Anti-invasion of the heavens: water drops in the beginning

Chapter 153 Death Knell
It took Chen Guang a long time to calm Karl down.

After all, he was only a seven-year-old child. Everything that happened today was too exciting for him. First, he was attacked by the claw assassins, and then he killed someone himself for the first time. Before he came back to his senses, he found that The missing father is unharmed.

Under the ups and downs of mood, I cried a lot, and gradually fell asleep in Chen Guang's arms.

Chen Guang looked at the Wayne family, raised his index finger on his lips, and signaled to wait a moment, and then gently sent Carl to the bed in his bedroom in Wayne Manor under the leadership of Alfred.

As expected of Wayne Manor, the area of ​​Carl's own room is comparable to the total area of ​​the house he bought in the city.

Chen Guang touched Carl's hair by the bed and sighed.

It's a pity that he has already come forward, and now going back to find Karl a month ago will change history.

Let Karl feel wronged... maybe even this experience will help him grow up.

After coming out, Alfred resigned to clean up the battlefield, and Martha took Bruce to rest, and now she dared not leave her child.

Thomas dragged his exhausted body, wiped the dirty blood off his body, and said with a helpless smile, "I'm sorry for dragging your child into the conflict between the Wayne family and the Court of Owls."

Chen Guang shook his head indifferently. As long as there is no kryptonite, these claw assassins of the Owl Court will not be Karl's opponents, and they cannot be called dangerous.

Although Karl killed his friend to protect his friend's family at a critical moment, in Chen Guang's mind, it was considered smooth.

First of all, Claw Assassins are hardly human in a certain way, and they are also dressed in black, with an inhuman temperament. Killing them will have a much smaller impact on Karl.

As a future superman, Chen Guang doesn't want to see him being trapped like a collar by the so-called no-kill principle.

It's not just for Carl's sake, it's for the entire planet.If Carl grows up like a boy scout, when he becomes an adult, he will be like other versions of Superman, either not killing people and always being a saint chasing criminals, or being provoked and angered once and then being stimulated. big change.

Think about Injustice Superman, before he kills, he is no different from any other Superman.Growing up in the countryside, he is kind and honest by nature, and he is a sunny boy.

But he just killed a vicious clown, and he went crazy, broke all the rules that could be broken, went from one extreme to another, and finally dragged the whole world into the abyss. Isn't this kind of psychology? Can it be called healthy?
Chen Guang's heart is still biased towards Chinese philosophy, no matter how kind a person is, he must keep his anger, otherwise he will be kicked in the face by others.If the bully knows how to resist until his family is destroyed, it will be too late.

Karl has to learn to treat killing as a normal thing, and he needs to be cautious and take it seriously, but he can't just kill a lunatic like other supermen, and the moral bottom line of the whole person will directly slide to the bottom.

Thomas rubbed his aching arm, gasped, his face turned pale, but he pretended not to care and asked, "Where have you been all this time? Although Karl doesn't show it easily , but I can see that he is very worried about you."

Chen Guang thought for a while: "How should I put it, I killed a mother who traveled back to modern times from the 25th century and wanted to kill the mother of a vigilante who would arrest him in the future, but he failed, and the result directly became The grandmother paradox, died outside the timeline, and then I came back."

In order to make the description clearer, Chen Guang even thoughtfully excluded the experience of going back to the Big Bang and meeting Barry Allen.

Thomas paused when he heard the words, was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "I understand."

Wait, what do you understand?
Looking at Thomas' expression that you don't want to say it, Chen Guang didn't bother to explain.

Anyway, it's useless for Thomas to understand this kind of thing, it's all irrelevant to him.

"So, the person who robbed you in the alley was sent by the Owl Court?"

Chen Guang changed the subject and asked curiously.

This is indeed an unsolved case in the original manga.

But after thinking about it, the answer to this question is not that important. After all, there are many versions of the death of Batman's parents, and in a certain version of the movie, the clown even killed him.

Thomas sighed and nodded, "Yes, but no."

Seeing Guang Guang cast doubtful eyes, Thomas led Chen Guang to his study.

But in the study, Thomas did not intend to sit down and have a good chat with Chen Guang. Instead, he came to the piano in the study and played a wonderful melody with one hand. Then the huge pendulum clock in the center of the study slowly sank into the wall. A crude elevator similar to the one in the mine was revealed.

Thomas went to the elevator, pressed the button to go underground, and said to Chen Guang embarrassedly: "This basement has just been built, and everything is still very primitive."

When the rocky walls around the crude elevator disappeared, a dark void came into view.

The sound of the waterfall's running water came from afar, and the night was the time for bats to forage. Countless bats flew from the depths of the cave in the direction of the sound of the waterfall.

This is a natural cave under Wayne Manor, and it is also the habitat of nearly [-]% of the bats in Gotham.

"Natural cave, I just need to build an elevator. Alfred and I can make it with a construction machine. There is no other manual work, so it can be hidden."

