Bruce was observing the Penguin Man in between his work.
In a normal prison, if prisoners are allowed to leave prison to participate in labor, they usually do this:
A locator is put on their ankles. If the prisoner leaves the designated area, the locator will emit an electronic pulse to knock the prisoner down, and then notify the prison police to come and bring the prisoner back.
Prisoners who attempt to escape from prison in this way often encounter beatings and kicks, but the prerequisite is that they are not super-serious criminals who don't care about killing people.
In Bruce's own opinion, he thought these murderers should be shot a hundred times, but Gotham was not sentenced to death.
They are the most difficult group of people in prison. They often rely on resisting the prison guards to establish their own authority and win over other criminals. Then, they can avoid labor. For the sake of stability in the prison, the prison guards often turn a blind eye to them, and even take the initiative to reach an agreement with these leading criminals to let them maintain the rule of the prison. To this end, they can even smuggle drugs, weapons and condoms for the criminals.
So, even if Blackgate Prison has a tradition of working outside, it is impossible for Black Mask to go mining, right?
Now Bruce has encountered the "impossible". The Penguin Man is leading a group of serious criminals to participate in outdoor labor. They are wearing fluorescent green hoods, Batman peripheral shirts and shorts. All of them look like silent zombies, but the good thing is that they will not resist, so not so many police forces are needed.
Only a few prison guards who were driving the car got out and stood there with their guns in their arms, glancing over from time to time.
There were a few birds bouncing on the penguin man's shoulders. The birds were very hidden at night and were circling over the prisoners' heads. Bruce lowered his head and caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye that the short and fat penguin man also took over the shovel and began to work grunting, instead of standing by like a supervisor.
He also wore the green hood and quickly blended in with the other prisoners.
Bruce: “…”
He felt deeply impacted by what happened tonight.
To be honest, he felt that there was nothing wrong with the warden asking the prison guards to take a group of prisoners out for forced labor, but the condition of these prisoners was not right.
Why not use locators and police force to maintain order and let the prisoners do the work, instead of making them so ignorant and unconscious?
It can't be because of the $3,000 cost of the locator and the police officers' overtime pay, right?
——Bruce is so poor that he needs to steal a luxury car, but when he thinks about the price, he instinctively feels that it is not expensive.
He imitated the people around him working numbly. The light was sparse in the dark tunnel, and he took the opportunity to walk around the penguin man.
At this moment, a light came closer and closer in the sewer, and there were also the footsteps of several strangers.
The leader was a man with red curly hair. He was walking and talking to the prison guards beside him:
"The next project is to pour concrete. We will be responsible for the work during the day tomorrow, so your people will be in charge of the night?"
The prison guard complained: "Don't let your people damage the machine. You have to know that the IQ of the people we brought here is not very high."
"I understand, I understand," the red-haired man waved his hand with a smile, handing the prison guard a pack of cigarettes, "After all, you are... um... 'volunteers of the Brother Tanxin Environmental Protection Organization'..."
Bruce, whose IQ is not that high: "..."
He noticed that the penguin man in front of him froze, and the back of his hand holding the tool was so tight that veins were bulging, but he said nothing and just hid himself in a corner.
Does he know the red-haired man?
Bruce could tell at a glance that the man must have been born into the lower class of society, and the people he brought seemed to have to do physical labor frequently. They had a somewhat fierce temperament, but did not look like they had ever seen blood.
One prisoner stood in front of the man's men while they were working and was roughly pushed away. The man noticed this while talking and slapped his men on the shoulder: "Show some respect to our volunteers, they still have work to do! Otherwise, do the work for them?"
The subordinate was immediately frightened, and this incident never happened again.
Bruce took a deep breath, calmed down and began to focus on the project at hand.
At least, all he had to do was dig up the sewer, but as he worked he recalled what he would do next... raise the height of the sewer, replace it with lighter and more stable building materials, and modify the drainage method, as if he had seen the engineering drawings.
"This should be the East District," he thought. "I remember now. The mayor wants to modify the sewer layout starting from the East District because there have been many flooding problems in the East District, especially in the summer..."
It is already May, and for the sake of the lives of the people in the East District, the project must be completed as soon as possible.
Maybe Mudface and Killer Croc can help...
Wait, why is he thinking about the inmates in the psych ward? Is he familiar with them?
He put aside his distractions and continued to work. Fortunately, it was just work and had nothing to do with any possibilities he had guessed.
He didn't know that the locator buried in his tooth was sending messages, flashing on the Batcomputer in the Batcave.
An hour ago, Tim told Nightwing: "I'm going to find Bruce, you continue to pay attention to Vivi."
Tim has been busy with the behind-the-scenes affairs of the "Arkham Riot", and so far, they have not found the escaped Scarecrow.
Scarecrow Jonathan Cline is the resident inmate of Arkham Asylum and a former professor of psychology at Gotham University.
He invented a weapon called "fear gas", which was effective in killing everyone except Poison Ivy and Clint Eastwood, including Batman.
If he used poison gas on a large scale in the city, Gotham would be plunged into chaos.
Tim has already found out that the group of people hired by Black Mask to attack Vivi in front of the church showed signs of being poisoned by gas, indicating that Scarecrow had come into contact with them.
But why should he pay attention to Weiwei?
