It was indeed Gotham Beast carrying out a massacre against these members of the Maroni Family.
More precisely, Gotham Beast and two other people Gordon and Harvey had never seen before were slaughtering the Maroni Family.
One was short, like a ten-year-old child, but when they looked at his face, it was obviously an adult's face—disturbingly bizarre!
He kept throwing all kinds of bombs from his hands. Every bomb tossed into the crowd was followed by cries of agony...
Perhaps these Gotham gangsters, infamous throughout the city, were wishing for their mothers for the first time since adulthood.
The other was bald, carrying a transparent canister made of some unknown material on his back. The green liquid inside continuously vaporized from the top of the canister into green gas and floated out.
As for why the transparent canister was said to be made of an unknown material...
It was obvious from the fact that bullets struck it without leaving so much as a scratch. This thing had to be tougher than bulletproof glass.
The green gas floating out of the canister began to descend and spread across the ground along with the bald man. Black marks appeared on the concrete, rapidly corroding at a visible rate.
And Gotham Beast was something of an old acquaintance to Gordon and Harvey.
Though this was Gordon and Harvey's first time seeing him in person...
Gotham Beast's savage method of killing made Harvey instinctively shrink his neck.
Not because he was scared. It was just genuinely a little chilly.
This guy's way of killing was truly brutal! He just tore people's heads off with his bare hands!
There were no wrong names, only wrong nicknames!
The Maroni gangsters who had just beaten Gordon and Harvey so badly they did not dare show their heads were now surrounded by the three of them. They were not entirely incapable of fighting back, but they could only wait for death.
The bombs in Ian's hands reaped the lives of Maroni Family members like Grim Reapers delivering death.
Of the three, only he was making his first move since obtaining a Hero Template.
Yet he caused the greatest number of casualties.
Although these gangsters wielded all sorts of heavy weapons, their bodies were still flesh and blood.
Before the various bombs Ian threw, they were utterly helpless, not even as tough as a minion in Summoner's Rift!
They shattered at a touch!
That was not a figure of speech. It was a statement of fact.
The moment they touched a bomb, severed limbs and torn flesh flew everywhere!
Yet faced with such a scene, Ian's eyes only grew brighter!
He now understood something from Jigs's memories—bigger bombs were better, and more fuses were better!
"Come on, let's blow things up!" Ian's eyes gradually turned feverish, and the frequency with which he threw bombs increased. "Art is an explosion!"
Fear rapidly spread among the gang members.
They tried to fight back, using their various heavy weapons to attack the little guy in the distance who was throwing bombs everywhere.
But unfortunately, they could not do it.
Setting aside why that little guy could throw bombs at his own feet and use the blast force to rapidly move without suffering even a scratch...
They could not even get past the savage Gotham Beast and the bald man spreading poison gas through the crowd.
Almost all the bullets were blocked by those two.
Warwick went without saying. As long as there was blood, he could keep recovering from his injuries.
Heavy weapons? What was heavy about them? They were light.
And although Dr. Hugo did not have Warwick's hidden "blood-sucking" ability, one should not forget that he had developed the blood-sucking potions!
Rage Potion: Increased attack power and bloodlust for 30 minutes.
Bloodlust: When dealing damage to a target, converted 15% of the actual damage dealt into the user's health.
After downing a bottle of potion, Dr. Hugo's injuries also began visibly healing.
Despair. These gang members, who had once made others despair, did not know what else they could do besides despair!
Under the assault of the three, the demoralized Maroni gangsters were steadily wiped out at a visible rate.
Soon, not a single Maroni Family member on the entire street remained intact.
They had either been torn to pieces by Warwick, blown apart by bombs, or blackened all over and shriveled into unrecognizable lumps.
Now, aside from Warwick, Ian, and Dr. Hugo, only Gordon and Harvey remained on the street, standing behind the wall.
"Gulp..."
Gordon and Harvey looked at the battlefield of blood and flesh covering the ground, and both involuntarily swallowed.
Viewing a scene like this afterward and witnessing it firsthand were entirely different things.
By now, it was clearly too late for them to hide behind the wall again.
Because Gotham Beast had already fixed his crimson eyes on them, while the other two also turned their gazes in their direction...
Casualties Weren't Too Severe
Gordon and Harvey noticed the three monsters looking at them, and both instinctively swallowed.
That was right. To them, those were monsters.
The crystallization of humanity's military wisdom was completely ineffective against them.
With strength that could not be explained by science at all, along with their bizarre appearances, Gordon could not possibly associate them with normal people.
"Hey, good evening." Harvey gave an awkward laugh, breaking the silence, but his hand tightened around his pistol again, his finger returning to the trigger.
Gordon said nothing, but every muscle in his body tensed as well, and his hand moved to his weapon.
It was not that the two were excessively wary. They had just witnessed a massacre firsthand. They stood no chance at all!
