Chapter 1676 No Time to Die (Thirty-Nine)
Chapter 1649 No Time to Die (Thirty-Nine)
When the first domino fell, Batman looked at the chaotic game and almost immediately saw the real purpose of Robin from the complicated surface phenomenon.
They were forcing the powerful families in Gotham to pick up their guns again and become gangster families that used violence as their support and means.
In fact, Batman only lived through the end of a gangster era. When he debuted, Falcone was already an old man. The old godfather had unified Gotham more than a decade ago. After more than a decade of evolution, the structure of the gangster family has long been stagnant and no advantages can be seen.
Batman, who debuted in such an era, really didn't think there was anything good about the gangster structure. In fact, this is not a system that can be maintained for a long time. Batman doesn't believe that Robin can't see it.
But they spent so much effort, link by link, forcing Gotham's interest groups to step into the trap they set, and constantly leading them to this path. What gave them confidence and made them determined that this was right?
Clues can be found simply by elimination. The only variable in the peaceful life of Robins day after day is the trip to other universes.
Batman has thought about how Schiller made the Gotham of his universe see the light of day again. Of course, he also knows that the timeline of that universe is earlier than his own universe. After all, the Bruce Wayne of the universe he saw is younger.
But among all the answers Batman got, the only one that was not the mafia system was missing, because that was actually not the key at all. If Gotham's problems could be solved so easily, how could Gotham be so rotten now?
This is indeed the case. The mafia system cannot save Gotham, and it is even difficult to maintain peace for a hundred years. The system based on violence and power must follow the law of dynasty cycle and will always collapse one day.
But now Batman is not sure whether his Robins are clear about this, whether they plan to go back to the era first and then slowly find a solution, or whether they really just paint the skin without painting the bones and only plan to learn the surface phenomenon.
To know the answer, Batman must first find out whether the Robins know that the darkness actually has mystical elements. If they know, they may take this matter more seriously and will not easily expect a certain system to completely change Gotham.
To know whether the Robins are aware of the mystical elements of Gotham's darkness, Batman naturally has to pay attention to whether the Robins can find the fish that was beaten up by the waves through the appearance of the wind and rain in the surging waves.
At this time, Batman thought that in addition to Harley, there was a little guy who had disappeared for a long time. Where is his biological son Damian Wayne now and what is he doing?
Batman found Damian in a secret base in the lower city, or he thought he could find Damian, but in fact he only found Damian's uniform because the positioning device was installed on the uniform.
Damian took off his uniform, Batman thought, this is a bit incredible, although the Robins of the Bat family rarely take off their uniforms, but Damian is obviously the member with the most serious symptoms of uniform dependence.
Of course, Damian would disguise himself when performing some infiltration missions, but such missions obviously could not occur in the downtown area. The way of doing things here is to kick the door, without so many twists and turns.
Moreover, this apartment does not look like a secret base shared by Robins. Instead, it looks like a place that Damian prepared for himself, just to store some temporary supplies.
So what is he doing?
Batman seemed a little confused, but without a positioning device, he could not stop him from using his detective talent to track Damian's footsteps.
Soon, Batman found some clues around the building, and he followed the clues around the city several times.
Then he found that what Damian wanted to do might not be ordinary shameful, because when the demon boy usually completed Robin's mission, he would only go around the city twice at most.
Finally, the clues led Batman to the largest... septic tank in Gotham City.
Yes, this is also the industry of Wayne Group.
Perhaps many people don't know that modern urban sewage treatment has been very well developed. Septic tanks are mainly used for fermentation. After the pollutants are treated, a large amount of excrement will be decomposed into residues and sewage. The residues usually go to the fertilizer factory, and the sewage is discharged into the sea after treatment.
The Wayne Group, which owns the largest fertilizer factory in Gotham City, naturally controls 80% of the septic tanks in Gotham. The one Batman found following Damian's footsteps is the largest septic tank in the city.
As long as the modern septic tank does not enter the cabin used to store pollutants, it will basically not have a big smell. Batman circled the building several times and could not find Damian.
But he did find a strange trace near the surrounding transportation pipelines.
The east side of the septic tank treatment plant is connected to the sewage discharge pipe. Batman usually doesn't pay attention to this place, but Spider-Man's previous good neighbor behavior forced him to work overtime overnight to check whether there were any illegal sewage discharges in each chemical plant.
So Batman noticed the sewage pipe as usual. He didn't find any illegal discharges, but found traces of groundbreaking near the pipe.
Batman checked it and found that this should not be the result of Spider-Man's inspection team patrolling and correcting it some time ago, but it was recently, strictly speaking, the traces of modification within the last few hours.
Combined with Damian's whereabouts that he had discovered before, Batman had to suspect that Damian had moved the sewage drainage pipe.
