Weiwei arrived at Heimen Island on the evening of the 25th. As the new warden, she did not rest that night, but simply measured the entire Heimen Prison on foot.
Black Gate Prison is located on Black Gate Island. Obviously, this prison occupies the entire island. Black Gate Island is connected to the old town of Gotha by the Land Bridge. In order to prevent criminals from escaping from prison, there are sentries on the Land Bridge. Anyone entering or leaving the Land Bridge needs to show their ID.
Sometimes, prisoners were able to obtain special "documents", such as cannons.
In extreme cases, the soldiers stationed on the bridge will choose to blow up the bridge to escape, and trap the rioting (this has happened before) jailbreak prisoners in prison. This kind of large-scale jailbreak incidents do not happen very often, only three times in the past 20 years. After all, Blackgate Prison mainly detains ordinary gangsters, while the people detained in Arkham next door are basically not human beings.
But in one of the three riots, even blowing up a bridge couldn't stop these people because the leader got a plane. Obviously, the original jailbreak originated from an insider conspiracy.
The leader is also someone Weiwei knows—
Yes, Black Mask.
This prison, which occupies an entire island, holds a total of 2,723 people.
The total number of prisoners and other prison staff is over 4,000. Serious criminals like Penguin Man are held in solitary rooms and have half the exercise time of other prisoners, but the workload is the same. Ordinary prisoners are held in four- or six-person cells. Their living environment is like that of a country high school, with plenty of personal space and they can even order meals if they are not satisfied with the food.
Weiwei: “…Wow.”
She opened the financial reports of previous years and exclaimed "Wow" again; when she opened the prison mortality rate table, Weiwei could hardly exclaim "Wow" anymore.
Every year, we apply to purchase various materials to reinforce prisons and reimburse tens of millions of dollars in weapons consumption expenses. How come so many bullets are wasted? Did we take all the criminals out and shoot them one by one?
Early that morning, Weiwei took a deep breath and called MCU.
"How is the interrogation of Martin Joseph going?" She said sternly on the other end of the phone. "I heard that he has been assassinated twice because he gave out a list of names? Maybe it would be better to send him to Blackgate Prison in advance - don't worry, I swear on my personal honor that I will never let him die in Blackgate Prison."
Apparently, there was someone else behind Joseph's former warden. When the MCU was trying to capture him, they happened to fight off the killer who came to silence him. At night, when he was imprisoned in the MCU, they encountered an incident where one of their own people was bribed and decided to poison Joseph.
This makes the MCU very exhausted, and it would not be good if he died in the MCU.
The prison that was chosen to take over was Blackgate Prison, and MCU head Morris finally agreed to this matter.
When he hung up the phone, he sighed: "Who would have thought that in just four days, this new police officer would be promoted to the position of prison warden? And I heard that she once mentioned to others that she worked hard just to get into the MCU."
The partner smiled and replied, "Not necessarily."
Morris's partner lowered his voice and said, "I heard that behind Warden Betiven stands our mayor. Looking at the current situation in the East District, we can see the mayor's determination to reform... Then, she will definitely push Betiven to the top."
I've heard that the homicide department of GCPD and the deputy warden of Blackgate Prison were replaced at the same time. Fortunately, there was no problem with the upper echelons of the MCU, otherwise they would probably be the ones replaced.
Morris stared at the former warden Joseph on the other side of the one-way glass. The evidence found in the other's home was enough to open a case, especially some videos on the computer, so they tortured the man and forced some information out.
He suddenly said: "The order for Joseph to be fired came from the City Hall... You said..."
The partner just waved his hands and said everything.
Unlike the others, Joseph was fired first and then found evidence of the other party's crime.
The mayor's determination to promote his own people to the position is so obvious.
Joseph himself thought so too.
For his own safety, he was detained in a car like those dangerous serious criminals, guarded by four prison guards. He knew all of these four prison guards, and they had been his subordinates before today.
It was Anna Alec who destroyed everything for him!
Now that he was sent back to Blackgate Prison, he had already imagined how the female warden would torture him. He had even called her and mocked her as an internet celebrity police officer and a nobody. Now he thought that this woman had not used normal means to get to the top. Which normal person would be promoted to warden in four days? She must have had some kind of py deal with the mayor. Joseph only trusted his lover. By analogy, the mayor and Bella must have a closer relationship!
Then, Joseph was put on a black hood and gag and pushed out of the car. He calculated the direction and knew that he was being taken to the interrogation room on the underground floor.
"Tsk," he thought to himself, "it must be Betty Wen! She will humiliate me and beat me, but I will also laugh at her loudly and tell others about her unscrupulous behavior of climbing into women's beds for the job, and I will not succumb to her torture--"
"Shua"
The lights came on and his hood was taken off.
The woman with honey-colored skin was carelessly wearing a black windbreaker, with one shoulder exposed, and was choosing torture instruments like an amateur.
Then she seemed to have made her choice and nodded coldly to him.
…
After reaching the maximum level of torture, Vivi used it for the first time. She found that when she turned on the skill and used the electric baton to hit Joseph, an orange [Submission] status bar and a red [Health] status bar appeared above the opponent's head.
The [Surrender] status bar was slightly increased due to the previous action. As an experienced player, she quickly figured out that after each action, the player can use the status bar to determine whether their behavior is useful in getting the criminal to speak, and [Health] ensures that the criminal will not die during the interrogation process.
