Nightwing, who sat in the center, covered his eyes, and Red Robin, next to him, sighed, and Red Hood held his arms speechlessly.

They watched as Schiller took the paint he found in the supermarket and drew two huge circles on the path of the two Batmen without any thought process at all.

"What's the point?" Nightwing asked in disbelief: "He is the first person to get the totem pole fragments, the first-mover advantage in this game is very great, he can completely intercept the way of the second and third people who get the totem pole fragments, even if he can't attack himself, he can call the hunter over, what is this doing?!" ”

"I've heard Batman mention Professor Rodriguez." Red Robin tried to speculate in a more formal direction, saying, "Batman said that he has a lot of occult knowledge, and he is a professor at a magic academy in their universe, could it be that this magic circle can actually be used?" ”

Red Hood sighed deeply and said, "If you can use it, there will be ghosts, he is a complete madman, a mental patient, he used to make clowns ......"

Red Hood's gaze drifted to Jack next to him, and then at the heavily armed Batman, but finally didn't say anything.

"What did he do with the Joker?"

The moment the deep voice sounded, almost everyone shuddered, and the red hood shrank his neck even more, I don't know why, although the Batman didn't turn his head, he felt that this question was aimed at him.

Red Hood pursed his lips and said nothing.

"Don't digress, we're now discussing why Dr. Schiller drew this circle, his actions didn't give him a big enough advantage." Nightwing shook his head again and said, "What if you fool Batman?" By the time the third totem pole fragment is found, the battle will definitely be white-hot, and no one will be studying the circle anymore. ”

"Then you don't know much about Batman." Jack's voice came with a slight smile, and he picked his fingers between his teeth and said, "Batman is only after victory and the efficiency to achieve victory. ”

"The rules don't say anything about the conditions for winning, so it's probably a language trap, and the game's designers like to play it, and I've found out before." Jack snorted coldly and said, "He wants to see everyone's confused and desperate expressions after fighting to the death only to find that they can't win, but Batman won't fall for him." ”

"Since defeating others doesn't necessarily lead to victory, then there won't be the situation where the battle you said is going on in white heat, Batman's attention is always on exploration, and all the clues that contain information will attract his attention."

At this point, Jack suddenly stopped, and he turned his head to look at Batman next to him, as if waiting for Batman to speak.

But before Batman could speak, Peter spoke first.

"As far as I know Dr. Schiller, I'm afraid this is just an appetizer, and if he wants to create a scam, it must be multi-angled, all-round, so that the prey has no way to hide, and there is no escape from the net."

"Playback." An equally low, but slightly vicissitudes of life sounded, and for a moment, the entire screening room fell silent.

Everyone's eyes fell on the old man in the corner, but strangely, no matter how much they looked at him, they couldn't fully see his face, and the moment of concentration was taken away, as if he didn't exist there.

But soon the upside-down light and shadow on the screen caught their attention, and everyone else withdrew their gaze to the screen, except for Batman's gaze to stay on the old man for a few more moments until the replay stopped.

The image on the screen went back to about ten minutes ago, when Schiller had just finished drawing the second circle.

A dark shadow appeared around the corner, and just when everyone thought it was Bruce, it was Loki who came out.

The moment Schiller looked back and saw Loki's figure, he lowered his arm, showed a smile, and said, "I didn't expect you to come too, how are you doing?" ”

"Still reforming the housekeeping of Asgard." Loki spread his hands and said, "I'm still wondering if I'll meet you in this game, but I didn't expect us to have a good heart." ”

Then he looked up at the huge circle that Schiller had just drawn, smiled knowingly, and said, "Tell me, who are you going to fool this time?" ”

"Don't worry about this, are you coming?"

Loki laughed, shook his head, and said, "I'm not asking for a low price, you know." ”

"Can you be more greedy than Nick?"

"You're overestimating me."

The two laughed together, and Loki walked up to Schiller's side, looking up at the huge circle with him, Schiller said, "There's a very interesting guy in this game, but it's likely that there's more, you cooperate with my plan, there's fun to watch here." ”

"Of course, of course." Loki lowered his head, then nodded and smiled and said, "You have fun everywhere, and I'm bored, tell me about your plans." ”

Red Robin slapped him on the head.

"I knew it was such a coincidence." Nightwing was rather speechless and said, "As soon as I discovered a magic array, a magician who could explain all this came out, and it seemed to be arranged by coincidence. ”

"But I don't think Batman is so easy to believe." Red Robin touched his chin and speculated, "This magician named Loki is really suspicious, even if the Batman he meets is relatively young, he must be very wary of him." ”

"That's not his goal." Batman said suddenly.

