Nightwing, who was sitting in the center, covered his eyes. Red Robin next to him sighed, and Red Hood folded his arms speechlessly.
They watched helplessly as Schiller took the paint found in the supermarket and painted two huge magic circles on the path that the two Batmans must pass without stopping or even thinking at all.
"What's the point of this?" Yeyi asked in disbelief: "He is the first one to get the totem pole fragments. The first-mover advantage in this game is huge. He can intercept it in the first place.
Second, on the way to the third person who gets the totem pole fragment, even if he can’t attack himself, he can still call the hunter over. What is he doing?!"
"I heard Batman mention Professor Rodriguez." Red Robin tried to speculate in a more formal direction. He said: "Batman said that he has profound knowledge of occult science and is a certain magic in their universe.
Professor of the college, could this magic circle actually be used?"
Red Hood sighed deeply and said: "If it works, there is a ghost. He is a complete madman, a mental patient. He once made the clown..."
The red hood's eyes drifted to Jack next to him, and then glanced at the heavily armed Batman, but in the end he didn't say anything.
"What did he do to the clown?"
The moment the deep voice sounded, almost everyone shuddered, and the Red Hood even shrank his neck. For some reason, although the Batman didn't turn his head, he felt that this question was aimed at him.
Red Hood curled his lips and said nothing.
"Don't go off topic, we are now discussing why Dr. Schiller drew this magic circle. His behavior cannot bring him a big enough advantage." Nightwing shook his head again and said, "So what if he deceived Batman?"
How about that? By the time we find the third totem pole fragment, the battle will definitely have heated up and no one will study the magic circle again."
"Then you don't understand Batman very well." Jack's slightly smiling voice came. He dug his fingers between his teeth and said, "Batman only pursues victory and the efficiency of winning."
"The rules don't mention the conditions for winning at all, so this is most likely a language trap. The designer of the game likes to play this trick very much, and I discovered it before." Jack snorted coldly and said: "He wants to see everything.
It’s the confused and despairing look on someone’s face after a desperate fight only to find they can’t win, but Batman won’t be fooled.”
"Since defeating others does not necessarily lead to victory, then there will be no situation where the battle reaches a fever pitch as you said. Batman's attention is always on exploration, so all clues containing information will attract him
eyes."
At this point, Jack suddenly stopped and turned to look at Batman next to him, as if waiting for Batman to speak.
But before Batman could speak, Peter spoke first.
"According to my understanding of Dr. Schiller, this is probably just an appetizer. If he wants to create a scam, it must be multi-angle and all-round, making it impossible for the prey to hide and escape.
."
"Playback." A similarly low, but slightly aged voice sounded, and in an instant, the entire screening room fell silent.
Everyone's eyes fell on the old man in the corner, but the strange thing was that no matter how they looked, they could not completely see his face. The moment they focused their attention, they would be taken away, as if he was not there.
Doesn't exist there.
But soon the inverted light and shadow on the screen attracted their attention, and everyone else looked back at the screen. Only Batman's gaze stayed on the old man for a while longer, until the playback stopped.
The picture on the screen returned to about ten minutes ago, when Schiller had just finished drawing the second magic circle.
A dark figure appeared at the corner, and just when everyone thought it was Bruce, it was Loki who walked out.
The moment Schiller looked back and saw Loki, he lowered his arms, showed a smile, and said, "I didn't expect you to come too. How have you been lately?"
"We are still reforming Asgard's internal affairs." Loki spread his hands and said, "I was still wondering if I would meet you in this game, but I didn't expect that we have a clear understanding of each other."
Then he looked up at the huge magic circle that Schiller had just finished painting, smiled knowingly, and said, "Tell me, who are you going to deceive this time?"
"Don't worry about this for now, are you coming?"
Loki laughed out loud, shook his head and said, "My price is not low, you know."
"Can you be more greedy than Nick?"
"You overestimate me."
The two laughed together. Loki walked to Schiller's side and looked up at the huge magic circle with him. Schiller said: "There is a very interesting guy in this game, but there may be others.
More, if you cooperate with my plan, there will be a lot of fun here."
"Of course, of course." Loki lowered his head, then nodded and said with a smile: "You have fun wherever you are, and I am bored. Tell me about your plan."
Red Robin slapped him on the forehead.
"I knew there could be such a coincidence." Yeyi said speechlessly: "I just found a magic circle, and a magician who can explain everything came out. It was a coincidence, as if it was arranged."
"But I don't think Batman is so easy to believe." Red Robin touched his chin and speculated: "This magician named Loki is really suspicious. Even if the Batman he meets is younger, he will definitely treat him
Be very vigilant.”
