Chapter 2160: Battle of Two Cities! (Part 2)

The fusion of the two Earths is not a simple superposition, because if that were the case, there would be many unreasonable things.

For example, no matter how rich the East Coast of the United States is, it is impossible to support three megacities. In fact, it is incredible to have two such as Gotham and Metropolis, and another one really cannot be accommodated.

At the same time, there is no such thing as one replacing the other. All the differences between the two Earths are preserved, and people, buildings and various social relationships are moved over as they are.

Then there will be a problem. Gotham and Metropolis cannot accommodate the nearly 10 million people of another megacities, but this is actually the easiest to do, just enlarge the Earth a little bit.

In fact, Lucifer, as the administrator of Doujie, has experience in this regard, because the new Earth of Doujie is an enlarged version of the Earth. To some extent, this new Earth No. 1 can also be regarded as the internal test version of the Earth of Doujie.

After enlarging, the original New York buildings can be completely stuffed into the two cities of Metropolis and Gotham after a little planning, and the population is the same.

In other words, New York is now intertwined between Metropolis and Gotham, but it doesn't look strange, because Metropolis and Gotham are designed based on the day and night of New York. Although the details of each building are different, the style is perfectly unified.

The biggest change in this fusion is mainly Gotham, because the most prosperous Manhattan area only occupies a small part of New York, which is equivalent to an additional commercial center in Metropolis. The other three districts all fall into Gotham, and the remaining island is also close to Gotham. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the fusion of New York and Gotham.

So after experiencing such a shocking change, what actions did the people of both sides take?

It should be said that ordinary people in these two cities are really mentally stable.

After watching their cities grow like mushrooms after rain, not only have they expanded by more than twice, but there are also twice as many people on the road, the first action they made was to open Google Maps and laugh at the maps that were not updated in time.

Of course, this is only a small number of people who have fun. The first thing most ordinary people do is to start checking bus and subway routes. After all, they still have to go to work early in the morning.

What's wrong with the fusion of cities? The alien spaceship is crackling overhead, but it doesn't affect my work. Don't worry about who did it. If I don't punch in, I will be deducted dozens of dollars a day. How can I pay the extremely expensive rent next month?

Social animals in big cities are generally like this. For the people in these two cities who have suffered so much, let alone the extra people, even if there are 10 million extra monkeys, they can only watch and sigh for a few seconds waiting for the subway.

The biggest reaction is more from the upper class, because there is an obvious question: who will be the boss after the two cities merge?

A city can only have one government team. If they are across the river, it would be fine. In this situation of jagged edges, the mayor of New York City cannot point out which building in the city was originally under his jurisdiction. In fact, he doesn't know.

You can't let New Yorkers come forward to claim it, right? Then no building will belong to New York.

So, at the moment when the two cities merged, this group of people who always sit at the top of the pyramid were the first to make a mess.

A man in a tan jacket walked through the corridor at the fastest speed and pushed open the slightly old office door.

"Ding-ling-ling! Ding-ling-ling!"

The phone was ringing again, and it kept ringing.

The man in the jacket sighed deeply, and visible fatigue appeared on his face. As soon as he picked up the phone, he heard a deafening roar.

"James Gordon! What do you do for a living?! It's been almost an hour since the disaster, and you haven't given me anything!!!"

Gordon sneered, half-closed his eyes, leaned against the wall with the receiver and said, "What do you want me to give you? Oswald, my respected mayor, everything happened as you saw it, what else do you want?"

"Legitimacy, legality, and your police cars and guns!"

"To whom? Sir."

Gordon took a sip of water and looked at Barbara who walked into the office and handed him a cup of water with some surprise, but he waved his hand at Barbara, indicating that he didn't need help, and then said to the other side: "Have you forgotten what you said when you took office? The Constitution gives Your legitimacy and legality, your sincere consideration for the people give you responsibility and ability. "

"Now something has happened, you asked me to provide you with police cars and weapons. If I had them, you would not be in the mayor's office now!"

Gordon hung up the phone after saying that, drank a sip of water, and then sighed to his daughter and said: "If possible, I really don't want to talk to him any more nonsense. God bless, the mayor of the mysterious city across the street can quickly get the so-called legitimacy and legality, no matter how bad it is, it's better than the Penguin, right?"

Barbara opened her mouth, hesitant to speak, and finally said tactfully: "In fact, it was Vina who asked me to come."

"What's wrong? Did something happen to her?"

"Just now, there was a power outage on Geer Street. After the technical team checked it out, they found that someone had impacted the circuit system there with a current far higher than the safety threshold. I came here to check the surveillance."

"Don't talk nonsense, my good girl." Gordon walked to his seat and sat down, started to deal with emails and said, "That place is the cash cow of our mayor. He opened six nightclubs and bars there a year."

