"So, today, the Joker contacted the Penguin, persuading him to capture me. He needs me to help him create an antidote. Creating the antidote isn't difficult, but the chemical components within are very unstable. Once ingested, they decompose before they can even take effect. Therefore, a special restorative bio-enzyme is needed to maintain stability."
Mr. Freeze continued to Qingshui, saying:
"So the Joker set another trap, using Two-Face, and hired Deadshot to set a trap for Batman, successfully capturing him. He injected his own blood into Batman's body and sent several more samples into various blood banks throughout the city."
"Batman, after escaping, eventually found me, under the Joker's interference, or rather, guidance, and obtained the antidote formula. Now, he needs to find that restorative bio-enzyme within twenty-four hours, otherwise..."
Mr. Freeze shook his head, not continuing, and changed the subject, asking Qingshui:
"You once said you had a supernatural healing ability that could save Nora."
"I can try, but I can't guarantee it. I've seen Nora's medical records you sent me in the past, but I still need to see her in person. With my current abilities, I can probably only alleviate her condition, not cure it completely.
Also, I need a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging device that can magnify to the molecular level as an aid."
Qingshui didn't dare to make any promises, but Mr. Freeze smiled. If Qingshui confidently said he could, he would suspect Qingshui was lying to him, but his current demeanor indicated that there was a real possibility.
"Regardless, please try. As long as Nora can be saved, I can give anything, whether it's the freeze gun or all the knowledge I possess."
Mr. Freeze looked tenderly at his wife lying in the ice coffin, his gaze passing through it.
"Okay, but this will take time. I want to transfer Nora to Central City for examination. I know a first-class biomedical scientist at Star Labs in Central City, and they have first-class equipment to assist with the examination, including the nuclear magnetic resonance imaging device that can magnify to the molecular level that I need."
Qingshui crossed his arms and said to Mr. Freeze.
Healing Jutsu is okay, but his Extraction Jutsu is only barely usable. If he had a means of molecular-level perception, he could fully utilize it.
Regarding Mr. Freeze's wife, Nora's, illness, Qingshui had also subtly inquired about it when teaching Chiyo, roughly describing Nora's medical history to Chiyo, successfully obtaining a suitable treatment plan from Chiyo.
Nora's illness is complex and rare.
She inherently inherited genes for congenital neurodegenerative disease, but they were recessive and might never manifest under normal circumstances.
If this continued, she would soon lose all sensation, and then the nerve cells in her brain would also begin to degenerate. At that point, she would be truly beyond cure.
Although it was discovered in time, to prevent the situation from continuing to worsen, Mr. Freeze could only put her in an ice coffin, using cryogenic equipment to maintain her life while minimizing the rate of deterioration.
Once thawed, she might deteriorate to the point of being incurable within a year, or even a few months.
Chiyo's treatment plan was Extraction Jutsu combined with Creation Rebirth Jutsu. Qingshui doesn't know Creation Rebirth Jutsu, so he can only use a weakened, very weakened version of Healing Jutsu.
Use Extraction Jutsu to precisely locate the diseased nerve cells and cut them in a directed manner, then use Creation Rebirth Jutsu to recreate these nerve cells, and use the powerful Yang Release chakra from Creation Rebirth Jutsu to integrate into the patient's body, accelerating their recovery and self-healing ability, enhancing themselves, and offsetting the effects of radiation-induced lesions.
The difficulty is very high, but Chiyo's method can indeed cure it. However, Qingshui's fallback plan, replacing Creation Rebirth Jutsu with Healing Jutsu, can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause, and may not even completely treat the symptoms. Without sufficiently powerful Yang Release chakra, even if temporarily cured, the disease will recur.
But this is enough to alleviate Nora's condition, extending her remaining lifespan of less than a year by several years.
"That's great! When shall we leave for Central City?"
Mr. Freeze said excitedly.
Qingshui was about to urge Mr. Freeze to be patient, as things here still needed to be finished, and the Arkham City incident still needed him to assassinate Mayor Sharp and others to resolve, when an accident occurred.
In the sky, helicopters fired missiles, wantonly destroying everything in Arkham City.
Not only Arkham City, but any organization or individual that Dr. Hugo Strange considered a criminal would be attacked with heavy firepower.
Building Arkham City was just to make things easier, to conveniently gather most of Gotham's evils together.
His and Mayor Sharp's goal was never to control Gotham's evils, but to directly eliminate them on a physical level.
The Iceberg Lounge, as the Penguin's core base, had just experienced a large-scale gang fight between three major gangs, so it was naturally their top priority for attack.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Missiles struck the Iceberg Lounge, which had just been occupied by the Hogg Union and the Two-Face Gang, and the room where Qingshui and Mr. Freeze were located was also hit.
One-handed, one-shot, one-content, one-look!
"No! Nora!"
Mr. Freeze exclaimed, but quickly breathed a sigh of relief.
A light blue chakra energy shield was jointly cast by White Knight and Black Gold, protecting the defenseless Mr. Freeze and Nora.
Puppet Technique: Mechanism Shield Seal
"Thank you, Walter."
Mr. Freeze said gratefully.
Qingshui looked at the helicopters in the sky through the blasted-open wall, a hint of gloom in his eyes.
"Victor, tell Aman and the others to take you and Nora to the basement to hide. I'll personally deal with those annoying flies in the sky!"
As soon as he finished speaking, White Knight spread his wings and soared into the sky.
"F*ck! What is that! Batman?! He can fly! When did he turn white!"
"That's not Batman, that's the Puppeteer! He's flying towards the helicopter! Fire, fire!"
From the bottom of several helicopters, Gatling guns extended, pouring bullets towards Qingshui in a crisscrossing barrage.
Qingshui rapidly approached the helicopter in a zigzag pattern in the air.
