Batman never doubted whether Gotham needed him, Gotham needed everyone with justice in their hearts, and even if they couldn't save it, they could at least make it a little better.

Batman's approach to saving Gotham is to fight criminals, but now the question arises, who are the criminals?

Or rather, who is not a criminal?

It's like, in a group of ten people, one person uses a knife to cut nine other people, and Batman must fight this person, but if ten people have a knife in their hands and cut each other, things become a little difficult.

If these ten people are robbing while chopping, grabbing and being robbed at the same time, but at the same time enjoying it, or even not running at all, then ordinary people will choose to respect the blessing and don't die at my doorstep.

Now the upper and middle districts have become a pot of porridge, the inhabitants of the densely populated areas of the lower city are enthusiastically participating in the war, and 70 percent of the population of a city is fighting, and they are still fighting happily, and there is no such decadence and sadness that has been devastated by the war.

It can even be said that the recent period has been the most prosperous period in Gotham in a decade.

First of all, the competition for territory is indispensable to increase the population, and the stations of various families absorb a large number of people in the lower urban area, which is a good solution to the wave of layoffs due to the economic downturn due to sanctions, and the gangs are a special product of the unemployment era.

Secondly, consolidating the security measures of the family station requires a large number of materials, transporting materials requires logistics, and building a logistics system requires more materials, which greatly stimulates the city's consumption and domestic demand.

In the end, the war will inevitably consume the weak individuals, and at the same time open the upward channel for the sturdy young individuals, because of the high attrition of personnel, so the position iteration is fast, the position of the gangster does not need any difficult technology, education and class barriers almost do not exist, as long as you are not afraid of death, you can take advantage of the east wind of the times to move forward, and go further and further on the road of crime.

There are a large number of employment opportunities, a large amount of capital invested in industry, the distribution of economic dividends to the bottom, and the opening of an upward channel for seeking more benefits or realizing self-worth, which can temporarily eliminate almost all contradictions, so that the poisonous weeds of this chaotic land can take root downward, and then climb upwards to grow new, good, and healthy branches.

Of course, war can never be pretty, such chaos means the loss of thousands of lives, and Batman can hear cries of despair every minute when he stands on the top of Gotham and looks down, but the sound of artillery fire is even more deafening.

Shattering on a battlefield full of artillery fire, or dying silently on a delicate and lingering rainy night, neither of them is a good choice, but Batman knows the Gotham people too well, and if they are given 11 million more chances, they will still choose one or the other.

These few wicked people in the world never felt pitiful, they only spewed smoke from their gun-like trachea hotter than the flue of hell, and their evil blood was splashed farther away in death, so that everyone knew that no one deserved to be guilty but them.

Batman didn't pity them either, because this bloody flower that only needed a rain to fully bloom was the good fruit they were asking for, but Batman couldn't accept it, and he couldn't accept that there wasn't even a drop of him in this rain.

Gotham is good or bad, Batman can't just be a spectator, he can't leave Gotham alone in this era of drastic change, and even if someone must be on the cusp of this era, it must be him, it will always be him.

On another rainy night, the black cloak that was darker than the night cut off the rain line and swooped down, and when you listened closely, the sound of artillery fire was more dull than ever, like the earth-shattering spring thunder when the cold had subsided and all things had begun to grow.

Batman joins the chaotic feast, but not as Batman.

Even though it was still his birds who were guarding him, this time, Batman became the leader of the Neville family, and walked through the process of establishing and fighting for supremacy as an insider, not an enforcer.

Batman once used the fake identity of Match Malone to mix with the gangsters, but in the years after his debut, the gangsters in Gotham have long been out of fashion, and if they are said to be gangsters, they are just a collection of half-black and half-gray interests like the iceberg restaurant made by the penguins.

But this time, Batman is involved in the process of building a complete traditional gangster family, or rather, the establishment of a family-style gangster of Italian origin.

The biggest characteristic of the family-style gang is that many things cannot be done with profit first, but with righteousness first, and feelings must be emphasized, and family affection must be stressed, and the family blood or emotional bond is the cage that restricts violence, and it is also the greatest thrust for the knife to be fast and accurate.

