[Comprehensive British and American] Gotham Mayor Simulator

Lincoln March got out of the car.

Biting cold wind poured into the car, and the original owner who was knocked out groaned, but didn't wake up.

Lincoln frowned and said nothing, looked at the crooked front of the car, and then stretched out his hand——

There is a desolate road in the distance, and there is no car on the road. He is on the road from Gotham City to Bludhaven. However, a certain translucent barrier blocks him.

There is no entity, nothing, but the closer you get, the heavier the sense of oppression, there is something in front, so he can't leave.

Lincoln angrily punched the front of the car.

He took a deep breath, took out the gun, and stuffed it directly into the mouth of the car owner who was about to get up tremblingly, and then "Bang——"

This fatal shot did not cause the opponent to shed too much blood. He dragged the body into the bushes and drove back to the city.

After about a few minutes, the stiff corpse got up in a daze. At first, he wondered what happened, then his expression changed, and he immediately took out his mobile phone and chose to call the police.

Lincoln drove his car and blended into the traffic.

At first, he didn't find anything wrong.

The surrounding environment is no different from the original Gotham City. No one realizes that this is an illusion until Lincoln looks up, and in the rain, gargoyles fly by.

Then, there was no sound from the communicator used to contact Charon, and there was no response from the bomb buried in Charon's neck—what he thought at that moment was that this guy chose to betray, and then, Lincoln I found more unusual places, some details, such as some shops were not open, and the person waiting for the red light beside him seemed to be different from the original one, and then more and more evidence.

At that moment just now, he seemed to have come to another Gotham City.

And he couldn't leave.

This is a prosperous city, exactly the same as the real Gotham City. Lincoln can obtain other people's identities, mobile phones, find the old address of the owl, go underground to investigate the disappearance of Charon, contact Daisy...or other, But he doesn't know what he's doing, he's...

He's trying to escape the city.

He is afraid.

This is fake, he was sure it was a fake city, Lincoln thought he didn't love Gotham, but in fact, he really knew this city very well - he hacked into the website and found that the network here could only see Gotham The news in Tan City, searching for "New York" and "Metropolis" are all "no results", this place is like an isolated island, no matter how much it looks like Gotham City, it is also fake!

However, he drove the car around, and he actually drove to Qingliu Hut.

This is where he... lives.

During her pregnancy, Martha Wayne was threatened by gangsters and suffered a car accident, which led to his premature birth. For his safety, he was placed in this shelter by his parents. Year after year, he grew up in pain. Sha could not recognize him, and could only visit all the children, including him, occasionally in the name of an investor.

He firmly believed that the other party's real purpose was to visit him, just to hide his existence, so he could only use an excuse to visit his child. Martha treated him no differently from others, but he knew that the way she looked over was Different.

Why can Bruce Wayne live with his family openly, but he is obviously different from other orphans, but he can only live in the shadows?

With the help of the court of owls, he is no longer so sickly, he becomes stronger day by day, his brother left Gotham City, he knew it was the day of his return, but the appearance of Bruce ruined everything.

——If he is allowed to be the heir of the Wayne family, Gotham City will be better, Lincoln firmly believes in this.

Green Willow Cottage has been turned into ruins after the fire, surrounded by unusable swampland, it looks like a haunted house from a distance.

Lincoln jumped out of the car and entered the basement of the Green Willow Cottage, which was once used by the administrator to discipline the children. However, he opened the door of the basement and saw a silver-gray mechanical device with dark green liquid floating up and down.

"Is this a virtual city? I'm in an illusion?" Lincoln hesitated for a moment, then touched the shell of the machine, "Or...this is actually Gotham City?"

He's just stuck in Gotham City?

He was distraught at this moment.

If it is the former, it means that he is probably being hypnotized. Someone has invaded his brain and peeled off the deep secrets. If it is the latter, it means that he is also being hypnotized, just like a mouse in a cage that controls variables. The plan has been known for a long time, it is like putting on a show for the other party without knowing it.

Their struggles and efforts are just a farce on the stage.

Lincoln had doubts about the success of his plan.

No, he can't go to Daisy...he doesn't trust her, and he can't go to Charon, who might betray him...to the owl's hole?To their lair hidden in the city?However, the sharp claws that emerged from the nest have all become knives in the hands of the mayor... Gotham City's court rulers are all suffering from mental illness. The benefits they left behind... a small loss outweighs the big, these idiots!

