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Chapter 2196 The Battle of Two Cities! (38)

Chapter 2170 The Battle of Two Cities! (38)

After finally getting rid of the difficult reporter, Penguin got into the car going to the hospital. The car turned a corner and stopped in front of the hospital. The door opened, and as soon as a shiny leather shoe stepped on the ground, Penguin saw the outside.

The crowds of people were all holding up signs, and the signs written on them were things like "Hell is your destination," "Satan is in the world," and "Death, death, only death."

The Penguin reflexively drew back his neck and retracted the foot he stepped out. He sat in the car and calmed down for a while, thinking that he would not be the same as them.

I have been a gang boss for so many years, and I have never seen any kind of curse. If the curse was effective, the grass on my grave would be three meters high. If they want to scold me, just scold me.

So he straightened his tie again, took a deep breath, and walked out with his umbrella.

The next second, the cheers of mountains and tsunamis surrounded him.

"Long live the mayor!!!"

"Hero! Hero! Hero!!!"

“Great job!!!”

"This is what Wayne deserves! Long live the mayor!!!"

"You sent that rich man back to hell. He deserves a lesson like this. Well done! Mayor!!"

Penguin froze on the spot.

Then he suddenly thought of something.

Bruce had made a big mistake before. He stepped into the clown's trap and let go of his hand to save people in full view of the public. Fueled by media and public opinion, the debate on this matter intensified.

New Jersey is a hardcore blue state. There are not many citizens who adhere to the traditional moral spirit. Most of them are supporters of neoliberalism, and there are also white leftist Madonnas. Therefore, the current public opinion situation is almost one-sided in condemning Bruce.

If you don’t have two brushes, don’t go up there. Once you go up there, you shouldn’t take such risky measures to save people. Once you save people, you should act as soon as possible instead of just sitting there in a daze. Anyway, there are endless faults in this operation.

The image of Bruce also has a tendency to be gradually demonized.

Some say he is an unscrupulous capitalist who wants to portray himself as a hero, some say he is an evil criminal who is worried about others exposing his dirty secrets, so he kills himself, and some say he is an arrogant but stupid and incompetent waste.

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As a result, less than a day after the incident, Bruce entered the mayor's office upright and came out sideways. Mayor Oswald Cobblepot shot him, and he is still lying in the hospital for resuscitation.

These people who have already been aroused to radical emotions can't help but feel a sense of joy and excitement after being shocked. They will think, "Yes, this is what we should do, let this damn rich man know that this world is not a playground for him to do whatever he wants!"

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In fact, the above arguments are now spreading in major media at the extreme speed of Internet information dissemination theory.

When Penguin got on the bus, he was still a mayor who was born as a gangster, and when he got off, he had become a hero all over the East Coast.

The Penguin, who had never received such a sincere and warm welcome, was completely confused. He couldn't even say the instinctive words. After asking the security guards to separate the people, he rushed into the hospital as if he was running away.

Feeling the cool breeze blowing in the hospital lobby, Penguin calmed down. No, this is not something Gotham people can do.

The spirit of Gotham has always been that you can die but you can't live. They actually don't care if anyone dies, they only care about how gripping the matter is. The two sides have had several rounds of confrontations, and there have been dramatic reversals with ups and downs. It's simple.

In other words, he is a fun person.

The biggest advantage of Gotham people is that they do not claim to be teachers of justice, nor do they put themselves in the perspective of justice, stand firmly on one side to judge the other, but sit in the middle and shout "Fight! Fight!"

Get up! I love to see people die in front of my house!”.

Penguin has been living in Gotham since he was a child, and he has seen countless outrageous murder scenes. It is not that there are no exciting scenes of successful revenge or cases of successful punishment and elimination of evil.

Gothamites take to the streets with banners praising the murderer?

Because in fact, Gotham people know that there are risks in taking sides. You don’t know whether the descendants of the person who was killed will suddenly go crazy and come to your home twenty years later and turn you into his artistic creation.

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The people of Gotham, including the Penguin, would basically just watch indifferently when encountering something like this. At most, they would chat with their buddies or neighbors to watch the fun.

Where did the group of over-enthusiastic Labradors in front of me come from?

That's right, from New York.

If Penguin had ever lived in New York, he would know that New Yorkers are very good at this.

The most popular topic about superheroes in New York in a year can be divided into three books: "Superhero Spider-Man!" "Spider-Man Falls from the Altar!" "Spider-Man Falls from the Altar Again!".

If Peter Parker has any other professional identity besides Spider-Man and researcher, it is probably that he is a bungee jumper. If he does not jump more than a dozen times a year, he feels like something is missing.

Of course, this is a hot topic among the restless and capricious young people, and the hottest topic among the more stable middle-aged and elderly social elites can also be summarized in three books: "The Glorious Past of Captain America" ​​and "U.S.

The Secret of Captain's Resurrection from the Dead" "The Evil Genetically Modified Captain America".

