To Batman, it felt as though everything had suddenly hit the fast-forward button.
No one was waiting for him as usual—to investigate carefully, prepare countless backup plans, then calmly set them all in motion and keep everything firmly under his control.
Clark wrote the article incredibly quickly. In just one night, it had largely taken shape. But he did not publish it through the editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet, because he did not want to drag ordinary people into it.
The recent reports had made him famous, so he now had his own personal page. Though he did not have many followers yet, they were all veteran information spreaders active across every public-opinion platform. Even smaller newspapers could not match their influence.
The moment the article came out, the entire world was in an uproar.
Some might have thought that everyone already knew Gotham was a cesspit, so what unrealistic expectations could they possibly still have? Why would anyone be surprised that something this rotten had happened?
But the ones who were truly shocked to the core were not ordinary people, but the upper class of the entire world.
Ordinary people treated it like entertainment, discussing it with great relish. But after talking and laughing about it for a while, that was all. They came for the blood and violence, and left once their curiosity had been satisfied.
But high society was genuinely stunned.
This raised a question: if the upper class dared to do every kind of vile thing, why would they fear being exposed?
Or rather, they were already so powerful. Why did they need to bow their heads to society's moral standards?
Could they not simply admit it? I am evil. I am cruel. I do not do decent human things.
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