I, V, Gotham Legend

She thought that when she opened the door, she would see a boring corridor or an empty room with old decoration, but she saw only darkness.

She tried to turn on her scanning vision, but still saw nothing.

This was the first time Valerie had encountered such a situation since she traveled to DC, and a strong sense of unease filled her heart.

She turned around and looked at the heroes fighting the Joker in the sky, then turned back to look at the Kryptonian spaceship that was getting smaller and smaller in the distance.

She opened the communication and wanted to say something, but when the words came to her lips, she couldn't say anything.

She sighed and chose the most ordinary farewell: "If I can't come back, come on."

Without waiting for a reply from the Prophet or Batman, she resolutely stepped into the dark world.

The feeling of weightlessness filled her whole body, just like riding a bungee jump. Valerie felt as if all the blood in her body was gathering at the top of her head in an instant, but she could always feel that she was stepping on solid objects under her feet.

The world was still dark, but Valerie hadn't taken a few steps when she saw a robed figure standing in front of her.

It wasn't the first time they met, Valerie recognized him: "Are you Barbatos?"

Barbatos raised his dark head and looked at Valerie for a moment: "I admire your dedication... This is something you really wouldn't do."

"What do you want to say?" Valerie asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Hehehe..." Barbatos just smiled.

Valerie frowned. She wanted to take the initiative and rush towards this guy who looked uneasy, but as soon as she took a step, she found that there was nothing in front of her.

The black world regained color, and it was no longer a small room. Valerie looked up and saw that she seemed to be standing in the universe.

Surrounding her were a large number of planet-like spheres, each of which was enough to make her feel insignificant, and there were hundreds of such planets.

What is even more surprising is that, in terms of planets, these planets are so close to each other that the nearest one seems to be only a few days' walk away.

"Surprised, right?" A familiar hoarse voice sounded from behind. Valerie could tell who it was, and she immediately turned around to look.

I saw a small round ball growing on a planet behind me, as if it was a parasite, and a large black mist was wrapped around the outside of the ball.

The black mist gathered and condensed into a clown's face in front of Valerie.

"Are you still fighting? Do you have time to chat with me? Aren't you afraid of being beaten to death?" Valerie asked calmly.

"Haha! That dragon is just a part of me now." The clown laughed.

This black fog is the Joker's true form now, he has turned into this subspace.

The Clown Dragon grew within the Joker's body, gradually merging with the real Joker until the dragon grew to its full size and the Joker was completely absorbed by the dragon.

No wonder the Joker has never been in a hurry to kill people, being injured can speed up his integration. Whether it is Superman or Batman, they are just tools he prepared to make himself complete.

"Is this what you were planning to do in Arkham?" Valerie looked up.

"Want to hear the truth? I have no idea how it became like this." The clown chuckled: "Who knows where that guy who smells like chicken shit came from? But so what? Hahahaha!"

Valerie exhaled through her nose: "So this is a gap in space?"

"Maybe. It was impossible for you to get out, but that black-head deliberately let you out."

"Really? He asked me to leave?" Valerie was even more confused. "Then you should get out of the way."

“Do you want me to say it again? So what?!” Lightning and thunder flashed above the clown's black fog head, and white light flickered in the black fog. “Just die here! What a gorgeous tomb! Ahahahahahaha!”

Lightning shot out from the clown's head, and the thick thunder was like a giant's arm, and Valerie had no way to avoid it.

There was nothing around and Valerie had nowhere to hide. Fortunately, she could now summon a cover. Valerie pinched her fingers and a concrete foundation appeared in front of her.

This was the first foundation she summoned when she was inside Arkham, and it is now the largest one except for the secret base.

The electric current hit the concrete foundation, blowing away large pieces of debris, raising dust, and leaving only a charred area.

Feeling that the lightning had subsided, Valerie took out a gun from her pocket and fired at the clown from a distance with the mentality of giving it a try.

The effect is very general. There is no difference between the bullet hitting the fog and hitting the air.

“Hahahaha!” The Joker seemed to be laughing, or maybe he just wanted to laugh. “Do you think you can return to Gotham alive? Once you come here, you can only die of old age here. You can’t break through the space at all, and you can’t go back to that world! Just like now, you can’t even go back to my body!”

"How can you be so sure?" Valerie poked her head out. "Have you tried? Even if you tried, you can't go back now?"