He put his hand on the machine, and a crazy idea suddenly flashed through his mind——

If they're the guys on the stage, just smash the stage.

Regardless of whether this is the fake Gotham City or the real Gotham City, as long as it is destroyed... no, you can't think like that!

Lincoln realized that he was affected by this illusion that "the whole world is false"——

After people realize that they are in a virtual world that they cannot leave, their minds will be affected, they may become lunatics, and they may use all means to escape. It's not that bad... no machines for now.

He tidied up the traces he left behind and left the Green Willow hut. However, just as he jumped into the car, another ordinary car drove up from the end of the road. Lincoln frowned—he didn't like the unexpected feeling of being out of control, so he As the two cars passed by, the muzzle of the gun protruded from the opposite car window.

"GCPD! Give up resistance, stop immediately—"

Lincoln was stunned for a moment, he took out his gun and fired two shots at the opposite side, but one shot hit the window glass inexplicably, and the other shot deviated from the trajectory due to the sudden falling branch.

Lincoln: "..."

Forget it, if he didn't know that this would happen, how could he deliberately stick the muzzle into the opponent's mouth when he killed someone before? It's not because even an ordinary person can make him use a stroke in a clumsy dodge The marksmanship is outrageous!

As soon as Lincoln stepped on the accelerator, he decided to drive away. The moment he accelerated, he heard a less obvious coughing sound from inside the police car.

After Lincoln and the police car left one after another, Batman covered his mouth and nose, and pushed open the door of Green Willow Cottage.

He wiped away the dust from the photo on the wall of the hall, stared fixedly at Martha Wayne in the photo, and after a while, he went underground.

"Magic has a much longer history than technology, and technology may not be able to do what magic can't." Batman stared at the machine in front of him, "This is made by Augustus, it's obvious."

The props to deal with magicians are naturally found in the Batcave.

By collecting the frequency of the magician's power and using a kind of wave of mutual restraint, drive the opponent back to the original world, just like demons and angels cannot directly descend in the human world, if a certain existence is not human, or even not recognized by this universe species, then he cannot leave and descend directly to the main material plane, but must go through a medium.

The machine in front of him was in operation. Batman took out his batarang. A few seconds later, the machine emitted light and a gray smoke rose with a slight explosion. He checked the surroundings and left the basement.

He took out the tablet and hacked into the monitoring system of GCPD in this world——

The whole city is in deep chaos.

In the movie, the villain's bat attack coincided with a virus that ravaged the city.

Now under the order of the "mayor", everyone temporarily stays behind closed doors, isolates themselves at home or in the company, stops drinking unboiled water, and uses bottled unopened mineral water instead.Sending it to the hospital won’t help, because the hospital is already overcrowded, and even many medical staff have already been recruited. Therefore, if Lincoln’s car drives on the street, it will find that the street is terribly cold, and only special forces in full-body protective suits drive tanks , driving on the street, while people are on top of tall buildings, carefully looking at the outside situation through the glass in panic and timidity.

In the sky, there are still gargoyles flying past - gargoyles are all stone sculptures, so naturally they will not be affected by the virus, and people will ignore them for the time being.

Central Avenue has been blocked, Batman has not contacted Vivi and Night Wing, and Robin is staying in the hospital, and his condition is not very good.

Batman guessed that the virus was related to both blood and air. To be on the safe side, he used oxygen cylinders to enter the blockade area and collected groundwater, but he found it underground. Tests showed that the underground air was even cleaner than the ground.

Is something purifying the groundwater?Batman pressed his finger on the water pipe in the underground wall, pondered for a moment, then moved his finger away. Under his strength, the water pipe in front of him didn't even leave the slightest trace.

Batman is not surprised that Gotham City in reality will also have this. It seems that as long as they respond in time, even if the virus is raging, the situation in Gotham City can be controlled within a certain range. However, as long as the source of the virus cannot be solved... Things can't really get better.

Either get rid of everyone who is sick, or make an antidote immediately.

"Is this what you want? To keep the virus in this world? Until an antidote is found?"

Batman leaves Green Willow Cottage, and finally, he lands in Crime Alley.

