Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Batmobile: Speak for me!

In the mid-20th century, Edward Murphy proposed a heuristic principle, which is known as Murphy's Law, one of the three great discoveries of the 20th century. It states, "Anything that can go wrong will eventually go wrong." It is widely used in stories and incidents where people say, "What you fear will come true."

"Don't lecture me at a time like this! Keep an eye on him for me!"

The wing decoration on the side of the top of the bird-beaked staff turned into a pair of white wings flying high in the sky. Li Hua rode on the staff like a witch riding a broom. The fingers holding the staff turned white due to the force. He did not dare to wipe the tears on his face caused by the cold wind. As soon as he opened his mouth, a stomach full of cold wind was filled.

Even so, Li Hua still concentrated all his energy and vision to track a strange color in the night sky. It was a creature that was almost completely transparent.

"Ben!" Li Hua, tears streaming down his face, screamed at the creature, "Ben!!! Please don't fly! I'm scared! I'm afraid of heights!"

To understand why such a strange scene appeared in the night sky of Gotham, with him running away and him chasing, and them all flying away, we need to go back half an hour.

It was the eleventh hour since Benjamin and Li Hua arrived in Gotham. They were discussing how to go to the alleys to exchange some basic living supplies from the gangsters.

But after all, neither of them had done this before coming to this world. After Li Hua changed his clothes, the two inexperienced people stood in the alley discussing who would be the bait next, only then did they realize that there was a very serious problem that needed to be solved.

Friends who often fight know that when facing an opponent with a huge difference in strength between you and yourself, it is easy to beat the person to death, but it is difficult to stop at the right time and save the person's life.

Especially for a novice who has never fought before, it is unpredictable that he might hit someone to death or injure them.

Li Hua now meets both of the above conditions.

Moreover, that metal eagle-beak staff can kill people even if it is held by an ordinary person, let alone the melee magic boy who is wearing a cute skirt and has a buff.

To avoid any casualties, Li Hua suggested, "How about I act as bait, and you go and smack them from behind. Don't you have a lot of fighting experience?"

He has confirmed with No. 666 that with the BUFF, he won't die even if he gets shot.

Benjamin: "But I really don't have any experience knocking out ordinary Earthlings from behind... well, to be more precise, I don't have any experience hitting people with my Zhen-like appearance."

Li Hua: "Then just knock gently. At worst, we can force them down and tie them up later."

Benjamin: "I think this is fine. Let's go out and get a rope and a steel pipe or something."

After listening to these two young fools talk for a long time, No. 666 couldn't bear it any longer: [So why don't you use magic? ]

Why complicate a simple matter? Wouldn't it be better to just use the [Time] card to freeze the person and then walk away? Why are we discussing how to knock someone over the head?

[Li Hua, do you still remember that you're a mage? Do you still remember that thing you're holding is a staff and not a hoe? Why aren't you using your control skills? Are you earning interest by leaving them there?]

Li Hua, who has always been a melee mage: "..."

Benjamin, who always likes to rush into things: "..."

I'm sorry, I have no experience in doing this kind of thing, and I was so excited about close combat that I forgot for a moment.

Li Hua shrank his neck guiltily: "Then do we still need to leave the alley?"

Number 666 had never supervised a student or a child since the system was launched, but now, she truly empathized with countless creatures in nature who were raising their young. She said unhappily, "I've given you the solution. You can figure it out yourself."

Benjamin: "In that case, I'll just be the bait, and then you can just—"

"Click!" A crisp mechanical sound was heard. Hearing the noise, Benjamin immediately protected Li Hua, who was still wondering what the sound was, behind him and turned nervously to the location where the sound came from.

"I heard you talking. Bait? Haha, looks like we're in the same business." A man, pistol in hand, emerged from the shadows deep in the alley. He was emaciated, his eye sockets sunken, and his pale face was covered in scratches. His hand, holding the gun, trembled uncontrollably, revealing a mouthful of rotten teeth. "This is karma for you running into us. Hand over the money now."

When Li Hua saw the gun, he prepared to pull Benjamin away first. After all, he would not die from a shot, but Benjamin might not.

But just as he moved, the guy suddenly opened fire. Although the bullet was so off target that it couldn't even hit the elephant, the guy's sudden shooting without any warning still scared Li Hua so much that he retracted his feet.

Why? He clearly raised his hand, and his movements were so slow.

"He's a drug addict," Benjamin said. "His mind is confused. You can't understand him with ordinary people's logic."

"Is this the first time you've seen a drug addict like me, huh?" The drug addict turned his head stiffly and looked at Li Hua. His posture and weird look reminded Li Hua of zombies in horror movies.

This was the first time Li Hua saw a drug addict in real life, and it was far more horrifying than what he had seen in the anti-drug propaganda film at school.

"Don't look at me like that!" The venomous insect suddenly got angry again, staring at Li Hua with resentful eyes, and then turned to muttering like a madman, "Give me money, give me money, give me money, give me money..."

Li Hua got goosebumps all over his body. If he hadn't been concerned about the gun in the guy's hand, he would have really dragged Benjamin away. He felt that his SAN value would be reduced to zero if he stayed in this scene for too long.

"We don't have much money, so we can give it to you if you want."

