Joining a gang might have been the only means of resistance available to Gotham's people, but the ultimate property owners at the top always remained beyond the range of guns and bullets. Ordinary people were always the ones caught in the line of fire.
Convenience store clerks, mall security guards, armored truck guards-forced by the need to make a living to side with the ultimate property owners, they were ultimately pushed onto the front lines of the war, reduced to living targets for their fellow citizens, casualties of infighting.
Qin Wei had thought he was the first rebel to effectively organize people and threaten the ultimate property owners' interests, but someone else had accomplished it before him.
His sworn enemy, the former leader of the Red Hood Gang, Joseph Cole.
The Bat and the Joker were opposite sides of the same coin, but before they were driven mad, they had once walked the same road.
Robinson Park lay submerged in darkness in the early hours. Fierce, cold wind sliced across Qin Wei's face, shaking the withered, yellowed tree trunks with a rustling sound.
Flashlight in hand, Qin Wei trudged unevenly through the snow and reached the statue of the Wayne brothers.
The brothers Joshua Wayne and Solomon Wayne enjoyed tremendous prestige in Gotham. The former, an abolitionist, had served as the Union Army's inside man in the South, secretly sending nearly fifty thousand enslaved Black people north through Gotham City's Underground Railroad.
After gaining their freedom in the North, many of these former slaves had joined the army, hastening the end of the war.
The latter had been Gotham City's renowned Federal Judge. Before the Court of Owls' minions spread throughout the city, he had brought Gotham a brief period of justice.
But the statues stood here primarily to commemorate