Chapter 2176 The Battle of Two Cities! (Forty-four)
Peter soon came to a street next to the abandoned garbage dump where Kevin was located. It used to be a small storage area, but now one warehouse grid after another has been converted into homeless houses, looking like a Mexican slum.
The place was very low and crowded, and the streets seemed longer than Peter remembered. When he went around the back of the small warehouse, he realized that it seemed to be spliced together with a street in Gotham, which was also a slum, so it looked like It looks like a family.
Peter saw the figure of the fat Penguin through the cracks in the house. He was no longer wearing a suit and leather shoes, but was wearing a rare hoodie and baggy wide-leg pants. He looked no different from the homeless people here. Significant difference.
Although it is not clear how Bruce deduced the Penguin's location through a criminal who stole a police gun, he did find his target.
"So what's next? What's next?" Peter asked, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Do I want to walk up and talk to him like this? Ask him where Kevin is?"
"He won't believe that you are really here to find someone, haven't you noticed? He is now surrounded by enemies. I dare say he has encountered danger more than once." Bruce's voice came from the earphones.
Peter nodded, rolled his eyes upward, looked at the people around him warily, and said: "It's hard for me to say which is more dangerous, sitting in the mayor's office waiting for the assassinations of those celebrities or hiding here."
"It's safer here because he's not the only one here." Bruce concluded, and then continued: "I think you should go over and say that you are his supporter and admirer."
"He will recognize me." Peter said: "Don't forget, he once dealt with a certain Spider-Man, and that Spider-Man even wrote an article "Gotham Travels"."
"In this article, he mentioned that the fire protection measures of the Iceberg Bar run by Penguin were unqualified and the ancient building where the bar is located was not well protected. He was ultimately sentenced to two months in detention without the possibility of bail."
Peter was very familiar with the contents of Gotham's travel notes, and then he went on to analyze: "It can be seen from Batman's record of time that Gotham was also on the eve of the mayoral election at that time, and Penguin was the most promising mayor. candidate, and judging from other things recorded by Spider-Man, Batman had no time to care about him at that time."
"So if he hadn't been jailed for failing to meet fire safety standards and failing to protect important buildings, Penguin would have probably become mayor in that election, and Spider-Man would have ruined his mayoral dream."
"Although I am not that Spider-Man, I think he will definitely hate Spider-Man. If he hears my voice, he will never cooperate with me."
"On the contrary." Bruce put forward his point of view: "As long as you do what I say, he will definitely cooperate with you."
So Peter chose to give up thinking, and Bruce told him to follow his example. He first walked through the narrow passage between the two low-rise houses as planned before, and then walked across the dirty drain to the water pipe.
Next to Penguin, who was rinsing his sandals, he took off his mask.
"Hello, Mr. Cobblet." Peter greeted.
The Penguin seemed to be frightened. He turned around and stared at Peter, looked him up and down and said, "Who are you? Why are you here?"
"I'm Peter Parker, nice to meet you."
This time Peter's sentence was longer, which made Penguin frown deeply because he found out that the voice of the boy in front of him was so familiar.
Suddenly he seemed to have thought of something, and showed a shocked expression, and then anger. He looked at Peter and gritted his teeth and said: "You are Spider-Man?!"
Peter nodded and said: "Yes, although I may not be the one you know, I am indeed Spider-Man, and I have also read "Gotham Travels" written by the Spider-Man who knows you."
The Penguin stared at Peter gloomily, but Peter remained unmoved. The Penguin snorted and said, "Then what are you doing here? Come and beat me up like those stupid boys in the Batcave? Or come here?"
Report that the fire protection here is not up to standard?”
"I think this is very stupid." Penguin looked very irritable. He said: "You only rely on the description of me in a travel diary written by a person to know what kind of person I am, and you dare to come up to me and talk so brazenly.
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"On the contrary." Peter took a step forward and said, "I think there is a lot of prejudice against you, or that was you in the past, but now, you make me see it differently."
Penguin was obviously stunned for a moment, and then rolled his eyelids and looked Peter up and down. Peter looked directly into Penguin's eyes and said: "I didn't expect you to be willing to stand on our side. It must be a difficult decision to fight against Wayne Group."
, giving up your dream position as mayor is a reflection of your noble character."
Penguin was really stunned at this time. He never expected that Peter would say this. Peter sighed softly, lowered his eyes and said in a heavy tone.
"Do you think I will definitely stand on Batman's side? No, I only stand on the side of justice and justice."
"It is undeniable that Batman wants to save people, but he never realizes the negative consequences of not being fully prepared for his kindness. Heroes need to grow through training, but no one is obliged to pay for his progress.
