I, V, Gotham Legend

Ajad was wrapped in a mechanical arm and thrown into the room like a cocoon.

"What is this..." Superman, who had taken off his glasses and put on a cape, looked at Ajad twisting on the ground and asked in confusion.

"Government agent, he may have triggered a security trap I designed in this room... This mechanical rope style should be the trap in the vent." Valerie explained.

Ajad, who was dizzy after being beaten, pulled himself together and raised his head. He looked into the room in confusion.

He saw the mother box he had been dreaming about and a Rubik's Cube placed under a pair of glasses-like instruments, as if they were doing some research.

But he did not relax because the target was so close, not only because he was still tied up, but mainly because of the people standing next to the Mother Box.

Valerie with blue hair, Batman in dark clothes, and Superman who can give people great pressure just by standing in front of him.

Are these two superheroes also V's connections? Why weren't they there during dinner just now?!

Ajad was so scared that his body was shaking.

"Why are you crawling into someone else's vent when you have nothing better to do?" Valerie said, suddenly revealing a look of disgust. "Are you trying to steal my underwear?"

For a moment, Adjad wanted to admit it so that he could cover up his attempt to steal the Mother Box, but he held back.

He felt that if he admitted it, he might really have no chance of survival.

However, despite this, Ajad really couldn't think of how to cover up the fact that he had drilled into the ventilation duct. For a moment, he could only stammer: "I was... I... I was drunk, and I thought it was... my bed."

As he said this, he pretended to be drunk.

However, Superman ruthlessly exposed his trick: "Your blood flow rate is normal, you are not so drunk that you can't tell the difference between the air vents."

Being ruthlessly exposed made Ajad even more embarrassed. He felt that Superman's eyes looked at him much colder.

It was Valerie who came to his rescue: "Don't be so serious, this guy is a government agent, he's not a bad guy."

"No..." Batman, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up, and his first words were a fatal blow: "This guy is Lex Luthor's subordinate."

"Ah?" Valerie was very surprised.

Ajed was also surprised, but he used his many years of experience as an agent and undercover to suppress his anxiety in his heart: "What are you talking about, Lu..."

"My heartbeat has gotten faster, but I'm not drunk." Superman ruthlessly interrupted his excuse, "It seems you guessed it right. How did you find out?"

"Because I'm Batman." Batman said as a matter of course.

"A double agent?" Even Valerie understood. She looked at Ajad's face carefully and was a little speechless. "Are all the people that Sky Eye has arranged in Metropolis Luther's men?"

NO18. Five-dimensional space and signal transfer

Leave professional matters to professionals. Batman took Ajad away, and he will be responsible for interrogating him to obtain detailed intelligence next.

Valerie dragged out a small stool and sat face to face with Superman. On the small table between them were the Mother Box and the Rubik's Cube.

"To put it simply, that was my chance to become Superman." Clark pointed his finger at the Rubik's Cube. As he moved, the Cube rippled slightly, but did not change much. "That was a higher-dimensional creature that called itself a troublemaker."

"Troublemaker? Never heard of that... but I heard about your first appearance as Superman." Valerie straightened up. "They said you caught a plane that fell from the sky."

"That was later. Actually, the Trickster was the first... scary enemy I faced." Superman chose an unexpected adjective. "That guy claimed to be a fifth-dimensional creature with the ability to change reality."

"Changing reality... sounds like a fantastic ability. It has a kind of beauty of the collapse of combat power." Valerie realized that she was in the American comic world known for its chaotic combat power system. "It sounds more dangerous than Zod?"

"It's hard to say. The Troublemaker has no interest in destroying the earth or humans, and he has obvious weaknesses." Superman pondered, "As long as he says his name backwards, he will return to his own world, and the reality he has transformed will also return to its original state."

"It sounds a lot like the demons in horror stories," Valerie commented.

"Half a year ago, the Troublemaker appeared in the North Pole. He blocked the influence of the moon's gravity on the earth and challenged me who had just finished my journey." Superman said in a calm tone.

"…Did you just casually mention something very horrific?"

It was almost half a year ago when Valerie just traveled through time. Did such a dangerous incident happen at that time?

Even Valerie knew that the Moon's gravity was tied to the Earth's tidal motion, and that this was an imminent extinction event.

