This bat cub looks very weak

Gotham is somewhat peaceful tonight, but there is a hint of weirdness in this peacefulness.

As early as when she started to clear out the low-level cursed spirits, Dorothy had already set up a barrier nearby. Although she also wanted to set up a "tent" like in the anime, unfortunately, Akutagawa was unable to use cursed power, and Itadori did not seem to have tried to set up a tent alone.

So Dorothy chose to compromise and used talismans to set up a barrier to avoid attracting too much attention. Moreover, the barrier had another advantage, it would not allow the cursed spirit to escape beyond the tracking range.

"The east is the four waters, the north is the protective soil, the west is the forest, and the south is the raging fire. I am the formation, and the circle is the boundary. Pardon!" Dorothy spoke, holding four talismans in her hands. As soon as she finished reciting the formula, the talismans floated in the air, and then flew towards the four directions of southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest without wind, and then formed four translucent walls.

However, this collapsed wall is invisible and intangible to ordinary people, especially to the cursed spirits and the huge noise hidden in the barrier. After all, Dorothy does not fully understand what is in that building.

By the way, there is something quite funny. Most of Dorothy's current aliases are characters from Japanese comics, so Dorothy basically communicates with them in Japanese, and Dorothy speaks English with Tim Dick and others in her daily life. However, the mantra that Dorothy recited when setting up the barrier just now was in pure Chinese.

Because Dorothy had already set up the barrier at the beginning, and now Dorothy has deepened the barrier, and this time the barrier is specifically aimed at that building.

Before preparing to deal with those cursed spirits, Dorothy had already investigated the information and data in the vicinity. Apart from some insignificant events to Gotham, only the department store in front of her was noteworthy.

This street existed as early as 1900, and this department store was built in 1920, which is nearly a hundred years ago. Of course, this department store is backed by several big families. However, after the changes of the times, the largest shareholder of this department store is now the Wayne family.

Since there are many forces behind this department store, it is not as clean as it seems. On the surface, it sells department store products for food, clothing, housing and transportation, but what kind of transactions are going on behind the scenes is little known.

This department store has always been the most attractive place on this commercial street. By the way, this is where I went to buy furniture with Xiaojia and Buji Pop.

But at that time, Dorothy didn't sense anything bad at all, except for the first time she ran away and was caught by Bruce.

Although the history of the department store is not particularly outstanding, various things have happened in the nearly 100 years.

For example, why the Wayne family is the largest shareholder of the department store now? It is because the department store collapsed decades ago because the building materials were too old.

Later, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the completion of the reconstruction of the department store, the venue was in the center of the first floor of the building. Just as several shareholders attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony began their speeches, the ceiling above their heads suddenly fell down and hit the podium. Several shareholders died on the spot. For a period of time thereafter, strange things began to happen in the department store.

For example, in the middle of the night, the lights of empty department stores flickered continuously, strange roars, elevators that couldn't be used, stairs that seemed to never end, strange salespeople, crows nesting on the roof, and... a strange smell surrounding the building.

The department store’s turnover once dropped to the lowest level. Not only that, without customers, there would be no sales, and without sales there would be no income, and without income there would be no wages, and without wages, what were the points of staying here?

Be friends with Guigui?

Many people began to quit their jobs, and the surrounding streets gradually became deserted. The forces behind the department store, realizing that they could not gain any profit from it, withdrew their investments one after another, forcing the place to be sold urgently, and causing the price of the land to drop to the lowest level.

And then--

The executive of the Wayne Group did not believe this, so he invested in purchasing the development rights of this area at the lowest price, intending to redevelop the commercial area.

Then, before anyone could react, those strange events seemed to have never existed. They suddenly disappeared naturally, and even after the department store reopened, business was getting better and better.

Of course, at that time many people suspected that it was the Wayne family's own doing, with the purpose of making other forces withdraw their investment and then take power alone.

However, the matter was eventually left unresolved because they resolved the issue of interests privately. The executor was very happy to distribute the shares to those forces. Although the shares distributed only accounted for 15% of the total shares, the biggest beneficiary was still the Wayne Group.

It's like I had some lucky bastard luck.

Although that wasn't the case in Dorothy's opinion.

There are indeed some bizarre and strange events here, but the space here has been separated. That is to say, there was indeed that kind of energy here, but because it is different from the restrictions of this world, it is more like a different setting. Although Gotham is a science fiction suspense plot, it has not risen to the level of supernatural horror.

So the space is split, one side is the real world, the other side is...

In the world.

From this point of view, what happened to Xiaojia might be related to the inner world behind the seal.

And now, the cursed spirits that should not appear in reality have appeared in real life. Even if no one has noticed them now, something beyond the normal range will happen over time.

"There's no one here...how are we going to get in?" Yuji looked up at the glass windows above the department store and wondered if they were going to climb in through the window.

"Use this, I 'borrowed' it." Dorothy took out a work card from her pocket. It was the door card for the employee entrance of the department store.

Don't ask how she got it.

"drop--"

As soon as Dorothy opened the door to the passage, a strong stench immediately hit her nose, and she seemed to recall the smell of the three-headed dog she saw in New York.

"Cough cough..." Dorothy was caught off guard and covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves. When she looked at Yuji, the other party seemed to be fine and looked at Dorothy with a puzzled look.

"Are you okay?" Yuji asked with concern.

"It's okay, don't you smell anything?" Dorothy frowned and stepped into the passage with Yuzhang. The deeper they went into the passage, the stronger the disgusting smell became.

"No, I just felt like I was being watched by something." After saying that, Yuji looked up and looked around, but the only living things here were him and Dorothy.

Dorothy has already hacked into the surveillance system of this building, so there will be nothing wrong with the surveillance of the entire building tonight, which will be of great help to Dorothy and Tiger Stick's actions.

"Crack...crack...crack..." A rustling sound came from somewhere. The sound was a bit special, like the sound of someone chewing cartilage with teeth.

Dorothy and Tiger Stick immediately became alert.

"Let's leave here first. The space here is too small. It will be disadvantageous to us if a real fight breaks out." Dorothy opened the system interface and confirmed the topographic map of the department store.

Their current location is at the employee passage at the back of the department store. After walking through the passage, there are the security room, employee locker room, electrical distribution room, monitoring room, and then back to the security passage. The door on the other side of the security passage is the first floor lobby of the department store.

"Be careful!" Just as Dorothy and Tiger Stick walked out of the passage, a creature with a blue body and crawling limbs pounced towards Dorothy from the ceiling. Seeing this, Tiger Stick hurriedly pulled Dorothy.

"This is really a good start." Dorothy smiled and stared at the cursed spirit not far from her with an unfriendly look.

The intelligence, force, and cursed power of the cursed spirits are similar to those of the ghosts we encounter, but they are also completely different.

Indeed, creatures with higher intelligence are generally more difficult to deal with.

For example, Batman.

Whoops, just kidding.