It was another rainy night. On the road full of water, the lights of the cars flashed by. Gordon quickly walked down the stairs in his rain boots, shook hands with Schiller who was walking up, and said in an exaggerated tone.
: "Thank God, Professor, you came just in time!"
"Let's talk after we go in."
Gordon pushed open the door of the police station. Before he could bring Schiller to the office, a young police officer came over and said, "Boss, the interrogation room on the second floor is full. The drunkard and Scarface had a fight."
It took three people to pull them apart, and the black man with the band tattoo was even more crazy. We don’t have enough manpower to keep track of so many prisoners..."
Gordon sighed and said, "If we catch the person later, there is no need to interrogate him. We can just lock him up first."
Gordon led Schiller up the stairs. He walked in front, walking quickly, and said without looking back: "These people have gone crazy recently. The crime rate in Gotham has increased 12 times today, and the interrogation rooms and cells cannot be accommodated."
Already."
"I don't even know what's going on. Everyone is so angry." After Gordon walked to the corridor, he pointed to the end of the corridor and said, "The two people in the interrogation room were angry because of a pack of cigarettes.
There was a fight with a couple in the room on the left. When the couple quarreled, they used knives and guns..."
"I thought this was everyday life in Gotham." Schiller quickly walked up the stairs and stood behind Gordon and said.
"This was indeed the case in the past, but since the logistics system became operational, there have been very few idle people like this. I didn't expect it to appear again."
He sighed and said: "But as expected, the water on the city's roads is too serious, the logistics operation has basically come to a standstill, and everyone is idle at home."
"But you still feel it's abnormal, right? Otherwise you wouldn't have come to me."
"That's right, even if Gotham was so bad before, there shouldn't be so many mental patients popping up overnight."
"Right now, in the office on the third floor, two people are twitching all over, one is foaming at the mouth, and the other has started talking nonsense."
"Our police officers conducted alcohol and drug tests on them, but they showed that there were no problems. They just fell ill suddenly."
Gordon stood at the door of the office, put his hands on his hips, and said to Schiller: "If the boy named Cobot hadn't been ill last time, I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference, but their symptoms are very similar, so I have to call you over.
Look, what is going on?"
Schiller frowned. He pushed open the office door and saw several people huddled in the corner. Just like Copot at that time, they were soaked and twitching, mumbling to themselves.
Schiller shook his head and said: "I had expected it. This is the sequelae of being caught in the rain."
Gordon didn't hear what he said clearly. Just when he was about to ask again, Schiller interrupted him and said: "Don't worry about it for now. Transfer them to Arkham. Just as you expected, this
It’s not normal, I need to conduct further examination.”
When Schiller arrived at his office at Arkham Asylum, it started raining heavily outside the window again, and this time it rained less than 4 hours ago.
Schiller walked to the window and watched the raindrops hitting the guardrail outside the glass, reflecting a faint sheen. He calculated silently in his mind that the thunderstorms were becoming more and more frequent, from once every two days two weeks ago to once a day.
Once, and it has already rained heavily three times today.
He walked out of the office and knocked on the door of the ward next door. Batman's voice came from inside: "Please come in."
Schiller walked in and saw him and Cobot standing on both sides of the table. There was a map of Gotham City on the table. After Schiller entered, he said directly: "It seems that the plan really disgusted them.
"
Cobot smiled sinisterly, and the corner of Batman's mouth twitched, and he said: "You gave me a new understanding of the despicableness of human tactical plans."
"If you don't use this method, even if you catch them by the tail, they will only hide deeper and deeper, and will not take the initiative to jump out."
Batman sighed, his thoughts going back to a few days ago.
Evans, Batman and Cobblet speculated that the method used by the Court of Owls to monitor the Living Hell was the well, but this was still just a conjecture and needed further verification.
Batman planned to sneak into the Living Hell to investigate, but Cobblet refused. He felt that the Living Hell was his own territory and there was no need for Batman to interfere.
Batman adhered to his usual skeptical style. He didn't trust Cobot and still planned to do it himself.
The two were in a stalemate, and finally, with the mediation of Evans, the two split up, with Cobot investigating the North District and Batman investigating the South District. The two went about their own business without interfering with each other.
During the reform of the Living Hell, a total of six wells in the South District and North District were filled in. However, this filling did not block the wells from bottom to top. In order not to damage the structure of the groundwater, only about three meters of water on the surface were filled.
The area with an area of 3 meters was put up with supports and poured, turning it into the ground, while the part below three meters was still a well.
Batman found the entrance to a sewer step by step, and then planned to dig a passage from the ground to the bottom of the well.
But a wild man like Cobot, who had no academic background, had a broader idea. He still found tires, red trucks, rockets and others to form a team, intending to use special methods to investigate.
