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章節 2837: Chapter 2023: Ignite the Unusual Dream in the Heart (16)_1

Dong——Dong——Dong——

The dull chime echoed over the gloomy mansion, a flock of crows flapped their wings against the inky clouds before the moon, landing huddled on the deep brown, decayed roof.

In mid-conversation, Stark, Shiller, and Strange suddenly felt a chill creep over them, sparking shivers down their spines.

This was not normal. Besides Stark, neither Shiller nor Strange were easily frightened by ghosts. Nevertheless, they felt an indescribable chill gradually crawl up their backs from the cold ground under their feet, as if firm, cold hands had taken hold of their necks.

Shiller's gaze became blank for a moment before turning bleak. Strange's face darkened too, the twinkle of magic starting to glitter in his eyes.

Shiller buttoned the collar of his shirt under his sweater, tugged his trench coat tighter, and put his glasses in his pocket. Strange furrowed his brow at the sight of him, but considering the current situation, he held back his words.

The persistent and eerie atmosphere lingered in everyone's minds, like a type of emotional magic that could not be dispelled. A step forward led to mindless rage, and a step back yielded debilitating fear.

Right when the ambiance had turned spine-chilling, another figure flashed past the back of the queue at the entrance.

Shiller frowned slightly, lowered his voice, and called out, "Bruce, Bruce Wayne."

The figure paused, circled the entrance, and walked over. As expected, it was Bruce who hadn't left the amusement park. He paused as he sensed the tense atmosphere.

"What's wrong?" Bruce asked.

"The atmosphere in the park is being influenced. How do you feel about it?" Shiller asked.

Recognizing the look in Shiller's eyes, Bruce understood that a specific personality trait had surfaced. Therefore, he did not deviate from the topic or ask counter-questions. Instead, he answered directly, "I've indeed investigated a few things earlier. But... the atmosphere is being influenced?"

Bruce looked around, glanced up at the sky, then stepped on the ground beneath his feet before he said somewhat confusedly, "Where is it being influenced? What really should I be feeling?"

"Don't you feel the air here is exceptionally chilly?" Stark briskly rubbed his arms, shivering with cold. He was really feeling quite chilled.

Though he was fully dressed, with a thermo-regulating system in his battle armor, the icy sensation was persistently haunting him. What was even scarier was that the chill seemed to somehow permeate the completely sealed armor. No matter in what direction Stark turned, the cold wind always hit the back of his neck.

Shiller and Strange had similar experiences. The morbid personality trait was not used to utilizing the gray mist, so each time it surfaced, the gray mist went dormant.

But, this time, the gray mist hesitated before departing, saying, "I feel like something's not right. Something powerful enough to affect me is observing us. I think you should be careful."

Shiller was highly vigilant after hearing this, but Bruce seemed unaffected. Could this be due to him being a visitor from another universe?

"Yes, it is indeed quite cold and humid here, but the environment isn't much different from Wayne Manor." Bruce touched his shoulder with his other hand and said, "The light is dim, and the breeze is chilly. Still, it's weather as usual in Gotham. I'm pretty used to it."

Bruce looked up at the moon obscured by dark clouds, sighing, "What a beautiful sunny day it is."

In an instant, the two from the Marvel Universe began to have some disturbing notions about the environment in which Bruce lived.

Stark elbowed Shiller beside him and said, "You're right about the multiverse travel plan. I can't imagine what kind of city one must live in to call this kind of weather a sunny day."

Hardly had he finished his words when a gust of cold wind blew past them. Their hair and coats were blown about by the wind. Turning towards the wind direction, a spine-chilling sight met their eyes.

The phantoms in the Ghost Mansion had resurrected.

The resurrection of the phantoms was actually part of a program in the Ghost Mansion, initiated by the chime of the clock, just as it was happening now.

Phantom after phantom, shimmering with a cold light and ethereal fire, rose from the tombstones. The howls and wails of ghosts reverberated throughout the mansion. There were subtle sounds from beneath the ground, as if something was about to break through the soil.

