Chapter 563

Chapter 563: I, Joker (2)

Translator: Lonelytree

“internal combustion, gunfire, screams,” Gordon soon continued, “and only the bat can save you! The bat pities your fear and shares your hate... he shall reward your faith with villain’s blood!”

Like a fake prophet, the man played the role to his best. He was speaking with his face twisted in religious piety...

“Hail the bat!””Hail the god-king of Gotham!””hail to the bruce!” Echoes of such cries could be heard all over the city.

At the same time, the cg turned around.

And one could see... at the top of the castle, a solitary person with muscular body had opened his black wings and descended on the top of this city.

The man was dressed in a dark black batman suit and his whole body was wrapped inside the suit and only his mouth and nose were exposed. This bat suit had a few conspicuous differences compared to the original bat suit; number one, there was no utility belt around the waist; number two, the cape looked more like a pair of rising dragon wings; number three, on the chest of the suit, there was imprinted a neon yellow, incredibly conspicuous symbol of a bat.

“Faithful ones, I come before you without armies. My divinity rests on your faith.” The Bruce stood at the top of the citadel, flapped his cape, opened his arms and recited through the communicator that was attached to his lips, “Are there who would seize my sacred throne? This night any may challenge the bruce! It is your ancient privilege!”

“The crowd on the city quickly knelt down one after another, listening to the declaration of the God king of Gotham. The spotlights with different colored bat signals pierced into the night sky as if celebrating the man’s arrival.”

“Prove your right to dispute my descent from bruce wayne, the first batman god!” The Bruce continued to say, “Capture and kill one of the these resurrected enemies” Like every year before this, he started to describe the rules, “before I destroy them myself, thus earning the chance to slay me, if you can. In personal combat and become god!”

The narration intervened. “The crowd would be kneeling as the enemies were being hoisted from their cells, somewhere above my head.” In the image, the Joker, Harley Quinn, Two Face and Poison Ivy were all pulled out from the glass tubes. The middle part of their bodies were all bound by a metallic ring as thick as a steel chain, the ring was then connected to a metallic rope. At that moment, they were like puppets hanging at the end of a thread. They were picked up and respectively placed inside four different vehicles.

“On this solstice, pray to the bat for life!” The Bruce turned around to face these ‘criminals’ and said, “pray for mercy, pray for deliverance, pray for slaughter.” As he finished, the 4 criminals not far away were placed inside their own ‘vehicles’. The Joker was riding a modified car that was flattened and was triangular in shape. The back wheels of the car was large, even larger than the body of the car itself. There were four powerful spotlights in front of the car while the bumper bar was made into the shape of a large ‘mouth’, thus from the front, the car looked like a giant smiling face.

Harley Quinn’s car was of the same model at the Joker but the color of her car was a combination of red and black and there was no ‘giant mouth’ at the front of her car. Poison Ivy’s vehicle was a green hovering shuttle, the surface of the vehicle was painted with decoration of many different plants. It utilized the hover technology and thus had no wheel.

While the vehicle used by Two Face was... comparatively shabby. It was a mini flying machine, overall, it looked like a circular disk less than 2 metres in diameter. At most it could fit 2 persons. Two control panels about 1 metres tall each stood at the front of the disk, this was both levers to control the disk and a guard rail. But as simple as it was, at least this thing could fly so in a way, it had its own advantage.

“Some innocents must die to save the rest...” The Bruce’s lamenting words had reached the end, “Order shall be overturned that redemption may come. Cast your sins upon the evil ones that the bat might cleanse them. Now... let the carnage begin!”

“The four were catapulted to sites throughout Gotham City. The rules were simple. Kill The Bruce and be free while the whole city was chasing after you. No super villain had ever survived...” In the thunderous roar and ruckus, The Joker, Harley Quinn, Two Face and Poison Ivy rode their vehicles and drove off at four different directions. They rammed through the crowd and left a trail of blood behind them. They drove down the streets of Gotham and disappeared into the night. The introductory CG ended then. The next second, the players gained the control of their bodies.

“Main quest triggered. Survive in this chase and meet up with at least one of your teammates.” When Feng Bujue regained his sense, the quest details rang in his ears. But he did not have the time to go and look at the game menu because he realized he was sitting inside a speeding car with his hands on the steering wheel. “Your appearance had been turned into the appearance of the Joker in the perspective of the Npcs. There was a new item added inside the pocket of your vest.” Two system notice reminded him. At that moment, Feng Bujue already pressed on the brake. But the car did not stop... it did not even decelerate by a little bit.

“Ah~ As I have expected.” Feng Bujue appeared to be very calm. He had his eyes glued to the front and tried his best to control the steering wheel and analyzed the current situation that he was in. “This car has no brakes at all and...” He tried to move his shoulders. “The safety belt has strapped me into the seat...”

“For the bat!” Suddenly a human figure jumped before him. The man was standing in the middle of the road, shouting the slogan at the top of his lung with a religious fervor on his face. After seeing that, Feng Bujue did not respond in any particular way, he allowed his vehicle to continue moving forward and allowed that disciple to ram into his own Joker car.

Bang

The man was knocked into the air and landed on the side of the road. Several seconds later, he died on the spot. His body was lying in a pool of blood with a very grotesque pose. Some of the purple air leaking out from the front of the Joker’s car stained his body and it caused the dead man’s face to arrange itself into a ghastly smile as the man perished.

