Chapter 3333: Bloody New City (End)

The turmoil in the Upper District ended, but it was far from over.

On the first day of the establishment of Cat Getan State, the State Legislature, under the leadership of the Pale Knight, amended the state's tax law. The Wei En Group was the first to respond, and others, whether they were willing or not, could only follow.

How to describe the "New Tax Law"? If you take this thing to read it on Mount Rushmore, only one statue won't spit at you. The name of this statue is Roosevelt, because his nephew did the same thing back then.

At the governor's inauguration ceremony, the Pale Knight Jack Napier spoke the classic quote of this president.

This remark caused an uproar and was criticized by countless mainstream media. They called the Pale Knight a person who was turning back the clock on the era, wanting to pull the world back to the Cold War era.

But soon, this hot topic was covered by even more explosive news—the well-known reporter Clark Kent exposed the news that the Odine Company was artificially manufacturing cancer.

This time, it wasn't just American public opinion that exploded, but global public opinion that exploded. Because Odine was almost the best medical equipment manufacturing company in the world, and hospitals all over the world had purchased their equipment to a greater or lesser extent.

And now that it was exposed that they used equipment to create cancer patients, this would cause panic among almost all patients who had used this equipment for examinations. For any country, it was a big trouble.

Now the US government had no time to find trouble with the Pale Knight, because governments all over the world were finding trouble with them.

Some people might ask, Odine is a British company, why is everyone finding trouble with the US? And the fact is, the vast majority of countries' governments don't care whether the machine will cause cancer. They only care why this matter was exposed.

Don't worry about which country your machine was produced in; the news was exposed by your US, so that is your problem. If you hadn't exposed it, wouldn't everything be fine?

Congress entered a new round of being overwhelmed.

Compared to this, Cat Getan's state was recovering quite well. The upper-class society unfortunately encountered a typhoon, and the crisis in the Lower District was correspondingly lifted. People's lives basically returned to order.

The Pale Knight's new tax law was extremely beneficial to ordinary people, but it would take some time for it to take effect. The previously established charitable foundations and welfare systems came in handy to solve the urgent needs.

Gordon did not return to his post, because he now had a new identity, which was a strong candidate for mayor.

Although Cat Getan State was mainly based on Cat Getan City, the governor and mayor could not be held by the same person. The Pale Knight chose to become the governor, and the best candidate for mayor was naturally Gordon.

While Cat Getan was busy reorganizing order and handing over work, Schiller went to Blüdhaven to find the reliable friend in Harley's mouth. He still needed to figure out some things.

What made Schiller feel a bit surprised was that the person he found was a stranger. Not a supervillain or a superhero, just a doctor who looked very ordinary.

After a conversation, Schiller learned that this doctor was the son of Maggie, the curator of the Cat Getan History Museum. And from this doctor's mouth, Schiller learned Maggie's true identity—she was once a member of the Order of Order.

Schiller rushed back to Cat Getan without stopping. When he came to the History Museum again, Maggie was already waiting for him there.

The thin and old woman sat on a rocking chair by the window, so peaceful that she didn't look like someone with a story. Schiller sat on a chair not far away, listening to Maggie tell her story—telling the story she knew from three hundred years ago.

The Order of Order summoned a meteorite.

This was indeed to satisfy some of their evil plans, but that was not just their plan, it was also the plan of the East India Company.

The Order of Order wanted to prove their faith, not only to spread the Lord's gospel in the UK or the US, but also to let people all over the world worship their God of Flame. And to do this, they needed strong support, and the East India Company was their best choice.

The East India Company also had its own ambitions; they wanted to conquer the world, but also wanted to rule the world forever. To do this, the assistance of magical means was indispensable. The Order of Order was also their best choice.

The two sides hit it off, and the East India Company came up with an evil plan—to use magic to exploit the huge number of ordinary people forever.

They knew better than anyone how powerful ordinary people were, and they understood even more that there was no difference between the poor and the rich in essence. So if they wanted to make the poor unable to turn over forever, they had to first turn them into another kind of creature.

