[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.
深綠色藤蔓從天而降,就像是一張巨網,把三人都網在了中間。
蝙蝠俠立刻撐起了披風,這特殊材質的披風有一點額外的作用,比如說防彈。
下一秒,子彈傾瀉而下。
……
薇薇輕輕嘆了口氣。
任務獎勵的[Buff:植物之靈]讓她能夠更好地操控手裏的藤蔓,但提高精細度的同時,玩家得将更多的注意力放在操控上,她能夠在一秒內用一根藤蔓編織出一張網——
代價就是,她放在其他事情上的思考速度會慢一些。
比如說和小醜的交談。
那些話是她一開始就想好了的。
而在其他時候,她幾乎靠本能行動,注意力都放在操控藤蔓上。
在知道小醜幹了什麽的時候,薇薇真的很想直接在戰場上把他幹掉,雖說對整個東區來說大教堂只是個生活着不到三百人的小地方,但這裏的象征意義和實際意義一樣重要。
這兒象征着改變,也象征着市長新政令中有着人文關懷的那一部分,收養孩子,善待病人,解決流莺的生活問題……這是最貼近哥譚市底層人民的問題。
但小醜根本不在乎,他不在乎薇薇努力的成果,那麽薇薇默認他也不在乎自己的命。
當她騎着馬踩在這片土地上,捏碎通訊器時,她是真的準備将小醜吊死在大教堂的廢墟上——
然而這個敏銳的瘋子是個絕無僅有的天才,他甚至能夠用幾句話就讓一個心理醫生愛上他,即使他根本看不上眼前的敵人,但為了等待親愛的蝙蝠,他願意用幾分心思敷衍她。
而一切如他所料,小騎士會擊斃反抗的罪犯,但不可能槍決一個已經投降、手無寸鐵的犯人。
他的智商足以讓他研究出自制毒氣笑氣,用小玩具制造讓人心悸的炸彈,計劃恐怖的襲擊然後揚長而去,戰鬥能力甚至能正面擊敗蝙蝠俠,但小醜偏偏不那麽做,他不要殺死蝙蝠,他只想折磨他,讓蝙蝠俠堕落……這是他在成為小醜後好不容易找到的樂子,無聊的生命終于出現了新的趣味。
他在阿卡姆裏就聽說了哥譚市的改變,那麽怎麽能不出來看一眼呢?
只稍微了解了一部分,小醜立刻意識到,這改變是蝙蝠俠所期待的,是他警惕又珍視着的,那麽自然是小醜要破壞的,顯而易見。
今天的所作所為不過是來打個招呼。
機槍打在藤蔓織成的網上,而在藤蔓破損時薇薇凝神繼續編織,成功地攔住了重火力的壓制——不能用釘子,因為那會讓她沒法操控藤蔓,雖然副本結束這個道具就失效了,但現在就失效太虧了。
這批攻擊他們的人是黑面具聘請的第三波殺手,而這裏有小醜,蝙蝠俠和薇薇三個人。
看他們挑這個時間出現,看樣子目标就是薇薇。
蝙蝠俠每晚都會夜巡,找他很容易,可他沒遭遇殺手。
黑面具為了殺死薇薇,第一次請了死亡射手幹掉市長,第二次請喪鐘幹掉監獄長,第三次因為被薇薇坑進監獄,請了這批殺手意圖幹掉薇薇本體作為報複。
——但他估計這輩子在牢裏待到死都不會知道,他花三次錢殺的都是同一個人。
她想,黑面具,是真的很有錢。
【距離副本結算還有7分鐘。】
趁着還能使用藤蔓的技能,把這些殺手解決掉吧,不能把危險留給那些普通人。
薇薇大腦放空,感覺自己整個人都像是變成了一株植物,而相應的,藤蔓就是她,她就是這株藤,而她能夠讓藤蔓獲得無限可能——
如果是之前的薇薇,她本應該和蝙蝠俠商量一下的。
但此時的她卻沒有這個意思,她只想把身旁兩個人丢開,自己去解決一切!
