Upstairs in the palatial mansion, a middle-aged man in a suit and gray hair was holding a phone and roaring angrily.

"How dare a damn gangster yell at me on TV?! If he is allowed to be so arrogant, how can there be any face in the federal law, and what are you FBI doing?! What's so hard about rushing in and catching him?! ”

"Are you mistaken? I'm a councillor, not an agent! My job is to keep the government running, not to arrest people! Why don't you go when the federal government is in crisis PR? ”

The man took a deep breath, pressed down in mid-air with one hand on his waist and the other, and then said, "Okay, Amanda, I don't want to listen to you talk about this useless nonsense anymore, if the FBI is not afraid of losing face for dereliction of duty, then I will personally play with him!" I can't go to his house and get him out, so I'll let him know that he and this rotten city don't have a good time! ”

The man hung up the phone angrily, but when he turned his head, he felt a vague black shadow flash in the shadow of the curtain behind him.

He immediately convulsed, turned his neck suspiciously and stretched his neck to look over there, and shouted inwardly, "Who? Who's there?! Get out of here, or I'm going to call a bodyguard! ”

A black figure stepped out of the shadows, and Batman looked at Lauder's face and said, "I'm here to warn you, don't do anything to Gotham, it's for your good." ”

"Batman?!" Lauder called out Batman's name in some surprise, of course he had heard of the Dark Knight of Gotham, but it was not a good reputation.

It is difficult for anyone living in a normal city to understand what kind of environment requires a straitjacket freak to be a vigilante to maintain justice, so they usually don't understand Batman at all, and only treat him as a grandstanding clown.

"Are you the killer sent by Colbert?" Lauder snorted disdainfully, he raised his chin and said proudly: "Does he really think that if he brags a few words on TV, I will be afraid of him?!" If he dares to kill a member of the federal government, he can only be a fugitive in his life! ”

Obviously, no matter who he faces, Batman is very bad at explaining, and he also feels that he doesn't need to explain at all, he just says: "Dealing with Gotham and dealing with the people here is not good for you, and it can cause extreme consequences, you better think carefully about your decision-making and don't leave yourself a way out." ”

With that, Batman turned away, a smart man like him more or less underestimated the stupidity of a fool, and he felt that what he was hinting at was obvious enough.

Since Cobot is just a gangster who can't be seen on the stage, what can he do if he shouts a few words on the local Gotham show? You should have a meeting, you should condemn and condemn, as long as you don't go to Gotham, how can he put you on the guillotine?

But not everyone has the extreme rational self-control of Batman, or the same sentence, all disputes start with "why".

The parliamentarians are all elites who are used to being high-minded, and they are the only ones who accuse this and condemn that, and even if there are political opponents who refute them, they are all fighting with each other, when have they ever been threatened with death?

Even if there are those who don't want to die, death threats are criminalized in the laws of most states in the United States, and the FBI took them down within a few days.

But he, Oswald Copote, is just a gang boss in a district of a city, and he dares to openly threaten congressmen with death before he is elected mayor of Gotham City, and the FBI doesn't even care, so how can Lauder, who was named and threatened, endure this breath?

Of course, he really didn't have the courage to go into Gotham alone, he wasn't stupid, the FBI didn't dare to go, didn't he go to deliver food?

But after all, he is a state legislator and a political family, and the interest groups behind him are big enough that they dare not enter Gotham to sanction them, but there are ways to sanction Gotham from the outside.

First, the Coast Guard was given funding to focus on smuggling boats on routes to Gotham, and then a new draft environmental law was enacted, so that all food, medicine, textiles, and other products produced by industries within the scope of marine pollution could not be shipped to other cities until they had passed inspection.

This is followed by a series of common sanctions such as adjusting tax rates, embargoing bulk products, and customs seizure of imported products.

It can be said that this is the first time that such a variety of sanctions have been applied to a city within the Federation.

But does that affect Colbert? Some impact, but not much.

Again, he is a gang boss, and the most valuable industry under his hands is just an iceberg restaurant, even if there are no raw materials to close, that is, to make less money.

Cobot wasn't in a hurry, Wayne was in a hurry.

One thing to say, although the security situation in Gotham is bad, the geographical location is really good, and after several generations of construction, it can also be called one of the most important heavy industrial cities on the East Coast.

If you use this means to sanction other countries, you can cut off your own shipping routes and prevent industrial raw materials from being transported, isn't this self-defeating? You have to have a lot of people with cerebral palsy to do this???

Bruce Wayne has recently been rethinking the bottom line of the politicians' IQ, but now he's faced with a slightly awkward situation.

Lauder and the people behind him are not targeting Colbert at all, but are actually trying to force Wayne.

Didn't you Copote hide in Gotham and not come out? Then let's negotiate directly with Wayne, hand over the person with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, you kill the most powerful jumper, and everyone continues to make money together, what's wrong?

