After nearly two years of hard work by Wayne Engineering Group, Gotham's East End renovation has been completed for a small time, but the main objects of the renovation are still residential buildings, and many commercial streets controlled by gangster families have not yet begun construction.

Connected nightclubs, casinos, malls, and even crowded markets all need time to sort out the interests involved, and with the exception of some old buildings that have not been remodeled when Gotham was built, which are structurally unstable, the commercial buildings that have been built later have become iconic landscapes of Gotham's skyline, and are not suitable for tearing down and rebuilding like those dilapidated houses.

Gotham is chaotic, but it is not poor, and the East End is the epitome of this phenomenon, although there are high-density low-end residential areas where the poor struggled to survive like the living hell of the past, but there are also high-rise buildings and gold beaches that are brightly lit at night.

Golden Beach is close to the sea, in the south of the dock area of the East District, and consists of about 20 miles of sandy beaches, Jinbei Square on the road to the beach, and four streets in a pattern of about 4 streets, which is the most prosperous commercial center in the East District.

These include the Jinbei Bar, Jinbei Nightclub, and Golden Wine Casino established by the Jinbei Group, which is controlled by the Falcone family, the Gulili Commercial Street controlled by the Spencer family, Chinatown, which is dominated by Chinese gangs, and the Golden Beach Market, which is located in the center of the tic-tac-toe controlled by the Lawrence family.

Golden Beach Bazaar is the world's largest underground market and the only semi-public black market, where you can buy stolen goods, contraband, prohibited weapons, contraband drugs, certain images and human organs from around the world.

Of course, due to the gradual transformation of the Gotham gang into the traditional refrigerated logistics industry, the Golden Beach Bazaar has become less prosperous than before, but it is still the most intensive place for the exchange of activities in the lower nine streams of Gotham.

Drive south from Yoselde Avenue and take the ramp on the right side of Gulili Avenue to find the entrance to Golden Beach Market in a shady alley lined with Lawrence family buildings.

After pushing open the dilapidated iron door, the scene inside suddenly opens up, the lights of the neon signs of various bars are dizzying, the towering buildings are brightly lit, looking down the lamp poles, the thieves in jackets, hats, and backpacks in front of them put the old cardboard board at their feet, the names of some items are written on it, and the bikers holding motorcycles gather in twos and threes to pick up the stolen goods.

At the end of the street, there is a bar called Silver Thorn, which opens the door and passes through a somewhat narrow corridor, the dazzling light of the lamp balls leaves a striking scar on the surface of the black leather coat.

When a slender figure walked into the bar, everyone's eyes looked at her, and then they moved away for a second at the same time.

"Catwoman, good girl, you haven't been here for a long time, where have you made your fortune lately? You can't have forgotten about us old folks, right? ”

A strange-looking, thin man sat in front of the stripper's bar drinking, and Catwoman walked over and sat down and said, "Collapse, what are you still doing here?" I thought you had already gone to the Golden Cup Bar. ”

"There's no way, the boss there is too powerful, I can't afford to mess with it, it's better here." The man known as the Collapsed Head laughed a few times, and when he turned to reveal the other side of his face, it was clear why he was called the "Collapsed Head".

The entire right side of his face was missing a large piece from the corner of his forehead to his right eye, turning into a pit, and the scar on it showed that this abnormal change was not born, but was caused by an acquired injury, which looked very strange and terrifying.

But everyone knows that in Gotham, if you see someone with a very obvious wound on their exposed limb, you have to be vigilant.

Even when Batman is at the bottom of the East End, he will be anxious because of a cold and about to lose his ability to work, and for ordinary people, even some small injuries affect their work efficiency, it is very likely that they will fall into a vicious circle, and the final result is just to go to those basement doctors to have some fun for the rest of their lives.

Anyone who can survive a serious injury in Gotham, or even live well, is a ruthless person among the ruthless, after all, they don't have the same medical resources as the Wayne Group, and the rain with dark attributes in Gotham alone is enough for them to drink a pot.

If these people are lucky enough to survive, the ugly scars will become their armor and even weapons, at least in Gotham, someone who sees a person like Collapsed Head, the instinctive reaction is to take a detour, because there is a possibility that is more terrible than the acquired injury - congenital disability and mental distortion caused by disability, this is the type of villain that can be on the Batman publication, no one will think of provoking them.

But fortunately, this collapse is not a crazy person, he and Catwoman didn't talk for a few words and began to complain: "The recent market is really getting worse and worse, along with the renovation project, Wayne Group has laid more and more security equipment here." ”

"Where has a thief ever seen something so high-class? Last time, Little Feder crashed into it for some reason, he thought that the infiltration was seamless, but in fact he had been locked by the robot a long time ago, and the ghost thing was more accurate than the gangster's most accurate gunman, and Little Feder was killed on the spot. ”

"Originally, the market in the Eastern District was the best, there were many people here and it was easy to steal, so that the four thieves and so many other thieves could be fed, but now the situation has become like this, there are fewer targets, there are still so many thieves, there are no distinguishable ones, and many thieves in the Eastern District have to go to several other districts to steal."

"They are not familiar with the people in other districts, and it is easy to fight when they are seen by their counterparts in those districts, and in just a few months, half of the customers who come to me to sell stolen goods are reduced, and if this continues, they can't even fill their stomachs."

