42.Cruelty [41/100]
"No! No!!"
Gordon rushes like a mad beast into the burning ruins of Orchard Street, and a grief-stricken Robin and the terrified Mayor Nestor try to pull but can't.
The power that erupted from the body of this middle-aged man, who was always polite, was shocking, and in the end, it was Cyber in a black trench coat who stepped forward to suppress Gordon in place.
Sheriff Smith's rescue failed and he himself was killed by the fire monkeys, and worse, the hostages died in it, and the faithful wife was Gordon's wife.
The police chief knelt on the ground, and the roar sounded like a night owl in the darkness, and anyone who listened to it would feel an indescribable, heart-wrenching pain.
Cyber's left hand was on Gordon's neck, and the grief-stricken gentleman fainted, and he looked at Robin,
"Take him back, he needs to rest now, by the way, bring his son and daughter with him, lest Gordon do something irrational. β
He looked at Robin, his brother successfully rescued Gordon's son from the dock warehouse, Robin's superhuman absolute observation, in this operation is vividly reflected, he is the only one who discovered the Joker's despicable mechanism in advance, he opened a door on the side of the warehouse, and then picked up the child, and rushed into the big monkey outside the warehouse within 5 seconds, which cost two people in the explosion.
Coupled with Barbara Gordon rescued by Cyber, Gordon's children are finally safe and sound, but Cyber can't do anything about his wife's death, and he regrets even more at this time, why he didn't completely kill the Joker under their obstruction, which caused these troubles now.
"From now on, you're in charge of protecting them, and I'm going to get down to business. β
Cyber's voice was extremely cold, but Robin didn't refute this time, there was also a glint of hatred in his eyes, he nodded, looked at the burning ruins, then turned his head, wiped the tears from his eyes with his fingers, and carried Gordon into the car.
Mayor Nestor was disheveled and completely devoid of his previous demeanor, but he had been wearing a cross on his chest at this time, God above, and when he was tied into the Grand Theater by a group of guys in clown masks, tied around the pungent smell of oil drums, Nestor really thought he was going to die.
Gordon rescued him, presumably because of the tight schedule and the lack of the dastardly trap where Nestor was being held, which allowed the mayor to escape.
"Mr. Nestor"
Saiber looked away from the burning ruins, looked at the mayor with a ghostly face, and whispered,
"You know what you need to do now, don't you?"
Mayor Nestor was not stupid, he immediately understood what Cyber meant, he nodded fiercely, and said through gritted teeth,
"Tomorrow morning, the National Guard will enter the city, it's too lawless, Harvey, how is Harvey?"
Faced with Nestor's question, Cyber swayed gloomily, he had already received the news that Batman's rescue operation was half successful.
Harvey lost his life, but anyway, according to Cyber's understanding, if he became like that, it would be better to die directly.
At this time, it was dawn, in the block on the 25th floor of the Wayne Building, Alfred walked in with breakfast, and saw the bat armor scattered on the ground, each piece thrown on the ground, arranged like random garbage, his brow furrowed, he saw that his young master did not take off the remaining armor, but sat by the window sluggishly, looking at the city that was waking up outside the window.
His expression was very embarrassed, and there was not a trace of focus in his eyes.
After 7 years of travel and training, it was not easy to see such an expression on Bruce's face, but during the period when his parents were shot dead and he grew up, Ah Fu often saw his young master thinking like this, so he didn't pay much attention to it, but left time and space to himself.
But just as Ah Fu put down his breakfast and was about to turn away, Bruce stopped him,
"Ah Fu, I'm useless, right?"
