Chapter 1677: No Time to Die (40)
"Batman!!! Gurgling ......"
A scream accompanied by the sound of suffocating breath before choking to death resounded over the upper part of Gotham, and Batman, who had been taken to the roof by The Flash, sighed silently in his heart.
If you want to ask Batman which of Robin knows best, some people may think that it is Nightwing who has followed him the longest, and some people may say that it is the Red Robin who is most like him, but Batman himself thinks it is Damian, in addition to Damian's blood flowing on his body, Damian's logic from the Assassin League is better understood than the psychology of teenagers with jumping minds.
Batman knows Tulya, and he naturally knows Damian, because Damian is more like his mother than Batman, and when it comes to what kind of person Talia is, Batman has to recall his past with Talia.
This memory is not a good old day, but Talia did make a deep impression on Batman, she is a decisive, paranoid and even somewhat vicious woman, but I have to admit that she is bold enough and open-minded enough.
The last point sounds simple, but Batman knows that the vast majority of people in this world feel that they are open-minded until the desperate situation comes, but in reality they can't, but Talia can do it, and so can Damian, and this time Damian is a little too good.
Batman never dreamed that the most extreme revenge taken by the demon boy from the most extreme elite educational environment after finding the owl's traces would be.
But this time Batman's understanding is slightly off, because he has not seen Schiller's methods of dealing with owls at the beginning, and it can be said that the ending of the two cosmic owl is the same, but there are slight differences in the process.
When the owl established a base under the living hell, Schiller and Copote directly connected the sewage pipe of the living hell to the top of the owl's head, which was a very pure dumping strategy, and the purpose was only to disgust the owl.
But Damian's dumping this time was different.
At the beginning, the pipeline that Schiller connected was just a pipe for emitting domestic pollutants from living hell, in addition to excrement, that is, some kitchen waste, although disgusting, but not non-degradable, it was more of a mental attack, and there was no pharmacological toxicity.
But the sewage discharged by Damien this time comes from the largest septic tank in Gotham, and the sewage in the septic tank is not only domestic sewage, but also sewage from the chemical industry, smelting industry, and energy industry.
It's hard to say whether the submerged owl was drowned or poisoned, but it's clear that the expensive pre-water purifier in the Uptown residential area can only deal with the pollution of ordinary tap water, not the industrial-grade wastewater, which seeps into the ground and can pollute not only drinking water, but also air through transpiration.
The rest of the Owl Court members who came to the scene to check on the situation naturally judged this from the situation at the scene, they all came from the extended family of Gotham and were part of the masterminds, so they immediately realized that the wealthy district of Uptown might experience a round of water and air pollution due to this illegal sewage discharge.
There is no one in this world who is more desperate than the rich, they are not even willing to accept the residual pesticides that can be washed off on the fruits and vegetables, and let them breathe the air with industrial pollutants, doesn't it cost them their lives?
All of a sudden, the wealthy people in Shangcheng who got the news began to move to their homes, and they fled with their bags and small bags, but when their luggage was packed, they suddenly realized that where else could they escape?
Now that the war in Gotham continues, the Midtown is in shambles, and the Uptown has fallen to more than half of it because of the continuous extension of the battle front, do they want to go and squeeze in the Lower City with those filthy poor ghosts?
In the end, a group of pampered and hypocritical local tycoons decided to leave the rotten city altogether and fly out of Gotham.
But there are also some madmen who are too deeply tied to the city to get out at all, or whose minds have merged with the darkness of the city and are not afraid of death, decide to stay.
Of course, they are not looking for death when they stay, they must choose one of the thousands of not so good roads to go on.
For the sake of today, it is impossible to stay in Uptown and eat pollution, so it is better to move directly to the territory you have laid in Midtown, and then borrow manpower there to protect your own safety.
In this way, the generals who were originally remotely commanded by remote control finally came to the front line of the operation.
And this time, they no longer have the ability to watch from the top of the wall, and take heaven and earth as their sons, because their ability to command battles and arrange defenses will truly determine their life and death.
When they sit in the office of a luxury villa in Uptown and command remotely through the phone, it is like sitting in front of a screen playing a game, and no matter how many people die in the computer, they will not be able to endanger themselves in reality.
But this time they sat in the family station, just like they were fighting with guns in reality, and if they couldn't aim in the game, at most they would lose the game, and if they couldn't aim in reality, they would really die.
