Weiwei: “…”

She scanned the system map. The current system map was a four-fold map.

The first layer is the surface of Gotham City, a map given to her for free when she first enters the game. The second layer is the sewers of Gotham City, but most of it is roads, and the areas underneath some buildings are unknown - even the mayor can't walk around the basements of citizens' homes to complete his map, right?

The third layer is the old city under the lake. After William, who followed Lincoln, explored here, the map was activated on Weiwei's system interface. It has a unique name "Bone Town", which was its name before it was flooded. There are 140,000 people living here, and their main occupation is... slaves!

The underground Charon gathered them together and told them that he was their savior, that it was a coincidence that this layer had survived the flood, and that its structure was very fragile and not a suitable place to live.

The bottom layer is the magma pool beneath the underground city, and in the magma pool... there is a figure.

They are humanoid monsters made of red magma, but on the map, they are called "Old Citizens (Lava Zombies)".

Click on the detailed introduction and you will know that, unlike the lucky 1/10 city, they are the unlucky part, which was swept away by the flood and sank into the magma together with the rest of the city, but they did not die. Their souls still stay here, and because of some coincidences, they suffered the torture of magma for a long time and merged into one.

As Vivi was observing the magma man in front of her, Lincoln March was also looking at her.

Professor Daisy Diamond next to me was very... calm.

Lincoln: "They are the ones who died in the flood. Perhaps they stayed underground too long. When they saw me, they chose to be driven by me."

The truth is that even Charon didn't know that there was a magma layer underground. After finding Charon, Lincoln felt that the plan was not safe enough, so he explored the forbidden area set up by the previous rulers of the dungeon - the bottom of the rock. These humanoid magma monsters lived here and they obeyed his orders. If Charon chose to betray the Owl Court, the monsters in the magma could also achieve Lincoln's goal.

"This makes me realize that Gotam is dangerous enough," the woman slowly raised her head and pointed to the pillar in the magma. "Are we living on a volcano?"

"If I knock that pillar over," Lincoln said, "then the lava will come to the ground. Of course, I won't do that."

This is the truth. If he wants Bruce Wayne's identity and status, how could he destroy the city of Gotham?

But to Weiwei, the problem underground was like a hidden bomb. The unstable magma pool had to be dealt with... She turned her head and looked at the magma.

Others couldn't see it, but in front of her, a progress bar was slowly filling up on the virtual screen.

[Gaining recognition from "Old Citizen (Lava Zombie)"]

[0.2% (can be added to speed up the progress bar)]

This is the progress bar that appears with the main quest, but after more than ten minutes, it is only 0.2%, and it will take at least six days to fill it up.

——It seems that the way to complete the third main mission is to "add materials"?

She glanced at Lincoln, who still knew nothing, and said politely, "You have proven that you have the ability to cooperate with the Assassin's League... But I think this is not a collaboration between the Owl Court and the Assassin's League, but a collaboration between you and the Assassin's League, right?"

Lincoln smiled: "Indeed."

"You can call me Thomas Wayne."

"The Assassin's League doesn't want to destroy the city of Gotan. This is not in our interest," the woman in front of him left the magma cave without any reluctance, turned her head and said softly, "You want to launch a coup, and you also want to obtain the soul exchange technology. The Assassin's League is happy to see the former happen, but for the latter, what price can you offer?"

As soon as she moved, the man in black robe following her followed silently.

Claws once assassinated the mayor's right-hand man, but this led to the destruction of the Owl Court of Gotham City. Those who remained were either of low status, far away from the edge of power, or guys like Lincoln who had a special mission and escaped. He still doesn't understand why the other court members went crazy, because those patients didn't have any magical residue left.

"Let's be frank, Professor Diamond. I'm not working with the Assassin's League, but with you." He glanced at the man following the professor and found that he didn't react. He smiled and said, "After those people were dealt with, the Assassin's League didn't send anyone else to protect you. You gathered your own people hiding in Gotan City."

They all have their own selfish motives and are not honest. Just as Lincoln guessed, the professor is unwilling to give the soul exchange technology to Mrs. Rothesay, and the people around her are not members of the Assassin's League who infiltrated from outside Gothum City. Obviously, she is the same as Lincoln.

The woman looked at him strangely, as if she agreed.

Because what Lincoln said was right, the "own people" around her were indeed natives of Gotan, and they were almost ninety years old. They were the claws produced by the owl itself.

Lincoln: "I have the goods you want to trade with. It's Mr. C."

The woman seemed stunned: "Can you catch him?"

