Chapter 2184: Battle of Two Cities! (Fifty-One)

The strength of all characters on Earth 1 has generally decreased, especially Gotham, which has been greatly reduced as Batman has been weakened. This is reflected in the lunatics, that is, they are violent enough, but not crazy enough.

The old town upstream of the Gotham River is the strongest area in Gotham on Earth 1, but their strength is not reflected in quality, but in their indiscriminate attack on all living things that enter this area.

This has led to almost no one willing to come to this area except themselves, as they have been holding back for a long time.

When a group of fresh prey rushed into the hungry wolf pack, the appetite and desire for slaughter instantly increased. After the sound on the radio disappeared, everyone rushed out of the house and shot at all living things.

The rapid firepower made all creatures who dared to approach roll and crawl, and Natasha and Stark were no exception.

Soon, countless streets and alleys were engulfed in a sea of ​​fire, and the two of them fled for their lives in the ruins. They were not the only ones who fled for their lives, but most ordinary people did not have the ability of Natasha, and fell into the ruins before they could run far.

The hunters held submachine guns, grenades, and rocket launchers, pouring fire on everyone like crazy. They didn't care who they hit, they just vented the violence in their hearts.

"Is this what you want?" Natasha said while running and looking at Stark: "Do you know that the poison you put out will turn everyone into this?"

"This is not me..."

"It will definitely turn out like this in the end." Natasha said coldly: "You know the side effects of the desperate virus better than anyone else. You know this is courting death."

"That's just a phase I virus. I will optimize it later." Stark was still stubborn, but he was also a little scared in his heart. This city called Gotham is simply too terrible. Their violent behavior is unreasonable, purposeless, and completely unpredictable.

This chaos makes people feel scared, not just because Stark is not wearing a mecha now, but the wolf-like cruel eyes of the group of people make him feel that no matter how powerful his force is, he will eventually be eaten by the wolves rushing over.

They are too hungry, which reminds Stark of zombies.

The war spread quickly, and the streets closest to the Gotham Riverbank had completely turned into ruins, and the bombing continued in the streets farther away.

On the big screen in Times Square, New York, reporters were broadcasting news about emergency evacuation. Although the place where the incident occurred was a certain distance away from here, this time was different from the past.

In the past, whether it was an alien invasion or an alien invasion, it was all from the outside, but this time it was from the inside, and they didn't even know who those who were venting their firepower were.

At present, the mainstream media believes that this is a case artificially created by the government to eliminate the protesters, and those who manipulate public opinion behind the scenes have shot themselves in the foot.

They don't know that something that can defeat all public opinion offensives is called conspiracy theory. The best way to eliminate a wave of public opinion is neither to manipulate public opinion nor to extinguish public opinion, but to show the people a bigger conspiracy.

How could it not be done by the government? The marchers only endangered the interests of the government. They created this massacre because they opposed protecting the environment, protecting animals or transgenderism. They wanted to shut up all the ideologists.

This time, it was not just a wave of public opinion rising in a local area. Such a large-scale town attack was rare even in wartime. For a while, the world focused on it.

The Avengers assemble!

Captain America raised his shield, and the superheroes followed him as usual, but this time there were two less capable people, one was Spider-Man and the other was Iron Man.

Captain America didn't care, but the media reporters and the public did. Why didn't these two people stand up when it came to the massacre that the government silenced? Were they already bought by the government?

This speculation is quite reasonable, because Iron Man's identity is public. He is the owner of the Stark Group. Such a person will certainly be in the same boat with the government and the military.

And many Spider-Man fans know that Spider-Man's financial conditions are average. If the government offers a high price, who can guarantee that he will not be tempted?

But the public did not doubt another thing, that is, is Captain America really on their side?

Captain America has always served the military and the government during the war. He gave speeches everywhere, and his image of recruiting soldiers has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Is he really going to save people this time? Aren't they going to kill the remaining survivors and shut them up forever?

The people spontaneously blocked the entrance of the war zone and wanted to ask for clarification. Captain America explained to them very patiently and asked them to leave this dangerous place immediately.

But as the saying goes, as long as the reporters want, anything can be filmed as a conflict. The charm of journalism is fully displayed at this moment. Captain America originally wanted to stop the people from entering the dangerous area, but he was filmed raising his fist to hit people.

Public opinion was completely blown up, and countless people began to go to the outer area of ​​the incident. Reporters heard the news and moved, and surrounded the place for a while.

Others who wanted to save people did not dare to move. Now whoever went there would be accused of shit. It would be good if they could save a few people alive. If everyone inside died, it would really be a murder.

But the hunting in the field continued. The crazy people who were completely ignited by the crazy flames piled up the abandoned cars higher and higher, blocking all the intersections. They obviously didn't want anyone to go out.

The three stealth fighters sent by SHIELD were all defeated. Even Natasha had to curse them this time. What on earth is the US Customs for? How come these people have anti-stealth devices?

"We have to go to the street next door." Stark, who was hiding in the bank office, looked downstairs and said, "The robots of Osborn Group and Hammer Group have been chasing me, but all the robots have been paralyzed."

"It was just a pile of moving scrap metal. The transmission system was designed in a mess, so it was damaged by ordinary weapons, but the energy device on it is still useful. If I can get it, I can provide energy for my mecha."

