Chapter 137
At 8 o'clock in the morning, Bruce Wayne, dressed in a suit and very formal, walked into Batcave in the wharf area accompanied by Alfred.
"To be honest, I hated this place at the beginning."
Alfred is just like an ordinary old man, and he looks at the place that has been moved. In the same space, he hehe smiled,
"This place is a bit too humid for the elderly. I even prefer the place under the manor, at least equipped with central air-conditioning."
"Starting today, we may not have to live like this anymore, we will all settle down."
Bruce reached out a little nostalgic and stroked the hidden grid. He gently pressed it down and the ground cracked. , What popped up was an empty bracket, where there were originally two sets of bat suits, one was "borrowed" by Cyber, and the other was taken back to Wayne Building by him.
"We are here to make the whole city better and better."
Alfred picked up the file on the table, opened the specially made incinerator, and put everything Throw them in, turning into a piece of ashes that no one can see.
"Will these things be burned?"
Alfred picked up some files and said to Bruce, "This is some information from the previous upgrades of the bat suit. I think we It’s better to keep it."
"Burn it, Alfred."
Bruce muttered to himself, "Burn the past to have a better life."
Alfred shrugged, "Well, then as you wish, I said, they might also arrest me and say that I am your accomplice."
"No, no, No, Alfred."
Bruce chuckled in a low voice, "I will tell them that everything is planned by you, I'm just an accessory... Alfred?"
No one To answer, Bruce turned around and saw Alfred and the youngster standing beside him, wearing a black trench coat and carrying a straight-bladed knife with a sheath.
Cyber Hawk!
"Hey, you are really good enough. You can find my hiding place in the past few days..."
Cyber helped Alfred patted with the ashes, he reached out Alfred took the files in his hand. While looking at him, he asked without looking up, "Why, do you want to fight me? I can ask you to change one first Clothes, your suit looks quite expensive."
"Hid you hide here the past few days?"
Bruce was not very angry. What Rachel did with Cyber After telling him, he still believes that Cyber treats them with kindness.
"Yes, it’s too difficult to find a place in Gotham that can be monitored without being discovered. You have never been here in the past few days. I just slept here. Don’t you Would you mind?"
Cyber put the papers in his hand on the table, he lifts the head and looked at Bruce as if an old friend met, but the ice in his eyes flees. But Bruce’s eyes, and then he heard this guy say,
"I heard you were scared of being beaten by Joker. Are you going to surrender?"
Bruce curl one's lip, no Speaking, he knew how poisonous Cyber's mouth was, and Cyber continued to ask,
"Surrender can be exchanged for life, right?"
"Um"
Bruce nodded, Cyber’s eyes flashed with a hint of mockery,
"Can it be exchanged for dignity?"
"Can it make the madman kneel on the ground and let He listened to the sorrows of those dead souls buried underground?"
Cyber walked slowly, he looked into Bruce’s eyes,
"I thought for a while that this The city will change. I think one day, it will be reborn from the ashes in your hands. I know you have a plan, and I know what you want to do."
"But it's not your sacrifice The reason for the name Batman...Compared to Bruce Wayne, Batman is my friend, my opponent, not you."
"You know if I face this situation, I will How to do it?"
Cyber reached out and clicked in Bruce's heart, "You have to show that you don't want anything, you have to show that you don't care about anything...a person who doesn't care about anything, yes There is no weakness."
"Joker wants you to see that in a critical moment, the self-proclaimed civilized people you protect will kill each other without any scruples. He succeeded in doing it, and you protect Those of you, the first target to raise the knife is you, they feel that they are threatened, they will eat you... drowning people who will not save themselves are not worth saving, their madness will save the savior Drag into the water together."
"If it was me, I would let him kill. If he didn't kill fast enough or ruthless enough, I would help him."
Cyber Spread your hands, like a person who embraces the world, "Joker can eat you because you are too kind, Bruce, you want to save everyone, but you failed to put your fangs on your kindness so that those who abandon Your people know that if they touch you, they will bleed too!"
Bruce looked at Cyber, calmly said,
"I am not you, and I will not be you. "
"That's why you take off your mask like a stray dog. You think you win, but you lose, Batman is dead, and Gotham's last pillar collapsed. "
Cyber turned around and hugged Alfred with a complex expression as farewell. He picked up the document in his hand and shrugged Bruce.
"Gotham's All Churches There is a truth to me: either die like a hero, or live to see yourself become a villain, I am not a hero, I will not die... Good luck, Bruce. "
At 9 o'clock in the morning, at the press conference of Gotham City Hall, the entire Gotham's celebrities, representatives of the public, and the media were all crowded here. 600 people squeezed into the site that can only accommodate 400 people. There are more people waiting at the gate of the city hall.
