Gotham, America's oldest city. Its history is older than the history of the United States. Legend has it that after the first colonists came here, they cleared out the indigenous people living here and built a town called Gotham on their graves. .
Since then, the city has been cursed, with prosperity and evil taking over alternately. The night sky here is always overcast, the weird Gothic buildings stand tall, and under the superficial glitz, there is dirt and evil hidden in the dark alleys.
This is Gotham City, one of the cities with the highest crime rate in the United States.
It didn't take long for Bruce to come back here. He had obviously stayed in the other world for several months, but when he came back here, less than a day had passed.
So Gotham is still the same Gotham, always gloomy, as if it will rain at any time, without any change.
Some people say that there are only two kinds of weather in Gotham, one is cloudy and the other is rainy. It's as if the sun hates it here. The gloomy Gotham is not as gloomy as its weather. On the contrary, it is always lively and full of vitality, with everything competing to thrive.
The major gangs control the streets and alleys of the city, and the rich and large companies hide behind the gangs to plunder the huge profits made in the city.
Bruce's Wayne family also exists in this way. A long time ago, when Wayne's father was a child, the Wayne family united with three other big families to control Gotham. They controlled everything in Gotham. Wayne The fundamental reason why the family has become the largest financial group in the world is due to the family's early plunder of Gotham.
Although today, the four major families have disappeared. But this pattern of plundering has not changed at all.
There is still no hope for this city!
The upper echelons are rich, corrupt and greedy. There is no hope for the lower classes. The way for people at the bottom to change their destiny is no longer through hard work and knowledge, but by joining a gang...Bruce's father, Thomas Wayne, once wanted to change this situation. He spent a huge amount of money to bring the best to Gotham. Good universities, the best urban transportation, already the best energy systems.
But unfortunately, it all ended in a seemingly accidental shooting in an alley.
This was the end of Thomas' transformation of Gotham.
Gotham is still Gotham.
Until Bruce becomes Batman, the Wayne family is once again at the forefront of the city's struggle.
But this time, Bruce used a different method than Thomas.
Bruce knew that Thomas failed entirely because he took everything too simply. He thought that if he brought hope to the city, the city would change, but in fact, there were too many people who did not want the city to get better.
These people include corrupt officials, rich people, gangsters, and police officers. It can be said that no one except Thomas wants this city to be out of his control. So Thomas died.
Bruce struggled for a while with the truth about his parents' murder.
He wants revenge.
As a result, he met the Falcone family, an Italian mafia family who came to Rome. Their godfather is called Carmine Falcone. Carmine Falcone is one of Gotham City's famous traditional gang leaders. His nickname "Roman" comes from his ruthlessness in building his own criminal empire. Way.
Young Bruce, thinking Falcone had killed his parents, found him and planned to assassinate him with a revolver.
Of course, the assassination failed.
Bruce was caught and faced with Bruce's angry questioning.
Falcone did not hurt Bruce, but just discussed with him how Thomas died.
Falcone tells Bruce that he wasn't the one who killed Thomas.
But he also had a share.
Everyone in this city has a part to play!
No one wants to see the Gotham that Thomas promotes emerge. So everyone wants Thomas to die.
As for who killed Thomas... Falcone thought he should know, but unfortunately, he didn't know.
Not bad though.
It was the city that murdered Thomas!
So when Bruce returns, he uses his own way to save Gotham.
If you want to truly save the city, you must first crack down on corrupt officials, the wealthy class who control most of the city's resources, as well as the police and gangsters who work together as gangsters!
Only if they converge, can real hope have soil to grow!
At the same time, he wants to inject something new into the numb Gotham people, and this thing is called courage!
The courage to resist!
Batman is not a person. What is beneath his mask is not flesh and blood, but a belief!
A simple belief.
Only when people no longer need Batman can they resist tyranny, then Batman will no longer need to exist.
Bruce was adamant about this.
"Master?" Alfred's voice suddenly appeared in Bruce's headset.
"Afu." Bruce's calm, emotionless voice made Alfred almost cry.
