1novels Chapter 53 Moon 53
Chapter 53 Moon 53
weeks later.
The golden sun shines through the heavy and heavily embroidered curtains on the soft and precious carpet.
This ray of warm and bright sunshine only in spring awakened the sleeping people.
Bruce opened his eyes, was burned by the golden sunlight for a moment, and subconsciously shrank back into the quilt again.After squinting for a while, he got up from the bed in a daze and stepped on the carpet with his bare feet.
His eyes touched a small wooden box that was placed on the table.
Bruce woke up suddenly with a jolt, fixed his eyes on the wooden box, and rubbed his face helplessly after a long while.
"Dong dong."
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in, Alfred," Bruce said.
"Oh, I'm glad you're up by yourself, Master Bruce." Alfred said after opening the door and coming in. He drew the curtains and let the warm sunlight embrace the whole room, and said, "I hope you I had a good night's sleep, after all, the life of the past few days is not much better than adjusting the time difference for you."
"Well..." Bruce lay back all of a sudden, and let out a helpless voice.
Really helpless.
Really helpless.
Here's the thing.
Since the Church took the gangs and the Court of Owls together, the corruption problem in the government has also begun to improve significantly under the sanctions of Elmer, Gordon and Harvey Dent.
Once again, the church took out a huge amount of wealth and used it to vigorously develop social welfare.
At the beginning, many people did not understand why the church had so much money, but after thinking about it carefully, the wool comes from the sheep, and neither the pope nor the penguin is a vegetarian, not to mention that they have outstanding elites from all walks of life As loyal believers, the Owl Court, Black Mask and the Romans' properties were easily swallowed up by the Church.
The church never collects any funds from believers. On the contrary, it is a charity and does not know how much money it spends to improve the lives of its believers.
And all it wants is loyalty and faith.
Social welfare has improved, and there are no more people who can't eat enough and can only take risks, so the crime rate began to drop sharply.
But this is not enough. After all, Gotham has been soaked in the mud for too long. Many people are used to the days of licking blood, and it is uncomfortable not to go out and commit some crimes.
So at the beginning, there were still occasional nail households trying to be honest.
...then they were suppressed with unprecedented speed!
That's right, after a short development period, the police force of the Gotham Police Department has been improved like never before.Gordon did not know where to find a group of retired soldiers or even retired mercenaries. After Elmer agreed, he gave them the status of non-staff police officers, and through the green light given by the city hall, he bought a group of soldiers from major arms manufacturers. With a pile of advanced equipment, he has also become a super customer of Wayne Group's security department, the one that enjoys a [-]% discount within a year, and armed the Gotham Police Department from head to toe to the teeth.
The battle loss rate of the policemen has been reduced to zero, the fighting morale is high, and the overtime pay can be doubled several times for overtime work. A group of young and energetic policemen can't wait to go out to patrol and fight every day.
His grandma, who has been bullied by these criminals and grandsons for so many years, can finally feel proud!
In this regard, Gordon once said to Batman excitedly: "I have never found it so easy to do something in Gotham, do you understand? I used to want to buy a batch of the cheapest body armor, and the corpses in the administrative department would eat nothing." I can give me a card for more than half a year before I get approved! Fuck it! May the eyes of the secret star stare at Gotham!"
Batman: "..." How much resentment is this holding back?
As a result, Gotham, stared at by the eyes of the secret star, became an unprecedentedly safe city in less than a month.
Arkham has also been rebuilt, and the inner and outer three floors have been reinforced. It is so watertight that not even a mosquito can fly out of it.
It still uses the security technology of Wayne Group.
…It’s not that Bruce didn’t try to add some material to Arkham in the name of the Wayne Group before, but the government always obstructed him at various levels, procrastinated, and used various excuses to make him invest the money in other fields. place.
Now there is no court of owls, no gangs, everything is easier.
The church pays, the government handles the affairs, and there is no middleman to make the difference, which is efficient and safe.
...How could such a good thing, Wayne Group, be absent? !
So Bruce also slapped the table in the meeting room of the Wayne Group, setting up a large number of social welfare projects overnight, fighting crime while building people's livelihood, grasping with both hands, both hands must be hard.
The result of such a multi-pronged approach and heavy blows is——
Gotham seems to have really changed.Get better, get safer.
For three consecutive days, no signs of crime were found, so that Batman and Robin, who went out to patrol at night every day, could only wander around the street. After buying a cup of Coke, they sat on a park bench and drank silently in a daze.
Dick had some doubts about life: "B, am I dreaming?"
Bruce is obviously also a little skeptical about life: "I don't know, don't ask me."
Dick: "How about I punch you and see if I can wake you up?"
I don't know if Bruce was woken up, but what happened to Batman who was doing nothing at this time was that he was arrested and beaten up for training.
……
Bruce, who had been idle for weeks on night watch, finally admitted painfully that maybe he needed to adjust to jet lag.
The nocturnal Batman is about to change his life in the underworld and start to maintain his health.
Knowing that his master made this decision, Alfred laughed happily, and the housekeeper might become the biggest winner.
As a result, the daily life of the semi-retired Batman has become... Going to the library every day, biting the bullet and chewing on those obscure, boring folklore and archeology books, trying to find more information about Outer Gods and Messages from the Great Old Ones.
It would be even better if there were any means of dealing with these guys recorded.
