Gordon's consciousness finally returned to his body, and he could feel the light, the temperature of the fireplace.
But inside he was like winter. Everything was frozen in ice. There was no light and no hope.
Falcone patted him gently on the shoulder and comforted him like an elder: "Gordon, my good Gordon, it's all over, it's going to be all right... You've lost two wives to this city, you've lost your own child, you're just a little tired."
"Tired... Yeah, I'm tired..." Gordon bowed his head and let out a slight shiver.
'No, Gordon, it's not time for you to rest. The new Gotham isn't built yet. You can't rest yet. Only you can save it, you promised me.'
Falcone hugged him so hard, the wiry old man, that he almost lifted him off the couch.
Gordon looked at Falcone disorientedly, he could not remember what he had promised him, and it was as if a pot were boiling in his head, a tangle of thoughts, as if thoughts had lost touch with each other.
"I, yes, I promised you..." "He replied, bewildered.
"Yes, you promised. A better Gotham. A Gotham where everyone can live happily. This is our city and we all want it to be better."
"Child... Baby!" Gordon clasped his head again in pain.
Falcone soothed him again, patting him on the back: "It's over, it's over, you'll have a new wife." When new Gotham is reestablished, I will marry you and Sophia, and then hand over the Falcone family to you. I will leave with applause.... You will have new children, new cities, and you will live happily ever after."
And he looked expectantly at Sophia, as if he were asking her advice.
"Yes, Father, it is up to you."
She wore the same fake smile, the polite expression of a medieval noblewoman, and answered him in a voice as if it had never changed.
"Come on, Gordon, kiss my ring, accept my promise, and we'll be a family for a better Gotham!"
Falcone smiled and held out his right hand to Gordon. On his ring finger was a delicate gold ring engraved with the Falcone family crest rose.
But a delirious Gordon still looked away from the ring, just as he had done more than a decade ago.
...
Outside Indian Hill, Eugene, they've been camped out on the TV truck for an hour. It's past four o 'clock, but all around them is the sound of rain and rain.
The endless rain falling from the sky, twisted by the wind into waterspouts, always seemed to find its way into their car at incredible angles, carrying their body heat through the tiny crevices.
Inside, it was pitch black, and he and Cindy sat in the dark cab, each holding a freshly poured beer, monitoring what was going on outside.
At the mini-mart, Eugene had told Cindy all about the multiverse, the plans of the people behind it, and other theories.
The reason for this is that she is the only person Eugene trusts here, and before he leaves, he feels he should leave behind enough information to keep Cindy alive.
He doesn't know if he's doing the right thing, or if it's going to cause the butterfly effect or something worse, but he's just doing what a partner does.
Even though they have only known each other for six hours, and it is only a temporary combination, the similarity and good cooperation between each other make them feel like they have known each other for a long time.
Indeed, Eugene had only been in this world for six and a half hours, and six hours was almost the whole of his new life.
In those six hours he had experienced things and made changes he had never imagined before, and he had become inseparable from the world that had made them all.
But at that time, Cindy's reaction was very calm, knowing the plot behind the curtain, as if listening to some ordinary intelligence, after Eugene told her, she just said "Oh, I don't know what she was thinking."
The two of them returned to the car in silence, drove here, and then turned off the engine in the dark and waited.
In the distance, the fire in the scrap yard is dotted with, are some homeless homeless people in the broken car to shelter from the rain lit, there are some bad luck will be extinguished by the heavy rain, I do not know where from time to time there will be Shouting or crying.
The weather was not suitable for small animals, but Eugene was sure that he had seen rats wriggling in and out of the wrecked cars, as if they were moving food from their burrows to higher ground.
The wind changed a little, the rain came in a different direction, but the object of their waiting never arrived.
"What the hell, the people of the Shadow Dancers League have been caught in a flash flood, and why haven't they arrived yet?"
Cindy leaned over the steering wheel. She was stiff with waiting.
"Something is wrong. Batgirl's surveillance system still hasn't detected any ninjas entering Gotham. Something has gone wrong."
Eugene looks into the darkness in the distance, trying to discern the direction of the entrance to the underground institute, hoping it will be in the same location as in the world of the TV series.
Barbara continues to use her laptop to connect to the Batcave's mainframe, while the screen is constantly changing and the system does not recognize any of the Shadow Dancers.
"What do we do?" Cindy turned her head to look at him.
Eugene thought for a moment and then wondered if the shadow dancer had other plans.
Cindy had only found ninja foot prints on the roof, and Shadow Dancer's spies probably hadn't come down to look at the body.
All she needed to know was that Division was dead, and she didn't need to find out how they died like Eugene did.
It's Gotham's fault anyway, and while Batgirl is out of town, doesn't it pay to destroy Gotham?
Lei Xiao Gu may be massing his forces in Nanda Balte right now, which will require the members of the Alliance to return from all over the world, which will naturally take more time.
When the Shadow dancers return, they will surely launch an operation to destroy Gotham, and we will not know who the killer is. It'll be too much work. It'll be Gotham.
Detonate a few nuclear bombs in the city, send all the gangsters and residents to heaven, and the murder of this member will be avenged naturally, and Lei Xiao Gu's long wish has been fulfilled.
Kill two birds with one stone.
"We're attacking, we can't wait, whatever's in there has to go." Eugene put on his own helmet, clipped the latch, and organized his weapon.
"Sure? We haven't been able to determine where the Romans intended to deal with them." Cindy said this with a smile, but her hands were not slow at all, and she was equally ready for battle.
Eugene just looked at her, looked at the people in the car, and jumped out of the car.
"I can only be sure that the greater danger is getting closer with each passing day."
He's referring to the fact that Amazon and Atlantis are at war again, as well as a possible assassination attempt by Bliss, and they don't have time to wait. They have to save Gordon and find the Bat.