Chapter 782: Deadly Joke (IX)

It was completely dark. Bruce, who had been driving all day, was a little distracted. He just wanted to go back to the rental house and have a good sleep, but it turned out that in Gotham, no good thing happened every day.

He just went home and sat on the sofa when he heard a noise outside the door. Someone banged on the door. Bruce came to the door vigilantly and listened to the movement outside.

After a while, a man's voice came: Open the door! Open the door quickly! I am the landlord, open the door quickly!

Bruce had no intention of going forward to open the door, but soon, the door was opened from the outside, and it was not violently broken, but opened with a key.

A gloomy man stood outside. He looked at Bruce and said: Who are you? Where is the original tenant?

I am Selena's boyfriend...

I don't care what your relationship is. I only rent my house to trustworthy people. Strangers, get out! The landlord said loudly.

But the rent is not due...

I don't care about the rent! The landlord raised his voice and said: Whoever I rent the house to can live here. Those who I don't rent the house to, get out now!

Bruce saw that the landlord actually wanted to take back the house and then rent it out again to collect two rents. Facing such an unreasonable person, he didn't intend to reason with him. He raised the gun in his hand directly.

The landlord stared at him and said: Don't think you are the only one with a gun. No one can break the rules here. If you don't leave quickly, just wait for me.

After saying that, he turned and left. Bruce stood by the door and looked at him, with a bad premonition.

Back in the room, Bruce, who had been tired all day, was sleepy. He was about to fall asleep when he heard a slight noise in the room.

He woke up in an instant, touched the gun beside him, and came to the living room with the gun. He found someone climbing the window. He looked carefully and found that it was the drunkard he had seen before.

He tiptoed and searched on the sofa. When Bruce's gun barrel hit his head, he hurriedly dodged. He mumbled incoherently, but because of the effect of alcohol, he couldn't say a complete sentence.

Bruce pointed the gun at him and made him run out of the door with his butt pissing. Then, Bruce put down the gun and prepared to go back to rest.

But not long after, there was another noise outside. Bruce had to get up again, and then he found that it was another thief.

After driving the thief away again, Bruce knew that he had been targeted. Perhaps the landlord spread the news and told them that there was a rich stranger here. Bruce was visited by thieves four times during this night.

The balcony door was locked, but it couldn't prevent these thieves at all. After all, this was just a slum apartment, not a well-equipped bat cave. Without advance preparation, Batman could only fight one by one, without much prevention.

Bruce had to sleep on the sofa in the living room all night. When he woke up in the morning, he found that his neck was twisted. What he held in his arms was not the soft quilt, but the gun. He knew that he had scared away at least two thieves last night.

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After getting up, Bruce planned to go downstairs to buy a hot dog. In the stairwell, he met the Asian woman. The fat lady said to him in a low voice: You'd better leave quickly. Hef has spread the news that he will not stop the thieves nearby from entering your room...

After the explanation of the Asian lady, Bruce learned that this apartment was not owned by one person, but a group of middle-level members of a gang jointly bought the building, and then each of them divided a district and could decide who to rent the room here.

At the same time, they would warn the surrounding thieves not to come here, otherwise they would be expelled by the gang, but if they met a difficult tenant, they would also specifically ask the thieves to harass them until the person could not stand it and moved out.

Generally speaking, landlords will not show up, kick out tenants before the lease expires, and collect rent repeatedly, because doing so may offend the gang the tenant belongs to, and may also damage their reputation, so that others will not choose to rent in their area again. However, before renting a house, they will also make it clear that it is not allowed to change tenants or rent it out twice, because if it is allowed, it is difficult to determine whether the later person is safe. If a bomber is introduced, everyone in the whole building will be unlucky together. The landlord did not know who Bruce was, nor did he know whether there was a dangerous soul hidden under his appearance. In order to prevent himself, his tenants and his building from being unlucky together, he claimed that he would no longer provide shelter to the tenants in this room, and specifically said that Bruce was a rich man. This led to countless thieves constantly visiting this room in the next two days. Bruce worked all day and had to guard against thieves at night. Moreover, he was only one person, and there were countless thieves. Even if they did not come in, but just knocked on the window outside, it was enough to keep Bruce awake all night. Moreover, Bruce found that the landlord was gradually losing his patience. The last few people who came were each carrying a long gun. If Bruce had not reacted quickly and pointed the gun at them first, he might have been in trouble.

Bruce found that he could no longer stay here, so he did not plan to continue to tangle with the landlord.

