I, V, Gotham Legend

NO89. Fiora (two in one)

According to Joe, Kryptonians' eyes achieve perspective by releasing and capturing certain kinds of light.

Therefore, Valerie believed that optical camouflage, which achieved its effect by distorting light, should be able to hide from the eyes of Kryptonians.

But it is also possible that due to the game mechanism, invisibility is invisible. The specific reason is difficult to confirm, but judging from the previous battle with Krypton's Two-Face, optical camouflage does have an effect.

Valerie pressed a few buttons on the hovercraft and circled the battlefield between the spaceship and Fiora in stealth mode.

Logically speaking, now that all her cards are gone, Valerie should try to avoid the battlefield as much as possible. However, looking at the several bottle-like grenades she just got from the Krypton spaceship, Valerie had a bold idea in her mind.

I can do more.

Her heart was pounding, and she pulled the joystick of the hovercraft in her hand, approaching Fiora in an invisible state, who was still struggling with the spaceships that kept appearing in the air.

Joe and Valerie are connected through the Internet. Whenever the spaceship is scrapped, Joe will ask Valerie to summon it again. Maybe because the spaceship is large enough, Valerie's summoning range is also much farther.

Unlike a brand new ship that is simply summoned after being damaged, a completely scrapped ship not only costs a hundred dollars to summon again, but its wreckage will also disappear.

I'm really curious about where the hundred dollars was deducted. Maybe I can investigate it some other day.

Unfortunately, according to the information sent by Old Joe, the modifications that Valerie left on the spaceship were also reset when she was resummoned, otherwise one shot from the spaceship's anti-aircraft gun would be enough to kill Fiora.

The sound of high temperature cutting metal resounded through the sky again, and Fiora's thermal vision once again cut through a spaceship.

Valerie found the right moment and summoned a spaceship in the opposite direction of where she was facing Fiora. Old Joe also cooperated and immediately crashed into Fiora with great noise.

Fiora immediately turned around and raised her arms to block the ship, her back facing Valerie.

"That's it..." Seeing that everything was going according to plan, Valerie took a half breath, accelerated the hovercraft, and quickly rushed towards Fiora.

At the same time, Valerie opened the car door, leaned her upper body slightly to the left and leaned out of the hovercraft, holding a bottle grenade in her hand.

The shape of this grenade is very similar to the radar barrel that Valerie used to close the portal to the dark world. In addition, there were signs that the secret room where the grenade was stored had been opened not long ago. She guessed that this grenade could send the opponent to the dark world.

Valerie held her breath and concentrated, but her car drove faster and faster. With her attention highly concentrated, the flow of time became sticky.

She realized that she had inadvertently activated Sianwestin, and she was unsure whether this ability, which was equivalent to slowing down time, would be useful against the Kryptonians.

But there was no time to care about that at the moment. Valerie drove the car behind Fiora and threw a grenade at her.

The black bottle was spinning in the air, driving the flow of air. Valerie could see that the bottle was gradually shrinking as if it was being compressed.

The grenade seemed to be compressed and condensed into a small black hole, so fast that even Valerie's accelerated mind could hardly catch up.

She looked at the grenade seriously, like a gambler watching a watch dial.

But the situation did not develop as imagined. In the still world, Fiora turned back slowly and promptly.

The Kryptonian's emerald eyes met Valerie's across the air, and Fiora raised her hand and hit the bottle grenade that had not yet fully detonated.

The still world seemed to speed up along with Fiora's movements, and the flow of time returned to normal. It was also possible that the feeling of frustration made Valerie actively turn off the time deceleration.

With the sound barrier visible to the naked eye, the bottle grenade was blown aside and exploded before falling into the ocean, leaving a black area as if tearing through space.

Valerie's guess was correct, this was indeed a weapon connected to the Phantom Zone, but it was no longer a threat to Fiora at this moment.

The space crack created by the grenade had not been reinforced by special means, so it quickly repaired itself and soon it seemed as if nothing had happened.

"I found you." Fiora curled her lips, her eyes lit up red, but she did not destroy the spaceship behind her. Instead, she raised her head and swept towards Valerie like a whip.

Valerie huddled in the car as the heat vision passed by her and split the entire hovercraft in half.

The hovercraft lost control, and Valerie felt the half she was sitting on spinning and falling, and the whole world was spinning.

Valerie rubbed her temples, forced herself to calm down, and then jumped out of the half car.

The hang glider was too slow, so Valerie changed into the jet pack she had used at the beginning. As blue flames spurted out from the base of the backpack, Valerie floated in the air.

The Kryptonian was less than a hundred meters away from her. Valerie knew she was in danger, so she pushed the power of her jet pack to the maximum to create distance.

But Fiora had already flown in front of Valerie, raised her fist, and punched Valerie in the stomach without hesitation.

