[Comprehensive British and American] The vest system of the son of hell

"Who is that guy?"

Barbara pointed to the person hanging on the tall tree and asked the dean: "Is there another patient who has escaped?"

"Arkham Asylum's escape rate ranks among the highest in the nation."

The dean was not surprised by this, and picked up the internal phone to inform the security supervisor: "There is a person hanging on a tree opposite my office, please come and check to see if our patient is trying to escape again? Remember, all Armed, don't take any chances."

After the explanation, the dean put down the phone and said to Barbara and Matthew: "More than 50 security guards have resigned this month."

"Unsatisfactory wages or inadequate benefits?" Barbara asked.

Dean: "The salaries and benefits offered by Arkham to the security guards are at the top level in the industry, and the bonuses are higher than the salaries of mercenaries in war-torn countries, but they still don't want to stay, even specially hired retired special forces. They think that in Arkham The risk factor is too high for Cam to go to work, it is better to join an international mercenary company."

"You can continue to raise wages—"

"It's useless to add more wages, because here, in addition to death threats, there is also pervasive spiritual pollution."

Speaking of this, the dean grinned, and the weird arc made Barbara feel terrified.

She reminded the dean: "Dean, you just—"

"what's wrong?"

The dean asked Barbara puzzled.

Barbara gestured with her hands on her mouth, imitating the dean's grin just now: "You had such an expression just now, very sudden, very weird, very..."

"I actually made such a strange expression?"

The dean was full of disbelief.

However, while speaking, the corners of his mouth slanted again, revealing a chilling smile.

Barbara's back suddenly turned cold.

She forced herself to be calm, stepped back to Matthew, and tugged at Matthew's sleeve.

Matthew, who was concentrating on reading the clown's file: "What's going on?"

"It's nothing."

Barbara smiled reluctantly, and said to the dean: "Matthew and I have other things to deal with, can we take these medical files back and look through them slowly?"

"No, these are the original files and cannot be taken out of Arkham."

The dean flatly refused.

Barbara: "But we really have something important to attend to right away, and we can't go on—"

"You can make an appointment to come back next time."

The dean answered fluently, looking straight at Matthew and Barbara who were standing opposite.

And, this time, he didn't twitch the corners of his mouth weirdly while speaking.

Barbara, who thought that she could save Matthew from unnecessary explanations by talking to the dean, was inevitably disappointed.

Disappointed, she also realized that the mysterious force that controlled the dean and made the corner of the dean's mouth twitch had sensed her intentions.

What will happen next?

Murder?

Barbara thought excitedly, preparing to go home alone to face the mysterious power——

"We can't take the original, so can we take the copy?" Matthew asked suddenly.

The dean was taken aback when he heard this, and said, "The copy room is next door."

"thanks……"

Matthew picked up the document and said to Barbara: "Do you have something to explain to the dean? If not, can you go next door with me to copy the clown's medical file?"

"No."

Barbara smiled and walked into the copy room next door with Matthew.

The door of the dean's office slowly closed behind them.

……

After walking into the copy room, Matthew handed over the files that needed to be copied to the staff in charge of copying, while he stood at the paper output port of the copier, with a calm face and steady breathing.

Barbara couldn't read any emotional changes in his face, so she kept silent until the documents were all copied.

After returning the original to the Dean, the two walked out of Arkham Asylum together.

When passing through the empty activity area, Barbara deliberately looked up at the big tree facing the dean's office, and found that there was no one on the tree, and there were no footprints on the soil around the trunk.

This is very abnormal.

She stopped and tried to take a closer look, but Matthew took her arm and said, "Barbara, are you feeling unwell?"

"I……"

Barbara wants to push Matthew away.

Matthew lowered his head, pressed against Barbara's ear, and whispered, "There are at least three pairs of eyes watching us."

"I do have a bit of a back pain, thank you."

The understanding Barbara followed Matthew's words and put her arm on Matthew's shoulders, and walked out of the foggy Arkham Mental Hospital.

Outside the Arkham Mental Hospital, Damian in the driver's seat of the vehicle was playing games impatiently, when he suddenly saw Matthew walking out with the help of Barbara: "Come out so soon?"

"Barbara is not feeling well."

While speaking, Matthew opened the car door and stuffed Barbara into the back seat of the car, together with a large stack of copies of medical files.

Afterwards, he sat in the co-pilot's seat and said to Damian, "Is there a safe place nearby?"

"Are you in trouble?"

"Arkham Asylum is the biggest problem right now."

Matthew expressed a solemn expression.

Damian: "You..."

Ding ding dong!Ding ding dong!

