Chapter 1686: Bruce Wayne and the Philosopher's Stone (1)
After several years of municipal renovation, the situation of Gotham's underground dense ice flooding has been greatly improved, and most of the high-quality dense ice has been transformed into commercial cold storage, and one of the major features of the building materials of the cold storage is thermal insulation, which can ensure that all the cold air is condensed in the cold storage and will not leak out, so the overall temperature drop in Gotham City has improved.
Since Lex Luthor's Gotham Sun Project has made good progress, Gotham now gets an average of two hours of sun every day, usually once at ten o'clock in the morning and once at three o'clock in the afternoon.
And because the method of letting Gotham bask in the sun is relatively rough, through a large amount of energy to expand the angel aperture, the dark clouds gathered over Gotham are briefly swinged, so many operations are more times, many dark clouds are squeezed into the outer circle, and the thickness of the clouds and the speed of gathering are much slower than before.
As a result, Gotham gets at least three to four hours of direct sunlight a day, and as a direct consequence, Gotham is starting to have four distinct seasons like the metropolis.
In the past, Gotham was very cold and damp all year round due to its almost no direct sunlight and rain, which is closer to the climate of the Scottish Highlands if you have to compare it.
In Gotham's first summer after the sun returned, Gotham ushered in the true height of summer, with the highest temperatures breaking through the peak in two decades, and the average daily temperature finally reaching the average summer temperature in the East Coast city.
This is a Gotham who is no different from a vampire.
The cold mist that lingered on the corners and hair of the clothes in the past turned into rising hot steam, and when they sweated, they became one of the accomplices of the clothes clinging to the skin, and the residual heat left by the direct sunlight not only warmed up the roads and walls, but also made everyone seem to be wrapped in a blazing cocoon, no matter where they went, they could not escape the terrible stuffiness.
Gotham people who are not afraid of heaven and earth are also difficult to endure the hard summer, the only remaining air conditioning inventory in the city was sold out overnight, the air conditioning installation line is not in line, and their own homes are hot.
There are also ruthless people digging tunnels under their homes, sharing the side of the nearest cold storage, creating an all-natural summer room for themselves without paying electricity bills, and also taking advantage of their positions to ask the cold storage maintenance staff for a piece of dense ice whose structure has been destroyed and put it in the house, so that it can melt and absorb heat to cool themselves.
But no matter how many ways to escape the heat, most of them need to stay in a designated place, if you go out to the street, it must still be very hot, Gotham people who have never experienced this kind of climate, like wilted eggplants, have to stay at home, nothing to do.
It is extremely rare that the gangs of Gotham have stopped working almost overnight, and everyone has gone back to their own homes and found a way to cool off, after all, shooting each other passionately on the street, it is not a big problem to be shot twice, but it is really hot and heatstroke, and the Gotham hospital with no experience in dealing with it may not be able to rescue it.
In such a sunny summer, Gotham was surprisingly quiet, and as the saying goes, when humans leave, the wonders of thousands of species will naturally recover.
Before you know it, there is a faint chirping of insects in the steel forest, and the Gotham River begins to become more turbulent with the arrival of the flood season, and there are also traces of crabs and crustaceans in the sediment accumulated at the mouth of the sea.
After the adults have taken refuge in their homes to escape the heat, the city has become a world for children, teenagers never know whether it is hot or cold, and the world has the greatest fun, after the gangs are stopped, there is not so much work to do, and there is no bullet rain that may be encountered at any time, and children can be seen playing everywhere on the river beach and in the river.
In addition to the children, the local tourists are the happiest, for the people of Gotham the temperature is almost hot, but for others, Gotham is still a rare summer resort.
The gangsters are hiding and not showing their heads, many streets and alleys that were difficult to go to before, and more importantly, under the coordination of Mayor Roy, the beaches in Gotham's prime location have begun to open to tourists one after another.
It's hard for Gotham people to understand how anyone would go somewhere to bask in the sun, and the beaches of Gotham weren't used for sunbathing in the past.
Without strong daylight, going to the beach will only get a more damp and cold sea breeze and a not-so-pleasant smell of the sea, and even the gangster families who control these beaches only regard them as property to guard, and no one will go to the beach to blow the cold wind to find guilt.
But in the eyes of outsiders, this is simply a treasure of the golden coastline, except for the sandy beach is excellent, few people set foot on it, and the original ecological state brought by it is also satisfactory enough.
