Chapter 2996: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (IV)
Chapter 2970 The green trees are dense and the summer is long (4)
When the Robins returned from their trip, Schiller felt that he had to entertain the guests, but obviously the old butler missed his children more and must have prepared a large table of dishes, so Schiller decided to take the young people of the new warrior team with him Went to Wayne Manor for dinner.
Although it was a banquet, it was just a family gathering, and there was no need to dress up too grandly. Robert never wore a uniform, but just changed into a clean sportswear. Helen dressed up a little, not wearing short-sleeved shorts, but A cute blue suspender skirt with a bow on top of her ponytail.
Robert said with some disgust: "You are pretending to be cute again."
"You mind me." Helen rolled her eyes and said, "No matter where you are, an old butler who can independently manage a huge manor must be a powerful person. If we can handle him, the trouble will be goodbye to us."
The squirrel girl is combing her big tail with a comb. She is a little worried that the hair will fall off when she has a guest. The Thrush is cleaning his leather shoes. He is dressed more formally, with suit pants and a shirt. The fungus is similar to Robert, both wearing loose clothes. Clean sportswear.
Schiller went upstairs and changed his clothes - it was almost as if he hadn't changed, he was still in the same black suit.
After the fog disappeared, Schiller couldn't adjust the temperature as he wanted, and the weather was very hot. He actually didn't want to wear a suit, but Gotham University had a dress code for faculty and staff. Regardless of the temperature, dark suits and ties were required. It comes with leather shoes, so this is the only way Schiller can wear it.
It's not evening yet. The reason why everyone is packing up is that Schiller has a class in the afternoon and others want to visit Gotham University, so they plan to go to Gotham University together, and then go to Wayne Manor together in the evening. Came back to change clothes.
Schiller opened the garage door and immediately turned the air conditioner to the lowest setting after getting in the car. Helen climbed into the passenger seat and shivered from the air conditioner.
Schiller said as he started the car: "There is a blanket in the back seat. You'd better wrap it up quickly, otherwise you will become the first Doomsday in the multiverse to catch a cold."
Squirrel Girl handed the blanket to Helen, who immediately wrapped herself up tightly. As soon as the garage door opened, everyone felt like they had been hit by a flash bomb, blinded by the too bright sunshine at noon.
Schiller put down the visor and gradually drove out of the community. Helen looked at everything new and curious, asking about this and that.
But obviously there are no fairy tales in this city. Schiller's introduction to each building almost starts from the fact that this place was destroyed by some disaster and ends with the reconstruction after some disaster. It is simply sad for the listener. Those who heard it cried.
When Helen asked him to tell other stories, there were even more ghost stories. The history of each landmark building can be said to be a special case of major cases. The works of serial killers are often found in museums, churches, and art galleries. Every bank has experienced dozens of major robberies, every shopping mall has suffered terrorist attacks, and every street has traces of gang wars...
By the time they arrived at Gotham University, several people had decided to seriously consider the possibility of causing trouble with Williams.
While waiting for the elevator in the underground garage, Schiller said: "You don't have to worry too much, Williams is not a local, and even locals rarely can fight against so many superpowers..."
"So it's still there?"
Schiller did not deny it. After walking into the elevator, he said: "Yes, there are, and they are mainly concentrated in Gotham University, so you'd better be honest. I don't want to see you hanging in the lobby."
"What time does your class start?" Robert asked: "What grades are you teaching? What is the main topic? Can we go and observe?"
"There is a basic class at two o'clock, which teaches criminal psychology to junior students. There is a group meeting for graduate students from three to five o'clock. After five o'clock, I go back to the office to prepare lessons. I get off work around seven o'clock."
"You can audit the basic classes, but you don't have to attend the group meetings. You are not writing papers anyway. The school has recently built many new laboratories and a science and technology museum. You can go there for a walk."
The elevator stopped and as soon as Schiller walked out, Victor came over and said, "You are finally here. Are the classes full this afternoon?"
"There are no classes after five o'clock, but I have to prepare for next week's classes, and I still have a few graduate students' papers to read. What's wrong?"
"I have adjusted the formula of dense ice to make a small portable cooling device. I want you to help me test it."
"Where's Nora? Is she not here?"
"She has a heatstroke." Victor said helplessly, "I have told you before that you can't dry clothes outdoors in this weather. She thought it would be fine if she went out for a few minutes, but she got a heatstroke when she came back. She asked for leave today."
"Are you okay?" Schiller said with some concern: "It's hard for me to imagine that a cryogenic scientist's wife would have heatstroke at home."
"I get a headache when I talk about this. I have told countless people recently that cryogenic scientists don't care about the temperature, but no one believes it." Victor sighed and said, "That's why I decided to break through myself and take care of this damn thing." The weather!”
