Everyone loves Gotam.

Including Two-Face, Black Mask, Penguin, Scarecrow... including Batman, Red Hood, Robin... including... well, including many, many people, including film animators who are native to Gotam, and assistants who are responsible for verifying the authenticity of every street. Because of their research, the central avenue in the movie world is almost exactly the same as the real central avenue in Gotam.

The gargoyle on top of the bank spun in a circle and returned to its rightful place in the drizzle, like a simple decoration.

"But it's actually not simple," Weiwei pointed out to him, squatting under Batman's cape to avoid the rain, "That's the anchor point of this space."

In order to explain what "Fantasy Township" is, Weiwei convinced Batman with the words "This is a special movie space."

Gensokyo is a virtual scene that needs to be tied to an anchor. The scene must be covered by a prop produced by the system, and the gargoyles just happen to meet the conditions. Weiwei completed the binding nearby, but——

"But I'm talking about the gargoyles in the real world. What we're seeing now is a gargoyle that happens to be in the same place in this space. There's no point in destroying it," Weiwei added. "It's best not to let it see us."

"Because it's controlled by Shadowbat," Batman rasped, "...my counterpart in the movie."

——A character that he personally created.

He and Weiwei are now in an alley not far from the bank... It is also raining in the movie, and the entire movie is soaked in rain.

The problem they face is that they don't know the time points in the movie -

An animated film that lasts more than two hours will naturally not only shoot two hours of content, but will use the "time acceleration" method to omit unnecessary information. From the time Irene was taken to Wayne Tower by the gargoyles to the end when Rose fulfilled her wish, the total time is seven hours, from 10 pm to about 5 am the next day.

The movie does not explicitly mention the time point, because that is unnecessary and useless information. It would be enough to let the sun come out at the end to imply "light". However, Bruce has an extraordinary memory, and the movie is very well documented. He dug out the time point from his memory, and now it is around midnight in the movie.

"Irene" and the gargoyles have just left Wayne Tower and are heading to the old house where her mother lives.

"I don't know what the exit of the space is either," Weiwei said, "How about we split up, you go find Irene, and I go find Rose. I think both of them are possible."

She was telling the truth. After entering the space, she was trapped here just like everyone else.

It's different because Vivi is not just one person, she's also Anna Ellech, Bella Bettivan and Daisy Diamond, which allows for a lot more.

Batman shook his head: "Not now."

...Why is Vivi standing with Batman? In fact, it wasn't long before she used Gensokyo.

After Vivi used [Fantasy Township], in order to reduce the scope of impact and not bring in innocent people, she set the scope to only this central avenue, and only those who were wet by the rain were brought in, including the Boneyard Town slave rebels and naturally the tights vigilantes. Barbara must have discovered that they have lost contact.

The loss of contact was two-way, and Batman happened to be very close to her. Although the surroundings were no different from the real Gothic City, Batman must have realized the problem, and he found Vivi immediately.

They happened to see the sky-blocking gargoyles flying through the air. Some of them landed on buildings, obviously monitoring the surroundings, while others were patrolling the city in the shadows and rain. Then, something unexpected happened.

The range of the system props does not include the city of Gotam in the movie. If the slave rebels were still in Gotam, they would not feel anything when they saw the gargoyles flying in the sky. Their subconscious would ignore the anomaly and look for excuses. However, in the movie worldview, "the gargoyles in the sky are unusual monsters." In the movie plot, Irene and the gargoyles love each other, and naturally there are police shooting at the gargoyles controlled by Shadow Bats, so everyone's reaction at this moment is the same as the reaction of people in the movie.

It's a nice city, why are the stone sculptures flying?

As the crowd screamed, the slave rebels realized that their mission might have failed. Thousands of them emerged from hiding and gathered in the center of the street. However, they pulled people out of the cars, but did not find the congressman who was supposed to be there.

——The MPs were not exposed to the rain.

They pulled out the native passers-by of the movie world. There was a riot on the street. After all, this was a movie promotion. The police always failed and were "a step late" when catching the heroine Irene, but they were very fast when catching other people. At that time, Batman happened to find Vivi. If they hadn't hidden quickly, they would have been taken away together.

The two hid in the alley, watching a police car appear and arrest a few people, then another police car appear and arrest a few people, then another police car...

At the end, Weiwei asked in confusion: "Are there so many police cars in Gotan City?"

What made Weiwei most embarrassed was that more than 3,000 people were arrested by the police. They caused a riot and successfully injured people. A large number of people were sent to the hospital, but no one died.

Of course, Gotham City does not have so many police cars, and the GCPD does not have so many temporary cells - it is almost like a hidden "rule": here, as long as you intend to break the law, you will be arrested.

Besides, there aren’t that many police officers in Gotam City. Weiwei even felt that some of the police officers looked familiar.

Batman noticed something and said, "There are only a limited number of characters that have appeared in movies. Even if they are just in the corners of the screen, there are only two or three hundred people at most. And these policemen are taking turns using faces that have appeared in movies..."

He paused. "The same is true for passers-by."

