Me? The director of the Asylum of All Heavens!

Chapter 25: Zaun Changes
Night gradually enveloped the city of Zaun, gloomy clouds hung low, and the continuous heavy rain seemed to carry the uneasy atmosphere that was about to erupt in the city.

The interior of the brothel owner Babette's gorgeously decorated alchemical-powered mechanical vehicle was very spacious. Lin Zizhi and Harley Quinn sat face to face with Babette, and they were all a little embarrassed to look at Babette.

There was a dull and awkward atmosphere in the carriage.

"I'm sorry to trouble you." Lin Zizhi took off the lace mask and wig and apologized sincerely.

The alchemical mechanical car sped along the empty road, splashing water. The rain slammed against the car windows frantically, and the crackling sound brought a depressing panic.

Babette looked out the window at the heavy rain and closed the curtains.

"Nothing. Once we pass this block, I'll ask the driver to find a high place where you can get off under the rain. Where you go after this has nothing to do with me." Babette sighed and held her forehead.

She would definitely not let Lin Zizhi and the others go with her to the meeting at Hilco, but she was embarrassed to just kick them out of the car at a random place in such bad weather.

Lin Zizhi's identity in her eyes is still that of a member of the Jiraman family, which represents the upper aristocratic class.

This class force is incompatible with Hilco, and she cannot offend either side.

"Mr. Lin, you don't have any other clothes to change into now, so you might as well keep on wearing the wig. It would look even weirder if you took off the wig and wore a skirt." Harley Quinn said with a chuckle.

Lin Zizhi frowned slightly and ignored her, but stopped the action of removing makeup.

This makes him look more like a handsome girl with short hair.

"Look at this pretty little face. If I didn't already have a little pudding, I would eat you up in one bite."

Harley Quinn let out a moan with a wicked smile, then placed her chin on her hands and looked at Lin Zizhi infatuatedly.

'Little Pudding? It seems that Harley Quinn in her early days still couldn't escape the fate of being obsessed with the Joker. I wonder if she can realize that she has been PUA'd by the Joker after traveling through different worlds.'

Lin Zizhi glanced at Harley Quinn and suddenly felt some sympathy for her.

The flooded roads in Zaan were extremely bumpy, and the dim street lights outside the car flickered, as if they would go out at any time.

Suddenly the alchemical mechanical vehicle stopped.

"Are we there yet?" Babette pulled open the curtains and looked out the window. The heavy rain washed over the car windows, blurring her vision. She couldn't see what was happening outside the car at all.

Lightning flashed, the wind howled, and a terrifying and gloomy atmosphere spread.

"Boss, the water ahead is too deep. It's already gone over the car door. A car broke down in the middle of the road. We can't get through. Maybe we have to take a detour." The driver turned around and said.

A flash of lightning illuminated the night sky. The driver did not see that right in front of them, the mechanical vehicle parked in the middle of the road had a severely deformed body, and scarlet blood continued to spread out from the broken door, dyeing the entire puddle red.

At this time, a tall and strong figure like a wild beast climbed out of the car, jumped onto a street lamp nearby, and howled to the sky, but the thunder in the heavy rain drowned out its roar.

"Let's take another route. We're probably not the only ones who will be late in this weather," Babette consoled herself.

The driver turned around and saw that the figure in the darkness had disappeared. Only the street lamp it had stepped on was shaking constantly, and the candle inside the lamp was extinguished.

The pitch-black environment made it even more difficult for him to see what was happening in front of him.

"I hope everyone inside is okay." The driver muttered to himself and turned the car around.

Lin knew that they couldn't get out of the car for a while, and Babette was restless, hesitating whether to confess her participation in the Hilco meeting.

Soon the alchemical mechanical vehicle drove to another small road. This road was a bit eerie, and no one turned on the street lights on both sides.

Only the neon lights of some alchemy workshops were dimly visible in the heavy rain, providing faint illumination.

The factory pipes around us occasionally emit dark green poisonous mist, which is then diluted by the heavy rain and flows into the puddle.

This is an area where Zaun's alchemy factories are relatively concentrated, and Singed's alchemy laboratory is nearby.

At that time, Lin Zizhi and Harley Quinn escaped from Singed's Alchemy Workshop from the safe passage exit here.

"Oh, isn't this where I work?" Harley Quinn looked at the familiar neighborhood through the car window.

There were still many people moving around in the block, so it looked relatively safe.

"Wait, just drop us off here!" Harley Quinn suggested.

This answer was exactly what Babette wanted, so she raised her hand to signal the driver to stop.

However, they noticed something strange at this moment. It was raining heavily, and the figures were not holding umbrellas.

