Chapter 1519 C: Twilight Event (Twenty-Five)
Chapter 1512 C Twilight Event (Twenty-Five)
As expected, the members of the Grand Mage Alliance soon met with bad luck. After a gang fight, they rushed to the church on foot, fully armed when they set out. When they arrived at their destination, no one believed them when they said that their next stop was a bathhouse.
When they rushed to the church door in a panic, not to mention their staffs, weapons and wallets, their robes, boots on their feet, and even the earrings and bracelets worn by the female mages were all gone. They looked like guests when they came, and like prisoners when they left.
It is difficult to say that this behavior is theft. The difference between this and street robbery is that at least you can know who the murderer is in robbery, while the Grand Mage only felt that the items on their bodies kept disappearing along the way, and they didn't even see a ghost.
It is impossible that everyone on the street is a thief? ? ?
The Grand Mage thought so, and therefore missed all the possibilities of recovering the stolen goods. This dark city taught them a hard lesson, letting them understand what it means to not completely prevent theft is to completely prevent theft.
Of course, they also got Bruce Wayne as they wished, but when they walked towards Bruce who got out of the luxury car in an expensive suit and walked into the cathedral with a series of armed bodyguards, Bruce just waved his hand and asked the people next to him to throw two coins to them.
A magician without magic is just an ordinary person. No one can rush into the muzzle of a gun to seek death, but it is not only the magicians of the Grand Mage Alliance who entered Gotham, but also many people in the mystic world who have special powers that are not from demons.
Most of them were persuaded by the witch Circe to become the vanguard of Circe's exploration of Gotham, but the result of this group of people was not much better than that of the Grand Mage Alliance, because their vigilance was too poor.
There is no city in the world with worse public security than Gotham. This is the birthplace of the latest criminal routines and techniques, and the Jerusalem of criminology. All the breakthrough criminal techniques in the world are spread from Gotham to major cities, and often at this time, Gotham has made a new round of breakthroughs.
This has led to the citizens of other cities lagging far behind Gotham in terms of anti-fraud and anti-theft awareness, and the awareness of people in the occult community is even more backward than that of normal city citizens.
They can defend against motorcycle gangs and robbers, but the ubiquitous newsboys and flower children, the perfectly disguised room service staff, the criminal gangs that set up traps in major hotels many days in advance, and even the passers-by and the onlookers on the balcony upstairs, one ring after another, one plan fails and another plan is born. No one can prevent theft forever, but there will always be thieves in Gotham.
People in the occult community have failed in Gotham, coming in with a swagger and leaving in a hurry, but the valuables in their pockets really provide a lot of transformation funds for the thieves in Gotham.
The next to enter is the vampire phalanx, but the thirteen clans are not stupid either. They first sent a group of young and green people to check the situation in Gotham.
The vampires obviously knew that they couldn't add fuel to the fire, so after a small-scale reconnaissance, the thirteen clans began to send out their manpower to attack Gotham. The secret party was still restrained, but the devil party was completely crazy.
For many years, the thirteen clans have been working hard in Europe, and their clans have grown unprecedentedly. In addition, the Red Moon has been gathering descendants all over the world. In a short time, thousands of bats flocked to this sinful city.
The gangs in Gotham will not look at them well. After several years of transformation and development, most of the gangs are rich, and the arsenal of the Wayne Group's arms business is in Gotham. When the money is enough, the guns are still warm when they are handed to them.
After the initial medium-scale street fighting, the gangs found that it was too unprofitable to fight like this, but the city of Gotham has its own ecosystem, and the main business is a business that does not lose money.
The vampires are understanding Gotham, and Gotham is also understanding and learning about vampires. They captured many living samples for research, and learned the mystical definition of vampires from the old priest Daniel.
There is an important point in this definition, that is, the energy of vampires is preserved in their blood, which can be used as a material for casting spells, the heart can be used to make medicine, and other organs can be used as forensic raw materials to circulate in the occult trading circle. The purer the blood, the higher the price.
So, an industry in Gotham that usually has a low sense of existence came to the stage, that is, organ dealers.
The gangs are anxious to make a profit, and can only use this method to squeeze the value of vampires. It just so happens that there is the world's largest contraband trading market in the local area. The time, place and people are all right, and the only thing missing is to put the goods on the shelves.
But the organ dealers in Gotham are all second-hand dealers, who only receive and ship goods, and rarely do it themselves. The main reason is that the lower-class people in Gotham have been drowned in the dark rain, and the organs are simply useless. Gotham's reputation is too loud. Outsiders will never come to Gotham when they hear about it, and they can't do the work of abduction, so they can only serve as a transit station to barely make a living.
Where have these second-hand dealers ever seen such a scene? The gangsters only knew how to catch the vampires, but ignored the fact that the organ traffickers could not even find a surgeon in each gang. They were keeping a large group of vampires in vain, and food was a considerable cost.
The gangsters were anxious like ants on a hot pot, but they still decided to be self-reliant and train professional talents as before. The first group of vampires who entered Gotham were unlucky and all became test materials.
