Chapter 107
Chapter 107
In the end, Gordon didn't learn from Batman why he would appear on the streets of Gotham in daytime wearing different colored batsuits these days, but he didn't have much extra time to continue studying Batman's weird behavior, because Warlock gave gave him a special task.
In a chaotic place like Gotham, people go missing every day. The Gotham Police Department will try to find the missing persons after receiving the police, but most of the time they will return without success.
It's not that they are not capable enough to find out the truth, but that the answer is right in front of them, but they don't have enough courage to lift the lid and expose the city's secrets to the sun, even if a few people are willing to fight for the light of Gotham. Dedicated to justice, will also be swallowed by darkness and evil.
With Warlock's approval, Gordon and his men had a strange excitement when investigating the case. Maybe this time they could live up to the police badge on their chests and truly save the Gotham people struggling in hell.
Warlock really wants to help Jason, and he also wants Gotham to get better from the bottom of his heart, but things in the world don't always go as expected.
When Bullock visited the mayor's office with the information he found, the hair under his hat was already wet with sweat, his whole face was flushed with hesitation and determination intertwined into extraordinarily complicated eyes.
"I thought you followed Gordon to investigate the case. Is there something special to report?" Warlock asked Angelina to pour a cup of tea for Bullock, and asked her to take Jason out before asking Bullock.
Brock licked his chapped lips, and tightened his hand holding the document a little more, pinching the document into creases, and now he doesn't know if he did it right.
Compared with Gordon, Bullock is a little less determined to justice and a little less resistant. He will express his indignation for injustice, and he will also compromise with reality for survival and his family.
When the police found out the man behind the dark bar, Gordon was excited to know a small part of Gotham's dark forces, but Bullock discovered the network behind the man behind the scene, Bradley Owen, smuggling The main messenger of the population is backed by the underground forces headed by Penguin.
It is not easy to uproot this part of the evil forces, and even at the critical juncture of the mayoral election, Warlock is likely to request that this matter be temporarily suppressed.
Because the mastermind behind the black bar is a member of an interest group that supports Warlock, Warlock's merciless arrest of the man behind the scenes is likely to cause the vigilance and betrayal of other people in the same interest group, leading to the collapse of the good situation.
"We have found some information, you need to read it, and then decide what the Gotham Police Department will do next." Bullock kept swallowing his saliva while speaking, and his hands were shaking when he handed out the documents.
Warlock glanced at Brock intently, and took the distorted document, which was taken directly from the file room, and the Gotham Police Station stickers sealed on it were not torn.
The second hand of the wall clock was moving minute by minute. Warlock read the document very slowly, as if he wanted to memorize every word in the document.
Brock fidgeted on the sofa and kept doing various small movements, as if this could distract his attention from Warlock's increasingly ugly face.
Before Warlock opened the file, he didn't think that the people who smuggled people in Gotham had a great relationship with him. He was included in Gotham's relationship network without knowing it, and he became an umbrella for these daring people.
Perhaps because it was a critical moment in the mayoral campaign, these people had become closer to themselves, and they had lost the cautiousness they used to have, relying on Warlock to rely on them to act recklessly.
"...This is really...unexpected." Volok understood why Brock was so nervous and why he was struggling so much, and he tied himself completely to Volok's chariot.
Warlock wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say.Those people are indeed confident, and now Warlock is in a dilemma. He is faced with a choice, whether to fight for the rights of a small number of people in Gotham, or to sacrifice that part of people for himself.
"Let me think about it, I need to think about it." Warlock's voice was also weak, and he stood by the window holding the documents and looked at the vehicles and people coming and going downstairs, only feeling in a daze.
He shouldn't hesitate, like he promised Batman once, he's going to make Gotham better.
But his heart was asking him again, why should he harm his own interests for Gotham? He is a devil, a devil who will use any means to get something as long as he sees it.
He's backed down time and time again for Batman, and the root of everything is Gotham.Is he going to back down now for the sake of those humans in Gotham who can't even look down on any cheap demon?
Warlock didn't know.
When he fell into thinking, Bullock had left quietly, and he was the only one left in the office, thinking with the sound of the mechanical second hand turning with no interest.
He kept his promise at the cost of the collapse of the entire power system he established in Gotham.What he has to face is the disappointed eyes of those who trust him and the complete distrust of Batman...
Warlock was entangled. One of his competitors, Harvey Dent, was not entangled at all. After obtaining information from Gordon about Bradley Owen's suspected illegal trafficking of contraband and human smuggling, he immediately began to collect victims. list, determined to fight for those poor girls.
After Bullock passed the relevant information to Warlock, Warlock has not responded here, and Bullock once doubted whether the fact that he went to the mayor's office was true.
But when Gordon handed in the investigation report and applied for an arrest warrant, there was still no movement from the mayor's office. This seemed to have shown Warlock's attitude, but the mayor's office did not issue an order to stop the investigation and gave Gordon A little consolation.