蝙蝠俠感覺藤蔓綁住了他的腳踝,然後,一股巨力襲來,他和小醜一同被甩到了不遠處的掩體下,而薇薇在植物的簇擁下升了起來——她讓藤蔓護住自己的要害,其他地方暴露出來也無所謂,反正受傷了會迅速複原,為了技能,她想要的就是受傷。
這一批殺手藏在對面那棟樓的頂層,三十幾米的高度,靠着藤蔓她就像是綠色的蜘蛛一樣攀爬在牆體上,她還能從對方頭頂的符號看出來他們的情緒——
[恐懼]
所有人都在恐懼,而薇薇心中什麽都沒想。
特殊的平靜把她包裹住了,距離副本結算還有5分鐘,似乎一切都來得及。
來得及讓薇薇在處理完殺手之後還能去處理一下“另一件事”。
在其他人眼中,這一幕的确讓人恐懼。
藤蔓纏繞着女孩的手腳,刺穿牆壁直接沿牆而上,張牙舞爪地攀到了頂層,或許到了明天,所謂哥譚盛産怪物的謠言又會多起來了。
她迅速受傷又迅速複原,傷口處沒有流一滴血,密集的炮火也沒能阻擋她,尤其是在藤蔓與複原的雙重配置下,薇薇制服這些人也不過用了一分多鐘。
擊敗他們并不難,把武器給收走反而耗費了她不少時間。
地圖上,紅藍兩色的點交織在一起,一半是薇薇的隊友,一半是薇薇的敵人,但副本已經開始收尾。
她腳踩天臺邊緣,身形突然一滞。
一顆在之前的戰鬥中卡在藤蔓中間的特殊子彈爆炸了。
然後,另一顆子彈直接震碎了藤蔓,從薇薇胸口穿了過去。
【你已死亡】
時間停滞,但也多虧了死亡而造成的時間停滞,薇薇擺脫了[Buff:植物之靈]的特殊負面狀态。
她終于能夠在這30s的停滞時間審視一下自己之前幹了什麽蠢事了!
“這些殺手……對,毒藤女未必無敵的,”她喃喃自語,“我知道了。”
今晚的阿卡姆暴動從各種細節都透出不尋常,被特地放出來的犯人,不在BOSS名單中的稻草人,殺手們頭頂的[恐懼]情緒,甚至于小醜沒有準備炸彈。
小醜在上個月才從阿卡姆越獄過并和蝙蝠俠好好玩了一把,薇薇代入他,就會發現這次的越獄小醜并沒有預謀,今天的行為對比他的檔案,造成的破壞……太小了。
“如果有人研究出了對付毒藤女那些活性藤的武器,那麽她就是好用的道具而已,用來制造騷亂且随時可以回收的工具……”但連蝙蝠俠都沒研究出來,薇薇懷疑,這個幕後者是能夠近距離接觸并對毒藤女做實驗的人。
如果這次暴亂有什麽特殊情況,那自然就是薇薇的出現,她的打怪行為讓暴亂遠比幕後者設想的要早結束。
死亡後的時停30s要結束了!
薇薇掃過副本結算的倒計時——
【距離副本結算還有3分20s】
應該足夠了。
她選擇了【稍等片刻】,她不會立刻在自己的屍體身邊複活。
随着時間重新開始流動,而又沒了煩人的buff副作用,之前的薇薇仿佛被包裹在某個透明的殼中,到死後,她反而聽到了世界的聲音。
天臺邊的屍體向下墜落,蝙蝠俠的鈎鎖撕裂空氣,貓咪尖利的叫聲,其他人的驚呼聲,甚至還有小醜沙啞的笑聲。
她被蝙蝠俠接住了,有人向這裏跑過來,她看見蝙蝠機降低了高度,燈光碎裂成一片片落在了地上,天空被陰雲籠罩。
她之前的每一次死亡都是獨自一人。
這是她第一次在衆人簇擁下死去,這真的……太奇怪了。
——地圖上激活了新的坐标點,可以傳送了。
——面板上出現了第五具屍體,而薇薇随時可以複活。
所以啊,不用露出那樣的眼神。
這具屍體被平放在了教堂前方完好的石凳上,在接觸到薇薇的皮膚時,蝙蝠俠就意識到,搶救毫無作用,面前已經是個徹底的死人,或者說……她并不是人。
但他并沒有說,他只是無聲地站在一旁。
米莉愣愣站在不遠處,卻沒靠近,貓女扶着欄杆一聲不吭,而小醜趴在旁邊,向蟲子一樣拱來拱去,好在他的嘴已經被堵上了,空氣一時靜谧到可怕,沒人能理解,為什麽小醜都還沒死,薇薇會死?這個孩子看上去那麽的強大,可在剝離了那可怕的藤蔓之後,她又顯得那麽的脆弱。
棕發鋪散着,她綠色的瞳孔依舊睜開,直直望向哥譚烏雲密布的夜空。
蝙蝠機在正上空盤旋,蝙蝠俠聽見耳邊傳來養子的聲音:“她說過,她能複活……”
“羅賓。”蝙蝠俠叫了他一聲,然而卻什麽也沒說。
【距離副本結算還有2分鐘】
薇薇在腦海中計算過多次,确定可以達成目的,這才——
把【屍體5】移動到了C先生的界面,于是,屍體緩緩擡起了手。
她詢問過其他人眼中的C先生,想要扮演這一形象,可最終薇薇發現,最好的扮演其實就是扮演自己,其他人眼中的C先生,其實就是薇薇更真實的自我。
……她真的需要扮演嗎?
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 neither 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 intact windows 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 attics 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.