[Completed the side mission: Rescue Batman]
[You get a mysterious reward: [Buff: Plant Spirit]]
[Your control over the vines has become more refined. You think you can do more now.]
The slender vines lifted the heavy hammer high. The brown-haired girl sat on the horse's back, with the lower half of her face blocked by a scarf, and the visible upper half was half in shadow and half illuminated by the fire behind her.
Only part of the church was still standing, the other part had been reduced to rubble after the crash and explosion, books, lecterns, cribs and stuffed toys, all burned. In the light of the fire, the girl's brown hair was as red as flowing blood.
The ugly girl jumped up and grabbed her hammer. She looked furious. "Who are you? Where is Ivy? Why can you use Ivy's vines?"
She has a close relationship with Poison Ivy, almost beyond friendship, so she could tell at a glance that the vine belonged to Poison Ivy.
The one who answered her was not the girl, but the vine itself.
The vines swung the hammer and used her weapon to smash her away. She rolled over and hit the broken wooden boards, knocking her unconscious.
Compared to humans who have traces to follow, a vine with no blind spots is almost a bug - you have no idea from which angle your opponent will attack.
This action made the already quiet center of the battlefield even quieter. The people in Xiao Chou's gang looked at Xiao Chou, the construction workers looked at the violin, and only Millie, in a hurried voice, instructed the church staff to rescue the furniture that could still be used, set up a fire isolation zone, and borrow a fire extinguisher from the store on the next street...
"Oh..." Catwoman and Little Ugly were in the calm eye of the storm. She recognized them as soon as she tilted her head. She thought that the fact that she became a real cat under the inexplicable "Cat Medal" was probably related to this girl. But now was obviously not the time to reminisce or question.
Her whip was still wrapped around Xiao Chou's arm, when suddenly an idea came to her. She untied the whip and did a backflip onto the broken wall.
She even gave a perfunctory greeting: "Please, Miss Knight."
- Vent your anger and peel off the ugly skin to make your banner.
There is no use for law-abiding Knights of Light, this city is meant to be ruled in a bloody way.
After gaining his freedom, Xiao Chou did not run away. He seemed to be born without fear. He almost immediately laughed and drew his gun to shoot the girl. However, all the bullets were bounced off by the flexible vines. Theoretically, it is impossible to achieve this with just a vine - the human eye's observation speed must be faster than a bullet!
The dark green vines were like a flying snake. Catwoman jumped out and kicked a gangster on the arm. She said to the violin next to her, "What are you doing? Tell your people to fight somewhere else. The lawn in front of the church has been trampled!"
Violin glanced at her. When he occupied the East District, Catwoman had gone to nowhere, so their transformation plan had not encountered any setbacks. Who would have thought that Catwoman would appear again now? However, the focus at the moment was not Catwoman.
He gave his employees an order: "Go west and throw all these guys into the river for me."
The surroundings immediately became chaotic again, with workers holding shovels and thugs holding knives fighting each other, but they moved westward with a purpose, to the Batman statue, which was separated from the East District by two blocks, a river, and Crime Alley.
In the ping-pong battle, the female knight on the white horse in the center retracted the vines.
This girl, who looked young at first glance, raised her hand, took something out of her right ear, crushed it, and threw the pieces into the wind.
At this moment, the violin was observing her, the catwoman was looking at her, and red dots representing sniping also fell on her and Xiao Chou's heads at the same time. They were the guards of the city hall, but they did not move for the time being -
Xiao Chou had to stay alive, at least until his "bomb" was dismantled, to make sure he didn't die.
"You killed four people, the pilot, the co-pilot, and two ordinary employees on the airship," the knight lady spoke surprisingly calmly, not at all as violent as Ivy showed, and seemed like she could communicate.
"The casualties in Arkham have not been counted yet, and no one knows the damage you have caused," she said calmly. "If someone hadn't stopped the airship and given a warning in advance, the falling airship would have caused huge casualties, and you didn't care."
Her voice is heard not only in the middle of the battlefield, but also inside the Batplane. The girl had previously taken off her headphones, but not the microphone.
