bookbashuk Chapter 2328 Gotham Music Chapter (67)
Chapter 2328 Gotham Music Chapter (67)
Chapter 2328 Gotham Music Festival (Sixty-Seven)
Batbe spent the entire night reading the emails from Schiller.
In fact, the content of the email was not long. There was no long and difficult-to-understand article, but it was attached with some design drawings and mind maps. Each part of the information on these drawings contained a huge amount of information, which led Beibat to create a document himself and write a lot of things.
The sky had just brightened. This usually gloomy city could only see some sunlight at sunrise and sunset. The fourth cup of coffee on the table was slightly cold. The handsome young man finally raised his head, stretched, and yawned.
Ding-ling-ling, the cell phone that was thrown aside rang. Batman picked it up and said sleepily, "Hello, this is Bruce Wayne."
"Bruce, are you free now?" The voice of Rachel, the good friend of Batman, came from the other side, revealing obvious fatigue. There seemed to be another person in the background, but it was unclear what he was saying.
"I just finished my work. If you need anything, please come to my office. You know the password."
Less than 20 minutes later, there was a knock on the door. Bat put the plan he had just organized aside, walked over to open the door, and Rachel's tired face appeared outside the door.
What was surprising was that Harvey was following behind her. Batman obviously didn't expect Harvey to come. He smiled and hugged Harvey and said, "How did our busy lawyer have time to come here at this time?"
"I called him here." Rachel's voice was a little hoarse. She said, "My desk is full of information from the victims' families regarding the bank robbery on Central Street."
"The dead? I heard that except for the two tellers, weren't all the dead robbers? It seemed like they had an internal conflict..." Bei Bat closed the door with some confusion.
"That's exactly the problem." Rachel sighed deeply and said, "It's a human rights issue. In this country, even criminals should have their lives protected before they receive a fair trial."
"Usually we turn a blind eye to such things, and the families of the deceased will not make a big fuss about it, but this time it's different. Someone is behind this."
"For what?" asked Beibat.
"To cover up other illegal and criminal acts." Rachel walked over, put a folder on the table and said, "We were fully preparing to prosecute Ferconni and had collected a lot of evidence of his large-scale drug transactions. Suddenly, this case popped up. Who do you think did it?"
"But the family members should also go to the police station to protest. Why go to the District Attorney's Office? You are the litigation department, not the law enforcement department. You will only be able to work after the murderer is caught."
"Don't you know?" Rachel looked at Bei Bat with some doubt and said, "The murderer has been caught."
Bei Bat was stunned. He had indeed just returned and had not watched the news, but previous reports had said that the murderer was the leader of a large criminal organization. How could he be caught so easily?
At this time, Harvey stepped forward to explain the situation. He said, "The previous information was wrong. This guy actually has no organization at all. He just gathered a group of rabble and led them to rob a bank. He told these people that the fewer people who survived, the more money they would get. This led to their infighting and he escaped."
"But this guy is not very smart. Because the case had such a big impact, the police station mobilized all their forces and quickly caught him inside the abandoned factory."
Bei Bat frowned. He felt that things were not that simple. He looked at Harvey and said, "Who is the murderer?"
"He calls himself the Joker."
Bei Bat's heart skipped a beat.
"He's a lunatic." Rachel said angrily, "He used chemicals to stain his face and cut the corners of his mouth. He just laughs like crazy no matter what we ask. We're all so headache-stricken."
Bat felt something. He looked at Rachel and said, "There's no way to convict him, right? Because he's a mental patient."
Rachel was a little surprised and said, "How do you know? This is the source of the pressure we are facing. Some people are encouraging the families of the victims of the Central Street bank robbery to protest, saying that they cannot easily conclude that this guy is a mental patient and demand that he be held responsible for all the deaths in the bank robbery."
"But you will definitely conclude that he is a mental patient." Bei Bat said, "Because the few psychiatrists we have who are qualified to make assessments have all been bribed."
Rachel and Harvey didn't look very happy. Batman made it too clear, and in fact, the three of them knew who bribed the psychiatrist.
"This will cause the reputation of the District Attorney's Office to fall further." Rachel dropped her arms and said, "This is what Facconi wants to do. He wants us to completely lose our credibility so that no one will believe us no matter what we say."
"When the day comes that we sue him, he can use this trick to get away with it. If we want to investigate, he can use public opinion to fight back, and then we will be the ones who falsely accuse a good person."
Bei Bat also lamented that people without moral bottom line would use all kinds of methods to do bad things and would use all means to attack their opponents. On the contrary, those of them who follow justice are always bound by the rules.
Even though we know that the results of the mental examination are incorrect and unfair, and are completely a weapon used by criminals to escape punishment, we still have no choice but to follow the procedure and watch the criminals escape.
What Beibat felt now was not anger, but powerlessness. His emotional receptors sounded the alarm at this moment. If he continued like this, one day he would become numb to it, and then this city would be completely hopeless.
