After Dane finished his circuit and returned to Earth, Owlman finally returned to Gotham.
He was so familiar with the city that he could tell it was different without contacting anyone.
"Someone has touched my city!" Owlman said in a deep voice.
He was now almost certain that Outsider had brought someone from another World here.
He quickly analyzed that if everyone in a parallel World had their corresponding counterpart, then the person who remained in Gotham and was changing it should undoubtedly also be from the Wayne Family.
According to the intelligence Outsider had provided earlier, there was a man named Bruce Wayne in another World, the heir to the Wayne Group.
Bruce Wayne?
Owlman fell into a brief recollection. He hadn't heard that name in a long time. Thinking of it now, he wasn't as angry as he had imagined; instead, there was a faint nostalgia. He wanted to see this man.
His brother from another World.
"Let me see what you can truly achieve, my brother..."
The moment Owlman's fighter jet entered Gotham, Batman received the news.
His intelligent program had already taken over the city's network, and now the root servers were all under his control.
Not only that, but he also held partial authority over some of the commercial satellites owned by Wayne Group.
This was because these key facilities were currently unguarded; the person who originally helped Owlman manage these things was Talon Dick, but now he was missing, and even Batman couldn't find him.
Just as he also couldn't find Red Hood, members of the Bat-Family always had a knack for disappearing.
As for Owlman? He made no attempt to hide; he was the Master of this city, and he entered openly.
Batman's current location was in the sewers of Gotham, the Base of the Joker Gang.
Because Gotham was close to the sea, and to cope with potential tsunamis and typhoons, its underground drainage system was built exceptionally wide, almost like another World.
Years ago, under the leadership of the anarchist hero "Jester," the Joker Gang occupied Gotham's underground network and further expanded and transformed it, now a complete underground labyrinth.
Even the power of the Court of Owls found it difficult to penetrate here.
Owlman had investigated this place before, but he found that if he wanted to fully explore it, he would likely have to pay a very high price.
The Joker Gang could use their familiarity with this place to set traps everywhere, and Owlman would have to sacrifice one precious Talon after another to clear them, which was completely uneconomical.
If Dane saw this, he would exclaim, "Isn't this the legendary tunnel warfare?" It was an excellent tactic for dealing with enemies far superior in equipment.
To completely clear out these "pests," Owlman couldn't just drop a bomb and blow the entire city to the sky; a ruined city was meaningless to him.
Therefore, he came up with a plan to lure out the "Jester."
After a long struggle between the two sides, Owlman feigned a willingness to sign a treaty with the "Jester," agreeing on their respective territories and responsibilities.
Although it didn't liberate Gotham City, for Jester and his group, it was a milestone victory; everything is difficult at the beginning, after all.
Although they knew there were risks, for the sake of the possible peace, Jester, after much deliberation, still agreed to Owlman's request and came to the surface to sign the contract with Owlman.
But what they didn't expect... or perhaps expected but dared not believe, was that the moment Jester emerged from the underground labyrinth, Owlman killed him, directly tearing up their previous agreement.
The Death of their organizational leader enraged many high-ranking members of the Joker Gang at the time; they lost their minds and only wanted to fight Owlman to the Death, but they were ambushed and killed by Owlman and his Talons, who were well-prepared.
It was also at that time that the Court of Owls established its authority.
After losing Jester as their leader, the Joker Gang lost even more mid-to-high-level forces in this battle, and Owlman achieved his goal.
He couldn't completely eradicate the Joker Gang, but he could destroy their faith, turning them from a so-called Resistance into rats in a gutter.
He stigmatized these former heroes, making the Joker Gang appear as just another gang organization in the eyes of the public, which made their subsequent efforts to recruit new members incredibly difficult, leaving only a small group of old-timers barely surviving in the sewers.
Since the "Jester" was tricked out of the underground labyrinth by Owlman and killed, the Joker Gang's power had been confined there for a long time, until Batman's arrival.
Batman was a very patient man, and he maintained his usual style, entering the underground labyrinth alone.
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