Several Robins turned their heads to look at him, in fact, they had been interested in this slightly unique Batman from the beginning, but they knew that Batman would not normally respond to them.

So they just watched silently, and now that Batman took the initiative to speak, they could finally ask.

"What do you mean?"

"He told the magician to lure unrelated personnel away." Batman's voice came from the visor: "His target is Batman in a batsuit." ”

With Batman's voice, the camera cuts to Batman in the game, and he has already reached the location of the second pattern, and sees the huge circle.

But this time his attention was no longer entirely on the circle, but instead spotted Loki and Bruce's footprints around him.

The sand and dust left behind by the collapse of the building were the best revealing agents, and although Bruce had cleaned up his footprints as much as he could, at the very edge of the building, Batman found traces of half of the soles of his feet.

Bruce's height and weight are easy to deduce, but you can't guess his identity from just one footprint, but Loki's footprints are a bit strange, and his walking trails appear out of thin air.

Batman looked around carefully, and then found that Loki's footprints appeared and disappeared, and then reappeared, with no walking traces in between, so it was very abrupt.

Then it proves that this person first came here, then flew away, and then flew back here, why did he go back and forth like this?

Batman found a small pit next to one of the footprints, which was imprinted on the moist soil, so it could be seen that it looked like some kind of stick or staff left on the ground, and the tail of the staff was delicately carved.

Batman knelt on the ground, carefully looking at the pattern between the sand and soil, and found that it was a deformed wave pattern, and it was only decorative in nature, and did not have any offensive function.

It shows that this is not a weapon used to stab, but a decorative prop, so I am afraid that it is not a hunter's weapon distributed by the organizer, but an ornament brought in by someone himself.

But when there is a camp, who will bring in the ornaments? Unless the ornament has some other purpose.

Batman stood there looking at the footprints, and soon a hazy shadow appeared in his field of vision, a mage in a long robe and a staff in his hand used magic to come and go, and then returned to the place.

Suddenly, Batman turned his head to look at the huge circle drawn on the wall.

This time he walked closer, carefully examining all the words and symbols, and finally saw a rune with a slightly different color from other runes at a height of about one meter and three meters below.

Batman walked over and lightly touched the rune with his hand, and when he saw the dark red paint left on his hand, he understood that the rune on the wall had been altered.

Batman stretched out his hand to wipe the other runes, and found that it was useless, the patterns here were completely dry, whether it was wiped with his hands or picked with his fingers, they couldn't fall off at all, only the modified runes were still wet and bright.

Batman then deduced that a mage had come here and seen the circle, and had magically changed a symbol in the circle, and that someone else had come here and pretended to be knowledgeable to explain it to them, so as to mislead them.

The altered circle is no longer credible, but Batman still writes down all the contents of the circle, and then focuses on remembering the location of the changed symbols, speculating on the whereabouts of the magician.

It seems that the magician can either fly or teleport, and there is no next track of movement other than a few footprints left here, but the person who came here later obviously can neither fly nor teleport, and despite consciously cleaning up his footprints, Batman still found some subtle traces.

Following the traces, the footprints disappeared about five or six hundred meters, and Batman guessed that it was very likely that the magician had taken it away with magic.

But suddenly, Batman heard a movement across the wall of the narrow alley behind him, as if a man was talking intermittently.

"Oh my God, Venom, I repeat, as long as we go to the commercial area in front of us, we can find a window with chocolates, you can eat whatever you want when the time comes, don't make any more noise with me, I have to think carefully about the rules!"

"Okay, okay, I know you're a smart alien being, but that's not a reason for you to attack my IQ......"

As soon as Batman turned the corner, he was confronted by a man, and there was only one person.

The man on the other side was also startled by him, stood at the base of the wall and looked Batman up and down, and after a while, said, "Hello, are you also a contestant this time?" ”

Batman's mind immediately flashed a flurry of information, and then he nodded and said, "Yes, I'm Batman." ”

"Uh, I'm Eddie Bullock, the ...... I'm a hunter, what about you? ”

Batman frowned slightly, he saw that this man had little training, did not look like he had superpowers, and was not even a genius or a rich man with an extraordinary IQ, he looked like a very ordinary media worker.

Batman didn't think his teammates would make him a hunter because he was simply powerless, but judging by his demeanor and fluency of speech, he wasn't lying.

And now he is the only one, so what is the alien life he calls Venom?

(End of chapter)