mtl008 Chapter 3300 Bloody New City (49)
Chapter 3300 Bloody New City (49)
Chapter 3300 Bloodshed in New City (Forty-nine)
In Batman's eyes, everything seemed to have suddenly been accelerated.
No one waited for him to investigate carefully, prepare countless backup plans, and then implement them together to keep things firmly under his control, as usual.
Clark wrote the article extremely quickly, and it was basically completed in just one night. But he did not publish the article through the editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet because he did not want to implicate ordinary people.
The reports he received some time ago made him famous, so he also has his own personal homepage. Although he doesn't have many fans yet, his fans are all experts in spreading news on various public opinion platforms. Even smaller newspapers cannot match their influence.
As soon as the article came out, the world was shocked.
Some people might think, we all know Gotham sucks, so why are we still expecting more from it? Why are we surprised by something so bad?
In fact, the people who are truly shocked by this kind of thing are not ordinary people, but the upper class of the entire world.
Ordinary people just enjoy talking about it as if it were a joke. But it's just a little talk and a little fun and that's it. They come for the blood and violence and leave after their curiosity is satisfied.
But high society was genuinely shocked.
This involves a problem: since the upper class dares to do anything bad, why would they be afraid of being exposed?
In other words, since they are already so powerful, why should they bow to social moral standards?
Can't I just admit: I am evil, I am cruel, and I am inhumane?
Throughout history, there is also a very interesting phenomenon. Regardless of which country or region a tyrant is from, they will try their best to avoid being called a tyrant, and even kill more people for this purpose.
So why can't he just admit that he's a tyrant?
Theoretically speaking, he has already stood at the top of the human pyramid. Even if he admits it, what can he do?
Not only do they deny it, they even talk about morality. Whether it is killing innocent people or taking human lives, they have to have a reason. If they can't find an excuse, they will make up one.
Why is this?
In fact, it is not that they are stupid and doing useless work, but it is precisely because they are too smart.
They understand that maintaining morality is actually maintaining their own rule, and the collapse of social morality means that the day when their rule collapses is not far away.
The upper class does not believe in the theory of destiny. They understand better than anyone how powerful the ordinary people who seem to be trampled under their feet are.
In addition to the laws they make, ordinary people are also constrained by social morality. The law maintains the upper limit, and morality maintains the lower limit.
The destructive power caused by a tyrant's disregard for morality may be 100, while the destructive power caused by an ordinary person's disregard for morality may be 1. The gap seems huge, but the bigger gap is the quantity.
A tyrant does one bad thing every day, causing 100 damages. But if only one in ten thousand ordinary people does evil, the damage caused is times that of him.
Although various means can be used to guide most of the damage so that it falls on ordinary people, given the huge number of people, even if one thousandth of the damage falls on the rulers, it will be a calamity.
Therefore, the rulers must uphold social morality. Even if anything they do does not conform to moral standards, they must find ways to cover it up and desperately find excuses for themselves. If they can't find any, they have to show their attitude.
Otherwise, once people have the idea that "I can do what the emperor can do", your death will definitely be beyond your imagination.
Clark's article shocked the upper class because they thought Gotham's upper class must be crazy. How could they be so blatantly and obviously evil? Isn't this courting death?
Even if you want to start a gambling game, can't you just play it within your own circle? Even if you want to gamble the lives of ordinary people, why bother telling ordinary people? Even if it's not intentional, it's too imprudent.
Moreover, it would be fine if the news leaked out, but you even printed out those evil and perverted ideas, as if you were afraid that others would not know how cruel you are. Isn't this a broken brain?
There are only a few people in the upper class, and how many people are there in the entire Gotham City? If those ordinary people knew that you wanted to use these cruel traps on them, they would let you know what true cruelty is.
There is also an unwritten rule in the upper class that you don't play with idiots.
You can be bad, but you can't be stupid. If you are stupid, you'd better hide it. Once you are exposed, no one will be kind enough to remind you or help you. They just want to wait for you to die so that they can share a bite of your meat.
This is true at the individual level, but also at the city and region level.
There are only so many resources, and if people in one place take them, people in other places will have nothing left. And if people in one place take less, other places will naturally be able to take more.
Gotham is the richest city on the East Coast. If something happens to the Gotham group, the first to benefit is Metropolis, then other cities on the East Coast, then other states, and possibly even other countries.
It would be fine if the rich people in Gotham didn't do anything stupid, but since such a big joke has been made, if they don't add insult to injury now, when will they start to do so?
