"Really building a maze?"
Lex asked in surprise as he watched Bruce pull out a pile of blueprints.
Pamela put her hands on the table, turned to look at Bruce and said, "Are you looking for trouble? You have found the source of your power, why do you still care about these disguised forms?"
"This is not a formality." Bruce shrugged and said, "I found this method to be very good. Once an external enemy invades, we can directly activate the Gotham Magic Field and fly to the sky, and then leave the maze to the external enemy. More importantly, What’s more, the maze I built is definitely better than theirs.”
"Furthermore, if you want to get more budget, you have to have a bigger project. I can't tell the mastermind directly that the purpose of asking for so much power is to prevent Gotham from having traffic jams, right? How can I approve that funding? Do you have to come down?"
Pamela was immediately discouraged, waved her hand in front of her face, and said speechlessly: "I find that you are getting more and more cunning, what a businessman you are!"
Lex became interested. He stood up from his chair and walked to the opposite side of the table. While looking down at the design drawings, he said, "I'm a little interested in this project, but first tell me how you found the source of power, and then how." Got in touch with the other party.”
"This is not difficult. There is no need to guess too much that the source of power is underground, but determining the specific location is actually an accident."
With Bruce's narration, everyone in the room understood the whole story.
When Roy wanted to improve Gotham's transportation, the first person he approached was of course the big financier Wayne. However, he also knew that no matter how rich Wayne was, there was a limit. The Gotham City Renovation Project had almost destroyed the Wayne Group. If you are hollowed out, it will be difficult to reach the sky if you want to run two parallel lines.
But who is Batman? If there are difficulties, he must face difficulties. If there are no difficulties, he must face difficulties. The biggest difficulty he faces now is actually that he wants to do all the work for the next hundred years within ten years.
Normally speaking, the transformation of any city is not accomplished overnight. It requires repeated trial and error processes. The design on paper may be good, but when it is implemented, new problems arise, and then modifications are made. This is actually the most time-consuming. of.
Bruce created the Gotham world in order to conduct trial and error on Gotham's renovation project. On the one hand, it would not hurt real people if the construction went wrong, and on the other hand, after building the Gotham world, it was found that the effect was not good. It's easier to tear it down and rebuild it.
There is no problem with the residential area being set up like this. Teachers and students from the Gotham Academy of Magic can go in and experience it, and then find faults with the experimental products. At the worst, we can get a few more bold Gothamites to come in for on-the-spot inspections. Copot's men The Children's Gang will be happy to do so.
But the transportation network problem cannot be solved in this way, because to measure the operating status of a city's transportation network requires a large amount of traffic flow, through working days, holidays, flat periods, peak periods, and testing of extreme conditions and redundancy. Bruce is not Maybe get all the drivers in Gotham to the other world to test the transportation network he built.
What should you do if you are in a hurry and don’t have time? Bruce came up with a brilliant idea to steal time, which was to use the Flash card bug.
According to the Flash in the main world, he cannot travel to the future to take a look at the results before telling Bruce, because that is very likely to cause a time paradox, which will destroy the universe.
But Bruce's genius won't die out so easily.
He decided to bring a younger version of himself over, give him his plan, and then let him go back to his younger Gotham to make trial and error bit by bit, and finally let The Flash travel back to Bruce's world. Thirty or forty years later, bring the results back to yourself.
In this way, he can steal thirty or forty years of Bruce's universe, but avoid the devastating consequences of playing with the time and knowledge of the same universe.
If there are still errors in the accumulation, for example, the transportation network of Gotham in the universe where young Bruce lives is not as good as Bruce expected, then he will update his plan based on the mistakes, and then find a young person. Come here by yourself...
In this way, after a short period of iteration in his universe, Bruce will sooner or later find a perfect plan, and then proceed directly to construction, avoiding the long trial and error process.
Bruce, who used the bug to rescue Martha the Clown, has now become a veritable king of ideas in Gotham. After solving the time cost problem, he began to think about how to solve the material cost.
At this time, Bruce has already realized the question that Pamela raised before. The builders of Gotham are constantly injecting darkness into the metal of Gotham buildings. Now that he is also a builder of Gotham, can he also use that? Kind of darkness?
The other party's purpose is to let darkness pollute Gotham, but it has already been polluted anyway, why not find a more efficient way to use it?
A truly thought-through Batman decided on the spot - the owl is actually me, give me the budget and I will build it!
During the development period, everything can make concessions for development. Don't worry about whether the energy is dark or not. Just say whether it is useful or not, right?
So, Bruce began to look for a way to contact the energy provider, but this time Victor came to him.
This is the accident Bruce was talking about - Victor said that many gangsters frequently come to him to repair the underground dense ice storage in a certain place. Every time Victor goes there, there is no problem with the ice, but he will still do his duty. The dense ice in the cold storage was re-reinforced, but every time it didn't take long for the ice to crack, melt, or even explode.
Victor has been studying dense ice for a long time and has never encountered such a strange thing. He has been studying for a long time and has no clue, so he wants to come to Bruce and use his wisdom to see if he can solve the problem.
When Bruce went to the underground cold storage to check, he found that it might not be a hardware problem. He brought a machine to detect radiation, and found that it was indeed radiation of certain special wavelengths that affected the arrangement of the atomic structure inside the dense ice. Following the radiation source, Bruce discovered The source of dark energy hidden underground was found.
