Soon, the makeshift Avengers, consisting of Evans, Colbert and Batman, began their investigation to infiltrate every corner of Gotham.

Batman's thinking is correct, investigating this kind of thing is more comprehensive than detailed.

Especially when dealing with a mysterious organization such as the Owl Court, the effect of investigating from above is not obvious, but from the investigation from below can obtain some additional information, and the earliest breakthrough came from Copote, to be precise, the team organized by Cobott in the vocational school of Living Hell.

There is no doubt that the vast majority of people here were born in the slums, grew up in the slums, and will live here for the rest of their lives.

They are all too familiar with the whole Gotham market, and they listen to Copote's dispatch because everything that happens here is closely related to them.

In the classroom of the vocational school, the little fat man held his arms and said, "...... Do you think we're willing to live like we used to? The whole hallway stinks like a garbage dump, and my nose is failing, you know? I can't even turn around in my bathroom! ”

"Isn't that because you're too fat?" The girl with the flower arm said Rocket, pouting her lips and continuing: "But seriously, it was too dangerous for us kids before, I was shot in my right arm when I was 8 years old, and I had to cover it with a tattoo ......"

Red Truck lit a cigarette and smoked and said, "I've been getting better lately, I've been in the trailer business with that guy named Doyle, and I've made a lot of money, and my dad thought I had finally learned to rob." ”

After saying that, several people laughed together.

Rocket turned to Copot again and said, "Is what you said true?" Was our chaotic life because of the poison in the rainwater? It also sounds ridiculous. ”

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"It's kind of weird, actually." The little fat man said with a wrinkled face: "You all know that my grandfather is the longest-lived old man in hell, and he died the year before last. ”

"He told me before that Gotham City had a major makeover, and the rest of the streets in the East End were equipped with tap water, and although there were often various problems, there was no place like a living hell, and the wells had been used for hundreds of years."

"Please, what age is this, and you still have to go to fetch water with a bucket to drink, don't you think it's a little strange?" Tire asked.

The red truck also said: "Actually, the strangest thing is the location of those wells, my father has a bad leg, and I go there every time I fetch water, and I have been like this since I was a child." ”

"I found out before that there are five wells in the north and only one in the south, but obviously there are more people living in the south district, and every time they have to go to the north to fetch water, when they first built here, didn't they think about this problem?"

Perhaps because the students were younger and more receptive and understanding of new things, they didn't think it was nonsense as adults did when Colbert said that there might be something wrong with the rain in Gotham, but instead recalled something wrong from some details.

Rocket, who stepped on a stool with one leg, complained, "Anyway, now that we have running water, we don't need to drink from the well." ”

"But don't forget." Copote said a little gloomy: "Tap water is not conjured out of thin air, if this kind of rain continues, the groundwater in Gotham will also be polluted, and when the time comes, no one will be able to escape." ”

"So what are we going to do? I don't want to go back to the old days. ”

Red Truck and Rocket looked at each other, and Red Truck tugged at his hair and said, "Okay, we're all bad boys, like they say, born bad, but we all have to admit that we're doing a lot better now than we used to be, if only we could be like this forever." ”

"We can't sit still." Cobot looked at a few of them and said, "That's not the Gotham style, we have to take the initiative, and the first step is to investigate." ”

Several people looked at him, and the tire said: "Before, all the professors said that you are the best learner in our world, and you should also have the best brain, you say, what are we going to do?" ”

Cobot pulled out a plan, and the eyes of the others fell on the table.

Facts have proved that when it comes to people's vital interests, all people have a strong ability to act.

The people living in hell were the first to receive the reform, and the first to experience the benefits of the reform.

If they had been living in that chaotic environment, of course they would not have thought of change, but now that they have tasted the sweetness of reform, they certainly will not allow themselves to return to that chaotic and dangerous state of life.

Don't look at the red truck, the tires and the rockets, these three children are inconspicuous, but their parents and parents are doing vital work in the living hell.

The most obvious is the red truck, he can drive at such a young age, can ride a motorcycle, and is also familiar with the delivery routes, in fact, because his parents do this.

