Laughing American comics, I am becoming more and more like a clown

"I know what you want. Wait, the opportunity will come soon."

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Before leaving, Lucien took away all the cigars on his table.

"How did you get in?" Oswald inquired before he opened the door.

"This was done by Cao Wushang, the left Sima of Pei Gong." Lucian said this in Chinese, meaning that Oswald had his spy around him.

This is a great hint, or you could call it a joke.

Oswald listened, and after he closed the door and left, he pondered for a moment: "Japanese? Or Korean?"

The little penguin doesn't understand Chinese.

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What Oswald was worried about was not the drugs getting through the open door. To be honest, except for Uruguay, a country that made decisions on the spur of the moment, other countries would at least give the drugs a layer of skin. If they were really taken out, they would not be able to get through the open door.

What worries him is Damian's current control over the coast... No matter what kind of ship appears, it will be destroyed in seconds.

Occasionally, the Assassin's League's own ships would be destroyed in seconds.

"He's still too young." Oswald recalled the immature appearance of the first Batman at around thirty years old and chuckled, "Just like his father, a greenhorn."

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The current rookie obviously didn't know that the two had already cooperated. He also discovered the water source problem, and then extended it to a time span of 28 years, analyzing the composition of the substances in the water... and finally determined the release location and chemical formula.

C8F17-C6H4-O-C3H6-S-P(=O)(OH)2-17β-羟基类固醇。

It can weaken from multiple angles including the mirror, egg, high play, uterus, hormone secretion and cell activity.

Perfect, comprehensive, irreversible and hereditary.

Even if the water source is changed now, the city will remain like this unless outside population is introduced.

Because the activity of the mirror and egg is extremely low, even if healthy cells are successfully selected for fusion and placed into the uterus, miscarriage or miscarriage may occur due to various reasons. Even if the baby is born with caution, there is a high possibility of heavy bleeding.

Gotham has no future.

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Lucian stood on a high place and watched the people marching... They were protesting against the water problem, calling for the opening of the blockade with the outside world, and criticizing Paul... Yes, they put the blame on Paul for poisoning the water.

"He's a villain! He just wants to destroy Gotham! He's ruined the future! He's worse than an animal!"

As Lucien listened, he thought of the Joker's original move - to put the blame on Paul and make Gotham completely enraged by him... It didn't matter if he wasn't angry. With fertility developing to this point, Paul would definitely open the door and bring in people from outside.

Just like what Lucian is doing now, forcing Damian to open the portal between Gotham and the outside world

Chapter 138 Confrontation

The incident happened suddenly, but Damian was not without a way to deal with it.

As the crowds paraded through the streets, the screens that had been used to praise Paul's achievements lit up—

It's a silhouette of Batman, the current Batman.

"After overthrowing the rule of the Angel of Death, I didn't keep Gotham cut off from the outside world out of selfishness. The virus was raging in the outside world, and the only beneficial thing the Angel of Death could do was to protect Gotham from the impact of the external crisis."

After saying this, while people found the source of the sound and turned their eyes, the bat personnel on the screen faded away, and a scene of a large hospital emerged.

The waiting area was crowded with patients whose faces were pale and parts of their bodies were brown or green, stiff and shriveled.

"The Wood virus has broken out. It's spread through air, water, and other substances. Infected individuals will suffer from liver fibrosis, muscle necrosis, nerve rupture, bleeding from the mouth and nose, and ultimately death. There is currently no cure, and the inhibitory effect is weak. The death toll in the metropolis alone exceeds two thousand people per day."

The crowd became a little agitated as the mechanical explanation sounded.

"So that's how it is. Then the closed-off nature is understandable."

but……

"Wood Virus!...Why didn't you tell us in advance?!"

"That's an excuse! How could anyone turn someone into this? And we haven't heard a word about it!"

Can……

"Perhaps they were worried about causing unrest, so they didn't tell anyone widely... People inside knew about it."

A thin female voice came from somewhere.

"The virus appeared in recent months. There's no way he's connected to the Angel of Death and created this lie together... It hasn't been long since we overthrew his tyranny..."

