The Black Canary sisters, along with the Rogues' core members like Captain Cold, Heat Wave, and Golden Glider, were still a bit short-handed.
They lacked a mastermind.
While both White Canary and Captain Cold possessed decent leadership skills, the team clearly needed a powerful scientist for technical support.
Just like Cisco in Flash's team.
After all, not everyone is like Batman, a super-scientist himself.
And even Batman relies on the entire Wayne Enterprises' technology department, with the assistance of Lucius and others, to achieve such formidable technological capabilities.
Ray Palmer and Professor Martin Stein were Shimizu's chosen candidates.
Namely, the Atom and Firestorm.
Both had connections with Flash's team.
Even if he couldn't be recruited, he could still enlist Flash and Green Arrow, who were on good terms with Atom, to bring him into the Justice League.
Then he could still use him as an outside helper.
Martin Stein was also a highly skilled physicist. When he merged with Ronald Raymond, they became Firestorm, a powerful force, almost equivalent to a mobile nuclear fusion weapon.
Although Raymond, Cathlyn's ex-boyfriend, had died again, Barry had previously borrowed computing power from his supercomputer to find a black high school student through Joe's police database who was genetically compatible with Martin Stein, and could still form a new Firestorm.
Although Firestorm and Atom were only second-tier heroes, their strength and technology had the potential to make them first-tier heroes. As long as one of them could be recruited into the team, it would be enough to build a powerful team in Shimizu's plan.
These were the relatively suitable and relatively easy-to-recruit people that Shimizu could think of in a short period. As for others, after returning, he would have Witt Ous create a database to slowly search for suitable talents.
Or, more simply, just ask Batman. Batman would definitely create a personal archive for this kind of 'threat'.
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While Shimizu was thinking about getting some information from Batman, Batman in Gotham was falling into rumors.
The originators of the rumors were Penguin's son and daughter.
As early as last year, Penguin Oswald was assassinated by Jason, secretly instructed by Shimizu, during a riot in Gotham.
In fact, Shimizu also wanted to bring in Jason, who had become Red Hood, but recently he couldn't find Jason's whereabouts.
Back to the main topic.
Of the two children, the son was named Ethan, and the daughter was named Isabella.
Penguin had been in Gotham for so many years, so he naturally knew how hated he was, so he protected his children very well, and not many outsiders knew about them.
It's just that he protected them too well. Ethan and Isabella didn't learn much from their father at all, and it was difficult for them to survive in a city like Gotham.
Even though the crime rate in Gotham under Shimizu's control has dropped slightly compared to the past, it is still the dark capital with simple folk customs. It is difficult to survive in Gotham without some ruthless skills.
If Ethan and Isabella lived in Central City and Metropolis, relying on their decent knowledge, they would be able to live a decent ordinary life.
But they didn't choose to do so.
Instead, they wanted to reproduce their father's glory in Gotham and extremely hated Batman—since birth, Penguin had created the best conditions for them, enjoying wealth in life.
They couldn't accept living the life of ordinary wage earners, and they couldn't bear the huge gap.
So, in more than a year, the two siblings spent all the wealth they carried when they escaped from the Iceberg Lounge, which was enough for ordinary people to live comfortably for a lifetime, and began to take up their father's old business, hoping to one day take revenge on Batman.
They believed that all of this was caused by Batman.
Then, they were well educated by the coldness of reality and the darkness of Gotham.
In Gotham, losing one's life is the most common thing when trying to get involved in the underworld.
The two siblings wanted to start with a small gang in Gotham, but the next day, Ethan was severely injured and dying by the head of the gang.
There is no mistake!
But now there is no money to send Ethan to the hospital for treatment, so he can only stay in a small black clinic.
These small black clinics are very common in Gotham. If Ethan can't survive, then the organs in his body will become the clinic's reward.
And if he is cured, these black clinics also have ways to make these customers create greater value, unless the force behind them is too great to provoke, then they can only obediently submit.
Ethan obviously didn't have that fate.
And Isabella was even less able to take revenge, so she could only humbly spread rumors online, such as Batman starting to kill people, and Penguin being killed by him.
No one cared about this rumor that quickly sank into the sea.
But a robot cared.
In a hidden location, even Batman himself didn't know about it in the Batcave. A robot covered in black, looking like a big bat, slowly lit up its eyes.
"Suspected malfunction detected, insurance activated, starting troubleshooting..."
The black robot shook its body, released the data cable connecting it to a Batcomputer, and walked out of the Batcave.
It was going to check if Batman had done it.
It knew most of what Batman knew, so it was also equivalent to a first-class detective, who could recreate the scene and methods of Penguin's death to determine whether he was killed by Batman.
If so, then it would start troubleshooting.
And unfortunately, Jason, who killed Penguin, learned all his skills from Batman, and he learned them very well. The methods he used to kill Penguin were all learned from Batman, and they highly matched.
So, the unlucky days of Batman and his sidekicks were coming.