Shiller paused, yelling, "Let's get out of here."

He sprinted towards the flagstone path of the queue area at his fastest pace, the others following closely behind. The moment they stepped into the queuing area, countless skeletal hands broke through the layer of soil, and skulls, zombies, and phantoms...

Lots of undead creatures crowded the mansion. Echoes of lament reverberated through the garden, with various ferocious monsters displaying their sharp teeth and claws, winged tree monsters, and gravestones cracking open to emit eerie laughter as they slowly moved in their direction.

"What the hell is going on?" Stark backpedaled a few steps, eyes locked onto the approaching creatures.

Upon closer observation, the creatures didn't appear very realistic. They more closely resembled four-to-five-foot-tall cartoon figures. However, the gloomy ambiance gave the impression that they were stuck in a terrifying calamity of the undead.

Even Strange, who had encountered countless monsters before, felt his hand gripping his magic wand turn pale. At this point, Shiller turned to him, obviously wanting him to try using magic.

Strange let out a sigh, focused his mind, and a golden circle appeared in his hand. A beam of light shot out instantly.

With a bang, the flower beds in the garden burst, dirt flying all over. The surrounding skeletons exploded upon impact, but before everyone could sigh in relief, the skeletal structures warily reassembled. The headless skeleton, swaying left and right, reached out and picked up its head that had rolled aside and reattached it to its body.

This scene would obviously only occur in a comedic animated movie, which left everyone speechless. As they say, the toughest enemies to handle in this world are those from comedic cartoons.

Family movies indeed don't feature overly frightening or bloody scenes. However, that doesn't mean dealing with villains in such movies is any less difficult than handling monsters or killers from horror movies.

Monsters and killers in horror movies may indeed be difficult to deal with, but they can't stop superheroes. Even if the powers of the rules prevent superheroes from defeating or killing them, escaping is always possible.

However, the villains in family cartoons are not the same. Aside from stopping you in all sorts of absurd ways, your escape attempts would certainly be riddled with unexpected incidents. Now, someone could slip and fall because of a waxed floor being overly smooth, dancing a clumsy tap dance before hitting the ground.

To avoid such a scenario, Shiller stopped Stark in his tracks, who was planning to fly off and attack with his hand cannon.

Obviously, such modern weaponry wouldn't be effective in a situation created by a cartoon. More likely, the cannon would misfire, giving Stark a face full of smoke, or perhaps his armor would just disassemble, turning into fireworks while Stark falls on his butt and sees stars.

Strange's magic may be a bit more effective, given that it surpassed the usual norms. Though his aim has been off, in line with the cartoon's narrative, it allowed the skull to amusingly find its head, not too out of character.

However, if he were to attack using his wand, it'd be too much like a real wizard, akin to something out of Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings. It'd likely be heavily restricted by the rules.

Moreover, the trio presently are all affected by the ambiance. Stark's the most affected, becoming somewhat angry and aggressive. Strange, due to his dual cultivations of the mind, is slightly better but still can't figure out the full extent of the situation.

Shiller's morbid personality traits are very much in line with his original characteristics as a loner. Communicating through a barrier, they have a weak perception and response to emotions. In this instance, this barrier has become a shield allowing him to filter most of the atmosphere's effects.

As for Bruce, due to his years living in Gotham, his senses to dark and depressing atmospheres have been blunted. The ambiance within the Ghost Mansion is affecting him, but only slightly.

Consequently, the primary forces in the battle fall on the shoulders of Shiller and Bruce. The damning part is, they are both quite serious.

Shiller's morbid personality gives him a lower perception of the atmosphere, implying his response to upbeat moods is also weak. Expecting him to engage in family comedy isn't realistic. He can indeed do bloody comedy like Joker's, but it wouldn't pass Disney's standards.

As for Bruce, as Batman, can he even be associated with the term 'family-friendly'?