Moreover, Joseph surrendered quite quickly. Maybe the skill itself has a certain blessing effect. No matter how Vivi attacks, the status bar will increase, just more or less.
She thought back to the time when she had great interrogation skills and the scenes when she arrested criminals and interrogated them...it seemed that everyone was timid and answered quickly. At that time, Weiwei even complained that these people confessed with just a little threat. What kind of gangs are they if they are so timid?
It seems that she misunderstood.
Vivi quickly filled up Joseph's submission status bar, as if she was playing a game with a guide.
She turned on her phone and started recording, then asked her question again: "Now, confess your crime."
Joseph told how he took advantage of his power to commit corruption...
He talked about how he used criminals for his own amusement...
Talked about how he covered up the traces after torturing the criminal to death...
It was said that he had developed a lust for young girls, and then purposefully selected his hunting targets. Crime Alley was naturally not his only hunting ground...
Then, he also talked about who he made a deal with to climb to the position of prison warden -
Yes, it's Black Mask again.
Weiwei: "..." She said that since the last large-scale prison break, Black Mask has not stayed in Blackgate Prison for a long time.
It turns out that even the warden is one of our own.
"Then, I took over Black Mask's new drug chain," the former warden said blankly, "I asked informants in the prison to sell this drug for him."
Weiwei's mind suddenly moved: "Is this drug sold in Bludhaven? What is it called?"
"It's very popular in the underground of Bludhaven. I like to use a little before going to bed. It makes people feel powerful. Its name is...THE5."
After interrogating Joseph, nothing could be learned. Weiwei ordered, "Lock him in the confinement room for three days, feed him only liquid food, and then send him to the cell with the most people, which has 12 people."
As for whether he can survive and how he can survive in the future, it all depends on Joseph's own "efforts".
Weiwei cheered him on and promised him in her heart that she would do her best to fight for the death penalty for him...if he could survive until that day.
After leaving the interrogation room, Vivi edited the recording and sent the drug-related part to Dick Grayson.
Dick didn't reply, probably because he was busy, so Vivi registered a new Twitter account under the name "Bella Bettivan" and successfully verified it with the support of the system. She sent her first tweet and posted the first half of the recording that did not include the black mask.
Not long after, Officer Grayson, who had finished his work, sent a message: [I am investigating THE5. I never expected that... Thank you for sharing this news (love)]
[It’s okay. Didn’t you help me before?]
A few minutes later——
Dick: [Joseph was arrested? Oh my god, I was working all the time. I should tell Reti. She'll be happy.]
Dick: [You became the warden of Blackgate Prison... I was just surprised. Congratulations (heart)]
Dick: [I saw your Twitter!]
Dick: [Is this what Joseph confessed? He is really a scumbag, luckily he has been sanctioned now! But it is too dangerous to post it on Twitter. I mean, it is very dangerous for you... Black Mask will definitely pay special attention to you!]
Black Mask has been paying "special attention" to her since the first day she logged into the game, and Weiwei thought it was time to put an end to it.
She typed: [It doesn’t matter, I’m already famous, right? Think about that video, I’m sure all the criminals in Ko Tan will pay attention to me, my identity is not difficult to find.]
[——I am waiting for Black Mask to come find me.]
Dick put his phone away, and the stick in his hand spun in the air before he caught it again.
Joseph was arrested secretly, he did not receive the news, and now he is wearing the Nightwing uniform, maintaining the night before dawn in the East District.
"Alas," he sat on the edge of the rooftop and took out his cell phone again, "If I were Black Mask, I would definitely send ten snipers to aim at her..."
The audio clip released by Bella was like a demonstration against Black Mask. If she could ask the previous questions, she could naturally ask about the part related to Black Mask... As long as she leaves Heyman Island, Black Mask's killer will come to her.
Dick admitted that Bella was impulsive, but she was also decisive and smart, with firm beliefs. Although... uh, her speed of promotion... Dick believed that even if she cooperated with the mayor, it was only to achieve her own goal of fighting criminals!
Just like what Bella said in the burger shop - as long as she can achieve the goal of eliminating criminals, she doesn't care whether she is procedurally just.
...In this light, it's no wonder that she would work with Mayor Alec, who has the same idea.
Dick used the grappling gun to jump from the rooftop to the top floor of the MCU, where the view was wider. When he flipped over, he found that the place where the bat light was originally placed was empty.
Dick: “?”
He called back immediately and it was Alfred who answered.
"Afu," he breathed a sigh of relief. The old butler was always reliable. "What happened? Was the bat light stolen?"
"No, Master. It was removed by the City Hall's engineering team and is currently placed in the lobby on the first floor of the MCU," the old butler said calmly. "It was removed when you were a volunteer at the Cathedral Shelter. The MCU building is going to be demolished and rebuilt, and the entire MCU is currently moving."
Dick coughed awkwardly. "So...Batman?"
"I think you've seen that the entire East District is brightly lit, and the work of the City Hall is still going on, but they're just taking turns to rest. Under such circumstances, there's probably no chance for Batman to appear," the old butler said, "so the old man went to bed a long time ago, and Master Tim also went to rest."
"I hope that tomorrow, Grandpa can successfully wake up early and come up with a reason why he wants to buy the 'Bat Light'."
No, Alfred, Dick thought.
Regardless of whether he went to bed early or not, Bruce certainly couldn't get up early.