Even Director Barnes rushed to the explosion site personally.
The explosion occurred at a chemical plant in an industrial area.
This chemical factory belongs to Wayne Enterprises.
When media reporters and officers from the Gotham police station arrived, there was thick smoke billowing from the scene and a lot of wailing.
The explosion not only destroyed the chemical plant, but also caused the chemical reagents in the chemical plant to leak.
Explosions and chemical leaks caused huge casualties.
Seeing this scene in front of him, Director Barnes's brows furrowed into a frown.
Because Jerome has always shown an attitude towards Wayne family, the companies owned by Wayne Enterprises are naturally the focus of the investigation.
However, because the scale of Wayne Enterprises is so large, the police station is short of manpower.
So yesterday he personally called the Wayne Enterprises headquarters and asked them to send someone to investigate his company.
Naturally, this chemical plant is also on the investigation list.
But why are there still explosions happening here and here? Didn't the other party investigate? Or didn't check it carefully?
Although Director Barnes was dissatisfied, he also knew that now was not the time to hold the other party accountable.
Director Barnes looked at the mess at the scene and immediately began to direct his police officers to carry out rescue operations.
While the Gotham police officers were rescuing, the media reporters who rushed to the scene were not idle and started live broadcasting one after another. Even if there were no live broadcasts, they also started to collect eye-catching news materials on the scene with their long guns and short cannons.
Director Barnes is not very cold to these media reporters, but now he can no longer care about these reporters.
Caused by a chemical plant explosion. The casualties were far greater than he imagined, and the leaked chemical reagents were very likely to spread to other places along the underground water system!
As long as they don't cause trouble, thank God!
Barnes is a little confused. He made it very clear to Wayne Enterprises on the phone yesterday that the explosion could happen anywhere in Gotham City tomorrow. Even after careful investigation, the number of people in those dangerous locations has been temporarily reduced.
The worst possible thing is to take a day off!
However, these casualties at the chemical plant site do not look like they are on vacation. They seem to be still producing at full capacity...
And Li Wei naturally watched the whole process.
Regarding Barnes's doubts, Li Wei can only say that he has not fully integrated into Gotham.
Anything that happens in this city Gotham can be speculated with the greatest malice.
Barnes's guess yesterday was actually quite right, and his strategy of notifying Wayne Enterprises to investigate its affiliated companies was also quite right.
Barnes does know a lot about explosions and crime, but he doesn't understand Gotham.
After receiving a call from Barnes yesterday, the executives of Wayne Enterprises naturally notified all their companies.
Naturally, the chemical factory also arranged for people to conduct inspections.
However, the employees responsible for the investigation were taking chances and believed that the other party would not install the bomb in the chemical plant. If they did not have the time to investigate carefully, they might as well go to bed.
So after just walking around in the chemical plant, I ended up hastily.
If it was just like this, that would be it. If the management of Wayne Enterprises took into account possible safety accidents and gave these companies a day off in advance, it would not cause so many casualties.
After receiving reports on "investigation results" from many of its companies, Wayne Enterprises's senior management, after discussion, gave the order to continue production as usual.
For them, the people under their command have already checked it out. Although they cannot completely guarantee that there will be no problems, at least the probability of problems will be smaller.
And it has been carefully calculated by an actuary.
If all these companies stop working and go on holiday, the loss of profits will be huge, even greater than the loss caused by an explosion in one of the companies.
And even if an explosion does occur, it is only an explosion in one of its companies. So the losses caused by the explosion of this company, including casualties, and the profits created by other companies that are still producing at full capacity on this day combined, are enough to make up for these losses!
On the one hand, losses are bound to occur, and on the other hand, losses may occur, but they can be made up for in other ways.
Capital never sleeps.
Human life, like other property, can be represented by a price.
Wayne Enterprises has made their choice.
As for if an explosion really occurred, Wayne Enterprises would naturally have made corresponding plans long ago.
After the explosion, Wayne Enterprises's board of directors quickly sent an executive from the public relations department to the chemical plant site.
Not only was he at the chemical plant site, he also actively led people to carry out rescue operations.
The executive also made a commitment to the injured and injured employees and their families under the cameras of media reporters.
Wayne Enterprises will be responsible for this safety accident to the end. If employees are unfortunately killed in this safety accident, Wayne Enterprises will compensate them a large amount of money.
If you are injured or disabled, there will also be a corresponding compensation policy.
Of course, the compensation promises made by this public relations executive are all within Wayne Enterprises's plan, and all compensation losses can be covered by the profits from full-scale production.
When profits exceed losses, the balance of capital is that simple.
The words of Wayne Enterprises, a public relations executive, not only attracted a lot of attention under the cameras of these media reporters, but also gave Wayne Enterprises a wave of impression points in the hearts of the family members of the injured and injured employees!
Director Barnes, on the other hand, watched coldly from the sidelines as this public relations executive put on a show for the camera.
He now really wanted to go up and grab the other party's collar and ask him - instead of compensating these casualties here, why not stop work and take a day off?
If we had stopped work and had a day off as he said, there would never have been such a huge casualty!
Unfortunately, he is only the chief of the police station, and these security incidents do not fall within his jurisdiction. Moreover, if he is really investigated, the entire Gotham belongs to his jurisdiction. Within his jurisdiction, any bomb attack that occurs for any reason will be deemed as his dereliction of duty.
Barnes Thinking of this, he could only force himself to calm down and look at the Wayne Enterprises executive from the public relations department coldly.
Moreover, he also knew in his heart that the chemical plant was still producing at full capacity, which was not a decision that the public relations executive could make, and venting his anger on him would have no effect.
