Chapter 1663: No Time to Die (Twenty-Six)
That night, Spider-Man broke into the electronic information room of the Gotham City Public Library and borrowed a computer there to find information about the chemical plant where the Joker worked.
This chemical plant is called ACE Chemical Plant, which is affiliated with the Wayne Group. While looking up information about the Wayne Group, Spider-Man discovered that it was Bruce Wayne, the current leader of the Wayne Group, who was funding Batman's vigilante action.
Spider-Man instinctively felt that something was wrong, but because this was not the focus of his investigation, he let it go and did not continue the investigation.
Spider-Man simply collected all the online news about Bruce Wayne attending various events or his gossip, and then deduced Bruce Wayne's approximate work and rest time and recent schedule.
Finding a time when Bruce Wayne had just returned to the office after an important meeting to confirm the report, Spider-Man went directly to Bruce Wayne's office.
"Hi, hello, man, I'm Spider-Man. I have some questions I want to talk to you about. Can I take up five minutes of your time?"
Bruce never dreamed that he would meet Spider-Man who was out of surveillance here after he left the monitoring room for a while and came to deal with business matters.
But he still pretended to be a wealthy businessman who was panicked because a weirdo broke into his office.
"Who are you? What are you doing? I warn you to leave here quickly, otherwise I will call the police!"
"I'm afraid it's difficult for you to do this, sir. I have cut off all the telephone lines within a radius of 2 kilometers, but I am sure this is for your own good, because the topic I am going to talk to you about next must not be heard by the police, otherwise it may have a very bad impact on your group.
Bruce stared at Spider-Man, who took two steps closer, which obviously exceeded the social distance that Gotham people could accept, so Bruce took two steps back.
"You shouldn't hide from me, sir. The advice I want to give you is really for the good of your group. "Spider-Man took two steps forward and explained sincerely.
"I know you are the president of a large group, and you are busy with all kinds of things. You definitely don't have time to care about some minor issues, so it's not your fault that this mistake occurred, but I hope you can correct it in time before it causes real reputational damage to your group."
"What do you want to say?" Bruce asked impatiently.
"The Ace Chemical Plant under the Wayne Group has been continuously discharging untested sewage into the sea. Do you know about this? Mr. Bruce Wayne. "
"I..." Bruce made a shocked expression, but in fact Batman had frowned. He remembered that he equipped every chemical industrial park under the Wayne Group with the most complete sewage purification system.
Batman is also a human being. He only has 24 hours a day, so he can't go to every chemical plant's drainage outlet to watch whether their discharge is up to standard. Even if he can, in Gotham, where anything can go wrong, in order to promote marine environmental protection and create a villain who is polluted by chemicals, his chemical plants may leak.
"The fact is that ACE Chemical Plant has been continuously discharging non-compliant sewage into the ocean. This is the photo I took before." Spider-Man showed Bruce a piece of paper, then pointed to a person on it and said, "I only saw this security guard handing over to a worker. I'm not sure if it was the security guard's own idea or someone else instructed him."
"But I don't think this is your intention, Mr. Bruce Wayne. "Spider-Man took another step forward, looked at Bruce very sincerely and said, "Because once this matter is exposed by the media, the reputation loss of Wayne Group will definitely be greater than the money spent on buying a few sewage purifiers, right?"
Just as Bruce opened his mouth to say something, Spider-Man immediately said, "Of course, this matter is very secretive, and no one may find it, but I happened to find it and took photos. Now I have stored these photos in a mysterious mailbox and sent them on schedule."
"The objects of the attachments include all the major newspapers I can find, as well as the mailboxes of well-known news media people, sharp critics and moderators of various well-known websites. You should be able to imagine how much damage the reputation of Wayne Group will suffer after these conclusive evidences are released? I am afraid that you can't save it even if you double the charity funds of Wayne Group next year. "
Bruce took a breath, and immediately rushed forward and took Spider-Man's hand in an extremely enthusiastic manner, and then said to him in the tone of a shrewd businessman: "You must tell me about this in detail. You know, I manage too many things and I am too busy. I can't keep an eye on the emissions of a small chemical plant."
"But I didn't expect that the people below would dare to be so bold. If you don't come to remind me, it will be really troublesome if it is exposed one day. Come here and tell me in detail what you saw that day. I will arrange rectification immediately. "
About two hours later, Spider-Man knocked on the door of the Joker's house. After the Joker opened the door, Spider-Man made an apologetic gesture and said, "I'm really sorry, but I'm afraid you can't carry the sewage tonight, because the wealthy Bruce Wayne rushed to the factory that did not discharge sewage and fired all the subordinates who discharged sewage illegally on the spot."
"I suggested to him that he should regularly check the situation of other chemical plants under his control. I will supervise at any time, and he agreed, so you may not see chemical plants under the Wayne Group discharge sewage at will in the future."
The Joker closed the door with a "bang".
At noon that day, the Joker came to a restaurant kitchen to help in the kitchen. It happened that this restaurant also had the Wayne Group's investment, and the kitchen hygiene was not up to standard, and it could even be said to be very dirty.