But the subject of anatomy is not something that can be learned at the last minute, and the gangsters couldn't bear to see such good raw materials slip away from their hands, so they sent a representative to the Iceberg Restaurant to find Cobblepot.
Cobblepot didn't have a good solution when he heard about this situation. In the end, Bruce proposed to send the captured vampires to Gotham Hospital. Hundreds of surgeons in dozens of hospitals in Gotham worked around the clock to barely take on the 13 Clans' astonishing large-scale attack.
When the surgeons, organ dealers, and even the gangster drivers who helped transport the materials were exhausted and almost vomited blood, the three giant cold storages were filled to the brim. Although vampires can't gather together to form a fire, they can at least be scattered like stars.
Of course, the massive attack of the vampires also caused a lot of trouble to the gangs, weakening their manpower to a certain extent. It is conceivable that the gangs that need to recuperate will definitely reduce the frequency of fighting in the future, which can be regarded as creating a good security environment for the upcoming music festival.
The thieves did not achieve good results in this round, mainly because the young vampires were more impulsive and had no money. They fought as soon as they entered Gotham, leaving the thieves with no chance to touch or anything valuable.
But as the situation tilted more and more towards Gotham, the real old European nobles finally couldn't sit still. The elders of the thirteen clans collectively went out and proposed to negotiate with the Gotham gangs.
This routine has been played in Europe for hundreds of years. It is nothing more than fighting first and then negotiating. Even if the situation is not favorable to me, I can say that I love peace. If you don't talk, you are naturally barbaric.
Throw out bait during negotiations, promise benefits but not enough benefits, divide the other side into two factions, one for war and the other for peace, reduce decision-making ability and speed, weaken the other side's combat effectiveness, and then take down the target in one go on the front battlefield.
The plan is good, but the first step encountered a little problem - the Gotham gang said on the spot that they are barbaric.
The logic here is irrefutable. If they were civilized, why would they become gangsters? Which gang in the world loves peace?
The moral kidnapping failed, and the elders began to lure them with benefits. Then they found that the gang had already completed the cycle of fighting to support the war. They first went up to kill, and then started to capture when the other side was defeated. They were sent directly to the hospital for dissection, and their organs were removed and frozen on the spot, and they were pulled to their own stalls by their own trucks to sell. The profit of the whole process is at least ten times the value of the chips that the blood clan can throw out.
The elders of the thirteen clans gnashed their teeth, but they were helpless. In the end, they launched a public opinion offensive. However, no matter whether it was the mystical world, heaven, hell or any special dimension, when they heard that they were scolding Gotham, they would only say "You just know" and "Why did you mess with it?".
After the three golden moves that had repeatedly won battles in the civilized world hit a wall, the elders also knew that there was a tough battle to be fought, and the greatest power they could rely on was their ancestor Cain. As long as Cain gave them blood, their power would be greatly enhanced.
So what was Cain doing?
He was playing games with Batman.
Just when the blood clans attacked Gotham on a large scale and tried desperately to get the core fragments in Bruce's hands, Bruce secretly ran out of Gotham, found Cain and said he wanted to play a game with him.
Which clown could refuse Batman's invitation to play games?
Therefore, Cain, the ancestor of the blood clan who was highly expected by the thirteen clans, completely forgot that he had a group of unlucky descendants waiting for him to save him, and played the game of chasing and hiding with Batman every day.
But maybe Cain didn't drink enough blood from Bruce last time, or maybe Bruce was not crazy enough, which led to the lack of aggression of the Joker. So it was mainly Cain hiding and hiding, which caused one of the world's famous paintings-"Where are you, Joker? You are not in London at all!"
One day after the war between vampires and Gotham was deadlocked, the moon was high on an island outside London. The dark Gothic castle spire looked like a sword full of light under the moonlight, and a black figure suddenly appeared on the top of the sword.
The mysterious outline has two pointed ears at the top, and the body wrapped in a black cloak is slender and elegant. With a "whoosh", the bat wings spread out, and the black figure rushed straight into the palace hall where the banquet was being held.
The elders of the thirteen clans were horrified, and the leader, Bruch, almost dropped the wine glass in his hand. He stared at the newcomer and uttered a name: "Batman?!"
Strangely, Batman is not well-known in the society of ordinary people, and only became a little famous because of the report in Metropolis, but he is very famous in the world of occultism, mainly because the devil who was unlucky spread the word about how cruel this bat monster is.
The elders of the thirteen clans did not know that Batman was Bruce, so several people stood up and looked at Batman and said, "Batman, what are you doing here?"
"I bring you news about Cain, the ancestor of the blood clan." Batman's low and hoarse voice echoed in the hall.
The eyes of several elders suddenly lit up. They thought that Batman was entrusted by Cain to bring them news.
As the elders were thinking this, Batman looked up at the blood-red eye decoration hanging on the wall in the middle of the hall, and said in a cold tone.
"I buried a big bomb under the palace in advance. Don't question my level. It can blow up your descendants and this island. No magic can resist the power of this explosion."
Batman raised his eyes and smiled, saying.
"Then, Joker, it's time to make a choice."