bookbashuk Chapter 2461: Battle for the Cloak (7)
Chapter 2461: Battle for the Cloak (7)
Chapter 2461: Battle for the Cloak (XVII)
Dick wasn't sure what would happen if he ran to this car now and met his other self in another time and space and woke them up, but he thought that his appearance here was not without reason.
When they were in the car, Dick vaguely remembered that there was indeed a tall building nearby, and from that angle he might be able to see where their car was, but with so many buildings around, it appeared here, so it must have been a trick of the thick fog.
Dick chose the safest and most conservative way, which was to stay where he was, because he didn't know if there would be any new abnormal reactions if he broke the window and jumped down, so the best way was to stay put.
But after he stayed there for about a minute, he found that the fog on the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office began to surge and gradually formed some patterns.
Dick walked closer and took a closer look, and found that the fog was condensing into patterns of eyes, which was consistent with the abnormal phenomenon of huge eyes appearing in the sky mentioned in previous eyewitness reports of the mysterious fog.
Dick took a few steps back. He wanted to walk to the side to see if the eyes were different, but the moment he took a step, all the eyeballs turned with him.
Dick was so frightened that he jumped back and hit the sofa behind him. The pain in his arms and waist told him that this was not an illusion.
Then at this moment, all the eyes narrowed and turned into cold, malicious smiles, which made Dick's heart grow colder and colder.
He thought he should stay away from the glass, so he crossed the office and stood by the door. He swore he didn't push it at all, but it opened by itself.
On the other side of the door is another office, which is arranged exactly the same as this office, except that the position is mirrored. Through the door in front, you can see that the office opposite also has a floor-to-ceiling window, and there is also a car outside the window.
Only this time, there were two people in the car, and Dick himself was gone.
Dick walked over as if possessed. He found that the door on his side was open and there was a footprint on the ground in front of him, which meant that the time here should have arrived when he opened the door and went out.
Suddenly he saw those clusters of eyes on the car door, but the two Nightwings sitting in the car seemed unaware, and those eyes began to smile.
Dick took a deep breath and rushed to the window, pounding on it frantically and shouting, "Get out of there! Get out of there quickly!!!"
Those eyes would definitely bring danger, Dick's intuition told him, and the more he looked directly at them, the more dangerous it would be. The two of them had to leave quickly, otherwise something would definitely go wrong.
But the two men couldn't hear anything at all, and only realized something was wrong when the eyes covered the entire reflective surface.
Just as they turned their heads to look at the car window, a huge eye made of thick fog floated outside the window.
The two of them screamed at the same time, and the main universe Dick sitting in the driver's seat suddenly stepped on the accelerator.
boom! ! !
The engine of the Batmobile roared and suddenly rushed forward. Dick was extremely anxious, but he couldn't stop them. Dick in the main universe went crazy for some reason and drove the Batmobile onto the outer wall of the building.
The Batmobile can climb walls and walk on the surface of glass curtain walls as if it were flat ground. Dick watched the chassis of the Batmobile flash past him.
After the Batmobile reached the top, there was no longer any road left, and Dick from the main universe did not turn, allowing the Batmobile to stall and fall, smashing into pieces on the ground in front of the building.
Dick looked at the billowing smoke in disbelief. He suddenly took a few steps back, turned around and then turned his head, and ran back to the original room as fast as he could.
He held his knees and took two breaths, then ran to the window. The eyes on the window were gone, but the Batmobile was still parked there quietly, and the three people still had their eyes closed.
I have to find a way to wake them up, Dick thought. If I could wake them up earlier, maybe the future wouldn't be like that.
Dick began to look for useful tools in the office. The tables and chairs here were obviously not enough to break through the outer wall. Finally, Dick found a fire extinguisher in the corner of the office.
He pulled the emergency safety, took out the fire extinguisher, and smashed it hard against the glass. The glass did not break completely, but it made a noise. Dick picked up the fire extinguisher bottle and smashed it again.
boom! Wow!
The glass finally broke, but now he was on a floor that was too high to jump directly down, so he could only choose to throw a heavy object down.
The Batmobile is very strong. Even if an object is dropped from more than ten floors high, it is definitely not enough to damage the outer shell of the Batmobile, but it can make a loud enough noise to wake up the people in the car.
Dick gestured, and to be honest he was not sure he could hit the target with one strike, because the distance was too far, and due to the influence of various factors, he could not throw it wherever he wanted.
Well, it looks like he needs to calculate the wind direction first... Wait, is there wind in this thick fog?
Dick stuck his head out of the glass and felt it, but didn't feel any wind. If there was no wind, it would be much easier to hit it.
Dick chose the right angle and threw the fire extinguisher bottle out smoothly, but unfortunately, the fog became thicker at this time and visibility dropped to below three meters again. Dick had no idea whether the fire extinguisher bottle hit the target or where it hit.
It wasn't until a few seconds later, when he heard a "bang", that Dick confirmed that the object he threw had landed.
But because the sound was a little vague, he didn't know whether it hit the car or the ground. He could only pray that it hit the car.
