Chapter 106: Day and Night Fire Fool's Village
After the winter in Gotham City passed, the temperature began to warm up, this time is a rare season in Gotham that does not rain much, although the weather is still very cloudy, there are no sunny days at all, and the city is always shrouded in a layer of mist, but the weather is still much better than winter.
Mayor Roy's first reform move after taking office was naturally to govern Gotham's traffic.
Of course, this is not because the last mayor died in a car accident, but because with the cooperation with other coastal cities, Gotham City has ushered in a new round of development, with various warehouses and supporting facilities springing up, and a large number of cargo ships moored in the port, waiting in line to bring goods in.
But the traffic situation in Gotham can only be described in one sentence - if it has a little traffic rules, it will not have no traffic rules at all.
This has led to a very headache situation, the capacity of the cargo ship is enough, and the warehouse under construction is still a little imperfect, but it can actually accommodate the goods, but the problem is the road from the dock to the warehouse.
The warehouse belongs to different gangster families, everyone has to transport goods, and basically they are 24 hours a day to deliver goods, but Gotham does not have any traffic rules, no one says who should go first, the solution of this kind of thing in Gotham is naturally whoever has more guns, who has more bullets in the gun, then who goes first.
But there is another problem, although the driver of the car is also a member of the gang, but not a member of the fight, when the two cars are blocked, the gang members escorting the goods start to fight, and the driver and other technicians in the car will also be injured.
Originally, there was a great shortage of professionals in Gotham now, and everyone didn't care about anything as soon as they fought, and the final result was that the two parties stopped eating at the same time and went to the hospital to lie down together.
It doesn't matter if they go to the hospital, their trucks are still on the road, and the people who come after them are even more blocked and can't move.
Under such a vicious circle, Gotham's traffic is almost completely paralyzed, although most of the goods waiting for a few days is not a problem, but if it continues like this, it is completely burning money, labor costs, warehouse costs, as well as the maintenance costs of cargo ships and liquidated damages for delayed delivery, and the leaders of the twelve families are in a hurry to lose their hair.
In fact, there are some high-achieving students who have graduated from college, but Gotham is a muddy puddle, everyone has lived in it for so many years, and no one realizes where the most important problem in this city is, and everyone thinks about how to coordinate the relationship between them, and how to deal with other gangsters and let them make way for themselves.
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But everyone wants others to make way for themselves, so no one gives way, and everyone is stuck in the road.
After all, Gotham is a chaotic and chaotic city, and the evil order built by the gangsters here is still chaotic in nature.
Fortunately, the new mayor Roy is a person who understands, he didn't instruct the gangsters what to do when they were at their most angry, he just let them fight in chaos, and finally blocked the entire central street, and no one wanted to leave.
Until Gotham's most important center turntable and the four second-ring intersections were beaten into ruins, the gangsters were completely out of temper at this time, the money was in front of their eyes, but they just couldn't get it, no one could let the things in the cargo ship fly to the warehouse on their own with wings, no people, no cars, and now there was no road.
In the end, there was no way, I still had to ask the old godfather to go out of the mountain, the biggest family leaders were silent when they sat at the negotiation table, and those who were blocked on the road also had the goods of the Falcone family, the old godfather was undiminished, and the leaders also knew that they were at a loss, and they were basically in a dumb state of bowing their heads and being scolded.
Now the problem is already obvious, if you continue to fight, it will only make the situation worse and worse, and when the time comes, let alone the road, the whole city is almost gone, so how can they make money, waiting for starvation to death?
The situation has developed to this point, and it really needs a proper solution to improve traffic.
So, on the second Sunday when the temperature warmed up in Gotham, Mayor Roy Brown gave a televised speech on Gotham TV.
Roy on the screen is no longer wearing a trench coat and felt hat like he did in Chicago, but like a Gotham gangster, wearing a suit and tie, with a flower pinned to his chest, he sits in his mayor's office, and says in a calm tone:
"Dear Gotham City citizens, I'm your new mayor, Roy Brown, and I'm sure everyone already knows me."
"The main purpose of my speech today is to advocate for everyone to obey the rules of the road, and to explain the new municipal government that I am about to implement in Gotham."
"As we all know, we have worked together to get to where we are today in this historic city, and now, Gotham City is about to be revived, and a good opportunity for development is in front of everyone."