"How do you know it's impossible?" It was a man's voice. "What if they colluded? How do you explain that even if we win, life will be the same as before?" He spat fiercely.

"Grass Pagoda Lady's rules! Grass Pagoda Lady's distribution of labor!"

……

Forced childbirth and water supply issues were just a prelude. What made more people indignant was that the rebels had clearly won and Paul's tyranny had been overthrown.

But Gotham under the new Batman remains the same.

——Violent suppression, distribution of materials, forced labor, isolation from the outside world...it's no different, and it's even getting worse.

The crowd was more angry about the rebels' behavior and more disappointed with them...

……

Although the images on the screen were diligently playing the reasons, from "Wood virus" to "parasitic plague" to "nuclear leakage" to "alien invasion"...

The more they talked, the more it seemed as if, if Gotham wasn't isolated from the outside world, it would be swept away in the next second.

So people ended up listening indifferently, treating it as a joke and an excuse...

Damian's approach was correct, but unfortunately he misjudged the contradictions among the people of Gotham and only regarded superficial things as the crisis.

Hence the absurd scene we have now.

As the explanations became more numerous and clearer, and the logical chain became more explicit, the crowd became more and more angry.

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Bruce was watching this scene. He saw the reason clearly and wanted to tell Damian, but he couldn't speak... For the past four months, he could only use his eyes and ears.

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Dark clouds were gathering in the sky and fog was coming in from the sea, making the city look more like an isolated island.

Arthur was also watching the parade, and all he contributed to it was an increased dose.

But like the butterfly effect, it has led to the current situation.

His palms felt numb, and Arthur couldn't quite place his emotions. Anticipation? Excitement?

——This parade was initiated because of him!

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At the moment, Damian is the loser.

It cannot be said that he lost, it can only be said that he was at a disadvantage. However, after the video was played, he also discovered the mistakes in his understanding.

The crowd was cheering and making a commotion, and some extremists were smashing and destroying things around them.

He should continue to explain...explain why he continues to rule like this, explain his own difficulties, and explain the indispensability of this system...

But Damian stopped, and suddenly realized that he shouldn't explain... It seemed that for this city, at this moment, no explanation was necessary.

But what exactly should be done?

Damian didn't know.

He had studied anthropology, sociology, philosophy, psychology...but the theories in the books were always different from the city, and these differences made him feel that if he followed the answers in the books, he would fail miserably.

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"Gotham cannot be governed."

Damian narrowed his eyes as he remembered what Bruce had said.

If Damian were a child or a teenager, he would be stubborn, proud, paranoid, and would never give in... But now he is over thirty years old... It is not difficult for him to give in.

To be more precise, as Damian grows older, he becomes more like a normal boy.

I have a special feeling for my father.

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He turned off the monitor and walked towards the ward, which he had not entered since the beginning, filled with cobwebs and ant nests.

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Bruce saw the figure standing at the door through the light reflected from the ceiling.

Seeing him walk in, the soles of his shoes seemed to be intentionally heavier, and the footsteps were rhythmic.

……

The main reason why Lucian instigated people to attack the checkpoint was not that he really wanted drugs to flow in, nor was it the arms.

Those are just serving his ultimate purpose.

It was he who said to Arthur: "Defeat the dragon and rescue the princess."

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"This is the Joker's plan," Bruce said bluntly after regaining his ability to speak. "He is leading the masses to be dissatisfied with your rule."

He should have gloated and said something like "Gotham cannot be governed."

But no, instead, he dutifully offered a solution: "What you need now is an apology and a promise that you won't force them to do anything... At least, you have to wait until this demonstration is over before you can talk about control."

"They retain some trust in you, but because of a clash of ideologies, they've developed a rift with you... This is a conflict that was bound to be triggered sooner or later, but the Joker brought it to light sooner... This has its drawbacks. A premature appearance can make emotions shallow and easily swayed."

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Lucian also knew this problem. He never thought that just a condemnation of control could arouse these people's complete anger.

So after the screen went out, he stood up, walked down from the height, and stood at the edge of the crowd.

No one noticed him.

Before Lucian launched a small rocket to blow up the large screen emitting meaningless white light.