The "bright" Gotham City will eventually have nights.
Whenever the night falls, the hazy sky and the howling north wind... always remind some people of the past.
In the not-too-distant past, here was a sinful city full of corruption.
At that time, officials and gangsters called brothers, and the police were the umbrellas for criminals... The whole Gotham was like a gloomy and cold concrete forest. At night, the streets would be filled with low or sad roars... as if they would never stop.
However, those have become the past... At least, it seems so on the surface.
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Evening, seven thirty, Gotham "Eastside".
Three years ago, the East End was a terrible place, you could say... the worst place in Gotham.
If you think the ruffians at Robinson Park are bad, it's because you haven't seen the junkies in front of the Finger Memorial, and if you think they're bad, it's because you haven't seen them The homeless people lying on the floor like stranded dead fish by the door of the Sprang Rescue Station.
However, compared with the situation in the Eastern District, the above-mentioned people are considered "tolerable".
Back then, the Eastern District was a red-light district that even corrupt police officers were reluctant to set foot in. The streets are full of bruised and swollen warblers (for these women, being beaten by pimps is a common occurrence), and even young prostitutes; fierce and crazy gangsters dare to commit crimes in full view, while those around them will seem to have not seen it. Just as indifferent to it.
Even today, three years later, under the premise that the above situation has been restrained, this is still the jurisdiction with the highest crime rate in Gotham.
Cheap bars, cheap hotels, cheap apartments, cheap shops... everything here is cheap; it is this "cheapness" that allows those living at the bottom of Gotham to survive.
But "survival" and "life" are different. Poverty is an easy inducement for crime. This is an eternal truth.
Therefore, this "cheap" place has naturally become the last gray area in Gotham.
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"Phew... this is the air of the slums..." Feng Bujue, who stepped into this place, consciously inhaled the turbid air deeply into his lungs, looked up at the neon-flashing streets, and said with some emotion, " Although it doesn't smell good, it can make people feel at ease from the heart... "
Of course he knew that in order to find clues about those "super villains", he had to come to the East Side.
However, he didn't go straight to this place as soon as he stepped into the city of Gotham... Before coming to the East District, Feng Bujue went to two other places.
The first place is a research institute under the name of a pharmaceutical company located on the edge of the city.
It was not far from the exit of the sewer that Brother Jue passed through when he entered the city, and he basically went in by the way.
As a person who already knows quite a lot about the various plots of the DC universe, Feng Bujue certainly knows that "Ze" works in this company; villains like this who have had serious jobs are actually easy to find...
Sneaking into the facilities of such a private enterprise is not very troublesome. From Jue Ge's point of view, it is like finding something... He got a cleaner's one-piece coat from the tool room and put it on for himself, and sneaked into the office area. In the lounge of the second floor, he found the person he was looking for-cryogenic scientist "Victor Fries".
After talking with himself and several of his colleagues, Feng Bujue quickly grasped the following information—Fries of this universe obviously did not become cold-blooded due to an experimental accident, and his wife did not die; although his wife still Like the setting known by Brother Jue, he has a serious degenerative disease, but coincidentally... shortly after his disease was diagnosed, the R&D department of Wayne Group developed a specific drug that can cure the disease, As a result, Frith's wife was saved, and he now has a stable family and job.
After collecting this information, the progress of Feng Bujue's hidden mission reached 3/10, indicating that the whereabouts of Freezing Man had been found out.
Then, he went to the second place... Gotham University.
If sneaking into a private enterprise facility is a search for something, then for Jue Ge, sneaking into a place like a university is like looking for shit; it took him 20 minutes to find one of his targets on the campus—Pa Meera Lillian Eisley, known to him as "Poison Ivy".
The Pamela of this universe was not chosen as a test subject by botanist Jason Wood, who died in a fire a few years ago, and his research materials were destroyed along with himself .
In other words, the person who was supposed to use Pamela is long dead, and the plant toxin that mutated Pamela was never invented.
In the library, Feng Bujue pretended to be a student and chatted with Pamela for a while before he got the above information, and he was naturally misunderstood as a not-so-sophisticated strike-up.
Brother Jue ended the conversation before the other party's attitude gradually turned cold and the atmosphere became awkward. With his 4/10 mission progress, he went to find another target who was also in Gotham University——Jonathan G. Lane, AKA…Scarecro.
Feng Bujue is also very curious about the reason why the Scarecrow did not become black, because basically this character gradually went to extremes due to the various bullying he received when he was a student... rather than because of a certain unexpected incident experienced after adulthood Only blackened.
As a result, after chatting with the Gotham University psychology professor for more than half an hour in the cafeteria, Jue finally came up with the answer in a roundabout way—the boys who bullied Jonathan back then, and the girls who rejected and teased him... All of them encountered a mountain disaster during a class reunion trip many years later. When the police found their bodies, many of them had been eaten by wild beasts in the mountains, leaving only their clothes.
And our Jonathan... or the gentleman who should have been the scarecrow, because his student life was like hell, and he didn't have any feelings for this group of classmates, so he didn't go to that party at all... so he was lucky to escape.
After that incident, Jonathan's disposition has changed a lot, as if some kind of knot in his heart has been untied... Of course, it can also be said to be a mentality of "revenge is rewarded, God has eyes".
In any case, this is roughly the reason why the scarecrow didn't turn black... After inquiring about this, Feng Bujue's mission progress was also updated to 5/10.
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When he left Gotham University, it was already night and night, and Jue felt that the time was almost up, so he rushed to his third stop—East District.
"Hey! Are you blind?" Just as Feng Bujue was standing on the road and looking from a distance, suddenly, someone bumped him heavily with the shoulder, and said this sentence first.
Brother Jue is very familiar with this kind of routine... Anyway, he is either touching porcelain or finding fault.
Feng Bujue is not necessarily polite to ordinary people, but to this kind of person who obviously wants to make trouble... the attitude can be imagined.
"Huh?" The next second, Brother Jue's bad boy accent came online. He turned his head, squinted at the person who just passed by him, and continued, "Are you talking to me?"
"Nonsense!" It was a bald man, shirtless on a cold day, with a lot of tattoos on his torso, and there was almost no good skin below his neck, "You are not only blind... you are also fucking deaf gone?"
The moment he finished speaking, his lower body was kicked.
Then, he instinctively covered his crotch and knelt down...
"Huh? What are you talking about? I still can't hear..." Feng Bujue's kick was extremely sudden, and after kicking, he still put on a nonchalant look, speaking in the tone of a deaf old man, "...you say it louder."
"You...you..." The bald man wanted to curse, but the severe pain in his balls made him unable to utter a few words. He also wanted to stand up and hit someone, but before the pain in his buttocks eased...he might still You have to keep this kneeling position with your legs together for a while.
"Come to me after you can speak clearly." Feng Bujue looked at the other party with a condescending gaze, shrugged, left these words casually, and then turned and left.
He knew that this bastard would catch up to take revenge on him later, and he might call some accomplices... And this was exactly what he was looking forward to.
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