The two of them could not even beat the Maroni Family members who had been slaughtered, much less the three people capable of slaughtering the Maroni Family.
Gordon's mood was even heavier than Harvey's.
He had never seen or heard of the little guy throwing bombs everywhere or the bald man releasing poison gas.
But he knew Gotham Beast!
He could even be certain that Gotham Beast came from Arkham Asylum, though he had no proof...
From that, he concluded that the little guy and the bald man who had suddenly appeared must also have come from Arkham Asylum!
Considering how often he caused trouble for Arkham Asylum, those three monsters from Arkham Asylum would definitely not let him go.
Perhaps...
Gordon's heart sank.
These three monsters might have come specifically for him!
After all, he had visited Arkham Asylum not long ago.
The Maroni Family had merely been unlucky enough to appear in their path.
With that thought, Gordon's finger resting on the trigger twitched slightly.
Perhaps... striking first was his only chance to win even a sliver of survival?
But the three people opposite Gordon were having an entirely different conversation.
"Dr. Hugo," Warwick asked quietly, in a voice only the three of them could hear, "are those two over there Gordon and Harvey? What a coincidence. They're here too. Should we take them out as well?"
Ian did not say anything, but he looked at Dr. Hugo with anticipation.
Clearly, those unlucky Maroni Family members had not satisfied him. He had not blown things up enough yet!
Dr. Hugo silently rolled his eyes at his two colleagues who feared the world was not chaotic enough.
"Don't forget, the director told us not to cause too many casualties. We only need to make a big enough commotion. We can't kill everyone we see. Besides..." Dr. Hugo paused and gave a mocking laugh. "I'm guessing the director definitely won't agree to you killing those two. Otherwise, given how often they come knocking to cause trouble, they probably would have died in that alley long ago."
Dr. Hugo was the first to personally experience Khada Jhin's abilities.
Naturally, he understood Li Wei's strength even better.
If Li Wei had not intended it, it was difficult to explain why those two ordinary police officers were still alive.
"Mm, Dr. Hugo, you're the smart one. You're right, so we'll listen to you." Warwick shrugged, ignored Ian's disappointed expression, and settled on their final course of action...
Unless Li Wei gave orders—Li Wei's orders always came first.
He himself did not particularly want to kill Gordon and Harvey either, even though it was those two officers who had gone up to the hotel rooftop, prompting him to jump from the building.
Gotham was just that magical and incomprehensible.
After the three reached an agreement, they directly ignored Gordon and Harvey, turned around, and left in another direction.
Gordon and Harvey: ????
The two of us are still standing right here!
Ignoring us like this is really awkward, okay!
Gordon watched the three leave. His hand loosened from the pistol's trigger, then returned to it, then loosened again...
After repeating this several times, Gordon still did not raise his gun.
Although his sense of duty and justice made him desperately want to do so, and he was not afraid of death.
He had to consider his partner Harvey beside him. He had been the one who insisted on dragging Harvey out tonight to stop crime...
Gordon's expression was extraordinarily complicated. His face changed so quickly that no one could have guessed what he was thinking.
Only after the three figures had completely vanished into the distant darkness.
"Hoo..." Gordon finally let out a quiet breath, his eyes somewhat lost as he looked at his partner. "Harvey, what do you think they came here for? Could they have come to save us?"
Harvey turned to look at Gordon and spread his hands.
"Maybe. That explanation makes sense too. Otherwise, it's hard to explain why they let us go."
Although they did not know how the others had known they were here, no one would doubt those monsters' abilities.
"But I caused trouble for Arkham Asylum not long ago..." Gordon's eyes became even more confused. "Shouldn't we be enemies? Yet they did what our police department should have done, and they even saved us."
Compared to Gordon's confusion, Harvey was much more at ease.
"I don't know either, but at least we survived." Harvey patted Gordon on the shoulder. "Buddy, you can think through questions you don't understand slowly, but I think we should leave first. Gotham isn't peaceful tonight. The war has fully begun..."
Harvey's words snapped Gordon awake. He temporarily buried the matter of Arkham Asylum in his heart, straightened his clothes, and the two quickly left the scene.
No matter what, they needed to return to the police station and replenish their ammunition first.
Meanwhile, Warwick, Ian, and Dr. Hugo finally found their next target through Warwick's keen sense of smell.
Two gangs locked in battle.
Maroni and the Falcone Family, with one squad on each side.
Because the Maroni Family had seized the initiative, they held a complete advantage. The Falcone Family members had been forced into a restaurant and could only use its cover to exchange fire with the Maroni Family.
But clearly, under the Maroni Family's firepower, which was several times greater than the Falcone Family's, the people inside the restaurant would not hold out for long. Their elimination was only a matter of time.
"Awwooo..."
When the werewolf figure appeared on the battlefield alongside a desolate howl, both sides were filled with despair...
Gotham Beast.
Whether the rumors in the underworld about Arkham Asylum and Gotham Beast were true or not.
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