In a temporary office converted from a guest room, Amanda Waller put down her monitoring headphones in a panic, turned to her subordinates behind her and yelled: "Hurry up and notify the emergency security department and ask them to put this matter under control."
Get down! Hurry up!"
The subordinate who was yelled at by her looked confused. He didn't understand Amanda's order, so he instinctively repeated it: "Suppress what?"
"Of course it's about Bruce Wayne and his weird little quirks! Notify the major newspapers now and tell their editors to shut up!"
"But……"
As if she couldn't bear it anymore, Amanda threw the headphones on the table, turned to look at the other agent and said, "Where is the director? I want to talk to him in person!"
Before she could finish her words, the door was knocked open with a bang, and a strong black agent limped in, supporting the director of the FBI.
Amanda showed a surprised expression and hurriedly rushed forward. The director fell into the sofa, gritted his teeth and cursed: "That damn Bruce Wayne, what does he want to do? I will make him understand how outrageous he is.
, and what price he will pay for his reckless behavior!"
"Amanda, our old friend Sower, the editor-in-chief, should still be in charge of the current affairs section of the Washington Post. Call him immediately. In the next three days, the Washington Post will fully report on Bruce Wayne's abuse and sexual abuse.
The matter of violating the adopted son."
Amanda didn't say anything, let out a long sigh, walked to the table, and picked up the headphones. The director turned to look at her with a rather dissatisfied expression on his face.
Amanda brought the recording equipment over and put it on the table with a bang. The director looked at the earphones in her hand with surprise. He rolled his eyes up and glanced at Amanda before answering impatiently.
Come over here and put it on your ears.
What came from the monitoring headphones was a recording from a certain room in the hotel. The sound inside was very loud and sounded very violent. Even through the headphones, everyone could vaguely hear the last sentence echoing in the room.
"Believe me, by that time, I will definitely use everything I saw at the bottom of Gotham to make it impossible for everyone in this country to come down..."
The director's expression changed from initial anger to confusion, to shock, and finally to slight panic.
As if he was electrocuted, he took off the earphones with a swish. His bulging eyeballs seemed to shoot out from their sockets. He put his hands into fists on his lips and coughed twice.
"Is he Jason Todd? I mean the kid who looks younger."
Amanda sat opposite the director, crossed her legs, nodded and said, "Yes, Jason Todd was born in the poorest community in Gotham. When he was about three years old, both his parents died and he became a Gotham."
He was a street child until he was adopted by Batman when he was about 10 years old.”
The director's eyes widened again. He looked directly at Amanda and confirmed: "He lost his parents when he was 4 years old. He grew up independently in the Gotham slums and was not adopted until he was 10 years old???"
Amanda rolled her eyes and nodded.
"Well..." The director made a long sound, turned his hands in front of him, pursed his lips again, covered his mouth with his hands, lowered his head, and then looked up at Amanda.
"I mean, is it possible that we only let another orphan participate in the interview? I mean the kid named Richard Grayson. His parents should have died relatively late, right?"
"Huh." Amanda sneered and said, "Then how are you going to explain to the judge and jury that only one of the two victims appears in the photo, and where is the other?"
"Maybe... maybe... he is very ill, and the doctor thinks that his physical condition is not suitable to appear in court..."
Amanda raised her head and made a look of realization, then gradually spread her fingers and said: "Then which hospital can ensure that Batman's assistant lies on the hospital bed honestly, and which court can stop him?
The young hero who fights criminals in Gotham, guarantees that they won't walk in on him in the middle of court?"
The director stood up, lifted the back hem of his suit, put his hands on his hips and started pacing on the side of the sofa. He said: "Perhaps we can apply for a mental evaluation for him. As long as we prove that his condition is not stable enough, we may be able to avoid him...
"
"You know, we don't have a psychiatrist who dares to do a mental evaluation on any Gothamite." Amanda shook her head and said, "I used this trick 12 years ago to get Wayne Group to give up profits on the maintenance of the Gotham Bridge project.
As a compromise, we sent a team of psychological experts to inspect the operations of Arkham Psychiatric Hospital to ensure that no patient abuse occurred there."
"After they came back, the experts all praised the place because they were admitted to the hospital soon after and we never heard from them again."
The director pinched his temples with both hands and said: "There is an orphanage in Gotham, right? Even if Jason Todd was not adopted from the orphanage by Bruce Wayne, this boy has at least been there, and the orphanage is the same as the orphanage.
Wayne Group’s shady dealings…”
"I used this trick eight years ago." Amanda sighed, took the water glass and poured herself water and said: "A team of agents entered the Gotham Welfare Institute to collect evidence. Five people died in gang fights, and three people died.
They died in the explosion, two of them had their bodies mutilated, and only some tissue samples were found in the sewers. The other one was caught by the children in the orphanage and had his head chopped off..."
The director paused, thought carefully, shook his finger and said, "Then the employees of Wayne Group..."
