Chapter 1736 S Apocalypse Event (IV)

Chapter 1710 S Apocalypse Event (IV)

Gotham is free—in the physical sense, in practice, and no one can refute it.

But it is conceivable that a large city on the east coast of the United States disappearing out of thin air will cause a great deal of chaos.

If it were another city, the chaos would definitely happen more inside the city. Although the people outside were busy and anxious, it was useless. But this is Gotham after all, and the people of Gotham are not anxious at all.

Although many ordinary citizens of Gotham who did not participate in the vote were somewhat surprised that they flew into the sky and stood shoulder to shoulder with the sun, after the initial shock, the first thing they did was to open Google Maps and laugh at their map information updating too slowly.

Compared with the tragedy that took place in such a dark city, there was nothing unacceptable about the entire city flying into the sky. Even if they were about to fall and die in the next second, at least they could still enjoy this absurd fact and imagine that others were busy and busy because of it for a second.

It's not like there will be less chaos when they live on the ground. At least this time, a large group of people will have to worry about the chaos with them. Just for this reason, the people of Gotham will laugh in their dreams tonight.

So the biggest victim of Gotham flying into the sky is not the people of Gotham, nor even the federal government. God knows how long those politicians have been thinking about making this city that has raised the national crime rate disappear.

Gotham people can have the status of the coolest city in the world, the federal government no longer has to worry about the fact that the crime rate in the United States has room to rise, and Gotham's neighbors no longer have to worry about lunatics rushing out of the city or being polluted by Gotham's outrageous climate. It can be said that everyone is happy.

If you say so, Gotham's independence in a physical sense is a good thing, but the biggest victim of this incident is actually the Court of Owls.

To talk about the Court of Owls in detail, we have to mention the famous Metal Event in DC Comics and its antecedents, that is, how the Bat Knights of the Dark Multiverse came to the main universe.

The culprit of this incident is the Court of Owls, or rather, a group of Barbatos followers called Judas followers who manipulate the Court of Owls behind the scenes.

DC Comics has spent a long time laying the groundwork for the Metal event, and the prospects are too complicated, but anyway, Batman in the main universe learned about the existence of Metal for various reasons, and then began to investigate, but in fact, all this is a conspiracy of the Court of Owls, in order to lure Batman to the base of the Court of Owls, and then use his blood to open the door to the dark multiverse to complete Barbatos' plan to invade the multiverse.

In another comic, Batman was also lured to the Owl Base and trapped in a huge maze, unable to escape.

The point of this story is that the Court of Owls spent a long time building a huge maze underground in Gotham, and even allowed Batman to get lost in it to a certain extent, which shows the large amount of work and the magnificent construction results.

Of course, in order to make Batman capsize in the gutter, it must be concealed enough, and in fact, the way to maximize the concealment effect of an underground maze is to build it as deep as possible.

Since the maze was excavated not only by physical forces but also by mystical factors, the base of the Court of Owls was built very deep underground and was quite solid. After so many generations of resources, this maze can be said to be unbreakable and indestructible.

This led to the fact that the entire city of Gotham did not take it with it when it took off, because it was a bit too deep and too heavy, and the activation array created by the lunatics could not pull it at all.

But Gotham took away the ceiling of the maze.

In the physical sense, the take-off Gotham directly opened the skull of the huge maze that the owls had worked so hard on, and the part above the ceiling was lifted up with Gotham, and the grooves and gullies below were all left behind.

This led to the Court of Owls now facing a very embarrassing situation: most of the members of the Court of Owls, that is, the old nobles of Gotham, were active in the city when Gotham took off.

And those Owl Councils, that is, the followers of Judas and some of the owl priests, were all left in the underground maze.

When the news of Gotham's disappearance spread all over the world, the federal government and the FBI secretly wanted to set off firecrackers to celebrate the other's departure, but they still had to do the face-saving work.

Faced with such a big event as the sudden disappearance of a city, of course the FBI, the National Guard, the Navy, the Army, and the Air Force all went into battle, and it didn't take long for them to surround the original land of Gotham.

If at this time, an open-air underground maze suddenly appeared in a place where there should have been nothing, and there were a group of sneaky, shifty, and up to no good people who were immersed in their shock and would not move, who else could the federal government blame?