Because Gotham has a river estuary, the bay shape is more rugged than the metropolis, which is not suitable for swimming and fishing, but it has given rise to another more suitable sport: surfing.
For surfers, the bay environment and wind strength are a dream gem, and the strong sea breezes, disliked and disgusted by countless Gotham natives and gang bosses, have also strengthened many sailing masters.
Along the entire East Coast coastline, most of the cities that can touch the sea have all the beaches that have been exploited.
The perennial tourism and commercial activities inevitably make it crowded and annoying, and the vast majority of them are family groups with children, each person with a swimming ring floating around the sea, and these professional sports enthusiasts need less and less space to exercise, and Gotham is the last piece of pure land on the East Coast that they have unearthed in recent years.
Most of the people who dare to travel here are young people, and there are almost no tour groups with the elderly and children who come to Gotham to find it unpleasant, and the local cultural atmosphere where young people gather will be warmer and more inclusive, and all kinds of niche culture lovers will be more acceptable.
In addition to the authentic gangster rap, it soon became popular with street graffiti enthusiasts, surf-level marine extreme sports enthusiasts, sand and sand art enthusiasts, public space structure creator groups, and other niche cultural groups.
The gangsters who are about to be sunburned have withdrawn from the streets, and these special groups of niche enthusiasts can naturally take to the streets, and the cultural atmosphere they bring has gradually affected some local young people, and the probability of talented artists appearing in Gotham is very high, and gradually the street culture atmosphere of Gotham has begun to liven up.
Coupled with the economic growth brought about by the logistics industry, the cold chain transportation industry and all kinds of small stalls and vendors controlled by the gangsters, many people have a little spare money in their hands, and naturally they don't have to rush to make a living every day.
In addition to crime, the crazy little heads of the Gotham people who were soaked in rain did have some other whimsical ideas, but they could not be realized in the past due to the security environment and economic conditions, but now both are satisfied, and for a while, Gotham has appeared a lot of public works that shocked the world.
When Clark came to Gotham to shoot Batman, he took a few photos of the strange sculptures made by Gotham people and became popular again, many art media that paid attention to this aspect began to pay attention to Gotham.
Gotham is once again a small hit, and there are many niche art lover groups recommending it, this fire began to burn more and more, the so-called hot spots have traffic, many reporters, enthusiasts and Internet celebrities who are simply trying to rub the heat have begun to flock to Gotham under the banner of exploring the strange city.
But this has caused another problem, that is, there are already a lot of people in Gotham, a large number of tourists from other places have poured in, traffic and business are all overwhelmed, and with the increasing Internet celebrity effect, Gotham has started an unprecedented and terrible traffic jam.
In the past, the traffic jam in Gotham was due to the chaotic traffic rules and poor traffic enforcement, but this time it is really not the infrastructure and management that is not to blame, it is purely that the number of road traffic is completely beyond the limit of what the city's transportation facilities can bear.
Roy hurriedly gathered everyone for a meeting, including all the professors and teachers of Gotham University related to it, even the better students, the relevant practitioners of the Wayne Group, the gang leaders, and even the magicians who had just arrived in Gotham.
In short, Roy said that no matter who it is, as long as there is a way to solve the problem of the current traffic paralysis in Gotham, then the Gotham city government will fully cooperate.
But after discussion, there is only one result, and that is that Gotham's rotten public transportation like a piece of shit is fully responsible.
What is the concept of a megacity with a population of nearly 10 million people that has almost no bus lines at all? What is the concept of one of the largest modern cities on the East Coast with only two subway lines? These two lines were built by the Europeans.
Let's put it this in the environment in the Gotham subway station, the Joker takes the explosives and makes Batman choose to go to the boat instead of going to the subway that is supposed to be densely populated, and you can know that this place has reached the point where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles come and carry the train overnight, and the sewer mermaid comes and spit twice.
In order to continue to develop tourism, accommodate more people, and make the city more efficient for all walks of life to serve tourists, Gotham had to unite again to build efficient public transportation facilities for the city.
However, it is clear that far water cannot quench the thirst of the near, and if a city of this size wants to completely renovate its public transportation system, it may not be completed in ten or eight years.
If this problem is not solved quickly, the tourists and the gangsters will become opposites again, and the win-win situation that everyone has bothered to create will return to the original point, which Roy must not accept.
And if you want to solve this problem in a short and flat way, I am afraid that you will have to take some extraordinary measures, and Roy has set his sights on magical magic.
Or rather, it is mainly aimed at the mysterious green power that magicians want to use to build the earth's magical defense network.