There is no Batman in Gotham City comics.

Chapter 15 A Narrow Escape

Qin Wei's legs went weak and he knelt on the ground. He wanted to run away, but his muscles were twitching and he couldn't muster any strength.

Excessive adrenaline can cause muscle contractions that compress blood vessels, prompting blood to flow to the brain. This is originally a protective mechanism that allows humans to temporarily enhance their mental capacity to cope with emergencies.

But this mechanism has now harmed Qin Wei.

What do I need a brain for? I need legs!

In that life-or-death moment, a long whip dangled from the android's corpse beside him. Qin Wei looked up and saw Brock, panting heavily, lying on top of the android.

He has already done most of the work for Qin Wei, and now only the last step remains.

"Almost...almost there, the whip tip is with you...hurry up and tie a tight knot!"

Although Brock had a cynical face, he was a very reliable adult. Seeing Qin Wei trembling on the ground in fear, he dragged his battered body and took over the heavy burden.

In the blink of an eye, the cyborg had reached Qin Wei. It lowered its body and turned its shoulder to the side, its huge deltoid muscles, sharp as rocks, were like an indestructible battering ram, and it slammed towards Qin Wei.

At the same time, the whip was tied in a tight knot.

"They're coming! Get out of the way!!!!"

Brock shouted a warning and rolled over almost simultaneously with Qin Wei, narrowly avoiding the impact.

Long!

The two mountains of flesh collided violently, a scene resembling a dump truck with malfunctioning brakes crashing headfirst into an African elephant.

How much does a cyborg weigh? A brown bear of the same size weighs about 1 ton. Considering that they have a more robust physique than brown bears, their actual weight may be more exaggerated than Qin Wei expected.

But even this enormous weight couldn't withstand the impact; the cyborg's corpse was torn in two by brute force, and the two pieces were pushed more than ten meters away.

The scene left Qin Wei feeling a chill of fear.

Without Brock's help, he would have already been reporting from the next world by now.

"What are you standing there for? Do you want to stay and fight him hand-to-hand?"

Qin Wei was jolted awake by a slap to the head from his daze, only then realizing that the filter had been pried open with a large hole.

The plan was a success!

Catwoman and Gordon jumped first, followed closely by Brock, but when it was Qin Wei's turn, he hesitated.

Beneath the filter lies a deep abyss, where sewage rushes and disappears into the darkness.

What lies on the other side of the abyss—flowing water or rocks that will shatter you to pieces?

Still hesitating, the dizzy and disoriented cyborg gradually came to his senses.

Qin Wei realized that he had never had a choice.

He closed his eyes and jumped.

He was lucky; he was enveloped by the water flow during his fall. Otherwise, even if there was water below, the nearly 100-meter drop would have been enough to smash him to pieces.

But don't be too happy yet, the real ordeal has only just begun. Before long, the water pipes began to narrow and many bends appeared.

Qin Wei was enveloped in sewage and couldn't breathe. His head felt like a white ball being hit by a clumsy snooker player, swaying and crashing against the inner wall of the pipe.

He felt like his brain was being shaken to its core.

boom!

The roar of a cannonball exploding in his ears, a sudden feeling of weightlessness enveloping his body, and a slightly salty, cold wind caressing his exposed skin, making him feel a little cold since he hadn't eaten all night.

Am I... out now?

With his eyes tightly closed, Qin Wei sensed the light and groggily opened them to see a blazing sun blooming on the fiery red sea.

In Qin Wei's memory, the sky over Gotham was always shrouded in dark clouds, with damp air and rotting mold forming its tone, and gray-black Gothic architecture as its base color.

He hadn't seen sunlight in far too long.

gorgeous!

Qin Wei stammered, involuntarily reaching out to hide it in his palm.

But after a brief period of weightlessness came a rapid fall. Qin Wei, feeling dizzy and lightheaded, plunged headfirst into the dark seawater. Caught off guard, he swallowed two mouthfuls of water, and his throat and lungs felt like they were on fire.

In the hazy light, someone hugged him tightly from behind and pulled him out of the sea.

"Can you hear me...? Hang in there..."

Selena's voice lingered in his ears, sometimes near, sometimes far, sometimes indistinct. But Qin Wei was too tired; once he closed his eyes, he didn't want to wake up.

"I can't hold on much longer... I can't take it anymore, will anyone come to rescue us...?"

Selena's voice trembled, sounding tired and cold. Qin Wei forced open one eye and saw her wrists, which were blue and bruised from the cold.

There's no need to save me; you won't escape this way either.

Qin Wei wanted to persuade the girl to let go, but he was too tired to even open his mouth.

He didn't know how much time had passed before he and Selena sank into the water. He could feel the cold liquid eroding his lungs along his trachea, filling every alveolus it could find.

What an absurd time-travel journey!

Qin Wei was somewhat unwilling, so he opened his eyes, wanting to take one last look at this world.

Behind the swirling, turbulent sea was a pink sky, in which a black dot was gradually growing larger until it was completely suspended on the water's surface. Only then did Qin Wei recognize what it was.

A fighter jet shaped like a bat.

It's said that people hallucinate before they die, and now Qin Wei believes it.

Even on the verge of death, I'm still fantasizing about Batman making a heroic appearance. I'm hopeless.

There is no Batman in Gotham.

……

Screaming as he woke from a nightmare, Qin Wei sprang up like a mousetrap, nearly bumping into the girl who was about to change her dressing.

"You're awake? Wait a minute, I'll go call Dad!" The girl was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with beautiful blonde hair tied in a high ponytail, wearing a slightly oversized T-shirt with a Winnie the Pooh pattern printed on the back.

"Where am I?"

The girl left in such a hurry that Qin Wei didn't even have time to ask her anything.

Turning my head, I found the answer in Gordon's family photo on the bedside table.

"The Gordon family? Phew... thankfully!"

This is probably the safest place in all of Gotham.

He instinctively reached for his hair, a habitual action Qin Wei used to relieve stress, but this time he touched a head full of gauze.

He gradually recounted his terrifying experiences in the sewers.

He opened his palm to look at it, lifted the blanket to stretch his legs, and finally touched the "symbol of manhood." After confirming that he was safe and sound, Qin Wei let out a long sigh of relief and collapsed onto the bed.

After such a perilous journey that nearly killed him, he only suffered minor injuries. Qin Wei really didn't know whether he was unlucky or lucky.

Gordon walked in shortly afterward.

"You seem to be in good spirits; it looks like there's nothing seriously wrong with your brain."

"Yeah, you look pretty good too, you seem even more handsome than when I first saw you." Qin Wei joked with Gordon in a good mood.

"Roll your tongue up and stuff it properly in your mouth. I'm not some sweet-talking little girl," Gordon retorted with a laugh.

"How are the others?"

"Brock was seriously injured and is still in the hospital, but at least he's out of danger. Your friend woke up a day earlier than you, climbed out the window, and left without saying goodbye."

"That's good, that's good..." Qin Wei was relieved to hear that Selena was alright.

But he quickly gleaned an important piece of information from Gordon's words. Gazing at the night outside the window, a sense of foreboding rose in his heart.

"Wait, she woke up a day earlier than me? What time is it now?"

"It's 11 p.m. on the 13th. It's been two and a half days since we escaped the sewers. What's wrong? A date?" Gordon hadn't realized how much trouble Qin Wei was in.

11 a.m. on the 13th - In one hour, it will be Maroni's deadline.

"A date with a beauty? Heh heh heh, the one I'm meeting is a demon from hell!"