That is to say, they can still hear what she is saying... When approaching the East District, the child jumped out of the Batplane one step ahead, and Batman was the one who arrived late. Now he landed silently on half of the roof of the cathedral, and the device on the hood was scanning Xiao Chou and the girl on the white horse who was confronting him.
Robin was manually operating the Batplane to search for Chou's route to determine whether the bomb really existed or was just a lie - that was Chou, and no one could tell whether he was lying.
Xiao Chou pinched his ears.
"Ah, this is so boring," he turned around and looked around, "Why hasn't Batman come yet? Did he break his leg?"
He simply ignored the words of the strange girl in front of him. While they were talking, the vines had already come very close.
He heard the girl say coldly:
"Those who organized people to create panic and carry out extreme terrorist acts... were arrested as required by the law."
"We can kill him on the spot if necessary!"
"I suggest that the criminals do not resist."
The green vines suddenly stretched out, as agile as a dangerous snake, and the green snake danced wildly, but Xiao Chou laughed so hard that he covered his stomach with his hands.
Then he took two steps back and suddenly put the gun against his temple, a weird smile appeared on his pale and sickly face: "Don't be like that, don't be like that, kid, the ugly uncle is not a bad man, I plead guilty, judge, I will kill myself with my own hands--"
The next second, the vines snatched his gun and tied him up, hanging him upside down in the air, but he was swaying like a large purple-green bell.
He could have resisted, he was Xiao Chou, but Xiao Chou had his own ideas, for example...
In his eyes, the brown-haired knight took the gun passed to him by the vines, raised the muzzle of the gun, and then hit him hard on the chin with the muzzle of the gun. Blood slowly flowed from the corner of Xiao Chou's mouth, but he knew it was not enough -
The young knight fired a shot at the wall.
"Puff," no bullet came out of the gun, but a small flag with a little ugly word printed on it was shot out.
"Suprise!" said the large, wobbly purple bell. "Are you happy? This is a surprise!"
He then added: "...if you are unhappy, then of course I will be happy!"
He rode his horse with a rage, through the flames and arrived in front of the criminal, but the criminal actually wanted to end his life. There was no bullet in the gun - only "surprise"!
Xiao Chou has seen many people who look like girls before.
He had killed them, humiliated them, and tortured them in various ways. Xiao Chou took pleasure in toying with such people.
He then transformed them into his own kind, such as Harvey, a former Knight of Light who was transformed by pain into the newly minted criminal Two-Face.
This girl was like Harvey, only younger and more immature than him, so Xiao Chou was even a little uninterested.
—Who wants to do a job again that has been done once before?
Gotan City gave birth to a madman like him, and Gotan City cannot be saved... As long as someone experiences such a despair day, as long as there is such a day when the peaceful life is broken, "Little Ugly" will be born in this world.
So, he wants to save the city in his own way...Haha, just kidding.
He wants to prove that all men are corruptible, that Bats is wrong, and that Chou is right... maybe? Maybe?
Never mind, this is just a joke.
He didn't want anything -
He lit a fire just to watch the world burn!
He raised his head hard, and his face painted with funny oil paint met the girl's calm gaze, and the ugly smile slowly disappeared.
The smiles disappeared from both of their faces. They looked at each other for a while, maybe a few seconds, or maybe just a moment.
Then, a huge force attacked Xiao Chou from behind, holding down his arms and pressing him to the ground.
Batman appeared silently behind Xiao Chou, just like a giant cat.
[You and Batman have restrained the little clown. He just wants to have fun today. Maybe there is a deeper mystery behind the incident? You can't understand the logic of a madman.]
[You defeated BOSS3: Xiao Chou]
[You get a reward: Crazy Whispering Vine (The vine is part of your body. The more serious your injury, the more roots the vine can split)]
[Ended instance: Arkham Asylum]
[After 10 minutes, the dungeon will be closed. Players will lose the temporary reward obtained during the dungeon: 1 vine]
[The copy rewards will be settled after it is completely closed]
"Chou," Batman asked in a hoarse, low voice, "where is the bomb you mentioned?"
However, this familiar enemy of his rarely ignored him, but turned his head away and stared at the girl on horseback. After a while, he laughed softly: "There is no bomb, Bat, it's just a joke."
