The driver waited for the red light to pass at the intersection, and did not forget to lower the window and chat with his fellow taxi who also drove a taxi next to him.

The specific content of the chat is all-encompassing, and the drivers who drive taxis in Arkham can be said to be the people who know the city best, where to open new stores, which stores are cheap and delicious, where the government is building roads and detours, these first-hand information is passed on in the communication of drivers.

"Speaking of which, there have been a lot of strange things lately," said my colleague, "Do you know that rumor, it's been very popular on the Internet lately, saying that you can see monsters that don't belong to this world." ”

"Aren't there many urban legends like this?" Said the driver.

"Who knows, maybe it's been hyped up again recently, and there are really a lot of weirdos going to investigate these things, and I've just taken a few of them," my colleague pouted, "That's really a bunch of weirdos, and they like to do things in the car, and I will definitely not take them next time." ”

Driver: "No, those weirdos especially like to get to the bottom of it, and they don't even let go of when you get married." ”

Thinking of the last experience, the driver wondered for a while, although he likes to chat, it doesn't mean that he likes to be asked all the time, especially how he divorced his ex-wife.

Through the car window, he saw a photo of the middle-aged driver next to the driver's seat, and teased him, "Have you been to see your daughter recently?" ”

"No, I just took a look from afar outside the school," the middle-aged driver smiled wryly, "I promised her that I would bring a travel ticket the next time we met, I didn't have enough money at the time, but I didn't want to disappoint the little angel." ”

Saying this, his face was full of happiness and longing: "But it's also soon, I will soon save enough money, and I will communicate with my ex-wife, and we will go on a trip together." ”

"Oh, I envy you." My colleague couldn't help but smile as well, "Then I wish you a happy journey in advance." ”

"Hey, hey, that's easy to say."

The red light turned green, it was time to pass, the driver rolled up the window, and was about to start the car, when suddenly there was a sound similar to rain beating next to the window.

He turned his head in confusion, his pupils narrowing.

It's blood.

The window of the car he had just rolled up splattered with drip-like fresh human blood, and the source of that human blood was the same companion who was still talking to him just now.

A monster that couldn't see what it was suddenly appeared in the driver's seat, and before his peers could react, he just let out a scream, and was bitten on the neck, the major artery rupture, and a large amount of blood splattered out of the driver's seat.

Screams of fear suddenly sounded around, and the driver thought that someone next to him had witnessed this scene, so he hurriedly turned his head, but was stunned.

Monsters, countless monsters, suddenly appeared in people's field of vision, and the driver saw a crow with a human face standing on the traffic light, singing a hoarse tune.

The young couple on the road looked at the slender figure in front of them in horror, and the children had just picked up the balloon, only to find that the salesman with two heads was smiling kindly at them.

As soon as I closed my eyes and opened them, it was as if I had suddenly entered a fantasy world.

Or rather, they finally see the truth of the world.

In the strange moment of the reflection of human pupils, the monsters that wandered in reality and dreams descended into reality.

The whole neighborhood was in chaos in an instant, the newly started car stepped on the accelerator and collided with another car coming over, just because the driver was blinded by the batwing from behind, and in the screams of humans, the weirdos went on a killing spree, and the originally peaceful and prosperous city instantly turned into hell.

There was blood, stumps and corpses everywhere, and the weirdness of hunting humans.

The driver's hand trembled uncontrollably, panting to watch this hellish scene, outside the window, someone banged on the window, hoping that the driver would open the door, he screamed something, but the driver couldn't hear it, and probably didn't want to hear it, because this person was followed by a giant with multiple eyes.

The giant easily grabbed the person asking for help outside the window, and the driver stepped on the accelerator to the end, ignoring the pleadings of the outsiders, and headed straight for one of Arkham's elementary schools.

Driving through the neighborhood, the driver was desperate to find that such a situation was not confined to it

A certain neighborhood.

Everything is the same, as if the end has come, everything is chaotic, the inherent order is completely destroyed by the strangeness that suddenly comes, and the powerlessness and fragility of human beings are vividly reflected in this moment.

In this situation, it seems that the only thing that can be done by humans is to pray, and the driver sees many people on the roadside kneeling down and begging for God's forgiveness, and others paralyzing in despair waiting for death to come.

Touch!

Suddenly, a huge spider falling from the sky knocked the driver's car into the air, the whole body turned over and hit the telephone pole, the door deformed and popped out, the driver's head broke blood, the vision was blurred, and the huge spider was faintly seen crawling towards him.

No, no! I still have to pick up my daughter, I still have to ...... Go on a family trip and reconcile with your ex-wife.

