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Chapter 166: The Clock Tower
Chapter 166: The Clock Tower
Chapter 166: The Clock Tower
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“Charlie, is everything alright?”
In the Old Town, Mathison contacted Charlie, while rushing in the direction of the clock tower.
Charlie’s bowtie has many functions. Voice changing is only one of them.
“Don’t worry, I’ve finished everything here. What about your part?”
Hearing Charlie’s answer, Mathison nodded in satisfaction.
“I have gained a lot here. Gordon does have clues about where the nuclear bomb is hidden. I have got it. The specific details will be discussed when we meet.”
“Charlie, make sure to hide well so that you won’t be discovered.”
“Huh, I am the one who should tell you this! Who would suspect me?”
Charlie was angry.
“Hmph, if I’m lucky, I’ll be able to find out the location of the nuclear bomb today.”
Mathison smiled confidently.
“Good luck.”
After that, Charlie ended the call.
At this time, Mathison had also reached the clock tower.
Unlike other areas, the Old Town has not suffered much damage.
After all, the headquarters of the GCPD and the City Hall are both here, and only a few residents live here, and they’re far better than the residents of the East District or Audisburg District.
Therefore, there were hardly any riots here, and a large number of civilians hid in their homes and did not go out.
Only the GCPD headquarters and the City Hall were severely damaged.
And a very interesting point is that Bane did not destroy the City Hall, but renamed it “the new Gotham Supreme Court,” and all the judges were served by Gotham City residents.
Bane and other gang members didn’t care whether they will be sued and judged.
They just entitled them “judges,” and gave them a law enforcement team composed of gangsters. As long as they were asked to arrest people, they would not even frown.
Bane… No, it should be said that Thalia’s grasp of human nature has reached an incomparably precise level.
For an ordinary person who had never undergone professional legal training, the moment he gains judicial power, his inner darkness will be infinitely magnified.
The weakness of human nature clearly reveals itself at such a moment.
Don’t expect them to do things according to the legal provisions, because no one will actually read the criminal law.
The so-called trial of these people is first to prohibit people from resisting the rule of gangsters such as Bane, and secondly, it depends on their own preferences.
As long as they meet someone who doesn’t please their eyes, no matter whether that someone provokes them or not, he will be arrested and judged.
If they see a woman they like, if she does not agree to spend the night with them, she will also be arrested and judged.
Spitting on the ground? Arrested!
Begging along the street? Arrested!
Being helpful to others? Arrested!
Quarrelling? Arrested!
Crossing the road? Arrested!
Grandma can’t see the traffic lights herself? Arrested!
A public brawl? Keep fighting!
With such unreasonable trials, it is natural that there would be no unsolved cases. The case would be concluded within two minutes of the trial, and the culprits will undoubtedly be all declared guilty.
The guilty must be punished.
They were either shot to death, stripped naked, tied up, or thrown into the Queens River.
It sounds like nothing, but Gotham is in winter right now.
A layer of ice has formed on the river surface, and it is not too thick now.
They will let the “culprits” walk on the ice wearing only close-fitting clothes, while someone behind them points a gun at them, threatening to shoot if they stop.
Walking on the thing ice bare feet, it won’t take long for one’s feet to be paralyzed by the freezing cold, and they will die at the gunpoint after their movements become rigid.
If they are fortunate enough to be out of the sight of the gangster, it does not mean that they have the possibility to live.
They either freeze to death on the ice or accidentally smash the ice with their feet and drown in the river.
Anyway, in the eyes of the ‘judges’, there is no punishment other than the death penalty.
So far, more than 200 innocent people have died under the trial, men, women and children alike.
That is why the whole world’s corruption is hidden in the heart of man, and a demon is hidden in each of us.
If power and freedom are left unlimited by laws, it will surely lead to the exploitation of the weak by the strong.
It’s no wonder that no one in the Old City is willing to go out. Who would dare?
The “judges” don’t do have any other thing to do. Every day, they lead a law enforcement team of dozens of gangsters under them to commit crimes in the Old City from morning to night.
Mathison has so far brushed past several law enforcement teams.
“Aren’t these guys patrolling a little too often?”
In an artificial pool 50 meters away from the Gotham Clock Tower, Mathison suddenly floated up from under the surface of the water.
After he escaped a law enforcement team just now, another patrol appeared before he took a step, forcing Mathison to temporarily jump into the pool again to hide.
The clock tower itself is a tall building with a height of about 50 meters. The top is the design of the spire.
On the southeast-facing side of the spire below is a huge clock that keeps ticking without electricity.
Its accuracy needs to be calibrated every two years or so.
Although the clock tower itself is 50 meters high, the whole building has no floors, no entrance, and no exit. The interior of the building seems to be completely solid.
Because the original intention of Wayne Enterprises when it invested to build the clock tower was for it to be a tourist attraction building purely for sightseeing, and it did not consider its actual use.
In that case, of course, there is no need to design floors in the clock tower.
Mathison knew this was only the surface
The clock tower has an entrance, but the entrance is at the top of the tower.
Bruce specially built a secret room in the five-meter space on the top floor of the clock tower to store his bat computer, which can monitor all the cameras in Gotham in real-time.
That was, in the original comics, the base of the Oracle.
Mathison is not sure whether the riddles left by the Riddler pointed directly to the clock tower and meant that Batman’s secret base in the clock tower has been discovered.
Only once reaching the top of the tower would he know.
Mathison looked around.
It was almost impossible to go directly to the top of the tower from the ground.
However, at a position of about 30 meters, another building next to the back of the clock tower should be able to serve as a springboard.
It is easy to get up from there with a hook gun.
The rope of Mathison’s claw hook is exactly 30 meters. If it is unable to reach the top of the clock tower from the ground, it would definitely do so up that building.
The troublesome question was how would Mathison get to the roof of the building next door…
… because there are nearly 100 gunmen guarding the building.
When Mathison tried to approach the building, he heard very messy footsteps, and there were a lot of people inside.
He even vaguely saw figures flashing through the window, on every floor.
Mathison immediately realized that something was wrong, and quickly changed the route and returned to his original path. After a few steps forward, he might be seen.
These people are obviously not the law enforcement team, and each of them wears a black skull mask on their face, along with a uniform suit.
Needless to say, they are the subordinates of the Black Mask.
With a telescope, on the roof of an abandoned shopping mall diagonally opposite the clock tower, Mathison was observing the building.
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