Batman had already hacked into the communication line between Luo Yajun and the headquarters, so Chu Cheng was listening to their conversations. So he naturally also learned about the way to stop the mental storm, as well as Agent Luo's plan
Self-sacrifice to fulfill this mission.
Of course he can't just sit back and watch.
Chu Cheng asked himself that if he were in Luo Yajun's position, he would definitely not be able to be so fearless, and it is precisely because of this that the agent's behavior is even more worthy of admiration.
But fortunately, he does not need any noble spirit of self-sacrifice to complete his important mission.
Because he is just a gamer.
Because it's a game, he can feel free and bold to do things that he really wouldn't dare to do. Because it's a game, he can use abilities that he doesn't have. He doesn't have to worry about getting hurt or dying, or attracting unnecessary attention.
Do whatever you want and do the right thing.
It even vaguely coincides with Bruce Wayne's philosophy when Batman was born.
As a human being, no matter how rich and well-trained he is, he is still flesh and blood and will be targeted and killed. But if he uses a mask to transform into someone else and become a symbol, he will be indestructible.
And now, relying on the operation of the keyboard and mouse, Chu Cheng has also transformed into that indestructible symbol.
Batman walked into the heart of the storm, and soon the mentally polluting laughter was overwhelming. Chu Cheng's headset rang out with a 360-degree piercing laughter, as if he himself was there
its environment.
That is a sign of infection. The sound will reverberate directly in the person's brain, deafening and getting louder and louder. It is impossible for those who are not determined to reach the eye of the storm.
But Chu Cheng's method of dealing with this annoying sound is also very simple.
He... turned down the volume on his headphones.
Turning down the volume will naturally reduce the weirdness of the laughter. In fact, if necessary, he can even directly block the game volume, or simply open the music software in the background to play Teletubbies in a loop.
This is a common trick used by players to deal with horror games. Be it ghosts or ancient gods, those guys who like to pretend to be gods and ghosts are no match for Teletubbies.
It didn't take long for him to arrive at the center of the storm.
There stood a man. He still had the appearance of the man named Guan Ye, but he was no longer human on the inside. The irreversible deep infection had turned him into the representative of some ancient existence outside of human beings.
A mobile source of infection.
When the figure appeared in his field of vision, Chu Cheng had already controlled Batman to lock the target from a distance. He selected the weapon from the equipment bar, held down the right button of the mouse to lock it, and clicked with the left button. The small dart was like a bat flying through the air.
Flying out of the hand.
But the man seemed to have noticed the approach of the dart from a distance. He turned his head slightly, and the dart flew into the air and nailed into the wall behind him with a snap.
"Missed, ha." The man's mouth opened in a more terrifying arc, "It seems your accuracy isn't that good either."
But he didn't notice that the dart nailed into the wall flashed twice with a dim red light, and then the explosive filled in the dart detonated with a bang.
The wall was blown to pieces, and the shock wave carried the fragments flying everywhere. The man was blown to the ground with a gray face.
He just stood up before Batman rushed into his face, and he didn't even have time to adjust his stance. He faced the jab attack, but Chu Cheng skillfully made Batman slide to the flank with a skillful step, and then used the bat
Xia punched back.
The man reacted quickly, and with the five fingers of his right palm spread out, he blocked Batman's punch, as if he was trying to take a punch with great strength.
But he miscalculated.
The moment Batman's black glove struck his palm, blue electricity suddenly burst out, and countless electric arcs bloomed from the edge of the fist, causing the opponent's palm to become bloody and bloody. Chu Cheng seemed to be able to smell the smell of barbecue through the screen.
.
Batman's gloves are equipped with a powerful electric shock function. Although he usually never turns on the lethal power to deal with street gangsters, when dealing with non-human beings, he naturally doesn't have to be so particular about it and just maxes out the power.
Chu Cheng: Wild infected people have appeared. Come on, Batman, use 100,000 volts!
Outstanding effect!
