I, V, Gotham Legend

A week had passed since we received the death notice. No one took it seriously at first until three days ago when the assistant director was found dead in the bathroom in a miserable state.

These days, everyone in the crew has been sleeping together on the set, and going to the toilet requires at least three people to form a team, and everyone is feeling very depressed.

When Ollie brought Valerie over, everyone seemed to have seen a savior, and morale improved visibly.

"You must be the famous V." A young man came up to Valerie.

The blue middle part, the fair and translucent skin, the yellow vest, and the delicate face that seemed to be artificially carved were exactly the same as what was rumored.

Valerie nodded slightly.

"I will ensure your safety during this time."

"Thank you so much Miss V. We didn't dare to shoot on location for the past three days."

The crew came to Gotham because of its famous cloudy weather.

"This is also part of the job..." Valerie was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly noticed the cordon not far away.

This room is an interior scene of a western desert, with a sunny background, fine sand underfoot, and many wooden houses around. Of course, these are just props.

There was a yellow cordon outside the exit of the room. Valerie thought it was also a filming prop, but she spotted the GCPD (Gotham Police Department) logo.

"That's where the assistant director died." The young man followed Valerie's gaze and showed a look of understanding.

"Is this a crime scene?" Valerie was a little shocked. Logically speaking, a murder had occurred here and the area should be cordoned off.

"The investors want to release the film within a specified time, so they gave the police some money. Now they are handling their case and we are filming our movie." It seems that this guy also understands why Valerie is surprised.

Is this all right? Should we say that this is truly the Gotham Police Department?

Although she had heard about the nature of the Gotham Police Department, Valerie still frowned and found it difficult to accept for a moment.

Luckily, Valerie did see some police officers busy in the cordoned area, so the situation wasn't completely rotten.

With V standing by their side, although the people in the crew were still uneasy, they felt more at ease and gradually returned to normal filming.

The young man who had communicated with Valerie before was named Johnny Christmas. He was a recently-rising singer who was forced into the crew by his management company.

As someone who also aims to become famous, Valerie has a liking for Johnny.

The filming of the movie was proceeding in an orderly manner, but the murder of the assistant director had a significant impact on the filming progress, and everyone seemed a little flustered.

It seems that they are now filming an important emotional scene between the male and female protagonists. The handsome guy and the beautiful girl are hugging each other in front of the camera. Every time she sees a similar scene, Valerie can't help but miss her own Kun.

It's another day I regret not choosing a male V...

Valerie sat next to a load-bearing column outside the camera and sighed.

She pulled a USB cable from her wrist and connected it to the laptop in her hand. In this way, Valerie could directly connect to the cameras of the entire building, even if the laptop itself did not have this function. This was also one of her weird game-manifesting abilities.

Or to put it even more bizarrely, in Valerie's memory, the V in the game was not capable of taking over an entire building.

There were too many surveillance cameras to watch, so Valerie's computer only displayed the videos from the room she was in and the two cameras in the corridor facing the bathroom.

In the surveillance video from three days ago, the assistant director walked into the bathroom and never came out again. During that time, two people went in and it seemed that they were just going to the toilet. Until an hour later, it seemed that someone felt that the assistant director had been missing for too long and went into the bathroom to look for him. Then the people in the surveillance video were in chaos.

The two people who had entered had been taken away by the police, the assistant director's body was taken away by the police station for autopsy, and Valerie herself was forbidden from entering the security area, so it was difficult for her to have an in-depth investigation into the murder case.

Being banned from entering doesn't mean that Valerie has no other options, but her current task is to serve as the crew's bodyguard, and keeping an eye on these crew members is her primary goal.

However, if the murderer was caught, Valerie's mission would be perfectly accomplished, so she decided to participate.

Valerie held the computer and walked to the cordon.

"What are you doing? No entry allowed." The policeman who was slacking off on the side finally fulfilled his duty.

