Playing My Own Character Chapter 10

Aria Yu squirmed to the bottom of the stairs on the fourth floor.

With her superior hearing, she could clearly hear people talking on the floor. They seemed to be talking about the ship hijacking.

"Do you feel that something is wrong with Ai Boke?" The deep male voice sounded uneasy.

"It's a bit." The numb female voice said in a rigid tone, "But that's not important. I just want these upper-class pigs to pay the price."

"I saw him kowtowing to a small statue the day before yesterday, saying something about 'the benefactor of God'... Do you think he is really sane?"

"Ha! It's like we're sober! Listen, I don't care if Aberke is crazy or not! I just want these people to taste the suffering we have suffered!"

Aria Yu was greatly shocked. The leader of the gang was not only an Arkham reserve, but also a member of a cult. His subordinates were all anti-social elements. The layers of negative buffs made her scared.

---But when you think about this being Gotham, it immediately makes sense.

Hmm... But I can't go any further. If I go any higher, I'll be completely exposed to the sight of these two people...

Aria Yu nestled in the dark corner of the stairs, lost in thought.

If she could dodge bullets like a certain female high school student with a black belt in karate, she wouldn't have to squat on this cosplay mushroom. It's a pity that although [Chloe] has 65 points of agility, she's still a little short of dodging bullets. ... She listened to the increasingly clear conversation and shrank back into the corner.

The phone was in her coat pocket. Aria Yu used her years of experience playing with her phone secretly in class and quietly glanced at the time while trying not to let the light shine through.

The hour hand has slipped to eleven fifty-five, and the long and narrow stairs have become twisted in the torture of waiting. The screen next to Aria Yu's eyes was still as quiet as a chicken, but she was now hiding in the shadows where no one could see her. In the middle of the night, she was alone, with extremely novice fighting skills. There were two rebels with guns in the aisle going up. Social elements---Haha! What a bright future! I'm just going to show off!

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Now is not a normal situation where you can just show off if you don't want to do homework. This is a life and death situation where something could go wrong if you are not careful. It is impossible to show off. Aria Yu, who was forced to open her business, listened to the footsteps getting closer and decided to retreat to the stairs on the third floor to prevent herself from being killed on the spot if the boss battle came too early.

She thought so and did it, and she was able to slip to the third floor perfectly and silently and survive until twelve o'clock in the morning without incident.

Unfortunately, things never go as planned, and changes always happen at a moment that no one expects.

Just when Aria Yu stepped on the flat floor with her foot that was still on the stairs, she felt a sudden shock under her feet, followed by violent shaking, and a dull explosion also came from the distant stairs, as if there was something Dozens of firecrackers exploded in her ears at the same time. Because of the excessive shaking, Aria Yu fell to the ground uncontrollably. The loud noise made her cover her ears tightly, and her ears were buzzing.

---what happened? Aria Yu opened her eyes wide and looked at the gap in the stairs below her.

In the thick shadows, a ball of fire lit up. After a few seconds, the fire turned into a sea of   red, spreading upwards along the stair carpet on the ground floor. This blazing sea of   fire illuminated Aria Yu's eyes, revealing the tragic situation that was originally hidden in the darkness.

She saw the broken jewelry in the corridor, the messy clothes and the corpses with frightened faces, the dark carpet soaked with blood, and then the broken keel of the yacht (it seemed like the flames came from there), and the steel structure was all due to excessive damage. The high impact and heat distort it.

If it breaks down, this ship may really sink.

...I knew something was going to happen to this crappy yacht! Aria Yu stood up and sprinted towards the stairs. On the way, she encountered two unknown gunmen who were in chaos. When the two of them didn't react, she stabbed the man closest to her with a dagger in the abdomen, and then continued to charge upwards, ignoring the other man. A true woman never looks back.

When Aria Yu slapped open the door leading to the deck, several gunshots were heard from behind, and she finally realized what she was doing. She made a cool tactical roll forward, and rolled into the room covered with white cloth as if she had her own navigation system. under the long table.

The transparent white cloth reflected the chaotic scene on the deck, with cries for help, curses and shouts coming and going.

Aria Yu, who was hiding under the table, felt as if her heart was about to burst. The thumping in her chest was as fast as when she had to catch up on her math homework in the last five minutes. Her lungs and throat were also burning with pain. The strong fear that had never appeared before finally came belatedly, making her vision blurred and her wrists shaking uncontrollably.

If she had decided to stay in the room at the beginning, if she had not chosen to keep going up, she would have become a charred corpse now. Pushing forward, if she had not chosen to hide in the sea, she would have appeared among the people lying in the corridor.

In just half an hour, Aria Yu, who almost died on the spot twice, experienced a [real] comic book world that she had never known.

