Chapter 1735 S Apocalypse Event (Part 3)
The next two hours of the journey opened the eyes of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, but to talk about what they saw, we have to start with the current situation of the chaotic gangs in Gotham.
After the initial large-scale war, the gang families reached a strange balance. After the great waves, about thirteen families finally successfully gained a foothold and became the most powerful gang families in Gotham, including the Wayne and Kane families.
But because the gangs were led by these two families, the situation began to run wild in another direction and was out of control.
Again, Batman and the Joker will fight in any field that humans can get involved in, and the first confrontation is the arms race.
Technological confrontation is not just a simple competition of the foundation of the military industry. Everyone knows that the core technology of a technological power is the biggest killer in the arms race.
Weapons such as bombs enchanted with a firestorm plus 16 that seem very cool but not very useful cannot be called core technology. They need more decisive technology.
But if you want technology, you have to face a problem, that is, creating technology requires talent.
Most of the people in Gotham have a degree starting from prenatal education and ending at driving school. Occasionally, there are a few super geniuses who have a flash of inspiration, but most of them are too young and have not received systematic education.
For half a month, Thomas and Martha are like the frustrated fisherman who has prepared the pot but can't catch a single fish. They are not without money or resources. Whether it is experimental materials or experimental sites, they have been prepared long ago. The problem is that without scientists, everything is in vain.
If it was possible to hire talents from other places before, with the current situation in Gotham, those who have brains will not come, and those who come will definitely not have brains.
As I said, you never know what price Batman and the Joker are willing to pay to defeat each other. The destination of every frustrated fisherman is the landing net and the harpoon. The two gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, and the eight major sects besieged Arkham!
Both of them are locals, especially Thomas. He certainly knows where to find the most educated scientific talents. What better think tank is there than Arkham Asylum?
At that time, the various monsters in Arkham Asylum were preparing to break out. They had expected that they might be blocked by gangs, or Batman would come down from the sky and take them back. Of course, they were fully prepared for this.
But again, what is more terrifying than seeing Batman or the Joker as soon as you open your eyes? That is to see Batman and the Joker fighting each other as soon as you open your eyes.
There is always a kind of beauty in the fight between these two people that does not care about the lives of others. In order to grab more scientists, Thomas and Martha did not care at all and took out the most manpower and the most sufficient force to surround Arkham Asylum tightly.
These villains have never seen such a scene before. Batman wanted to install a silencer on each of his toes, for fear that others would know that he had caught the criminal. Now, the life sentence was changed to a thunderbolt.
Actually, the lunatics who are still in Arkham Asylum are not considered to be martial arts. Even the physical strength of Killer Croc is not very high. The super villains among the martial arts faction, such as Bane, were not trapped, and Mr. Freeze had already left.
These literary fighters have no way to face real guns and cannons. The biggest trouble they can cause Batman is mental torture. When they find that they can't reason with rocket launchers, missile launchers and machine guns, they fully understand the significance of contributing to the development of Gotham's gangster families.
So, the gangster families almost greedily divided up these super villains who have intelligence and martial arts.
Originally, this group of people followed the gangs as a temporary measure. Their eloquence could fool even Batman, so why couldn't they fool ordinary people?
They took this opportunity to sneak out of the insane asylum first. When they got there, they wanted to run away. Who could stop them?
It was their rigorous scientific spirit that stopped them.
To be honest, although these super villains in Gotham did not do their work every day, judging from their academic qualifications, which were more outrageous than one another, they were very academic and had a high level of academic level. Moreover, most of them were not completely unskilled, but more or less academic.
The biggest enemy of scientists is amateur scientists.
When these villains arrived at the laboratory prepared by the gangs for them, they were dumbfounded. The place was spacious, the equipment was expensive, and the raw materials were sufficient, but they were useless. The thing that scientists could not tolerate most was that the funds were wasted.
This cannot be blamed on the gangs. Except for the leaders of a few families who have knowledge in this area, most of them have no concept of scientific research. Basically, they buy whatever equipment is expensive and stock up whatever raw materials are scarce. There is no systematic structure at all.
The laboratory construction is even more irrelevant. There is an advanced disinfection room outside the physics laboratory, and the medical laboratory and the equipment are two miles apart and basic operations are all carried out. What's worse, the high-energy laboratory is next to the dangerous chemical raw material warehouse, and a smelting furnace is placed underground in the low-temperature laboratory.
It can be said that the Gotham gang still has a chance to continue rolling. Their skills are all thanks to God. The main point is that a skilled person is only as brave as a dare.
How could this group of serious scientists tolerate this? They immediately stopped looking for Batman and forgot the slogan of taking back the city. Suddenly, all kinds of villains screamed, "Clean up your broken lab and put up safety regulations! Hand sanitizer! Protective clothing!"
This is why Amanda couldn't find any villains who made trouble in this city. Everyone was busy purging amateur scientists.
In the Spencer family's underground biological laboratory, Harley Quinn sat on a chair with a lollipop in her mouth. She looked at Poison Ivy who was knocking bottles and jars in front of the laboratory table, frowned and said dissatisfiedly: "Little Green, are you serious? Are you going to do experiments here?"
