Chapter 10: Harley Quinn's Crazy Confession
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Jiang Li leaped lightly and landed between the Joker and Harleen. He looked at Harleen with concerned eyes, "Harleen, are you okay?"
"Bang!"
The next second, without even moving his eyes, Jiang Li raised his hand and pressed the trigger. White Ivory fired a bullet, accurately hitting the hand of the Joker, who was trying to launch a sneak attack with his pistol.
Seeing the pistol in his hand instantly shot away, the Joker gave it high praise: "Not bad marksmanship. I haven't heard of such a character in Gotham?"
"No comment."
Jiang Li turned and looked at the Joker indifferently. But in the next second, his sharp eyes saw several dark muzzles appear at the exit.
"Tsk!" Jiang Li quickly pulled Harleen's hand and ran behind a wide pillar nearby.
"Rat-tat-tat-tat!!"
As expected, several large men appeared at the exit, firing wildly with machine guns. But strangely, they all perfectly avoided the Joker. The bullets struck the pillar that Jiang Li and Harleen were hiding behind.
"Gahaha, enjoy this beautiful night to the fullest... if you're lucky enough to survive."
The Joker smiled, took a few steps back, then turned and left the chemical factory, leaving only a group of his lackeys to provide covering fire.
"I have to break this situation."
Jiang Li saw that the pillar he was behind was about to collapse from the gunfire, and countless fragments were flying off.
Following that, Jiang Li threw Ebony and White Ivory in two directions. Black and white streams of light streaked through the air, forming beautiful arcs.
"Twirling Eagles!"
The grips of White Ivory and Ebony had sharp blades at the bottom. Their speed was so fast that the Joker's thugs didn't have time to react.
"Gak-ahh!"
The sharp blades instantly slit their throats, and blood gushed out. A full three men lost their lives, causing the suppressing fire to weaken.
Jiang Li raised his hands above him, catching the returning White Ivory and Ebony.
The whole set of movements was smooth and fluid. Harleen, who was watching from the side, was dumbfounded, her mouth agape. Then, her eyes filled with hearts, and her voice was full of admiration, "So cool~"
"Stay here, don't move."
After instructing Harleen, Jiang Li immediately ran out.
When the Joker's thugs saw their target, they turned their muzzles and unleashed a crazy hail of bullets at the fast-moving Jiang Li.
Miraculously, Jiang Li's speed was extremely fast. The bullets all just grazed the edge of his clothes. Even the Joker's thugs were dumbfounded.
Quickly, Jiang Li ran to another pillar, planted his feet on it, and immediately did a backflip.
In mid-air, the bullets grazing his hair and passing by his ears couldn't shake Jiang Li's indifferent gaze.
"Multiple Headshots"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!!" Three bullets accurately and forcefully struck the heads of the three Joker thugs standing at the entrance. Blood instantly flew, and they lost their lives in an instant.
After Jiang Li landed, he felt a strangeness from the ground. The faint sound of several footsteps reached his ears, indicating that more of the Joker's thugs were on their way.
Jiang Li's eyes narrowed. He began to run toward the exit. When he reached it, he quickly raised White Ivory and Ebony in both hands.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!!"
"Chaotic Shot" + "Multiple Headshots"
Before the stunned eyes of the Joker's thugs, Jiang Li waved his dual pistols. It looked like chaotic shooting, but every single bullet fired accurately struck a thug's forehead!
"Thud!"
As the last Joker thug fell to the ground, Jiang Li's indifferent eyes scanned all the dead thugs on the floor.
Although White Ivory and Ebony were real firearms that needed ammunition, the Roving Shooter characteristic he obtained gave him infinite bullets.
This perfectly compensated for the weakness of needing to reload.
"Hahaha~ Li, you're so cool!" Harleen bounced on her feet in front of Jiang Li, wishing she could give him a hard kiss on the face.
Jiang Li looked at the happy Harleen with a trace of doting affection, then felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.
He took it out and saw it was Zatanna. Jiang Li answered the call directly. Because they were relatively close, Harleen could clearly hear the content of the call.
"Little Za, what's up?"
"Can't I call you if there's nothing? Really."
Zatanna whined a little on the phone before continuing: "Can you come to my house for dinner? My dad wants to meet you."
"Okay, see you tomorrow."
Jiang Li listened to Zatanna's sweet talk for a full several minutes, unaware that Harleen's expression beside him was growing darker and darker.
After Jiang Li hung up the phone, Harleen forced a smile, "Was that... your girlfriend on the phone just now?"
Although it was a bit of an obvious question, they were already at the stage of meeting the parents. Harleen felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.
She had to do something...
"Yeah, her name is Zatanna." Jiang Li frankly admitted his relationship with Zatanna. He could also see that Harleen didn't seem to regard him as just an ordinary friend.
"Alright, let's not talk about this. We should go..." Just as Jiang Li turned to leave with Harleen, he suddenly heard the sound of running from behind him.
When Jiang Li turned to look, he saw Harleen running straight toward the chemical pool.
"Harleen!!" Jiang Li's expression changed. He used all his strength to run after her.
Harleen jumped off the high platform without hesitation, falling straight toward the chemical pool far below.
"Tsk!" Jiang Li also jumped down without hesitation. At an even faster speed, he caught Harleen in mid-air, holding her in his arms.
Then, he turned in mid-air, fired a grappling hook gun at the iron railing above, and swung himself and Harleen to safe ground.
Jiang Li used his body as a cushion, falling to the ground so that Harleen wouldn't be badly hurt.
"Are you crazy!" Jiang Li immediately snapped.
Who knew that his reprimand seemed to have no effect on Harleen now. It also made Jiang Li realize what the system sign-in on Harleen meant: she had become something similar to the deranged Harley Quinn.
Harley's eyes were filled with the sight of Jiang Li, full of slow-brewing love. She smiled and said, "Li, you really do love me."
Her entire action just now was to confirm whether she had a place in Jiang Li's heart. If she didn't, then only one person would have died.
If she did, and if Jiang Li didn't have the means, both of them would have died. This was why the system determined Harleen had become the crazy Harley—her style was to act without considering the consequences.
After speaking, Harley grabbed Jiang Li's collar and forcefully kissed him.
"Mmph???" Jiang Li was completely stunned by Harley's actions.
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[Maybe Gotham Knights isn't as good as the Arkham series, but it has one good point: Harley's model is better looking than Arkham's. After all, there's a big gap in technology between the eras (lol)]
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