Chapter 2057: A Knight

"Lieutenant Williams, have you reached the designated location?"

The voice coming from the phone was slightly anxious. The man called Lieutenant Williams frowned. He didn't know how to explain the current situation to his superior.

The positioning wasn't wrong, but they didn't see any equipment here. Just as Williams was about to open his mouth, his superior lowered his voice and said to him: "Alright, David, forget about the damn military equipment. Do you understand what I mean?"

Williams frowned deeply. His skin, unique to American white men, was furrowed, but every line was full of incomprehension.

"You know how Duncan was promoted? Alright, let's not talk about this. You just need to know that there will be a congressional inquiry about the Cat Getan disaster in two hours. The FBI and Bruce Wei En will both attend, and the press conference will be held later."

"No matter what method you use, make Bruce Wei En shut up! David, act immediately after hanging up the phone. I want to hear good news from you within an hour!"

The phone was hung up, and Williams hadn't reacted yet. A flash of gravity crossed his brow, seemingly still struggling, but his subordinates had already gathered around.

"What now? Boss, I think someone must have interfered with our positioning signal. Our communication technology is very bad. Otherwise, request support from headquarters."

A flash of struggle crossed Williams' brow, then he waved his hand, signaling everyone to get in the car and said: "The mission has changed. We have to... we have to go to Wei En Manor..."

The car drove bumpily toward the end of the road, but before turning the corner, a large truck blocked the intersection.

Instantly, everyone in the car picked up their weapons, but a stretched luxury car drove from the end of the car, driving straight to the side of the special team's car. Behind the bulletproof glass, a fat man with a hooked nose showed them a smile.

The military didn't put all their eggs in one basket. After discovering Bruce Wei En's true intentions, they urgently reinforced Cat Getan with a special team of 28 people.

This wasn't the number of people needed for the scalpel plan to destroy evidence. This team was well-equipped, with combat personnel, logistics personnel, communication engineers, three trucks, enough supplies, the most advanced weapons, and air support on standby.

It could be said that if it were any other place, this team would be enough to occupy the city. In order to control the situation in Cat Getan, the military had already disregarded everything. If it weren't for the fact that the missile bombing didn't work before, they would have definitely brought out their best air strike carpet bombing tactics.

The car drove all the way forward. The soldiers sitting in the carriage had solemn faces. They weren't those greenhorns. They were stationed at a military base not far from Metropolis and knew very well what a dangerous city Cat Getan was.

Suddenly, the first car honked its horn. A loud bang came, followed by slightly panicked shouts.

The driver of the last military vehicle found that a huge tree root blocked the way of the convoy as soon as he got out of the car.

The engineer just wanted to clear the obstacle, but with a bang, a bomb with colored smoke and ribbons blew up everyone in the front row.

A figure holding a big hammer walked out of the smoke. Harley Quinn spat out the chewing gum aside and touched her nose, saying: "Aha, just in time."

Poison Ivy stood on the roof of a building nearby, looking down from above, watching Harley Quinn lead the group of lunatics from the Joker gang and the military people fighting back and forth.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Poison Ivy called Harley Quinn, and then used vines to tie up all the soldiers and stuff them into the same car.

The ground troops lost contact, and the air troops waiting for calls naturally couldn't let it go, but the situation in this city was too strange, and they only dared to send drones to check.

The drones came, but they couldn't transmit any signals back, and they crashed before flying across the Cat Getan Bridge.

Sending people in again was a "filling oil" tactic, and sending fighter jets might also damage pilots. More importantly, after such a toss, until the inquiry began, the military still couldn't get useful handles on Bruce Wei En.

At this point, solid evidence couldn't be obtained, but the military still had a trick, which was to make unreasonable trouble and rake back.

The lights came on, and the heavy door was pushed open by the assistant. Bruce Wei En, in a suit and leather shoes, walked toward his seat with a cold face and big strides.

The moment he appeared, the whole venue was quiet. Everyone instinctively noticed that Bruce Wei En today was not right.

The oppressive force brought by a person who had spent half his life shaping himself just to bring fear to others was terrifying. The person who came here wasn't Bruce Wei En; it was Batman.

The matter was too significant. One step forward was changing Cat Getan's future, and one step backward was Wei En Enterprises falling apart.

Finally, there was an occasion that allowed Batman to put on the civilized coat he wore, allowing him to take out reasonable methods for the playboy image he shaped for himself, and he didn't have the ability to fool it. If Batman didn't go up, what else could he do?

Batman stood still in his seat, and all eyes were focused on this.

"Mr. Bruce Wei En."

The female voice came through the microphone, carrying a kind of majesty. But the moment Batman stared at this congresswoman, she forgot her lines.

A violent cough brought the congresswoman back to reality. She pretended to be relaxed and smoothed her curled blonde hair, and then looked at another older male congressman beside her.

In the congressman's seat, the politicians exchanged their views silently. They saw at a glance what kind of enemy they would face. It was like Bruce Wei En, but no one knew what that actually was.

"I am here." Wei En said this, which was beyond reproach, but it was as merciful as the most tolerant priest, as if saying: I am standing here, which is a gift to everyone present.

Perhaps it was the fact, the shrewd ones among them thought. Wei En could not come. Perhaps this would make him an enemy of the world, but wasn't it before?