Poison Ivy sighed, looked at Harley Quinn and said: "I do experiments here to prevent them from doing experiments here. As long as I occupy the laboratory, old Spencer's crazy nephew will not come here."
Harley Quinn was about to say something, but Poison Ivy interrupted her and continued: "His crazy plan to stimulate the madness of Gotham people by polluting Gotham's groundwater and thus improve the wisdom of the whole city should be discussed with the crazy Scarecrow, instead of mixing those so-called poisons that stink in the laboratory - he is insulting poison!"
"Okay, okay." Harley Quinn waved her hand, one leg ankle resting on the other leg's knee, she shook her legs and said: "It's a pity that I don't have talent in this area... …”
Just as she said this, the door of the laboratory was knocked. After receiving the response from Poison Ivy, a gang member walked in with a smile on his face. He said to Harley Quinn: "Ms. Quinn, it's like this. We will have a fight in about two days. Look at the result..."
"Wait a minute." Harley Quinn waved at him impatiently, then stretched out one hand to grab something in the void, supported her head and stretched it over, looking in one direction like stretching out the window and said: "Can't win, no chance."
"Okay, okay, thank you so much, you are busy!"
Poison Ivy smiled at her and said: "No talent, huh?"
"You don't know yet? I'm not impatient to do this! Forget it, tell me what you are doing, it's not that I don't have the patience to listen to you mutter about plants every time."
"Usually you don't." Poison Ivy lowered her voice, but she was not complaining. There was a hint of hesitation in her tone, which was not common.
Harley Quinn saw her hesitation, so she stood up from the stool and walked to the other side of the laboratory table. She put her hands on the laboratory table and looked into Poison Ivy's eyes and said, "What's wrong? Little Green, are you still troubled by botany and biology?"
"A little bit." Poison Ivy shook her head slightly. She picked up a test tube at hand, stared at the liquid inside and said, "I extracted something from the plants in Gotham."
"Is it some kind of darkness?" Harley Quinn asked vaguely while holding a lollipop in her mouth.
"Yes, what I saw and heard in the sky fortress gave me some ideas. I always thought that the mysterious dark characteristics of Gotham plants were due to the rain here, which also contained mysterious power. Of course, it may be part of the reason, but not all."
"What do you suspect?"
"Soil." Poison Ivy put down the test tube, her eyes empty, thinking and saying: "If all the metals in Gotham are problematic, it constitutes a huge magical field. Then the people who made all this want to control this field. It is impossible to knock on every piece of metal. They must have set up a control room."
"Do you think it will be underground?"
Poison Ivy nodded, as if she was happy that Harley Quinn understood her so well, but she didn't have time to say sweet words now, but focused on academic content. She said: "Look, if a control room that gathers dark power is buried underground, then it can affect groundwater and soil at the same time, which can better explain why plants are affected second only to humans. Water and soil occupy most of the conditions for plant survival."
"So you are trying to infer the location of the control room by the concentration of darkness on the plants?" Harley Quinn's thoughts immediately followed.
"It's just an idea." Poison Ivy calmed down again. She turned her head and looked at the row of test tubes on the test tube rack and said, "This is not the most important work so far. I guess those crazy people should have come up with some results."
Just then, another gang member walked in and said, "Hello, excuse me, ladies, we just received an invitation, which seems to invite you to an academic conference."
"Here we are." Harley Quinn made a "you are really good" gesture to Poison Ivy, and the two left the laboratory together and went to the agreed location.
The meeting place was set up in the conference room of Gotham University. The entire university was almost not damaged, and the facilities were intact. As soon as the two walked in, they found that most of the famous super villains in Gotham were there.
But the person presiding over the meeting this time was not the familiar faces, but a man wearing an Arab robe and the same white mask, whose image was completely unclear. Harley Quinn recalled and whispered to Poison Ivy: "His code name is Wizard, um... Felix or Felix? It should be Felix Faust."
"He is in the same industry as Constantine. I heard that he is an evil black magician. He was tinkering with his evil plans in the Amazon rainforest before. He hasn't returned to Gotham for a long time."
Just then, Hugo patted the microphone hard and said shockingly:
"Today, I invited you all here to conduct a round of voting. The content of the vote is - whether all Gotham residents should exercise their legitimate democratic rights and vote to secede from the federal United States of America and its affiliated New Jersey!"
Harley Quinn widened her eyes, "No, wait a minute, why should we... um, wait, hiss... I mean... how to secede?"
Hugo turned his head and looked at the wizard Felix Faust standing aside.
Standing in the sky fortress in the geosynchronous orbit, the Robins looked at each other. Dick was the first to swallow and said, "I have a bad feeling..."
"How long do you think it will take for the people of Gotham to find out..."
The next second, a black dot grew bigger and bigger in their eyes, and a huge city covered with a black magic shield took off like a rocket.
The Robins were stunned to see that a new flag was slowly raised on the tallest building of Gotham City, a megacity on the east coast of the United States.
Then, millions of people cheered together-
"Long live freedom!!!!!!"
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