How to start Meursault

Willy had thought that a kid like Luka would be a reliable fellow despite his youth.

He was dead wrong.

In just a few months, this guy got on the upper line somehow, soared all the way, and has become the person in charge of this smuggling line, and judging from the conversation that Willy overheard two days ago, he seems to be Originally, I had to continue to advance, but I asked to 'stay and hone for a while'.

Willie knew what a great thief Luca was—a great thing because he didn't rely on this skill to get promoted.

But apart from such a little slander behind his back, Willie couldn't say a single word in front of Luka.

It's not that Lukado is a deterrent.When this person stood there with a smile, he didn't see any danger at all, mainly because when he looked at someone and started to say something, no matter what the other person thought or what emotion he held, after a few minutes will change greatly.

Willy couldn't understand how Luca had managed to do this, and even he should have found it horrible, but the feeling was snuffed out before even the slightest hint of it.

——He is very powerful, but it is mainly luck.

This impression overrides everything else.

He Jian carried out this large-scale psychological manipulation practice with great interest.

In order to be concealed enough and take the overall situation into account, Luca's position should not be too high, it must be in a place where he will not be remembered by the big shots, but also enough to have a little influence on the streets to collect intelligence.

His current 'position' was won by him with a little trick - the original two candidates somehow attacked each other openly, and both had some minor mistakes, considering the internal harmony and the lack of The completed review is not as good as a newcomer who can be easily manipulated and will be grateful.

Then I wanted to promote Luka because he was doing a little too good a job.

In fact, this is also quite funny.He Jian actually didn't have enough time to take care of the entire underground world of Gotham, but in the original world, he did read several documents of Bruce's Gotham reconstruction plan that could not be carried out.The main reason why the implementation cannot continue is that the aborigines in the target area of ​​the main transformation do not have half trust in the consortium and the government, and express their opposition in a close way.

But they have a lot of trust in the local gangs that control their lives.

He Jian referred to Bruce's information, and recalculated according to the actual situation of the world, and then led to change the trading patterns and rules of several smuggling lines. He may have accidentally made too much money for several gangs to use. Let's do something else -- like basic job creation.

Well, working in the black gang is considered employment, right?

The most complicated part of the overall manipulation is to make someone a little further away think that those 'great' ideas came up on their own, but He Jian also found a method that works after practicing a few times, that is, putting The 'right' people put in the right place.The rest is easy, even easier than working for WE in his original world. After all, these people don’t think it’s a problem to admit that they don’t know how to make money, and WE is full of people who rely on this industry for a living , they are not willing to give up the right to speak.

Of course, this part is mainly behind the scenes work, and Luca in front of the stage is simply "lucky with money", somehow very good at avoiding vigilantes and cops, and never messing up the task at hand.This point sounds simple. In fact, even though organized crime can make huge profits, it is very risky. Competition among peers and being caught will bring completely unavoidable losses.But if the mission always succeeds, the profitability can be dire.

At least for now, the ordinary gangs in Gotham haven't realized that they are not the only ones who have been successful lately.

It's a bit like playing a Monopoly game with only one player, except that the player doesn't hold any money in his hand, but just helps others to upgrade, and because the total map is too big and the original location is too broken, so it won't happen for a while problems like inflation.

After recording a lot of relevant data, He Jian thought about whether to change his academic direction from theoretical mathematics to applied mathematics after going back.

(Psychology is out of consideration, since He Jian's preference bias clearly violates ethical norms.)

While He Jian was obsessed with the 'management game', he also noticed a very special thing.

'033, can you identify the temporal flow characteristics of a world? He Jian asked about his waste wood system with little hope.

This time there is no requirement for the main task, which is actually a disadvantage for him, because the data change of the task progress is very important information. For example, in the world of Detective Nan, time obviously flows in multiple modes. Cases are used as time units. There is also a distinction between 'mainline' and 'non-mainline'.

If it is always in the latter range, then although time is indeed flowing, the world line hardly advances.

He Jian now begins to suspect that his own world is actually in a similar situation, except that the timeline restarts from time to time.

He will realize this because the influence of the big names on the street has not changed as expected.In theory, after a few months of stable life, it will be more difficult for the villains to do something to recruit minions, but in practice, they are still as easy to recruit as before.

The only explanation that Hejian can come up with is that these guys with names and surnames belong to the changing elements of the world line by default, and all their attributes hardly change when they are 'off the main line'.

——Unless He Jian forcibly changes it, but that will lead to an increase in repulsion, he has experimented.

[If the host is referring to whether your time flow rate has changed, yes, it was faster when you first came to this world than it is now. 】

Unexpectedly, 033 actually gave a reply.

'...how did you know for sure? '

【The flow of time is very different from the perspective of the system and the perspective of humans. I can know the ratio of time flow between you and the original world. 】

——And because the past time of his original world is extremely short, its flow rate can be considered constant.

He Jian was not very happy that 033 verified his conjecture.Because he hadn't discovered this at all when he was in his own world. Given that this world and his world should be completely consistent in terms of basic rules, this kind of problem is likely to be noticed only by people who are not in this world.

He will remember to go back and find a few speedsters and ask again.

"Petersen, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I left this ghost place because of you." Angelica said.

It's normal for a long time, because the last time Jason used the name 'Petersen' was when he had a very bad relationship with his family and didn't have a teammate around him.

