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Chapter 407 Selena's Financial Shortage
Chapter 407 Selena's Financial Shortage
[Today's Gossip: The Spirit of Vengeance]
[Reward for watching the drama: Ancient Power]
[Eternal Power: Enhances defensive capabilities by contact with the ground; can manipulate stones and rocks, summon magma, create earthquakes, and unleash shockwaves]
Connors disappeared into the pre-dawn mist, and Ghost Rider charged toward the town of San Venganza below the cliff.
According to the original plan, Connors was supposed to storm into the town with Ghost Rider, with Ghost Rider responsible for slaughtering demons and Connors just watching from the sidelines.
But he had other things to do right now. Harley Quinn from Earth-3 and the two Poison Ivy girls somehow found out that Connors had taken Zatanna to another world alone, and the two of them were practically turning Gotham upside down.
Fortunately, although he didn't get to know the whole story of Ghost Rider, Connors personally freed him from Demon Town and transformed the town, which was cursed by the demon Mephisto, into the San Venganza Contract.
Given the combination of these two extremely important events for Ghost Rider, Connors's reward for watching the drama unfold was quite decent.
He didn't even have a chance to test his newfound abilities before immediately setting off to return to Earth 3.
He worried that if he went back any later, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy would tear Gotham apart.
"Help me! Help!"
In a Gotham alleyway on Earth III, a young couple screamed as they looked at the man across from them wearing a skull mask.
Since the world was liberated from the complete rule of the Lord of Justice, Gotham's crime rate has been gradually rising, and Gotham's prisons are almost overflowing.
"My arm hurts so much! Anna, run! Run to the alleyway and ask for help!"
The young husband, clutching his broken arm, stood in front of his wife and said through gritted teeth.
"No, I can't abandon you." The young wife's legs went weak, but she still insisted on facing the year with her husband.
"Run!" the man wearing a skull mask yelled. "While I'd love to crush your skulls, I need someone to escape and tell Gotham that the 'Skullbreaker' is Gotham's newest villain!"
"Remember my name, Skullbreaker!"
The man, whose hands were each gloved with metal, laughed as he spoke.
A light rain was falling in Gotham. The alley was lined with four- or five-story buildings, and a gargoyle statue lay quietly on the edge of one of them.
On the gargoyle statue's head, Catwoman Selena, dressed in a black bodysuit, sighed as she looked down at the scene below:
"What era are we living in? Why do these petty thugs keep getting ahead even after people like Bane and Scarecrow are locked up in jail?"
Despite her sigh, Catwoman Selena still leaped down, aiming the tips of her special high heels at the back of the Skullbreaker.
Perhaps it was the loud wind she created as she landed, or perhaps the thug wearing the skull mask had already spotted Catwoman, but in his haste, he raised his right arm to block Catwoman Selena's kick.
"Catwoman? That's amazing, it's Catwoman herself!"
Skullbreaker exclaimed with delight, showing no fear whatsoever, and instead charged towards Catwoman Selena, who had just landed and regained her footing.
"If I can win over Catwoman, my reputation in Gotham will skyrocket, and I'll soon become the underground emperor of Gotham!"
He shouted with ecstatic joy.
Catwoman Selena was furious when she heard this.
She had also heard about Connors taking Zatanna on a vacation alone, but he didn't cause as much trouble as Harley and Poison Ivy.
But now a greenhorn is brazenly claiming he can take her down?
Catwoman Selena feels that her reputation is starting to decline because she hasn't committed a crime in a long time.
"I'm sorry to have ruined your debut, newcomer. But—wait, I have a feeling this is familiar?"
Catwoman Selena was taken aback. The familiar feeling she was referring to wasn't from the thug in front of her, but from Connors.
She always felt that Connors might have already returned from his vacation.
Taking advantage of Catwoman Selena's momentary daze, Skull Crusher punched her in the abdomen with his left fist and grabbed her neck with his right.
With just a little effort, Catwoman Selena was lifted up with one hand.
"Too easy, too unchallenging!"
The skull-crusher grinned:
"Maybe I should just confront Batman directly, or simply be an outsider."
He looked at Catwoman Selena, who was incapacitated by his grip on her neck, and his hand was gradually tightening its hold:
"In any case, I'll prepare a beautiful gift for them, like this cat's corpse?"
Just as the Skull Crusher was about to enjoy the sight of Catwoman Selena's neck being snapped and her head being crushed, vines silently climbed up the wall and entangled him tightly.
"who!"
He turned around in alarm and saw two little girls holding hands as they walked into the alley.
Vines and flowers danced on their fingertips; clearly, the vines that had entangled him were their doing.
"Poison Ivy—"
Before the Skull Crusher could finish speaking, his mouth was sealed shut by one of the Poison Ivy Lolis:
"I've had enough! Can't you just be quiet for a second?"
Another Poison Ivy Lolita tossed the Skull Crusher into the air with a flick of her wrist:
"Although I'm a little angry that this kitten didn't join us, I can't just watch her get killed by a bunch of idiots."
Catwoman Selena collapsed to the ground, clutching her chest and gasping for breath. She looked at the two Poison Ivy Lolis who had walked up to her, barely taller than her when she was sitting, and said:
"Thank you, Ivy, you saved my life."
Poison Ivy Loli didn't care about this; instead, she was rather curious:
"Who's that skull? Your old nemesis?"
"Catwoman can't possibly be unable to beat someone like this, can she? What were you thinking just now?"
The two Poison Ivy Lolis asked questions one after the other.
"Skull? He's just a clown trying to become famous overnight," Catwoman Selena said helplessly. "Ever since Black Canary Dana claimed she was going to rebuild the Birds of Prey, these thugs have become more and more restless."
As for the second question, Catwoman Selena wasn't going to tell the two identical Poison Ivy girls, but rather planned to keep the news of Connors' return to herself. She changed the subject, saying:
"Little Ivy, does anyone have any money left? Lend me some."
One of the Poison Ivy Lolis immediately became alert:
"Didn't Connors give each of us tens of millions of dollars worth of precious metals after he came back from Apokolips? You can sell them and make money, right?"
Catwoman Selena shrugged:
"The money's all gone."