There is a Batcave in reality, but in this world, Batman is not Bruce Wayne. His lair is in the Wayne Building. In reality, the Wayne Memorial Hall has been pulled down, and the place where the couple died has become There is no need for Bruce to visit the flower shop with flowers, there will always be flowers around, but in this world, it still stands in Crime Alley.

Had Lincoln March taken a look at his "parents" memorial first, he would have likely realized that this was the "movie" world and figured out how to solve his trapped problem.

——The Wishing Rose that the Shadow Bat wants to win.

In the current timeline, the heroine Irene is rushing to the memorial hall, and the gargoyle of the shadow bat is a step behind. Is the rose in the movie really effective?No one knows, but getting roses is more certain than not having roses.

Batman, Bruce Wayne landed at the back door of the memorial hall, the street lamps were also wrapped in rain, and the raindrops splashed on the puddles. In the reflection of the puddles, his face in protective clothing looked like a dark evil ghost.

Bruce paused suddenly.

For many years in the past, he was Batman, he dressed like a madman to protect Gotham City, and flew through the streets of Gotham, and sometimes, he would come to the back door of the memorial with a bouquet of roses, right here, he Not going in, just put the roses under the street lamp, after a few days or a few hours, the roses will disappear.

Bruce never said he was a hero. Even after forming the Justice League, they fought for justice, but he still didn't think he was a hero, because part of what he did was for himself-he had to stand up, Something had to be done, the criminal had to be defeated, so that he could forget about the cowardly self in the alley.

In the alley, the Wayne couple were shot dead, so Batman appeared. He was not fearless, he had also been poisoned by terrorist gas, and he saw his mother's pearl necklace scattered in the poisonous gas, and he lost his strong body and strength. With the martial arts he has practiced, he is still a helpless child in fear.

Now too.

Bruce Wayne stared at the reflection in the puddle, and his shadow was also cast under the street lamp, above the puddle, twisted and broken as the rain hit, and then the shadow squirmed, as if it had been sucked away suddenly ambient light.

It became "Batman".

In other words, it became the villain in the movie, Batman Shadow, the "Batman" who can control the gargoyle and hide himself in the shadows.

Bruce knows its deep setting, that is, the one that is not shown in the movie, and the movie invested by Wayne will naturally not write the big boss "Bruce Wayne" as Batman, but the screenwriter does not know Batman's true identity, if The second and third part of the movie is going to be made. At this time, Batman accidentally exposed his identity in reality, which will make the movie very passive-so they made a decision that the "Batman" in the movie will never be announced. real identity.

Even, the Batman in the movie may not be a "villain", it can be a shadow.

A shadow split from the superhero Batman.

As far as Bruce knows, the current setting is that the shadow bat is the shadow of "Batman", just like the dripping beast can escape its control, its dream is to "rule Gotham" or "become human", the sequel If you choose the latter as your wish, you can find a way to clear it up. After all, this is an animated movie, and there will be no more complicated conspiracy.

So when Bruce realized what movie world they were entering, he knew where the villain was, in his shadow, always there.

The shadow in front of him doesn't have the protective suit on Bruce, and it still looks like "Batman". There is only a little white in the whole shadow, which is the chin, and it has no eyes.

Its voice is also the same as Bruce's changed voice, it seems to be seeing Bruce for the first time: [Is this what my controller looks like?You don't have fangs or claws, and you can't fly. You look weaker than me. Why do you control me instead of me? 】

When it said its last words, it was almost against Bruce's face, separated only by the hazmat suit and mask.

"But you helped me and brought me to Lincoln March," Bruce said. "Let the gargoyle drive humans away from the quarantine zone. Here, we have to fight together, or Gotham City will no longer exist, shadow .”

"Yes, we have to fight together," a familiar female voice sounded from the intercom on Batman's chest, "The special forces have blocked the main road and assembled them in different areas. My people are killing Gotham City's currently famous virus Scientists and medical scientists are sent to the old city, let them start to study the samples, and the Star Laboratory provides a research site, and everything will be fine."

"Thank you," Bruce paused, "Anna."

Anna Elek, the mayor of Gotham City, but Bruce didn't see her with his own eyes. She contacted everyone in the city by phone to let everyone take action and organize the fight against the epidemic. However, even if he saw her, because she It did not appear in the movie, and it is probably the same "public" face as others.Probably the Bruce Wayne of this world is not Batman in setting, so there is no Batcave under Wayne Manor.

