[Comprehensive British and American] HE saves the world

His city is burning.

Like a black bolt of lightning, the Batmobile raced through the streets of Gotham City, leaving the smoke and flames behind.

I don't know how the clown persuaded them. Double-faced man, Killer Crocodile, Freeze and Riddler all participated in the turmoil. To Batman's surprise, Penguin and Poison Ivy did not join. I don't know if it is because I have been tricked by clowns so many times that I finally have a little memory.In any case, it's a good thing that they didn't join, and one less lunatic adding to the chaos would give the city a little more chance to breathe.

The scenery outside the car window is rapidly receding, Gotham is falling into flames, the dim yellow sky is reddened by the flames, and the heart-pounding screams and noises come from outside the car, everything is rapidly deteriorating, and everything is heading towards destruction.

Traces of explosions and battles can be seen everywhere on the street. Criminals and thugs are fighting with the Gotham police in the streets and alleys.From time to time, you can see the soaring flames of burning bottles and the flickering flames spewing from the muzzles of guns.

And in the darkness, in the depths of the shadows, it is unknown how many unknown crimes are erupting, and how many people who have made trouble are taking advantage of this opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

The whole city turned into a battlefield, and the Batmobile ran against the battlefield and rushed to the location the Joker had told him.

Batman's ear seemed to still be ringing with the lunatic's piercing laugh.

"Hey, Bat, don't be so nonchalant, I chose that woman all for a great gift for you. Shouldn't you accept my offer gratefully? As a reward for my hard work— How about a smile?"

At that time, in the police station, behind his back, the clown laughed like a maniac.Batman turned his head back blankly, twisted his neck, and slammed into the wall, breaking his laugh abruptly.The clown coughed violently, bloody, but he didn't care, and even raised a scarlet smile.

"Ahem, ahem—look at this indifferent expression, how sad it must be for that black sheep to see it."

The clown laughed hoarsely, regardless of how piercingly his bones broken by Batman were making, he insisted on leaning over and speaking to him in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

"Come on, Bat, we all know how the Scarecrow died, don't we? Really touching love story - she can do everything she can for you, but will you do the same for her ?”

Batman's jaw tightened.He ignored the clown's provocation, but disappeared from the police station like a whirlwind.

The memory ends here.

Batman once again stepped on the accelerator to the maximum, and flew across the car group and the roadblock like lightning.

The clown may have considered everything, but the clown has forgotten the most important point.

- Batman never works alone.

"Batwoman is in place." A low, husky female voice came from the communicator.

"Batgirl is in place." A much younger female voice came from the communicator accompanied by the sound of fists and kicks.

"Nightwing and Robin are in their positions." An adult man's voice sounded in his ears.

"The Riddler has been successfully subdued. Gotham Police Station is in a stable condition." A younger boy's voice came with a little panting, and he seemed to step on something hard again, "B——Batman, we are about to Go to the next location, Robin is offline."

"..."

Although a part of his mind was still wondering if it would be too rash to put such a burden in their hands.

Is it really wise to let Nightwing and Robin go alone to face Gotham's most dangerous criminals? Will they put themselves in danger because of their inexperience, especially Robin, Batgirl and Nightwing? Both have many years of experience, and Batwoman is also an excellent soldier who has experienced many battles, but Robin is still too young...

All kinds of negative thoughts lingered in his mind, and anxiety and anger burned his nerves like tongues of fire.

But another part of the brain completely ignored those disordered thoughts.

He pushed the accelerator blindly, even if he hit the wall and overturned the roadblock, he didn't care. In fact, only a small part of his brain was still working, and the rest was blank.

—Quicker, quicker.

In front of him, a scene of a comatose lover in an abandoned warehouse was playing on a small electronic screen.

It was the simultaneous live broadcast footage that the clown had prepared long ago. Batman intercepted a part of the communication leading to the TV tower through hacking methods, and transferred it to the small screen here.

In front of the unconscious young woman, the scarlet countdown beat relentlessly.

【05: 00】

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Ada woke up with a dull pain.

She tasted the blood in her own mouth first.It made her choke.This action involved more wounds, causing her to groan in distress.

There was a dull pain in her chest and abdomen, and she felt a little difficult to breathe.Consciousness slowly came back, like an unoiled gear, turning with difficulty.The picture before coma slowly came back to her mind.

Just like a TV with poor signal, the memory is blurred and fragmented, like an old movie with a lot of noise, until a pale grimace with a big laugh jumped in front of her eyes, and Ada's sanity suddenly became clear. .

... By the way, it's a clown.

She subconsciously tried to stand up straight, but because of the sharp pain in her chest and abdomen, she made a more miserable sound.

Ada remembered.

The Joker grabs her, and...

"You're boring the bat, lamb. You've shaken him so hard he's even thinking about giving up the city to those two little birds. The bat doesn't care about the relationship between us. No, no, no, it’s not going to work—I haven’t played enough, I want to keep playing, and if he gets bored before then, it’s not interesting.”