Not only to weaken their physique, making them suffer from diseases all year round, but also to make their spirits weak, preferably maintaining a state where they could work but could not think. In this way, they would never be able to make any waves.

The Order of Order promised to help them achieve all this.

After a series of complex sacrificial and divination rituals, they found the best place to pray for God's gift—Cat Getan Valley, known as the Cursed Land, and successfully summoned the meteorite here.

But the active ingredients inside the meteorite needed someone to extract them, and also needed secondary refining, manufacturing, and diffusion.

Bakar was chosen to be the key person to execute the plan, but at that time only nobles could be lords. They chose Edmund Wei En, a fallen noble who had no family to rely on, and the two successfully came to the New World.

At that time, General Arkham had already been affected by the meteorite and had become crazy. The two didn't spend much effort to defeat him, but during the final decisive battle between Edmund and General Arkham, Edmund keenly sensed that something was wrong with General Arkham, so he didn't choose to kill him, but locked him in the basement of Arkham Fortress.

After General Arkham gradually regained his sanity, he told Edmund his speculation. Edmund also discovered Bakar's unusual movements—he was manufacturing something in Cat Getan Village.

After a period of investigation, Edmund discovered that Bakar repeatedly traveled between Cat Getan Village and the current site of Arkham Asylum, and was transporting some things to Cat Getan Village for processing, and then spreading them out through pirates and smugglers.

The things Bakar processed were meteorite crystals.

Edmund spent a lot of time studying what these crystals were used for. But unfortunately, more of his research results came from himself. He discovered that he had contracted cancer, and his mental state was deteriorating day by day.

Realizing that he didn't have much time left, Edmund had no other choice. He chose to cooperate with the East India Company to build a new city outside Cat Getan Village to avoid the spread of crystal pollution in the new city. But he didn't know that the East India Company was the mastermind.

This ultimately led to his failure in the duel with Bakar, because the East India Company had never supported him from beginning to end. The East India Company, the Order of Order, and Bakar were all in the same group.

And the East India Company pretended to help Edmund in order to use his status as a lord to build water conservancy projects in Cat Getan. Bakar buried a large number of crystals under Cat Getan Village; as long as a reservoir was built above Cat Getan Village, crystal pollution would spread continuously through Cat Getan's water system.

Borrowing Edmund's reputation could ensure that Cat Getan people would not have any doubts about the reservoir. In fact, they did achieve it. The previous mayor wanted to demolish the reservoir but didn't succeed, and even though the old dam had been decommissioned, the Cat Getan reservoir still existed.

Crystal pollution not only led to a high incidence of cancer in Cat Getan but also affected the mental state of Cat Getan people, leading to many crazy people here. And because Arkham Asylum was built directly above the meteorite crater, the crazy people were strengthened every time they were admitted, which led to their mental state getting worse and worse, and Cat Getan's public security getting worse and worse, ultimately deteriorating into what it is today.

After listening to Maggie's narration, Schiller felt a bit emotional. In a sense, the East India Company's actions were even more vicious than the Court of Owls. If they really succeeded, the world would probably be a different picture.

But Schiller couldn't help but ask: "Why didn't they succeed?"

Maggie sneered and said: "Would you allow a cult that possesses such power to rule the world with you?"

Schiller immediately understood. It turned out to be a classic old show of infighting. But thinking about it, it was normal; these two organizations full of bad water might be able to barely cooperate when the plan had no clue, but once there was some progress, both sides would definitely be extremely wary of each other.

The East India Company was wary of the Order of Order's mysterious means, and the Order of Order was wary of the East India Company's powerful influence on a global scale. The execution of the plan would not be mutual achievement, but would definitely be mutual sabotage, preventing the other side from snatching their own achievements.

"That was a very long struggle." Maggie's voice sounded exceptionally calm, "In the end, the East India Company fell into the long river of history, and the Order of Order also quietly hid. But if you have to say who won, I think it should be the cult. They lived to this day."