"Have you seen a car from an insurance company passing by nearby? If so, it's another trick of his to defraud insurance. Don't worry about it. I have to check the information of my new partner first."

Barbara shrugged her shoulders and walked to the seat next to her to fiddle with the computer.

"Ding-ling-ling! Ding-ling-ling!"

The phone rang again, like an annoying cicada in the summer evening. Gordon knew who was calling without thinking, so he just glanced over there with his eyes slanted, and didn't intend to pay attention.

"Buzz-buzz-"

His private phone rang again. Gordon looked down and saw a text message appearing on his screen.

"James Gordon, if you don't answer the phone, think about your daughter."

Gordon's face immediately darkened. He picked up the phone and said to the other end: "Mr. Cobblepot, the text message you just sent me is enough to serve as evidence of your personal threat."

"You don't understand anything at all!!!" The irritable roar came again, "The crazy people who fell from the sky blew up the line of my street, which I spent a lot of money to get!!!"

"Yes, for the poppy farms you hide under the bars and nightclubs, without enough ultraviolet rays, they will die in three days at most. This is the best news I have heard this year."

Gordon heard the Penguin breathing heavily in silence, and finally he spoke in a low tone: "Listen, James, we are unanimous on this matter. You can't let those country bumpkins who call themselves New Yorkers do whatever they want on our territory. Gotham will not accept it. Such a provocation!

Gordon put one leg over the other and said while flipping through the calendar: "You know what? I've never marked the election date on the calendar before, but I'm planning to do it."

"Let me see, there are only two months left before the election, and the days are getting more and more promising."

The Penguin snorted and said, "Do you really think it would be a good thing to let the mayor of New York City replace me? You might as well check what attacked the store on my street."

"Do you think a mayor who can tolerate such criminals wandering around the city will do better than me? At least I will give the gangsters enough guns to let them blow those who dare to make trouble into slag!"

The Penguin hung up the phone first, and Gordon looked at the calendar again. The Penguin announced his candidacy for the next Gotham mayor about two months ago. There were only two people from his party participating, and the other was the Penguin's men.

The opposition party has sent more than a dozen candidates to run for election, and 11 of them died within three weeks. The rest are on vacation or sick leave. There is no suspense about this matter.

The sudden city integration event is good news for Gordon, because it is obvious that this city that has sprung up from the land of Gotham is also a big city like Gotham, and the party struggle here must be equally fierce.

If the other party is also an American city, then the two parties will first unify their opinions, but no matter whether they are in the same party or not, they are in a deadly competition.

Then in the two months before the next election, assassinations will surely emerge in an endless stream. Gordon knows Penguin too well, and this attack may be the reason he found for the assassination.

Even so, Gordon still has to go and see. The gangsters recruited by Penguin are not worth dying, but there is a community school and welfare home not far away. The power outage is likely to affect the children's classes. Since the technical team has encountered trouble, Gordon has no choice but to go.

Gordon led a team of police officers to the street where the incident happened. As expected, he was given a cold shoulder by the gangsters, but he didn't care at all. He lifted the cordon with his hands and crawled under it.

A middle-aged black-haired woman in a technical uniform and another big guy came over. Gordon walked up and patted her shoulder and said, "What's wrong? Vina, are you in trouble?"

"You came quite early this time. Didn't that hooked nose cause you any trouble?" Vina's voice was very low. She sneezed, rubbed her nose and said, "I didn't expect you to come. I know you are in trouble now."

"What trouble is there." Gordon shook his head nonchalantly and said, "What can be more troublesome than Bruce Wayne's disappearance? What can be more troublesome than the fusion of two big cities?"

"You know those are distant disasters." Vina led Gordon to the scene of the accident and said, "And you have an imminent and urgent problem to be solved."

"Look at this." Vina walked to the side of the distribution room, put two fingers together, and then tapped the burnt door.

Gordon leaned over and saw only darkness.

"What is this?"

"The explosion site."

"There was an explosion here?"

"It's worse than that." Vina sighed and said, "A local short circuit may cause a small-scale explosion, but our mayor has invested a lot of money in the circuit here. The safety measures are very complete and the wiring is also scientific."

"So this small-scale explosion here is not enough to destroy the power facilities of the entire street, but it all happened like this, causing me to begin to doubt the knowledge of electrical engineering I have learned over the years."

"Go, James, find a more capable electrical engineer. This is not something I can handle. I even doubt whether this is within the jurisdiction of electrical engineers."

"Why do you say that?"

Vina raised her chin, and Gordon looked in the direction she pointed, and saw a pair of rubber shoe footprints at the edge of the darkness.