Anyway, they just wanted to give the public an explanation to calm the public panic. Since those people below looked so much like a cult, then they must be a cult. They must have made the city disappear, and it would be right to arrest them to block the reporters' guns.

Because the owls underground were completely immersed in the shock of the huge city above their heads disappearing, they reacted too slowly to the arrest by the federal government. In addition, the federal government sent enough people this time, and the army was fully armed, so the dozen claws left underground could not make any waves.

After a fight, dozens of them were still caught alive, and the others were either dead or ran away.

After all, the term "open-air underground maze" sounds ridiculous. Now if you want to find out the situation in Gotham, you don't even need a plane. Standing on the ground with intact road signs at the entrance of Gotham City, you can directly see the structure of the entire maze clearly, just like a transparent ruler with a maze and small metal steel balls inside. Even a fool can use the exhaustive method to figure it out.

When Batman comes and sees it, wow, a completely transparent maze, you use this to test geniuses?

So the remaining Judas believers who have some skills know that things are impossible, and can only escape and hide first to prevent being arrested by the federal government and falling into the hands of Amanda, that stupid woman.

But the members of the Court of Owls who stayed in the city were not much luckier.

They certainly recognized that the dark power that sent Gotham to the sky and now maintained the normal operation of the city came from the metal they had buried for generations, but there was a problem. The wires and electricity were all in the sky, but the control room and batteries were left on the ground. What would happen if there was no electricity?

The lunatics in Gotham were on a whim, relying on their genius wisdom and enough courage to put a giant city in the sky. They didn't consider how long this energy could last and what would happen if there was no energy and it fell down. Or they didn't care whether they would fall down or not. It's pretty cool to die in this way, isn't it?

But the members of the Court of Owls are different from them. As mentioned before, most of the members of the Court of Owls in Gotham are rich or noble. Some are extremely successful businessmen, and some are celebrities who have been working in Gotham for many years. Their property, power, family and themselves are all in this city.

If Gotham falls down like this, everything they have and their own lives will be destroyed. They are afraid of it. People who have nothing are not afraid of death. They will try their best to have some fun between life and death. But the more they have, the more they will be cautious. Even if the Dark God's plan fails, won't the eternal life and power promised to them by the followers of Judas be gone?

Except for the followers of Judas, most owls have no piety to the Dark God. The birth of the Court of Owls is only because the followers of Barbatos promised many benefits to this group of celebrities. What can be more tempting than ruling a city for a long time and making their family noble forever?

But they also know very well that they have to live to spend money. If Gotham falls now, everything they built in this city will be smashed to pieces, all their existing descendants will die, and their family will disappear forever. They don't want Gotham to fall even more than those crazy people.

So, an absurd but extremely reasonable situation occurred - the members of the Court of Owls approached these lunatics and asked them to immediately maintain the facilities that maintained their lift-off, and at the same time find more power to ensure that Gotham would not fall.

Their worries were not unreasonable. Although the lunatics in Gotham were all evil geniuses, after all, the time was too short and the number could not be compared with all the genius scientists on Earth in the Marvel Universe. The method they adopted to make Gotham lift off was not so sophisticated, it was just a matter of force.

In short, the principle was similar to the small device made by Red Hood, using part of the energy from the wizard Felix to create a core pulse machine, and then continuously stimulating the dark power in Gotham's metal through pulses.

This method is not unusable, but the efficiency of utilizing the dark energy in the metal is too low, just like a toy remote control car that uses up a whole industrial battery to run, and more than 80% of the energy is wasted in the process of stimulation.

The Court of Owls saw that if they continued to waste like this, it would only be a matter of time before Gotham fell headfirst. Even if they were out of the earth's gravity, once the protective shield disappeared, the cosmic environment would be enough to kill them.

At first, they wanted to contact the surface to provide sufficient energy so that Gotham could fly smoothly and land smoothly, but it was obvious that the owl priests in the main control room of the underground maze had already died, injured or fled, and no one could respond to their request.

Therefore, the members of the Court of Owls had to work overtime to study how to maximize the use of this dark energy so that Gotham could land smoothly before the energy ran out.

In the end, because the members of the Court of Owls had exhausted all their energy and were exhausted from the sleepless work, what they waited for in their office was not a savior, but a smiling face with green hair, pale face and bloody mouth.