Starting with Naruto, I'll become stronger through my own efforts.

Chapter 383 Xia Zuo: Batman, look, this is what it means to be law-abiding criminals.

Shazabby's plan took a little longer, but he still managed to blend into the traffic before school let out and escape the police.

Okay, that doesn't mean he's great, it just means Gotham's police are useless.

How many schools are there in Gotham City? How many school buses are there in total?

Is it really that difficult to deploy police and roadblocks to stop and inspect school buses that are completely empty of children?

Unless it is absolutely certain or there is no risk involved, the Gotham City police will not act, and even forcibly issuing orders will not work.

This is not a problem with the police, but a problem with the city government.

They only make a few hundred dollars a month. If they get hurt, they suffer the consequences. If they die, it's all over. Their families can only cry. How can they expect such unprotected police officers to take responsibility?

However, the municipal government couldn't really do anything. It had no money, no manpower, and couldn't change policies. The mayor, the leader of the municipal government, was powerless.

The mayor only serves a four-year term, with the council above him and hereditary officials below him. What can he possibly do?

Ultimately, it's because Gotham City is no longer a normal city, but rather an appendage of the Wayne family's business empire.

The Wayne family group already controls more than 90% of the city's wealth, yet it continues to operate like a trust group, refusing to shoulder its due social responsibility. How can this city not descend into chaos?

This is similar to some small resource-based cities. Although there may be injustices, the order is never so chaotic because resource-based enterprises, after taking all the profits, also assume their due social responsibilities.

Since the root of the problem lies with Wayne Enterprises, it's quite obvious who the enemy is.

Bruce Wayne?

No, no, no, he doesn't deserve it.

Bruce Wayne is just a person, a puppet put forward by the Wayne Group, a stupid capitalist who doesn't understand "Das Kapital" and therefore doesn't understand his own position at all.

It's not that he's completely useless.

If Bruce Wayne, as the flag bearer of the Wayne Enterprises, were truly wicked, Gotham would become an evil empire under the guise of order.

If he were truly a good person, he would have died inexplicably somewhere, just like his parents.

Just like those presidents with wildly imaginative ideas.

Therefore, the enemy is the Wayne Group.

The Wayne Enterprises is a corporate entity like a divine abomination, with President Bruce Wayne being its flower, the gangsters being a disguise nurtured on its surface by peripheral interests, and supervillains being the greatest evil resulting from all this evil.

Because the negative consequences did indeed harm Wayne Enterprises' interests, Batman was created as one of its weapons to take down supervillains who went too far.

This created an unbreakable outer perimeter, protecting the Wayne Group's core operations completely.

Therefore, the first step in striking at Wayne Enterprises is to destroy this vicious cycle, strip away its outer layer, and expose Wayne Enterprises to the blade and to the public eye.

Xia Zuo, driving the school bus, suddenly burst into hearty laughter: "Haha, I know who to kill! Kill them all, kill them all and bring order to the world!"

Suddenly possessing such great power is like an ordinary person suddenly getting a gun; they really can't help but want to test its edge.

Now that he had found a worthy opponent to test his sword skills, Xia Zuo naturally felt great. Finding a clear enemy was so exhilarating that it made him even more excited.

However, the first thing to do now is to hide the money, and then buy houses, acquire properties, and build various equipment and peripheral organizations.

You can't exactly go shirtless.

Not only would they lack intelligence sources, but they would also be easily vilified as enemies of humanity, ending up like a superhuman.

Therefore, Xia Zuo still needs time to prepare.

The bank robber escaped; this is commonplace in Gotham, and nobody thought it was a problem.

Bank robbers killing each other is commonplace, and nobody seems to see anything wrong with it.

It's quite common for bank lobby managers to get knocked out; after all, their jobs are always on the line, and it's not uncommon for them to slip up occasionally.

However, today's situation is different because one of the dead robbers is suspected to be the Joker.

The real clown.

According to eyewitnesses, the guy who painted himself up with clown makeup and wore a clown mask did indeed look very much like a clown.