The driver remembered the travel strategy he had done overnight and the good plane ticket, and there was only despair in his eyes.

Bang bang bang –

Multiple bullets hit the spider, and the spider was forced to stop approaching, and the driver barely raised his head, only to see several people in fancy clothes holding weapons, rushing up to fight the spider without fear of death.

"Hey, are you alright?"

Matcha Custard approached the driver, and was thinking about how to pull him out of the driver's seat, when the driver grabbed his wrist: "Save ......"

"Huh? What did you say? ”

"Help, my daughter, she's at the school in front of you......" The driver stared at the blonde woman in front of him with pleading eyes.

"Don't worry, we've got somebody to go." Matcha Custard said as she pulled the driver out of the cab and used the medical kit she had brought with her for first aid.

The driver felt as if he had picked up a life, and he looked at the scene in front of him, where the players fought fiercely around the spiders, but no one retreated.

On the contrary, they still seem excited?

The driver couldn't help but ask, "What the hell are you?" ”

"Oh, you can call us ......" Matcha Custard froze for a moment, remembering that if words like 'player' and 'fourth calamity' were uttered in this game, it seemed that they would be blocked, "Well, you call us 'believers'." ”

Anyway, she was already a ruthless Yun Lanen believer.

"Believers." The driver muttered the word, a little hope in his heart.

It's not just the players who come to the rescue and fight.

Cullens had received Ran's warning before the incident began, and of course he couldn't ignore it, so he had prepared everything in advance, and as soon as the accident happened, the team responsible for organizing the rescue and battle immediately set off.

Of course, most of the black poker protection area is their own neighborhood, and the place where they pay protection money on weekdays, these residents are probably the first time to see that the protection money they pay actually has an effect, in the first second of the monster's appearance, the radio on the block makes everyone stay at home, and the heavily armed gang members are holding all kinds of illegal guns and guns to strafe the monsters that appear.

"Hell, where did all these monsters come from?"

"Shut up John, be on the right track!"

Cullens himself takes command of the situation, but he soon discovers that humans are hardly a match for these monsters.

Even if they have guns and grenades in their hands, it is difficult to hurt the fur of these monsters, on the contrary, their human resistance is extremely fragile, and they are often cut in half or seriously injured just by the sharp claws of the monsters.

The resistance of the gang members gradually weakened, and the people around him and Callens suggested, "Chief, let's retreat first." ”

Cullens gritted his back molars and smiled helplessly.

Ordinary people are still so powerless in the face of these mysteries after all.

He was about to nod, but suddenly noticed that the situation on the field had changed.

A group of strange people in fancy clothes came out of nowhere, they were either well-armed or directly armed with broken sticks and daggers, but they all had one thing in common, and that was the excitement on their faces that defied the fear of death.

Culens' heart moved, remembering the fierce performance of the players at that banquet, and a glimmer of hope welled up in his heart.

"Don't be in a hurry, cover them, and try to organize the retreat of the residents!"

Cullens was quick to decide.

Where the Kamui are

In the neighborhood, Carmen made the same decision, and his family sprinkled special potions on the door of the house to isolate the strange sight from the outside.

"Uncle...... What are we going to do? ”

"Don't worry, kid." Even at this critical juncture, Carmen remained calm, "That one will definitely prevent Arkham from being destroyed." ”

Player forums

"The main story is open, Arkham has fallen, and the big job is coming, guys!" 》

Who's in Second Elementary School? There is a task here to organize the retreat of students, we don't have enough people, ask for support! 》

"On this side of the bridge across the river, there has been a serious traffic accident, many people have been injured, and doctors are urgently needed, and the time has come to improve medical skills!" 》

", the weirdness here is too strong, pay attention to retreat, now it's so weird, don't fight it!" 》

The player forum is lively again, and the forum has been very lively these days, before the druid's post on their mutation just appeared on the homepage, and was squeezed down by Arkham's mutation.

1L: Who knows what's going on? Why did the city of Arkham suddenly become like this? How did so many monsters come out?

2l: Who knows, I was still looking for a circle drawn by a stranger, and suddenly it became like this.

3l: But then again, it's not bad, it just so happens that I'm tired of the game of finding things, and now the magic circles they draw by strangers are harder to find, and I'm yue.

4L: Finally, there is another monster fighting mission, friends!

5L: HHHH is very good, but I feel that there are too many bosses, and some of them can't be beaten at all!

6L: That's right, what's going on with these monsters, some of them I looked at and went crazy, and when I was touched, they were gone, it's too scary! Is this really a monster that players should be exposed to at the moment?