"It's great that you're okay! It's great!:
The moment the Mother Box was destroyed, everyone present was fine, except Bruce.
This caught everyone in the Justice League off guard, and they had no idea what was happening. They were still discussing what happened and trying to find Bruce's whereabouts, but Bruce's signal appeared in Gotham.
"Why would you..."
"We'll discuss this later, start the Batmobile for me. I saw Mr. Freeze. I need to take care of it and get home."
"Ah... Mr. Freeze is still committing crimes at this time?" Ah Fu was a little confused.
Although the arrival of Steppenwolf did not cause much damage, everyone around the world knows that the battle between the Justice League and Steppenwolf will determine the future of the entire world. Everyone is anxiously waiting for the outcome of the matter.
The Justice League was discussing Bruce's safety and did not immediately announce the outcome of the battle.
So everyone is still waiting.
Mr. Freeze committed a crime at this time...it was a really good time.
It caught everyone off guard.
…
About two hours later, Bruce drove his Batman vehicle back to the Batcave.
Also waiting here are everyone from the Justice League.
"Bruce, you are really slow." Barry was impatient for a long time. As The Flash, he's a bit impatient.
"I need to get Victor through the admissions process, you know, bureaucracy."
"I thought Arkham would be different. After all, they always treat serious offenders."
Arkham Asylum was formerly known as Arkham General Hospital. During its construction, the hospital's architect went insane and hacked his workers to death. And from then on, this poor place started to become unfortunate. Weird things always happen, such as normal patients checking in and turning out crazy.
I don’t know since when, no one, or no normal person, went to this hospital. Later it was simply converted into a mental hospital. After that, this place became more and more mysterious, often housing some extremely dangerous mental patients.
A bit like the real world 'St. Elizabeth's Hospital'.
You can think of it as the "abnormal human research center" in Batman's world, where most of the prisoners are extremely dangerous and highly intelligent criminals. It can be said that almost all the well-known villains in Gotham will be sent here by Batman himself. Including the famous "Joker", "Harley Quinn", "Bane", "Penguin", "Two-Face", "The Riddler", "Scarecrow", "Poison Ivy", "Mr. Freeze" ”, “Killer Croc”, “Clayface”, “Mad Hatter”, etc., it can be said that the stars are shining brightly.
According to incomplete statistics, the most popular person in this place is Batman. The criminals he sent alone almost filled more than half of Arkham Asylum.
After so many extremely vicious and not normal people were imprisoned.
Instead, it became the most heavily defended place in Gotham.
As for prison... for those super villains, prison is similar to a sanatorium. Not only will they not be punished, they will even develop more younger brothers in prison. Every time those super criminals are imprisoned, there will be riots in the prison, and more criminals will join the super criminals to increase their strength.
And for these guys, getting in and out of prison is as easy as getting in and out of their home. The corruption of the judiciary makes prisons have no meaning other than becoming a hell for the poor. How many super villains are poor?
It would be better to be imprisoned in Arkham than that.
After all, forensic appraisal cannot change medical appraisal.
After all, the judicial authorities have no way to verify whether a person is really crazy or fake. But if a doctor says a patient is crazy, then he is crazy.
This greatly reduces the possibility of corruption.
Many criminals who like to use their mental state to escape guilt feel very uncomfortable about this.
"Mr. Freeze...it's really hard to believe that this guy is actually a model worker. The hospital must be demanding payment again." Barry shrugged.
Mr. Freeze, whose real name is Victor Fries, was originally a cryogenic scientist. Because his beloved wife Nora was terminally ill, he used high-tech devices to freeze her to suspend her life, and at the same time researched and treated her. method, but suddenly one day the company funding Victor's research wanted to interrupt the experiment due to personal interests, and had a conflict with Victor who wanted to stop them in the laboratory, thus causing a leak of gas from the freezing equipment in the house. This accident changed the cell structure of Victor's body, turning his whole body into a cold-blooded constitution. His body temperature must always be kept below zero to survive, and he would die at normal room temperature. For this reason, he created a set of cryogenic armor. As well as various frozen weapons, he transformed into "Mr. Freeze".