His behavior was insane, his logic was chaotic, and his methods were cruel. He killed as casually as breathing, and when he was killed, he showed no fear, but rather an unusual excitement.

Aside from the Joker, no one else would be this crazy.

Moreover, the monster who killed him was an extremely powerful superhuman, completely immune to close-range light weapon attacks and grenade explosions.

-

This monster had been lurking in the Joker's gang for a year. Underneath the Joker's mask was a monkey mask, and he even spoke in a mad way. He was a madman no less than the Joker.

The police dragged their feet on inspecting the scene, collecting all the bodies, and casually dumping most of them at the funeral home. Only the body suspected to be the clown was taken to the police station and stored in the morgue to await autopsy.

As darkness fell, the police went home after get off work, leaving behind only ineffective yellow tape to protect the scene.

As a result, all sorts of people entered the bank one after another.

The first to arrive were homeless people, who came to see if they could get their hands on anything useful or valuable.

Then came the gangsters employed by the bank. They chased away the homeless man, and with an attitude ten times more serious and skills a hundred times more professional than the police, they re-examined the scene, found many useful clues, and then left.

Then Batman appeared, used even more high-tech methods to re-examine the scene, and then left silently.

Finally, the homeless people who had been driven away returned and searched the place thoroughly, leaving not even the yellow tape at the door.

Inside the police station office, Officer James Gordon reviewed all the intelligence, including surveillance video, eyewitness testimonies, and the lobby manager's statement, and his brow furrowed.

He gently pressed his head with his hand, softly reassuring himself, "Gordon, don't be nervous. A madman killing a madman is better than one madman living."

Just then, a deep, husky voice rang out: "Officer, may I see the report you have?"

"Shift!" Gordon took a deep breath. "Another lunatic!"

But he still handed the information to Batman; after all, they had gone through life-and-death situations together several times and had established a basic level of trust.

Batman quickly scanned the report using the equipment, then established contact with the Batcave's supercomputer and rapidly performed data analysis.

After a moment, he said in a low voice, "This is a madman who is more dangerous than the Joker. I will find him, capture him, and lock him up in Arkham."

Gordon waved dismissively: "Okay, all the best."

"Thank you." Batman waved his cape, jumped out of the sixth-floor window he had come in through, and disappeared into the deep night sky.

Batman has access to all of Gotham's surveillance cameras, including but not limited to police-held traffic cameras, private residential security cameras, and industrial and mining security cameras. Using images from a supercomputer, he quickly located the yellow school bus with its rear end damaged in the crash and, following its trajectory, found an abandoned factory.

In Gotham, factories built in the 80s and abandoned in the 90s are everywhere, becoming ideal hiding places for criminal activities.

Unfortunately, the factory's warehouse contained only school buses, no criminals, and no money.

Just as Batman was carefully inspecting the school bus and searching for clues, Shazor returned in a black SUV.

Xia Zuo parked the car at the warehouse entrance, opened the door, dragged a mangled body from the back seat, and continued dragging it toward the warehouse, leaving a shocking, wide trail of blood.

Upon seeing the tall and muscular Batman, Shaza greeted him without any surprise: "Good evening, Batman."

Batman looked at the man who was barely alive and asked, "Who is he?"

Shazo grabbed the man's hair, lifted his head, and showed Batman his blood-smeared face, boasting with no small amount of pride, "Alberto Falcone, a very vicious guy."

Batman's pupils constricted sharply: "Alberto Falcone? Carmine Falcone's son?"

"You actually targeted the Falcone family?"

"No, you're wrong," Shazor corrected Batman. "It wasn't me who attacked the Falcone family; it was him who shot at me while I was driving without any reason. I had no choice but to retaliate in self-defense. It was legitimate self-defense!"

Batman: "————"

"You're a superhuman, and his shooting at you wouldn't have hurt you. How could you have hit him so hard?"

"Ouch! You hypocritical bastard!" Xia Zuo cursed without any restraint. "Even before they hit you, you still broke their bones. How dare you accuse me of perfectly legitimate self-defense, which is completely in accordance with the law against backing down?"

