Chapter 1679: No Time to Die (42)

Batman knows a lot about Martha Wayne, but not enough, he only knows that his mother was once the eldest daughter of the Kane family, received the most traditional elite education, and after marriage, she took care of her career and family, and was a good wife and mother.

But after really inquiring about the history of the Kane family, Batman found out that Martha Kane was actually married.

Maybe many DC fans have only heard of the Wayne family, and only heard that Batman is rich, but that is actually after Batman was born, in the setting of many comics, for a long time, Gotham had four families.

And the Kane family is actually the richest family in Gotham for the longest time, and even the most powerful family for a long time, the first of the four major families, while the Wayne family is a relatively young upstart.

The marriage between the Kane family and the Wayne family can be called a strong alliance, or it can be said that the old and the new join forces, and since then Gotham has been unstoppable.

One of the reasons for the decline of the Kane family is also that the leader of the previous generation of the Kane family had only one daughter, Martha, and after Martha married into the Wayne family, the other children of the Kane family were relatively average and difficult to support the family, so that the Kane family gradually fell behind the Wayne family.

Coupled with the generation of the Wayne family, a peerless genius like Bruce, the Wayne family has developed into today's giant in the industry all over the world.

In Gotham in the era of gangster rule, no family can be called innocent, especially the people of Bruce's grandfather's generation, in such a city, who can not have some contact with the darkness?

Old Kane is very concerned about the education of his only daughter, and it is Martha who becomes a clown from Thomas in the Lightning Universe to Batman, and it can be seen that the two of them are evenly matched and very similar.

In most of the comics, Thomas and Martha run the Wayne family's business together, not Thomas alone to pick up the burden, Martha is married and taught children at home, they are not the traditional family structure of male protagonist and female protagonist, but strong alliance.

When Martha was still alive, although the Kane family had declined slightly, it was still a giant in Gotham City, and the Wayne family did not surpass much, but now that Martha has returned to the Kane family, the Kane family is almost so confused that there is no such person.

Twenty hours is enough to bring a huge business empire to pieces, twenty years is enough time to change the situation and change the class, and although Kane is still a big family in Gotham, he has lost much compared to the huge figure of that glorious era.

Now, they are entrenched in a small plot of land on the edge of Midtown, and the Kane family's generation is headed by Martha's cousin, who was a little slower to react at the beginning of the war and a little slower to move, which led to their family residence not even standing in the most prosperous area of the Kane family's business, but being squeezed into the next block.

Martha, who had just finished quarreling with her husband, was in a bad mood, and when she went back to see this scene, she was more tactful when she quarreled with Thomas, because the two of them had been married for many years, and they shared weal and pain, and now they are reunited after a long absence, so naturally the words can't be said too ugly.

But the only daughter of a top big family at that time, a young lady who has been cultivated as an heir since she was a child, how good can her temper be? Martha's background is destined to be the kind of woman who swallows her anger and marries into a wealthy family the day after tomorrow, let alone looking at the face of her junior, let alone the stupidity of this junior.

Martha stabbed the stupid cousin's face with a few words, and then she didn't care about him anymore, and hurriedly counted the number of people, inquired about the reserves, checked the arms stock, and then closed the defense line of the station, so that those hyenas who wanted to take advantage of the fire had no chance.

Martha is more anxious and angry the more she investigates, isn't she dead for more than 20 years, how can the Kane family be like this?

Martha immediately decided that she couldn't go on like this, it was no longer a question of whether she could revitalize the Kane family, but whether she could keep the family's name and keep it from being eliminated by the times.

Unlike the busy situation of this generation of family leaders, Martha received an education in the context of the era of gangster rule, and she has studied turf, fire, and street fighting.

To put it simply, my lord, times have changed again.

Martha and Thomas were originally from the Gangster era, and they happened to be dying when the Gotham era changed.

In the era of Falcone's conquest of Gotham, they didn't see the fireworks fall to the ground, and when they saw the appearance of this artillery fire, the beautiful scenery they were familiar with as a child didn't come back?

Therefore, Martha is familiar with organizing manpower, distributing equipment, and making tactical arrangements, preparing to go straight to Huanglong.

Martha's cousin had been planning to take back the streets where the Kane family was wealthy, but Martha was full of disdain for this idea, and her decision-making was full of gangster style.

What is Gangster? Gangsters are all my property that I can grab, so what does it matter what is the surname of this property?

What is Gangster? Gangsters are to spend the least amount of money to do the biggest thing, if they can grab a hundred, they will never grab fifty, and if they can grab the best, they will not rob the worst.

So who is the best and best quality industry in the whole Midtown?

Martha simply declared war on the Wayne family, and within ten minutes of the declaration of war, the Wayne family's convoy was suddenly intercepted by the Kane family while eating hot pot and singing.

In fact, originally, with the assets of the Wayne family, there should have been no opponent in Gotham City for a long time, but Bruce Wayne couldn't be too advanced, in order to disguise, he deliberately slowed down by half a beat when he started the war, and he didn't bother to maintain his territory after that.

As a result, when Thomas took over, the defense of the base was not bad, but the logistics and transportation system was a semi-finished product, and because of the raw material sanctions, the chemical plant, the lifeblood of the economy, was also in a semi-suspended state.

Thomas is so angry, in fact, he could understand Bruce's clumsy needs, he didn't have to think about it to know that Bruce in this world must be Batman, in order not to reveal his identity, it is understandable that his development is slower.

