Chapter 1516 C: Twilight Event (Twenty-Two)
Chapter 1509 C Twilight Event (Twenty-two)
After nearly two years of efforts by Wayne Engineering Group, the renovation of Gotham's East District has been completed by a small part, but the main object of the renovation is still residential houses, and many commercial streets controlled by gangster families have not yet started construction.
Nightclubs, casinos, shopping malls, and even crowded markets with complicated personal connections all need time to sort out the interests among them. In addition, in addition to some old buildings that have not been renovated since Gotham was built and are not stable in terms of architectural structure, the commercial buildings built later have become the landmark scenery of Gotham's skyline, and it is not appropriate to tear them down and rebuild them like those dilapidated residential houses.
Although Gotham is chaotic, it is not poor. The East District is a concentrated embodiment of this phenomenon. Although there are high-density low-end residential areas where the poor struggle to survive like the living hell in the past, there are also high-rise buildings lined up and golden beaches with bright lights at night.
Jintan is located by the sea, in the south of the East District dock area. It consists of a beach of about 20 miles, the Jinbei Square on the way to the beach, and four streets in a tic-tac-toe shape. It is the most prosperous commercial center in the East District.
Including the Jinbei Bar, Jinbei Nightclub, and Golden Wine Casino established by the Jinbei Group controlled by the Falcone family, the Gulili Commercial Street controlled by the Spencer family, Chinatown dominated by Chinese gangs, and the Jintan Market in the center of the tic-tac-toe shape controlled by the Lawrence family.
Jintan Market is the largest underground market in the world, and it is also the only semi-public black market. What you can buy here includes but is not limited to stolen goods, smuggled goods, contraband weapons, contraband drugs, certain inhumane images and human organs from all over the world.
Of course, as the Gotham gangs gradually transformed and focused on the traditional frozen logistics industry, the Jintan Market has become less prosperous than before, but it is still the place where the activities and exchanges of the lower nine classes in Gotham are most intensive.
Drive south from Yoselde Street, and take the right ramp of Gulili Street, and you will find the entrance to Jintan Market in a dark alley with Lawrence family buildings on both sides.
After pushing open the shabby iron door, the scene inside suddenly becomes clear. The lights of the neon signs of various bars are dazzling, and the towering buildings are brightly lit. Looking down along the street lamp pole, thieves wearing jackets, hats, and backpacks on their backs put shabby cardboards in front of their feet, on which the names of some items are written. Bikers holding motorcycles gather in groups of three or two to select the stolen goods.
At the end of this street, there is a bar called Silver Thorn. After opening the door and passing through a narrow corridor, the dazzling light of the light ball leaves a dazzling scar on the surface of the black leather jacket.
When a slender figure walked into the bar, everyone's eyes looked at her, and then moved away at the same time within a second.
"Catwoman, good girl, you haven't been here for a long time. Where have you made a fortune recently? Have you forgotten us old friends?"
A thin man with a weird look was sitting in front of the stripper's bar drinking. Catwoman walked over and sat down and said, "Flathead, you are still working here? I thought you went to the Golden Cup Bar a long time ago."
"It's also impossible. The boss there is too powerful. I can't afford to offend him. It's better here." The man called Flathead laughed a few times, and when he turned around to show the other side of his face, you can see why he is called "Flathead".
His entire right side of the face from the forehead to the right eye is missing a large piece, which has become a pit. The scar on it shows that this change is not congenital, but caused by acquired injuries. It looks very weird and scary.
But everyone knows that in Gotham, if you see someone with very obvious serious injuries on his exposed limbs, you must be vigilant.
Even when Batman was hanging around in the lower levels of the East Side, he would be anxious because he was about to lose his ability to work due to a cold. For ordinary people, even if some minor injuries affected their work efficiency, they would likely fall into a vicious cycle, and the final result would be to go to those basement doctors to have some fun with their remaining lives.
Anyone who can survive a serious injury in Gotham, or even live well, is a ruthless person among ruthless people. After all, they don’t have the medical resources like the Wayne Group, and the dark rain in Gotham alone is enough for them to drink a pot.
If these people are lucky enough to survive, the ugly scars will become their armor or even weapons. At least in Gotham, when someone sees someone like the flat head, the instinctive reaction is to take a detour, because there is another possibility that is more terrible than acquired injuries - congenital disability and mental distortion caused by disability. This is the type of villain that can be published in Batman's main magazine, and no one would think of provoking them.
But fortunately, this flat-headed man is not a madman. He started complaining to Catwoman after a few words: "The market has been getting worse and worse recently. With the progress of the renovation project, the Wayne Group has installed more and more security equipment here."
"How could a thief have seen such advanced things? Last time, Little Fide went in without knowing why. He thought he had sneaked in perfectly, but he was actually locked by the robot. That thing was more accurate than the most accurate gunman of the gang, and Little Fide was killed on the spot."
"The market in the East District was originally the best. There were many people here and it was easy to steal. That's why the four thieves and so many other thieves could be supported. But now the situation has changed. There are fewer targets, but there are still so many thieves. It's impossible to divide them. Many thieves in the East District have to go to other districts to steal things."
