Chapter 177 Causes and Consequences (Two in One)

"This is just the lowest imitation!"

Madison looked at Silent coldly.

"No, this is impossible. My imitation is perfect. No one knows Bruce better than me..."

Silent was so angry that he trembled all over.

In fact, Silent's disguise was very clever. Even Madison himself might not be able to do better than him.

He just said this deliberately to make Silent lose his mind.

It doesn't matter whether Silent is so easily affected, but the ridicule should be given in place.

Isn't there a saying that goes like this?

The art of something is trash talk.

Now judging from Silent's performance, this sentence is still quite lethal to him.

As for what happened from the beginning to the end?

This requires going back to dusk and starting from when Madison entered the bell tower.

At that time in the bell tower, Madison only saw a back figure and determined that this person was Gordon.

After all, they have lived together for more than ten years, and sometimes they only need to look at each other to determine each other's identity.

Then Gordon who stayed in the secret base of the GCPD underground tunnel must be someone else's disguise.

Looking back, when McGinson went to see Gordon as Lupin III, Gordon kept a pale and weak appearance.

This is indeed a good trick.

When people are weak, they often do some actions that are different from their usual habits, and other people will not care too much even if they see this scene.

This can greatly improve the fault tolerance of disguise, which is a basic but very useful skill in most environments.

In addition, there is nothing wrong with Silence imitating Gordon's tone of voice, so that even McGinson did not see through Silence's disguise at that time.

Of course, the most critical point is Silence's understanding of SHIELD's intelligence.

McGinson did not expect that in addition to Gordon, there were other people who knew about the operation that year.

But it is also true that since McGinson himself can learn from the information of the Tide Organization that Gordon and Melinda May had once cooperated.

Then Silence can naturally get the same information through similar means.

Maggieson rescued Gordon, who was about to die of thirst in the bell tower.

Then he fed him water little by little with a spoon.

After a long time, Gordon finally recovered a little bit of vitality.

"Phantom Thief... Kidd?"

Gordon opened his eyes and saw Maggieson, and was surprised.

"Long time no see, Chief Gordon, how did you end up like this?"

Maggieson smiled at Gordon in a friendly manner.

"Where is this?"

Gordon looked around, and this strange environment inexplicably made him feel a little familiar.

"You don't know where this is?"

Maggieson frowned, "What happened before you were locked up here?"

Hearing this, Gordon shook his swollen and painful head and fell into memories.

"I only remember that day Bane suddenly led people to attack GCPD. I was hit by Floyd, and then I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I found myself here."

"I don't know where this is, and I don't know how much time has passed."

Magison's brows were frowning more and more.

"I learned about Gotham a few days ago. Bane suddenly held the entire city hostage with a nuclear bomb."

"At that time, there was news that you were sent to the hospital after being injured, but you just said that you were here after you woke up?"

The facts are already obvious. The real and fake Gordon were swapped at that time.

GCPD was attacked on a large scale, and countless police officers died. I guess all those who stood with Gordon at that time were killed.

And Gordon, who was receiving "treatment" in the hospital, was actually Silence.

"No! Bane attacked GCPD ten days ago. If you were locked up here from the beginning, how did you survive? Why didn't Bane kill you?"

Magison expressed his doubts.

In fact, there is something even stranger, that is, why did Bane's people pretend to be Gordon?

If they simply wanted to catch all the GCPD people in one fell swoop, it would be impossible for them to wait until now.

Maggieson fell into deep thought for a while.

Hearing this, Gordon turned his head and looked at the bottom of the bookshelf, where there was a dark box that had been opened.

Maggieson followed Gordon's gaze and saw that the box had been empty for a long time.

"There was some food and water in that dark box. I survived on those in the first few days."

Gordon narrated.

"But the quantity was too small. Even if I took it in the most economical way, I still ate all the food and water in just a few days."

At this time, Gordon looked at Maggieson with complicated eyes.

"If it weren't for you, I might not be able to hold on until tomorrow. Thank you for saving my life, Kaito Kidd."

"As for why Bane didn't kill me, I don't know what he was thinking."

"If you really want to thank me, then don't catch me when I steal things in Gotham in the future, is that okay?"

Maggieson said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"Ha! Then you'd better not dream about it."

"As long as you're still committing crimes, I won't give up arresting you!"

Gordon first sneered with his eyes wide open, then closed his eyes, and his tone became much calmer.

"But... I can try to reduce your sentence..."

"Hahaha, the premise is that you can catch me."

I didn't expect that Gordon, who was over 50, still had such a proud side, and Maggieson couldn't help laughing.

"Hmph, if you keep going like this, you will fall into the hands of the police sooner or later."

"Hey, dear Mr. Gordon, now is not the time to argue. Do you know why I returned to Gotham?"

Gordon was stunned when he heard this. "What treasure have you set your sights on? But I advise you to give up this idea. Bane is already a very difficult enemy. He also released those guys from Arkham Asylum."

"If you think of Gotham now as it was before, you are very wrong."

"Kid, since you can find this place without Bane's ears and eyes, you must have a way to escape Gotham. You'd better leave now."

Maggieson glanced at Gordon unexpectedly. He didn't expect him to persuade him to leave.

"I'm sorry that I can't accept your proposal, Commissioner Gordon. No matter how difficult it is to get the treasure I set my sights on, no matter what means I have to use, I will definitely steal it."

"This is my creed as a thief!"

"As for how to deal with them after stealing them, those are no longer important."

Maggieson waved his hand and said indifferently.

Gordon stared at him blankly for a long time.

"Puchi! Hum... Hehe... Hahahaha..."

Suddenly, Gordon laughed, and the laughter grew bigger and bigger, and finally he almost cried.

"In this era, even thieves have their own creed?"

