Chapter 117: The Man Behind the Scenes
Listening to what Roy said, the Fallen Knight laughed instead of being angry, and his back on the ground twitched.
"What's so funny?"
Karis lifted his bloodied head, "You really think you can put me in jail?" Let's make a bet that I, and my people, will not spend more than twenty-four hours in prison at most, believe it or not? ”
"I have evidence in my hand, enough evidence for you to squat in there for a lifetime." Roy said.
"But one of the most interesting parts about the evidence," Karis laughs, "when you have the right way to do things, no matter what kind of case you have, you will always end up with 'insufficient evidence.'" Sometimes, the evidence even disappears into thin air. With the help of 'that man', I'll never go to jail, and there's only one way to stop me - and that's to kill me, but then you're just like us, aren't you?" ”
"Who's 'that guy'?" Roy asked.
Karis didn't answer, but clutched his belly, which Roy might have knocked out of place, and shrunk to the ground and continued to laugh to himself.
Roy lifted her up, pressed her viciously against the side of her blood-red face, and asked loudly, "Who is 'that person'!?" ”
Karis smiled, smirking like a winner: "You can't win him, no one in the world can win him." My plan will succeed, and he will solve everything for me. In the same way, you can't find him, because he doesn't want to be found when no one can find him."
Roy landed a punch in Karis's face again, smashing half of her face to the ground and throwing her to the side.
"Tell me!" He yelled, "Who is it?" ”
At this time, the battle between Batwoman and Batgirl is over. Batwoman first leveled the Purification, then teamed up with Batgirl to knock down the Broken Bones, and finally knocked out the Desolation. The two chased into the room and saw Roy yelling at Karis, who was knocked to the side.
The bat girl stepped forward with concern and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Karis lay on the ground and laughed twice "Hehe" said: "It's useless, you're doomed"
Roy stared at her for a moment and sighed: "Call Director Gordon to bring someone over, and say that there are a few felons to be arrested." ”
Half an hour later, the police surrounded the Three Towers.
Gordon personally rushed to the top floor with a team of people and found the subdued stigmatizer, as well as the dying Fallen Knight.
Detective Merrody arrives at the scene and confesses to the chief that he had been in the same league as the Fallen Knight. Gordon looked at her for a long time, and patted the detective on the shoulder with pity in understanding. But understanding doesn't change anything, Detective McRody's badge won't be kept, and she's going to face charges of aiding in crime.
The night is finally over, and the three protagonists stand on the roof of the building opposite the Three Towers, looking down at their feet. Police cars are parked at the bottom of the building, and the police lights are flashing red and blue, and the view looks like a party. Reporters from various TV stations blocked a street and wanted to catch the subject of this blockbuster news as soon as possible.
One by one, the stigmatists were taken into the car, Karis? Kearns himself was carried into the car on a stretcher. The prisoner she had been imprisoned for an unknown amount of time, Trevor, was also "rescued" by the police. Although there was not the slightest joy of being rescued on the face of this man who was no longer sane, at least the sympathetic person could be happy for him, and he might be treated better in a mental hospital than in an iron cage for the rest of his life.
Roy looked at the busy police force below, and his mask couldn't hide his worried look.
"Why not be happy?" Batgirl asked, "We did it, found out the true identity of the Fallen Knight, and defeated her, didn't we?" ”
"I doubt it." Roy replied.
Batwoman asked, "You think she's not done yet?" ”
"Just now in the Three Towers, she told me that with the help of 'that person' she could not fail in any case, and there was no need to consider the possibility of going to prison at all." "Even in the current situation. She was caught in her own uniform, the evidence of her imprisonment and abuse of a mentally ill person is evident, and the willingness of a police detective to give up his future to testify to all her crimes. Even so, she is still very confident or has absolute confidence in 'that person' behind the scenes. Then, no matter who she is, there must be an energy that can turn black and white upside down and control everything. So yes, I don't think that's the end of it. ”
"Falcone?" Batgirl wondered, "I know, Falcone is in prison, but I can't think of anyone else who qualifies you to describe a person like that." ”
Roy shook his head: "Falcone is not so good that no matter who this person is, he should be stronger than Falcone." ”
Batwoman added, "But since each of us has heard of it, it means that he is hiding it deeper." If this man really exists, he must be even more difficult to deal with than the 'Romans'. ”
"But whoever he is, we're going to be waiting here, right?" Batgirl said hopefully, "All of us. ”
Roy looked at the police force on the ground preparing to evacuate the scene with a complicated expression.
"I hope so." He said.
Karis? Kearns didn't break his promise.
A day later, she was acquitted, along with her three stigmatists.
Needless to say, someone quietly opened the joint, and then brought in a lawyer to talk nonsense, and sure enough, the case was privately convicted of "insufficient evidence", and the Fallen Knights and the stigmatists were all put back on the street. They didn't even wait for the day of the trial.
Roy, of course, was watching all of this. He seemed to be able to see that an omnipotent invisible hand was manipulating all this, even Karis was just a puppet pulled by him, and all people were pawns on his chessboard, and no one could disobey how he wanted the chess pieces to move. But when you try to track down who this player is, you get nothing. He couldn't even come up with a single piece of evidence that there was really someone behind the scenes, so he had to guess by gut feeling.
On the day of her acquittal, when she returned to the Three Towers, the bottom of the building was not as full of reporters as it was yesterday. She knew it, because the person behind her backstage also had a lot of influence on the media side. As long as he says no, no media will dare to dig deeper into the Karis issue.
Almost the moment she entered the door of her residence, the phone rang.
It was "that person" who called.
The voice changer said in a reproachful tone, "You weren't careful enough. ”
Who is this person? Karis didn't know either. Because her understanding of this person has always been limited to the low and hoarse male voice on the phone.
"I'm so sorry." Karis said sincerely, the sharpness of confronting Roy was completely gone, "Thank you so much for helping again. ”
"Don't expect me to clean up the mess for you again, my patience is limited." The man said.
"Got it." "My plan was already very fast, and the preparations were almost complete. I'm going to start the project right away. ”
"Don't keep me waiting."
The phone hung up shortly afterward. Karis hung up the microphone, looked out the window, and took a deep breath.
"The sins of Gotham will end soon!" She muttered to herself.
Sebastian? Dr. Freddy's residence.
That's right, this is the same man, the professor who healed Barbara's leg injury. Sebastian hung up the microphone for Calris's call and sat in his studio, picking up the palette in one hand and the brush in the other, completing one of his most satisfying paintings to date.
The background on the drawing board is the dark night in the city. A man as dark as the night sky crouched above a shining street lamp, with short bat ears above his head and a bat as red as hellfire on his chest.
The winged knight crouched in the middle of the drawing board, as if he was staring at the painter with cold eyes.
Sebastian looked at his masterpiece and smiled mysteriously.
P.S. recommends a friend's post-apocalyptic masterpiece "The Era Begins", and friends who are interested in the end of the world can check it out.