"Tell me what happened. I need to know the truth." Just as Weiwei was about to leave as if she had finished a conversation in an RPG game, her collar was hooked. Jason lowered his voice and gritted his teeth at her expression of not turning her head away. "...We are a cooperative relationship now, right? Is it Mr. C? Or did something happen to Mr. C?"
Mr. C is fine, nothing happened, he has no body, he doesn't appear, he doesn't exist.
Weiwei looked at him in confusion, then looked at the book "Introduction to Mysticism" on the table and decided not to resolve this misunderstanding.
She simply grabbed Jason's wrist with her backhand: "Follow me."
"When did you start liking that book?"
"I'm curious," Jason said coldly, "I can learn something that is related to myself."
"I'm sure the knowledge in that book is useless to you in your current state," Weiwei said, referring to his "sacrificed" state. After all, Mr. C was not some mysterious being, but a beautiful piece of waste she had made up. Even AABBDD had their own identity, background and heritage, but this Mr. C had nothing but false pretentiousness and the ability to take the blame. She sighed, "Please help me, Jason. I need to look for 'Him' throughout the city."
"If I saw Him, He would also see me. I don't know if He exists, nor do I know when He appeared in Gotan. I can't reveal more information because it's dangerous. Knowing more would be even crazier. I think... maybe I can get some clues about it from some professors who study this aspect, but the fewer people who know all this, the better." She pulled him to the living area, and then her pace became slower and slower. "Do you know who I should look for?"
At this moment, a certain name suddenly appeared in Jason's mind——
Daisy Diamond.
But obviously, Weiwei is not going to look for the familiar Professor Daisy.
He knew from the previous underground city incident that Daisy should also be a relative of Mr. C, but some people were not aware of this. Now that Vivi clearly had a target of her choice, she deliberately avoided this target and went to find Professor Daisy's colleague who was also studying mysticism?
"Colin Bruno," he finally said, "a professor of history at the University of Bristol. He's a bit of a loner."
A colleague of Daisy's, but unfamiliar with her or any other professors.
After getting this answer, Weiwei put down his hand, as if she knew where the other person was, and took the shortest route to find the professor's location - and then locked Jason outside the door.
...as always, throw it away after use.
However, the person locked outside the door was having a brain storm. Jason was thinking about what "He" was that Vivi was looking for.
God.
Looking for a God in a city, what Weiwei just said would be ridiculous and weird to other people. However, in Weiwei's description, he found the most suitable person, "Mr. C".
She wants to find Mr. C in Gotan?
But Mr. C can clearly "descend" into his and her bodies at any time. Jason is not sure whether what Vivi said, "The more you know, the crazier you are," is true or not. During the time he was hanging around in the library of the Blytheson branch, he did learn a little about the truth of another world. His original purpose was to dissolve this "sacrificial" relationship. After all, theoretically everything he had belonged to another strange existence. But the more he knew, the more impatient Jason became.
The dark side of this world is far more than what they see. The enemies of mankind include gods, and gods are neither good nor evil. However, humans will go crazy just by looking at those gods. In this case, how can people protect themselves? How can they protect others?
...Maybe it's really like Vivi said, ignorance is best, but Jason already knows part of the "truth".
If "Mr. C" really had an accident this time, he didn't want to miss this opportunity.
Vivi seemed to understand something. She was still thinking about something when she was pushed out of the room by the lonely professor, and Jason woke her up.
The girl's eyes fell on his face, full of confusion.
She was young and not very human.
Not only is she underweight and has an abnormal attitude, but there is also no record of her "past". There is nothing inhuman about her appearance, but her pupils always seem to be unable to see other people, people like her.
Especially when we are alone, we can feel more deeply that the world in Weiwei's eyes is different from that in other people's eyes.
But it wasn't her fault... Jason thought.
Some people have the body of a human but the heart of a beast.
Some people are orphans from alien planets, but they can become heroes loved by the people on Earth.
Even though she sometimes behaves very abnormally, even Weiwei herself may not realize that she has a human heart.
“You should trust me more,” he said. “I want to help you.”
He knew why the walls of the underground building collapsed in the haze of consciousness, even though the death and resurrection seemed like a gentle dream.
——Compared to the green water of Lhasa Pond, it was indeed a good dream.
He would help her... Even if Jason himself went crazy and wanted to destroy Gotham City, he believed that Vivi would not do that. When his heart was full of doubts about Daisy, Anna, and Mr. C, when Batman or others would rationally consider that Vivi was being controlled and forced by Mr. C, he felt that she would not do that, and that day would never come.
It doesn't matter, Jason Todd is such an impulsive and emotional guy, he already knew it.
"I won't tell you the reason, I won't tell you the process, and I won't tell you the truth." The girl was clearly saying "no," but she laughed and seemed to find it very interesting. She nodded and said, "Even so, you will help me."
She picked up on Jason's unspoken words, as if he had already embarked on a path of no return.
"I belong to 'Mr. C'," Jason said slowly, meeting Weiwei's gaze, "I would have helped you."
"No," she said, "you—"
The communicators on both of them lit up almost at the same time, and the virtual screen popped up forcefully, showing Tim's face.
He was wearing a Robin uniform, but it seemed to have had a minor change.
[“All members of the Bat League currently in and around Gotam, the current situation is extremely urgent. Batman is not in Gotam. I will issue an order on behalf of Batman. With the continuous heavy rain for many days, the water level is rising faster than normal. This city is likely to encounter a typhoon that deviates from its original direction in ten hours——”]
We need to evacuate citizens.
The city is in crisis, we need help from everyone, superheroes, police, soldiers, officials, ordinary citizens... and Batman is not here.
We must resist the disasters brought by nature.
The flood is coming.