"Harley, you can continue your 'magic' show."
After effortlessly dealing with the naive Xue Xi, "Poison Ivy" Ivy elegantly sat on the chair grown by Connors from plants and said to Harley Quinn on the stage.
"It's boring." Harley Quinn had no desire to perform at this moment. "Ivy, you caused too much of a commotion."
At this moment, the audience members were all tied to their seats, so how could they still be in the mood to continue watching the "magic" show?
First toxin spores, then plant restraints, and then Xue Xi's frost coverage.
The successive encounters made the audience in Gotham only care about their lives, so how could they care about any performance?
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Connors, who was offstage, got a piece of not-too-small gossip up close and didn't feel much regret about Harley Quinn stopping her performance on stage.
Xue Xi naturally goes without saying; this naive female celebrity had ulterior motives. What's more, after being kissed by "Poison Ivy" Ivy, she couldn't help but start rubbing against herself like a cat.
"Poison Ivy" Ivy came because she detected a large number of plants in the Stadium, and her target was Connors; she was indifferent to Harley Quinn's performance.
On the contrary, as the "victim" trapped inside the iron cage that fell from the sky, Zatanna felt quite regretful:
"Since you don't plan to continue, can you tell me how you intend to perform the 'making a living person disappear' magic trick?"
Even when locked in the cage, Zatanna's voice showed no panic at all; instead, it was incredibly gentle.
"Oh, it's just a small trick, can't compare to you, the great magician." Harley Quinn sighed somewhat dejectedly, then drew a small knife from her waist.
The small knife flew out of her hand, spinning towards the top of the enclosed Stadium, then seemed to pierce something like a balloon, and a large amount of earthy yellow gas spread out.
"This is something I concocted myself, imitating Scarecrow's Fear Toxin, which can make the audience dizzy for a while—." Harley Quinn said.
The audience members tied up below the stage indeed started to feel dizzy, and Harley lifted the iron cage with both hands, allowing Zatanna to crawl out from the gap below.
Zatanna crawled out of the cage, curiously sniffed the earthy yellow gas in the air, and suddenly realized:
"Nominally it's magic, but actually, your target is these audience members in the Stadium, right? — I smell something that can cause hallucinations."
Harley Quinn still looked dejected:
"Yes, everything you said is right. I only thought about creating news by myself, but now look."
She pointed to the three people, including Connors, sitting motionless in their seats below the stage:
"I'm afraid tomorrow's newspapers will only publish 'Poison Ivy Appears at Stadium, Female Celebrity Turns Out Not to Be Ordinary'."
"Only in a small corner of the newspaper, an ostracized junior reporter will write that 'Harley Quinn' kidnapped the entire Stadium."
"No, no one even remembers that poor Harley Quinn appeared on stage."
That wronged little look made Zatanna next to her feel a pang of heartache, but thinking again, it wasn't right; this was clearly a lunatic who wanted to use hallucinogenic gas to knock out the entire Stadium and then collectively kidnap six or seven thousand people.
So Zatanna withdrew the comfort that was almost out of her mouth, softly chanted a sentence that no one present could understand, and the entire person disappeared into thin air.
Connors couldn't understand, but that didn't prevent him from knowing what it was—Backward magic!
As one of DC's top magicians, Zatanna's signature ability is Backward magic.
It's just that the current Zatanna doesn't seem to have a deep study of magic; although she had disappeared, Connors's Spider-Sense could detect that she was still on the stage, leaving with light steps.
"Invisibility?"
With the help of magic, Zatanna left the Stadium, but didn't go too far; instead, she appeared in an apartment she had rented in advance.
"Becoming famous through magic performances and then looking for my father through news and newspapers doesn't seem to work in Gotham—I need to think of other methods."
Zatanna muttered to herself, but having just had her magic performance messed up by this group of people, she had no clue for the time being.
After much thought, she simply picked up her magic wand, waved it in the air, opened a small gap in the air, and then leaned closer.
The scene presented on the other side of the gap was exactly the four people, Connors, Xue Xi, Ivy, and Harley, who were still in the Stadium.
She was really curious about what these people, who were clearly not ordinary at first glance, would do next.
"Harley, I'm sorry—"
Ivy had already stood up, holding the dejected Harley who came down from the stage,
Quinn said.
Connors pushed away Xue Xi's hand that was trying to reach his sensitive parts, listening to the vixen "Poison Ivy" apologize to Harley Quinn, and he already roughly guessed why in his heart.
The first time Harley wanted to cause trouble alone, she was taken away by Poison Ivy without a word. The second time Harley ran to Arkham, but unexpectedly facilitated Joker's escape plan early.
Now it was the third time; Harley just wanted to create some news herself, but it was ruined by the appearance of "Poison Ivy" Ivy.
Repeated setbacks had made Harley Quinn start to doubt herself.
"Bad things always happen where there are too many humans, Harley. You can try paralyzing Gotham's traffic and electricity; that's much easier than working hard to perform magic."
"Poison Ivy" Ivy was comforting Harley Quinn, but the comforting words sounded wrong no matter how you listened.
Connors was fine, but some of the audience members tied up by plants had started to panic.
"Oh right!" Harley Quinn's eyes lit up. "Joker tried pouring laughing gas into the reservoir; I can destroy Gotham's power supply and plunge them into darkness—."
"No, I should hack into Gotham's TV channels and make everyone only able to watch that damn GG!"
This is called plotting loudly. Connors pulled out Xue Xi's hand that was reaching into his clothes again and helped her stand up instead.
"Harley, go wait for me at the old place. I have a better plan to tell you." Connors first finished speaking to Harley Quinn, then turned to the very elegant Ivy, "...Why don't you also go with Harley and wait for me?"
Connors's plan was very simple: he wanted to advance Joker's "Laughing Man" incident and complete it in one go.
Specifically, it was to lock Batman in Arkham Asylum.
"What about you?" Ivy's gaze lingered between Connors and Xue Xi.
"I'll go clean up the mess you made."
After speaking, Connors helped Xue Xi walk past the tied-up audience members instead.
Just now, the cold air was pressing, coupled with Poison Ivy's power, the audience didn't realize this was the female celebrity who came to Gotham to hold a concert.
But now, quite a few people recognized her, and before they could move, Connors casually manipulated the plants to cover all their eyes.
In another apartment, Zatanna, looking through the small gap in the air, saw the two sisters, Harley Quinn and Ivy, leave the Stadium. Thinking there would be some excitement to watch later, she couldn't help but yawn.
Then, Zatanna focused her view on Connors, who was helping Xue Xi leave.
Seamlessly sculpted, with a profound simplicity.
Zatanna's mouth was dry, her heart raced, and she quickly closed the gap torn in the air, burying her face between her knees.