Memorizing pictures is Batman's basic skill. He clearly remembers every detail on the way here, and even more clearly remembers that the sewers at the door of this safe house are straight, so the one in front of him seems to be a 180-degree loop.
Where did the bend come from?
Of course Batman felt the fog coming in, but his visor is equipped with thermal imaging, night vision and bat-unique sound wave return imaging, so even if he knows that he is surrounded by thick fog that cannot be dispersed, he can still see
Clear objects within normal visual field.
What puzzles Batman now is that the sewer on his right that should have led straight to two streets away now turned a big bend, as if it had been forcibly twisted by some force.
And the sewer channel on his left, which was originally supposed to have no access at all, now turned into a straight water channel that continued to spread outward.
Which way should Batman choose to go?
Batman chose not to go either way. He returned directly to the safe house, glanced at the sleeping Arkham Batman, and chose to walk directly from the safe house's ladder to the ground.
He climbed up the ladder.
They were on the lower level of the sewer, and even with a straight ladder, they still had to climb for a while to reach the sewer opening. Batman kept looking up at the sewer opening, and the sewer opening 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 there was no longer the light of the safe house, but a corner.
The passage leading to the ground has also been twisted into an arc. Batman is actually crawling in the letter "C" now, and has climbed to the top, which is parallel to the real ground instead of perpendicular, so he needs the strength of his arms to fix it.
Body.
But the light from the sewer entrance is still very close at hand.
Batman decided to retreat.
After descending five or six steps of the ladder, Batman turned around and looked down. There was no hole under his feet, but another bend.
Looking upwards, the sewer opening with faint light became larger within the field of vision, a bit too big. It was obvious that he was retreating, but the opening was still getting larger, as if he was already very close.
The ever-increasing bright spot was like a big mouth, as if it was ready to swallow Batman at any time. Batman paused for a moment and continued to retreat.
Just keeping climbing down, Batman felt that he had climbed at least several hundred meters, and he couldn't count how many gravity cycles he had experienced. Anyway, it was just one bend after another.
Backing up, Batman felt his calf hit something. He lowered his head again and saw that it was no longer a curve. The surrounding walls were constricting and starting to become narrower and narrower.
Something was surging at the end, and Batman had a bad feeling. He climbed up faster and heard sticky rumbling sounds one after another.
The behemoth at the end rushed out. When Batman turned around, two long and huge tentacles swung beside him, and the soft flesh covered in mucus quickly climbed along the inner wall.
He's racing a snail in a snail shell?!
Batman climbed up as fast as he could, and the two tentacles kept approaching him, swiping across his back and arms, and the sticky touch almost stuck Batman in place.
But Batman didn't stop. He crawled towards the mouth of the snail shell that was getting bigger and bigger as fast as he could. With a bang, Batman fell out of the sewer mouth. When he got up again, the surroundings were calm as usual.
He looked down and saw that the sewer mouth was the sewer mouth. There were no spirals like endless snail shells, no sticky and bloated monster snails. Looking down from the small hole, he could see the lights in the safe room, as if everything had just appeared.
It's all an illusion.
Batman threw a detector down.
There was a pop, followed by a familiar buzzing sound, and the picture from the monitor only saw it being swallowed up by soft and sticky objects squeezing around it, leaving nothing behind.
Batman took a deep breath and covered the sewer opening. He looked around and found a convenience store nearby.
After clearing the shelves of the convenience store of salt, Batman returned to the cave entrance with bags of salt in his hands, opened the packages and poured all the salt down. Fierce screams began to come from the cave entrance.
A kind of sticky, turbid water poured out from the hole. The tentacles that had not yet completely melted bounced on the ground, and the naked eyes rotated, and finally they all stared at Batman.
Suddenly, Batman threw down the last bag of salt. Looking at the torn and messy packaging, he broke into a cold sweat.
What is he doing? Why is he doing this?
Batman stood up and rubbed his temples vigorously. Why was his first thought after experiencing some snail-related hallucinations that salt could kill snails?
Did he do this? How else would he know? Did he kill any snails with salt as a child? Was there such a thing?
Some memories began to become a little confusing. On the one hand, he said, this is normal. Who didn't dig out ant nests and catch earthworms as a child? On the other hand, Batman knew clearly that he definitely never did this when he was a child.
He was not one of those murderers who started with animal cruelty and ended with murder. He had a very healthy childhood.
His thoughts became a little confused. Batman took a deep breath and began to gradually eliminate those meaningless thoughts.
