Chapter 13: The Eve of Chaos
In front of the Gotham City Hall building, the clown bowed like a gentleman to the group of thugs, "Everyone, this is the end of my speech, let's start the game!" ”
Jumping off the top of the trailer, the clown waved to the crowd in a dashing manner, then turned away, and the man in the clown mask seemed to be relieved and hurriedly followed.
"Stop for Lao Tzu!" The thugs finally realized their current situation, and when they saw that the clown was about to leave, a fierce muscular man hurriedly chased after him.
Hearing the shouts from behind, the clown obediently stopped, turned to watch the group of angry villains swarming towards him, and the clown didn't seem to be panicked in the slightest.
"Anything else? I'm still in a hurry to go back to see my friend. The clown politely said to the crowd, but the gang of villains didn't seem to have any intention of reasoning with the clown.
The strong man who walked in front took out a pistol directly from his pocket and put it on the clown's forehead, and said viciously: "You damn acrobat, do you think you can dominate us?" Tell your men to hand over the nuclear bomb right now, or I'll make your head bloom right away! ”
"Oh, no, no, no." The clown smiled and shook his fingers, and then he suddenly opened the closed trench coat, only to see a string of homemade bombs tied to the clown's waist inside the trench coat!
Although this kind of bomb is very simple, the power is not to be underestimated at all, and the few people in front of it suddenly gasped and looked at this scene in horror.
The clown waved his hand and said softly to the strong man who had subconsciously taken a step back: "Although I don't really like this shoddy method, it turns out that I can always use this method to gain some advantages, you can choose to shoot, but be prepared to take your own life, oh yes, and theirs." The clown pointed to the crowd next to and behind the strong man, and the smile on his face was very glaring.
Everyone in front of him swallowed their saliva unconsciously, and the strong man took a step back again, almost touching the tip of the nose of the person behind him, and his hand holding the pistol trembled slightly, it was obvious that this seemingly powerful strong man had been frightened at this time.
"If you're not going to shoot, then I'll go." The clown stretched out his hand and patted the strong man's hand holding the gun, which suddenly startled the strong man and almost couldn't hold the handle of the gun.
"See you next time if you have the chance." The clown took two steps back, turned around and ran towards a corner of the street, and just as he was about to disappear around the corner, the clown suddenly poked his head out and shouted, "If you have any questions you need to ask, you can ask my assistant, and he will give you the answers." ”
"Can you keep your promise?" The masked man suddenly yelled around the corner, and the unbridled laughter of the clown fading away.
The thugs recovered from the threat of the bomb, and the strong man, embarrassed by his previous cowardice, stepped forward and kicked the man in the clown mask on the waist.
"Damn the guy, say, where is the nuclear bomb!" Once the nuclear bomb roamed the streets of Gotham City, none of these people felt uneasy; But at this time, the nuclear bomb disappeared from everyone's sight, and the fear of the unknown made everyone panic, and violence is always the best way to vent fear.
The man wearing the clown mask did not look very strong, and the strong man's kick made him fall to the ground for a long time and he couldn't get up, at this time, the man suddenly reached out and took off the mask on his face.
"Master Clown is right, you are nothing more than a bunch of slaves succumbing to desire. The fear of the unknown will cause you to lose judgment and reason, and you are a mixture of ignorance and violence! The man was an ordinary-looking white man, his face was covered with sweat at this time, but his expression was very excited, mixed with a trace of inexplicable fear.
"Damn, what are you talking about!" The man's taunt not only made the strong man dissatisfied, but also aroused the anger of the others, and a group of people immediately gathered around the man and punched and kicked him, but the fist hit the man was not on his body, and most of them felt that the man was hiding some hard objects.
The strong man tore off the man's coat, and the next moment, something familiar appeared in front of their eyes!
Bomb! There were more bombs than the clown was strapped to, almost all around the man's upper body!
"Run!" The strong man let out a heart-rending shout, and ran away from the crowd behind him with all his might, but the man obviously wouldn't let these people who had just wanted to beat him leave safely.
"Let's all die!" The man's face was flushed, his facial features were almost crowded together, his whole face looked extremely hideous, he punched the bomb in his abdomen, and the next moment, a violent explosion and raging fire engulfed everyone!
After the explosion, scattered flesh and stumps fell from the sky, only a few lucky people left a whole corpse, but they have completely lost their lives!
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The Werther Orphanage, a charity that was once used to house the orphans of Gotham City, became a secret point of contact for the surviving police officers of Gotham City after Bane ruled Gotham City.
Although this is not the main hiding place, Director Gordon often brings his men here for a while, and his main purpose is to exchange some information with the former president of Wayne Enterprises, Fox, and the current president, Miranda, who are hiding here.