The price of life.”
At first, Peter was just repeating Bruce's words, but he is a man who can't hide things in his heart, and then he began to reveal his true opinions about Batman on Earth-1.
"He thought he was prepared, but that was only from the perspective of a rich man who was born into a wealthy family and didn't have to worry about his livelihood. In his previous life, most of the important decisions he made had great consequences.
error tolerance.”
"If he hasn't learned anything, then he can do nothing without scruples. If he does something wrong, the price he has to pay for it is far less heavy than he imagined."
Peter exhaled the breath that was trapped in his chest and said: "I know that the suffering he has endured is simply unbearable for him, but if it is placed on the scale of society, his good background really makes him unable to see
The bottom of the abyss of suffering.”
"He wants to be a superhero and fight crime. There is nothing wrong with this idea, but this time he miscalculated the weight of his mistakes. Life is the only thing that cannot be restored with money."
"He can no longer use his money and power to wipe out omissions as easily as before. Losing his life will be an unbearable burden for anyone, and it is also a consequence that he cannot bear, because he understands better than anyone else that death is unbearable.
Redeemable.”
"He thought that the preparations he had made were based on the premise that there would be no such heavy omissions, and if the weight on this side sank to the bottom, the so-called preparations he had made before would become absurd and ridiculous
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"It's never about exercising regularly, learning a few fighting skills, and watching a few crime movies before you can stand up and take on the responsibilities of a superhero."
"In the Anderkin case, the murderer was certainly cruel, but the mistakes he made proved that he was unable to shoulder this responsibility. It was his arrogance and recklessness that made him make wrong decisions again and again and never look back. In the end,
It resulted in a heavy tragedy."
Peter's mouth twisted into a straight line, and he said: "And if you want to take on the responsibility of saving ordinary people, then the ability you need is almost infinite."
"Because if you have seen their lives and stood with them, you will understand that they are in danger of falling into the abyss all the time. To protect them, you must be a hero among superheroes, more than anyone else.
Only by being stronger and more determined than anyone else can you protect them every ordinary night."
"No matter what your purpose was for injuring Bruce, at least you prevented him from running wildly on the wrong road and causing more innocent people to be injured or even killed."
"Perhaps you also saved him." Peter looked at Penguin with sincere eyes and said, "In any case, he is a kind man. If only innocent people bleed and he is unharmed, then the guilt he bears will be real.
The sharp blade is something that can kill his soul, and the physical pain is nothing compared to it."
"I do not advocate resorting to violence, and I am even more opposed to bloody conflicts, but this is indeed the easiest way to stop this series of farce. You should receive the gratitude of the people of New York and Gotham."
The Penguin was a little dazed as he listened to Peter's words. Now he had a thought - Why am I so great?
But when he thought about it carefully, what Peter said was not unreasonable. With Batman's character, he would probably be able to run around every day without being seriously injured.
The integration of the two cities was already chaotic, and his identity as Bruce Wayne made him even more dangerous. However, he had no idea of his own level. He went out without bodyguards, and still had to act like a hero to save people.
When the time comes that the person cannot be saved, they have to waste energy to save him. The police force is limited. If you save him, you will not be able to save others, and a few people know better than anyone else. Even if there is only one person left in Gotham and the New York Police Department combined,
If the police are called, they will definitely give priority to saving the world's richest man.
At that time, there will definitely be many people who don't want anything to happen to Wayne to put pressure on the police department, causing them to waste a lot of police resources on keeping an eye on Bruce Wayne. Then the security situation will become worse, and more ordinary people will be involved.
victimized.
And with the rookie Batman's ability to commit suicide, the police may not be able to keep an eye on him. It will be a lose-lose outcome, with Wayne failing to protect him and ordinary people suffering.
Bruce shot himself in his office - Penguin now thinks that it may be just Batman's bad luck, so he shot him, and now both parties stopped.
Wayne was hospitalized. If he was lucky, he could survive, but he would have to rest for at least half a year. During these half years, he would not be able to think about becoming a superhero. Half a year later, the chaotic situation was almost sorted out.
And because he was seriously injured and comatose, he at least had a long period of no threat. Those who targeted him would also slightly weaken their surveillance of him. As long as the security measures were in place, he would be safer.
When Batman can't jump up and down, the Joker and the rest are very quiet, and the police can be free to manage law and order, and ordinary people don't have to worry about the madmen who just want to torment Batman coming to trouble them.
What was originally a dilemma suddenly turned into a win-win situation.
Thinking about it this way, it seems that I have really done something good. Otherwise, how could I be recognized by Spider-Man, the moral pacesetter?
