I, V, Gotham Legend

The leg was broken, and this narrow rest room was empty. Obviously, there was nothing to bandage the wound. The signal in the sewer was poor, and the communicator could not be used for communication.

The loss of blood and physical strength caused dizziness, nausea, and roaring auditory hallucinations.

Cash was at his wit's end, waiting desperately for his death in the darkness.

Perhaps because of fatigue, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, and in a trance, Cash seemed to hear the ticking of a clock.

Death-defying hysteria?

Cash wanted to ignore the auditory hallucination and try to faint as quietly and decently as possible, but for some reason, the ticking sound of the clock became clearer and clearer in his ears.

An inexplicable impulse surged in his heart, and Cash suddenly shouted with all his last strength.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

This will attract the alligator man! What am I doing!

Cash wanted to suppress his scream, but his body was out of control. To be more precise, he had a thought in his heart that he had to scream now.

With his weak mind and inexplicable thoughts fighting against each other, Cash could not control his screams at all.

When he finally suppressed his roar, the faint sound of the bell in his ears had disappeared, but cold sweat soaked his whole body.

What's going on here?

Cash's spirit was even cleared up a little because of the shouting just now. His heartbeat quickened. He crawled around in sweat, wanting to leave here quickly.

But it was too late. He could already hear heavy footsteps approaching.

Cash held his breath, he didn't dare to move a step.

There were traces of his own blood on the ground. With the crocodile man's sense of smell, the smell of blood must have exposed his position long ago.

Cash was not going to surrender just like that. He used his remaining right hand to pull out a key that was shining silver from his pocket. While the crocodile man was chewing him, he would use all his strength to poke the key into the monster's eyes!

The footsteps were getting closer, and Cash's nervous mood was slightly surprised.

Although the footsteps sounded heavy, it felt more like a person running and jumping than a big guy like the crocodile man.

As if to confirm Cash's guess, a tall figure walked into the room. In the dark environment, Cash could only see the man's big pink-blue eyes glowing slightly.

A woman? Why are you here...

Cash clenched the key tightly, and his head, which was swollen and painful due to blood loss, went blank for a moment.

"Looking at your weathered face, you should not be a child... You are Ka... uh, a policeman anyway, right?" Valerie looked at the person curled up in the corner with her eyes that had a certain night vision ability.

"Who are you?" Cash tried to make his tone sound normal, but his voice was still trembling weakly.

"My name is V. Don't worry. I saved your teammates, and you too." Valerie approached Cash, as if to help him up, but her outstretched hand stopped in mid-air. "You swam in the manure?"

"Sorry, ma'am, my leg is broken." After realizing that the person in front of him was not an enemy, Cash relaxed completely and fell back as if melting.

"You're still bleeding..." Valerie glanced at Cash's severed limb, took out a roll of gauze and a bottle of water from her pocket, and handed them to Cash, "Do you need my help?"

"Thank you." Cash took the gauze and water, and without bothering the woman any further, he performed preliminary bleeding control on his own severed limb.

Seeing that the boy's dark face had turned a little pale, but his eyes were still shining, Valerie couldn't help but admire him.

Because she couldn't find anyone before, Valerie made a large mad hat and used the normal flow sound of sewage as a medium for large-scale hypnosis. The hypnotized people would roar loudly, providing direction for Valerie's voiceprint scanning.

Although the crocodile man who was nowhere to be found seemed unaffected, the policeman was still lucky enough to be hypnotized.

Having said that, although the policeman was successfully hypnotized, he only screamed for a short while and then relied on his own willpower to hold on.

He is a ruthless person.

Valerie agreed slightly in her heart, and took out a paper bag from her pocket and handed it to Cash who had been bandaged.

"This is..." Cash caught it with one hand.

"Corn soup can relieve pain...or do you want to rinse your mouth first?" Valerie took out another bottle of mineral water.

NO25. I left, where can I go back?

After rinsing his mouth with mineral water, Cash forcefully gushed down corn soup. He couldn't even taste it, he just felt his body, which was cold due to hypothermia, was gradually warming up.

He really felt that the pain in his body was no longer so severe. It seemed that this was really an effective pain reliever.

