Chapter 147
Gotham is a city built on the coast. The whole city is surrounded by sea water. It is precisely because of this that it has been able to develop in the past by relying on the shipping industry, but The disadvantage of this type of terrain is that it has only 7 sea-crossing bridges, seabed tunnels, and railroad tracks erected in the air.
Joker's threat is historical and purposeful. Even Gotham's hero Harvey Dent was secretly calculated by him. Now he does not know his life or death. After this news came, the entire Gotham's confidence was severely hit, although The mayor also announced that he was kidnapped, but he returned safely under the rescue of the police. He also transferred 500 National Guards into the city in an attempt to save the city’s confidence. However, this series of measures only allowed The city has recovered so little from the brink of collapse.
And now, Joker has issued a threat again. This time is for the whole Gotham... Almost all people who can move have moved. The tickets for all ships still docked at Gotham Wharf are within one hour. The interior was sold out, and some people even drove a small yacht to sit in the business of transporting people away, and the train station was overcrowded.
But just the throughput of Gotham Harbor, which has become increasingly chaotic recently, is far from meeting the needs of the city.
There are 800W people here, even if only one third wants to escape the city, the terrifying traffic is an extremely severe challenge to the city’s public transportation construction.
Two hours later, Gotham's night has come, and the helpless citizens can only take the risk of choosing tunnels and bridges, but unfortunately, the mayor has announced that no one can pass bridges and tunnels... of course For the sake of their lives, Mayor Nestor really doesn't want to see the news of someone being injured.
The National Guard was sent by him to bridges and tunnels, using explosives detection instruments, almost inch by inch, detecting danger in every place. Two armored vehicles were blocked in front of the bridge, and the soldiers were loaded with live ammunition. With the line of defense, they are preparing to prevent shock events from happening. In this case, once chaos occurs, the terrifying consequences will be greater than the real explosive terrifying.
The entire city’s traffic lines have been completely paralyzed. People trying to drive out of the city have made a big mistake. The crowded traffic has been photographed from the port area to the central area. Everyone is honking their horns frantically, knowing that there is no People will make way for them, and there is no way to make way, but the natural despicability of human nature is undoubtedly revealed in this brief moment.
On both sides of the road, there are scuffled guys everywhere, the shadow of death surrounds their heads, laughing wildly, this kind of pressure almost destroys everyone’s fragile spirit, only a fire star is needed , This destroyed chaos will evolve into a bloody conflict, and then it will be like a fire like star, more enemy prairie fires in the entire city.
The whole city was full of chickens and dogs. The police call of Gotham Police Station was blown out within 15 minutes. After Wuertz's death, the gangsters who had been completely scared and dared to submit to Joker , Under the orders of the new Boss, they attacked frantically and kidnapped everyone who could be kidnapped.
There are gunshots everywhere, and some people take the opportunity to rob, force X, and do things that they would normally not dare to do. The chaos triggers despicable desires in people’s hearts, just like fire. Add oil.
Look, Joker’s words are not unreasonable...Under the rapid development of civilization, what is hidden is the more fragile human heart. You know, in Barbarian Desolate Era, there is no such thing as madness. In that era, people like Joker might be regarded as a prophet.
But when the glamorous civilized coat is pulled out in a crazy form, exposing your true self to the sun, has this evolved...or degraded?
This is what Joker wants, to show the ugliest and most comical aspect of the order of the entire society in front of everyone. He doesn’t need their money, he doesn’t need their lives, he just wants To destroy the spirit of everyone.
Gotham on this day is like a real hell on earth.
In the dock area, the passenger ship named "The Brave" docked slowly. This is the hire ship of the Gotham harbor bureau. It was originally used to transport goods and dock workers. Now it is urgently mobilized to transport it. These citizens, cheers from the crowd waiting on the shore, crowded on the railings of the pier, waving the banknotes in their hands.
The captain said to the chief mate proudly,
"It’s really hard to find a ticket... I said that there would be a good thing when you came to Gotham at the beginning. Get on the shore! The ticket is doubled. …No, no, no, triple it! We can run again before midnight, the next..."
The captain squinted his eyes and looked at the crazy people on the dock. He even He couldn't see the edge at a glance, and a sharp rays of light flashed in his eyes,
"Ten times!"
But the impossible is always occupied by one person. At the moment when the "Brave" was docked, a dozen police vehicles with live ammunition escorted 7 large prison vehicles to the port. The reloaded police fired their guns in the sky. It took several minutes to clear out at the pier. A way.
Then the National Guard escorted mortals in orange prison uniforms and chains and shackles out of the prison car. At the forefront, the assistant of the Mayor of Nestor was tough on the brave. The captain of the number said,
"It is an emergency now, your ship has been requisitioned!"
"Why? This is illegal!"
The captain is big Screaming, he had a chance to make a lot of money, but he encountered this kind of thing. How could he not be mad, but at the next moment, a major of the National Guard came over with a pistol in his hand and looked at the captain indifferently. ,
"We are ordered to escort a group of dangerous prisoners out of Gotham. If you don't plan to sail, you can get off. I have someone who can sail...Do you understand? Here, you are not a necessity!"
"But why?"
The captain gritted his teeth and was unwilling to give in. He pointed at the citizens waving frantically on the pier, and pointed at those who were escorted to enter. The prisoner in the cabin,
"Isn’t the life of the citizens not as valuable as those damn scumbags?"
"No matter what Joker is planning, he has gathered the rest of the Gotham gang The power of keeping these people related to the gang in Gotham is simply a time bomb..."
