Chapter 2182: Battle of Two Cities! (Forty-Nine)

The Penguin, a vicious criminal.

If he never realized who his crimes were hurting during his decades of criminal career, he would never stand with the lower class. Even if he compromised temporarily for the sake of the situation, he would eventually choose to betray.

So Bruce never intended to push him to the bottom - what if he accidentally died on the road of revolution, wouldn't he become a people's hero?

Therefore, Bruce established a screening mechanism for the Penguin - artificially establishing an IQ depression around the Penguin.

Otherwise, how can we say that the Joker and Batman are the most suitable opponents? They are brilliant in confrontation and ingenious in cooperation.

The entire process of the Enderkin case designed by the Joker is actually screening.

It's not that all the people have no brains, but there are too many of them. It is enough to deceive some of the brainless people to set off a wave of public opinion.

Some people realized that the brutal kidnappers were the root of all tragedies. This was just another terrorist conspiracy, and only the criminals should be punished.

Some people think that Bruce was not prepared, but at least he stood up, which is much better than those who did not stand up, and he should not be criticized so harshly.

Some people did not realize either, and chose to give both sides 50 lashes. Although the criminal was wrong, Bruce was not much better.

And finally, some people think that Bruce deliberately let go because of the old grudge, just to kill Underkin. Such people who take advantage of others are more hateful than criminals.

Some people must think that the last kind of people who are so rebellious really exist?

In fact, this kind of people may only account for 10% of the total population, but the more people who do not use their brains but have extreme thoughts have louder voices, and 10% of the population can make 30% of the noise.

The penultimate kind of swingers who gave each side 50 lashes, when they heard this voice, thought that the whole society 100% thought so, so they also changed their views and followed the public opinion to condemn Bruce. At this time, the total number of people reached 30%, and the volume reached 50%.

Even if the other two rational people remain unshakable and insist on speaking out, the volume is only half and half, and in the end, there will definitely be a huge quarrel.

As the wave of public opinion rises, more and more people join in. The last type of fools are louder than three, the swing group continues to join, and the rational group always says one is one and two is two, so in the end, the irrational voices will inevitably become louder and louder.

The louder the irrational voices, the more irrational people will join in, until the bubble of public opinion is completely filled.

This is the basic theory of rumor propagation, and it is also the principle of the method used by the Joker to ruin Batman's reputation every time.

This time is the same, but the difference is that the Batman he is facing is long-mouthed and narrow-minded.

The most important thing is narrow-mindedness.

Batman actually has many ways to reverse public opinion. As a big capitalist, can he be more ignorant of manipulating public opinion than the mud-legged Joker? If he wants, the media of the Wayne Group is enough to reverse public opinion overnight.

He didn't do this because he didn't care how the public viewed him, whether they thought he was a criminal or needed to be punished. He only needed to do what he insisted on. He didn't need the people and didn't care what they thought.

But Bruce understood the power of the people better than most Batmans, and he was narrow-minded.

So, Bruce chose to touch the Penguin, because he knew that the Joker looked down on the Penguin, a fat man who was obsessed with money. Once Bruce fell, the Penguin would be a dog's tail to the Joker's perfect plan, which made the Joker disgusted.

And once he fell, the public opinion wave rose again. After running according to the above principle, only the most irrational voices were left.

On the East Coast, the most anti-intellectual is the white left.

If you have to use more appropriate words to describe this group of white leftists, you can probably call them "magical animals". They are magical, but not very human. You can also say that they don't do anything.

Their biggest characteristic is that they never know what it means to adapt to local conditions, and always put theories and doctrines above the fundamental needs of the majority. In short, they rely on defense.

A white leftist can be called a fool, but a group of white leftists are a complete shit pit.

But knowing that it is a shit pit, Penguin has to jump in.

If Penguin is still the mayor with real power, he can naturally ignore whether these people support him or not, but shooting Bruce Wayne angered the upper class, causing his status to plummet and even endanger his life.

Then this group of fanatical supporters became his only lifeline, because if he doesn't use them, there will be no one else.

But becoming the leader of the white left is not that simple - Cobblepot himself is from the four major families, and letting him lead this group of people is tantamount to forcing him to eat shit.

What Bruce did is equivalent to throwing Penguin into the shit pit, forcing him to become a maggot in the sea of ​​shit in order to save his life, and he had to improvise "On Why Shit is Delicious and the Necessity of Eating Shit" in the shit mountain and shit sea.

More importantly, shit is shit. You can't find gold in the shit pit. If you can't master the skills of throwing shit, the most likely thing is to become the culprit of the shit pit explosion.

After confirming that the Penguin was already trapped in the pit, Bruce urged Peter to evacuate as soon as possible, because he knew that the Penguin didn't have the skills to survive in the pit of white leftists, so if nothing unexpected happened, the pit would explode.

