Chapter 469: Silence

The Wayne Group hired this mercenary group.

Jack's conclusion is shocking, unexpected, but reasonable.

In today's Gotham, there are only four major families with such wealth, namely Wayne, Kate, Colbert and Elliott.

But now, the heir of the Kate family, Batwoman Kane Kate, is with Li Yunfeng and others, if the mercenaries were done by their family, then she would have said it a long time ago.

Oswald, the heir to House Copote, died a few days ago, and it was impossible to do this, and there was something wrong with the heir of the Elliot family, and it was impossible.

"So, Barbara, you should understand that even with the method of elimination, in today's Gotham City, the only one who can hire a mercenary group and give them so many weapons is the Wayne Group."

In the face of Jack's reasoning, although Barbara knew the truth, she still retorted: "But, Jack, you should know that the Wayne Group is the company of the Bruce Wayne family, even if he is not there, there is also Uncle Fox, so it is impossible to do these things!" ”

Fox, as Barbara refers to Lucius Fox, a kind black uncle, the current president of the Wayne Group, and a staunch ally of Bruce Wayne, knows and supports the young chairman's Batman operation.

If Batman is the knight who charges on the front line, then Fawkes is the staff member responsible for logistics behind Batman.

"So, I still don't believe Wayne will hire those people."

Barbara made a final resistance: "Fawkes, there's no way I'm going to agree to this!"

However, Jack sighed and said to Barbara, "Okay, Barbara, stop lying to yourself, since you have been to the hospital and seen your father, then you should also know about Fox's current situation!" ”

"What the hell is going on?"

Li Yunfeng looked at Jack, who manipulated the computer and called up an old news:

"Lucius Fox, president of the Wayne Group, was rushed to the hospital with a heart attack."

Li Yunfeng noticed that the time of the news was settled, on the third day after the battle of Arkham Asylum!

Faced with the evidence, Barbara could only sit limply in her chair and fall completely silent.

That's right, when Barbara returned to Gotham and went to visit her father in the hospital, she also stopped by to visit Fox, who was also lying in the hospital, but the latter is still in a deep coma and shows no signs of waking up.

In other words, now that the controller of the Wayne Group is no longer Fox, and Chairman Bruce Wayne is missing, it is not surprising that the Wayne Group will do something.

Subsequently, Jack further explained the situation of Wayne Group to Li Yunfeng.

As one of the eight major groups in the United States, Wayne Group has financial resources that rival the country, but it is not just an ordinary commercial company, its scientific research department also has a certain degree of cooperation with the military, and even has an assembly line for arms production.

This also explains the origin of so many of Batman's high-tech equipment, which are all products of military equipment modification. And because of the background of military cooperation as a cover, no one will doubt the purpose of the Wayne Group in developing various equipment.

Soon, after some information and sorting, Li Yunfeng already knew the general situation of the matter:

"That is, the Wayne Group not only has enough money to hire a mercenary group, but also has enough weapons and equipment to arm them."

"Yes."

Jack nodded, glanced at Barbara, and continued, "If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't find a second possibility, I wouldn't have doubted the Wayne Group." ”

"Wait!"

Barbara, who finally accepted the facts, raised her head and asked Jack, "So who is the actual controller of the Wayne Group now?" ”

At this moment, Li Yunfeng suddenly heard hurried footsteps, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Kate in pajamas, who was hurrying into the bat cave.

Barbara also noticed Kate and immediately asked, "Why didn't you rest......"

Kate didn't care about etiquette and immediately interrupted: "Watch the morning news!" ”

It turned out that Kate didn't fall asleep immediately after going to bed, but turned on her phone and checked the news, but as a result, a piece of news hit her directly in her heart like a bombshell, causing her to be unable to rest at all, so she jumped up from the bed and rushed to the bat cave to inform others.

Jack immediately took control of the system and called up the news channel, and in the scroll bar at the bottom of the screen, there were constant scrolls such as "the new Batman has appeared"; "Gangs merge, crime is rampant"; "Mercenary group enters Gotham City", etc.

But what really surprised everyone present was the interview with the chairman of the group, Bruce Wayne, the chairman of the group, in a suit and leather shoes, in the company building of the Wayne Group.

"Bruce?"

Seeing this picture, Barbara exclaimed directly: "Why did he return to the company?" ”

However, the more incredible picture has just begun!

Just as reporter Will handed the microphone to Bruce, the latter actually said with a smile on his face: "In view of the chaos in Gotham right now, I have decided to move the Wayne Group out of Gotham. ”

As for Weir's question about where Bruce planned to move the company, the latter opened his mouth and said: "I think the environment in China is good, the gun control there is strict, the crime rate is very low, and the people are very kind and hardworking, which is very suitable for the development of the company." ”

Later, Bruce in the picture made a tirade, packaging his plan to move the company out of Gotham.

