Everything is ready to go.

Now it's time for the Gotham Police Department to send Edward and Barbara over.

As for the Barnes director's proposal to come with Gordon, Levi naturally knew it.

But he didn't care, the new police chief, like Gordon, in the absence of evidence, suspicion is just suspicion.

However, in Levi's mind, this Barnes director is also a designated hero template carrier.

For the rest of the day, the whole of Gotham City was very calm and nothing unexpected.

Of course, the search for Jerome's bomb has also not made the slightest progress.

Gotham City is immersed in an atmosphere of calm and fear.

And in the Gotham Police Department, as time went on, the Barnes chief became more and more irritable.

But his irritability was nothing more than an impotent rage.

Now various companies, enterprises, and forces in Gotham have received a notice from the police station and have begun to use their own personnel to investigate.

Nowadays, there are not enough police officers in the police department, and they can only rely on themselves.

Even the gangsters in the Gotham underworld began to use their younger brothers to investigate on their own territory.

Although they are not in the same camp as the Gotham Police Department, like Jerome, Jerome is a chaotic camp, and he will not give these gangsters any special treatment!

However, it is obvious that the special bomb made by Ian may not be recognizable even if the police officers see it with their own eyes, let alone these ordinary people!

And just like that, the night passed.

There was still no clue about the bomb Jerome had planted.

As time continued to move forward little by little, the hearts of the entire Gotham City were raised, and even the news that the Riddler had been arrested published in the newspapers and news did not attract too many people's attention.

No one knows where the explosion will take place.

Even, some Gotham citizens with weak psychological tolerance gradually walked out of their own buildings, trying to dodge the explosion that could happen at any time.

In the midst of this atmosphere, the time quickly came to the time of Jerome broadcasting live on Gotham TV yesterday.

Everyone's hearts were in their throats, praying that the explosion wouldn't happen to them.

No, it should be everyone else except for the people in the Gotham media industry.

The reporters of these media in Gotham are all ready to go at this time, waiting to rush to the scene as soon as the explosion occurs and make a news report!

Yesterday, Jerome's live broadcast on Gotham TV boosted the ratings of Gotham TV and made them very angry.

For this industry, ratings are all about money and status!

As for their behavior, is it eating human blood steamed buns, or is it damaging to conscience......

Who cares?

If your conscience is gone, you can earn more.

If the news material is gone, the money is really gone! If you don't do it, you'll lose your job!

"Boom!"

This was accompanied by an explosion in the industrial area.

Except for the location of the explosion, the citizens of Gotham breathed a sigh of relief.

And with that came their sympathy for the unfortunate and their condemnation of Jerome.

It's ironic, obviously they were just praying that the explosion wouldn't happen to their side.

And those media reporters started the car at the first moment and galloped towards the industrial area where the explosion occurred!

They need to collect news material as soon as possible!

At the same time, in addition to these media reporters, there were also police officers from the Gotham Police Station who rushed to the industrial zone.

Even Director Barnes personally rushed to the scene of the explosion.

The explosion occurred inside a chemical plant in the industrial zone.

This chemical plant is subordinate to:

Part of the Wayne Group.

When reporters from the media and officers from the Gotham Police Department arrived, smoke billowed from the scene and there was a wail.

The explosion not only destroyed the chemical plant, but also caused the chemical agent to leak from the chemical plant.

Explosions and chemical spills, causing huge casualties.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Director Barnes's brows furrowed into a Sichuan character.

Because Jerome has always shown an attitude towards the Wayne family, the companies under the Wayne Group are naturally the focus of the investigation.

However, because the Wayne Group is so large, the police department is understaffed.

So yesterday, he personally called the headquarters of Wayne Group and asked them to send someone to investigate his company.

Naturally, this chemical plant is also on the list of investigations.

But why is there an explosion here and here? Didn't the other party investigate? Or didn't you check it carefully?

Although Director Barnes was dissatisfied, he also knew that now was not the time to hold the other party accountable.

Chief Barnes looked at the chaos at the scene and immediately began to direct his officers to carry out the rescue.

At the same time as the Gotham Police Department officers rescued, the media reporters who rushed to the scene were not idle, and started the live broadcast one after another, even if there was no live broadcast, the long guns and short cannons in their hands also began to collect news materials that could attract attention at the scene.

Director Barnes wasn't very interested in these reporters, but now he doesn't care about them.

caused by an explosion at a chemical plant. The casualties were far greater than he imagined, and the leaked chemical reagents were very likely to spread along the underground water system to other places!

As long as they don't mess around, thank goodness!

Barnes was a little puzzled, he had already conveyed very clearly to the Wayne Group on the phone yesterday that the explosion could happen anywhere in Gotham City tomorrow, and even after careful investigation, the number of people in those dangerous locations would be temporarily reduced.

It's a big deal to take a day off!

However, the number of casualties at the chemical plant site is not like a holiday, as if it is still in full production......

And Levi naturally watched the whole process of the whole thing.

