Chapter 9: The Seeds of Madness
Dressed as a classic gentleman, Levi exited the asylum and beckoned to a taxi.
"Driver, go to Maroney's Bar."
The driver, a talkative black man, glanced at Levi in the rearview mirror and felt that he was quite kind, before grinning and showing a mouthful of large white teeth.
"Sir, you're also going there to see Kada Ash, right?"
"Oh? How do you know that Kada Ember is going there today? ”
Levi didn't want to gossip and the inspiration for art needed to be brewed, but the black driver's words managed to arouse Levi's interest.
He doesn't mind "interacting" with the audience before the show.
"Sir! As soon as I saw your news, I fell behind. The black driver's face showed a smug expression, "Now I don't just know, I'm afraid the whole of Gotham knows!" The Maroni family released the news that Maroney's Bar was open as usual today, and they were waiting for Kada Ember there. ”
Levi was dumbfounded, the Maroni family was so brave, it seemed that they didn't understand the fear that the name Kada Ember represented.
But don't worry, after today, everyone will know the meaning of the name Kada Ash!
Black drivers are talkative, even a bit talkative.
However, Levi listened to it with relish along the way, and through the words of the black driver, Levi also learned from another perspective how other people perceived the upcoming grand show and some things he didn't understand.
What makes Levi laugh is that most of the ordinary people actually see Kada Ember as Gotham Zoro, and only a small percentage can recognize the truth, Kada Ember is a murderer.
By all accounts, Kada Ember is not a good person.
Moreover, the Gotham Police Department actually deployed most of the police force around Maroni's Bar, waiting for Kada Ember to show up before arresting him!
The police department uses gangsters to arrest people......
How to say it, it's Gotham, it's magical!
Of course, none of this mattered to Levi, but it was another piece of news that made Levi's heart more and more excited.
In addition to the Maroni family, the Gotham Police Department and the melon-eating crowd, even Gotham's other underground overlords, the Farnecol family, arrived at the scene.
The TV station will also broadcast live coverage of tonight's Maroni family.
The scale of this show is absolutely unprecedented!
The area of influence could cover the entire Gotham City!
It's bigger than Levi imagined!
Definitely in line with Kada Ash's mission.
[Qatar Ash's obsession, put on a grand performance, and let Qatar Ash's name resound through Gotham.] 】
If that wasn't enough, Levi thought that perhaps the only way to do that was to go live and assassinate the president in the White House.
……
"I'm sorry, sir, I can only send you here, the front is completely blocked."
The black driver pointed to the street in front of him and said helplessly.
Maroni's Bar is set up near a plaza with a total of six paths leading to the plaza.
At this time, the street ahead was already blocked by countless vehicles, and most of the people got out of the car and walked inward.
Seeing this, Levi did not embarrass the black driver, paid him the fare, and returned fifty dollars as a tip by the way.
"What a good man you are, sir!"
The black driver's head poked out of the window and shouted at his back.
Levi laughed when he heard this.
Good?
If he knew he was the same person as Kada Ash, I don't know if he would have thought so.
The fare was also scavenged from his office yesterday after he massacred Scott's psychiatric hospital in the form of Kada Ash.
Good people don't live long, and disasters last for thousands of years, and in Gotham, this sentence is even more true.
Levi would rather be a scourge.
……
Walking all the way down from the taxi, Levi seemed to dream back to the scene of the Spring Festival in his previous life.
It seems that the whole Gotham people are coming, and it is difficult to move an inch, and it is completely hard to squeeze in!
Of course, pickpockets are also indispensable for this kind of specialty in the crowd, and in just a while, Levi saw no less than ten.
Faced with the threatening gaze of those pickpockets, Levi just smiled, and Quan Dang didn't see it.
These people are spectators, and they can't be killed.
There were still many people in the crowd wearing costumes similar to Ember, and although their imitations were particularly clumsy, and the costumes were completely shoddy, Levi was still amazed by the Gotham's mental state.
Sure enough, opening a mental hospital in Gotham is serious business.
With the crowd, we finally walked to the Maroney family's bar.
The Maroni family's bar was overcrowded at this time, perhaps because the Maroni family, in order to show their strength and confidence, not only opened during the day, but also allowed people to visit at will.
It was right in the arms of Levi.
Under the watchful eye of the bar's security guards, Levi, like the rest of the citizens of Gotham, casually walked around the bar and left.