"They are unfamiliar with the other districts, and it's easy for them to get into fights if they are seen by their peers in those districts. In just a few months, the number of customers who come to me to sell stolen goods has decreased by half. If this continues, I won't even be able to fill my stomach."
The collapsed head sighed deeply and said, "Who made me faint at blood? If there is no real reason, who would be a stolen goods dealer in this damn city? Isn't it enough to be bullied by the gangs?"
Catwoman also sighed and said, "It's not easy to be a thief. Ever since the gang boss started Since they started to transform into cold storage business, they can get less high-end jewelry, so the inventory in the safe is naturally not much. There is no new stuff when I go there once a month, and I barely make ends meet by selling the old inventory. "
Catwoman asked for a glass of wine, and said while drinking: "I came to you to ask, do you have any research on some, um, how to say, some weird things?"
Fallen heard the hidden meaning in Catwoman's words, he looked around, waved to her, and the two came to the back door of the bar. Fallen squinted at Catwoman and said: "Why, do you have a way?"
"Good girl, we have cooperated for so many years, you really have to help me! My wife and her sister work part-time at Penny's mother, but they are not as talented as you, and they learned it when they were adults. They can't make much money if they are not good at it. My daughter is still in elementary school in the fifth phase of the renovation project. The whole family is waiting for a living. If you have any way, you must tell me! "
Catwoman shook her head and said, "It's not really a way. I have a good friend who helps in the church. He heard from Father Daniel there that there has been a mess in the mystical world recently. Those so-called wizards are as anxious as ants on a hot pot..."
Flathead opened his mouth, slightly widened his eyes and looked at Catwoman, saying, "There really are wizards. I just saw a gypsy witch who could make the water in the cup turn a few years ago."
"Of course there are. The mother Chen in Chinatown next door can even make a knife fly. I have seen it."
"But what does it have to do with us if these superstitious people get into trouble?"
"I heard that they have lost their power. The amount will be so anxious, and Gotham has the key to recovering their strength. The old priest Daniel said that within the next week, they will come to Gotham successively. The precious metals are not affordable by ordinary people, let alone things like magic energy. Well, they have no strength now, and they are very anxious! "The collapsed eyes quickly turned two times. As a senior stolen customer, he naturally knew what kind of people were good at, and there was no preparation for foreigners, especially foreigners who hurried to the transportation. In the eyes of the thieves, they were no different from the lamb to be slaughtered. "Tatou asked further.
"It's definitely not okay for us to be scattered like this now." Catwoman first threw out the main theme, and then said: "There are quite a lot of them, and there is a certain degree of danger, and they are pouring in in a short period of time. If everyone rushes up to steal, wouldn't it be asking for trouble if they step on two hands with one step? "
Fallen nodded, thinking that what Catwoman said made sense. The last time Gotham experienced so many outsiders suddenly influx was when Batman became a little famous in Metropolis.
But at that time, Mayor Roy cracked down on thefts in train stations and airports in order to protect Gotham's tourism industry, and the gangs also strictly guarded against thieves in order to rip off tourists, so they didn't get much profit.
But this time, this group of people didn't come to travel, but just to find things, and they might even cause trouble in the city. They stayed for a short time and didn't follow the rules. They were definitely not welcomed by the city government and the gangs, and maybe it was an opportunity for the thieves.
Fallen thought so and made a decision in his heart. There was no fool who was still able to get along in Gotham after such a serious injury. He immediately said, "I'm going to the Golden Cup Bar to find Golden Hand now. He is the head of all the stolen goods dealers and brokers in the East District, and he knows almost all the thieves in the East District."
"That's not enough. You have to find someone who knows all the thieves in Gotham. "
The flat-headed man stared at Catwoman with his mouth wide open, and said, "You have such a big appetite? Don't joke with me, Catwoman, you have to tell me the truth, who are the people who came this time?"
Catwoman crossed her arms and smiled and said, "Although the wizards are rich, they have been out of touch with ordinary people for a long time. The magic props on their bodies can be sold for some money, but not much. Have you heard of vampires?"
The flat-headed man frowned hard and said, "Of course I've heard of it. My father told me that they dared to bite people openly on the street decades ago, but since the development of the mafia, most of those flying rats have been killed."
"Vampires will come to Gotham with wizards, and they are not those low-level rats. You have heard of the thirteen clans of the blood clan, right? The old European nobles who have lived for an average of five or six hundred years, any item you touch is a priceless antique, how many of these bumpkins in the East District can recognize?"
The flat-headed man took a breath, but had to admit that what Catwoman said made sense.
Although Catwoman is one of the four major thieves in the East District, that's only because she was born in the East District. Catwoman mostly moves between the rich gathering places and museums in the West District and the South District, where there is a lot of old money. Thieves must have a certain eye and art appreciation ability to steal quickly and accurately.
In contrast, the gang in the East District mostly targeted the nouveau riche, gang bosses, the richer poor, and wealthy businessmen from other places who occasionally came here to do business. You can ask them to pick pockets and steal money, but it would be a bit difficult for them to identify antiques.
Tatou knew that the opportunity was rare, so he gritted his teeth and said.
"I'll go find Golden Hand. He has a way to contact the bosses of other districts. At worst, I can let my kids go find Boss Cobert. He is a favorite of Falcone. If the Godfather says so, can't we find a group of thieves?"