novelonline Chapter 2970: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (4)
Chapter 2970: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (4)
Chapter 2970: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (IV)
When the Robins returned from their trip, Schiller felt that he needed to host a dinner party, but it was obvious that the old butler missed his children more and must have prepared a large table of food, so Schiller decided to take the young people of the New Warriors team to Wayne Manor for the dinner.
Although it was a banquet, it was just a casual family gathering, so there was no need to dress up too formally. Robert never wore a uniform, so he just changed into a clean sportswear. Helen dressed up a little, not wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, but a cute blue suspender skirt, and she also wore a bow on the top of her ponytail.
Robert said with some disgust: "You are pretending to be cute again."
"What do you care about me?" Helen rolled her eyes and said, "No matter where he is, an old butler who can manage a huge manor independently must be a powerful person. If we can deal with him, trouble will say goodbye to us."
Squirrel Girl was combing her big tail with a comb. She was a little worried that she would lose hair when she went to visit someone. Night Thrasher was polishing his leather shoes. He was dressed more formally, with suit pants and a shirt. Fungus Man was similar to Robert, both wearing loose and clean sportswear.
Schiller went upstairs and changed his clothes - or rather, he didn't change them at all, because he still wore the same black suit.
After the gray fog disappeared, Schiller could not adjust the temperature as he wished, and the weather was very hot. He actually did not want to wear a suit, but Gotham University had dress code requirements for faculty and staff. No matter what the temperature was, they had to wear a dark suit, tie and leather shoes, so Schiller had no choice but to wear it this way.
It's not even night yet. The reason why everyone has packed up is that Schiller has classes in the afternoon and the others want to visit Gotham University, so they plan to go to Gotham University together, and then go to Wayne Manor together in the evening. They will not come back to change clothes on the way.
Schiller opened the garage door and immediately turned the air conditioner to the lowest setting after getting in the car. Helen climbed into the passenger seat and shivered from the air conditioning.
Schiller started the car and said, "There's a blanket in the back seat. You'd better wrap yourself up in it, or you'll be the first Doomsday in the multiverse to catch a cold."
Squirrel Girl handed the blanket to Helen, and Helen immediately wrapped herself tightly. When the garage door opened, everyone was dazzled by the overly bright sunlight at noon as if they were hit by a flash bomb.
Schiller lowered the sunshade and gradually drove out of the community. Helen was curious about everything she saw and asked about this and that.
But obviously there are no fairy tales in this city. Schiller's introduction to each building almost always starts with saying that the place was destroyed by some disaster and ends with that it was rebuilt after some disaster. It is so sad and tearful to listen to.
When Helen asked him to tell other things, there were more ghost stories. The history of every landmark building could be said to be a special edition of major cases. The works of serial killers were often found in museums, churches, and art galleries. Every bank had experienced dozens of robberies, every shopping mall had suffered terrorist attacks, and every street had traces of gang fights...
By the time they arrived at Gotham University, they had decided to seriously consider the possibility of causing trouble for Williams.
While waiting for the elevator in the underground garage, Schiller said, "You don't have to worry too much. Williams is not a local. Besides, even if he is a local, few can face so many superpowers head-on..."
"So it still exists?"
Schiller did not deny it. After entering the elevator, he said, "Yes, there are some, and they are mainly concentrated in Gotham University, so you'd better behave yourself. I don't want to see you hanging in the hall."
"What time does your class start?" Robert asked. "What grade does it teach? What is it mainly about? Can we go to audit it?"
"I have a basic course at two o'clock, teaching criminal psychology to junior students. From three to five o'clock, I have a group meeting for graduate students. After five o'clock, I go back to the office to prepare for class. I get off work around seven o'clock."
"You can sit in on the basic courses, but you don't have to attend the group meetings. You won't be writing papers anyway. The school has recently built a lot of new laboratories, and there's also a science and technology museum. You can go there and take a look."
The elevator stopped and Schiller just walked out when Victor came over and said, "You're finally here. Do you have classes this afternoon?"
"I don't have any classes after five, but I need to prepare for next week's classes and I have a few graduate student papers to read. What's up?"
"I adjusted the formula of dense ice to make a small portable cooling device, and I want you to help me test it."
"Where's Nora? Is she not here?"
"She got heat stroke." Victor said helplessly, "I told you a long time ago that you can't dry clothes outdoors in this weather. She thought it was okay to go out for a few minutes, but she got heat stroke when she came back. She asked for leave today."
"Are you okay?" Schiller said with some concern. "It's hard for me to imagine that a cryogenics scientist's wife would get a heat stroke at home."
"Speaking of this gives me a headache. I've told countless people countless times recently that cryogenics scientists don't care about the temperature, but no one believes it." Victor sighed and said, "So I decided to break through myself and take care of this damn weather!"