"You lawless and criminal bastard, how dare you stand on a moral high ground and criticize me, a person who is just legally defending my own rights, as if I were a moral saint?"

"Is there still law? Is there still justice? Is there still humanity?"

Batman: "————"

He remained silent for a long time before finally speaking: "You killed the Joker."

Xia Zuo immediately retorted, "He's a serial killer, currently robbing a bank, and he also attempted to murder me!"

Batman, his chest aching from the impact, couldn't help but snap, "You're a bank robber too!"

Shazzo threw Alberto Falcone to the ground and reached out to Batman: "Do you have any proof that I robbed you?"

Batman was furious: "You admitted yourself that you killed the Joker—"

Xia Zuo: "That was a statement you induced. A one-sided statement cannot be used as reliable evidence and will not be accepted by the court."

He grinned and added, "This is a bill that the late Mr. Wayne proposed and pushed through in Parliament. Such a law can protect you from being convicted, and of course it can also protect me from being convicted."

Batman: "————"

Xia Zuo waved his hand dismissively and said, "Let's go, I need to deal with Alberto Falcone properly."

Batman's eyes narrowed: "You're going to kill him?"

Xia Zuo chuckled: "Yeah, he shot me with a gun, so I punched him back. That makes perfect sense, right?"

Batman: "He's already incapacitated. This is murder!"

Xia Zuo continued to laugh: "You mean, only he can kill me, and I can't resist?"

Batman: "I don't reason with a lunatic like you."

Xia Zuo happily stuck out his tongue: "Hehehe, you can't provide any evidence with the law, you can't explain the fairness of the reasoning, and you even dare to label me as crazy? Isn't that just being a scoundrel!"

"As expected of Batman, invincible!!"

Batman: "————"

After a long silence, he spoke again: "I'll be watching you. If you kill someone, I'll arrest you!"

"You're arresting me?" Xia Zuo retorted. "What right do you have to arrest me? Do you have law enforcement authority?"

Batman: "I'll hand you over to the police."

Xia Zuo asked curiously, "What use is it to hand me over to the police?"

"If I can make the body disappear, according to the law there is no murder case. How can I be accused of murder if there is no murder case?"

"You! You, you—" Batman stammered for a long time, but couldn't utter a single word.

He was willing to bear the guilt in order to save Gotham, determined to uphold fairness and justice through criminal means.

Therefore, the law is his bottom line. In the name of the law, he beats up all kinds of criminals, murderers, and gangsters and then hands them over to the police.

In order to uphold the law, he gritted his teeth and accepted the verdict of not guilty even when the court found him not guilty.

But Batman never expected that he would encounter a freak like Shazo.

His actions were all illegal, yet he never stopped talking about the law. His methods were extremely crude, yet he precisely skirted the edge of the law, leaving no evidence. He could commit crimes right in front of him, but he couldn't get a chance to strike.

But Batman is no ordinary man; he is a man of unwavering and steadfast will!

If I think you're wrong, then you're wrong. Even if everything you do is in accordance with the law, it doesn't stop me from beating you up and then handing you over to the police!

Batman has caught criminals before, but they were released in court due to insufficient evidence.

Therefore, determining whether you have committed a crime is the court's business, while beating and arresting you is Batman's business; the two are unrelated.

After figuring things out, Batman pulled out a stun batarang from his waist and threw it at Shazzo's neck, intending to save Alberto Falcone, the serial killer.

However, the batarang did not hit Shazo, but stopped half a meter away from his body, so it failed to stop Shazo from punching Alberto in the head.

Xia Zuo's punch didn't look heavy, fast, or even fierce.

But when the fist landed on Alberto's mangled head, it pierced through the skull with unstoppable force, and the next moment the entire body exploded, turning into a bloody mess.

Xia Zuo clicked his tongue and complained, "Tsk, it's all your fault. If you hadn't interfered, I wouldn't have accidentally killed him."

Batman:

—