Chapter 1681 No Time to Die (Part 44)

Chapter 1654 No Time to Die (Forty-four)

Batman has never doubted whether Gotham needs him. Gotham needs everyone with justice in their hearts. Even if they can't save it, they can at least make it a little better.

Batman's way to save Gotham is to fight criminals, but now there is a problem, who is the criminal?

Or, who is not a criminal?

It's like, in a group of ten people, one person uses a knife to cut the other nine people. Batman will definitely go to fight this person, but if ten people each have a knife to cut each other, things will become a little difficult.

If these ten people are cutting and robbing, robbing and being robbed, but at the same time they are enjoying it, and even don't run away at all, then most people will choose to respect and bless them, and don't let anyone die at my doorstep.

Now the upper and middle city areas are in a mess, and the residents of the densely populated areas of the lower city are actively participating in the war. Seventy percent of the population in a city are fighting, and they are fighting happily, without the kind of decadence and sadness destroyed by war.

It can even be said that the recent period is the most prosperous period in Gotham in the past ten years.

First of all, the competition for territory is inseparable from increasing the population. The settlements of various families have absorbed a large number of people from the downtown area, which has effectively solved the layoffs caused by the economic downturn due to sanctions. Gangs are the specialty of the unemployment era.

Secondly, the security measures to consolidate the family settlements require a large amount of materials, and the transportation of materials requires logistics. Building a logistics system requires more materials, which greatly boosts the city's domestic consumption demand. The various things in the settlements are built in a real way, which can be regarded as the development of industry to a certain extent.

Finally, war will inevitably consume vulnerable individuals, and at the same time open up a channel for the rise of strong and young individuals. Because of the high loss of personnel, the positions are quickly replaced. The positions of gangsters do not require any difficult skills, and the barriers of education and class are almost non-existent. As long as you are not afraid of death, you can ride on the east wind of the times and move forward all the way, going further and further on the road of crime.

There are a lot of job opportunities, a lot of capital is invested in the real economy, and economic dividends are distributed to the bottom. The upward channel for seeking more benefits or realizing self-worth is opened, which can temporarily eliminate almost all contradictions, so that the poisonous weeds on this chaotic land can take root downwards, and then climb upwards to grow new, good, and healthy branches.

Of course, war can never be beautiful. Such chaos means the loss of thousands of lives. When Batman stood at the highest point of Gotham and looked down, he could hear desperate cries every minute and every second, but the sound of artillery fire was even more deafening.

To be shattered on a battlefield with artillery fire, or to die silently on a delicate and lingering rainy night, these two are not good choices, but Batman knows Gotham people too well. If they are given a million chances, they will still choose one.

These few evil people in the world never feel sorry for themselves. They will only spray smoke hotter than the flue of hell from the trachea like the barrel of a gun. Even if they die, their evil blood will splash farther, so that everyone knows that no one except them deserves to be deeply sinful.

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

Gotham, whether good or bad, Batman couldn't just be a spectator, and it was even more impossible for him to leave Gotham alone in this era of drastic changes. Even if someone had to stand on the crest of the wave in this era, it must be him, always him.

On another rainy night, the black cloak that was darker than the night cut off the rain line and swooped down. Listening carefully, the sound of gunfire was more dull than before, like the shocking spring thunder when the cold retreated and all things began to grow.

Batman joined this chaotic feast, but not as Batman.

Even though his birds were still guarding him, this time, Batman became the leader of the Neville family, and walked through the process of establishing and competing for hegemony of the gangster family as an insider rather than a law enforcer.

Batman once mixed up with the gangs under the fake identity of Match Malone, but as I said before, in the years after his debut, the Gotham gangs have long since become a thing. If they are called gangs, they are just half-black and half-gray interest groups like the Iceberg Restaurant created by Penguin.

But this time, Batman participated in the process of establishing a complete traditional gang family, or it should be said that the process of establishing an Italian family-style gang.

The biggest feature of family-style gangs is that many things cannot be based on profit first, but on justice first, and they must value feelings and family affection. The bond of family blood or feelings is the cage that restrains violence, and it is also the biggest driving force for the knife to be quick, accurate and ruthless.