A family that set up its headquarters in Cat Getan and hadn't changed for decades, an enterprise that was the most widely involved in the world, operated in the largest field, had the deepest depth of industrial excavation, and had the highest level of high-precision and cutting-edge, how could it not be an enemy of the world?

Sometimes I really don't know who is Superman, they sighed at the same time. Bruce Wei En is really better off not coming, leave a way for us mortals to live.

Congress obviously didn't want to manage this, but out of the need to balance the military, the FBI, and other forces, they still had to perform their duties, so the congresswoman asked as usual.

"Mr. Wei En, I am very glad you can come here. Next, I will represent all members of Congress to discuss with everyone present many matters regarding the major disaster encountered in Cat Getan City, New Jersey."

"All statements in this consultation will be filed, and some will be announced to the media and the public. The United States Congress will ensure that everyone present has the ability, position, and completeness to be responsible for their own remarks."

"So now, Mr. Wei En, please answer me, were you aware of the disaster in Cat Getan in advance?"

Batman shook his head, but he added: "Disasters happen in this city every day, and I am not surprised by this."

An almost perfect explanation. Even if it was found later that Wei En Enterprises had any advance response measures, it wouldn't be out of place. It could be completely shirked to the fact that disasters in this city were too frequent, and Wei En Enterprises' safety awareness was in place.

Immediately after, the congresswoman asked a few irrelevant questions, probably about whether there was any contact with the murderer, whether there was any monitoring of suspicious persons, and what measures were taken after the disaster.

Of course, those so-called interest exchanges couldn't be brought to the table, but winning the recognition of Congress was still an important bargaining chip. So after Bruce answered them one by one, he took the initiative to speak.

"I express deep regret for this disaster, but I feel even more regret that you can sit here and calmly and rationally ask me questions."

He licked his lips lightly, took a deep breath, and said: "If you can push all the mistakes of the disaster outbreak to the self-inflicted nature of Cat Getan people, then the reactions of various departments during and after the disaster will write the biggest joke of this free and democratic country in caring for citizen safety and safeguarding national interests."

These words were too heavy, and as expected, they caused a whisper. Batman put his hands on the table, looked around the field, and said: "First of all, I hope you can give an explanation for the military equipment held by these terrorists."

"The vast majority of property losses suffered by Wei En Enterprises in this disaster came from military weapons. Our taxpayers provide a large amount of funds to the military every year. In the end, our money turned into artillery fire falling on our heads. Do you intend to say that no one can be responsible for this?"

The venue was silent.

Wei En said the common people were bitter, and they still had room to argue. Wei En said he was bitter, and if you said we were not responsible, then because Wei En suffered property losses, the business was unfavorable the following year, or simply because of the urgent need to make up for losses and return funds, the equity would be sold off, and next year's financial report would cleanly slap everyone in the face.

Too sharp, everyone was thinking so. They also realized that Wei En must have had a plan early on. No one could react so quickly and have such a firm attitude in the face of sudden accidents.

The military's arrogance weakened by three points. Military spending was their lifeline. 80% of their tug-of-war with Congress every year revolved around this broken thing. If Wei En Enterprises' tax revenue decreased next year, the tax bureau would definitely rush up and strangle them when they asked Congress for military spending again.

But they were still struggling on the verge of death.

"We were just about to say this." A lieutenant general stood up, pointed to the left and right, and said: "The military base in New Jersey was unfortunately stolen. We have found that relevant personnel are conducting black money transactions with unidentified forces in Cat Getan."

"It is initially suspected that a military officer managing the army was threatened and had to sell military supplies. All equipment has specific defensive uses and is definitely not prepared for terrorists. Records and data can be checked."

"And the forces trading with the derelict personnel are hidden very well. He failed to discover that they were terrorists. Someone must have helped them hide their identities, and we don't know, who has the reason to do so?"

These words were vague. Everyone present could understand the implication. Slandering the other party for self-directed and self-acted, raising bandits to respect themselves, wasn't a very fresh trick. Although shameless, it was good enough to use.

Only with hope would there be disappointment. When the missiles on the skyline rushed toward this city without any hesitation, Batman had already lost hope for everyone present.

And now, their act of raking back finally kicked away the last small stone in front of the giant rock on the top of the mountain.

If they knew, they would feel even more fear—now what was entrenched in Batman's heart was no longer disappointment, but a kind of relief.

Destroying Cat Getan was no longer the best retribution for this group of people, and Batman had the ability to turn it into a gift.

He scanned the week and was silent for a long time.

Everyone was waiting for his explanation, but Batman was never good at explaining. He judged, then declared.

"This disaster, your joint efforts made me no longer hold any hope for your disaster relief ability and post-disaster reconstruction ability, and Wei En Enterprises can no longer accept such losses."

"From today on, Wei En Enterprises will no longer provide operating funds for Blackgate Prison, Cat Getan Police Department extra prison, Arkham Asylum, and other public facilities that can accommodate criminals in Cat Getan City, will no longer provide humanitarian assistance for any legal system and trial procedures, and will no longer guarantee that municipal investment can provide all public services required by Cat Getan Court."

"No matter how many terrorists are left in this city, leave it to the state court to handle it. Whether it is the Mulek Prison or the Florence Super Prison..."

"I believe that whether it is the trial process or the detention process, they will definitely do better than Cat Getan."