Cobot looked around for a week. He first looked at the gun on Gordon's waist, then looked at the cold aura around Batman that had not dissipated, and then looked at his broken bones that had not yet healed and were tied to the armrest of the hospital bed.
on his right arm, he sighed and said:
"It is true that I killed the old umbrella maker Wei Jin, but I am not a thief or a robber. This umbrella should have been mine."
With Cobot's voice, the mystery is gradually revealed.
"My father, Old Cobot, was once the leader of the Cobot family, one of the four major families in the East District. At that time, the East District was still very prosperous. The four major families controlled dozens of streets in the entire East District, including the most central street.
, our old house on Green Street next to the Living Hell was once spacious and luxurious."
"I heard Bullock mention this history." Gordon leaned on the table and said, "But what does this have to do with you killing an innocent umbrella maker?"
"Innocent? He is not innocent!"
Cobot snorted coldly and said, "Well, you should also know that a few years ago, the old umbrella general Viking was the only handmade umbrella maker in Gotham City."
"Even now." Gordon looked at Schiller and said: "This kind of profession does not require many people, and few people will spend a lot of money to buy a handmade umbrella."
"But at that time, the gang bosses in the East District would go to the Weijin Umbrella Shop to customize a handmade umbrella."
"You may think that this is just a pursuit of handmade products or to show one's status..."
"Isn't that true? Because handmade products have a long production cycle, slow speed, and small output, they are sold at high prices, but in fact, their quality is no better than mechanically produced products." Batman also lowered his sights.
On Schiller.
Cobot shook his head and said, "You don't understand."
"My father also went to Weijin Umbrella Shop to customize an umbrella, but the umbrella maker broke the contract. He took my father's money but did not give him the umbrella on time, so my father got caught in the rain and died of pneumonia...
"
"This is ridiculous!" Gordon looked at Copot as if he were a madman and said, "You wouldn't say that you killed the umbrella maker to avenge your father, right?"
He stretched out his hand and said: "Okay, I admit that it is the old umbrella maker's fault that he took the money but failed to deliver the goods on time, but your father is only waiting for this umbrella? If he doesn't get this umbrella, he will
I’d rather get caught in the rain than hold an umbrella???”
Cobot stared at Gordon gloomily and said, "That's why I said, you don't understand anything."
"Who said my father didn't bring an umbrella with him when he went out? He did, but those umbrellas were useless."
Gordon looked at Cobot as if he were a madman, but Cobot didn't care. He closed his eyes, as if recalling something, and said: "My father knows something that others don't know. He has investigated it."
These things, that's something I can't describe..."
Then he opened his eyes, looked into Gordon's eyes firmly and said, "There is something wrong with the rain in Gotham."
"He told me this, when you want to prepare an umbrella to deal with the rainy days in Gotham, you'd better buy one from the Viking Umbrella Store, otherwise it will be useless."
Gordon frowned and asked in confusion: "What do you mean? You mean... only the umbrellas sold by the Viking Umbrella Store can block the rain in Gotham? What theory is this? Umbrellas produced in the factory are better than those produced in the factory.
What’s the difference with handmade umbrellas? Don’t they just need to cover the body?”
Schiller and Batman heard something different. They looked at each other, and Batman asked: "You mean, there is something wrong with the rain in Gotham, and only the umbrellas sold by the Viking Umbrella Store can really block the rain."
rain?"
Cobot nodded and said: "I don't know if you have heard that not everyone can buy the umbrellas in the Viking Umbrella Store. Some people can buy them, and some people can't."
"This means that some people want to protect some people from the rain and want to keep other people from the rain."
"But what's the point?" Gordon never understood that the issues they were talking about were completely inconsistent with his three views, and were more like mysterious codes.
Schiller put his finger on his chin and asked: "Then what happened to your father? Why did he buy an umbrella but still got caught in the rain?"
"I don't know." Cobot replied very simply: "I only know that he didn't get the umbrella on the day he was supposed to receive it, but something happened that forced him to go out. He knew in his heart that this
It may be dangerous, but he still has to go."
"What's that?"
"The old godfather's eldest son has died, and my father is going to attend the funeral."
"Do you think your father died because he didn't have an umbrella to really block the rain?"
"That's right, that's why I said, this umbrella should have been mine. My father paid for it, but he didn't receive it, and he paid for it with his life."
Schiller frowned, and he looked at Batman again. Obviously, they both thought of the same thing.
"So, you killed the umbrella maker just to avenge your father?" Gordon asked Cobot.
Before Cobbler could answer, Batman said: "No, he is not, he is not out for revenge."
Gordon looked back at Batman. Before he could ask, Schiller poked Gordon with the umbrella in his hand and said, "Don't ask, you just need to know that he is an absolute expert in revenge."
