Chapter 2210: Battle of Two Cities! (Fifty-Two)

Chapter 2184 Battle of Two Cities! (Fifty-two)

The atmosphere in the Batcave was a little serious.

All the Robins stood in a row, and Batman paced in front of them. Everyone's eyes followed Batman's steps, and some looked at each other, winking and betting on when Batman would stop.

Batman's sword-like gaze stayed on Red Hood's face. Red Hood stood up a little straighter, but still looked sloppy.

Then his eyes swept over Nightwing and Red Robin on the right, as well as the small Robin standing beside them.

"I want to know what's going on."

The big screen behind Batman showed photos of the war-torn New City, and even a scene of Red Hood flying across the sky in a Batplane.

"You didn't lock the Batplane!" Red Hood got the chance, and he immediately raised his voice, and then shut up in Batman's murderous eyes.

"The situation is a bit complicated..." Nightwing said.

"... Very complicated." Dick said.

"But it's not serious!" said Red Hood.

"...Not serious." Jason added.

"It's easy to explain." Red Robin said.

"Very good..." Tim looked at Red Robin.

Batman's serious eyes also fell on him, and the message conveyed by his eyes was "You dare to talk nonsense and see."

"Ahem..." Red Robin cleared his throat, turned his eyes away, and rolled his eyes.

"The lunatics in Arkham did it!"

"Pa pa pa pa pa pa", loud applause rang out in the Batcave, Red Hood and Jason high-fived, Nightwing and Dick shook hands, Red Robin and Tim nodded to each other.

Batman narrowed his eyes.

"That's it." Red Robin spread his hands, shrugged and said, "If you don't believe me, go to Arkham Asylum and see, everyone in there has run away."

"You didn't lock Arkham Asylum!" Red Hood raised his voice again, and then shut up under Batman's gaze.

Everyone could see that Batman was not in a good mood at the moment, but they were not worried because they still had the last trump card - calling the Waynes.

"Oh!" Red Robin suddenly screamed, even startling Batman.

He turned his head to look at Dick and said, "Dick, have you done your French homework?! Thomas will be home at five o'clock!"

Dick just opened his mouth to speak, and was elbowed by Jason. His tongue immediately bent, and he said as if he suddenly realized something: "Oh - I have to go back to do my homework!"

After speaking, Dick turned and ran. Batman wanted to call him, but was met with Alfred's murderous eyes.

"I haven't finished my homework either!" Jason followed closely, pushing Dick's back, and the two ran out of the Batcave one after the other.

"I have a book club to attend at four o'clock." Tim said euphemistically, "Today's theme is the Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection, I am very interested..."

Batman waved his hand, and Tim ran out too.

"Uh... I... I also have French homework." Nightwing dragged out a long tone.

"How do you say ballet in French?" Batman asked.

"Oh——!" Nightwing lowered his arms helplessly.

"Well... me too..." Red Robin said tentatively.

"What is Holmes's name?"

"... John?"

Batman showed a look of disapproval.

"Well, that novel is ridiculous. The greatest detective actually fell off a cliff! So stupid!" Red Robin sighed, and then he added: "Although you often jump off a cliff with the Joker, almost every day..."

Nightwing looked at Batman's increasingly unfriendly eyes and pulled Red Robin's arm to stop him.

"Speaking of the Joker..." Red Robin's eyes turned again, and he changed the subject and said: "He should be the main force to create chaos, right? Why not ask him?"

Batman frowned slightly.

Although he knew that the three unlucky kids in front of him were eager to go out and make trouble, and they wanted to dive into the mess below and swim three hundred laps, but what Red Robin said was not unreasonable.

As soon as he returned to Gotham, Batman checked the status of Arkham Asylum. All the lunatics had run out.

No one believed that they had nothing to do with the war below. Batman could even imagine how they created chaos and deliberately sabotaged the huge new city.

Especially the Joker.

Batman thought that it was not surprising that other lunatics committed a few terrorist cases, but to stir up chaos in the whole city in such a short time, I am afraid that only the source of chaos, the Joker, could do it.

Batman retracted his thoughts and said to several people: "Watch Damian, stay here and wait for me to come back."

He knew that they would not listen obediently, but this was not said to them, but to Alfred who was standing at the door.

Sure enough, when Batman turned sideways and went out, he heard Alfred blocking the three people behind him and sincerely suggested that they eat the cookies, drink a cup of hot tea, and wait for Thomas and Martha to come home.

Regardless of the wailing behind him, Batman threw his cape and walked out the door.

In fact, he suspected that the battle between the other Batman he invited and the Joker caused all this, so he had to go down to find these two people and then find a way to reverse the situation.

Coming to the hangar of the Batfighter, Batman boarded the plane and fell over the new city like a fallen leaf.

Batman operated the positioning system and soon found the Joker's figure - he was being chased by someone and was running away in a hurry.