In response to Barnes' doubts, Levi can only say that he has not fully integrated into Gotham.

Anything that happens in the city of Gotham can be speculated with the utmost malice.

Barnes's guess yesterday was actually quite right, and his strategy of informing the Wayne Group to investigate its subsidiaries was also quite right.

Barnes does know a lot about explosions and crime, but he doesn't know Gotham.

After receiving a call from Barnes yesterday, the executives of the Wayne Group naturally informed all the companies under its umbrella.

Naturally, this chemical plant also arranged for people to conduct investigations.

However, the staff in charge of the investigation was lucky, believing that the other party would not have planted the bomb in the chemical plant, and that it was better to go to sleep if there was a careful investigation.

So after just going around the chemical plant, I did it hastily.

If that's all there is to it, that's all, but the management of Van Wayne Group would not have caused so many casualties by giving these companies a day off in advance in consideration of possible safety incidents.

After receiving reports on the "investigation results" of many of its companies, the senior management of Wayne Group, after discussion, gave an order to continue production as usual.

For them, the people under their hands have already checked, and although there is no complete guarantee that there will be no problems, at least the probability of problems will be smaller.

And it has been carefully calculated by actuary.

If all these companies were to shut down and take a holiday, the loss of profits would be greater, even greater than the loss caused by an explosion in one of the companies.

And even if there is an explosion, it is only an explosion of one of its companies, and the damage caused by the explosion of this company, including casualties, is still in full production

The profits created by the division on this day add up to more than cover these losses!

On the one hand, there is a sure loss, and on the other hand, there is a possible loss, but it can be made up for in other ways.

Capital never sleeps.

Human life, like other property, can be represented by a price.

The Wayne Group has made their choice.

As for if there was really an explosion, Wayne Group would naturally have made a corresponding plan a long time ago.

In the aftermath of the explosion, the board of directors of Wayne Group quickly sent a public relations executive to the chemical plant.

He was not only at the site of the chemical plant, but also actively led people to rescue.

The executive also made promises to the injured employees and their families under the cameras of media reporters.

Wayne Group will be responsible for this safety incident, and if an employee is unfortunately killed in this safety incident, Wayne Group will compensate them a large amount of money.

In the event of injury or disability, there is also a compensation policy.

Of course, the promise of compensation made by this public relations executive is all within the plan of Wayne Group, and all the amount of compensation and loss can be covered by the profit of full production.

When profits outweigh losses, the balance of capital is as simple as that.

The words of the public relations executive of Wayne Group not only earned enough eyeballs under the cameras of these media reporters, but even gave a wave of impression points to Wayne Group in the hearts of the families of those injured and injured employees!

It was Director Barnes, who watched coldly as the public relations executive put on a frantic show in front of the camera.

He was now very eager to go up and take the other man's collar and ask him - instead of compensating for these casualties here, why not stop working and take a day off?

If, as he said, he had stopped work for a day off, there would have been no such big casualties at all!

It's a pity that he is only the chief of the police department, and these security incidents are not under his jurisdiction, and, if it is really investigated, the entire Gotham belongs to his jurisdiction, and within his jurisdiction, no matter what the reason, a bomb attack is his dereliction of duty.

Thinking of this, Barnes could only force himself to calm down and look coldly at the executive of the public relations department of Wayne Group.

Moreover, he also knew in his heart that the chemical plant was still producing at full capacity, and it was not a decision that the public relations executive could make, and it would be useless to vent his anger on him.

Soon, with the full support of the Gotham Police Department and some Wayne Group employees, the rescue operation came to an end.

It's not because the power of the explosion at the chemical plant is too low, but because the explosion at the chemical plant is too powerful.

If there was still room for life, most of the casualties ran out of the rubble of the chemical plant on their own.

And those trapped in the rubble, even if they were not killed on the spot by the explosion, died of poisoning by the leaking chemical agents caused by the explosion, and there is no rescue value at all.

Soon, the number of casualties from the explosion at the chemical plant was told.

Number of injured: 1,379

Fatalities: 748

Because the scale of this chemical plant is really large, it naturally recruits a lot of workers, most of whom are from Gotham native.

More than 700 people died, and such a huge death should have attracted a collective condemnation from the citizens of Gotham.

However, because the price of death compensation given by Wayne Group is very high.

That's $200,000!

Don't underestimate $200,000.

For the wealthy, $200,000 may be less than a day's expense.

But for ordinary families, they can earn 200,000 US dollars a year, which is already more than 90% of the families in the entire beautiful country!

This is especially true for these working-class families, who originally worked in chemical factories and could earn $200,000 after paying taxes, which could take several years, and even face the risk of layoffs.

now

They can get $200,000 in one breath and don't have to pay taxes, so what do they have to be dissatisfied with?

After all, in the city of Gotham, the average price of a life is only twenty dollars.

That's right, there are no million!

Therefore, instead of collectively denouncing the Wayne Group, the families of the employees who died were praising the "humanitarian spirit" of the Wayne Group......

