Volume 1: Welcoming Gotham Chapter 8 Self-cultivation of qualified cannon fodder
Mason landed on his feet in a terrible smelling place, and before him appeared a scene that looked like a post-war ruin.
The three-story platform in front of me had obviously been attacked by some kind of explosive that fell from the sky. Even the main body of this large train station had been blown up beyond recognition.
Mason felt like he had stepped into the battlefield of World War II.
He looked around. He couldn't find even a trace of life in this ruined area full of debris. It was as desolate as if it had been abandoned for decades.
"Oreshet!"
The only female in the team screamed when she saw the tragic scene before her. She was chewing gum trying to relax herself, but her defense was completely broken at this moment.
This white girl with short black hair, a thin waist and long legs, and a very capable look at Old K who was checking the crossbow, and she roared:
"That's not what you said when you recruited me! This is a different world full of power? Bullshit! This is clearly a ruin, a wasteland! This place is worse than the battlefield in Afghanistan. I feel like I'm back in a nightmare."
"Calm down, Ms. Betty."
Old K ignored her and said casually:
“Believe me, according to the records of the Star Society, this is already a very peaceful world, very suitable for novices to explore freely.
In fact, if my old teammates hadn't died in another damn chaotic world, I wouldn't have brought you guys here again."
After saying that, the mysterious guy coughed and said loudly to the four people beside him, including Mason:
“I’ve been here many times. I took my induction test here. I promise you won’t have any problems as long as you listen.
Our exploration target this time is a magic academy that has been destroyed and abandoned in the apocalypse... Hmm? Why do you look like that?
Isn't it normal for a different world to have a magic school?"
Old K showed that disgusting, condescending expression again, as if he was talking to a fool. He took out a quiver to load his crossbow and said slowly:
“This world has a magical heritage, but it is very weak.
There used to be many magic academies here but most of them have been plundered... ahem, I mean, 'explored' by my colleagues.
The only one left for us is the last one, which is also the most dangerous one.
There are a lot of good things in the ruins there, and our mission this time is to find one of them and hand it over to the organization, so as to achieve the reorganization of Team K.
I promise everyone, as long as you can survive to the end, everyone will get benefits that you can't even imagine.
Lucky will officially join my team and become an E-level member of the Star Club. I will take you to the world I am conquering, and we can do great things together!"
"Doing big things by that means being abandoned by you in another world like your previous teammates?"
Another tall and thin man next to the hot-tempered girl Betty asked in a cold voice, which made Lao K's expression suddenly become very ugly.
The guy who made the noise was wearing a black tights with a red spiral logo on the chest, and a thick black cape with a green pattern on the lining.
He had blond hair but wore a weird half-mask covering the upper half of his face, and spoke in a very gloomy tone.
Mason thought this guy was weird.
Because every time he looked at him, he would suddenly feel dizzy, as if there was some special force field surrounding this guy.
"Shut up, Lord 'Count'."
Old K sneered and said:
“You weren’t as talkative when I got you out of Amanda Waller’s jail.
Finding the magical object called the Philosopher's Stone in the ruins of the abandoned Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the highest paying and medium difficulty task among all the bounties offered by the Star Society in this C-level world.
Now I'll give you some time to get to know each other, and we'll set off when I come back from my reconnaissance.
As a courtesy, I remind you that the micro-bomb will explode as soon as it leaves the remote control's sensing range, which is three kilometers.
So if you're going to run, I suggest you run fast."
After saying that, Lao K turned and left.
Probably to intimidate the team members, this guy showed off his "abilities" while walking.
After taking three steps, the figure suddenly flashed and mysteriously appeared ten meters away. After taking a few steps, it flashed again, causing the four cannon fodders to frown.
"Uh, hello everyone, my name is Charles, you can call me 'Kite Man'. I'm from Gotham, and was brought out of Blackgate Prison by Old K.
what about you?"
The most talkative member of the team took the initiative to speak.
He wore a green jumpsuit with a special brown backpack on his back and flight goggles.
Although he is tall, he always touches his head unconsciously when he speaks, which makes him feel very insecure.
"Forget about it. I know you, Kite Man, a former henchman of the Joker Gang. After the Joker was captured and imprisoned in Arkham, you guys all scattered like monkeys when the tree fell.
Those who are capable have all gone to join other people, and no one wants you.
You got to the point of robbing a bakery and getting caught by Gordon himself, I actually doubt you did it on purpose so you could enjoy a nice big bowl of prison food."
Betty, a hot-tempered girl, chewed gum and stood with her hands on her hips, not caring at all that the various explosives inside her coat were seen by others.
