Chapter 2171 Battle of Two Cities! (38)

Chapter 2170 Battle of Two Cities! (thirty-eight)

After finally getting rid of the difficult reporter, Penguin got into the car going to the hospital. The car turned a corner and stopped in front of the hospital. The door opened, and as soon as a shiny leather shoe stepped on the ground, Penguin saw the outside. The crowds of people were all holding up placards, and the placards said things like "Hell is your destination," "Satan is in the world," and "Death, death, only death."

The Penguin reflexively drew back his neck and retracted the foot he stepped out. He sat in the car and calmed down, thinking that he would not be as experienced as them.

I have been a gang boss for so many years, and I have never seen any kind of curse. If the curse was effective, the grass on my grave would be three meters high. If they want to scold me, just scold him.

So he straightened his tie again, took a deep breath, and walked out with his umbrella.

The next second, the cheers of mountains and tsunamis surrounded him.

"Long live the mayor!!!"

"Hero! Hero! Hero!!!"

“Great job!!!”

"This is what Wayne deserves! Long live the mayor!!!"

"You sent that rich guy back to hell. He deserves a lesson like this. Well done! Mayor!!"

Penguin froze in place.

Then he suddenly thought of something.

Bruce had made a big mistake before. He stepped into the clown's trap and let go of his hand to save people in full public view. Fueled by media and public opinion, the debate on this matter intensified.

New Jersey is a hard-core blue state. There are not many citizens who adhere to the traditional moral spirit. Most of them are supporters of neoliberalism, and there are also white leftist Madonnas. Therefore, the current public opinion situation is almost one-sided in condemning Bruce.

If you don’t have two brushes, don’t go up there. Once you go up there, you shouldn’t take such risky measures to save people. Once you save people, you should act as soon as possible instead of just sitting there in a daze. Anyway, there are endless faults in this operation. Bruce's image also has a tendency to be gradually demonized.

Some say he is an unscrupulous capitalist who wants to portray himself as a hero, some say he is an evil criminal who is worried about others exposing his dirty secrets, so he kills himself, and some say he is an arrogant but stupid and incompetent waste. .

As a result, less than a day after the incident, Bruce entered the mayor's office upright and came out sideways. Mayor Oswald Cobblepot shot him, and he is still lying in the hospital for resuscitation.

These people who have already been aroused to radical emotions can't help but feel a sense of relief and excitement after being shocked. They will think, "Yes, this is what we should do, let this damn rich man know that this world is not a playground for him to do whatever he wants!" "

In fact, the above arguments are now spreading in major media at the extreme speed of Internet information dissemination theory.

When Penguin got on the bus, he was still a mayor who was born as a gangster, and when he got off, he had become a hero all over the East Coast.

The Penguin, who had never received such a sincere and warm welcome, was completely confused. He couldn't even say the instinctive words. After asking the security guards to separate the people, he rushed into the hospital as if he was running away.

Feeling the cool breeze blowing in the hospital lobby, Penguin calmed down. No, this is not something Gotham people can do.

The spirit of Gotham has always been that you can die but you can't live. They actually don't care if anyone dies, they only care about how gripping the matter is. There have been several rounds of confrontations between the two sides, and there have been dramatic reversals with ups and downs. It's simple. He is a happy person.

The biggest advantage of Gotham people is that they do not claim to be teachers of justice, nor do they put themselves into the perspective of justice, firmly stand on one side to judge the other, but sit in the middle and shout "Fight! Fight!" Get up! I like to see people die in front of my house!”

Penguin has been living in Gotham since he was a child, and he has seen countless outrageous murder scenes. It is not that there are no exciting scenes of successful revenge or cases of successful punishment and elimination of evil. Gothamites took to the streets with banners praising the murderer?

Because in fact, Gotham people know that there are risks in taking sides. You don’t know whether the descendants of the person who was killed will suddenly go crazy and come to your home twenty years later and turn you into his artistic creation. part.

The people of Gotham, including the Penguin, would basically just stand by and watch indifferently when encountering something like this. At most, they would chat with their buddies or neighbors to watch the excitement.

Where did the group of over-enthusiastic Labradors in front of me come from?

Yes, from New York.

If Penguin had ever lived in New York, he would know that New Yorkers are very good at this.

The most popular topic about superheroes in New York in a year can probably produce three books: "Superhero Spider-Man!" 》《Spider-Man falls from the altar! 》《Spider-Man falls from the altar again! 》.

If Peter Parker has any professional identity besides Spider-Man and researcher, it is probably a bungee jumper. If he doesn’t jump more than a dozen times a year, he feels like something is missing.

Of course, this is a hot topic among the restless and capricious young people, and the hottest topic among the more stable middle-aged and elderly social elites can also be summarized in three books: "The Glorious Past of Captain America" ​​and "U.S. The Secret of Captain's Resurrection from the Dead" "The Evil Genetically Modified Captain America".