—Of course, nothing was found.
On the bright side, these books are at least very hypnotic and help him adjust his schedule.
"Sometimes I'm quite grateful to that foreign god. At least he allows you to live a normal life for a period of time and adjust your physical and mental state." Alfred said, "I will prepare breakfast for you."
After saying that, he left the room.
Bruce turned over in pain on the bed, then sat up straight, put on his slippers, and walked to the table where the small wooden box was placed.
He stretched out his hand and pressed the mechanism on the wooden box.
The lid of the wooden box was opened, and a golden seed lay quietly inside.
Pope's seed.
The seed lay here quietly for a long time without any movement.
Sometimes Bruce really wonders, is he a little too vigilant?
He contacted the magic side when he got the seed, but after Zatanna took the seed and studied it for a few days, they were all confused by the conclusions they came to.
"There is life force in this seed." Zatanna said, "life force without destructive power, pure vitality, I can feel its life force flowing..."
"Doesn't it have any other powers?" Bruce asked.
"No..." Zatanna shook her head, "I don't feel any malicious energy in this seed, it should be harmless, at least in my opinion."
Bruce even brought the most advanced scientific instruments to analyze the seed, and the result of the analysis was——
It's just a seed. The hypocotyl, germ, and radicle are complete. It's even doubtful that it will germinate if it is watered.
After meditating on the seeds for a long time, Bruce asked Dick who was watching, "The Pope is an alien, right?"
Dick thought for a while: "It should be. After all, he always shouts from humans, so he probably isn't a human being."
Bruce continued to ask: "Then why are the plants of aliens exactly the same as those on Earth?"
Dick: "...do, do as the Romans do?"
Bruce: ...
Therefore, such a seed was placed in a small wooden box and temporarily left unused.
……
After tidying himself up, Bruce clattered down the stairs in his slippers.Dick is sitting in an easy chair by the fireplace at the moment, typing with his mobile phone in his hands, with an excited smile on his face.
"What's the matter, so happy?" Bruce grabbed a slice of bread covered with chocolate sauce from the table and asked casually.
"Uriah sent me a message," Dick said.
Bruce paused when he bit the bread, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you looking for?"
The messenger guy has disappeared since the last time. Although Bruce gave him a mobile phone, he didn't pretend to be a prostitute directly, but the mobile phone is basically just a tool for the messenger to contact them one-way.
They're trying to contact the messenger, and it's either turned off or unreachable.
Dick once accused Bruce very speechlessly: "Why don't you know how to install a tracker in your phone at this time? Now it's all right, lost contact!"
Bruce suddenly turned into a Tibetan fox face. It doesn't matter whether he is wearing a tracker or not, right? ?
Dick, who did not give up, bravely broke into the church several times in the past few weeks, while Bruce, who had hit the wall several times, stood outside the church with a smile and watched him hit the wall.
After the failed attempt, Dick was so depressed that he had no choice but to beat up the penguin who was standing outside with a smiling face.
Super Fierce Robin: "What are you laughing at!!!"
Penguin: "...?? Harmony makes money??"
Dick: "..."
Suddenly I really miss the years when I could beat penguins freely...
And today, the messenger who lost contact for a long time finally sent him a text message again!
[Messenger: In? ]
[Robin: Yes, yes, wow Ulea, how long has it been since you sent me a message, what have you been up to this time, I went to church to find you last time but I couldn’t even get in the door! ! ]
[Messenger: Oh...it's all the Pope's fault.That's the way he is, don't mind. ]
[Robin: I don't mind, so what have you been up to lately? ]
[Messenger: I have been hibernating to lower the pollution level a little. ]
[Robin: Oh... that's pretty good, your boss is giving you a vacation? ]
[Messenger: That's almost understandable. ]
[Robin: Is there any new task for me this time? !Can't wait.jpg]
[Messenger: Ah, that's not true. ]
The real Dick's face faltered with a smile.
...Damn it, it's been a long time since he went to Zheng'er Bajing for a night patrol. If there is no task to let him move his muscles and bones, he will really turn into a ball of cream in the easy chair!
[Messenger: I just want to ask... are you free tomorrow? ]
[Robin: Free! ]
[Messenger: Are you out shopping? ]
Dick: ...?
Shopping, shopping?Didn't you go out to fight?
But just when a small question mark appeared in his mind, his fingers quickly and happily typed a line, replying to Ulea who was opposite.
[Robin: No problem, what time?Where do we meet?Just us? ]
[Messenger: I'll send you the address later, is Bruce free?I'll call him when I'm free. ]
Dick glanced at Bruce, who was covering his face with a newspaper and had actually sneaked glances at him several times.
He thought for a second.
Going out to play with parents?Fool?
[Robin: He's not available.See you tomorrow! ]
[Messenger: See you tomorrow. ]
……
Bruce looked at Dick's scheming expression on his face, and was very puzzled: "What are you laughing at?"
Dick: "It's nothing, Uriah called me out to go shopping, hehe."
Called me, didn't call you, slightly slightly, mad at you.
shop?
Bruce remained calm, but actually squeezed the newspaper hard, adding a little wrinkle to the innocent newspaper.
Bruce had no expression on his face: "...you just go shopping when you go shopping, why are you laughing so disgustingly, are you doing something bad behind my back?"
Dick: ...
Dick squeezed his mouth shut.