After that, Mr. Freeze began to work hard to save his wife.
He is not a vicious person, everything he does is for his wife. To maintain his wife's frozen state, revive her, and cure her terminal illness, a lot of money is needed. So in order to obtain Mr. Freeze as quickly as possible, he had to embark on a criminal path.
The most he does is serve other criminals as a mercenary.
Mr. Freeze is actually a very cultured person, not as crazy as other criminals. He prefers to discuss religion, culture, philosophy, psychology and many other topics with Batman who is under his control. He can hardly speak at ordinary times. Mr. Freeze seems to be very talkative in front of Batman. Is it because he respects his opponent or because he sees a similar shadow in Batman. In the final analysis, Mr. Freeze is just an ordinary man trapped by love. What he freezes is only his love for his wife. The only purpose of doing this is probably to retain his wife and bring back the love he once had.
Bruce nodded: "If he wants to maintain his wife in such an extreme state, he needs a lot of funds. But he won't need it in the future."
Ah Fu was startled when he heard this: "Could it be that we can't hold on anymore?"
Regarding Mr. Freeze's wife, both the good and bad guys in Gotham actually know about it. But no one would touch her. Because everyone knows that the only person in the world who can tie up Mr. Freeze is his wife. Once something goes wrong with her, Mr. Freeze will go crazy.
No one wants to face a crazy Mr. Freeze.
He would literally drag all of Gotham into the Ice Age. When the time comes, no matter which party, the interests will be damaged.
It would be better for everyone if he just left his wife like that.
After all, it is precisely because Mr. Freeze has such concerns that Mr. Freeze has always had a good reputation in the dark world. Everyone believes that this guy will not break the contract.
"No." Bruce took off his equipment, revealing a pair of regular clothes, but Ah Fu keenly noticed that these were not the clothes he had prepared for his young master. Bruce is Batman, and Alfred is the butler, responsible for everything Bruce doesn't do, or won't do. Including Bruce's eating and drinking.
Without Afu, Bruce couldn't even take care of himself.
But Ah Fu still didn't ask.
Bruce may hide anything in the world, but he will never hide it from Alfred.
"It's just that this can't continue. Sooner or later, this approach will bring down Victor and bring disaster to Gotham. This situation needs to change." Bruce continued: "Have you not been curious about me all day? Where have you gone?"
Others also looked over.
"I went to a very interesting parallel world."
"Parallel world?" Everyone else was shocked.
Bruce didn't hide anything and told them everything he saw and heard in that world.
"Is there really a parallel world? It's incredible." Cyborg said enviously: "I want to see it too."
"It probably won't work." Bruce said: "Before I left, I heard from the superheroes over there that they had planned to seal off the entire timeline to prevent being discovered by other parallel time and space. I guess there is no chance to go there again."
Clark nodded, he was also worried about the crisis that Bruce described that might sweep across multiple parallel universes.
"I see, you got new technology over there, that's why..." Clark did not forget the original topic.
"Yes, maybe we also need a little change. We can win over all the people we can win over. At least we won't let them do evil. For example, Mr. Excitement, he is an excellent scientist, but he only went like this for his wife. road. What if I am sure to help his wife?"
"Can you cure his wife?"
"There is no way, but I can keep her wife in her current state without spending a huge amount of money to maintain it." Bruce said.
Bruce brought back some gifts, such as dragon bone extract.
But this thing is not a panacea.
At least there is no way to treat cancer, and it may even cause cancer to spread and metastasize. After all, this thing is pure vitality and will stimulate cancer cells.
So he still can't do anything about Mr. Freeze's wife's strange illness for the time being, but if he just maintains the status quo, Bruce will have no problem. It's very simple and doesn't require so much money.
In this way, Mr. Freeze no longer needs to commit crimes.
This is also the reason why Mr. Freeze serves his sentence honestly.
(End of chapter)
