Chapter 1711

Schiller looked up from the thick pile of student paper assignments and looked at Luo Yi in front of him, saying, "You want to build a portal?"

"I think this is the best way to solve Cat Getan's current traffic problem." Luo Yi's tone carried a trace of despair, and he said, "In other words, besides building a portal, there is no other way to alleviate Cat Getan's traffic congestion."

Schiller lowered his head again to continue grading assignments and said, "Then it's useless for you to come to me. I'm neither the one who knows traffic best nor the one who knows portals best."

"But you are the one who can't stand traffic jams the most."

Very good, absolute kill.

About ten minutes later, the professors of Cat Getan University and Cat Getan Academy of Magic gathered together. The large table in the conference room was moved away and changed into a circle of sofas. Mayor Luo Yi stood at the very front and said, "This is very sad news. Professionals from Cat Getan University and the municipal government have found after research that traditional traffic improvement measures are not applicable to this city. I'm afraid we must take some extreme measures."

Strange shook his head and said, "Not to mention whether it's a bit too ridiculous to use Green Lantern energy to improve urban traffic, I heard from that Green Lantern Hal that this isn't a type of energy that everyone can use. If it's used to construct pure magic creations, such as the Earth magic defense network, then it can completely possess excellent defensive performance. But if you want to use it for civilian purposes, how do you guarantee its stability?"

"Gothamites never pursue stability."

"But if it breaks every few days, isn't the efficiency not high enough?" Strange pointed out, "Moreover, the only ones who can flexibly and freely use this energy are Green Lanterns. Are you counting on Hal Jordan alone to maintain the entire city's transportation network?"

Luo Yi slapped the podium hard and said, "This is exactly the purpose of me gathering everyone here. We want to solve the problem with unconventional means, but what we need now is a practical and feasible solution!"

Schiller turned his head to look at Bruce. He knew that Bruce definitely hadn't been idle after the meeting that day. It would be a ghost if this wasn't something he instigated Luo Yi to do.

Bruce's behavioral motivation was easy to infer. The city traffic network is a big problem, almost second only to the improvement of the city residents' living environment. From a certain specific angle, traffic network transformation is even more troublesome than living environment transformation.

Living environment transformation can be done bit by bit in different areas and stages. The transformation of the East District almost doesn't affect the South District, and the West District tearing down buildings can't be heard by the North District.

But the comprehensive transformation of the traffic network is a matter of pulling one hair and moving the whole body. If the road in one place is to be transformed, the traffic flow will inevitably merge into another road. Once this road is completely blocked, all the traffic around it will be paralyzed.

This isn't something that can be passed by enduring it. The logic is a bit like the Huarong Road puzzle. When you want to move a wooden block, you must look backward at the movement direction of several wooden blocks. And the complexity of Cat Getan's traffic network is equivalent to hundreds of billions of Huarong Road puzzles. Probably only Bruce's brain can bear such a calculation amount.

Clearly, the current Bruce didn't intend to work himself to death, and he was very clear that if he took on this job, what he would have to provide wouldn't just be wisdom. Wei En Enterprises really didn't have the strength to take on the heavy responsibility of traffic transformation while taking over the transformation of the living conditions of the entire city's residents. The world's richest man didn't have that much money either.

Bruce had already realized the principle that instead of working himself to death, it's better to make things difficult for others. If you want to walk both these roads through at the same time, one of them has to take a shortcut.

Sure enough, after Yin Wensi finished speaking, Bruce stood up and said, "I have an idea. Last night, I conducted an overnight inspection of the metal in Cat Getan..."

Bruce had long known that the mastermind behind Cat Getan was the Court of Owls. Watching the situation in other universes also confirmed this point. Although the Court of Owls in this universe had been erased by Lucifer, Cat Getan hadn't become better because of this, and there wasn't even the slightest change. This showed that Lucifer didn't want to save Cat Getan; he just made the Owls disappear.

After an existence of this level modifies a file, all other codes will adapt. After the Owls disappeared, everything remained unchanged. This showed that the influence that should have been caused by the Owls was replaced by someone else. There were changes in historical details, but it was just the mastermind changing a name.

But Bruce didn't have time to explore what good deeds the original Owls did that were blamed on someone else. As long as the phenomenon still exists, it means it can be utilized.

The solid darkness mixed into Cat Getan's metal still exists, which means it must have its source, and thus it can still be utilized.

Bruce briefly expounded this point of view to everyone present. Although it sounded very magical, after all, the test results couldn't be faked. After the professors of Cat Getan University looked at the data provided by Bruce, they all marveled. But those who could be professors here had amazing adaptability, and they immediately began to study the properties of the special metal mixed into the alloy.

Of course, they also obtained results similar to the experts in Marvel. This so-called solid darkness should be a kind of condensed energy, mixed into the metal as a material to provide a kind of dark radiation that can cover the whole city.

And the difference is that the universe where Schiller is has a more professional team. After ordinary expert professors studied it, they could give more professional answers with their dark genius inspiration.

