In the warm sunlight, Wen Wen, along with Tao Qingqing and Hu Youling, walked on the streets of Arkham City in the Greater American Region.
It was their first time in the Greater American Region, so they found it quite novel.
Unlike the Greater Washington Region, which was mostly populated by people of Asian descent, and the Golden Eagle Region, which was predominantly White, the Greater American Region gave a sense of racial fusion.
The urban construction here was slightly better than that of Washington, and commerce was more prosperous.
However, beneath the prosperous facade, the Greater American Region harbored deeply hidden social contradictions, a fact deeply understood by anyone who had lived there.
Before being unified by the Federation, the Greater American Region was characterized by hostility between various races. After being suppressed by federal force, the races began to coexist peacefully on the surface.
But these interpersonal conflicts had nothing to do with Wen Wen and the others; in fact, Wen Wen found them somewhat laughable.
In reality, due to the incomplete unification process, many lingering issues existed in all regions except for the Greater Washington Region.
These problems, however, often stemmed from deep-seated prejudice and ignorance.
If this world only had humans, their conflicts might have some reason. But to engage in such disputes under the threat of the Otherworld was truly foolish.
Perhaps only when other intelligent beings viewed humans as mere livestock would they abandon these absurd notions.
No, they wouldn't have to wait that long. The Hunter Association was already selecting a city in each major region worldwide for experiments with New Humans.
Once the experimental results proved New Humans to be completely harmless, the existing racial concepts in the real world would be eliminated one by one, leaving only the single race of New Humans.
Wen Wen was not averse to the concept of New Humans; in fact, he harbored a faint anticipation.
After strolling on the street for a while, Wen Wen's eyes lit up, and he turned into a side street.
After walking a few hundred meters, the three of them saw an ugly old woman huddled next to a trash can, begging with a small sign.
The old woman's face was covered in bruises, indicating she had been severely mistreated.
In an environment like the Greater American Region, this old woman belonged to the lowest stratum of society, and some people even took pleasure in bullying those like her.
"You've been here for a while, how does it feel?"
Upon hearing Wen Wen's voice, the old woman's eyes snapped open. She tried to grab Wen Wen's leg but was kicked by Wen Wen into the trash can.
Passersby on the street looked at Wen Wen in surprise. Even if such a homeless elderly person was at the lowest rung of society, publicly bullying them seemed excessive.
Someone pulled out their phone, intending to call the police. Hu Youling flashed them a smile. Her beauty was irresistible to both men and women, and under her deliberate charm, the people on the street lost the inclination to call the police.
"Let me go back, I want to go to prison, I don't want to stay in this place, please..." the old woman cried, her tears and snot flowing. Her tragic appearance was truly heart-wrenching.
She was none other than the demoness Oly!
The once seductive and wicked demon had long since vanished, replaced by a humiliated old woman.
Wen Wen had placed her here as a punishment, even dispatching people to specifically intervene and ensure she experienced the most miserable conditions.
Her powers had been transferred to a black feathered cloak. As long as the cloak remained, with her current frail abilities, resembling an old woman, she couldn't even commit suicide. Sultan Novel Network.
There weren't many monsters Wen Wen specifically tormented like this, but Oly was one of them. She was a demon chauvinist, and during her capture, she had disgusted Wen Wen thoroughly, which led him to devise this method of torture.
"I am very satisfied with your current state. Continue living like this until you adapt to this life."
"Perhaps one day, I'll suddenly take pity on you and send you back to prison. Just wait."
After taunting Oly, Wen Wen left whistling.
Oly's current situation was dire, extremely dire.
However, this suffering was far too merciful compared to the innocent victims she had brutalized.
Monsters' evil deeds vary. Some monsters, though wicked, are given a chance by Wen Wen to reform. Others, though unforgivable, are not tortured by Wen Wen. And some...
They deserved to suffer, unable to live or die!
Oly's miserable state delighted Wen Wen, so he decided to maintain this happy mood before meeting the Night Knight.
On the way, Wen Wen and the other two saw a blockaded street, and two sleeping individuals were being carried out on stretchers.
"These should be cooperators from the Greater American Region. Those two individuals seem a bit strange, likely asleep..."
Wen Wen shook his head and didn't follow to check the situation. Ever since clearing out all the monsters around Thousand Rivers City, he had lost interest in ordinary superpowered incidents.
Peeling back layers and analyzing meticulously, only to find a weakling who could be crushed with one hand, was simply too boring.
It was as boring as a fisherman working all day, only to steal two sweet potatoes from the roadside to take home; it was far less enjoyable than lying down at the Rabbit Massage Parlor for two hours.
He also wanted to do something exciting, but such things were hard to come by.
The name Arkham, in the ancient language of the Greater American Region, meant a place where talent flourishes and spirits are esteemed.
In the past, this city had produced many powerful monsters and wanted criminals, individuals who were incredibly strong and cunning.
The anti-social lunatic with deep affection for the city's richest man; the terrifying penguin with a grievance about his height, thus attacking all elementary school students above the fourth grade; the villain whose head was a Rubik's Cube, with its six faces representing male, female, good, evil, madness, and reason – the six-faced man...
Mr. Sinri Godden, the head of the local demon hunter organization, was so busy that his hair was falling out, yet he couldn't capture these individuals.
Fortunately, in Arkham, a mysterious vigilante had always been contending with these troublesome characters.
The battles between the vigilante and the monsters were spectacular, many even making it into the Hunter Association's textbooks and being studied as classic cases.
However, as the vigilante grew stronger, these monsters were eventually eliminated forever, making Arkham City the safest city in the entire Greater American Region.
This made Wen Wen feel regretful. He thought a few of those monsters were quite interesting and would have been fun to capture and house.
Wen Wen had initially thought that the Night Knight's hiding place would be a dark, subterranean cave or something similar. He hadn't expected the lair to be so brazen.
In the most prosperous area of Arkham, a prime piece of real estate, stood a skyscraper. Written in the Federation's common language on the building was 'Night Knight'.
This place had almost become an iconic landmark of Arkham.
However, precisely because of this, virtually no monster believed this place to be the Night Knight's lair; they simply thought the words 'Night Knight' on the building were a coincidence...
The elevator didn't ascend but instead moved diagonally downward for a distance, stopping in a vast space.