"I've taken a closer look at your city. Honestly, I've never seen a city so chaotic and filled with sin. A place of outstanding people and beautiful scenery?
In my impression, even the most chaotic Hell's Kitchen that I know of cannot compare with Gotham in terms of the number of super criminals and chaos.
I'd like to ask, don't you have a professional psychiatrist here? I feel like everyone here is mentally ill and crazy. Even if you look normal, I still think you're a potential psychopath.
Don't tell me that if you want to get ahead in Gotham, you have to learn to drive yourself crazy first!"
Rogers pushed aside the thick stack of documents, his face filled with frustration. He had originally intended to use his accumulated experience as a politician and in government to help Wayne find a way to change the city, but the more information he read, the more helpless he felt.
This city is completely terminally ill. From top to bottom, a deep-rooted chain of interests has been formed. The connection between the official and the dark world is even deeper than he imagined, so deep that it can no longer be concealed.
Even if you could produce conclusive evidence to bring down a prominent figure, it would be useless. This is a unique ecological environment. Furthermore, you might not even be able to bring down the other person.
This city gave Rogers a very strange feeling. He even felt that this city was alive. It gave birth to a group of lunatics whose professional skills were all focused on crime.
Rogers wasn't afraid of super criminals, not even Hydra, but he couldn't fathom the thoughts of a madman.
"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 also felt his eyes were opened. After all, he had gone outside the universe to broaden his horizons, although it was very short, but Gotham's unique ecology still surprised him.
"So I'm going to change it," Wayne said calmly and calmly.
"How to change? Rely on you to fight criminals in the dark? With all due respect, you have a better way, but you chose the worst one. You, a smart man, acted very unwisely in this matter." Rogers pointed out bluntly.
Hal opened his mouth, but after looking at the two, he closed it again. He decided he shouldn't interfere with the interests of two powerful freaks. The Green Lantern's power would indeed allow him to wield great power within his sector. If he degraded himself enough, he could even become its uncrowned king. But even if he had that idea, he would be at a disadvantage compared to the two freaks who were even more favored by the Green Lantern.
"Harvey Dent."
Wayne tapped a few times on the keyboard, pulling up a person's information on the large screen. He said calmly, "I've observed him for a long time. He's an extremely self-disciplined prosecutor who values justice. He's always doing his best to try criminals and is eager to bring order and stability to this city. I intend to help him become the city's administrator."
"It's a good point, although I can't think of why you didn't come in person. But I must remind you, simply sending up a messenger of justice will not solve the long-standing problems of this city. If it is sick, your medicine may make it better, but it is also very likely to cause it to erupt like a volcano." Rogers sighed.
He admitted that Wayne was a very smart man, but just like the smart man named Stark in his impression, they always learned their lesson only after suffering losses in interpersonal relationships and complex politics. And what Wayne had to face was not only the trouble of interpersonal relationships and politics, but also the trouble of changing the atmosphere of this city.
The latter, in Rogers' opinion, is more difficult than the former.
Before he became the supreme commander, he would certainly think that Wayne's method was a good one, but after sitting in that position and being exposed to a large amount of information and affairs, even with the intelligent system and the think tank arranged for him by Nick Fury, he could broaden his horizons and examine some problems rationally from a higher perspective.
Is Gotham's problem just crime?
Why do all kinds of criminals and crimes appear one after another, and even private sins and chaos have become the daily routine of this city?
It is distorted at its root that children of a few years old can master firearms and even criminal skills such as pickpocketing.
This shows that the only way out for most of the city's lower classes is to learn crime and join gangs to survive in this harsh living environment. Their greatest skill is crime. Apart from this, they have no better way to support themselves.
This city is like a cage full of thorns.
Simply sending someone skilled in enforcing justice might be able to reverse the mood in some cities for a short period of time, but if they can't solve the most basic problems of survival, the atmosphere will only intensify. This is a real test of one's political skills.
And the reversal of the trend will not happen overnight.
This made Rogers feel a little numb! He had never thought that the problem in this city would be so serious, which forced him 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 one to start over?
If it was before he just came here, he might still have a choice, but now that his spiritual energy has begun to take root in this city and coexist with it, he can no longer leave.
His personality and character wouldn't allow him to abandon the troubles he'd caused, and neither would the spirit of his ring. In Luke's words, any power has side effects. Once you wield the ring's power, you must abide by its rules. It's like a commandment: you can't betray the ring's properties.
Courage, tolerance, and trust.
The price Rogers paid for retreating was the loss of the Ringwraith's luster and amplification supply. He couldn't betray his own heart. Rogers' only hope now was to maximize the device's operation through the Wayne Group and strengthen the signal at the coordinate point. He hoped Luke would find him before things got out of hand.
Although he knew little, as a commander, Rogers was somewhat aware of the existence of the Abyss. While Nick's report was vague and ambiguous, he privately understood that the Abyss's emergence was closely linked to psychic energy. Nick had even labeled the Abyss's danger level as infinite. If an energy similar to the Abyss appeared, this planet would practically become a dead end for life.
Rogers didn't want to see that happen.
He could only try his best to delay and contain the birth of the abyss with his poor understanding of the abyss before Luke arrived.