Bruce's condition has indeed improved a little, but as mentioned before, he's inherently not a lively person, and while he has a fraction of humor cells, they are mostly dark humor. There are instances where even the Batman family, who admire him the most, can't hold up to his level of joking.

From this perspective, this situation seems unsolvable, further proving DC is indeed too dark and fails to understand Disney's humor and joyfulness.

While Shiller was considering his options, a sudden bang sounded from the front yard followed by splattered dirt. A shadow rose behind the big tree, then a roar was heard.

"Coward! Didn't I say we'd go on three?! You can even climb up those high buildings in the Zombie Universe, yet now you're afraid to jump?!"

"Are they the same thing?!" A man's voice replied: "I told you this amusement park isn't right. If we'd returned to the hotel earlier, you'd be dreaming of chocolate balls by now!"

"I don't dream, you moron... Wait, what's that? Am I seeing things? Why is that tree moving?"

"How can a tree move?! Venom, stop changing the subject..."

"I didn't... Ah!!!!!"

Bang!

The trio in the queue looked down to see Venom, who was struck and sent flying like a baseball by the tree man's thick arm, drawing a smooth parabola in the air before landing heavily on the ground.

"Who hit me? Who did it?!" Venom, who had gotten up, roared with his fanged mouth wide open.

At this moment, Shiller suddenly realized that the Venom movie was also rated PG-13.

Though it's the same rating as Iron Man, Captain America, and other superheroes, he's not a true hero, barely passing as an anti-hero, and is a non-human monster with an appearance that could easily frighten children. Yet, he managed to get such a rating.

What does this suggest? It indicates that as long as Venom tones down a bit, he could completely be suitable for families.

Just then, Venom located the culprit who'd thrown him and let out a deafening roar, preparing to pounce on the tree man right away.

Then another bang was heard as Venom's forehead hit the top lintel of the entrance gate, causing him to fall heavily to the ground again with three stars and two birds spiraling around his head.

"Beep-"

Venom swore, but his profanity was mysteriously muted by a force, too quickly for Shiller to prevent it.

The next second, a mysterious light radiated from all the monsters in the park and they grew to twice their size.

Now everyone knows the rule of this game. Any action not fitting the style of family-friendly cartoons will result in the monsters being strengthened. At this point, they have to seriously question, why are they so serious?


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章節 2838: Chapter 2024: Ignite the Strange Dream in Your Heart (Part 17)_1

After Shiller voiced his speculations, the situation had evidently become somewhat delicate.

"So we're stuck in a rules game, then." Stark looked at Shiller and questioned, "One would need to defeat the opponent in a specific style to have a shot at victory, right?"

Shiller nodded and responded, "And although we're still unsure about the consequences of flouting the rules, even the least severe stipulation would entail us being kicked right out of this park. I believe we should consider avoiding such risk."

Strange let out a sigh and said, "If only Loki were here. He would have been able, using his illusion technique, to conjure some cartoon figures to combat these creatures."

However, Shiller shook his head and retorted, "Loki's illusions might work, but he likely hasn't watched enough human animations. The characters he creates with his illusions may not necessarily comply perfectly with the game's rules."

"So what do we do now?"

Bruce, too, had not anticipated this enigma, one seemingly without a solution. The amusement and cuteness of children's animations are one thing, but the crux lies with the prohibition of any gory violent scenes. Aggressive language is also taboo, lest it be deemed harmful, which is the biggest hassle.

Even if he were to step out in a comical manner to duel the monster opponent, the moment he throws the Batman dart, the rating of the scene teeters on the edge of PG-13. Should he then engage in a fistfight, no matter how it's depicted, it wouldn't fall within the family-friendly rating.

Of course, transforming into an angel to purify the Dark Creatures is also an option, but this leans towards being a fantasy movie and might raise other unexpected issues and complications.

Nevertheless, Strange's words endowed everyone present with a new perspective: if these characters with a less family-friendly style were unable to engage in the battle directly, conjuring some summoned entities would be a feasible workaround.