Batman pressed his arm harder, but the pain only made Chou laugh.
Batman frowned: "Scarecrow let you out? You know his purpose, tell me!"
But before Xiao Chou could say anything, Batman caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye that the horse's hooves in front of him had disappeared, replaced by the girl's feet, and then a hand was placed on Batman's shoulder.
Dark green vines fell from the sky like a giant net, trapping the three of them in the middle.
Batman immediately put up his cloak. This cloak made of special material has some additional functions, such as bulletproof.
The next second, bullets poured down.
…
Weiwei sighed softly.
The [Buff: Plant Spirit] rewarded by the mission allows her to better control the vines in her hand, but while improving the precision, the player must pay more attention to the control. She can weave a web with a vine in one second.
The price is that she will think more slowly about other things.
For example, the conversation with Xiao Chou.
She had thought of those words from the beginning.
At other times, she acted almost instinctively, concentrating on controlling the vines.
When she found out what Xiao Chou had done, Weiwei really wanted to kill him right on the battlefield. Although the cathedral was just a small place with less than 300 people living in the entire East District, its symbolic and practical significance were as important.
This place symbolizes change, and also symbolizes the part of the mayor's new policy that contains humanistic care, such as adopting children, treating patients well, and solving the living problems of street prostitutes... These are the issues that are closest to the grassroots people in Gotan.
But Xiao Chou doesn't care at all. He doesn't care about the results of Weiwei's hard work, so Weiwei tacitly assumes that he doesn't care about his own life either.
When she rode her horse on the land and crushed the communicator, she was really ready to hang Xiao Chou on the ruins of the cathedral -
However, this sharp madman is a unique genius. He can even make a psychiatrist fall in love with him with just a few words. Even though he despises the enemy in front of him, he is willing to put in some effort to please her in order to wait for his dear bat.
And everything went as he expected. The young knight would kill the resisting criminals, but it was impossible for him to shoot a surrendered, unarmed prisoner.
His IQ is enough for him to develop his own poison gas, laughing gas, use small toys to make heart-pounding bombs, plan horrific attacks and then walk away. His fighting ability is even enough to defeat Batman head-on, but Chou doesn't want to do that. He doesn't want to kill Bats, he just wants to torture him and corrupt Batman... This is the fun he finally found after becoming Chou. His boring life finally has new fun.
He had heard about the changes in Gotham City while in Arkham, so how could he not come out and take a look?
After only understanding a small part of it, Xiao Chou immediately realized that this change was what Batman expected, what he was wary of and cherished, so it was obvious that Xiao Chou wanted to destroy it.
All I did today was just to say hello.
The machine gun hit the web woven from vines, and when the vines were damaged, Weiwei concentrated and continued weaving, successfully withstanding the suppression of heavy firepower - she couldn't use nails because that would make it impossible for her to control the vines. Although this prop would become invalid at the end of the copy, it would be a pity for it to fail now.
The people who attacked them were the third wave of killers hired by Black Mask, and they included Chou, Batman and Vivi.
Seeing that they chose this time to show up, it seems that their target is Weiwei.
Batman patrols every night, so it's easy to find him, but he didn't encounter the killer.
In order to kill Vivi, Black Mask first hired Deadshot to kill the mayor, the second time he hired Deathstroke to kill the prison warden, and the third time, because Vivi framed him and put him in prison, he hired these killers to kill Vivi herself as revenge.
——But he estimated that he would never know until he died in prison that the person he killed three times was the same person.
She thought, Black Mask is really rich.
[There are 7 minutes left until the copy is settled. ]
While you can still use the vines' skills, get rid of these killers. Don't leave the danger to ordinary people.
Weiwei's mind went blank, and she felt as if she had turned into a plant. Correspondingly, the vine was her, and she was the vine. She could give the vine infinite possibilities.
If it was the previous Vivi, she should have discussed it with Batman.
But she didn't mean that at the moment. She just wanted to leave the two people beside her and solve everything by herself!
Batman felt the vines wrapped around his ankles, and then, with a huge force, he and Chou were thrown into a nearby shelter, while Vivi rose up under the embrace of the plants - she let the vines protect her vital parts, and it didn't matter if other parts were exposed, because she would recover quickly if injured anyway, and for the sake of her skills, she wanted to be injured.
