"Ha, Gotham again?"
Cloudy night skies, towering Gothic architecture, and deep, dark alleys.
Shane looked at the familiar scenery before him, standing motionless in place for a full three seconds.
He was definitely armed to the teeth at this moment, with even his face covered by a skull-patterned tactical mask.
The flared design on both sides even extended to cover and protect his ears.
Whether it was poison gas, nanotech weapons, or other chaotic microscopic attack vectors, they would first be isolated by this piece of high-tech mask.
The pitch-black eyepieces loaded a scanning function, helping him detect extremely subtle trap placements in all kinds of complex environments.
Prompt tones sounded continuously in his headset.
"Air composition analysis: air quality is below average, but no toxic gas aerosol components detected."
"No nanomechanical signals detected."
Because the surrounding high-rises were so dense, Shane decided to fly upward a bit to gain a broader field of view.
As a result, the moment he flew up just over ten meters, a line of large characters rushed into his field of vision.
That was a huge white banner hanging between the high-rises on both sides about several hundred meters ahead, with a line of large characters written in red paint on it.
"Do not look up! If you looked, please do not move."
Behind it, a big smiley face was drawn with the same red paint. It looked as though it had just been painted not long ago, and smears of red trails dripped vertically along the white background of the banner, pulling out an eerie visual sense.
With a turn of his head, he saw that in the distant darkness, similar banners were hanging in all directions.
"It's dangerous here!"
"Do not walk here!"
"Just stay where you are!"
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