She looked down on the Kite Man and casually told him about his embarrassing incident. Then, as the Kite Man laughed awkwardly, she looked at the other two people. She looked up and down at the man who had just argued with Old K and said:
"You're from the Suicide Squad? Not bad, man. What are your powers? Please don't tell me you can do magic tricks. We already have a useless Kite Man as our group pet."
"I know you too, Betty Susie."
The man who looked the most powerful glanced at the girl and said:
"I heard that you underwent body modification that can make everything you touch explode. After retiring, you joined a terrorist organization in Canada. People in your circle call you 'Bomb Girl'.
Amanda Waller is paying attention to you, and that's not a good thing."
"Thank you, Bomber!"
Betty puffed out her chest proudly, corrected the man and stared at him again.
The latter hesitated for a moment and introduced himself:
"My code name in the Suicide Squad is 'Vertigo', but people in the industry call me 'The Count'. Let me clarify here that they are not wrong, I do have aristocratic blood.
As for my abilities.
I can put all living things in my sight into an uncontrollable state of dizziness, and can also disrupt electronic equipment if necessary."
"Cool! You'd be a great partner."
Bomb Girl Betty seems to have regarded herself as the leader of this four-person gang, and Count Vertigo and Kite Man have no objection to this.
Then the three of them looked at Mason, who had remained silent.
The young man didn't care about their stares at all, and had no interest in introducing himself. Are you kidding? He came here to save himself, not to make friends!
He was now thinking about the information that Lao K had just said.
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? The Philosopher's Stone?"
Mason looked up and looked at the "King's Cross Station" sign fluttering in the wind above the crack in the ruins. He felt that his guess was probably right.
A feeling of relief and doubt rose in my heart at the same time at this moment. I was relieved that I knew something about this world, which might become a hidden advantage.
What is puzzling is, what happened in this world to cause the station in London to be bombed like this? Did the counterattack that the dark wizards have been planning succeed?
A world war broke out between wizards and humans, which directly led to the fall of London?
No way?
"Hey, kid! Everyone's waiting for you to introduce yourself."
Bomb Girl Betty felt that Mason had disrespected the "dignity" she was trying to establish, so she spoke rudely. Mason glanced back at her, and shrugged at her aggressive look.
He pointed to his mouth, then waved his hand, making a helpless expression.
"Ah, so he's a mute..."
Betty was a little embarrassed.
She glared at Mason angrily and asked:
"What are your abilities?"
"Shua"
Mason pulled out the "Old K" explosive shotgun used for precision sniping from behind him, put it in his hand and made an aiming gesture.
This action made Betty immediately lose interest in this tall, thin young man with black hair and yellow skin.
Tsk, turns out he’s a gun player.
In the world of super villains, this ability is too weak.
Unless he has super shooting skills and super gun control like Deadshot or Bloodsport, bullets alone are no threat in the face of his own explosive power.
Betty lost interest in Mason and turned to chat with the only person she liked, Count Vertigo. At this moment, the despised Kite Man took the initiative to come over and patted Mason on the shoulder in a familiar manner.
The fellow whispered to Mason:
“Don’t pay attention to freaks like them, these bastards always think that they have power only if they have ability, but they don’t know what real power is.
I knew all too well about these things when I was following the Joker.
They see us as a burden, and when something goes wrong they will definitely ask us to take the brunt of it. I have seen this happen many times, so we have to help each other."
In response to the Kite Man's proactive overtures, Mason, who pretended to be mute to avoid excessive communication with others, gave him a polite but distant smile.
Mason then took out a flying bomb assembled from a drone and an engineering bomb, as well as a control tablet from his backpack.
After a simple operation, this thing flew up and flew into the ruins in front of it as a scout.
This action made the Kite Man who was watching blink his eyes. As a villain who had followed the Joker and seen the world, he immediately knew that this low-key mute young man was more powerful than the Bomb Girl imagined.
But a few seconds later, the images transmitted back from the reconnaissance tablet in Mason's hand made Kite Man's eyes widen and he almost screamed.
He suddenly covered his mouth and looked at the surveillance screen with his heart pounding.
The engineering bomb flew through the dark tunnel below. It was a large pit formed by the collapse of the platform stairs leading to the parking lot from the underground station, and it was filled with a group of wandering "people".
them……
No, they hide in the shadows outside the area where the sunlight shines overhead, and some of them don't even have their lower bodies anymore, and just use their upper bodies to crawl on the ground.
