Chapter 1726 Bruce Wayne and the Prisoner of the Batcave (VIII)
Gotham was destroyed.
If placed in a realistic work, this would be a very scary beginning. Unfortunately, in the world of superheroes, cities are being destroyed every second.
But even so, the city of Gotham can still bloom in the midst of vulgarity, or it can be said that it blooms even after death, because even in the world of superheroes, almost no city is destroyed due to civil strife. of.
The situation that has evolved to this point has some cruel implications, but because of the special situation in Gotham, it is difficult to say that the people of Gotham deserve it. At least those who are still here deserve it 100%.
Unlike wars between countries and regions, gangs do not first bomb transportation hubs, nor do they defame transportation hubs or simply blow up roads.
On the one hand, gangsters rarely have this kind of strategic vision. Most gangsters of this generation are fighting this kind of war for the first time. They are not professional military strategists. Most of them take it step by step and are immersed in grabbing territory and being robbed. Among them, there is no time to manage transportation hubs.
On the one hand, it makes no sense for them to blow up these facilities, because the enemy is not outside, and no one will transport troops from outside. Most supplies also go by sea. The advantage is to grab the dock, and land transportation is not that important. .
For this reason, most of the outsiders and locals who were afraid of death who were stranded in Gotham ran away overnight carrying trains when the war just started. Now those who are left behind are complete war lunatics, even if they are bombed in front of them The mutilated corpse deserved it, but it couldn't be called callous.
When Harley Quinn took Harley to find Poison Ivy, everyone sitting in the S.H.I.E.L.D. office saw clearly the current situation of the city through her eyes. From swearing and sighing at the beginning to silence later, The atmosphere in the room basically hovered between "did I drink too much last night and should I have drank more last night?"
"There was no bombing." Magneto said: "Cities that were bombed by bombers are not like this."
Of course Nick knew it, so he explained to the younger children: "The shape of building debris caused by bombers falling from the sky is completely different from that caused by ground explosives. When the explosive yield is the same, bombers Coverage is wider, but ground explosives do more damage."
"If they used bombs, grenades or rocket launchers to make the city look like this, how many did they use?"
Stark stood next to Jarvis with his hands on his hips and asked with some confusion on the side of the screen. He paused for a moment, but still walked to the screen, pointed to the upper half of a building above and said, "Look at the steel bars here. With burn marks on it, it doesn't look like something a known bomb could do."
"You can't do it either?"
"I haven't done any research on this kind of thing." Stark shook his head slightly and said, "I stopped working as an arms dealer a long time ago. Besides, if I invent a bomb that can easily fuse the steel bars of building standards, I will be criticized. The humanitarian condemnation of the international public opinion field, Pepper will yell at me for a whole week, "If you can't do your job, don't cause trouble!"
"But ordinary bombs can also destroy buildings, right?" Pietro, who was sitting cross-legged on the carpet, raised his head and asked.
Stark nodded and said: "That's why I feel confused, if developing a bomb is just to collapse the building it destroys in another way, or even collapse faster, then what's the point?"
Soon, Stark and everyone in the room knew what this meant, and the answer was an arms race.
As we all know, the original source of the gang's firepower was imported from Eastern Europe by Harley Quinn and Harley, the two newly appointed arms dealers. However, the people of Gotham have nothing but a strong spirit of self-reliance and self-reliance. They feel that they have always relied on imports. It was so unreliable that they decided to produce it themselves.
But military production lines are different from ordinary industrial production lines. Even though Gotham is an important industrial city, it is more inclined to the chemical industry and lacks a large part of the production lines and raw materials needed for military production.
Harley Quinn and Harley are indeed very powerful, and they did get some of the inheritance distributed by the prodigal sons during the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but most of them were useless, and the ones that were successful could not be brought in.
Faced with scattered machines and workshop components that didn't even have control assemblies, the Gothamites' amazing wisdom and tremendous courage allowed them to create miracles again, mainly relying on the latter.
Gotham people always have a kind of mysterious confidence when facing this kind of thing, that is, although I don't understand the principle, the advantage must be mine. Although these things can't even move, I can just use a screwdriver and screwdriver to transform them. Pressing down on the accelerator can push the earth away.
