Chapter 2105: Knight's Night of Terror (Forty-Nine)

In a temporary office converted from a guest room, Amanda Waller hurriedly put down the monitoring headset, turned around and yelled at the subordinates behind her: "Quickly notify the emergency security department and ask them to suppress this matter! Hurry up!"

The subordinate who was yelled at by her was confused. He did not understand Amanda's order, so he instinctively repeated: "Suppress what matter?"

"Of course it's about Bruce Wayne and his strange little habits! Now notify all major newspapers and ask their editors to shut up!"

"But..."

Amanda seemed to be unable to bear it anymore. She threw the headset on the table and turned to look at another agent and said: "Where is the director? I want to talk to him in person!"

Before she finished speaking, the door was slammed open, and a strong black agent limped in with the director of the FBI.

Amanda showed a surprised expression and hurried to meet him. The director fell into the sofa and cursed with gritted teeth: "That damn Bruce Wayne, what does he want to do? I will let him know how outrageous he is and what price he will pay for his reckless behavior!"

"Amanda, our old friend Editor-in-Chief Sowo should still be in charge of the current affairs page of the Washington Post. Call him immediately. In the next three days, the Washington Post will fully report on Bruce Wayne's abuse and sexual assault of his adopted son."

Amanda said nothing, sighed, walked to the table, picked up the headphones, and the director turned to look at her with a rather dissatisfied expression on his face.

Amanda brought the recording device over and put it on the table with a bang. The director looked at the headphones in her hand with surprise, rolled his eyes up, glanced at Amanda, and then impatiently took it and put it on his ears.

The sound coming from the monitoring headphones was from a room in the hotel. The sound was loud and violent. Even through the headphones, everyone could vaguely hear the last sentence echoing in the room.

"Believe me, by that time, I will definitely use everything I saw at the bottom of Gotham to embarrass everyone in this country..."

The director's expression changed from initial anger to confusion, to shock, and finally to a little panic.

He took off the headphones as if he was electrocuted. His bulging eyeballs seemed to be about to shoot out of his eye sockets. He clenched his fists and placed them on his lips and coughed twice.

"He's Jason Todd? I mean the kid who looks younger."

Amanda sat down opposite the director, crossed her legs, nodded and said, "Yes, Jason Todd was born in the poorest community in Gotham. When he was about three years old, his parents died. He became a street kid in Gotham until he was adopted by Batman at the age of 10."

The director's eyes widened again. He looked straight at Amanda and confirmed, "He lost his parents when he was four years old. He grew up independently in the slums of Gotham until he was 10 years old and was adopted???"

Amanda rolled her eyes and nodded.

"Hmm..." The director dragged out a long tone, turned his hands in front of him, pursed his lips, covered his mouth with his hands, lowered his head, and looked up at Amanda.

"I mean, is it possible for us to only allow another orphan to participate in the interview? I mean the kid named Richard Grayson, his parents should have died later, right?"

"Heh." Amanda sneered and said, "Then how are you going to explain to the judge and the jury that only one of the two victims in the photo appeared, where is the other one?"

"Maybe... maybe... he is very ill, and the doctor thinks his physical condition is not suitable for court..."

Amanda raised her head and made an expression of sudden enlightenment, then gradually spread her fingers and said, "Then which hospital can guarantee that Batman's assistant will lie in bed honestly, and which court can stop the young heroes who can fight criminals in Gotham and ensure that they will not break in during the court session?"

The director stood up, lifted the back of his suit, put his hands on his waist and began to pace on the side of the sofa. He said: "Or Maybe we can apply for a psychiatric evaluation for him. As long as we can prove that his condition is not stable enough, we may be able to avoid him..."

"You know, we don't have a psychiatrist who dares to do a psychiatric evaluation for any Gotham person." Amanda shook her head and said, "We used this trick 12 years ago. In order to make Wayne Group compromise on the maintenance of the Gotham Bridge project, we sent a team of psychological experts to investigate the operation of Arkham Psychiatric Hospital to ensure that there was no abuse of patients there."

"After returning, the experts unanimously praised the place, because they were admitted to the hospital soon after, and we never heard from them again."

The director pinched his temples with both hands and said, "There is an orphanage in Gotham, right? Even if Jason Todd was not adopted from the orphanage by Bruce Wayne, the boy had at least been there. The improper transaction between the orphanage and the Wayne Group..."

"I used this trick 8 years ago." Amanda sighed, took the cup and poured water for herself and said: "A team of detectives entered the Gotham Welfare Home to collect evidence. Five people died in gang fights, three people died in explosions, two were destroyed, and only some tissue samples were found in the sewer. One was caught by the children of the welfare home and his head was chopped off..."

The director paused, thought carefully, stretched out a finger and shook it, saying: "Then the employees of the Wayne Group..."