"So, as Mayor, I would like to propose once again a new municipal to serve the citizens of Gotham."
"The name of this new policy is the Gotham Civilized City Construction Plan, and the main contents of the plan are: from tomorrow, Gotham's six major transportation hubs, 17 main roads and 22 secondary roads will begin to implement the 'Gotham Traffic Civilization Day Action'."
"During the period, there will be a professional traffic guide to guide the traffic, please be sure to obey the traffic rules, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences."
That was the end of the televised speech, and Bruce turned off the TV, and he suddenly had a bad premonition.
And it turns out that Batman's instincts have always been accurate, or the first law of Gotham: in Gotham, no matter how correct your intentions, how clever your methods, and how well you plan, they can get you a piece of in the end.
The next day, on the turntable in the center of downtown Gotham, a spray-painted sports car slowly slowed down, and the people inside rolled open the windows, poked their heads out, and whistled at a beautiful woman standing on the side of the street, and a hippie youth covered in tattoos shouted, "Hey! That beautiful girl! Look here, see Gotham's Race Kid ......"
Before he could finish speaking, the girl turned around, threw the cigarette butt at her feet, picked up the rifle behind the lamp pole, and shot it at the tires of the sports car.
The explosion of "bang" startled the two people in the car, and they were just about to get angry, the girl came over with a gun, she looked young, no more than 20 years old, with a good figure and wild dark skin.
She lit another cigarette and put it in her mouth, then took out a small notebook from the pocket of her jeans, rolled her eyelids, looked up and down at the two people in the car, and said, "Race boy, right?" Bipolar disorder, neuropathic headache plus schizophrenia precursors, a three-month treatment period is recommended. ”
As she spoke, she wrote and drew in the notebook, and when she was done, she tore up the piece of paper and threw it directly into the car, and the young man with the tattoo picked it up and looked at it, and the title read "Arkham Psychiatric Hospital Diagnosis Sheet".
He immediately showed a flattering smile and said, "I'm sorry, this young lady, I didn't know you were an intern at Arkham Mental Hospital, how about you give us another copy of this?" ”
"By the way, they're telling the truth, right? We can use this diagnosis to prescribe to the big ...... I mean, effective medication for headaches. ”
The girl looked him up and down again and said, "Yes, I will go to the attending doctor's office in the hospital within three days and wait for the ward to be assigned." ”
"Can you get another one? I feel like I'm also a bit mentally ill. Another youth shouted.
The girl ignored him, took off the walkie-talkie on her waist and said, "Fourth Avenue!" Fourth Avenue! A modified supercar with a flat left front tire and two passengers, they are ...... Who are you from? ”
"The old smoking gun in the East District, our boss is a smoking gun!"
"It's the old smoker in the East Side, hell, why is it the poor ghost in the East Side? Don't all the rich and oily bigwigs in the West End drive to the streets? ”
Not long after she finished speaking, two people came over on police motorcycles, one of them wore a police uniform, saluted perfunctorily, and then said in a very impatient tone: "Speeding, illegal change of direction, running a red light, a fine of 300." ”
Glancing at the bazooka hanging on their motorcycle, the young man still reluctantly paid the fine, and then another person who came with the motorcycle also walked over and said, "Hello, Doyle Tow Company, do you need towing services?" ”
"Doyle, why are you? You damn bastard! Why are you still wearing a suit? And when did you still have a towing company in your house? ”
The young man named Doyle straightened his suit and tie, and it could be seen that his suit should have been bought just yesterday, and it didn't fit very well.
He leaned on the sports car and lit a cigarette and said: "Don't talk nonsense, I am an ancestral enterprise, our family has been doing this business for eight generations, for the sake of acquaintances, I will give you a 7% discount, 150 yuan to help you drag to the nearest avenue, you know, now only I know which avenue is not blocked, you should be in a hurry to the east warehouse to see the factory, right?" ”
The young man in the car pursed his lips and said, "Okay, it seems that your boss really values you, and you will do all this kind of work, you help me tow the car over, and the two of us will go to Arkham on foot to prescribe some medicine." ”
While they were chatting, the girl turned her head and saw a black Mercedes Benz about to turn around, she picked up the horn on her waist and shouted, "Stop!!! You have violated the traffic rules!! ”
In a few seconds, another gunshot rang out, and the police and the people from the towing company didn't have to move the place, and they directly negotiated a deal again.
