amaotonovel Chapter 2477: Battle for the Cloak (33)
Chapter 2477: Battle for the Cloak (33)
Chapter 2477: Battle for the Cloak (Thirty-three)
Memorizing pictures is Batman's basic skill. He clearly remembers every detail of his way here, and he remembers even more clearly that the sewers in front of the safe house are straight. So where did this 180-degree turn in front of him come from?
Batman certainly felt the invasion of the fog, but his visor was equipped with thermal imaging, night vision and the bat's unique sound wave return imaging, so even if he knew that he was surrounded by thick fog that could not be dispersed, he could still see things within his normal field of vision.
What puzzled Batman now was that the sewer on his right, which was supposed to lead straight to two streets away, now made a big turn, as if it had been forcibly twisted by some force.
The sewer passage on his left, which was supposed to have no way to end here, now turned into a straight waterway that continued to spread outward.
Which side should Batman choose?
Batman chose not to go anywhere. He went straight back to the safe house, took a look at the sleeping Arkham Batman, and chose to walk directly to the ground from the ladder of the safe house.
He climbed up the ladder.
They were at the lower level of the sewer, and even with the direct ladder, it would take a while to climb to the sewer entrance. Batman kept looking up at the sewer entrance, and the sewer entrance was getting bigger and bigger in his field of vision.
But soon Batman felt the change in gravity, and he found that he had to exert more force to grab the crossbar of the sewer ladder. He looked down and saw that the light of the safe house was no longer below, but a bend.
The passage leading to the ground has also been twisted into an arc. Batman is now actually crawling in the letter "C" and has reached the top, which is parallel to the real ground instead of perpendicular, so he needs to use force with his arms to stabilize his body.
But the light from the sewer entrance was still within reach.
Batman decided to back off.
After going down five or six steps, Batman turned around and looked down. There was no hole under his feet, but another bend.
Looking up again, the sewer entrance with faint light became larger in his field of vision, a little too large. He was clearly backing away, but the entrance was still getting bigger, as if he was very close.
The ever-expanding bright spot was like a big mouth, as if it was about to swallow Batman at any time. Batman paused for a moment and began to retreat.
Batman kept climbing down like this. He felt that he had climbed at least several hundred meters. He couldn't count how many times he had experienced gravity cycles. Anyway, it was just one turn after another.
As he was backing away, Batman felt his calf hit something. He lowered his head again and saw that the road below was no longer a curve. The walls around him narrowed and began to become narrower and narrower.
Something was surging at the end, and Batman had a bad feeling. He quickened his pace and climbed up, hearing waves of sticky rumbling sounds.
The huge monster at the end rushed out. Batman turned around and saw two long tentacles swinging on his side. The soft flesh covered with mucus climbed quickly along the inner wall.
He's racing a snail in its shell?!
Batman climbed up as fast as he could. The two tentacles kept approaching him, sliding across his back and arms. The sticky touch almost stuck Batman in place.
But Batman did not stop. He crawled as fast as he could towards the mouth of the snail shell that was getting bigger and bigger. With a bang, Batman fell out of the sewer. When he got up again, the surroundings were as calm as usual.
He looked down and saw that the sewer entrance was just a sewer entrance. There were no spiral snail shells that seemed endless, no slimy and bloated monster snails. Looking down from the small hole, he could see the lights in the safe room, as if everything that had just appeared was an illusion.
Batman throws a probe down.
There was a puff sound, followed by a familiar buzzing sound. The image from the monitor showed only it being swallowed by the soft and sticky objects squeezed from all around, leaving nothing behind.
Batman took a deep breath and covered the sewer opening. He looked around and found a convenience store nearby.
After clearing out all the salt on the convenience store shelves, Batman returned to the cave entrance with bag after bag of salt. He opened the packages and poured all the salt down. Intense screams began to be heard from the cave entrance.
A sticky, turbid water poured out from the hole. The tentacles that had not yet completely melted bounced on the ground. The eyes turned and finally stared at Batman.
Suddenly, Batman threw down the last bag of salt. He looked at the torn and messy packaging and broke out in a cold sweat.
What is he doing? Why is he doing it?
Batman stood up and rubbed his temple vigorously. Why was his first thought after experiencing some snail-related hallucinations that salt could kill snails?
Did he do that? How else would he know? Did he kill any snails with salt as a child? Was that true?
Some memories began to become a little confused. On the one hand, he said, this is normal. Who hasn't dug out ant nests and caught earthworms when they were young? On the other hand, Batman knew clearly that he definitely didn't do this when he was a child. He was not one of those murderers who started with animal abuse and ended with murder. His childhood was very healthy.