The nuclear fusion reactor was manufactured by Wayne Enterprises, and there is no doubt that only the people at Wayne Enterprises know more about this information, and Director Gordon is glad that he did so, because he has received a lot of extremely important information from here!
After the clown finished his speech, Director Gordon and his men hurried here again, of course, the reason they came here in the first place was not the clown, otherwise they wouldn't have just finished their speech.
In the hallway on the second floor of the orphanage, Commissioner Gordon and Constable John Black met Fox, the former president of Wayne Enterprises, who was anxiously waiting, and it was he who called Director Gordon to come over. The white-haired old man was walking up and down the hallway, and he seemed very uneasy to look at him.
"Fawkes, did you hear that? Clown ......" Director Gordon was equally uneasy, and he had never been at peace after hearing the Joker's speech on the way to the orphanage. This crazy and terrifying man is back, he brought great panic to Gotham City eight years ago, he watched Harvey Dante, the Knight of Light in Gotham City, transform into a terrifying devil step by step in the Joker's plan; He still vividly remembers the scars left by the clown in the city eight years ago. Eight years later, the man reappeared in front of the world, and he wanted to roll up an even more terrifying storm, all of which made Director Gordon feel unprecedented pressure, and even Bane could not make Director Gordon so uneasy and ...... Fear!
"I hear you, it's serious, but I want your help until then...... Miranda is gone! Seeing Director Gordon's arrival, Fox breathed a sigh of relief, "I haven't seen Miranda since yesterday afternoon, I didn't care about it at first, but no one has seen Miranda appear until noon today, I'm worried that something might happen to her!" ”
"Miranda is missing?" Director Gordon paused, then turned to John and asked, "Blake, has Miranda been in contact with any of our people?" ”
"No, Director." John thought about it carefully and then nodded affirmatively: "Since yesterday, after the trucks stopped patrolling, our people have divided into several teams to monitor the town hall, and no one has seen Miranda. ”
"Damn, why do the problems keep coming up one after the other." Director Gordon pinched his brow and spat fiercely, at this time his mood was unprecedentedly bad, if the clown's problem is not solved well, it will inevitably cause a catastrophe, but at this juncture, Miranda is missing!
"Well, I'll arrange for a team to go to her, and hopefully she's not captured. Then, now what we need to think about is what the clown said. A month from now, if one of the prisoners from Black Gate Prison or the citizens of Gotham is still alive, he will detonate a nuclear bomb, and I can't imagine what the city will be like in the next month! ”
John frowned and thought about it, and suddenly, he thought of a question and asked Gordon, "Director, even if the next month is really in chaos, after a month, how can the Joker be sure if one of these two parties will disappear?" If you don't raise the countless citizens of Tan City, even the thousands of prisoners who came out of the Black Gate Prison, how can the clown be able to count whether every prisoner is alive or dead? ”
Hearing this, Director Gordon was also puzzled, "Yes, how can the clown know about so many people?" It's too hard to achieve. Mr. Fawkes, do you know of any way to get the Joker to do that? ”
Fox thought about it carefully, then shook his head and said: "Unless the Joker can monitor the situation of everyone in Gotham City, but this ......" Speaking of this, Fox was suddenly stunned, he remembered something, it was something that Batman used to deal with the Joker eight years ago!
"Mr. Fox, do you have anything in mind?" Noticing Fox's expression, Director Gordon hurriedly asked, if they can know how the Joker knows the situation of the people in Gotham City, then they can also take measures to deal with the Joker's method, at least there can be a direction!
"Do you know how Batman caught the Joker eight years ago?" After thinking about it for a long time, Fox finally decided to tell the story, "Eight years ago, in order to track the Joker's location, Batman used a supercomputer and a super program. ”
"This app can turn every mobile phone in Gotham City into a high-frequency signal receiving device that also has a microphone function. It takes the sonar principle that I discovered, and then applies it to all the phones in Gotham City, so that the phones become the sonar source of this program, and through the collection of these points, it is enough to depict the real-time situation in the whole of Gotham City, that is, to monitor the situation of almost everyone in Gotham City! ”
"This ......" Director Gordon was shocked by the fact that Fox said at the same time as John, if such a program really exists, then where is there a secret in the huge Gotham City?
"But this program was destroyed by my own hands after Batman hunted down the Joker, and the Joker can't fix it unless ......"
"Unless he finds a backup of this program." John asked, "But this kind of thing should be very complicated, right?" Will the Joker be able to fix this program? ”
"I don't know, but if you really want to monitor everything that happens in Gotham City, this program is definitely the most appropriate means!" Fox sighed dejectedly, the existence of this program is beyond the bottom line of his psychological tolerance, he personally destroyed the one made by Batman eight years ago, eight years later, could it be that the Joker has made this program reappear again?