"This seems to be the bathroom." Valerie said with a smile, pinching her sleeve.

The police noticed that a familiar piece of banknote was revealed in Valerie's palm.

This is a bribe.

"No means no." The policeman shook his head and glared at Valerie.

It's not that the Gotham police are honest and incorruptible, but as a grassroots civil servant, he doesn't have the power to let Valerie in directly in public.

Valerie knew, of course, that she was just trying it out.

"I want to know about the deceased and the suspect." Valerie shook her sleeves, and a small notebook appeared inside. "Also, this is what you dropped."

The policeman knew he didn't have a notebook, but he noticed the unnatural thickness of the notebook in Valerie's hand.

There should be quite a few banknotes in it.

He took the notebook as if nothing had happened, and said righteously: "Thank you, but rules are rules. I will not disclose it to irrelevant people. However, considering that you found my notebook, I still suggest that you eat early."

The policeman's speech was very jumpy, but Valerie still smiled.

"The restaurant across the street from the entrance is good, but I don't know when the customer flow will decrease." Valerie asked, pinching her lips.

"Two o'clock in the afternoon."

Police confirmed the time of delivery.

No. 6. Scan

Although she had already agreed to trade the information with the police, Valerie did not intend to give up on sneaking into the bathroom.

As they are busy with filming, the crew are all gathered together now, and the killer should not take action in such an environment.

There are two doors in this room. In addition to the exit that is under martial law, there is also the entrance where Valerie came in. Now this door has become the only entrance and exit for the entire crew.

Valerie left the room. She knew the locations of the cameras in the entire building, so she easily found a blind spot of the camera.

She put down the computer and pressed lightly with her left thumb.

There are no special conditions required to activate the abilities in the game, but Valerie still performs some simple and special actions when activating different abilities in daily life. The purpose of doing so is to form inductive memory to avoid using the wrong ability in important situations such as battles.

Valerie's body disappeared with her movement. She remained standing there, but the light passed through her body.

The legendary skin prosthetic optical camouflage can become transparent for 15 seconds, with a cooldown time of one minute.

Even clothes can become invisible, which is one of the weird features inherited from the game.

The noisy sounds of the crew in the distance were infinitely stretched, and a feeling of stagnation came from her brain. Valerie activated Sianvistan.

With the dual blessing of invisibility and time delay, Valerie returned along the same route and successfully crossed the cordon.

The first goal is to see the scene of death.

Valerie walked into the bathroom leisurely. There was no one here. The murder had happened three days ago and the scene should have been searched thoroughly. The police would not stay here all the time.

Valerie canceled the time stop, and if the prosthesis stops early, the cooling time can be shortened.

The location where the deceased was found was easy to identify. The door of the compartment had been removed, and a chalk outline outlined the posture in which the deceased was found.

The toilet in this bathroom was broken. Judging from the outline, the body should have been lying on the ground with the upper body leaning against the wall, facing the door.

The silhouette's legs were spread apart, which just happened to avoid the remains of the toilet, but the cubicle was small after all, and part of the deceased's body was still in close contact with the toilet bowl.

Valerie approached the compartment and could clearly notice that there was a crack where the head of the corpse was against the wall, as if it had been smashed.

Was the body killed by blunt force trauma?

Valerie twitched her nose, and the smell of excrement and mothballs filled her brain, but she could not smell blood.

As a mercenary who often uses blunt weapons, Valerie knows very well that if the injury is fatal, the body will bleed to some extent.

Is it masked by other smells? Or is the bleeding not that heavy and the smell has dissipated?

Valerie gave up reasoning and simply blinked. The world in her eyes turned a deep cold color.

Scan mode, which is also one of the abilities derived from the game.

Valerie stared at the wall for a moment, but nothing in her field of vision registered, as expected.

The scanner inherited from the game can't scan everything, and Valerie still doesn't know what the conditions are.

Valerie could only turn off her scanning vision and look closer, and suddenly she discovered something strange.

