Chapter 2176

Who is the mastermind behind the scenes?

This question always hovered in Batman's mind, and when the time exceeded half an hour, the alert program Batman set for himself finally started.

Once a mastermind behind the scenes doesn't show his feet in Batman's reasoning for half an hour, it means he must be very difficult to deal with, and it also means Batman must go all out.

He and the Joker really understand each other, Batman thought. I'm afraid the Joker also realized that someone calculated all of them and used all of them as guns to achieve his own goals.

Then what would be the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes?

Who will benefit from this war?

To explore this question, one has to carefully analyze the war happening in the new city now.

But the war broke out too suddenly, and Batman didn't have much information in his hands. He had to go deep into the front line to investigate. Fortunately, Batman had also participated in the war and had sufficient weapons and equipment, so shuttling between the bases of large and small warlords was not a problem.

He first came to several larger bases in Queens, followed the edge of their bases to the fire line, and witnessed a small war of about 200 people.

This was a squadron of more than 70 people attacking a street with twice their number of defenders. A group of people skillfully threw weapons into the street, covered each other with firepower, took turns attacking, attacked frontally, stole from the flanks, feinted frontally, and pointed from the flanks.

Batman was surprised by this, because he thought he would see a battle of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Even now, most countries' armies fight bad battles, and tactical strategies remain at the level of the early Second World War.

The attacking side just conducts a round of bombing, rushes forward with guns, covers with firepower from the rear, and the defending side just hides in trenches. When charging, a group of people strafes, a group of people points, and it's almost done, then conducts a counter-charge.

Even in some continents with excellent matching mechanisms, being able to complete the above process completely is already the elite of the elite troops.

But what is presented before Batman's eyes now is a street battle with relatively exquisite tactical conception. Although the reaction is still slow at times, it can be seen that the command of the attacking side is quite professional, the tactical thinking is also very clear, and they know how to cleverly use flanking firepower to suppress.

The command of the defending side is not inferior, and the timing of pointing and throwing explosives is quite accurate, and they can even conduct counter-suppression on the charging troops in street fighting, which is relatively difficult.

And although it can be seen that the quality of the soldiers is uneven, every two-person team has a tactical action that is quite skilled. With the old leading the new, the overall quality has a bit of the flavor of battle-hardened veterans.

Watching and watching, Batman found something wrong. Are these New York and Cat Getan citizens? I'm afraid they invited all the retired instructors of the Marine Corps, right?

This is simply not the tactical literacy that ordinary people can show. If the people of New York and Cat Getan all have this tactical level, what crime is Batman fighting? Ten million elite veterans stepping from the East Coast to the West Coast, turning the whole Americas into Cat Getan, and there would be no Cat Getan.

Batman felt that his luck might be too good. As soon as he came out, he met a retired military gathering area. Although witnessing the wonderful battle process is not a loss, he is here to investigate war intelligence this time, so he still has to be more practical.

So he changed to another base, and as a result, he saw a wonderful battle for positions, followed by material vehicle escort and surprise attacks, protection and assassination of important figures, and attacks and defenses of important strongholds, which can be called wonderful.

After wandering around Queens for a big circle, Batman realized a problem—the people fighting are not ordinary people.

Even if New York and Cat Getan people are full of martial spirit and conduct a live-fire exercise every three days on average, they have not received regular military training. They are ordinary people.

Whether they have been subjected to regular military training for a long time is an important standard for judging soldiers and ordinary people. Really don't underestimate the cumbersome rules and heavy training in the army. The more professional and regular, the further the level of combat effectiveness is from ordinary people.

Soldiers against soldiers have records of ten people capturing thousands, and soldiers against ordinary people, the casualty ratio of 1:1000 is not exaggerated at all.

It's not that ordinary people don't have courage and quality, it's just that the battlefield is ultimately another world. Without hard military literacy, ordinary people can't even last a minute in position warfare.

But the people Batman saw fighting back and forth were obviously all elite troops, not only having undergone professional military training but possibly even being professional soldiers.

Going deeper into the battle line, Batman discovered more suspicious signs. Many houses here look like they were blown up, but if you look closely, the important items inside are gone.

And it wasn't looted after the house was destroyed, but was taken away in an orderly manner before the house was blown up and burned, and it was an orderly removal, not a robbery.

The only people who can do this are the homeowners. The homeowners are gone. Who are the people outside who are guarding their homes here?

After Batman's preliminary investigation, he found that several streets with the highest population density in Queens were all in this situation. Obviously, someone notified them in advance to evacuate in an orderly manner, and the war broke out after most of the public evacuated.

Batman sneaked into several surrounding bases, remembered the appearance of each soldier, and after mental calculation, found that the population didn't match at all.

This large area should have at least 150,000 permanent residents. Now, the total number of people in these 70-odd large and small bases is less than 30,000. This number simply doesn't match?