"Yes, their retreat from the rapids allowed them not to disappear immediately, but to survive by lingering on. They still didn't give up their plan, plotting a prophetic disaster that would shock the world."

"'The vampire of flame dances in the forest'?"

"It seems you have already investigated a lot." Maggie smiled, sat up, and reached out to take her mint cigarette.

"It seems you are not worried." Schiller looked at her leisurely posture and said, "The fact that you would tell me these things shows that you no longer want to work for the cult. But you don't seem worried about the realization of the prophecy."

"Because the prophecy will not be realized." Maggie's voice revealed certainty, "Edmund will achieve the final victory."

"Why?"

"Because he sold his soul to the devil."

Outside the forest near the Cat Getan reservoir, Brad looked at the bloodstains and familiar charred ashes, and sighed softly.

The anxious emotion on his face to find the Angel of Death disappeared in an instant, as if it had never appeared. When he turned back, the brightest star in the sky hung on the treetops.

In the campsite near the forest, a lively party was being held; it was another gathering of the Cat Getan Police Department, and it was the high-spirited Bruce, Gordon who was immersed in it, and the Pale Knight and Batman who were forcibly pulled over, but this time there were also Fiona, Catwoman, Nightwing, and Jason.

When Bruce was setting up the grill, he looked up and suddenly saw fire rising in the forest not far away.

Gordon also saw it; he thought the forest was on fire and hurriedly organized manpower to put out the fire. Bruce also hurried over.

They rushed all the way to the center of the forest, only to find a bunch of figures in cloaks dancing around a tall figure kneeling on the ground.

"Paul?!" Gordon shouted.

Batman looked up, and when he saw the bright star in the sky, his face changed, and he whispered to himself: "Prophecy..."

He just wanted to rush out, but Catwoman stopped him. Bruce also stood in place to watch the changes—and watched for half the night.

This group of cultists chanted there for half the night, until the sky was bright and the stars disappeared, and they didn't see anything summoned.

Catwoman couldn't bear it anymore, and Gordon was also exhausted from staying up. He waved his hand, and the fully armed police rushed over, catching all the confused and bewildered cultists.

Schiller found Brad in an alley on Bourbon Street.

"Paul is not a descendant of the Valey family, right?"

Brad smiled and said: "You really found out. That's right, I pretended to be anxious so that the Order of Order would think I was very worried that the cult would take Paul away to realize the prophecy, to confirm his identity as a descendant of the Valey family. But in fact, he should be surnamed Wei En."

"The Valey family did indeed have two children born back then, one was sent to the Wei En family, and his descendant is the current Bruce Wei En, or should be called Bruce Valey."

"And that true descendant of the Wei En family who was swapped out should have been killed, but I followed the contract with Edmund and saved him. His descendant is Paul Valey, or Paul Wei En."

"And I didn't kill the other descendant of the Valey family used to confuse the public, just sent him to a commoner's family, it seems the surname is... Collins?"

"Cunning devil." Schiller commented, "Watching others work in vain, is it that interesting?"

"You're right, this is exactly the fun of the devil." Brad finally laughed, "Edmund wanted me to be a hero who defeats the conspiracy, but I don't want to appear too righteous, I always have to add some artistic components, don't I?"

"When they full of hope found the descendant of the Valey family who was lost among the people, spent great effort to kidnap and control him to make him chant the spell, but in the end, because the card inserted was wrong, they couldn't get through at all and missed the last chance, how wonderful must their mood be?"

Schiller couldn't help but applaud him, and along with his applause, the engineering team entered. The smile on Brad's face slowly disappeared.

"Who are they?... Wait! What are they going to do to my house?!"

Schiller showed the land transfer contract he got from David and said: "Sorry, it's my house now."

"No! That building is the entrance and exit for my house to connect to the real world, you can't tear it down! Stop!!!"

Schiller revealed a smile and said: "Sorry, watching people work in vain is just that interesting."

"Now, name a price, buy back your own house from me, or—give the house to me?"

?? Wrote two thousand more words, so it's a bit late. This event still has an ending and a review, but it will have to wait until tomorrow.

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