However, the people in the bat cave couldn't listen to it anymore, and Barbara exclaimed in disbelief:

"How is this possible! Gotham is the city where Bruce and his family have lived for generations, how could he move the Wayne Group out of Gotham! ”

You must know that Bruce Wayne witnessed the tragic experience of witnessing the death of his parents when he was young, so he became Batman when he became an adult and determined to clean up the darkness of Gotham.

Would such a person move his company out of Gotham?

On the flip side, if Bruce wanted to move his company out of Gotham, he could have done so a long time ago, so why wait until now!

What's more, the current Bruce Wayne, that is, Batman, has long since disappeared due to the Joker virus in his body.

Even if Bruce later withstands the virus and returns to normal, then he should return to the Batcave and continue to incarnate as Batman to set things right for the chaotic Gotham now.

So, there's only one answer!

"That guy isn't Bruce!"

Kate pointed to the man who looked exactly like Bruce on the screen and said to the crowd, "He's just a botched impostor!" ”

Barbara had a flash of inspiration and said, "Hush, it's silence!" Only he would do that! ”

"Wait, who is Silence?"

As for Li Yunfeng, as an outsider, of course he didn't know the origin of silence, so he asked from this.

Jack immediately manipulated the computer and brought up the silent file, and Barbara on the side also cooperated and explained:

"Silence, whose full name is Thomas Elliott, is a descendant of the Elliott family of the four major Gotham families, who took advantage of a car accident to murder his parents and then inherited the family's billions of dollars. But he was insatiable and soon set his sights on the Wayne Group, and finally he buried his true identity, plastic surgery to resemble Bruce Wayne, wrapped his face in bandages, and called himself silent. ”

After listening to the above introduction, Li Yunfeng's expression twitched a few times, and asked: "In order to inherit the property, he actually killed his parents, not only that, but he also gave himself plastic surgery, just to seize other people's property?" ”

Barbara nodded and said, "Yes, Thomas is that kind of person. ”

"Maniac!"

Li Yunfeng had no choice but to shake his head and said: "Silent Thomas, one of the four great families of Gotham, is a descendant of Elliot, in that case, why did he murder his parents and seize other people's property!" Was Thomas short of money? ”

In Li Yunfeng's mind, a child like Thomas, who grew up in a wealthy family, should not become like that at all.

"Maybe you should ask him in person."

Kate patted Li Yunfeng on the shoulder, and then said, "And don't forget that this is Gotham." ”

At this moment, Jack also straightened out the clues and began to reason:

In other words, after Fox was hospitalized, Silent pretended to be Bruce and took control of the Wayne Group, so there was the later batch of heavily armed mercenaries. Obviously, Silence knows that his true identity is not a secret, so he has to kill anyone who knows, such as Batman and his buddies. ”

Hearing this, Li Yunfeng also nodded approvingly: "Yes, in this way, all the clues can be matched." ”

"Wait!"

However, Kate disagreed: "As far as I know, Bruce upgraded the security level of Wayne's system after learning about the existence of Silence, and its login method added pupils, fingerprints, audio, and cochlear recognition systems in addition to the traditional account password. ”

The Wayne system is a computer management system written by Bruce Wayne to run the company, which can be used by many people in the company, but only two people have the highest authority, namely President Fox and Bruce himself.

So, don't look at Silent to give himself plastic surgery, so that his face looks exactly like Bruce, but the rest of his physiological information is not the same as that of the real Bruce.

"Even if Silent can infiltrate the Wayne Enterprise through his face, he can't operate the Wayne system!"

I only heard Kate say: "And the transfer of Wayne Group's assets is such a thing, which must only be operated by the highest authority, how does silence do it!" ”

"It's the Laughing Bat!"

Suddenly, Jack spoke: "At the Penguin-Man meeting, the Riddler suspects that Scarecrow and Silence may have sided with the Laughing Bat. ”

The Laughing Bat is the fallen Batman of another parallel world, his physiological information, of course, is completely consistent with Batman himself, with his help, it is easy to log in to the Wayne system silently!

Not only that, under Jack's prompting, Li Yunfeng suddenly thought of a key:

"Barbara, the Wayne System and the Bat System, were they both written by Bruce Wayne himself?"

Barbara nodded and replied, "Yes, the former is used to manage the business, and the latter is used to support Batman's operations." ”

Li Yunfeng then asked, "So is there a connection between the two systems?" ”

"Yes!"

Barbara immediately replied: "Of course there is a connection between the two systems, so that Batman can keep track of the situation at any time......"

Speaking of which, not only Barbara, but even Kate and Jack realized the problem.

Li Yunfeng even pointed out directly:

"If that's the case, the Laughing Bat must be watching us through the Wayne system!"