Dick decided to go to the next room to see the future, but as soon as he stepped out of the door, he stared into the eyes of Nightwing from the main universe.
"Dick, why are you here?"
Dick wanted to ask him the same question, but Nightwing's face immediately showed a look of fear. Dick waved his hand and said, "No, I'm not a monster, nor am I disguised as something. I'm really Dick, remember? On the way here, I kept talking about my dad fishing."
"Oh my God." Nightwing's confused and bewildered expression betrayed him, and Dick quickly asked, "What's wrong?"
"But I came here because of you. Just now you said you wanted to go out for a look, but as soon as you opened the car door and walked out, you were knocked down by a fire extinguisher that came out of nowhere."
"Your arm is broken. There are bandages on the Batmobile, but no splint, so we're going to look for a fix in the nearest building."
Dick was also confused. If he was hit as soon as he went out, then who is here now?
He immediately realized that this might be another past, but how could the fire extinguisher bottle thrown by himself in this timeline hit another past self?
But after thinking about it, time and space in the thick fog are chaotic, so it is not surprising that strange things happen. Their primary goal now is to escape.
Dick briefly told the main universe Nightwing what had just happened, and the main universe Nightwing was also confused, and Dick said, "I think we have to think of a way."
"Can't we just stay here?" Nightwing said, "The fog will eventually dissipate anyway."
"That's what I thought just now, but after I stayed for a while, I found that eyes began to appear on the glass. Those eyes made me feel bad. If I stayed any longer, something might go wrong."
"So we can't stay in one place for a long time in the thick fog?" Nightwing from the main universe said, "Then it should be okay for us to just walk around, right?"
Dick wanted to say that he was just wandering around and that led to the accident you mentioned.
But he thought about it carefully and realized that he might have been too impatient just now. He knew that what he saw from the other window might be an illusion, but he still wanted to respond in a hurry.
What if I don't respond at all after seeing it? If I just walk around here, keep moving, and keep my eyes out, can I wait safely until the fog dissipates?
Thinking so, Dick simply followed the advice of Nightwing from the main universe. They first returned to the room with the broken glass and decided to stay there until the eyes appeared, and then go to the room next to it where the car crashed, and go back and forth like this.
But when the eyes appeared and they were about to go to another room, they found that the room they appeared in after passing through the door was not the previous room.
It was still an identical office, with another intact floor-to-ceiling window. There was a car outside the window, but now there was only one person left in the car, and that was Nightwing from the Arkham Universe.
"Is this the time after I left?" Nightwing from the main universe was a little confused. He looked carefully, then shook his head and said, "No, that's not right. There was blood on the ground when you were hit, but now there is nothing."
"This may be what happened after my timeline." Dick speculated: "I left the car safely and came to the building, and then you left at that time, and now only Nightwing is left."
"So no matter what happens to him, we can't do anything? Will this really not put him in danger?" said Nightwing from the main universe.
"I guess not," Dick said. "We can just do nothing and the timeline will flow normally. When the fog clears, everything will return to its original state."
But at this moment they suddenly saw a figure appear in the depths of the thick fog in the direction the car was facing.
He just stood there quietly, but there seemed to be endless magic that tempted people to observe him, to approach him, and to pursue him.
It seems that as long as one can touch that figure, one will be able to learn the whole truth of the mysterious world in the fog.
Dick wanted to speak out to stop them again, but the only remaining Nightwing stepped on the accelerator and the car drove into the depths of the fog.
The roar of the engine gradually faded away. Dick opened his mouth to say something, but the roar came again from the distance. The Batmobile reappeared, and the driver drove out again as if he had not noticed anything, and then drove back to the original position without any pause in between.
"Is this some kind of space loop?" Dick speculated: "It seems to be getting closer, but in fact the position has never changed."
"I think we should ask him to stop." Nightwing from the main universe said, "Although the car's energy is unlimited, if he keeps driving like this, and when the fog clears, he stops in a place we don't know, how are we going to find him next?"
"But we can't break another window." Dick said, "If there has to be a bad outcome, it's better to get separated than to get hurt. The fog will eventually dissipate, and we can rely on communication when the time comes."
Nightwing from the main universe also agreed with what he said. Something would definitely happen in this dangerous fog, and due to the confusion of time and space, it would be difficult to achieve a good result no matter how much exploration was done. It would be better to choose the best one. Just like Dick said, the fog would always dissipate.
Unfortunately, when the fog dissipated, the two of them were still standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the building's office, but in the last few seconds, they watched the only remaining Nightwing drive away into the fog.
When they went downstairs and walked to the front door, Dick was about to take a step forward when Nightwing suddenly pulled him back as if he heard something.
With a bang, a fire extinguisher fell down, creating a big hole on the edge of the asphalt road and the cobblestone street. The flying stones cut the skin of Dick's arm that was blocking in front of him.
The cars and drivers that were supposed to be on the street were nowhere to be seen, and the last wisp of fog had dissipated.
(End of this chapter)