He sighed deeply and said, "Who made me faint from birth?" If there is no real hardship, who is being a stolen goods seller in this damn city and being bullied by the gangsters, isn't it enough? ”

Catwoman also echoed and sighed and said: "The work of the snitch is not easy to do, since the bosses began to transform into a dry cold storage business, they can get less high-end jewelry, the inventory of the safe is naturally not much, there is no new thing to go once a month, and I can barely survive by selling the previous inventory." ”

Catwoman asked for a glass of wine, and said as she drank it, "I came to you to ask, do you have any research on some, well, what to say, just some god-like stuff?" ”

Collapse heard what Catwoman was saying, he looked left and right, beckoned to her, and the two came to the back door of the bar, Collapse squinted at Catwoman and said, "What, you have a way?" ”

"Good girl, we've been working together for so many years, you really have to help me! My wife and her sister do odd jobs at Penny's mother, but they are not as talented as you, and they only learn when they are adults, and they can't earn a lot of money if they don't have good skills, and my daughter is still in primary school in the fifth phase of the renovation project, and the whole family is waiting to make ends meet, if you have any way, you must tell me! ”

Catwoman shook her head and said, "It's not a good way, I have a good friend who helps out in the church, and he heard from Father Daniel, the priest there, that there has been a mess in the occult world recently, and those mage wizards are as anxious as ants on a hot pan......"

He opened his mouth, looked at Catwoman with wide eyes, and said, "There really is a mage, I only saw a gypsy witch a few years ago who can turn the water in a cup." ”

"Of course there is, that Mother Chen in Chinatown next door can even make a knife fly, I've seen it."

"But what does it have to do with us if something happens to these god-like people?"

"I heard that they are so anxious because they have lost their strength, and Gotham has the key to their strength, and the old priest Daniel said that in the next week, they will come to Gotham one after another."

"My friend was frail, but kind-hearted, or at least very devout, and the priest liked him very much, so he said a little more about him, and he said that the cost of studying magic is very high, and that those precious stones and precious metals are not affordable for ordinary people, let alone wands with magical energy."

Collapsed's eyes became brighter and brighter, he pouted, and asked with some uncertainty: "But they are not easy to deal with, right?" ”

"Could it be more difficult to deal with than the Gotham Gang?" Catwoman leaned forward, stared at the collapsed head and said, "Don't forget why they're here, they don't have the strength right now, and they're in a hurry!" ”

The eyes of the collapsed head quickly turned twice, as a senior stolen goods seller, he naturally knew what kind of people are good, unsuspecting outsiders, especially those who are in a hurry to catch the transportation, in the eyes of the thieves are no different from lambs to be slaughtered.

"How?" Collapsed asked further.

"We can't spread it out like this now." Catwoman first threw out the main tone, and then said: "There are a lot of them, and there is a certain danger, and they are a large influx in a short period of time, if everyone rushes up to steal, wouldn't it be asking for trouble if they step on two hands?" ”

Collapsed nodded, feeling that what Catwoman said made sense, the last time Gotham experienced so many sudden influxes of outsiders was when Batman was on fire in Metropolis.

But at that time, Mayor Roy cracked down on theft at train stations and airports in order to keep Gotham's tourism industry, and the gangsters also guarded the thieves in order to rip off customers, and they couldn't drink much soup.

But this time, this group of people is not here for tourism, but just to find something, and if they don't want to make trouble in the city, they stay for a short time and are unruly, they are definitely not welcomed by the city government and gangsters, maybe it is an opportunity for thieves.

Thinking like this, he immediately made a decision in his heart, there was no stupid person who was so badly injured and still mixed up like a fish in water in Gotham, he immediately spoke: "I'll go to the Golden Cup Bar to find the Golden Hand now, he is the head of all the stolen goods and brokers in the East End, and knows almost all the thieves in the East End." ”

"That's not enough, you need to find someone who knows all the thieves in Gotham."

Collapsed his mouth widened and glared at Catwoman, saying, "You have such a big appetite? Don't kid me, Catwoman, you'll have to tell me the truth, who's here this time? ”

Catwoman crossed her arms and smiled and said, "Although the mages are rich, they have been out of touch with ordinary society for a long time, and those magic props on their bodies can be sold for some money, but not much, have you ever heard of vampires?" ”

Frowning his head vigorously, he said, "Of course I heard that, my father told me that decades ago they dared to bite people in the street, but since the development of the gang, most of those flying rats have been killed. ”

"The vampires will come to Gotham with the mages, and it's not those low-level rats who are coming, the thirteen clans of the blood clan have heard of it, right? The old European aristocrats who have lived for an average of five or six hundred years have casually touched a priceless antique on their bodies, how many of these dirt buns in the Eastern District can recognize? ”

He gasped, but had to admit that Catwoman had a point.

Although Catwoman is one of the four snitches in the East End, it is only because she was born in the East End, and Catwoman mostly moves between the rich and rich in the West and South Districts, as well as museums, where there is some old money, and thieves must have a certain eye and art appreciation ability to steal quickly and accurately.

But in contrast, most of these people in the East End are aimed at nouveau riche, gang bosses, the wealthier among the poor, and the occasional wealthy businessman who comes here to do business.

Collapsed knew that the opportunity was rare, so he gritted his teeth and said.

"I'm going to find the Golden Hand, he has a way to contact the heads of several other districts, it's a big deal to let my children go to the boss of Copote, he is the red man in front of Falcone, the godfather speaks, and he can't find a group of thieves?"

(End of chapter)