"Attention, citizens of Gotan, the following is an urgent report——"
"There will be flooding in the city. Please follow the evacuation team immediately, leave the flooded area, and go to high ground for safety."
"We will follow up on this incident with all our strength. Please leave Gotan with your family."
The evacuation area is a national park located in the direction of Bludhaven, Gotham County, a mountain with an altitude of nearly 1,000 feet. However, if the flooded area expands, the area will not be able to accommodate too many evacuees. Apparently, many Gotham citizens also think so. Even though the heavy rain has not yet flooded the land under their feet, some citizens living in the lower floors and those who are temporarily trapped and unable to return home have already driven out to avoid danger.
Fortunately, despite the sudden natural disaster, the city did not fall into chaos.
In the past, there were always people who took advantage of natural disasters to commit crimes. Crime seemed to be ingrained in their nature, and evacuation could not be completed so efficiently.
"Come here, Lucy, I'll hold you and you hold Phoebe, okay?" A father held his daughter and climbed the stairs to the tourist building halfway up the mountain in the national park. Many people had already come here. Some were unable to return home during the flood and were sent here for refuge. Others came out to look for their families but were trapped and unable to leave.
The little daughter in his arms was holding the puppy, and she kept touching the puppy's wet fur out of fear and anxiety. However, the puppy seemed quite calm and did not shiver in the cold wind. Like a loyal and reliable knight, it exuded heat to warm the girl.
On a mountain with a high altitude, they cast their eyes towards the distant city of Gotan, as if that would allow them to find where their home was.
In addition to evacuating the public, city hall employees are also busy trying to accommodate refugees in the city. Gotham has many high-rise buildings, and they need to appeal to the owners of the buildings to open their houses so that compatriots who are temporarily unable to return home or have no home at all can take refuge.
This is too difficult, this is Gotham.
However, while communications were still working, the city hall issued a notice that all economic losses incurred by helping others during the flood period would be fully paid by the city hall, and that crimes such as hijacking, murder, and robbery during the flood period were not allowed.
"If anyone dares to do that, they will be hung on the flagpole of the town hall and soaked in water every time the flag is automatically raised."
Vivi stayed in Wayne Tower and wiped her wet hair. From here, looking down, the whole city was in sight. Gargoyles rose and fell between the buildings. People didn't know that their fear of natural disasters was fueling these stone monsters, but they saw that the gargoyles were searching for victims throughout the city.
There were also many refugees on Wayne Tower. However, after the water line flooded the bottom of the elevator of Wayne Tower, the elevator was no longer used for safety reasons. New refugees had to experience the feeling of flying by holding the neck of a gargoyle.
No one present actually knew that if the flood had come half a month earlier, the situation in the entire city might have been even worse.
——The old city of Gotham is surrounded by underground magma pools, and the old city a hundred years ago became like that because of a flood that occurred once in a century.
Now the old city has been filled in, the monsters in the magma have fallen into sleep, the sewers have been renovated and the sewage discharge capacity has been strengthened, providing enough time for the evacuation of residents, and the bat computer calculated the crisis in advance, allowing them to be prepared.
If any step along the way had been less than perfect, the East End might have collapsed, causing massive casualties, the floodwaters might have risen even faster than they are now, and the magma might have dissolved everything, causing the entire city to topple over instead of... being as orderly as it is now.
Ten hours had passed since Tim issued the call for action.
The entire city took action within these ten hours. Unfortunately, heavy rain and typhoon also arrived as expected. Weiwei jumped down from the window, passed the shelterers who were praying to God, and walked to the window. The lights in the Wayne Tower flashed twice, and suddenly there was a "crackling" sound, and the huge space fell into complete darkness.
The crowd cried out in surprise, some took out their mobile phones to illuminate, and some began to run around anxiously - the terrain of Gotan County is not high, and the generator set located on the edge of Gotan County has broken down!
She looked out the window, and the entire city fell into darkness one after another. Then some buildings lit up again, emitting star-like brilliance.
Some buildings have backup power, but not all.
Weiwei could almost feel the fear that had almost become material. This was the city of Gotham, and many strangers had to live together in a dark environment. There might be a robber or a gang member sitting next to you. Too many people here made a living by doing this.