Seemingly unusual, Levi had already planted invisible flowers all over the windows of the bar.
Just wait for the evening show to start, and an unlucky ghost steps on it, which will cause a chain reaction.
It must have been a beautiful start!
……
Time flies and night falls.
Soon, it was getting dark.
The huge foot traffic near Maroney's Bar has attracted a lot of merchants, most of whom sell food and some knick-knacks, forming an alternative night market.
However, Levi also saw a familiar plaque in it.
Wayne Group!
The goods on the stalls are not food and knick-knacks, but arms and weapons!
It seems that it should be a certain military industrial enterprise under the Wayne Group.
The appearance of the arms shop here at this juncture is very likely to cause more casualties!
Gordon and Harvey, who had been stationed at the scene, had also come to check, but unfortunately, the Wayne Group's documents were readily available and completely legal, and Gordon and Harvey had no way to take them, and they couldn't even find any reason to drive them away.
In the end, the two had no choice but to take the police officers from the police station back to the vicinity of Maroni's Bar, which was the focus of tonight's defense.
But Levi, who was hanging out, noticed another person besides Gordon and Harvey.
Edward Nigma!
The future Riddler, currently a technical advisor to the Gotham Police Department's Forensic Weapons Section.
He stood in the crowd and looked thoughtfully at the Wayne Group's arms booth for a long time.
No one knew what he was thinking.
……
It's getting closer and closer to the death notice left behind by Kada Ash.
Most of the ordinary Gotham citizens are still in a state of eating melons, but the group of "fanatics" dressed in imitation Ember costumes spontaneously gathered and marched on a large scale in the square.
The atmosphere is getting higher and higher.
The "fanatical fans" blushed and looked excited.
I'm afraid that just waiting for an opportunity, when Kada Ember appears, it will completely blow up the audience.
But on the other side, the Maroni family and the police were staring intently at the watch in their hands.
Gordon wanted to catch Ember before it could cause more chaos and destruction, and this time he applied for police support, which was completely due to his repeated requests, and the police superintendent couldn't stand his soft grinding bubbles before agreeing to his request for support.
If he fails this time, I am afraid that in a short period of time, the only people he can use are himself and his partner Xavi.
In Maroni's Bar, although the Maroni family refused the police to enter the bar, the gang members were also fully armed and ready, just waiting for Kada Ember to show up and give him a good look.
Not only did they hold a variety of light and heavy weapons in their hands, but they also wore body armor and bulletproof helmets.
"Tick, tick, tick......"
The sound of the second hand turning was clearly audible in the bar, and it tugged at the hearts of the gang members.
Countdown......
Five-second ......
Four seconds......
Three-second ......
Seeing that the death notice was about to be missed, there was still nothing happening in the bar, and all the gang members breathed a sigh of relief.
The Maroney family second-in-command laughed and stood up, walked to the door of the bar, and shouted at the police and the crowd outside the bar.
"Kada Ash, what a bullshit riddle, what a bullshit death notice, hahahaha, we're waiting for you here, didn't you come yet......"
Before the words fell, an undetectable purple light suddenly shot from afar in the night sky.
"Bang!"
With a slight muffled thud, a large hole appeared in his chest, and the second-in-command fell to the ground in response, and burst into a flesh flower in front of everyone's eyes!
At this point, the second, minute, and hour hands coincide just together!
This scene made the entire square quiet for an instant, and the needle drop could be heard, and only countless swallowing saliva could be heard.
In the next second, countless voices erupted from the square!
"Oh roar! Kada Ash! Kada Ash! "It's the cheers of the fanatical fans.
"Alert! Alert! Sniper, find out where he is! This is Gordon's roar.
"Ahh It's the screams of the citizens of Gotham. ”
"Kada Ember actually appeared......" was broadcast by a reporter from the live TV station.
……
In the crowd, a down-and-out teenager named Jerome looked at the gorgeous flesh flower in front of the bar in a daze, and muttered to himself, "This feels great......
A seed called madness quietly took root in his heart.
For these, Levi did not care, now he only has art in his eyes!
Art must be perfect!
He was standing on the top of a tall building in the distance, dressed in a costume and a pale mask, with one foot on the edge of the rooftop, and an exaggerated sniper rifle aimed at Maroney's Bar.
"Our show is on, let's get started......"
"It will start with a perfect curtain call, and it will be a show like no other......"