Chapter 13 Harley: Crushing Our Teammates! ...
"Stay away, Harley." Poison Ivy shielded Harley behind her.
"I don't think we can win," Harley whispered from behind.
"That won't do, don't say such discouraging things. Let my plants deal with you." The last sentence was spoken by Poison Ivy to Batman.
The vines snaked around Batman's hands and feet, but Wen Yue swiftly severed the vines with a batarang, breaking free of her restraints. She narrowly avoided the sneaky, mud-faced man's sudden attack from behind, but unfortunately, she couldn't dodge Harley's final blow with her baseball bat.
"Surprise! I've got something good for you, honey!" Harley swung her baseball bat, knocking Batman down, and shouted excitedly, "Oh my god! One hit! Watch me beat Batman!"
"Well done, little Ha," Poison Ivy said with a proud expression.
"Hahaha, nothing can stop us!" the mud-faced man laughed, his mouth snarling.
Wen Yue controlled Batman to get up, looked at the computer screen showing that Batman had only lost 0.1 points of health, and fell into deep thought: Did Harley Quinn know that her baseball bat was made of foam? What's the difference between this and hitting someone with a pillow!
Wen Yue decided to manipulate Batman to hit her lightly in a moment.
“It seems I need to deal with my biggest threat right now,” Batman said in a deep voice.
"It's me?" The one who spoke was Harley Quinn, who had just defeated Batman. She proudly puffed out her chest, brandishing her baseball bat.
The bat-shaped airplane appeared in the night sky, dropping fine water droplets. This familiar scene immediately reminded the mud-faced man of the high-pressure water jet that had just splashed onto his face.
"It's me!" the Mudman shouted, raising his arms. He was Batman's greatest threat!
A gentle rain and mist fell, leaving the mud-covered man unharmed. Plants withered and decayed. The answer was obvious.
"Oh no." Poison Ivy grieved for her children (plants), children she had personally nurtured, which were all wiped out by a dozen super-powerful herbicides sprayed by Batman.
With Poison Ivy no longer possessing her powers, there was no longer any evidence against her; only Harley Quinn and Mudman remained at the scene.
The Mudman felt he had just been greatly insulted, and in a fit of rage, he lunged at Batman.
Batman had anticipated this and smoothly dodged to the side. A dark figure pounced straight at the ground beside him, and with a "thud," the mud-faced man was smashed into a mud pancake.
The player innocently shrugged: "Everyone saw it, he fell on his own, it has nothing to do with me. Don't try to extort me if any problems arise later."
Mudface was sad, mudface was angry, mudface was furious, and he activated his ultimate move—transformation into Batman!
"Hehehe, taste your own power, bat monster!" The mud-faced man roared to the sky, his body writhing and twisting as he transformed into Batman.
In addition to body deformation, immunity to physical attacks, immortality, and the ability to absorb softened substances through contact, the Mudman can also copy the superpowers of others.
He not only transformed into Batman in appearance, but also copied the player's Batman clone's physical data, except for intelligence. Furthermore, with the enhancement of his own special abilities, his overall strength surpassed that of the original Batman.
The figures of the Mudman and Batman moved back and forth, accompanied by heavy breathing and the dull thuds of fists hitting flesh, as the two fought fiercely.
For a short time, Wen Yue can still handle the situation with ease thanks to her high level of proficiency as a player, keeping pace with Mudman. However, once Mudman masters Batman's physical abilities over time, it will be difficult for Batman to avoid defeat.
As time went by, the game became increasingly difficult, and facing the enemy head-on was too much of a challenge. Wen Yue decided to find another way to win through strategy.
Batman is gradually becoming overwhelmed, and the player preemptively requests backup: "Stop watching, come lend a hand, Harley! I can't handle Batman, please help me!"
—This tactic is called Sun Tzu's Art of War: all warfare is based on deception.
The Mudman was genuinely stunned for a moment. He racked his brains to think it over, and his first reaction was that Harley was actually an undercover agent planted by Batman. However, he soon realized that this didn't make any sense, and then belatedly realized Batman's true purpose.
"Don't..." Before he could finish the last two words, the mud-faced man was struck on the back of the head with a stick.
Harley's performance was extraordinary. The Mudman banged his head on the ground, his brain buzzing, and he collapsed to the ground, dizzy and unable to get up.
"Brilliant!" Wen Yue clapped her hands in delight, giving Harley a thumbs up. Congratulations to Harley Quinn for achieving the "Smash Our Teammates" achievement!
Completely oblivious, Harley confidently raised her chin, casually resting the other end of the baseball bat on her shoulder, a bright smile playing on her lips. "Batman is nothing special!"
"Muddy...no way, I can't beat Batman..." the muddy man struggling on the ground said.
"Are you the mud man or am I the mud man? Do you know more about mud than I do?" With a big thud, Wen Yue secretly took out the stun gun and gave the mud man a stun. This time, the mud man was completely speechless, his eyes rolled back, half-dead and only able to babble.
The Mudman was convulsing from the electric shock. Wen Yue noticed the suspicious look in Poison Ivy's eyes behind Harley and quickly shifted her gaze, patting Harley's shoulder. "Hey, this Batman looks like he's about to struggle and fight back. Quickly, give him a few more hits."
Harley did as she was told and slammed the stick down a few more times. Wen Yue, unable to bear it any longer, handed Harley a crowbar. "Hey, you're not going to kill anyone like that! Here, take this!"