This group of killers were hiding on the top floor of the building opposite, more than thirty meters high. She climbed on the wall like a green spider, relying on vines. She could also see their emotions from the symbols on their heads.
[Fear]
Everyone was terrified, but Weiwei had no thoughts in her mind.
A special tranquility enveloped her. There were still 5 minutes left before the copy was closed. It seemed that everything was in time.
It was enough time for Weiwei to deal with "another thing" after dealing with the killer.
To others, this scene was indeed terrifying.
The vines entangled the girl's hands and feet, pierced through the wall and climbed up directly along the wall, climbing to the top floor with their fangs and claws. Perhaps tomorrow, there will be more rumors about Ge Tansheng producing monsters.
She was injured quickly and recovered quickly, without a drop of blood flowing from the wound. The intensive artillery fire could not stop her, especially with the dual configuration of vines and recovery, it only took Vivi more than a minute to subdue these people.
It wasn't difficult to defeat them, but it took her a lot of time to take away their weapons.
On the map, red and blue dots are intertwined, half of them are Weiwei's teammates, and half of them are Weiwei's enemies, but the copy has begun to come to an end.
She stepped on the edge of the roof and her body suddenly stopped.
A special bullet that had been stuck between vines during a previous battle exploded.
Then, another bullet directly shattered the vines and passed through Weiwei's chest.
You are dead
Time stopped, but thanks to the time stop caused by death, Weiwei got rid of the special negative state of [Buff: Plant Spirit].
She finally had the chance to reflect on what stupid things she had done during this 30-second pause!
"These killers...yes, Poison Ivy may not be invincible," she murmured to herself, "I know."
There was something unusual about the Arkham Riot tonight, including the prisoners who were released on purpose, the Scarecrow who was not on the BOSS list, the fear over the killers' heads, and even the fact that Xiao Chou did not prepare a bomb.
Xiao Chou just escaped from Arkham last month and had a good time with Batman. If Weiwei puts herself in his shoes, she will find that Xiao Chou did not plan this jailbreak. Compared with his files, the damage caused by today's behavior is... too small.
"If someone has developed a weapon to deal with Poison Ivy's active vines, then she is just a useful prop, a tool used to create chaos and can be recovered at any time..." But even Batman hasn't developed it. Vivi suspects that the person behind the scenes is someone who can get close to Poison Ivy and conduct experiments on her.
If there was anything special about this riot, it was naturally the appearance of Weiwei. Her monster-killing behavior ended the riot much earlier than the people behind it had imagined.
The 30 seconds time stop after death is about to end!
Weiwei scanned the countdown for the copy settlement—
[There are 3 minutes and 20 seconds left until the copy is settled]
That should be enough.
She chose to [wait a moment], and she would not be resurrected next to her own corpse immediately.
As time began to flow again, and without the annoying buff side effects, the previous Vivi seemed to be wrapped in a transparent shell. After death, she heard the sounds of the world instead.
Bodies fell from the edge of the roof, Batman's hooks tore the air, cats screamed, other people screamed, and even Ugly's hoarse laughter.
She was caught by Batman. Someone was running over here. She saw the Batplane lowering its altitude, the lights shattered into pieces and fell to the ground, and the sky was covered with dark clouds.
Each of her previous deaths had been alone.
This was the first time she died surrounded by people, and it was really... weird.
——New coordinate points have been activated on the map and can be teleported.
——The fifth corpse appeared on the panel, and Vivi could be resurrected at any time.
So, don't give me that look.
The body was laid flat on the intact stone bench in front of the church. When Batman touched Vivi's skin, he realized that rescue was useless. The person in front of him was completely dead, or in other words... she was not a human.
But he didn't say anything, he just stood there silently.
Millie stood not far away in a daze, but did not approach. Catwoman held the railing without saying a word, while Xiao Chou lay beside her, wriggling like a bug. Fortunately, his mouth was blocked. The air was terribly quiet for a while. No one could understand why Xiao Chou was still alive, but Weiwei would die? This child looked so strong, but after peeling off the terrible vines, she looked so fragile.
