Chapter 1432: Subtle Changes In New York

But Mindy clearly didnt feel the same, and was even enjoying it.

After becoming a 1-star teammate, she had shared a lot of experience and credit points with Luke.

Thus, Luke was in no position to criticize, and felt helpless.

Then, Frank found a suitable opportunity to send Mindy away, and beat Damon up in the combat training room in the Bat Cave.

Only Luke and Frank knew how Damon was beaten up.

Although he looked wretched, he wasnt seriously injured.

Luke didnt even need to use Light of Life, and Damon was able to go home on his own after resting for ten minutes.

But no severe injuries and no pain were two different things.

Frank stopped Luke from immediately treating Damon with a meaningful look, nor did Damon ask for it.

In fact, when he accepted Franks request for a spar, it seemed he had understood something, and he didnt say anything.

After being beaten up, there was no resentment on his face, but a sense of loss.

Mindy pa.s.sed her days even more happily after that.

Her father, who used to nag her all the time, had become a lot quieter.

He put down his drawing tools and took her around New York in his spare time.

When Mindy asked him why he was doing this, he simply said, If we dont see them now, we wont be able to see some of these places after theyre damaged in the future.

Mindy accepted this explanation. After all, there had been a lot of things happening in New York recently, and Batman was even preparing for a new battle.

Given how meticulous these preparations were, the chaos caused by this new battle would definitely be no less than what happened in the attack by the test subjects.

Luke finally relaxed.

If Franks daughter was still alive, she would be almost ten years old. It wasnt strange that seeing Mindy reminded him of his unpleasant past.

It was better for him to vent his anger than keep it to himself.

If this conflict carried over during battle and affected Franks command, Damon might die.

After a lot of complications, September pa.s.sed and it was now fall in New York.

Leaves started to turn yellow, and people put on thicker clothes.

The attack by the test subjects was basically winding down in public consciousness.

While there was still a fair amount of discussion on traditional media and the Internet, a lot of attention had s.h.i.+fted away from it.

Even Batman couldnt always hold the attention of the restless crowd.

More people started to throw themselves into other activities to enjoy.

For example, t.i.tanium had released a few new games for killing time on their phones.

Sheerah might appear at Times Square again at Christmas.

Tony Stark had been in monk mode for a year.

And it was slightly unexpected that Mike Soderberg was reelected as the mayor of New York.

From the way things had been going, it had seemed that this bigshot who had already been reelected twice would step down from office.

But reality proved that Mr. Soderberg was still a bigsot.

It might have something to do with the major events that had happened previously.

In the face of so many disasters, everyone had the feeling that instead of choosing a new mayor to take the stage, they may as well trust this old hand.

At the very least, New York had been greatly affected by several major events, but the New York authorities had performed well.

After experiencing these huge dangers, the citizens desire for stability exceeded their antic.i.p.ation of a better future.

After all, that future would have nothing to do with them if they were dead.

Would a new mayor reduce the number of people who had died from the attack by the test subjects? The answer was clearly no.

Naturally, n.o.body was interested in Soderbergs opponent.

Under these circ.u.mstances, few people cared about the news of Nelson taking office as NYPDs new commissioner.

Just like with Soderberg, would a new commissioner necessarily mean that NYPD could take down the test subjects? The answer was still no.

The Police Chief becoming the commissioner made sense.

In this atmosphere, Commissioner Nelson made a big move.

NYPD began to give all police officers new emergency disaster relief training, and various departments took turns carrying out drills.

The project was supported by Stark Industries and t.i.tanium Phone Company.

The two companies didnt just give monetary support, but also donated a fair amount of new equipment, which significantly improved NYPDs strength in terms of hardware and software.

Some of the NYPD officers who were injured in the previous attack were also given special aid, such as Detective Misty from the 15th Precinct. She now had an advanced prosthetic arm from Stark Industries. It was very practical and wasnt inferior to a real arm.

Based on how they had performed, other officers were also helped accordingly. NYPD and the two companies did their best to help these people get back on their feet.

Commissioner Nelson and the two companies popularity skyrocketed among NYPD officers.

n.o.body would hate being given a little more a.s.surance, especially after they were crippled.

The tide of police officers leaving the force finally slowed down.

At the same time, a lot of professional knowledge on responding to emergencies started to appear in traditional media and on the Internet.

It was clear information on how to discern all kinds of danger and how to ensure ones safety.

This indeed intrigued many people.

It was like how knowledge on what to do in an earthquake spread throughout the country after the California earthquake.

People were always quick to understand and remember things when their lives were at stake, in order to avoid running into similar situations.

Naturally, this was thanks to Luke.

It would be a waste if he didnt use F2F and social media circles to spread the word.

One could imagine how deep an impact this could have on ordinary people just look at how pseudoscience had spread among the public in his previous life.

It took nothing to spread this survival knowledge.

He also made use of the rescue foundation, which was only officially unveiled in October.

It already had a public account authorized by Batmans team, which was updated with this sort of general survival knowledge every day.

How did it prove that this authority was real? This public account held a lottery every now and then, and the winners received special prizes from Batmans team of superheroes.

The prizes included enchanted bat darts, Black Cats baton, Electric Cables personal autograph, Iron Cage Kings fighting tips, Pink Bears handicraft, the Ninja Squads 100 secret ways to make a cheese pizza, and so on.

Tony Stark was the guarantor, and the foundation also released a video announcement by Batman, as the superheroes representative, with Tony in attendance as a witness.

Of course, those two were the only ones at the scene, while Jarvis was in charge of filming.

All the prizes came with a unique serial number and a certificate of proof which guaranteed their authenticity and made them difficult to fake.

At the same time, the prizes were random. There was no guarantee that they would be the same in the future..