He ignored the mess on the ground and walked toward the destination alone. On the way there, he remembered that there was a hospital nearby, and the wheelchair he wanted should be there.
As he was walking, Batman was blocked in his path, and a streetlight pole folded over and blocked him.
It's not broken, but like a cartoon character suddenly bent down and turned his upper body sideways to say hello.
Batman ignored the light pole and continued walking forward. The other light pole was lowered even lower, as if to say "Are you really not looking at me?"
Batman continued to ignore it and walked forward on the road. The two lampposts crossed each other and made a sign of a cross to him, as if to say, "Don't go any further, stop and look at us."
Batman passed under two streetlight poles, still not looking at them, and then the biggest spectacle so far appeared. The streetlight poles on both sides of the road were screwed together in a spiral.
The structure of the street lamp pole 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 street lamp poles are twisted very long, and the street lamps hang down, as if to say to Batman, "We are all like this, why don't you look at us?"
Batman didn't look at it at all and walked around. He had already arrived on the lawn near the hospital. Considering that the local street lights were rude, Batman decided to step directly on the lawn and cross.
When he stepped on the lawn, it was still a good triangle, but as he walked, the corner of his target spot began to extend and twist, turning into a spiral again.
Batman walked decisively towards the other side, but the other side also turned into a spiral. Batman looked back and sure enough, the side behind him was also a spiral.
Batman took a deep breath, stretched out an arm, fired a hook at the nearest tree, and pulled himself over.
The moment he got close to the big tree, he saw that the originally normal vertical lines on the bark were twisted into dense spirals.
Batman suspects that the world is a giant snail shell.
Ignoring these anomalies, Batman continued to walk towards the door of the hospital. He stood at the door and observed, and found that the stairs on both sides of the front desk were spiral stairs. If he walked up, there would be a big snail chasing him.
.
Batman chose to use the hook directly to go out the window. He hung on the nearest balcony and jumped on it, and then jumped on the diagonal one. As long as he found the warehouse or the medical auxiliary supplies storage room, he could get a wheelchair.
The original blue and white striped curtains in the inpatient ward have also turned into spirals one after another, becoming very eye-catching. Every time he jumps, Batman will feel a little dizzy after passing these spiral-patterned curtains.
These spiral patterns seemed to have some magical power that kept attracting his attention, which made the distance between each of his jumps become larger, and the time he was silently calculating in his mind to stop staying was almost over.
Fuzzy eye patterns began to appear on the reflective surface, but because there were too many spirals, the eyeballs of those eyes began to turn into vortexes one after another.
When the timer finally reached zero, Batman saw himself walking unsteadily in a town, turning, turning, and then turning. There was no straight road in the whole town, and there were all curves as far as the eye could see.
The fallen leaves blown by the breeze passing through the long street drew standard swirl patterns. One after another old and dilapidated houses were twisted to one side, and the floor tiles spread along curved arcs.
Batman looked up and saw only a thin black line spiraling downward under the dark sky in the distance, which seemed to be leading to the center of this spirally arranged town.
When the hallucination disappeared, Batman found that he was still standing on the balcony, but when he lowered his head, he saw his spiral footprints left on the balcony surface that was wet from the rain. He had been spinning in circles just now.
Batman looked down at his arm, because he had noticed that the arm holding the hook had become a little heavy since just now, and when he seriously raised his arm, he found that the side of his armor was stained
Mucus.
It seemed to be the mucus that had been rubbed by the big snail's tentacles when I was chasing it. It was half dry now, and when I lifted it up, it would pull up rows and rows of silk threads.
Batman used his hands to peel off these threads and cut them off, but found that no matter what kind of cloth or detergent, they could not be removed.
With another violent shake, Batman felt that his body was in pain and was being melted. The part below his head gradually turned into puddles of thick water, flowing down the spiral and blending with the rain.
And his vision was divided into two, swaying left and right, twisting in the mucus, and bouncing on the ground.
Batman shook his head and retreated, and was stopped by the balcony railing, but his weight continued to fall backwards.
With a swish sound, he fell from the balcony.
A vine suddenly stretched out and grabbed his cloak. A red hair appeared on the top floor of the hospital. He was holding on to the railing and looking down. A confused voice appeared in Batman's ears.
"Batman, aren't you dead?"
Miles comes from "Moonlight" (only recommended to watch the first part)
Spiral Town comes from Ito Junji's "Whirlpool" (if you don't have good mental endurance, don't read Futoko's works, and don't blame me if you have nightmares)
