Gotham is free - in a physical sense, in a practical way, and in a way that no one can refute or disprove.
But one can imagine how much chaos it would cause if a megacity on the East Coast of the United States disappeared out of thin air.
If we change to another city, chaos will definitely occur more inside the city. Although people outside are busy and anxious, it is of no use, but this is Gotham after all, and Gotham people are not anxious at all.
While many ordinary Gotham citizens who didn't vote were a little surprised to see themselves flying up to the sky and rubbing shoulders with the sun, after the initial shock, the first thing they did was open Google Maps and laugh at their map. Information updates too slowly.
Compared with the tragedy unfolding in such a dark city, it is not unacceptable for the entire city to fly into the sky. Even if they are going to fall to their death in the next second, at least they can still imagine others because of this absurd fact. And be busy and happy for a second.
It doesn't mean that there will be less chaos when they live on the ground. At least this time, a large group of people will follow them to have a headache for the chaos. For this reason, the people of Gotham will laugh in their dreams tonight.
Therefore, the biggest victims of Gotham's flying sky are not Gotham people, nor even the federal government. God knows how long those politicians have been thinking about making this city that has increased the national crime rate disappear.
The people of Gotham can have the status of the coolest city in the world. The federal government no longer has to worry about the fact that the crime rate in the United States has room to rise. The neighbors of Gotham no longer have to worry about lunatics rushing out of the city or being raped. Tan's outrageous climate pollution can be said to be a happy one.
In this way, Gotham's physical independence is a good thing, but the biggest victim of this incident is actually the Court of Owls.
To talk about the Court of Owls in detail, we have to mention the famous metal incident in DC comics and its antecedents, that is, how the Bat Knights of the Dark Multiverse came to the main universe.
The culprit in this matter is the Court of Owls, or in other words, a group of Barbatos believers called the Judas Disciples who control the Court of Owls behind the scenes.
DC Comics spent a long time setting up the metal event, and the prospect was too complicated. But anyway, Batman in the main universe learned of the existence of metal for various reasons, and then began to investigate. But in fact, it was all a matter of the Court of Owls. The purpose of the conspiracy is to lure Batman into the base of the Court of Owls, and then use his blood to open the door to the Dark Multiverse to complete Barbatos' plan to invade the multiverse.
In another comic, Batman was also lured to the Owl Base and trapped in a huge maze, unable to escape.
The key point of this story is that the Court of Owls spent a long time building a huge maze underground in Gotham, which can even make Batman get lost to a certain extent. This shows the huge amount of work and the grandness of the construction results.
Of course, to make Batman capsize in the gutter, it must be sufficiently concealed. In fact, the way to maximize the concealment effect of an underground maze is to build it as deep as possible.
Since not only physical forces but also mystical factors were used to dig this maze, the base of the Court of Owls is built very deep underground and is quite solid. After so many generations of investment of resources, this maze can simply be called It is unbreakable and indestructible.
This resulted in the entire city of Gotham not taking it with them when they took off, because it was a bit too deep and too heavy, and the activation circle created by the madmen could not pull it.
But Gotham took away the ceiling of the maze.
It was taken away in the physical sense. The take-off Gotham directly opened the skull of the huge maze that Owl had spent so much effort on. All the parts above the ceiling took off with Gotham, while all the ravines below were left behind. Got off.
This has led to the Court of Owls now facing a very embarrassing situation: the vast majority of the members of the Court of Owls, those old aristocrats of Gotham, were active in the city when Gotham took off.
And the Owl Council, that is, the Judas believers and part of the owl priests all stayed in the underground labyrinth.
When the news of Gotham's disappearance spread throughout the world, even if the federal government and the FBI secretly wanted to set off firecrackers to celebrate each other's departure, they still had to do face-saving projects.
Faced with the sudden disappearance of a city, of course the FBI, Guards, Navy, Army, and Air Force all went into action, and it didn't take long to surround Gotham's original land.
What if at this moment, an open-air underground maze suddenly appeared in a place where there should have been nothing? There was also a group of sneaky, sly-looking people in there who were up to no good at first sight and were intoxicated in their own shock without moving. , then who else can the federal government put the blame on?
Anyway, they are just trying to give an explanation to the people to quell the public panic. Since those people below look so much like a cult, then they are either a cult or a cult. They must have wiped out the city. They must have arrested the reporters to block their guns. That's right.
