"Dante... Dante!?"
Bruce Wayne's eyes gradually widened.
Was this the appropriate reaction to seeing an acquaintance?
Dante's relationship with Bruce Wayne was actually quite good; it was just that he spent more time with Tony Stark.
Besides, given Bruce Wayne's personality, he wasn't really accustomed to such intimate friendships.
"What's wrong? Don't you recognize me? Then I won't give you the money for the terrigen crystal I asked you to buy?"
"You still have your normal consciousness? You haven't been assimilated by this space?"
Hearing this, Dante released Bruce Wayne.
"Assimilated? What do you mean by that?"
"Cough cough! Your power is much greater than when I last saw you, isn't it?" Bruce Wayne coughed a few times. "I've found that anyone who steps into this space, named 'Storybrooke Town,' will be assimilated by the unique rules of this space."
Seeing that Dante didn't interrupt, Bruce Wayne continued:
"Entrants are randomly assigned the identity of a fairytale character, with the background setting being that due to the magic of evil villains, everyone has transmigrated from the Fairytale World into this modern town."
"And this space, you can only enter, not leave."
After listening to Bruce Wayne's narration, Dante nodded silently.
This has some similarities with Storybrooke Town he was familiar with, but the core is absolutely worlds apart.
The power to distort reality is definitely not something those stepmothers who struggle to kill anyone could control.
"Then why haven't the two of us been assimilated?"
"Heaven knows."
Dante looked at Bruce Wayne…
The commonality between the two of them, aside from both being equally dashing and handsome, was that Dante had previously gained the same willpower as Batman.
Being handsome certainly can't resist the power to distort reality.
But it's well-known that Batman's willpower is, in a sense, a pure bug.
No matter what predicament, it can hardly be shaken.
It's probably that the distortion of reality couldn't twist this bug, and it just ended up unresolved.
"I just tried to violently break through the boundary, but it didn't succeed." Dante pointed his thumb behind him, and Bruce Wayne looked, seeing nothing. "Normally, a teleportation portal should appear here immediately, but as you can see, in this space, my teleportation magic is ineffective."
"Then it seems we either live out our lives here, or..." Bruce Wayne looked at the distant town, "we have to find the source of this reality distortion. Whether it's a person or an object, we must resolve it."
"How are you so confident?"
"Will not being confident get me out of this predicament immediately?"
Dante shrugged, "Alright, if I can't out-argue you, then what?"
Then he placed his hands on the car's rear again and started pushing the car like a small man.
The car, originally just over three tons but heavily modified to nearly five tons, was easily pushed onto the road.
Bruce Wayne followed behind Dante, not offering to help, but instead asked Dante, "This car... is it yours?"
"Although I can drive, I don't even have a driver's license." Dante pushed the car as easily as if he were pushing a suitcase. "This is Director Fury's official vehicle, full of black technology."
"Director Fury's vehicle?" Bruce Wayne nodded thoughtfully, then mumbled to himself in a low voice, "No wonder she's interested..."
"Interested in what?" Dante heard Bruce Wayne's muttering and immediately caught the key detail. "She? Which she? A woman interested in an expensive car... You didn't come here chasing that Catwoman woman, did you!?"
"You speak too crudely. What do you mean 'that Catwoman woman'? That's Selina Kyle, my fiancée." Bruce Wayne was a bit displeased.
Dante rolled his eyes at this outwardly playboy but actually introverted and brooding man. "So why did this famous anti-hero and master thief target Director Fury's car?"
"According to the intelligence I received, an anonymous seller requested her to steal this car parked in the Stark Industries parking lot and drive it to a designated location. Selina was paid eight million dollars just as a down payment."
"How much!?"
"Stealing a car, and she can receive eight million dollars!?"
"And that's just the down payment!?"
Dante had to admit, he was a little jealous.
However, theoretically, with Dante's abilities, making money, even legally, was achievable.
But laziness still occupied Dante's body during his free time.
"Is eight million a lot?" Bruce Wayne pointed at the car's glass. "If I'm not mistaken, the prototype for this bulletproof glass was produced by Wayne Industries, but its strength is several times higher than the prototype, even capable of resisting the impact of military door-breaching tools for a short time."
"If it could be studied, it would bring billions in profit." Bruce Wayne spread his hands. "And this is just the bulletproof glass; the black technology content in other parts is also not low. To put it bluntly, this is a mobile black technology treasure trove."
Dante once again looked at this strongest Chevrolet in film history with a scrutinizing gaze, suddenly feeling that Fury had indeed been quite generous to him.
Such an expensive item, he said he could drive it away, and he did.
He almost changed his opinion of this Fury.
Of course, only "almost".
The reason he lent it so readily was essentially because I was strong enough, and he probably thought the car wouldn't run into trouble, right?
Pushing the car all the way from the outermost entrance of the town to the town itself took Dante over twenty minutes.
Mainly, he and Bruce Wayne had been continuously collecting all potentially useful information through their senses along the way, and incidentally, memorizing most of the terrain.
The two of them did all of this tacitly.
Although it was their first time truly traveling together, their chemistry was like that of partners who had collaborated for many years.
"The forest is very pristine, but no anomalous creatures were found."
"What's wrong? Bruce Wayne, the dignified Batman, you're not afraid of the Beast in the darkness, are you?"
Dante said jokingly.
The two of them had now arrived on the town's main road, and pedestrians on the side of the road looked at Dante, who was pushing the car with his bare hands, with expressions as if they had seen a ghost.
"Uh, honestly, isn't this a bit too eye-catching?"
As soon as Dante finished speaking, a tall woman in a brownish-yellow county sheriff's uniform immediately walked over from not far away.
"I am 'Robin Hood' Selina Kyle, the deputy sheriff of Storybrooke Town. Strangers, how did you arrive in this town?"
"Uh..." Dante stopped pushing the car, then pushed Bruce Wayne forward. "If I said I brought you a man, would you believe it...?"
(To be continued.)
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