Chapter 2086

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Aphrodite actually didn't care much about being kidnapped... This seemed to her to be a novel fulfillment, after all, mortals couldn't really hurt themselves. She even thought about it, see if there is a hero to save the beauty... This is a traditional project.

After the distinction between men and women, there are projects.

Usually, a beautiful woman is kidnapped and injured by a bad guy, a hero who can't stand it comes on the scene, defeats the bad guy, and then the beauty and the hero live happily together. Although it is very cliche, you have to admit that this thing is really useful!

There are many plots of heroes saving beauties in movies and TV dramas. In this case, the heroine will fall in love with the hero who heroically kills the enemy. She secretly promises to repay the hero's life-saving grace in this way, and they both fall in love. love river. While complaining about the cliche plot, let’s analyze why men and women are more likely to fall in love when the hero saves the beauty.

Let’s first introduce a classic psychological experiment:

Invite a beautiful woman to conduct questionnaires on boys in different scenarios, and then ask the boys to make up a short story based on a picture. The beauty will leave her contact information for all participating boys. The boys are divided into three groups: the first group is in the park, the second group is on the stone bridge, and the last group is on the dangerous suspension bridge. The results showed that compared to the other two groups, the boys who participated in the survey on the dangerous suspension bridge called more beautiful women and responded with more romantic stories.

Why is this? This is attributed to a neurostimulant called phenylethylamine. When we are in a dangerous situation, it can cause a rapid heartbeat, rapid breathing, nervous sweating, and reddened cheeks. Under the influence of phenylethylamine, we will have more feelings towards the opposite sex, which is what is now called "calling".

In fact, this is also a wrong attribution, because the nervousness and excitement in dangerous situations is an instinct. We have no idea whether the physical excitement is due to the dangerous environment or because the person in front of us makes our heart beat faster. In this ambiguous situation, some people make false attributions, attributing their physical manifestations to feelings of love. Fluctuating emotions are instinctive and not caused by human will. In a dangerous environment, tension, excitement, uncertainty and a sense of crisis can attract men and women and serve as catalysts for feelings. People often attribute love to intrinsic characteristics such as personality or attitude, ignoring the importance of their circumstances. The plots of heroes saving beauties and other exciting scenes in movies and TV dramas can make people mistakenly think that they are experiencing the thrill of love. In fact, this is the result of making full use of the suspension bridge effect.

For example, in the process of pursuing a woman, many men will take her to watch horror movies. In this case, the woman always feels excited, nervous, and her heart beats faster. So, instinctively, she looks for emotional explanations: the plot of the movie is too scary, or the people around me make my heart flutter.

Likewise, women can make good use of misattribution.

When a man and a woman meet or communicate for the first time, the woman always remains mysterious, smiles as much as possible and talks as little as possible. This behavior inevitably makes men nervous. Under the influence of the suspension bridge effect, men will naturally become obsessed with a woman's charm and fall in love with her. In addition, when women show admiration, appreciation and affirmation to men, it will also lead to men's misattribution. This amounts to constantly giving men positive affirmations and sending the message "I'm easy to control." After a man receives this message, there will be two consequences: he does not like this woman, but he will leave a good impression on this woman, thinking that this woman understands him and treats her as a confidant; or because it is easy for women to express themselves Control the information to pursue this woman and increase the probability of success in pursuit.

Aphrodite liked this kind of stories very much, whether it was the beauties or heroes in the stories, they were all her favorites.

She cannot lack love. Aphrodite is a representative of restlessness. She has no window of time. She wishes she could be in love every moment... But the strange thing is that she will always love only one person... Very dedicated. She cheats just because she doesn't fall in love with someone. Well, in a sense, she is very single-minded.

One relationship and one person.

Find someone else in your next relationship.

So she is still there waiting for the hero to arrive... Unfortunately, modern narrative methods are much more exciting than those old-fashioned stories in ancient times!

There are always twists and turns that catch people off guard.

She didn't wait for a hero to save the beauty, but she saw a bunch of people who were worse than animals!

She was sold directly to Albanians by that group of human traffickers. Of course, the group of human traffickers didn't get any benefits either, and directly preyed on the Albanians.

This is what emerging gangs are like, they don't care about rules but only about interests.

From the early Irish gangs, to the modern Mafia, to the Bear Mafia, and finally to the Albanian gangsters.

The early associational nature of these gangs is getting less and less, but the outlaw atmosphere is becoming more and more serious.

The early gangs were actually more like some kind of mutual aid groups, and they were very strict with each other. After all, they themselves are a group of people who gathered to prevent themselves from being bullied.

This was the case with the early Irish gangs. The 1960s was one of the most turbulent periods in American history. At that time, a black youth once said: "Violence is as American as cherry jam pie." The history of the Irish and Italians entering the North American continent can be traced back to the early European colonization period, but large-scale immigration to the United States occurred in the 19th century. In the first half of the 19th century, Ireland was unwilling to endure the colonial exploitation of the British, and two major famines swept across Ireland. A large number of Irish poor came to North America to survive. In the second half of the 19th century, Italy's economy was in recession, but taxes continued to soar, and bankrupt poor people also flocked to the United States.

Unlike British and German immigrants who came to North America with large sums of money to develop North America, Irish and Italian immigrants just changed places to continue to be poor. Many people can't even afford to rent a decent house, so they can only squeeze into slums and do the hardest and most tiring work.

Poverty often breeds nationalism, and since they are all Catholics, in North America, which is dominated by Christianity, the Irish and Italians were once regarded as "barbarians" who could not be assimilated. In the fight against the exploitation of foremen and religious persecution, the Irish spontaneously formed various violent groups, thus becoming the forefathers of American gangs. Decades later, Italian immigrants encountered the same problem after they arrived, but they went further on the black road, so that everyone forgot about the Irish gangs.

