Chapter 153 Death Knell

It took Chen Guang a while to calm Karl down.

After all, he is just 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 for the first time. Before he could recover, he discovered that

The missing father is safe and sound.

Feeling ups and downs, she cried heartily and gradually fell asleep in Chen Guang's arms.

Chen Guang looked at the Wayne family, raised his index finger to his lips, indicating to wait a moment, and then gently led Alfred to his bed in the Wayne Manor bedroom.

As expected of Wayne Manor, the area of ​​the room Carl lived in was comparable to the total area of ​​the house he bought in the city.

Chen Guang touched Karl's hair beside the bed and sighed.

It's a pity that he has already come forward. Now if he goes back to find Karl a month ago, it will change history.

Let Karl feel aggrieved... maybe even this experience will help his growth.

After coming out, Alfred left to clean up the battlefield, and Martha also took Bruce to rest. She didn't dare to leave her child for a step now.

Thomas dragged his tired body, wiped the blood on his body, and said with a helpless smile: "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 these clawed assassins from the Court of Owls did not have kryptonite, they would not be Karl's opponents and could not be called dangerous.

Although Karl killed someone to protect his friend's family at a critical moment, in Chen Guang's heart, the incident was considered smooth.

First of all, the Claw Assassins are hardly human in some respects. They are also dressed in black and have an inhuman aura. Killing them will have a much smaller impact on Carl.

As a future superman, Chen Guang does not want to see him trapped like a collar by the so-called no-kill principle.

This is not just for Carl, but also for the people on the entire planet. If Carl grows up like a boy scout, when he grows up, he will be like other versions of Superman, either he will not kill people and will always be a virgin chasing criminals.

, or if you are provoked and angry, your temperament will change drastically after being stimulated once.

Think about the Unjust Superman. Before he kills people, he is no different from other supermen. He grew up in a rural area, has a kind and honest nature, and is a sunny boy.

But after just killing a vicious clown, he went crazy, broke all the rules that could be broken, went from one extreme to another, and ended up dragging the whole world into the abyss. Is this kind of mentality possible?

Can it be called healthy?

Chen Guang still prefers Chinese philosophy in his heart. No matter how kind-hearted a person is, he must retain a certain amount of evil spirit, otherwise he will be kicked in the face by others. If the bully's family is destroyed before he knows how to resist, then it will be too late.

Carl needs to learn to treat killing with a normal attitude, he needs to be cautious and pay attention to it, but he cannot just kill a madman like other supermen, and the moral bottom line of the whole person will directly slip to the bottom.

Thomas rubbed his aching arm, gasped, and his face turned pale, but he pretended not to care and asked, "Where have you been during this time? Although Karl doesn't show it easily,

, but I can see that he is worried about you."

Chen Guang thought for a while: "How should I put it? I killed the mother of a vigilante who traveled back to the present from the 25th century and wanted to kill the vigilante who would arrest him in the future. Then he failed and the result was

I encountered the grandmother paradox, died outside the timeline, and then I came back."

In order to describe it more clearly, Chen Guang even thoughtfully excluded the experience of going back to the Big Bang period and meeting Barry Allen.

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

Wait, what did you understand?

Seeing Thomas's expression of "just forget it if you don't want to say it", Chen Guang didn't bother to explain.

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

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

Chen Guang changed the topic and asked curiously.

This is indeed an unsolved case in the original comic book.

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 one version of the movie, the Joker even killed them.

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

Seeing Chuan Guang's suspicious look, Thomas took Chen Guang to his study.

But in the study, Thomas had no intention of sitting down and chatting 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 that found in a mine was revealed.

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

When the rock walls surrounding this simple elevator disappeared, a dark void came into view.

The sound of flowing water from the waterfall came from afar. Night is the time for bats to look for food. Countless bats flew towards the sound of the waterfall from the depths of the cave.

This is a natural cave under Wayne Manor and is home to nearly 90% of bats in Gotham.

"In a natural cave, I only need to build an elevator. Alfred and I can build it with a construction machine. There is no other artificial force, so it can be hidden."

After leaving the elevator, Thomas led Chen Guang back dozens of steps. On a steel platform, there were several huge computers and display screens.

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

The strange thing about these pictures is that they are not filming any crime scenes, or staring at anyone, but instead they are all looking at the buildings that can be seen everywhere in Gotham.

Thomas did not explain the situation directly, but asked Chen Guang: "Do you see anything 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, and it was obvious that there was some kind of commonality in these pictures.

So he glanced at it casually, without even using the Speed ​​Force to speed up his brain, and said directly: "These high-rise buildings... There seems to be more gaps between the twelfth and thirteenth floors than other floors?"

Thomas was shocked. It took him a long time to discover this secret, but Chen Guang could see it at a glance.

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

Thomas stopped trying to be pretentious and said with a serious expression: "I underestimated the Xiaohe Council... also known as the Court of Owls. I thought they were just another elitist club where a group of old white men got together with money to praise each other. But.

I was wrong, they were everywhere when Gotham was founded."

He pointed at the old-looking buildings and said solemnly: "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 look 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 that tightly wraps Gotham, and invisibly affects all aspects of Gotham, even by the influencers themselves.

It’s hard to detect.”

Chen Guang raised his eyebrows: "Just like the criminal who robbed you."

Thomas nodded: "Yes... I once sent him to the hospital, but soon after, he died due to a medical accident."

As he said that, Thomas frowned deeply: "At first, I regarded 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 could be seen that his death was not natural, so we began to investigate his life."

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

As he spoke, countless file information appeared on the computer screen, and Thomas’s profile flickered on and off in the flickering lights of the screen: “He lost his job, his wife got sick, and then he happened to be in a homeless man’s house who died.

A pistol was found on Han."

As he spoke, he pulled up surveillance footage one after another, all of which showed the man who once tried to shoot him in the alley.

Thomas looked at the man's confused appearance, and his expression gradually darkened: "He is like a puppet on strings, everything is manipulated for only one thing... that is, one night, let him think that he is the one who suddenly

Out of curiosity, I went 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."

When Thomas heard this, he shook his head and whispered: "That's right...there are thousands of people."

As he said that, the surveillance screen changed.

There are countless men, women, and even children who look different but have similar experiences.

They were abandoned, injured, lost their jobs and homes, and accidentally acquired firearms and weapons.

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

But if you put them together, you will find a hair-raising similarity. Each poor person seems to have a different destiny, but in fact they are controlled like a puppet on a string.

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

Chen Guang was speechless: "Is this... a saturation-type accident?"

Thomas nodded and frowned: "Yes, it's not this alley, it will be the next one. It's not a robbery, it could be a car accident, it's a home invasion, it's a hostage accidentally injured in a bank robbery... The Court of Owls...

I keep cutting Gotham's flesh and blood, causing it to 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 preparations. On the one hand, I will build a new Gotham on the neighboring island, open up transportation with the old Gotham, create new job opportunities, new ports, and new

city. On the other hand, I have recently been discussing with the mayor to rebuild the old Gotham, plan a new city model, and tear down old buildings..."

Chen Guang understood that the network that the Court of Owls controls the entire city relies on these deep-rooted old buildings. Even in the original book, the Court of Owls has countless secret passages and warehouses underground in Gotham.

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

Thomas said solemnly: "On the one hand, they cannot tolerate the operation of Old Gotham, exposing the abscesses and parasites that live in the city to the air. On the other hand, they cannot tolerate me becoming the founder of New Gotham.

... Gotham can expand, but the leadership must be in their hands so that they can sleep peacefully."

Chen Guang finally understood everything.
To be continued...