The strange thing is that although 99% of the experimental machines were destroyed and killed, among the tens of millions of people in Gotham, there are still a few geniuses like Jason who used to pry the tires of the Batmobile with his bare hands. After some tinkering, they finally succeeded.
But how could Gothamites' crazy, rain-stained little heads be satisfied with ordinary arms? Even though they knew neither magic nor science, they just thought it would be cool to crank the bomb up to plus sixteen and then enchant it with Firestorm, so they did it.
Not all of their surprise inventions have practical value. For example, the bomb that Stark discovered that seemed to have a special burning effect on metal did not improve the efficiency of destroying buildings, but Gotham's arms race was originally Just comparing who is cooler.
When one gangster starts to roll up the military industry, the other ninety-nine will have to follow his pace, because in Gotham, you can die, but you can't live without a life.
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How much territory you have robbed, how much money you have earned, and how many people you have under your command are just the items that the early gangsters compete with each other. In the end, the gangs compete with each other for fashion value.
You have to admit that the image of the godfather who wears a black suit, black leather shoes, and a poppy on his chest, and always says "I will give you a condition you can't refuse" when he sees people, has reversed the global view of the mafia to some extent, and completely distinguished them from those street thugs.
In fact, the mafia is not so beautiful at all, but as long as the fashion value is piled up enough, it is difficult to change the stereotype once it is formed.
Therefore, after the initial chaotic period and reaching a certain weird balance, many gangs entered the era of rolling up technology and rolling up image. Although all this has developed too rapidly, it is not completely without reason.
First of all, the two top war profiteers in this city are the former Batman and the former Joker. After they split into two gangs and started fighting, the adjective "former" also needs to be questioned.
Batman and the Joker always compete in all aspects. They soon got tired of the ordinary daily life of you fighting me and I fighting you, and entered the field they are most familiar with - a comprehensive competition in all fields known to mankind, with a kind of beauty that does not care about anyone's life or death.
And as mentioned in the Gotham Law, this hellhole will sooner or later roll into trouble.
"What is that?"
Stark in front of the screen keenly captured a floating object on the skyline, so Wanda asked Harley in her heart, but Harley had just returned and was confused about the current situation, so she asked Harley.
Harley covered her eyes with her hands and said, "Oh, that, I heard it's the base of the famous Neville family."
"Why is it flying in the sky?"
"Maybe it feels unsafe on the ground."
"I mean, how does it fly in the sky?!" Wanda repeated in Harley's mind. This time Harley didn't ask Harley, but she asked back with some confusion: "What do you mean how does it fly in the sky? It will naturally fly in the sky when it leaves the ground."
"Ask her about the anti-gravity system." Stark said.
"Does this air fortress use an anti-gravity system? Is this a special technology developed in your universe?" Wanda turned her head and glanced at Stark, probably to confirm whether there was anything wrong with her asking this question.
Stark knew the origin of Batman, and he also knew that this might be the universe where Batman was, but when dealing with Batman, Stark knew that the technology level in the civilian field of his universe was behind that of this universe, which was about the level of this universe a few years ago, that is, when there was no air transportation system and no solar system development plan.
Then what about the sky fortress that this gangster family took out? It can't be that they suddenly became enlightened overnight, right?
"I don't know about this, but I know someone from that gangster family. How about I call you and ask?"
Harry said, enduring a headache. She felt that the voice in her head was quite compatible with her. Maybe one day when she goes to this universe again, the other party can help her, so she is also happy to help the other party.
Harley asked Harley to borrow a cell phone from Harley Quinn, dialed a few numbers on it, picked up the phone and asked: "Hello, is this Jason? Uh, are you the big one or the small one? I can't hear your voice clearly..."
"Oh, I see, you are not the one in my universe, yes, I am Harley, I called mainly to ask about the, uh, air base you made, what's going on?"
"What? There are too many monsters on the ground? What happened during the time I was away... Well, it's like this, a friend wants me to ask some technical questions, anti-gravity system or something."
"Oh, it's the system used in the Batfighter, right? Well, you made some modifications, Tim drew the design, I didn't expect him to have this ability, yes, yes, I know you did it, you are awesome, okay?"
Stark stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Wanda's eyes, lowered his voice and said: "Ask her how the material problem was solved, especially in metal."
Wanda closed her eyes and began to ask questions attentively. After a while, she opened her eyes with some confusion and said.
"He said they were using metal from Gotham's buildings."