The Penguin’s leadership is not bad, but the most worrying thing is that his ambition is high and his life is thin. If he doesn’t work hard, he will drown himself. This effort will drown Gotham.

The thing is, the Penguin still does not intend to give up his plan to fight for the public opinion position. After trying hard to coordinate, he still organized a parade team to march and protest along Hell’s Kitchen to Manhattan.

But don’t forget that now the two cities have merged, the terrain is completely different. This group of people are not the kind of people who will look at the map in advance to specify the route. They usually go wherever they want and sit down when they are tired. No one dares to mess with them in New York, where the political correctness is rampant. So they took the wrong first step. They should have gone straight to Manhattan, but they walked half a circle around Brooklyn.

There are many idle people in Brooklyn. When they heard about the protest, they didn’t care what the protest was about. They just joined.

It was even more chaotic when there were more people. Everyone followed the crowd, thinking that the leader knew the way, but the leader didn’t know the way either. They walked and walked to Queens, which is adjacent to Brooklyn.

The people in Queens are even more important. When they heard about environmental protection and animal protection, LGBT, and petitioning for the mayor, they would join in the fun.

More and more people walked, and soon they would pass through Queens.

The Hudson River and Gotham River between Queens and the Bronx merged a part, and the two sides of the Hudson River between the two districts are the people on both sides of the Gotham River.

As everyone knows, there are thousands of murders in Gotham, and half of them are on both sides of the river bank - the servants and sailors brought by the first group of Europeans who landed in Gotham, and later black slaves and criminals who escaped with the ship mostly chose to live along the river. This is the real Gotham.

Let's put it this way, Gotham also has pioneer groups. When they hear about going to the river when they hold daily activities, they shake their heads like rattles. Batman has to check the almanac before going to the river to fight crime. Even the Joker doesn't choose people from this side when choosing victims. He doesn't even live here!

It was a nice day, with a clear sky and bright sunshine. People held signs and shouted, drove cars and motorcycles honked, adults shouted at children, and small vendors and food trucks escorted them. The parade marched along the Gotham River.

The Gotham residents who lived in Brooklyn and Queens who provided logistical support for the parade saw the direction they were going and ran away without looking back. Fun is precious, but life is more precious.

When the two-kilometer-long, full of people, and dragging parade entered the Gotham area, the Gotham residents were stunned.

How could the old Gotham people have seen such a scene? Usually, taxis don't come in here, and terrorists carrying 60 pounds of explosives would rather take a detour.

What happened? Did Godzilla come across the other side?

"Pop! Pop! Crack!"

The small windows on the European-style small doors of different colors were pushed open one by one, and the curious Gotham people poked their heads out and looked at the parade on the road like they were looking at a rare animal.

A black guy scratched his head, and then he saw his next-door neighbor - a white-haired old lady in her seventies or eighties - took out a submachine gun from the house, pointed it at the downstairs, and pulled the trigger.

"Da da da da da da!"

The bullets rained down like raindrops, and the unaimed sweeping shot raised wisps of dust on the ground. The marching crowd screamed wildly and fled, and the old lady was still surprised.

"God! It's a living person!!!"

The others were also full of disbelief, and then they rushed back to the house as if they had picked up some treasure, took out a lot of weapons - more complete than the Gotham Police Department, and threw them at the crowd.

The street instantly turned into a purgatory on earth, screaming incessantly, and other people scattered like birds and beasts, and many jumped into the Gotham River to avoid it.

On the rooftop at the corner of the street, a red-haired figure climbed up the outdoor stairs to the rooftop. After reaching the rooftop, he stepped on the edge and said to the other side with a walkie-talkie in surprise: "Damn it, didn't it say it was an infiltration mission?! Why is there a fight over there?!"

The female agent hid behind the rooftop door and shouted angrily with a walkie-talkie: "Coulson, what are you doing?! You ruined my mission! I found his trace and I was only one step away from catching him!"

"Not me!" Coulson's voice came from the walkie-talkie, slightly aggrieved, he said: "The headquarters did not receive the fire support mission! The mission of hunting down the evil Iron Man is only carried out by you alone, and the headquarters only provides communication support!"

"What the hell is going on in front?!"

Natasha took out a nano drone and threw it out, then turned on the screen of the communicator on her arm and connected to the headquarters line at the same time. The scene that appeared on the screen next shocked everyone.

In just twenty seconds, the entire street was barren and the foundation sank at least two meters-even the US Air Force had to admit defeat.

When the bombing was over, Natasha poked her head out from behind the house, staring at the messy street in amazement, and slowly said to the intercom: "Are you sure you didn't provide fire support? This..." She raised her head and met a pair of shocked brown eyes. "Stark! Don't run!!!" The female agent quickly chased after him, and Stark also turned around and ran. Suddenly, the two of them braked at the same time. "Boom!!!!!!!" Both of them were blown away.