Even in prison, these super criminals can still get information unimpeded, which makes Tim guess that this is a test against the girl, or not only against the girl, but also the people related to the girl, Mr. C behind Vivi, and the mayor who is making big moves.
During this period, GCPD also investigated throughout the city, but found nothing.
This made Tim feel uneasy. Was it really a test plan that Scarecrow completed alone? Was there someone else behind him?
Tim had a suspect in mind, the only question was -
With such a "talented" situation in Gotan, he had too many people to suspect.
Tim sighed.
Batman certainly prepared a backup plan before he went to prison. While checking the surveillance in the Batcave, he said, "I will definitely find something wrong with my identity, because I am Batman."
Therefore, the theoretical seven days will be shortened to three or four days. The surveillance system of Blackgate Prison is taken over by the mysterious man in charge of the mayor's computer security. Tim thinks he may be able to hack into it, but it will definitely cause vigilance and counterattack.
"Did Bruce escape from prison?" The escape happened earlier than they expected. Gliding in the night sky of Gotham, Tim stared at the location shown on the map and then switched to the nearby surveillance. "Eastern District... Why are Dick and the others in the Eastern District?"
He checked the positions of Bruce and Dick, and then landed on the commanding height in the middle.
The surveillance screen in front of him changed into a three-dimensional pattern, and the heat source showed that in addition to Bruce, there were many other people staying near him, and they were underground.
He sat cross-legged on the rooftop and took out his laptop. A palm-sized mechanical bird flapped its wings and flew up, shuttling between the tall buildings, transmitting the images to Tim's computer: "Violin...Iceberg Construction Company...and Blackgate Prison police?"
He frowned, and the mechanical bird lowered its flying altitude. When passing by the red-haired man "Violin", it dropped a thumb-sized egg. The egg smashed into the other's hat, cracked and turned into a spider-shaped eavesdropping locator, which stuck inside the hat.
After 24 hours, the positioning device will dissolve by itself without leaving any trace.
Then, the mechanical bird stopped in the bushes, staring at the empty ground with its cold eyes.
After making sure that there was no commotion at Bruce's place, Tim hacked into the surveillance on the street, where the surveillance captured the figures of Vivi and Dick.
Weiwei and Nightwing made a contract, of course, Nightwing, who was on the other side of the contract, didn't know about it.
Nightwing comes to the Rose Garden to teach Vivi skills from 8 to 11 every morning. Vivi participates in Gotan's night patrol from 9 pm to 3 am, fighting criminals together until Vivi thinks the teaching is over.
She must ensure that no one is killed or violence is committed against innocent people during her night patrols, and Nightwing must ensure that his teachings are thorough and responsible.
In addition, Weiwei will pay him 100 gold coins every day - the system will automatically deduct it anyway.
If a contract is breached, one party to the contract can permanently take away something that belongs to the defaulter at random, which may be an intangible or tangible item.
Nightwing is teaching Vivi how to use the claw gun.
Weiwei was wearing a sleeveless top, shorts with a metal belt, and black boots. Her clothes were embroidered with dark green embroidery, and her exposed arms had green patterns on them, like tattoos. If you looked closely at the tattoo, you would feel a little dizzy for no reason.
But as long as you look away, you will recover quickly.
This is Weiwei's Night Watchman suit that "slightly increases speed, slightly increases concealment, and slightly increases explosive power". She wears the matching cloak at an angle, with the raised collar covering her face, and her double ponytails are detached to become a single high ponytail that is more suitable for activities - at least she already has the basic equipment for being a "vigilante", that is, equipment that can conceal her identity and facilitate movement.
The suit allows Vivi to jump higher and sprint faster.
Bat-drones monitor the city, so that Batman always knows about crimes happening in the dark, but this night is relatively quiet. Nightwing chose the more chaotic East District to teach Vivi how to use tools to break out when trapped in a street fight - and to be familiar with the streets and alleys of Gotham.
Nightwing has always been a practical man.
...Is it similar to scouting? Is this the legendary way of fighting criminals? Do you want to be scarier than the criminals?
At first, their teaching went smoothly, until Nightwing discovered that they were surrounded by cats.
Countless cats appeared from every corner, lying on the walls, and appeared at the windows. Their dark cat eyes stared at the two of them. There were hundreds of cats in total. They let out threatening growls, leaving Nightwing confused.
He stopped teaching and asked Weiwei to stay behind him.
An elegant black cat walked slowly, jumped down from the roof, and squatted by the window sill. Its eyes went straight through Nightwing and stared at the girl behind him.
【“When will I become a human?”】
Nightwing: "...What the hell!?"
Is the cat talking?
The talking cat wears a ribbon collar with the city emblem of Gotham and looks like a domestic cat.
[“Shut up, Nightwing! What happened today has nothing to do with you!”]
Black Cat, or Catwoman, slashed the windowsill twice angrily - after being able to transform into a human last time, she thought the effect of this "Cat Badge" had disappeared. However, just when she decided to return to her residence in Crime Alley to retrieve her various props as "Catwoman", she turned into a cat again on the roof!
The "Cat Medal" did not recognize her and took back her right to become a human.
Selena was furious. After confirming that it was Vivi who turned into a cat, she had been waiting for the girl in the cathedral for the past few days, but she never showed up!
Now that she has finally caught her, Selena will never lose her goal again!
I swear on the cat's behalf!