Continuing along this street, there are two intern doctors at each intersection, who are responsible for stopping cars and issuing diagnostic certificates, they are all holding walkie-talkies, and once a traffic accident is detected, there will be police officers and people from the towing company who will quickly rush to the scene on motorcycles, pay a fine and sign a towing agreement in one go, and take the car directly away from the scene in less than ten minutes.
Of course, this is only on ordinary arterial roads and at intersections far away from the central city, and in the six major battlefields close to the central city, the battle is much more intense.
Bruce said to one of the bodyguards behind him, "You go and stop that red Lamborghini, tell him that he just turned the wrong way, go back and go again, and come to me later to get the medical certificate." ”
"Also, where is the person who was full of expletives just now? Catch him out and beat him, just say that Wayne beat him. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a "whoosh", Bruce took two steps back, and not far in front of him, a car exploded directly, and the driver ran out with a rolling belt, shouting at the man with a bazooka on the high platform in the middle of the intersection: "Are you blind?!! Obviously I'm going straight!! He's a lane changer! It was he who took my place, why are you bombing my car?!! ”
Before he could finish speaking, the aftermath of the explosion just now seemed to blow up the car that changed lanes, and the hood of the car also made an explosion, and then the flames burst into flames.
The driver who changed lanes also ran out of the car, and the two were about to start fighting, but when they saw that the person on the high platform had reloaded the rockets and was aiming at this side, the two scolded and left, and soon, they met a guy who claimed to be a tow company, and the wreckage of the two cars was quickly taken away from the battlefield.
"Listen!! To the bitches on the other side! Are you deaf? The next green light is for us to go!! Did you hear that?! It's time for us to go!! ”
"Haven't you watched a TV show?! Look at my hands! What is it?! Gotham Driver's Manual! See? You've been around for two rounds! Next time it's our turn!! ”
On a row of trucks on the opposite side of the turntable, a tattooed man with five big and three thick came down, also carrying a rifle in his hand, and gestured his middle finger at the yelling man, and then said, "Is your brain stuffed with shit?!" If you want to go, the east road will go first! And then it's us, you'll have to wait a lap! ”
Bruce listened to them swear at each other, and he thought hard for a moment, and found that his genius brain could not find any evidence of the so-called traffic rules that the two men had rightly said.
He asked one of the bodyguards behind him, "Gotham Driver's Manual?" Is there anything else like this? Go get me one. ”
The bodyguard said: "Yes, yes, but it was just reprinted yesterday, and it is still a handwritten copy, and when our mayor wrote this manual, he seemed to be a little drunk......
But with that, he still went to find a car, and then got a copy, Bruce opened it and saw that what the bodyguard said was indeed right, a pound of vodka but no one who drank it without a sip could write such an outrageous driver's manual.
On it was Roy's extremely scribbled font, the mayor was also from the grassroots, did not go to college, and many words were spelled wrong, not to mention the inverted grammar, and after writing the mistakes, he would take a pen and scribble randomly, some lines were squeezed together, and some lines were far apart.
Bruce turned off his brain and tried to read the driver's manual from the perspective of these mentally retarded people, and found that although the handwriting was sloppy, the content was confusing, and there were more swear words than the text, it made perfect sense.
The central idea of the entire driver's manual is one sentence: we don't have any traffic rules in this rotten place, and anyone you can see here with a steering wheel doesn't have a legal driver's license, and if you want to drive here, you only need to know one thing, and that's to get behind the wheel, step on the gas, and pray to God.
After a while, Bruce's cell phone rang, and he picked it up and said, "Hello? Oh, Professor...... Yes, the internship went well, I'm now at this intersection on the east side of the center turntable, the road conditions here are not bad, the west side is more chaotic, because there are too many sports cars over there......"
"Yes, I also think this internship method is very good, I heard them say that they have memorized at least dozens of mental illness proper nouns, which is already a miracle, I believe that the final exam can be at least 5 points more......"
"Evans? No...... No, he's not directing traffic, he's got more important things to do. ”
Bruce looked up as he spoke, and he saw not far away, a man in a black suit, who looked like the leader of the twelve families, was nodding to Evans, and moved the car occupying the road in three or two clicks, and the traffic that had just been a little congested quickly smoothed out.
