The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

In Batman's eyes, everything seemed to have suddenly been accelerated.

No one waited for him to investigate carefully, prepare countless backup plans, and then implement them together to keep things firmly under his control.

Clark wrote the article very quickly, and it was basically formed in just one night. But he did not publish the article through the editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet, because he did not want to implicate ordinary people.

The report some time ago made him famous, so he also had his own personal homepage. Although he did not have many fans, his fans were all news spreaders who were active on various public opinion platforms all year round. Even smaller newspapers could not match their influence.

As soon as the article came out, the world was in an uproar.

Some people may think that everyone already knows that Gotham is bad, so why are they still holding unrealistic expectations for it? Why are they surprised by such a bad thing?

In fact, it is not ordinary people who are really shocked by such things, but the upper class of the whole world.

Ordinary people just enjoy talking about it like it's fun. But it's over after talking and having fun. They come for blood and violence, and leave after satisfying their curiosity.

But the upper class is truly shocked.

This involves a question, that is: since the upper class dares to do anything bad, why would they be afraid of being exposed?

In other words, since they are already so powerful, why should they bow to social moral standards?

Can't they admit: I am evil, I am cruel, I just don't do human things?

Throughout history, there is also a very interesting phenomenon. No matter which country or region, the tyrant will try to avoid being called a tyrant, and even kill more people for it.

Then why can't he admit that he is a tyrant?

In theory, he has already stood at the top of the human pyramid. Even if he admits it, what can he do?

Not only do they not admit it, they even have to talk about morality. Whether it is killing innocent people or taking human lives lightly, there must be a reason. If there is really no excuse, you have to make up a nonsense.

Why is this?

In fact, it is not that they are stupid and doing useless work, but because they are too smart.

They understand that maintaining morality is actually maintaining their own rule. And the collapse of social morality means that the day of their rule collapse is not far away.

The upper class does not believe in the theory of heaven. They understand better than anyone how powerful those ordinary people who seem to be trampled under their feet are.

In addition to the laws they make, social morality also restricts ordinary people. The law maintains the upper limit, and morality maintains the lower limit.

The destructive power of a tyrant who disregards morality may be 100, and the destructive power of an ordinary person who disregards morality may be 1. It seems that there is a big gap, but the bigger gap is the number.

A tyrant does one bad thing every day, causing 100 damage. But among 10,000 ordinary people, even if only one tenth of them do evil, the damage caused is 100 times his.

Although we can use various means to guide most of the damage to ordinary people, under the huge number of people, even if one in a thousand falls on the rulers, it will be a disaster.

Therefore, the rulers must maintain social morality. Even if anything they do does not meet moral standards, they have to find ways to cover it up and make excuses for themselves. If they can't find any, they have to show their attitude.

Otherwise, once people have the idea of ​​"I can do what the emperor does", your death will definitely be beyond your imagination.

Clark's article will shock the upper class because they think that the upper class in Gotham must be crazy. How can they do evil so directly and obviously? Isn't this courting death?

Even if you want to open a gambling game, can't you just play it in your own circle? Even if you want to gamble the lives of ordinary people, why do you tell ordinary people? Even if it's not intentional, it's too imprudent.

Moreover, it's fine if the news leaks out, but you also print those evil and perverted ideas into a book, as if you are afraid that others don't know how cruel you are. Isn't this a brain failure?

There are only a few people in the upper class, how many people are there in the whole Gotham City? If those ordinary people know, you want to use these cruel traps on them, they will let you know what real cruelty is.

The upper class also has an unwritten rule, that is, don't play with stupid people.

You can be bad, but you can't be stupid. If you are stupid, then you'd better hide it. Once exposed, no one will be kind enough to remind or help you. They just want to wait for you to die and come to share a bite of meat.

This is true at the individual level, and it is also true at the city and regional level.

There are only so many resources. If people in one place take them, people in another place will have nothing. And if people in a certain place take less, other places will naturally take more.

Gotham is the richest city on the East Coast. If something happens to the Gotham group, the first to benefit is Metropolis, then other cities on the East Coast, then other states, and even possibly other countries.

It would be fine if the rich people in Gotham didn't do anything stupid, but since such a big joke has been made, if they don't add insult to injury now, when will they start to do so?

So, the article, originally written by a little-known reporter, was quickly forwarded by major newspapers in the metropolis, then newspapers in other cities on the East Coast, then federal news, international news...