The ground of that damn place was covered with dirty, coagulated blood, making it look like hell on earth.
As the drone got closer, the faces of those "people" were truly revealed. Their skin was festering and their eyes were bulging, their teeth were bloodstained and mutated and twisted, and some even had rotten intestines and stomachs, dragging their shriveled internal organs as they moved.
Anyone who has seen a few B-movies knows what this is.
Zombies!
A huge amount of zombies!
Mason was also full of doubts.
He wasn't afraid of zombies, but he was confused as to why a zombie apocalypse would happen in a world where wizards existed? The two things even had different styles!
"They're both leaving."
Kite Man suddenly reached out and poked Mason's shoulder and whispered something.
The young man looked back and saw that the Bomb Girl and Count Vertigo seemed to have discussed an action plan and were walking towards the station exit, talking and laughing, without realizing the hidden dangers around them.
He waved his finger at the kite flyer and made a "follow me" look, then tiptoed towards the waiting hall of the train station along a safer route detected by the drone.
Platform nine and three quarters, where you can board the Hogwarts Wizarding Train, is right there, and Old K should be there too.
The sly fellow's talk of leaving time for getting to know each other was just an excuse.
That bastard wanted to give the four newcomers a warning on purpose, and when their legs and feet were sore from being frightened by the zombies, he would drop down from the sky.
He is a veteran actor.
The funny villain Kite Man dressed in green stood there hesitantly. Mason left in the opposite direction of Bomb Girl and Count Vertigo.
It seemed as if a choice was before him.
Which side should we follow?
Is it a male and female duo whose strength on paper is far better than Mason's?
Or this ordinary-looking 17-year-old high school student?
The Kite Man did not hesitate for long.
He decided to trust his strong intuition that he had developed after spending several years in the Joker Gang, and caught up with Mason in just a few steps.
The two men advanced one after the other in the dark and silent ruins, where strange roars could be heard from time to time. As they followed the instructions of the drone into the waiting hall, a loud explosion .
That's the bomb girl showing off her power.
It seemed that she had finally discovered the zombies in the station and understood their current situation.
Mason did not stop but instead quickened his pace. If the zombies were alarmed, they would soon form a tide of corpses, so he had to enter the magic platform immediately.
As he expected, when he arrived at the September three-quarters platform, he saw Old K leaning against a stone pillar smoking his pipe. The latter looked at the silent Mason and the kite flyer following him with admiration.
"not bad."
He grinned, blew out a puff of smoke and said slowly:
“I have led many new recruits , and in every batch there are some idiots who think they are invincible and do whatever they want based on their abilities. Their ending is usually not very good.
The first rule of the Star Society is to fight with your brain instead of your fists. It seems that you are born to join us, Mason. You are worthy of being a young man chosen by Batman.
But we are a team, so it would be bad to abandon our teammates.”
The hypocritical old K snapped his fingers, turned around and touched the stone pillar behind him, and said to Mason:
“Those wizards have created a barrier here. I need some time to open it. Your mission is to protect me from being disturbed and save those two idiots.
Any question?"
"Click"
Mason turned on the safety, turned around and prepared to shoot, demonstrating his attitude with practical actions.
He glanced at the nervous Kite Man beside him, casually tossed him an engineering pistol he had made during practice last night and motioned for him to take a few steps back.
Don't bother yourself from "brushing experience".
After everything was ready, the young man looked at the images sent back by the engineering bomb that monitored the movement of the zombie tide.
The moment Mason saw the Bomb Girl and Count Vertigo being chased by a large number of zombies in a very miserable state, he decisively pressed the explode button.
There was a loud bang.
The broken floor above the only road leading to the waiting hall was collapsed by the engineering bomb suspended there, blocking the zombies' advance and also blocking the path of the male and female duo, leaving only a narrow space for advancement.
Now, no matter whether the man and woman are willing or not, they must fight and retreat against the tide of zombies surging behind them in order to have a chance of escaping.
This action made Old K look back at Mason, but he didn't say much and started to break the wizard's barrier on the platform.
Mason rolled his shoulders and raised the gun in his hand.
Entering combat state, combat assistance is online, a large number of free aiming boxes appear in the field of vision, the red preset trajectory is also turned on, and the "FPS mode" is started.
"We have the warriors who can stop the zombie tide."
He aimed at the disgusting head of the fastest zombie, and when his finger touched the trigger, he couldn't help but think:
"It's a rare opportunity to practice shooting. It seems that being abducted here is not all bad. By the time I leave here with Old K's head, will my shooting skills reach Level 3?"
