Chapter 53: Quiet
It has been a month and a half since Liu Tian left the kingdom, and this little time is not long, but it is enough to make some things change.
In the past month and a half, the city's crime rate has soared by 300 percentage points, and most of its residents are living in dire straits.
As the economy deteriorated, the Great Depression finally led to an increase in the number of displaced people who lost their jobs.
And the originally kind-hearted old men are also busy standing in line and arranging because of the queen's serious illness, and they have no time to clean them up.
With more people losing their jobs and having nothing, the skyrocketing crime rate is naturally evident.
And the friction between the two largest and largest gangs in the city, Silver Jupiter and Violet, intensified, and poured a fire on it.
Originally, the two gangs had friction all year round, and a few months ago, each of them had a senior executive who disappeared inexplicably at the same time, and when they couldn't find it, they both put the pot on each other's heads, and the contradiction deepened day by day.
Immediately followed by the jewel of the Gain family, Alice. Gaine was kidnapped, and the two spit out a lot of benefits in order to calm the incident, and they lived a tight life.
In order to survive better, not to mention that there is no room for two tigers between the two gangs, it has officially reached the point where either you die or I die.
These days, taking advantage of the east wind of the Great Depression, the two gangs have expanded at the same time, recruiting men, and the friction has intensified, today I smashed your field, threw your bird into your quilt, and tomorrow I will serve your hotel, cut off your horse's head and throw it at the door of your house.
In this case, it is not known which gang started the start, and a scuffle broke out.
It's okay during the day, in order to maintain basic order, so that the old men don't see that they are too unpleasant to send out the army to strangle, the two sides still maintain the most basic sanity.
But at night, far from the high-end residential areas, the two gangs fight everywhere, the underground sewers are filled with corpses, and the crematorium is day and night.
But fortunately, there is plenty of rain these days, and most of the corpses have washed into the ocean with the rain, so there is no need to worry about the outbreak of the plague.
It was in this situation that Liu Tian returned from the Red Cloud Empire.
And because of the tiring travel, it was already late at night when Liu Tian returned to the city.
Of course, in this era, there is not much difference between the night and the day in the capital, the lights are bright and green, and the incandescent lights make the night shine the same as the day.
It's just that, compared to the past, tonight there are fights and explosions from everywhere from time to time, and the faint smell of blood wafts through the streets and alleys
"I'm here in Gotham? When did the people here get to this point?"
Liu Tian walked on the street in the middle of the night with a backpack in one hand, obviously it was night, but there were no fewer pedestrians than during the day, people in two different uniforms were fighting each other with swords, and even used firearms.
Using firearms in the capital, it is obvious that the two gangs have already fought a real fire, and they have no time to think about the consequences, and they have really reached the point where you die or I die.
The bars on the street, which used to be open on time every late at night, rain or shine, and the red light district were tacitly closed at this time.
Because they had known for a long time that under the arrangement of the leaders of both sides, the two gangs were ready to share life and death today, on this night.
The loser will be sent to hell, and the winner will gnaw on the corpse of the loser, taking advantage of the Great Depression.
And they just need to be ready to kneel and lick the winner, whoever wins will follow them, and who will be called protection money, not to pay?
Anyway, in this special era, these gangs are like cockroaches.
And in the midst of the Great Depression and the change of kingship, Violet and Silver Jupiter became more and more arrogant.
Some of the foresight in the gang knew it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, with an almost endless pool of back-ups.
As long as they develop fast enough, by the time the high-ranking old men react, they will already be difficult to control.
Both the Violet and the leaders of Silver Jupiter are keenly aware of this, but they still need to deal with each other before they can become the uncrowned kings of the kingdom once and for all.
Of course, cooperation may be the best option, but it is difficult for Abt, the leader of Silver Jupiter, and Adolf, the leader of Violet, to trust each other.
Maybe Abt Adolf's woman, or maybe Adolf dragged Adolf's daughter to film, or maybe the two had countless small frictions like this between each other.
Anyway, the two of them have long decided that in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you and I can only survive one.
There is no need for a second person to sit side by side on the throne, and it is important to me without you.
Because they have been together for many years, they know each other well, and they can guess how many hole cards the other has with their eyes closed.
Although both sides have recruited a lot of new people and cousins because of the Great Depression, it is obvious that when the Great Depression has just begun, the unemployed will not be a special talent, and it will not affect the final outcome.
These days, the two sides have come and gone, and they have finally fought to the last breath.
There is no way to fight anymore, and if it is not to fight any longer, the unobedient people around may be ready to move, wanting the two tigers to fight, and the hunters will benefit.
In this case, a duel began, and it was a life-and-death battle between Abt and Adolf!
After much consideration, the two fighters finally decided to divide life and death with fists, and use fists to determine the victory.
Both sides are quite confident in themselves, confident in the powerful power obtained by secretly accepting the genetic modification of the Blue Dream Company at a large cost.
So the battle that was expected to end in an instant began to stalemate, and the two left behind started at the same time, and the two sides began the final battle with each other - as long as they intervened a little and killed the leader on the opposite side, then the game was won.
And Liu Tian joined the battlefield at this time, and kept inserting it into the center of the battlefield.
There is no other reason, it is just because this road is the closest to home, and Liu Tian, who has changed trains all the way, is too lazy to change the road.
"Oh, it's a lot of fun."
Obviously, both sides were fighting along the way, but Liu Tian was like no one, walking in a straight line, and he could comment by the way.
As for avoidance?
Inexistent!
All those who stood in front of Liu Tian were twisted off their necks by him and thrown to the side of the road.
Whether it is a heads-up or a group fight, a sword or a fire, there is no way to delay Liu Tian by half a point.
Along the way, whether it was violet or silver Jupiter, the gang members of the two gangs that stood in the way all lay together without discrimination and went to Huangquan together.
Liu Tian never hesitated to make a move, as if he had encountered a stone blocking the road on the side of the road and kicked it away.
didn't use anything to comfort himself, because Liu Tian knew that he killed this group of people simply because they were in the way.
It has nothing to do with justice, and it has nothing to do with evil, just kick away when you encounter a stone, and shovel it when you encounter injustice.
And on the road that Liu Tian walked, the noisy whole world was quiet, and this incompatible quietness spread all the way forward along Liu Tian's route and was about to reach the final battlefield......