Chapter 163 The Long Easter (Part 2)

It was another rainy night. On the road full of water, the lights of the speeding cars flashed. Gordon walked down the stairs in rain boots and shook hands with Schiller who was walking up. He said in an exaggerated tone: "Thank God, professor, you came just in time!"

"Let's go in and talk."

Gordon pushed open the door of the police station. Before he took Schiller to the office, a young police officer came over and said: "Boss, the interrogation room on the second floor is full. The drunk and the scarred face had a fight. It took three people to pull them apart. The black man with the band tattoo was even more crazy. We don't have enough manpower to watch so many prisoners..."

Gordon sighed and said: "We will catch someone later, No need to interrogate, just lock him up first."

Gordon took Schiller up the stairs, he walked in front, his steps were fast, and he said without looking back: "These people have gone crazy recently. Today, the crime rate in Gotham has increased 12 times. The interrogation room and the cells are full."

"I don't know what's going on. Everyone is very angry." After Gordon walked to the corridor, he pointed to the end of the corridor and said: "The two people locked up in the interrogation room fought because of a pack of cigarettes, and there was a couple in the room on the left. The couple quarreled and brandished knives and guns..."

"I thought this was a daily routine in Gotham." Schiller also walked up the stairs quickly and stood behind Gordon and said.

"It was true before, but since the logistics system started running, there are very few such idle people. I didn't expect them to appear again."

He sighed and said, "But it's not surprising. The waterlogging on the city roads is too serious, and the logistics operation is basically stagnant. Everyone is idle at home."

"But you still think it's abnormal, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't ask me to come here."

"That's right, even if Gotham was rotten before, there shouldn't be so many mentally ill people overnight."

"Now in the office on the third floor, there are two people twitching all over, one is foaming at the mouth, and the other has started talking nonsense."

"Our police officers gave them alcohol and drug tests, but they showed no problems. They just suddenly got sick."

Gordon stood at the door of the office, his hands on his hips, and said to Schiller, "If it weren't for the kid named Cobblepot getting sick last time, I wouldn't be able to tell them apart, but their symptoms are very similar, so I have to ask you to come and see, what's going on?"

Schiller frowned, he pushed open the door of the office, and saw several people curled up in the corner, Just like Cobblepot at that time, he was soaked and twitching constantly, mumbling to himself.

Schiller shook his head and said, "I expected it. This is the sequelae of being caught in the rain."

Gordon didn't hear what he said clearly. Just when he was about to ask again, Schiller interrupted him and said, "Don't worry about it for now. Transfer them to Arkham. As you expected, this is not normal. I need to conduct further examinations."

When Schiller came to the office of Arkham Mental Hospital, it was raining heavily outside the window again, and this rain was less than 4 hours after the last time.

Schiller walked to the window and watched the raindrops hitting the guardrail outside the glass, reflecting a faint luster. He silently calculated in his mind that the thunderstorms began to become more and more frequent, from once every two days two weeks ago to once a day, and today there have been three heavy rains.

He walked out of the office and knocked on the door of the next ward. Batman's voice came from inside: "Come in."

Schiller walked in and saw him and Cobblepot standing on both sides of the table. There was a map of Gotham City on the table. Schiller said directly after entering: "It seems that the plan really disgusted them."

Cobblepot smiled grimly, and Batman's mouth twitched. He said: "You gave me a new understanding of the despicable degree of human tactical plans."

"If you don't use this method, even if you catch their tail, they will only hide deeper and deeper, and will not jump out on their own initiative."

Batman sighed, and his thoughts went back to a few days ago.

Evans, Batman and Cobblepot speculated that the method used by the Court of Owls to monitor the living hell is the well, but this is still just a guess and needs to be further verified.

Batman planned to sneak into the living hell to investigate himself, but Cobblepot refused him. He felt that the living hell was his territory and Batman didn't need to intervene.

Batman adhered to his usual skeptical style. He did not trust Cobblepot and planned to do it himself.

The two were deadlocked. Finally, under the mediation of Evans, the two acted separately. Cobblepot investigated the North District and Batman investigated the South District. They did their own things and did not interfere with each other.

During the reform of the living hell, a total of 6 wells in the South District and the North District were filled up, but this filling was not to block the well from bottom to top. In order not to destroy the structure of the groundwater, only a support was set up about three meters above the surface, and poured to become the ground, while the part below three meters was still a well.

Batman found an entrance to the sewer step by step, and then planned to dig a passage from underground to the bottom of the well.

However, Cobblepot, who was not a professional, had a broader mindset. He still found Tire, Red Truck, Rocket and others to form a team and planned to use special methods to investigate.