And because the owls underground were completely immersed in the shock of the huge city disappearing above them, they reacted too slowly when faced with the arrest of the federal government. In addition, this time the federal government sent There are indeed enough people, the army is fully armed, and the dozen claws left underground cannot make waves at all.
After a struggle, dozens of them were caught alive, and the others were either dead or ran away.
After all, the term "open-air underground maze" sounds ridiculous. Now if you want to understand the situation in Gotham, you don't even need to fly. Standing on the ground with intact street signs at the entrance to Gotham City, you can directly understand the structure of the entire maze. You can see it clearly, it's a bit like a transparent ruler with a maze and small metal balls inside. Even a fool can use the exhaustive method to figure it out.
When Batman comes and takes a look, oh, it’s a completely transparent maze. Are you going to use this to test geniuses?
Therefore, some of the remaining Judas believers who had some skills knew that there was nothing they could do, so they had no choice but to escape and hide first to prevent being arrested by the federal government and falling into the hands of that stupid woman Amanda.
But the members of the Court of Owls who stayed in the city were not so lucky.
Of course they recognized that the dark force that sent Gotham to the sky and now keeps the city functioning normally came from the metal they had buried for generations, but there was a problem. The wires and electricity went up to the sky, but the control room and batteries stayed on the ground. Okay, what should I do if the power goes out?
The madmen in Gotham raised a giant city to the sky on a whim, relying on their genius and wisdom and enough courage. They did not consider how long this energy would last or what would happen if there was no energy and they fell. They don't care if they fall or not. It's pretty cool to die this way, right?
But the members of the Court of Owls are different from them. As mentioned before, most of the members of the Court of Owls are either rich or noble in Gotham. Some are extremely successful businessmen, and some are celebrities who have been involved in Gotham for many years. Their property, power, family and... They are all in the city themselves.
If Gotham fell like this, everything they owned and their own lives would be wiped out, and they would be damned if they weren't afraid.
People who have nothing are not afraid of death and will try their best to find some fun for themselves in the gap between life and death. But the more they have, the more scruples they have. To say the least, the plan of the God of Darkness will not succeed now. , then wouldn’t the eternal life and power promised to them by the Judah believers be gone?
Except for the Judas believers, most owls have no piety towards the God of Darkness. The Court of Owls was only born because the Barbatos believers promised many benefits to this group of celebrities. What could be better than ruling a house for a long time? What about the city that makes your family always noble and more attractive?
But they also know very well that the money they make must be spent with their lives. If Gotham falls now, everything they have built in this city will be broken into pieces, all their existing descendants will die, and the family will disappear forever. , they don’t want Gotham to fall even more than those lunatics.
As a result, an absurd but extremely reasonable situation occurred - members of the Court of Owls approached these lunatics and demanded immediate maintenance of the facilities they maintained in the air, and at the same time found more power to ensure that Gotham would not fall. Go down.
Their worries are not unreasonable. Although the madmen in Gotham are all evil geniuses, after all, their time is too short, and their number cannot be compared with all the genius scientists on earth in the Marvel universe. The methods they adopted to lift Gotham into the sky The method isn't that subtle, it's just a piece of cake.
In short, the principle is similar to the small device made by the Red Hood. It uses part of the energy from the wizard Felix to create a core pulse machine, and then uses the pulse to continuously stimulate the dark power in Gotham metal.
This method is not impossible to use, but the efficiency of utilizing the dark energy in metal is too low. It is like a toy remote control car that uses up an entire industrial battery to run. More than 80% of the energy is used up. Wasted in the process of excitation.
The Court of Owls took a look and realized that it was only a matter of time before Gotham would fall headfirst if they continued to waste so much. Even if they escaped the gravity of the earth, once the protective shield disappeared, the cosmic environment would be enough to kill them.
They initially wanted to contact the surface to provide sufficient energy so that Gotham could fly smoothly and then land smoothly. However, it was obvious that the owl priests located in the main control room of the underground maze had long since died and escaped. No one can respond to their requests.
As a result, the members of the Court of Owls had to start working overtime to study how to maximize the use of this dark energy so that Gotham could land smoothly before the energy bottomed out.
In the end, the exhausted members of the Court of Owls who had exhausted all their energy due to their sleepless work did not wait for a savior in their office, but a green-haired, pale-faced smiling face with a big mouth.
(End of chapter)
