I, V, Gotham Legend

There were quite a few flower beds in the hall, and each one looked like this. The walls were covered with vines like ivy. Not only that, the floor underfoot was broken into pieces, and all kinds of weeds were poking their heads out from the cracks.

“Although the decoration is not very nice from an aesthetic point of view, it has the atmosphere of a botanical garden,” Valerie commented on the messy scene.

"What is this? Is this place deserted?!" In comparison, the two-faced man's complaints were merciless. While complaining, he stepped on a clump of weeds.

"It wasn't this messy before I left. Two months can really change a lot." Harley said as if she had recovered her sanity, but she immediately clamped her throat again, "Do you think there will be an ambush of lions in these bushes?"

Valerie pursed her lips and glanced at her. It was a rare experience for her to understand how it felt when others couldn't keep up with her jumping thoughts when they were interacting with her.

After carefully observing the environment and making sure there was no poisonous gas like pollen, Valerie took a deep breath, then turned on the scan and looked up.

"What are you looking for?" Seeing the gleam in Valerie's eyes, Harvey, who had been hanging out with her for a while, realized that she had activated some kind of vision and couldn't help but ask with concern.

"Camera. If we are sure that there is a camera installed here, then we can check the surveillance like before." Valerie replied.

The botanical garden seemed empty at the moment, and it was uncertain what was deep inside, so Valerie decided to be safe.

If she were alone, Valerie would have rushed in directly, but now she had to be responsible for Harvey and Harley, who were still rookies.

There is a large glass greenhouse on the top of the botanical garden hall, which provides ample sunlight for the plants on a daily basis. However, it is night now and there is a heavy rain, and the ceiling is being knocked like a transparent umbrella, making a pleasant sound that makes people sleepy.

Valerie saw a camera surrounded by vines under a gargoyle not far away. She also saw several wires connected to the camera, so it should not be just for decoration.

But after Valerie changed the focus of her prosthetic eye and could see the specific situation of the camera clearly like a telescope, she frowned in pain.

"The camera is damaged. It looks like it was broken by brute force." Valerie said, rubbing her eyes.

"Are you saying that the mastermind climbed up and broke the camera?" Harvey asked behind Valerie.

"It doesn't look like it." Valerie pointed to the vines surrounding the camera on the wall. "There are no signs that the plants on the wall have been crushed, so there should not have been a ladder on top. However, the data cable connecting the camera is still flashing with electricity, so it should have been intact not long ago."

Harvey and Harley looked at each other, they were stunned.

"Staying here is not a solution. The clown obviously wants to do something else." Valerie rubbed her cervical vertebrae to relax herself. "We should continue to go inside."

"Can we stay here and wait for rescue? We have no idea what's in here." Harvey said worriedly.

Having followed them all the way here, he was certainly not afraid, but the situation was weirder than he had imagined, so he wanted to be safer.

"Right now, the entire Arkham has been isolated from the outside world." Valerie shook her head: "Based on my understanding of the Gotham police, it is difficult for them to successfully attack before the Joker achieves his goal. Waiting for support here is almost the same as waiting to die. You heard it, right? The Joker has kidnapped Gordon."

"Then are we going to die?" Harvey was a little anxious.

Valerie suddenly looked at Harvey, her eyes flashing with speechlessness: "Do you have any misunderstanding about me?"

"What..." Harvey was stunned by Valerie's sudden question.

"The high-tech traps they may have installed in the botanical gardens are just like things that shake off fallen leaves to me." Valerie turned around and walked deeper into the botanical gardens. "Just stay with me and you will understand."

NO95. The Man in the Vines

Valerie insisted on walking deeper, and she was not walking aimlessly.

Although the camera had been torn off, Valerie could still see the wires buried behind the wall. By following the main cable, she should be able to find the power supply to the entire botanical garden soon.

Controlling the power supply room is basically equivalent to controlling half of the botanical garden, and the monitoring room is likely to be nearby. Even if the surveillance has been dismantled, it is also the fastest place to obtain intelligence.

Besides, having a goal is always better than wandering around aimlessly.

Valerie took the lead and walked towards the corridor at the back of the hall. Harley immediately followed with great interest. She was still wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown, but her movements of waving the water pipe were still full of lively temperament.

In comparison, Daredevil behind him was more stable. He followed his children steadily.

The environment of the corridor is not much different from that of the hall. There are still vines covering the walls and weeds growing out of the cracks in the floor. From a distance, it looks like a trip back to prehistoric times.

The corridor was quite long. Harry and Valerie were still interested, but the Two-Face Man who was following at the end felt a little bored. As he walked, his steps suddenly turned into hopping.

"What are you doing?" Harvey asked without stopping himself.

"Don't make noise. I'm following a strict plan." As he said that, the Two-Faced Man jumped again and landed on a clump of weeds in front of him. The weeds were pressed to the ground by the soles of his shoes and ground into pieces, producing green juice.