Before she came here, she joked with netizens that the citizens of Gotham were full of martial virtues, each one was better at finding cover than the last, and their vitality was ridiculously tenacious (they faced various villains every day), and she finally faced the [real world] Only now did she realize the deeper problem.

The comic mainly describes the story of the protagonist. In the protagonist's story, he and his colleagues, comrades, or relatives defeat powerful enemies. After victory, he writes a happy ending with the readers' love at the end.

But what about ordinary people?

Ordinary people will appear in the report as one cold number after another. Nothing about them is important in the protagonist's story. They only appear as victims that can promote the development of the plot, just like ordinary people in Gotham. Of course, Bruce Wayne can spend his own money to repair the damaged buildings, comfort the families of the victims, and try to bring the city dancing on the edge of hell back to a safe line, but no matter how perfect he does, the damage caused is Injury, like those survivors of clown laughing gas.

Ordinary people must abide by the city's default rules if they want to survive.

This is the helpless truth behind the "rich moral character" of Gotham citizens.

During the few seconds that Aria Yu was thinking, several gunshots pierced the air. There were screams and the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground on the deck, and then there was an eerie silence.

Aria Yu felt a little angry for some reason. After experiencing this hellish half hour, I saw a lot of things that needed to be coded in the flower garden, jumped into the sea and performed parkour on the stairs, my heart was beating so fast, and I still resonated with the ordinary people of Gotham. , she has not even seen the leading 'Aibo' yet.

... She suppressed her anger and tried to calm down and listen to who was speaking now.

"Ah, ah... distinguished guests, I know you are all impatient and want to get off the boat, right?" The white cloth in front of her reflected a blur of light and shadow, and Aria Yu saw a tall shadow standing in the center of the crowd. He was holding something in his hand.

From this position and the way he appeared, Aria Yu guessed that he was 'Ai Burke', the initiator of this ship robbery (now considered a ship bombing?).

"Don't worry, I said, my companions just want to carry out some small acts of revenge." Shadow said briskly, "As for me, when I find the person I am looking for, everyone can disembark.

"But you've already searched for it! If you didn't find it, would we all drown in the sea today?" Someone forced himself to ask.

"No, no, no, no, how can you not find it?" He laughed, "The breath of the Divine Benefactor is so unique, just like a drop of blood in the sea, the Divine Benefactor is there---"

The figure was stunned.

"right here?"

The air suddenly became quiet, and the figure froze for a moment, then suddenly turned in Aria Yu's direction. Although there was a layer of tablecloth between them, Aria Yu felt a strong sense of sight and inexplicable passionate emotions at this moment, as if she was standing naked in front of everyone.

It's broken, it's really broken now. Aria Yu watched the figure start to move towards her, and her heartbeat started to calm down again. It is known that the other party is a man who has a height suppression on her. He seems to have some mental problems. The gun in his hand just collapsed more than ten seconds ago. In this case, can I win in a dagger fight with him?

It’s definitely impossible without even thinking about it! Hit this with the head! ! !

The figure is getting closer and closer. Aria Yu has tried to move (the space under the table is quite large), but every time she changes places, the other person will still follow her direction, as if she is wearing a perspective pen. Ridiculous! Aria Yu was very confused about the principle of his automatic tracking. If it was really the so-called 'breath', wouldn't it be too outrageous?

And it looks like this Aibo thinks she is some kind of divine benefactor, but she is atheist in both the original world and the current world. Even if she believes in God, she only believes in the God of Wealth! The man who spreads rumors should retreat!

He stood in front of the table and bent down---

'Hello! 'A voice suddenly appeared in Aria Yu's mind, and a faint white light flashed on the enlarged screen next to his eyes, 'I am artificial customer service 001, I am very happy to serve you...'

Aria Yu, who had been waiting for this sentence for half a century, immediately screamed loudly in her head: 'Install all the cards I can use! quick! Now! ! Really dying! ! ! '

There was a crisp sound.

The world slowed down in Aria Yu's eyes. The tablecloth was slowly lifted, the gun in the man's hand, and the noisy sounds poured into the space under the table from the gaps. Everything seemed to be slow in the movie under the crazy secretion of adrenaline. lens.

No, not exactly adrenaline! Aria Yu lowered her head in shock. The dagger in her hand turned into a stone carving knife under the gentle white light. She also felt her body suddenly become lighter.

[The Quiet Night] Agility +10 and Stamina +10 in card equipment

[Sharp stone carving knife] Attack power +5 in weapons and equipment

---The current agility of the [Chloe] character card has reached 75.

The stone carving knife struck hard at the dark black barrel of the gun that was reaching towards its master.

Random thoughts: I really have mixed feelings about the ordinary Gotham citizens in the comics. I am not criticizing the master’s no-kill principle, but for some criminals, their death is the best safety protection measure for the general public. So this is also the reason why I wrote some infrastructure elements in the introduction of this article... Of course, if I hadn't gotten into it at that time, hey owo