The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

The Penguin wasn't shocked yet, but Batman, who was watching a movie in the Batcave, was stunned.

Of course he knew about the mayoral election, and he knew what happened to Lincoln March. After all, he had dealt with March before the universe restarted.

The three words Robin, Penguin, and mayoral election are normal when viewed separately, but they look weird when they are combined, or it is already strange that these three words have a chance to be combined.

At this time, the clown sitting on the sofa had already started to laugh out loud. He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, opened a new bag of potato chips with a bang, and threw the snacks into his mouth. explain.

"I'd say it's a good choice, and if they really want to accomplish their goals, they're going to have to find enough of themselves, and they've got to be in all walks of life, all walks of life, and Oswald Coppert is stuck in the gang. Having been a boss and a businessman for many years, who can say that he doesn't have further ambitions?"

The clown crossed one leg over the other, shook his feet, and said: "He has much, but he lacks more. Violence can help him hold his property in a city full of chaos. But if he wants to go further, he lacks a long-term vision, a deep enough understanding and a real gangster thinking."

Batman's fingertips move slightly, indicating that he has become interested in a word in the Joker's words, so he repeats the word: "Gangster thinking..."

"Have you ever wondered why Italian gangsters can bloom everywhere in America? They even got rid of the stereotype that street gangsters are difficult to be elegant, and developed a unique family culture and godfather culture."

"Oh, Batman, of course you did!" The Joker raised his voice deliberately and said, "After all, you ruined it yourself. You killed the Italians."

"Falcone's death was just an accident." Batman said after being silent for a while, as if he had accepted the current situation, and it was really like chatting.

"The success and failure of the Italian gangsters comes from the same reason. They need a leader with enough charisma. He is the leader of the gangster, the shepherd of the flock, and the father of all."

"His strength, wisdom and invulnerability bring confidence and motivation to all Italian gangster families. He is more like a cultural symbol that unites all families."

"But again, if he dies without a sufficiently convincing heir to succeed him, the family collapses in a matter of seconds—it's the Italians who killed themselves."

As if he suddenly thought of something, the clown showed a slightly nasty smile, and then he put his thumb on his lower lip, and asked, "Do you think Cobblepot can become the godfather of gangsters?"

Batman thought for a while and said, "I'm more concerned about what the Robins are up to. It looks like you know more than I do, Joker."

"Yes, but I will not tell you so easily, Batman, you should open a few more eyes and watch closely for any changes in this city as usual."

The clown turned his head back, narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the screen and said: "Then you will understand that a monster born in the dark shouldn't throw its eggs out of the nest, because what can be hatched in there, even I can't even guess."

"Now, Nottingham Street, Ballardy Street, and Swan Street, which we took over in Midtown Gotham, have formed a perfect triangular block. The corner can also radiate uptown and downtown."

On the top floor of an apartment building on the corner of Nottingham Street, Jason was holding a baton and pointing to the topographic map he had just drawn on the blackboard. He tapped the center of the triangular area and said.

"We will eventually establish the Neville family's residence in the center of the three streets, and then expand outwards in turn until the entire Midtown area is included in the sphere of influence, but to control such a large site, we need to absorb enough people first, you guys Any good suggestions?"

Sitting on the sofa were Dick, Tim, and Aisha. They pointed to the topographical map drawn on the blackboard and expressed their suggestions. They did not notice the flash of light in the center of a small black spot outside the window of this building. The scene inside the house was captured by the camera, and it was unobstructed.

When Batman heard the name of the "Neville" family, Batman slightly opened his eyes. This kind of superficial word play couldn't hide from the Joker, and of course it couldn't hide from Batman, but at this moment, he still didn't feel that all this Robin's own idea.

Because according to the usual logic, they don’t have such motives. No matter which world Robin is in, they are all Batman’s adopted sons and his good assistants. There is no reason to be a gangster anyway.

But the next situation that appeared on the screen was once again beyond Batman's expectations, and even beyond the clown's expectations.

After the two sets of Robins joined forces to take down the three midtown streets and established a stable rule, the trumpet Robins began to exert their strength.

First, Jason began to search for all the children under the age of 15 in this area, understand their situation, and gather them together.

The living conditions of the children in Gotham are not good now, or, it can be said that it is much worse than the gangster era.

This is not to say that gangs are all good, but gangs can use them, and the stronger individuals among them can somehow find a way out.