"I successfully stopped that guy before things got out of hand... He seemed more interested in playing with me than destroying the Earth," Superman explained. "It was like the rules of the game. When we first met, he told me how to defeat him."

"That means he has been driven away, right? Then this..." Valerie looked at the Rubik's Cube in front of her.

"This is the problem, and this is why I came to you." Superman said seriously, "Logically, the influence of the Troublemaker on this dimension should have disappeared with his return, but this Rubik's Cube clearly has his aura."

Valerie finally figured it out, and she slowly laid back on the chair.

Just now, Superman and Batman came back fully armed and asked to study the Rubik's Cube with her.

At that time, they just mentioned that this was not something from Earth, and Valerie happened to remember that she still had a Mother Box, so she thought about studying the two things together.

As for the origin of the Rubik's Cube, Superman planned to explain it while watching Valerie study it, but he was interrupted by a thief who suddenly broke in just after he finished his opening remarks.

The machine between them hummed, and Valerie stared intently at the instrument's page.

Superman noticed that Valerie raised an eyebrow and asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"

"I didn't find anything special in the analysis of this Rubik's Cube, but this box is easy to understand." Valerie put her hands on her chin. "The box is some kind of signal transmitter, and it may also open some kind of transmission device."

Valerie was able to come to a conclusion so quickly because she had studied this teleportation device in detail not long ago.

"So, these two are the same thing, aren't they?" Superman concluded.

"Yeah... this box seems to be asleep. Is it afraid of something?" Valerie pointed at the mother box again. "Signal transmitter... oh..."

Valerie suddenly remembered the plan that the man had told her when she faced Luther on the South Boston.

Use the hacker access module to connect to a "signal relay station" that the Kryptonians will bring aboard the spacecraft themselves, in order to further hack into their spacecraft.

"Is this the transfer station?" Valerie suddenly realized, and she took out the hacker access cabin that had been gathering dust from her pocket.

After traveling through this world, except for the prosthesis that had been installed on the body, the other prostheses that were theoretically in the backpack were mysteriously lost.

Since I can find this hacker access cabin here, are my other prosthetic bodies also scattered somewhere in the world?

She turned back to look at the Mother Box.

By using this hacker access cabin, we may be able to further understand and even analyze this box.

Valerie put the Mother Box back into the box and then stuffed it back into her pocket.

It’s not the right time yet. We can further study the effects of the box after we return to the big laboratory in Gotham.

"What are you going to do with this Rubik's Cube?" Valerie asked Superman again.

"I'll call Ron and investigate the troublemaker together. He may have some conspiracy." Superman pushed the Rubik's Cube towards Valerie.

Valerie gave her a strange look: "What's wrong? Pass it to me."

"You have some ability to keep things safe, right? Just like hiding my father's spaceship." Superman said, "I want to give this thing to you for safekeeping."

After seeing so many of Valerie's strange abilities, Superman also had many expectations of her.

"...I don't have any protective measures..." Having said that, Valerie still tentatively put the Rubik's Cube into her pocket.

Superman's eyes lit up: "The troublemaker's aura is gone."

"Ah? It really works..." After hearing Superman's words, Valerie felt a lot more relieved.

Just at this moment, the door creaked open and Batman came back carrying the trembling Ajad.

"I found out that he came here to steal the Mother Box." Batman found that there was nothing on the research table, so he explained, "It's the square box."

"Thank you for helping me find out the name." This was the only new information. Valerie was a little proud. After all, the other information was similar to what she had deduced.

Ajd was thrown to the ground by Batman. He huddled into a ball, shaking and sobbing: "I told the truth... Luthor won't let me go... He will kill me... He will kill Martha..."

Batman suddenly became quiet, although he didn't usually talk much.

On the contrary, after hearing what Ajad said, Superman showed a serious expression: "I won't let this happen. Can you tell me in detail?"

NO19. Is there a ghost?!

After asking Ajad about Luther, Superman and Batman left the hotel and headed towards Luther and Ajad's wife and daughter.

With two heavyweights, Batman and Superman, joining forces, Valerie didn't think she was needed anymore. She waved goodbye to the two men and prepared a separate private room in the hotel for Ajad.

After the overtime waiter took Ajad away, Valerie's large flat was finally empty again.