Batman knew that his son had certain engineering skills and experience, and it was not difficult for him to change a pipeline. In addition, Robin had been planning for a long time, and it was very likely that he had prepared the materials long ago.
The question is, why did they move the drainage outlet of the septic tank?
Batman felt that if he wanted to know what Robin was going to do with this hammer, he could only dig up the place they had filled in and see.
Of course, Batman couldn't dig it by manpower, and the most important thing was that he couldn't dig it by his own manpower.
About half an hour later, Flash and Spider-Man were taken to the septic tank together.
"You, shut up, I haven't had time to hold you responsible for throwing strangers into Gotham, you, don't talk, or get out of Gotham, you two, start working now."
Flash Barry and Spider-Man Peter looked at each other, and the quarrel that was about to start couldn't be quarreled in front of Batman, otherwise he would definitely be punished later.
Mainly, these two curious babies were really curious, why did Batman dig the drainage pipe of the septic tank?
The process of septic tanks treating feces and urban sewage is probably that they first undergo sedimentation, so that the sediment and liquid are separated, and the liquid is sent to the sewage treatment plant alone before the sediment is treated, so its sewage drainage pipe should lead to the sewage treatment plant.
But as Flash and Spider-Man dug, Batman discovered something was wrong. The drainage line of the septic tank between the upper city and the midtown area had been modified. It could be said that it was blatantly and undisguisedly heading towards the upper city.
Batman had a bad feeling.
At this time, in the basement of a manor in the upper city, a woman wearing a bird-beak mask slapped the table and said, "No matter how unreliable Machi is, he is better than those useless birds you raised. Who sent a reconnaissance team to visit the Midtown area? When they came back, each person was shot 18 times on average?"
"Hmph, Doris, the candidate you trained can't even beat the gangster boss who came from a wild background. How far behind is he now? There must be a gap of at least 20,000 votes, right?"
"So what? It's just that the mainstream media under my command haven't started to exert their strength yet. As long as the publicity is in place, the gap of 20,000 votes is nothing. But you..."
"Okay." A voice came from the front of the table, accompanied by a sigh, and an old man sitting in the main seat said, "We gathered here today to discuss why many events that the Court of Owls cannot control have suddenly occurred in Gotham recently. If you have any ideas, just say it, but it's best not to waste time blaming each other."
"Our people have found out that the so-called 'Neville' family The Wayne family is actually the reverse spelling of the Wayne family. We suspect that this is Batman behind the scenes again. "
"Such a simple thing still needs you to check?" Another voice immediately retorted disdainfully: "The members of the Neville family all used voice changers, but it is not difficult to find out that they are not very old. They are probably the children of the Bat family."
"Just a few children messed up Gotham like this? Batman is really getting better and better. He shouldn't have been left alive in the first place."
Suddenly, a man in a robe and a beak mask coughed twice. He said: "Batman is very useful to us... Let's not discuss this first. Let's think about how to quell the chaos in Gotham City. It's not good for us to continue like this."
"Anyway, I can't count on it... Wait, do you hear any sound? Is someone knocking on the door?"
Everyone turned their heads and looked at the door of the basement. The door was kicked open with a "bang". Batman walked into the meeting room and spoke quickly without waiting for anyone to speak.
"Get out of here, you only have less than ten seconds."
"Batman?! What are you doing..."
"Go!!!!"
All the members of the Court of Owls swore that they had never heard Batman roar like this.
But the next second, a golden light flashed, and Batman directly entered the speed force, and then disappeared. His anxious posture of leaving was almost like fleeing.
Suddenly, a gurgling sound came from the exhaust vent of the basement, and a strong chemical stench spread out. In an instant, endless untreated septic tank sewage flooded the entire room like a flood.
What is more terrifying than shit is that liquid can penetrate everywhere. When it rushes into a closed room in a short time, even a good swimmer will inevitably choke.
The modified pipes discharged enough septic tank sewage to fill the entire room in just a few tens of seconds.
What does it feel like to be completely submerged by the sewage that has been fermenting in the septic tank for several days and collected from the entire city?
The answer of the members of the Court of Owls is - no time to die.
They want to die, but they have no time, because they still have to find a way to open the door under the water, otherwise they will really drown in the sewage.
Then, the members of the Court of Owls found that the unparalleled tacit understanding between Batman and the Bat Family also played a role at this moment - Batman welded the door before leaving.
In fact, it was not Batman who welded it, but Flash and Spider-Man who welded it.
The members of the Court of Owls who tried every means to pry the door open to save themselves finally understood what it meant - Spider-Man never slacked off at work, and you are a good neighbor in New York and you are trustworthy.
Now the feces are painted on the wall (sad)