Chapter 1956

Nightwing, who was sitting in the very center, covered his eyes. Red Robin beside him sighed, and Red Hood hugged his arms speechlessly.

They watched with their own eyes as Schiller took the paint found in the supermarket and, without any thinking process, drew two huge magic circles on the only way for the two Batmans.

"What is the meaning of this?" Nightwing asked with some disbelief, "He was the first person to get a totem pole fragment. The first-mover advantage in this game is very large. He could have intercepted the people who got the second and third totem pole fragments. Even if he couldn't attack himself, he could have called a hunter over. What is he doing?!"

"I heard Batman mention Dr. Rodriguez," Red Robin tried to speculate in a more formal direction, saying, "Batman said he possesses profound occult knowledge and is a professor at some magic academy in their universe. Could it be that this magic circle is actually usable?"

Red Hood sighed deeply and said, "It would be a ghost if it were usable. He is a complete lunatic, a mental patient. He once let the Joker..."

Red Hood's gaze drifted to Jack beside him, and then looked at the fully armed Batman, finally not saying the words.

"What did he do to the Joker?"

The moment the low voice sounded, almost everyone shivered. Red Hood even shrank his neck. He didn't know why, although that Batman didn't turn his head, he felt that this question was aimed at him.

Red Hood curled his lips and said nothing.

"Don't go off-topic. We are now discussing why Dr. Schiller wants to draw this magic circle. His behavior cannot bring him enough advantage," Nightwing shook his head again and said, "Even if he deceived Batman, so what? By the time the third totem pole fragment is found, the battle situation will definitely have become white-hot. No one will go to study the magic circle again."

"Then you don't understand Batman too well," Jack's slightly smiling voice came. He picked his teeth with his finger and said, "What Batman pursues is only victory and the efficiency of achieving victory."

"The rules didn't say the winning conditions at all, so this is likely a language trap. The game designer likes to play this set. I discovered it before," Jack snorted coldly and said, "He wants to see the expression of confusion and despair after everyone fights to the death but finds they cannot win, but Batman won't fall for his trick."

"Since defeating others doesn't necessarily bring victory, there won't be the situation you mentioned where the battle proceeds to white-hot. Batman's attention is always on exploration, so all clues containing information will attract his gaze."

Speaking of this, Jack suddenly stopped. He turned to look at Batman beside him, as if waiting for Batman to speak.

But before Batman could speak, Peter spoke first.

"According to my understanding of Dr. Schiller, I'm afraid this is just an appetizer. If he wants to create a scam, it must be multi-angled, all-encompassing, a net that makes the prey have nowhere to hide and nowhere to escape."

"Rewind," a low but slightly vicissitudinous voice sounded. In an instant, the entire screening room fell silent.

Everyone's gaze fell on the old man in the corner, but strangely, no matter how they observed, they couldn't see his face completely. The moment their attention was concentrated, it would be moved away, as if he didn't exist there.

But soon the reversed light and shadow on the screen attracted their attention. Others withdrew their gazes and looked at the screen. Only Batman's gaze stayed on the old man for a while longer until the reversed picture stopped.

The picture on the screen returned to about ten minutes ago, just when Schiller finished drawing the second magic circle.

A black shadow appeared at the corner. Just when everyone thought it was Bruce, what walked out was Loki.

The moment Schiller saw Loki's figure, he lowered his arms, showed a smile, and said, "I didn't expect you to come too. How have you been recently?"

"Still reforming Asgard's internal affairs," Loki spread his hands and said, "I was wondering if I would meet you in this game. I didn't expect us to have a meeting of minds."

Then he looked up at the huge magic circle Schiller had just finished drawing, showed a knowing smile, and said, "Tell me, who are you planning to deceive this time?"

"Don't worry about this first. Are you coming?"

Loki laughed, shook his head, and said, "My price is not low, you know."

"Could you be more greedy than Nick?"

"You overestimate me."

The two laughed together. Loki walked to Schiller's side and looked up at the huge magic circle with him. Schiller said, "An interesting guy came to this game, but there are likely more. You cooperate with my plan, and there is plenty of fun to watch here."

"Of course, of course," Loki lowered his head, then nodded and smiled, saying, "There is fun to watch wherever you are, and I am bored. Tell me your plan."

Red Robin slapped his forehead.

"I knew it, how could there be such a coincidence," Nightwing said quite speechlessly, "Just found a magic circle, and a mage who can explain all this comes out. It's as coincidental as if it were arranged."