Becoming a gangster is not a good path, it is barbaric and dangerous, and the probability of death is extremely high, but at least it is a path that can go on and has room for improvement, and there is still a certain probability of improvement and development.

As long as you are young and strong enough, you can rise from the bottom gangster to a thug, have participated in several firefights, from a rookie to an old man, and understand the rules of all levels of gangsters, you can go to nightclubs or bars to see the scene, as long as If one aspect of skill and mind is better than three or four people, he can become the smallest little boss, and he can lead several people under his command, greatly increasing the probability of survival.

If he was smarter, he would look at his eyes, use his position to earn some extra money, and bribe the upper-level bosses, maybe he could climb up further, become a small boss of a low-level business place, and then delve into some quick-money businesses. Even if you die someday, at least you have enjoyed it while you were alive.

It seems that this kind of room for improvement is getting farther and farther on the road of crime, but people must have hope in life, there is no room for improvement at all, and what kind of life without hope will turn people into, Jason has seen it.

Santiao Street has a large block area, and there are many children, but Jason mostly lives in dirty restaurant kitchens, dark and closed black-hearted factories, cramped and cold sewers, underground marijuana farms that never see the light of day, and even It was the unsightly bottom whore who found them.

Most of these children are the product of a one-night pleasure. The less educated people are, the more they pay attention to the momentary indulgence, and they never care about the consequences of indulgence, so the offspring they leave behind become the cheapest labor force.

You only need to guard the darkest alleys and the most chaotic red-light districts, pick up those children who were born at random and then abandoned, and give them back to stutterers. Those who can grow up can work, and no one cares when they are exhausted. Like batch after batch of consumables.

Those who can survive and escape by chance are still unable to form a stable family, and can only linger in those areas in the same way, and then breed the next batch of offspring.

When the gangster order exists, every working population is the wealth of the gangsters. Although there are no human rights, the gangsters know that a healthy reproduction method is the root of obtaining sufficient fighters, so they will take care to maintain it and try to protect it as much as possible. Ensure stable population output.

But without such rules, the reproduction of bottom-level humans is more like producing livestock. It does not need to be strong or intelligent. The things that can be exploited have changed from labor force to every piece of meat on the body, which still seems to be in the shape of a human being. But when it was born, every part of the body was marked with a price when it was picked.

This is the status quo of the people at the bottom of Gotham in the post-gangster era. Without any upward channels, living is just living, and what is left is not even pain, but numbness.

When the Robins rushed into these places with guns to get the children out, they didn't even cry, scream, or resist. They followed the guidance and came to a room honestly, and then squatted down without looking at anyone. , without saying anything, just waiting to be sold to the next place to repeat their lives.

Seeing the environment in which this group of children of the same age lived before, Jason once thought that if he fell into such a situation one day and was completely unable to resist, then he would rather choose to die.

But standing in the room and watching the dense crowd of children with almost identical expressions, he understood again that these children will not die—the trough that can make normal people raise the thought of dying, it is even the lowest point in their lives. The peak of it.

But in the face of such a situation, the Robins did not appear at a loss. They did not try to make these children do something with them through impassioned speeches. They just brought some food to ensure that everyone would not starve to death, and then Just let the kids stay in that room.

The Robins didn't rush into the black factory angrily to give back to the bosses who exploited child labor, and they didn't try to follow the clues to find the culprit. They just started collecting protection fees in a very simple and simple way.

Literally, they rushed into every business place in the block with guns in hand, asking everyone to squat down with their heads in their hands, and the boss came out to meet them, and they would change the boss if they didn't pay.

Not only that, they will take all the cash in the business store and the working capital in the pocket of the boss, and then ask them to pay the protection fee at a fixed time, and if they can't pay, they will cut off the water and electricity, and the shit is imminent.

This kind of behavior, which is very vaguely different from burglary, has accumulated a lot of money for them in a short period of time. It turns out that the method of making money is indeed written in the criminal law. How fast this group of people exploited, the Robins robbed as fast as you can.

But soon, some people who controlled these industries reacted, but the way they used to deal with business opponents to deal with the suddenly revived traditional gangsters seemed not so powerful.

In the exchange of interests, you compete for each other, appearing in court to argue, hiring killers, and firing black guns at each other. These mechanisms that were originally popular in the post-gangster era of redistribution of interests at the upper echelon of Gotham cannot stop the gangster model that directly intercepts resources from the bottom and middle.

All of a sudden, Gotham's turbulent murderous intent, which was originally hidden under the undercurrent, was like a shattered vase. There was real bloodshed.