Stark tested this theory. His Mecha drone could certainly fly out without breaching any rule, yet it was prohibited from attacking under any circumstance. Otherwise, it would be considered as having sci-fi violence elements, and hence once more evicted from the child-friendly rating.

Stark used the drone to scout the front and back gardens of the Ghost Mansion and saw hordes of monsters. Even if there were no rule restrictions and he could wreak havoc with his Mecha, it would take him some time to eliminate all monsters, an impossible task without direct action.

After a moment of contemplation, Shiller walked over to Bruce and whispered something in his ear. Bruce nodded, and then, with a flash of the Holy Light, he vanished from sight.

"What did he go off for?" Stark asked with a hint of confusion.

"To bring in reinforcements, obviously."

Just as Strange was about to ask, Shiller looked at him and said, "You should go too, as this game cannot be won by ordinary rules."

Still a tad confused, Strange asked, "Go? Go where?"

Just then, he noticed a towering silhouette standing behind Shiller, with a Skull Falcon's head atop its own and a giant Magic Wand in its hand. Its eye sockets twinkled with flickering light.

"Khonsu?!"

About five minutes later, despite leaving slightly later, Strange returned ahead of Bruce. Behind him, apart from Khonsu, a lion with golden fur of no minor stature, a lean black panther, a stork with vibrant feathers, a somewhat slender glasses king snake, a vulture with a slightly somber aura, and lastly, even a dung beetle flew back with Strange.

Apparently, Shiller's strategy hinged on summoning animal friends.

Assuming you're a human with regular head-body proportions, it's easy for any form of violence you portray in various movies to increase the rating. This judgement standard isn't unreasonable since humans tend to be more fearful of violence against their own kind.

However, were the protagonist to be replaced by an animal, humans won't associate other meanings with their actions on one hand. On the other, prey-hunting by animals is a natural instinct and may even be interpreted as a way to familiarize children with the wonders of nature.

When mentioning animal gods, one cannot overlook the Celestial Realm in African mythology, the headquarters of the animal gods. The humans there share a good rapport with these animal gods.

First off, the Black Panther has shielded Wakanda for generations and has a good relationship with the tribe's people. They are also members of the Holy Sanctuary. They agreed to assist the Noble Master out of respect.

Secondly, Shiller and Khonsu are quite familiar, although Khonsu left Shiller's Thought Palace to govern the Netherworld, they are still on friendly terms.

Last but not least, these individuals are rather intrigued about these odd rules. Or perhaps it can be said they had plenty of free time on their hands, so they decided join the fray.

Not much later, Bruce returned with his reinforcements. However, this time, there were three figures behind him, namely Lucifer, Natasha and Pamela.

Lucifer looked rather resigned, and judging by the hint of trace marks under his shirt, it seemed his fun had been interrupted.

However, upon seeing Natasha behind Lucifer, both Stark and Strange could easily deduce Lucifer had dodged a bullet.

As for Pamela, neither Stark nor Strange could understand what this average-looking female university student was doing here. Did she also possess Loki-like illusion-generation abilities?

Who would have thought that the Lucifer at the forefront, under Pamela's command, would suddenly pull out a bunch of boxes and piled them all in the lobby of the entrance to the line?

Pamela adjusted her glasses and yawned, then said, "The plants have undergone three generations of revolution. Their resilience and combat power have both met commercial standards."

"I've contacted the Lawrence family previously, they're in the tobacco business. I wanted to borrow their support routes to Mexico to heavily promote them to various mob bosses needing guards. This is a good opportunity to give it a test run."

Shiller stood by, merely gesturing towards the front yard.

Pamela raised her hand, then froze in place, then tapped her forehead and said, "My IQ has dropped recently from staying up late to work on papers, bear with me."

Then she walked to the box herself, lifted it, glanced around the yard, and threw the box over.

Stark couldn't bear to watch anymore. They had already tested it. No matter what they threw at the monsters in the yard, it was ineffective. Although they wouldn't enhance the monsters like saying forbidden words, even if those monsters were smashed up, they could still get up in a comical manner, and continue to stare menacingly.