Although the electric shock could not complete the killing, the infected person's arms softened obviously, and the muscles seemed to have relaxed due to the electric shock. In Chu Cheng's picture, an execution prompt immediately appeared above the opponent's head - this was when the opponent fell into dizziness.
Or a prompt will appear when the movements are stiff, and you can choose different moves to let Batman complete the final blow.
Executed on the spot!
People with an infection level of more than 80% would have died long ago, and the infected people are nothing more than zombie-like walking dead, so naturally Batman's no-kill principle does not apply.
Batman grabbed the man from behind, and a batarang bounced in his hand. He restrained the man from behind, raised the dart in his hand, and cut the man's throat like a hot knife through butter with a sharp blade that was as sharp as clay.
neck.
The red-stained dart trailed a long trail of blood, and the man's head was severed at the neck.
The headless body twitched twice, then his knees bent and he fell to the ground. The bright red blood from the broken wound flowed all over the ground.
After the head hit the ground, it rolled around twice, trailing blood stains, and stopped in a pool of blood.
The laughter stopped.
But the surrounding storm did not mean to stop, but seemed to become more intense. The surrounding streets and buildings were all submerged in the boundless storm, and the overwhelming clouds made people breathless.
The severed head miraculously rolled around on the ground and turned back towards the screen.
But when it turned back, Chu Cheng saw that it was clearly not the face of the man named Guan Ye.
It was the face of a middle-aged man with distinctive Western features and a mustache. There was originally a hint of handsomeness in that face, but it had been severely damaged by the miserable death.
The moment he saw this face, Batman in the picture suddenly took two steps back uncontrollably, as if his heart had been hit hard.
"Father...Father!?"
Chu Cheng's heart was also trembling.
At this moment he realized that this face belonged to Batman's father, Thomas Wayne.
But how could it be here? At this time? In this place?
Chu Cheng suddenly realized that at some point, the screen lens on the screen seemed to be slightly tilted a few degrees. The screen filter also darkened, and the edges of the screen became a bit blurry.
He quickly thought that this was the way the game used pictures to hint to the player when the protagonist in many action games was poisoned or had hallucinations.
So what I see through the screen now is an illusion from Batman's perspective?
In other words, deep inside the mental storm, even Batman as a game character is not immune to the impact of the infection?
"Why...didn't you stop him?"
Thomas Wayne's eyes were bulging, and his empty eyes clearly looked like they belonged to the dead, but his withered and pale mouth was still talking.
Chu Cheng, who is familiar with Batman stories, soon realized that he was referring to the gangster who shot and killed the Waynes.
"You should have tried to stop him, like a man..."
When Chu Cheng heard this, he knew it was complete nonsense. Batman was only eight years old at that time, and he was just a helpless child. If he really tried to rush up and fight with the gangsters, then the world line would probably change, and it would not be Wei Wei who died.
It was him instead of the En couple.
This is not the real Thomas Wayne, and the real Thomas would never think this way. This is just Batman taking advantage of himself. After so many years, he is still blaming himself, and still feels that if his life could be repeated, if he had been
If there was even a slight difference, my parents would not have to die.
"me......"
Batman in the picture was a little confused. He stumbled back two steps, not daring to face the shocking head on the ground.
But when he turned around, a new scene appeared in the dark storm behind him.
A dark alley, a few street lamps in disrepair, and a broken necklace. The pearls originally strung on the necklace crackled and rolled down everywhere, like the tears of a mermaid.
The beautiful woman in luxurious clothes fell in a pool of blood, tilting her head and staring at Batman.
"Bruce...help...us, it's so dark here...I'm so scared..."
Batman shuddered again and stumbled back.
"Mother......"
Although it is a bit cruel, this is the core of the character of Batman. Just like all the Spider-Man writers are unwilling to let go of poor Uncle Ben, every time there is a Batman story, the writers always love to treat his parents
The corpse was dragged out and whipped repeatedly.