His father and two uncles used to drive garbage trucks, and his mother was a street sweeper on the next street, so she was all too familiar with the terrain.

Rockets knew from the name that her father was an arms dealer, and in fact, he didn't live in hell because he was poor, but because it was convenient to do business here.

His mother runs a small gas station, which is the fastest place for the exchange of information, and most of the drivers who come and go here will brag and chat between refueling.

When these three people went back to spread the word, their education level was very limited, their expression was not very clear, their parents' ability to understand was also limited, and the whole story was told beyond recognition.

Soon, a rumor spreads in Living Hell that someone is constantly poisoning Gotham's water with a toxin that drives people crazy, and that if you don't want Living Hell to go back to what it used to be, you have to find the killer who poisoned it.

In this way, the enthusiasm of these Gotham citizens is very high.

As we all know, the Gotham people have a bad temper, if you shoot him, he will fight to return you two shots, and when they hear that they have been poisoned, of course they are angry.

And the whole thing is getting more and more mysterious, and it is spreading faster and faster, and it is spreading more and more widely, and many people believe it to be true.

Matters related to the safety of their own lives will be more or less snacks, so as soon as there is any trouble, they will begin to spread messages layer by layer, until they reach Copote's ears.

In this way, Colbert's sources of information became very extensive, and among the many true and false intelligence, he quickly sifted out useful information.

The first is that when the Living Hell Well was built, there were no disputes, and there was only one well in the Southern District, but the residents of the Southern District could not sit idly by and watch their own interests suffer, and of course they would resist.

But in the end, the matter was closed, and the information that Colbert got from it was that there had been a brief epidemic outbreak in Living Hell that killed many people, and in the list of deaths of their elders or relatives provided by the residents, Colbert compiled and found that most of the deaths were from the Southern District, and they were the most fiercely resistant.

This proves that there are indeed people who control the water supply in the living hell area.

Then Cobott got an old map of the Living Hell area, which he got from an old drug dealer who had traveled through the Living Hell and drawn the map when he was young in order to smuggle contraband.

Judging from this map, it is not for nothing that there are many wells in the North Ward.

The buildings in the northern area are looser and have more open-air spaces, while the southern districts are too densely populated and densely built, and there are hardly any open-air spaces.

This further confirms the speculation of several people that the Owl Court may have used this way to let the rain contaminate the drinking water of the living hell residents, and the rain combined with the contamination of the drinking water has made this the craziest and chaotic place in the East End.

With enough evidence in hand, Copot set out to investigate another question: why is Living Hell so important to the Owl Court? Is it worth all the effort they put into it?

This Copote really couldn't guess, but at this time, the alliance of the three played a role, and Batman thought more scientifically.

During a small meeting between the three, Batman speculated, "First, the strategic location of Living Hell doesn't matter, although it is the most densely populated place in the East End, it is not really a transportation hub, and the location is relatively remote, far less than the strategic location of Elizabeth Street. ”

"Second, Living Hell is a slum within a slum, and even if all the people here disappear, it will have no impact on the economic ecology of Gotham.

"If I had to talk about the characteristics of a living hell, then I think it is that there are many people." Batman concluded, "Nowhere in Gotham has this kind of population density. ”

"This is likely to be their testing ground." "There are a lot of people here, and most of them can't escape even if the living conditions are bad, and because of the poor sanitation, even if some epidemic diseases break out, people don't feel weird," Copote said, looking at the map. ”

"What's more, the ecology here is closed." Evans drew a circle with his finger in the area of the living hell and said, "There is a formed commercial system here, and people's food, clothing, housing and transportation can be solved, so the scope of population movement is very small. ”

"The Owl Court must have been set up in a living hell, that's for sure."

Then, Batman said, "The only question is, since there is arrangement, there must be surveillance, how do they monitor the living hell?" ”

All three paused, then looked at each other and said, "Well!" ”

"Everybody has to drink water, everybody has to fetch water, and even if some people can't afford to come out to fetch water, their family members will inevitably do it for them, and if they have to throw the bucket down when they fetch water, they will inevitably look at the well......"

Batman's deep voice sent chills down the other two's backs: "At this time, there are people at the bottom of the well, who are watching you......"