"How is it? Can you stand up?" Valerie asked from a distance.

"My legs are broken, this isn't realistic," Cash said, supporting himself on the ground with his right hand.

Originally he just wanted to prove his statement, but with just this push, he actually stood up.

Cash's eyes widened on his dark face.

"It seems to be useless for broken limbs..." Valerie thought as she observed Cash's bandaged left arm.

It is difficult to determine the effect of Valerie's corn soup as a buff. I remember that the buffs added by food in the game are useless things like increasing some values ​​or speeding up physical recovery. The improvement is not very high, and it is difficult to feel it accurately after it becomes a reality.

The reason why Cash could feel the effect of the treatment so quickly was mainly because Valerie added some therapeutic medicine from the pneumatic syringe.

Since there were unlucky people in the game who died from blood loss due to accelerated blood flow after taking medicine, Valerie waited until Cash was bandaged before giving him the medicine, and the medicine was diluted many times.

Fortunately, this guy's wound did not split, and Valerie had one more piece of experimental data.

"Thank you, elegant lady...how did you do it?" Cash resisted the urge to stamp his feet. He just looked at his palm which still had not grown back, feeling a little distressed, but said nothing.

"My superpower." Valerie was too lazy to explain further and simply used Batman's words.

Cash looked at V in surprise, and he finally remembered who this mercenary was.

Perhaps among the people of Gotham, there are still different opinions about Valerie's identity, but there is a consensus within the police station.

Cash had heard that during the Joker's Blackgate riot, V personally defeated Crocodile Man.

"Are you here to deal with the crocodile man?" Cash asked.

"To be exact, I'm here to save the children, and I'll save you as well." Valerie looked at Cash for a while, then took out a stack of clothes from her pocket, "Change into these, they're clean clothes, and I'll take you out after you're done. I'll take care of the crocodile man and the children."

Cash took the clothes and found that they were some ordinary shirts and trousers.

These clothes were trash that Valerie picked up while playing the game and had never been worn. She planned to exchange them for some money, but before she could sell the trash, Valerie traveled through time.

It might not be appropriate to wear such thin clothes in January, but it was better than the sewage-soaked police uniform that Cash was wearing now.

"Thank you, but I won't leave like this. I will go with you to find the children." Cash took the clothes without being pretentious, but still made his attitude clear.

"…Honestly, I don't need you to follow me." Valerie decided to be more ruthless, "You'll only hold me back."

"I..." Cash remembered the oppressive feeling that the crocodile man brought him, and was speechless for a moment.

This feeling of powerlessness made him hate himself.

"Okay, hurry up and change. If you're shy, I'll go out first... By the way, let me give you this." Valerie rubbed a flashlight, handed it to Cash, and then walked out of the room.

Cash took the flashlight, silently turned on the light and placed it on the table beside him, then slowly took off his smelly clothes with one hand.

Cash washed his face and hands with mineral water with great difficulty, and put on clean clothes. Fortunately, the clothes fit him well, so they were probably not worn by the lady herself.

After putting on his clothes, Cash wanted to pick up the flashlight and tell V that he could come back, but at this moment, he noticed the direction of the flashlight.

There was a map hanging on the wall. If nothing unexpected happened, it was this level of the sewer. Coincidentally, he had seen it a few days ago.

"Miss V." Cash called to the woman outside the door, "I know where this is!"

"What are you doing? Everyone knows where this is." Valerie walked in impatiently.

"No...I mean, I have a way to get out of here!"

Cash said, pointing his flashlight at the map.

Valerie looked at the complicated map and frowned: "We can also go back the same way."

"We can get to the Gotham Police Department directly from here." Cash pointed his severed hand in one direction, "From here, we can call for backup."

At Christmas, the Joker buried a large amount of explosives under major buildings in Gotham as so-called "Christmas gifts". Fortunately, he was arrested before all the explosives exploded.

That night, Cash, who had just been transferred to the police station, was one of the operators responsible for dismantling the underground explosives in the police station.

At that time, he was working with his teammates and was looking at this map.