7l: In the end, it's because the player level is too low, and there are too few people! Hurry up and let me join the game! They need me to join the family!

8l: Crazy plus one, I've been peeping at the forum for a long time, when will it be the next stage, hurry up and open the player slot, bastard!

9l: I don't want to make money in this game yet, hurry up and let me in-

No matter how the cloud players who are still in the forum complain, they can't change the current status quo, and the real 500 players are already busy in the game, and those who have just gone offline have also been called over by relatives and friends, without him, there are not enough manpower at all!

Fortunately, after the main story was opened, the game official temporarily lifted the restriction that you can only log in with a new card after 12 hours after death, otherwise players can't afford to die at all!

Everything that happened in Arkham City was condensed in the hot posts on the player forum, and those hot posts were seen by Ran.

"What's wrong?" Archie noticed that Rann didn't seem to be in the right mood.

Arkham ...... The situation is terrible now. Rann closed his eyes, and the moment came.

"Let's go, it's time to go to the final battle."

……

Maybe it's the butterfly effect.

Originally, the hospital was supposed to be the last place for the leader of the strangers to open the door to the dream world, but now, he was not here.

The location of this decisive battle has changed, and Rann couldn't understand it originally, but after the change just now, he remembered a lot and knew where the real decisive battle place should be.

Rann touched the trunk of the tree that the player's corpse had turned into with mixed feelings, took one last look at the forest, and left the hospital at night with Archie.

As soon as they arrived at the daytime hospital, Rann and the others found that it was getting dark.

The patients, doctors, and nurses who were still struggling to resist the weirdos in the hospital fell one after another.

"It's ...... What's going on? Archie looked around in shock.

Rann shook his gaze into the distance and muttered, "Phase two." ”

"What?"

"It's nothing, let's go."

Rann couldn't tell what it was like, his pupils reflecting the sky that was gradually covered in fog, and the blue background was replaced by gray.

When they walked out of the hospital, they noticed that fog was starting to get around.

It was filled with despair, screams, and fear

The city of Arkham suddenly became a different atmosphere.

It was a dead silence.

Strangely, after the humans fell in the mist, the freak did not attack again, but resumed wandering in the mist.

The scene of the car accident, the corpses, and the burning flames caused by the previous loss of control did not disappear, on the contrary, because everyone fell into a coma, Arkham fell into another kind of chaos, and the cars that were originally speeding collided in a series of ways, and fires began to break out everywhere, but no one took care of them.

It was in this situation that Rann and Archie walked straight in one direction.

Archie wanted to ask them where they were going, but he didn't dare to ask for a moment when he looked at Rann's side face and the terrifying forest he had seen when he woke up.

I always feel that the current Rann seems to have become a little strange.

It's also a little scary.

Unconsciously, Archie's pace slowed down, from the beginning of walking side by side with Rann to the position a little behind him in the lower left, Rann didn't notice the change in Archie, just buried his head in that direction.

You can't go wrong, the location of the decisive battle......

Rann remembered the previous experience when he almost left Arkham City, and the clearing he had stumbled upon on the way.

That's not an open space.

It is a place that has been forgotten.

It is also the location of the current boss.

Suddenly, Rann stopped and looked in one direction in the mist, and Archie subconsciously raised his guard.

They heard footsteps, an eager, almost undisguised footstep, and very quickly.

Archie subconsciously took a step, and this step almost stepped out of the crack on the concrete floor, because of the sudden improvement in physical fitness, Archie did not control the strength well, and instantly lost his balance.

Worst!

The figure looming out of the mist was very fast, rushing out of the mist as Archie stumbled at his feet, skipped past him, and ran straight for Ran.

Rann saw the figure clearly, was stunned, and subconsciously stretched out his hand.

Then, he grabbed the wrist of the person who came.

As soon as Archie regained his balance, he quickly turned his head to look over to Ranne's side.

At this glance, he was also stunned.

"He's ......"

The man with the clown makeup on his face looked very embarrassed, and his clothes were almost soaked in blood, which was on par with Archie's current dignity, but his expression did not look sensible, only hideous and crazy.

"Edmund." Rann subconsciously shouted.

"Hee-hee-hee~" The clown didn't react, and after being grabbed by the wrist, the knife in his hand turned around to separate Ran's skin.

But it can easily cut through the blade of a human being, as if it were hitting steel, and even burst into sparks.

The knife is curled.

Rann himself was stunned for a moment, but there was no clown left with crazy instinct, and seeing that the weapon was not working, the clown threw away the knife and tried to choke Ran's neck instead.

