Bliss was still in the same spot, seeming to blend into the darkness. The Bat-Cape completely obscured her outline.
Seeing the two emerge, she tried to hand one of the flowerpots back to Su Ming.
"Poison Ivy was actually that cooperative?"
"Not at all. It's just that her tricks don't work on me." Su Ming did not take the pot, gesturing for Bliss to hold it for now. "Aquawoman's amphibious breathing isn't divine power or an external item. It's an innate trait in her bloodline. I need Scarecrow's Fear Toxin to make her fear water, so that psychologically, she'll be unable to approach the sea."
When it came to creating fear, Bliss was an expert, but she only knew how to instill fear of bats. Scarecrow's Fear Toxin had a far broader range of uses.
Most of the time, Scarecrow preferred to spread fear through gaseous toxins, because that covered a wider area and affected more people. On rarer occasions, especially against enemies with strong willpower, he used concentrated toxin injected directly into their bodies. Paired with psychological guidance and suggestion, it could make the victim fear almost anything.
Scarecrow drew out the deepest fears hidden in people's hearts, gradually driving them mad or leaving them witless. Bliss, for example, had once been injected with the toxin. The hallucination she saw was her parents being murdered before her eyes amid a sky full of fluttering bats, leaving her deeply traumatized.
Now, Su Ming first needed to buy Fear Toxin on the black market. He also needed to prepare a special needle, one capable of piercing Aquawoman's skin.
But if Batwoman came along, they would probably need to resort to a little violence.
Morning on Paradise Island.
Paradise Island seemed eternally unchanged: picturesque mountains, clear waters, a pleasant climate, and flowers