Is appearance universal?

"Not entirely," Batman said, "Erin and her parents' faces weren't there."

"Does this mean..." Weiwei pondered, "In this space, they are also special beings? Is it to prevent the audience from mistaking them for the wrong people?"

In the interlaced light of light and dark, a police car sped past, but chose to slow down when passing through an alley, just to avoid splashing the water on the side of the road. Through the car window, the two saw the arrested Robin sitting in the car.

Weiwei: “…”

Batman: "..."

Weiwei hesitated for a moment: "I'll go find Nightwing."

She now believes in the hidden rule that "the police can quickly arrest criminals except for the characters in the movie plots", so Nightwing, who has not appeared yet, seems a little dangerous.

Batman hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll go to GCPD. Whether or not we find Nightwing in an hour, we'll meet at the back door of GCPD."

Weiwei nodded, and when she turned around, Batman had disappeared.

She was stunned for a moment, and judged the direction. She did not go to where Nightwing was, but chose to go in the opposite direction... At the end of the direction was Park Lake.

…

Batman emerged from the shadows of the building, staring at where the girl had been for a moment before quickly changing his gear, taking off his armor and transforming from Batman into Bruce Wayne.

After noticing the inconsistency in the number of police officers, Bruce realized that to survive in this movie space, force is not the most important thing. What is important is the degree of understanding of the plot of the movie, not just the surface understanding, but also the deep-level understanding of what the movie wants to express.

"The police must catch the criminals" is because this animated film wants to make positive publicity for the city of Gotham, and according to this idea, Bruce knows what to do -

As an investor, he knew some inside information that most people didn't understand. There was a plan to shoot a second part of the movie, in which Bruce Wayne was an important supporting role.

In this movie, "Batman" is not Bruce Wayne. In this world, "Wayne" is just an ordinary entrepreneur and philanthropist. This is also to kick the real Bruce out of the list of suspects about Batman's true identity. Bruce is Bruce, and Batman is Batman.

So, Bruce guessed that he could pretend to be "Wayne" here. In this timeline, "Wayne" traveled to other cities with his new female companion.

Sure enough, relying on Wayne's identity as a rich man, even though he is now penniless, he was able to successfully enter the GCPD with his facial recognition.

"Why was that kid in the leotard arrested?"

Robin does not exist in the movie world, and Batman is not a vigilante.

"Destroying public facilities," the police officer answered casually while registering. "We didn't notice it at first, but after we caught him, we found out that he had damaged more than just the fire hydrants on Central Avenue. It's so busy outside, and there are people wearing strange clothes and disturbing our work... Mr. Wayne, you'd better stay here for a while. Be careful in the sky, it's not peaceful... How come even the stone sculptures are flying..."

The donuts on the table exuded a sweet aroma, the coffee cup was still warm, and the GCPD was no different from usual. However, such a GCPD naturally could not accommodate 3,000 people. He entered the detention area under the pretext that the arrested child was "a friend's child." As soon as he walked into the corridor, his expression changed slightly.

The corridor is usually only 20 meters long and you can't see the end at a glance, but no one thinks there is a problem.

Of course Tim would not be arrested casually. Bruce could guess that their target was the slave rebels in the underground city, and Tim infiltrated the GCPD as a "criminal" in order to explore the rules of this world - where he would be imprisoned after being imprisoned, whether he could escape from prison, what these slaves thought... and so on.

Bruce walked over. No one among the slaves knew him. He looked at Tim and asked if he needed bail, and Tim shook his head implicitly.

After Bruce left, Tim spoke to the police officer and said, "One of them is injured. Is there no doctor?"

Tim can exchange information with Bruce, but the slave rebels in Boneyard... know nothing about the current situation.

This world is too real. Coincidentally, they have never left the underground. They just know that there is a city on the ground.

...The people of Boneyard don't like Gotham.

Everyone loves Kotan, except those she has abandoned.

However, it is obvious that the city will not abandon its people, but the slaves living in the Boneyard Town do not know this. The information they have been exposed to since childhood is that the ground is full of dangerous viruses, the underground is poor and safe, and people on the ground live in dire straits until outsiders appear.

There is more than one way to go underground. There are always people who accidentally drift underground and bring new and strange information, which is completely opposite to what the slaves know.

"You are the one who is abandoned", "You have been deceived and concealed", "Your leader just wants to be the king underground", no one is willing to believe such statements. If the past cognition is completely reversed, they are not the ones who are high and mighty, but the poor people who are looked down upon with sympathy, then what is it that supports them to survive?

So deceive yourself.

Rook was like this before he joined the rebels. After joining, he went from one extreme to another... The rebels were not organized with the idea of ​​"liberation". Being underground, they had no chance to learn this idea. The rebels' goal was to resist Charon, fight above ground, and occupy the property of those above ground.

After being persuaded by the leader, Luke believed that there was no virus on the ground at all and they were just deceived. After coming to the ground, he also found that other people were no different from them. They were not tortured by diseases, and the city was not empty. On the contrary, it was peaceful, prosperous... and rich!