, that’s it.”
Then he turned to Copot and said: "You are indeed not a personality with revenge characteristics. In your opinion, things that can bring you tangible benefits are more important."
Cobot breathed out of his nose and said: "That's right, I'm not doing it for my father, but for my mother."
"That's why I keep asking you, doctor, can this disease really be cured?"
"What do you mean?"
Cobot said gloomily: "I suspect that my mother's illness may be... a curse."
"Curse? Tell me in detail."
"Before my mother got sick for the first time, she asked me for help. I don't remember what she said, but at that time, she was conscious and kept calling for help."
"Finally, on the eve of her madness, she said to me, umbrella, take the umbrella back, be sure to bring an umbrella..."
"I have known about my father's research for a long time, but it was not until then that I realized that his death was probably not just an accident. He became the one who was abandoned, without an umbrella or a shield.
If it rains, you won’t be able to survive.”
"My mother is crazy. Whenever I mention anything about my father to her, she will start twitching, hiding in fear, and can't tell any useful information."
"You suspect that your father and mother may have known something, so one was killed and the other was cursed, right?"
"Did your father tell you that there was something wrong with the rain in Gotham?" Batman asked Cobot.
"He mentioned it, but more importantly, I corroborated all of this." Cobot struggled to straighten up from the bed and said, "You upper class people and wealthy people will not notice the changes in living hell.
"
"Haven't you noticed that the order there has improved a lot?"
"Of course we found it." Gordon said: "The frequency of homicides there has been reduced a lot because people's living conditions have improved..."
"Stop talking nonsense, are there still a few rich bad guys in Gotham?" Cobot interrupted Gordon and said: "In the past, the residents of living hell drank water from wells. You know, the open-air ones?"
well."
"But it's different now. After the renovation is completed, their drinking water will have to go through the water purifier buried underground..."
"That's the crux of the problem." Cobot looked at Schiller and said, "I don't understand any psychological theory, but I know that a person's bad habits are difficult to change. If all the residents of living hell are
They are born bad, and even the improvement of living conditions cannot change them so completely."
"I have seen with my own eyes how chaotic and crazy the people there are, but since the transformation of the living hell was completed, they seem to have changed. Although they still follow the gang's routine, they are obviously much more normal."
"Do you think it's because their drinking water may have been mixed with rainwater from Gotham?" Batman asked.
"Yes, in fact, I tried to investigate the water purifier several times with the help of Fish's help, but failed. The thing was too complicated. I couldn't figure out what it was based on just some descriptions of its appearance.
How it works."
Schiller looked at Batman, and he saw that Batman was thinking. As a time traveler, he knew that this might be the truth. At least it was mentioned in some comics that the reason why Gotham is so chaotic is because there is a special substance in the water cycle.
It will make people crazy.
But he couldn't say this directly, he had to reason. So he knocked on the table, attracting everyone's attention, and said: "Let's analyze this logical chain."
"Oswald said that there is something wrong with the rain in Gotham, which can change people's personalities. The umbrellas sold by the umbrella maker Wiggin are the only tools that can effectively block the rain."
"Assuming this is true, then the umbrella maker Wei Jin has the ability to make umbrellas that can withstand such rain, but he sells them to some people and rejects others. What is his purpose?"
"Maybe he just can't do it?" Gordon guessed: "After all, making an umbrella by hand should be quite slow, right?"
"There aren't many people buying umbrellas," Cobot said. "It's so expensive, how many people can afford it? Ten years ago, only the top gang bosses in the East District could afford tens of thousands of dollars."
If he can afford it, even if he makes one a month, it will be enough to equip all the gang bosses in the East District with an umbrella in one year."
"So he is screening." Batman's voice came: ""This kind of logic forms a closed loop."
"The people behind the scenes use some method to make it rain in Gotham, and then control an umbrella maker to sell useful umbrellas to some people, so that some people can hold umbrellas and others have to get wet...
What will this lead to?"
He said to himself: "Some people are trying to maintain order, while others are falling into chaos and madness..."
"Or rather..." Schiller sighed and said: "One group of people is creating wealth for them, while the other group makes the city never have peace and be shrouded in darkness forever."
"There is only one question left now, who are they?" Cobot's tone was very cold. Even if he is not a revenge-driven person like Batman, from Penguin's point of view, this organization that destroyed his family must still pay.
cost.
At this time, Schiller took an umbrella and walked to the bedside. Looking at Cobot, he showed a creepy smile and said:
"No wonder they knew it was me who caused all the changes. It turned out that they had been targeting me for a long time."
Cobot stared at him silently. Schiller turned the umbrella in his hand, then held the middle, handed the handle to Cobot, and said: "Mr. Cobot..."
"It calls the Court of Owls. Get your umbrella and kill them."