American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

“I took a deep dive into your city, and honestly, I've never seen a city so chaotic and full of crime. A land of outstanding people? Seriously?”

“In my memory, even the most chaotic Hell's Kitchen I know of can't compare to Gotham in terms of the number of super criminals and the level of chaos.”

“I want to ask, don't you have professional psychiatrists here? I think this place is full of lunatics and madmen. Even you, who seem normal, I think are a potential mental patient.”

“Don't tell me that to get ahead in Gotham, you have to learn to drive yourself crazy first!”

Rogers pushed aside the thick stack of documents beside him, his face full of helplessness. He had originally planned to use his accumulated political and governing experience to help Wayne find a way to change this city, but the more information he read, the more helpless he felt.

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This city is completely terminally ill. From top to bottom, deeply rooted chains of interests have formed. The connection between the official and the dark world is even deeper than he imagined, so deep that it is no longer concealed.

Even if you can produce solid evidence to bring down a big shot, it won't help. The unique ecological environment is here. What's more, you may not even be able to bring him down.

Rogers felt that this city was very strange. He even felt that this city was alive, and it had bred a group of madmen whose professional skills were all focused on crime.

Rogers is not afraid of super criminals, not even Hydra. But he can't predict or fathom the thinking of madmen.

“I've heard that Gotham is a terrible city, but I never thought it was this bad. How do ordinary people survive in this city?” Hal Jordan was also amazed. He had at least broadened his horizons outside the universe, although briefly, but Gotham's unique ecology still surprised him.

“So I'm going to change it,” Wayne said calmly and quietly.

“How to change it? Relying on you to fight criminals in the dark? Frankly, you have better ways, but you chose the worst one. You, a smart person, are being very unwise in this matter,” Rogers pointed out bluntly.

Hal opened his mouth, but after looking at the two of them, he closed it again. He felt that he should not get involved with the two powerful weirdos. The energy of the Green Lantern can indeed allow him to do whatever he wants in his sector. If he were more depraved, he could even be the uncrowned king of the sector. But even if he had that idea, he was still a weakling in front of two weirdos who were more favored by the Green Lantern.

“Harvey Dent.”

Wayne tapped a few times on the keyboard and brought up a person's information on the large screen. He said lightly: “I have been observing him for a long time. He is an extremely self-disciplined prosecutor who advocates justice. He has been doing his best to judge those criminals and is eager to bring order and stability to this city. I plan to help him and make him the manager of this city.”

“The entry point is good, although I can't figure out why it's not you doing it yourself. But I must remind you that simply putting a righteous envoy in power will not solve the city's long-standing problems. If it's sick, your medicine may make it better, but it's also very likely to make it erupt like a volcano,” Rogers sighed.

He admitted that Wayne was a very smart man, but just like a smart man named Stark in his memory, they always had to suffer losses in interpersonal relationships and complex politics before they could learn a little bit. And what Wayne is facing is not just interpersonal relationships and political troubles, but also the trouble of reversing the city's atmosphere.

In Rogers' view, the latter is more difficult than the former.

If he hadn't been the Supreme Commander, he would have thought Wayne's method was a good one, but after sitting in that position and coming into contact with a lot of information and affairs, even with a smart system and a think tank arranged for him by Nick Fury, he could expand his horizons and rationally examine some issues from a higher level.

Is Gotham's problem just crime?

Why are there so many criminals and criminal events, and even private sins and chaos have become the daily life of this city?

Children a few years old can skillfully master firearms and even pickpocketing and other criminal skills. This is a fundamental distortion.

This shows that the only way out for most of the bottom class in this city is to learn to commit crimes and join gangs in order to survive in this harsh living environment. Their greatest skill is crime. Apart from that, they have no better way to support themselves.

This city is like a cage full of thorns.

Simply putting someone who is good at executing justice in power may reverse some of the city's atmosphere in a short period of time, but if the most basic survival problems cannot be solved, then the resentment will only become heavier. This tests a person's political skills.

And the reversal of the atmosphere is not something that can be achieved overnight.

This made Rogers feel a little scalp tingling! He didn't expect the city's problems to be so serious, which made him have to consider whether he needed to build corresponding collection devices in the surrounding areas to provide some positive energy for himself and his future team.

As for giving up this city and choosing a new city to start over?

If it was before he first came, he might have had a choice, but now that the psychic energy has begun to take root in this city and coexist with it, he can't leave it.

His character and behavior do not allow him to abandon these troubles caused by him, and neither does the spirit of his ring. In Luke's words, any power has side effects. If you use the energy of the ring, you need to abide by the rules of the ring itself. Just like precepts, you cannot betray your ring's attributes.

Courage, tolerance, trust.

The price of Rogers' retreat is the loss of luster and amplification supply of the ring spirit. He can't betray his heart either. The only thing Rogers can pray for now is to expand the operation of the device as much as possible through Wayne Enterprises to enhance the signal at the coordinate points. He hopes that Luke can find him before everything is beyond repair.

Although he doesn't know much, as the commander, Rogers still knows a little about the existence of the 【Abyss】. Although Nick's report was vague and ambiguous, he still learned privately that the appearance of the Abyss is closely related to psychic energy. And the danger level of the Abyss was marked as infinite by Nick. When energy similar to the Abyss appears, this planet can almost be reduced to a dead zone for life.

Rogers doesn't want to see that happen.

He can only do his best to delay and contain the birth of the Abyss before Luke arrives, with his pitiful understanding of the Abyss.

PS: Thanks to the silent peak classmate for the reward.