The essence of manipulation is love, if the gang leader only talks about interests, then his subordinates will one day betray him because of interests, and if they want to hold the dog chain firmly in their hands, they will naturally talk about love and feelings.

If a person makes everyone else have the illusion that he is loved, then everyone owes him, and they all have to respect him, love him, and be loyal to him.

In order to truly develop the Neville family, which is actually only an empty shell, Bruce must first recruit people, but in the process of recruiting people, he finds that almost all the leaders of the family have adopted a charismatic recruitment method.

To put it simply, I don't talk to you about money and treatment, as long as you know that I never treat my subordinates badly, and follow me to eat meat, I can accept you, understand you and reuse you better than others.

Bruce, who has sufficient experience in running a modern company, has to start comparing the difference between the human resources model of the modern company system and the traditional gangster, and why the recruitment model of the company system is not good.

After a few attempts, Bruce found that the key problem was the difference in the nature and danger of the work.

Ordinary work in the office blowing air conditioners, typing on the keyboard, what the hell is done, has little to do with the boss's personality, even if the boss is not doing well, the company is closed, the big deal is unemployment, just find another job.

But fighting a war really kills people, and although all candidates who are aspiring to be gangster thugs are ready to die, who doesn't want to live a little longer?

They must be assured that their immediate superiors must be principled, emotional, intelligent and energetic, so that they will not drag their subordinates to death because of selfishness or stupidity.

If his boss's personality charm can't even be seen by himself, then what smart person will be willing to follow him? If there were no smart people and professionals, wouldn't it be exactly death to go to war?

In this case, Bruce had to adjust his style of dialogue, and the image of an elite businessman who was shrewd and capable, and who was knowledgeable about all kinds of market data and market information, had to be abandoned, and no one would talk to you about the direction of the stock here.

What everyone is concerned about is whether the defense line on the flank of the base has been arranged, how to arrange the operation of attacking the adjacent street tomorrow, whether the bullets are enough, and how long the people of the family on the opposite side can hold out.

All-round like Batman, he immediately changed his previous style, and almost instantly adjusted to the kind of gangster thugs favorite to walk with the wind, domineering but righteous, offensive as fast as fire, and defensive as steady as an old dog's leader.

But soon, Bruce discovered another problem, the thugs gathered in the Neville family were all incredibly young, most of them sixteen or seventeen years old.

Although the person who dares to come out to do this work has long been physically developed, even if he is young, he looks like a strong guy on the outside, but Bruce really can't understand that there are a few such young guys, and at least eight of these ten are such young people.

There is another mistake, which also makes Bruce a little puzzled, although he has changed his style of acting, as close to the gangster style as possible, but occasionally shows the side of Batman, Bruce is trying to avoid such a situation, mainly because he also knows that as a gangster family patriarch, Batman's personality is not very likable.

But whenever Bruce inadvertently reveals his side of Batman, his young subordinates will show fanatical expressions of worship, and the more Batman is silent and does not explain, the more fanatical they become.

Although these two phenomena are strange, the development brought to the Newei family is indeed very positive, on the one hand, the fist is afraid of being young and strong, and the gangster fire is an enlarged version of the street brawl to put it bluntly, and the age advantage is still very advantageous.

Young people dare to fight, have quick reflexes, are more receptive to new knowledge when training, and have a very flexible mind, and even with Batman's extremely critical and demanding eyes, he can pick out a few malleable materials from them to serve in key positions.

Moreover, they have simply reached the level of worship for Bruce, they are naturally loyal, and there is no problem with execution, and they can even be called where to fight and forbid, which is something that many other gangsters can't do, and they can naturally help the Neville family to have an advantage.

But even so, Batman, a hopeless skeptic and control freak, wonders what is causing this phenomenon?

So, he began a comprehensive investigation, and also visited his subordinates, trying to figure out why it seemed that all the young people of Gotham had gathered to him.

Batman checked for three days, from the study of Gotham's declining birthrate to the prospect of the arrival of Gotham's aging era, he checked all the fertility structure of Gotham City's population, and after careful analysis, he found that the problem should not be with Gotham, but with him.

Then, he did some self-investigation and reflection, and just when he almost felt that it was his own problem, Batman suddenly realized -

The person in charge of recruiting members of the Neville family for the initial screening is Tim Drake, his Red Robin.

(End of chapter)