Leaving the elevator, Thomas took Chen Guang back for dozens of steps. On a steel platform, several huge computers and monitors were set up.

On the display screen, there are countless camera images on the streets of Gotham.

The strange thing about these pictures is that they don't shoot any crime scenes, or stare at someone, but all look at the buildings that can be seen everywhere in Gotham.

Thomas did not explain the situation directly, but asked Chen Guang, "Do you see something wrong?"

Chen Guang tilted his head slightly. If Thomas hadn't asked, he might not have noticed it if he wasn't paying attention. However, Thomas asked. It is obvious that there is something in common in these pictures.

So he glanced at it casually, without even accelerating his brain with the speed force, and said directly: "These tall buildings... there seem to be more gaps between the twelfth and thirteenth floors than other floors?"

Thomas was stunned. It took him a long time to discover this secret, but Chen Guang could see it right away.

After all, Chen Guang has also lived in Gotham for many years. He has discovered this abnormality long ago, but because he didn't care, he never used electromagnetics to check the internal situation.

Thomas stopped being a joke, and said with a serious expression: "I underestimated the Owl River Council...that is, the Owl Court. I thought they were just another elitist club, a group of old white men gathered together with money to brag about each other. But I was wrong, they have been everywhere since Gotham was founded."

Pointing to those old-looking buildings, he said in a deep voice: "These buildings are almost the first batch of high-rise buildings built after Gotham developed from a small town to a city. And these high-rise buildings... are actually taller than they appear on the outside. One more floor! And all of them are above the twelfth floor, which is the real thirteenth floor."

"The so-called court of owls has been intertwined since the establishment of Gotham. They are like a huge net, wrapping Gotham tightly, and invisibly affecting every aspect of Gotham, even by the influencers themselves. It's hard to notice."

Chen Guang raised his eyebrows: "It's like the criminal who robbed you."

Thomas nodded: "That's right... I sent him to the hospital, but shortly thereafter, he died of a medical accident."

As he said, Thomas frowned deeply: "In the beginning, I also took all this as an ordinary accident...until he died in the hospital. I am also a doctor and have a doctorate, so I saw it at a glance It can be seen that his death was not natural, so the investigation into his life began."

"His previous life was ordinary, and there was nothing to talk about... until the day I refused to join their invitation to join the Court of Owls, everything changed."

As he said that, countless file information appeared on the computer screen, and Thomas' profile flickered on and off amid the flickering lights on the screen: "He lost his job, his wife fell ill, and he just happened to be in a dead homeless family. Han found a pistol on him."

As he said that, he called up the surveillance images one after another, all of which were about the man who had tried to shoot him in the alley.

Thomas looked at the man's dazed appearance, and his expression gradually became gloomy: "He's like a marionette, everything is manipulated for one thing...that is to make him think that he suddenly On a whim, to rob a rich family..."

Chen Guang nodded clearly: "That's you? But the probability of meeting you is too low, there are thousands of people like this in Gotham."

Thomas shook his head when he heard this, and said in a low voice, "That's right... there are tens of thousands of people."

As he said that, the monitoring screen changed.

Countless men, women, and even children who look different but have experienced similar experiences.

They were abandoned, injured, lost their jobs and homes, and inadvertently acquired guns and weapons.

If you look at each one individually, it seems that they are just poor people who have been pushed into a corner by society.

But put them together, and you'll find a hair-raising similarity.The seemingly different fates of each miserable person are actually manipulated like puppets on a string.

Even their last cries and struggles against this society are tools used by capitalists.

Chen Guang was speechless: "Is this...a saturated accident?"

Thomas nodded and frowned: "That's right, it's not this alley, it will be the next one. It's not a highway robbery, it could be a car accident, it's a burglary, it's a hostage who was accidentally injured in a bank robbery... the owl court for Me, constantly cutting the flesh of Gotham, making it ooze pus and blood, trying to drown me and kill me."

Chen Guang shook his head: "What are they planning?"

Thomas sighed: "I recently... have a new economic plan. I have two plans. On the one hand, I will build a new Gotham on Lindao, open up traffic with the old Gotham, create new jobs, new ports, and new On the other hand, I am also discussing with the mayor recently to rebuild Old Gotham, plan a new city model, and tear down old buildings..."

Chen Guang understood that the network of the Owl Court to control the entire city was based on these deeply rooted old buildings.Even in the original book, the Court of Owls has countless secret passages underground in Gotham.

And all of this will fall apart during the overhaul and be exposed to the sun.

Thomas said in a deep voice: "They can't tolerate old Gotham's operation, and expose the abscesses and parasites that live in the city to the air. On the other hand, they can't tolerate me becoming the founder of New Gotham ...Gotham can be expanded, but the leadership must be in their hands so that they can sleep peacefully."

Chen Guang finally understood everything.

At the same time, I also understood why the owl court did not continue to attack Thomas after killing Bruce Wayne in the original Flashpoint universe.