New Yorkers often say that Captain America is the only topic you can bring up at celebrity banquets that will never go wrong, because it contains the three most popular topics in the American upper class - World War II, resurrection, and evil scientific experiments.    As the background board of young hero stories such as Spider-Man, a genuine New Yorker, he perfectly possesses the three elements that raise blood pressure: believing everything he hears, being lame when fooled, and being forever young and never learning.

In order to enhance the value of personal heroism and to belittle the important role of the people in history, American comics produced in the era of ideological struggles will portray ordinary people in the city where superheroes are located as villains who often misunderstand heroes.

Whether it is Spider-Man or Superman, such plots have appeared in their stories. The heroes are always kind, just, and simple, while the people are stupid, evil, chaotic, and never know what is good and always ungrateful.

Although this situation has improved slightly after the end of the Cold War, many screenwriters dare to stop at the truth and set the plot of the public's anger as being fooled by the media to reflect the essence of reality.

In order to disrupt the internal power structure of the Wayne Group, the behind-the-scenes masters of the two cities spared no effort to discredit Bruce's image after the Enderkin incident.

The Gotham people who are used to such tragedies are not easily incited, but the New Yorkers who are used to following the trend are easily incited. Many people went to the door of the Wayne Group to pull banners, write slogans, and march, demanding Bruce Wayne to give them an explanation.

Gotham people are still watching the excitement and not minding the big things. They not only show the way to the parade, but also drive cars to sell water and food, provide logistical support for the parade crowd, and take the lead in attacking the defense line when the security personnel come out to suppress them, making the protest more and more powerful.

The media continued to fan the flames, and the masses spontaneously added to the flames. The flames burned more and more fiercely. When the wave reached its climax, Bruce Wayne fell down with a bang.

The devil died, and the hero won again.

The shutter sounds kept ringing, and one after another, photos with a strong saturated color style were recorded by the reporter's lens, and then spread throughout the United States and even the world with the new and old media.

In the photo, the dark clouds were very low, and the slightly old hospital was even darker. People of all skin colors holding various colorful slogans surrounded the Penguin. They surrounded him, raised their arms to cheer for him, and made gestures of praise to him, with pious and warm brilliance in their eyes.

The Penguin in the camera looked back, and his originally fat and bloated figure became burly and broad under the crowd. When the face with a hooked nose that looked very sinister raised its head, it actually took on a bit of solemnity and solemnity.

When this photo made the headlines of major media, the public cheered or questioned, and all kinds of speculations emerged.

The views of the upper class and the party were surprisingly consistent - this was a carefully designed scheme by Oswald Cobblepot.

For ordinary people, the easiest way to judge the mastermind is to see who benefits from something in the end.

There are many people in this world who harm others but not themselves, but it is often because they are not smart enough, have good ideas, but lack execution ability, that they make all kinds of incredible farces.

Oswald Cobblepot is not such a person. At least in the eyes of the upper class of this universe, he cannot be regarded as a smart politician, but at least he is a shrewd gangster boss, and he is the one who benefits the most from this whole thing.

First of all, more than one person has speculated that Cobblepot is the real mastermind behind the murder of the Wayne couple, and if the reporter named Anderkin really has some clues that can threaten him, then he is dead, the clues will be broken, and Cobblepot will be truly safe.

Even so, the revengeful Little Wayne is still Cobblepot's biggest worry, but now there are too many people eyeing Wayne, and a rash move will definitely bring trouble to himself.

So Cobblepot carefully directed the Underkin incident, hired kidnappers to kidnap Underkin and then lured Bruce to rescue him.

Bruce Wayne was originally an incompetent rich second generation, how could he succeed in saving people? Cobblepot calculated this point, and after Bruce Wayne failed to save people, he guided public opinion to make him a street rat that everyone wanted to beat.

Finally, he invited Bruce Wayne to his office, angered him with words, lured him to attack himself, and then seriously injured or even killed Bruce Wayne under the pretext of self-defense.

First, Bruce Wayne, who has been investigating the murder of the Wayne couple, will die, and second, he can also use this incident to make a strong presence in major media, gain the trust of the people, and canvass votes for the upcoming mayoral election.

It was a brilliant plan. Such comments were constantly spread throughout the upper class of the East Coast, and even stronger than this were sighs.

The idea was good, but the means were wrong.

The Penguin became a hero with this plan, but unfortunately, he was a hero of the people.

As we all know, on the land of America, politicians can stand on the side of money, stand on the side of interests, stand on the side of lies, crimes, and extreme ideas, but they can never stand on the side of millions of Americans.

In other words, you can claim that you stand on the side of the American people, but you can never really do it.

Otherwise, if you shoot the big capitalists for the people's will, who can tell the difference between you and Stalin?