Chapter 2263: Late Autumn in Jincheng (Forty-Six)

After Batman accessed the network of this universe, he searched for a lot of information about Barbatos, but he knew that the information that could be found online was only the tip of the iceberg. If he wanted to go deeper, he could only consult professionals.

He wrote down what Constantine said about the researchers at Oxford University. He had never heard that Oxford University had a major that specialized in the study of mysticism.

The mysterious sacrificial square that appeared underground made Batman greatly alert. No matter who the four pillars of gods were above, they had already appeared in the universe, which proved that they were not far away when they took action.

The plan in Batman's head begins to take shape.

After the dark energy in the green body of all things was expelled, he gradually calmed down, and then he was almost frightened to death by his recklessness and hastiness. How could he forget that this was Gotham? Gotham is the most famous weird place among the three worlds and five elements. land.

In fact, when Pamela found the Green of All Things in order to study plants that could survive in Gotham, the Green of All Things had investigated this city, but he found that this place indeed refused the intrusion of all green elements. It was not that anyone had established a rule for this place. What kind of barrier, but it seems that this place has been occupied by something.

Now that I think about it, I'm afraid this weird city is the stronghold of that damn dark dragon in the universe. Barbatos allowed me to catch you.

After thinking about this, the Green of All Things stopped being entangled. After all, when he first came here, he encountered such a series of irritating things. He wanted to fight but happened to encounter the gathering of dark forces underground. How could there be such a coincidence in the world? Isn't this the case? Did he reveal the trap Barbatos had prepared for him? The fool also knew that he shouldn't stay here for a long time.

The green of all things turned around and wanted to leave, but as he said, the atmosphere has already been set up here, is it so easy to leave?

When Schiller gave Nick a look, everyone knew that their good doctor was back. When Nick gave Strange a look, everyone knew that the matter might not be rectified today. When Loki was gone, everyone knew that this matter was probably just the beginning.

Sure enough, there was a loud bang in the sky, and thunder appeared. There was a crack of thunder in the sky above Gotham North District. After a burst of thunder, a bright crack in space lit up. A hammer fell like a meteor, followed closely by a strong figure. .

"Loki, you damn liar!!!"

The roar echoed over the northern manor area. The power of Mjolnir, Thor's hammer, remained unabated after it fell. The lightning flashed. Countless rays of bright electric light flew out along the center of the fall, destroying the manor almost instantly. The area was burned to ashes.

The furious Thor did not hesitate to give in. He waved the hammer like crazy, and the human buildings were as brittle as paper in his hands. In a few flashes of lightning, the gorgeous manor was instantly wiped out.

The gang boss who was standing on the ground watching the excitement was dumbfounded. I heard that someone’s house was on fire. I went over and saw, it’s my house! It’s my house!

Standing alone by the window in the corridor on the second floor, Alberto looked at the electric light and firelight in the distance with a cold expression. He took the lady next to him and kissed her gently on the forehead.

"Doesn't it matter?"

"You'll be fine here."

Then he looked out the window and said: "This fifty-year farce has to end. We will eventually sink to the bottom of the river of history and drown silently."

Previously, the great monarch Vandal Savage carried out a wave of wild consumption in Gotham. In addition to allowing a large amount of funds to flow into the hands of the Wayne Group, the most important thing is that the antiques in Savage's hands flowed in. art market.

That was actually the time when the gangsters were making the most money. They had not completely washed their hands and came ashore. The logistics industry had just developed. With both gangsters and white gangsters using their methods, money seemed to fall from the sky.

It's a pity that people can never make money beyond their own knowledge. Gangsters are gangsters. Even if you put on the filter of the times, you can only say that the wisdom of the twelve families is the same, and the old godfather monopolizes eight buckets. There is no long-term vision and no great ideas. How can people who have no wisdom, no faith and no path not be deceived by pie in the sky?

Money comes so easily, and you don’t feel bad when you spend it. The gang bosses are dominating the art and luxury goods market, and they take pictures of those seemingly precious and worthy of showing off treasures at crazy prices one after another. I never thought that antiques in prosperous times would be worth money in troubled times. Once their prosperous times pass, these antiques with only historical value will be fragile and vulnerable.

Exchanging a large amount of working capital for antiques means that they have almost no way to spend money to increase production. The crazier they are, the sooner they will be eliminated. It can be said that the remaining gangsters are already relatively smart. .