A crisp bell of the ice cream truck rang, and Matthew looked up and saw an oversized pink ice cream truck driving past untimely, with a lemon yellow sentence written on the body:

Welcome to Sailor's Paradise——

Sailor Paradise?

Matthew smiled knowingly and said to Damian, "Follow this ice cream truck."

"Why? You want to eat—it turns out that this guy is pretending to be Sailor Paradise!"

Damian laughed, put his foot on the gas, and followed Sailor Paradise, disguised as an ice cream truck, until it was deserted.

Sailor's Paradise stopped, and the colorful lights surrounding the body flickered and danced with the sound of music.

Seeing this, Damian couldn't help complaining, "Do you really think of yourself as a child's favorite ice cream truck?"

【Don't you like ice cream trucks, Damian? 】

A line of words appeared on Sailor Paradise.

Damian's face was stern, and he didn't bother to pay attention to this stupid guy.

Sailor Paradise opened its body and released a row of delicious ice cream.

[For you——]

Damian glanced at the ice cream prepared by Sailor Paradise, and reluctantly picked up one decorated with starfish.

Seeing this, Guan Luo also picked up a ball of ice cream and sat on top of Damian's head.

Damian: "..."

But he is a mature Robin after all, and he doesn't have the same knowledge as a guy like Guan Luo who doesn't even have a human form.

Scooping the ice cream, Damian asks Barbara and Matthew, "What happened to you in Arkham Asylum?"

"Encountered indescribable."

Matthew was blunt: "Arkham Asylum has been contaminated."

"Pollution?"

Damian looked at Matthew unexpectedly: “Polluted by what?”

"It's not clear what it is, but it is only roughly certain that it is something from the starry sky."

Matthew looked up, glanced at the sky, and asked Barbara, "When did you find out that there was a problem with Arkham Mental Hospital?"

"Dean, I noticed that the corner of the dean's mouth would suddenly twitch and show a weird smile, but he himself didn't feel these abnormalities. Moreover, I saw a person hanging on a tree in the dean's office. The dean called on the spot to let the security The supervisor took care of it, but when we passed the activity area, there was no one on the tree, and there was no sign of work under the tree."

The more Barbara talked, the more she felt that something was wrong.

She then asked Matthew: "I determined that there is something wrong with the Arkham Mental Hospital by observing the dean's face and surrounding details. When did you discover Arkham—"

"From the beginning, I knew there was something wrong with Arkham Asylum."

Matthew put down the copy of the clown's medical file brought out from the Arkham Mental Hospital and said: "From the moment I entered the mental hospital, I felt abnormal."

"Feel abnormal?"

"A feeling, or a gut feeling."

Matthew raised his head and pointed to the Arkham Mental Hospital covered by thick fog in the distance, and said: "Although the clown has countless aliases, under normal circumstances, every time the clown enters Arkham, he has to register his name. There's no way the first page of the medical file doesn't have a name. Unless the file is redacted, or—"

"Or what?"

"The entire Arkham is under the control of the clown. Of course, there is also a ridiculous possibility that we entered the Arkham mental hospital in the other world."

Speaking of this, Matthew showed a bitter smile: "The clown can use the jokes to create an inner world in the villa where he hides, and naturally he can also create an inner world that is almost exactly the same as the real Arkham."

"So you think we're entering Arkham in the other world?"

Barbara's expression was unusually subtle.

Matthew: "In fact, if we just entered Arkham in the other world, everything is still under control."

"What are you worried about? What is the uncontrollable range?"

"do not know……"

Matthew looked down, with sadness on his face.

Stung by his expression, Barbara didn't know what to say.

On Matthew's face, she saw deep sadness and endless unknowns.

After thinking briefly, Barbara asked, "Have we left Arkham's inner world now?"

"No, we haven't left the abnormal range yet." Matthew said calmly, "This is only a relatively safe area."

"A relatively safe area?"

Barbara glanced at Sailor Paradise: "It's..."

"Sailor Paradise is an interdimensional being, capable of entering and exiting any dimension and area, but even it can't get us out of here."

While speaking, Matthew walked to the ice cream truck in Sailor Paradise, pointed to the other side of the ice cream truck, and said, "The car is on the edge of the anomaly. If we can go to the other side of the vehicle, we can leave this anomalous area." .”

"Can't get there?"

Damian put down the ice cream cup in his hand, nimbly jumped onto the hood of the ice cream truck, and was about to jump off——

Boom!

The invisible wall stopped him, bouncing him back between Matthew and Barbara.

"This……"

Barbara was stunned: "Matthew, everything you said is actually true, we really can't...can't..."

