Chapter 1686 Bruce Wayne and the Sorcerer's Stone (I)
After several years of municipal renovation, the flooding of dense ice underground in Gotham has been greatly improved. Most of the high-quality dense ice layers have been transformed into commercial cold storage. A major feature of the building materials of the cold storage is heat preservation, which can ensure that all the cold air is condensed in the cold storage and will not leak out, so the overall temperature drop in Gotham City has improved.
Since Lex Luthor's Gotham Sun Project has made good progress, Gotham can now get two hours of sunshine on average every day, usually once at ten o'clock in the morning and once at three o'clock in the afternoon.
And because the method of letting Gotham bask in the sun is relatively rough, through a large amount of energy to expand the angel halo, the dark clouds gathered over Gotham are temporarily dispersed. This operation is repeated many times, and many dark clouds are squeezed to the outer circle, and the thickness and gathering speed of the clouds are much slower than before.
This results in at least three to four hours of direct sunlight in Gotham every day, and the direct consequence of this is that Gotham begins to have four distinct seasons like Metropolis.
In the past, because it was almost not exposed to direct sunlight and it rained all year round, Gotham was very cold and humid all year round. If you have to make an analogy, it is closer to the climate of the Scottish Highlands.
The first summer after Gotham welcomed the sun again, Gotham ushered in a real midsummer, with the highest temperature breaking the peak in the past 20 years, and the average daily temperature finally reaching the average temperature of the East Coast city in summer.
This is a hardship for the people of Gotham, who are no different from vampires.
The cold mist that lingered on the corners of clothes and hair in the past turned into rising hot steam. Once sweating, they became one of the accomplices of clothes sticking to the skin. The residual heat left by the direct sunlight not only heated up the road surface and walls, but also made everyone seem to be wrapped in a hot cocoon. No matter where they went, they could not escape the terrible heat.
Even the fearless Gotham residents have a hard time with the bitter summer. The remaining air conditioner stocks in the city were sold out overnight, and there was no queue for air conditioner installation. Their homes were too hot, so the Gotham residents used all kinds of tricks. Some went to large supermarkets to get some air conditioning, and some gathered on the ground of large cold storages to feel the few leaked cold storage temperatures.
Some ruthless people dug tunnels under their homes, shared the side of the nearest cold storage, and built a natural summer room for themselves without paying electricity bills. Some people took advantage of their positions to ask the cold storage maintenance staff for a piece of dense ice with a damaged structure to put in the house, so that it would melt and absorb heat to cool themselves down.
But no matter how many ways there are to avoid the heat, most of them require staying in a designated place and not moving. If you go out to the street, it will definitely be very hot. The Gotham residents who have never experienced this kind of climate are like eggplants that have been sunburned. They stay at home on their own and never go out unless necessary.
It is extremely rare that the gangs fighting in Gotham stopped working almost overnight. Everyone went back to their homes and found ways to cool down. After all, it is not a big deal to get shot twice in the street, but if you get heat stroke, the Gotham hospital, which has no experience in dealing with it, may not be able to rescue you.
In such a sunny summer, Gotham was surprisingly quiet, and as the saying goes, when humans leave, the wonders of thousands of species will naturally revive.
Unconsciously, there were faint insect sounds in the steel forest, and the Gotham River began to become more turbulent with the arrival of the flood season. There were also traces of crabs and crustaceans in the mud and sand accumulated at the estuary.
After the adults went back home to escape the heat, the city became a paradise for children. Teenagers never knew the cold or heat. The world was big and the earth was big, and the biggest thing was to have fun. After the gangs stopped working, there was no more work to do, and there was no more gunfire and rain of bullets that could be encountered at any time. Children playing and playing could be seen everywhere on the river beach and in the river.
In addition to the children, the happiest people were the local tourists. For the people of Gotham, this temperature was almost hot to death, but for others, Gotham was still a rare summer resort.
The gangs hid and did not show their heads. Many streets and alleys that were difficult to go to before could now be visited. More importantly, under the coordination of Mayor Roy, the beaches in the prime locations of Gotham began to be opened to tourists one after another.
It was actually difficult for the people of Gotham to understand why someone would go to a certain place specifically to sunbathe, and the beaches in Gotham could not be used for sunbathing before.
Without strong sunlight, going to the beach will only bring more damp and cold sea breeze and not so pleasant smell of the sea. Even the gangster families who control these beaches only regard them as property to guard, and no one will go to the beach to blow the cold wind to suffer.
But in the eyes of outsiders, this is simply a golden coastline like a treasure. In addition to the excellent sand quality of the beach, few people set foot on it, and the original ecological state it brings is also satisfactory enough.
