The town turned into a plain, with only a few houses scattered on the land. The view could clearly see the forest in the distance. Poor Lisa almost thought that their family and the house had been moved to another place by some mysterious force.
However, she didn't know that there were more surprising things happening during the night when they fell into a deep sleep.
The time goes back to 1 o'clock last night. When most people were asleep, the "activity" officially began.
The two activities, Strange Circus and Goat House, the former requires exchanging building blocks from the mall, and the latter requires collecting building materials and handing them over to the system. Neither of them can be started immediately. When Vivi called Sherk to prepare the materials, the Tin Soldiers had already secretly landed in Gotan City.
The palm-sized Xibing Corps was randomly airdropped into Gotan.
Less than 100,000 little people quickly dispersed and entered the city of Gotan. It was still the Gargoyles who noticed the abnormality and warned Weiwei.
Handing over the task to others, Vivi was teleported from South Hinckley to the East End, heading to Iceberg Construction Company.
[Tin Soldiers Battle] The clues for this activity are very clear. To deal with these little people, you need to hang them up with the balloons produced by the system. The infinite balloons produced by the system are replicable cards. Weiwei had previously let the gargoyles fly through the streets of Gotan with balloons and give the balloons to the children passing by.
The system also said that you can get tin foil chocolate and penguin popping candy from the East District Iceberg Construction Company. The former can remove the special effect of the props, and the latter can avoid the intrusion of tin soldiers during the event.
When she arrived at the construction company, she found that they were delivering candy to the company in truckloads.
It turned out that when the Gargoyles had just appeared, Weiwei had held an event where balloons were exchanged for candy. As long as you had balloons given by the Gargoyles, you could come here to exchange them for candy - it would be better to say that this was a legal way to give candy to some poor families, and it was also an opportunity for the East District, allowing people from other areas to come and see what changes had taken place here, and it was also to make the image of the Gargoyles less scary for publicity purposes.
These candies were not bought with sponsorship from acquaintances, so Weiwei wouldn't pick them up like that.
In addition to simple candies, she also played a trick, saying that special candy wrappers could be exchanged for big gifts, but only ten of them were available. This design, which was similar to a chocolate factory, did attract some people. Otherwise, candies alone would not be able to attract people to the East District.
The several truckloads of popping candies and chocolates were purchased by the construction company as part of the celebration promotion and are being given away for free in the lobby on the first floor.
If it were the East District before, no company would do this, and they would only be robbed. But in the East District now, if you dare to rob, just wait for the gargoyles to hang you on the wall.
——Both types of candy were displayed as mission items, and Weiwei grabbed a handful of each.
However...
Weiwei originally wanted to randomly select ten people and prepare some special props provided by the system as rewards, but now she has changed her mind.
Because she didn't have to provide them, the rewards for [Tin Soldier War] included chocolate, apple candy, jelly, and most importantly, ten silver cards.
"I can't possibly get rid of all the Tin Soldiers in the city. There are nearly 100,000 of them. The only things the system has recycled for me are fireworks sticks. The silver card is almost certain to fall into the hands of someone else..."
Moreover, the activity only lasts for seven days. If Weiwei doesn't announce the method, it will not be a seven-day happy activity, but a seven-day harassment of the little tin soldiers for the entire city.
In order to maximize her own interests...she should contact President Tim now and call on the Director of the City Hall's Publicity Department to come up with an urgent plan.
If Tim were here, he would agree with this view.
At 1:30 in the morning, after finishing his busy work as the CEO of Wayne, or working overtime, Drake decided to make himself some coffee.
It was getting late, so he asked his secretary to go back early. But in the tea room, just as Tim was about to turn around with his coffee, he heard some noise coming from the office.
He remained calm as several guesses flashed through his mind - kidnapping, stealing company information, or something else?
He pulled out his rubber-loaded gun, which was more normal for Drake to carry than a batarang, and pushed the door open a crack.
Four little armored tin soldiers were jumping down from his desk one after another.
They lined up, carrying jelly on their backs, holding spears made of chocolate bars, with shiny curved swords on their waists. They were just over ten centimeters tall, but their aura was as serious as a real army. The tin soldier in the front spotted Tim and waved his hand, and the three behind him immediately hid.
Tim: “…”
Shouldn't he have stayed up late? Did he stay up so late that he became insane?
Although he suspected that he was dreaming, he did not let down his guard. He still held the gun and pushed open the door and walked out. The window was not open and there was no sign that the door was opened. Could it be that the air came in through the ventilation duct?
Tim and the only tin soldier who was not hiding looked at each other. Both of them were like real warriors, pacing around the office vigilantly. Then, the light above them flickered slightly.
It was a hidden Tin Soldier that climbed up to the ceiling and swooped over from above. Tim instinctively hit it out, but the little guy picked up the jelly behind it and threw it at him.
...Jelly?
The jelly exploded, and the young vigilante Robin, the clever Tim Drake, fell directly to his knees, and then he bounced up.
The jelly did not cause any harm, but it turned his entire body and his clothes into a jelly state, soft and elastic, and its weight was reduced countless times.
When a person's physical condition changes so much, no matter how strong a fighter is, he cannot adjust to fight immediately. Tim couldn't even stand up. His "soft" hands slipped away as soon as they held on to the table.
He even felt that his whole body exuded a fruity scent of pear.
