[Comprehensive British and American] Welcome to Arkham's Infinite Journey

third night 13

The sullen Batman was watching the news with Sephiroth.

Here's what's happening in Gotham City.

In the camera, a blond, blue-eyed, sweet-looking female reporter is standing nervously in front of the street, speaking quickly to explain the current situation to the audience in front of the TV.

At a distance from her, reporters from other TV stations and programs are also reporting firsthand.

"As you can see, the situation at this time is not optimistic."

Judging from the pictures taken by the camera, the situation is indeed not optimistic.

The originally bustling street was extremely chaotic at this time.

There were people's screams and the sound of wooden warehouses everywhere. Some pedestrians who were fleeing on the street fell to the ground inexplicably, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.

Some people with weapons or other harmful items appeared in the camera, chasing the fleeing pedestrians behind them.

All the pedestrians who were caught were killed without mercy.

And these people who seem to be companions and hold weapons will have extremely fierce disputes over who will kill pedestrians, and even short-term fights among themselves.

Most of the time there will be no bloodshed between them, but in the fierce and unrelenting battle, there are also situations where the death of one party is the middle.

Everything happened very quickly.

The moment these people appeared under the camera, Sephiroth noticed their strangeness.

Almost everyone's body muscles are beautiful, with well-proportioned texture and strong explosive power, but their own skills do not match their physical fitness.

and……

The way they looked at the pedestrians on the street didn't look like they were looking at the same kind at all.

It is exactly the same as those players who came to Arkham.

Players run rampant on the streets, wantonly destroying everything they can see, and killing pedestrians in sight.

Even the reporters on the scene were almost affected.

The Gotham City police who arrived in time pulled aside the on-site reporters who were trying to get close to the player.

But these policemen who came in a hurry were obviously not the opponents of many players.

Soon the police got into a fight with the player.

The reporters at the scene were explaining excitedly, and even shouted out the names of individual policemen.

And when some underworld forces in Gotham City came with weapons, many reporters at the scene refrained briefly, and then broke out with greater passion again.

Because these underworld forces came here with the same purpose as the police, to arrest—to be precise, the police might still want to arrest them, but these underworld forces obviously aimed at killing them—these players came.

The reporter at the scene was tearing his heart and dancing in front of the camera: "What did I see!!! This is definitely the first time in the history of Gotham City! Yes! You read it right! Just like what you saw before your eyes , This is the first time that the underworld forces and the police forces in Gotham City have worked together like this! It's just for one purpose!"

The skin on Batman's face twitched, but he didn't speak.

The live broadcast in the news continues.

The player and the two forces on Gotham's side have formed a stalemate.

But soon this situation was broken.

When the players discovered that there were more and more armed forces gathered here, they fled decisively, not caring about the "life and death of their companions".

These players look extremely crazy.

Not only can they laugh heartily by destroying and killing others around them, but they can also laugh very happily when they see their "companions" being killed.

If you are in danger, you can also pull your "companion" in front of you without hesitation, and block the wooden warehouse for yourself.

These behaviors seem downright insane.

Even the underworld forces in Gotham City, who claim to be "everything", "extremely dangerous", and "immoral", feel uncomfortable and afraid of this.

For example, in the eyes of this group of underworld forces, it is not too much of a problem to pull people over to block the wooden barn for themselves when they are in danger.

What makes them uncomfortable and frightened is that...

When these players are doing this, everything looks so crazy.

That kind of taking it for granted and joy, not caring about the life and death of "companions", without any bottom line appearance.

Even the heinous super criminals may not be able to do this.

These players came out very fast and ran fast.

They are like locusts.

It appeared one after another, one by one.

A scene like this has been going on for two days in Gotham City.

At first, everyone thought it was a relatively common form of beating, smashing and looting-like any kind of crime, it is not a big deal in Gotham City.

Then it developed into what it is now.

Even until now, no one has been able to find out the origins of these guys.

They seem to appear out of nowhere.

When someone came to encircle them, they either killed them all, or they couldn't beat them and escape quickly.

Soon the street was deserted, and there were scattered corpses lying on the ground.

Seeing that it was finally "safe" at this time, the reporters at the scene walked to the open space openly, ready to say a few more words.

As a result, she came out when a "Wild Wolf" who was well-known in Gotham City's underworld and was dressed in pitch black with scars on his face walked over.

The wild wolf looks big and thick, and the scar on his face looks scary if he doesn't smile, but it looks even scarier when he smiles.

The smell on his body is not the smell of cigarettes that men usually have, but the smell of fire in a wooden warehouse, and the momentum is overwhelming.

He walked up to the camera, grabbed the microphone, and stared at the camera with both eyes.

Even through the camera, Sephiroth can feel his dissatisfaction.

And the wolf only said one sentence to the camera: "Batman, look at your Gotham. If you can't manage it, then we will do it."

After the words fell, the companions of the wild wolf whistled and raised their middle fingers. The scene looked very lively.

It was just such a sentence, and Sephiroth suddenly felt that the temperature of the air around Batman not far away dropped by two percentage points.