Batman immediately chased after him and finally found the Joker who was panting against the wall at the end of a ruined street.

The Batfighter landed, and Batman moved towards the Joker vigilantly. He knew that the saying "seeing is believing" did not apply to the Joker. Everything he saw might be what the Joker let him see, including his current weak state.

Heart rate, breathing rate, body tremor amplitude - there is no flaw, but this is the Joker, Batman thought.

"Batman?!"

The Joker saw Batman approaching silently through his peripheral vision, and at the moment he screamed, Batman suddenly exerted force and sprinted in his direction.

It was obviously another Batman-style "asking about the situation", first subduing, beating half to death, and then asking about the situation.

The Joker ran away.

"Stop! Joker! You destroyed this city!!"

"Open your eyes and look, is it the city I destroyed?!!" The Joker ran and roared: "My house was bombed! My hostage ran away! I was chased by a group of agents for three streets! And I was hit by six rocket launchers!!!"

"Don't try to quibble! Joker!" Batman's attitude was very firm.

He moved flexibly in the ruins of the city, and the Joker was almost there.

The Joker was not good at running, and his physical strength was exhausted. His injuries were not fully healed, and his feet slipped and fell into the rubble.

But he didn't get up and continue running as Batman expected. Instead, he stiffened for a moment, then relaxed his whole body, sighed, and lay down where he fell.

Ten minutes later, in the special care ward of Arkham Asylum in New City, the Joker grabbed the railing with both hands and smiled at Batman.

"You idiot - I never use stupidity to describe you, Batman, but you did make a stupid enough decision this time! I'm not destroying the city, I'm saving it!! And saving me and you!!!"

Batman turned a deaf ear to him. He just stood half a meter away from the cell door and looked at the Joker coldly and asked: "Tell me what happened in this city."

"You don't need to ask me, you don't need to." The Joker shook his head and stepped back a few steps, shrugged his shoulders and stood in the narrow cell and said: "Because all this has nothing to do with me!"

"So how did this city become like this?"

"I said, you shouldn't ask me." The Joker turned around and sat on the narrow single bed and said: "Okay, great detective, I want to tell you that you will come back, because if you go to the city to investigate now, all the clues will tell you that it was one of my plans that caused a series of chain reactions, which eventually led to all this."

"But if you really take this as a conclusion, then you are a complete idiot." The Joker bared his teeth, but he was not laughing, so he looked particularly cruel. He said: "You have to go all out, Batman, this time our opponent is extraordinary, you will come back to find me."

After that, no matter what Batman said, the Joker just remained silent, and he was obviously brooding over what the Joker said, so he almost immediately returned to the Batcave to prepare equipment and start investigating.

The Sky City Gotham only appeared after the fusion of the two cities, but Batman has a way to get all the clues from the fusion of the two cities to the present.

When did the chaos start?

In a broad sense, of course, from the moment the two cities merged, although most people acted calm, the fundamental conflict of interests caused the turbulent undercurrent to sweep freely under the calm sea surface until it became the huge waves at this moment.

Batman divided the period from the fusion of the two cities to the present into three time periods: the early stage of fusion, the Cold War period, and the hot war period.

Then he began to sort out all the clues in the three time periods, trying to find the key clues that led to the development of things to this point.

In the early stage of fusion, all forces were divided into two factions, the Gotham faction and the New York faction. Most of them were fighting for the top position of the pyramid after the fusion of the cities. All conflicts broke out over the question of who was the boss.

The conflicts during this period mainly broke out in the middle and upper classes. This group of people was the group that needed to go further the most. They knew that reshuffling meant a rare opportunity to rise, so they started to stir up at the first time.

This period lasted for a short time. When this group of people found out how to get the most benefits for themselves, the Cold War broke out.

They each elected their own representatives and began a series of games, which began as negotiations and exchanges of interests, then developed into intelligence wars, assassination wars, and finally into local hot wars.

The full-scale hot war broke out just a few days ago, but what confuses Batman the most is that, judging from the first two time periods, conflicts and fights mainly broke out in the upper half of the pyramid, and most of them were wars among the upper class.

Until the hot war broke out, everything developed in accordance with the law, but when the hot war broke out, the nature of this chaos changed completely, from the open and covert struggles of the upper class to a complete exchange of fire among the lower class, which is not normal.

No ruler would want to get a ruin. They are engaged in the cold war just to gain benefits. What's the harm in giving away the exchange is not their own resources?

But if all the people fight with real swords and guns, the buildings are destroyed, the streets are destroyed, and people can't work, no one can make money, the city completely loses order, and power has no meaning. This is the worst result for the rulers.

In other words, they are not the culprits of the hot war.

At this time, Batman thought that two things happened before the hot war that were enough to affect the situation-the arrival of Sky Island Gotham and the arrival of Bruce Wayne, Schiller's student.