"Now it seems that they are angry." Cobot sneered. He looked at the heavy rain outside the window. Schiller said to him: "I think you should already know that there are many people with the same condition as you at Gordon."
For those with similar illnesses, your illness should be related to being exposed to the rain."
Schiller shook his head and said: "In mental illness, it is difficult to have two cases with completely identical characteristics, but now there are more than two."
"We are discussing how to respond. The current drainage situation in Gotham is not optimistic. If this continues, flooding will occur tonight."
Batman's voice was accompanied by the sound of rain. Suddenly, the room lit up, and the flash illuminated all objects pale white. Then a rumble of thunder came from the distance, and the three of them looked out the window.
Schiller looked at Batman and said: "I still have a bunch of patients, I don't want to meddle in this business..."
Batman stared at him, seemingly not paying attention to his evasive words, as if he was sure that Schiller must have something to say. Sure enough, Schiller continued: "But, they actually asked me to spend a lot of money to buy a handful that was destined to be..."
A broken and inferior umbrella, and then it rained so heavily when I didn’t have an umbrella to use..."
The rain outside the window was getting heavier and heavier, and the roaring thunder drowned out the conversation inside the house. Closer to the thunder on the horizon, Gotham University seemed to be shrouded in a dark mist, with only one office lit.
And it was very noisy inside.
"Are you sure that this distance can lead all the rainwater in this area to the specified height?"
"Look here... We must pay attention to the water pressure here. If the support structure is not supplemented, it is likely to cause a complete collapse of the underground waterway..."
"Directional blasting is needed here, yes, I'm sure..."
The professors were all gathered around their desks, and they were discussing each other. On the surface, they were discussing how to solve the problem of excessive water accumulation on the surface of Gotham City.
Most people can't last three minutes in this kind of discussion, because they open and close their mouths with a lot of engineering and mechanics terms, and those who can listen will feel dizzy.
But in fact, this was no small talk on paper. Terms related to blasting engineering popped out of their mouths one after another. It was obvious that this was another discussion full of Gotham style.
In the Gotham Police Station, Gordon, who had just finished dealing with some mentally disturbed criminals, took a cup of hot coffee from the hands of a young police officer. He raised his arm, drank the coffee in one gulp, and walked to sit behind his desk.
I got off the bed and just wanted to take a rest when I noticed a shadow appeared behind me.
Gordon looked back, sighed and said, "Batman, you don't have to make your entrance ceremony so scary every time."
"I need your help, Detective Gordon."
Gordon didn't answer. He was listening to Batman. Batman continued: "Next, I will light up the bat lanterns in several locations in Gotham City, and then the gang's engineering team will arrive.
, start digging, you need to send people there to protect their safety."
Gordon opened his mouth, but he couldn't answer for a moment. He said, "You mean, let the police station dispatch people to protect the safety of gangsters?"
He turned around, stretched out his hand, and said to Batman: "Okay, if you are dealing with that mysterious organization and need our cooperation, then I can understand it, but are you sure that those gangs need us to protect them?"
Batman's tone was very serious. He said: "This is to prepare for possible surprise attacks. The heavy firepower possessed by the police is essential."
"Can you tell me the plan? I must be responsible for the life safety of my subordinates."
Batman shook his head and said: "Remember that nursery rhyme? 'The Court of Owls, always monitor your travels...'"
Gordon felt a chill in his back. He instinctively looked around his office, but he couldn't refute Batman. If mysterious powers were involved, Gordon couldn't say with certainty that he was not being monitored.
"I can assure you, this plan works."
Gordon looked at him, and finally, Batman said, "Because I'm Batman."
The dark clouds began to get thicker and thicker, and the raindrops fell to the ground with great force. The rain fell hard and fast, but in the midst of the continuous downpour, there was a slight buzzing, and then
, several dazzling lights lit up from Gotham City.
Schiller stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the Arkham Asylum ward and saw several bat patterns projected into the dark night sky.
Amid the mighty spring thunder, the stationary bat lights seemed to come alive in the refraction of the rain, becoming like petrels soaring in the storm, carrying an astonishing momentum that broke through the darkness.
Before that, the noisy rain almost obscured all sounds, and the dark clouds swallowed up all the lights. This huge city seemed to have been put into an aquarium, sinking under the cold water and continuing to sink into the abyss.
And at the moment when the bat light was turned on, Gotham, which was flooded by heavy rain, suddenly came to life, like a drowning man, suddenly transformed into a giant whale that was not afraid of ocean currents and waves. The boiling voices shattered the darkness, and the lights were like flames.
In the same way, if you ignite something that cannot burn in the water, the bubbles will rise, break through the condensed water surface, and create countless ripples.
In the dark and rainy night, the flames of explosions were louder than the thunder. Several engineering teams drove forward with various engineering machines, the lights of the truck fleet were like blades cutting through the rain curtain, and the whistles were like sharp kettles.
The chirping indicates the excitement of this night.
Screaming, yelling, chaotic shouting, the gangsters called out to their friends, more chaos than chaos, crazier than madness, blasting rocks, smashing the ground, digging down where the beams rose, until they opened up on the city ground
There are several artificial abyss.
They are fearless and don't care about rain like arrows and wind like knives. Madness is the poison of Gotham people and also their armor.