Industrialization promoted the great development of the US economy, but the Irish gangs and the Italian Mafia took different paths. The Italians soon got tired of low-level violent crimes, and after pioneering the international drug trafficking trade in the United States, they gradually turned to economic crimes.

Ireland was colonized by Britain for hundreds of years, and the constant struggle with the British trained the Irish to have a keen political sense. While the size of American cities has expanded rapidly, the management system has not kept up with the pace of economic development, especially the lack of effective management of new immigrants. At this time, a special group of people called "city bosses" appeared. The "city bosses" in the United States began in the 1860s and flourished before World War I. According to data, most of the bosses are of Irish descent and are descendants of immigrants. Many of them have been living on the streets since they were young because of poverty, and they are the ones who know American life best. When they become the rulers of the underground social order, they are obviously more powerful than the government in terms of how to meet the needs of lower-class citizens and new immigrants, and the votes in the hands of these people provide them with the possibility of getting involved in politics. After generations of efforts, the Irish have finally become the largest ethnic group in American politics. As society continues to stabilize, traditional gangs such as the Mafia have begun to seek transformation. They deliberately avoid large-scale violent crimes, and instead make money and launder money. Only the Irish gangs still maintain their domineering style of doing things, so that the Italian mafia despises the Irish who can only speak with fists. The Irish gangs are keen on the thrill of bloody streets, which has a great influence on the tragic fate of their nation. Ireland was colonized by Britain for hundreds of years, and violence was their only means of resisting Britain. Over time, this violent orientation gradually transformed into a cultural habit and behavior pattern. In addition, the top talents in the group were busy running for president and congressmen, which caused them to hand over the position of the top gangster to the Italians.

There is no need to introduce the Italian Mafia. Various movies and TV series have talked about it.

Of course, don’t think that the gangs in those movies and TV series are real. After all, these people are not good people. Who would be a good person in the gang? Movies and TV series are all beautified. As for why they are beautified... Of course, it is because those movies are invested by the Mafia!

But one thing is true, that is, the Mafia has its own rules.

The Italian Mafia has strict discipline, which is the so-called "Seven Commandments": 1. Keep your mouth shut; 2. The organization is above the individual; 3. Do not disobey the orders of superiors; 4. Do not rebel and surrender; 5. Keep it secret from your family; 6. Do not engage in kidnapping activities without authorization; 7. Fighting between brothers is strictly prohibited. Once a person joins the Mafia, he no longer belongs to himself, but must obey the organization. Unless approved by the organization, you are not allowed to quit the Mafia midway. There was once a Mafia parent who wanted to quit, but the Mafia discipline did not allow him to do so, so he had to continue until he was killed. As for dealing with rebels within the Mafia, the Mafia is even more ruthless. After killing a rebel, the Mafia usually puts a small wooden stopper in his mouth to warn the informers. Therefore, after being arrested, Mafia members would rather die than confess. This makes the government's anti-"black" operations more difficult.

The Mafia actually still pays great attention to order. Of course, don't talk about the nonsense that the Mafia does not sell drugs. This is false. It's just that when the Mafia was rampant, drugs were not very popular. For example, the profit of opium was not as high as selling fake wine. Why did they sell drugs?

So it left the illusion that the Mafia did not sell drugs, but in fact, in their heyday, they did not need to make money by selling drugs. As for later, drugs were rampant, but the Mafia also weakened in the United States!

The war between the Mafia and the government, which was triggered by Kennedy, did not stop with Kennedy's death. In 1985, nine core members of the five major families in New York were arrested together. Throughout the 1980s, a thousand Mafia members were arrested. In this way, the Mafia gradually weakened, and the dark period when it could fight against the government could never come back. The golden age of American gangs also came to an end. After the Mafia left the core position of the American stage, American gangs began to get involved in traditional illegal industries again. The new industry they chose was drugs that could make a lot of money. At this time, the big brothers of the underworld were particularly aware of the fact that a big tree attracts the wind. They were obsessed with making money, so their methods of doing things were more direct and more brutal. American gangs returned to the original state again. They were far away from mainstream society and kept wandering around on the edge of society.

At this point, American gangs have completely become a group of social scum. Even if the old guns in the United States are getting more and more fierce, they are only fierce. They can no longer influence the American political arena, and even have to avoid the police when they meet them. Because they are bad guys, bad guys who should stay in prison.

As for the Albanian gangs... Actually, calling these guys gangs is a bit derogatory. These guys are more like bandits!

Robbing is what they should do!

Whatever makes money, they do it, and they don’t follow the rules at all, and there are no so-called constraints. After all, they are roving gangs. They make a fortune and then leave. They don’t plan to take root at all. They don’t need to reach any tacit understanding with local forces.

For example, in this business, after seeing Aphrodite, the Albanian gangs were very satisfied, but they were not satisfied with the price.

What should I do if I want the person but don’t want to give the money?

Of course, it’s a robbery!

The Albanian gangs thought about it for less than a second and opened fire directly.

Anyway, for them, this is a very normal thing... After all, they have no so-called rules.

Then Aphrodite saw the evils of modern people. She saw with her own eyes that a girl was cut into pieces by Albanian gangs because of illness. Her heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys were all taken apart and sold!

This is no longer a matter of beasts.

Worse than beasts!

So Aphrodite rarely burst out with a sense of justice. She wanted to punish these blasphemers!

She easily captured these gang members with her charm... Of course, she felt that this was not enough! She thought that since she was going to do it, she might as well do it bigger and more cruelly.

She had seen many slave owners, but these people in front of her were much more cruel than slave owners!

They treated humans as livestock! No, worse than livestock!

So she planned to gather all these bastards together, and then...