Okay, Todd, hold back your damn anger and don't actually punch a girl in the face. You figured out this was a little devil the first time you spoke to her in Nan Hinckley, didn't you?
Jason jumped off the car and carried the motorcycle into the back car. The dead bodies were piled up in the car, and the cold air hit him. Weiwei walked over and gestured: "I forgot, the motorcycle can't be stuffed in here, let me help you tie it to the roof."
As she said this, she lifted up Jason's motorcycle with one hand, took out her usual weapon and jumped onto the roof. Jason swore that when the water pipe touched the wall of the car, he heard a creaking sound as the wall could not bear the weight.
The hose supported the weight of the girl and his motorcycle.
Jason: “…”
After the car was parked, Weiwei climbed back to the passenger seat, put on a duckbill cap, looked at the man in the driver's seat, and thought for a moment: "I suggest you take off the hood and put on this."
She was pointing to another duckbill cap in the cab, probably left by the workers.
"Our relationship isn't that good yet." Even in front of his men, the Red Hood's true identity is a mystery, and some even say there might be more than one Red Hood, but many people taking turns to play the role - otherwise how to explain how this man could appear full of energy after being injured and break the bones of drug dealers just because he went to Gotham City No. 5 Middle School to sell bulk goods.
"But this city is full of bat eyes," Weiwei leaned over the car window and looked out. They merged into the traffic. Gotam was a little hot under the cloudy sky. Experienced Gotam citizens had already taken out umbrellas from their bags in advance, while the inexperienced ones must be tourists, who were still chatting leisurely. "Or do you want to leave the first identity reveal to Batman, Todd?"
After a long while, Weiwei turned around in confusion and heard a voice from next door: "You should be thankful that I have a steady grip on the steering wheel."
Otherwise, when Weiwei called out his name, the two of them would have to go to the bottom of the river to feed the fish with a carload of Claw Killers behind them.
How did she know...Oh, Jason thought dryly, magic.
The old man worked hard for ten years but failed to turn Gotam into what it is today. The magician used a few small spells and the city changed drastically in less than half a year. It seems a bit ridiculous.
The veins on his arms were exposed, and his true emotions were not as calm as his tone.
A hand reached out and patted his arm, still in that usual tone: "Well, that's my suggestion. Anyway, you should be careful. Send these killers to South Hinckley Town, the old place, in front of the Frozen Man's warehouse, but there are big changes there... Well, I'll leave first. I suggest you don't take them anywhere else, Todd--"
She said, "After all, that would be for Batman."
With that, she teleported back to South Hinckley.
The town remains the same. In fact, even the professor's attending physician didn't know that Vivi was now the mayor of South Hinckley. He still thinks that this strange town they moved to is actually an illusion - maybe they are participating in some observational reality show. He repeatedly called his wife in London to confirm that he did not appear on some ridiculous TV show, and then he ended his suspicions.
However, what really made the doctor feel relaxed was that there were sales clerks in the suddenly rising supermarket, and a lady decided to come and become the director of the Diamond Orphanage. According to her, the orphanage would also take in children who were born in South Hinckley.
The town changed from virtual to real, which made the doctor breathe a sigh of relief, and then he began to think of other things: "Excuse me, ma'am, it's not very safe here, there are no police here-"
He paused, and the lady in front of him looked at him with a smile, then said, "But there are no criminals, for now."
She pursed her lips and said, "We are building a town from scratch, erasing the past South Hinckley from the map, and also trying to erase the pain that has happened. But to be honest, it is not us who are starting from scratch. We are just filling in part of this town."
She looked not far away.
Public toilets, public toilets, and public toilets all turned to ashes in an instant, and then a new building appeared. It doubled in size in an instant like a living thing, swallowing up the other public toilets. The girl sitting on the gargoyle looked at the building and jumped in through the skylight.
The doctor's expression twisted slightly; he wasn't used to seeing such unscientific scenes.
And Nora blinked: "At least this place doesn't have to be nicknamed 'Public Toilet Town' anymore."
Weiwei jumped in, opened the door of every room, and then pasted photos on the rooms - those photos of claws, which she pried off the coffin lid.
Then Weiwei connected to the water pipe and washed the pink rose juice from between her fingers in this nursing home.
——This is certainly not a warehouse or a freezer.
And Weiwei used a truck to freeze the claws, not because they would cause riots in Gotham City after waking them up, but because a group of powerful and dangerous "children" might be more terrifying than the killers...Will Todd be able to comfort children? She wondered uncertainly.
Yes, this newly redeemed building is located next to the Diamond Orphanage. It is a Diamond Nursing Home upgraded to level 2.
[Nursing Home (7/7), a total of 140,000 cigarette sticks, upgradeable]
[Sheltering the elderly, the elderly living here prefer a slower pace of life]
[Note: Healthy elderly people can take care of themselves, but sick elderly people need caregivers to take care of them]
[You have upgraded the nursing home to level 2]
[Residents will feel calmer and less likely to have mental breakdowns]
That’s enough, otherwise the “caregiver” won’t be able to deal with the strong and naughty child.
Why were they naughty kids... Because Weiwei collected a bunch of roses with special effects, and when "loading the truck", she fed all the pink roses to the claws - it was too difficult to pry open their mouths.
【“Pink Fairy Tale” Rose】
[Smell it and your heart will temporarily turn back into a carefree child, as if you have returned to your childhood]
[Don't indulge in it, you will fantasize about being a child for a long time]
Isn't that just right? So she turned a bunch of dangerous killers into children.