Tired of laughing, Gordon asked himself self-deprecatingly.

"I'm beginning to be curious, what exactly do you want to steal?"

"Nuclear-bomb."

Magison's matter-of-fact words set off a huge wave in Gordon's heart.

Stealing a nuclear bomb!

Is this what a thief should say?

Gordon was so shocked by Kaito Kidd's idea that he couldn't speak.

"Don't look at me like that, you heard it right, the treasure I'm looking at this time is Bane's nuclear bomb!"

Then, in Gordon's trance, Magison told him that he saw the fake Gordon in the underground tunnel.

And that his beloved daughter had returned to Gotham.

Of course, he selectively omitted the cooperation between McGinn and Pamela.

"That is to say, the fake Gordon has been lurking among the GCPD, and no one has noticed that he is not right. Obviously, his target is not the remnants of the GCPD."

McGinn analyzed.

"I can think of only one possibility. The fake Gordon's mission should be related to the riddle of the Riddler."

"They are waiting for someone who can solve all the puzzles, and they think there is only one person who can solve the puzzle, so the person pretending to be you doesn't mind letting me know the content of the riddle."

"You mean Batman?"

Gordon asked in a deep voice.

"That's right, because even if someone really solves the riddle, they can't get to the top of the clock tower. In their eyes, only Batman can break through the Deadshot."

McGinn nodded.

"Bane didn't kill Batman because he didn't know Batman, but other criminals released from Arkham Asylum know Batman very well."

Gordon added that his mind was beginning to clear up now.

The plans of the criminals gradually surfaced.

"Everyone, including me, firmly believes that Batman will definitely come back, so they set this trap specifically for Batman."

"Batman will definitely look for the whereabouts of GCPD when he comes back, and the person pretending to be me can play a key role at this time."

"If Batman doesn't see through his disguise, then Batman's subsequent actions will be secretly controlled by Bane. If Batman sees through the disguise, he will be surrounded by heavy siege."

Gordon gritted his teeth.

"I don't think things are that simple, because the person pretending to be you must know you very well, otherwise even your old comrade wouldn't have failed to see the flaw."

"Since this person dares to do this, he probably has a certain degree of confidence that he can hide it from Batman."

"So, for the person pretending to be you, can you think of who he is?"

Maggieson asked Gordon.

"... Could it be him!"

Gordon immediately thought of the strange criminal Silence.

When he and Batman locked Hush in Arkham Asylum, Hush kept shouting that he knew everything about Batman.

No one in the world knows Batman better than him.

Gordon could feel a deep obsession rooted in Hush's mind.

This obsession was completely different from that of other patients in Arkham.

Yes, although Hush knew that Bruce was Batman, for some reason, he never told the secret.

So Gordon didn't know that the comrade he missed the most was actually Bruce Wayne.

Hush's reason was very strange. He was jealous of everything about Bruce. He wanted to destroy Bruce and inherit everything from Bruce.

That's right, he wanted to replace Bruce completely.

So he couldn't let others kill Bruce before him, so that he couldn't become Bruce.

Inexplicable thoughts.

Well, anyway, no one who came out of Arkham Asylum could understand their thoughts.

In short, after initially locking in the candidate, the two made a plan for Maggieson to pretend to be Batman to test the fake Gordon.

After the plan was set, Maggieson took Gordon away from the bell tower.

Oh, by the way, when leaving the bell tower, Maggieson also got an unexpected reward.

That is, when he climbed up to the top of the bell tower again, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a scene.

This scene made him instantly figure out the third riddle of the Riddler.

"The more you cut me, the faster I grow. What am I?"

The correct answer is - hole.

What does a hole mean?

Circle.

At this moment, what caught Maggieson's eyes was the Nakashima Island surrounded by the river in the middle, which looked like a hole when looking down from the sky...

So far, the previous situation has been reviewed, and the time has returned to midnight.

After all, Jianmo, who was choked by Maggieson and trembling all over, was not an ordinary person. He calmed down in a very short time.

"So that's how it is. You already knew the trap we set for Batman, so you played the power outage trick."

Silent said coldly.

"You didn't expose me on the spot, nor did you take the riddle from me, but pretended that you had found the location of the nuclear bomb."

"Indeed, when you appeared in front of me dressed as Batman and told me that you already knew where the nuclear bomb was hidden, I actually believed it."

"I admit that your disguise ability is better than mine, Kaito Kidd."

Silent stared at Maggieson, with a cold light flashing in his eyes.

"Think about it carefully, how could Batman, who didn't get the content of the riddle, find the location of the nuclear bomb."

"But the person who said this was Batman, so I believed you without thinking, after all, it is common for him to do anything we can't imagine."

At this point, Silent laughed sickly.

Maggieson speculated that he might be laughing at himself for being fooled so easily. Batman really left a huge shadow in the hearts of people in Arkham.

"It's a pity that there are only two of you. It won't affect the overall situation if you trick me here."

Suddenly, Silence sneered at McGinson and the others.

"How could I be unprepared to deal with Batman?"

"Before I came here, I asked all your subordinates to gather together. Maybe they don't know what's waiting for them. When all the living people of GCPD gather together, our ambushed people will kill them all."

Although Silence was facing two people alone and his weapon was shot down by Gordon, his attitude now was that everything was under control.

"Oh, by the way, dear Commissioner Gordon, your baby daughter is probably in danger now, although I don't know how she offended Deathstroke..."

Hearing this, Gordon's forehead suddenly bulged with veins.

"You will regret it, Elliot!"

"Really? I hope so."

Silence sneered disdainfully.

He clapped his hands lightly, and then a group of people suddenly emerged from nowhere.

Surrounded the three people.

Unexpectedly, when these people appeared, Gordon and Maggieson were not panicked. Instead, they looked at each other and laughed.