Chapter 206: The Torture of Justice
The electronic eye remaining from the corpse of the steel bone suddenly projected a scene of light in front of the Justice League, and a line of cursors flashed on the screen, and the cursor quickly slid out, coding out a line of text and saying: "Superman, I want to play a game with you!" ”
"A game of justice."
"Justice is a great choice, it is a thorny road, you keep saying that in order to implement justice, then let's wait and see!" The line said slowly: "Gotham is a notoriously depraved city, full of killing, crime, and darkness, and some of you have vowed to bring justice to them, but now it's only getting more and more chaotic." ”
"Do you think it's justice for you to give the power of adjudication to law enforcement agencies and ignore their incompetent corruption?"
"It's a shirk...... This time, I'm going to make you really responsible. Make your choice...... Difficult, painful, heart-rending choices to carry out their own justice. ”
"Superman, you often fight crime and stop people from getting hurt, but there's a basic problem...... With so many people suffering all the time, how do you choose which one to save? In two different places, when lives are hanging by a thread, who are you prepared to help? How did you make that decision. ”
"You already knew that you couldn't stop all the crime, even though you could. But you decide to just do your best, because...... You are afraid of choice. ”
"Now, there's a choice."
"Gotham is facing a crime ......" suddenly popped up in the light screen, and all the screens on Gotham Street, including the night sky overhead, projected the current image of Superman, Superman looked at the picture on the light screen, and saw himself in the picture, apparently the person was filming them through the electronic eye left behind after the explosion of the steel skeleton.
There is also a split screen display next to the light screen.
"All of you of Gotham, raise your right arm......"
The subtitles on the light screen slowly said that the people of Gotham, including the crimes who were preparing to rob on the streets, the various gangs that were operating, and all the people in this crime capital, most of them had their right arms on their sleeves.
Now every screen in Gotham, TV, computer, electronic screen, including the sky overhead, is broadcasting the current picture.
The screen suddenly appeared on the live broadcast of these people who rolled up their sleeves, they included employees of the Wayne Group who were working overtime, poorly dressed gangsters, Gotham's bigwig penguin man, and even Bruce Wayne's old butler...... Alfred, they all had a line of black blood on their arms.
"Don't doubt it, that's what I did. You've all been infected with a biochemical virus that will turn you into this......" The screen shows a picture of the Metropolis, and in the financial center of the Metropolis, a financial executive who is working overtime appears, and he is intently studying the inexplicable black line on his arm.
Black lines can be seen running through his entire arm.
At this time, the black line reached the top, the financial executive twitched violently, and then suddenly bit at the people around him, he became a zombie who only knew how to gnaw flesh and blood, and the camera pulled to the panorama of the metropolis, you can see that although it is not the entire metropolis, but the entire financial center, zombies are everywhere rushing towards the crowd.
Fortunately, Superman doesn't have to think about whether to go to the rescue now, because the infection is spreading much faster than anyone thinks.
Soon, there are no living people in sight in the camera!
Superman angrily tries to rush over to stop everything, but the words later in the subtitles calm him down for the time being.
"In order to avoid unnecessary fantasies among you, and to prove the importance and credibility we take this game, I have made a demo with 200,000 people in the metropolis...... Let you believe that I am completely inhuman, and at the same time strengthen your confidence to continue playing. The line reads: "Don't wonder why there is such a thing as a blood line in the virus...... Because this is a custom feature. ”
"Some of you should have seen that at the speed at which the bloodline is now extending, there are only about twenty minutes left, and what happens here will happen in the whole of Gotham City."
"I just released pheromones that activated the virus at Metropolis thirty minutes in the morning."
"Of course, I'm not going to let Superman choose between Metropolis and Gotham to save ...... Barry, don't run! You'll never be able to catch up...... Always slow down, this is the imprisoning of the speed force on you...... Going back to the preface, I won't let you choose between two equally difficult choices, because I already know your choice. ”
"You'll pick one at random."
"So, I'm just going to let you make a choice, an impending crime and a Justice League comrade. The popping channel that the grid has just opened leads to the phantom zone of the universe, a very dangerous place that is almost equivalent to death. But fortunately, now you can still open the pop channel in time, and if you are one step later, the mother box will automatically delete the coordinates of the channel you just opened. ”
"Opening and continuing the passage requires great energy, and your only option now is Superman's heat ray, but only Superman has time to rush to Gotham to stop a crime that is happening."