These people are different from Batman, who is rich and willful. After all, they don't have a set of sturdy equipment, not even night vision goggles. It is unrealistic to find out the original structure of the living hell in the complex sewers.
Yes, but wild roads also have wild roads.
This starts with the old drug dealer who provided them with the map.
The most indispensable thing in Gotham is all kinds of geniuses who have gone astray, and the best among them are these gopher-like drug dealers.
In Gotham, it is true that there will be no police to stop you from selling these contraband, but the biggest danger comes from your peers.
This kind of thing must be stored and transported, and once the storage location and transportation route are discovered by other gangs, then you will be waiting for the valuable goods to disappear.
In order to avoid this situation, most drug dealers operating in the living hell have their own transportation routes.
The same goes for this old drug dealer. He has joined forces with several other big business leaders to control most of the underground passages within the Living Hell.
They do not walk on the ground at all, but transport goods directly through underground passages. This way they can avoid being discovered by gangsters in the living hell and reduce the probability of being robbed.
When the Living Hell was reformed, most of the underground passages were destroyed by foundation supports, but there were still a few that were usable. Coppert obtained this information and found the secret at the bottom of the well faster than Batman.
Their guess was good. Among the five wells in the North District, three wells were connected to a secret room at the bottom. The rooms were also connected to each other and led to a larger conference room.
When Copper found this place, he did not enter rashly, but notified Batman.
Batman, who is better at sneaking in, touched the periphery of these rooms. After investigation, he found that unlike the huge conference room he discovered before, there were traces of recent human activity here.
Batman thought that their predictions were indeed good. If Owl has really been operating here for decades, then they will never completely abandon Gotham's territory. Even if they have to move urgently due to some accidents, they will definitely stay in other strongholds.
Guard personnel.
After several days of squatting, Batman discovered that the underground of the living hell seemed to be the new stronghold of the members of the Court of Owls.
In line with the principle of exchanging information between members of the Gotham Secret Society, Batman simply told Schiller these situations, but Schiller acted as if he had been prepared, and came up with a very speechless, but potentially extremely effective plan.
.
As Schiller said, it is not difficult to catch the tail of the Court of Owls, or even to break into their stronghold. However, if they cannot succeed in the first attempt, then they will definitely escape and hide deeper. This kind of hide-and-seek game is
It's endless.
Therefore, there must be a plan to actively force them out, let them show their weaknesses, and create a chance for success.
The specific plan is this. Schiller speculated that even if the Court of Owls is hidden underground, they must use energy for lighting and communication.
So where does this energy come from?
Although it is not ruled out that they have their own independent energy facilities, according to Schiller's understanding of the Court of Owls, they are like tumors growing on normal tissues. The more likely method they use is to mix their own energy into the living hell during transformation
People then pull a thread from the energy system of the Living Hell to power themselves.
So Schiller asked Gordon to find a little slippery guy, and then asked Cobot to take the little slippery guy around twice in the living hell.
Sure enough, Little Slippery soon discovered that there was a power line going in the wrong direction. Following this line, Cobot found the energy pipeline of the Court of Owls' stronghold.
In addition to the power supply, there are also other pipelines, and the above-ground parts are hidden and unguarded.
And Schiller's ultimate plan is to dump shit.
By connecting the Living Hell's sewerage treatment pipeline and the Owl Court's energy supply pipeline, the entire Living Hell's sewer system will be connected to the Owl Court's pipeline.
Needless to say, the results are natural. In Gotham, there is no place with a higher population density than the Living Hell area, so the shit-making ability here is naturally top-notch.
"The excrement flooded their stronghold and turned it into a huge methane pit."
Batman's tone was a little tense. He said: "And judging from the situation at the scene, some people were unable to escape in time when they fell..."
Batman was silent for a moment, as if to suppress the nausea caused by his imagination. After that, Batman said quite pertinently: "Although it is disgusting, it is effective."
"You said before that they have trained a lot of killers. If I break in alone, I'm not sure I can beat them all."
"Even if I can beat them, once they hold me back and release the killer, the residents of this living hell will suffer."
"The living hell is that Gotham is the most densely populated place. No matter what the Court of Owls does there, there will be a lot of casualties. For this reason, we have to force them out of there. Although we use..., they will definitely take care of it when they escape.
No more killing people."
Schiller looked at Batman, the corners of his mouth were still turned down, looking deep and serious.
Schiller thought that maybe this is what makes Batman unique among superheroes. Although personal heroism is still inevitable, he is willing to use his own setbacks in exchange for tactical victory, rather than greedy for credit and rash advancement to show off his own self.
of strength.
When faced with a despicable tactic, one does not take charge of it from the moral high ground, but makes rational analysis and judgment. Perhaps this is the basic quality of a master tactician.