There is a noticeable yellow dried mud in the gray cracks where the silhouette's head is shattered.

It is unusual to see dirt in tiles and still look fresh.

However, Valerie did not destroy the scene. She felt that the police would be able to notice such an obvious abnormality even if they set it up again.

We should be able to get the relevant information from the bribed policeman in the afternoon.

Valerie looked around again and tried to scan the area, but found nothing. She looked at the time and thought it was time to leave.

Using the same trick again, optical camouflage and Swanvistan, Valerie successfully returned to where the computer was stored.

Now, there are many doubts in this case. Valerie has also read the death notice sent by the murderer in advance. It did not specify who to kill, nor did it specify a time. It just used printed text to dryly announce that everyone in the crew would be killed.

Why did the murderer hate this crew, why was there no movement for three days after the first crime, and what was his modus operandi.

Valerie felt like she had entered some kind of detective theater, but fortunately, as a rude mercenary, she didn't need to really find out all this, it was enough to catch the murderer.

At the very least, as long as the Gotham part of the movie is successfully filmed, it can be considered mission accomplished, but this is not up to the standard that a legend should have.

In order to further ascend to legendary status, Valerie felt that she should have a good talk with everyone in the crew.

It happens that I am going to the restaurant near the door in the afternoon to exchange information with the police, so I will call these people to the restaurant together. Although it is a bit strange to have a meal at two o'clock in the afternoon, as the protector of this group of people, no one should dare to say anything.

Valerie leaned against the wall, watching the crew's filming progress. She couldn't help but squint her eyes and think.

Perhaps it was a habit caused by inductive memory, Valerie subconsciously activated the scanning ability.

This kind of accidental touch is normal, and Valerie also scanned everyone by the way.

Based on Valerie's in-depth understanding of her abilities during this period, she knew that the scanning ability could definitely scan things, that is, animals with body temperature. She could easily judge the physical condition of other people through this scan.

Judging from the results of her previous game experience, if she could connect to the Gotham Police Department database in the future, she would also be able to see the identity information of other people.

Valerie was originally looking around at everyone comfortably, but when her eyes swept to the corner, the comfortable expression on her face suddenly froze.

The scanning capability can show a person's basic physical condition, such as height and weight, and at the very least, body temperature. Generally speaking, all humans are within the scannable range.

But when Valerie saw a stagehand at the edge of the studio, her scanning vision did not indicate the progress bar of the scan.

It's like, there's just a bunch of inorganic stuff there.

But in Valerie's eyes, the stagehand was still full of energy and looked like a real person.

Valerie realizes that this is a world of superheroes with supernatural powers.

She thought about it, then slowly walked towards the field worker.

Noticing V walking towards him, the attendant was a little surprised, but still asked politely: "What can I do for you, Ms. V?"

Valerie didn't say anything. She stood in front of the attendant and stared at him for a while.

Then, in front of everyone's surprised eyes, she took out a shotgun and pointed it at the groundman's chest.

"boom!"

No. 7. Mud

The sudden firing of gunfire in public was shocking enough, but before anyone could react, they saw something even more unbelievable.

Being shot at close range, the body of the field attendant exploded as expected, and his upper body flew backwards as if it had been cut in half, but what splattered everywhere was not blood and internal organs, but ochre-colored mud.

"Wooooooooooooooo!"

2.5 The upper body of the field attendant rolled uncontrollably on the ground, but his lower body remained standing. The broken cross-section contained not internal organs and flesh, but surging mud.

"What's happening here!"

This scene that went beyond common sense caused everyone present to go blank.

"Sure enough, you are the killer."

Valerie nodded as expected.

This mud monster has the ability to disguise himself. He can disguise himself as anyone present. Previously, he must have disguised himself as one of the two suspects, sneaked into the bathroom, and killed the assistant director.

"No...why..." The Mud Monster's upper body stopped rolling, or he finally realized that he was not in pain and was not dead.