All in all, it was a massacre.
As time went by, the once-mighty Claw Assassins were defeated by the combined forces of all of Gotham.
When Mr. Freeze, who controlled the cold wave, sprayed the last blast of cold air on the battlefield, everything was over... The battle gradually came to an end.
The Claw Assassins were lying all over the ground, most of them were torn in half like pieces of paper and thrown on the ground like a pile of broken toy dolls.
Scarecrow was about to sneak away, but when he turned around, he bumped into Batman's chest. He heard the other party say expressionlessly:
"Nuclear weapons, Klein."
Snap!
Bane snaps the neck of the last Talon he can find, and the Joker slowly walks up to him.
Bane did not continue his attack, but looked at Chen Tao with a teasing look.
"What?"
Chen Tao lifted the scarecrow by the neck and said, "Don't play dumb, Klein. You know you stole the nuclear weapons from Copper Pat."
"Ha—nuclear weapons, what are you talking about?" The Scarecrow replied, "I don't know anything about that!"
Then his eyes revealed the same sudden realization as the Riddler's: "Oh, I see... I see... That's why you went to so much trouble to come here... Hahahahaha!"
He began to laugh nervously, and the clown bit his lip while watching.
The penguin man standing next to him just felt his head buzzing.
"You...you..." He ran to the scarecrow, also stood on tiptoe, and grabbed the outside of his shirt.
"Don't joke with me, Klein! You really weren't the one who stole my nuclear bomb?"
He thought of a terrible fact.
There are only a few people who have the motivation and ability to steal the nuclear bomb. If the nuclear bomb was not taken away by Scarecrow, then it means...
He remembered that the arms deal with Bane was tonight. It happened to be tonight, which was a ridiculous coincidence.
He thought again about how he had contacted Scarecrow a few days ago to hand over the mayor of Carlo to him, but the other party kept delaying and the date was also set by him, which happened to be tonight.
The Penguin's men should have started handing over the goods at about this time. If the timing was so accurate, then it meant...
Penguin's phone rang, and he answered it with a gloomy expression:
There was a lot of noise on the other end of the line, with gunshots and explosions. Penguin heard his men yelling:
"Damn it, Boss! They're robbing each other of our money and taking the weapons without paying!"
The Penguin Man felt a surge of anger rushing up from the soles of his feet to his head.
He figured it out. That is to say, not only did Bane steal his nuclear bomb, but he also turned around and used the emperor penguin to trick him into giving him a bunch of things and a suggestion as if nothing had happened. And today he got a lot of weapons and equipment for free!
Catch a sheep and pull out its wool
"Yes, I was the one who stole the nuclear bomb."
Chen Tao put down the scarecrow.
Bain reveals the truth: "Where should I start?"
He turned his head to look at Lincoln March. The man in the white owl mask still stubbornly did not hang up the phone, even though numerous corpses lying in disorder were clearly visible on his computer screen.
The man in the white owl mask also noticed the other's gaze: "Foolish, Bane. You will regret today one day in the future."
The other man sat in the gutter, like a king ruling the rubbish dump. But what Bane said next made it impossible for him to maintain this attitude.
"The most expensive private residential complex in Gotham, valued at $58 million, and the top three floors belong to the famous Pavos Hotel. The head of the Pavos family... Joseph and his wife Maria also live there."
The man in the white owl mask who was hiding behind the screen finally stood up.
"How do you know my address and identity? I have never... How dare you..."
It was the same words that were repeated over and over again. Chen Tao's ears were callused from listening to them.
Bane said nothing.
He just looked at Lincoln March, at the shadow cast by his arm armor, which made him feel chilly.
That's the look of a dead person.
Then he blew gently.
call!
"Shameful betrayer! You will..."
Boom!
The violent explosion and flames instantly drowned out the video on the other side.
Bane calmly placed his fingers on his earphones and said, "Cavemen... are you done?"
The other party's voice came from his headset: "Dead as a champ, absolutely no problem, Bane."
Bain spread his hands.
"Impressive." Chen Tao commented: "Everything was planned by you, right, Bain?"
"The Court of Owls provided you with electrum for free, and perhaps also provided you with a lot of funds? And you turned around and killed their important people... You had planned what happened today.
I guess there's more to it than that. You probably have a list of the true identities of the other members of the court, right? You're going to go kill them all one by one soon."
No matter how many times he watched it, Chen Tao couldn't help but be amazed by Bain's leverage plan of getting something for nothing.
"Oh... Penguin is even more unlucky. Not only was he stolen by you, but he was also robbed by you. Scarecrow first worked for you for free, and then he became your scapegoat to attract me to fight him to the death."
"And you, calmly hid the nuclear bomb. Now that the Court of Owls and Scarecrow are finished, you can take it out at any time to threaten the entire city, even the entire country, and threaten me, and thus completely conquer Gotham..."
Chen Tao said: "Everything is going according to your plan. At this time, you must feel that most things are under your control, right?"
Bane stiffened.
At that moment, he kept going over his plan in his mind to see if there was anything missing. He calculated everything Batman should know. What did he miss
"You figured out everything I could muster, Bane. Even just now on the plane you were trying to hack into the Batplane and figure out what Robin and I were talking about, right?"
"but… "
"The more scheming a person is, the more likely he or she will run into unexpected difficulties. The more complicated the plan and the more sophisticated the instrument, the more likely it is that an unexpected pebble will get in the way..."
Chen Tao said: "It only takes one person who is beyond your expectation..."
“Crash!”
"Why have you never considered that you would also send your men out to steal Black Penguin's goods and murder the members of the court according to the list, causing the final force guarding the nuclear bomb to gradually become empty?"
"Why do you think I will do nothing while you are carrying out your plan?"
Lincoln March silently lowered his arms and walked to Chen Tao's side.
Bane stared at him closely.
An unexpected existence, a person without any signs, he is obviously a member of the Court of Owls, how did he get involved with Batman
"Is there a possibility that I allowed you to plan all this just to find the place where you stored the nuclear bomb at this time?"
Bain's phone rang.
"...An enemy suddenly broke in, and their target was the thing you asked us to protect..."
"It can't be stolen, that's-" Bane said immediately
"This thing has been stolen..."
"Damn it!" Bain said angrily, "With your strength, how could you not be able to stop it? I have clearly retained a lot of manpower..."
"It's the Talons, Bane. The Talons of the Court of Owls, and they used your Titan Venom, and they're all muscle! There's no way we can stop them!"
"So, the most important point is, Bane..." Chen Tao said, "This is Batman's city."
He whispered, "This is Batman's home turf."