Luke was very satisfied.
John was very good at handling cases, but his shortcoming was that his talent was all in handling cases, so he had no hope of getting promoted.
As this thought flashed through his mind, Luke had already reached the door of the subway car. He opened it with his hands.
Although the passengers inside were scared out of their wits, they still tried their best to stand up and walk toward the door.
However, no one rushed in.
Batman was standing outside. He was everyone's psychological anchor.
The explosion that had taken place in the closed subway tunnel was far more powerful than the one in the subway station.
If it wasn't for Batman, the people in the second half of the train would have been seriously injured or killed, and the passengers in the first half would have been heavily injured as well.
It was all thanks to Batman that no one was seriously injured or killed.
Of the twenty or so passengers in the second carriage, in particular, half had been thrown in by Luke from the destroyed carriage, and the other half had seen him block the explosion with his body.
Batman's selfless act of saving people who had nothing to do with him shook the hearts of these passengers.
Even if most of them weren't fans of Batman, their emotions surged and their gratitude was indescribable.
But Luke didn't have time to enjoy their grateful gazes. After opening the doors of the two carriages, he immediately ran toward the other half of the subway.
There were still more passengers inside, and they didn't know that Batman was here.
In the chaos, there was a high chance that a stampede would cause unnecessary casualties in the narrow subway.
When he got close to the other half of the subway, he saw a lot of people crawling out of the twisted door at the junction of the carriages. However, the hole was irregular and small, and it took a while for one person to get out.
There were also a few people smashing the glass, but it was clear that ordinary people couldn't break it quickly.
There were also people trying to pry open the subway doors, but they couldn't open them because of the crowd in front of them.
This was the prisoner's dilemma in real life.
The best way to get out of this predicament for the entire group of passengers wasn't the choice of most people. Even if someone made the right response, they would fail due to the interference of others who were in a hurry to escape.
Luke didn't say anything. He simply walked to the only door on the platform and opened it.
With a flick of his hands, he grabbed a few people who were crowding at the door and walked in.
The crowd suddenly paused, and many people exclaimed, "Batman!"
"It's Batman."
"Batman has come to save us."
Luke's blood-red lenses flashed, and his trademark deep electronic voice sounded from his armor. "Everyone, come to the back of the train. There's a passage here. Go straight to the exit after you get out. Don't stay in the subway station."
He had already grabbed two dazed passengers and pushed them out of the carriage. The electronic voice continued, "Everyone, do not stop. Keep moving."
These few sentences were not spoken by him, but by Ah Fu repeating them. He even deliberately lowered the speed of his speech. In the ears of the passengers, it was cold and steady, not at all urgent.
If anyone else had done this, the passengers definitely wouldn't have been so obedient, but Batman had enough prestige and deterrence.
In just a moment, the chaotic escape journey in the carriage had turned into a normal situation of people lining up to get off the train. People poured out of the subway like flowing water and ran towards the exit.
Luke's position at the door effectively prevented people from fighting over the door and causing a jam.
Those who had such intentions would be caught by him and returned to the line, maintaining the smoothest rhythm.
Secondly, many people would subconsciously speed up when they left the train.
This was a very normal subconscious. All living creatures had the instinct to get out of danger as quickly as possible, and when they were nervous, some people would bump into their seats or lose their footing.
These people would still be picked up and returned to the line.
At that moment, Luke seemed to have transformed into a skilled worker on an assembly line, precisely ensuring that people walked out of the subway doors smoothly.
As long as they walked out of the subway, he didn't care if people fell or panted outside. In any case, the subway station was spacious enough that it wouldn't block everyone's escape route.
While his doppelganger was saving people with his Batman avatar, his main body also rushed over.
But he didn't go to the subway station. Instead, he turned off the police lights and put away his badge from a distance, before he entered a building not far away from the subway station.
Tagger, the suspected criminal leader and explosives expert, was likely in this building.
But the more troublesome thing was that this building was more than fifty stories high, and there were a lot of financial companies of different sizes inside. The employees and customers of the companies kept coming and going.
It was almost impossible to search this place.
That was because it would cause too much of a commotion. Everyone in New York might already know about it before a search warrant was issued.
Moreover, the chances of getting a search warrant were almost zero.
Even the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security could only lock down this building in an emergency.
Luke knew that Tagger was here, but he couldn't report it.
That was because the surveillance he had seen belonged to a private company's confidential line, which he had set up a backdoor for in advance. He couldn't expose this information channel.
Also, he didn't plan to arrest this guy for the time being.
This was the beginning of the operation, and as the criminal leader, Tagger would be in close contact with his subordinates.
If he was arrested, those people would quickly sense that something was wrong.
These were all terrorists, and they had already proven their ruthlessness with the use of ten explosives.
If they really arrested the criminal leader, they would directly threaten to release him with explosives, and the police would most likely have no choice but to agree.
That was why terrorists were more troublesome than ordinary criminals, because the choices they made at certain junctures were clearly different from those of ordinary people.
The brainwashed members at the bottom, in particular, were very likely to act recklessly after losing their leader's control.
Pondering these things, Luke and Selina climbed the stairs.
They didn't dare take the elevator. Normal people took the elevator straight to their floors, and wouldn't wander around randomly.
The security around the terrorist leader had always been the tightest, or it would be very easy for someone to decapitate him.
This Tagger wasn't an uneducated criminal leader.
The details of Simon's phone call alone, as well as the strong interference during the investigation, proved that these criminals were extremely vigilant, and were especially familiar with the police and FBI's procedures.
Luke and Selina couldn't risk exposing their movements to the surveillance cameras in the building, because it was very likely that the other party was also monitoring them.
As they walked the stairs, the scattered red areas on the 3D model of the entire building turned green on their goggles.
Little Snail had already eliminated most of the areas beforehand, and it was impossible to determine if Tagger was in the remaining red areas.
The mini drones that had been released in advance sneaked into these areas to investigate.
These mini drones, which were as small as swallows, now had optical camouflage capabilities. They flew quietly inside the building without anyone noticing.
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