But being beaten by his wife is about a man's self-esteem, and Thomas directly appeared in a fit of anger to take over the business of the Wayne Group and became the direct leader of the Wayne family.

Not to be outdone, he sent people to directly surround the small station of the Kane family, betting that the Kane family did not have so many materials to consume with him, but Martha contacted her former close friend, Fanissa Elliott, who is now silent Thomas Elliott's aunt, and gave the Wayne family's station a knife from behind.

Immediately afterwards, Thomas repeated his old trick and contacted the Sullivan family, who ran a casino in Gotham, blocking the traffic between the two Kane family residences, weakening the connection between the two places, and preventing them from successfully building their internal circulation system.

The two of you are very happy to fight back and forth, and more importantly, they were born in the gangster era and are really familiar with this kind of thing, and the young leaders of the other families in Gotham are dazzled and dumbfounded, after all, your dad will always be your dad.

But Batman is in a more awkward position, and his current thoughts can probably be summarized as: Is there anyone who can ignore me?

What should I do if my parents not only want to divorce but also fight when they reach middle age? It's a rush to wait online.

And soon, Batman has something important again, and Thomas and Martha finally remember him, but it is better not to think of him.

Every child will experience the dilemma that parents quarrel with and ask who you want to talk to, and Batman never dreamed that others would have to face this kind of problem in middle age.

"Bruce, listen to me, your mother is very uncool now, I have explained to her before, I just hope that the Wayne Group can have a good heir, so I pay too much attention to Damian, but I also did not neglect the other children, Dick and Jason are very fond of me."

"As for smoking and drinking, withdrawal also requires a process, I was very busy in that universe before, and I was under a lot of pressure, and I really didn't have time to pay attention to this, but she just didn't listen to me."

"You have to calm her down with me, what's the family can't sit down with and talk about? You're right? Bruce. ”

As soon as Batman put the phone down, the phone rang again, and Martha's hurried voice came from the other side.

"Little Bruce, you have to come here, your dad has done nothing for the sake of business, and if it goes on like this, those kids will be sad for what he has done."

"And the problem of him smoking and drinking, if nothing else, Aisha has just started kindergarten, is it appropriate for him to come home with the smell of cigarettes? What if I smoke my child? ”

"The girlfriend of Bruce of that universe also often comes to Wayne Manor, if he gets drunk and makes the family see what kind of system he has become, if it spreads, will the reputation of the Wayne family and the Kane family be gone?"

"We have to put a hard stop to his family's disregard and, more importantly, let him take a break from his precious business and listen to us, because what can't the family sit down and talk about? You're right? Bruce. ”

Batman doesn't think it's quite right.

Because while they were saying, "Is there anything in the family that can't sit down and talk?" On the other hand, they almost threw missiles at each other's heads, what the hell are they doing???

In fact, this is also caused by the cognitive gap, in the era of Batman's parents, this level of gangster fire was not normal, the city has never been reasonable, any crime is an amplified version, so it is also reasonable for the gangster family to start a small war with each other on several streets, right?

So, in Thomas and Martha's view, although they may be venting their anger from the quarrel, this level is at best testing and warning each other.

But when Batman was born, the gangsters were at the end of the day, the class was completely solidified, there was nothing to fight for, Gotham was lifeless everywhere, he had never seen such a battle.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, he has to accept his parents who have been dead for many years for a while, right?

But he was so stunned, Thomas and Martha used their wisdom and knowledge to let Batman see what is called the gangster heyday.

When they found that the warnings and temptations were fruitless, and their sons did not take a stand, they were both surprisingly angry, and the result was that they both showed their real skills.

Although the old aristocratic Kane family of Gotham is in decline, it still has some connections, and Martha summoned almost all the old rich people in Gotham after private contact, and took advantage of the large number of bases and manpower to break through the logistics blockade of the Wayne family in one fell swoop, but built a complete logistics system on this basis, and directly occupied the largest dock in Gotham so far.

As old money, they know best how to collude with officials and businessmen, and Martha spends a large amount of money as a political contribution to Mayor Oswald Copote, and at the same time strongly supports the construction of his deep-water port.

Thomas vigorously gave full play to his advantages of abundant liquidity, fully participated in the arms industry, gambling industry, and smuggling industry, and then used the method of economic warfare to force the other side to reduce the overall shareholding ratio of urban industrial construction, and constantly encroached on the other party's industrial scale.

So what is Batman doing?

He stirred things up at both ends.

There's no way, if he doesn't mess with these two people, he will really fight, in case he fights a real fire and turns against each other, there is only one benefit, that is, the clown who is now locked in the bat cave can be happy to die.

Therefore, Batman had to rush everywhere, Wayne picked up the dishes and he turned the table, Kane drank water and he drove, his father listened to his cards and he touched himself, and his mother raised a glass and he drank first, anyway, as long as none of them could succeed, the crisis would naturally be solved.

But in fact, this is a bit similar to a quarrel between parents at home, and the child blew up the stove, and the fight is indeed not noisy, and then it is time to fry the meat with a belt.

Thomas and Martha are done with the operation, and at the same time, they realize that something is wrong with this? Why are they busy for a long time, and this fight just can't start?

So, on a dark and windy night, as soon as Batman came home, he saw Thomas and Martha sitting on the couch left and right, while Alfred was beside him desperately trying to wink at him.

If Batman knew Alfred well, his eyes would have said "Run!" ”。

Reality doesn't have time to skip the key

Hahahahaha

(End of chapter)