Chapter 2196: Battle of Two Cities! (Thirty-Eight)

Chapter 2170 Battle of Two Cities! (Thirty-eight)

After finally getting rid of the troublesome reporter, Penguin got on the car to the hospital. The car turned a corner and stopped in front of the hospital. The car door opened. As soon as a pair of shiny leather shoes stepped on the ground, Penguin saw that there were a lot of people holding signs outside. The signs read "Hell is your destination", "Satan is on earth", "Death, death, only death".

Penguin reflexively shrank his neck and took back the foot that had stepped out. He sat in the car and calmed down for a while, thinking that he would not argue with them.

He had been a gangster boss for so many years, and he had seen all kinds of curses. If curses were useful, the grass on his grave would be three meters high. Let them curse him.

So he adjusted his tie again, took a deep breath, and walked out with an umbrella.

The next second, he was surrounded by thunderous cheers.

"Long live the mayor!!!"

"Hero! Hero! Hero!!!"

"Well done!!!"

"This is what Wayne deserves! Long live the mayor!!!"

"You sent that rich guy back to hell, he deserves this lesson, well done! Mayor!!"

The Penguin was stunned.

Then he suddenly thought of something.

Bruce had made a big mess before. He stepped into the Joker's trap and let go of the hand that saved people in public. With the help of media opinion, the debate on this matter has intensified.

New Jersey is a hardcore blue state. There are not many people who adhere to traditional moral spirit among the citizens. Most of them are supporters of neoliberalism, and there are also white left saints. Therefore, the current public opinion is almost one-sidedly condemning Bruce.

If you don't have two brushes, don't go up. If you go up, you shouldn't take such risky means to save people. If you save people, you should act as soon as possible instead of standing there in a daze. Anyway, there are endless faults in this action, and Bruce's image is also gradually demonized.

Some people say he is an unscrupulous capitalist who wants to portray himself as a hero, some say he is an evil criminal who is afraid that others will expose his dirty secrets and kills people himself, and some say he is an arrogant but stupid and incompetent waste.

As a result, less than a day after the incident, Bruce entered the mayor's office upright and came out horizontally. Mayor Oswald Cobblepot shot him and he is still lying in the hospital for rescue.

These people who have been aroused to radical emotions can't help but feel a sense of relief and excitement in addition to being shocked. They will think "Yes, this is what we should do, let this damn rich man know that this world is not a playground for him to do whatever he wants!"

In fact, the above arguments are now spreading in major media at the extreme speed of Internet information dissemination theory.

When the Penguin got on the bus, he was still a mayor born as a gangster boss, but when he got off the bus, he had become a hero of the entire East Coast.

The Penguin, who had never received such a sincere and warm welcome, was completely stunned. He couldn't even say the instinctive polite words. After asking the security guard to separate the crowd, he rushed into the hospital like a fleeing panic.

Feeling the cool breeze blowing in the hospital lobby, the Penguin calmed down. No, this is not something that the people of Gotham can do.

The spirit of Gotham has always been that you can die but not live. In fact, they don't care whether anyone dies or not. They only care about how dramatic the matter is. The two sides have fought several rounds and there are ups and downs. In short, they are fun people.

The biggest advantage of the people of Gotham is that they will not claim to be the army of justice, will not put themselves in the perspective of the righteous, and stand firmly on one side to judge the other. Instead, they sit in the middle and shout "Fight! Fight! I love to see people die at my doorstep!".

Penguin has lived in Gotham since he was a child. He has seen countless outrageous murder scenes. There are also exciting scenes of successful revenge or successful cases of punishing evil, but I have never seen Gotham people holding banners and taking to the streets to praise the murderer?

Because in fact, Gotham people know that it is risky to take sides. You don’t know if the descendants of the person who was beaten to death will suddenly go crazy and find your home after 20 years and turn you into a part of his artistic creation.

Gotham people, including Penguin, basically just watch coldly when encountering such things, and at most chat with their buddies or neighbors to watch the fun.

So where did this group of overly enthusiastic Labrador dogs come from?

That’s right, they came from New York.

If Penguin had lived in New York, he would understand that New Yorkers are very good at doing this.

The most popular topic about superheroes in New Yorkers in a year can probably be published in three books: "Superhero Spider-Man!" "Spider-Man Falls from the Altar!" "Spider-Man Falls from the Altar Again!"

If Peter Parker has any other professional identity besides Spider-Man and researcher, it is probably a bungee jumper. He would feel like something is missing if he doesn't jump off the altar more than a dozen times a year.

Of course, this is a hot topic among the restless and capricious young people, while the hottest topic among the more stable middle-aged and elderly social elites can be summarized into three books: "Captain America's Glorious Past", "The Secret of Captain America's Resurrection", and "Captain America, the Evil Genetically Modified Man".