Those lights that are on are just a drop in the bucket. Looking out from here, this city is like a monster that devours darkness and everything. In order to maintain the precarious stability, the lights in this city must be turned on as quickly as possible.
Gotham City, Kuromon Island, Kuromon Prison.
"Okay..." Bella stared at the prisoners lining up and notified all the prison guards to go up to the second floor first. She muttered in a low voice, "Let me see how many people want to generate electricity for this city."
Blackgate Prison has an underground water dungeon where nearly half of the most unruly criminals are imprisoned. The current water level has exceeded the normal safety level, and every wall underground is like a small waterfall. For the sake of human rights, these criminals must be allowed to take refuge on the upper floors.
However, Blackgate Prison only has three floors above ground. When these criminals in shackles noticed that the prison guards were retreating, they started to think of something.
After Bella became the warden, the difficulty of jailbreaking increased exponentially. Although it is a disaster moment for ordinary people, for those criminals who need to serve more than a hundred years in prison, it is clearly a good opportunity to escape from prison!
It's been difficult for them too. In the past, they could leave Blackgate Prison by just giving some money. Later, Batman came, and they had to follow a boss to have a chance to escape. Now Bella has appeared. She was almost born to fight against these criminals. With her around, the jailbreak rate has dropped to a scary number - no one wants to really die of old age in prison, so even though this chance is very dangerous, they have exhausted all the methods they have hidden and decided to escape from this terrible prison!
Bella watched coldly as a murderer rushed up and tried to snatch the prison guard's gun and hold him hostage. She kicked the man down, glanced at some people who were watching coldly and ready to strike, and used "Gensokyo".
Under the confused and shocked gazes of the prison guards, all the serious criminals who wanted to escape and cause trouble disappeared at this moment and were thrown into a fighting arena in another space.
Then, she used another card that had not been used before -
【Thinking Field】
All emotions generated in Gensokyo can be converted into electrical energy by this scene card, and enter the city's "power supply system" under Vivi's distribution, a power supply system that only exists in her mind.
If you look down from the sky, you will find that the light is shining from the center of the city and spreading in all directions, as if a golden heart has started beating again at this moment, injecting clear golden blood into every blood vessel.
The city of Gotam is lit up again.
At this time, in Gensokyo, in the arena——
While other criminals were thinking about escaping and resisting, he was like a fish in water and didn't think that the flood could do anything to him. Killer crocodile: "?"
The "Slime" he was in directly turned into a real crocodile, and then killed the animal next to it with its tail.
So annoying!
…
In fact, there is one place in Gotham where all the buildings remain as strong as ever when the city lights go out.
That is the town of South Hinckley. This town, also located on a small island, seems to have some kind of protection. The flood flooded the streets, but it was impossible to enter the interior of the buildings, including the basements. The town’s own buses and school buses had no problems, and they could even go back and forth to the store to deliver supplies to other people trapped at home.
Mike is one of those trapped in the school.
When the emergency report came out, he had enough time to seek shelter elsewhere, but after contacting his family and knowing that they were all safe, Mike thought about it and took the initiative to go to South Hinckley.
After the Children's Day celebration, he gained magical powers that allowed him to manipulate metal, and now that he has this power, he wants to do more...
Maybe he is the one chosen to be the hero?
However, what he can do is probably only to help his classmates, stop campus violence, stop sudden robberies and other small things, and join the engineering team through his special ability? He once found that he was noticed by Batman when he returned home late at night, but then Batman disappeared again, and it was too strange and embarrassing to find a vigilante to recommend himself. Mike finally decided that he would not be a superhero like others, but he could exercise justice in his own way. At least he is not doing badly now.
Who knew that the situation in South Hinckley was much better than other areas, even though the terrain here was also not high. He thought about it and climbed onto a South Hinckley bus.
He wanted to drive the bus into the city without water getting inside the bus, and there would always be people who needed help.
However...
"The key is here... eh?"
There were two knocks on the bus window. The bus driver named William squatted on the roof of the bus and threw a car key to him. He said in a stiff tone that never changed: "Take care of yourself."
"Thank you..." Mike grabbed the key and saw the other party flip into another car. The headlights quickly pierced the rain curtain and drove out of the bus station smoothly.