The text paused for a moment, then wrote, "Next is you!" Gotham ...... The camera suddenly shifts to the top floor of the building where Wayne Enterprises is located, where two canisters and an atomizer stand in which is a large black man and a white woman.
"I transplanted the detoxified vaccine into the bone marrow of both of them in the form of genetic encoding."
"Their blood is the serum that immunizes the virus, and in this black man's body, it is the serum that relieves the onset of the virus, which can only protect you for twenty-four hours, and in the body of this white wife, it is the serum that completely immunizes against the virus. The jar contains a device for extracting the raw serum and making a vaccine. ”
"Raw materials for vaccines...... The blood of these two poor people, of course. ”
"Or rather, the blood of this black man can make a virus reliever, which will be released through a nebulizer throughout Gotham, and delay your time until twenty-four hours later, and then you will have the opportunity to make this white lady into a vaccine serum for the whole of Gotham. I calculated well, the blood in her body is more than enough to supply the whole of Gotham! ”
"Of course, after making the antidote, they will become dregs...... In the true sense of the word, dregs. ”
"Now I put the opportunity to choose in the hands of each and every one of you...... You've all received a text message, yes or no, and if you choose yes for more than 50 percent, the extended-release dose will be released, more than 75 percent...... The immune serum will start to be made, and by the time the superheroes above her head react, she will be drained! ”
Of course, the poor couple is not without a chance...... I'll live stream their pleas. ”
"Now beg for it!" The live broadcast cut to the black man, and he begged bitterly: "Please! Help her, she's innocent......" The black man knelt down and mourned to everyone in the live broadcast: "If you want to sacrifice, sacrifice me alone!" Please give yourself a chance to be kind......"
"Sacrifice me for twenty-four hours...... That's enough time for them to think of a way! I beg you to trust the Justice League! Superman will find a way to save you during this time! ”
"A moving statement...... In recognition of your sacrifice, I reward you with a way to keep her alive. The nasty text came out again and bewitched: "His sacrifice may also be faked, think about it, if more than 50% of the people choose no, they are the only ones in Gotham who can survive!" ”
"But that's too cruel to human nature...... There is also a lack of struggle, because I lack faith in human nature, so in order to torture your conscience even more, I have decided to show my vote. ”
Two red and green histograms appear on the screen.
Red represents yes, the evil and sin of blood red.
Green represents no, forgiveness, and also give yourself a chance.
Now the red histogram has raised hundreds of thousands of votes, and the green is still a thin layer, and there is a red line on the 50 percent votes.
"Anyone has the right to vote, if you don't have a mobile phone, you have to vote yes first, just raise your hand! Our remote sensing device will scan you onto the results. ”
In an instant, the red ticket rose sharply.
"We should save the people...... Superman said, looking up.
The subtitle appears again: "You should have more faith in the evil of human nature...... The citizens of Gotham will be fine, but if you go, you have to make a choice on their behalf, let the crime happen in front of you, or kill everyone in Gotham? ”
"Are you really willing to make a choice?" A line of large, blood-red text on the screen.
"Superman, there are people dying every moment of every day, you should have known that you couldn't save everyone, you chose to save people selectively, it proves that you allowed some crimes to happen, I thought you would have understood that you couldn't save everyone. But you don't seem to know this, so today I'm going to make you aware of your heart...... You didn't choose to save everyone, you let tragedy and crime go unchecked. ”
At this time, the number of yes votes has generally exceeded 50%, and only a pitiful 9% of those who chose no.
The black man in the jar pleaded, "You've earned a day, for God's sake, give yourself a chance, and give the Justice League a chance!" ”
The white man next to her shook her head desperately, but she seemed speechless
The black man had a sincere expression, and two lines of tears slipped down in front of everyone: "I have lived long enough to be able to sacrifice myself to save so many people, I am willing, even proud." But she is still too young and needs a chance, give her a chance, that is, a chance for all of you, a chance for redemption! ”
The rate of rise of red tickets has visibly slowed down.
The machine inside the jar began to enter, the tube inserted in the black man began to draw crimson blood from his body, the extended-release agent was being made, and finally the green pillar began to climb slowly.