"But I don't think Batman is so easy to believe," Red Robin touched his chin and speculated, "This mage named Loki is really suspicious. Even if the Batman he met is relatively young, he will definitely be very vigilant against him."

"That is not his goal," Batman suddenly spoke.

Several Robins turned to look at him. Actually, from the beginning, they had been interested in this Batman with a slightly unique dress, but they knew that usually Batman would not respond to them.

So they just observed silently, and now that Batman took the initiative to speak, they could finally pursue the question.

"What do you mean?"

"He let the mage lead away irrelevant personnel," Batman's voice came from the mask, "His goal is the Batman wearing the Batman suit."

Along with Batman's voice, the perspective in the screen cut to Batman in the game. He had arrived at the location of the second pattern and saw the huge magic circle.

But this time his attention was no longer entirely on the magic circle, but he found the footprints of Loki and Bruce around.

The sand and dust left by the building collapse were the best developers. Although Bruce had cleaned his footprints as much as possible, at the very edge of the building, Batman still found traces of half a footprint.

Bruce's height and weight were easy to deduce, but one couldn't deduce his identity just from one footprint. But Loki's footprints were a bit strange. His walking traces appeared out of thin air.

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

That proved that this person first came here, then flew away, and then flew back here again. Why did he have to go back and forth like this?

Batman found a small pit next to a footprint trace. This small pit was printed on relatively moist soil, so it could be seen that it looked like traces left by some kind of long stick or staff poking on the ground, and the end of the staff was also carved with exquisite patterns.

Batman knelt on the ground, looking carefully at the patterns between the sand and soil, and found that they were deformed wave patterns, and only had decorative properties, not carrying any attack function.

This shows that this is not a kind of weapon used for stabbing, but a decorative prop, so it is probably not a hunter weapon distributed by the organizer, but a decoration brought in by someone himself.

But in the case of having a camp, who would bring decorations in? Unless this decoration has other functions.

Batman stood in place and looked at the place where the footprints were. Soon a hazy shadow appeared in his field of vision. A mage wearing a gorgeous long magic robe and holding a magic staff used magic to come here and leave, and then returned here again.

Suddenly Batman turned to look at the huge magic circle drawn on the wall.

This time he walked closer, checking all the characters and symbols carefully, and finally saw a rune whose color was slightly different from other runes at a height of about 1.3 meters below.

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

Batman reached out and wiped other runes, finding no use. The patterns here had completely dried, and no matter if he wiped with his hand or picked with his finger, they wouldn't fall off at all. Only the changed rune was still moist and bright.

So Batman deduced that a mage came here and saw the magic circle, and used magic to change a certain symbol in the magic circle, and then when others came here, he appeared again and pretended to be knowledgeable to explain to them, so as to achieve the effect of misleading them.

The changed magic circle is no longer credible, but Batman still recorded all the content on the magic circle, then focused on remembering the position of the changed symbol, and speculated about the whereabouts of the mage.

It seems that this mage either can fly or can teleport. Except for the little footprint traces left here, there is no subsequent action trajectory, but the person who came here later obviously neither can fly nor can teleport. Although he consciously cleaned his footprints, Batman still found some subtle traces.

Following the traces, the footprints disappeared in a place of about 500 or 600 meters. Batman guessed that it was very likely that the mage used magic to take him away.

But suddenly Batman heard a movement on the opposite side of the partition wall of the narrow alley behind him, as if a man was speaking intermittently.

"God, Venom, I'll say it again, as long as we get to the commercial area in front, we can find a showcase with chocolate. By then you can eat as much as you want, don't bother me anymore, I want to think about the rules carefully!"

"Alright, alright, I know you are a smart alien life, but this is not the reason for you to attack my IQ..."

Batman met a man head-on as soon as he turned out of the corner, and there was only one person.

The man opposite was also startled by him, standing at the foot of the wall and sizing up Batman. After a long while, he said, "Hello, are you also a participant this time?"

A series of information flashed through Batman's mind, and then he nodded and said, "Yes, I am Batman."

"Uh, I am Eddie Brock, that... I am a hunter, what about you?"

Batman frowned slightly. He saw that this man had hardly received any training, didn't look like he had superpowers, and wasn't a genius with superior IQ or a big tycoon. He looked like a very ordinary media worker.

Batman didn't think his teammate would let him be a hunter, because he had no power to truss a chicken at all. But judging from his demeanor and the fluency of his language, he didn't lie.

And now he is alone, so what is that alien life he calls Venom?