Chapter 780: Deadly Joke (7)
When he woke up the next morning, Bruce knew he had to find a job today, he didn't have much of $20 left, and if he continued like this, he would really go hungry.
But is it so easy to find a job? It's a long way from the docks, and it's definitely not okay to be a porter, but to be a gangster, you need a letter of introduction, and the gangsters have to make sure that you can trust you before they recruit you, and they won't recruit an unknown person.
If you're the son of a gang member, your parents may refer you to work in that gang, or they may refer you to a gang in another neighborhood that doesn't have an interest in the gang they're working with now.
And the gangs in the distance also accept such members, and even some gangs are short of people, so they will go to the gangs farther away and ask them if they have a good next generation.
But where does Bruce Wayne have a gangster background? Without an acquaintance's introduction, he couldn't even get into the gang.
There is no way to become an official member of the gang, but you can also become an external member, and many people are like this, and not every waiter and security guard in the bar is an official member of the gang, many of them just work for the gang.
Bruce wanted to go over and become a security guard, after all, he had the advantage of his stature and his fighting skills were very strong, but unfortunately, the security guards of the East Side didn't need any fighting skills, they needed more eyesight.
You have to be able to look at them for less than three seconds to determine if they're a normal guest, or a thief, a smasher, or another gangster spy, but Bruce has only been here for two days, and the only thing he can tell is the gender of the other person.
If you can't be a security guard, then you can always be a waiter, right? Bruce got a similar job, working as a waitress in a nightclub, not the one who served dishes, of course, but just cleaning and sweeping the floors.
However, Bruce has a very handsome face, which leads to situations that are always unacceptable to him, and he works there for three days and meets seven mob bosses, six of whom are men, who want to keep him.
He couldn't hide his face, and the guests would think he was the kind of bomb-carrying blast maniac who would affect the nightclub's business, and eventually, the owner of the nightclub wanted to introduce him to the strip bar opposite, and Bruce had to quit the job.
If you want to eat with your face, it's not impossible, and it's best to go to the mansion to be a welcome.
Generally speaking, in the mansion covered by the big gangsters, basically no one dares to mess around, but the problem is that the leaders of the big gangs all know Bruce Wayne, and as soon as he wanted to go in, he was taken to the top office by two greeters, and was entertained with good tea and wine, and Bruce drank a stomach full of expensive wine and went back.
It's okay to do this kind of low-level work, and you can't be a skilled worker, right? Now the gang is most short of skilled workers, and Bruce is not going to do any difficult work, because this will deviate from the original intention, after all, the knowledge he knows also depends on his excellent educational conditions, and ordinary people in the East Side certainly do not have such conditions.
Bruce is aiming for a truck driver, after all, driving is not a difficult technical job, most of the children in the East Side, when they reach a certain age, will be taken by their elders or gangsters to learn to drive, even if they don't go to the special delivery of goods, occasionally replace the driver to run an errand.
Since the gang was really short of people, Bruce said he could drive, so they immediately sent him a truck to take care of the freight from the city center to the docks.
This is not difficult at all, a year ago, the city center to the pier was opened to the viaduct, from the entrance to the bridge, the bridge under the bridge in less than three minutes, you can reach the terminal distribution point.
Bruce thought, what kind of moth can this kind of work come out of? The transportation of goods in the city is less than 20 kilometers away, and he doesn't have to take care of moving and unloading goods, and the gangsters also take care of a lunch, so it has finally stabilized, right?
But it turned out that what he thought was still too simple, it was really difficult to drive a truck, and those things other than driving were even more difficult.
First of all, the truck is not employed by a gang, it is usually a gangster in an area, and the trucks in this area will be used, and the gangsters have different styles and must be carefully screened.
Some gangsters like to overload and take
A gun pointed at your head makes you pull a little more goods, completely regardless of whether you can pass the inspection, some gangsters like to carry contraband, and when they are checked out at the distribution point, the truck driver will also get into trouble.
Moreover, if you are not familiar with the people at the distribution point, you can't find a good position for queuing up for unloading, and no one helps you command the reversing, and the efficiency will be very slow.
When others arrive at the distribution point, they can cut the line casually, and then they can run a second trip, and Bruce is outside with the steering wheel in hand, and the wait is two hours.
Moreover, seeing that he is young and his face is raw, many porters like to play tricks, knock on the car window to eat and take cards, if you don't give money, you will wait for the goods to be transported here and there, and go back to the gang to be in trouble.
In addition, the traffic situation in Gotham has improved, but it has not completely improved, most of the time, once there is some traffic conflict, it is common for a shotgun to stick out of the car window, and Bruce has just earned a little money, so he has to take it out to buy a gun and an explosion-proof shield.
