Chapter 1 First Squad, Arrived at the Designated Location, Over

"First Squad, arrived at the designated location, over."

"Second Squad, arrived at the designated location, over."

"Third Squad..."

"Sixth Squad, arrived at the designated location, over."

"All six squads have assembled. Please give orders, sir!"

Several different voices reported to the Bat Castle through the intercom.

"Maintain formation, narrow the encirclement, and await the Bat's instructions." Gordon, at the command center, watched the images transmitted by each squad on the big screen and gave a crisp order.

"Yes, sir." A firm response came through the communication.

"Did you hear that, Bruce?" Gordon quickly switched frequencies and said to the_Bruce.

"Of course," Bruce replied in a deep voice, "From here on out, I'll take over."

"Understood." Gordon responded and then opened the general frequency, shouting, "Long live the Bat!"

"Long live the Bat!" A unified response rang out.

At this moment, fifteen minutes had passed since the "smiley face" climbed into Gotham's sky, and the time limit for [Not So Hasty Repairs] had just ended.

And the_Bruce and his Robin squad had just completed the encirclement of the Gotham Police Department.

At this moment, on the ground alone, there were more than two hundred fully armed soldiers and ten armored vehicles, not to mention the more than twenty disc-shaped patrol boats in the air and a Batplane (spare number two) hovering.

The entire Gotham Police Department, from top to bottom, had been surrounded by a network of fire that could be activated at any time. As long as the_Bruce gave an order, this historic building would be riddled with holes.

"Ah~ ah~ Here they come, all fiery..." Xiao Tan stood in the center of the rooftop, looking at the sky and chanting.

Not far away, Xiao Ling leaned against a rocket launcher as thick as a tree stump, "Don't get carried away later. Survival is your top priority. If it doesn't work, abandon the plan and just kill the_Bruce to complete the mission."

"Okay, okay, be careful yourself too," Xiao Tan replied.

At this moment, only the two of them were left on the rooftop. Jue Ge, Ruo Yu, Joey, and Maya had already left.

"Two-Face, Poison Ivy." Suddenly, the voice of the_Bruce came from the Batplane's loudspeaker, "I don't know where you got your strange and evil powers, but if you think you can escape judgment with them, you're being naive..."

Before he finished speaking, the Batplane's hatch opened. The next second, Bruce, wearing combat armor, jumped from his seat, opened his dragon-winged cloak, and glided toward the police station's rooftop.

"Huh? No way..." Xiao Tan said in surprise, "This guy has an air force and doesn't use it, and comes down to fight us?"

"He's fighting you." Xiao Ling patted Xiao Tan on the shoulder, tilted her head and smiled, "I can't beat him."

Bang—

After a loud bang, Bruce had landed on both feet, standing firmly. Because his combat armor was quite heavy, when he landed, he shattered the ground beneath his feet, making him look very imposing.

"My people..." Bruce straightened up and shouted, "Use your eyes to witness...the Bat's true power!"

"Is he talking to us?" Xiao Tan turned his head and said softly.

Xiao Ling replied, "Obviously not." She glanced at the patrol airships in the sky, "Just like the leader predicted, the 'live broadcast' has resumed. He's talking to the 'audience'."

"Oh! That's perfect." Xiao Tan shook his wrists, and his hands were already holding a military dagger and a blade claw respectively, "I'll beat him down in front of the entire city."

"You're quite enthusiastic..." Xiao Ling seemed a little listless, "Then you guys fight slowly." Before she finished speaking, she grabbed the rocket launcher, turned and walked away.

Xiao Ling's thinking was very clear. Since the_Bruce had also come to the rooftop, the surrounding fire net was useless—the Bat's army couldn't possibly fire at their own master. Therefore, Xiao Ling simply cleared the space and let Xiao Tan fight him to his heart's content.

"Don't forget the leader's basic strategy." Xiao Ling said as she arrived at the entrance of the rooftop.

She fearlessly put down the weapon in her hand, leaned against the wall, and began to watch.

"Okay." Xiao Tan turned his head and said, "Don't worry, I..."

Whoosh—Bang!

Just as Xiao Tan was distracted, a black shadow suddenly appeared in front of him and punched him hard in the cheek.

"Ugh..." Xiao Tan didn't expect this at all. After being punched, his body staggered and fell to the side.

"Ah~ He got hit in the face." Xiao Ling said calmly when she saw Bruce's surprise attack on Xiao Tan. She had full confidence in Xiao Tan and didn't look worried at all.

"How is it? Two-Face, feeling good?" the_Bruce saw his opponent swaying, naturally he wouldn't miss the opportunity. He pressed his attack, immediately took two steps forward, and kneed Xiao Tan in the ribs again.

However, this attack missed.

Wang Tanzhi exerted force in his waist, twisted his body, and used a horizontal flip to easily defuse the crisis.

"Oh? You seem to have a few tricks up your sleeve." the_Bruce said calmly and easily, "At least you're stronger than the rabble in the city."

"You despicable guy..." Xiao Tan wiped the abrasion on the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand and glared at Bruce, "You tied me to a flying vehicle before, flew a plane to hit me, and now you're attacking suddenly without saying hello..."

"Say hello?" Bruce sneered, "Hmph... Two-Face, is your brain broken?" As he spoke, he moved sideways, looking for an opportunity to attack, "This isn't a competition between martial artists, but a life-and-death battle."

