Three-stream detection simulator

After returning to the Batcave, Bruce hesitated for a long time, but still chose to open the computer to create a separate file for Hercule Hugo. Photos, names, ages and other information are all ready, but he marked the word "pending" behind each item.

Batman, Harvey Dent, who is about to be promoted to prosecutor, and James Gordon, the police chief, if nothing unexpected happens, the triangle structure formed by these three will be the cornerstone of Gotham in the next few years. They trust each other and supervise each other. After Hercule appeared, every corner of the structure had more or less contact with him, so Hercule's ability was obvious to all.

One night, I don't know who started to hint to other members: Maybe we can investigate... Yes, there is such a person, we have all seen him... Can this guy be trusted? Is it possible for him to join our alliance?

Maybe everyone in the triangle structure actually has similar ideas, so today's meeting happened naturally.

But Bruce Wayne, his side as Batman always has doubts: Hercule Hugo, a man whose name may not even be true, uses a false past to shape his inner self and a friendly attitude to build his outer appearance.

He is like the innkeeper in the previous case, with three layers of disguise, and the detective is far more sophisticated in his role than Harvey. Now it seems that Edward Nygma, who has called himself the "Riddler" since the day he was imprisoned, the missing Shania, the innkeeper "Jermaine", and of course himself, everyone involved in the case is not simple. Is this just a coincidence?

If not, what is Hercule's purpose? Who is leading him into the game? Harvey is right about one thing, where did Hercule's money go? What does all this have to do with Gotham?

There are many other small problems that are not so important and are therefore easily overlooked.

For example, Commissioner Gordon said that Hercule is quitting smoking;

He has a strange obsession with numbers - and it has obviously become more serious in recent days. Is there something or something that has doubled his stress and affected his mental state?

Even in summer, Hercule wears a heavy coat and seems to have abnormal temperature perception.

He claims that his right hand has no feeling, but judging from his walking posture, the problem with his right leg is more serious. But at least when we met last time, the detective was walking freely. Is his tactile disorder psychogenic? What external factors interfere with it?

And the vaguely unnatural signs of madness that have been tried hard to hide...

However, at the same time, Batman at this time has not encountered many events that make him doubt or even hate human nature. He is willing to give trust and has expectations for many people in this city. This tolerance is also shared with Hercule Hugo.

At least. He thought. We can give it a try.

Then again, it's no wonder that the Riddler is obsessed with Hercule. Although he diverted some of his attention after meeting Batman, it looks more like he is struggling with which puzzle is more interesting.

What a happy trouble, let him figure it out in the ward of Arkham.

Bruce closed the files on the Batcomputer and began to prepare to go on a long journey with Hercule.

**

New York is not suitable for people who want to travel in peace recently, because a big thing happened: the CEO of the famous Stark Group admitted that he is Iron Man in public.

But this does not mean that a masked vigilante can walk on the street without scruples. Before Hercule set off, he was actually a little curious about how Batman would catch up. In the past, his understanding of this world was very simple-since technology has not yet developed to the point where bionic people are rampant, creatures with humanoid shapes are of course humans.

However, after the upgrade of "Well-informed and Strong Sense", he slapped him in the face: there are many more non-humans here than you think.

Unexpectedly, your neighbor may be an alien with the ability to change appearance, your boss may be an alien with the ability to read minds, and the UFO you detect with radar may be an alien flying at high speed. If you live long enough and have good luck, you may see vampires, demons, gods, high-dimensional life, indescribable consciousness, or even gorillas and dinosaurs that have wisdom after being exposed to cosmic radiation...

Hercules' old ideas were crushed and reorganized, as if they echoed the description given by the system after the inspiration reached 45: the vastness of this world, perhaps it is better not to understand it.

Detective: Listen to me, thank you.

However, since the skill level is only 2, he only knows the names of many settings that sound particularly complicated, and he has never heard of the existence of "Gotham" that can be roughly classified as a consciousness.