Harley caught the crowbar, her arm drawing a beautiful arc in the air before the crowbar swung down heavily, leaving afterimages—
"Ah!" came the wailing of the mud-faced man. Wen Yue wiped away her cold sweat, looked away with pity, and tried hard to suppress the corners of her mouth from turning up.
The mud-faced man was completely speechless. After being brutally beaten by Harley, he finally lost his ability to disguise himself, and his body gradually shrank and collapsed, revealing his true form.
Poison Ivy sensed something was wrong and stopped Harley. The two finally realized that they had been tricked by Batman, and that he had been attacking their own teammates all along.
Harley quietly tossed the crowbar behind her and helped the mud-faced man up apologetically. "I'm sorry, mud-faced, I really didn't know it was you—but why didn't you say so?" There was even a hint of reproach in her tone.
The clay-faced man, with a crooked mouth and slanted eyes, trembling lips and shaking body, responded to a blaming gaze: "Look at me like this before you speak."
Poison Ivy looked around, her gaze sweeping over every corner. Batman, who had been standing there moments before, was nowhere to be seen.
"Where did that stinky bat go?" Harley also noticed that Batman was nowhere to be seen.
Wen Yue had already slipped away when the mud-faced man's figure shifted, avoiding being surrounded by the three. She returned arrogantly in the Batmobile, just in time to hear Harley's last question.
The player spoke in Batman's signature serious, deep voice: "I'm here."
The Batmobile's headlights came on, and the sudden bright light made the three of them instinctively cover their eyes. When they finally opened their teary eyes, the scene that greeted them made them freeze.
On the barren land, freshly plowed by herbicides, the Batmobile, fully armed with stun guns, rocket launchers, and all sorts of other weapons, its cold muzzles glaring menacingly at them.
Harley was the first to back down, saying, "I surrender, I'll do anything you ask." Playing around is fine, but don't joke about firearms!
Batman slowly moved the cannon barrel, aiming at Poison Ivy and Mudface, who both silently raised their hands.
Player Batman wins big!
Poison Ivy skillfully imprisons the three escaped prisoners in Arkham, gaining two new roommates. Batman returns in triumph, and Wen Yue retrieves her clone at the entrance to the Batcave.
Three minutes ago, surveillance footage showed Jason entering Wayne Manor. To avoid unnecessary misunderstandings and trouble, she deliberately left the Batcomputer area and waited at the entrance to the Batcave to retrieve her clone in advance.
When Wen Yue returned in the Batmobile, Jason had just arrived at the Batcave and still smelled of war and gunpowder.
"Why does it seem like your battle was even more intense than mine tonight?" Wen Yue asked. She was wearing pajamas, rewarded herself with a bottle of sparkling water and placed it on the table, then went to get some snacks and dried fruit.
The box containing the snacks is the same snack chest that previously exposed Batman's identity. Because of Bruce Wayne's conspicuous signature on the box, players hid it in the Batcave overnight to use as a snack cabinet.
In the blink of an eye, the computer desk was empty. Wen Yue spun around in place but couldn't find any sparkling water.
"It's nothing, it's just that my beloved Jessica got bombed." Jason said casually, nestled in his chair, taking a sip of his soda and smacking his lips.
"And then you blew them up?" It took Wen Yue three seconds to realize that Jessica was the name of Jason's motorcycle, and then her gaze shifted to the soda in Jason's hand.
"you……"
"There's some in the fridge, help yourself," Jason said, taking the initiative.
Wen Yue hardened her fist, she...
She gritted her teeth and went to the refrigerator to get another bottle.
Forget it, how could I possibly beat him? The player's main body doesn't have the AI combat power boost from the clone; its base strength is about the same as Red Robin who's only recently trained. Against Jason, it's just a matter of three punches and a cookie.
"How badly is the car damaged? Aren't you good at fixing cars?" Since the chair in front of the computer was occupied, Wen Yue had to bring another chair over.
“I can repair cars, but I can’t build them.” Jason’s heart bled as he thought of the pile of motorcycles, scattered like stars, broken into pieces. He suddenly paused, his sharp gaze fixed on Wen Yue. “Wait, you investigated me?”
Wen Yue, puzzled, returned a questioning look.
“How did you know I could fix cars?” Jason narrowed his eyes dangerously.
"This needs an investigation?" Wen Yue's expression was filled with undisguised shock. "Really? You're practically announcing it to the whole world, and this still needs an investigation?"
"Huh?" Jason's eyes widened.
Wen Yue took out her phone and beckoned to Jason, showing him the screen vertically. "See this? Jason, male, 19 years old. Look at the picture: a handsome photo of Jason squatting on the ground fixing a motorcycle!"
It's said that the most handsome men are those who work hard. Jason, this old master craftsman, looks so gentle that you almost think he's a car mechanic. He's cool yet extremely professional.
This was a surprise Wen Yue had found on a dating app. Not satisfied, she continued reading: "Caption: Eager to find my criminal partner. Here are two small goals for this year: 1. To abandon humanity; 2. To finish reading all the books I've bought..."
To be honest, the other picture Jason uploaded, the one where he's holding a gun in one hand and a book in the other, is really cool, it's absolutely mesmerizing!
Jason gripped Wen Yue's arm tightly, wishing he could gag her right away.
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