"Hahaha!" The clown laughed again, "We are different. When I grow up, I will naturally go back."

Valerie felt as if she had grasped something. She looked towards the edge of the Joker's subspace, where it was attached to the real world, like water flowing into the ocean.

"Is this the universe? Or the space of some planet?" Valerie suddenly asked. "Strangely enough, I can still breathe."

Mist swirled around the clown's face, and he didn't answer, but instead threw out a few more lightning bolts.

Valerie quickly shrank back, curling into a small ball behind the huge concrete foundation.

She reviewed her abilities and tried hard to think about how to break the impasse.

The system of 2077 is very conceptual, which makes Valerie's abilities extremely powerful in many cases, but she really can't think of what to do when faced with such a spatial problem.

You can't try to use the wall-penetrating bug, right? Valerie really doesn't think she can do it.

The foundation was not equipped with a driving system. After all, it was originally used to hit people, but Valerie could still feel herself floating and moving while hiding behind the foundation, like a satellite orbiting the earth.

The Joker shook his misty head again, and this time it wasn't just to release lightning. Valerie could hear the whistling of the wind.

This made Valerie confirm once again that although it looked like it, this was definitely not the universe or space.

Valerie inserted the mantis knife into the foundation to prepare for the next attack, but while she was still thinking with her head down, she suddenly felt something cold against her face.

Valerie reached out and removed the object from her face.

It felt like a bag of plastic. Valerie was shocked when she took the bag in front of her eyes. What she saw was a familiar bag of white powder.

Valerie felt like she had seen it somewhere before, so she blinked and turned on her scanning vision.

The world turned cold, and a completed progress bar appeared on the plastic bag in my hand. This was a sign that would only appear after it had been scanned.

"Why... is there white powder in this space? Or have I come into contact with it before?" Valerie tried hard to retrieve her memory.

She had encountered and even cleaned up the white powder trade many times, but the most recent and largest-scale operation was in the metropolis a month ago.

Valerie suddenly remembered something, like grabbing a branch in the rough sea.

She fumbled in her pocket, searching for the item hidden deep inside, which seemed to be sealed.

She took out a small cube the size of a fist from her pocket. At first glance, it looked unremarkable. It was just an ordinary nine-by-nine Rubik's Cube.

This was a prop that Superman had taken from a criminal named Regent a month ago and gave to Valerie for safekeeping.

It is said that this thing originated from a mysterious being called the Troublemaker and was used by the Regent to transport stolen goods.

Valerie was holding the Rubik's Cube and was about to study it when the howling wind blew away her sleeves. Valerie turned her head and saw that the materialized storm was approaching with lightning...

……

In the Gotham Sea, in the area where Arkham Island was originally located, there are already a large number of ships and helicopters around.

Arkham was cut off from the world in communications a few hours ago. Until recently, the rainstorm had subsided a lot, but the islands in the sea mysteriously disappeared.

All that can be seen now is that there was originally an island here, except for the half-raised bridge over Gotham Harbor.

At this time, on a main ship sailing on Gotham Bay, Amanda, the invited director of the Sky Eye Society, was sitting in the captain's room, silently looking at Slade, who was soaked all over.

"Are you sure the Riddler is dead?" This was the first question Amanda asked.

"I don't think anyone can survive a head injury like that." Deathstroke said dully, "There are things more important than the Riddler right now."

"You are not allowed to go anywhere without my permission." Amanda said condescendingly, "Now tell me, how did Arkham Island disappear?"

"I don't know the details, but I saw a dragon..." Deathstroke said, "Tell me what happened outside? For example, where is the Penguin? The Riddler said before that he had cooperated with the Penguin."

This is not what the Riddler said, but it doesn't need to be explained in such detail.

"Let the people of Gotham handle the mafia affairs themselves...but the Penguin should be in Wayne Manor now," Amanda said.

Deathstroke took note and nodded slightly. Then, as if he suddenly sensed something, he stood up from his seat abruptly: "The ship is shaking?!"

"It's raining heavily today, so of course the boat will shake." Amanda said in confusion.

"No... this is not normal." As he said that, Deathstroke suddenly ran to the window and looked in the direction where Arkham was originally.

Deathstroke's attitude made Amanda realize that something was wrong. She moved closer to the window, but her expression froze in shock.

There were three or four waterspouts standing on the sea. They were pitch black and seemed to have entities, and there was lightning in the storm.