At this time he saw Helen, he squatted down very happily, touched Helen's face and said, "Is this the little girl from your relative's family you mentioned? How old are you this year? Where are you from?"
"Seven years old, Asgardian."
"Don't listen to her nonsense, she was seven years old last year." Robert revealed mercilessly: "In ten years, she will still be seven years old."
"What? Do you have an opinion on the way Asgardians record age?" Helen turned around and rolled her eyes at him.
Schiller said to them, "My classroom is in A213. You go there first. I need to go to the office to get something."
Several people nodded and left. Schiller and Victor walked to the office together. The topic was still the recent hot topic, which was the ridiculously high temperature and Roy's situation.
"Everyone knows he's going to be promoted, so they're all eyeing the mayor's position. We've advised him to stay for another term, but this problem has to be solved."
"What did Cobblepot say?"
"He only told James that he can't do anything about the current situation in Gotham, so even if he takes over, all he can do is maintain the status quo. Everything has to wait until Bruce comes back."
"Managing a city is not that easy." Schiller sighed and said, "Especially a city like Gotham that is awkward everywhere. There are too many problems. Cobblepot's mother has lung problems, and we can't force it."
Victor nodded and said, "Indeed, did Bruce say when he would be back?"
"I think it will be soon." Schiller frowned slightly.
"I hope he can bring us good news."
Schiller actually thought of much more than he said. Gotham itself is an imaginary city set in comics. As we all know, comics can fully display imagination, so the setting of the city of Gotham is a patchwork. It has undergone many reforms according to different times, and many times the official map version does not count.
It would be strange if such a virtual city had no problems in reality, especially since Schiller and others did not continue the dark setting in the comics, but forcibly saved the city, which led to the emergence of various contradictions and conflicts in the fictional setting.
For example, because the rain in Gotham in the comics was problematic, the impact of rain on plants was actually greater than that on animals. In order to be logical, the editors could only follow this line of thought and say that there was no greenery in Gotham.
After Gotham saw the sun again, the lack of greenery became a big problem, seriously affecting the city's temperature and causing inconvenience to people's lives.
But the real world is not like comics. A split screen jumps over and it is full of green trees and vitality. The impact of ordinary shrubs and vines is far less than that of green land and trees, and potted plants are even more useless.
To plant trees, there must be land, otherwise it will be useless even if the green of all things comes. But because the setting of Gotham is high-rise buildings and cyberpunk, there is no extra land to plant trees, which has become an unsolvable problem.
The only solution now is to take some more comical means, that is, to install air conditioners in the whole city directly, just like when Gotham was frozen. At that time, the dense ice could reduce the temperature of the whole city by more than ten degrees. Although the dense ice in the cold storage has been upgraded, it is not impossible to use some old versions buried underground to make Gotham's "ground cooling".
This requires complex design and precision manufacturing to ensure that the temperature of the city can be accurately adjusted. Schiller has no doubt that Victor has such technical capabilities, but all the above problems can be attributed to one word-money.
Everyone is waiting for Bruce to come back, not because they really expect him to come up with some amazing technology. There are technologies and personnel, and the solution is not that difficult to come up with. The biggest problem is that there is no money.
Roy is in the position, the city government has no money. If Cobblepot comes, the city government will also have no money. If those cats and dogs sent by the state legislature come, the city government will not only have no money, but may also go bankrupt.
That's why everyone, including James Gordon, is trying to find out Bruce's whereabouts from Schiller, because all the difficulties Gotham is facing are actually money difficulties. If you have money, everything will be easy. The new low-temperature factory in the West District is fully operational, and it is even possible to use dense ice to lay a floor for Gotham, and the temperature problem will naturally be solved.
But now, the problem of money is not only bothering Gotham, but also the United States and the whole world. The whole world has no money. Who else can help except Batman?
Schiller's attitude is not very optimistic. Now we are in a period of global economic crisis. Even if the government has money, there are more important problems to solve than temperature. This summer is destined to be very long.
As for expecting Bruce's return, it may be a bit difficult. Bruce has a lot of things to do. Just preparing for foreign enemies is enough for him to be busy. By the time he is done, the economic crisis may be over.
Schiller came to the office and quickly took his things to the classroom. When he arrived, the classroom was already full. Several people from the New Warriors team sat in the back. When they saw Schiller coming, they stopped talking to each other and sat up straight, looking at him expectantly.
Unfortunately, they were destined to be disappointed. Schiller thought that the basic psychology course was very boring and he couldn't explain it well.
In addition, the process of not collecting homework and collecting a bunch of shit that was written almost every day made him more angry than the 40-degree weather.
Helen and others watched a storm sweeping the classroom. She wanted to take back her evaluation of Professor Schiller's good temper. It was also the first time she knew that there were so many words in the world to describe a person as stupid.