"I can't think of any other way to do it." Fawkes walked to the edge of the corridor and leaned against the guardrail to look down, the people in the hall downstairs seemed to be in a panic, the clown's speech made everyone look very worried and scared, Fawkes knew that with the passage of time, this fear would turn into a desire to survive, and at that time, Gotham City would really become a purgatory!
"Either way, we can't give up on this clue, Mr. Fawkes, where's the program?" Gordon walked over to Fox and patted him on the shoulder as a sign of comfort, "We must stop the Joker's actions, or the consequences will be unimaginable." ”
"Hmm." Fox nodded, "The computer is in the secret underground laboratory of the Wayne Enterprise, I'll take you there." ”
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In the darkness of the night, the whole city of Gotham seemed silent, and everyone was still thinking about what the clown said in the evening. So far, although most people are unwilling to face it, they probably have to admit in their hearts that everything the clown said is probably true!
It is foreseeable that tonight's calm will be the last calm before the storm, and the atmosphere of tension and unease has enveloped the entire city of Gotham, and in order to have a chance to survive, this war is bound to break out!
In the north of Gotham City, there is a cave tunnel leading to the interior, but this tunnel has long been blown up by Bane, and in other directions, there are bare mountain bags, not only in number, but most importantly, there are hundreds of miles of Gobi, and it is impossible to walk out if you walk on one pair of legs, and there are countless extreme survival enthusiasts who die on the vast Gobi every year, let alone ordinary people.
However, that is also when there is still a chance to survive, if there is still a chance to survive, ordinary people will naturally not risk death to enter the Gobi, but now, Gotham City is about to fall into chaos, and many people have set their sights on this only way to escape!
Under the cover of night, a group of fifteen figures quietly left Gotham City, and they carefully did not make a sound, and smoothly came to the foot of the mountain near the underground tunnel.
"Jonny, are you sure we'll really be able to get out? I believe you're following you, and if you're not sure, we might as well find a place to hide in the city!" Suddenly, one of the fifteen people at the foot of the mountain asked softly to the man in the lead, and the others also stopped, waiting for the leader's reply.
"Don't worry, Carlo, I've already told my uncle, he estimates that he will drive here tomorrow afternoon, and then we just need to get in his car and leave, I specially asked him to drive the big truck that transports motorcycles, and there is absolutely no problem with loading fifteen of us!" The leader replied confidently, and his voice was also soft to prevent unnecessary accidents.
"But in the evening, the clown said that there were bombs planted all around Gotham City, and what if we stepped on them?" Another whisper asked, and the others nodded, apparently worried about the question.
"I think we'd better go home first, wait tomorrow to see how it goes, and if it's really chaotic, it's not too late for us to leave." It was a girl's voice, and her words were echoed by most people.
"Bunch of stupid guys, have you forgotten all those tragedies that happened in Gotham City eight years ago? Can't those of you who lived through the events of eight years ago understand the horror of the Joker? Tomorrow? I'm afraid we'll be dead tomorrow. Whether you go or not, I have to go anyway, Gotham City is so big, I don't believe that the clown can plant bombs everywhere, that's impossible! The leader was about to leave, and several people behind him hurriedly followed.
"Wait Jonny, let's go together."
The remaining eight figures stood still and looked at each other, eventually catching up with Jonny.
"Alright Carlo, you're the best of us, you climb up first, make sure it's safe before you call us." In front of everyone is a small hill bag, from here when the drive is over there are dozens of small hills, the height is different, the highest is nearly 100 meters, the short is only about ten meters, fortunately it is not steep, everyone can still turn over.
"Alright Jonny, you guys should be careful down there too, don't be discovered." It seemed that Jonny's words had worked, but Carlo didn't shirk it anymore, and after making sure that he had all his things, he began to climb up the mountain.
It is not a very wise choice to climb the mountain at night, even if it is a small hill, Carlo does not climb fast, but fortunately the mountain is not high, Carlo quickly climbed to the top, and just as he wanted to turn around to report the situation to Jonny, a small clicking sound came to his ears.
In this silent night, this small sound is enough to be heard clearly.
'Boom! ’
The sky-high flames exploded on the mountain, scattering rock fragments fell from the sky, and a short rain of blood followed!
The team fell into a deathly silence, and after the explosion, only the flames remained, and everyone stared at the still glowing hill in amazement.
"Perhaps, we should go home......"
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PS: I'm rubbing.,It's been unusually abnormal in the background for a night.,It's just not going to be able to log in.,Now it's finally good.,I'm really sorry everyone.,It's late.,It's a two-in-one.,I hope everyone looks cool.,During this time, the house is in the manuscript.,Strive for an outbreak.,Thank you for your support for the house!