Chapter 2053: Knight's Horror Night (Thirty-Seven)
Chapter 2067 Knight's Night of Terror (Thirty-Seven)
Throughout the long history of mankind, there has never been a tactic in any war that is suitable for all situations. Most of them need to be adapted to local conditions. If one of the conditions is changed, the results will be very different.
But this conclusion must be given a premise, that is, in a war with the purpose of winning, no tactic is omnipotent.
But if this premise is slightly changed, and victory is not a necessary condition, but just wanting the opponent to fail, or even just wanting to make the opponent uncomfortable, then we have to mention a tactic that can work under almost any conditions - exploding shit.
Please note that it is exploding shit instead of throwing shit. Throwing shit is actually just an advanced version of the tactic of blaming others. At most, the method and means are more disgusting than blaming others. Its main feature is that it is premeditated and directed. If the opponent is alert enough, it can still be avoided.
But shit bombing is different. It is a tactic that even the tactic makers and executors cannot fully predict the consequences. When you throw a bomb into the toilet, you can't predict in which direction the shit will splash, or even whether it will splash on you.
This is the brilliance of the shit bombing tactic. If even the makers of a tactic don't know the final result, then who can predict and avoid it in advance?
Many people used to be puzzled about the situation of Bruce Wayne and Gotham, because what Bruce Wayne did in Gotham was basically equivalent to having a smart toilet, but resolutely not using automatic flushing, and having to study it yourself, using various postures to flush the shit stuck on the inner wall of the toilet.
But it's one thing to study the posture of flushing shit in your own toilet, and it's another thing to blow up the septic tank because the shit can't be flushed down.
What Bruce Wayne announced is more like there is a pile of shit in his toilet that can't be flushed down, because he hasn't found a suitable posture yet, so Bruce Wayne just leaves it there.
One day, the shit evolved arms and legs and smashed the toilet. Because his neighbors and colleagues failed to come to support him in time and did not help him clean up the house, Bruce decided to blow up his house and the shit together.
Of course, according to common sense, this would at most pollute a street, which is just a bit disgusting, but if the shit was pulled out by Godzilla, it would be a big trouble.
And if you have to describe it accurately, each of these criminals in Gotham is almost equivalent to a pile of shit from a giant monster. If they are scattered, they are a pile of shit, and if they are gathered, they are a mountain of shit.
Bruce Wayne blew up the mountain of shit.
Even more unfortunately, everyone here is at the center of the explosion. The amount of shit accumulated in Gotham will not pollute the entire America, but at least the entire United States.
Here we have to introduce the magical trial system and prison system of the United States.
In short, the state courts of each state are completely independent. They have almost no relationship with the Supreme Court of the United States. They have independent legislative and trial powers, which leads to the well-known phenomenon that the laws of various parties in the United States are different.
Furthermore, in cities with strong mayor systems, the legal system is almost independent. In extreme cases, there may even be different laws in different places. There are also cases where criminals in a city or a state can escape legal sanctions after fleeing to another state.
Even more amazing than this magical judicial system is the prison system in the United States. Generally speaking, American prisons are not public facilities, but private profit-making enterprises.
Many prisons in the United States are completely commercialized, which means that they are no different from the shopping malls people see in the business district. They are not only privately owned, but also have special prison managers who are responsible for managing the prison for the owners.
The purpose of the person in charge of the prison is not to imprison criminals properly, let alone reform criminals or help them return to society. Their purpose is to make a profit.
The consequence of this is that prisons are not responsible to the government and society at all. They are only responsible for completing the government's admission indicators. As for how prisoners live in prison, the standards of private prisons are completely market-oriented.
Of course, not all prisons in the United States are private, but there is a problem that in this case, the phenomenon of bad money driving out good money will inevitably occur, which will lead to the living space of some government-controlled prisons becoming smaller and smaller, and gradually declining and no one patronizing.
Of course, the government cannot sit idly by, but the measures they have taken are to allow more public prisons to accept private funding, especially funding from private enterprises that need to maintain a safe environment, and adopt a public-private partnership.
All prisons in Gotham are in this situation. The only prison that is completely privately owned by Bruce Wayne is the Bat Cave Prison. Other prisons such as Blackgate Prison, Gotham Police Prison, and Gotham Police Special Prison are all funded by the Wayne Group.
Gotham's municipal funds have long had no additional funding to maintain the normal operation of these prisons, at least not in the short term. Once the Wayne Group chooses to withdraw its funding, it will be inevitable that these prisons will be closed.