New Yorkers often say that Captain America is the only topic that you can bring up at celebrity banquets without making mistakes, because it contains the three most popular topic elements of the American upper class - World War II, resurrection, and evil scientific experiments.

As the background board of young hero stories such as Spider-Man, a genuine New Yorker, he perfectly possesses the three elements that raise blood pressure: believing in rumors, being lame when fooled, and being forever young and never learning.

In order to enhance the value of personal heroism and to belittle the important role of the people in history, American comics produced in the era of ideological struggles will portray ordinary people in the city where superheroes are located as villains who often misunderstand heroes.

Whether it is Spider-Man or Superman, such plots have appeared in their stories. The heroes are always kind, just, and simple, while the people are stupid, evil, chaotic, and never know what is good for them and are always ungrateful.

Although this situation has improved slightly after the end of the Cold War, many screenwriters dare to stop at the truth and set the plot of the people's anger as being fooled by the media to reflect the essence of reality.

In order to disrupt the internal power structure of the Wayne Group, the behind-the-scenes masters of the two cities spared no effort to discredit Bruce's image after the Enderkin incident.

The Gotham people who are used to such tragedies are not easily incited, but the New Yorkers who are used to following the trend are easily incited. Many people went to the door of the Wayne Group to pull banners, write slogans, and march, demanding Bruce Wayne to give them an explanation.

The people of Gotham were not afraid of the excitement. They not only showed the way to the parade, but also drove cars to sell water and food, provided logistical support for the parade, and took the lead in attacking the defense line when the security personnel came out to suppress them, making the protest more and more powerful.

The media continued to fan the flames, and the masses spontaneously added to the flames. The flames burned more and more fiercely. When the wave reached its climax, Bruce Wayne fell down with a bang.

The devil died, and the hero won again.

The shutter sounded continuously, and one after another with a strong saturated color style was recorded by the reporter's lens, and then spread throughout the United States and even the world with the new and old media.

In the photo, the dark clouds were very low, and the slightly old hospital was even darker. People of all skin colors holding various colorful slogans surrounded the Penguin. They surrounded him, raised their arms to cheer for him, and made gestures of praise to him, with pious and warm brilliance in their eyes.

The Penguin in the camera looked back, and his originally fat and bloated figure became sturdy and broad under the crowd. When he raised his head, his face, which originally had a hooked nose and looked very sinister, was actually solemn and solemn.

When this photo was on the front page of major media, people cheered or questioned, and all kinds of speculations emerged.

The views of the upper class and the party were surprisingly consistent - this was a carefully designed bureau by Oswald Cobblepot.

For ordinary people, the easiest way to judge the mastermind behind the scenes is to see who benefits from something in the end.

There are many people in this world who harm others but not themselves, but it is often because they are not smart enough, have good ideas, but lack execution ability, that they make all kinds of incredible farces.

Oswald Cobblepot is not such a person. At least in the eyes of the upper class of this universe, he cannot be regarded as a smart politician, but at least he is a shrewd gangster boss, and he is also the one who benefits the most from this whole thing.

First of all, more than one person had speculated that Cobblepot was the real mastermind behind the Wayne couple's murder. If the reporter named Underkin had some clues that could threaten him, then if he died, the clues would be cut off, and Cobblepot would be truly safe.

Even so, the revengeful Wayne was still Cobblepot's biggest worry, but now there were too many people watching Wayne, and a rash move would definitely bring trouble to himself.

So Cobblepot carefully directed the Underkin incident, hired kidnappers to kidnap Underkin and then lured Bruce to rescue him.

Bruce Wayne was originally an incompetent rich second generation, how could he succeed in saving people? Cobblepot calculated this point, and after Bruce Wayne failed to save people, he guided public opinion to make him a street rat that everyone wanted to beat.

Finally, he invited Bruce Wayne to his office, angered him with words, lured him to attack himself, and then seriously injured or even killed Bruce Wayne under the pretext of self-defense.

First, Bruce Wayne, who has been investigating the murder of the Wayne couple, will die. Second, he can also use this incident to make a strong presence in major media, gain the trust of the people, and canvass votes for the upcoming mayoral election.

It is simply a brilliant plan. Such comments are constantly spreading in the upper class of the entire East Coast, and even stronger than this is the sighs one after another.

The idea is good, but the means are wrong.

Penguin became a hero with this plan, but unfortunately, he is a hero of the people.

As we all know, on the land of America, politicians can stand on the side of money, stand on the side of interests, stand on the side of lies, crimes, and extreme ideas, but they can never stand on the side of millions of Americans.

In other words, you can claim that you stand on the side of the American people, but you can never really do it.

Otherwise, if you shoot the big capitalists for the will of the people, who can tell you from Stalin?