Spider-Man, who followed him, took a bunch of photos again, and then appeared in Bruce Wayne's office an hour later, and then there was another round of emergency inspections. After firing the kitchen supervisors of about dozens of chain restaurants, the food companies and catering industry under the Wayne Group had a brand new hygiene condition.
Near the evening, the Joker went to park near a luxurious mansion. There happened to be a banquet for the Wayne family's business there. There were all kinds of luxury cars coming and going, and there was an endless supply of fine wine and delicacies. However, the Joker was treated as a parking boy, and was arrogantly insulted by a rich man's assistant, and was almost beaten.
As a result, Spider-Man found the rich man's home that night and fully explained to him the importance of connections in the business world, and that if he hired an assistant who offended people anytime and anywhere, it would be very likely to destroy many of his connections.
After all, this rich man was a businessman, and he made the most money. When he asked his other subordinates at this time, he found that there were many such cases, so he fired the assistant on the spot.
In the following day and night, the Joker took Spider-Man to see the Wayne rubber tire factory's wage arrears, the logistics and transportation industry's smuggling of drugs, the Wayne Group's shareholders bribed city government officials and colluded with officials and businessmen, and the head of the largest chain supermarket under its umbrella cheated on his wife and children and had a chaotic private life.
Spider-Man responded by asking Bruce Wayne to thoroughly investigate all cases of wage arrears in the group, strictly regulate logistics management and establish an inspection system to refuse drug smuggling, report the illegal and criminal acts of bribers and bribe-takers by real name and send them to prison, and help the ex-wife of a certain person in charge sue her ex-husband to get back reasonable child support.
Then the Joker found that this plan could no longer continue. If it continued like this, the Wayne Group would really prosper.
The Joker's original intention was actually to let Spider-Man discover that the Wayne Group actually hides an unknown darkness, and this group of people who hold the largest capital and power are the culprits of the city's degeneration.
The Joker just wants Robin to feel that the super criminals in Gotham City actually have reasons to be forced to commit crimes because the society is too bad, and the society is so bad because of the existence of the Wayne Group and Batman.
In this way, the positions of good and evil will be reversed. Batman, who used to have a tall image in the hearts of Robins, and the Wayne Group that funded him will become bad people who control and oppress the city, while this group of super criminals will become good people who resist capital oppression.
It may sound absurd, but young people with a sense of justice are most easily led by this. They will feel that they have discovered the unknown dark side of society, and then they will be very angry and feel that they should stand with the oppressed and vulnerable groups and take extreme measures to resist these darkness.
And the more rationally they are persuaded not to be so extreme and not to look at the problem one-sidedly, the more they think that this is the moderates persuading them to take appeasement measures and compromise with the darkness, so they will resist more extreme and finally walk themselves into the dead end of terrorism.
If it were in the past, those Robins would probably have rushed into the Batcave angrily to ask Batman, and for the reasons mentioned before, Batman would not explain these dark real problems to them, he would only remain silent.
And once Batman said to the Robins, "You may have been guided and bewitched by the villains," the Robins would definitely explode like a bomb, thinking that Batman underestimated them, or that Batman wanted to cover up the truth, and they might even think that Batman was also an accomplice of darkness.
In this way, there will be a confrontation between Batman and Robin, and it is an irreconcilable confrontation that is very close to class contradictions, but in fact, all of this is just a carefully arranged trap, the purpose of which is to alienate Batman and Robin.
Once Robin chooses to stand on the opposite side of Batman and represents the so-called lower class people to rise up in resistance, then Gotham will definitely fall into extreme chaos again. Under the excitement of the crowd, there will inevitably be armed riots, fish in troubled waters, and looting. If nothing is done, I am afraid that even the superficial order cannot be maintained.
At that time, even if Batman is reluctant, he can only drive his child out of the city, just like cutting a piece of meat from his heart again, letting him be swallowed up by those negative emotions again, and being pulled deeper into the darkness.
This is how Gotham swallows Batman step by step.
The piece of meat that should have been cut off according to the original plan, Spider-Man, was squatting in front of the Joker's door, knocking on the door and shouting at the inside.
"Mr. Joker, if you have any opinions about the Wayne Group, then you should boldly raise them and let them correct them!"
"If you are not the first person to stand up and raise opinions, then the mistakes will never be corrected. Don't doubt the correctness of your doubts just because everyone does it."
"No mistake in this world will become correct if it lasts long enough. Right is right and wrong is wrong. We should praise the right as much as possible, criticize the wrong, and do our best to keep working hard until the mistakes are corrected."
"No matter how many difficulties there are during this period, no matter how many people question you, you can't give up. Even if I have worked hard for ten years and only got through one road, I have corrected a mistake in this world. Even if I didn't get through any road, I have set a good example for those who come after me."
"Even if there are endless mistakes in this world, correcting one mistake can save a person."
"Look, haven't I saved you from the suffering of wastewater pollution, substandard sanitary conditions, and discrimination?"