"Can't leave here."

Matthew calmly told Barbara: "Unless we find the key to seal us."

"Can't you leave by taking Sailor's Paradise?" Barbara asked puzzled.

Matthew: "Sailor's Paradise does not belong to any dimension, it can go wherever it wants, but we are different, we have been marked by this world. Therefore, Sailor's Paradise can leave under natural circumstances, but we cannot leave when it is loaded. "

"I don't believe it! I don't believe the situation is so abnormal!"

Damian opened the door of Sailor's Paradise, got in, and said to Sailor's Paradise, "Take us out of here."

[I'm very sorry, but I really can't take you away...]

On the LED screen, the words of apology from Sailor Paradise scrolled.

Damian, unbelieving, climbs into the cab of the ice cream truck and prepares to drive away.

However, the ice cream truck is a variation of Sailor's Paradise, not a real ice cream truck, and no part of the cab can be manipulated without Sailor's Paradise's permission.

Damian was sweating profusely in the cab of the ice cream truck, unable to press a single button.

Exhausted, he had to climb out of the cab and said to Matthew and Barbara, "We really can't seem to get out of here via Sailor's Paradise."

"so what should I do now?"

Barbara looked at Matthew.

At this moment, the only one they can rely on is Matthew——

"Why don't you ask me?"

Guan Luo suddenly appeared and told everyone righteously: "I am Staro, the ultimate perfect form of biological evolution. I must have a way to take you out of this world!"

"Staro has no way to take us out of this world. Of course, under your protection, we can spend every night safely." Matthew said with a little helplessness.

Following his words, the originally clear and bright sky turned gray and dark, and dark clouds rolled in, quickly engulfing the day.

Immediately afterwards, one after another red lightning cut through the sky and ignited the dry field.

A storm is coming.

Accompanied by lightning and thunder.

but--

"It's 11:30 noon! Why is it suddenly dark like night?"

Barbara looked at the time in disbelief.

Matthew: "The laws of physics in the normal world don't apply in the other world."

"All right……"

Barbara was speechless.

However, she has no time to lament the mystery and chaos of the other world.

Along with the dark clouds and darkness come monsters.

The earth split open, and strange-shaped things emerged from the ground, twisting their bodies and rushing towards Matthew and the others.

Some are scary versions of scarecrows that only appear in fairy tales, some are real penguins with bird heads, some are mad hatters with clown makeup on their faces, and some are upgraded versions of half-melted and distorted half-white bones Two-Face……

The supervillains who ravaged Gotham appeared in front of Matthew and others in a more terrifying form than they did in reality, holding weapons and bleeding from their bodies.

"Fuck! All-Star Smash Bros.?"

Damian was excited.

However, Matthew noticed that there were no clowns and clown girls among the "super villains" who rushed over, and there were no jokes.

This is very abnormal.

If these monsters are all created based on the super villains that exist in Gotham, the clown, as a symbol of Gotham, cannot be absent!

The only explanation is——

These monsters are created under the control of the Joker.

Thinking of this, Matthew looked at Barbara and found that Barbara was also looking at him.

She said: "Matthew, you guessed correctly, we may have fallen into the other world created by the clown's imagination! What should we do next?"

"How to do it? Just kill it!" Damian shouted excitedly.

He is the most perfect child raised by the League of Assassins. To him, killing is as natural as eating. Restraining the desire to kill is the test.

Can Luo is also a similar idea.

Matthew has already confirmed his non-human attributes, not to mention that all the monsters around him are from the other world, so naturally there is no moral restriction on not being able to kill people.

Only Barbara looked at the familiar and hideous faces in front of her eyes: "I...I..."

"They are all monsters created by imagination, they are not real people!"

Matthew patted Barbara on the shoulder to remind Barbara: "Killing them does not violate the principle of not killing."

"But they look—"

"They are all monsters created by the subconscious mind."

Matthew emphasized again.

Barbara heard the words, took a breath, and entered the fighting state.

Considering that Barbara is recovering from a serious illness, and the opponents are all non-human monsters, Matthew said to Can Luo: "You and Barbara cooperate to fight, okay?"

"Why should I—"

"Or do you like working with Damian?"

"No!" Damian and Can Luo shouted in unison.

After the words fell, Guan Luo jumped onto Barbara's shoulder: "Barbara, let's fight together."

"Thank you, Can Luo."

"You don't have to thank me, we're all Bat-family kids—"

Guan Luo said proudly, and threw out the bat dart that was crazy modified by it - the name is called bat dart, but it is actually a super heavy laser particle cannon!

