Chapter 168: The Long Easter (Part 3)

"Now it seems they are angry." Kebote sneered. He looked at the heavy rain outside the window. Schiller said to him: "I think you should already know that Gordon has received many patients with symptoms similar to yours. Your conditions should all be related to being caught in the rain."

Schiller shook his head and said: "Among mental illnesses, it is difficult to have two cases with exactly the same traits, but now there are more than two."

"We are discussing how to deal with it. Currently, Cat Getan's drainage situation is not optimistic. If this continues, flooding will break out tonight."

Batman's voice accompanied the sound of rain. Suddenly, the room brightened, the flash illuminating all objects into a pale white, and then a rumble of thunder came from afar. All three looked out the window.

Schiller looked at Batman and said: "I still have a pile of patients; I don't want to meddle in this…"

Batman stared at him, seemingly not caring about his excuse at all, as if he were certain Schiller would have a follow-up. Sure enough, Schiller continued: "But they actually made me spend a lot of money to buy a low-quality umbrella that was destined to break, and then when I had no umbrella to use, it rained so heavily…"

The rain outside the window became heavier and heavier, the roaring thunder drowning out the conversation in the room. Closer to the thunder on the horizon, Cat Getan University seemed to be shrouded in a mass of dark mist, with only one office lit, and it was very noisy inside.

"Are you sure this distance can lead all the rainwater in this area to the specified height?"

"Look here… we must pay attention to the water pressure here. If we don't supplement the support structure, it is very likely to lead to the total collapse of the underground sewer…"

"Directional blasting is needed here, yes, I'm sure…"

The professors were gathered around the desk, discussing one after another. On the surface, they were discussing how to solve the problem of too serious surface water accumulation in Cat Getan City.

Ordinary people couldn't last three minutes in this kind of discussion because they opened their mouths with a large number of engineering and mechanics terms, which could make people dizzy.

But in fact, this was not some paper-talk small fuss. One after another, terms related to blasting engineering popped out of their mouths. Obviously, this was another discussion meeting full of Cat Getan style.

In the Cat Getan Police Department, Gordon, who had just dealt with those confused criminals, took a cup of hot coffee from a young police officer. He raised his arm, drank the coffee in one gulp, and sat down behind the desk. Just as he wanted to rest for a while, he found a shadow appearing behind him.

Gordon looked back and sighed: "Batman, you don't have to make your entrance ceremony so creepy every time."

"I need your help, Detective Gordon."

Gordon didn't answer. He was listening to Batman. Batman continued on his own: "Next, I will light up the Bat-Signal at several locations in Cat Getan City. Afterward, a gang engineering team will enter to start digging. You need to send people there to protect their safety."

Gordon opened his mouth, unable to answer for a moment. He said: "You mean, let the police department send people to protect the safety of the gangs?"

He turned around, reached out, and said to Batman: "Fine, if you are dealing with that mysterious organization and need us to work together, then I can understand. But are you sure those gangs need us to protect them?"

Batman's tone was very serious. He said: "This is to guard against possible sudden attacks. The heavy firepower possessed by the police is indispensable."

"Can you tell me the plan? I must be responsible for the life safety of my subordinates."

Batman shook his head and said: "Remember that nursery rhyme? 'Court of Owls, watching you all the time…'"

Gordon felt a chill down his back. He instinctively looked around his office but couldn't refute Batman. If it involved mysterious power, Gordon couldn't say for sure that he hadn't been monitored.

"I can guarantee you that this plan is effective."

Gordon looked at him. Finally, Batman said: "Because I am Batman."

The dark clouds became thicker and thicker, and the raindrops hit the ground with the force of ten thousand jun. The rain was heavy and fast, but in such a continuous torrential rain, a slight buzzing sound came, followed by several dazzling lights lighting up from Cat Getan City.

Schiller stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the Arkham Asylum ward, seeing several bat patterns projected into the dark night sky.

In the thunderous spring thunder, the stationary Bat-Signal seemed to come alive in the refraction of the rain lines, becoming like a petrel soaring in the storm, with an amazing momentum to break through the darkness.

Before this, the noisy sound of rain almost covered everything, and the dark clouds swallowed all the lights. This huge city seemed to have been put into an aquarium, sinking in the cold water, continuing to sink into the abyss.

And the moment the Bat-Signal lit up, Cat Getan, which had been submerged by heavy rain, suddenly came alive, like a drowning person suddenly turning into a giant whale unafraid of the ocean currents and winds. The boiling human voices shattered the darkness, and the lights ignited things that could not burn in the water like flames. Bubbles rose, breaking through the condensed water surface, rippling countless ripples.

In the rainy night where dark tides surged, the fire of the explosion was louder than the thunder. Several engineering teams drove various engineering machines, roaring forward. The lights of the truck fleet split the rain curtain like blades, and the horn sound was like the shrill whistle of a kettle, indicating the boiling of this night.

Cursing, shouting, chaotic yelling—gangs called friends and companions, more chaotic than chaos, crazier than madness. They blew up rocks, smashed the ground, and dug downward where the light beams rose, until they opened several artificial abysses on the city ground.

They were fearless, not caring that the rain was like arrows and the wind was like knives. Madness was the poison of Gothamites, and also their armor.

With the construction of more structures, the rainwater falling from the sky into Cat Getan ground began to be artificially guided to flow underground.

