Three-stream detection simulator

Later, Batman thought, Harvey's transformation from a promising young prosecutor to a failed man who even flipped a coin started when he refused to admit that Hercule was still alive.

But at this time, the two people in the car still knew nothing about the change of fate.

Batman didn't want to get involved in the conflict between the two friends, so he changed the subject: "We can use evidence to knock down Wilkinson Technology, but behind them are the Oscorp Group and New York Mayor Norman Osborn. You What are you going to do next?”

Harvey can only cheer up when he talks about revenge. He sat up and thought for a moment with a gloomy face - half of his face where Batman punched him still had scars, and now the right half of his face was asymmetrical to the left half of his face, which looked a bit scary.

After a while, he took out a coin, threw it into the air, and then dropped it.

It's the opposite.

Represents the opposite of sin.

So he spoke while Batman watched. But before the words came out, his cheeks twitched painfully. After a long while, he took out his cell phone stiffly, almost uncontrollably, and dialed Hercule's number.

Of course there was no dialing.

A female synthesized voice rang in his ears: "The number you dialed is temporarily..."

Harvey didn't hear anything. He seemed to be immersed in an eternal nightmare that only he could hear and recorded by the recording. For a full quarter of an hour, he sat there motionless until the clown said in a sweet tone in the memory:

'He's dead, sweetheart! ’

"Bang -" a dull hitting sound.

He woke up in a cold sweat and slowly put down the phone.

'You can't have two souls, Harvey, and I never doubted your position. ’

"Batman," he said, "there are still a few years until the next DA election, and I can't resign now. Instead of taking time off to recuperate, let's figure out what else we can do with our position now... Partner. We want to A way to get Norman Osborne out of that position, take him to court, torture him, interrogate him, and then—"

It's all about justice.

**

Hercule slept from early morning to afternoon.

When he got up, the 24-hour duration of the Mechanical Heart had ended. He felt refreshed and did not feel any discomfort, but system prompts popped up one after another:

[You faced the endless sea of ​​subconsciousness, coexisting with the sea water [note: black apple] for 24 hours, and your spirit was briefly connected to Taixu. 】

[You have gained forbidden knowledge from Taixu, including 'Static Power', 'Invisible Spectrum', 'Tears of Extinction', 'Wind of the Void', 'Black Apple', 'Sixth Note' and 'Unbelief'. They are the seven negative dominant forces that make up the Dark Multiverse. If you don't get close, you will become unfortunate.

You learned the proper term 'Dark Multiverse'.

Dark Multiverse: A deformed world formed by fear and nightmares that is bound to have a tragic ending. No one wants to touch them, not even the Big Three or you. 】

Hercule read the system report and fell into deep thought.

System, while you are saying, ‘Don’t get close to the seven negative forces, otherwise you will become unfortunate,’ you are putting mission rewards into the hands of players. Don’t you feel that you are a bit contradictory?

However, even the Joker said that it was a 'forbidden thing', so Hercule would not be surprised if he would pay a price if he used it.

He continued to scroll down:

[You learned the proper term ‘Origin Wall’.

The Origin Wall: The wall that blocks Taixu and the multiverse is not indestructible.

You learned the proper noun ‘Taixu’.

Taixu: Unknown things outside the parallel universe, recording endless knowledge. 】

[You have been in contact with the seawater [Black Apple] for too long, attracting a brief gaze from an unknown existence. 】

[Seawater has corroded your mental power, and your upper limit of sanity has been permanently reduced by 5%, and is currently reduced by 10%. The character's default appearance, temperament, and stance have undergone minor changes, and the standby action trigger interval has been slightly shortened. 】

[Player-customized appearance detected: Zatanna's Blessing. Appearance entry completed. 】

Isn’t the speed at which the upper limit of sanity points is reduced a bit fast?

But speaking of it, he had used the Mechanical Heart for a long time this time, but he did not see the notification of reduced sanity points like before. Hercule compared the differences between several experiences and suspected that the coat repair solution had some unique SAN-returning effects.

I don’t know what the unknown being is looking at. It may be the boss of this universe, the rulers of the three major companies, the missing black sun, or even someone related to the Dark Multiverse.

The newly added skin...uh. Is it taking so long to load because you want to make sure that players aren't grabbing other people's clothes on a whim?

In other words, if Hercule puts on Iron Man's mechanical armor for himself, he can't get the 'Iron Man's Blessing' skin?

It is indeed a system and rigorous.

Following are some tips for skill upgrading:

[The level of the skill ‘Erudition and Strong Knowledge’ has been increased, currently lv.3. 】

[The level of the skill 'Logical Reasoning' has been improved, currently lv. 2. 】

[The level of the passive skill ‘Absolute Rationality’ has been increased, currently lv.2.

Skill description: Your reason will forcibly control the body in the next period of time, ignoring [moderate] external interference factors and personal emotional influence. After the skill effect ends, the excess perceptual factors accumulated during the period will be fed back to the brain during sleep.

Duration: 12 hours]

[Unlock the fourth skill of the intelligence branch, ‘Forced Domination lv.1’.

Skill description: You can allocate a skill point to a skill that cannot be used due to insufficient attributes, and use it briefly.

Duration: 1 minute.

Cooling time: seven days. ]

Then follow with an agility branch skill and an inspiration branch skill.