"Come on! Monsters in the other world! Try the bat darts that have been transformed and upgraded by Guan Luo—"

"Are you sure this is also a bat dart?"

Barbara couldn't help complaining.

After all, the laser particle cannon made by Guan Luo with bat dart deformation is five meters long and two meters high, a standard super heavy weapon.

"Any weapon that can be preserved in the form of a batarang is a batarang! Don't pay too much attention to the details—"

Can Luo said proudly, holding up its "bat dart": "Can Luo will send you back to where you should go!"

"This guy!"

Seeing this scene, Damian, who was seriously robbed by Can Luo, showed an extremely unhappy expression, jumped on the ice cream truck, and said to Sailor Paradise: "I'm going to use you as a pedal to launch an attack, you must stand up! !"

[Sailor Paradise has always been very strong. 】

"Humph--"

Damian let out a snort, his legs were strong, his body flew up like a rocket, and fell into the group of monsters besieging them. Weapons such as knives, guns and sticks hit them continuously, causing the monsters to spurt blood and scream.

However, even if the battle situation is standard one-sided, the monsters in the other world created based on the Gotham villains still show no signs of retreating, and even more and more.

They stepped on the bodies of their fallen companions, formed a torrent, and launched wave after wave of crazy attacks on Damian, Barbara, and Can Luo!

until--

"The formation is complete."

When Damian, Barbara, and Can Luo were actively fighting against the monsters, Matthew, who was concentrating on studying the relevant magic circle and intending to solve the problem in one go, finally straightened up and shouted to the companions who were caught in the struggle: "Break out immediately, come to me!" Come here! I found a way to take you away!"

"Is there really a way?"

While shouting, Barbara and Damian approached Matthew together.

The monsters from the other world also staggered towards them.

Matthew was prepared for this.

These other world monsters with the appearance of Gotham's "celebrities" rushed to a place about ten meters away from Matthew, and they were all blocked by the invisible green wall!

Unwilling to fail, the monsters hit the invisible green wall hard.

dong dong dong!dong dong dong!

With the blows of the monsters, the green wall gradually changed from invisible to tangible, the green grape vines entangled with the periwinkle vines spread wantonly, light white flowers, emerald green leaves, deep purple fruits... everything seemed to have been completed in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, the green wall guarding Matthew and the others turned into airtight grape vines, covered with ripe dark purple grapes that were about to rot. The wind blew past, and the grapes were crumbling, exuding a drunken breath.

"This... this... what is this?"

Sensing the unusualness of the grapes, Barbara asked Matthew, "Are these grapes—"

"It is the embodiment of my power."

Matthew bluntly...

With him as the center, in a circular space with a diameter of ten meters, the air is extremely sweet and intoxicating, as if you are in a mature orchard, or you seem to have fallen into a wine cellar.

"Are these scents poisonous?" Barbara asked uneasily.

Matthew didn't answer.

Damian took the opportunity to take a deep breath and said excitedly: "Under special circumstances, underage drinking shouldn't be illegal, right?"

"I didn't give you a drink, the alcohol in the air is disinfection!"

Matthew, who did not want to bear the charge of drinking to minors, made a decisive correction.

"But the zombie virus is not... no, the group of guys surrounding us are not zombies, they are monsters from the inner world created by the subconscious..."

Damian frowned, and said to Guan Luo: "Aren't you very good at manipulating nerves and dealing with subconscious mind?"

"I'm only good at manipulating the nerves of living people, but I can't enter the nerve center of a dead guy to control his consciousness!"

Can Luo refuses to be kidnapped by Damian.

Damian is very angry and grabs the canister to threaten and lure him.

Matthew squinted his eyes and asked Guan Luo: "Who is the guy who is already dead?"

"That's right! You just said that the guy is completely dead! Could it be that we are now trapped in an inner world made with the subconscious of dead people?"

Damian and Barbara came back to their senses and asked Can Luo in unison.

Can Luo: "I actually don't know what happened, but I know that this other world is created by the subconscious of the dead, so I can't break the inner world and send you out through neural manipulation."

"Thank you for telling the truth."

Matthew reached out and touched Can Luo's body.

Kanro hugged Matthew's fingers with the starfish tentacles.

The slightly tingling feeling made Matthew couldn't help but think of Paul, and then thought of the original darkness contained in his body.

If it was the primordial darkness, maybe—

"I have a bold idea about how to leave. Of course, the success rate is very low, and the price of failure is death." Matthew said, "If we can't find any other better way, we might as well try it."

"Talk about your method first..." Barbara said, "Let's discuss it together."

Damian put his hands on the back of his head, and asked arrogantly: "What did you think of, tell me?"