"Only stepping on weeds?" Harvey reacted, and it felt like the feeling when he was a child walking alone on bricks.

"They all must die! Hahahaha!" The Two-Faced Man was having a lot of fun. He just jumped back and forth like a noisy rabbit.

It even disturbed Valerie, who seemed to be doing something serious. She turned around and glanced at the two-faced man with dissatisfaction, but didn't say much.

When I find a way to extract the Two-Faced Man's personality, I must prepare a little Lolita body for him.

The corridor was very long, and Valerie kept her eyes open to observe the wires, which inevitably made her eyes feel a little dry. She rubbed her eyes to relieve the fatigue.

Perhaps she was used to it, and after blinking, she subconsciously switched her visual mode, and the world in Valerie's eyes turned into a thermal image.

This was not a big deal for her. She could change it back by just blinking. If it was not for the convenience of control, she would not even need to blink.

But perhaps on a whim, Valerie looked at the wall with thermal imaging for a while, but suddenly froze.

There is still no consensus on what ordinary scanning vision can see. The only two types that can be confirmed are technological devices that can be connected to the Internet and living animals. She once used this method to find a clay-faced man disguised as an ordinary person.

The vines crisscrossed the wall in an intricate pattern, like a sweater knitted by deft hands, but Valerie could see a large patch of color much brighter than the rest, right between the vines.

Valerie looked around the corridor and saw dots of strange colors mixed in among the vines on both sides of the walls and even on the ceiling.

"These...can't be..." Valerie guessed. She turned off the scanning vision, walked to the wall, popped out the mantis knife from her arm, and carefully pulled away the vines in front of her.

A sallow human face was pulled out from the gap. She looked like a woman, with gauze wrapped around her head, her eyes wide open, and she looked extremely desperate before her death.

Valerie took two steps back and turned on the thermal imaging again, looking around the corridor.

There are many such unique stars in the room, scattered across the corridor.

Are these bodies? Who buried them behind these vines?

"What's wrong with you?" Due to the dim light, Harley could not see the corpse behind the vines. She looked at Valerie strangely as she suddenly tensed her shoulders.

"Let's leave here first..."

"Dangdang!"

Valerie was about to give an order when the heavy sound of the door closing suddenly choked her words.

"This is really..." Valerie reacted quickly. They might be locked up, and she immediately pulled out a bazooka from her pocket.

However, at this moment, Two-Face's terrified voice suddenly reached Valerie's ears: "Oh my god! What the hell!"

She turned around and saw a two-faced man in dark red clothes entangled in a group of green vines, like a pair of pants hanging upside down on a hanger.

The vines were like tentacles, tightly binding Two-Face's trouser legs, but were unable to pierce his scaly battle suit.

"Cut it!" Valerie did not rush forward directly. She pulled out a samurai sword from her pocket and threw it far away.

Daredevil reached out and caught the samurai sword, then cut the vines tied to his legs with his backhand, and his body fell to the ground due to the influence of gravity.

It seemed that the vines cut by Daredevil sent out some signal, and the entire corridor began to wriggle like intestines, and the tightly woven vines untied like pulled out threads.

A group of people with sallow faces like corpses crawled out from the vines. Some of them were on the ceiling, and some were buried in the walls, like white blood cells secreted from glands.

These people had no expression, they rolled their eyes, had leaves stuck to their bodies, and moved like a group of zombies.

"I'll cut you!" The two-faced man raised his samurai sword and approached the person who was gradually approaching him, but before he could chop down with his sword, Valerie grabbed his shoulder.

"They are still alive, you can't kill them." Valerie ordered concisely.

Although they look like zombies, these people do have heartbeats.

The two-faced man made a "slicing" sound and stopped slashing at anyone. Instead, he changed the blade and cut off the vines on the side. He then pulled back the samurai sword and hit the man in front of him on the head with the back of the blade.

"Are you satisfied?" The two-faced man turned around and said unhappily, "These guys are almost dead, so what's wrong with letting me chop them up?"

"They..." Valerie was about to say something when she suddenly had a sense of déjà vu.

When she came into contact with Batman before, that guy, like herself now, kept asking her not to kill people, and she also took advantage of all kinds of loopholes like Two-Face.

"That's a really... annoying boomerang." Valerie sighed and let go of Two-Face's shoulder. "Give me the knife back. Remember, just knock him out, don't kill him."

"Say it eight times a day! Give it to me, give it to me!" The two-faced man handed the knife to Valerie, then showed an excited smile and rushed towards the approaching crowd.

Valerie turned around and looked at the piece she had opened earlier. After losing the restraint of the vines, a woman was sitting there with her head down, and she seemed to be soundless.

There are many people like this. They are all still trapped in the vines and can never get out.