Can Rann let him do this, and at the last moment, he closed his eyes and mercilessly grasped the white point of light that belonged to Edmund in the gap of his dreams.

I pinched it angrily like pinching a ball.

The originally crazy clown was like a dog bitten on the back of the neck, and instantly quieted down and froze in place.

Rann opened his eyes, looked at the Joker's blank face, and thought about Archie's reaction to being pinched before.

He was genuinely curious as to why both of them were reacting so strangely, and what was it like?

But now is clearly not the time to ask, Rann dropped Edmund's hand around his neck and pinched his oil-painted face in disgust: "Bad boy." ”

What if he said he would wake up as soon as he summoned? Sure enough, the man's mouth is just talking.

The mad beast obediently fell silent, its eyes fixed on him.

Solving Edmund, Archie approached slowly, looking at Edmund with uncertainty in his eyes: "He's ...... too"

Rann nodded, "It looks like you've entered the second dream gap."

Layer. ”

In fact, Rann was also a little confused, although Edmund did say that he would enter the second layer of the Dream Gap before, he thought that Edmund was just showing loyalty to him at that time, but now he really entered the ......

Why? Is there any force majeure? Like the previous Archie, if you don't go in, you'll die?

Before Rann could figure it out, he suddenly looked up ahead.

Another footstep.

And unlike Edmund's blatantness, the footsteps were almost non-existent, but for some reason Rann could just know that there was someone there.

"Come out." Rann said lightly.

Archie hurriedly looked in the direction of Ran's gaze, the wind blew, the fog slowly dissipated, and the man probably knew that he had been discovered, and walked out of the fog in silence.

Archie's eyes slowly widened: "Albert ......"

"Why are you here?"

Albert didn't answer, in fact, his eyes hadn't looked at Archie since he had come out of the fog, as if there was no such person.

"Don't ...... Past. Albert said in a hoarse voice.

At this time, Archie also keenly noticed that something was wrong with Albert.

This kind of malaise does not refer to the body, if I want to say, just from the appearance, Alkie's clothes are now more bloody clothes, compared to Albert, although there are some wrinkles, dust and abrasions on his clothes, but the overall look is okay.

That kind of wrongness seeped out from his eyes, Rann still had his previous impression of Albert, a blonde man with a very sunny appearance and aura, but now except for that blonde hair, it was almost the same as his impression, the blue and cloudless eyes that used to be cloudless are now gloomy and lifeless.

It's as if everything that used to support this man has been drained.

"Albert ......," Archie said, "I already know your identity, including the affairs of the Inspectorate, you don't have to be alone, our purpose is the same, there is no need to wear each other down here." ”

Albert gave Archie a lifeless look and said nothing.

Amos' words roamed in his head.

Inspection Bureau...... It's not the righteous place he imagined, so what was he doing before?

People are like this, they always have to have a belief and a support in order to endure the temporary darkness and fatigue ahead, especially the special work that requires strong faith.

In order to climb up to the core as soon as possible, he participated in many cult things, saw the warmth and coldness of the world, and was even forced to stain his hands with blood, and did a lot of things he was unwilling to do.

In his apartment, when he washed his hands with water from the tap, he often hallucinated that there was blood on his hands that could not be washed off, and at first he often washed it twice or three times, until he almost washed off his skin and barely came to his senses.

Later, after experiencing more such things, Albert gradually got used to it, but it was a terrible habit that would gradually corrode a person's will.

It was at this time that his Origin Ability began to eat away at him, and Albert concealed his ability when he entered the Outlander, because he knew that his ability was a fatal blade for those who had sinned hands, and that it could be used as a one-hit winning card when necessary.

But when the hole card becomes a double-edged sword, it is especially painful.

Albert was able to survive because there was a belief in his heart to support him, otherwise he would have collapsed a long time ago, but now, when he knew that there was a problem within the inspection bureau, and the information he uploaded and the work he had done might be in vain, the belief that supported him suddenly collapsed.

What else can he do now? What else could he do?

Albert himself didn't know it, as if the soul had left the body, leaving only instinct to support the action.

Albert followed Edmund as he pursued Amos, but he walked slowly, for he did not know where he was going or what he was going to do.

Along the way, he saw Arkham's current tragic situation, this

It's all because of the intrigues of strangers, but he can't save many people, because there are always people who die where he can't see.

It is necessary to stop the conspiracy of the strangers......

Even if the help of the inspection bureau will not come.

At this time, Amos's voice echoed in his heart again, and Albert stood still, looking at Rann and Archie not far away, and thought silently in his heart.

I'm sorry. ：，，.