"First of all, I'll tell you that, as you guessed, your stronghold is now completely sealed, like a can."

"And the oxygen in the cans is limited, how many of you are now? Well? I guess there are at least 20 of them, right? ”

"At this amount, the oxygen in the can will only allow you to survive for a maximum of three hours."

"You thought you were hiding this stronghold, but we've found it a long time ago."

"As you guessed, it was a premeditated trap, and now, I'm going to play a game with you."

"An oxygen pipe is leading to this can, but the mouth of the oxygen tube is hidden in the wall, you have to dig the wall yourself to find the pipe, otherwise after three hours, all the oxygen will be gone."

"Owls need to breathe, too, right?"

The woman's fingers in the bird-shaped mask began to tremble a little, but the sound on the radio did not stop, and everyone heard him say: "Do not imagine that there will be your companions or the killers you have cultivated to save you, judging by the thickness and hardness of the ice around you, no one or even a machine will be able to dig into you in three hours." ”

The voice on the tape recorder began to become muffled, echoing through the conference room, darker and more terrifying than the nursery rhymes spread by the Owl Court.

"Once upon a time, you stood on top of the tall buildings of Gotham City, looking down on the living beings, looking at the suffering people, digging for food in the land to fill their stomachs."

"Later, you hid underground, looking up at the scarred feet of countless pairs of mortals, hurrying to survive."

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"And now, you will experience what it is like to have a chance to survive with your hands."

They heard that the voice in the tape recorder began to soften, even a little gentle, like a dream: "...... Dig in, my little birds, and cut off your fingers for a glimpse of the most mundane and contemptuous air. ”

"Or, with your deaths...... Sacrifice for the resurrection of Gotham. ”

After the voice fell, someone in the conference room finally couldn't help it, a man in a mask trembled and threw the tape recorder out and fell to the ground, and the rest of the people watched his crazy actions and fell silent.

“…… Are we really going to dig? The female voice's voice trembled a little, and she said, "There are no tools here, how are we going to dig through these walls......"

"We're already trapped, and if we don't dig we're going to suffocate!"

"But what if he lied to us?" An old voice said.

"But if we wait here, we will die! It's an elaborate trap and they won't let us go! ”

"Do you want me to use my fingers to dig those wall tiles?!" The other man shouted, and then, standing up, waving his somewhat fat arm, said, "I'm one of the thirteen juries!" And it's the oldest one with the qualification! My family too, you all dig for me! I command you! ”

The others stood up one after another and retorted what he said, and someone said, "My family is the richest now, and you should dig it!" ”

Some people also said, "It should be the strong ones who dig it!" ”

"Why do you want me to go?"

"It's all your fault! You should go! ”

"You are ...... too"

In the middle of the argument, suddenly, silence enveloped for a few seconds.

Apparently, some of them had thought of a way to survive more easily than digging up a wall.

In the office of the Gotham Police Department, everyone was silent, Gordon shivered, he looked at Schiller and said, "I don't think the problem of the Owl Court is probably not too serious, but the serious one is ......"

"You can't have really planned it, do you?" Victor also turned to look at Schiller.

Schiller rolled his eyes and said, "Who knows where their hidden strongholds are hidden?" How could I go to such great lengths to lay an oxygen pipeline for them? ”

"Okay, let's not mention this, the rest is bargaining, Detective Gordon, I remember you said before that there are a few gang bosses who are particularly difficult to deal with and like to negotiate terms with the police?"

"Don't mention it." Gordon rubbed his temples and said, "I get a headache when I think of them." ”

"Okay, it's up to them, let them take turns to quarrel with the owl court, tell them that in the end, the compensation will be 5 points for them."

"Shhh......hh ”

Then Gordon slurred his lips and said, "I always thought you were premeditated. ”

"Do you want to hear me tell a fairy tale?" Schiller smiled and blinked.

"It was a flock of birds with golden feathers, and the poor birds fell into the hands of the hunters because of their carelessness, and they begged the hunter's forgiveness, and were willing to pluck their precious feathers in exchange for the hunters to spare them......"

Schiller suddenly changed the subject and said, "What are you going to eat for Easter?" ”

He asked himself and replied, "I'm going to eat roast chicken anyway." ”

The night passed, and the next morning, the news of the massive terrorist attack on Gotham made the front pages of major newspapers.

Mayor Roy burst into tears at a news conference, denouncing the terrorists for their casualties and accusing the federal government of failing in its security obligations, calling Gotham an "abandoned city."