Soon, with the full support of the Gotham police station and some Wayne Enterprises employees, the rescue activity came to an end.
It's not because the power of chemical plant explosions is too low, but because the power of chemical plant explosions is too high.
If there was still room for survival, most of the casualties ran out of the ruins of the chemical plant on their own.
Even if those people trapped in the ruins were not killed on the spot by the explosion, they were poisoned by chemical reagents leaked due to the explosion, and there was no rescue value at all.
Soon, the number of casualties in the chemical plant explosion was tallied.
Number of injured: 1,379
Death toll: 748
Because the scale of this chemical factory is really large, it naturally recruits a lot of workers, most of whom are from Gotham.
More than 700 people died. Such a huge death should have attracted collective condemnation from the Gotham City people.
However, the death compensation price given by Wayne Enterprises is very high.
A full two hundred thousand dollars!
Don't underestimate two hundred thousand dollars.
For wealthy people, $200,000 may be less than a day's expense.
But for an ordinary family, an annual income of 200,000 US dollars is already higher than 90% of the entire United States families!
This is especially true for these working-class families. Originally working in a chemical factory, after paying taxes, it may take several years to earn 200,000 US dollars, and they may even face the risk of being laid off along the way.
Now that they can get two hundred thousand US dollars in one go without paying taxes, what else do they have to be dissatisfied about?
After all, in the city of Gotham, the average price of a human life is only twenty dollars.
That's right, there is no Wan!
Therefore, instead of collectively condemning Wayne Enterprises, the families of those employees who died were praising Wayne Enterprises's "humanitarian spirit" everywhere...
On the contrary, it is the injured employees and even the families of disabled employees who feel the greatest resentment.
They complained about why their family member was not killed on the spot, but was injured or even disabled...
Wayne Enterprises Although the compensation for them is lower than that of the deceased employees, it is still considerable.
However, unlike those employees who were killed, a larger part of this compensation will be used for the follow-up treatment of the injured. If you lose the ability to work due to disability, this compensation will also be used for subsequent living needs.
There is not much, or even none, available for discretionary spending.
It's simply heartbreaking!
However, Li Wei has long been accustomed to the collapse of people like Gotham.
Is it possible that if it explodes again, there will still be Barbara patricide and patricide to explode the three views?
Now Li Wei's attention has been attracted by the windfall that just arrived.
The death toll of more than 700 people means that at the moment of the explosion, Li Wei's Soul Essence's income was more than 700.
Not only does it cover the consumption of Soul Essence from the purchase of Akali, the Rogue Assassin, but there is also a surplus to cover the consumption of the purchase of Twisted Fate, the Card Master.
For Soul Essence's recently decreasing income, this is simply a huge amount of money!
Just when Li Wei was happy because Soul Essence made money.
On the other side, as the news was broadcast on many media, the entire Gotham City began to denounce Jerome, selectively forgetting the role Wayne Enterprises played in it.
Of course, there are also reasons why Director Barnes did not completely break up with Wayne Enterprises.
The entire Gotham began to denounce Jerome.
No one noticed at all that these media were eating the human blood of the injured and injured employees. Maybe some people noticed, but no one cared.
Moreover, it is not just the media who eat the human blood steamed buns of those injured and injured employees, the next person to eat the human blood steamed buns will soon jump out.
It is the billionaire businessman and one of the investors of Gotham Reconstruction Plan - Theodore·Galvin.
"I, Theodore·Galvin, hereby severely condemn the murderer of this bombing - Jerome, and challenge him. Harming Gotham City people is not a skill. If you have the ability, come to me! I swear by Galavan family that I will never compromise with terrorists like you who disrupt social order..."
On TV, Galvin is giving a passionate speech.
Finally, he did not forget to brush up his image points.
"I express my deep sympathy to those Wayne Enterprises employees who were injured or killed in this explosion, and I plan to hold a charity party five days later in the evening. I will raise donations from the injured in the explosion. All proceeds from this charity party will be used to help the injured in the explosion and their families..."
It must be said that Galvin has a very keen political sense, or in other words, his plan is very complete..
The timing of his appearance in the news was very appropriate. Not only did he express his opposition to Jerome, but it also came out at a time when the families of the injured were worried about their future livelihoods. He stood up and said that he would hold a charity party for this purpose.
In an instant, the name Theodore·Galvin was firmly imprinted in the minds of Gotham City people.
Just this speech gave him a lot of support.
Even now, Gallovan has been announced that he will participate in the election for the next mayor of Gotham, and there has been a lot of public outcry.
However, there is no shortage of sober people among Gotham City people.
They also have a doubt in their minds, why is the timing of Galvin's speech so perfect this time? Is he related to this explosion, or is it part of a show?
But how could Galvin leave such obvious flaws?
What was broadcast next on the news perfectly covered up the doubts about Galvin's actions.
"Just now, Mr. Sileven Galvin received an anonymous email from Jerome. In the email, Jerome left such a sentence. Not only did he leave the answer to the riddle, but he also issued a death threat to Mr. Theodore·Galvin..."
Immediately afterwards, a note appeared on the news screen on the TV.
The fonts on the note were printed by a printer and cannot be discerned from the handwriting.
There is this sentence above.
"What the Waynes and coffee have in common is that they both get cold, and so do you, Mr. Galvin."
The threat is self-evident.
In an instant, the only suspicious point in Galvin's behavior was covered up, and everything seemed very reasonable.
It turned out to be a death threat.
No wonder Mr. Galvin would stand up and challenge Jerome...