Batman felt bad.

Not to mention that Batman would never hand over the villain of Gotham to anyone else, and Bruce Wayne couldn't even make a statement to get Colbert into the police station or find a way to shut him up.

Because Lauder's move is actually to tie the Wayne Group and Copot to the same line, pushing the two of them to one side, and the Wayne Group handed over Copote, which means that he is soft, but Bruce Wayne can't be soft, otherwise wouldn't anyone be able to sanction the Wayne Group?

The default rule in the business field is that everyone is a wolf with sharp teeth and sharp teeth, and they want to bite off other people's flesh with green eyes, and if anyone dares to show their wool, there will soon be no scum left to eat.

So even for the sake of the Wayne Group's face, Bruce Wayne can't do anything to Copper.

From Batman's point of view, he could take advantage of what the Penguins said on TV about what he did and put him in Arkham Asylum.

The problem is that now that the Penguins are gone, people will not think that someone is doing justice, but that it must be the Wayne Group that is secretly doing it, and that the Wayne Group must have reached some kind of agreement with the state legislature to try to silence Copote.

This matter has made a big fuss, and it is a hot topic on the East Coast recently, and Copote has a slight decline, and the Wayne Group can't even wash it by jumping into the Yellow River.

Batman only imagined that he was in a dilemma by the clown's crazy setup, and never thought that he could be pulled down by these stupid politicians with his unexpected IQ bottom line, and it can only be said that the fool's sentence is not completely unreasonable.

And the most terrifying thing is that these sanctions, which were originally intended to reach an exchange of interests with the Wayne Group, aroused extremely strong public anger in Gotham, and the Gotham people were already driven crazy by the rain, which added fuel to the fire.

Everyone was also considerate of the federal government, it is estimated that no one would dare to come to this rotten city, if you don't help, forget it, everyone has made do, but now that they have sanctioned it, people are shocked that there is still room for decline in the life that has been rotten to the bottom!

The most serious consequence of the embargo on raw materials is the shutdown of factories, and although there are no layoffs for the time being, there is no salary to be paid if they do not work.

The newly introduced draft environmental protection law has led to the diversion of the middle link of the food supplier's transportation chain, for fear of being stained with the label of Gotham pollution, which will make it difficult to sell their own goods, and would rather give up this part of the market than ship it here, which will bring the inevitable result of rising prices.

Wages are lowered, prices are higher, and people are ghosts if they don't make trouble.

The Gotham people who could have been able to buy things in the factory with wages are still a bit of a sense of superiority and can barely survive, and now this group of people can't survive, so what are you waiting for if you don't fall into the grass?

If you have no work to do and can't sit at home and starve to death, the little heads of the Gotham people who have been stirred up by the rain have a flash of inspiration, isn't there a war going on in Midtown? A few days ago, I saw an announcement that they were recruiting thugs, and it is better to be a thug than to starve to death!

As a result, many migrant workers living in cheap apartments in Lower Gotham shouted, "Da Chuxing, Chen Shengwang!" He joined the war in Midtown.

However, as everyone knows, the war potential of a certain region is certain, including the strategic depth, the reserve of combat readiness materials, the scope of personnel activities, and so on, and only a certain number of troops are allowed to fight here.

That's why many large City Watch battles look like a refueling tactic on the attacking side, and there are many online commanders who question why they don't just press the border with an army of 100,000 people, and one person can collapse the defense line with one person, but the fact is that there is simply not so much tactical space to accommodate so many people, and the people who are squeezed out are really pork in a meat grinder.

As the residents of the lower city continued to join the war, the manpower in the territories of various families and interest groups increased suddenly, and the materials needed also increased exponentially, but the land they owned and the materials in the territory they could grab were simply not enough to supply the current manpower.

What choice do they have? Of course, it is to continue to expand outward, to occupy more territory, to grab more things, and then to feed more people.

However, due to the different structure of the urban area, the division of labor is also different, the lower city is the main densely populated area, most of which are residential land, although everyone is a poor buddy, but you want to rob my house, the resistance is still very strong, even if you grab it, there is no money, it can be said that it is thankless.

But the upper town is a different story, with wide, flat parks, high-end restaurants, liquid luxury jewelry stores, and even established banks.

Of course, Uptown is also home to these interest groups, but they are located a little further in, which is the Uptown of Uptown.

Don't the rich feel that they are in the same class as the so-called poor middle-class people who live on the fringes of Uptown, and what if the middle-class community is robbed?

Besides, as long as I have the money, I can hire someone to surround my own family, and it has nothing to do with me what happens outside, in this case, the more you rob, the more funds you have to use to build your own security system, so why not rob it?

As a result, there was no need for anyone to deliberately guide it, and the uncontrollable greed after indulgence prompted the masterminds behind Gotham to completely open Pandora's box, and in an instant, chaos swept through Gotham like a plague.

(End of chapter)