His thoughts became a little confused, Batman took a deep breath and began to gradually eliminate those meaningless fantasies.
He ignored the mess on the ground and walked towards the destination alone. On the way there, he remembered that there was a hospital nearby, which should have the wheelchair he wanted.
As he walked, Batman was blocked. A lamppost bent over and blocked his way.
It wasn't broken, but it was as if a cartoon character suddenly bent down and turned its upper body sideways to greet him.
Batman ignored the lamppost and continued walking forward, and another lamppost lowered even lower, as if to say "Are you really not going to look at me?"
Batman continued to ignore him and walked forward on the road. Two lamp posts crossed each other and made a cross to him, as if to say "Don't go any further, stop and look at us."
Batman passed under two lamp posts, still without even looking, and then the biggest spectacle so far appeared, the lamp posts on both sides of the road were twisted together in a spiral.
The structure of the lamppost is actually a bit strange, with a straight body and a big head, so when they are entangled together, they look like two twisted people.
The two lamp posts were twisted long, and the lamps hung low, as if to say to Batman, "We are all like this, why don't you look at us?"
Batman didn't even look at it and walked around it. He had already arrived at the lawn near the hospital. Considering that the local street lights were impolite, Batman decided to just walk across the lawn.
When he stepped onto the lawn, it was still a neat triangle, but as he walked, the corner of his target location began to stretch and twist, turning into a spiral.
Batman decisively walked to the other side, but the other side also turned into a spiral. Batman looked back and saw that, sure enough, the side behind him was also a spiral.
Batman took a deep breath, stretched out one arm, fired a grappling hook at the nearest tree, and pulled himself directly over.
The moment he approached the tree, he saw that the normal vertical lines on the bark had been twisted into dense spirals.
Batman suspects that the world is just a giant snail shell.
Ignoring these anomalies, Batman continued walking towards the hospital gate. He stood at the gate and observed, and found that the stairs on both sides of the front desk were spiral staircases. If he walked up, there was a chance that a giant snail would chase him.
Batman chose to use the grappling hook directly through the window. He hooked onto the nearest balcony and jumped up, then jumped onto the one diagonally to the side. As long as he could find a warehouse or a storage room for medical supplies, he could get a wheelchair.
The blue and white striped curtains in the inpatient ward were also turning into spirals, becoming very eye-catching. During every jump, Batman would feel a little dizzy after passing these spiral-patterned curtains.
These spiral patterns seemed to have some kind of magic that kept attracting his attention, causing the interval between his jumps to become a little longer, and the time he was silently calculating in his mind during which he was prohibited from staying was almost up.
Fuzzy eye patterns began to appear on the reflective surface, but because there were so many spirals, the eyeballs of those eyes began to turn into one whirlpool after another.
Finally the timer reached zero, and Batman saw himself staggering in a town, turning, turning, and then turning again. There was not a single straight road in the entire town, and there were only curves wherever he looked.
The fallen leaves blown by the breeze on the long street drew standard swirling patterns. One old and dilapidated house after another was twisted to one side, and the floor tiles spread out along curved lines.
Batman looked up and saw a thin black line spiraling downward under the dark sky in the distance, which seemed to be leading to the center of the spirally arranged town.
When the illusion disappeared, Batman found himself still standing on the balcony, but when he looked down, he saw his spiral footprints left on the balcony surface wet by rain. He had been circling in the same place.
Batman looked down at his arm, because he found that the arm holding the grappling hook had become a little heavy, and when he raised his arm carefully, he found that one side of his armor was covered with mucus.
It seemed to be the mucus that was rubbed on by the tentacles of the giant snail during the previous chase. It was half dry at this time, and when it was lifted up, it would pull up rows of silk threads.
Batman tried to peel off the threads with his hands and cut them, but found that no matter what cloth or detergent he used, he couldn't wipe them off.
There was another sudden shake, and Batman felt his body was in pain. It seemed as if he was melting, and the part below his head gradually turned into puddles of thick water, which flowed down in a spiral and merged with the rain.
His vision was split into two, swaying left and right, twisting in the slime, and bouncing on the ground.
Batman jerked his head back, but was stopped by the balcony railing, but his center of gravity continued to fall backwards.
With a whoosh, he fell from the balcony.
Suddenly a vine stretched out and grabbed his cloak, and a man with red hair appeared on the top floor of the hospital, leaning on the railing and looking down. A doubtful voice appeared in Batman's ears.
"Batman, aren't you dead?"
Myers is from Halloween (only the first part is recommended)
Spiral Town comes from Ito Junji's "Uzumaki" (If you have a bad mental endurance, don't watch Mr. Erzi's works. Don't blame me if you have nightmares)
(End of this chapter)