How to describe the popularity of this news? It can only be said that it is a bit late for Clark to start preparing a dress for the Pulitzer Prize ceremony.

At the same time as the news became popular, the GTO led by Gordon took action.

His arrangements were very strict and efficient, but he was really short of manpower. The White Knight's estimate was conservative. They didn't want to catch hundreds of people. There were hundreds of culprits, and at least thousands of important accomplices. If ordinary accomplices were counted, the number was more than all the law enforcement officers in Gotham. How could they catch them?

No one had ever thought that such a big commotion would be caused by one or two people. The main reason was that no one had imagined that someone would be so bold and make up an epic international news with just a casual remark.

The atmosphere was so heated that no one would think that this bet was just a whim of someone. Most people think that this gambling game has been around for many years, but it was only recently exposed.

There are even many people who link the gambling case with the death or disappearance of some celebrities, thinking that they must have been forced to participate in this death gambling game and then died tragically in it.

Later, it became that wealthy people from all over the world participated in it. Those celebrities who committed suicide inexplicably may have lost their lives in it.

This statement is very popular and spread very widely because people love to watch this.

Gordon's surprise arrest operation can be declared a complete failure one hour after it started.

The biggest problem is the lack of manpower, but the second is that the enemy is very cunning. In addition to the secret rooms and tunnels that have been built in the villa for a long time, they have helicopters, sports cars, scapegoats, and even professional makeup artists and escape masters, and a series of professional consultants.

This night's arrest allowed Gordon to truly see how determined and well-prepared the rich are to spend their money in order to survive.

Few of the real culprits were caught, and even their trusted lackeys ran away. The core team was basically only slightly injured.

At dawn, Gordon's legs went weak when he saw the report results sent in by his subordinates.

He had never felt this way when fighting with the most brutal and cunning criminals.

Gordon asked himself, he was tired and hurt, but not afraid. But looking at the hazy light on the horizon of Gotham, he found that he couldn't help shaking.

As a policeman who has been fighting on the front line, he understands better than anyone what terrible consequences the failure of tonight's operation will bring.

As I said, political games are either the west wind overwhelms the east wind, or the east wind overwhelms the west wind. When a war begins, it will not stop easily unless one side is wiped out.

To put it in a simple metaphor, in the process of a fight, once one side draws a knife, it must make the other side lose the ability to resist as quickly as possible, otherwise it will be oneself who dies.

This is because if everyone uses fists, they know they will not die, and it is enough to vent their anger.

But once they see blood and know that the other party is coming to kill them, if they do not kill them, wouldn't they be handing their lives to the other party?

Once it comes to a critical moment of life and death, the power that humans can burst out is extremely terrifying. So either don't use the knife, or use the knife to make a quick decision and cut the grass and root it out.

But Gordon did not do either of the above two words. Not only did he fail to defeat the enemy in one move, but he almost completely failed.

Then, what he and the ordinary people in Gotham will face next is the other party's violent revenge. It's a fight to the death.

Gordon has no time to think about why Batman is as quiet as death during the whole process. Just calming the fear in his heart has exhausted all his strength.

He is not afraid of his own death, or even the death of the police. But he knows that the most cruel means of revenge will not be used on himself. What the upper class wants is that no one will dare to have such thoughts again.

What they want is to destroy the hope of ordinary people.

Gordon's hands were shaking when he picked up the phone, but he didn't even know who to call. After hesitating for a while, he dialed an unexpected number.

"Hello? Dean Rodriguez?"

"It's me." Schiller's tone was as calm as usual. Somehow, Gordon's violent heartbeat seemed to calm down.

"Something happened in our city. Those who invested in crime may take some actions next." Gordon tried hard to hide his uneasy mood and said calmly, "I hope you can stick to your post and do your job well."

"I don't quite understand what you mean, Chief. Is there something I did wrong?"

"No, it's not. It's just that your predecessor... Tok gave some people an illusion that they could release criminals at will and use them to provoke riots. I don't think you will continue this illusion, right?"

"Of course not, Mr. Chief." Schiller's tone contained a smile. Gordon's heart suddenly tightened again.

After hanging up the phone, Schiller added in his mind: "Yes, of course not. Super criminals can't achieve the effect I want."

Then he walked over to the panel with the emergency restraints buttons—and pressed every one of them.