Chapter 1712: S: The Apocalypse Event (15)

"Really building a labyrinth?"

Lex looked at the pile of design drawings Bruce took out and asked in surprise.

Pamela supported the table with both hands, turned her head to look at Bruce, and said: "Are you looking for trouble? You've already found the source of the power, why do you still care about these camouflage forms?"

"This is not a form." Bruce shrugged and said: "I found this method to be very good. Once there is an external enemy, we can directly activate the Cat Getan magic force field to fly into the sky, and then leave the labyrinth to the external enemy. More importantly, the labyrinth I build is definitely stronger than theirs."

"And, if you want to get more budget, you have to have a bigger project. I can't just tell this mastermind behind the scenes directly that the purpose of me wanting so much power is to keep Cat Getan from traffic jams, right? How could that budget be approved?"

Pamela was deflated instantly. She waved her hand in front of her and said speechlessly: "I found that you are really becoming more and more cunning. The true colors of a businessman!"

Lex, however, became interested. He stood up from the chair, walked to the opposite side of the table, and while looking down at the design drawings, said: "I am actually a bit interested in this project. But first, tell me how you found the source of the power, and then how you got in touch with the other party."

"That's not difficult. The source of the power is underground, which doesn't need too much speculation, but determining the specific location is actually an accident."

Accompanied by Bruce's narration, the people in the room finally understood the ins and outs of this whole thing.

Roy wanted to improve Cat Getan's traffic. The first big donor he looked for was naturally Wei En. However, he also knew that no matter how rich Wei En was, it was limited. The Cat Getan city transformation project had almost emptied Wei En Enterprises. Wanting to carry out two lines in parallel was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

But who is Batman? If there are difficulties, go up; if there are no difficulties, create difficulties and go up too. The biggest difficulty he is facing now is actually that he wants to finish the work of the next hundred years within ten years.

Normally speaking, the transformation of any city cannot be achieved in one step. It has to go through a process of repeated trial and error in the middle. Maybe the design on paper is very good, but when it falls into practice, new problems arise, and then it is modified. This is actually the most time-consuming part.

Bruce creating the Cat Getan inner world is actually to conduct trial and error for Cat Getan's transformation project. On one hand, it is so that if it is really built wrong, it won't hurt real people. On the other hand, if it is built in the inner world and the effect is found to be not good, it is easier to tear it down and rebuild it.

It's no problem to do this for residential areas. Teachers and students of Cat Getan Magic Academy can move in to experience it, and then pick faults for the test products. At worst, just get a few bold Gothamites to come in for on-site inspection. The children gang under Cobblepot would be very happy to do so.

But the traffic network problem cannot be solved this way, because to measure how a city's traffic network is running, it needs a large amount of traffic flow, experiencing workdays, holidays, slack periods, peak periods, and also testing extreme situations and redundancy situations. Bruce cannot get all the drivers in Cat Getan into the inner world to test the traffic network he built.

What to do if he is eager for success but has no time? Bruce thought of a brilliant idea to steal time, which is to use Flash to bug the system.

According to the Flash of the main world, he cannot travel to the future to take a look at the results and then tell Bruce, because that is very likely to produce a time paradox, which will destroy the universe.

But Bruce's genius little brain won't be extinguished so easily.

He decided to get a young version of himself over, and after giving his plan to him, let him go back to his younger Cat Getan to conduct trial and error bit by bit. Finally, let Flash travel to three or forty years after the world of little Bruce, and bring the results back to hand over to himself.

This way he could steal the thirty or forty years of the universe where little Bruce is, and be spared the possible destructive consequences brought by playing with time and knowledge of the same universe.

If the accumulation of one time still has errors, for example, the state of the traffic network of Cat Getan in the universe where little Bruce is doesn't meet Bruce's expectations, then he updates his plan according to where the error lies, and then goes to find a young version of himself to come over...

This way, through the iteration in a short time of the universe where he is, Bruce will sooner or later find a perfect plan, and then directly carry out construction, sparing the long process of trial and error.

Bruce, who saved Martha Joker by bugging the system, has now become the veritable Cat Getan idea king. After solving the time cost problem, he began to consider how to solve the material cost.

At this time, Bruce had already realized the problem raised by Pamela before. The builders of Cat Getan constantly injected darkness into the metal of Cat Getan's buildings. Now he is also a builder of Cat Getan. Can he also utilize that kind of darkness?

The other party's purpose is to let darkness pollute Cat Getan, but since it's already polluted, why not find a method with higher utilization efficiency?

A Batman who has truly figured it out decided on the spot—the Court of Owls is actually me, give me the budget and I'll build it!

In the development period, everything can give way to development. First, don't care if this energy is dark or not, just tell me if it's easy to use?

Thus, Bruce began to look for a method to contact the energy provider, but at this time Victor found him.

This is the accident Bruce mentioned—Victor said that many gangs frequently asked him to repair a dense ice cold storage in a place. Every time Victor went, the ice was fine, but he would still conscientiously reinforce the dense ice in the cold storage. But every time, not long after, the ice blocks would crack, melt, or even explode directly.

Victor had been studying dense ice for so long and hadn't encountered such a strange thing. He studied for a long time without any clues, so he wanted to find Bruce, wanting to borrow his wisdom to see if he could solve the problem.

When Bruce went to the underground cold storage to check, he found that it might not be a hardware problem. He brought a machine to detect radiation, and then found that it was indeed radiation of some special wavelength that affected the arrangement of the atomic structure inside the dense ice. Following the radiation source, Bruce found the dark energy source hidden underground.