Since the traces of the owl's existence have been erased, there is no ready-made magic circle, but Bruce happened to go to the magic world to learn magic theory knowledge some time ago, and went to heaven to be an angel for a while.
Combining the nature of the power, the way the power source appears, and the possible ways to open the channel, Bruce found Barbatos's phone number not long after research. Although the door has not been opened, the power can already be transmitted through the channel.
In the conference room, Bruce and Pamela changed positions. He placed his hands in front of the huge map. He still looked at everyone in the room, and then said his plan, which he summed up in one sentence - build the largest project. Get the most budget, produce the best results, and kill all the owls in the universe!
It turns out that bats are larger than owls.
The Court of Owls and the followers of Judas are both subordinates of Barbatos. If Barbatos wants to use them to corrode the main universe, he must lend them power, and it is the kind of loan that does not require the other party to repay the price. The only thing Barbatos wants is to corrode The result is the so-called batch budget.
There is a default unspoken rule in government bidding projects, that is, the more flashy the bid, the greater the possibility of being a liar. Batman's bid is very well written.
When most of the Court of Owls prayed to Barbatos for power, they just said, "Somewhere in Gotham, construction has begun again. We are going to add materials to it and ask the great dark god to give us some power." Then there was a bunch of rainbow farts. .
This is not the case with Batman. If he is really determined to deceive people, he will make sure that every step is watertight.
First, Falcone led the important figures among the twelve families to go into battle to form a new Owl Court, completely restoring the structure of the Owl Court, consisting of ordinary court members, members of the Owl Parliament, the speaker, the owl priest in charge of religious affairs, and the Judas believers. composition.
Some people should still remember that the personality of Alberto was actually created by the Court of Owls to interfere with the Falcone family. This wave is about recognizing the ancestors and rectifying their origins.
When Barbatos received another prayer from an owl from this universe, he was busy competing with Nyarlathotep, and without looking carefully, he thought that maybe the Owl Court had suffered a wave of purges before, and We had reorganized our forces this time, so when we received the budget request from the other party to rebuild the destroyed event venue, we sent our forces over without much thought.
Now that there are activity venues for ordinary members, there must be a church to consolidate believers’ faith, right? Bruce finished writing the main doctrines and Bible of the Judas believers in two hundred thousand words. Barbatos took a look at it and the Owl Court of the universe approved it.
Then there is the budget for urgently replenishing the human resources needs of the manpower destroyed in the last war, the budget for meetings to conduct post-war summaries and reflections, the budget for personal training and improvement to make up for the shortcomings of the previous battle, and the budget for formulating the next battle plan looking forward to the future. Conference budget…
One after another, plans and budget applications are sent to Barbatos like harassing calls. Barbatos is busy fighting with others, and he is still fighting in the spiritual world. How can he have so much energy to read the budget applications one by one?
It was not like he had never encountered a situation where the budget expenditure during the golden period of the construction of the Owl Court had increased significantly before. Looking at it again, this universe had just been knocked out not long ago, and it was still young. After calculation, it was indeed the time for the Owl Court to be released. When it was time to exert force, with a wave of his hand, they were all approved.
Then there is another 500,000-word comprehensive analysis of Batman's weaknesses, with a focus on the need to build an all-round, three-dimensional, city-wide, over two thousand-story underground labyrinth. Barbatos was dizzy when he saw it. No matter what they want to do, they will be approved.
Seeing Barbatos's attitude, Batman and the super criminals all went crazy. They all came up with any plans to destroy the world, super evil ideas, and grand plans to conquer the universe, and that was it.
So, the budget request flew into Barbatos's mind like snowflakes. Barbatos couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to ask the priest to send a message to the believers to stop them being so annoying. As a result, he received an unprecedented passionate prayer to Barbatos. It won't work anymore.
Members of the Court of Owls may not be sincere in their belief in the Dark God, but there is nothing more sincere than a poor graduate student's belief in a boss with a generous budget.
Most of the members of the Court of Owls find themselves in a class, but this group of genius villains in Gotham are not. They believe in science, endlessly pursue the truth, and never stop on the road of search. They are passionate because of their love. .
The sunrise over Gotham Bay still showed a brilliant purple edge from the orange-red edge. In the office of the chief physician of Arkham Asylum, Arrogance crossed his arms and looked at the patients hurriedly rushing to the laboratory downstairs. Say to greed in your heart.
"I knew it was bad for him to come to your place every two days."
"He doesn't just run to me. Ever since the elevator was built in Abyss, that's where he stayed most often. Otherwise, why would he suddenly change his hairstyle?"
"Sometimes I feel like I don't teach him enough."
"You think he doesn't have much of you in him, but isn't that what you want?"
Arrogant was silent for a while. When he returned to the palace of thought, he saw Greed lying on the railing of the patio and smiling at him. He heard Greed say.
"It's easy to understand and have a clear understanding of the heart. This is a divine revelation from heaven, just like the most beautiful flower that can grow from a seed."
Greed looked into Arrogant's eyes and said, "We all planted seeds in the yard, and you let the best flower you planted grow to everyone's window."
"And you enclose them all in your own flower pot."
"So I am greedy and you are arrogant. I treasure it and you show it, but in the end I still borrow your light...the flowers are beautiful."
Arrogant lowered his head and laughed softly.
Barbatos is a good god
