I, V, Gotham Legend

Having said that, Valerie remembered that even in the highly information-based society in the 2077 game, there were newspapers, and the lifespan of paper news media was still very long.

Valerie turned another page and looked at the large print on the next page.

Carmine Falcone has decided to give up his position as the head of the foundation, and the Falcone estate will be inherited by his second daughter, Sofia Falcone.

Roman is already sixty years old, and this real estate group is his last public identity in the white world. This may be a euphemism for him to give up the gangster life and retire completely.

Roma's successor Sofia did not have the same prestige as her father, and the last of the three super gangsters finally declined with Roma's retirement.

After seeing the satisfying information, the culprit Valerie closed the newspaper as if it had nothing to do with her.

There has been no report on the members of the Court of Owls. After all, it has only been one night. But in the next few days, I am sure that one missing person case after another will be placed on Commissioner Gordon's desk.

Valerie put away the newspaper and looked up at a park in the distance.

Although there is a list of people who have not been killed yet, for an organization like the Court of Owls that likes to play with mystery, it is still not certain that all the people on the list are included.

Fortunately, Valerie also found several other strongholds in the Owl Stronghold, one of which is located underground in this park, and there should be clues here.

Looking at these strongholds, Valerie remembered that she had thought about building a secret base like a transportation network under the entire Gotham not long ago, but finally gave up because there were many bugs underground.

Judging from the planning of the locations of these strongholds, the Court of Owls actually had a similar idea, although it seemed to have been abandoned.

But even if they didn't finish it, the mice still managed to accomplish part of it, which aroused Valerie's competitive spirit.

Although the secret base space station is still in the initial experimental foundation laying stage, Valerie plans to resume the development of the underground base.

There must be a base in the sky and underground, and maybe one will be built under the sea in the future. Only then can it be considered complete.

Valerie parked her motorcycle casually aside and walked into the park.

……

Helena sat on a park bench, staring blankly at Valerie as she walked into the woods.

“What a beautiful person…”

Valerie's blue hair and highly modified motorcycle were quite eye-catching, which attracted Helena's attention.

Last night, after Batman left, a team of police officers quickly rushed to the church and took Helena and the gangsters back to the police station.

Since she was not actually involved in the gang and Helena was not tied up, Commissioner Gordon believed she was innocent.

After a brief statement, Helena was released.

Uncle Baker was sent to the police station. Logically, Helena had nothing left to do in Gotham and could return to Switzerland to live her own life.

But the image of Batman last night lingered in her mind for a long time.

She always felt that there was something she wanted to do deep down in her heart, but she could never grasp it.

Perhaps in order to get rid of her confused heart, Helena walked to this park. She wanted to appreciate the scenery to relax herself.

As a result, I didn't even take a few glances at the scenery before my attention was attracted by the beautiful woman.

NO42. Who will save me?

Although seeing the beauty made her feel much happier, Helena was a straight woman after all. She just remembered Valerie's appearance in her heart, perhaps she could use it as a topic of conversation with her friends in the future.

The blue-haired beauty walked into the grove, and Helena felt it was about time to leave.

Although I didn’t see much of the scenery, my mood did improve. I’ll think about the future later.

But before Helena could stand up from the bench, she suddenly heard some tiny sounds of metal colliding.

Helena has had a gifted sense since she was a child, and she was the only one who noticed Batman's voice last night. That was Batman.

Therefore, she turned her head in surprise and looked in the direction where the sound came from. According to her experience, this sound did not sound like a keychain.

She saw a group of people who were wrapped up tightly. The distance between them was natural and it was hard to tell that they were together. But Helena still noticed that these people were intentionally or unintentionally approaching the direction of the grove where the beautiful woman had walked into.

Although these people were dressed in bulky clothes that suited the season, it was still obvious that they were tall and strong, and the metallic clanging sounds hidden in their clothes were disturbing.

Helena sat back on the bench, her hands clenching around her pants in terror.

Are they targeting that beautiful lady?

Should I kill her? Or should I force her to hug?

Helena rubbed her palms against her thighs, her palms were sweaty.

No, maybe I'm just too suspicious. This is a park and anyone can come here. These people just seem to be approaching the grove. Maybe they just happened to pass by.

And the metallic clanging sounds, although they sounded like weapons like daggers, could it be something else? I was just being too suspicious.

Helena saw these people walking into the woods out of the corner of her eye. They had even begun to undress and draw their weapons.

It was obvious that their target was the beautiful woman, and with such an unfriendly attitude, Helena was just deceiving herself.

Helena felt her heart beating in her throat. She lowered her head and prayed that these guys didn't notice her abnormality.

I shouldn't be here, and I shouldn't have gone to look when I heard the strange noise.

What will they do to that girl? I'm so sorry, there are too many of them and I can't do anything...

Helena regretted her curiosity not long ago. She really wished she knew nothing so that she would not be condemned by her conscience.

All the strong men had already walked into the grove. There seemed to be more than a dozen people entering one after another. Helena was terrified.

She stood up stiffly and tried to leave the park as if nothing had happened.

Sorry, I will call the police for you...

Helena walked guiltily, holding the phone in her pocket. She wanted to get away from the park as far as possible to avoid being noticed by other thugs who might still be there.

There were faint voices coming from the grove, but Helena couldn't hear what they were saying because they were far away.

It seemed that the talks had broken down, and sounds of fighting, gunfire, swords piercing flesh and women's screams were heard from the woods.

The noise had obviously gotten louder, and the other tourists around quickened their pace in panic, trying to get away from the muddy water.

Everyone was running away. Thinking of this, Helena's guilt was reduced a lot.

