Chapter 1627

That evening, Spider-Man broke into the electronic information room of the Cat Getan City Public Library. Borrowing the computer there, he queried information about the chemical plant where the Joker worked.

This chemical plant is called ACE Chemicals, affiliated with Wei En Enterprises. While querying Wei En Enterprises' information, Spider-Man discovered that it was Bruce Wei En, the current leader of Wei En Enterprises, who was funding Batman's vigilante actions.

Spider-Man instinctively felt something was wrong, but because this wasn't the focus of his investigation, he let it go lightly and didn't continue to investigate.

Spider-Man just collected all of Bruce Wei En's attendance at various events or his gossip news on the internet, and then inferred Bruce Wei En's approximate schedule and recent agenda.

Finding a time when Bruce Wei En had just finished an important meeting and returned to his office to confirm reports, Spider-Man came directly to Bruce Wei En's office.

"Hi, hello, buddy, I'm Spider-Man. There are some questions I want to talk to you about. Can I take five minutes of your time?"

Bruce never dreamed that he had just left the surveillance room for a while to deal with business matters, and could run into Spider-Man, who had broken free from surveillance, here.

But he still pretended to be a wealthy businessman who was panicked because a freak had broken into his office.

"Who are you? What are you doing? I warn you to leave here quickly, or I'm going to call the police!"

"I'm afraid you'll find that hard to do, sir. The telephone lines within a 2-kilometer radius have been cut by me, but I'm sure this is for your own good, because the topic I'm about to discuss with you must not be heard by the police, otherwise it might cause very bad effects on your group."

Bruce stared at Spider-Man, and Spider-Man moved two steps closer, which obviously exceeded the social distance acceptable to Gothamites, so Bruce took two steps back.

"You shouldn't hide from me, sir. The suggestion I want to give you is really for the good of your group." Spider-Man took two more steps forward and explained sincerely.

"I know you are the president of a large group, busy with ten thousand things every day, and certainly don't have time to care about some minor details, so it's not your fault that such mistakes appear. But I hope you can correct them in time before they bring real reputational damage to your group."

"What exactly do you want to say?" Bruce asked, pretending to be impatient.

"ACE Chemicals under Wei En Enterprises has been continuously discharging untreated sewage into the sea. Do you know about this, Mr. Bruce Wei En?"

"I..." Bruce made a shocked expression, but in fact, Batman was already frowning. He remembered that he had equipped every chemical industry park under Wei En Enterprises with the most perfect sewage purification system.

Batman is also human. He only has 24 hours a day, so he can't stare at the drainage outlet of every chemical plant to see if they are discharging up to standard. Even if he could, in Cat Getan, where anything can go wrong, he couldn't guarantee that his chemical plant wouldn't leak just to promote marine environmental protection and create a villain polluted by chemicals.

"The fact is, ACE Chemicals has been continuously discharging non-compliant sewage into the ocean. These are the photos I took earlier." Spider-Man flashed the paper at Bruce, then pointed to a person on it: "I only saw this security guard and a worker handing over. I'm not sure if it was this security guard's own idea, or if there were other people instructing him."

"But I don't think this is your intention, Mr. Bruce Wei En." Spider-Man took another step forward and looked at Bruce very sincerely: "Because once this matter is exposed to the media, the reputational damage caused to Wei En Enterprises will definitely be greater than the money to buy a few sewage purifiers, right?"

Bruce just opened his mouth to say something, and Spider-Man immediately said: "Of course, this matter is very hidden and might not be discovered by anyone, but I happened to discover it and took photos. Now these photos are stored by me in a mysterious mailbox and set to be sent at a timed interval."

"The recipients of the attachment include all the big newspapers I can find, as well as well-known news media people, critics, and the mailboxes of moderators of various well-known websites. You should be able to imagine how much damage Wei En Enterprises' reputation will suffer after these conclusive pieces of evidence are published, right? I'm afraid that even if you double Wei En Enterprises' charity funds next year, you won't be able to save it."

Bruce gasped. He immediately rushed forward and grabbed Spider-Man's hand with an extremely enthusiastic posture, and then said to him in the tone of a shrewd businessman: "You must tell me carefully about this matter. You know, I manage too many things and am too busy. I can't stare at the discharge of a small chemical plant."

"But I didn't expect the people below to be so bold. If you hadn't come to remind me, it would be really troublesome if it were exposed by someone one day. Come over quickly, tell me in detail about the situation you saw that day, I will arrange for rectification immediately."

About two hours later, Spider-Man knocked on the Joker's door. After the Joker opened the door, Spider-Man made an apologetic gesture and said: "I'm really sorry, but I'm afraid you can't go to transport sewage tonight, because the big tycoon Bruce Wei En rushed to the factory with non-compliant sewage discharge with lightning speed and fired all the subordinates who were discharging sewage in violation of regulations on the spot."

"I suggested that he should regularly check the situation of other chemical plants under his group, and I will supervise at any time. He also agreed, so you might not see chemical plants under Wei En Enterprises discharging sewage at will in the future."

The Joker closed the door with a "bang."