Without the help of the bat computer, Bruce couldn't help deciphering the genetic code of the virus.

[There is no underground city either,] You Ying said, [It is said that Old Gotham has indeed sunk underground, but who would believe this kind of legend to coax children? 】

While it's a villain that kids can beat, it also rules Gotham City, at least with the gargoyle, who knows all of Gotham's secrets.

"And what about the Court of Owls?" Bruce asked.

This time, the shadow was silent for a while, and then said: [They have always existed, those owls, they hid in this city, they have made nests in our homes for hundreds of years, but we have been unable to drive them away... Because Gotham City has become their home too. 】

It gives Bruce a detailed description of the courthouse, which Bruce contrasts with everything he knows, and finally, it mentions Anna Eleck, saying: [… I don't know much about that New Yorker. 】

When he heard the sound of glass shattering, Bruce opened the back door and walked into the Waynes Memorial Hall because Irene came.

2 minutes earlier or 2 minutes later than now, the rose will always be a rose, and only when the heroine Irene appears, the rose will become a "rose" that can make people's wishes come true. This is a movie that revolves around Irene As for the transferred movie, except for her and a few main characters, theoretically everyone else is a vague or repetitive character.

Irene rushed in holding the gargoyle's neck, and after that, the sound of the police car almost rang through the sky.

The rose talked to Irene softly. The red-haired girl felt like she was in a fairy tale world. She held the rose and was at a loss just like in the movie, until the shadow of the bat fell on her: "Irene."

Irene grabbed the flower stem and immediately blocked the gargoyle, and then she realized that the "bat" in front of her didn't seem to be the "bat" she saw.

"What do you want to wish?" Rose, the only one present who was not affected at all, asked again in that slow tone.

"Eileen," Batman's cloak was raised, blocking the police's blinding searchlights, "do you want to—"

He didn't finish his sentence, because his shadow was suddenly magnified under the effect of the searchlight and projected on the wall, like a terrifying monster, and then the terrifying monster shot out like an arrow, pointing directly at the rose in Irene's hand , At this moment, a bullet bounced off Batman's cloak, and then bounced twice on the metal partition of the wall, which happened to penetrate the sharp finger of the Shadow Bat shooting at Irene.

——as destined in the movie.

The girl was startled, and immediately went to pull the gargoyle, and it was too late to listen to Bruce's unfinished words, but at this moment, a man, a boy, stood on the gargoyle's wings.

The boy slashed down with a knife, but the knife stayed strong and only forced the gargoyle back. His real goal was the rose in Irene's hand.

He's obviously, obviously here... in ambush for a long time!

However, at this time, Irene seemed to slip on her feet and almost fell, while the gargoyle bent down to protect her. The boy's finger was only less than three centimeters away. The next second, the girl and the gargoyle together Roll out of the glass-shattered memorial.

Only the bullets of the police officers arrived as promised.

Bruce hesitated for a moment at this point, and then he pulled up his cloak to protect the green-eyed boy.

In this case... In the chaotic virtual world, he met his son, his biological son with Talia.

Damian.

"I don't need to—" Wrapped in a red uniform, Damian codenamed himself "Red Bird", but he didn't finish his sentence.

Because the whole world, everything around, seems to be going backwards.

Except for the two of them in the memorial hall.

The broken glass returned to its original state, the opened door was closed again, and even a rose that disappeared returned to the picture, but there was no ability to make wishes and dialogues—just like when Damian came to the memorial hall Same.

He had visited the movie world long before, and then made a decision to go directly to the memorial hall to get the roses, but as long as he took the roses here, he would encounter various accidents, and the roses would also Coming back here by chance, Damian guessed that it would probably have to wait for the "plot".

Roses are related to the plot of the movie, so he only has that one chance to snatch the roses from Irene.

Now he fails.

He hates failure.

Damian asked angrily, "What's the matter?"

He was asking about changes in the surrounding environment.

Batman, his biological father, glanced at the wall clock: "The movie is over, it lasted seven hours."

Damian was taken aback, he frowned, and this time he asked sincerely: "Is this world a cycle? Only seven hours?"

"Then how should we leave?" He sneered, "Do you trust Vivi White?"

Who can pull them into this world, don't do what he wants except that guy.