Although Bruce's words are so, in fact, this so-called Gotham Traffic Civilization Day is basically like a mess.
Roy has built a small lookout in the middle of the intersection of major transportation hubs, and the traffic wardens on it are basically carrying machine guns and bazookas.
Under this deterrence, the vast majority of cars are still willing to obey the traffic rules, but the problem is that Gotham does not have a unified traffic rule at all, and the people here have not learned the traffic avoidance rules at all, so Roy added a person to the watchtower who had driven normally in other cities to guide him.
However, in the United States, the traffic rules are different in almost every state, and the content of the driver's manual is also different, which leads to the different traffic rules used at each intersection.
Although the situation is much better than the original situation of not moving at all, in fact, it still cannot meet the needs of logistics operation.
In the teacher's office of Gotham University, Anna, a professor of high mathematics, covered her forehead and said helplessly: "The error in the calculation of capacity is really too big, do you have any clue over there?" Victor ......"
Victor looked even worse, two big dark circles were almost half of his face, if he didn't listen to him, just looking at his current state, he would think that the Frozen Man had awakened.
He said: "Don't forget, we also have to take into account the freshness of the ship, the second terminal ships are all goods that need to be put into storage urgently, they must have a rush lane, otherwise the goods may be damaged, there are also fragile goods on the third terminal, you can't drive too fast, when these cars join the center turntable, it will affect the overall speed......"
At this time, the door was pushed open with a "bang", and Roy rushed in with a gun and said, "How is the logistics system formulated?" There are more than a dozen big bosses over there waiting for my news, and their goods are all backlogged at the dock, and I can't stand it! ”
"We're manually calculating now, have you ever seen a manual that is fast?"
"They can add money, as much as they want! 100,000? 200,000? As long as you can come up with results as soon as possible, business waits for no one! Friends! ”
Victor put down the information in his hand and said: "I have called a few of my old classmates last night, they are all professors of mathematics, physics and biology, you have to make a price that satisfies them before they come here, you know, this city has a bad reputation......"
"Give me their phone number, and I'm sure you'll be satisfied!"
On the other side, as Roy said, most of the leaders of the twelve families gathered in a conference room, anxiously waiting for the results, and among them sat the head of the Spencer family, who held a phone in his hand and said:
"Warehouse 3 is damaged? Why? Aren't they frozen well? ”
"The temperature detection device is not working as usual? So why didn't anyone check it? …… Can't read the scale? Damn it! You illiterate! That's my tens of thousands of dollars!! ”
"The quality of the cryogenic chamber is not good? So what to do? We kidnapped ...... before No, what about the specialist hired with a high salary? Tell him that he was promised to double his salary! Let him hurry up and figure it out! Forget it, you let him answer the phone! ”
"Who? Professor Fries? So who is that? Gotham University? No way...... I can't get into that place, it's the Godfather's territory, the contract system? Is he powerful? ”
“…… What? A big living person? His wife? No...... It doesn't matter! ”
"You're saying that he froze a big living person in a freezer and still let her live well?!"
"Hah...... Oh no...... No...... I mean, it's really regrettable, what a sad love story, God bless this poor lady, I'm willing to donate to it, I'll invite him tomorrow, you know, I'm also a man who believes in love......"
At this time, Schiller was sitting in the office of Arkham Psychiatric Hospital, and there was a long line in front of him, and Schiller shouted without raising his head: "Next!" ”
A black man with a full face walked up, the piece of paper of the diagnosis was pinched in his hand, none of them were as big as one of his fingers, he carefully pinched the diagnosis book, handed it to Schiller, Schiller glanced at it and said, "Congenital polio?? Which guy who didn't listen to the class wrote this again?? Didn't I say earlier that I should go to the textbook to find nouns to memorize? ”
He glanced at the black man and said, "Ward 3 on the 2nd floor." Then he picked up the pen and quickly scratched twice on the diagnosis book, signed it, wrote another prescription, handed it to the person, and continued to shout: "Next!" ”
At this time, Brand, who was wearing a white coat, rushed in and said, "I can't take it anymore!" I really can't take patients anymore! We don't have a ward anymore! ”
"Let them squeeze in, there are more than 100 people here."
