There was a bedside lamp on in the ward, emitting a warm yellow light.

This is a single-patient room. Lying inside is a woman on a ventilator. After being rescued, it seemed as if the long-term pressure was finally relieved. All the hidden diseases in these people broke out, and many people were sent to the ICU that day.

She had a frown on her face and was not very restful in her sleep. When Dr. Jinka approached, he bumped into a chair. The metal stool made a harsh sound on the ground, causing the patient to groan.

Vivi stared at Stephen in surprise and found that the doctor's eyes seemed to be blinded by something. He leaned against the wall and moved closer, looked around, grabbed a handful of things in front of his eyes, and then, as if a blind man finally regained his sight, he looked at the world again - his eyes became bright.

Weiwei: Maybe when he can no longer be a doctor or a magician, he can still do magic shows.

The performance just now was really vivid!

The doctor came over, looked at the patient on the bed, and then approached Weiwei.

"Vivi White?" the gold card said.

"It's me." Weiwei stretched out her hand and wanted to touch his eyes to confirm whether there was really a problem with her gold card, but the man avoided her.

The doctor in front of her looked at her carefully, then glanced at the mayor, then half-knelt down and looked at Weiwei who was sitting at the head of the bed. He stared into her eyes: "Ms. White, do you know that this city is being watched by evil?"

"Sorry?" Weiwei tilted her head and said, "There are too many things that can be called 'evil' in Ge Tan. Which one are you talking about?"

She waited for a while, but the mysterious Jin Ka in front of her didn't speak. She also failed to activate any branch quests, which meant it wasn't a new mission. So Weiwei said calmly, "Don't worry about that. Evil will be defeated sooner or later. Doctor, come and check on her condition?"

"I've seen it all. Organ failure and physical weakness, with fractures and mild venereal diseases, she needs a long period of nursing and will not be able to do heavy work in the future."

Weiwei: "So you know internal medicine!"

Jinka seemed a little speechless: "...I saw the medical record at the bedside."

This poor patient is called Mary, which is a very popular name. She is from a rural area in Boston and still remembers her last name. In the past few days, the police have been busy contacting police stations in other cities to check the identities of all victims. Fortunately, they have contacted the families of a small number of victims. Among them are relatives who refuse to acknowledge the existence of these people, but some people choose to fly to Gotham to see their missing sisters, daughters or brothers.

Weiwei took Stephen to the ward at the end. Here, several men in hospital gowns were staring at cartoons on TV. However, their expressions were a little dull, which made people feel strange at a glance. Stephen: "Mental retardation?"

He did not use the word "disability".

"Yes," Weiwei said, "They were disabled people wandering the streets of Gotan before they were kidnapped."

Stephen: “…No organs for sale?”

"In Gotan, the organ trading business also requires channels," Weiwei said calmly, "Nan Hinckley doesn't have this channel because there are other bosses who want to do it, so it's not their turn."

Stephen's expression at this moment was somewhere between "choked" and "disgusted".

"Those criminals must be severely punished!" he said.

"That's what I thought," Weiwei said, "but the damage done by the criminal cannot be undone. As you can see, even if Mary forgets her past experiences, her whole life is ruined. Do me a favor, doctor."

"What do you want to do?" Stephen stared at the girl in front of him. After closing his clairvoyance, the evil feeling had faded away. He could see the girl's clear green eyes. "Reverse time?"

"No," the girl said seriously, "I know you have the ability to expel human souls from their bodies. I need you to help me expel the souls of my victims from their bodies, and then return them to their bodies after a period of time."

“Why do you do this?”

"I can heal their physical injuries," the girl asked in confusion. "Doctor, why are you asking me questions? We are on the same side."

Stephen didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "...Why do you think it's natural for me to help you?"

The girl smiled. She stood under the bleak white light of the hospital and looked up. "Because you are the reward I got."

In the end, Stephen Strange didn't say yes, nor did he refuse outright. Instead, he made the excuse that he hadn't eaten anything after sitting on the plane for several hours and needed to have breakfast. The girl in front of him grabbed a handful of gold coins and stuffed them into his hands. He ignored her mumbling about "why do wizards need to eat", exchanged contact information, and left the hospital.

Sorry, magicians not only need to eat, but also need wages.

After the doctor left, Weiwei opened the map to confirm that Jinka was still in Gotan City, and then she stopped paying attention to him.

While waiting for the other party to arrive, she took the ice bridge from the South Hinkley Mine and turned it back into a card, and then completed the main quest [The Road to Nahe Island] within three hours, which could be settled instantly.

The main problem of the Island of Helplessness is that it houses both Arkham Asylum and Gotham College. It has smooth roads and three bridges leading to three directions. Coincidentally, criminals escaping from Arkham Asylum often do not flee in the other two directions leaving Gotham City, but choose to go to the main city to cause trouble. Therefore, the Westward Bridge leading to the main city is often bombed by bombs, gunpowder, and heavy weapons, and it costs money to repair it almost every year, no, every two months.

—With funds from the City Hall.

So, what Weiwei needs is a sturdy bridge, and it would be even better if this bridge could have other functions.

At midnight, she rode to Westward Bridge with the cards.

Fortunately, if there is already a bridge, then the silver card [Changeable Bridge] is still relatively flexible. The properties of the props can be directly covered on the original bridge surface. At least Weiwei does not need to blow up a bridge in her own city by herself.

The bridge needed to be extremely strong, so she poured a box of "Easy-to-use Nails" onto the bridge deck to ensure that every side of the bridge could not be broken unless they had a hammer produced by the system.

