"You said so much I barely understood it, but does that mean..." Shazam pointed at Chief and said with a strange expression, "he'll be a leopard man from now on?"
"He's still far inferior to Cheetah." Su Ming did not answer, but Donna took over. She moved closer to inspect the unconscious old man. "He doesn't even have his senses anymore. He's more like someone Cheetah scratched and infected. You never went through the Hunting Frenzy incident, so you might not know."
Cheetah was contagious like a werewolf. She could infect ordinary people through bites, creating inhuman underlings for her own use.
Donna and her sister had dealt with Cheetah plenty of times, so this trait had left a deep impression on them.
No wonder Chief had been hanging upside down from the ceiling earlier. Even while being chased, he had not meowed. He had not turned into a cat—he had been cursed by a leopard.
Leopards really were quiet creatures.
"If he hadn't displayed super speed, I would've been more inclined to think Cheetah bit him." Su Ming joined the conversation, pulling out a bottle of soda and taking a drink. "But he gained power while being cursed, which means he really did come into contact with an artifact."
"Right, I overlooked that. My mistake." Donna immediately corrected herself and walked toward Deathstroke with an obedient look on her face, falling silent.
"Can the old man still be saved?"
The Mother had been watching the show all along. Whatever happened to Chief had nothing directly to do with her.
Guy was a Doom Patrol member. She was not.
"Yes. As long as it's a feline, I have a way." Su Ming nodded. He had not planned to use this method, but now he had no choice. He tapped the