However, the disappearance of prisons does not mean the disappearance of criminals, nor does it mean the disappearance of Gotham's law enforcement agencies. As long as Gotham's federal law enforcement system is still functioning normally, they can ask the federal government to provide them with detention quotas for dealing with criminals.
If the federal government cannot provide it, it means that they have completely given up their law enforcement power in this city, which will lead to a series of serious consequences that no one present can bear.
But if they want to provide detention quotas for these criminals, it means that they allow the lunatics in Gotham to leave Gotham and go to various parts of the United States, at least all over New Jersey.
It is conceivable that this group of Gu Kings who were rolled out of the world's largest septic tank cannot honestly take a prison van to the prison to be detained.
If this bubble of shit is destined to spill on the road, who dares to say that they will never be splashed? Even if the prisons dispatched a large number of security personnel to accommodate this group of criminals at the highest security level, who can guarantee that they will be law-abiding in prison and will not carry forward their usual style of striving for the top and bring new gospel to the criminal world in various states?
A Gotham lunatic went in and a group of Gotham criminals came out. Everyone understood that Bruce Wayne did not want to be the Godfather, he wanted to mass-produce Godfathers.
Today, the federal government no longer has the strong enforcement capabilities of the Roosevelt era. It is unrealistic to build several prisons for Gotham criminals overnight. So those who don't want to be splashed with shit have only one choice left, that is, to let Bruce Wayne stop his magic.
Seeing that the congressmen were about to stare holes in their backs, the military representative couldn't help but wipe his sweat with a handkerchief. He wanted to persuade them, but he didn't know how to persuade them. After all, Bruce Wayne still had a trump card that he didn't use.
If he said that you are disregarding the safety of Gotham by doing this, Bruce could immediately say, you dare to drop missiles here, who disregards the safety of Gotham?
Now the only hope is that the two teams sent out can bring back good news. The original intention of the military was just to catch some handles of the Wayne Group, such as illegal transactions and illegal emissions, but the current situation forces them to adopt more radical means.
If the situation cannot be reversed, the madman in Gotham will be released. For their own votes, all political parties will definitely put the blame on the military. Once things develop to this point, the power purge within the military will not be far away.
The military called a halftime break, saying that the spokesperson was unwell. This was not a lie. The young officer's blood pressure was about to explode.
When everyone evacuated from the venue, there was another person who was very excited, that is Amanda Waller.
She followed Bruce Wayne closely, as if she had completely left the FBI and became a subordinate of the Wayne Group. Although the FBI director was angry, no one dared to touch Wayne's brow now.
"Are you serious, Bruce?" Amanda stared at Bruce Wayne's handsome profile, and there was some trepidation in her tone. She was very sure that Bruce Wayne heard it.
This is a great opportunity for Amanda Waller, because so far, only the department where Amanda works in the FBI has experience in dealing with super criminals. Although the record is basically negative, she should be the tallest one among the short ones.
"I'm afraid so, Ms. Waller." Batman stood there, expressionless, still gently turning the ring on his hand.
"So where do you think they will be sent?" Amanda's voice was a little dry, and the greed in her tone was a little too obvious, but she couldn't care about it now. She could feel how fast her heartbeat was now and how dry her mouth was.
"There will always be a prison." Batman answered ambiguously, and the meaning of his words was also very clear. If things really develop to the worst, they will always need someone to stand up and clean up the mess.
Amanda swallowed her saliva, stared at Batman with a wolf-like look and asked, "What do you want?"
"If it's okay, ma'am, I want to see your boss, we need to talk."
Amanda was about to say something when Batman's phone rang. He made an apologetic gesture and walked out of the room with his phone.
Looking at the caller ID, he found that it was Nightwing.
Dick usually doesn't call Bruce Wayne's phone in this situation. They will contact through Batcom, which helps Batman conceal his identity. Nightwing is the Robin who knows the priorities best, which means he must have something urgent now.
So Batman answered the phone as quickly as possible without caring about the crowds of people here.
"Listen, Bruce." Nightwing's voice on the other side was panting, which made Batman frown slightly. He had a hunch that Dick might call to talk about the cape. Sure enough, Nightwing shouted loudly on the other end of the phone.
"The kid named Peter Parker you found is crazy! Not only did he let me hack into the prophet system, he also stole your cape from the Batcave. We suspect that he was the one who anesthetized the whole city. Batman, you have to hurry..."
"He did it." Batman's voice was still steady.
Nightwing was confused and just wanted to ask, he heard Batman on the other side say: "I asked him to do it."
"Including hanging the military on the Gotham Bridge, hanging your cape on it, and inviting reporters from all over the city to watch?!"
Batman's fist hardened.