The Black and White Canary sisters, along with core Rogues members like Captain Cold, Heat Wave, and Golden Glider, aren't quite enough on their own.
What's missing is a mastermind.
While White Canary and Captain Cold both have good leadership skills, this team clearly lacks a powerful scientist for technical support.
Just like Cisco on The Flash's team.
After all, not everyone is a super-scientist like Batman himself.
And even Batman, backed by Wayne Enterprises' entire technology department and aided by people like Lucius, only achieves such powerful technological capabilities.
Ray Palmer and Professor Martin Stein are Qingshui's chosen candidates.
That is, The Atom and Firestorm.
Both have connections with The Flash's team.
The former originally worked at a top university. After leaving, he leveraged his technological prowess to start his own business, founding Palmer Technologies.
While its market value isn't as exaggerated as Wayne Enterprises, it still provides Ray Palmer with ample research funds, allowing him to successfully develop a suit capable of shrinking his atomic distance.
However, although the suit was developed, it lacked a powerful energy source to drive it. So, later, he somehow managed to find a fragment of a white dwarf star. With the help of Cisco and other members of The Flash's team, he successfully powered the white dwarf star fragment at S.T.A.R. Labs and integrated it into his atomic suit.
Such a billionaire would certainly be hard to recruit.
Even if he couldn't be recruited, Qingshui could still enlist The Flash and Green Arrow, who are friends with The Atom, to bring him into the Justice League.
That way, Qingshui could still ask him for help as an external resource.
Martin Stein is also a highly skilled physicist. When he merges with Ronald Raymond, he becomes Firestorm, a powerful entity almost equivalent to a mobile nuclear fusion weapon.
Although Raymond, Caitlin's ex-boyfriend, has died twice already, Barry previously used the computing power of Qingshui's supercomputer. Through Joe's internal police database, he found a Black high school student who genetically matched Martin Stein, allowing for a new Firestorm to be formed.
While Firestorm and The Atom are only second-tier heroes, they both possess the potential in strength and technology to become first-tier heroes. If even one of them can be recruited into the team, it would be enough to build the team in Qingshui's plan into a powerful force.
These are the most suitable and relatively easy-to-recruit individuals Qingshui could think of in a short time. As for others, after returning, he'll have Watos establish a database to slowly search for suitable prospects.
Or, more simply, just ask Batman directly. Batman would certainly have a private archive for such "threats."
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While Qingshui was still thinking about extracting information from Batman, Batman in Gotham found himself caught in a web of rumors.
The rumors were started by Penguin's son and daughter.
As early as last year, Penguin, Oswald, had been assassinated by Jason, secretly instructed by Qingshui, during an upheaval in Gotham.
In fact, Qingshui really wanted to recruit Jason, who had become Red Hood, but he couldn't find Jason's whereabouts recently.
Getting back to the point.
Among the two children, the son is named Ethan, and the daughter is named Isabella.
Having been entrenched in Gotham for so many years, Penguin naturally knew how much he was hated. Thus, he protected his two children very well, and not many outsiders knew about them.
However, he protected them too well. Ethan and Isabella learned very little from their father and would find it difficult to survive in a city like Gotham.
Even though the current Gotham gangs are under Qingshui's control and the crime rate has slightly dropped compared to the past, it's still that city of simple folk and darkness. It's hard to survive in Gotham without some serious grit.
If Ethan and Isabella had lived in Central City or Metropolis, their decent education would have been enough for them to live a comfortable, ordinary life.
But they didn't choose that.
Instead, they wanted to revive their father's glory in Gotham and harbored extreme hatred for Batman. Since birth, Penguin had provided them, the siblings, with the best conditions, allowing them to enjoy immense wealth.
They couldn't accept the life of ordinary wage earners; they couldn't bear such a huge disparity.
So, over a year, after exhausting the fortune they carried when escaping the Iceberg Lounge—enough for an ordinary person to live comfortably for a lifetime—the siblings began to take up their father's old business, hoping to one day get revenge on Batman.
They believed Batman was responsible for everything.
Then, they were thoroughly educated by the cold reality and the darkness of Gotham.
In Gotham, getting involved in the underworld often means losing your life.
The siblings decided to start with a small gang in Gotham. The very next day, Ethan was severely beaten and left for dead by the gang leader.
But they no longer had money to send Ethan to the hospital, so he had to stay in a small, illicit clinic.
Such clinics are common in Gotham. If Ethan didn't make it, his organs would become payment for the clinic.
And if he was cured, these illicit clinics also had ways to make these customers generate greater value, unless the power behind them was too great and difficult to provoke, in which case they could only obediently bow down.
Ethan clearly didn't have that kind of luck.
And Isabella was even less capable of revenge, so she could only humbly spread rumors online, saying things like Batman had started killing people, and that Penguin had been killed by him.
No one paid attention to this rumor, which quickly sank without a trace.
But a robot did.
In a hidden location, unknown even to Batman himself in the Batcave, a completely black robot resembling a large bat slowly lit up its eyes.
"Suspected malfunction detected. Safeguards activated. Initiating diagnostics..."
The black robot shook itself, disconnected the data cable connecting it to a Batcomputer, and walked out of the Batcave.
It needed to investigate whether Batman was behind this.
It knew most of what Batman knew, making it essentially a top-tier detective. It could reconstruct the scene and methods used when Penguin died to determine if Batman was the killer.
If he was, then it would begin troubleshooting.
Unfortunately, Jason, who killed Penguin, had learned ninety percent of his skills from Batman, and had mastered them. The methods he used to kill Penguin were all learned from Batman and matched his style perfectly.
And so, the unlucky days began for Batman and his associates.
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