"But no matter how crowded it is, it is impossible for 30 people to live in one ward!"
Schiller looked up and thought for a moment and said, "Let them be released on parole, there is always a place in Gotham prison, right?" ”
Brand was dumbfounded, and he said, "Parole is ...... What? ”
"But most of them came to be released on medical parole!"
"Then set up a medical post in the prison and let ...... Let Bruce go, the intern is also a doctor, he has experience, let him apply the model here, go to prison when the hospital has nowhere to go, come to the hospital when the prison has nowhere to go, and that's all. ”
After Schiller hurriedly arranged the remaining many patients, he returned to the Gotham University office, where it was basically already a chicken and a dog, and everyone with a college degree or higher had been arrested and calculated.
In this era without supercomputers, it is necessary to rely on human power to calculate the most perfect logistics route, which requires a terrible amount of calculations, and the leaders Victor and Anna are already going crazy.
Schiller relied on his symbiosis to participate in it, and in order for him to be able to commute to work without traffic jams in the future, he was happy to work here for a while.
But soon, Roy came again, still with a gun and a phone in his hand, and rushed into the office in a hurry, and then said: "Two of the three finances of the city government are tired, and one is buried by the sand leaking from the sand truck, and now it is still being rescued, which of you will come with me?" The financial statements are piling up! ”
One of the local Gotham professors said: "This is not a job that anyone can do, although the mayor of Gotham has a short life, but his financial life is not long, everyone knows what they do......"
As soon as he heard this, Schiller was not sleepy, he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Let's go, I'll go with you!" ”
Roy hesitated and said, "Pardon my offense, Professor, but aren't you a psychology professor?" Does psychology still have finance? ”
"Of course, you know, psychology is all-encompassing, and it just so happens that I personally have a lot of experience with it......"
Roy agreed with a half-hearted consent.
The next morning, Roy stood in front of all the gang leaders and said, "Now I have good news and bad news. ”
"Good news first, I've heard enough bad news." One of them said, "I still have three trucks stuck in Fifth Avenue right now. ”
"The good news is that, if nothing else, the city's GDP could be on track to surpass that of the Metropolis this year and become the No. 1 in the nation."
There was an instant uproar below, and the gang bosses whispered, they said, "Why did you get first so quickly?" I haven't sold it yet! ”
"Didn't it still be fifth or sixth before? How long has it been? Are you sure that this statistic is okay? ”
Roy waved his hand to signal them to calm down, and then said, "The bad news is that it's not because our city has grown, it's actually because of a problem with the report." ”
"So now it's up to everyone to decide whether we want to be number one or not."
The rest of the people were even more confused, how big the problem of the report must be, so that they could surpass the metropolis and parachute directly to the first.
To be honest, Roy didn't understand this question either, anyway, he just watched Schiller sort out the pile of financial reports overnight, and gave him an extraordinarily reasonable but extraordinarily outrageous statistics.
Then tell him that he is about to become the mayor who will lead the city to develop the economy the fastest, improve the most, and improve the fastest in the history of urban development in the United States.
"According to an unnamed finance officer, if we were number one, we would have become more famous, and more investment opportunities would have been added if we had not been number ......one," Roy said.
Roy stammered, then took out a piece of paper and read into it: "Some of the permissible errors in the understanding of macroeconomics will give more room for manipulation of the actual data, including ...... The means of stabilizing inflated growth, the ...... left by the impact of the crisis redundant space, as well as ......"
Reading and reading, Roy couldn't read it anymore, he said: "I'm sorry, I don't know too many words in the latter paragraph, in short, if you don't want this reputation, everyone will have more ......"
Roy made a gangster-like gesture, and all the bosses understood, and they unanimously chose the latter.
Of course, this must not be for the convenience of official money laundering, but mainly because the citizens of Gotham do not admire vanity and are modest and low-key.
At this time, in the Gotham Police Department, in Gordon's office, Bruce was really a little nervous, and he said, "You mean, you're going to borrow my bat lamp?" What are you going to do with it? ”
Gordon was also a little embarrassed, he said: "This is also something that can't be helped, I don't know which bastard used his crooked brain yesterday, and actually transformed the only dilapidated old-fashioned traffic light at the central intersection, which caused a lot of trouble." ”
That's right, after the traffic just improved a little, it really went into chaos again.