Lincoln smiled. "No, I don't need to catch him. This mysterious man has only appeared in Gotham twice. Once was for Vivi White and the second time was Children's Day. However, it turned out that the second time was a projection and the first time was not his real body. He possessed the girl's body. Did he, or should I say, "He" not want to come to Gotham, or was he unable to come?"

...It's too tacky.

The professor frowned and motioned for him to continue.

The Assassin's League cares about Mr. C, and so does the Owl Court. In Lincoln's opinion, the previous court members were too careless, which led to him being sent to Arkham. He will never follow in their footsteps. When dealing with this uncontrollable mysterious side existence, he must strike a fatal blow... and directly expel Mr. C from the main material world!

However, Lincoln was unwilling to reveal all his plans at this time. His cooperation with Daisy was still too fragile. He only told her who he planned to kill.

A group of council members who have nothing to do with the mayor's faction will be killed at noon tomorrow, and it will not be an assassination.

[You get the side quest: Open Killing]

[Seven members of the Council who are not members of the Owl Court are about to die, and the murderer is all the citizens of the dungeon. Under Charon's misleading, they will think that this is fighting for their rights. Please make a choice and change the direction of events. ]

[The positions of the seven people have been marked on the map]

[Mission Reward: Gotan City Flag x1]

"Then I will show my sincerity as well," the woman lowered her head slightly, as if recalling something, "The prerequisite for exchanging bodies is that we are blood relatives and of the same gender."

…

diamond district.

In an ordinary high-rise apartment, the mayor of Gotham sat opposite a blond man.

She said in a sad tone: "Seven members are about to be assassinated... and most of the others are living in Arkham due to mental illness. The only one left is Ms. Andrea Rothesay who is in the UK."

"Madam Mayor," the man said, "micro-expression analysis shows that you are about to laugh out loud."

"Tsk, did you use your eyes to analyze after you acquired a human body, Old Jia?" She poured herself a glass of red wine. "They can live safely in a council full of owls because it makes no difference whether they are there or not, a bunch of yes-men who do nothing but need to be supported by taxes."

After the owls were dealt with, Vivi used her identity as the mayor to inform Superhero and trustworthy people around her about the existence of the court, even Batman, because Vivi noticed a certain detail - the court is an international organization, which means that the elimination of these owls in Gotham City is not the end.

...However, the owls from other cities may not come to Gotham, because their true identity is the local wealthy people. The court is a loose association of wealthy families, not a highly mobile assassin. At most, they support claws and money. In order to ensure foolproof, when the Avengers, an official organization, was about to leave Gotham, Vivi took advantage of the time when Tony Stark took AI to watch a movie to reveal the existence of the Owl Court. Presumably, the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. behind them have begun to investigate the Owl Courts in other cities, and Lincoln March did not support it.

But that’s not enough…

"The underground population is not counted in the total population of Gotan City..."

Lao Jia projected a virtual image around himself, and the AI ​​said, "Because they never registered their identities?"

The mayor rested his chin on his hand and said, "No, it has nothing to do with registration. The people of the East District did not have an official identity before, but they are part of the population of Gotham."

She was not talking about "identity" but the indicator given by the [urban population] system. Is it because they live in the underground city that they are not counted in the population of Gotan?

What she said was something that AI didn't understand. Seeing that the mayor seemed to be lost in thought, Jarvis began to compare the identities of these underground city residents with the photos given by William.

William infiltrated in advance in order to find out the identities of these people: vagrants, abandoned babies, lawbreakers hiding from pursuit, and some people who had never officially appeared in Gotham and were suspected to be the indigenous people of the old Gotham City.

These people's job underground is to be... Charon's slaves.

The people in the underground city know that there is a world above ground, but through hypnosis day after day, they believe that the people living above ground are "unclean" and that the people above ground are controlled by a virus. Even though those people look exactly like them, they carry a large amount of the virus. Only by living underground can they ensure their safety.

They gathered around Charon, believing that he was the leader who could keep them alive.

Weiwei suspected that there was something special about Charon, but she didn't see him in person underground, so she didn't have enough information.

"No matter what, we have to find a way to resolve this assassination... no, open murder," the mayor frowned, "and Lincoln March must not find out anything unusual."

"These guys who were sent out to publicly kill members of parliament and cause riots probably came with the intention of dying, right?"

All humans on earth carry the virus... maybe she can take advantage of that.

Lincoln March is not difficult to deal with, as long as he is a human being, he will die, but Vivi must be hypocritical and buy time to gain the recognition of the "old citizens (lava zombies)", otherwise Lincoln will be in trouble and the molten lava will float up, and Gotham City will be doomed.