在他愣怔時,他似乎還看到幾個同威廉先生一樣擁有蒼白皮膚的人選擇了其他公交與城市中的其他車輛,麥克低聲說:“你們也是啊。”
在哥譚市,他至少擁有異能,并不擔心自己救助的人是個隐形罪犯,反而傷害到他,可他很擔心其他司機會被餓狼乘客反制……希望大家都能安全回來吧。
他把手放在了方向盤上。
在麥克離開後,他并不知道,小鎮的圖書館正在發生小規模的戰鬥。
傑森眼前是塔利亞·奧·古,而身後護着的是黛絲·戴蒙德教授,以教授表現出來的身體素質,就算她能夠正常行走,依舊不是受過鍛煉的普通人的對手,更何況是長途奔襲了。
——讓她站着去和卡戎等罪犯對話就幾乎消耗掉全部能量了。
然而刺客聯盟的刺客從窗口躍入,且越來越多,塔利亞站在最前方,盯着傑森:“我不想殺了你,孩子,但你不應該站在我的對面,我給了你第二次生命。”
“那可未必,”傑森聳聳肩,“而且我的生命現在不屬于我自己,我建議你去向那一位取。”
然而身後是一位身體素質堪憂的普通人,他其實沒有全身而退的信心。
在提姆的通知發出來後,蝙蝠家族中的所有人開始行動起來,好在市長也十分配合,通知來得有夠及時,薇薇跑去了市區,其他家族成員,包括蝙蝠女俠與趕來的遺孤等人,分別開始負責部分地區的疏散與城市的治安穩定,傑森則先去了一趟東區,在“調解”了幾次小型糾紛之後,他發現了在東區具有活動跡象的刺客聯盟刺客。
追着刺客們,他居然返回了南欣克利鎮。
這些刺客,包括塔利亞,竟然是為黛絲教授而來的。
而在他趕到之前,這位教授靠着部分建築的特性,比如圖書館的“借書抵押”效果,已經把刺客們遛了好幾圈了。
而傑森和塔利亞就是先後趕到的。
這時候,他身後的黛絲教授開口了:“……我的确接下了你們的委托,但來向我要這份羊皮紙用不着這麽興師動衆吧?”
傑森略偏了偏頭:“委托?”
“塔利亞女士希望我進行的一份翻譯工作,因為身體原因我進行地不算太快。”
塔利亞似笑非笑:“現在可看不出來你有什麽身體上的毛病。”
身體虛弱還能夠和刺客聯盟培養的刺客周旋這麽久,那要是身體健康豈不是能反殺所有人?
傑森小聲問:“不算太快是多久?”
“也就是完成了半個月也沒通知她而已,”黛絲看上去并不驚慌,“因為小達米安不在,我自然忘記告訴他這件事了。”
這段時間達米安沉迷于義警游戲,目前和蝙蝠俠一同離開了哥譚市,顯然,這個孩子對父親比對母親親近多了。
傑森:“……”
他換了個話題:“她究竟讓你翻譯什麽?”
他又看向塔利亞:“如果你是來帶走翻譯結果的,那大概沒必要出動這麽多刺客?”
“當然,但這和你沒關系,傑森,”塔利亞冷眼看向黛絲,“我需要帶走你,教授,你也不想在這裏造成流血事件吧?”
她話音落下,刺客們已經圍了上來,顯然并不想再說廢話了,傑森抄起這位跑兩步喘三聲的教授,一腳踹開左前方的刺客,靠着書架掩護,兩人立刻開始了奔逃,他邊跑邊問:“那份羊皮紙上究竟是什麽內容?!”
“關于,如何,召喚災厄的化身降臨,”黛絲在他的背上很不舒服,她自己換了個姿勢,“通過數千人以上的死亡獻祭,在罪惡之城,還有……怎麽把邪惡化身的力量轉化成自己的,獲得永生……”
她喘了口氣,破罐子破摔道:“這樣好累,幹脆放我去死吧。”
傑森:“?”