It was a bit strange that so many Zaun residents were wandering the streets in the heavy rain and refusing to go home.

"The atmosphere here isn't right. Why don't you get off at the next block?" Babette kindly tried to keep Lin Zizhi and the others.

Lin Zizhi, who was about to get off the car, also felt that the atmosphere was a bit weird. He stopped, closed the car door again and observed carefully. "Strange, why don't these people hold umbrellas and go home?"

People wandering around the block under the dim neon lights saw the car lights and began to gather here.

At this moment, Harley Quinn's eyes suddenly widened. She patted the driver's shoulder in horror and shouted, "Go! Quick! Get out of here!"

The driver didn't know what was happening, but when he saw the group of people starting to run towards him, he stepped on the accelerator and started to speed up.

Suddenly, a bloody handprint appeared on the car window, and a pale face with blood all over its mouth and a strange curve at the corners of its mouth pressed against the car window.

The crazy crowd chased the car and banged on the windows. Countless bloody handprints were clearly imprinted on the windows.

The quality of the car windows was not good, and soon the front glass was covered with cracks.

A flash of lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating the pale, bloodless faces of the group of people, as well as the weird smiles on everyone's lips that were so exaggerated that they almost split behind their ears.

“Hahahaha, hahahahaha!”

"Ha ha!"

"Hahahahaha!"

The driver was so frightened that he stepped on the accelerator, trying to get rid of them.

Suddenly the car window shattered, and countless hands reached in and scratched the driver. One of the pale and bloodless arms tightly grasped the driver's neck.

The driver was out of breath and swerved the steering wheel. If he continued like this, the vehicle would be out of control.

At the critical moment, Lin Zizhi's heart was beating wildly and veins bulged. He suddenly raised his leg, and the short scabbard tied to the inside of his thigh was exposed through the slit of his long skirt.

His eyes glowed red, and with the help of the faint light, he suddenly pulled out the dagger and cut off the pale arm that was strangling the driver's neck with one stroke.

The driver gasped, gripped the steering wheel, and shook off the crazy crowd that surrounded him.

The creepy laughter echoed throughout the entire block. Seeing that they could not catch up with the alchemical mechanical vehicle, those strange figures wandered around in the same place again.

The driver was so scared that he didn't dare to stop for a moment and sped away at full speed.

"What's going on?" Babette asked tremblingly.

"I don't know! There is no such thing in the plot!" Lin knew that his adrenaline was rushing and his heart was beating fast. This was the aftereffect of using the dim light.

Fortunately, after changing into the skirt, Lin Zizhi was not too worried, so he asked the dancers for a short scabbard for leggings, and put the dagger he found at the garbage dump in it.

Otherwise, if the driver had been strangled to death, the alchemical mechanical vehicle would have had an accident on the road and everyone in the vehicle would have died.

"What's going on? Has there been such a strange development in the story of the War of the Two Cities? Calm down, maybe they are the patients of Zaun who are addicted to the glimmer. No, they don't have the physical deformations common to patients who overeat the glimmer. Is it true that there is such a horrible scene in the original plot, but it was not clearly shown? "

"What plot?" Babette was stunned.

"It's nothing, let's get out of here quickly!" The veins on Lin Zizhi's forehead were glowing purple, his heartbeat couldn't slow down for a long time, and the faint light in his body was still surging wildly.

After using the low light continuously, he didn’t know if there would be any side effects. Lin Zizhi only felt that he was hungry again.

He tried to calm himself down and looked back at Harley Quinn, wanting to ask her if she had any chocolate bars in case of emergency.

However, the fearless Harley Quinn curled up in the car, trembling all over, muttering to herself.

"He's coming! He's coming! He's coming!"

"Harry, what's wrong with you?" Lin Zizhi asked worriedly.

"No! I'm not ready! I'm not ready!" Harley Quinn screamed hysterically, grabbing her hair frantically.

She looked like she was frightened, but also mixed with many other emotions including anger, sadness, self-blame, pain, and nostalgia.

Even Lin Zizhi saw a hint of attachment.

"Calm down, who's here! Do you know something?" Lin Zizhi held Harley Quinn's shoulders and comforted her.

"pudding……"

Harley Quinn's face was pale at this moment, and her eyes were lifeless, as if she had lost her soul.

It was a long time before she raised her head. Her tears had smudged her makeup. She covered her face and murmured to herself, "He is a cursed nightmare, a blackened and corrupted bat. He is Batman who is infected with the Joker virus - the Bat Who Laughs. He is also the love of my life - Little Pudding."

(End of this chapter)