Professor Pyg made the following judgment on this:

"Among the Gothamite corpses I dissected, some individuals' brains appeared to have an abnormal structure, which can be understood as them failing to withstand the mutations brought by the darkness. They weren't developed with wisdom, but became even crazier. Therefore, they ended up on my dissection table."

"The distribution of the probability of these people appearing didn't show a trend of increasing with age. That is to say, the number of people in the previous generation who failed to mutate and the number of people in this generation who failed to mutate were almost identical."

"This proves that this dark radiation isn't a reliable mutation means that has undergone artificial screening. It is very shallow and crude, proving that the person who arranged this dark radiation didn't have much professional knowledge and didn't know how to iterate and update their technical means, with no progress for many years."

"If the technology appears particularly primitive, it precisely proves the power of energy that hasn't been refined and transformed many times, or it's also possible that the energy source is very close and easy to obtain, so it doesn't need very efficient utilization to still produce good results."

"The water cycle is the key." Scarecrow Jonathan Crane said like this: "The darkness in the hearts of Gothamites that I triggered by mixing special chemical reagents into the rainwater should have come from the dark radiation brought by the metal. One of the manifestations of this radiation is the water cycle. And if you want to influence the water cycle, the best way is to influence the groundwater."

Pamela supported her hands on the laboratory table, looked at a huge Cat Getan map, and said.

"There is no doubt that the source must be underground, and I think the source of the dark power wasn't placed by anyone later. It's more like a natural phenomenon, existing somewhere underground in Cat Getan, and some people utilized it and might also be hearing revelations from it, so they did these things."

"Why do you say that?" Schiller, who was standing beside her, asked.

"A kind of intuition." Pamela sighed lightly and said. Then she turned her head to look at Schiller and said, "Professor, you haven't told us what the background of that dark god called Barbatos is yet?"

"Is it related to this?"

"I think so."

Schiller briefly told everyone present the story of Barbatos. No one questioned the source of the information, and they didn't care at all. Lex, who was sitting on a chair to the side with his legs crossed, said.

"This dog beside the World Forger couldn't have just developed a rebellious heart the second before eating its master. As far as I know, such a vicious dog must have been plotting for a long time. Perhaps even before it hadn't bitten its master, the conspiracy had already begun."

And Bruce supported his hand on the laboratory table, stood on the other side, and speculated: "I guess, from some unknown time, some other ingredients were added to the universe forged by the World Forger."

Pamela turned her head to look at him and said: "Cat Getan shouldn't have existed, right?"

She turned back to look at the map and said: "If it's just as the story says, the World Forger will put good universes into a tray and throw away bad ones, then why would a universe with Cat Getan be put into the tray? This is a flaw that couldn't be more obvious on a perfect finished product."

"Unless this flaw is hidden under the glaze." Bruce sighed lightly and said: "In the process of the World Forger forging the world, adding a little bit of inconspicuous dark source into it, buried somewhere underground on the East Coast, and then when the world is put into the universe, in the era when humans begin to explore beneath the surface, they will eventually discover this darkness."

"The people who first discovered the darkness became believers." Lex continued to supplement: "They continuously expanded this darkness, extracted it, and poured it into the city under construction, just like impurities buried in the tire of porcelain gradually appearing on the glaze. This city became a small crack that is not easy to detect on a seamless piece of porcelain."

"One day, he will knock off these cracks at the same time, and then smash all the porcelain, letting everything become his food, swallowed into his belly."

The room was quiet for a few seconds, and then a burst of applause came. Everyone turned to look at Schiller, who was applauding.

Schiller stopped the movement in his hands to prevent interrupting their continued discussion, but he still thought in his heart that the plot formulated by the comic is ultimately different from the real world. In the real world, everything must have a reasonable reason, and one cannot just conjure up settings out of thin air. Even if there are settings, the geniuses of this world will definitely find a way to get to the bottom of it, insisting on asking for a one, two, three.

The so-called prophets who are familiar with the plot can only know the settings, so it appears that those who don't know the settings but can infer the truly reasonable reason through clues have great wisdom.

The information gap from the transmigrator didn't make Schiller feel superior, but the wisdom of these geniuses made him have the satisfaction of witnessing miracles time and time again.

"But he isn't without weaknesses." Lex revealed a cold smile. He crossed his arms and said: "In order to complete his plan to break the crack one day, he naturally has to find a way to maintain the existence of the crack, or provide power to make the crack bigger and bigger."

"Where does the power come from? There must be a channel, right?" Pamela narrowed her eyes and said: "City builders can utilize dark energy, then Wei En is currently the biggest city builder. Why can others use it but Wei En can't?"

Bruce smiled, and then took out a test tube from behind him. Instantly, everyone's focus was on his hand, because what was contained in that test tube was thick darkness that kept flowing.

"He didn't say I couldn't. In fact, his attitude toward approving the budget was much more generous than I imagined."