If you want to park the car at the distribution point overnight, it is useless to just lock the fuel tank, either leave someone to guard it, or you have to ask acquaintances to watch it, and if you want to have acquaintances, you have to spend money to invite dinner and tie relations, which is the same in any country.
Bruce did this work for a week, and the deposit managed to go from a dozen dollars to a few dollars, and if it weren't for the gangsters taking care of a meal at noon, he might really have come to lose weight passively.
If you want to enter the industry, in addition to spending time and energy, you must lower your profile, ask for advice and integrate into the circle of the industry, and do some behaviors that you may have felt very annoying before, and become the person you hated before.
The four words of being forced to make a living are too heavy, and no one knows what kind of burden is on the shoulders of the person who says these four words.
These days, Bruce discovers that what is more terrifying than the fierce criminal conflict is the calm, the long, the never-ending, the poor.
The people of Gotham are not poor, at least they are rich compared to other cities, but this kind of laborious life day after day consumes all their energy, makes them have no time to think, and dies slowly.
When Batman stood at the top of the building and looked at all this, he couldn't understand why these people didn't have the strength and courage to break free from this life.
But when he was already in the middle of it, he found that in the bleak and cold night of Gotham, the flames of vengeful anger could not even light a cigarette.
For the first time in less than two weeks, Bruce had the idea of retreating, and he felt that he had gathered enough material, but there was a thought in his mind that told him that it was not enough, that he had not yet reached the bottom.
So, he can only set sail again, and besides, he doesn't plan to change jobs again, because he knows that ordinary people here don't have so much cost to make mistakes, they don't have such a strong body, they go hungry for a week, they don't have such strong fighting skills, and they can run away when they are in trouble by the gangsters.
In all the hardships that Bruce has experienced, at some point, ordinary people can only write a word in blood in a no-man's corner - accept fate.
One day, Bruce drove up the viaduct again, and when he was stuck in traffic, he turned his head and saw a familiar face.
The driver next to him was pale, wearing red lipstick, and was biting on bread with his mouth open, and Bruce rolled up the window in a bit of a hurry, but the driver on the opposite side had already turned his head.
Seeing Bruce sitting in the driver's seat of the truck, Jack the Clown was also stunned, the bread in his mouth suddenly didn't smell good, he took the section of bread that had not been bitten off from his mouth, and brought out some residues.
He lowered his head and picked up the scum and threw it in his mouth, rolled down the window, and desperately reached out to hook Bruce's window.
Bruce spun the steering wheel to hide, but now in a traffic jam, where is there room to hide, Jack got out of the window, grabbed the edge of the truck window with one hand, and knocked on Bruce's glass with the other.
Finding that he couldn't break the glass, Jack got back into his truck, rummaged through the front and back of his seat, and pulled out a large bomb.
Bruce immediately rolled down the window and said, "Take."
Put that thing down! I warn you, this shipment of mine is very important, it is a rush order, it must be delivered in two hours, and if you blow up the bridge, I will throw you down here!"
Jack, with the bomb in his hand, was stunned again, and he plucked out his ear and said, "What did you say?"
"I say! If you! Dare to blow up the bridge! I'll ......."
"No, I'll say the previous one!" Jack shouted at him.
Bruce paused and said, "This shipment is very important, it's an urgent order!"
Jack twitched the corners of his mouth down, and he glared at Bruce with a gloomy look and said, "Why are you here? Why are you driving a truck? Why don't you stand on the roof of Wayne Tower and blow the wind?"
Bruce didn't want to answer him, and just as he was about to roll up the window, Jack got out of his own window again, put his hand on the window, and stuck his head into Bruce's truck.
Bruce rummaged around in front of his seat, then pulled out a bottle of mineral water and slammed it on Jack's head, but he retreated completely, grabbing Bruce's arm and asking him, "Damn, why are you here?" Answer me, answer me Batman, are you crazy?!"
Bruce took a deep breath and glanced towards another window. The traffic jam in front, the road in front of is still jammed, the car moves forward at a frequency of every five minutes, if nothing else, within half an hour, it will definitely not be able to get off the bridge.
So he looked at Jack and said, "I'm driving a truck because I'm going to make money, because I'm human, I've got to eat!"
Jack was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst into a series of laughs, he looked at Bruce with his mouth open, and asked, "What did you say?" Again, it's the funniest joke I've ever heard this year!"
"I said, I'm human, I have to eat, how can I eat if I don't have money?"
Jack laughed hard again, and kept patting the window glass until he burst into tears, and then he looked at Bruce with teary eyes and said:
"How can I eat without money? Hahahahaha...... Hahahaha!! That's right! How can I eat if I don't have money?"