Pretending Not to See

Chapter 53 Pretending Not to See

The moment Shen You stepped inside, he knew he had won the lottery.

The warp magic seemed to be interfering with the armor's sensors to some extent, making it difficult to detect from the outside. But once inside, everything became clear.

Several heat sources were marked one after another, settling in various areas of this subspace. Shen You was already quite familiar with that kind of fluctuation frequency.

They are all demons.

Hence the present scene.

Flames flickered in the eerie hall, and afterimages flew everywhere. All sorts of bizarre demonic spirits surrounded the red and silver mech, like a chaotic dance of demons.

This is a good opportunity to test the performance of the second-generation battle armor.

Shen You flipped his hand, and a beam of golden light from his palm struck a demon spirit that thought it had sneaked up from his blind spot. The demon spirit's face was instantly blasted open, its wings flapping as it crashed to the ground, its chin plunging into the earth and carving a long, sharp crack in the floor.

The chin brake is the most deadly.

Seeing that its opponent had taken the damage with his face, the demon thought to itself, "An opportunity!" It immediately accelerated and charged towards Shen You with a loud shout, opening its mouth to reveal its sharp teeth and bite at Shen You.

But Shen You seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, easily dodging the pounce with a light dodge, and then followed up with an elbow strike that ripped open the demon's cheek. The demon screamed and fell to the ground, where Shen You stomped on it.

At the same time, the launcher on his shoulder popped open, and the Specium warhead ignited and flew out. The three demons passing by in mid-air were all engulfed in the explosion's flames, and the destructive Specium energy contained in the huge fireball that exploded pulverized the three brothers on the spot, crushing them into nothingness.

In terms of performance alone, the Specium projectile is certainly inferior to the Specium Ray. It is slower and less powerful than a ray. However, Shen You continued to choose it as a conventional weapon because it has its own advantages.

First, it requires no charging or loading, and Shen You doesn't even need to focus on aiming and releasing. The armor's AI automatically aims and fires, and it's launched automatically from the shoulder without interfering with other operations, plus it consumes zero energy—in comparison, the Specium Ray is considered a powerful attack, and its energy consumption is relatively high compared to other weapons.

Two more demon spirits, shouting deafeningly, charged forward shoulder to shoulder. These two seemed to be brothers, and were somewhat skilled; one attacked the top lane while the other attacked the bottom, demonstrating a clear division of labor—both targeting areas the enemy was forced to defend, intending to keep him busy.

But Shen You didn't dodge or flinch at all. He opened his right palm, and light energy poured out. The energy instantly condensed into a ring of light with flashing electric arcs in his palm, spinning around with a terrifying crackling sound.

Eight-tenths of a halo!

However, this time it was not thrown out like a traditional light wheel, but remained in the palm of the hand, spinning steadily without dissipating.

With a swift movement of his feet, he suddenly closed in on the two demonic spirits, maintaining the halo in his palm and swinging it horizontally like a chainsaw used in close combat!

A blinding light swept across, a clear path of light tracing across the two demonic spirits. The crimson and silver armor flashed past their sides, causing the spirits to freeze in place until a white line appeared on their bodies. A dazzling light pierced through the white line, and the two spirits, their expressions of shock, were severed, their upper halves falling to the ground with a thud. Even in death, their eyes remained wide open in disbelief.

After slicing the two apart, Shen You didn't stop. His propulsion engine suddenly shot out, and with his super speed, he accelerated, leaving afterimages as he swayed to the next demon spirit.

The Eight-Point Light Wheel slashed out once more!

This time, the blade fell from above, slicing through a demon spirit's brains and splitting it in two from the top of the head to the groin, a truly gruesome death.

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The demons trembled and were terrified at the sight of their comrade's gruesome death.

Seeing the situation was dire, the leader, the owl demon, flapped its wings and took off, breaking through the magical barrier and crashing through the underground structure, flying straight into the night sky of Gotham.

This idea is tricky; we'd better get out of here!

As the saying goes, when the father dies, the mother remarries, and everyone looks after themselves. Anyway, every demon knows that brotherhood is a joke. Since ancient times, the demon race has perfected the tactic of "collapse, retreat, sell, and escape." The biggest role of teammates is to sell themselves to the enemy so that they can quickly run away while counting their money.

However, it is not possible.

Shen You immediately realized that, based on the strength of the dark fluctuations, this flying owl was the one with the most experience points among all the walking creatures on the ground.

The moment this thing burst out of the ground, the armor system had already locked onto it from afar.

Shen You looked up, the positive and negative terminals of his arm armor connected, and a magnificent blue light pierced through layers of obstacles, locking onto the owl demon spirit's escape route as it burst out of the ground.

Specium Ray!

The owl demon flapped its wings and flew rapidly into the air, secretly congratulating itself on having betrayed its teammates quickly enough to save its life. Halfway through its flight, it suddenly sensed something was wrong. Looking down, it was instantly terrified. A scorching light, as if chasing from the depths of hell, relentlessly engulfed it in an instant.

boom!

The owl spirit exploded into the most dazzling fireworks in the night sky.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Gotham.

"The riddle teller is plotting something big."

On the rooftop, Batman's figure slowly emerged from the shadows. James Gordon, Gotham Police Department's last remaining upright officer, dropped his cigarette in surprise, staring wide-eyed at him.

"Good heavens, where did you come from? I didn't make a sound at all."

However, Gordon was a man of the world, and he quickly and calmly accepted the fact that this bat-like transvestite madman had a built-in teleportation ability in the shadows.

"The Riddler hasn't been active for two weeks," Gordon said. "Are you sure it's him this time?"

"At a crime scene earlier tonight, surveillance footage captured the presence of a veteran Gotham enforcer. His name is Crone Scott, and I dealt with him last month. He works for the Riddler."

Gordon frowned. "Maybe the Riddler just disappeared and then went to find a new employer."

"No. My equipment detected residual signals in certain frequency bands on-site, which at first glance didn't seem to have any special meaning. But upon further investigation, the pattern looked like a question mark shape."

Gordon exhaled a smoke ring.

"Is he issuing a challenge?"

"I'm afraid so," Batman said coolly. "However, Scott left a handprint at the scene, from which I extracted some dust containing phosphates and calcium, some rare mixture."

It likely originated from a catacombs, a historic tourist attraction in Gotham. Built in the 18th century to save the city from disease-ridden cemeteries, the catacombs soon became so popular that people could only preserve a single bone when burying their loved ones.

Gordon took the compiled documents from him, adjusted his glasses, and began to carefully peruse them.

"So that's where the Riddler might be hiding. Your ability to track him down in such a short time is astonishing as ever."

boom!

A blinding light suddenly shot into the sky from countless blocks away, illuminating the night in an instant. A fireball exploded briefly in the darkness before quickly returning to silence.

"What's going on?"

Gordon, who was reading documents, was suddenly drawn to the explosion.

As he turned his head, he saw Batman with one foot already on the edge of the building, stealthily raising his grappling hook, trying to sneak away while Gordon wasn't looking.

Gordon turned his head and caught him in that awkward pose, holding the grappling hook gun but not yet having a chance to fire it.

A gentle evening breeze blew by, lifting a corner of Batman's cape.

A slightly awkward atmosphere filled the air.

A few seconds later, Gordon exhaled a smoke ring and said softly.

"You know I can turn my head away now. Do it again, and I can pretend I didn't see anything."

(End of this chapter)