There are prison guards, psychologists, students, ordinary citizens coming in and out here... and occasionally fugitives from Arkham. In this case, it is necessary to identify whether they are good or bad, but Vivi did not directly add [Wind of Powerlessness], because this is indeed a wind of powerlessness.

She took out a scale and placed the [Wind of Helplessness] and [Barber Blade] on the left. The wind can tell whether someone has malicious intentions, and the barber blade can reduce other people's desires by cutting their hair. Using the scale, she synthesized a new item, [Wind of Reducing Malice].

【Reduce malicious trends】

[Item Description: Summons a gust of wind around you, which can automatically identify whether the people around you have malicious intentions. When a malicious person is identified, the gust of wind will become much sharper, shaving off the enemy's hair and putting the opponent into a state of no desire. The length of time is related to the original length of the opponent's hair. It has a "special attack" attribute against people with long hair.]

After placing the fused cards on the bridge, Weiwei felt a gentle breeze blowing past. As long as she stepped on the bridge, the wind was everywhere.

Then she pulled out the system panel and chose settlement.

[Main Mission: Urban Building System - Ground Part, Urban Roads (I)]

[You have chosen to proceed with phased settlement, you have completed 1/3]

[Your reward: 300 diamonds, 4 million gold coins]

Add to that the rewards that Vivi received for completing the three quests [Side Quest: Capture all the criminals in the town], [Side Quest: Chase the criminals who fled to the forest], and [Side Quest: Investigate the industry chain related to population trading], and the number of diamonds in her hand just exceeded 500. Although she would definitely be able to accumulate another ten consecutive draws if she continued to wait, many of the props in front of her could not solve the task she needed to complete - to settle the victims.

It is not enough to just keep their bodies intact to be resettled. Moreover, some of them cannot even recover physically. Some of them may become disabled for the rest of their lives, lying in bed, needing help and care.

Weiwei: "...I still hope that the population in the city can play a role."

When Stephen entered Gothic, she was drawing cards under the lucky statue in the manor, but no gold cards came out. Fortunately, she only drew two cards and got the prop card she wanted, and she still had 300 diamonds left.

A silver card that can be used to take items remotely, but the items must be returned within half an hour. The player can choose the time by himself.

A bronze card can copy all other bronze cards, such as the Infinite Balloon, but each copy consumes a system-produced gold coin.

Now that Stephen is here, after checking the opponent's skill panel, Weiwei realizes that with the help of the opponent's skills, she can finally achieve her goal.

...But can't the damn system just give her a nanny who can make everyone jump around with just a wave of her hand?

"Is there no normal healing card in the card pool?" Weiwei buried her face in the mayor's shoulder while holding the mayor's trumpet hand and whispered, "My reliable healing card is just like that, like the priest or the saint, why can't I draw it?"

well.

The next few days were relatively calm for Ge Tan. He evenly distributed the tasks to everyone and asked the doctors to continue taking care of the patients. The South Hinckley Smith family who was responsible for drug production, the owner of the card club who was responsible for sales, and the Black Crow Wharf gang leader who was responsible for human trafficking were all released on bail. Before they were sent to prison after the trial, they could only be regarded as being under custody. After delaying their release from prison through various means, the capital behind these people started to operate, and the police had to release them from prison and wait for the trial to begin.

After being released from prison, they are still under police surveillance and cannot leave the city of Gotam. Some of them are even unable to leave the hotels and communities where they live.

It is impossible to have 5,000 people take turns to appear in court for this trial with more than 5,000 accused, nor is it possible to collect all the evidence within three to five days. The only ones who will actually stand in court to face the charges are the representatives Hal Smith, Robert Smith, club owner Corey, gang boss Durr and other masterminds of the case.

But their leaving prison was only the beginning, foreshadowing the outbreak of a public debate.

The public debate first started with accusations against the police's handling of the case. America is a country that attaches great importance to "human rights". Imprisonment, beatings, and personal insults to prisoners before a verdict is made are not allowed. Discussions about the case on the Internet began to explode. Since there was no intention to cover it up, Weiwei only asked GCPD to close down a few tabloids that spread fictitious news to attract attention, and then let them discuss it.

At the beginning, the mainstream public opinion was "distrust". It was normal for there to be a large drug trafficking gang in Kota Kinabalu, but it was too exaggerated for the entire town to be involved, not to mention the first batch of people released in South Hinckley. For example, the women and children in South Hinckley cried in front of the camera and accused the police of cruelty and arrogance, missing their kidnapped children and their detained husbands. Public opinion immediately shifted.

However, not long after, Mr. Clark Kent's report was finally completed. This detailed report with photos and interviews with the victims was like a slam dunk on their faces, and this report also attracted more heated discussions.

Then reporters from other cities got wind of this big news. Locals in Gotham started a war of words with others online, angrily saying that "South Hinkley people are not Gotham people at all." The authorities remained silent.

Because Weiwei built a road.

The other 2/3 of the main mission road chapter is to build a bridge to Heimon Island and a highway to South Hinckley. On the night of the South Hinckley incident, everyone discovered how inconvenient transportation was. Because of transportation, the town became very congested. Perhaps part of the suffering suffered by the victims is related to this.

After leading the road repairs for about ten days, Weiwei would occasionally call over the gold card doctor to serve as a telekinetic construction worker to speed up the task, and she paid him overtime pay!

On May 29, the day when the South Hinckley Highway was completed and all the materials were prepared, Justice Hist and her team flew from Washington to Gotham. She was a female senior judge, and Bruce Wayne had to use a lot of connections to invite her.

When the next plane landed, the legal team hired by the Smith family from Los Angeles also arrived in Gotham.

After a brief break, it was the early morning of May 30, and there were still six hours before the trial officially opened.