Batman went to the Traffic Management Bureau to check the driver's license information, took the residents' driver's license photos, and checked them one by one in the base.

There are indeed many soldiers who are local residents, accounting for about half. Some of these 30,000 people are local residents, which means there are others who don't know where they came from. Who are these people?

Batman flipped through the Cat Getan Police Department and the New York Archives Management Bureau. He flipped through all the permanent population survey reports and used the Batcomputer to check the identity information one by one. After checking back and forth for a whole night, Batman finally found a clue.

The clue appeared on a man named Twitch. Of course, this is not his real name. His real name is Brack Tansanderbis, an international fugitive wanted by the FBI. His nationality is German, and he has committed six murder cases in the United States.

And he also has a famous code name—Hydra Assassin.

Or rather, this is not his code name, but his profession. The FBI's data database shows that this guy belongs to the terrorist organization Hydra and has been shooting celebrities around the world for Hydra for many years, causing panic.

Batman didn't know what Hydra was before, but he simply investigated it and roughly figured out the origin of Hydra and their nature on another Earth.

What Batman found was the record of this man, whose real name is Brack, entering the United States under the alias Tuss recently.

Of course, it's not fresh for such fugitives to change their identities and make a comeback. What's fresh is that this guy doesn't have a fake identity; he has a real, brand-new identity.

It's not that he killed a person named Twitch and disguised himself as him to impersonate, nor is it a forged passport. The photo on his passport is himself, and the information is completely true. At least Batman can't find any flaws.

That is to say, the US Entry and Exit Administration probably also has Hydra, creating a brand-new passport for him.

And obviously, this man is not an individual case. After Batman discovered this clue, he began to use the computer for face comparison.

Two hours later, shocking results appeared. Among the bases he visited, half of the middle-level commanders in the bases were international terrorists who had been wanted, belonging to the terrorist organization Hydra.

Looking at the origin of Hydra, Batman had some understanding. The source of the brand-new German equipment that appeared in the pictures taken by street cameras also had an explanation.

This is a group of NAZI remnants.

Then Batman began to be curious, then who are the other group of people fighting to the death with this group of people? It wouldn't be the Soviet Union returning from the dead, wanting to beat the little mustache again, right?

While checking, Batman didn't have time to think about these messy things. His face began to become more and more solemn, because he found that the group of Germans fighting back and forth was exactly the Court of Owls.

That's right, this is actually a war between Hydra and the Court of Owls. Although many warlike civilians participated in it, it is essentially a war between eagles and snakes that broke out because Hydra, which has been wandering for half a century, wants to turn Cat Getan into its permanent base, and the Court of Owls is unwilling to give up its home.

Batman was simply amazed.

This mastermind behind the scenes, besides providing a venue, the other party brought their own manpower, dry food, and equipment, and invested in the noble cause of fighting crime with a high enthusiasm that even Batman admired.

You don't care whether they are also criminals, just say whether the efficiency of fighting crime is high or not?

How many superheroes need to swing their fists to equal the kills achieved by a main battle tank's main gun?

At the same time, his mood became a bit subtle.

Some people say that there is no just war in this world, and Batman agrees with this point, but the only time this theory doesn't make sense is in the case of dogs biting dogs.

You say you let them fight, it seems that Batman, this hero, is very useless. He ran over from a long distance, aggressively interrogated Robin, and caught the Joker to force clues, but in the end, he didn't do anything, which is somewhat unworthy of the status of a superhero.

But you say don't let them fight, Batman always feels like he lost out.

He didn't forget the huge maze that had its skull lifted when Cat Getan flew into the sky. Batman is not stupid. He knows who the Court of Owls is targeting by building such a big maze after racking their brains for so long.

That terrorist organization called Hydra is obviously also full of crimes and countless sins. The Court of Owls is just for power and profit. This group of Germans is the real NAZI swastika flag, and their bloodline might be purer than the little mustache.

These two sides fought together. Isn't every second they fight a contribution to world peace?

Wouldn't every second he delays be maintaining world peace with much higher efficiency than before?

Then Batman has to think carefully about how to get both sides to reach a ceasefire.

Considering the danger of both sides, at least he must prepare 8,000 main plans, then prepare 5 sub-plans for each main plan, and then prepare 26 feasible response schemes in the branches under the sub-plans.

No, it's not the time yet. Batman thought that maintaining world peace is important, but Dick's French homework is also an important factor in maintaining family harmony and stability. He has to go and check it carefully.

Just when Batman walked upstairs and came to the hall of Wayne Manor, he suddenly saw that the portal he set up under the Sky Island lit up.

Darkseid's army rushed out from inside.

As soon as they rushed out, they fell down.

Now he has to go to Tim's book club, Batman thought.