[Skill ‘Acute Senses’ level increased, current lv.2. ]

[Skill ‘By analogy’ level increased, current lv.2. ]

It should be that all skills that meet the attribute standards and can be added without stacking buffs have been upgraded by one level. Hercule’s physical strength is 25, and he has not been able to click on any skill so far. Agility and inspiration are both 30, and he usually only lights up the first skill.

The fourth skill of the intelligence branch is both awesome and useless. It is strong in that it adds skill points unconditionally, but it loses in that the duration of level 1 is only one minute, so Hercule has never thought of wasting skill points on it.

Now the system automatically upgrades it, so you can try it if you have the chance.

After all, the physical branch has some interesting abilities, such as "One Hit" that can strike the opponent at the causal level like the entropy reversal weapon, "Steel Body" that is immune to physical attacks, "Indomitable" that improves endurance, and "Toxin Immunity" that reduces the impact of drugs.

If all of these are maxed out, what kind of detective is it? Physical Sword Saint Detective?

But from a practical point of view, Hercule is willing to abandon traditional thinking and upgrade all these skills - unfortunately, he doesn't have enough attribute points.

That's fine.

After reading the system notification, he pondered last night's dream.

First of all, no matter what the essence of the game "Third-rate Detective Simulator" is, Hercule tends to think that it is real, otherwise he can't explain the strange dual perspectives of "player" and "character" in his dream.

But the problem here is that if the content of the dream is real, then when the character "Hercule Hugo" first started to act, there was no system and task guidance.

From the player's point of view, the reason is ready-made - at the time point in the dream, the main line of the game has not yet begun. Apocalypse Company and Ark Pharmaceuticals already exist, but the World Cultural Heritage and Protection Association has no trace.

Compared with the real world, the killer organization Shanya mentioned is most likely the Court of Owls.

The thing she said "can heal others but is poison to her" is probably the Lazarus Pool or the Dionysus Factor. Chairman Dog said that Shanya's natural genes conflict with the Dionysus Factor and she cannot gain immortality by soaking in the pool.

In the game world, without Hercule's intervention, Shanya joined the Court of Owls after her husband died. The court is full of immortals from top to bottom. If she wants to seize power, she cannot expose her weakness of limited lifespan.

Therefore, once there is a chance to upload her brain to the Internet, Shanya Futanmo will never let it go.

This dream shows that she was overthrown from the inside by the Court of Owls more than ten years before the start of the game plot, perhaps because her ruling ideas were not recognized by others.

After that, the world situation did change rapidly.

Ark Pharmaceuticals became famous overnight on the battlefield, and the chairman has since been given the elegant title of the helmsman of the Styx, although most people think that the Maltese dog standing in the foreground who can only bark "wang wang" is an ambiguous mascot. The Sanctuary of the Holy of Holies was established in the late stage of the war, and the Court of Owls took the opportunity to join and became a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles...

In the ten years from the dream to the beginning of the game plot, the character "Hercule Hugo" wandered around, and later met Shania who was seriously injured, and was hired by her to become a detective to investigate the Apocalypse Company.

It should be after this that the side quest was officially opened, corresponding to Hercule's memory as a "player".

So, is Shania Fortanmo the "bionic man" mentioned in the first section of the system main quest?

Hercule clearly remembers that the quest description said this:

[After successfully saving the life of a bionic man, you have been thinking about his suggestion of "becoming a detective". However, before you make up your mind, you travel through time and space and come to a strange city in the 21st century-"Gotham". By chance, you accepted the commission of Ms. Shania Ford to investigate the cause of death of her husband Corbin Ford. 】

Here, the personal pronoun of the android is "he".

Ignoring the possibility of a bug in the system... Hercule feels that the reason why the detective in the plot is a detective is not because of Shania.

In addition to the conflict of personal pronouns, he also noticed that he was moved by the word "detective" in the dream, so he stopped and waited for the seriously injured Shania to finish her words.

On the other hand, when Shania asked Hercule if he knew about Apocalypse, the detective's reaction was a bit strange: the player manipulated the character and half-truthfully fooled him.

'Not much.' The detective answered like this.

Further speculation, Hercule believes that the beginning of the dream, that is, the scene where he stood on the garbage mountain and explored the surrounding environment with full motivation, is not the origin of the whole story.

——At least he has an unspeakable past with Apocalypse.

After sorting out the clues at hand, another wave of sleepiness came. Hercule was not sure whether he was tired from last night or infected by Hipparda who was sleeping like a dead person without moving, but he pressed his head on the pillow and lost consciousness within ten minutes.

After he fell asleep, the system interface flashed, and another notification appeared. The letters on it seemed to be scratched and twisted:

[You learned the proper noun 'Doomsday'.

Doomsday: 'You can accelerate or delay the end of the world, but you can't stop what has already begun. 'Everything has an end, including planets and the universe. No one can escape from the catastrophe, even God, the new god and the old god.

Warning, leaking this noun violates Article 001 of the "Firekeeper's Covenant": 'No one may spread the information about the existence of Doomsday in any way'. The noun will be deleted before the approval of special regulations. Countdown to the deletion of the noun 'Doomsday', three, two, one--

Deletion failed.

System self-check.

It is detected that the built-in software 'Taixu' has a major version update, and there is a conflict between the new and old versions. The old version will be uninstalled and the latest version will be installed.

Installation completed.

Article 001 of the "Firekeeper's Covenant" has been deleted by the system. I wish players a happy game. 】