The essence of manipulation is love. If the gang leader only talks about interests, then his subordinates will betray him one day because of interests. If you want to hold the dog chain firmly in your hand, you naturally have to talk about love and feelings.

No one can explain feelings clearly. It is a confusing account that cannot be calculated no matter how. If a person makes everyone else have the illusion that they are loved, then everyone owes him, and must respect him, love him, and be loyal to him.

In order to truly develop the Neville Family, which was actually just an empty shell, Bruce had to recruit people first. However, in the process of recruiting people, he found that almost all the leaders of the families adopted the charisma-style recruitment method.

Simply put, I don't talk to you about money or treatment. You just need to know that I never treat my subordinates unfairly. If you follow me, you will have a good life. I can accept you, understand you and reuse you better than others. What matters is that a man will die for his friend.

Bruce, who has sufficient experience in running modern companies, had to start comparing the differences between the human resources model of modern companies and traditional gangs, and why the corporate recruitment model did not work.

After trying several times, Bruce found that the key issue was the difference in the nature and danger of the work.

How well you do ordinary work in the office with air conditioning and typing on the keyboard has little to do with the boss's personality. Even if the boss is not doing well and the company goes bankrupt, the worst thing is unemployment, and you just need to find another job.

But fighting is really deadly. Although all the applicants who aspire to be gangsters are ready to die, who doesn't want to live longer?

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

If even they themselves don't like the personality charm of their boss, then what smart people will be willing to follow him? If there are no smart people and professionals, then going to the battlefield is just a way to die?

In this case, Bruce had to adjust his conversation style. The image of an elite businessman who was smart and capable and had a thorough knowledge of all kinds of market data and market conditions must be abandoned. No one here will talk to you about the stock trend.

What everyone cares about is whether the defense line on the flank of the base has been arranged, how to arrange the attack on the neighboring street tomorrow, whether there are enough bullets, and how long the people of the opposite family can hold on.

As versatile as Batman, he immediately changed his past style and almost instantly adjusted to the image of the leader that the gangsters liked the most, walking with the wind, being domineering but loyal, attacking like a raging fire, and defending like an old dog.

But soon, Bruce discovered another problem. The thugs gathered in the Neville family were incredibly young, and most of them were teenagers in their teens.

Although those who dared to do this job had already developed stronger bodies, even if they were young, they looked like strong young men, but Bruce really couldn't understand it. It would be fine if there were a few such young men, but at least eight of these ten were such young men.

There was another thing wrong, which also puzzled Bruce. Although he changed his style of doing things and tried to get as close to the gangster style as possible, he would occasionally show his Batman side. Bruce tried to avoid such situations as much as possible, mainly because he also knew that as the patriarch of a gangster family, Batman's personality was not very pleasing.

But whenever Bruce accidentally reveals his Batman side, his young men will show fanatical worship, and the more Batman keeps silent and does not explain, the more fanatical they become.

Although these two phenomena are strange, they have brought positive development to the Neville family. On the one hand, the young are better than the strong, and the gang fight is just an enlarged version of street fighting, so the age advantage is still very favorable.

Young people dare to fight and fight, have quick reaction, are more likely to accept new knowledge during training, and have flexible minds. Even with Batman's extremely picky and demanding eyes, he can pick out a few plastic materials from them to serve in key positions.

In addition, they worship Bruce to the point of worship, so they are naturally loyal and have no problems with execution. They can even be said to be able to fight wherever they are directed and enforce orders, which is something that many other gangs cannot do, and naturally can help the Neville family gain an advantage.

But even so, Batman, an incurable skeptic and control freak, still wants to know what caused this phenomenon?

So, he began to investigate comprehensively and interviewed his subordinates to find out why it seemed that all the young people in Gotham gathered here.

Batman spent three days investigating, from the research on the problem of Gotham's low birth rate to the prospect of the coming of the aging era in Gotham, he checked the population fertility structure of Gotham City, and after careful analysis, he found that the problem should not be with Gotham, but with him.

Then, he conducted a self-investigation and reflection, and just when he almost thought it was his own problem, Batman suddenly realized that --

The person in charge of recruiting and screening members of the Neville family was Tim Drake, his Red Robin.