These people are different from Batman, who is rich and willful. After all, they don't have that set of sturdy equipment, not even night vision goggles. It is not realistic to find out the original structure of the living hell in the complex sewers, but the wild way has its own way.

This has to start with the old drug dealer who provided them with the map.

What Gotham lacks the least is all kinds of geniuses who have gone astray, and the best among them are these drug dealers like gophers. Gu Yu

In Gotham, there will indeed be no police stopping you from selling these contraband, but the biggest danger comes from your peers.

This kind of thing must be stored and transported, and once the storage location and transportation route are discovered by other gangs, you can wait for the valuable goods to disappear.

In order to avoid this situation, most drug dealers in the living hell have their own set of transportation routes.

The same is true for this old drug dealer. He joined forces with several other big business leaders to control most of the underground passages within the Living Hell.

They don't go on the ground at all, but transport goods directly through underground passages, so that they can avoid being discovered by the gangs of the Living Hell and reduce the probability of being robbed.

When the Living Hell was reformed, most of the underground passages were destroyed by the foundation support, but there were still a few that could be used. Cobblepot got these materials and found the secret at the bottom of the well faster than Batman.

They guessed well. Among the five wells in the North District, the bottom of three wells is connected to a secret room, and the rooms are also connected to each other and lead to a larger conference room.

When Cobblepot found this place, he did not rush in, but notified Batman.

Batman, who is better at infiltration, touched the periphery of these rooms. After investigation, he found that unlike the huge conference room he found before, there were traces of human activities here recently.

Batman thought, their prediction was indeed correct. If the Owls had really been operating here for decades, they would never completely abandon Gotham's territory. Even if they had to move urgently due to some accidents, they would definitely leave guards in other bases.

After a few days of squatting, Batman found that the underground of the Living Hell seemed to have become the new base of the members of the Court of Owls.

Based on the principle of exchanging intelligence among members of the Gotham secret meeting, Batman simply told Schiller about these situations, but Schiller, as if he had been prepared, came up with a very speechless, but possibly extremely effective plan.

As Schiller said, it is not difficult to catch the tail of the Court of Owls, or even to attack their base, but if they cannot succeed once, they will definitely slip away and hide deeper, and this hide-and-seek game will never end.

So there must be a plan to force them out actively, let them show more flaws, and create a chance of success.

The specific plan is this. Schiller speculated that even if the Court of Owls is hidden underground, they must rely on energy for lighting and communication.

So where does this energy come from?

Although it is possible that they have their own independent energy facilities, according to Schiller's understanding of the Court of Owls, they are like tumors growing on normal tissues. The method they are more likely to adopt is to mix their own people into the transformation of the Living Hell, and then pull a line from the energy system of the Living Hell to power themselves.

So Schiller asked Gordon to find Little Slippery, and then let Cobblepot take Little Slippery around the Living Hell twice.

Sure enough, Little Slippery soon discovered that there was a power line that was not going in the right direction. Following this line, Cobblepot found the energy pipeline of the Court of Owls' base.

In addition to the power supply, there are other pipelines, and the above-ground part is hidden very well and unattended.

And Schiller's final plan is to dump shit.

Connect the sewage treatment pipeline of the Living Hell and the energy supply pipeline of the Court of Owls together, and the entire sewage system of the Living Hell will be connected to the pipeline of the Court of Owls.

Needless to say, the result is that there is no place in Gotham with a higher population density than the living hell area, so the ability to produce shit here is naturally top-notch.

"The excrement flooded their base and turned it into a huge methane pool."

Batman's tone was a little bit unbearable, he said: "And judging from the situation at the scene, some people failed to run away in time at the moment of dumping..."

Batman was silent for a while, as if suppressing the nausea brought by his imagination, and then Batman said quite pertinently: "Although disgusting, it is effective."

"You said before that they have trained a lot of killers. If I break in alone, I am not sure I can beat them all."

"Even if I can beat them, once they hold me back and release the killers, the residents of the living hell will suffer."

"The living hell is the most densely populated place in Gotham. No matter what the Court of Owls does there, there will be a lot of casualties. For this reason, we have to force them out of there. Although we use... but they will definitely not care about killing people when they escape."

Schiller looked at Batman, his mouth corners still turned down, looking deep and serious.

Schiller thought, perhaps this is what makes Batman unique among superheroes. Although personal heroism is still inevitable, he is willing to retreat in exchange for tactical victory, rather than being greedy for merit and showing his strength.

When facing a despicable tactic, it is not to blame it from a moral high ground, but to analyze and judge rationally. Perhaps this is the basic quality of a tactical master.