Collapsed buildings, broken streets, flooded shops, and frozen cars, as images of the aftermath of the disaster flowed out, the Owl Court became a cruel terrorist that everyone spurned.

All kinds of confusing news reports emerged one after another, and the casualty figures began to become more and more exaggerated, from the first tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and in the end, more than half of the citizens of Gotham were either killed or injured.

Strangely, however, fundraisers began faster than disaster relief efforts, with major newspapers running through fundraisers, and Gotham hosting dozens of charity dinners in the week leading up to Easter.

On a cold weekend morning, the reports on the desk in the city office tossed with the breeze outside the window.

The thin paper kept turning page by page, the numbers kept growing, and finally, a stamp "clicked" on it, and Roy raised his hand, handed the report to his subordinates, and said, "Happy Easter." ”

As his voice fell, the branches outside the window began to grow, and patches of tender green sprouts stretched out from the branches, and the largest reconstruction in Gotham's history began.

In the past, the renovation of Gotham was basically where there was something wrong, there was a warehouse to build a vacant land, and a station to open there was vacant land, which gave Gotham professors who studied urban planning a headache, this kind of reconstruction method of patching up the seams was actually the most effective method, but at that time, there was no other way.

But this time it was different, due to a wave of flooding and a wave of freezing, the volume of water turned into ice caused by the expansion of the volume, and the ice broke most of the earth's surface, and it was completely unpavable without repairs.

Even if you don't want your own territory to be renovated, you can't help it, the road has been destroyed to the extent that you can't even walk the road, and if you don't participate in the transformation, then you can only stay at home and wait for starvation.

It's come to this, it's all bad, and if you want to continue living, you still have to repair.

Overnight, the unemployment rate in Gotham was almost zero, as there was a need for manpower everywhere, rebuilding sewers, repairing roads and collapsed houses, and building new logistics facilities according to new plans......

This may sound unreasonable, as there is no output in a short period of time, but the organizers have to pay a lot of labor costs, which requires an astronomical amount of upfront investment.

But thanks to the bald Owl Court, the hapless bastards who were locked up in this big dog syndicate tearfully plucked all their feathers in order to survive, providing ample funds for the Gotham is reconstruction plan, even if it can't make a profit in the short term, they can still hold on.

With the money in place, the people in place, the rebuilding plan will go very smoothly, and the benefits of the underground ice will be more than one.

Gotham is an east coast city with a humid monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, that is, cold winters and hot summers.

In the past, in April, the temperature has risen significantly, and the summer has begun to be hot, but the huge underground ice has changed the climate in some areas, causing the average temperature in Gotham to drop by more than 10 degrees, and then return to the temperature of early winter.

The citizens of Gotham City are not accustomed to this climate, and there is a high incidence of colds these days.

But some people are looking for a place to escape the heat.

The East Coast isn't all Gotham, it's hot, and by April, it's already summer, so people have to go further north to escape the heat, and now Gotham is the closest city to a city with a low temperature.

Of course, they didn't dare to travel to Gotham, but Gotham's climate change also affected the surrounding areas, such as Bloomhaven, and for a while, Bloomhaven's tourism boomed.

Brughhaven was about to be knocked out by a pie falling from the sky.

It's actually just a small city, because it's too close to Gotham, there are no outsiders, so the degree of development is relatively low, and it has a lot of natural rural scenery, and it's not like Gotham, which is cloudy and rainy every day.

Since the change of climate in Gotham, Bloomhaven has been sunny during the day and cool in the morning and evening, making people feel more comfortable, attracting many tourists from surrounding cities.

Since Bloomhaven was so close to Gotham, a lot of news about Gotham reached here as soon as it came.

But these tourists don't see a terrifying city full of murders or daily bloodshed, and all the news that circulates from Gotham can be summed up in two big words - lack of people.

As mentioned before, although there are many local residents in Gotham, the idle time is too long, and the work efficiency is too low, even if it is fully employed, it is still not enough to rebuild such a large city.

Although Gotham is a megacity, there are not too many migrant workers, and in this era of comprehensive infrastructure upgrades, the lack of labor has become the biggest obstacle to efficiency.

As the saying goes, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and there are always a few people who are not afraid of death, and there are really a few people who dare to risk their lives to come to Gotham to work.

In fact, they are not exactly curious, but because the price of the gangsters here is too high, anyway, they are all hairs from the owls, and they don't feel distressed to use, and the wages offered by the gangsters are getting higher and higher, and they are still daily, so people can't help but be moved.

When outsiders came to Gotham, they found that this city was different from what they imagined, before, they thought that this should be a city with daily shootouts and zero-dollar purchases, but after coming here, they found that Gotham was orderly.