Her brown hair was spread out, and her green pupils were still open, looking straight at the dark and cloudy night sky of Gotham.
The Batplane was hovering overhead, and Batman heard his adopted son's voice: "She said she could be resurrected..."
"Robin." Batman called him, but said nothing.
[There are 2 minutes left until the copy is settled]
Weiwei calculated it many times in her mind and was sure that she could achieve her goal, so she -
[Corpse 5] was moved to Mr. C's interface, and the corpse slowly raised its hand.
She asked other people what they thought of Mr. C, and wanted to play this role, but in the end, Weiwei found that the best role was actually to play herself. Mr. C in the eyes of others was actually Weiwei's truer self.
...Does she really need to act?
The batarang had already slipped to Batman's fingertips, and the man named Tower blocked Ms. Millie behind him, while everyone else saw the scene in front of them.
The corpse disintegrated into particles in an instant like quicksand, and the particles reassembled themselves. When the corpse sat up straight, the girl with brown hair and green eyes was gone.
Instead, it might be a man.
But of them had time to see the other's face clearly. When he appeared, it was like some invisible and mysterious presence had descended.
They couldn't see the man's face clearly. They could only vaguely see that he had long silver hair. His whole body was shrouded in a hazy halo, which made his inhuman temperament more prominent.
In this dim light, the man disappeared in front of them.
But his "aura" was still there, and everyone could sense it. The invisible existence was staring at them. A huge fear and uneasiness surrounded everyone, but Batman tightly grasped the bat dart in his palm, and turned around in pain -
"Robin!"
"I saw him, too," Robin said in a very stagnant voice, as if he was speaking through a tube. "I saw Him... He came in the body of Vivi."
"Coming?" A pleasant but indescribable male voice appeared in Batman's ears, but when he turned his head, there was nothing there!
The voice was extremely calm: "Do you think so?"
"Then consider it as a coming."
"You are C," Batman frowned fiercely, "but who are you!"
No one answered him, but the vine on the ground suddenly grew wildly and quickly became extremely thick. Then, the dark green vines climbed up the ruins of the collapsed half of the church.
The next second, a miracle happened.
The huge vines broke off into countless small roots and penetrated into the ruins. Within half a minute, they merged with the lime and steel bars. Then, they quickly grew into the appearance of the original cathedral, except that the church was supported by vines instead of steel bars. Half of the whole church was a world of reinforced concrete, and the other half was a deep forest color. The two were linked together, creating a unique splicing beauty.
All the windows intact have returned to their rightful places, but they are no longer supported by concrete but by green vines.
Now, if you ignore the color difference and the lack of furniture inside, the East Side Cathedral is almost intact.
Millie could barely keep her head back, her mouth open but nothing came out.
However, this was not enough. After the church was restored within a minute, the church with only two floors "grew" a third floor.
At this moment, the only word that can describe this scene is "growth".
The third floor is a pointed attic modeled after the buildings in other parts of Gothic. The bases of the four-corner attic extend outward and then merge into one, becoming the base of the third floor. Then tables, chairs and windows grow out, and then a person appears next to the window.
It was a "Weiwei" whose body grew out of vines. It looked more like a decorative statue than a person. "It" was lying by the window on the third floor, as if it was asleep.
Then, the green vines instantly turned into a baked dark brown, and the material seemed to become more resilient, but it also seemed to have changed from "alive" to "dead".
It had lost its vitality, and everyone could see that it would not grow again.
Millie breathed a sigh of relief, but didn't know what to say for a moment.
She swept across the bench where Vivi had lain, and looked at the cathedral which had become completely different after one night. There were too many complicated thoughts in her mind. The experience of this night was too confusing, and the death and bloodshed were too heavy. She was ready to rebuild the cathedral or move to another place, but the lost church was repaired, but the girl was gone.
The statue at the third-floor window was obviously modeled after Vivi's appearance. Now everything inside, including the wooden statue, had turned a reassuring warm brown. However, when Millie's eyes swept over the statue, she found a furry head sticking out from the side of the statue.
The girl casually gathered her messy brown hair behind her head, waved her hands vigorously, and gave her a familiar smile.
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