"Great..." he muttered quietly, "It's not often that you get the chance to turn into jelly."
Four tin soldiers came over and looked at each other. The tin soldier in the front pulled out a shiny curved knife. Tim suspected that this thing would directly slide his body away, but it didn't. The curved knife that didn't look very sharp... was indeed not very sharp. It was directly bent when it poked the skin. But Tim found that his taste changed from pear to apple, and his body was frozen and motionless. Only his face could move.
The four little tin soldiers pointed at him as if they had caught a prisoner, then they continued to line up, opened the door and walked out.
Tim didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "...What are these?"
Just at this moment, his private phone rang, and it was naturally Weiwei on the other end.
He waited in this position for ten minutes, and then he found that his stiffness disappeared, but his jelly body was still there. After a while, Weiwei took off the window and jumped in. She smiled as soon as she entered the room: "What is this? So sweet."
After laughing, she felt a little guilty, peeled off the tin of the chocolate, and stuffed the chocolate into the other person's mouth.
Tim was paralyzed by the candy apples and jelly, and then relieved by the chocolate. He was speechless for a while, climbed up and sat on the chair: "Is this the so-called Children's Day celebration?"
"After all, this is a celebration prepared by a magician, so of course it's full of wonderful magic style," Weiwei gestured to him, "There are 99,999 little people like this in the whole city right now."
Half an hour later, Weiwei came up with a new promotional plan for the celebration, which was to "leave the promotion task to the worried vigilante", and she also sold the candies purchased from Iceberg Construction Company at a wholesale price five times the resale price. After all, according to the activity settings, even if it was the same candy, it had to be purchased by Iceberg Construction Company first and then shipped to other places in order to achieve the same effect.
After the promotion, Weiwei immediately summoned all the gargoyles in the city and began to copy the [Infinite Balloon] cards, distributing these balloon cards to each gargoyle. She ordered the inactive gargoyles to lower their altitude to a height that people could reach with a stretched hand, and then the other gargoyles distributed balloons to everyone while patrolling the city. Although it was rumored that gargoyles were only close to children - but older children are also children.
What's more, in order to allow players to participate in the event, the limited-time store also sells a prop that can turn older children into real children. It is very cheap, only 3 firework sticks are needed.
The behind-the-scenes problem of the first event, [Tin Soldiers' Battle], was solved. At this time, Weiwei's total number of firework sticks changed from 10,000 to 10,600. The system prompted that the 600 were because someone received the reward of "Mr. C's" projection.
[Mr. C's Magic Hat] This activity is very mysterious. It refreshes randomly, there is no interaction, and it disappears naturally after half an hour. You can only get rewards if you please him, so it doesn't look like you can make a strategy for it. Do you have to wear a little ugly costume and perform in front of him?
Weiwei shook her head. In order to make it easier for players to participate in activities (hard work), there would be purple dot marks on her map after the projectors appeared. She exported the map and sent it to Jar, who then sent it to Tim. Tim soon called and said that he would urgently update the Gotan Celebration Guide APP. This was something they had been working on before. It was originally a Gotan travel APP, and the development company was bought by Wayne some time ago.
People are afraid of the unknown, but if the unknown becomes known, their fear will largely disappear - no matter what rumors there are outside, this event will be insisted to be magic... Never mind, magic will do.
The guide APP will push information throughout the city. As long as the location is detected in Gotan, you will receive a push notification. The four activities will be explained clearly on it, as if everything is under official control.
However, guests at the Wayne Hotel saw the anomaly with their own eyes before receiving the push notification.
The top floor of the hotel was booked by a lady named Daisy Diamond, who was occupied by her students and medical staff, so she was obviously also very wealthy, but a certain guest and his companions could only book the lower floor.
The guest's last name is Stark.
Iron Man, Tony Stark, the core figure of the Avengers, one of the first famous superheroes to publicly reveal his superhero identity in front of the American people. The entire Avengers decided to come to Gotan for a vacation, or to meet old friends.
This old friend's name is Stephen Strange.
Before going to Gotham, the doctor prepared for the unexpected and asked his companion, the wizard named "Wing", to look for the Avengers if he could not contact him. However, Tony investigated and found that although Dr. Strange did not answer the phone, he could be found working hard from time to time through the surveillance in the streets of Gotham.
Tony Stark: "......?"
But he still didn't answer the phone, send text messages, or reply to any messages.
Amidst the doubts, a major South Hinckley case happened in Gotham, attracting everyone's attention. On June 1, the Avengers came to Gotham in disguised identities, treating it as a vacation.
...Although the phrase "Come to Gotan for vacation" sounds like a joke.
In the early morning of June 1, he was a step too late and failed to book the top floor of the Wayne Hotel.
However, the view from the second floor is not too bad.
Although it's a vacation, the Avengers are ready to fight. After all, this is Gotham and anything can happen.
The people who just got off the plane were not sleepy. "Captain America" Steve was wiping his shield, "Black Widow" Natasha opened a bottle of red wine, "Hulk" Dr. Banner was reading the new report updated on the official website, "Eagle Eyes" Clint was preparing to order a meal, and "Thor" Thor... yes, he happened to be free and was watching TV intently.
Tony shook his head, wondering if he was taking a group of children on an outing.
The projection of the mysterious magician appeared at this time.