At this time, he saw Helen, squatted down happily, touched Helen's face and said, "Is this the little girl from your relative's family you mentioned? How old are you this year? Where are you from?"
"Seven years old, Asgardian."
"Don't listen to her nonsense. She was seven years old last year." Robert said mercilessly: "Ten years later, she will still be seven years old."
"What? Do you have any problem with the way Asgardians record age?" Helen turned around and rolled her eyes at him.
Schiller said to them, "My classroom is in A213. You guys go there first. I have to go to the office to get something."
A few people nodded and left. Schiller and Victor walked to the office together. The topic was still about the recent hot topics, which was the ridiculously high temperature and Roy's situation.
"Everyone knows he's going to be promoted, so they're all eyeing the mayor's position. We've advised him to stay for another term, but this problem has to be solved."
"What did Cobblepot say?"
"He only told James that there was nothing he could do about the current situation in Gotham, so even if he took over, all he could do was maintain the status quo. Everything would have to wait until Bruce came back."
"It's not that easy to manage a city." Schiller sighed and said, "Especially a city like Gotham, which is awkward everywhere. There are too many problems. Cobblepot's mother has lung problems, and we can't force her to do anything."
Victor nodded and said, "Indeed, did Bruce say when he would be back?"
"I think it will be soon." Schiller said with a slight frown.
"I hope he can bring us good news."
Schiller actually thought of much more than he said. Gotham itself is a fictional city set in comics. As we all know, comics can fully display imagination, so the setting of the city of Gotham is a patchwork. It has undergone many reforms according to different eras, and many times the official map versions are not valid.
It would be strange if there were no problems in such a virtual city when it came to reality, especially since Schiller and others did not continue the dark setting in the comics, but forcibly saved the city, which led to the exposure of various contradictions and conflicts in the fictional setting.
For example, because there is a problem with the rain in Gotham in the comics, the impact of rain on plants is actually greater than that on animals. In order to be logical, the editors can only follow this line of thought and say that there is no greenery in Gotham.
After Gotham saw the sun again, the lack of greenery became a big problem, seriously affecting the city's temperature and causing inconvenience to people's lives.
But the real world is not like in comics, where you can't jump to green trees and vitality in a split screen. The impact of ordinary shrubs and vines is far less than that of green spaces and trees, and potted plants are even more useless.
To plant trees, you need land, otherwise it will be useless even if the green of all things comes. But because Gotham is set with high-rise buildings and cyberpunk, there is no extra land for planting trees, which becomes an unsolvable problem.
The only solution now is to take some more comical measures, that is, to install air conditioners throughout the city directly, just like when Gotham was frozen. The dense ice at that time could reduce the temperature of the entire city by more than ten degrees. Although the dense ice in the cold storage has been upgraded now, it is not impossible to use some old versions buried underground to make Gotham's "ground cooling".
This requires complex design and precision manufacturing to ensure that the city's temperature can be accurately adjusted. Schiller has no doubt that Victor has the technical ability to do so, but all of the above problems come down to one word - money.
Everyone is waiting for Bruce to come back, not because they really expect him to come up with some amazing technology. The technology and the people are there, and the solution is not that difficult to come up with. The biggest problem is that there is no money.
When Roy was in office, the city government had no money. When Cobert came to power, the city government still had no money. When those random people sent by the state legislature came to power, the city government not only had no money, it might even go bankrupt.
This is why everyone, including James Gordon, has been asking Schiller indirectly about Bruce's whereabouts, because all the difficulties Gotham is facing now are actually money difficulties. Everything can be solved with money. The new low-temperature factory in the West District can be fully utilized, and it is even possible to use dense ice to pave a floor for Gotham, and the temperature problem will naturally be solved.
But now, the money problem is not only plaguing Gotham, but also plaguing the United States and the entire world. The whole world is short of money. Apart from Batman, who else can solve the problem?
Schiller's attitude is not very optimistic either. We are now in a period of global economic crisis. Even if the government has money, there are more important problems to be solved than the temperature. This summer is destined to be a long one.
As for counting on Bruce's return, it may be a bit difficult. Bruce has a lot of things to do. Just preparing for foreign enemies is enough to keep him busy. By the time he is done, the economic crisis may be over.
Schiller came to the office and quickly took his things and went to the classroom. When he arrived, the classroom was already full. Several people from the New Warriors team were sitting in the back. When they saw Schiller coming, they stopped whispering to each other, sat up straight, and looked at him expectantly.
Unfortunately, they were destined to be disappointed, Schiller thought. The basic psychology course was very boring and he couldn't explain it well.
Also, the process of not collecting homework and the shitty writing on the homework that is collected, which happens almost every day, makes him more angry and irritated than the 40-degree weather.
Helen and the others watched helplessly as a storm engulfed the classroom. She wanted to take back her evaluation of Professor Schiller's good temper. It was also the first time she knew that there were so many words in the world to describe a person as stupid.