Chapter 09: Rescuing Harley Quinn
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"..." Barbara's true identity was exposed. Her expression changed slightly. She quickly looked around, and only relaxed after seeing there were no passersby.
"Wait for me."
Barbara shot Jiang Li a glare, then took out a mini-computer. After briefly hacking the nearby surveillance, she ran into an empty alley. When she came out, she had changed her clothes.
Simple denim shorts revealed her fair, slender thighs. Her calves were wrapped in white knee-high socks with multi-colored stripes. She wore an ordinary short-sleeved shirt inside and a purple bat-themed jacket outside.
This outfit might look like that of a seasoned otaku, but on Barbara, it was undeniably cute.
Barbara stood in front of Jiang Li, her little fists on her hips, and asked, "How did you recognize me?"
*Of course, it's because I'm a transmigrator. I knew about Batgirl from my previous life.*
Jiang Li wouldn't say that. He just gave a casual excuse: "Your eyes. They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. I could feel it was my best university friend."
Who knew that when Barbara heard Jiang Li's words, her face instantly turned red, as if steam was rising from her head. Her whole mind felt dizzy.
"Ehehe~ Gosh, you're so annoying. Don't say things like that, I get embarrassed too."
Barbara started to giggle foolishly. Jiang Li found this amusing and shook his head. He knew that Barbara would blush and giggle like Chopper whenever she was praised.
But what Jiang Li didn't know was that Barbara reacted this way only because it was him. If anyone else praised her, Barbara wouldn't show such an expression.
Suddenly, Barbara remembered the message her father, Gordon, had sent her. This piece of information put her on high alert.
She couldn't let anyone else get there first.
"Li, have you met any... women... recently?"
"Hmm? Why are you suddenly asking this?" Jiang Li was completely puzzled. Barbara, who had never asked these questions in previous years, had suddenly changed.
Her tone was like a police officer interrogating a criminal. "Allegedly involved in case blah blah blah... hand over your accomplices."
"Quick, quick."
"Uh, I have met one recently."
Barbara's gaze gradually sharpened. It seemed she had slacked off, and another woman had taken advantage of the opening. How dare she try to steal her man while she wasn't around?
After that, Jiang Li was dragged by a mysteriously serious Barbara to walk around the mall. They walked for a whole afternoon.
After it was finally over, just as Jiang Li was about to enter his apartment, a sense of foreboding suddenly rose in his heart.
He had felt this way ever since he obtained the Roving Shooter ability. Perhaps it was a gunslinger's intuition.
"This feeling... is really bad!"
Jiang Li couldn't ignore this feeling. He went straight upstairs to his room, changed his clothes, and went out again.
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With Harleen cooperating from the inside, the Joker finally escaped from Arkham Asylum.
The Joker also took Harleen to a chemical factory, claiming he had a way for Harleen to attract Jiang Li.
Harleen walked a few steps, looking at the chemical pool far below. Her brows furrowed, and her tone was somewhat angry: "I did everything I could to get you out of Arkham Asylum."
"But you brought me here! This is *your* fucking method!"
After speaking, Harleen raised the pistol in her hand and aimed it at the Joker, whose mouth was curved in a crazy grin. The originally gentle and weak Harleen had changed since that night at the Gotham Mall.
"Gahahaha, but my dear lady, this is indeed the best way."
The Joker raised his hands in a French surrender pose, smiling as he continued to speak to Harleen: "I promise, as long as you jump, you will be completely refreshed."
"You'll become like me. Just as I attract Batman, you will attract that person you care about. Your prince charming will fall madly in love with you!"
But Harleen was no longer that girl insanely obsessed with the Joker. Although her object of obsession had just changed to a different person, it didn't mean she was stupid.
"Bang!" Harleen's answer to the Joker was a bullet that streaked past his ear.
The Joker blankly touched the wound on his ear grazed by the bullet. Looking at the blood on his finger, the Joker grinned again.
"Gahahaha~"
Honestly, this was the first time he had met a woman so crazy yet not without reason. Such a contradiction, but also so charming.
"You are the most interesting, craziest, and strangest woman I've ever met. But..." The Joker smiled as he quickly pulled a pistol from his waist and aimed it at Harleen.
"You won't be seeing the future."
"Bang!"
His speed was not something a novice gun-user like Harleen could compare to. Just as Harleen was unable to react and was about to be shot by the Joker, something unexpected happened.
The bullet the Joker fired was suddenly intercepted by another bullet, which shot out and struck the Joker's bullet in mid-air!
No, perhaps only the owner of the strange bullet knew that his bullet had directly shattered the Joker's bullet, and only then did his own bullet hit the ground.
"??" The Joker, still wearing that crazily grinning expression, tilted his head slightly at the scene before him, a question mark appearing above his head.
"Looks like I'm right on time."
Both the Joker and Harleen looked toward the source of the voice. They saw a man in a black trench coat and a cowboy hat standing on a high platform, looking down on them.
When Harleen saw that figure, her heart bloomed with joy. A huge smile spread across her face as she shouted the figure's name:
"Li!"
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[PS: To be clear, since Harley was barely written about in the previous book, I will write a bit more about her in the early stages of this one.]
[There will be another chapter tonight, two chapters to load the bases.]