In Gotham's police station, Gordon threw his windbreaker, pushed open the door, and quickly walked into his office. He found that Schiller and Batman were already waiting for him. Gordon said with a headache: "From the rewards of my colleagues, the situation is not optimistic."

He walked to his desk and sat down, saying, "Honestly, your trick is indeed very effective, but the problem is that the loss is too great, Gotham's entire groundwater system was destroyed, and the building foundation was also damaged a lot."

"Of course, we had expected this." Schiller nodded. At this time, Victor walked in with a piece of information, Gordon stood up, poured a cup of hot coffee for the few people.

The others walked to the table and sat down, drinking hot coffee while chatting, and Batman stood alone in the corner of the room.

"The loss is indeed huge, but it has not exceeded our estimates." Victor pointed to the lines on the report and said: "The condensation process from water to ice will cause volume expansion, which we have thought of, so the degree of damage to the drainage system is within our estimates."

"What is it?" Gordon asked after taking a sip of coffee.

"It's all."

Gordon squirted out a sip of water and said, "I know the losses are heavy, but now you tell me that all Gotham's groundwater systems are destroyed?"

Batman's voice came from the side: "In fact, it's more serious than that. Not only underground buildings, but also many buildings on the surface of Gotham are not resistant to low temperatures, and many buildings have cracked, and all need to be rebuilt."

"This loss is too heavy. Did you not consider this before you made this plan?" Gordon asked in confusion: "Our logistics system has finally taken shape, and now we are going to start from scratch again."

"We have expected this, but there is a saying that it is good, no destruction or establishment."

Schiller sighed and said, "Detective Gordon, you should also know that although Gotham has improved a little due to the construction of the logistics system, it is far from enough."

"This place may have some advantages, but there is no absolute advantage. We do not have any fist industry, nor any places that cannot be replaced by other cities."

"What we have to do now is artificially add an advantage to Gotham that no other city in the world can imitate."

"I understand what you mean, but I don't. What does this have to do with the losses caused by frozen Gotham?"

Schiller gave Victor a look and signaled him to explain. Victor said to Gordon: "I think you should also know that the cryogen that can freeze the entire Gotham in an instant cannot be an ordinary ice maker."

"The reason why the cryogen generator can achieve this effect is because its 'ice' is different."

"Ice? What's the difference between ice?"

"Have you heard of 'super ice'?"

Gordon shook his head and said, "You don't need to know its principle either. In short, I'm using a newly developed super ice in the cryogen.

"After contacting the water body, its crystallization speed exceeds 1,000 kilometers per hour, and it can still exist at high temperatures of over 1,000 degrees. If further improved, I think I may be able to freeze all the oceans of the earth in one day."

Hearing this, Gordon took a breath and looked at Victor again. This scholarly professor always seemed gentle, but his words were very powerful as a final villain.

"This is not the kind of small ice we usually add to drinks. It is not inferior to metal in terms of hardness and stability. You can actually understand it as an artificial diamond structure, but it is slightly harder and has the low temperature characteristics of ice."

"So..." Schiller concluded: "The reconstruction problem you are worried about does exist, but it is not a common reconstruction problem, and it also brings an unexpected benefit."

"This ice is really difficult to handle, but again, once we use it, the entire Gotham underground will become a natural giant cold storage."

Then, Schiller revealed to Gordon all the plans for Gotham to rebuild.

The next reconstruction of Gotham City was not to melt all these ice cubes. In fact, this was also difficult. The ice cubes created by Victor, the frozen ice was not ordinary edible ice. This dense ice was extremely hard and required extremely high temperatures to melt. It was more like a solid material than the ice cubes used for taking off and cooling.

This ice cube replaced the rock formations underground in Gotham, which is equivalent to the entire city now sitting on a whole huge dense ice.

Therefore, there is no need to consider melting the ice during reconstruction, but directly open up a path in the ice, transforming the entire Gotham underground into a huge natural cold storage.

This kind of ice cube is difficult to deal with and the construction progress will be very slow, but fortunately, it can be used as you want and constructed in step by step.

For example, if you want to build a cold storage, choose a location, build a house on the ground, and start digging down directly. Dig out a room, and throw the product in and freeze it first, and then slowly dig other rooms.

Although the process will be very slow and the manpower and material resources will be consumed, once completed, a natural cold storage will be owned. Not only will there be almost no maintenance costs, but there is also sufficient space, which can fully meet the storage needs of commodities.

More importantly, Victor's freezing technology has unparalleled preservation ability. In the comics, he freezes Batman into an ice cube many times and then chats with him.

Batman is intact after coming out of the ice. He can also beat the frozen man. In addition to the reason why Batman has its own protagonist aura, Victor's excellent preservation ability of freezing technology is also one of the important reasons.

The technology of Gotham villain genius is so unreasonable, but if used in a serious matter, it is simply a unique and powerful productivity.

When the cost of cold chain storage is minimized in a city, it is impossible not to be a logistics operation center. Producers who want to reduce logistics costs will definitely flock to it.

Gordon showed a thoughtful expression, and then he said, "You mean, we don't repair the sewers, but use these ice layers as natural cold storage?"

"The sewer still needs to be available, but a sewer system can be rebuilt. These dense ice layers that can exist at room temperature will become the killer weapon of Gotham's development."

"This huge underground cold storage will be able to carry the storage of cold chain products on the entire East Coast, and Gotham will become a place that cannot be bypassed by cold chain transportation nationwide."

Gordon looked at Batman, Batman was silent for a while, and then said: "According to my calculations, this is indeed possible. Although there are still many technical problems and reconstruction will take a lot of time, once it is successful, Gotham will become a world-class logistics distribution center."