"They are in the same boat with Bruce Wayne, and so are the shareholders."

"The manor housekeeper or tutor..."

"There is no tutor, Bruce Wayne has an old tutor." Amanda waved to the subordinates next to her, and the young agent came over and handed Amanda a document.

Amanda squinted and flipped through it and said: "He used to be the personal butler of Bruce Wayne's father Thomas Wayne, and has served the Wayne family for more than 40 years..."

The director's eyes lit up.

"That's him. Such a butler must know a lot of Wayne's secrets. As long as he can testify in court... it's not a difficult thing, right? We can afford any price."

But Amanda's words immediately followed like a bucket of cold water, extinguishing his newly ignited enthusiasm.

"Alfred Pennyworth, served in the British MI5 during World War II..."

"You want to say he is a spy?"

"Later he was transferred to MI6..."

"Okay, Soviet spy."

Amanda closed the information, turned to look at the director and said, "You know now is not the time to consider personal grudges. If you want to make a big deal about Bruce Wayne and his adopted son, the microphone will inevitably be handed over to Jason Todd, and the people of Gotham dare to say anything."

The director gritted his teeth, limped back to the sofa and sat down, supported his hands on his knees and said, "Yes, we all know where There is a sewer, which must be full of filth and stinking, but we can't open the lid just because everyone knows about it and let everyone smell the stench. "

Amanda snorted again and said, "Let's be realistic. If we choose to let things go, the hyenas from major newspapers will swarm in and fill every space around Jason Todd and Richard Grayson with microphones. "

"If these two crazy Gotham teenagers say something they shouldn't say, New Jersey, a hardcore deep blue state, will explode, and you will be kicked into the Atlantic Ocean by a donkey. "

The director covered his forehead.

"Go..." He said weakly, "Go and inform the media not to report nonsense. We have to talk to Bruce Wayne."

"Don't you understand the current situation?" Amanda sighed deeply, put the water cup back on the table and said, "Wayne is threatening us. He has seen our weakness."

She looked aside and recalled, "As you said, everyone knows that there is a cesspool in New Jersey, but there is a last fig leaf on this cesspool, that is, the economic development of Gotham."

"Over the years, whether it is us, the military, or Congress, we will be countless times against the Wayne Group. Compromise, because only Bruce Wayne has the courage to stir up shit, and the ability to cover the cesspool so that the stench does not spread to five continents. "

"When people criticize Gotham, we will say that Gotham is not poor, they have money, so they just choose their own way of life, which is their freedom, but we all know that this is fucking bullshit!"

"All the genius politicians in the United States combined have no way to shovel out the shit, so we can only count on Wayne to cover it up."

"Wayne uses Gotham's criminals to threaten the people in Congress, which seems a bit radical, but we all know that he is just negotiating conditions, Raise the price first to gain more initiative. "

"We all know that he won't really throw out the criminals, because if he wanted to do so, he would have done it long ago, but no one knows if he really doesn't want to be a fig leaf."

"Leaving Gotham, there is a vast world to do a lot. If Bruce Wayne decides to go further, no one can stop him."

"So we'd better not treat him with the idea that a little kindness will make him stop." Amanda stood up, crossed her arms and said, "Don't you think this looks like a trap?"

The director looked up at her, stunned for a moment, and then opened his eyes wide again. He rolled his eyes and said, "You don't mean to say that Bruce Wayne did this on purpose?"

"He left the photo there on purpose to reveal his identity and his relationship with his adopted son. He knew that there were people waiting to catch him. Whether it was us or the military, we would definitely seize the opportunity to beat him when he was down."

"We will help him stir up the scene and work hard to promote public opinion, so that the whole world can see Wayne's tail."

"After the world's attention is focused on this, he will let his adopted son reveal the darkness and injustice of the bottom of Gotham in the media interview, and tear off the face of our military and congressional masters."

The director's tone became more and more panicked, and it almost turned into a scream. He stood up and asked in confusion: "But why did he do this? What good will it do to offend everyone?"

"He offended everyone, but he will also become very famous, and he can also gain a lot of favor among the people."

"Gotham is very bad, but it is the Wayne Group that makes Gotham not poor and bad. When the time comes, his adopted son from the bottom of Gotham will tell how much effort the Wayne Group has made to save the city, and tell the warm parent-child story between them. How many people do you think will not buy it?"

"But the media will not all..."

The director couldn't say any more. They can manipulate the media because Wayne doesn't want to manipulate the media. If Wayne wants to, everyone else can forget about it.

Again, there are few people in this world who will not be moved by the Wayne Group.

The director scratched his hair and said, "What's wrong with him? Could he be the same as those crazy people in Gotham..."

The director's movements suddenly froze. He slowly looked at Amanda, and Amanda also looked up at him. They both realized that they had deduced the same possibility.

Wayne doesn't want to be president, does he? !