Before he finished speaking, Bruce suddenly attacked again, using the fin-shaped serrations on his forearm armor to launch two strikes.

Clang clang—

Xiao Tan's reaction was also not slow. He moved his feet calmly, raised his military dagger and blade claw, and blocked the opponent's attack.

"Tch... Much stronger than I thought..." After facing the opponent, Xiao Tan thought in his heart, "Is this guy really an ordinary person?"

On the other side, the_Bruce's surprise was actually far greater than Xiao Tan's: "Incredible... The force of my two slashes is about one thousand three hundred pounds (approximately 590 kilograms). Even if an ordinary person blocks with an alloy shield, they would be blown away by the enormous force. But he... he's actually blocking with short weapons in both hands, and he only took a few steps back after receiving the blow."

"Hey, Xiao Tan, can you hear me?" Just as the battle had just begun, Jue Ge's voice suddenly rang in Xiao Tan's ear through the communicator (obtained from the corpse in the parking lot, already modified by Musashi Koganei).

"I'm busy..." Xiao Tan replied softly.

"Yeah, I see it." Jue Ge added, "It's being shown on the big screens in the city."

"Then why are you talking to me at this time?" Xiao Tan really felt a little annoyed. He was very bad at multitasking, and Jue Ge's actions were interfering with him.

"I want to remind you that you are playing the role of a super villain, a brutal antisocial thug." Feng Bujue said, "But so far, your words and deeds have been too normal."

"Ah..." Xiao Tan lowered his voice and complained, "...Sorry I don't have the talent to play a bad guy!"

"It's okay, I'll teach you." Jue Ge continued, "First, you have to let out a hysterical laugh."

"Hehe... haha... hahahahaha..." Obedient Xiao Tan immediately burst into a wild laugh.

This move really worked. When the_Bruce saw "Two-Face" suddenly laughing wildly, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. He thought the other party would do something amazing, so he didn't dare to be careless and quickly increased the defensive energy of his combat armor and stopped to watch.

"Then, you put on a confused look." Jue Ge added.

Xiao Tan hesitated for two seconds, imagining what a confused expression would look like. Two seconds later, he opened his mouth halfway, rolled his eyes upwards, and made a "uh-" sound.

"If I had to describe your current state, it would be 'a person who has just had a lobotomy is choosing his lunch'." Feng Bujue continued in the communication channel.

"I'm getting angry!" Xiao Tan whispered.

"Okay, okay, no more jokes." Jue Ge laughed, "Now, take out that coin, toss it casually, and look at the result."

Xiao Tan did as he was told.

"Finally, put on a look of sudden realization..." Jue Ge added, "...Run over and forcibly kiss Poison Ivy."

"What did you say?" Before Xiao Tan could reply, Xiao Ling's voice directly cut in.

"Eh? Is this communication channel shared?" Feng Bujue was stunned when he heard this.

"Yeah, even I heard it." Joey's voice also rang in the communication.

"Jue Ge, what exactly are you doing?" Xiao Tan weakly replied, "Are you just messing with your teammates out of pure malice?"

"No, no, no... This is indeed part of the strategy." Feng Bujue explained, "To make the character of Two-Face more real, you have to show the personality trait of 'flipping a coin to decide everything'. Think about it... The real Two-Face often does crazy things after flipping a coin." His tone sounded like he was fooling around, "Well... actually... as long as you do something unexpected enough, that's fine. You don't necessarily have to force a kiss on Poison Ivy, you can force a kiss on the_Bruce too, anyway, the other party is a male NPC, as a heterosexual, the system won't prevent you on the grounds of gay tendencies..."

"Big Sis, hit him!" Xiao Ling's voice rang out, interrupting Jue Ge's nonsense.

A second later, accompanied by a scream, Jue Ge's communication was interrupted...

"What exactly does he want to do..." The_Bruce didn't know what was happening on the other side. From his point of view, he only saw the Two-Face in front of him making a series of strange expressions and occasionally muttering to himself (after the players put on the communicators, the items were combined with the player's image, so they were not displayed on the faces of the specific characters in the play), completely confused.

"Aha! I've decided!" Now that things had come to this, Xiao Tan had no choice but to go with the flow and continue to act, as if he had indeed decided something by flipping a coin, "I want to... um... want to..." His expression changed, and he suddenly turned around, "...Run away!"

"Huh?" Of all the people present, Xiao Ling was probably the most surprised.

"Hmph..." the_Bruce sneered, thinking to himself, "So that's how it is... I overestimated him. My two slashes must have worked just now. He looks fine on the surface, but he's actually suffered quite serious damage... So he's putting on a show, trying to delay time and distract me in order to create an opportunity to escape."

"Ha—" Xiao Ling sighed deeply, "He's really asking for trouble."

She muttered, then raised her hand to grab the rocket launcher beside her. At the same time, the heel of her left foot kicked back smartly. With just one pull and one kick, she put the huge cannon on her shoulder.

"What happened to the role-playing? What happened to delaying time?" Xiao Ling's tone was obviously complaining when she said these two sentences.

"Sorry... I really can't think of anything to say." Xiao Tan replied as he ran towards Xiao Ling.

"Sigh... forget it, it's not your fault." Xiao Ling said, stepped on the ground, jumped up five meters high, and tilted the muzzle of the rocket launcher downward, aiming at the police station under her feet...