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 et.”
“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 ?”
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 ti, 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 hos 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 renad it “the new Gotham Supre Court,” and all the judges were served by Gotham City residents.
Bane and other gang mbers didn’t care whether they will be sued and judged.
They just entitled them “judges,” and gave them a law enforcent 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 mont he gains judicial power, his inner darkness will be infinitely magnified.
The weakness of human nature clearly reveals itself at such a mont.
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 et soone who doesn’t please their eyes, no matter whether that soone 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 ford 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 soone 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 movents beco rigid.
If they are fortunate enough to be out of the sight of the gangster, it does not an 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 punishnt other than the death penalty.
So far, more than 200 innocent people have died under the trial, n, won 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 enforcent team of dozens of gangsters under them to commit cris in the Old City from morning to night.
Mathison has so far brushed past several law enforcent teams.
“Aren’t these guys patrolling a little too often?”
In an artificial pool 50 ters away from the Gotham Clock Tower, Mathison suddenly floated up from under the surface of the water.
After he escaped a law enforcent 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 ters. 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 ters 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-ter space on the top floor of the clock tower to store his bat computer, which can monitor all the caras in Gotham in real-ti.
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 ant 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 ters, 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 ters. If it is unable to reach the top of the clock tower from the ground, it would definitely do so up that building.
The troubleso question was how would Mathison get to the roof of the building next door…
… because there are nearly 100 gunn guarding the building.
When Mathison tried to approach the building, he heard very ssy footsteps, and there were a lot of people inside.
He even vaguely saw figures flashing through the window, on every floor.
Mathison imdiately realized that sothing 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 enforcent 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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