"It's hard for other cities to replicate this success. Even if they have Victor's freezing technology, it's hard to have an owl court that cooperates like this."

"Their artificial rainfall technology is indeed good. It lasts for a long time and has a lot of rain. It is rare to be able to make enough water for the production of stable ice in a very short time." Schiller commented.

Gordon almost felt that the Owl Court was a little pitiful. He was sold and even helped him count the money.

"Originally, I was a little interested in the artificial rainfall technology in the Owl Court." Schiller continued: "After all, you have seen it, and their technology works well."

"But I thought about it, even if we can get the technology, we will have to spend a lot of money to realize it, and in order to build a natural underground cold storage, Gotham would not be allowed to flood."

"So it's better to have the Owl Court work for us."

"They are doing well now. They launched a flood and created the largest underground cold storage in the world, making outstanding contributions to the future development of Gotham City. I think they can be awarded an outstanding contribution award or something."

"But there is a problem," Gordon said hesitantly: "I'm not going to pour cold water, but you said just now that this kind of ice layer is very difficult to deal with. It is a big project and is probably expensive. And the additional rebuilding of the drainage system also requires money..."

Schiller put his hands on the table, and he suddenly changed the topic and said to Gordon: "Detective Gordon, have you dealt with the kidnapping case?"

"Kidnapping case? I encountered it several times when I was in Chicago, but after coming to Gotham, there were only murders here, and there were no kidnapping cases."

"Even if it is a kidnapping case, the hostages were already dead before the police arrived at the scene, so of course there is no kidnapping."

"It's okay, you just need to know the principle."

"Principle? What do you want to say?"

Schiller took a sip of hot coffee. After the warm current entered his stomach, he sighed with satisfaction and said, "No hurry, let's analyze the current situation first."

"Gotham is in danger of flooding due to the continuous heavy rain for several days. We have carried out a series of emergency measures. Although the losses are huge, it has saved the lives and property safety of countless citizens."

"Now, after our investigation, it was found that this flood was a man-made conspiracy. There was a group of terrorists who used weather disaster weapons against Gotham, and now..."

Schiller dragged a note and continued: "The culprit is being frozen in the huge ice cubes underground in Gotham. Detective Gordon, what do you think is the most important part of the kidnapping case?"

Gordon entered and said, "What is it? Persuading the kidnappers? Protect the hostages?"

"That's for the police, but now, we're kidnappers."

Schiller knocked on the table and said in a stressful tone: "It's a request for ransom."

"Obviously, now that the hostages have been obtained, we can start talking about the money, right?"

Gordon opened his mouth wide, he glanced at Schiller, Batman and Victor, and said, "It turns out that this is your ultimate goal. Use the flood caused by the Owl Court itself to freeze them all underground, and then... ask for ransom????"

Schiller gestured to Victor, who held the stack of information and said, "The location of the cryogen generator is carefully designed to ensure that within the area of ​​Gotham, all rooms and passages connected to the ground will not be missed, and will be filled with hard ice."

“That is, if the trapped person wants to leave the underground of Gotham, there are only two roads.”

"Or, dig down the rock formation, open a tunnel where the cryogenic emitters cannot radiate, and then dig out Gotham City."

"Or, dig upwards and break through the hard ice before you can get out of the ground."

"But in fact, they shouldn't have such skills, right?" Gordon heard Victor's implication.

"I'm not proud." Victor put down the information and said, "But the road to digging up is absolutely impossible. They can't destroy the ice layer I made and dig down..."

Schiller continued: "As far as Gotham City is concerned, it will take at least one year to dig it out."

"After all, these people make a living by conspiracy. When it comes to physical strength, they are probably not as good as the gangsters who often fight on the streets."

"The clutches they raised are killers, not excavators. If you come ten times the number, it is impossible to dig them out with manpower."

"So, we kidnapped the Owl Court?" Gordon showed a strange expression and said, "I thought they were such a difficult organization. Now, I'm completely trapped."

"So..." Gordon paused for a moment, seemingly not adapting to his role, and he said: "We are now kidnappers, are you going to ask them for ransom?"

Schiller shook his head and said, "This is just a metaphor, detective, you have not understood the essence. We are not kidnappers, we are just defending ourselves."

"This group of terrorists named Owl Court, yes, are terrorists."

"They used large-scale weather disaster weapons, threatening the safety of the entire city's people and causing such great losses. We should claim compensation from them legally and reasonably, right?"

Gordon glanced at Batman, and he was still silent and showed no surprises at this statement. Obviously, this is what they had planned long ago, and Batman was also one of the insiders.

"After that being said, detective, how are the losses of the police station?"

"Uh... the police station did not suffer much. This was not a gangster fire. We just helped evacuate the citizens and then adjusted the traffic route of the engineering team..."

"Is that true? But these terrorists are so vicious. Didn't they send killers to attack you?"

Gordon looked at Schiller and asked tentatively: "Well... have they sent it? Oh, indeed, sent it, sent it... two teams of killers?"

"No, no, at least one battalion."

Gordon covered his forehead and said, "This is too exaggerated!"

"They have been operating in Gotham for hundreds of years. If they don't even have such a manpower, how can they be called Gotham's largest and oldest terrorist organization?"

"Okay, but..."

Schiller raised his tone and said in a slight silence: "The heroic soldiers of the Gotham Police Department fought with them all night and built the immortal glory of Gotham with their blood! 3,000 policemen were killed. After a night of bloody battle, more than half of them were killed, and the remaining half were seriously injured. Their greatness is worth remembering..."

"But... the entire Gotham Police Department didn't even have 300 people..." Gordon touched his chest, as if he felt a little sad about his conscience.

"It's okay, Sheriff Gordon, we are victims, we say there are as many as we have."
To be continued...