Helena had already gone to bed in her room, and Alfred also returned to the room they booked in the hotel after helping to clean the room.

Valerie walked into the living room alone. Because the lights were not on, the only light here was the moonlight shining through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Valerie poured herself a glass of red wine and looked out the window, her thoughts drifting to her past life.

Since it was the top floor of the hotel, everything seen from here seemed extremely small, just like the house she bought in her previous life.

As time went by, Valerie felt that her past life was gradually becoming unfamiliar. The long period of licking blood from the tip of a knife paralyzed her nerves for a time.

Nowadays, Valerie's life is on track. She is no longer troubled by identity and money issues. Instead, she rarely recalls her past life as she did before.

Perhaps this means that I am gradually taking root in this world.

Valerie looked at her reflection in the glass in front of her and took a sip of her wine.

In a trance, she seemed to see a figure reflected in the glass. It looked like a faceless cloak with a cape hanging to the ground and a pair of bat ears pierced on the hood.

Valerie turned around and saw nothing.

When he turned around again, there was only her delicate face reflected in the glass, and there was no sign of ghost at all.

The room was still quiet, but Valerie felt that the red wine in her hand no longer smelled good.

“There can’t be a ghost…” Miss V, who could rip open her enemy’s stomach without any psychological burden, swallowed her saliva.

It’s not that I’m afraid of ghosts or anything, it’s just that sometimes it’s pretty helpless to travel alone.

"Could this be some new trick of Batman?" Valerie recalled the ear-like headdress that pierced the ghost's head just now.

But the feeling that figure gave her was completely different from that of Batman. Even though she only caught a glimpse of him, she still felt a palpitation.

This is different from the disgusting feeling of insects. It's like being targeted by a natural enemy, which makes people's spine cold.

Valerie remained motionless in the room for a long time, until she was sure that nothing was happening, and then she relaxed.

What exactly is that figure? What is his purpose?

Valerie was not stupid enough to think that the palpitating feeling was an illusion.

It's still safe now, but you have to be vigilant from now on... Wait until Batman and Superman come back and have a good talk with them.

Valerie slowly walked back to her room, lay down on the bed covered with Mickey Mouse pictures, and stared at the ceiling.

Looking at the millstone-like light on the ceiling, Valerie's thoughts drifted, and she tried her best to think about something irrelevant.

But for some reason, she felt that the light on the ceiling looked more and more like the ghost she had seen before.

……

Helena was lying in bed with the quilt covering her head, secretly playing with her cell phone.

Valerie used her uncanny crafting skills to upgrade Helena's phone so that it could connect to the Internet at a more efficient speed.

At first Helena didn't quite understand the significance of increasing Internet speed until she learned how to log on to the web using her mobile phone.

Since then, surfing the Internet every day has become one of her daily leisure activities.

Helena couldn't sleep tonight and tossed and turned. She secretly browsed the exciting videos on the Internet. She hid in the quilt, smiling with a flushed face.

Just at this moment, there was a click sound of unlocking the door. Helena was so scared that she hung her cell phone on the bed and pretended to be asleep without moving.

Valerie hugged the quilt and looked silently at Helena's body which rose and fell slightly with her breathing. She slowly walked to the girl's side.

"Are you pretending to sleep? I heard the sound of you covering yourself with the quilt." Valerie ruthlessly exposed Helena's acting skills.

Sweat was pouring down Helena's forehead. She closed her eyes tightly and pretended to be sleeping peacefully.

Valerie was speechless. She lifted Helena's quilt and saw the cell phone that the girl was pressing under her body.

Helena's little face could not hold it tight, and her tightly closed eyelashes were trembling.

Valerie was also a little overwhelmed. She felt like an old father who caught her rebellious daughter playing with her phone.

Valerie reached out and grabbed the phone, snatching it up. Helena also realized the uselessness of pretending, and she immediately sat up from the bed.

"Is it a cat?" Valerie was slightly disappointed when she saw the cute pet on the phone screen. "I thought you were watching something exciting."

Helena's face turned red, and she looked around embarrassedly, and finally her eyes fell on Valerie.

"What are you doing holding the quilt?" Helena asked, pointing at the quilt with Mickey Mouse printed on it in Valerie's hand.