Even the "bright" Gotham City will eventually have nights.
Whenever darkness falls, the hazy sky and the howling north wind... always remind some people of a time in the past.
In that not-too-distant past, this place was still a sinful city full of corruption.
At that time, officials and gangsters were brothers, and the police were the protective umbrella of criminals... The entire Gotham was like a gloomy and cold concrete forest. At night, the streets would be filled with low or sad roars... It seemed like forever.
cease.
But, those are all things of the past...at least, that's how it seems on the surface.
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Evening, 7:30, Gotham "East Side".
Three years ago, the East End was a very bad place, it could be said... the worst place in Gotham.
If you think the gangsters at the gate of Robinson Park are bad, it's because you haven't seen the drug addicts in front of Finger Memorial Hall who are half begging and half robbing. If you think these drug addicts are already bad, it's because you haven't seen them yet.
Passing by the entrance of the Sprang Rescue Station, there were homeless people lying on the ground like stranded dead fish.
However, compared with the situation in the East District, these people are already considered "tolerable".
Back then, the East End was a red-light district that even the corrupt police were reluctant to set foot in. You could see homeless people with bruises and swollen faces (for these women, being beaten by pimps was a common occurrence), and even child prostitutes; ferocious and crazy women could be seen everywhere.
Gangsters dare to commit crimes in full view of the public, while people around them will ignore them as if they didn't see them.
Even today, three years later, on the premise that the above situation has been reduced, this is still the jurisdiction with the highest crime rate in Gotham.
Cheap bars, cheap hotels, cheap apartments, cheap shops... everything here is cheap; it is this "cheapness" that allows those at the bottom of Gotham to survive.
But "survival" and "life" are different. Poverty is an easy inducement to commit crimes. This is an eternal truth.
Therefore, this "cheap" place naturally became the last gray area in Gotham.
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"Huh... this is the air in the slums..." Feng Bujue, who stepped into this place, consciously inhaled the turbid air deeply into his lungs, looked up at the neon-lit streets, and said with some emotion.
"Although it doesn't smell good, it can make people feel at ease..."
Of course he knew that to find clues about those "super villains", he had to come to the East Area.
However, he didn't go straight to Gotham City as soon as he entered the city... Before coming to the East District, Feng Bujue also went to two other places.
The first place is a research institute owned by a pharmaceutical company located on the edge of the city.
It was not far from the sewer exit that Brother Jue passed through when he entered the city, so he basically went in along the way.
As a person who is quite familiar with various plots of the D universe, Feng Bujue certainly knows that "mister_reeze" works in this company; villains like this who have had serious jobs are actually
Very easy to find…
Sneaking into the facilities of such a private enterprise is not very troublesome. In Jue Ge's opinion, it is just like searching for something... He got a janitor's jumpsuit in the tool room, put it on himself, and sneaked into the office area. After a while, he was in
The man he was looking for, cryogenic scientist "Victor Fries", was found in the lounge on the second floor.
After talking with him and several of his colleagues, Feng Bujue quickly grasped the following information: Fries in this universe obviously did not become cold-blooded due to the experimental accident, and his wife did not die either; although his wife was still with
The setting known to Brother Jue also suffered from a serious degenerative disease, but coincidentally...shortly after his disease was diagnosed, the R&D department of Wayne Group developed a specific drug that could cure the disease.
As a result, Frith's wife was saved, and his family and job are now stable.
After collecting this information, Feng Bujue's hidden mission progress reached 3/10, indicating that Mr. Freeze's whereabouts had been found out.
Then, he went to the second place... Gotham University.
If sneaking into a private enterprise facility is about picking things up, then sneaking into a place like the university is the same as looking into the nose for Brother Jue. It took him twenty minutes to find one of his targets, Pami, on campus.
La Lillian Isley, also known as Poison Ivy.
The Pamela of this universe was not chosen as an experimental subject by botanist Jason Wood, because that Jason Wood died in a fire a few years ago, and his research materials were burned along with him.
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In other words, the person who was supposed to use Pamela was long dead, and the plant toxin that mutated Pamela was never discovered.
In the library, Feng Bujue pretended to be a student and chatted with Pamela for a while, and then got the above information. Naturally, he was misunderstood as a not-so-smart chatter who had nothing to say.
Brother Jue ended the conversation before the other party's attitude gradually became colder and the atmosphere became awkward. With his 4/10 mission progress, he went to find another target, Jonathan Klein, who was also at Gotham University.
,aka…scarecrow (sarero).
Feng Bujue is also very curious about the reason why the Scarecrow has not turned black, because this character basically slowly went to extremes due to the various bullying he suffered when he was a student... rather than because of some sudden incident he experienced as an adult.
The incident turned dark.
As a result, after chatting with the Gotham University psychology professor for more than half an hour in the cafeteria, Brother Jue finally came up with the answer in a roundabout way. The boys who bullied Jonathan and the girls who rejected and teased him...
All of them encountered a mountain disaster during a class reunion trip many years later. When the police found their bodies, many of them had been eaten by wild beasts in the mountains with only their clothes left.
And our Jonathan...or the gentleman who was supposed to be the scarecrow, because his student days were like hell and he had no relationship with these classmates, he didn't go to the party at all...so he luckily escaped.
After that incident, Jonathan's temperament changed a lot, as if a certain knot in his heart was untied... Of course, it can also be said to be a mentality of "big revenge must be avenged, God has eyes"
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In any case, the reason why Scarecrow has not turned black is roughly this... After hearing this, Feng Bujue's mission progress was also updated to 5/10.
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When he left Gotham University, it was already dusk. Brother Jue felt that time was almost up, so he rushed to his third stop, the East End.
"Hey! Are you blind?" Just as Feng Bujue was standing on the road and looking into the distance, someone suddenly bumped into him heavily with his shoulder and said these words first.
Brother Jue is very familiar with this kind of routine... Anyway, it's either trying to make trouble or looking for trouble.
Feng Bujue might not be polite to ordinary people, but towards people like this who obviously want to cause trouble... one can imagine his attitude.
"Huh?" The next second, Brother Jue's bad boy accent came online. He turned his head, squinted at the person who just passed by him, and then said, "Are you talking to me?"
"Nonsense!" It was a bald man. He was actually shirtless even in the cold weather. He had many tattoos on his torso, and there was almost no good skin left below his neck. "You are not only blind... you are also fucking
Deaf?"
The moment he finished saying this, he was kicked in the lower body.
Then, he instinctively covered his crotch and knelt down...
"Huh? What did you say? I still can't hear you..." Feng Bujue's kick came out very suddenly. After the kick, he acted as if nothing had happened, and his tone of voice was like a deaf old man.
, "...Say it louder again."
"You...you..." The bald man wanted to curse, but the severe pain in his balls made him only able to squeeze out a few words. He also wanted to stand up and hit someone, but before the severe pain in his buttocks was relieved...
He might have to maintain this kneeling position with his legs together for a while.
"Come to me again when you can speak eloquently." Feng Bujue looked at the other party with a condescending look, shrugged, left such words casually, and then turned around and left.
He knew that this gangster would definitely catch up with him and take revenge on him later, and he would probably call some accomplices... and this was exactly what he was looking forward to.