New Yorkers often say that Captain America is the only unmistakable topic that you can bring up at a celebrity dinner party, because it contains the three favorite topics of American upper class - World War II, resurrection, and evil scientific experiments.

As the leading brother of Marvel, Spider-Man is the backdrop for stories about young heroes. He is an authentic New Yorker who perfectly possesses the three elements that can raise your blood pressure: hearing the wind is like rain, being fooled will make you lame, and you will always be young and never have a long memory.

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In order to enhance the value of personal heroism and to belittle the important role of the people in history, American comics produced in the era of ideological struggle will portray ordinary people in the city where the superheroes are located as villains who often misunderstand the heroes.

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Whether it is Spider-Man or Superman, such plots have appeared in their stories. The heroes are always kind, just, and simple, while the people are stupid, evil, chaotic, never knowing what to do, and always ungrateful.

Although this situation has changed slightly since the end of the Cold War, many screenwriters have dared to dabble in touching the truth, setting up plots where people are angry and angry that they have been fooled by the media to reflect the nature of reality.

In order to disrupt the internal power structure of Wayne Group, the masterminds behind the scenes in both cities spared no effort to smear Bruce's image after the Anderkin incident.

People in Gotham who are accustomed to seeing such tragedies are not easily incited, but New Yorkers who are accustomed to following the trend are quick to follow the trend. Many people went to the door of Wayne Group to pull banners, write slogans, hold demonstrations, and demand

Bruce Wayne gives them an explanation.

However, the people of Gotham did not take it too seriously to watch the excitement. They not only gave directions to the parade, but also drove cars to sell water and food, and provided logistical support for the parade crowd. When the security personnel came out to suppress it, they took the lead in attacking the defense line and suppressed the parade.

The momentum is getting louder and louder.

The media continued to fan the flames, and the masses spontaneously increased their efforts. The flames grew stronger and stronger. When the wave reached its climax, Bruce Wayne fell with a bang.

The demon is dead and the hero is victorious once again.

Click, click, click, the shutter kept ringing, and one photo after another with a strong saturated color style was recorded by the reporter's lens, and spread throughout the United States and even around the world with the old and new media.

In the photo, the dark clouds are very low, and the slightly old hospital is even darker. People of all skin colors holding various colorful slogans surround the Penguin. They surround him and raise their arms to cheer him.

, making a gesture of praise to him, his eyes shining with pious and warm light.

The Penguin in the camera looked back, and his originally fat and bloated figure became burly and generous under the crowd. When his originally sinister face with an aquiline nose raised his head, he actually had a few traces of it.

It is solemn and solemn.

When this photo made the front pages of major media, people either cheered or questioned, and various speculations emerged one after another.

The views within the upper class and the party are surprisingly consistent - this is a game carefully designed by Oswald Cobblepot.

For ordinary people, the easiest way to determine who is behind the scenes is to look at who ultimately benefits from something.

There are many people in this world who harm others and do not benefit themselves, but it is often because they are not smart enough, have good ideas, and have insufficient execution ability that they cause all kinds of incredible farces.

Oswald Cobblepot is not such a person. At least in the eyes of the upper class of this universe, he is not a clever politician, but at least he is a shrewd gang boss, and he is exactly this whole thing.

The person who benefits the most.

First of all, more than one person has speculated that Copot was the real mastermind behind the murder of the Waynes. If the reporter named Underkin really had some clues that could threaten him, then he is dead.

The clues have been cut off, and Cobot is truly safe.

Even so, the vengeful Wayne is still Copot's thorn in the side, but there are too many people staring at Wayne now, and any rash attack will definitely get him into trouble.

So Coppert carefully directed the Underkin incident, hiring kidnappers to kidnap Underkin and then lure Bruce to rescue him.

Bruce Wayne was originally an incompetent rich second generation. How could he succeed in saving people? Cobblet calculated this accurately. After Bruce Wayne failed to save people, he guided public opinion to turn him into a human being.

People shouted and beat the rats crossing the street.

Finally, he invited Bruce Wayne to his office, provoked him with words, and then lured him to attack him, and then seriously injured or even killed Bruce Wayne on the pretext of self-defense.

Firstly, Bruce Wayne, who has been pursuing the murder of the Waynes, will die. Secondly, he can also use this incident to increase his presence in the major media, gain the trust of the people, and prepare for the upcoming murder.

Canvassing votes for the upcoming mayoral election.

It was simply a brilliant plan. Such comments continued to spread among the upper class society on the entire East Coast, and even stronger than this were sighs one after another.

The idea is good, but the method used is wrong.

The Penguin became a hero with this plan, but unfortunately, he was a hero of the people.

As we all know, in the United States, politicians can stand with money, interests, lies, crimes, and extremist ideas, but they can never stand with millions of Americans.

On one side.

In other words, you can claim that you stand with the American people, but you can never really do it.

Otherwise, if you shoot big capitalists for the will of the people, who can tell the difference between you and Stalin?

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