This is the so-called strong dragon cannot defeat the local snake. Even if he can defeat one landlord, he cannot defeat all the landlords here, let alone the gangs that the landlords belong to.

More importantly, even if he can defeat all these people, what about the tenants here? Without the protection of the landlords and gangs, these people can't live in peace.

Bruce decided to leave, but he didn't know where to rent a house. Fortunately, he had been in the East District for so many days and had some clues. He found the foreman of the restaurant where he worked before and asked him to help introduce.

The foreman was very optimistic about Bruce, but he also shook his head about this matter. He said: To rent a house in the East District, you must have an acquaintance to introduce you, otherwise no landlord will feel at ease to let you live in.

If you live in his house and kill people, make explosions, or do illegal businesses, he and the gangs above him may be unlucky. If no one introduces you, you may only be able to make do in the canned food area.

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Canned goods district? Where is that? Bruce asked.

The foreman pointed and said: Follow this and go about 3 kilometers out, you can see a garbage dump. To the south of the garbage dump, on the side close to the sea, you can see a lot of houses built with iron sheets. That is the canned goods district.

People there would pick up the unwanted construction waste materials in the city, such as bricks and iron sheets, and build their own houses. From a distance, they looked like cans, so it was called the canned goods district.

The foreman sighed and said: I advise you not to go there. Many people who entered there could not get out.

Can't get out? Why? Bruce asked.

The foreman shook his head and said nothing, but Bruce decided to go to the canned goods district to take a look, because the foreman's description reminded him of the place where the little girl lived before.

At that time, the little girl lived in a broken shed made of iron sheets at the end of an alley, which was the bottom line of the simplicity of the building that Bruce imagined.

But when he came to the canning district, he found that he had thought too simply.

The place where the little girl lived had at least three walls, but the roof and door were made of iron sheets, but in the canning district, all the houses were made of iron sheets and construction waste.

This place is located in the south of Gotham's East District, where the garbage dump is located and where most of the factory sewage pipes are located. In Gotham, where every inch of land is valuable, the reason why this place has not been used by developers is that it is actually a shallow beach.

The soil here is not good. If you want to build a foundation, you must first reclaim the sea. The cost is too high, so it was abandoned, but it became the home of another group of people.

When Bruce walked in, he found that most of the people hiding in these waste piles were elderly, disabled and seriously ill people.

Of course, there were some like him who came here temporarily because they couldn't rent a house without acquaintances.

Bruce found a tin house where no one lived. The people in his house seemed to be floating population. Bruce didn't know where the owner of this house went, but he knew that he had a place to stay tonight.

It is not quite accurate to call it a house. One wall of the house is a right-angled triangle with steel bars inside. It looks like the waste from the demolition of an apartment building in the city. The other wall is a metal balcony door without glass, covered with plastic sheeting.

The two walls form a triangular space, with some wooden boards and boxes stacked outside as doors. It is a bit too retro to call it a house, and a bit too avant-garde to call it a tent.

Standing on the beach, Bruce looked far away and found that this was not a residential area, but a cemetery. As far as he could see, he saw three dead people lying in the tin house.

Walking on the beach, Bruce found that the rain boots he bought were not only cheated in price, but also in quality. The seams looked tight, but when he stepped on the beach, water always leaked inside. After a while, Bruce's feet were frozen cold.

The cold began to spread from his feet upwards. Bruce knew that he had to warm up quickly, otherwise he would die of hypothermia like the little girl.

There is a lot of wood here, but it is impossible to make a fire. It has been thrown on the beach for too long, and the moisture has invaded the interior. The too wet materials cannot be ignited, but there is nothing dry here, including clothes.

As the night falls, the temperature is getting lower and lower. Bruce feels colder and colder. Crouching in the tin house, he feels like a piece of meat in a can, cold from head to toe.

Bruce originally thought that this was the limit, until he saw a human skeleton in the gap when he moved the floor of the house.

Now, he knows where the owner of this house has gone.

If it were the previous Batman, he would have directly lifted the floor and then conducted a cause of death analysis on the spot, but now, Bruce silently covered the floor back and even found a piece of cloth to plug the gap, not because of fear, but because of cold.

After getting up the next day, Bruce found that he had a cold.

Bruce felt very uncomfortable with headache, cough, weakness, and he just wanted to lie down all day.

This bat that flew down was not gentle at all, and sometimes too stubborn, but what matched him was that there was never a good night in Gotham, only cold nights.

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