Kebote stood on the roof of Living Hell, watching the fire rising in the rainy night. He didn't hold an umbrella and didn't care. His eyes, deeply sunken in his eye sockets, were filled with madness. He sneered and muttered to himself: "You group of rats, you will never understand, Cat Getan is Cat Getan, and will only be Cat Getan…"

The water on Cat Getan's surface began to be introduced underground, and in a dark conference room somewhere underground in Cat Getan, a person wearing a white bird-shaped mask let out a sneer of disdain.

"They might just be saving themselves. After all, idiots also have a bit of brains." A woman wearing a mask mocked.

"Is it too risky for us to start the water source plan so early? We have prepared for this for many years, and even renovated the sewers since the city was built…" another slightly younger voice asked.

"They have already discovered us and used such despicable means to deal with us. We must make these people pay the price! They actually dared to…"

Everyone made angry sounds and then fell silent together, as if recalling the scene that day, having to suppress the urge to vomit in disgust.

"We cannot abandon Cat Getan." An old voice said: "Retreat and transfer are only temporary. We have operated here for too long and can never hand all this over to others."

"Envy Origin"

"This is our most secret stronghold." The woman said: "As long as they can't find us, even if the monsters go crazy on the ground, it has nothing to do with us."

After speaking, she turned to a man beside her and said: "Go check our sealing device again. Don't let that rainwater leak in."

"They might want to discharge the rainwater into the sea through the groundwater system, but this is impossible to achieve. The sewer system doesn't have such fast drainage speed, and Cat Getan will eventually be submerged."

"And after this rain, chaos will permeate every corner of Cat Getan again, just like what happened ten years ago."

"The owls will watch here forever. Fear, scream, that will become our food…"

A burst of bird-like giggling came from the dark conference room, just like night owls chirping in the forest.

The heavy rain didn't stop, and more and more water was introduced underground, and the speed of introduction became slower and slower. Gordon stood beside the fence of one of the construction sites and shouted: "The sewer system has reached its limit! Now the entire Cat Getan underground should be rainwater."

Bullock sat on a motorcycle, shaking a flashlight over here. The dazzling light made Gordon cover his eyes with his arms. He heard Bullock shout: "They said everything is set up!! Prepare to let people evacuate!!"

Gordon turned back, waved his arms, and shouted: "Everyone prepare to evacuate! All evacuate to high-rise buildings!"

Then, he picked up the phone and said to the other side: "District 5! Can the person in charge of District 5 hear me? How is it over there? Has everyone left the first and second floors yet?!"

"Didn't you tell them this is the Godfather's meaning?! How many times have I said to listen to the command to evacuate?! Do you want Falcone to call them himself to talk?!"

Bullock held an umbrella and said loudly: "We can only hope that the method they came up with is really useful, otherwise Cat Getan will really be submerged."

Gordon hung up the phone and said: "We have to believe in Batman, and we can only believe in him!"

Soon, in Cat Getan buildings, the lights on the upper floors began to light up gradually, while the lights on the lower floors kept going out, and everyone moved toward higher places.

The members of the Court of Owls who received the news from the monitoring equipment dismissed this. In their view, this was just a delaying tactic. The flood would eventually wash away everything, and it was useless to hide no matter how high.

But soon, they couldn't laugh anymore.

The members of the Court of Owls sitting in the dark conference room suddenly felt a violent cold wind sweep through the entire stronghold. This ice storm exploded directly from the point of occurrence, instantly sweeping through every corner of Cat Getan underground.

The surging rainwater was condensed into ice, and when the raindrops in the sky fell, the splashes were also frozen into crystal-clear ice crystals.

Looking from above Cat Getan, huge snowflakes bloomed from a small occurrence device. Almost in an instant, Cat Getan's ground and surface, all liquids were condensed, as if time had stopped.

Then, several freezing devices were launched into the sky, exploding above the clouds. The water in the clouds was also condensed into ice, breaking during the falling process, and had become ice cubes when hitting the ground.

Between the dark clouds condensed over Cat Getan, a low-temperature zone composed of layers of cold currents was shrouded, and the falling rainwater directly turned into dancing snowflakes.

Within a few minutes, the entire Cat Getan City's sky and underground were frozen. The whole city seemed to have been pressed the pause button. Not only was the aquarium frozen, but the hands reaching in to catch fish didn't escape either.

The hardness of the ice layer made by the freeze generator was no less than the rock layer. Hundreds of meters of ice were condensed around the Owl stronghold, and everyone was directly frozen in a solid giant ice block.

"Is this something Victor Fries made?" In the ward of Arkham Asylum, Batman asked Schiller.

"You have to respect your professor a little bit, don't call him by his full name. And even if you asked like that, I can guess that you have already prepared hundreds of plans to deal with him."

"The person who can freeze Cat Getan…" Batman muttered to himself in a low voice.

"Actually, freezing cannot solve the real rain clouds." Schiller shook his head and said: "The freeze occurrence device is so effective, which shows that the rain clouds accumulating rainwater were indeed tampered with."

"Alright, don't worry about your anti-freeze Cat Getan plans. I think you should be able to see some truth…"

"What?"

Batman saw Schiller walk to the window, stop by the floor-to-ceiling window, and stare at the cold night outside. The cold light of ice and snow reflected on his face. Schiller said lightly:

"When I don't have an umbrella, no one is allowed to rain."

－－－－－－Author's Note－－－－－－

10,000 words delivered today! Please vote!

It took some time to revise the manuscript today, and I wrote 6,000 words of waste, so it was a bit late. Please forgive me. ===== CHAPTER 169 =====