At present, the superpower group he is relatively familiar with is mutants. This may be because a mutant codenamed Mystique saved the president and appeared on TV decades ago. Since then, a lot of information related to this group can be obtained by paying attention to the news. The skill upgrade can help Hercule save this part of time.

However, he temporarily believed that mutants were also human beings, but they were separated from ordinary people due to historical factors, and they were different from the gorillas who seemed to have traveled from the set of Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Is there something wrong with the evolutionary path of this universe?

Hercule felt his eyes were opened when he sorted out his thoughts. The Ten Commandments of Knox followed by classical detective novels are outdated now, but he thinks that the second one, "there must be no supernatural power in the story", still makes sense——

Oh, the detective has supernatural powers now, that's all.

I don't know if I'll have the chance to use 'heavenly induction' when I go to New York. To be honest, Hercule, whose sanity is still recovering, doesn't want to imagine what the cultural capital in the reflection world will become.

These two days, he can feel that Gotham is still immersed in the afterglow of establishing communication. Sometimes the city seems to be alive, with dust blown by the wind, rotting leaves on the asphalt road, and rows of windows... Together, they form Gotham's thousands of arms and countless eyes. Hercule looked up at the gargoyles hanging on the four corners of the municipal building in the distance at night, and the dead objects carved out of stone also looked down at him.

...The detective wrapped his coat tighter and picked up the basic physics book at hand to read.

I love science, and science loves me.

You should know that the game background of "Third-rate Detective Simulator" is a hundred times simpler in comparison. No matter how many civil wars humans have, they are limited to the earth. All the creations with seemingly exaggerated functions are the results of the ultimate development of technology. Game characters who grow up in such an environment are certainly not good at supernatural powers.

It is possible that the system props are to make up for his shortcomings in this aspect. In the future, the main task may inevitably deal with superpowers. Hercules thought and opened the system panel.

It says:

[Chapter 1, Section 2: The Legacy of the Pharaoh

Task Description: Shania Fortammo disappeared on the way to the prison, and the package she mailed to New York has not been found so far. Therefore, Gotham City Deputy Attorney Harvey Dent anonymously commissioned you to investigate, and Bruce Wayne also hopes that you can find the package or the whereabouts of Shania herself.

Mission Reward: Skill Point x1, Special Souvenir ‘Pharaoh’s Legacy (Semi-finished)’, New York Area Reputation +500】

——In order not to provide additional clues, this third-rate simulator actually puts the name of the reward on the mission chapter every time.

Hercule noticed that completing the second section of the mission would increase New York’s reputation by as much as 500. Previously, he had completed the first section of the first chapter and given 100 Gotham reputation points, and then a reputation panel appeared on the simulator interface.

Gotham City’s level just upgraded from lv.0 to lv.1, and the description is ‘You are slightly famous in a specific niche group’.

Does this niche group refer to Harvey Dent’s colleagues or Edward Nygma’s cellmates?

And upgrading from lv.1 to 1v.2 requires 400 reputation points, which means that the reward of the second section of the main line can directly increase New York’s reputation by two levels.

How did you do it? Put it in the newspaper? Hercule read it in confusion and turned to look at the special souvenir 'Pharaoh's Legacy'. This is actually a semi-finished product:

[The surface is covered with a binary metal array and a printed circuit board. A symbol of ancient civilization. Once, humans worshipped the pyramids in the hope of obtaining enlightenment. When humans were not satisfied with borrowing power from the gods, they would seek the source of power in turn. It can give users eyes to see the truth, but it should be noted that even if technology has reached its peak, it is necessary to offer sacrifices to the rules.

In addition, you only get a semi-finished product. Its core golden hourglass was lost due to special reasons. If you are lucky, you will encounter clues during your travels.

Effect of use: (Semi-finished product) None, but it is quite good-looking, and it is worth collecting.

(Complete version) The intelligence branch has been activated. Skill level +2, physical strength and agility are slightly increased by +50%, inspiration is greatly increased by +100%, and the number of fatal damage exemptions x1 is obtained.