This time was no different, the box directly hit a skeleton guard's forehead and shattered instantly.

The skull of the skeleton, of course, was knocked down, but its limbs could still move, and it started looking all over the ground for its head.

Just as the pale knuckles were about to touch its eyes, a green figure punched two ribs of the skeleton, followed by an uppercut and a spinning kick.

"Ping, ping, pong, pong!"

The flying skeleton hit the iron railing behind it and shattered instantly.

Stark and Strange widened their eyes, anxiously took two steps forward to observe whether the skeleton would revive.

They saw a wisp of green smoke emerging from the mouth of the fallen skull, and the flame in its eye socket flickered a few times and then disappeared.

Bruce and Pamela high fived each other.

Then Pamela began to instruct a few people to move the boxes. Pointing at several boxes on the left, she said, "These are regular cabbages for hitting people, weaker than the one I just released. They only know how to throw punches and aren't very nimble."

"The skeletons over there are relatively basic, they don't have weapons in their hands. Throwing them over there should be enough."

"But these here are upgraded fighter cabbages. Not only do they know how to throw multiple punches, they can also spin kick, and even jump to a height of about 1.5 meters, they are very agile."

"They can be used to deal with these common skeletons with shields, they should be able to jump over the shield and hit the weak points."

"These boxes are wheat bomb throwers. After being planted, they spin their upper halves to throw out grains, causing a small area of bombing. The downside is that they can't change the place of explosion, the power is not strong, and it takes a certain amount of warm-up time."

"Those zombies over there look tough and thick-skinned, I'm afraid the leaf fists won't penetrate their defense, explosions would be just right."

"This is the upgraded frost bomb wheat by Professor Victor. The moment they are planted, all the grains fly out at once and can freeze an area about the size of a flower bed."

"I'm not sure if ghosts can be frozen and restricted. Throw two over there first to see the effect. If it works, we will plant some on the side of the yard as a last resort. At a critical moment, we can seal off the entire hall to ensure our safety."

"And here, these are large leaf algae drowners. They can grow in any water body and are good at pulling down everything around them and drowning it. We can throw them into the pond block nearby, which should be able to solve the nearby... what are those? Fairies? Or goblins?"

Pamela squinted at the small figures beside the pool. Bruce peered out and said after a glance, "They should be garden goblins. I've heard Alfred say that they dig holes under the roots of plants, destroy gardens, and overturn water buckets."

"Fortunately, they are not too big." Pamela snapped her fingers and said, "The original version of broadleaf algae is not very strong and cannot pull down things that are too big. This is their only weakness."

"Of course, there is also this upgraded version." Pamela pointed to another group of jars and said, "These are blue hole giant broadleaf algae. They can withstand water pressures of thousands of meters and can carry goods under this pressure."

"The Lawrence Family plans to plant them from the sea bottom to Mexico, then use Victor's dense ice technology to seal the goods. So they don't have to pay tariffs, and even save the maintenance cost of the ship fleet. In case they encounter marine police inspections, they can also defeat them thoroughly."

Stark and Strange narrowed their eyes immediately, looking at Pamela who was calm. They were now very suspicious of what kind of tobacco business that so-called Lawrence Family was doing.

Then Pamela pointed to the big boxes deepest behind her with her thumb, showing a smile and said.

"This is my newly developed secret weapon, it's too overwhelming for regular occasions."

"Stop being mysterious." said Bruce, "Let's see your latest research result."

Who knew Pamela would look at Shiller, and said, "I need to make sure that the professor is not present, is he?"

Shiller shook his head gently, so Pamela walked towards those huge boxes with light steps.

With a gentle press of the button on the box, the wooden boards around the box collapsed instantly, revealing a broccoli plant taller than a towering tree.

"Allow me to introduce, the unbeatable warrior with no weaknesses - the God Tree Broccoli!"


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