Compared to other regions, Gotham is indeed very strange, and the maintainers of order here are gangsters, who are tough, violent, have a lot of ideas, and are crazy, but the order of violence is still order.

When the city enters a frenzy of making a big cake together, many of the shortcomings of the violent order are obscured, leaving behind surprising advantages, such as efficiency and stability.

It sounds ridiculous to use the adjective "stable" in such a city, but it is true, and outsiders have found that the order built by the gangs is actually very stable, at least when money is abundant and everyone has jobs.

There is no shortage of outlaws in this world who fight for money, and the news that Gotham has money to make quickly spread, and many such people began to hear the wind and want to try their luck in Gotham.

The influx of outsiders began to bring the situation inside Gotham into the spotlight and discussion, and the mystery of Sin City was gradually revealed, and the city began to appear in major media and newspapers.

Many people think it's a blood-drinking wilderness, some think it's a crime capital where crime breeds, but many more, what they see from these reports of Gotham is a chaotic but wealthy megacity.

Gang bosses drive luxury cars, smoke cigars, and drop stacks of bills from the rooftops of buildings, rock singers sing heavy metal in the rain of money, and behind them are all kinds of chaotic and colorful graffiti, neon lights reflect the endless traffic on the road, and the crowd screams frantically on the roadside......

Like Schiller, people began to realize that this was not only the capital of crime, but also the capital of genius, the city of sin and the city of art.

There has never been a city in the world that has the absurd and bizarre beauty of Gotham, the soil of performance art, the paradise of the incomprehensible madman.

There are even many people who find empathy in this temperament, who begin to try to deconstruct the origin and status quo of such a unique city, and then become infected by the overflowing madness here, and become the spiritual inhabitants of the sin capital.

Artists worship madness, intellectuals shout freedom, foolish people live absurdly, smart people make money, and the chaos of Gotham breeds countless very different souls, and there has never been a place where people are so different.

When this temperament began to be gradually recognized, the image of Gotham also changed from the previous evil capital where human nature had fallen to the root of evil with a hint of divinity and mystery.

It's hard to say that this is a good change, but at least it has changed.

This change in the image of the outside world has also brought other changes, such as the phone number of Gotham University's admissions office has started ringing non-stop, and some young people who are looking for rebellion and curiosity have begun to include Gotham University in their list of schools to apply to.

But the teachers at Gotham University didn't have much time to answer questions, and the frozen Gotham certainly also affected the teaching facilities of Gotham University, mainly because of the cracking of the road surface, which was a headache.

Due to the large cracks in the school square and playground, students could not move, the teaching building became a dangerous building overnight due to the damage of the foundation, and no one dared to go, teaching activities were temporarily suspended, and no one else could be freed up to help, so teachers and students had to do it themselves.

The original pre-Easter event schedule was almost all canceled, the restaurant building collapsed a corner, not to mention the organization of any dinner, everyone seemed to have forgotten Easter, and everyone was concentrating on rebuilding the campus.

Schiller led a few students through the corridor to the door of the large classroom, and when he pushed the door open, the students saw that it was him and hurriedly shouted, "Professor! Over here! We can't hold him anymore! ”

Schiller walked over, and several students pressed against a boy who was frantically struggling, waving his arms and shouting, foaming at the mouth and twitching like a psychotic episode.

Schiller said: "Subdue him first, then carry him to the car and take him to the hospital." ”

After Schiller followed the car to the Arkham Mental Hospital, before he could go to the hospital, another phone call came, and Victor said there: "There is another person in Building 2 in the dormitory area, it seems to be a sophomore girl, what is going on?" ”

"It may be the sequelae of the rain, I have to do a detailed examination, and if there are any more cases, you will be sent directly to the hospital."

After Schiller hung up the phone, he went to the boy's hospital room, through the observation window, he saw the boy hiding on the side of the bed with a frightened face, and kept shouting meaningless syllables, Schiller shook his head and whispered: "There is something wrong with this symptom......

He called Victor and said, "Have these students been exposed to anything lately?" ”

"You didn't say it was raining......"

"This symptom is not the same as rain, although they both have symptoms of convulsions and hyperactivity, but there are some differences in details."

"What ...... have you been exposed to?" Victor on the other side said in a puzzled tone, "Let me help you ask, these two students are not in the same class...... Oh! Wait a minute! What did you say? Damn it...... Another person is sick! Where is he? Take me there......"

Then Vic ran into the other end of the phone and said, "Another student is sick, and when I find common ground, I'll tell you......"