“Here I come.”
Chen Tao thought silently.
His mood became increasingly indifferent and peaceful, like the water dripping from a gargoyle.
It's not that he didn't notice the change in his mood, but surprisingly...
He does not reject these.
In his mind, he reviewed one last time the people he had kidnapped... No, it was a protective kidnapping... Bah bah bah, a list of people he had forcibly taken away for protection.
Gotham City Public Advocate… City Commission Spokesperson… Planning Commission Chairperson…
Of course, there was Jim Gordon, and the second-in-command of the police department, Sheriff Harvey Bullock, was not spared. Several other important backbones of the police department who could be used as threats were also taken away.
All the people were replaced by puppets transformed by the Clay-Faced Man, and the Clay-Faced Man was almost drained dry.
In order to achieve this feat, in addition to the key focus characters like Jim Gordon, whose body is completely made up of the Clayface Man, Chen Tao also chose to use the skeleton robots invented by Lucius for some less important characters.
In this way, the clay-faced man only needs to cover part of his body on the surface of the robot to create a lifelike, jumping and running dummy, while greatly reducing the damage to his own body.
This invention greatly increased the efficiency of kidnapping.
Anyone who had the slightest chance of being kidnapped by Bane was arrested, including anyone who had any personal connection with Bruce Wayne, even an 80-year-old grandmother, who would be broken into his home and handcuffed.
Not only that, he wouldn't be afraid even if Bane kidnapped a random passerby on the street.
Not to mention the surveillance cameras that Batman had already placed all over Gotham, Chen Tao also dispatched Lincoln March and his Claws to be on standby at all times;
Hundreds of claws controlled by chips are distributed throughout the city, ready to rescue any hostage in any corner at any time;
The three major gang alliances consisting of Two-Face, Penguin and Ventriloquist, which are able to completely command the entire Gotham gang, had already issued orders to most of the gang members in the city to search for suspicious persons a few days ago.
The order spread to all the grassroots gang members in Gotham within three hours, and within eight hours, any ordinary person living in the neighborhood controlled by the gangs knew about it.
Driven by such a huge bonus, are you still worried about not being able to find people
If you kidnap someone, you must have a place to store the hostages, right
An unfinished building with no one in it
Coincidentally, the homeless people all knew that place.
Bridge arch? Overpass
There are only a few places for people to stand, who doesn’t know that
Do you rent a house
The old landlady was the first to report it.
Even the US government cannot be that efficient, but the gangs can be.
Because this is a city of gangs, gangs are deeply rooted in every aspect of people's lives. Most of the residents of Gotham have gang backgrounds, and the sons and fathers of many families are old gangsters from their ancestors.
Locard's Material Exchange Principle tells us that no crime can leave no trace, let alone Bane's men, a group of outsiders who lack understanding of the city.
Even with the help of the prisoners in Blackgate Prison, their existence would be as dazzling as fireflies in the dark night in the eyes of the Black Flag of Gotham.
As long as they placed these kidnapped hostages outside Blackgate Prison, they would be recognized in minutes.
Do you know what the king of the city means
Do you understand what it means to be targeted by the entire city
What does it mean to be surrounded by enemies? What does it mean to be a vast ocean
To hide something under this level of surveillance, unless it was hidden several years ago, such as the nuclear bomb that was bought several years ago and may be in the hands of Bane...
But it is impossible to hide it on the spot.
What? You mean placing the hostages in Blackgate prison, which is completely controlled by Bane
Are all those sharp claws just for fun
As long as Bane is not in the prison himself, who can stop them
Under such insane and outrageous mass compulsory protection and comprehensive surveillance, Chen Tao didn't believe that he could still face the passive situation of having his close ones or innocent people kidnapped and being unable to fight back, like the saintly protagonists in third-rate trash novels.
And the development of facts was indeed just as Chen Tao expected.
"I have kidnapped Jim Gordon, and he is now being held by my men at Blackgate Prison..."
"It's Clayface. You can try calling."
"I'll call and you'll track the call..."
"Tear up the ticket quickly, hurry up, and stop talking nonsense."
Bain called and hung up after a few minutes.
His face beneath the shattered hood was expressionless.
He was silent for a while, then spoke again:
"I kidnapped Harvey Bullock..."
Chen Tao interrupted him directly: "The Clay-Faced Man pretended to be him."
The same old process: call, confirm, and hang up.
"I kidnapped Mayor Carlo..."
"The Clayface is fake..."
"Public Advocate..."
"Clayface..."
"I kidnapped..."
Bane called out more than a dozen names in a row, only to receive the same repetition from Batman:
"The Clayface."
In the end, Bane was too lazy to even call to confirm. He just kept saying the name and got the answer he had expected.
He stopped repeating those futile names.
Chen Tao saw his fists clenching again and again, and blue veins spread from his neck to his forehead.
"Impossible. Clayface can't separate himself into so many people at the same time. I've studied his nature. I kidnapped dozens of people at the same time. They can't all... How did you do it?"
Because we have Doraemon.
Of course, Chen Tao would not tell Bain this.
"You can guess for yourself."
Bane was silent.
But even though his plan seemed to have completely failed, Chen Tao did not let down his guard at all.
He was waiting, waiting for Bane to pull out another trump card...
Could it be that the nuclear bomb that was purchased is really in his hands
"I still have two final targets to kidnap."
"?"
Chen Tao was stunned for a moment.
Isn't it a nuclear bomb
"The two final kidnapping targets."
"Stop talking, Clayface is fake..."
"You may have to look at this again."
Chen Tao's expression turned slightly serious.
In the few short seconds that Bane spoke, he had already reviewed all his actions over and over in his mind, but had not discovered anything new.
Bane seemed to have a plan in mind, but things were a little out of his control...
This is normal. Even if he has made more preparations, he is not an omniscient and omnipotent God after all.
but…
No matter what cards Bane has, he is fully prepared to ensure that he has a backup plan.
so.
What is it? Bain
Do you have any other cards up your sleeve that I haven't anticipated
How can you struggle under such a dense siege
The trump card has been revealed...
Chen Tao's eyes widened.