Then the man with a scarlet smiling face raised the crowbar in his hand to her.

"So I'm going to make things a little more interesting."

I don't know how many ribs were broken by the clown, and I don't know if her internal organs were injured.The third time he hit her she passed out, and the memory stopped at the moment when the crowbar was swung down on her head.

There was a dull pain near the temple.Ada struggled to open her eyes.

"AI..."

She gritted her teeth and called out in her heart for the waste system that would lose its chain at the critical moment.

"AI, what are you doing?!"

"Miscalculation. Sakiko Shinozaki's stats are no match for the clown."

An emotionless electronic voice rang in her head.After fading out Sakiko's voice loading data pack, its voice sounded inexplicably robotic.

"Insufficient energy, failed to reload character data. Failed to create assistance NPC. The novice protection mode is invalid and cannot be enabled temporarily."

"In other words, there's nothing you can do, right?"

Ada murmured, rolling her eyes with difficulty, looking at the surrounding environment.

It looked like a long-abandoned warehouse, with the dirty ceiling hanging high above her head, and it seemed that there was nothing to help her.

And her hands were tied behind her back, and her whole body was tightly tied to a chair.Ada gritted her teeth, trying to break free from the knot that bound her wrists tightly, but the knot was tied too tightly, no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't find a gap, which made her wound hurt even more.

Ada stopped moving and gasped for breath.

There is no need to think about the legs that were also bound to death.

she thought blankly.

However, worse news awaits her.

I don't know if it was because her breathing calmed down, but other sounds finally came into Ada's buzzing ears.

Tick, tick, tick...

It was a voice that Ada was very familiar with.Long ago, she heard it once with her own ears.

——That was the sound of the countdown to bombing.

Ada slowly turned her eyes and saw the countdown in front of her.

【03: 45】

At the same time, the dull tip of his nose finally caught the smell of gasoline.

"Tell me it's not what I think it is."

Ada said to the AI ​​expressionlessly.

"It's just what you think." The AI ​​told her, "There are 13 barrels of gasoline in the entire warehouse, and there is a bomb behind you and one under your feet, and the clown has a camera ready to make your death scene live broadcast across the city."

"...Do you think it's useful for me to be called Superman now?" Ada asked without hope.

"Luthor attacked Metropolis again, and Superman is surrounded by a group of kryptonite robots, with no skills." AI calmly said, "This is the clown's plan."

"In other words, is this a hopeless situation?"

Ada looked at the countdown that jumped to [02:57] and asked.

"Yes." AI replied.

And at this moment, a hoarse electric sound came from the radio equipment of the camera, and then, Batman's voice suddenly came from it.

"I'll be right there," he said. "Just hold on, Nunnally."

"...Batman."

Ada said softly.For fear of revealing Batman's true identity, she didn't call Bruce's name, but that title.

"Aren't you—"

"You have nothing to do with me, Batman."

Ada declared categorically, cutting off the man's unfinished apology.

【02: 12】

"Don't think it's your fault, don't think I'm your victim, don't let it all be on your own head."

Looking at the rapidly beating time, Ada subconsciously sped up her speech, using an unprecedentedly tough tone.

She was so afraid that this man would blame her for everything again, that her death would become another trauma for him, that she would become his haunting nightmare—like the other victims.

She wanted to protect the man's heart from all this hurt.

"Even if I die here, it's not your fault, remember what I said? 'It's not your fault and it's not my fault, it's just the clown's fault' - you've done enough, you've Much more than you should be doing you know! Enough is enough!"

【01: 32】

But she knew so clearly, so clearly read the man's pain from his silence.

useless.Ada realizes this almost desperately.

The villainous trick of the Joker is that no matter what she says, no matter what she does, the damage is already done and irreparable.

From the moment he tied her here, Batman's heart had been cut open by him.

Unforgivable, unforgivable.

He actually turned her into a knife and used it to hurt the person she loved the most.

"I have no regrets. Every day with you is a joy, Bruce."

Even so, Ada still tried in vain to retain something, she stared at the countdown to change, even though her voice was trembling, she still desperately wanted to convey those sentences to the heart of her loved one.

"Tell Bruce the words... tell him!"

【00: 45】

"Don't regret it, Bruce, don't think it would have been better if we hadn't met - I didn't even think about it for a minute! Don't remember the unhappy things, the painful things, don't let these memories cover our past time , you gave me something good enough, much better than you thought... so don't blame yourself, okay?"

Ada's voice paused for a second, then continued.

"I love you, Bruce."

【00: 10】

That's too late.

Ada knew exactly.

"I won't die here, I'll—"

Just like a clown's prank, there were still a few seconds before it suddenly jumped to the last frame.

【00: 00】

The last image recorded by the camera is the flames soaring into the sky, and the pale figure suddenly engulfed by the flames.

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【Character: Nunnally Lampelucci died】

【Nuna Li Route Closed】

[Bruce Wayne Favorability: 80]

[World restart progress: 49%]

The author has something to say:

so tired.Interlude tomorrow.