Valerie felt as if her internal organs were shattered and flew backwards.

Old Joe seemed to understand the crisis of the situation. He gave up chasing Fiora and instead dived the entire spaceship, quickly flew under Valerie and caught the falling woman.

Valerie's body fell on the top of the spacecraft with a dull thud, and she felt as if every bone in her body was broken.

She took a breath, then burst into coughing, with blood flowing out of her mouth.

Realizing that she was like a person with only a thin layer of blood left in the game, Valerie stopped trying to be tough. She pulled out the pneumatic syringe and stabbed herself in the chest.

Feeling the air flowing in her veins, Valerie took a deep breath as if she had just emerged from the sea, and then immediately stood up with a somersault.

At the same time, Fiora had also flown over. She landed gently on the top of the spaceship and looked at Valerie.

"That grenade was a technology only the Kryptonians could master, and even we only had it stored in one place." Fiora's eyes were filled with sadness, "Norn should have been with that ship...you killed him."

"You look distressed...but he looks more like a marginalized person who has been bullied." Valerie's tone was not timid at all.

Although the spacecraft had stopped moving, the strong wind at high altitude was still enough to cover up the erratic sounds, but both of them could hear what the other was saying.

"Kryptonians should die with honor, but he never understood what honor was. He was only driven by the demands of his superiors." Fiora raised her head. "Even so, a Kryptonian should not be killed by the barbaric natives of Earth."

"Are you going to kill me to avenge your colleagues?" Valerie narrowed her eyes.

"It starts with you, and the entire human race on the planet will be buried with you."

"You're being a little extreme." Valerie sighed, her arms thrust out mantis blades, and she got into position.

Fiora admired the fact that Valerie still didn't give up struggling, but she didn't say it. Instead, she also got into a boxing stance.

The high-altitude convection brought about howling winds, and both sides held their breath, as if a war was about to break out.

"What is that?" Valerie suddenly pointed behind Fiora.

Perhaps because she was frightened by the continuous appearance of spaceships, Fiora really turned her head according to Valerie's movements, but she saw nothing.

When she turned back, Valerie was gone.

"Cunning Earthling!" Fiora realized that she had been tricked, and she angrily rushed to where Valerie had originally stood, wanting to check the situation.

There was only the huge crater where Valerie had crashed into the spaceship, and no other clues.

Just then, Fiora felt the back of her tights being pulled open, and a cold column was stuffed into her back.

It was Valerie. After diverting Fiora's attention, she turned on the optical camouflage and waited for the Kryptonian to fly behind her and stuffed a grenade that could tear open the Phantom Zone into Fiora's clothes.

Fiora swung her fist back angrily, hitting Valerie's upper arm directly. Valerie's arm twisted unnaturally and she was knocked flying.

Fortunately, she reacted quickly, and it might also be because it was not as painful as last time. After flying out of the range of the spaceship, Valerie's jet pack lit up with flames, and Valerie flew back to the range of the spaceship while giving herself healing medicine.

Since the regular treatment medicine was still cooling down, Valerie injected herself with a diluted version of it. The effect was slightly worse, but it was still enough to treat a fracture.

Fiora didn't catch up with Valerie, she felt that the column stuffed into her clothes was the most important thing.

But the unknown object had already slid to the lower back, and the clicking sound was like an urgent alarm. Fiora tried to reach behind her, but it was too late.

The violent explosion tore open a black crack in space, releasing the terror of nothingness.

Fiora stood in the center of the space crack. She stretched out her hand and hit the floor of the spaceship, creating a clinging point for herself.

Fiora's lower body was absorbed by the space crack, and she tried her best to fight against gravity and climb out.

Space has the ability to repair itself, and the crack that was sucking Fiora closed quickly, but it was stuck in her chest cavity.

"Damn it!" Fiora gritted her teeth and struggled with gravity and space, and actually crawled out a little.

But at this time, Valerie had already flown back to Fiora, and the mantis blade on her arm reflected the sunlight.

"You're lucky. I can't think of a way to kill you yet." Valerie looked like a winner, looking down at the woman who was left with only half of her body outside. "Before you return to your prison, I have one last question for you."

She took out from her pocket the stone that she had found in the spaceship before, which was so ordinary that it was obviously abnormal.

"What is this?" Valerie asked with narrowed eyes, holding the stone in front of her chest.

Fiora didn't answer. She suddenly sneered, leaped forward suddenly, and flew out of the hole a long way, and smashed Valerie's face with her fist with devastating power.

Valerie was caught off guard, and she only had time to raise the stone in her hand to block the path of Fiora's fist.

The Kryptonian's force was so overwhelming that the stone was naturally broken into pieces, and the green crystals hidden under the ordinary stone shell exploded like broken glass.

