The atmosphere in the Batcave is somewhat serious.
All the Robins stood in a row, and Batman was pacing in front of them. Everyone's eyes followed Batman's footsteps, and a few looked at each other, winking and betting on when Batman would stop.
.
Batman's sword-like gaze rested on Red Hood's face. Red Hood stood slightly straighter, but still looked carefree.
Then his eyes swept over Nightwing and Red Robin on the right, as well as Little Robin standing beside them.
"I wonder what's going on."
Pictures of the war-torn New City appeared on the big screen behind Batman, and there was even a scene of the Red Hood flying across the sky in a Batplane.
"It's you who didn't lock the Batfighter!" But the Red Hood took the chance, he immediately raised his voice and said, then shut up under Batman's murderous gaze.
"The situation is a bit complicated..." Nightwing said.
"...It's complicated," Dick said.
"But it's not serious!" Red Hood said.
"...It's not serious." Jason added.
"It's actually easy to explain." Red Robin said.
"Very good...?" Tim looked at Red Robin.
Batman's serious eyes also fell on him, and the message conveyed by his eyes was "You dare to try this nonsense."
"Ahem..." Red Robin cleared his throat, looked away, and rolled his eyes.
"The madman from Arkham did it!"
"Bah, bang, bang, bang, bang," loud applause rang out in the Batcave, Red Hood and Jason high-fived, Nightwing and Dick shook hands, and Red Robin and Tim nodded to each other.
Batman narrowed his eyes.
"That's it." Red Robin spread his hands and shrugged. "If you don't believe me, go to Arkham Asylum. All the people in it have escaped."
"You didn't lock Arkham Asylum!" Red Hood raised his voice again, and then shut up under Batman's gaze.
Everyone can see that Batman is not in a good mood at this time, but they are not worried because they still have the last trump card - call the Waynes.
"Oh!" Red Robin suddenly screamed, even surprising Batman.
He turned to look at Dick and said: "Dick, have you done your French homework?! Thomas will be home at five o'clock!"
As soon as Dick opened his mouth to speak, he was elbowed by Jason. His tongue immediately curled up and he suddenly said, "Oh - I have to go back and do my homework!"
After speaking, Dick turned around and ran away. Batman wanted to call him out, but was met with Alfred's murderous gaze.
"I haven't finished my homework yet!" Jason followed closely, pushing Dick's back, and the two of them ran out of the Batcave one after the other.
"I have a book club to attend at four o'clock." Tim said tactfully, "Today's theme is Sherlock Holmes, and I'm very interested..."
Batman waved his hand and Tim ran out.
"Uh...I...I also have French homework." Yeyi drawled.
"How do you say ballet in French?" Batman asked.
"Oh——!" Yeyi lowered his arms helplessly.
"Well... me too..." Red Robin said tentatively.
"What is Holmes's name?"
"...John?"
Batman gave a disapproving look.
"Okay, that novel is so ridiculous. The greatest detective actually fell off a cliff! How stupid!" Red Robin sighed, and then he added: "Although you often jump off cliffs with the clown, almost
It’s every day…”
Nightwing looked at Batman's increasingly evil eyes and tugged on Red Robin's arm to tell him to stop talking.
"Speaking of the clown..." Red Robin rolled his eyes again and changed the topic: "He should be the main force causing chaos, right? Why not ask him?"
Batman frowned slightly.
Although he knew that the three unlucky children in front of him were eager to go out and cause trouble, and they wanted to plunge into the bad battle below and swim three hundred times, but what Red Robin said was not unreasonable.
The first time he returned to Gotham, Batman checked the status of Arkham Asylum and all the madmen ran out.
No one would believe that they had nothing to do with the war below. Batman could even imagine how they were creating chaos and deliberately destroying this huge new city.
Especially clowns.
Batman thought that it was not surprising that other madmen had committed several horrific crimes, but to provoke an entire city into chaos in such a short period of time, only the Joker, the source of chaos, could do it.
Batman retracted his thoughts and said to several people: "Watch Damian, stay here and wait for me to come back."
He knew that they would not be obedient, but this was not meant for them, but for Alfred who was standing at the door.
Sure enough, when Batman stepped out, he heard Alfred blocking the three people behind him, and sincerely suggested that they finish eating the biscuits, drink a cup of hot black tea, and wait for Thomas and Martha to go home.
Ignoring the wailings behind him, Batman flicked his cape and walked out of the door.
In fact, he suspected that the battle between another Batman and the Joker he invited had caused all this, so he had to go down and find these two people, and then find a way to reverse the situation.
Arriving at the hangar of the Bat-Fighter, Batman boarded the plane and fell like a fallen leaf over the new city.
Batman operated the positioning system and quickly found the Joker - he was being chased by someone and running away in a hurry.
Batman immediately chased after him, and finally found the panting Joker holding on to the wall at the end of a ruined street.