Most of the intersections in Gotham don't have traffic lights, because they didn't work before, and only the big turntable in the most central city still has an old-fashioned traffic light pole.
Although it was useless in the past, under the deterrence of force, Gordon found that this thing was indeed much more convenient than shouting.
As a result, most of the traffic in the central city is directed by traffic lights, and the person who goes around the watchtower is only responsible for deterring by force.
But it is also worthy of the simple folk of Gotham City, and there is no shortage of absurd geniuses in this absurd city.
I don't know which little genius in physics and engineering went to renovate this old antique traffic light in the middle of the night in the dark.
Under the command of the wrong traffic light, the situation of the center wheel yesterday was that the left side walked the right side, the front side walked the right side, and the back side walked or the right side......
At the end of the day, the entire intersection on the right was unimpeded, and the remaining three intersections could only stare dryly.
Originally, the drivers in Gotham City were all in the advanced stage of road rage, and if everyone couldn't go, then it would be okay, but if others were going forward one after another, and they had to be stuck here, then they would definitely not be happy.
So the center turntable, which had just been slightly repaired, was almost beaten into ruins.
Later, the traffic light was repaired again, but this old-fashioned traffic light has been tossed so many times, basically no longer lit, and the ordinary traffic light, I am afraid that the end is similar to this traffic light, in the evening rush hour, basically not more than three hours.
For the citizens of Gotham, such a completely inconspicuous thing is difficult for their somewhat crazy brains to distinguish, so Gordon thought of a way, he planned to use the whole high-power.
So the question is, where is the most powerful light in Gotham?
Bruce looked at Gordon speechlessly, and Gordon rubbed his hands together and said, "Actually, this is also a crime fight, after all, if everyone is transporting goods at night, then most people will not go out to find trouble." ”
Gordon dragged Bruce to the Gotham map hanging on the wall, and said, "This is the statistics I did recently, you see, the crime rate in a few neighborhoods with good traffic conditions has dropped dramatically, because the average gang looking for a driver will look for a driver who is familiar with the route in the local area." ”
"These drivers are basically members of the local snake gang, that is, the main force of local crime, because of the lack of capacity now, the gang is willing to pay a lot of money to hire these people to help them deliver goods overnight, it doesn't matter if they don't have a driver's license, most of them don't have a driver's license anyway."
"They are driving trucks all night to deliver goods, of course, they don't have much effort to run out to commit crimes, and the money earned from two trips can be worth the harvest of two months of robbery, and now most of the gangsters who can drive have basically found a similar job, I heard that there is also a small gang that has collectively turned into a truck driver, and is still recruiting people frantically."
In fact, this is not beyond Bruce's expectations, Batman has often patrolled at night recently, but there really is nothing to patrol recently, because the streets are full of people working.
If the truck driver doesn't rest, the driver also has to eat and drink, and after the night shift, he can go for a supper, and the restaurant, pub and roadside stall will not rest, and the restaurant will have to sell the night's things after the daytime is sold, so it will need more raw material reserves, and it will need to hire more drivers to deliver to them, and more cooks and waiters will have to be hired.
But after all, regular restaurants have rent, and the prices of the things sold will be relatively expensive, and the things made by the chefs may not be to the taste of those gangsters, who have been used to eating roadside stalls since they were young.
So many people who can cook also set up roadside stalls, and Gotham doesn't have any chengguan, of course, they can put it wherever they want.
As there were many roadside stalls, the originally small alleys became narrower, and most people had to demolish the illegal buildings in front of the buildings and widen the roads to facilitate the formation of night markets.
These night drivers suddenly made a lot of money, of course, they would be keen to spend, casinos and dance halls simply did not rest, and even bartenders, dancers, and dealers had to work overnight.
In short, the streets near each transportation hub have been lit up in the last few days, and they are more lively than during the day, and once the citizens of Gotham get together, they will try their best to find excitement and engage in confrontation sports, and there are no video games in this era, and the way to find excitement is nothing more than playing basketball, playing soccer or gathering crowds to brag.
Who is Batman? He is the dark knight of Gotham, with a focus on darkness.