"Notify everyone and leave here immediately!" Amanda shouted loudly, even though she was not the top leader of the fleet at all.

However, the commander-in-chief of the fleet obviously agreed with Amanda's idea. All the ships were trying their best to turn around, but the scope and speed of the natural disaster were much greater.

Deathstroke looked at the chaotic captain's room, thought for a moment, and then secretly left the room.

It doesn't matter what happens to the storm and the fleet. As an excellent mercenary, Deathstroke always keeps in mind the goal of his operation. Compared with Amanda, the Penguin is more important.

Amanda obviously had no time to care about where the bell was, as the storm was getting closer and closer to their ship...

……

The Joker has no vision in the subspace, he sees things through a mysterious feeling.

He clearly saw that the storm he released suddenly disappeared after it passed over the cement, as if nothing had been released.

"What did you do? Dismantle a lighter?" demanded the Joker.

"You said I couldn't leave here, but I think I have a way!" Valerie shouted at the clown. "I can take the baby in your belly with me!"

The clown's foggy face fell, but he immediately laughed out loud: "Hahahaha! Do you think you win if you can escape?!"

Even if Valerie brings the heroes back to Gotham, it will only allow the Joker to grow. When the dragon and the subspace are completely integrated, it will be a very terrifying enemy.

Valerie touched the back of her neck and said, "I've always had a question, why does your dragon always stay on that building?"

According to the Joker, Valerie was able to come to the crack in space only because Barbatos allowed her to go through. That means that even if the Joker was not guarding the building, no one else could get out of there.

The Clown Dragon and the Clown Subspace are almost one and the same, so the Clown doesn't need to plug into anything if he wants to merge with the space.

Valerie poked her head out again and looked at the part where the clown subspace was connected to the main world behind it.

"Your dimension is independent, but attached to the main world." Valerie guessed based on what she saw and what another person in the chip said, "So that building is the key to your return to the main world, right? Otherwise, even if you are fully mature, you can only be exiled to the cracks of this dimension."

The clown suddenly felt a little uneasy, but this feeling of uneasiness made him smile even more hideously: "So what can you do now?"

"This is not the first time I've met Barbatos, but every time we meet, he seems harmless." Valerie jumped into a seemingly unrelated topic, "So I was wondering if he was bound by something and had to meet some conditions before he could interfere with this world."

The Joker was about to ask what this had to do with the present when his expression suddenly changed drastically.

Inside the subspace, the clown dragon was still spitting flames crazily, and the earth suddenly shook like an earthquake.

Under the gaze of the heroes, starting from the middle of the Intensive Treatment Center and the Joker Building, the ground collapsed on a large scale like an earthquake.

The building where the clown dragon was perched was shaking violently, as if it had been exploded, and collapsed extremely quickly.

NO136. Exiled by Space

In front of the gate of the intensive treatment center, Harley and Harvey pushed open the door that had long been broken into pieces, only to see the devastated land that had been plowed.

"What happened?" Two-Faced Man opened his mouth wide.

"World War?" Harley's smile froze on her face.

Just as they were still thinking about what had happened, a roar that seemed to penetrate the heavens and the earth suddenly sounded.

"What did you do?!!"

Along with the unwilling roar, the whole world was suddenly hit by a strong wind again, and the lightning between the dark clouds was intertwined like rags.

The clown dragon flapped its wings and rose from the collapsed ground.

The size of the white dragon was enough to cover the sky and the sun. The clown flew high into the sky, and its long and thick body swam around like a giant python.

Between the gaps in space, the Joker felt what was happening in his own space, and he widened his non-existent eyes.

"What have you done?!" the Joker roared.

"Honestly, I didn't do anything," Valerie said, rubbing the back of her neck.

The clone chip inserted in the back of the neck established contact with the interior of the subspace, and Old Joe relayed to Valerie what happened inside.

"I see. The earthquake collapsed your precious building." Valerie nodded in understanding. "If it wasn't Superman, then it must have been Daredevil and his gang, right? Was it their mine explosion that caused it?"

Before Arkham Island turned into the subspace, the Riddler isolated Arkham's communications through the magnetic field caused by an unknown mine under Arkham. For this reason, Valerie and Erha acted separately and gave the task of blasting the mine to them.

Since the mission was to blow up mines, Valerie specially prepared extremely high-specification bombs for Erha, which were about the same magnitude as the ones used by the Kryptonians to open the dark world.