On the one hand, the criminal who caused the accident was directly beaten to death by Thomas, and he was unable to investigate the owl court that relied on various coincidences and invisible control to guide the other party's behavior.

On the other hand, Thomas and his wife, who suffered from the pain of losing their son, tortured each other. One was a vigilante who killed the killer, and the other was a lunatic who took revenge on society. Neither of them had any intention of building a new Gotham.

Maybe Gotham still developed and expanded later, but that had nothing to do with Thomas.Gotham, which is vigorously developing, is still under the control of the owl court.

If in other parallel worlds, the deaths of Thomas and his wife were also due to the owl court.Then the follow-up owl court didn't care about this little guy Bruce, probably for the same reason... He just wanted to be a vigilante, to catch the little gangsters on the street, and didn't stop him from doing business.

Even Wayne Enterprises' later partners may have included members of the Court of Owls.

Thomas punched the computer heavily, and said in a hateful voice: "Unfortunately, I didn't pay attention to it after these accidents happened, I stopped going out at will, and initially established defensive facilities. However, my reaction was still too slow, When people from the Owl Court found out that I had sensed the truth, they stopped covering it up and launched a general attack on me."

As he said that, he shook his head with an angry smile, gritted his teeth and said, "Those bastards are simply launching a local war in the city! They don't take all morality and order into account at all!"

Chen Guang joked: "Perhaps in their eyes, you are order, and you who resist them are the ones who don't regard order in your eyes."

Thomas heard this, squeezed his forehead with one hand with a wry smile, turned around and asked, "I've told you everything, Chen, so...will you help me remove this tumor in Gotham?"

No wonder Thomas suddenly had a long talk to himself before, because he wanted to borrow his own strength.

It is estimated that he also saw Karl's strength and was very moved.It's just that Karl is a child, no matter how thick-skinned he is, he will never let a child go to the battlefield.

But the father of the child is all right.

Chen Guang smiled indifferently and said, "Carl is under your care, so you can flex your muscles as you like."

He turned his head and looked at the ordinary people in the picture who were persecuted by the owl court with various means and sunk into the abyss of crime, and there was a trace of coldness in his eyes.

"Don't worry, Thomas... From tonight onwards, no innocent people will be harmed in Gotham."

This is also Chen Guang's nature... There is no need to emphasize that he is lazy, so in the past when he limited his ability to obtain information, he could turn a blind eye to these things that happened around him.

But now that this layer of window paper was punctured by Thomas, Chen Guang had to act.

At this moment, an orange-yellow subsonic bullet shot toward Thomas almost silently in the dark shadows, covered by countless bats and the beating of their wings.

Chen Guang grabbed the bullet casually, turned his head, and looked into the dark cave.

Seeing Chen Guang raise his head suddenly, Thomas was puzzled, and his expression changed suddenly when he saw the bullet.

He picked up the black helmet next to the computer and put it on his face, his eyes emitted the light of the night vision goggles, looking into the depths of the cave.

It's a pity that all of them have been empty.Only a sniper rifle stands quietly on the rock of the cave, apparently abandoned by its owner.

Chen Guang smiled and shook his head: "That's right, this is the normal reaction to seeing a superhuman who can catch a bullet. Those who dare to do something when they see a superhero's body is bulletproof, I really don't know how brave they are."

Speaking of this, Chen Guang recalled and understood why those criminals stopped running away from superheroes.

Because they are superheroes, and they don’t kill people, they will be put in jail at most, and even because the shooting did not cause any consequences, they can’t be locked up for a few months without bail. Since there is no burden, why don’t they shoot.

Sure enough, the principle of not killing is shit.

Chen Guang suddenly disappeared in front of Thomas. Thomas was taken aback for a moment, then immediately turned around and used the computer to call up all the surveillance images of Wayne Manor.

As soon as he found out that he was being targeted by the court of owls, he almost built Wayne Manor like a fortress, and ubiquitous surveillance was just a standard configuration.

Soon, he saw Chen Guang in the forest outside the waterfall.

At his feet, there was a pile of twisted parts, and Thomas saw at a glance that it was a broken orange motorcycle.

And the figure who just ran out of the waterfall at this time was also at the last moment of evacuation, no longer worried about the camera, and rushed directly into the screen.

Thomas saw that this was a man wearing orange and black armor. It could be seen that his figure was extremely strong and strong, and his figure leaping out of the waterfall was also extremely fast, like a bloodthirsty piebald cheetah.

But when he came to the evacuation vehicle, he saw that familiar figure.

The person who directly caught the bullet of his sniper rifle with his bare hands.

When Chen Guang turned around and looked at this character he liked in his previous life, he showed a kind smile.

"Are you Deathstroke?"

The death knell did not change his face, and directly took out the double knives on his back.

Then it fell to the ground with a "bang", raised his hands and knelt down.

"I surrender."

　The setting of the new city of Gotham comes from the Gotham map of the Gotham Knights.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)