"What the fuck is going on here? Can someone explain this to me?"
Flying above the city and looking down over it, Zuo Ci was utterly dumbfounded. Seriously, he had only been gone for a month in total, right? How had the place turned into this hellhole?
What the hell had he missed?
"Zuo Ci! Is that you, Zuo Ci? Thank goodness, you're finally back!"
Just as Zuo Ci was standing there looking bewildered, with no idea what to do, a shout suddenly came from behind him. Then a giant bat carrying someone flew toward him.
"You're... Kirk?"
Zuo Ci was very familiar with this bat's appearance. He was none other than Man-Bat, Kirk Langstrom, whom he had met before.
But hadn't he used the Reversal Spray to turn him back into a human? Why had he become this giant bat again?
"I used that spray to change back... Never mind that for now. Come with me, quick! Something terrible has happened to Gotham!"
"Honestly, you don't need to tell me. I can already see that something seriously terrible has happened here."
After that quip, Zuo Ci said nothing more and followed Man-Bat toward Gotham's outermost outskirts.
Soon, the two arrived at what was clearly a makeshift camp. All kinds of tents were scattered around the place, with piles of loose tools lying on the ground nearby.
Inside the tents, large numbers of injured residents were crammed together. Doctors and nurses in white coats ran back and forth nonstop, desperately busy treating people.
Besides them, some slightly more presentably dressed people were maintaining order. Some looked like police officers, but others were clearly gang members. The sight was as bizarre as it was absurd.
"So what exactly is going on?"
Zuo Ci slowly descended from the sky, temporarily ignoring the