As more structures were built, the rainwater falling from the sky onto the ground in Gotham began to be artificially guided to flow underground.
Cobot stood on the roof of the living hell, watching the firelight rising in the rainy night. He didn't hold an umbrella and didn't care. His eyes sunken deeply into his sockets were full of madness. He sneered and said to himself: "
You rats will never understand that Gotham is Gotham and will only be Gotham..."
The accumulated water on Gotham's surface began to be directed underground, and in a dark conference room somewhere underground in Gotham, a man wearing a white bird-shaped mask sneered disdainfully.
"They might just be trying to save themselves. After all, even idiots have some brains." A woman wearing a mask said mockingly. Tanushi
"Is it too risky for us to start the water source plan so early? We have been preparing for this for many years, and we have even renovated the sewers since the city was founded..." asked another slightly younger voice.
"They have discovered us and used such despicable means to deal with us. We must make these people pay the price! How dare they..."
Everyone made angry sounds, and then fell silent together, as if recalling the scene that day, they had to suppress the urge to vomit in nausea.
"We cannot give up Gotham." An old voice said: "The retreat and transfer are only temporary. We have been operating here for too long and there is no way we can give it all to others."
"This is our most secret stronghold." The woman said, "As long as they can't find us, even if the monsters go crazy on the ground, it has nothing to do with us."
After saying that, she turned to a man next to her and said, "Check our sealing device again to make sure the rainwater doesn't leak in."
"They may want to allow rainwater to be discharged into the sea through the underground water system, but this is simply impossible. The sewer system does not drain water so fast, and Gotham will eventually be flooded."
"After this rain, chaos will penetrate into every corner of Gotham again, just like what happened ten years ago."
"The owl will always watch here, fear and scream, that will become our food..."
There were bursts of bird-like snickers in the dark conference room, just like night owls singing in the forest.
The heavy rain continued, and more and more water was being directed into the ground, and the speed of the introduction was getting slower and slower. Gordon stood beside the fence of one of the construction sites and shouted: "The sewer system has reached its limit! Now the entire Gotham underground
It should all be rain."
Bullock sat on the motorcycle and swung a flashlight in this direction. The dazzling light made Gordon cover his eyes with his arms. He heard Bullock shouting: "They said everything was arranged!! Prepare to evacuate."
!!”
Gordon turned around and waved his arms and shouted: "Everyone is ready to evacuate! Evacuate everyone to high-rise buildings!"
Then, he picked up the phone and said to the other side: "District 5! Did the person in charge of District 5 hear this? What's going on over there? Has everyone left the first and second floors?!"
"Didn't you tell them that this was what the godfather meant?! How many times did you tell them to follow the command and evacuate?! Do you want Falcone to call them personally to talk?"
Bullock held an umbrella and said loudly: "We can only hope that the method they came up with is really effective, otherwise Gotham will really be flooded."
Gordon hung up the phone and said: "We have to believe in Batman, and we can only believe in him!"
Soon, in Gotham's buildings, the lights on the upper floors began to gradually light up, while the lights on the lower floors continued to go out, and everyone moved to higher places.
The members of the Court of Owls who got the information from the surveillance equipment dismissed this. In their view, this was just a delaying measure. The flood would eventually wash away everything, and it didn't matter how high you hid.
But soon, they stopped laughing.
The members of the Court of Owls sitting in the dark conference room suddenly felt a violent cold wind sweeping through the entire stronghold. This ice storm exploded directly from the point of occurrence and swept through every corner of Gotham's underground in an instant.
The turbulent rainwater is condensed into ice, and when the raindrops fall from the sky, the splashes are frozen into crystal clear ice crystals.
Viewed from above Gotham, huge snowflakes bloomed from a small generating device. Almost instantly, all the liquid on the ground and surface of Gotham condensed, as if time had stopped.
Then, several generating devices were launched into the sky and exploded on the clouds. The water in the clouds was also condensed into ice. It broke during the fall and turned into ice cubes when it hit the ground.
The dark clouds that condensed over Gotham were enveloped in a low-temperature zone composed of layers of cold currents, and the rain that fell directly turned into fluttering snowflakes.
In just a few minutes, the entire sky and underground of Gotham City were frozen. The entire city seemed to have been pressed on the pause button. Not only was the aquarium frozen, but the hands that reached in to fish were also frozen.
Didn't escape.
The hardness of the ice created by the freezing generator is no less than that of rock. Thousands of meters of ice condensed around the owl stronghold, and everyone was directly frozen in a huge solid block of ice.
"Is this something that Victor Freese created?" Batman asked Schiller in the ward of Arkham Asylum.
"You have to respect your professor and don't call him by his full name. And even if you ask, I can guess that you have already prepared hundreds of plans to deal with him."
"The man who can freeze Gotham..." Batman whispered to himself.
"Actually, freezing cannot solve real rain clouds." Schiller shook his head and said, "The fact that the freezing generating device is so effective shows that the rain clouds that store rainwater have indeed been tampered with."
"Okay, don't worry about your anti-frozen Gotham plans. I think you should be able to see some truth..."
"What?"
Batman saw Schiller walking towards the window and stopping at the floor-to-ceiling window. He stared at the cold night outside the window, and the cold light of the ice and snow reflected on his face. Schiller said lightly:
"When I don't have an umbrella, no one can think of rain."