"I don't think I need backup, and there are fights everywhere in Gotham right now. The police station must be very busy right now." Valerie thought, "But this place looks pretty close, and we can let you leave directly from here."

Cash realized that he was still useless, and the feeling of self-blame surged up in his mind again, but this time he said nothing.

"Come on, let's go to the police station you mentioned... Do you want me to hold the map?"

"Thank you, I can do it myself." Cash held the flashlight in his mouth and took the map with his only hand.

"You should use this one." Valerie rolled out another flashlight that looked like a miner's headlight.

Cash was a little surprised. He didn't know why Valerie had so much stuff in her pockets, but he still accepted the kindness.

Cash spit out the flashlight, put on a headlamp, and then the two walked out of the narrow rest room together, the man in front and the woman behind, walking together on the dry pedestrian bank of the sewer.

Cash drove on the road, but he was still a little nervous. He still remembered his strange scream before. Logically, such a loud noise should be enough to attract the attention of the crocodile man.

What's more, he had just stopped bleeding not long ago, and the smell of blood might attract monsters.

Only a small part of the front was illuminated, and he felt that the crocodile man might emerge from the shadows at any time.

Cash tried to slow down his pace as much as possible to avoid alerting the enemy, but just then he heard the sound of fiddling with a plastic bag behind him.

Cash turned around and found that Valerie was holding a plastic bag that came from somewhere. She took out a bright red beef leg from the plastic bag.

"What are you doing?" Cash asked in surprise.

"Fishing." Valerie took out another iron rod from her pocket and put it through the cow's leg. "This is the bait I prepared specifically for the crocodile man. That guy is very sensitive to smell."

"Why..." There were so many doubts in his mind that Cash didn't even know where to start.

"Don't worry, even though you're just a burden, I will protect you." Valerie smiled brightly.

NO26. She must have her own reasons

Cash wanted to say something several times, but finally swallowed the doubts in his heart.

Although it doesn't seem very reliable, this lady is so amazing, she must have her own reasons for doing this...

They continued to move, the crunching sound of their shoes on the wet floorboards echoing in the empty sewer.

The beef hung above the drain, and Valerie pondered, pinching the rod that pierced the beef.

"Hey, Ka...uh, Kati?"

"My name is Cash." Cash was very patient.

"Oh, Cash, what do you think the crocodile man is doing now?" Valerie asked, nodding.

Cash didn't know why Valerie asked him this, but he thought about it and answered: "If the crocodile man has been driven away by you, then he might lie dormant to recover from his injuries, and then find us and wait for an opportunity to attack us, right?"

Valerie didn't tell Cash about her experiences before she found him, and it was Cash's own guess that the crocodile man was beaten away by V.

"So I won't be able to catch anybody with this piece of beef for a while?" Valerie retracted the iron rod.

"If the crocodile man really holds a grudge as the rumors say, then Miss V, you might be more attractive to him than bait." Seeing Valerie take back the beef so straightforwardly, Cash finally said what he wanted to say at the beginning.

"Is that so..." Valerie recalled the crocodile man who had clearly been beaten by her not long ago, but still rushed towards her.

This guy's IQ is really not very high. In that case, as long as I stay in the sewer, he will come to me on his own.

But the beef that was originally used as bait can no longer be eaten.

Valerie felt a little distressed.

No, it must be fed to the crocodile man, otherwise it will be wasted!

A tube of anesthetic flashed in Valerie's palm and injected it into the beef.

I haven't tried whether the anesthetic in the game is effective when taken orally. I'll try it after beating the crocodile man to a pulp and then force him to take it. It'll be like an experiment.

After injecting the medicine, Valerie took out a clean plastic bag, wrapped the cow leg, and then put it in her pocket.

Cash didn't say much. Although it seemed that Valerie's plan to use beef to catch crocodiles was not well thought out, he just assumed that this was a mistake made by Miss V.

After all, this lady is so amazing, she shouldn’t be that stupid, right?

After the little episode, the two walked for a while and finally found their destination.

After turning another fork in the road, there was a long tunnel in front of us. The light was bright at the far end, and the sound of the waterfall splashing into the river was endless.