It was another rainy night, on the water-filled road, the lights of the speeding cars flashed, Gordon walked down the stairs quickly in his rain boots, shook hands with Schiller, who was walking up, and said in an exaggerated tone: "Thank God, Professor, you came so timely!" ”

"Let's go inside."

Gordon pushed open the door of the police station, and before he could take Schiller into the office, a small police officer came up and said: "Boss, the interrogation room on the second floor is all full, the drunkard and Scarface got into a fight, and the three of them pulled them away, and the black man with the band tattoo is even more crazy, we don't have enough manpower to see so many prisoners......"

Gordon sighed and said, "If you catch someone later, you don't need to interrogate them, just lock them up first." ”

Gordon led Schiller up the stairs, he walked in front, his steps were fast, and he said without looking back: "Recently, these people have gone crazy, and today the crime rate in Gotham has increased 12 times, and the interrogation room and cell are no longer able to live." ”

"I don't even know what's going on, everyone is very angry." After Gordon walked down the hallway, he pointed to the end of the hallway and said, "There are two people in that interrogation room, and they are fighting because of a pack of cigarettes, and there is a couple in the room on the left, and they are dancing with knives and guns when they quarrel with each other......"

"I thought it was Gotham." Schiller also walked briskly up the stairs and stood behind Gordon and said.

"It was true that this was the case before, but since the logistics system was put into operation, there have been few such idlers, but I didn't expect it to appear again."

He sighed and said: "But unsurprisingly, the water on the roads in the city is too serious, the logistics operation has basically stopped, and everyone is idle at home." ”

"But you still don't think it's normal, do you? Otherwise, you wouldn't have come to me. ”

"That's right, even if Gotham was rotten in the past, it shouldn't have so many mentally ill people popping up overnight."

"Now in the office on the third floor, there are two people who are convulsing, one is foaming at the mouth, and the other has started to talk nonsense."

"Our officers did a breathalyzer and drug test on them and it showed nothing wrong, and they just had a sudden illness."

Gordon stood at the door of the office, crossed his hands, and said to Schiller, "If it weren't for the last time the kid named Copote had an illness, I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference, but their symptoms are very similar, so I have to call you over to see, what the hell is going on?" ”

Schiller frowned, and he pushed open the office door to see several people huddled in the corner, just like Colbert at the time, drenched and convulsing, muttering to himself.

Schiller shook his head and said, "I had expected that this would be the aftermath of the rain. ”

Gordon didn't hear what he was saying, and just as he was about to ask again, Schiller interrupted him and said, "Don't worry about it for now, transfer them to Arkham, as you expected, it's not normal, I need further examination." ”

When Schiller arrived at the office at Arkham Psychiatric Hospital, it was raining heavily again, less than four hours after the last rain.

Schiller walked to the window and watched the raindrops lap against the guardrail outside the glass, reflecting a faint sheen, and he silently calculated in his mind that thundershowers began to become more and more frequent, from once every two days two weeks ago to once a day, and today it has already rained three times.

He walked out of the office and knocked on the door of the next room, and Batman's voice came from inside: "Please come in." ”

Schiller walked in and saw him and Copote standing on either side of the table, with this map of Gotham City on the table, and Schiller went in and said, "It seems that the plan really disgusted them." ”

Colbert smiled grimly, the corners of Batman's mouth twitched, and he said, "You have given me a new appreciation for how despicable human tactical plans can be. ”

"If you don't use this method, even if you catch their tails, they will just hide deeper and deeper, and they won't jump out of the way."

Batman sighed, his mind going back to a few days ago.

Evans, Batman, and Copote theorized that the Owl Court's method of monitoring living hell was the well, but this was still a conjecture and needed to be further verified.

Batman plans to infiltrate Living Hell to investigate, but Colbert refuses him, believing that Living Hell is his own territory and that Batman has no need to meddle.

Batman sticks to his usual skeptical style, he doesn't trust Copote, and he still plans to do it himself.

The two were at a stalemate, and finally, under the mediation of Evans, the two went their separate ways, Colbert investigated the North District, and Batman investigated the South District, and the two did their own thing without interfering with each other.

At the time of the reform of the Living Hell, all six wells in the south and north areas were filled, but this filling did not block the wells from the bottom to the top, but in order not to damage the structure of the groundwater, only a support was erected about three meters above the surface and poured to turn it into the ground, and the part below three meters was still a well.

Batman found an entrance to a sewer and planned to dig a passage from the ground to the bottom of the well.

But Copote, a non-professional wild man, has a wider range of ideas, and he still found tires, red trucks, rockets and other people, and formed a team, planning to use special methods to investigate.