As roses grew one after another, Vivi was unable to harvest a new "Crazy Gotan" rose. She looked back at the system prompt and found a sentence "There is only one rose in the entire rose garden, so the price is expensive." There was such a rose in her package, which was entrusted by the bat to the two-faced man Harvey Dent. Since she harvested this rose, it did not wither because of the system package, and Vivi's manor would no longer cultivate new roses.
——The system once again prevented Weiwei from taking advantage of the loophole.
Not long after, a familiar truck drove over. The driver was a good driver and stopped steadily at the gate of the nursing home. A guy with an ordinary appearance jumped out.
It's Jason Todd in disguise.
Vivi reveals that she did not reveal Jason's information to Batman...even though her reputation has been ruined, their deal is not over, and he decides to trust her one last time.
Weiwei and Jason unloaded the "cargo" together. Fortunately, the doctor was not there at the time, otherwise he would have thought they were dealing with corpses - which seemed to be true - Nora finished her work next door and came over to help calmly. Weiwei told her about the current state of the claws: "You can treat them as children to practice first. After all, you have never been the director of an orphanage before, and these guys are not as easily injured as real children."
She enthusiastically described the advantages of the claws: "They don't need to eat much, they don't need to sleep much, they have thick skin and flesh, and they don't get too excited..."
"That's just a living corpse," Nora said gently, "similar to when I was frozen."
Jason glanced at her.
Nora continued, "It seems that I have to hire a group of reliable caregivers now, the kind who will work here long-term and sign a confidentiality agreement. If the mayor wants me to take care of corpses, then I can just look for them in the army... and if I'm taking care of a group of living people, the caregivers should also be living people."
The Claws were carried to their respective rooms. Nora did not ask many questions. This smart woman knew that it was meaningless. She only asked about the Claws' living habits and the weapons that could subdue them - the latter were in abundance, after all, the weapon maker was her husband.
After solving the problem of the placement of the claws, Weiwei and Jason stood at the door of the nursing home, watching Norabi name everyone from the photos - because Weiwei said they didn't have names, Jason suddenly asked: "You don't really care how she treats them, do you?"
"I only care about the results," Weiwei stretched, "Now the results will be good."
"Raising a group of killers as children in this remote town is a good outcome?" Jason didn't believe that this was Vivi's original intention. It was like someone got the Spear of Destiny that could kill Odin, but used it to shoot rabbits.
Weiwei squinted at him.
"Everyone has value," she said softly. Perhaps the current atmosphere was too peaceful, or perhaps this house had the power to calm people, "but their value is not stable, but dynamic."
"When the killers are in other people's hands, their value is zero or negative, but as long as they become a member of my town, they begin to generate value..." She raised her hand and drew a line in the air, "At least, they increase the population density of South Hinckley. Then the economy will start to circulate, the things in the supermarket can be sold, and they will start to consume goods in their daily lives. To take care of them, more people will need to be hired to come to South Hinckley. If the value that can be generated now is only 1, the 1 in front of us will gradually increase, because - value is dynamically changing."
And their status is also changing. Compared with thawing a group of sharp claws and thawing a group of quiet children, the latter does not bring as much benefit as the former, but at least it is safer.
It seems that the nursing home is really a good place for communication. From his resurrection to today, he has been troubled by nameless anger and impulsive emotions. Some of them are innate to him, and some are the gift from Lazarus Pond, which is also a curse. But staying here, he feels that those emotions seem to be separated from him by a layer of membrane, and that non-existent membrane protects him.
Jason Todd even felt a little addicted to the feeling at this moment. No wonder magic can control people's hearts.
But his change was only psychological, not IQ. Jason keenly heard something from Vicki White's words. These analytical words seemed to reflect what kind of person she was. He asked, "Why don't you kill people?"
Batman doesn't kill people because he can't allow himself to fall.
Robin, Nightwing and the others don't kill people because they were taught by the old man. They are willing to abide by the rules for him, the rules tacitly accepted by the city of Gotham, and the vigilantes' principle of not killing.
But Vivi, he thought she was the same as the others.
Weiwei glanced at him, put her hands in her pockets, and said calmly: "Xiao Chou and Scarecrow were imprisoned in the previous mine."
She completed her contract with Jason and "informed" him of Xiao Chou's location, ending the employment relationship.
"I won't advise you to give up on killing Xiao Chou," she waved her hand with a smile, "but if you fail to achieve your goal and the nursing home is not full, you can stay here tonight... maybe you can even find a job here."
Jason looked at her with an unclear expression and got on his motorcycle. As expected, the motorcycle was in good condition and was going very fast.
Once he left the nursing home, madness and hatred gripped him again, dragging him back into the green waters of the Lhasa Pond—the exact same color as the girl’s eyes.
He will kill Xiao Chou and break every bone of his with a crowbar, giving him a tooth for a tooth. This may not be the true meaning of his return to the human world, but it is definitely one of the life goals he needs to achieve.
If Xiao Chou didn't die, he would be trapped forever in that warehouse in Ethiopia, forever trapped in his past life.
The trees moved back to both sides, the motorcycle came to an abrupt stop, and Jason looked at the building in front of him -
The most eye-catching thing is a huge tree, each leaf radiating golden light. Its roots penetrate the rugged gravel and concrete slabs below and penetrate into the soil blocks farther away. The dense root system is almost three times the size of the tree crown, fully demonstrating the strong vitality of the plant. Below the roots is a glass ceiling that is slightly three centimeters higher than the soil layer.
Birds fluttered by, and it was so quiet here that it felt like a paradise.
But Jason knew otherwise, because he knew what the tree was and what the "golden light" meant, indicating that there was a strong feeling of fear nearby, beneath the tangled roots.
Could it be Xiao Chou?
Jason walked towards the entrance of the mine, which was now blocked by several identical buildings.