I also need to survive. I finally got rid of those gangsters and finally came out of the shadow of my parents' death...

Helena's rapid walk suddenly stopped.

The distance was already far, but her keen hearing could still hear the sound of swords piercing flesh.

She seemed to suddenly return to the winter when she was eight years old. She hid in the closet and watched through the crack in the door as the killer who suddenly broke in repeatedly stabbed her mother's eye sockets with a dagger.

To this day, she can no longer remember what the killer looked like. She has left Gotham and forgotten everything about it.

The people around no longer concealed themselves; they sped up their escape. In the chaotic crowd, Helena's sudden stop stood out particularly.

Is that so…Have I been running away all this time?

Helena thought of the Batman she met yesterday. She was also very scared when facing that weirdo, but the fear was completely different from the one she felt now. There was also an indescribable feeling.

What do I want?

Helena made up her mind and didn't care about anything else. She picked up her cell phone, called the police, and then turned and ran towards the woods.

She knew that she was no match for so many strong men, and she also knew that with so many gunshots and the sounds of swords piercing flesh, the girl must be in great danger.

She knew there was nothing she could do and calling the police was the most useful thing she could do.

But she still rushed forward like a madman, just because she seemed to hear her own desperate prayers when she was a child when the ruthless killer slaughtered her entire family.

[Someone come and save me…]

The cold January air hit Helena's face and she seemed to be back to when she was eight years old.

She rushed into the woods and pushed aside the brush with her hands like she was pushing open a closet door.

Even if it's just suicide, at least it can delay for a while. Maybe this short period of time can allow the girl to survive?

Helena broke off a branch and rushed into the noisy battlefield.

"Stop! Don't..." Helena mustered all her courage and was stunned halfway through shouting.

She saw strong men lying on the ground, their blood dyeing the snow red. The beautiful woman who, in her imagination, no longer looked like a human was now holding a man with one hand.

It seemed as if there was a knife flashing blue light tied to the woman's arm, pressing against the man's chest.

Hearing Helena's voice, the blue-haired beauty Valerie turned to look at her in surprise.

"You...I...uh..."

Helena didn't know what to say for a moment. The shocking scene made her mind go blank.

"Are you a Claw too?" Valerie asked Helena as she stabbed the man's chest with her mantis blade.

"Ah? What..." Helena had no idea what was going on, but she understood the fact that this beauty didn't seem to need help.

"Okay, he seems to be a kind-hearted passerby... Are you worried about the safety of these people?" Valerie saw Helena's confused expression and understood the general situation. "Don't be too nervous. These are bad guys. They wanted to kill me, but I killed them because they were not as skilled as them."

I'm concerned about your safety...

Helena didn't dare to speak. The beauty who remained calm among the corpses was completely different from the little white rabbit she had imagined.

"Don't be afraid, I'm not a bloodthirsty bad person." Valerie said as she threw away the body and wiped the blood off her face.

Helena was already more frightened than before.

NO43. So fast?

Seeing that Helena still remained silent, Valerie lost interest in her.

"Let's get out of here quickly. As you can see, there's a little trouble here." Valerie waved to Helena.

She promised Batman that she would not implicate ordinary people when carrying out her mission.

Helena swallowed, the boiling blood in her heart had been overwhelmed by the shock, and she also wanted to leave.

But she had just taken a cautious step back when she stopped and looked at a body lying on the ground behind Valerie.

Helena's sensitive hearing noticed a slight noise over there.

"What's wrong?" Valerie turned around in surprise, just in time to see the "corpse" struggling to get up from the ground. He straightened his neck which should have been broken, and under the black hood was a yellow and black mask.

"Ah!" Helena was greatly shocked by the resurrection of the dead, but Valerie was even more shocked.

"He's not dead yet? Then before that..."

She remembered that she had encountered sharp claws many times before and she just broke their necks and left it alone.

I let a lot of people go, what a loss!

Many claws on the ground crawled up again, and they straightened their broken bones. Under the blood-stained holes in their clothes, there was only new skin.

The Claws said nothing, as if they had no sense of pain. They just picked up their weapons again and got into position.

Of course, the claws are not without feeling, but the court training makes them not care about this level of pain.

These monsters surrounded Valerie, but some of them also targeted Helena.

"Okay..." Valerie took out her mantis knife. She was no longer interested in playing with them.

I had left their bodies intact before out of pity for them, but now it seems better to burn them to ashes.

Helena held the stick and looked at the group of monsters that had come back to life, not knowing what to do.

Helena's small wooden stick looked extremely shabby compared to the weapon in Claw's hand. They surrounded Helena without saying a word, waving their weapons, scaring Helena so much that she retreated again and again.

Helena felt that she was so stupid. She came here to be a hero, but found out that no one needed her help at all. Now she didn't even have the courage to be a hero. She was like a clown.

The claws had already rushed in front of Helena, and the nearest one had raised the knife.

Then his head flew to Helena faster than his blade.

"Ah..." Helena was so frightened by the head that suddenly flew in front of her that she instinctively swung the wooden stick in her hand and hit the head away like a baseball.

Not until now did she see clearly what had happened. The blue-haired beauty stood behind the sturdy man, shaking off the blood on the blade. The headless body of the sturdy man fell down, gushing out blood like a fountain.

When I came to my senses, the claws that had been resurrected from the dead had turned into corpses again.

Did she do this? So fast!

"You see, these are not good people. There is no need for you to worry so much. Go home and be obedient." Valerie put away the mantis knife and said like coaxing a child.

She thought Helena had come up to protect the claws from her butcher knife.

"That..." Helena called Valerie. She struggled violently in her heart and finally made up her mind, "How did you do it? You defeated these guys in an instant..."