Chapter 568

Chapter 568: I, Joker (7)

Translator: Lonelytree

Joe knew the underground sewer like the back of his hand. On the way to the police station, he had been using the device that looked like a Gameboy to conduct his scouting job to ensure that there was no ambush waiting for them. While at the same time, Marya used another handheld device to receive the surveillance signal from the ground. She realized with a shock that not only Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn beside them, even Two Face and The Joker had escaped from The Bruce’s tracers...

At that moment, on all the big screens over the city, they were broadcasting a speech that Gordon had pre-recorded which had the purpose of calming the people. The 4 ‘supervillians’ who had not been executed had already disappeared from the public’s sight... For those who had their faith in the Bat, this was truly a ‘frightening’ night.

“This is the place, right?” After turning around another bend, Soulie suddenly slowed down and turned back to ask.

“Yes, just above this manhole cover is the parking lot of the police station.” Joe pointed at an iron staircase stuck to the wall. He then said with awe. “Oh, miss, you have such great memory. You only glanced at the map once and you have been leading us down the right way...”

“That is nothing.” Soulie replied casually before adding, “Where are Dar and the rest?”

“It was five minutes ago when I last received any signal from them.” Marya answered, “They should be hiding near the parking lot, waiting to intercept us.”

“Okay... then...” Soulie was about to add something else when suddenly...

Bang—

A loud boom came from above them.

“What was that?” Marya’s expression scrunched up in tension.

“That explosion was definitely not a welcomed sound...” Joe was relatively calmer but his expression had turned several shades more serious. Eek—Right then, there came another sound of metal grinding against each other. Then, the manhole cover above them opened. A short and strong figure swiftly crawled through it.

“Dar?” From the back and the hair style, Joe recognized this as his comrade.

“Hmm? Oh! Joe!” Dar turned around in shock before he slid down the stairs. “Joe, it is bad news!” He was catching his breath as he ran over to Joe. “we were discovered by the team of Robins! The bastards came prepared... they had RPG and also... Hey! Wait, you have rescued another person?” It was only then that he realized there was a Harley Quinn in their midst.

“Do we have any survivors left on our side?” Ruoyu suddenly spoke to toss out a question.

Dar shook his head, “No, I am the only one...”

“Yes.” Dar answered. “I say... buddy, who exactly are you?”

“There is no need for you to know, but I do have a question for you...” When Feng Bujue said that, he already walked to stand before Dar.

Bang! A gunshot. Who also did not expect Brother Jue’s next move was to take out the pistol from his pocket, raise his arm, aim it between Dar’s brows and pull the trigger. The whole process was so smooth, quick, accurate and gracefully. There was no hesitation and mercy. When Dar who did not realize what had happened careened backwards, Feng Bujue only finished his question, “...why would you betray your friends?”

“Hmm...” Seeing this, Xiao Tan grumbled with a serious tone, “How do you expect him to answer you now...”

“Oh, my god!” Joe roared in anger and took out a dagger from his pocket and lunged at Brother Jue. “You bastard, what you have you?!”

Ping—

Joe only took two steps when the dagger he was holding was knocked away. He did not know what happened. His sight blurred and his wrist numbed. His body lost balance and he almost tripped. When he recovered and looked up, he saw... Harley Quinn was standing before the Joker with a long blade raise and the gaze that was sharp as knife was staring at him.

“You... You...” Joe stammered out from confusion and anger.

“He must have his reason to do something like that.” Seeing the man did not charge blindly at them anymore, Ruoyu slowly put the blade down and put in a good word for Brother Jue. Of course... that sentence itself sounded rather unreasonable.

“Joe Collins.” Feng Bujue walked around Ruoyu and strode towards Joe. “You are a clever man, calm down and think about it... what do you think has happened in the parking lot earlier?”

Hearing that, Joe tried to suppress his anger and tried to think back to the series of events that had transpired. Several seconds later, his expression changed and he looked at Brother Jue and uttered, “Dar... he is a traitor...”

“Very good.” Feng Bujue nodded. “If you cannot see through something as simple as that, then there is no reason for us to continue this conversation.”

“He...” Joe held his forehead in one hand and the sadness and regret was clear on his face. “He was my friend... why...”

“Because he was not strong and determined enough.” Feng Bujue interrupted. “Dar is a weak minded person, you should know better about that than I do. Once someone like him was captured by The Bruce’s people, he would have traded the rebels in for his life without any hesitation. Without even the need for any torture, he would willingly kneel to the bat.” He paused. “Whether you choose to believe me or not, I still need to inform you... Just a few minutes ago, me and my friend saw with our own eyes he brought your rebel friends to this place and used scouting as an excuse to slip away on his own. Then he gave off a signal to the Team of Robins who was hiding around in ambush.”

“Oh... I get it now...” Soulie continued, she said her thoughts out loud. “When he saw us... The panic on Dar’s face was not because the Robins were chasing after him but when he was going down the stairs, he suddenly heard Joe’s voice. I suspect... he planned to come down here to find us and then lead us into the trap at the parking lot but he did not expect us to arrive so soon and happened to run into him at the entrance. Since the sound of RPG’s explosion just came from above, he could not come up with a better excuse to trick us to go up so he could only change his plan at the last moment and lied to us that they had fallen into an ambush and he was the only one who managed to escape.”

“This is so unbelievable...” Marya was equally stunned as well. “Dar was the earliest one to join the group... I thought...”

“There’s no use crying over spilt milk. The man is already dead.” Feng Bujue tried to wrap things up. And then he turned to Joe and said, “Mr. Collins, I have something to discuss with you.” He put away the pistol and walked to the man. “I know you must have many questions... do not worry, I will try my best to satisfy your curiosity in a bit.”

The NPCs naturally would not know that... when Joe climbed out from the sewer and appeared in Brother Jue’s sight, Brother Jue and Xiao Tan both received the hidden quest. From then on, Feng Bujue had already come up with the perfect solution to solve the scenario in his mind. Currently, his every move had a final goal in mind.

“In any case... for now, I would need everyone to join us at the top of the roof.” Feng Bujue said as he reached out his right hand to grab hold of Joe’s arm...