mentally stable. This was not the attitude a kidnapping victim should have, but it made it easier for him to ask questions.

"I'm a doctor at Arkham Asylum. I came today to conduct psychological evaluations on a few people," she said. "But a riot broke out several hours ago, and they captured me. I even ended up in the hands of a green-haired man, but he was quite interesting~"

"Where's Joker?" he asked.

"I just saw the man in the Christmas hat who can turn toys into real guns run that way." Doctor Quinzel pointed behind her. "That route."

Batman nodded. "Head up to the roof from here. The police will take you back from there. I've already cleared the danger along the way."

"Also, Doctor, dressing like that is actually dangerous." In the end, Batman could not help giving the provocatively dressed doctor some advice.

"That's a normal reaction for men. They can't help looking."

Doctor Quinzel clearly did not buy it.

After personally watching Doctor Harley Quinzel leave, Batman turned and pursued Li Zu in the direction he had gone.

"Why is it him?"

The moment Li Zu entered an "arena," an unhappy voice came from overhead.

Bane, wearing a mask and an odd set of tubes embedded in his skin, stood above him as green energy flowed through the apparatus.

He was even stronger than before.

"Hahahahaha!!" Joker was the one laughing madly beside Bane.

Joker clutched his stomach and pointed at Li Zu as he laughed. "So glad you're back~, let's join Batman for a... deadly joke."

"No need!!"

Bane was the first to refuse. With a roar, he dropped from above, the shadow of his enormous fist engulfing Li Zu.

Boom!!

Dust flew everywhere.

"He really is impatient." Joker curled his lip.