"Wear the same pants as Bruce Wayne, and so do the shareholders."
"Manor housekeeper or tutor..."
"There is no tutor, Bruce Wayne has an old butler." Amanda waved to the subordinate next to her, and the young agent came over and handed Amanda a piece of information.
Amanda squinted her eyes and rolled her eyes and said: "He used to be the personal butler of Bruce Wayne's father, Thomas Wayne, and has served the Wayne family for more than 40 years..."
The director's eyes suddenly lit up.
"That's him. Such a butler must have a lot of secrets about Wayne. As long as he can testify in court... it won't be difficult, right? We can afford any price."
But then Amanda's words were like a bucket of cold water that extinguished his newly ignited enthusiasm.
"Alfred Pennyworth, served in the British MI5 during World War II..."
"You want to say he's a spy?"
"Later transferred to MI6..."
"Okay, Soviet spy."
Amanda closed the document, turned to look at the director and said, "You know now is not the time to think about personal grudges. If you want to make things worse between Bruce Wayne and his adopted son, the microphone will inevitably be handed over to Jason."
Todd, and the people of Gotham say anything."
The director gritted his teeth, limped back to the sofa and sat down, putting his hands on his knees and said: "Yes, we all know that there is a sewer there, and it must be full of dirt and smelly, but
Just because no one knows about it, you can't just lift the lid and let everyone smell the stink."
Amanda snorted again and said: "Let's be realistic, if we choose to let the situation develop, hyenas from major newspapers will swarm in and fill the space around Jason Todd and Richard Grayson with microphones.
Every space.”
"If these two crazy Gotham teenagers say something they shouldn't and New Jersey, a hard-core deep blue state, explodes, you're going to get kicked by the ass into the Atlantic Ocean."
The director covered his forehead.
"Go..." he said angrily: "Go and inform the media. Don't make random reports. We have to talk to Bruce Wayne."
"Don't you understand the current situation?" Amanda sighed deeply, put the water glass back on the table and said: "Wayne is threatening us, he has identified our weakness."
She looked to the side with her eyes and recalled: "As you said, everyone knows that there is a cesspit in New Jersey, but there is a final fig leaf on this cesspit, and that is Gotham's economic development."
"Over the years, whether we, the military, or Congress, we have made countless compromises to the Wayne Group, because only Bruce Wayne has the courage to stir up shit and the ability to cover the shithole so that it won't
The stench spread across five continents."
“When people criticize Gotham, we say, Gotham isn’t poor, they have money, so they just choose their own lifestyle and that’s their freedom, but we all know that’s fucking bullshit!
"
"None of the talented politicians in America can shovel shit out, so we can only count on Wayne to cover it up."
"Wayne's use of Gotham's criminals to threaten people in Congress may seem a bit radical, but we all know that he is just trying to negotiate terms and raise the price first so as to gain more initiative."
"We all know he won't really throw those criminals out, because if he wanted to, he would have done it already, but no one knows whether he really doesn't want to be this fig leaf anymore."
"Leaving Gotham, there's a vast world to explore, and if Bruce Wayne decides to take it a step further, no one can stop him."
"So we'd better not treat him with the idea that giving him a little favor will make him stop." Amanda stood up, crossed her arms and said, "Don't you think this looks like a trap?"
The director looked up at her, was stunned for a moment, then opened his eyes wide again, and said, "You don't mean to say that this was actually Bruce Wayne's intention, do you?"
"He deliberately left that photo there to reveal his identity and his relationship with his adopted son. He knew that there were people waiting to catch him. Whether it was us or the military, they would definitely seize the opportunity to beat up the drowned dog."
"We will help him heat up the scene, work hard to promote public opinion, and let the world see Wayne's little tail."
"When the world's attention focused on this, he then asked his adopted son to reveal the darkness and injustice at the bottom of Gotham in a media interview, ruthlessly tearing off the faces of our military and Congressmen."
The director's tone became more and more panicked, and in the end it almost turned into a scream. He suddenly stood up, and then asked in confusion: "But why did he do this? He offended everyone, right?"
What good is he?"
"He has offended everyone, but he will also become famous and gain a lot of favor among the people."
"Gotham is terrible, but it is the Wayne Group that has kept Gotham from being poor and rotten. When the time comes, his adopted son from the bottom of Gotham will tell how much effort the Wayne Group has put in to save the city.
If you tell the heart-warming parent-child story between them, how many people do you think will not buy it?"
"But the media won't all..."
The director couldn't go on. They could control the media because Wayne didn't want to control the media, and if Wayne wanted to, no one else could.
Again, there are few people in this world who will not be impressed by Wayne Group.
The director grabbed his hair hard and said, "What's going on with him? Could he be like those crazy people in Gotham..."
The director's movements suddenly froze. He slowly looked at Amanda, and Amanda also raised her eyes to look at him. They both understood that they had inferred the same possibility.