Chapter 111: Aftermath
Chapter 111: Aftermath
Gordon stood at the door of the interrogation room with his hands on his hips and said, “You mean to tell me that someone reported to you that they saw two monsters several dozen meters tall chasing each other in the Living Hell neighborhood?”
Then he pressed down on the shoulder of the new police officer and said, “All you need to do now is ask that informant one question - how much did he take?”
The new police officer was a little embarrassed and said, “But there are several people who are all saying the same thing…”
“That’s just a group of people taking drugs together.” (XD)
After the new police officer left, Gordon leaned against the door frame and thought to himself that these newcomers were getting worse and worse.
Two monsters over ten meters tall fighting in the slums? This is Gotham, not Hollywood. Besides, even if it were true, if the local gangs saw it, they would definitely fire a rocket at it.
Given the number of gangs in Gotham, if this were really true, Gordon would now be busy going over to collect the bodies of those two monsters.
So this incident didn’t have much impact other than sending the police to search for drug-taking venues in the East District again.
But Bruce and Venom’s troubles were far from over.
First of all, Bruce is a skeptic. Secondly, he is a human supremacist.In the following days, Venom was subjected to inhumane torture. Bruce listed his doubts about Venom in a table. The table of contents alone was as thick as a fist.
Bruce successfully made Venom start to miss Stark. He now realized very clearly that his host was absolutely, extremely, 100% insane.
There was no other possibility.
Venom now wanted to unilaterally withdraw his previous question about whether Stark was human or not. Compared to Bruce, Stark was a very standard human template.
Finally one day, Venom could no longer stand Batman’s insanity. He said to Bruce, “For the sake of me helping you out before, let’s part on good terms. You go get a high-powered sonic generator and then we’ll part ways and never see each other again!”
Bruce may be the first person to have a symbiote voluntarily propose to leave its host.
But Bruce didn’t even think about it and rejected this recognition from the symbiote. He said, “No, you are the first alien life form I have come into contact with. I have only completed 2% of the first of my 897 research plans on alien life forms. There are still 98% of 896 plans left. You must cooperate with me to complete all the research, and then I will consider whether or not to let you leave…”
Venom was truly desperate.
Originally, symbiotes could voluntarily leave their hosts, but the prerequisite was that after leaving this host, they could immediately find another host. Otherwise, after he ran away from Bruce’s body, Bruce would immediately be able to catch this lump of mud.
He had thought about it before, taking advantage of Bruce’s contact with others and running to someone else’s body. But ever since Bruce’s dark outburst, not only could Venom read Bruce’s emotions, but Bruce could also read some of Venom’s emotions.
Once Venom had the idea of escaping, Bruce would start to crazily use some calculations to increase his brain’s computational power and keep Venom in a stormy state so that he couldn’t concentrate on escaping.
Venom suddenly realized that he had been tricked.
Especially when he saw Schiller’s gloating smile, he realized that he had moved from a not-so-sturdy jar into an extremely sturdy and torturous prison.
What was even sadder was that one day Bruce kindly let Venom go out for some fresh air. Venom was really suffocating and really wanted to go find his own kind to complain. So he went to Schiller.
Then Schiller told him a fact that made him extremely desperate: “What? Bruce told you he has 897 plans? And you believed him?”
“Dream on! You might have to multiply that number by 10 to get the real number!”
“If you count the backup plans, you might have to multiply it by 100.”
Venom found out that he had been inexplicably sentenced to life imprisonment.
Actually, according to Bruce’s personality, he would not allow a creature with its own independent consciousness to exist within his own body. Especially since this creature could also peek into his thoughts. But the problem is that symbiotes are just too amazing. Stark couldn’t resist their curiosity and neither could Bruce.
After experiencing that dark outburst, Bruce was quite confident in controlling this alien life form. So he planned to study this life form for a while and then return it to the professor.
As for some things about Schiller, Bruce really wanted to ask but has not been successful so far. Because every time he went to ask Schiller about related issues, Schiller would casually say: “Natalu.”
Then Bruce would almost lose control of the furious Venom inside him. What was originally a confrontation between Bruce and Schiller would turn into a fight between Bruce and Venom.
As for Catwoman’s theft case, Schiller didn’t intend to recover the diamond bottle. He was just curious about how Catwoman managed to break into his estate.
He had installed special locks from Stark Labs on all the doors of this estate. This technology was not a product of this era and should not be able to be picked by thieves.
But when Batman grabbed Catwoman by the neck and brought her to the scene to identify the entrance, both Schiller and Batman were stunned when they saw the so-called entrance, which was the sewage outlet.
It didn’t look like a place where people could get in.
For this reason, even though Schiller knew about this exit, he didn’t care at all. Apart from rats being able to run in, even a wild cat would have a hard time.
Does this Catwoman know some kind of bone shrinking technique?
With this ability, why do you have to be a thief?
In fact, Batman was also very troubled. When Batman caught Catwoman, she basically confessed everything. When he learned that she had also offended the Falcone family, Batman was simply headache-ridden.
He had to come forward as Bruce to compensate and then expressed that in view of the high compensation, the godfather could let Catwoman go. Falcone didn’t care much. He had seen many bold thieves. Since she was Batman’s lover, he let her go.
But this can’t go on like this. With Gotham’s reform, these thieves who don’t do honest work are increasingly running out of options.
“What do you think I should let Selina do? Last time I suggested she become a teacher, but she refused to do it. She said that the place where she worked was too far from her apartment and she couldn’t take care of Maggie…”
Schiller sat across from him at the table and said, “Have you considered that she has a considerable advantage?”
“What?”
“She’s very charming.”
Looking at Bruce’s somewhat confused expression, Schiller said, “This may not be much of an advantage in Gotham and may even bring her some trouble, but it would be different in other places.”
“Like where?”
“Like Hollywood.”
Schiller took a sip of water and said, “If she can make the famous Batman dizzy, haven’t you considered letting her become a Hollywood movie star or something?”
Bruce was stunned for a moment. He had never thought of this idea.
And Schiller was serious. Catwoman was beautiful, but that wasn’t the point. Her acrobatic skills were just icing on the cake. She only had one characteristic that could be considered the strongest in DC: charm.
Catwoman could make Batman dizzy. Note that it was Batman, not Bruce.
In some comics, the Dark Knight who was so obsessed with hatred could be influenced by Catwoman to marry her and have children and live a normal life. What kind of personal charm is this?
Bruce, Venom and Schiller worked together to deal with the dark tide from Batman’s dark side. But all of this was easily resolved by Catwoman alone.
In some comics, Batman let go of his hatred, obsession and all the unpleasant memories of the past for her and turned back to shore.
With this kind of charm at the level of law, why not hurry to Hollywood to become a star?
“…and you have to consider that Gotham’s industry will eventually need to transform. If we need to develop towards the entertainment and tourism industries, a city business card is essential,” Schiller said.
Bruce also thought he made sense. Being a movie star is not only a legitimate profession but also very profitable. It can be said to be both fame and fortune and good for the development of Gotham City. Why not?
And Catwoman herself has great potential to be a career woman. Although theft is not a decent job, at least she is also working hard to support herself. Otherwise, with her looks, she could easily become a mistress for any gang leader and live comfortably without having to live in that dilapidated apartment on the edge of the East District.