These people are different from Batman's rich and capricious, after all, they don't have that sturdy equipment, they don't even have night vision devices, and it is unrealistic to find out the original structure of living hell in the complex sewers, but Wild Road also has a wild way.

It all started with the old drug dealers who gave them the map.

Gotham is not lacking in all kinds of geniuses who have gone the wrong way, and the best of them are these gopher-like drug dealers.

In Gotham, it's true that no police will stop you from selling these contraband, but the biggest danger comes from your peers.

This kind of stuff has to be stored and transported, and once the storage locations and transportation routes are discovered by other gangsters, then you have to wait for the valuable goods to disappear.

In order to avoid this, the vast majority of drug dealers operating in the living hell have their own set of transport routes.

The same is true of this old drug dealer, who has joined forces with several other big business leaders to control most of the underground passages within the living hell area.

They don't go to the ground at all, but directly transport goods through underground passages, so that they can avoid being discovered by the gangs of the living hell and reduce the probability of being robbed.

During the Reform of Living Hell, most of the underground passages were destroyed by the foundation supports, but there were still a few that worked, and Colbert got his hands on the information, and then found the secret at the bottom of the well faster than Batman.

They were right, three of the five wells in the North Side had a secret room connected to the bottom of the well, and the rooms were also interconnected and led to a larger conference room.

When Colbert found out about this, he didn't rush in, but informed Batman.

Batman, who is more adept at sneaking in, touched the periphery of these rooms, and after investigation, he found that unlike the huge conference room he found before, there were traces of human activity here recently.

Batman thought that their prediction was really good, if the owls really operated here for decades, then they would never completely abandon Gotham's territory, even if they were urgently transferred due to some accidents, they would definitely leave guards in other strongholds.

After a few days of crouching, Batman discovers that the underground of the Living Hell seems to have become a new stronghold for the members of the Owl Court.

In line with the principle of exchanging information among members of the Gotham Secret Society, Batman, these situations were briefly told to Schiller, but Schiller came up with a very speechless, but potentially extremely effective plan as if he had been prepared.

As Schiller said, it's not hard to catch the tail of the owl court, or even to break into their stronghold, but if they don't succeed at the first time, then they will definitely slip away and hide deeper, and this game of hide and seek will be endless.

So there has to be a plan to force them out on their own initiative, so that they can show their bigger feet and create a chance to succeed.

The plan was this, and Schiller speculated that even if the Owl Court were hidden underground, they would have to rely on energy for lighting and communication.

So where does this energy come from?

Although it is not ruled out that they have their own independent energy facilities, according to Schiller's knowledge of the Owl Court, they are like tumors growing on normal tissue. The more likely approach they will take is to mix in their own people during the transformation of the Living Hell and then pull a line out of the energy system of the Living Hell to power themselves.

So Schiller asked Gordon to find the little slipper, and then asked Cobot to take the little slipper around the living hell twice.

Sure enough, Slicker soon discovers that a power line is in the wrong direction, and after chasing this line, Colbert finds the energy pipeline in the Owl Court stronghold.

In addition to the power supply, there are other pipes, and the above-ground parts are hidden and unguarded.

And Schiller's ultimate plan is to pour.

Connect the Living Hell Sewer Treatment Pipe to the Owl Court Energy Supply Pipe, and the entire Living Hell sewer system will be connected to the Owl Court pipes.

Needless to say, there is no place in Gotham that is more densely populated than the Living Hell region, where the ability to make is naturally top-notch.

"The excrement flooded their stronghold and turned it into a huge biogas digester."

Batman's tone was a little nervous, he said: "And judging from the situation at the scene, some people failed to run away in time at the moment of dumping......"

Batman was silent for a moment, as if to suppress the nausea brought by his imagination, and after that, Batman still said quite pertinently: "It's disgusting, but it works." ”

"As you said before, they have cultivated a lot of killers, and if I break in alone, I'm not sure I can beat them all."

"Even if I can beat them, if they hold me back and let the killer out, the inhabitants of the living hell will suffer."

"Living Hell is the most densely populated place in Gotham, and whatever the Owl Court does there, there will be a lot of casualties, so we have to force them out of there, although they are ...... But when they fled, they certainly didn't care about killing. ”

Schiller looked at Batman, the corners of his mouth still tilting downward, looking deep and serious.

Schiller thought that perhaps this was Batman's maverick among superheroes, and although he was still immune to individual heroism, he was willing to trade his own regression for tactical victory, rather than necessarily being greedy and showing his strength.

In the face of a despicable tactic, it is not to stand on the moral high ground to do its duty, but to analyze and judge rationally, perhaps this is the basic quality of a master tactician.