So, the article originally written by a little-known reporter was soon reprinted by major metropolitan newspapers, then newspapers in other cities on the East Coast, and then federal news and international news...
How can I describe the popularity of this news? It's a little late for Clark to start preparing her dress for the Pulitzer Prize ceremony.
As the news broke, the GTO led by Gordon took action.
His arrangements were very tight and efficient, but he was really short of manpower. The White Knight's estimates were conservative. They were not trying to catch a few hundred people. There were hundreds of culprits, and thousands of important accomplices. If ordinary accomplices were included, the number would be greater than all the law enforcement officers in Gotham. How could they possibly catch them all?
No one had ever thought that such a big commotion could be caused by just one or two people. Mainly because no one had imagined that someone would be so bold as to make an epic international news story out of nothing.
The atmosphere was so heated that no one thought that this bet was just a whim. Most people thought that this bet had existed for many years and was only exposed recently.
There are even many people who link the gambling cases to the deaths or disappearances of certain celebrities, thinking that they must have been forced to participate in this death gambling game and then died tragically in it.
Later, wealthy people from all over the world got involved. Those celebrities who committed suicide for unknown reasons may have lost their lives.
This statement is very popular and spreads very widely because people love to see it.
Gordon's surprise arrest operation could be declared a complete failure just one hour after it began.
The biggest problem is the lack of manpower, but the second is that the enemy is very cunning. In addition to the secret rooms and tunnels that have been built in the villa, they have helicopters, sports cars, scapegoats, and even professional makeup artists and escape masters, as well as a series of professional consultants.
This night's arrest made Gordon truly realize how determined the rich people were and how thorough their preparations were in order to spend their money in order to survive.
Few of the real culprits were caught, and even their trusted lackeys all ran away. The core team was basically only slightly injured.
At dawn, Gordon's legs went weak when he saw the report results sent in by his subordinates.
He had never felt this way even when fighting against the most brutal and cunning criminals.
Gordon asked himself, he was tired and hurt, but he was never afraid. But looking at the dim light on the horizon of Gotham, he found that he couldn't help shaking.
As a policeman who has been fighting on the front line, he understands better than anyone what terrible consequences the failure of tonight's operation will bring.
Again, in political games, either the west wind prevails over the east wind, or the east wind prevails over the west wind. Once a war begins, it will not stop easily until one side is wiped out and nothing is left.
To put it in a simple analogy, during a fight, once one party draws a knife, he must make the other party lose the ability to resist as quickly as possible, otherwise he will be the one to die.
This is because, if everyone uses their fists, they all know that they will not die, and it is enough to vent their anger.
But once you see blood and know that the other party is trying to kill you, if you don't kill him, wouldn't you be handing your life to the other party?
Once the crisis of life and death comes, the power that humans can unleash is extremely terrifying. So either don't resort to violence, or if you do, you must do it quickly and thoroughly, eradicating the root of the problem.
But Gordon did not achieve any of the above two words. Not only did he fail to defeat the enemy in one move, but he almost failed completely.
Then, what he and the ordinary people of Gotham will face next is the fierce revenge of the other side.
Gordon had no time to think about why Batman was as quiet as death during the whole process. Just calming the fear in his heart took all his strength.
He was not afraid of his own death, nor was he afraid of the death of the police. But he knew that the cruelest means of revenge would not be used on him. What the upper class wanted was that no one would dare to have such thoughts again.
What they want is to destroy the hope of ordinary people.
Gordon's hands were shaking as he picked up the phone, but he didn't even know who to call. After hesitating for a while, he dialed an unexpected number.
"Hello? Dean Rodriguez?"
"It's me." Schiller's tone was as calm as usual. For some reason, Gordon's violent heartbeat seemed to calm down as well.
"Something has happened in our city. Those who have invested in crime may take some actions next." Gordon tried hard to hide his uneasy mood and said calmly, "I hope you can stick to your post and do your job well."
"I don't quite understand what you mean, Chief. Is there something I did wrong?"
"No, it's not. It's just that your predecessor...Tok gave some people an illusion that they could release criminals at will and use them to incite riots. I don't think you will continue this illusion, right?"
"Of course not, Mr. Director." Schiller's tone contained a hint of laughter. Gordon's heart tightened again.
After hanging up the phone, Schiller added in his mind: "Yes, of course not. Super criminals can't achieve the effect I want."
Then he walked over to the panel with the emergency restraints buttons—and pressed every one of them.