At noon that day, the Joker went to help in the kitchen of a restaurant. It happened that this restaurant also had Wei En Enterprises' investment, and the kitchen hygiene was not up to standard, and could even be said to be very dirty.

Spider-Man, who followed him, took another pile of photos, and then appeared in Bruce Wei En's office an hour later. Then it was another round of emergency checks, firing dozens of kitchen supervisors of chain restaurants, and the hygiene conditions of the food companies and catering industries under Wei En Enterprises took on a new look.

Near dusk, the Joker went to park a car near a luxury mansion. There happened to be a banquet hosted by the Wei En family business, with luxury cars coming and going, fine wine and delicacies. But the Joker was treated as a valet, insulted by a rich man's assistant, and almost beaten.

As a result, that evening, Spider-Man found the rich man's home and fully explained to him the importance of connections in business, and that if he hired an assistant who offended people anytime and anywhere, it was highly likely to destroy many of his connections.

The rich man was a businessman after all, and making money was the biggest thing. At this time, when he asked his other subordinates, he found that there were really quite a few such situations, and he fired that assistant on the spot.

In the day and night that followed, the Joker took Spider-Man to witness the darkness of Wei En's rubber tire factory owing wages, logistics and transportation industry smuggling drugs, Wei En Enterprises shareholders bribing city government officials and colluding between officials and businessmen, the person in charge of the largest chain supermarket having an affair during marriage, abandoning his wife and children, and having a chaotic private life, etc.

Spider-Man responded by demanding Bruce Wei En thoroughly investigate all wage arrears cases in the group, strictly regulate logistics management, establish an inspection system to refuse drug smuggling, report illegal criminal acts of bribery and corruption by real names to send them to prison, and help a person in charge's ex-wife sue her ex-husband to get back reasonable alimony.

Then the Joker discovered that this plan couldn't continue. If it went on like this, Wei En Enterprises would really be thriving.

The Joker's original intention was actually to let Spider-Man discover that Wei En Enterprises actually hid unknown darkness. This group of people who mastered the greatest capital and power were the culprits of this city's degeneration.

The Joker was just to let Robin feel that the super-criminals in Cat Getan City actually had compelling reasons, and it was because society was too bad that they had to commit crimes. And society was so bad because of the existence of Wei En Enterprises and Batman.

In this way, the positions of right and wrong, good and evil would be reversed. Batman, who had a high image in the hearts of Robins in the past, and the Wei En Enterprises that funded him would become the bad guys who controlled and oppressed this city, while this group of super-criminals would become the good guys who resisted capitalist oppression.

It might sound a bit absurd, but young people full of justice are the easiest to be guided by this. They will feel that they have discovered the unknown dark side of society, and then feel very indignant that they should stand with the oppressed weak groups and take extreme measures to resist this darkness.

And the more rational the persuasion to not be so extreme and not look at problems one-sidedly, the more they feel that this is the moderate faction persuading them to take appeasement measures, a manifestation of compromising with darkness, so they will resist more extremely, and finally walk into the dead end of terrorism.

If it were in the past, those Robins would have already rushed into the Batcave to question Batman angrily. And due to the reasons mentioned earlier, Batman wouldn't explain these dark reality problems to them; he would only remain silent.

And once Batman said to the Robins, "You might have been guided and bewitched by the villain," the Robins would definitely explode like bombs, thinking that Batman looked down on them, or that Batman wanted to cover up the truth, and might even feel that Batman was also an accomplice to darkness.

In this way, a confrontational emotion would arise between Batman and Robin, and it would be an irreconcilable confrontational emotion very close to class conflict. But in fact, all of this was just a carefully laid trap, the purpose of which was to alienate Batman and Robin.

Once Robin chose to stand on the opposite side of Batman, representing the so-called bottom-level people to start resisting, then Cat Getan would definitely fall into extreme chaos again. Under the excitement of the masses, there would definitely be armed riots, fishing in troubled waters, and looting. If left alone, I'm afraid even the surface-level order couldn't be maintained.

By then, even if Batman had ten thousand reluctances, he could only drive his children out of this city, just like cutting a piece of meat from his heart again, letting him be swallowed by those negative emotions again, and pulled deeper into the darkness.

Cat Getan is how it swallows Batman step by step.

And this piece of meat that should have been cut off according to the original plan, which is Spider-Man, is currently squatting in front of the Joker's door, knocking on the door while shouting inside.

"Mr. Joker, if you have an opinion on Wei En Enterprises, then you must boldly propose it, and then let him change it!"

"If you are not the first person to stand up and propose an opinion, then mistakes will never be corrected. Never doubt the correctness of your questioning just because everyone does so."

"There is no mistake in this world that will become correct if it lasts long enough. Right is right, wrong is wrong. We must praise the right as much as possible, then criticize the wrong, and try our best, keep trying, until the mistake is corrected."

"No matter how many difficulties there are during this period, no matter how many people question you, you cannot give up. Even if I only walk through one path after ten years of effort, I have corrected one mistake in this world. Even if I haven't walked through any path, I have set a good example for those who come after."

"Even if the mistakes in this world can't be corrected, correcting one mistake can save one person."

"Look, didn't I just save you from the suffering of sewage pollution, substandard hygiene conditions, and being discriminated against?"