Because the traces of the Owls' existence were erased, there was no ready-made magic circle. But Bruce had just gone to the magic world to study magic theory knowledge some time ago, and had gone to Heaven to be an angel for a period of time.

Combining the nature of power, the way the power source is presented, and the form of opening the channel, Bruce didn't study for long before he found Barbatos's phone number. Although he hadn't opened the door yet, the power had already been able to be transmitted through the channel.

In the conference room, Bruce and Pamela swapped positions. His hands supported the huge map, and he looked at everyone in the room again, then stated his plan, summarized in one sentence—build the biggest project, get the most budget, produce the best results, and roll all the Owls in all universes to death!

Facts have proven that Batman is greater than the Owl.

The Court of Owls and the Judas believers are both subordinates of Barbatos. Barbatos wants to use them to erode the main universe, so he must lend them power, and it is the kind of loan that doesn't need the other party to repay the price. Barbatos only wants the erosion results, which is the so-called budget approval.

In government bidding projects, there is a default unspoken rule, which is that the more fancy the bid document is, the greater the possibility of a scam. Batman's bid document was written too well.

When most of the Court of Owls prayed to Barbatos for power, it was nothing more than saying "Cat Getan is under construction here and there, we want to add ingredients to it, please give us some power, great Dark God," and then a bunch of rainbow farts.

Batman is not. If he really made up his mind to deceive people, he would definitely ensure that every link was airtight.

First, Falcone led the important figures among the twelve families to take the field, forming a new Court of Owls, completely restoring the structure of the Court of Owls, composed of ordinary court members, Owl Council members, the Speaker, Owl priests responsible for religious affairs, and Judas believers.

Someone should still remember that the personality of Alberto was actually originally created by the Court of Owls to interfere with the Falcone family. This wave is recognizing ancestors and returning to the clan, correcting the source.

When Barbatos received the prayer of the Owls from this universe again, he was busy struggling with Nyarlathotep, and didn't look carefully. He thought that perhaps the Court of Owls had encountered a purge before, and this time they reorganized their power. So when he received the budget application for rebuilding the activity venue that was destroyed, he didn't think much and directly sent the power over.

The activity venue used by ordinary members was available, so there had to be a church to consolidate the believers' faith. Bruce wrote twenty thousand words of the main doctrines and Bible of the Judas believers. Barbatos took a look, the Court of Owls in this universe is progressive, approved.

Immediately following was the human resource demand budget for urgently supplementing the manpower destroyed in the last war, the meeting budget for summarizing, reflecting, and reviewing after the war, the personal training and improvement budget for making up for the deficiencies of the last battle, the meeting budget for looking forward to the future and formulating the next combat plan...

One after another, plans and budget applications were sent to Barbatos like harassment calls. Barbatos was busy fighting with others, and it was fighting in the spiritual world. Where would he have so much energy to look at the budget applications one by one?

He hadn't encountered the situation where the budget expenditure of the golden age of the Court of Owls construction increased greatly before. Taking another look, this universe had just been knocked out not long ago and was still young. Calculating it, it was indeed time for the Court of Owls to exert its strength. He waved his hand, and all were approved.

Then there was the fifty thousand words of comprehensive analysis of Batman's weaknesses, and emphasizing the necessity of building an all-around, three-dimensional, city-wide, underground labyrinth with more than two thousand floors. Barbatos was dizzy from the words when he saw it. Don't care what they want to do, approved.

Seeing Barbatos's attitude, Batman and the supervillains all went crazy. Everyone took out their world destruction plans, super evil thoughts, and universe conquest grand plans. Just shearing the sheep was enough.

Thus, budget applications flew into Barbatos's mind like snowflakes again. Barbatos really couldn't take it anymore. He wanted to entrust the priest to pass a message to the believers to stop being so annoying, but he received an unprecedentedly enthusiastic prayer, which made Barbatos unable to handle it.

The members of the Court of Owls believing in the Dark God might not be sincere, but poor graduate students believing in a boss who is generous with budget approval couldn't be more sincere.

The vast majority of Court of Owls members are just finding a job for themselves, but these genius villains in Cat Getan are not. They believe in science and endlessly pursue the truth. They never stop on the road of seeking, because they love it, so they are enthusiastic.

The sunrise over Cat Getan Bay still cast a gorgeous purple from the orange-red edge. In the attending physician's office of Arkham Asylum, Pride crossed his arms and looked at the patients rushing to the laboratory downstairs, and said to Greed in his heart.

"I knew that him running to you every three days wasn't a good thing."

"He doesn't just run to me. Since the elevator in the abyss was built, the place he stays most often is there. Otherwise, why would he suddenly change his hairstyle?"

"Sometimes, I always feel that what I taught him is not enough."

"You think he doesn't have too many of your shadows on him, but isn't this exactly what you want?"

Pride was silent for a while. When he returned to the Hall of Thought, he saw Greed lying on the railing of the patio smiling at him. He heard Greed say.

"One point and you understand, heart-to-heart, these are all divine revelations sent down by heaven, just like the most beautiful flower that can grow on a seed."

Greed looked into Pride's eyes and said: "We all plant seeds in the yard. You let the best flower you planted grow to everyone's window."

"And you circle them all in your own flowerpot."

"So I am Greed, you are Pride. I treasure, you display. But in the end, I still borrowed your light... The flower is very beautiful."

Pride lowered his head and laughed in a low voice. ===== CHAPTER 1713 =====