Many people should have heard of a word, called "forced mistakes", simply put, it is difficult for people to exert all their wisdom in the face of great pressure, because the interference brought by pressure is real, and people who are not strong in pressure are more likely to make some low-level mistakes in a high-pressure environment.
Some people hide behind the screen and type on the keyboard as if Zhuge is alive, but if you ask them to give a speech in an auditorium with hundreds of people, they may be speechless, and the leaders of many Gotham families are in this situation right now.
When you can't endanger yourself, you will naturally make decisions more decisively, but now that a defense task has not been arranged, a group of crazy people will rush in and shoot you into a sieve.
The wealthy family moved their families, and everyone was busy for a while, and those families who could not settle down for a long time and could not play the original organizational level after settling down were immediately devoured and completely withdrawn from the historical stage.
In this way, a group of weak-willed people were eliminated first, and then a group of weak organizational skills were eliminated, and the remaining families did not talk about individual talents, but also on the basic level.
What's more, the family that can persist until today and will not leave must have great courage to seek wealth and danger, after all, no one has put a cover on Gotham and is not allowed to enter and exit, and those who don't have the courage have already taken a plane and run away, and no one who can stay is a briquette, one or two are briquettes, not only black, but also eight hundred hearts and eyes all over the body.
So, what happened to the Wayne family?
Of course, it is impossible for the Wayne family to leave Gotham, and Bruce is actually sure that the water and air in Wayne Manor will be cleaned, but as soon as his old butler Alfred heard that this place may be polluted, he packed his luggage overnight and left.
Recently, Bruce was reluctant to touch his moldy head, because Robin, who had doubled his life, came home to see him some time ago, which made him happy for a while, but Bruce failed to keep this group of children, which disappointed Alfred for a long time, and he regarded it as his old butler, and Bruce also moved out of Wayne Manor with his will.
Batman has actually been involved in this fight as Bruce Wayne, but he didn't show it too prominently, just taking a small piece of territory in Midtown.
The land he owns is in a prime location in Midtown, where several streets are owned by the Wayne family, and it's not uncommon for Bruce Wayne to focus on defending it.
After the initial chaos, the war entered a period of dividends, with a lot of territory and wealth waiting to be divided in the upper city, and everyone began to attack the city like hungry wolves who had been hungry for a few days, and even had no time to attack each other.
The Wayne family, under the leadership of Batman, naturally pretended to take back their original manor and included it in their sphere of influence, but in fact, Bruce had no interest in the current childish situation of a child grabbing a cake, and he just waited for Robin to make the next move.
It stands to reason that Batman wouldn't let Robin mess around like this in his city, but after experiencing the emptiness of Robins running away from home and not returning home at night, Batman found out that Robin really had something to do, rather than simply wanting to stay away from him, and there was a strange sense of relaxation, similar to "I knew he still loved me".
This emotion greatly affected Batman's hopeless desire to control, and although the desire for control would prevail in the end, at least for a short time, Batman's attention would be more focused on the content of what Robin was doing than the nature of what they were doing.
It turns out that everyone has the attribute of a happy person, or the innate curiosity and desire to explore makes everyone unconsciously curious about the subsequent development of something bizarre, and Batman is no exception.
Now that Batman thinks he understands Robin's train of thought, then according to this line of thought, Batman has an idea of which move Robin will make.
Wars can't go on forever, as the saying goes, all wars are for the interests of the negotiating table, and when the territory of Uptown is also carved up, and everyone wants more, they have to sit at the negotiating table, which will be another big reshuffle of Gotham's power.
Batman doesn't think that Robins will miss the opportunity to redivide Gotham at the negotiating table by doing so much, or that the purpose of all this is the last hammer.
So, what are they going to do to make this hammer go so far as to reunite the originally divided Gotham family and become a new community of interests and strata to achieve their planned goal of returning Gotham to the era of gangster order?
What is a chain for a dog? And who is the owner of the dog?
With such doubts, Batman came to the residence of the Neville family, and in essence, he did not want to watch his child go wrong at the last key point, since he had come here, he should naturally draw a perfect end.
The pitch-black bat wings swept through the air, and Batman silently landed on the balcony on the seventh floor of the family station, but at this time he heard movement from downstairs, so he jumped to the balcony of the bedroom downstairs.
When the wind blew the curtains and allowed Batman to peek into the corner of his bedroom, he froze in place like a statue.
Because standing in the bedroom are Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne - his, Bruce Wayne's, Batman's biological parents.
(End of chapter)