American comics: What kind of evil intentions could Batman have?

Chapter 85 The Inescapable Trap of the Absolute Caution School

Chapter 85 The Inescapable Trap of the Absolutely Cautious Style (Please Read Further)

"They're here."

Chen Tao pondered silently.

His mood grew increasingly cold and indifferent, as calm as water dripping from a water-dripping beast.

He wasn't unaware of the change in his emotions, but surprisingly...

He doesn't reject these things.

He mentally reviewed one last time the list of people he had kidnapped... no, I mean, the list of people he had forcibly taken away and protected.

Gotham City Public Representative... City Council Spokesperson... Planning Commission Chairperson...

Of course, there was also Jim Gordon. Sergeant Harvey Block, the police department's second-in-command, wasn't spared either. Several other key members of the police department, who could be used for intimidation, were also taken away.

Everyone was replaced by puppets transformed from clay figures, and the clay figures were almost completely drained.

To achieve this feat, aside from key figures like Jim Gordon whose bodies were entirely composed of clay figures, Chen Tao also chose to use skeletal robots invented by Lucius for some less important roles.

In this way, the clay figure only needs to cover part of its body on the surface of this robot to create a lifelike, jumping and running dummy, while greatly reducing the wear and tear on its own body.

This invention greatly increased the efficiency of kidnapping.

Anyone who could possibly be kidnapped by Bane was arrested, and anyone with even the slightest personal connection to Bruce Wayne, even an 80-year-old grandmother, was barged into their home, handcuffed, and taken away.

Not only that, but he wouldn't be afraid even if Bane randomly picked a random passerby on the street to kidnap him.

Not to mention that Batman already had surveillance cameras all over Gotham, Chen Tao also dispatched Lincoln March and his Claws to be on standby at any time.

Hundreds of claws controlled by chips are distributed throughout the city, ready to rescue any hostage from any corner at any time;

The three major gang alliances that have complete control over the Gotham City mob—Two-Face, the Penguin, and the Ventriloquist—had already issued orders to most of the city's gang members a few days ago to search for suspicious individuals.

The order spread throughout Gotham's grassroots gang members in just three hours, and within eight hours, it was known to every ordinary person living in a neighborhood controlled by the gangs.

With such a huge prize, how could they possibly have trouble finding someone?

If you kidnap someone, you need a place to store the hostage, right?

An abandoned, deserted building?

Coincidentally, all the homeless people knew the place.

Underpass? Overpass?

There are only a few places where people can stand, who doesn't know that?

Are you renting a house?

The landlady was the first to report it.

Even the US government couldn't be that efficient, but gangsters could.

Because this is a gangster city, gangs are deeply ingrained in every aspect of people's lives. Most residents of Gotham have gang backgrounds, and many families have sons and fathers who are old gangsters from their family line.

Locard's law of exchange tells us that no crime can go unpunished, let alone the crimes committed by Bane's men, a group of outsiders who knew little about the city.

Even with the help of those Blackgate prisoners, their existence would still be as dazzling as fireflies in the dark in the eyes of the Black Flag of Gotham.

If they leave these kidnapped hostages outside Blackgate Prison, they'll be recognized in no time.

Do you even know what it means to be the king of the city?

Do you even know what it means to be targeted by the entire city?

What does it mean to be surrounded by enemies? What does it mean to be surrounded by a vast ocean?

To hide something under this level of surveillance, it would have to have been hidden years ago, like that nuclear bomb that was bought years ago and might be in Bane's hands...

However, it is impossible to keep something on the spot.

What? You mean to place the hostages in Blackgate Prison, which is completely controlled by Bane?

Are all those claws just sitting around doing nothing?

As long as Bane doesn't personally oversee things in the prison, who can stop them?

Under such insane, outrageous, mass forced protection and comprehensive surveillance, Chen Tao refused to believe that he could still face a passive situation like the saintly protagonists in third-rate trash novels, where close or innocent people are kidnapped and he is forced to fight back.

And indeed, things unfolded exactly as Chen Tao had predicted.

"I kidnapped Jim Gordon, and he's currently being held by my men at Blackgate Prison..."

"It's a clay-faced man in disguise. You can try calling him."

"If I make a call, you'll track that call..."

"Hurry up and tear up the ticket, hurry up and stop talking nonsense."

Bain made a phone call, then hung up a few minutes later.

His face, hidden beneath the half-shattered hood, remained expressionless.

He paused for a moment, then spoke again:

"I kidnapped Harvey Block..."

Chen Tao interrupted him directly: "It's the Mud-Faced Man in disguise."

The same old process: call, confirm, hang up.

"I've kidnapped Mayor Carlo..."

"The mud-faced man is fake..."

"Public councilor..."

"The Clay-Faced Man..."

"I've kidnapped someone..."

Bane rattled off more than ten names, only to receive the same repetitive response from Batman:

"It was a clay-faced man in disguise."

In the end, Bain didn't even bother to call and confirm; he just kept repeating his name and getting the answer he had already expected.

He stopped repeating those futile names over and over.

Chen Tao saw his fists clench and clench, with veins bulging from his neck all the way to his forehead.

"Impossible. The Mudman couldn't split himself into so many people at the same time. I've studied his abilities; I've kidnapped dozens of people simultaneously, it's impossible for them all... How did you do it?"

Because we have Doraemon, Lucius, and A-Meng.

Of course, Chen Tao wouldn't tell Bain about these things.

You can guess for yourself.

Bain remained silent.

Even though his plan seemed to have completely failed, Chen Tao did not relax his vigilance in the slightest.

He was waiting, waiting for Bain to pull out another trump card...

Could the nuclear bomb that was bought actually be in his hands?

"I still have two more people to kidnap."

"?"

Chen Tao was taken aback.

Isn't it a nuclear bomb?

"The two final kidnapping targets."

"Stop talking, the mud-faced man is fake..."

"You'll probably have to take another look at this."

Chen Tao's expression turned slightly serious.

In the few seconds that Bain spoke, he had already mentally reviewed all the details of his actions several times, but had not yet made any new discoveries.

Bain seemed confident, but things were slipping a little out of his control...

This is normal; no matter how much preparation he makes, he is not an omniscient and omnipotent god.

but……

Whatever cards Bain might have up his sleeve, he was fully prepared and had a backup plan.

and so.

What is it? Bane?

What other trump cards do you have that I didn't expect?

Under such a dense and comprehensive blockade, what kind of struggle can you possibly make?

The trump card has been revealed...

Chen Tao's eyes widened.

There's one more chapter at 12 o'clock. I'll stop at the last minute and keep reading all day tomorrow. The success or failure of Sanjiang hinges on this!

(End of this chapter)