Where do you walk into an alley near the main road now, at the beginning is a group of folk football players shouting there, and at the end is a group of truck drivers sitting around the table while eating and blowing the sky, the whole street is full of wires, all kinds of strings of lights are hung between street lamps and street lamp poles, and high-power spotlights are hung in the air to illuminate the ground, Batman is stunned as soon as he lands on the dim rooftop.
Since the streets around these transportation hubs were too busy for Batman to play with, he headed for the more remote and less crowded streets.
But commercial agglomeration brings not only the prosperity of the market, but also the movement of people, even Gotham is the most vulnerable group in it, such as single mothers with children, can also find a job serving dishes or washing dishes in restaurants that are open all night.
The people of Gotham City are not isolated, basically there is contact between a group, and most of the disadvantaged groups who live in more remote and distant places will find a lively night market nearby, do odd jobs in it, even if it is just picking up garbage, they can earn a dollar or two, enough for them to eat a meal.
However, because they live far from where they work, it will delay their work time, so most of them move closer to each other.
If you are close to this kind of place, the rent of the house will be more expensive, but the landlord is not stupid, originally he could charge $100 for renting a room to one person, but now he divides this room into three, and he charges five dollars per person, and he can earn an extra $50, and those people will be grateful to Dade.
As a result, a large number of landlords in the night market streets began to make their houses smaller, and those vulnerable groups did not care how small and dilapidated their rooms were, and they would not be more dilapidated than where they used to live.
Then the gangsters who run and rule the street find that if they can make more of these rooms, they can attract more outsiders, they can make the whole street more efficient, and they can collect more protection money.
So they began to take the initiative to convert the attic or some vacant rooms of their property into smaller apartments, which were specially prepared for these outsiders who were attracted by the industry.
Some poor ghosts really don't have a penny, and the gangsters also allow them to live in it first, and then pay off their debts every month, and some gangsters who urgently need to hire people don't even want interest, and they pay off the rent during the time they just move in, as long as you help me work on this street, I will not only not charge you interest, but also give you subsidies, anyway, I don't earn your rent.
Then Batman found that Gotham had recently been eerily quiet, with transportation hubs as the center, various night markets radiating outward, and new business districts began to develop gradually.
In these new business districts, very few people will cause trouble, because if you had killed two people in a dark alley in the past, the police might not find out for half a day, and even if you know some special skills, it could become a cold case.
But in this kind of bustling night market, this kind of thing is almost impossible to happen, and even when you are playing football, whoever hacks and kicks whoever is black can spread throughout the neighborhood the next day, and if you rob on the spot, then you better count on the police to come quickly, otherwise the local gangsters will definitely stuff you in the sewers.
Because if you kill someone in the street, it will take time to wash the floor, right? When the police come to investigate, they have to cooperate with the investigation, and the eyewitnesses around them have to be summoned in turn, how much time does this have to be delayed? How much turnover is lost? How much less protection money do I have to charge?
If you are far away, forget it, the gangsters may not be too lazy to care, but at such a close distance, there are more than a dozen gangster thugs patrolling a street, and you have just taken out your gun, and before you can say the word robbery, there may already be more than a dozen holes on your body.
Doing business is doing business, and Gotham's tradition of shooting first and then questioning cannot be lost.
In this way, in one dark night after another, Batman stood alone on the roof of the building, watching the dark night that used to be dimly lit, and began to be slowly lit up, and now, he stood on the roof of Wayne Building, the center and highest point of Gotham, and the lights of thousands of homes under his feet.
He thought that perhaps he had witnessed a miracle so closely, that this chaotic and terrible city, which could not be saved, began to sprout and grow in chaos, and then blossomed into a strange and strange flower.
It bloomed wantonly in the dark night, unabashedly chaotic and malicious, Batman thought, this black flower, will still open to the sun, but the black sun.
And he, and Batman, Batman did not feel defeated, a whole new power surged within him, a new thought, a thought that was broader than night and revenge, appeared in his heart for the first time.
He had a wonderful premonition that this world, this universe, was changing for something, just like Gotham.
And the next time, he thought, in this miraculous change, he will no longer be a spectator, but must be a participant.
He watched as the night came again, and the lights began to light up one by one, and then, apart from the cold wind and darkness above the sky, flickering points of light began to spread rapidly through the streets until the whole city was lit up.
It was here, at this very moment, that the bat, alone above the city, felt that he had finally learned how to light the lamp.