Negative effect: instant death x1

Duration: permanent, can be turned off at any time, and the negative effect is refreshed synchronously every time it is turned on. 】

The mission reward is an item with outstanding positive effects and extremely large side effects, or so large that people dare not use it.

The core is not included in the reward for unknown reasons, so you have to rely on luck to find it. If you are lucky, well, if you are lucky...

Hercules calmly closed the mission panel and opened it again half a minute later, because he suddenly remembered something: he seemed to have seen a similar setting in the game before crossing.

Because there are too many side quests, Hercules often can't remember some plot details, but the one related to the Egyptian pyramids left a deep impression on him. There is no other reason, just that he was stuck there and stuck for a long time.

The side story is about one of the villain organizations in the game, "Apocalypse Company", which is excavating and rebuilding the African continent that has turned into a desert in the Third World War. In fact, it is over-exploiting the planet's energy and secretly using the relics of the previous generation to create super-standard weapons that can turn the entire continent into a fortress.

Their iconic building is a huge pyramid hundreds of meters high built on ruins. It is unknown what material it is made of. When the internal energy core is activated, countless silver-white lines will light up on the outside of the pyramid. They wrap the golden tower body, forming countless translucent energy crystals that can attack and defend. The surface under the pyramid is broken like a tofu block, and the magma surges through the colorful winding gullies after being polluted, and dust and steam rise into the sky.

The protagonist detective, who was still a novice at the time, plunged into the soil full of wastewater, radiation and biochemical residues for the mission reward. Unfortunately, he overturned countless times due to his low level in the process of fighting wits and courage with the villain organization. The phantom pain left when the mission failed and was forced to restart is still fresh in his memory today...

No, wait.

Hercules just now was referring to the heartache of repeatedly replaying the level for hours without getting the reward, but now he really felt as if a burning pain was extending up along the blood vessels of his right hand. This feeling was not strong, a bit like putting a numb hand in warm water in winter.

In particular, his right hand, which was often unconscious, had a very clear presence at this moment, which reminded Hercules of the plot kills he had encountered when playing games. The consequence of being low-level and stubborn was that he suffered a Waterloo in the lair of Apocalypse Company, failed to judge or chose the wrong option dozens of times at key turning points, and was then discovered by the ruthless company employees, dragged for interrogation, and then his body was thrown into the wilderness.

R-rated games don't have mosaics, and the scene was quite exciting.

But anyway, it was a game without a health bar, and Hercules clicked ESC to call the save point in one go, completely ignoring the fact that the crime boss chopped off the protagonist's right hand in two bangs like chopping a carrot in the virtual space in the pyramid, and he was a little disgusted that the animation time was too long, wasting his time and energy.

But wait, isn't this the reason for the lack of coordination and low attribute points? !

Hercule had thought more than once why this body looked healthy but moved like an aging part. Now the question that had troubled him for many days seemed to have an answer, but he was not happy -

Because the game system seemed to be scolding him for sinning in various ways.

And from the setting, the background world of the game and the earth he crossed over to are definitely not the same place. If the special souvenir "Pharaoh's Legacy (semi-finished product)" rewarded by the mission is related to the branch he has done, how could the core golden hourglass be lost and possibly encountered during the mission?

Hercule took out a piece of paper and wrote down the doubts, staring at the ink on it and thinking for a while. As night fell, he began to feel hungry and was upset by the continuous tingling in his right arm.

The train ticket to New York had been booked in advance, so he simply burned the note with the suspicious points with a lighter, and walked around the empty rental house for several times, and found that he had nothing to pack. The only thing that was inconvenient to carry was the souvenir of the first section of the main task, the Mechanical Heart.

The game system does not provide a storage function. Can I pass the security check with this thing?

Hercule tried to communicate with the system of "Third-rate Detective Simulator", but to no avail. He also tried to disassemble the Mechanical Heart or at least turn it into a less conspicuous form, but to no avail. A few minutes later, he angrily threw the heart into his suitcase and planned to go to the train station to New York.