An unspeakable emotion spreads among the crowd. They are silent, anxious, and uneasy, and others are berating the people around them, calling them cowards , Is a traitor, but more people chose to be silent.
Harvey Dent stood in the corner of the podium, his expression was calm, the Mayor of Nestor and the others arrived slowly, they were sitting first In the row, Bruce Wayne is sitting in the second row, and there are many other businessmen who greet each other, and everyone is waiting.
Today, Batman will reveal his identity to deal with Joker's more unscrupulous The challenge. The sadness of a person with a bottom line is that they are often manipulated by people without a bottom line and forced to do a lot of things they can’t do.
The wall clock on the wall steadily points to 9 Point, Harvey took a deep breath, he strode to the front of the podium.
"Today, we will announce a sad news here..."
Harvey's tone barely fell, and a person dressed as a reporter shouted,
"Let Batman stand up! Enough people have died in this city! "
His speech immediately resonated with many people. They raised their hands and shouted various slogans. Harvey increased his voice.
"Yes, Today, Batman will stand up and show his identity to this city, but as a member of this city, I don't think this is a kind of salvation. "
He looked at everyone in front of him, his stern gaze calmed them down, and Harvey suddenly felt that the people sitting here were so ridiculous, they really thought they were protecting them. Or, if you hand over Batman, Joker will let them go?
In the face of a mad dog, any weakness will make them more unscrupulous.
He breathed a sigh of relief,
"From my point of view, Batman is breaking the law. I really want him to surrender, but we are doing this at this time, but not for this reason... We are scared, we were happy before Seeing Batman clean up the criminals for us..."
"But the situation is much worse than before. He didn't do it! "
Another man dressed in a suit and leather shoes stood up and said loudly, "Everyday all people die because of an absurd reason. This city does not need a knight above the law!" "
His tone barely fell, and another voice hidden in the crowd rang,
"Yes, it's all because of Batman, Joker and other talents will appear!" There was no such evil in this city before! "
Harvey is too lazy to argue with them. There are high-sounding people everywhere. Once they are pressed by a knife on their necks, they will reveal their cowardly nature, both of his hands on the podium, He said,
"Yes...I don’t deny this, the order is bad now, but I want anyone sitting here to know that the night before dawn is always the darkest , I assure you that dawn is coming... One day, Batman will apologize to us for breaking the law, but that is to us, not to the lunatic! "
Harvey roared in the lobby of this conference.
"I always believe that this city will return to its trajectory, rather than letting it go. Darkness and evil rule it. I know that this city will not bow to evil, and our people will not give their hero to that villain..."
"He is not a hero! He is just a paranoid who wears a mask and tries to override everyone with his own view of good and evil. Gotham doesn't need such a hero. It needs an enforcer of law and justice, Harvey, and you! Not Batman! "
This voice made Harvey's last persuasion come to nothing. The crowd's somewhat eased mood was provoked again. Those who were frightened began to frantically support this statement, while others supported Batman. People started quarreling and fighting with them, and the scene was chaotic to the extreme for a while.
"Okay, okay! stop! "
A mocking smile appeared on Harvey's face. He really saw the ugliness of human nature today. He raised his hand and shouted,
"Okay Now, let us arrest Batman, he is sitting among us! "
These words made everyone stop what they were doing, and began to look at anyone around him. Bruce, with a gloomy expression, was about to get up to welcome all this, but next moment, Harvey came out to act. On the podium, stand beside the two policemen, stretch out your hands.
"I am...Batman. "
Bruce was stunned. The Mayor of Nestor was stunned. Alfred, who was on the side, was stunned. Everyone was stunned. In fact, the whole Gotham's TV was stunned. Everyone in the live broadcast was stunned.
Even Cyber, who was sitting in the Golden Arch restaurant at this time, was stunned.
"This is really... "
Cyber put down the chicken legs in his hand, he looked at the screen on the TV while wearing sunglasses, he tried to find an adjective to describe Harvey Dent’s behavior, but he couldn’t say anything. In the end , He shook the head.
"This guy, what a mess! "
"What's going on! Harvey Why does he do this? "
Rachel, who was observing the live broadcast, stood up from the sofa. She looked at Lucius beside her a little bit not knowing what to do. The latter also took off her glasses. After ten seconds, Lu Hughes just said,
"Harvey Dent must have noticed something from what Bruce said. He didn't want Batman to be exposed like this. He chose to be the target so that Batman could move freely. He put the Joker into the army, and now Joker must act, even if he feels something wrong, he must do it..."
"He used his own method to push the lunatic into the corner. .. This youngster is really good! "
"But Harvey, he will be in absolute danger..."
Rachel was a little anxious to flip through her bag, and finally turned to the phone, she pressed Dial key,
"Cyber, please protect Harvey, he shouldn't do this. "
"Well... this is an interesting person who made a self-sacrifice. He is saving himself. Okay, I agree. "