他一腳踹在牆上,用槍解決了兩個,在躍起的瞬間把背上的人甩到胸口,就像在甩一個麻袋,教授的臉色又蒼白了一點,還念叨了兩句“我殘血了”“沒用的啊”之類的話,聽不太清楚,再傑森再次找到射擊死角蹲下時,她用力拍了拍他的肩膀:“這樣吧,我去把他們都解決掉。”
傑森嘆了口氣:“你要綁上炸彈嗎?你用什麽辦法?”
“我們身後的倉庫桌上有一盤磁帶,只要放進收音機裏,它錄下的聲音會讓所有聽到的人發瘋。”
傑森:“?”
“……倉庫的盡頭有一副畫像,它的反扣在牆上的,只要看到畫像裏女人的眼睛,目擊者的自殺欲望會空前強烈。”
傑森:“……”
“倉庫的——”
“等等,”傑森擡手,“圖書館總是接受這種捐贈嗎?是不是太危險了?”
“這只是布利切斯特大學的部分收藏,是教授們從本部借用的,”黛絲假笑,“或者用我的辦法,不用去倉庫……不過我不确定你會不會和其他人一起瘋掉?”
“我暫時不想去阿卡姆常住,”他把打空的彈夾換下,“讓我們想想別的法子。”
“我其實不介意被塔利亞帶走,”黛絲低聲說,“如果這樣就能知道更多關于羊皮紙的信息,那這種付出是值得的。”
傑森冷哼一聲,意味不明:“研究人員。”
“那份羊皮紙上記載過,”黛絲臉上沒有笑意,“那種召喚方式曾經成功過一次,但所有參與者都死亡了,沒人知道後來發生了什麽,除了雷霄·奧·古,塔利亞給我這個,大約是想知道他的父親在做什麽?”
“塔利亞想要和老蝙蝠在一起,但雷霄是不會同意的,”傑森知道一部分內情,他也順着黛絲的說法去考慮起來,“罪惡之城,我想那獻祭大約是死去的人越多成功率越高,他想要召喚邪神……”
傑森皺了皺眉:“那麽現在是個好時機。”
就算幾千人站着不動被屠殺也需要殺上好久,而洪水與臺風的天然災害造成的傷亡雖然可怖,卻不會被懷疑,這是一場沒有利刃的獻祭,只有死者才能看到落下的屠刀。
不過——
“現在未必會死這麽多人。”
傑森一路過來,看得見這座城市正在自救,他相信刺客聯盟也能看得到,或者說,現在肯定不會死上這麽多人,就算蝙蝠俠不在這裏,其他人也不會任由事态這樣發展的,包括他!
圖書館的大門在此時突然打開,在這個暴雨交加,狂風大作,洪水上漫的夜晚,有人推開了圖書館的門。
傑森所在的位置無法看清楚是誰開了門,他眉頭微皺,覺得事态越發不利,但身邊的黛絲教授卻舒了口氣,說:“是養老院的人找來了……估計是發現你一直沒有回去。”
傑森一愣,養老院,等等……養老院?!
在養老院養老的全都是貓頭鷹法庭的刺客!
仿佛是順應他的想法,此刻圖書館的各個角落傳來幾聲悶響,以及刀刃相交的聲音,貓頭鷹法庭的刺客對陣刺客聯盟的刺客,顯然,前者的不死特性勝出了一籌。
塔利亞被逼退到了兩人藏身的地方,她看向角落,在戰鬥的間隙飛快道:“教授!我來這裏是為了尋求你的幫助,我不能讓父親毀了哥譚市,因為這是他的城市——”
這個“他”顯然是指蝙蝠俠。
交戰停下了,黛絲沒有走出去,語氣平淡:“雷霄想要召喚邪神降臨?哥譚市就是他選定的罪惡之城吧?但這座城市的罪惡已經消減了,而今夜絕不會死上幾千人,哥譚市不會被毀掉,我也會把這份羊皮紙銷毀。”
“不……”塔利亞搖頭,她知道地比他們多,此時也不得不說出來了——她本想直接将教授搶走的,“我曾經聽父親提過……”
“在儀式開始之後,需要獻祭的并不是死者,而是‘死亡’本身,死亡這個概念伴随着災難而來——”
她的眼眸被窗外的雷電照亮,她想要說很多卻說不出來,最後她說:“如果某個人已經死亡了成千上萬次,而今晚她決定赴死,那麽這成千上萬次的死亡都是被獻祭的‘死亡’,你的身邊……”
“……有這樣的人嗎?”