"Sorry..." Batman's protective suit didn't disappear, and the intercom on his chest uttered, "What's the cycle? What's wrong with Vivi?"

It's "Anna Eleck," Madam Mayor.

Obviously, after the world cycle, the memories of NPCs in this world also go backwards.

"Mayor," Bruce said, "explain all this later, we are running out of time, you can send someone to check if there are nearly 3000 people in Gotham Central Hospital and Wayne Hospital, all of them are infected with the virus, It is transmitted through the air, and if there is a wound on the body, it will accelerate the infection, immediately block the hospital, we don't have much time."

After a short chat to win the trust, he cut off the chat, and Damian was still standing in front of him, at this time he said arrogantly: "These people are just NPCs in the movie, even if they are infected, they won't die. Isn't what we need to do now to find those people again?" Doctor, do you want to study the antidote immediately?"

This world actually cycles every seven hours, which means that obtaining the antidote is more troublesome, because the previous research results will disappear, and the process of gathering and gaining the trust of doctors has to be done repeatedly. Just think about it and understand how troublesome it is.

Bruce looked at Damian, but the expression under the protective clothing was a bit complicated.

Of course he knew that Damian was his son. Talia would not say nothing when he kept Damian, and Talia thought that keeping Damian by Daisy's side was a chance for him to exercise. They recognized each other because...he didn't know how to treat his own son, the son born of the assassin's daughter, this bloody hand...the devil's son.

But they did meet after all.

"I was expecting a family," Bruce finally said with difficulty, "...and I got it."

also lost.

"Damian," he said, "I have an obligation to guard you, follow me."

"Call me 'Red Bird'," the boy was silent for a while, "I haven't acknowledged you yet."

But in this world, except for the person in front of him and a few people, they are all NPCs, so it's no problem to keep up... He still has to catch Vivi White.

When the movie world enters the second round, the reality of Gotham City is almost a replica of the movie world.

... In order to win the trust of Charon, when using [Fantasy Township], Weiwei immediately manipulated the mayor's vest, blocked the entire street, and pulled the councilors and other passers-by on the street into the hospital for isolation.

And besides them, there were dozens of ambulances that were completely empty. The ambulance drove onto the street, then drove back without taking anything away, and police cars also drove up to block the street. To ventilate and turn off all monitoring, even so, Weiwei is worried that she has not done enough.

She is multi-tasking, one part is the mayor, and she is instructing them to release false clues, and let her staff contact other virus experts—other cities, one part is Daisy, and go underground to find Charon, waiting for an opportunity, just in case Informed Red Hood and Doctor Stephen, part of them were in Gensokyo, looking for the non-existent underground world compared to reality, if there is no underground world, how to get the antidote for the virus - they don't have much time, even Bella is busy , busy maintaining the law and order of Gotham City, and not allowing criminals a chance to harm this panic-stricken city.

She has never been able to control four characters at full power at the same time.

Sometimes, Weiwei also thinks, does the skill of [Divided Multitasking] really exist?What is the principle? If there is such a skill in the game, is she really still her?

At a certain moment when she was busy, she felt as if she was floating lightly, looking down on this bustling, rich and scarred city from above, she saw herself, but it was not "Anna", "Bella" and "Daisy", but "Vivi" wearing different glasses, but in the eyes of others, just wearing glasses, they changed their minds from the cognitive level, thinking that it was the mayor, the warden, and the professor.

She turned her attention to [Gensokyo] again, and saw "Wei Wei", who was also working on the issue of the virus.

This illusion seemed to have only passed for a moment, and when Weiwei came back to her senses, that perspective disappeared.

She pushed her body into the lake, rubbed her temples, and felt a little overworked headache.

——Speaking of which, "Weiwei" is just a character made by her face. When did she feel that this is... "herself"?

Weiwei stood up on her knees, and she also realized that the time in the movie was like reloading the file, but looking at the corpses that did not disappear, she knew that the influence of these "outsiders" would not be reloading of.

Obviously, there is no Bone Town underground. If the antidote cannot be found underground, then the only way to get the antidote is to count on the real "Bone Town", the one below Gotham City.

But Weiwei doesn't want to take risks, not to mention anything else, the population of the entire Gotham City is only over 700 million, and she doesn't want to use her 700 million to exchange for the 10,000+ below.

