100: Exploring the bat's nest again (detailed outline sorted out; 6K daily updates resume tomorrow)

The rioting crowd surged forward through the gunfire and quickly overwhelmed the entire GCPD force. Trampling the dirty cops' bodies, they squeezed through Wayne Tower's main entrance like a raging zombie horde pouring into a survivors' fortress. Soon, the riot spread through the entire building from the bottom up like a plague.

A window on the tenth floor shattered with a bang, and an office chair flew out amid the falling shards of glass.

Before long, a violent explosion erupted on the fifteenth floor. The glass curtain wall shattered in all directions amid the screams of the crowd below. Then a man engulfed in flames leaped out of the billowing smoke with an agonized scream, tracing a fleeting, brilliant arc across the night sky like a meteor.

It was not just Wayne Tower. At that very moment, scenes like this were unfolding in every corner of Gotham, inevitably bringing to mind the riot sparked by The Roman and Red Hood in the East End almost a year earlier.

But unlike that time, the wealthy could no longer watch from the sidelines. What had been set ablaze this time were not apartments in low-rise buildings along crowded, dilapidated streets, but their mansions, villas, and even estates.

People divided their hatred for the Wayne Family and the Court equally among every rich person, their homes and vehicles, and their naked bodies, which were no different from those of the poor.

Some were strung up on streetlights and watched their cars being doused in gasoline and set ablaze;

Some had their chests blasted through by shotguns while people freely divided up the contents of their home safes;

Some tried to flee Gotham under their bodyguards' protection, only for the helicopters taking off to be dragged down by the frenzied crowds on the rooftops,