NO96. God’s Authority

"Home run!" Harley Quinn screamed, swinging the water pipe like a bat.

These people with sallow complexions looked as if their bodies were hollowed out. They walked slowly and floatingly, with no expression on their faces.

Even a patient like Harley, who had been lying in bed for almost a month, could move among this group of people. She swung the water pipe like a bowling ball, and those who were hit fell to the ground one by one.

The Two-Face Man fought awkwardly, as this group of people could be beaten to a pulp just by swinging his fists, and his main difficulty lay in controlling the strength.

In Harvey Dent's eyes, these people were just innocent passers-by who were controlled. He didn't want them to suffer injuries such as broken bones, but Two-Face didn't want to care about that. He just wanted to follow V's request and not beat them to death.

According to past experience, once the two personalities have different ideas, they will fall into an awkward stalemate of fighting over the body before the coin is tossed.

But now Harley is still not far away, and if he directly tosses the coin, it will expose Harvey Dent's identity. Daredevil felt awkward for a long time, until he was beaten several times, and the annoying Two-Face gave in and simply let Harvey take over.

Although these controlled people seem to be numerous in the narrow corridor, apart from the oppressive feeling caused by numbers, these people are not a big threat. The real danger lies behind them.

Valerie looked at the vines covering the wall and first took out a molotov cocktail, but after thinking for a moment, she replaced the molotov cocktail with a flamethrower for the sake of efficiency and safety.

For some reason, after the Two-Face Man cut off two vines, the tentacle-like vines stopped attacking the few people, but this does not represent Valerie.

Pulling the power to full, Valerie first aimed at the ceiling. Liquid with a pungent smell was sprayed out from the muzzle and turned into flames the moment it came into contact with the air.

"Clear the path." Valerie said as she moved forward while coloring the corridor.

Harvey and Harley understood what Valerie meant. They surrounded Valerie, one on the left and the other on the right, and knocked down everyone in their path like a lawn mower.

Valerie moved the incendiary gun in her hand, drawing arcs back and forth like a painter, burning murals on the ceiling and the walls on both sides.

As she walked, the primeval forest in the corridor gradually turned into apocalyptic. The sounds of Harley's water pipe hitting people and Harvey's fists hitting people and the sounds of vines being burned and carbonized merged together, like a symphony of world-changing changes.

From the moment Valerie set the ceiling on fire, the vines all over the corridor seemed to come alive, twitching and squirming, retreating with Valerie as the center, with the burnt ashes flying all the way.

The intertwined vines spread out, finally no longer clinging to the walls and ceiling. They retreated like octopus tentacles, exposing the hidden broken tiles and corpses to the air.

"Look, this is the original decoration."

Valerie commented on the blackened tiles without stopping her grilling.

Apart from the lucky ones who were knocked unconscious by Erha, the unlucky corpses that lost the vines' restraints also slid to the ground uncontrollably.

Valerie thought about it and decided not to cremate them as the bodies still needed to be claimed by their families.

Looking at the vines that had already run away under the threat of flames, Valerie put down the burner and said to the Husky who was still beating someone in front of her: "Did you see that?"

"What?" Harley turned around in confusion while hitting someone on the head with the water pipe.

"Those vines didn't grow from behind the wall. They crawled here from somewhere far away." Harvey Dent was very smart. He patiently said to Harley and his other self who must be confused. "Follow these vines, maybe we can find the source of everything."

"Of course I know! I don't need you to teach me!" Harley suddenly turned around and bared her teeth at Daredevil.

Even though Harvey more or less understood that this woman was not normal, he was still startled by Harley's sudden increase in voice and was stunned for a moment.

Seeing that her aura had successfully intimidated this guy, Harley's expression became quite proud. She turned around and continued to work on clearing the map, even deliberately stomping her feet hard on the ground, making a crisp sound.

Valerie was not in a hurry to catch up with the escaping vines. She strolled slowly in the corridor, keeping a close eye on the surrounding environment.

By the time they reached the end of the corridor, the zombie-like crowd had all fallen to the ground. A steel gate like a city gate blocked the way for them, and only then did they stop.

At this time, all kinds of strange plants disappeared as if they had never appeared, and the gate was as clean as if it had just been installed.

Harley walked up first and knocked on the door with the hose.

"Dong dong dong."

An ethereal voice was heard, and it was obvious that this thing was very thick.

"What should we do?" Daredevil turned around and looked at Valerie.

"V, where's your rocket? Let's blow it up!" Harley also shouted to Valerie.

"We are all civilized people. Rockets are too barbaric." Valerie said righteously.

Harvey and Harley looked at each other in confusion. Valerie had just set fire in the corridor.

Valerie looked at the two's confused expressions and gave a boastful smile, then she pulled out a remote control from her pocket.

"Hey! I didn't do anything, did I?!" The two-faced man was anxious.