Her eyes went dark again for a moment. Weiwei was already familiar with this feeling. When she opened her eyes again, there was already a dead body lying in front of her, her own dead body. It rolled down the arc, smashed into the lake with a plop, and sank slowly.

"... Someone died again, did he die of illness?"

It seems that she can't go back casually, unless she abandons the corpse along the way.

The NPC patients in the hospital were no longer sick after reading the file, but the townspeople of Buried Bones Town who were carrying the virus were the most ill. Not sick and dead.

It was Lincoln March who infiltrated City Hall, killed the guard who spotted him, and sneaked his way to where the Mayor was...so far, Lincoln March didn't know they were staying in "Movie World".

…He has never seen this blackened Batman movie, and no one told him the plot of the movie, and because the location is changed all the time, the faces of the citizens are repeated, and he didn't realize that the person he killed would be resurrected and call the police.

However, he discovered the time loop.

That being the case, taking the opportunity to gain some benefits in this non-existent world, he sneaked into the city hall, targeting Anna Elek's computer.

During his tenure as a secretary, Lincoln rarely had the opportunity to enter the mayor's office, and he almost never saw Elek. Sometimes he would wonder how Anna Eleck sat firmly when he looked at the stupid and unaesthetic steel wall outside. The position of mayor of Gotham depends on the court, the aunt...or the mysterious non-human?

It is impossible for her to rely on nothing, all her secrets are hidden in that old computer, and in this world... If it is not too different from the real world, maybe he can know the secret of the other party.

When Lincoln entered the office from the bedroom, he froze for a moment.

There was no one in the office.

Anna Elek isn't here... is she out?Yes, she goes out a lot, nothing surprising.

The sweeping robot "buzzed" on the ground and slid across the floor at a normal speed. The door of the study was closed, and Lincoln suddenly realized——

This is the first time he has entered the mayor's office, and he has never entered the mayor's office before, which is... a bit strange?

The room was a little dark. Lincoln ignored the robot and turned on the computer. The computer turned on a little slowly. He pondered for a while and looked towards the study.

Then, a flying knife appeared on Lincoln's fingertips. The moment the flying knife slashed across, the refracted silver light seemed to cut through the space. Lincoln turned back and avoided the shards of the chandelier falling from above!

He said, "Nightwing!"

His knife was not pointed at the door of the study, but shot directly at the top of his head - at Ye Yi, who was lying in ambush above his head!

Nightwing, Nightwing!Former Robin, Batman's first assistant, Lincoln looked up, and suddenly laughed heartily——

He sees Nightwing, which means Batman is here!

This represents... This world is not purely false!

It wasn't until this moment that Lincoln realized why he had put his hand on the machine for so long, why he wanted to destroy this place at that moment, because he was afraid...he was actually, in fear, he was afraid that only he and the other Bone Town A person is imprisoned here without any warning, and is suddenly imprisoned in a strange and familiar space. He is afraid that "Mr. C" will be invincible, and if he really has to stay in this endless prison forever, he will be killed. All of them, without Batman or Bruce Wayne, what's the point of Lincoln March?

"I'm going to kill you," he stepped on the table, jumped up without hesitation, and faced Yeyi's stick, "Die!"

This man who has been pretending to be a secretary has finally revealed his sharp and arrogant side. After all, he is... Claw!

——Claws of Immortality!

……

Covering her face, Weiwei silently threw the corpse on her back into the sewer, watching the corpse drift away along the current.

In her current situation, if she wanted to go to Gotham East, she could only go underground.

Bypassing the underground plumber, Weiwei lifted the cover, checked the location, and swished into the Wayne Memorial.

She sighed, and found that Robin's communication was still lost, the time pointed to zero, and Irene hadn't come here yet.

She walked to the photo wall and easily found the conspicuous bouquet of roses.

In a whole bouquet of roses, one of them climbed up from the bouquet. At this time, the bud turned around, pointing to Weiwei, and then...

Then, like in every fairy tale movie, the rose spoke.

"You can wish me to get out of here," said the rose, "and I will wither."

Weiwei frowned: "What if I make another wish?"

"It doesn't matter if you don't want to leave," Rose moved, and touched her face with a bud, as if kissing her, "But I only have one wish, if you wish something else, this world will last forever, It will always be like this..."

It will go on and on and on and on, never stopping.

And roses are the "back door" to this world, the only way home.