The Bat-Fighter landed, and Batman moved vigilantly in the direction of the Joker. He knew that for the Joker, the saying "seeing is believing" did not apply. Everything he saw might have been what the Joker let him see, including now.
A weak state.
Heart rate, breathing rate, body tremors—nothing wrong with him, but this is the Joker, Batman thought.
"Batman?!"
The Joker saw Batman approaching quietly from the corner of his eye, and at the moment he exclaimed, Batman suddenly exerted force and sprinted in his direction.
It's obviously another Batman style of "asking about the situation", subduing him first, beating him half to death, and then asking about the situation.
The clown ran away.
"Stop! Joker! You destroyed this city!!"
"Open your eyes and look, is this the city I destroyed?!!" The clown ran and roared: "My house was bombed! My hostage ran away! I was chased for three streets by a group of agents! I was beaten six times
Fire the bazooka!!!”
"Don't try to quibble! Joker!" Batman's attitude was very firm.
He moved around in the ruins of the city nimbly, while the clown was almost gone.
The clown was not good at running, his energy was exhausted, and his injuries were not fully healed. He slipped and fell into the rubble.
But he didn't get up and continue running as Batman expected. Instead, he stiffened for a moment and then relaxed his whole body, let out a long sigh, and lay down wherever he fell.
Ten minutes later, in the special care unit of Arkham Asylum in New City, the Joker grabbed the railing with both hands and showed a big smile to Batman.
"You idiot - I would never describe you as stupid, Batman, but you did make a stupid enough decision this time! I am not destroying this city, but saving it!! Also saving me and you
!!!”
Batman turned a deaf ear. He only stood half a meter away from the cell door, looked at the Joker coldly and asked: "Tell me what happened in this city."
"You don't need to ask me, you don't need to." The clown shook his head and took a few steps back, shrugging his shoulders and standing in the narrow cell and said: "Because none of this has anything to do with me!"
“So how did the city become what it is?”
"I told you, you shouldn't ask me." The clown turned around and sat on the narrow single bed and said, "Okay, detective, I want to tell you, you will come back, because if you go to the city now to investigate a
Circle, all the clues will tell you that one of my plans caused a series of chain reactions, which ultimately led to all of this."
"But if you really take this as a conclusion, then you are a complete idiot." The clown bared his teeth, but he was not smiling, so he looked particularly ferocious. He said: "You have to go all out, bat.
Xia, this time our opponent is extraordinary, you will come back to me."
No matter what Batman said after that, the Joker just remained silent, and he was obviously very unhappy about what the Joker said, so he returned to the Batcave almost non-stop to prepare equipment and start investigating.
Gotham, the city in the sky, only appeared after the fusion of the twin cities, but Batman has a way to get all the clues from the fusion of the twin cities up to now.
When did the chaos begin?
In a broad sense, of course, from the moment the two cities merged, although most people behaved calmly, the underlying conflict of interest caused the turbulent undercurrent to sweep under the calm sea until it became this moment.
of huge waves.
The period from Batman's fusion of the Twin Cities to the present is divided into three time periods: the early integration period, the Cold War period, and the hot war period.
Then he began to comprehensively sort out all the clues in the three time periods, trying to find the key clues that led to the development of the matter to this point.
In the early days of integration, all forces were divided into two factions, the Gotham faction and the New York faction. Most of them competed for the top position of the pyramid after the city's integration. All conflicts broke out over the question of who was the boss.
Conflicts during this period mainly broke out among the middle and upper classes. This group of people were the most in need of further advancement. They knew that reshuffling the cards meant a once-in-a-millennium opportunity for advancement, so they immediately started a commotion.
This period of time lasted very short. When this group of people discovered how to get the most benefits for themselves, the Cold War broke out.
They each elected their own representatives and began to engage in a series of games. At first, it was just negotiation and exchange of interests, and then developed into intelligence warfare, assassination warfare, and finally into local hot wars.
The all-out hot war broke out just a few days ago, but what puzzles Batman the most is that judging from the first two time periods, conflicts and battles mainly broke out in the upper half of the pyramid, and most of them were wars between the upper classes.
Until the outbreak of the hot war, everything developed in accordance with the rules. However, when the hot war broke out, the nature of the chaos completely changed. It changed from an open and covert fight among the upper classes to a complete crossfire between the lower classes. This is not normal.
No ruler would want to be left in ruins. They engaged in the Cold War just to gain benefits. What they gave away in exchange was not their own resources, so why not?
But if all the people fight with real swords and guns, the buildings will be destroyed, the streets will be destroyed, and people will be unable to work, no one will be able to make money, the city will be completely out of order, and power will be meaningless. This will be very important to the rulers.
That's the worst possible outcome.
In other words, they are not the culprits of the hot war.
At this time, Batman thought that before the start of the Hot War, two things happened that could affect the situation - the arrival of Gotham in the sky, and the arrival of Schiller's student Bruce Wayne.