"That's not his goal." Batman suddenly said.
Several Robins turned to look at him. In fact, they had been interested in this slightly unique Batman from the beginning, but they knew that usually Batman would not respond to them.
So they just observed silently, but now that Batman took the initiative, they could finally ask questions.
"What's the meaning?"
"He asked the magician to lure away irrelevant personnel." Batman's voice came from the visor: "His target is Batman wearing a bat suit."
Along with Batman's voice, the perspective on the screen cut to Batman in the game. He had arrived at the location of the second pattern and saw the huge magic circle.
But this time, his attention was no longer entirely on the magic circle, but he found the footprints of Loki and Bruce around him.
The sand and dust left behind by the collapse of the building were the best revealing agents. Although Bruce had cleaned up his footprints as much as possible, Batman still found half a trace of his foot at the very edge of the building.
Bruce's height and weight are easy to infer, but his identity cannot be inferred from just one footprint. However, Loki's footprints are a bit strange. His walking traces appear out of thin air.
Batman searched around carefully, and then found that Loki's footprints appeared once, disappeared, and then appeared again. There were no traces of walking in the middle, so it seemed very abrupt.
That proves that this person first came here, then flew away, and then flew back here again. Why did he go back and forth like this?
Batman found a small pit next to a certain footprint mark. This small pit was imprinted on the relatively moist soil, so it can be seen that it was like a mark left by some kind of long stick or long stick on the ground.
, the tail of the stick is also carved with exquisite patterns.
Batman knelt on the ground and carefully looked at the patterns between the sand and soil, and found that they were deformed wave patterns, and they were only decorative and did not have any attack function.
It shows that this is not a weapon used for stabbing, but a decorative prop, so I am afraid it is not a hunter's weapon distributed by the organizer, but a decoration brought in by someone.
But when there is a camp, who will bring the decorations in? Unless the decorations have other functions.
Batman stood there and looked at the place where the footprints were. Soon a hazy shadow appeared in his field of vision. A mage wearing a gorgeous long robe and holding a staff used magic to come here and then leave.
Then came back here.
Suddenly Batman turned his head and looked at the huge magic circle painted on the wall.
This time he walked closer and looked at all the words and symbols carefully, and finally saw a rune with a color slightly different from other runes at a height of almost one meter and three meters below.
Batman walked over and touched the rune lightly with his hand. When he saw the dark red paint left on his hand, he knew that the rune on the wall had been altered.
Batman stretched out his hand and wiped the other runes, and found that it was of no use. The pattern here had completely dried. No matter whether he wiped it with his hand or picked it with his fingers, it would not fall off at all. Only the modified rune
The text is still moist and bright.
So Batman deduced that a mage came here and saw the magic circle, and used magic to change a certain symbol in the magic circle. When other people came here, he showed up again and pretended to be knowledgeable to explain to them.
, in order to achieve the effect of misleading them.
The changed magic circle was no longer credible, but Batman still wrote down all the contents on the magic circle, then focused on remembering the location of the changed symbols, and speculated on the magician's whereabouts.
It seems that this magician can either fly or teleport. Apart from a few footprints left here, there is no trace of his subsequent actions, but the person who came here later obviously can neither fly nor teleport.
, despite consciously cleaning up his footprints, Batman still found some subtle traces.
After following the traces, the footprints disappeared about five or six hundred meters away. Batman guessed that the magician might have used magic to take it away.
But suddenly, Batman heard a movement on the opposite side of the narrow alley behind him, as if a man was talking intermittently.
"Oh my God, Venom, let me say it again, as long as we go to the commercial area in front, we will find a display window with chocolates. Then you can eat whatever you want. Don't bother me anymore. I have to think about the rules carefully!"
"Okay, okay, I know you are a smart alien life, but this is not the reason for you to attack my IQ..."
As soon as Batman turned the corner, he met a man, and only one man.
The man opposite was also startled by him. He stood at the base of the wall and looked Batman up and down. After a while, he said, "Hello, are you a contestant this time too?"
A series of information immediately flashed through Batman's mind, and then he nodded and said, "Yes, I am Batman."
"Uh, I'm Eddie Brock, uh... I'm Hunter, what about you?"
Batman frowned slightly. He saw that this man had little training, and he didn't seem to have super powers. He wasn't even a genius with extraordinary IQ or a rich man. He looked like a very ordinary media man.
worker.
Batman didn't think his teammates would let him become a hunter, because he was completely powerless, but judging from his demeanor and the smoothness of his language, he wasn't lying.
And now that he is alone, what is that alien life he calls Venom?