He had to do something, regardless of whether it was beneficial to his long-term goals, he had to make some progress to vent his long-standing resentment and grievances, so that he would have the motivation to keep going.
Bei Bat turned around and saw the plan he had placed on the other side of his desk. He then looked at the helpless and angry expressions of his two friends. Bei Bat sighed softly in his heart and made a decision in his mind.
"I'm planning to buy Arkham Asylum."
Rachel and Harvey, who were talking, turned their heads and looked at Batman. Batman lowered his eyes and said, "This asylum is too old. It can't meet the needs of Gotham residents for treating mental illness. I plan to transform it into a modern psychiatric hospital like Wayne Hospital. It may take some time to prepare."
"What?" Rachel asked in disbelief, "What are you going to do? Buy Arkham Asylum, are you crazy?"
"It's just a business investment." Batman was not shaken at all. He said, "You should understand that my financial situation is not as good as many people think. Especially my personal financial situation needs some improvement. I think this is a good investment."
"Are you serious?" Harvey came over and said, "You know that place is more than just a lunatic asylum."
"Yes, but I will turn it into the best mental hospital." Bei Bat took a deep breath, recalled the design in his mind and said: "Advanced, safe, and effective."
With a click, the camera closest to Batboy recorded his resolute face. His voice came out clearly and firmly from the microphone until it was broadcast on countless screens and reached people's ears.
All major media outlets rushed to report on it. After all, Wayne Group’s business strategy and future plans are closely related to the people’s livelihood in this city and even the entire East Coast.
No one knows where the young heir to the Wayne family will lead this huge company, but in his first press conference, he emphasized that the Wayne Group will re-invest in charity, especially increase investment in research and development in the pharmaceutical field, and improve people's livelihood and medical strategies.
Most people are not optimistic about this. Although Wayne Group's business covers all aspects, it has little reputation in the medical field.
Wayne Group’s hospital is indeed good, but that has nothing to do with ordinary people. Even ordinary middle-class families cannot afford the medical insurance covering Wayne Hospital. It is a paradise for the rich.
But some people also believe that this is a signal that the Wayne Group intends to open a private hospital for the general public, but they still have doubts about whether this investment direction can bring enough benefits to the group, and shareholders are no exception.
The shareholders' meeting lasted a rare seven hours, and most of the time was spent discussing whether the new direction that Bruce Wayne brought to the group could stabilize profits and even achieve development.
Standing at the front of the shareholders' meeting, Bei Bat said to everyone: "I am very aware that you have doubts about the company's development strategy I have formulated. I understand this very well. This is a new attempt for us."
"But I am not planning to suddenly change direction without any preparation. In fact, the initial investment will be funded by me personally to test the market trend. If the model does not work, I will stop the loss in time and will never send my parents' hard work into the abyss."
The arguments below became a little quieter, with more people speculating why this young Wayne chose to go down this path even if it meant using private investment to explore the way forward. Did he really see some business opportunities that ordinary people couldn't see?
Regardless, Batman still stuck to his strategy, and after drawing out almost all of the liquid funds he could mobilize from his personal assets, the road to acquiring Arkham Asylum was smooth.
On the one hand, Wayne does not have such assets and does not need to be investigated by antitrust agencies. On the other hand, some shareholders who support Wayne also made efforts to do some dirty work that Wayne was unwilling to do and opened up many connections.
After a night of cold rain, Arkham Asylum began a vigorous transformation, including building renovation, defense installation, and staff replacement. This old asylum that has gone through many ups and downs with Gotham finally and inevitably embarked on the road of modernization.
Bei Bat raised the hand that was signing the purchase agreement, his eyes fell on his signature, the cursive English words slowly twisted, and the other hand raised the pen. The doctor in a white coat pushed the document in his hand away and said.
"The appraisal reports are all here. There is no doubt that Mr. Ficonnie and this... uh, Mr. Jock, both suffer from mental illness. They are both mentally ill patients. During the illness, they cannot control their actions, which leads to aggressive behavior."
The psychiatrist pushed up his glasses, crossed his arms and said, "I'm sorry that the accident happened, but if I may, I'd like to talk about the scope of our medical system and people's understanding of psychology and psychiatry."
Rachel took a deep breath and said, "Thank you, doctor. I'm leaving now."
The doctor smiled and nodded at her. The moment Rachel turned around, her eyes turned cold. She tightly grasped the appraisal report in her hand, almost to the point of destroying the official document.
But God knows how much anger she suppressed to prevent her from actually destroying the official documents. She knew this would be the result. When Rachel walked into the elevator, she closed her eyes tightly.
The last few lines of the appraisal report she was holding said, "Patients with hallucinations and confusion symptoms caused by sudden mental illness are often aggressive and uncontrollably aggressive. The treatment recommendation is hospitalization."
(End of this chapter)