"And make it more chaotic here?"   "We will talk about our grievances later." Stark looked down with a serious face and said, "This matter is not as simple as you think. It won't be long before the whole New York will be caught in war."

Stark's words came true.

At first, it was just the lunatics in the upper reaches of the Gotham River who aimed their weapons at New Yorkers who strayed into the area, but the range of the bombing was obviously not so precise, and it soon spread to Queens and the Bronx on the other side.

The New Yorkers in these two districts are also full of martial virtues. Although they do not have as much firepower as the people in Gotham, they have a large population. Queens and the Bronx are the two most populous districts in New York, and they cover a large area, have a wide strategic depth, and people are open-minded.

So what they did was not to squat at home and wait for the government to rescue them, or they knew better than anyone that no one would come to rescue them no matter what disaster happened, so they simply took up their own weapons and started to fight against those lunatics.

At first, it was just the armed groups spontaneously organized by the people who piled sandbags on various streets, blocked intersections with cars, concentrated weapons in the hands of some people who could fight, and the other part was responsible for logistics, and launched several short and narrow battle lines.

The advantage of a closed front is that it has extremely high defense, but the disadvantage is that it is just like the Maginot Line, and you can bypass it if you want. The lunatics are here to hunt, not to bite the hard bones. Since there are so many places nearby, why do they have to attack?

In this way, the community that reacted quickly and stood up first successfully defended its own territory, but the price was that the community next to it was attacked more fiercely, and suffered heavy casualties due to insufficient preparation.

So more people began to follow suit and spontaneously organized armed forces to fight.

Some people may say that the population of the upstream gathering area is only tens of thousands, and the lunatics who ran out are at most 10,000 or 20,000, and they are all scattered soldiers and fighting on their own. How can they cause such great destructive power?

There are indeed not many lunatics, but many people who have read the history of war know that the most terrifying thing in wartime is the bandits, which is simply the people who follow the chaos. The soldiers who pass by like a comb may not necessarily refer to the regular army, but to the bandits who want to take advantage of the chaos to rob.

The Bronx and Queens are both crime-ridden areas, with crime rates even higher than Gotham, which means there are more people like this here. They go wherever there is chaos and wherever there is an opportunity to make a fortune.

The lunatics' brains are already burning, and they don't care about robbing at all. They just turn around and leave after blowing up the house, and the finances in the house naturally belong to these followers.

Later, they found that this place was completely out of order. The government departments didn't care, and the police were powerless to reverse the situation. So why do they have to follow others to pick up the leftovers? Isn't it enough to organize their own armed forces?

So they also began to occupy strongholds, set up defense lines, occupy one base after another, and then split into smaller bases due to conflicts such as uneven distribution of spoils or mutual suspicion.

The war resources within a region are limited. Later, the people who spontaneously defended themselves became robbers in order to compete for resources, and the robbers set up solid bases and occupied a certain place as their own territory.

The warlords of the new city began to fight. At first, it was only near Gotham and the Queens and Bronx upstream, and then gradually spread to the entire Queens - that is one-third of the area of ​​​​the entire New York.

Then it was all of Queens, then spread to Brooklyn, and finally approached Manhattan.

After the merger of Queens and Gotham's downtown, the two sides were mixed together. After the war began, they fought each other, occupying their own territory and snatching each other's territory.

In order to distinguish the forces of the two sides, New York took out the New York flag, and Gotham naturally took out the Gotham flag. A flag was planted when a street was occupied. Over time, the colorful flags of the new city fluttered.

The speed at which this prairie fire spread was beyond everyone's expectations. The media went from fanning the flames and adding fuel to the fire at the beginning, to being slightly panicked and stabilizing people's hearts later, and finally dared not even say polite words.

But there are still various sayings circulating among the people, but fortunately, people who were originally influenced by the media and did not know the truth finally found the truth themselves through the subsequent development of things.

A group of unlucky New Yorkers mistakenly entered Gotham and clashed with local residents. In order to defend the dignity of their cities, the two sides broke out in a protracted war - known as the Battle of the Two Cities.

It was another sunny morning. Batman in the main universe finally finished arranging the strategic tasks of this stage. He could finally free up his hands to do something else.

What else could he do? Of course, he would find his old home that had flown to who knows where. He couldn't just let it float there.

Fortunately, Batman left a backdoor when he modified the power system of Sky Island, allowing him to go directly to the location of Sky Island through the space-time portal.

What he didn't know was that Darkseid would never let go of the clues related to the equation of life, and he never forgot the equation in Batman's hand.

The vibrations generated by Batman passing through the portal were fully recorded by the spy machine placed not far away and transmitted back to the headquarters of Apokolips. Darkseid pondered for a long time.

The first thing Batman did when he returned to Sky Island was of course to look down. He wanted to make sure that the power system of Sky Island was still stable enough at the normal working altitude.

Then he was dumbfounded. Why did the scene below seem so familiar?

Batman looked back at Sky Island Gotham, which had not been rebuilt not long after the battle, and then looked at the new city below where the battle was bustling. For the first time, he had a deep doubt about a question--

Could it be that he was really a disaster star?

He was sanctioned for scolding the white left, and changed some sharp