Fiora's fist continued to be powerful and hit Valerie's nose hard. Valerie closed her eyes and prepared herself for her head to explode.

But death did not come for a long time. Valerie didn't even feel the pain. The Kryptonian's fist was pressed against her face, but her heels did not move at all.

Valerie opened her eyes in shock and looked at the gloved fist in front of her nose in disbelief.

Green crystals pierced Fiora's fists and forearms like shards of glass, and blood flowed down her arms.

Fiora stared at Valerie with eyes wide open and bloodshot.

Her body seemed to have suddenly lost the solid strength of steel, but the crack, which had already shrunk greatly, could no longer suck her in. The space was still repairing itself, even though there was a person stuck in the middle.

Just like a guillotine, Fiora was cut in half, her upper body bleeding from all seven orifices. She fell powerlessly onto the top shell of the spacecraft, then rolled down the streamlined shell of the tadpole-shaped spacecraft until she fell into the abyss.

Valerie watched the scene in shock, her left and right hands each holding a small piece of stone that had not been knocked away. The green crystal reflected fluorescence and looked like a dagger.

"What is this..." Valerie took a deep breath.

[V! You survived! ]

Old Joe, who was connected to Valerie via the Internet, exclaimed in shock and joy.

"I don't know how I did it..." Valerie is still in melancholy after surviving the disaster.

[This is very important, we need to discuss it in detail... and that woman, I know who she is, now that she and the scientist have been defeated, we may only have one enemy left! ] As Old Joe said this, a hole opened up under Valerie's feet.

Valerie didn't hesitate, she jumped in: "Is that woman your friend?"

Right below the hole was the cab, and Old Joe's shadow had been waiting there for a long time.

"To be exact, her boss was. We worked together on Krypton. We were very good friends." Joe's tone was as if he was reminiscing. "But that was in the past. We later parted ways due to disagreements and even went to war with each other."

"Are you angry that I killed your people?" Valerie asked.

Joe seemed to think for a moment, then replied: "I'm just a dead man, these are not what I am qualified to consider."

"You are my partner now... and you will be in the future. You are now qualified for me to take care of your feelings." Valerie said domineeringly.

"...Thank you, Ms. V, but I am just a bunch of AI." Joe's shadow lowered his head as if in deep thought, then raised his head with a pleading expression. "Zod has caused great losses to the people of Earth, and I have no reason to ask the victim to spare the life of the invader.

I just hope that before I kill him, I can have a last conversation with him for a while."

NO90. Kryptonite

"Do you know this thing?" Valerie shook the broken ore in her hand at Joe.

The green crystals glowed faintly, and Valerie could see her own face in them.

"This is……"

A drone floated in front of Valerie, and its eye-like camera lit up blue light, silently scanning the ore in Valerie's hand.

"Such a rich Krypton element. I've never seen such a large piece even on Krypton." Joe's voice was filled with a breath of cold air.

"So it's the legendary kryptonite?" Valerie concluded.

Superman's weakness, kryptonite, is as well-known as Batman being an orphan, but Valerie is hesitant to be sure.

After all, who would hide their own weaknesses in their own spaceship?

Valerie recalled Fiora's desperate struggle before her death. It was obvious that she didn't know that this thing would restrain herself.

"You mean, this mineral is also rare in Krypton?" Valerie placed the kryptonite on the table.

"Yes, this quality and size is something I've never seen before." Joe couldn't stop exclaiming in amazement. "This thing can be a national treasure."

Valerie turned over the kryptonite, looked at the stone shell at the bottom, and thought for a moment: "Do you remember how Krypton was destroyed?"

"The destruction of Krypton is the result of many factors. It is the result of tens of millions of years of hidden dangers..." Looking at Valerie's actions, Joe suddenly realized, "You mean to say that this kryptonite was formed due to the destruction of Krypton?"

"...Is that so?" Valerie didn't think too much about it, she just asked casually, but she felt that what Old Joe said made sense.

The destruction of Krypton... most likely an explosion, which changed the material structure of Kryptonite, making it the natural enemy of the Kryptonians.

This thing is wrapped in a seemingly ordinary stone shell, which makes sense if the Kryptonians didn't know it was Kryptonite, or even that they were controlled by Kryptonite, and just wanted to take a piece of broken stone from their hometown as a souvenir.

"What are you going to do?" Joe asked Valerie when he saw her staring at the stone in a trance.

"I just feel like... I can do more." Valerie's fingers rubbed the kryptonite, like she was rubbing a glass ball. "Kill Zod, what do you think?"

She relied on her smoking brain and excellent luck to defeat two Kryptonians and dismantle all the enemy spaceships. She is undoubtedly the MVP.

But looking at the two minerals in her hands that could easily take the lives of Kryptonians, Valerie's heart was pounding in her chest.