Chapter 571: I, Joker (10)
Translator: Lonelytree
“First unit has arrived at the destination, over.”
“Second unit has arrived at the destination, over.”
“Third unit…
“Sixth unit has arrived at the destination, over.
“All six units have been fully deployed, waiting for your next order, sir!”
Six different voices gave the update back to the bat castle through their communicator.
“Maintain the team position and slowly draw in the circle and wait for the bat’s order.” Gordon who was at the control central gave his crisp order while looking at the images sent back by the various units.
“yes, sir!” A firm response returned from the communicator.
“Do you hear that, Bruce?” Gordon instantly switched into another frequency to tell The Bruce.
“of course.” The Bruce said darkly, “I will take over from now on.”
…
“Understood.” Gordon answered as he opened the general frequency and yelled loudly, “All hail the bat!”
“All hail the bat!” The uniform response echoed. At that moment, it had been 15 minutes since the smiley face had hung at the sky of Gotham. The time limit for Not so Hasty Repair had finished right about then. At the same time, The Bruce and his team of Robins had finished their full siege of the Gotham Police Station.
At that moment, even just on the ground, there were about 200 fully-armed soldiers and 10 armored tanks. In the air, there were about 20 patrol shuttles and a bat mobile (a second spare one) which was hovering. The whole Gotham Police Station, from top to bottom had been surrounded by a blanket of net that could fire at them at any moment. With an order from the Bruce, this historical building would be turned into a beehive.
“Ah~ Ah~ Who would have thought they would bring such heavy artillery…” Xiao Tan stood at the middle of the rooftop and mumbled as he looked up into the sky. Not far away from him, Soulie leaned against a rocket launcher as thick as a tree trunk. “Later, do not forget your role in the plan, the most important thing is to ensure that you are still alive. If you really have no other choice, then just kill the Bruce to complete the quest.”
“Hmm, hmm, you have to be careful too.” Xiao Tan replied. At that moment, only the two of them were left on the rooftop. Brothe Jue, Ruoyu, Joe and Marya had already left.
“Two Face, Poison Ivy.” Suddenly The Bruce’s voice came from the bat aircraft’s speaker. “I do not where you have found this evil and mysterious power but if you think you can escape from execution with that, you are far too naïve…” Then, the capsule of the aircraft opened. The next second, The Bruce who was in the battle armor jumped up from his seat, opened his cape that was shaped like a dragon’s wings and slowly glided down to the rooftop of the police station.
“Huh? No way…” Xiao Tan gasped in shock. “The man has such a large army but he chose to come down to fight with us in person?”
“Not to fight with us, is to fight with us.” Soulie patted Xiao Tan on his shoulder. She tilted her head and smiled. “I am not going to win him in a fist fight.”
Bang—After a loud crash, the Bruce had landed firmly on his two feet and steadied himself. Since his battle armor was rather heavy, when he landed, he cracked the floor underneath him, giving him a great presence upon arrival.
“My people…” After the Bruce straightened himself, he announced at the top of his lungs. “Witness with your own two eyes… the true power of the bat!”
“Is he talking to us?” Xiao Tan turned his head around to whisper.
Soulie replied, “Obviously not.” She glanced at the patrol shuttles in the air. “Like how the leader has predicted. The ‘livebroad’ has been brought back online, he was greeting his ‘audience’.”
“Oh! That is perfect.” Xiao Tan worked his arms, his hands holding the claw and the thorns separately. “I shall beat him down before the whole city.”
“Well, you sure are passionate about this…” Soulie was comparatively more disinterested. “Then how fun.” Then, she dragged up the rocket launcher and moved away. Soulie was thinking very clearly. Since the Bruce had landed on the rooftop then the surrounding firearms was pointless—the bat’s army would not open fire at their own boss. Therefore, Soulie decided to clear away for Xiao Tan to have his space to fight with the bat.
“Do not forget about the plan of the leader.” When Soulie said that, she had already reached the door of the roof. She put down the weapon without worry, leaned against the wall and started to watch how this would unfold.
“Hmm.” Xiao Tan turned back to say. “Don’t worry, i…”
Puff—bang! While Xiao Tan was distracted, a quick black shadow appeared before him and landed a heavy punch on his cheek.
“Ergh…” Xiao Tan had no idea what happened. After he was hit, his body staggered and tittered to the side.
“Ah~ A good punch to the face.” When Soulie saw that the Bruce had ambushed Xiao Tan, she only commented calmly. She had full confidence in Xiao Tan, she was not worried at all.
“How did that feel, Two Face? Must have felt nice, huh?” The Bruce saw that his enemy was teetering so naturally he would not let go of this opportunity. He followed up on his victory strike, slid two steps forward and raised his knee to strike Xiao Tan at his ribs. However, he missed this time. Xiao Tan gathered strength around his waist and twisted his body around. He used a graceful turn to easily neutralize the attack.
“Oh? Not bad.” Seeing that, The Bruce was as chill as ever. He commented with an easy tone, “At least you are much stronger than the trash inside the city.”
“You cunning bastard…” Xiao Tan used the back of his hand to wipe at the bruise at his cheek. He glared at the Bruce. “Earlier you strapped me to the flying saucer and tried to use your aircraft to ram into me and now you have ambushed me…”
“Ambush?” The Bruce chuckled coldly. “Hmph… Two face, have you lost your mind?” he said as he moved around to find an offensive opportunity. “This is not a competition between martial artists but a fight to the death.” Then The Bruce suddenly punched forward and used the scale like saws at the forearm of his armor to slash at Xiao Tan.