The mayor's office was like an isolated island. Warlock refused the meeting requests from the chief of police, the superintendent, and Gordon, and ordered Angelina to hang up all communications, as if in this way he could forget about the bomb that could explode at any time.
If it weren't for Warlock's daily interviews and occasional speeches, everyone in the police station would have wondered if something was wrong with the mayor.
Warlock sat silently in the chair, which he hadn't left for hours.Leaning on the back of the chair and letting go of his thoughts, Batman's distrustful eyes and Mr. Crowley's teachings kept colliding in his brain, making Warlock want to throw both villains out of the window.
Before he could get the Batman villain out of his mind, an unexpected visitor landed on the rooftop of the mayor's office.
Gordon turned on the Bat Light half an hour ago. He asked Batman to meet Mayor Dowling. He wanted to know what Mayor Dowling thought about smuggling people.
"Gordon asked me to come to you. He found a lot of useful information." Batman stood in the shadow of the office, staring straight at Warlock who hid himself in the chair.
Warlock slowly opened his eyes, the lights in the office were always dimmed, and such darkness gave him an unparalleled sense of security.
"What Gordon can find, you can find more and more in-depth, you tell me, what should I do."
Warlock's voice was so cold, but Batman could hear the daze and bewilderment covered by Warlock.
As Warlock said, Batman has investigated far more things than Gordon has investigated, and he is one step ahead of anyone to see how much it will cause Warlock to move Bradley Owen and his partners. Influence.
Warlock's power in Gotham was originally like a castle in the air. Most of the people he could gather were related to the Penguin, and there were a few clean families that could be associated with the Communist Party.
Once the mayor's office agrees to the police arresting Bradley Owen and his companions, no matter whether the order was issued by Warlock himself or not, the people in the same power system will inevitably be bitter, and their cooperation has never been limited to Warlock. . Dowling one.
Batman knew he was forcing Warlock to make a choice, because in Gotham, only two people could sway Warlock's decision.
Looking at the dejected Warlock, he didn't know how to persuade Warlock for a while, because every word he said might hurt Warlock.
"Even if you don't speak, I know what you mean. Uphold justice, arrest all criminals and throw them in prison, maintain the justice and tranquility of Gotham, and protect the safety and rights of the people of Gotham."
Warlock's voice was a little hoarse. How could he not know Batman, who he loved so much.
"Even if I step down, so what? Isn't there Gotham's righteous knight Harvey Dent? That's the person you really support. For Gotham, what's the point of sacrificing personal interests? "
Warlock raised his hand to cover his eyes. He felt that his eyes were sore. He knew a long time ago that he would never be able to replace Gotham in Batman's heart.Mingming accepted this a long time ago, but he just couldn't control his jealousy and sadness.
Batman walked up to Warlock silently, and against the background of the moonlight, he could clearly see the tears rolling down Warlock's face. The tears slipped quietly down his cheeks, but Warlock's face was strangely calm.
Warlock knows Batman like Batman knows Warlock, and every word Warlock says is what Batman thinks.
But after Warlock said it, he realized how hurtful these words were. The cold gauntlets awkwardly wiped the tears from Warlock's face, but the tears kept falling from his closed eyes as if they couldn't be wiped away.
Batman's movements can be called stiff, and he can't comfort Warlock, because what lies between the two is not a problem that can be easily solved.
After a long silence, he slowly took off the bat mask, revealing messy black hair and steel blue eyes, and slowly embraced Warlock into his arms.
Lying on Batman's chest, feeling the warmth of his neck, Warlock's grievance and unwillingness all turned into tears and flowed down Batman's neck and suit.
However, from beginning to end, Warlock did not open his closed eyes.
Maybe a minute later, maybe 1 minutes later, maybe half an hour later, Warlock collected his emotions.He took the initiative to push Batman away, and straightened his appearance with his back to him.
"You go, leave me alone for a while." Warlock hoarsely issued the eviction order.
He knew that that person had disappeared when he turned his head, just like Gordon complained about turning his head countless times.
But when he really turned around and found that person disappeared, the loneliness and coldness in his heart gradually spread.Without being exposed to warm body temperature, Warlock can still persist in solitude, but after gaining and losing, Warlock is almost unable to hold on.
With trembling hands, he dialed the number to Tony, but it was Tony's artificial intelligence Jar who answered the call.
"Sorry, Master Warlock, Sir has already rested. Tomorrow at [-]:[-] in the morning, Sir will fly to Afghanistan for investigation. If you have anything to tell me, I will convey it to you in time."
"No, no, no need...Let Tony be safe."
Putting down the phone, Warlock looked around the dark office, curled up in a chair, and endured loneliness alone.
What he didn't know was that there was a black figure staring at him from a little side of the glass door on the roof until dawn.
The author says:
★A small emotional twists and turns, the struggle between Warlock's demon and human thinking and the eruption of suppressed emotions all at once.
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