“Hmph... this is such an irony.” Feng Bujue had no pity for such a stupid man who voluntarily sought death. He scoffed under his breath. “Facing this kind of situation, the real Joker will never steer the car away. Therefore, the real super villain will be safe.” He shook his head. “Only the fake villain will try to avoid the innocent man and cause the vehicle to go out of control.”

At the same time, on the street right behind Feng Bujue, a bat mobile sped into view and stopped beside the body. The Bruce leaped out from the car and bent down to pick up the dead man’s body. He said darkly. “look here... we have the first victim of the Joker.” Naturally he was not talking to air. In this city, there was surveillance camera everywhere and there many floaters moving through the air capturing every moment.

“I will take revenge for this innocent victim, I swear!” The Bruce said confidently. His heroic claim was broadcasted all over the city, echoing through the streets of Gotham. Even Feng Bujue who was driving could see this through the big screen he was driving under.

“What just happened there?” The Bruce looked at the image that turned into static and asked darkly. By then, this ruler of Gotham had already returned to his castle and stood inside a room that appeared to be a control centre. The wall on his right was filled with monitors. In this room, you could see the image and video transferred back from the many cameras and floaters around the city.

Several workers in uniform (the uniform looked rather similar to the outcome of the first generation Robin, there was even a R symbol on their left chest) were busy working the monitors. They were inspecting various data and reporting the finding back to the Bruce.

“Did... he just fired a gun?” The man who called himself Gordon and who looked like Gordon quickly suggested. He was standing to the side of Bruce, holding his master’s batsuit and cape.

“I do not think so....” The Bruce said, “Even if those light rays did come from a gun, but... how do you explain the whole situation with the electrocution?”

“We have already manufactured him into the Joker, he is now a madman, who knows what he is doing?” Gordon said.

“I think I do,” A man at the side chimed in. It was a bald old man, he wore a pair of spectacles and had on an earthly brown research coat. He was Professor Klibon, The Bruce’s most important underling. Currently, he was using a small device to inspect the Bruce’s physical condition (That was why The Bruce had removed his suit and his cape).

“This man must be very clever... he realized that he had a tracing chip inside his brain but he also realized that he had no condition and method to remove the chip himself...” Professor Klibon said, “Therefore, he chose the method of direct electrocution...”

“I believe the professor is not wrong, before he destroyed those floaters, we have already lost the tracing signal that should have come back from him...” A worker at the top turned back to reply.

The Bruce instantly added, “So in other words... we have completely lost his location?”

The room sunk into silence.

“Ha... ha ha ha ha...” The Bruce suddenly started to laugh wickedly. Then he turned to ask Klibon. “Are you done with the inspection? How is the result?”

“erm... perfect rhythm in the new heart. No sign of rejection in the other transplants.” Klibon replied.

“Very good, Klibon. Give me one burst of hyper stimulant.” Bruce said as he turned his gaze to the monitors on his side. “Keep the ‘Joker’ for last then. I will first go and deal with Two Face to please the mob outside first.”

After a bunch of back and forth, Ruoyu finally struggled loose from the safety belt. Just as she was about to push open the car hatch and jumped out, a tunnel appeared right before her. And inside the tunnel, there was a ‘batmobile’ which had been lying in ambush started to rush out from the opposite side. Of course, instead of the actual batmobile, this was just a fake one that had been modified and painted black. Other than the meaningless batwing decoration on the top of the car and the sides of the car, it was no different from a normal citizen’s car.

“Damn it! Henry, catch her!” Inside the car, a fat woman dressed up as Batgirl shouted at her husband. Henry was a man about 50 plus with a small moustache. He was wearing also a homemade batman costume but at least he looked more like the real thing compared to the one whom Brother Jue face. “Qie... If your brother had done a better on’ this tub...”

“Don’t start in!” The fat woman shouted. “We can win this! My astrologer says so!” They, were a duo who attempted to challenge the Bruce. Every year there would be idiots who came out to try, even if they had somehow luckily killed one of the super villains, they would fail at the last challenge. But these kind of people would not go out of extinction—challengers always lose, but the poverty in Gotham convinces some fools to try.

“Quick! The tunnel is only large enough for one vehicle. Catch her before the tunnel, she will have to stop!” The fat woman ordered loudly inside the car.

Her husband, Henry could not be more annoyed by her. “You wanna drive? Then drive!”

“I can’t shoot and drive both, you nitwit!”

“Don’t call me that!”

“Hey! Wait... what’s going on?”

“She does not seem to halt... oh! My god!”

It was not that Passing Rain did not want to brake but the vehicle that she was in did not have that function at all.

KRAASH—Bang!

After a consistent crashing, bumping and flipping later, the vehicles rolled over to the side of the road and the cars themselves blasted into pieces.

“Phew...” Ruoyu crawled out from her own car and inspected the game menu. “I only lost 20 percent Life Points from that...” She took several steps forward to move away from the carcass from the vehicles that had already started to burn. “Without even realizing it... I have already become so much stronger than a normal person in real life?”

“Demon! Devil!” At that moment, the fat lady’s screaming curses came from behind Ruoyu, “My henry’s dead!”