The second screening is to clean up and go ashore. In fact, at the beginning of the music festival, a small number of gang bosses have realized that the gang's methods are not only becoming less effective, but also becoming a stumbling block. After the initial order of society is restored, certain criminal acts will cause greater trouble. To put it in perspective, they are excitedly inspecting the location of a new small commodity processing factory. A subordinate called and said that so-and-so Another serious fire broke out in a street. Not only did forty or fifty thugs die, but more than 100 workers were also implicated. Who doesn't have high blood pressure?

When the small commodities with Gotham cultural attributes are put on sale in the early stage of the music festival, they are completely money printing machines. Having a factory is equivalent to one more money printing machine, and if a factory is affected, hundreds of thousands of dollars will be lost a day. account.

But the gangs have always relied on violence and power to survive. You can't just say no to fighting. The other party has provoked you. As long as you are still a gangster, you can't seek justice from the law. You can only fight back yourself.

But fighting back wastes manpower and material resources, and affects production. James Gordon will not tolerate your bad habits. You make too much noise and affect too many people. He will find a fire reason to seal your factory. If you want to get justice from the police by violent means, you really don't need to do anything.

So a very small number of smart and courageous gang bosses, although they still maintain their status as the leaders of the Twelve Families Gang on the surface and respect Falcone, have actually invested the money they earned into legal industries. By the opening of the music festival, they have already laundered a considerable amount of liquid funds.

In contrast, those gang bosses who are not so sober are caught in a vicious circle. Others eat meat, but he can't drink soup, so naturally he has to build a factory.

But they were used to being arrogant and domineering before, and they didn't know how to avoid the enemy. The land and money for building the factory were all robbed. The factory was fine when it was built, but when it was built, the enemies came to the door and burned down the house and people, and they had no way to deal with it.

But the more they failed, the more jealous the factory was. Others could make money, so they had to find ways to rob others. But the more they robbed others, the more enemies they attracted, and the more they fought.

Gotham is different now. There is social order, and the fruits of economic development can be tilted to the lower classes, and ordinary people can get more legal employment opportunities.

Why put your head on your belt and fight with others when you can set up a stall to sell cold noodles at the train station? You can sell a piece of cold noodles for five dollars and get a thank you from tourists. If you die in a gang fight, the pension may not be this much.

Most ordinary people have a natural wisdom to seek benefits and avoid harm in the market. In essence, it is better to live a miserable life than to die. No one wants to risk their lives until the critical moment.

This has led to a large number of young people who should have entered the gang system at this moment to add fresh blood to the gang thugs. They have connections to find connections, and those who don’t have connections to find ways to sell something on the street. Isn’t it better than joining the gang and shooting guns?

In the eyes of outsiders, gang members are much cooler than street vendors, but the locals of Gotham have been disenchanted with gangs for ten thousand years, and have deeply realized how cruel and dark it is. So if there is any hope of leaving, they will show their magical powers and run away if they can.

This will lead to fewer and fewer people being recruited by orthodox gangs, but the more serious problem is that the price for a single person is getting higher and higher.

When everyone around them chooses to live in the social order and can also earn a lot of money, those desperate people who plan to risk their lives will naturally weigh the value of their lives.

If I don’t make more money than others working from nine to five by betting my life, why don’t I sell cold noodles?

So their offer was considered a lion's mouth in the eyes of the gang bosses, and it was not like the weekly or monthly salary they asked for before, but more like a fixed price for mercenaries.

Because the gang bosses were busy with other things, there were fewer people willing to join the gang, and the price was high, so they had to be more cautious in selecting, but no one else in the gang would do this, so many headhunting organizations and middlemen emerged, taking the difference on both sides and pitting these rich fools on the other hand.

After Gotham's human resources became a complete buyer's market, the money in the hands of these not-so-clear-headed gang bosses went out faster, but they didn't have the ability to calculate carefully, and they were exhausted just dealing with various enemies.

As of the eve of the music festival, their working capital had basically been spent, and their economy was shaky.

But they still had one last hope. Although Savage had not made any progress in Gotham, he was a real immortal, and the antiques in his hands were real.

The capitalist bubble has not yet collapsed, and the global economy is stable, so antiques still have a certain market. As long as the antiques bought from the auction can be sold at a low price, a large amount of funds can be recovered quickly.

But unfortunately, the heavens were not good. Odin's messenger brought justice. After Thor broke free from the space crack, he landed in the center of the base camp of the twelve families through a special channel.

What's more coincidental is that thunder is a force that can completely ignore the resistance of physical media as long as the power is enough. In a rage, Thor caused a central explosion in all the manors and underground storage rooms. The things inside cannot be said to be intact, but they can only be said to be intact.