Chapter 22: "I love you to work, 'Daddy'"
Running along the road alone at midnight, his awkward movements and somewhat sluggish speed showed that he was not in the best physical condition. From time to time, the man stopped and looked around, hoping to meet a car and take him to his destination.
But there were very few cars passing by on this road at this time, and occasionally one or two cars would increase the accelerator and leave quickly when they passed by him.
No one wants to drop by and be covered in blood at a time like this.
The man ran anxiously along the road, he had to tell the guys what he had just gotten. Blood flowed down his forehead, blurred his eyes, and his legs became heavier and heavier, and finally the man could not overcome the injuries and collapsed on the side of the road.
A figure stepped out of the shadows and stood in front of the man. The black cloak made him feel like a part of the night, and the mask that covered most of his face made it impossible to see his face.
When Batman received the news of a shootout in this generation, it was all over, it was just a daily scramble, and it didn't cause much idea to the police, arrest what should be arrested, collect what should be collected, and the rest is the judge's job.
But Batman doesn't see it that way, and while Gotham's sheer number of small gangs has made fights as commonplace, the scale of these fights has been on the rise lately, and the probability of death has increased dramatically.
It's just a struggle for interests, how can it suddenly become a fight to the death? This is not at all like the behavior of these forces.
Batman found a bloody footprint from the scene, and he tracked it all the way to find the man.
At first, he thought that this man was just trying to protect himself, but after following him for a while, he was very anxious, who was he anxious to meet?
Squatted down and touched the man's artery, which was faint but still beating. If left unchecked, he will definitely not survive. What is he going to do with such a serious injury?
Connected the communicator, and after waiting for the response from the other side to appear, he said in Batman's voice:
"Ah Fu, lock my location and call two ambulances"
"Yes sir!"
A hand suddenly grasped his ankle, and Batman looked down at the man lying on the ground. The man struggled to say with the only remaining strength:
"To... Hurry up.... Tell them.... There.... Yes..... Fried...."
Very small voice, if he wasn't Batman then he would have missed the sentence.
"Where?"
Batman crouched down again and asked rhetorically.
“... Colum... Cloth... Boulevard..... 22.....”
The man was silent when he said this, and the hand that was gripping his ankle hung down.
Batman listened to the sound of an ambulance in the distance and turned decisively to leave the place, he now had more important things to do.
Columbus Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the Old Town, where the buildings are old-fashioned brick buildings and where criminals are concentrated. But there are no 22 of these buildings there. The man apparently didn't say the full address.
As I drove the Batmobile toward Columbus Avenue, I looked at the map again and made sure there was not a single building with the number 22.
Batman quickly relayed the matter in his mind, and the man must have been the one who had escaped from the scene of the firefight, and he had fled to ventilate his friends.
Someone must have planted a bomb in the place where they used to gather, trying to kill them in one go.
The reason for the rush is that drug dealers grab territory, so that gathering place should be a place where drug dealers often gather.
Batman pressed a few times on the operation board, and the on-board computer quickly screened out several places where drug trafficking was often hit, and marked them on the map. One of the old buildings, numbered 225F, caught his attention. Quickly change direction and speed down the nearest road towards the location of the building.
Batman quickly arrives in the vicinity, and after scanning the old building with a spectrum, he is amazed by the contents.
Spectroscopic scanning revealed that the walls of the building were indeed mixed with large masses of unidentified material, and if this unidentified material was a bomb, it should be powerful enough to blow up the entire building. It seems that the man behind the scenes has no intention of giving these guys a little way to live.
Batman decides to evacuate the bastards first. Then let's see if we can defuse the bomb.
"Oh.... Interesting, an unexpected guest"
A man stood in an abandoned building not far from here, looking at the man who appeared at his target's door, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
"Just let me see how far you can go after all these years..."
Batman went directly from the gate and followed the stairs into the place where the crowd gathered in this building, and his arrival aroused the alarm of everyone in the building, and pulled out all kinds of guys to surround the man who suddenly appeared, but no one dared to rush forward first, after all, it was Batman.
"Get out of here!"
A low, mechanically synthesized voice came out of the man's mouth, making everyone present stunned.
“... Even Batman doesn't have a reason to kick us out of here, and we didn't do anything illegal."
A guy who looks like a head and plucks up the courage to refute this man who looks like a fear.
"This building has been planted with bombs, if you don't want to die, hurry up and leave"
Batman spoke quickly, and walked over to a wall, shattering the surface of the wall in one circle, revealing the bomb that was counting down inside.
Seeing that everything was blocking all the complaints of the gangsters, a group of guys scrambled out of the gate, as far away from the building as possible.
After everyone had left the building, Batman began to defuse the bomb.
It's a homemade bomb, but the pipes that look shoddy are so intricately connected that the guy who made this bomb must have been a genius who knows how to make it.
Batman looked at the complicated pipelines and calmly analyzed the purpose of each pipeline.
[This bomb can't be defused]
A voice suddenly came, and it was impossible to hear the slightest intonation or emotion, and even the men and women could not be distinguished.
Batman didn't stop what he was doing, but continued to dismantle every pipeline.
Why save them? They're just a bunch of 'garbage' who sell drugs and then use the money to consume them."
"I'm not saving them, I'm saving the innocent people who live around"
[Oh? Really? , then you have to hurry, because of your disassembly, time sped up]
The other party replied to Batman's statement, which indicates that there is not only a loudspeaker but also a receiver. Then the mastermind behind the scenes should be around here, monitoring every move here.
[Don't bother trying to record and analyze the voiceprint in vain, it's just a computer-synthesized sound, and you don't have time]
Batman looked at the few seconds left on the clock on the wall.
【5】
【4】
【3】
The mechanical voice kept recurring in this space, and in the end Batman chose to give up. He immediately ran towards the nearest window, and the moment he broke through the window, the hook that had been prepared for him shot out quickly, and the pull of the rope immediately pulled him away from the impact of the explosion.
All that was left behind was a mass of buildings that burned as a result of the explosion.
In the abandoned building not far from here, a man stood at the empty window frame with a remote control, looked at the thrilling scene just now, and said in a tone as if he was enjoying the most exciting competition:
“.... I love watching you work, Daddy.'"