Bruce left with a resolute attitude, but the old man still gave him a cigarette and said, "For every new person who comes here, I will provide him with a cigarette for free, which may save his life at a critical moment, and also add a customer for me, if you really can't stand the pain, then come to me, the doctor welcomes every patient."

Bruce took the cigarette and stiffened back to the car, he put the cigarette in his pocket and sat in his seat in a daze until it rained again in Gotham.

With nowhere else to go, Bruce has to stay in the truck, which is his only shelter, and although it is not very warm, it is good to shelter from the wind and rain.

Staying in the driver's seat, Bruce's mind kept echoing the words of the old man, so ridiculous, unreasonable, almost like a joke.

But the old man wasn't joking, he really thought of himself as a doctor, and then looked for solutions for those patients, thinking that he could cure them, and in his opinion, if it didn't hurt, it was a cure.

Is this ridiculous? Perhaps, but not without reason.

In these few days, Bruce has come to realize the importance of the ability to work, which is the only hope for everyone here.

They have to be able to work in order to survive here, and if they can't move, they really have to die.

In order to gain the ability to work, they try everything they can, including drugs for pain.

There are two ways to treat the disease, one is to treat the symptoms and the other is to treat the root cause, and Bruce is completely unin favor of treating the symptoms of this kind of chronic suicide, but he also has no way to question why these people don't treat the root cause.

Because, the two crumpled dollars he is holding in his hand now, he can't even pay the hospital registration fee.

If you can only rely on yourself to obtain the basic means of survival, then the phrase that there are unforeseen circumstances is no longer a simple emotion, but a bolt from the blue.

On the day the thunder fell, many people were already dead, and the death penalty was the first sentence, and it was only after fifteen years before leaving.

Bruce, who was lying in his seat, was still gradually hazy and sleepy, but this time, his dream kept falling, wandering in repeated falls and awakenings.

His grip on the spear gradually loosened, and the physical and psychological torture made him sink into a deep dream, so that he did not hear any strange noise.

When he got up the next day, Bruce sat in his seat and stretched, he felt a little better, the symptoms of stomach pain had disappeared, his strength had recovered a lot, and it was no longer cool down today, and after the temperature rose, the cold feeling had faded.

Bruce felt like everything was going around the corner, but it didn't last long, and after ten minutes, he realized that the car wasn't on fire.

Getting out of the car to check, Bruce found that the lock on the fuel tank had been picked open.

The full tank of oil he had filled had all been stolen, and he had slept so heavily last night that he hadn't heard any movement.

Now the problem is that if he wants to eat, then the money is not enough to refuel, and if he wants to refuel, the money is not enough to eat.

If he doesn't work hard, then he won't want to do today's work, then he will still have no money to eat tomorrow's meal after eating today's meal, but if he doesn't eat, his gastroenteritis may become more serious and his body will be weaker.

After much deliberation, Bruce decided to go for the effort, and he had to make sure he was sustainable, not a meal that didn't go uncooked.

Eventually, he went to the gas station, and with the money he had left, he filled the tank again, and with a little money left, he changed the lock on the tank, and he was once again penniless.

If you add oil, you can go to work, and as long as you work, you will have money to get and you can eat the next day, and everything will be fine.

With this in mind, Bruce embarked on the journey again.

As he had done a few days before, he went to the gang's warehouse and began to load the goods, and today's business was exceptionally good, with a cart full of goods and a two-dollar tip, as long as he pulled the cart to the distribution point, he could earn another ten dollars, and he would have three days' worth of food.

Bruce felt that he had made the right choice, and that he had not short-sightedly used the money to buy food, otherwise, he would still be worried about tomorrow's meal.

I drove on the road, got on the viaduct as usual, and then began the long process of traffic jam.

However, in the past, even if it was a traffic jam, it was possible to move once in five minutes, and the 20-kilometer distance could be run for several hours, although it was a little slower, but it could still be completed.

However, today's traffic team seemed to be welded to death, and did not move, seeing that the sun was overhead, and half of the viaduct had not yet been completed, Bruce couldn't help but get out of the car to check the situation like the other drivers.

I don't know if I don't know, I look even more desperate, there is a leak in the transport truck that transports dense ice raw materials in the cold storage, and the leaked materials have frozen the second half of the viaduct into ice, and now we are waiting for professionals to come and solve it, if the professionals can't come, don't think about delivery today.

I was on the bridge until two o'clock in the afternoon, and Bruce was notified, the professionals were coming, but they were not professional enough, and they had to find more professional people, and the more professional people had to arrive tomorrow, the entrance to the viaduct had been sealed, and the cars that were now blocked on the road were considered unlucky, and they could only go again tomorrow.

Standing on the viaduct, Bruce could clearly feel that the sunlight here was better than the ground, although it was still not clear, but the vision was more open, but his mood was not open enough.

He felt angry, aggrieved, and regretful, but he didn't know who to blame.