He was furious.

Even though he was locked up in the cell, he was still angry, and he coughed up blood in his anger.

Then...his eyes blurred.

…

Tim frowned, finding the atmosphere uncomfortably calm.

The communication devices of these "outsiders" cannot be used, but he now has the mobile phone that Bruce smuggled to him.

After knowing that this world was actually the world of that movie, he breathed a sigh of relief - if we follow the rules of the movie, there shouldn't be any big problems.

Because, in animated movies broadcast on Children's Day, no one will die, and there won't even be any bloodshed.

The rebels were injured, and if he tried it himself, he would also have wounds on his body—

The police officers who subdued the rebels did not suffer any casualties. It would be great if the GCPD in reality could do the same.

"Perhaps it's because we don't belong to this world, and the protective rules don't extend to us."

Fortunately, they were all arrested.

However, when they were first sent to prison, these people tried to escape, attacked the police, escaped, and cursed - the police were unharmed - so they were locked up and continued to curse, but now, their cursing, complaining, and talking have disappeared.

Tim's heart skipped a beat.

In the corridor that was so long that one could not see the end, the captured rebels were lying on the floor of the cell in twos and threes, bleeding from their mouths and noses, and the guys who were already injured were groaning, obviously not in good condition.

The police had discovered the problem through surveillance. Tim hesitated for a moment, hid the tools he used to pick the lock, and lay on the ground like everyone else.

He decided not to escape from prison for the time being and to observe the situation.

Seeing so many people being knocked down at the same time, he suspected that someone was spraying poison gas, so he took out a gas mask from his belt and put it on, leaning against the cell door, listening to the movements outside.

After five minutes, or maybe ten minutes, Tim raised his hand and touched his nose.

The warm liquid flowed out slowly, and the whole world seemed to be spinning. He coughed dryly and felt his lungs aching as if they were burning.

He blinked his eyes with difficulty, took out the antidote from his belt, and injected himself without thinking, but the situation did not improve at all. When he felt that he was about to cough out his entire lung, one hand pressed on his shoulder and the other hand supported him and helped him onto the back of a police officer.

Then, Tim lost consciousness.

Tim didn't know it, but during the half hour he was detained, the riot spread out from the city center.

Citizens in movies won’t die, and characters in animated films won’t be shot, but that doesn’t mean they won’t get “sick,” especially when the source of the disease is brought by people who are neither protected nor bound by the rules.

Although no substantial casualties were caused after those people rushed onto the central avenue like crazy, these "thugs" themselves were injured in the process of subduing them, because the natives in the movie would not be shot.

Even the police officer who fired the gun was a little confused. He said to his partner in surprise and excitement: "See, I told you I don't use the outline shooting method!"

Their blood stained public buildings, dripped onto roads, was washed by rain and mixed into groundwater. The first group to be affected were the cleaning staff.

A local cleaner suddenly coughed up blood while cleaning, then collapsed on the side of the road and was quickly sent to the hospital.

The kind-hearted person who took them to the hospital collapsed shortly after leaving the hospital and was taken to the hospital by other people.

The hospital immediately realized that

"It's an unknown new infectious disease!"

A new infectious disease suspected to be able to be transmitted through the air. The virus has a strong ability to survive outside the body and may have other modes of transmission. The virus is virulent and the possibility of death is extremely high. Several medical staff have collapsed during brief contact.

Things have gotten really serious!

All the doctors who had contact with the patient were quarantined on the spot, but no protective measures were taken for the patient along the way. The patient's mouth and nose were exposed and bleeding profusely. If quarantine was really necessary, half of the hospital might have to be quarantined.

The hospital blocked the news and, in panic, chose to immediately contact the police chief to maintain public order, blocked the gate, and contacted the mayor of Gotham, Ms. Anna Alec.

The phone rang three times before it got through.

A lazy female voice came from the other end: "Hello..."

…

This is a bit of a big deal.

Weiwei emerged from beneath the lake, crawled to the shore, and sat down cross-legged.

The rain was still falling, and by now, Irene had probably arrived at her "mother's house."

But she could not find the "Bone Town" in this world, which is the old city of Gotham.

After deciding to pull everyone into the movie world, Vivi immediately asked Daisy in reality to "pacify" Charon and delay him, while Bella searched for an antidote to the virus, and William dived into the magma pool with all the props and materials she could find, trying to speed up the "lava zombies" to recognize her.

Fortunately, Lincoln was also pulled into the fantasy city and could not control these zombies to destroy the city of Gotham.

But if Charon finds out after she takes care of Lincoln, he might release a group of virus carriers - she may not be able to delay it for too long.

Weiwei thought of the "underground" in Gensokyo - if this Gensokyo was a one-to-one replica, then there would also be an old Gothic temple underground, with viruses and virus samples, and even the antidote could be found one step ahead of time.

But... there is no cemetery under the lake.

"This world will automatically complete certain information. The faces of the people who were not drawn in the movie are also automatically completed, although they are repeated... This shows that there is no problem with my theory," she pondered, "Is there something missing?"

...What is missing?