The mayor’s assistant patted the captain’s shoulder, whispered,
"Help. , Buddy, if everything goes well, I can apply for the privilege clause to the Port Authority for you!"
The captain's eyes suddenly lit up. He looked up at the dimming night. He pursed his lips. The chief assistant took out his pocket watch to check the time.
"It is 9:34 in the evening. If we are fast enough, you can come back and come back again... No one will have trouble with money, right?"
"Okay! Let them come up quickly, we will sail in 5 minutes!"
On the other side, a cruise ship full of lucky Gotham locals also changed Offshore, everything seemed so normal. Except for the dissatisfied yelling voices of the citizens who left the prisoners away first and the citizens left on the pier, everything seemed to be very harmonious.
In the basement of the Wayne Building, Lucius is busy manipulating the giant sonar that monitors the entire city in front of him, and the large network of ultrasound and sound collection constructed by mobile phones throughout the city. This middle age person is now It was Gotham's uncrowned king. As long as he wanted to, even the secrets hidden by the mayor could not be hidden from his eyes and ears.
But Lucius would not do this...
"Found it, Wayne!"
Lucius opened the contact device in his ear. He locked the ultrasonic frequency band in a fixed area and kept shrinking, and finally, he reported a position.
"Fourth Avenue in the Docklands, close to the construction area on the narrow island, if I remember correctly, there should be the construction site of Pier 21 that Wayne Industries plans to build. He is on the 14th floor...Oh, By the way, there are many hostages. It is conservatively estimated that there are more than 40 people. Children, women, and members of the Joker gang are watching them... No matter what you plan to do, you'd better rescue them first!"
"Received!"
Bruce's voice came out. In the dim night, the bat bike started in the dark alley, moving towards the dock area and galloping all the way.
Lucius put down the contact device, he looked at the screen in front of him, there was a slight struggle on his face, and finally, he picked up the phone and dialed the phone.
"He is in the construction area of Fourth Avenue in the Docklands..."
Lucius whispered into the microphone, "Cyber, Bruce rushed over, but I was worried that he would still Would make the same choice. You are right, Joker... a dangerous person like him should not continue to exist."
"Very well, Lucius...this time, I will not give He has a chance."
Cyber's eyes were reflected in the long knife that was wiped clean. It was an indifferent gaze. When a person makes up his mind, he can see it from his eyes, and his eyes will never look away. Will deceive.
"Crack"
The long knife was put into its sheath, Cyber put down the phone, and put the ghost face on his face, he looked back, in the dark living room of the villa, in the mirror , Reflected, is a dark red silhouette.
The mottled mask, the slender Battle Armor, the trembling dark red cloak, in the darkness, he uttered a low laugh, opened the door, he took a deep breath, and then strode into the darkness inside.
"Those prisoners are still quiet?"
The captain of the Brave took a sip and looked at the chief mate next to him, who was nodded, "More than 20 soldiers watched They, the Gotham government is really here this time, and their gun insurance is turned on."
"Well, that’s good, let’s speed up, I really don’t want those scumbags to stay with me. The captain was snorted. He pulled the joystick, but at the next moment, all the lights on the Brave were dimmed and turned on again after a while. The rays of light dimmed a lot. The captain was dumbfounded and shouted loudly,
"What's the matter? Why did you switch the backup power supply?"
His tone barely fell, and the captain rushed up anxiously. ,
"Captain! Captain! Our engine broke down! Some wires were cut, and I saw him jump into the sea! The crap! He trapped us here!"
"What?"
When the captain heard this, he turned his head suddenly and saw that the cruise ship that had been advancing side by side with them had also stopped. The lights on the deck were all off, and he could still I vaguely saw that several people jumped off the deck, and they also encountered the same thing.
"What's going on, who can tell me?"
The captain yelled, and the captain put a box into his hand, and he wiped it off his forehead. Sweat, "I found this in the cabin!"
At the same moment, on the Brave and the cruise ship, the radio was turned on, and the sound that brought the terrifying disaster to Gotham sounded again. It exploded in everyone's hearts like a bomb.
"Hi, ladies and gentlemen...Hello, I’m the host of the game tonight, you can call me TheJoker!"
"Tonight you will join my A social experiment, with the help of the magic of diesel and ammonium nitrate explosives, I am ready to blow you all into the sky... Don’t try to find the location of the bomb. Only I know it is placed there, and whoever tries to disembark, as long as I see it, You will all die!"
"The Brave and the Flying, you are the experimenters selected by me. Listen to me...Listen to me patiently. There is a detonator on each ship, but Attention, that can detonate another ship. It’s 10:17 in the evening. When midnight arrives, I will blow you all up."
On the Yacht Flying, a young man The girl screamed, and the whole ship fell into madness in an instant, and on the Brave, when the first prisoner stood up, the indifferent major aimed his gun at him and opened the insurance,
"You! Sit down!"
Joker didn't finish his words. He seemed to feel the restlessness on the two ships. After a few seconds, he spoke again,
p>"But... But if one of the boats detonates the other side first, I will kindly let the boat live. So, which boat will it be? Who will survive? Damn it A scumbag, or an innocent citizen?"
His voice was full of ridicule,
"Look, I said, I want you to participate in the game Here, it’s up to you to choose the fate of more than 400 people!"
"Oh, yes...maybe you should hurry up, because the people on the other ship may not be as noble as you... Putting his life in the hands of others is really stupid, isn’t it?"