Ping ping—
Xiao Tan reacted quite quickly. His feet moved along the ground, and he raised the thorn and claw to block the incoming attack.
[Qie… he’s much stronger than I thought…] After taking down this attack, Xiao Tan grumbled internally. [This thing is really just a normal human?]
On the other side, the shock that The Bruce experienced was much larger than Xiao Tan. [Impossible… the force behind my two slashes are at around 1300 pounds. Even if a normal person blocks it with a gold shield, they will be bounced back by the giant force. But this man… has blocked it using two small weapon in each hand and he only stumbled back a few steps after taking the attack.]
“Hey, Xiao Tan, can you hear me?” While the battle was just about to start, the ear mic in Xiao Tan’s ears (picked up from the dead robins on the parking lot and had been modified by Musashi) suddenly had Brother Jue’s voice.
“I am in the middle of something…” Xiao Tan answered softly.
“I know, I can see it.” Brother Jue said, “After all, all the screens over the city are broadcasting it.”
“Then, why did you pick this timing to talk to me?” Xiao Tan was indeed annoyed, he was not a person who was good at doing two things at one and Brother Jue was indeed coming as a distraction.
“I just want to remind you that you are roleplaying as a supervillain, an antisocial psychopath.” Feng Bujue said, “But so far, all you have said and done are far too normal.”
“Ah…” Xiao Tan lowered his voice in sarcasm. “…I am sorry for my lack of talent to play a bad guy!”
“it’s okay, I can teach you.” Brother Jue continued, “First, you have to start with a crazy laugh like there is no care in the world.”
“Ah ha… ha ha… ha ha ha ha ha…” The obedient Xiao Tan followed the order. This was surprisingly useful. When The Bruce saw Two Face suddenly guffaw, he could not help but be stressed. He thought the man had something dangerous prepared, so he went on the defensive. He hurriedly increased the battle armor’s defensive ability and stopped to observe his enemy.
“And then, he act like you are confused.” Brother Jue said. Xiao Tan hesitated for two seconds to imagine how a confused expression would look like. Two seconds later, he opened half of his lips, rolled his eyes upwards and uttered something like a ‘hmm’.
“If I have to describe the condition that you are in, it should be ‘a victim who has just had a lobotomy surgery is choosing what he should have for lunch’.” Feng Bujue said in the communication.
“Are you kidding me?!” Xiao Tan growled lowly.
“Fine, fine, I’ll stop joking.” Brother Jue laughed. “Now, you take out that coin and toss it into the air and then see the result.” Xiao Tan moved as obliged.
“Then, you make as if an epiphany has dawned on you…” Brother Jue added, “… and the run to force a kiss on Poison Ivy.”
“What did you just say?” Before Xiao Tan could reply, Soulie’s voice already cut in.
“Eh? This channel is shared by all?” Brother Jue was startled when he heard her voice.
“Yes, even I have heard everything.” Joe’s voice rang out in the channel.
“Brother Jue, what the hell are you trying to do?” Xiao Tan added weakly, “Are just trying to troll your teammates out of fun?”
“No, no, no… this is indeed part of the plan.” Feng Bujue explained. “To play the role of Two Face more clearly, you have to show the property where you will decide everything with the toss of a coin. Just think about it… the real Two Face will often do something crazy after tossing the coin.” No matter what he said now, Brother Jue sounded like he was lying, “Erm… well actually…. I suppose as long as it is shocking enough it will be fine. You might not need to kiss Poison Ivy, you can go and kiss The Bruce, after all, he is a male NPc and as a heterosexual, the system will not stop you out of the danger of sexual har…”
“Cousin, hit him!” Soulie said to cut off Brother Jue’s rambling. One second later, with a bloody scream, Brother Jue’s words were cut off…
[What the hell is he planning…?] The Bruce had no idea what was happening with the team. From his perspective, the Two Face before him made a series of strange expression and would suddenly stop to talk to himself (after the player put on the mic, the object combined with the player’s appearance, so they would not show on the appearance of the in game character), he had no idea what Two Face was planning.
“Ah ha! I have decided!” At this point, all Xiao Tan could do was to keep on pretending. It was as if he had really decided something through the toss of the coin. “I want to… hmm… want to…” his expression changed as he suddenly turned around, “…escape!”
“Hah?” of everyone present, Soulie was probably the one who was most shocked.
“Hmph…” The Bruce scoffed and he believed. [So I have overestimated him after all. The two slashes must have worked. He might look fine on the surface but he should be seriously injured…. Therefore, he did all those things to buy thing, to distract my attention to create the opportunity to escape.]
“haiz…” Soulie gave a deep sigh. “How did things turn out like this.” She grumbled as she grabbed the rocket launcher beside her. At the same second, with a kick of the heel of her left feet, with a pull and shove, she lifted the large rocket launcher on her shoulder.
“What about the character roleplay? What about the buying of time?” It was clear that Soulie meant these two questions as a complaint.
“I am so sorry… I really did not know what to say already.” Xiao Tan replied as he ran towards Soilie.
“Aiz… never mind, this is not really your fault.” Soulie said as she kicked and used the momentum to jump 5 metres into the air. She moved the barrel of the rocket launcher downwards, aiming it at the police station below her…