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“Domino… No, you should be Kid.”
Bane stared calmly at Domino in front of him.
“Boss, are you kidding me, Phantom Kid should be with the ninja master now, how can I be Kid?”
Domino laughed dryly.
“It seems that there will be another ‘Phantom Kid’ there instead of you.”
After a little thought, Bane guessed what Kid would do, and the reminder that Talia received was nothing but misleading.
The notice only said that Kid would act on the night of the next day, but did not say that he would definitely do so in the underground laboratory.
The purpose was to mislead everyone to think that Phantom Kid will appear at the location of the four statues tonight.
But he wasn’t planning to actually go there.
Bane seems to be certain at this point that the Domino in front of him is Phantom Kid in disguise.
“You are indeed very smart. I still haven’t figured out how you plotted my conflict with Sionis, and when you link GCPD and Penguin together.”
“Even when you disguised yourself as Domino, I didn’t notice anything wrong with you until the battle with Sionis.”
“Even when we were struggling to break out, I didn’t notice.”
As he listened, Domino’s eyes began to change.
From puzzled at first to calm now.
He listened patiently to Bane.
“Until the moment I carried you on my back, the smell of blood on your body told me who you really are.”
“Blood?”
“I must admit that you are the toughest enemy I have ever met, Phantom Kid.”
Bane suddenly stared at Domino with a look of approval.
“Unfortunately, you haven’t really killed anyone yet, and you lack due knowledge of fresh human blood.”
“The blood transfusion bag used in the hospital may keep the cells alive, but it is absolutely different from the fresh blood just left behind when a person is injured.”
“This difference can only be distinguished by the desperados who wander between life and death all the year-round. No one will write about this knowledge in books.”
As it turned out, Mathison had thought that using the blood bag to forge scars, as usual, would fool Bane.
He even got shot a few times on purpose.
Unexpectedly, he shot himself in the foot.
Since the disguise had been busted, it is not Mathison’s style to continue to linger. He generously removed the disguise.
The real Phantom Kid finally appeared in front of Bane.
“Since you know who I am, then you should know why I did this, Bane.”
Mathison had a confident and charming smile on his face.
He and Bane were alone in the Knight Dome stadium, and despite his injuries, Bane still had strength beyond human limits.
And he still had the last resort of “poison” to use.
Phantom Kid, who looked slender, doesn’t look like Bane’s match.
But in Bane’s eyes, Kid’s confidence came from the depths of his heart, his certainty of his own strength.
It was not simply an act of pretence.
“It seems that Lucius did tell you everything… That’s right, the nuclear bomb that Talia is guarding is a fake. We tricked Nigma into trying to hide a fake nuclear bomb.”
Bane sighed. He is not a scumbag. Since they both already know at this point, he opened up and told the truth.
There wasn’t much point in hiding it in the first place, was there?
“In the beginning, I was really confused by your plan. Hush pretended to be Gordon to mislead our thinking, the Riddler was invited to set up his puzzles everywhere, and also created a fourth truck that disappeared…”
“You didn’t even hesitate at letting Talia take the elite shadow warriors to guard a fake nuclear bomb, and you went to lead the large army to fight Black Mask.”
“If it wasn’t for a coincidence, I rescued Lucius and learned from him about the safety device Wayne made on the fusion reactor, I’m afraid now I would really go to steal the fake nuclear bomb guarded by Talia…”
Mathison said with admiration, and he didn’t know whether it was Bane who came up with this plan or Talia, but it was a bold and risky plan.
If one of the pieces had gone wrong, such as the Riddler discovering that the nuke was fake, or if someone had snuck in and stolen the real nuke when the Knightsdome Arena was empty, it would have led to the total defeat of the League of Shadows.
Bane must have spent a lot of time faking the nuclear bomb. After all, it was not easy to fool the Riddler.
“I wonder, when exactly did you work with Cobblepot?”
Bane asked.
When Phantom Kid first appeared in the Diamond District to rescue Lucius, Bane continued to strengthen his connection with the Penguin forces.
As well as surveillance.
He didn’t believe Phantom Kid could infiltrate the Iceberg Club without being discovered under those circumstances.
“Hehe… Mr. Cobblepot, speaking of which I had a cooperation with him a long time ago…”
Mathison smiled calmly.
“Actually, I thought about this issue before returning to Gotham. You, Black Mask, and the Penguin are very powerful. Even if I stole the nuclear bomb, the rest of the full-scale riots would be unbearable for this city.”
“I don’t want Gotham to be the hell Black Mask calls it, so I couldn’t just steal the nuke.”
“But I’m not interested in participating in your war, nor do I want to be a superhero.”
“So I decided to give Cobblepot the chance to save Gotham, at least he’s more disciplined than Sionis…”
Remember when Mathison and Charlie showed up near the Iceberg Club after the arrest of Hush, leading to the Riddler’s “ultimate” riddle? (see Chapter 183 for details)
It was at that time that Mathison and the Penguin negotiated everything.
“You planned everything at that time!”
Bane was shocked. He didn’t expect Kid to think about it so early.
“In fact, making you think that Black Mask wanted to join forces with the GCPD against you was also planned then.”
“Right from the start, Black Mask had no intention of joining forces with Gordon, he genuinely wanted to destroy the GCPD.”
“Black Mask’s real plan was to join with the Penguin to destroy you, and it just so happens that you thought the same thing.”
Mathison was acting strangely. He wasn’t rushing to find out where the nuke was and then steal it away, nor did he have any intention of starting a fight with Bane.
He chatted with Bane casually, replaying what had happened a few days ago.
He seems to be waiting for something.
“Remember the day when Scarecrow came to talk to you on behalf of Cobblepot?  Was the messenger sent by Black Mask giving you a hard time at every turn?”
“Could it be…”
Bane’s eyes widened.
“Yes, that messenger was actually me. The real messenger of Black Mask was knocked unconscious by me and sent to GCPD’s prison…”
On the other side, in the underground laboratory.
After a battle that was close to hanging, the shadow warriors and the Riddler were tied up with vines by Poison Ivy.
From head to toe, there is no possibility of them escaping.
At this time, Barbara and Pamela suddenly found that a vital person was missing…