Because Gotham has a river estuary, the shape of the bay is more rugged than that of the metropolis. It is not suitable for swimming and fish farming, but it has spawned another more suitable sport, that is, surfing.
In the eyes of surfing enthusiasts, this bay environment and wind strength are simply the treasure they dream of. The strong sea breeze that is despised and hated by countless Gotham locals and gang leaders also makes many sailing masters more powerful.
On the entire East Coast coastline, most of the beaches in cities that can touch the sea have been developed.
Years of tourism and commercial activities inevitably make the place crowded and chaotic. Most of them are family tour groups with children, each with a swimming ring floating on the sea. The sports space required by these professional sports enthusiasts is getting smaller and smaller, and Gotham is the last piece of pure land on the East Coast that they have discovered in recent years.
Most of the people who dare to travel here are young people. There are almost no tour groups with the elderly and children who come to Gotham to have trouble. The cultural atmosphere in places where young people gather will be more enthusiastic and more tolerant, and various niche cultural enthusiasts will be more easily accepted.
In addition to authentic gangster rap, this place soon won the favor of niche cultural groups such as street graffiti enthusiasts, surfing-level sea extreme sports enthusiasts, sand and beach art enthusiasts, and public space structure creators.
The gangs that were almost melted by the sun withdrew from the streets, and these special niche enthusiasts groups naturally took to the streets. The cultural atmosphere they brought began to gradually influence some local young people, and the probability of talented artists appearing in Gotham was very high. Gradually, the street culture atmosphere in Gotham began to become active.
In addition to the economic growth brought by the gang's logistics industry, cold chain transportation industry and various small stalls controlled by the gang, many people have some spare money in their hands, so they don't have to rush for a living every day. Once people are free, all kinds of weird creations emerge in an endless stream.
In addition to crime, the crazy little heads of Gotham people who were soaked by rain do have some other weird ideas, but they were previously unable to realize them due to the security environment and economic conditions. Now both are satisfied, and Gotham has seen a lot of public space works that shocked the world.
After Clark came to Gotham to shoot Batman, he took a few photos of the weird sculptures made by Gotham people and became popular again. Many art media that pay attention to this aspect began to turn their attention to Gotham.
Gotham became a little popular again, and with the enthusiastic recommendation of many niche art enthusiasts, this fire began to burn more and more vigorously. As the saying goes, where there is a hot spot, there is traffic. Many reporters, enthusiasts and Internet celebrities who are just for the heat have also begun to flock to Gotham under the banner of exploring the weird city.
But this caused another problem, that is, Gotham already had a lot of people, and with the influx of tourists from other places, the traffic and business were all overwhelmed. With the increasing influence of the Internet celebrity effect, Gotham began an unprecedented and extremely terrible traffic jam.
In the past, Gotham's traffic jams were caused by chaotic traffic rules and weak traffic law enforcement, but this time it really couldn't be blamed on the infrastructure and management. It was simply that the number of road traffic completely exceeded the limit that the city's traffic facilities could bear.
Roy hurriedly called everyone to a meeting. The invited guests included professors and teachers of all related majors at Gotham University, even the more outstanding students, relevant practitioners of the Wayne Group, gang leaders, and even magicians who had just arrived in Gotham.
In short, Roy said that no matter who it was, as long as there was a way to solve the problem of Gotham's current paralyzed traffic situation, the Gotham City Government would definitely cooperate with it.
But after much discussion, there was only one conclusion in the end, that is, Gotham's rotten public transportation was fully responsible.
What is the concept of a megacity with a population of nearly 10 million and almost no bus routes? What does it mean that a modern city on the East Coast has only two subway lines? These two lines were built by Europeans.
Let's just say the environment in the Gotham subway station. When the Joker held explosives and asked Batman to choose to go to the boat instead of the subway, which should be densely populated, you can know that this place has reached the point where the Ninja Turtles would carry the train and run away overnight, and the mermaids in the sewer would spit.
Therefore, the focus of Gotham's development has returned to the transportation problem. In order to continue to develop tourism, accept more people, and allow all walks of life in the city to serve tourists more efficiently, the people of Gotham have to unite again and strive to establish efficient public transportation facilities for the city.
But obviously, distant water cannot quench immediate thirst. If such a large city wants to fully innovate the public transportation system, it may take at least ten or eight years.
Tourists kept pouring in, and the gangs also needed logistics and transportation. If this problem was not solved quickly, tourists and gangs would become opponents again, and the win-win situation that everyone had worked so hard to create would return to the starting point again. This was something Roy could never accept.
And if he wanted to solve this problem quickly and easily, he might have to take some extraordinary measures. Roy turned his attention to the magical magic.
Or rather, he mainly turned to the mysterious green power that magicians wanted to use to build the earth's magic defense network.