There was even an excessive cosplayer who specialized in cosplaying the Waynes and his wife. When they saw Batman at a comic exhibition, they threw themselves on the ground. That scene was so funny that one smile could wipe out twenty years of merit...
.
Chu Cheng hurriedly moved Batman's perspective away from the illusion of the Waynes. The keyboard's WASD could still control Batman's movement, but his pace was obviously much slower. He could only walk but not run or jump, and there was no attack button.
reacted.
Then he knelt down and the filter darkened to the extreme.
The alley disappeared, and the surroundings once again turned into a chaotic storm, as if it were boundless nothingness. A sound came from the depths of the nothingness, and it was a burst of harsh laughter.
"Look, this further proves that I'm right."
The sound echoed in the void.
"Everyone is afraid of nothingness, uncertainty, the feeling that nothing is under their control." The voice said, "You are especially like this, aren't you? Although I don't know who you are, I can
Feel it.
You are strongly afraid of something, more afraid than the average person. And the way you choose to fight against that fear is to dress yourself up like this devil.
You try your best to fight against the uncertain nothingness, trying to keep things under your control, precisely because there is a fear in your heart that ordinary people cannot control."
Batman still maintained his kneeling posture. A flickering exclamation point had popped up in the upper left corner of the screen.
It is explained in the instructions of the novice tutorial. The exclamation point mark means that the hero is on the verge of reaching the limit, maybe the blood volume, the physical strength, or the mental tank is about to bottom out. Once the hero becomes unable to continue the mission, the system will
Its mandatory recall.
It's basically equivalent to character death in traditional games.
Another burst of laughter echoed in the void.
"You see, we are actually exactly the same, or we are simply carved from the same mold." The voice said, "You put on this tight suit to try to fight fear in this way, and the way I chose
It is directly transformed into 'nothing'.
My ability is born for this. All those who are uneasy about the unknown and those who cannot control their own lives, my ability can make them become their own masters again.
Everyone can release their inner true thoughts, tear off the rules, and no longer need to pretend to be hypocritical. They can be their truest selves happily, and they can all become 'nothing', letting those who think they have the rules feel
The horror of ‘nothing’.”
While he was talking, the figure of "Guan Ye" appeared again. He smiled crazily and strangely, and while walking forward, he was holding a fire ax that came from nowhere.
Chu Cheng was almost rolling the keyboard with his face, but Batman in the screen still did not accept the input. However, the camera on the screen shook slightly as he entered.
"Guan Ye" walked to Batman and stopped. He lifted the fire ax with a smile.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Chu Cheng seemed to see Batman's fingers move.
Almost reflexively, Chu Cheng used the unicorn arm hand speed he had developed over more than 20 years of single life, and hit the right mouse button crazily and continuously. That is the key for defense and counterattack, and can control Batman's defense at the moment of being attacked.
opposite.
The fire ax fell. At the moment when the sharp and heavy edge of the ax had almost fallen, Batman moved. He suddenly hit the opponent's wrist with a palm, missing the direction of the ax falling. At the same time, he rolled on the spot,
He narrowly avoided the axe, and only one corner of his cloak was cut off in half.
"What!?" The other party seemed shocked that he actually regained his mobility under such circumstances.
But it was too late for him to fight back. The electric glove punched him twice in a row, and the full-power electric current paralyzed his nerves. Batman grabbed his arm and pulled him over, and the dart was placed across the man's throat.
department.
"Why?"
"Guan Ye" showed a look of astonishment, and even the crazy smile on his face weakened a little due to shock for the first time.
"You are not even a special person, how could you..."
He couldn't figure it out, and it was impossible for him to figure it out.
Only those with special abilities have the ability to be immune to infection. And even those with special abilities can only resist most infections. Once they are infected by a source of infection that is beyond their tolerance, even those with special abilities cannot survive on their own.
Restore sanity in an infected state.
Things that even a special person can't do, let alone this bat-suited lunatic who isn't even a special person.
And he only received a cold and determined answer.
"Because I'm Batman."
The batarang passed by and his head hit the ground.