雷電轟然作響,照亮了整個圖書館。
黛絲張了張嘴。
傑森看了他一眼,看向塔利亞,最終說道:“……你是怎麽知道的?”
刺客聯盟的人是怎麽知道……薇薇之死的?
塔利亞看向手中的刀:“這也是我想要問父親的,父親看到了那個女孩的臉,他認得她。”
“我只是隐隐約約得知了他的計劃,但他的确想要在哥譚再次完成獻祭,傑森,你不應該攔着我,”她又盯着黛絲,“而我需要你,教授,我們該如何阻止災難發生?”
“你确定你把一切能搜集到的資料都帶給了我?”
“我确定,全部。”
“那麽我們沒法阻止,因為儀式開始之後就不會停止,”黛絲看她一眼,又看向別處,“我們只能讓它無法開始。”
“我以為那張紙上會有線索……至少會告訴我們怎麽讓父親失敗,”塔利亞咬牙,深吸一口氣,明顯不信任教授的話,“他完成過第一次,那上面難道沒有說過他為什麽會失敗嗎?”
“等等——”傑森擡手,“你的意思是,雷霄曾經召喚過一次那什麽邪神,而且就在哥譚市?可是哥譚市什麽時候死過那麽多人?”
雖然這裏經常爆發大大小小的沖突,但這不代表一次性死上幾千人而沒人發現。
“是的,就在七——”雷聲越來越響,呼嘯的狂風把塔利亞沒說完的話語吞沒,他們看向遠方高樓栉比的哥譚市中心,傑森踱步兩下,掃了眼其他人,說:“我去找薇薇……帶她離開哥譚!”
只要她這個重要的人不在哥譚市,那麽這個儀式就不能成功。
……
薇薇根本沒想過離開哥譚市。
相反,她已經得知了塔利亞的目的,從城市中把雷霄·奧·古找出來就是了。
既然目的是“召喚邪神掠奪力量”,那麽他本人一定會到場。
然而,奇怪的是,薇薇的新地圖完全能夠找到雷霄,可她心中默念此人,卻無法轉換到對方的視角所在——他不在哥譚市嗎?
“依舊沒有激活任務……”
她不再去想任務的事,落在東區的傳送點大樓頂部,然後在腦內思考【和雷霄·奧·古有關的人】。
靠着新地圖,她的視角在塔利亞,刺客們的頭上輪流轉變,這顯然是哥譚市地圖上和這位刺客首領關系密切的人,然後她的視角開始打轉,突然落在某個平平無奇的工人頭頂。
在“看到”他的瞬間,薇薇腦內就出現了對方的詳細資料——
雷霄雇傭了他。
他們正位于哥譚市公墓,由布魯斯·韋恩資助修建,許多無名死者被埋葬于此,而在這樣的天氣中,被雇傭的工人與其他同伴正在忙于挖掘。
他們打開了一座平平無奇的墓碑,而薇薇掃過周圍,發現墓碑的前方,正是傑森曾經被埋葬過的墓穴,墓碑的正後方,則是她的某一具屍體埋過的墓穴,是由謝爾克替她處理的屍體,不過她突然意識到,那具屍體已經消失了。
……她是怎麽知道的?
……薇薇也不知道自己是怎麽知道的,仿佛直覺,仿佛與生俱來。
作為哥譚市本地人的工人們打開了墓穴,将墓碑搬至一邊,然後冒着大雨,掀開了棺材。
薇薇也看到了棺材中有什麽。
破碎的衣物碎片,似乎是淺棕色,衣服上放着半條圍巾,還沾着血跡,而在最上方,是半個幹癟的腦袋——僵硬的灰棕色發絲,凹陷的綠眼睛,以及碎裂的白骨。
“……”
她的目光幾乎凝固在棺材中的殘屍上,然後,她強行逼着自己看向別處,這就看到了一旁的墓碑。
【“一具無名屍體,全屍的後頸刻着‘VV’的字樣,她沒有名字,也沒有身份。”】
【“但她是個人。”】
“……這是游戲彩蛋嗎?”薇薇張着嘴,卻覺得自己好像不能呼吸了,“這是游戲彩蛋吧?”