"Ugh"
As an experienced housekeeper, Ah Fu knew what to say at this time, he thought about it for a while, and whispered, "It depends on what aspect it is, in terms of cleaning up the house, you are indeed very useless, but I think, what you said is not the use of this." β
Bruce's gaze was still out of focus, and he muttered to himself,
"I was trying to encourage the right thing, to encourage the positive, not madness, not death! I thought I could subdue the Joker, I thought I could suppress him in my own way, I stopped Cyber from killing him, oh my God, look what I did, the city shouldn't have suffered this, Gordon, Harvey they shouldn't have suffered this. β
The woman sighed, and he sat down on the couch beside Bruce, and he whispered,
"But you've already done it, haven't you? You're foaming at the faces of the criminals in Gotham, did you ever think there would be victims? Someone like the Joker will show up sooner or later, he's just a little earlier than I expected the worst. β
Alfred has always been reluctant to agree with Bruce Wayne going out to do chivalrous deeds, this is the last descendant of the Wayne family, if something happens, the family will be finished, but when he saw the gloomy expression on Bruce's face, he was still comforted,
"But things get worse before they get better, and as Harvey said, the darkness before dawn is always the hardest, you feel uncomfortable, you feel pain, it's because you're solving the problem, and the process of solving the problem is always uncomfortable. β
Bruce closed his eyes, and there was sadness on his face that he couldn't hide,
"But Gotham only needs a real hero, like Harvey, not a guy who killed his friends and blew up the city, I don't even know how to face Gordon, it's all my fault, Cyber is right, I'm arrogant, I think I can handle everything, but I can't, I'm just a mortal. β
Ah Fu stood up, he walked over and patted Bruce on the shoulder, the white-haired old man said gently,
"Yes, we need real heroes ... But we don't have it now, so we're going to have to make do with you, you don't want to hand over this mess to Cyber, think about his style, he's probably going to kill half the city, find the Joker, and strangle him. β
"The men of the Wayne family never give up halfway, and I'm sure neither will you. β
After speaking, Ah Fu picked up the cold breakfast and prepared to leave, Bruce covered his face with his hands, as if he was thinking to himself, just when Ah Gao arrived at the door, Bruce raised his head, he asked,
"Ah Fu, how did you catch a gem thief hiding in the forest?"
Alfred's body stagnated for a moment, and the question seemed to evoke some bad memories in him, but eventually, he spoke,
"We burned the whole forest. β
Bruce was stunned, he nodded, and stopped talking.
Three days of calm went by in the blink of an eye, during which Cyber received a phone call, and then that night, he left his villa alone.
Wayne Hospital, Intensive Care Department, Harvey Dent opened his eyes suddenly, this was not the first time he had woken up, but the unimaginable pain still came from the left half of his body, it was a mixed itching sensation, almost unbearable, but his arms were fixed to the hospital bed, unable to move, almost had to bear the pain.
"Ahh
He groaned, half of his face covered with gauze, and as his head moved, blood gushed out of the wound, staining it all red in an instant.
Then he saw the figure sitting beside his bed, with his back to him, as if reading the newspaper, and when he heard the voice, he turned around, and it was a face that Harvey remembered so much, and he had been humiliated by this guy in the docklands not long ago.
"Seber Hawke, why are you here?"
His voice was dry, completely devoid of the previous magnetism, and if you didn't consider the complete right half of his face, it could almost be called the sound of the devil, like steel rubbing, piercing people's ears with pain.
"Shh
Cyber smiled mysteriously at him, then pointed out the door, and in the dim light, he felt something from the side and looked at Harvey,
"No, I don't call that name. β
As he spoke, he clasped the object in his hand to his face, and when he looked up again, the distorted ghost face appeared in front of Harvey's eyes, along with the voice distorted by the voice changer.
"That's what I usually call the Red Devil, or the Red Devil. β
"You're you. β
Harvey's tone was a little shocked at first, but then it became calm, he already felt what was happening to him, he looked at Cyber's mask, struggled and said,
"What's wrong with me? They won't tell me what's going on, what's wrong with me?"
"You've been kidnapped by the Joker, not just you, but Gordon's wife, son, daughter, and our wise Mayor Nestor"
Cyber didn't hide it at all, and told everything he knew, "Batman came to save you, but there were some accidents, but you lost your life at least, Gordon's wife is unfortunate, we couldn't save her." β
Harvey's breathing suddenly stopped for a few seconds at this moment, and then became more and more rapid, and his left arm moved, but he couldn't move while being chained to the bed, he could only say in that terrifying voice,
"Can you give me a mirror?"
