American comics: Today’s big news Chapter 034

Character name suggestions: Connor, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Penguin, Selina, Sybil, Conners, Sybil

Time was already late, and Connor did not return to Sybil’s hotel.

Riding on “Catwoman” Selina’s motorcycle, the seat still seemed to retain her residual warmth. Connor twisted the throttle to the bottom all the way back to his nineteenth-floor apartment.

Although he had accepted the female star Sybil’s invitation to watch the magic show tomorrow, he hadn’t managed to find out who the person was in her room just now.

He had to go back to his apartment and communicate with Harley Quinn again to see if Harley’s “magic show” and the “magic” Sybil used to compensate the audience were the same.

He had a premonition that this would be a big scoop.

Gotham began to rain sparsely again. By the time he returned to his apartment, he was already soaked.

Lying in the bathtub, letting the warm steam drive away the cold from his body, Connor opened the system.

Waking up from the cage of Arkham Asylum this morning until now, all sorts of scoops had already been recorded in the system.

[Today’s Scoop: Arkham’s Ordinary Morning]

This was the system’s prompt when Connor casually walked past the Joker and them while brushing his teeth.

[Today’s Scoop: The Laughing Man Incident (Ongoing) – A Mad Plan]

This was the scoop recorded by the system when the Joker told Connor his plan to lock Batman in an asylum.

[Today’s Scoop: The Return of Harley Quinn]

No need to elaborate.

[Today’s Scoop: Deep-rooted]

This was the R-rated scoop after Harley and he returned to the apartment.

[Today’s Scoop: Novel Theft Method]

[Today’s Scoop: Batman and Robin]

These two were related to the action that just ended tonight. As for the supercar that was stolen again, it was not recorded by the Scoop System.

“Losing cars every day, I think the system should open a separate ‘lost car scoop’ for me…” Connor thought to himself, amused.

According to the rule Connor himself summarized: “The more superheroes and villains involved, the greater the influence, and the greater the reward,” he quickly selected the scoop task to submit.

[Today’s Scoop: The Laughing Man Incident (Ongoing) – A Mad Plan]

[Scoop Reward: Driving Grandmaster]

“…What is this?”

Connor was full of question marks.

[Driving Grandmaster]

[Extremely skilled in driving any type of vehicle in the world.]

There was an introduction in the system, but Connor felt it was a bit redundant since the content of the reward could be understood from its literal meaning.

But the problem was, as someone who, up until now, hadn’t kept any vehicle in his possession for more than a day, was the “Driving Grandmaster” ability a bit too much of a chicken rib?

Connor sighed. His future self would definitely unlock flight-related abilities through the Scoop System. “Driving Grandmaster” really had no need to exist.

However, when he got out of the bathtub, dried himself, and returned to the bedroom, he looked at Harley Quinn sprawled out on the big bed.

“Who says driving skills must only be used on vehicles…”

Connor reached out his large hand, and a series of operations woke Harley Quinn up, astonishing her:

“Did you go to Japan and come back as a host?”

“…” Connor didn’t understand how his grandmaster-level driving skills turned him into a host.

“Your skills…” Harley Quinn couldn’t even say the rest of the words. She was already lost in the continuous sensation like a tide.

…

“Dude, not a word the whole way, are you playing dead?”

“Listen to me, Gotham Forest is very dangerous. You might need a weapon for self-defense. This pistol will only cost you two hundred dollars…”

The driver slowed down, skillfully holding the steering wheel with one hand and pulling out a pistol from his with the other, pointing the muzzle at the passenger in the back seat.

“However, bullets cost one thousand per shot, with a minimum purchase of ten.”

The passenger in the back seat had been silent the whole way, not saying a word even now.

The driver was a bit confused. Was this guy drunk? But he hadn’t smelled any alcohol the whole way…

He stopped the car and turned his body backward. But the hooked-nose corpse, which had been supported by Conners’ little trick and hadn’t fallen the whole way, finally slumped down limply.

“Ah~!”

On the edge of Gotham Forest at night, a terrified wail of a ghost startled countless birds into flapping their wings.

“Poison Ivy” Ivy walked elegantly through Gotham Forest. Caught off guard by the scream, she was also startled.

But there was no follow-up to the scream, so “Poison Ivy” Ivy did not go to investigate.

Gotham Forest was protected by the plants she had “awakened” with the Green. Even if she left the forest, she didn’t need to worry about anyone being able to cause trouble in her territory.

Harley Quinn had already left Gotham Forest yesterday night, heading to Arkham Asylum, which was not far from here.

“Poison Ivy” Ivy decided to go there too. On one hand, to know if Harley Quinn’s plan to destroy the Joker’s plan was successful, and on the other hand, she wanted to get a car there.

Arkham Asylum was located in the deep suburbs of Gotham. After getting a vehicle, she wouldn’t need to rely on her legs to walk all the way to Gotham, which would be much easier.

As for her purpose in Gotham, it had nothing to do with Harley Quinn. She was going to find the guy who made her body feel strange, which was Connor.

This guy, who caused peculiar reactions in her body whenever she approached him and used her abilities, she couldn’t tolerate him continuing to be active in Gotham City, whether she killed him or turned him into a plant.

…

The first concert, Scarecrow and Penguin took turns causing trouble.

The second time a circus performance was invited, the agent behind the scenes caused trouble, directly leading to the accident of the Grayson couple’s death.

Today was the third time, and it was Sybil’s special invitation to famous magicians to perform, to compensate the audience for the losses of the last two times.

Connor was very curious if something would go wrong again this time.

To prevent accidents, all the stage facilities this time were confirmed again and again by security personnel, and any unauthorized personnel were prohibited from approaching.

Connor also didn’t scatter seeds around the stage this time. He simply let her use her connections to fill the area around the stage with large ornamental trees.

When Sybil sat with Connor last time, she personally witnessed the large plant net that suddenly appeared on the stage, attempting to save the Graysons. Therefore, she did not refuse Connor’s request.

“It was even executed quite well…”

Connor looked at the corner of the stage, at a banyan tree over ten meters tall, with intertwined roots and a canopy estimated to be twenty to thirty square meters, and muttered to himself.

Besides the area around the stage, the aisles, edges, and corners of the audience seats…

Wherever there was an empty space, plants were placed everywhere.

With these plants present, Connor was confident that unless there were large hot weapons, magic, or related interferences, even if an accident occurred on stage, he could rescue people immediately.

“Does a magic show need so many trees?” Harley Quinn sat in the audience, almost thinking she was still in Gotham Forest, and asked blankly.

“Yes,” Connor nodded.

“Alright, never mind. I’m going to prepare for the performance. Remember to keep your eyes wide open—” Harley Quinn skipped away, her pigtails swaying in the air, making Connor full of question marks.

Looking at Harley’s relaxed and happy appearance, Sybil couldn’t have really invited Harley to perform magic, could she?

Perform what? Randomly kill a lucky audience member??