在發現安娜擁有這個世界的身份時,她并不覺得有什麽不對,在發現貝拉自殺死亡後,她也不覺得害怕與恐懼,當聽說黛絲因為崇拜邪神而死後,她只想要殺掉那個邪神,保護自己的城市……因為無論安娜、貝拉還是黛絲,都不是薇薇自己“捏”出來的人,也不是她所認可的“自己”。
即使因為游戲系統的保護程序對現實中的記憶不那麽深刻了,可薇薇看向鏡子,潛意識覺得,她是以自己實際上的長相來捏臉的,包括“C先生”的臉,她也加入了自己熟悉的元素,即使她也不清楚是什麽元素。
“游戲提供的身份擁有過去,我可以當成是彩蛋,但我捏出來的人你說我已經——”薇薇深吸一口氣,“已經死了?已經死了?!”
怒火從心底向上燒起,薇薇久違地感覺自己的心髒正因為怒火而跳動——但這是幻覺,她根本沒有血,理論上也不需要心髒将血液傳輸至身體的各個部位。
只有憤怒。
即使在游戲中死去活來,即使為了其他人的經歷而憤怒,可薇薇在這一刻才意識到,就像她剛進入游戲時想的那樣:
“這只是個游戲,我并不會因為單機游戲中NPC傷害了我的游戲角色而真正憤怒,”因為游戲角色和現實中總歸是隔着一層的,真正的憤怒與憎恨無差,但她不去憎恨他們,“除了這一刻。”
東區,貓女安撫住在房間中叫喚的貓咪,植物園,毒藤女把泥臉拍出去,逼着他鑄造防線拯救那些暫時沒法搬運的珍惜植株,也有人克服了恐懼往此處避難,他們被毒藤女不客氣地指揮着搬運她的小可愛,鑽石區,許多人被安置在韋恩大廈,此時的提姆正在他韋恩集團的辦公室內,這時候人們更需要德雷克少總而不是紅羅賓,或許這是一件好事,奧迪斯堡……
這一刻,所有人都看到,整座城市被藍色的光芒點亮,彙聚成一片幽藍色的海洋。
是行道樹。
是種滿哥譚市的行道樹,發出了憤怒的藍光。
藍光照亮了水面,與金色的燈光彙聚在一起,而傑森從飛機上一躍而下,穿越半個城市,抓住了薇薇的手。
女孩似乎在發呆。
傑森借用了蝙蝠飛機,東區更靠近海上,而海上也有更大的作戰範圍,他确定要打一場硬仗了,不過他們在離開時遇到了刺客們的埋伏。
薇薇沒有說話,也沒有動。
在傑森眼中她像個人偶,可傑森并不知道——
公墓區,工人們正在與“風”争奪棺材中的殘屍。
他們知道現在正刮着狂風,但他們面對的風就像是有意識般,刮得人臉刺痛,挂的睜不開眼睛,将用來裝殘屍的盒子刮飛了出去,砸在水面上,因為木盒的特性順着水面浮沉,幾人為了錢想要铤而走險進入洪水區打撈木盒,可水流湍急,差一點兒就此死在這裏。
木盒最終還是打着旋兒沉到了水下。
在驚恐不安中,工人們終究還是前往遠處避難了。
“太恐怖了……”其中某人顫抖着對同伴說,“我感覺有人在和我搶那個可怕的東西……而我根本不知道是誰,就像是個無形的人……就像是,我們在被什麽東西看着……幽靈嗎?”
是幽靈吧?
死者化身的幽靈。
傑森抓着一只冰冷的手,而身邊的人全身都是冰冷的——她一直是這樣,沒有體溫。
塔利亞的話語似乎揭秘了許多信息,顯然,不過,她似乎對C先生與薇薇的關系了解不深。
第一次召喚失敗後究竟發生了什麽呢?