Benjamin obviously didn't want to stay in this place any longer. He emptied his pockets and showed the few coins inside to the addict, but he didn't know that his action caused his cuffs to move back a little, revealing the dazzling watch dial and strap.

The addict's greedy eyes immediately passed over the change in Benjamin's palm and locked onto the watch under his cuff. His few active brain cells told him that this thing was much more valuable than the change!

So he pretended to take the change, but suddenly grabbed Benjamin's wrist.

“Give me…give me money!”

"Hey! Watch out!"

Benjamin had been on guard against him, and when the man reached out his hand, he immediately raised his hand, but was caught only on the bandaged area on his wrist. At the same time, he kicked the gun out of the drug addict's hand.

The addict felt pain, but his sanity, destroyed by drugs, made him focus on the watch that he could sell to buy more drugs, and he didn't even pick up the gun.

But before he could make the next move, a gust of pink wind blew towards his head—

"Bang!"

With the help of physical sleep magic, the long-insomniac drug addict fell back into a baby-like sleep.

"It's okay, it's okay. I hit it with the blunt end."

Li Hua, holding the bird-beak staff upside down and posing in a home run pose, patted his good brother on the shoulder. After confirming that Benjamin's wrist was not injured and discovering that the poisonous insect on the ground was still breathing, he turned to pick up the change on the ground.

"Ben, you're such a fool! Next time you encounter something like this, don't always rush forward. Your health bar is nowhere near as thick as mine. I should just take over... huh?"

Li Hua noticed that the poisonous insect was holding a very familiar red ribbon in his hand.

It seems like he tied it around Benjamin's hands to isolate him...

Li Hua had just picked up the ribbon when a strong green light suddenly erupted from behind him. A blue moth with huge wings appeared where Benjamin had been standing. It shouted in a voice so distorted that it was completely unrecognizable from Benjamin's original tone:

"Ice Ghost!"

...Isn’t this the alien hero that Benjamin said would be out of control recently!

Li Hua twisted the [Time] card and was about to hammer it with his staff, but the creature suddenly turned its head, opened its mouth and blew out a burst of extremely cold air at Li Hua, instantly freezing the hammer, staff and Li Hua's hand holding the card in a large block of ice, and then spread its wings and flew away.

Number 666's explanation arrived just in time: [The Nakfugi can breathe icy air, freezing everything they touch. They can also transform themselves into something intangible, allowing them to travel through matter like ghosts. Their weakness is electricity. And with your current magic power and physical strength, you can't use two cards at once.]

“Thank you for your explanation!”

Li Hua threw the ice block in his hand directly against the wall, forcibly breaking the ice, then pulled out the [Flying] card and hammered it with his staff.

The wing decoration at the back end of the staff instantly turned into huge wings. Li Hua rode on the staff and chased after the blue color that was about to disappear in the sky.

If you want to forcibly cancel the Omnitrix's transformation, just tap the Omnitrix symbol on the alien hero after Benjamin transforms.

But now Benjamin is in mid-air. Li Hua can't get up without the [Flying] card, and he can't reach him with the [Time] card.

Or you can choose not to forcibly cancel Benjamin's transformation. The transformation will automatically cancel anyway even if you leave it alone. You just need to make sure that Benjamin doesn't get lost and doesn't cause any accidents that he will regret during the transformation.

No matter which one, Li Hua must have an aerial chase with Benjamin today.

When Li Hua was riding the magic wand, it was completely the result of adrenaline and a hot brain. When he flew to a high altitude and was blown by the cold wind, he realized that he was speeding in the air without any safety insurance.

If you fall from here, you'll die.

This thought only appeared in Li Hua's mind for a moment, and was quickly forgotten as Li Hua further increased his flying speed.

[You won't know whether you're dead or alive until you're almost dead. There's no point in thinking about it now!]

[Why do I always end up with such an idiotic host…] 666 seemed to whisper something, but Li Hua, too confused to think, didn't hear it until it raised the volume of its soulcast, [Fly with confidence! You won't die from a fall at this altitude! It's starting to descend. Chase it! I'm almost done scanning this Nakfugi's physical condition!]

Upon hearing this, Li Hua immediately lowered his pole and dived down.

Even though Li Hua was very fast, there was still a distance difference between him and the Ice Ghost. When he arrived on his staff, the Ice Ghost had already risen into the air again, leaving only four lonely wheels on the ground.

"Oh no..." Li Hua's heart skipped a beat. "Where are the people in the car?"

Didn’t Benjamin transform into Hannibal after the transformation?

What should I do? Benjamin will go crazy if he wakes up and finds out that he has eaten a human!

"How could they possibly be cannibals? If they were, they would have just captured and eaten someone. Why would they have flown so far?" 666 said, "Nakfuji eat metal. He just ate the car. But it's strange. The biological encyclopedia shows that although Nakfuji eat metal, they're far from insane, right?"

"We'll know the answer when you get the full set of scanning data." Li Hua turned his staff and chased after the ice ghost again.

No one noticed that a minute after they left, a muscular man in a black cape and uniform dragged a bruised and handcuffed criminal and stood silently where the car should have been, watching the four wheels go in different directions, and fell into silence like a statue.

Batman: "..."

Who can tell him why the Batmobile disappeared when he just turned around to catch a criminal?

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