After asking about the situation, Bruce knew that the driver of the raw material truck stayed up late to drive, didn't sleep all night, and didn't pay attention when he got up to check the valve today.

First-time professionals say that the ingredients are not recyclable, which means that a small negligence on the part of the driver left him with at least $300,000 in debt, and now Bruce has realized that $300,000 is not just a few meals for him.

The vast majority of drivers are afraid to leave their trucks, they have all experienced what Bruce experienced before, maybe just go to the toilet and eat, the gas is stolen, the road is impassable, and they have to stay here.

Some of the kids ran to the viaduct to sell food, and many of the truck drivers bought it, but Bruce didn't buy it because he didn't have the money.

After another day and a night of hunger, Bruce felt that the fat in his body was being consumed rapidly, but his spirit was better than before, and he was no longer tormented by the pervasive hunger pang.

The next day, after the road was cleared, Bruce drove to the distribution center, but when he returned to settle the bill, half of the money was deducted.

The reason is that after a one-day delay in the shipment, they failed to catch up with the previous batch of freighters, and the price of the next batch of freighters increased again, and the gangsters could only recover the cost from their heads.

Bruce didn't have the strength to reason with the gangsters at this point, and he just wanted to get the money to buy food now, because his body was telling him that if he didn't eat again, he would be at risk of low blood sugar.

With the dozens of dollars, he found a bakery on the side of the road, bought two bags of cheap finished white bread, two baguettes, and some easy-to-store biscuits, and put them on the truck, and then asked the newsboy to buy a few bottles of pure water at a high price, and put them on the truck.

There is no good source of meat, so you can only buy finished sausages, but in fact, most of the finished sausages are offal, and the sanitary conditions are not up to standard, but Bruce can only make do, without fat supplementation, the body temperature will drop faster.

The only difficulty now is vitamins, vegetables are not easy to preserve, and he has no place to cook, Bruce must find himself a more stable place to live as soon as possible.

Replenished with food, Bruce was a lot more relieved, as long as he could save some money, he could rent a better house, and with a stable place to live, his trip to the slums could be regarded as the official beginning, and the next step was to get out of the East End on his own.

But Gotham is like that, whenever a person is full of ambition and wants to do something, the unexpected will come.

After dark, Bruce tried to find a place to park, but just as he started the car, he noticed that the operation felt a little wrong

, it seems that the steering system is not very bright.

Bruce experimented for a long time and found that there was really something wrong with the car, and he had to get under the car to fix it, but after a check, he found that the car was not completely new.

Although he looked glamorous on the outside, when he saw the internal structure, Bruce knew that it was a new used car made of various old parts put together.

At the beginning, he thought that the gangsters would not be so kind to give him such a good car for free, but the aging of the parts inside was even worse than he imagined.

The next day, Bruce went to the previous gangster, and they had a good attitude and were willing to repair Bruce's car, but after repairing it, before he could drive it for a day, there was a problem with the tires again.

Bruce discovers that the gangster's method of repairing cars is to replace the parts of one car that don't work well with another, and then the rest is all up to luck.

In other words, it is good that they can successfully change to it, and when the first batch of students at the vocational and technical college has not yet graduated, most of them rely on intuition to repair trucks.

Bruce knew that he couldn't fix it like this, he had to replace the parts in good condition to get the car running smoothly and not break down in the middle of the road, but he didn't have the money to buy good parts.

Bruce discovers that all the problems he has in the slums come down to two words: no money.

No money is no money, what you want to buy, a penny is missing, it is also no money, a penny is difficult to defeat a hero, it is not an exaggerated adjective, not to mention, Bruce is not a penny, he is only a penny.

At this time, he was approached by a group of people who claimed to be there to solve Bruce's lack of money.

Looking at the strong man in the lead, Bruce asked, "You said you could lend me money, but what about the interest?"

The strong man waved his hand and said, "We're not going to talk about this here, we're just going to tell you how much you're going to have to pay back each installment, and the minimum amount to borrow here is $300, and for the next year, you pay us back $50 a week."

Bruce didn't even have to think about the number, he knew that it was called usury, and seeing that he was not interested, the strong man put his arm around his shoulders and said:

"Our terms are already very favorable, and believe me, those who want you to pay back thousands of dollars in one go are complete blackmail."

"You see, when you need money urgently, you take 300 dollars from us, and then you only need to pay us back 50 dollars, 50 dollars a week, it's not difficult for drivers like you, maybe you can have a few dozen dollars left a week to support your family."

Seeing that Bruce still didn't accept it, he said, "Okay, if you like the more traditional way, we'll lend you $300 and you give us $800 next month."

Bruce knew that $800 was a lot of money for the slums, not to mention $800, and $80 was a lot of money for him now.

Bruce looked at the strong man and asked, "What if I don't?"

The strong man smiled and said, "Don't worry, the gang is short of people now, and you will have a good place to go, especially since you are still a beauty."