On the contrary, it is the injured employees, and even the families of disabled employees, who have the greatest resentment in their hearts.

They complained about why their family member was not killed on the spot, but was injured and even disabled......

The compensation paid by Wayne Group to them was lower than that of the injured employees, but it was also a lot.

However, unlike those who have been killed, more of this compensation will be used for the subsequent treatment of the injured person, and if they are incapacitated due to disability, they will also be used for subsequent living needs.

There isn't much, or even any, amount of money available for discretionary use.

It's like the collapse of people's hearts!

However, for the collapse of the hearts of Gotham, Levi has long been surprised.

Is it possible to explode again, can there still be three views of Barbara's murder of father and mother?

Now Levi's attention had been drawn to the windfall that had just arrived.

The more than 700 people killed means that at the moment of the explosion just now, Levi's soul essence income has received more than 700.

Not only did it fill in the soul essence of the outlier Thorn Akali, but there was also a surplus part to fill the consumption of the card master Trist.

That's a huge amount of money for the dwindling Soul Essence income that has been going on recently!

At the same time that Levi was overjoyed by the income of the soul essence.

On the other hand, as the news aired in many media outlets, the whole of Gotham City began to denounce Jerome, selectively forgetting the role of the Wayne Group in it.

Of course, there are also reasons why Director Barnes has not completely turned his face with the Wayne Group.

The whole of Gotham began to denounce Jerome.

No one noticed that the media were eating the blood steamed buns of the injured employees, maybe someone noticed, but no one cared.

Moreover, it was not only these media who ate the blood steamed buns of those injured and injured employees, but the next person who ate the blood steamed buns quickly jumped out.

It was none other than the billionaire businessman and one of the investors in the Gotham redevelopment project - Theodore Galvein.

"I, Theodore Gellerwin, hereby condemn Jerome, the murderer of this bombing, and challenge him, hurting the citizens of Gotham is not a good thing, come to me if you have the ability! By the Gellervens, I will never compromise with such a social disorder as you......

On television, Galven was giving a passionate speech.

In the end, he still didn't forget to brush himself up with an image score.

"I have my deep sympathy for the Wayne Group employees who were killed and injured in this explosion, and I plan to hold a charity gala in the evening in five days' time, where I will raise donations for those injured in the blast, and all proceeds from this charity gala will be used to help those injured in the explosion and their families......

It has to be said that Gellervin's political sense is very sharp, or rather, the plan is very perfect.

This time it appeared on the news at a very opportune time, not only to show his opposition to Jerome, but also to stand up and say that he would hold a charity party for this purpose at a time when the families of the injured were worried about their future livelihoods.

In an instant, the name Theodore Gellerven was firmly imprinted in the minds of the citizens of Gotham.

Just this speech has earned him a lot of support.

Even, now that Gallewen has been declared that he will participate in the election of Gotham's next mayor, there has been a lot of noise among the people.

However, there is no shortage of sober people among the citizens of Gotham.

They also had a question in their minds as to why Gellerven's speech was so timed so well

Is it related to the explosion, or is there an element of showmanship?

But how could Galleven leave such a glaring flaw?

What follows in the news perfectly obscures the suspicions of Gellerven's actions.

"Just now, Mr. Celevin Gellerven received an anonymous e-mail from Jerome, in which Jerome left a sentence that not only left the answer to the riddle, but also made a death threat to Mr. Theodore Gellerven......

Immediately after that, a note appeared on the news screen on the TV.

The font on the slip of paper is printed by a printer and cannot be distinguished from the handwriting.

There is such a sentence on it.

"What Mr. and Mrs. Wayne have in common with coffee is that they are both cold, and so are you, Mr. Gellerven."

The threat is self-evident.

In an instant, the only suspicion in Gellerven's behavior was also obscured, and everything seemed very plausible.

It turned out that he had received death threats.

No wonder Mr. Gallerven stepped up to challenge Jerome......

Those who were still suspicious of him for show instantly became his supporters, and Gellerwin's approval rating rose again.

"This guy is really a good actor!" Levi leaned against the window of the dean's office and sighed.

I have to admit that Geller's plans, and even his acting skills, are perfect, and even if he is not in the know, I am afraid that he will be fooled.

Who would have thought that such a person would be Jerome's back-the-scenes sponsor?

It's a pity that the last link in the other party's plan is to kill Jerome at the charity gala, and then announce his participation in the mayoral race.

This plan is doomed to failure......

Levi noticed through his vision, not only Jerome and Ian had already learned of his full plan, but even Jonathan, the Scarecrow, was lurking near Jerome at this time.

Faced with three people loaded with the hero template, Galevin actually wanted to kill Jerome with a knife......

It's the equivalent of a minions in the Summoner's Rift trying to take out a full-blooded hero head-on......

I have to say, it's just whimsical, Levi doesn't dare to have such a dream!

When the time comes, Galleven will find out that the clown is himself......