Dark clouds hung over Gotham City, seeming ready to unleash a torrential downpour at any moment. This city was always like this, shrouded in clouds year-round, as if some monster were brewing within them, filling the city's tens of millions of residents with oppression. Like invisible fingers, they stirred the anger and fragile nerves in every resident's heart. The character of a city of crime still stubbornly remained in Gotham City, and its persistently high crime rate kept the city famously notorious.