This request made Cyber hesitate for a moment, he looked at Harvey, "Are you sure? β
"Give it to me!"
Harvey's voice grew louder in vain, from quiet to irritable, and it barely took a second for Cyber to take a deep breath, pull out a mirror from the table next to him, and place it in front of Harvey.
The prosecutor looked at himself in the mirror, and in the dim light, he saw only the right half of his face, the left half covered with gauze, which was stained red with blood.
"Help me call it over, those nurses won't help me, thank you. β
Harvey whispered, and Cyber reached out and tore it lightly, taking the flesh with him, and removed the gauze, revealing half of Harvey's face.
Even a well-informed person like Cyber felt a little frightened when he saw the image of the intact right side of his face and the left side of his face that was almost completely charred, leaving only flesh and blood tissue, and the most terrifying thing was that the eyes, after not being protected by the skin, seemed to fall off at any time.
It is no exaggeration to say that with Harvey's current attitude, as long as he dares to walk out of the hospital, many people will be scared to death in minutes.
Ironically, when Batman blasted Harvey out of the explosion, the burning oil and flames seemed to scorch half of Harvey's body almost perfectly, not only his face, but also his chest, arms, and skin.
It's like a line down the middle line of the forehead, splitting the full body in half.
"Huh"
But after suffering such a terrible typhoid fever, Harvey did not have a cup or go crazy, on the contrary, he accepted this fact very calmly, and he said with a smile in a terrifying voice,
"The nickname they gave me is only now complete. β
"I don't think you need to worry so much, about this"
Seber said to Harvey, "Your situation is terrible, but it's not like it's impossible."
"Huh?"
Harvey turned his head to Cyber, and the terrifying right side of his face appeared in front of Cyber's eyes, and he whispered, "What do you mean?"
Instead of answering, Cyber stretched out his arm, and under Harvey's incomprehensible gaze, he took out a dagger and slashed his arm apart, and after 5 seconds, the wound healed automatically, leaving not even a trace of blood.
"You're a mutant?"
Harvey's tone, which had been steady until now, finally fluctuated a little, and he said in surprise, "Isn't Gotham a forbidden area for mutants?
"I'm a little bit special. β
Seber didn't want to say much on the subject, he took off his mask and looked at Harvey seriously,
"I think with mutant Xiang Odd ability, maybe it can help you heal your injuries"
Harvey's horrified eyes rolled as he stared at Cyber,
"At what cost?"
"Uh, you seem to have changed a lot"
Cyber looked at Harvey with a strange expression, "You didn't speak like this before. β
"I've gone between life and death, and if I don't get anything, I'm at a loss, and in these three days, I've finally figured out one thing. β
Harvey closed his eyes, of course, his right eye could not be closed without eyelids, he said, "I finally understand how ridiculous the belief I once insisted on, law and justice, for ordinary people to maintain life, but there are always some people, the law does not work, I understood too late, it made me become like this, but this is good, after peeling off the layer of hypocrisy, I can see the world more clearly." β
"Hehe, I said a long time ago that under your appearance, there is another you. β
Cyber smiled, he looked left and right, "Well, there is no cost, I just think the Joker will continue to use you, this is for protection"
"To tell you the truth, I can feel you lying. β
Harvey said in a flat tone, "I want to hear the truth, and I've heard enough of those disgusting lies." β
"Well, the price is, I want you to help me, to be precise, those people from the Devils have been in some trouble lately, and I can't get over to Gotham if I don't solve it, so I want to find someone who is capable enough to help me solve it. β
"Look, you help me, I'll help you, it's fair, isn't it?"
Harvey opened his eyes and looked at Cyber,
"Why me, why do you uld me?"
Cyber lit a cigarette, he spat out the smoke ring, he looked at Harvey, and whispered,
"Because I know the clown"
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