That originally serious and deep face became a "concrete wall".

Batman raised his hand and snapped the TV off.

Those eyes without any emotional fluctuations turned to Sephiroth full of pressure.

"That's it."

Because of his bad mood, Batman even sounded colder when he spoke.

For some reason, Sephiroth suddenly thought of...

If there is a Batman fan here at this time, looking at the Batman who looks like he is about to drop ice scum from the inside to the outside, maybe he can't help screaming: "So cool?"

The world of fans is so incomprehensible.

Sephiroth quickly brought back his slightly wandering attention, "Can you tell me more about it?"

Batman came to Arkham in a hurry, took him to watch the current affairs news of Gotham City without saying a word, and did not say anything else.

Batman pondered for a moment, and roughly explained the situation to Sephiroth.

"Crime" is very common in Gotham City.

Even this has been recognized as a characteristic of Gotham by people in other cities.

Therefore, when those people first appeared, no one realized the seriousness of the matter, and only thought it was a very common crime and homicide case.

But things quickly developed out of control.

A large group of people who don't know where they come from, call themselves "players".

They seem to regard the entire Gotham City as a "playground".

People and things other than players have all become their goals for increasing experience and having fun.

Their performance is indeed similar to that of ordinary people after entering the game.

It's just that they still value their own life and death somewhat, and they haven't completely disregarded life and death.

This also made Batman breathe a sigh of relief.

This means that this group of people who call themselves players cannot be resurrected indefinitely after death, as in the settings in online games.

They can only achieve limited and conditional "resurrection".

Although they care about their own life and death, they don't care about the life and death of their "companions".

"There's a certain rivalry between them."

Just like the setting in the online game, everyone in Gotham City is equal to experience points or other rewards for them.

They share a common goal - gain experience points, level up, earn rewards.

But they also have a competitive relationship-each can only get the experience points of the objects they kill.

These are the messages that Batman coaxes from captured players.

These players seem to really regard the entire Gotham City as a "game", not the real world.

In the entire Gotham City, groups other than players have become NPCs in the eyes of players.

As for why they destroy buildings, roads, green trees, etc., it is purely the personal hobbies of the players.

It can also be said to be cheap.

After saying this, Batman looked at the pensive Sephiroth, his eyebrows furrowed.

"There's still something very strange..."

"Oh?" Sephiroth raised his eyebrows, "What is it?"

"These players... know that there is America, but they don't know that there is Gotham City, and they don't know about me and other superheroes."

"Parallel world?" This was Sephiroth's first reaction.

Batman froze for a moment, "Why do you think it is a parallel world? Compared with that, the possibility of these 'players' memories being tampered with should be greater, right?"

Sephiroth, who wanders in the universe and often travels through time and space: "...you make a lot of sense."

Batman didn't dwell on that, "and how they all popped up in the film is a big question."

"Didn't you ask from the player who was caught?"

"No, he was killed."

"Killed?"

"Killed by other players." Batman's face was pulled down again, "These players judge friends and foes, it seems to be based on something called a blood bar. The green blood bar is the companion, and the red bar is the target that can be attacked. And by me The captured player becomes an attackable target in the eyes of other players."

And he, the Batman who walks in the dark night of Gotham City, maintains the existence of love and justice.

From the beginning of its appearance, those players shouted excitedly: "BOSS!"

He is indeed the boss of the Wayne Group, but he is not the big monster that the players say.

"In the mouths of these players, they seem to be playing a game called 'hunting', and they are hunters." The entire Gotham City, except for the players, are prey.

Having said that, Sephiroth probably already understands the situation.

Now that some players have been sent to Arkham by the main god, and Arkham is used as a copy.

It wouldn't be too surprising if there were more players who thought they were playing the game and took the entire Gotham City as a copy.

It is self-evident what kind of damage a group of players who can "resurrect" can do in the game.

Suddenly, Batman's communication device rang.

Batman turned on the communication device, and after a while, even with the mask on, Sephiroth could see that Batman's face was getting weirder.

Sephiroth didn't hold back, "...did something happen?"

Batman: "..."

Batman: "...I was scolded by the clown, and he was also attacked by a player who appeared suddenly."

Of course, the group of players who attacked the clown was wiped out.

After the Gotham City underworld, the Joker also scolded him.

Sephiroth with question marks all over his head: "..." What did you say?Can you say that again?

Sephiroth: "No, how could the clown have your contact information?"

Batman held back for a long time and said, "I left him an email address." After he paused, he continued, "He asked what I wanted, and said it would be easier to contact me this way."

Sephiroth looked at Batman with a brand new look: "..." Suddenly, he couldn't understand the relationship between Batman and the Joker, the two "old enemies".

Batman tried to explain: "This will save him from causing some minor incidents every time he wants to find me, and broadcasting live on the TV walls throughout Gotham City."

Sephiroth: "Yeah."

Batman: "..." It always feels darker and darker.

Sephiroth: "Let's continue the previous topic."