那被召喚的邪神即使第一次沒能成功入侵這個世界,難道第二次還想要為雷霄的野心做嫁衣嗎?不,祂在雷霄還未發覺之時,就向這個世界投來了一瞥,祂注意到了薇薇,祂幫助了她,然後,讓她相信自己的每一次赴死都是有價值的……直到今天,祂會徹底回歸,雷霄什麽都得不到。
但傑森什麽都沒有說。
他隐約覺得薇薇或許已經知道真相了,就算不知道又怎樣呢?他看着她,就像看到了過去的自己,她應該擁有可選擇的道路,如果她想要向C先生揮刀,那他就幫她,如果她想要離開這裏,那他也幫她,反正他們都屬于那東西了,沒有什麽好失去的了。
傑森站在碼頭邊緣,看向垂下的繩梯,抓住繩子想要系在薇薇的腰上,但下一刻,薇薇“掙脫”開了。
……不,不是掙脫。
她沒有發力,但他感受到一股力量将她推開了。
傑森踩在繩梯上,一只手還拽着薇薇的手腕,可即使是在飛機的拖拽下,薇薇30斤的體重偏偏像是釘死在地面上,他們只有雙手還握在一起。
并不是她突然變重了……是某個不存在的屏障,它讓傑森離開了哥譚的土地,卻強行留下了女孩。
傑森擡頭看了眼飛機。
然後,他跳下梯子,自動駕駛狀态下的飛機在他們的頭頂盤旋。
一直像木偶般的女孩看向他,半晌,露出了一個微笑,刺客們逼近了,她用雙臂摟住傑森的脖子,兩個人靠在一起就像兩只濕漉漉的小狗。
“如果是在游戲中,這就是什麽……空氣牆之類的東西?”女孩的聲音很輕,甚至還帶着笑意,她貼在傑森耳邊說話,卻像是滴水獸雕像般冰冷,傑森猛地意識到她說話時甚至不會吐出溫熱的氣,難道沒有人發現過嗎?
“那就換別的辦法,”他托住這過輕的、無論從什麽角度都顯得不像人類的身體,“你不會死在這裏的。”
“他已經進入這座城市了,”薇薇沒有說那個“他”是誰,她看得見,而傑森猜得到,“不,這個辦法就好,他不會找到我的。”
Of course she won't die here... because she will be offline.
All players have the right to leave the game.
...if she is indeed a player.
Weiwei closed her eyes, looked at her "shattered" panel, and chose [Return to login interface].
Next second.
Jason found himself with nothing in his arms.
…
Weiwei returned to the attic in the [login interface].
The dolls hanging on the wall, the stormy scenery outside the window, and the interior furnishings were the same as before...but she didn't pay attention to those, she was staring at the [Exit Game] button.
After completely exiting the game, all the emotions in the game will be sealed. In order to protect the player's psychological state, the memories in the game will be blurred, because that way they can better distinguish between the game and reality.
If you are always immersed in the game, how can you return to reality? Weiwei has always felt that she does not have such a problem, because her favorite game type is infrastructure management, as long as the management is completed, you can quit at any time.
But now when I think about the content of past games, it has become vague.
—Did she really play those games? Does "reality" really exist? Is she really... still alive?
Her mind kept pressing the [Exit Game] button, but Weiwei couldn't make up her mind.
If selected press Go.
She would let down those who are still waiting for her.
"But after I had this thought, I actually felt that Gotham was a real world," she whispered, "...I was afraid, and the reason why I didn't dare to press it was actually very obvious."
…I’m worried that I’m not what they expect me to be.
She even worried that she was not a human being. What she was afraid of was the self that was only filled with anger and was unable to generate any other likes or dislikes.
【Do you want to exit the game? 】
【Sure】
After the OK key is pressed, the system panel disappears.
At the same time, the tightly closed attic door of the "Login Space" burst open, and the wind that was isolated outside blew in heavy rain, instantly soaking the blanket, and the fire in the stove was extinguished at the same time.
Then, in the howling wind, the entire building collapsed inch by inch from the top floor downwards, and the "outdoor scene" that looked like a painting by the window was also shattered.
In the violent shaking, the items in the room fell over. Weiwei was stunned for a moment, and stood up in the login space for the first time——
She held onto the shaking wall and walked towards the door.
She walked faster and faster, and when she reached the door she almost rushed out and jumped down.
In mid-air, she turned around and saw her "login space" collapsing.
It was a black attic built above the clouds, and this attic was turning into clouds, mist, and a glow covered by sunlight. It was going to return to its original state.