But correspondingly, 'Petersen' knows quite a few people on the street, especially those whom he protects as a red hood but who are inconvenient to get too close to, such as wandering warblers who have to sell their bodies because of life.

"There's nowhere like home." He shrugged.

Angelica smiled, perhaps remembering the time when Peterson read "The Wizard of Oz" to her niece and she listened to it together.Although Gotham is a messy 'ghost place', she still loves it.

As for why Peterson left and why he came back now, she is a qualified Gotham person and won't ask more questions.

"But..." Jason frowned convincingly, "This place seems to have changed a lot. It seems that I have really been away for too long."

As he thought, Angelica immediately 'corrected' the misunderstanding.

"Actually, it only started recently." Her expression was a bit complicated, "Although I don't know if it's good or bad."

"Oh?"

"Everyone's pockets are loose. It's like the cops are blind. That old Andrei has enough money to redecorate the house." Angelica sighed.

Jason remembered that Andre was just an old gangster who helped look at the "warehouse". If the wages of such unskilled workers were increased, it would seem that "everyone's pockets are loose" is the real deal.

"It's not very good." He pretended not to understand what was wrong, hoping to hear accusations from Angelica other than rampant organized crime.

As a result, Angelica stopped here.And judging from her expression, she probably didn't think there were any other problems.

This made the alarm in Jason's heart start to go off.

As far as he knows, in the past, although ten people in a poor area like Gotham may not be able to find a clean criminal record, their complaints about gangs are still very common, even those who hang out in it themselves. After all, it is difficult to make a living anywhere at the bottom.

But this time...

How did it become that everyone became rich through crime together?Is Gotham completely doomed?

What is Bruce doing?He complained in his heart.

Jason himself has no problem with street life.Just as a hungry kid can be so bold as to get off the tires of a Batmobile, it's justifiable to commit petty crimes in order to survive.

But that doesn't mean he thinks it's normal.This is certainly not normal, and environmental problems account for at least 80.00%.

Now this environment has become a very strange thing.It's as if it doesn't look much different on the surface, but in fact it has changed completely, and the people who live in it don't realize it.

This is no longer a matter of manipulating the gang safely, it is manipulating everyone in it together.

Bruce wouldn't like someone doing that in his city.Jason thought.

However, it happened that he, the person in the whole family who could most accept this situation, discovered this first.

It seems that he really needs to find out who is behind the scenes and investigate whether there is a deeper conspiracy behind it.

While Jason was thinking, Angelica shifted the topic elsewhere.

"I don't know if I should tell you..." Her tone was slightly hesitant.

In fact, Angelica hadn't wanted to say anything a few minutes ago.

But Peterson frowned at him.

Not only a frown, but also a blank expression that obviously contained emotions.She knew what Peterson was thinking.

But his face hit Angelica like a bolt of lightning.

Like her soul, she thought of Luka's expression in the bar a few months ago.

At that time, she felt that Luka's appearance was both strange and familiar, as if she had seen it in someone else.

Angelica knew now.

Luka and Peterson have almost identical expressions.

Not to mention black hair, the two men even had very similar eye colors—not only were they both blue, but they were almost the same blue.

It's just that Luca is a typical Asian, and Peterson is not.

But it doesn't matter if it's different, maybe it's just half-parents or half-parents.

She further recalled that Peterson used to joke about stealing the tires of really big people.

Ah, yes, these two are very smart.

"Just ask if you need anything." Peterson seemed to see Angelica's hesitation.

Also very...gentle?

"Petersen." Angelica looked up at him with a solemn expression, "Do you... have brothers?"

What?

Jason was immediately stopped by the question.

He had to rack his brains to remember if 'Petersen' had said anything that might suggest he had a brother, because the identity theoretically didn't.

Jason wasn't particularly sure he didn't slip up.

After being stunned for about half a minute, he reluctantly tried to evade it with rhetorical questions.

"Why do you think so?"

But it was obvious that his failure to deny it in time caused Angelica to give a 'wrong' answer, but fortunately Jason didn't have to worry about how to get her out of it.

"So you do." Angelica seemed relieved, "I thought I was mistaken. You really look alike."

Bruce's penchant for adopting black-haired, blue-eyed boys was deadly.As much as he hated to admit it, he did have something in common with Dick and Tim in terms of looks.

But it can't be called particularly similar——

"It's not about looks, I'm sorry, it's about your demeanor." Angelica said excitedly, "Especially when you think about something, they look exactly the same."

Jason's heart was about to sink to the bottom - was Dick caring too much recently, or Timmy couldn't resist collecting information?He thought the Bowery to Crime Alley was his territory, and it was the default that other bats and birds were not allowed to pry.

"In the bar some time ago, that guy Luca said something about death knell not death knell. I was still wondering how he, a teenager, knew so many messy things." Angelica continued, "Now I think I think you do too."

When he was still Peterson, he would occasionally bring up some villain's movements or information in order to warn or exhort, Jason was not sure that 'Luka' was the same thing he said.

But he's pretty sure Tim doesn't have a pseudonym named Luca, and won't bring up the issue of Deathstroke not being Deathstroke to civilians.What's more, it's impossible for Tim to stay with Angelica while the fake Deathstroke kills Russ Orgol.And Dick doesn't look like a teenager anyway.

All of Jason's acting skills and the psychological induction techniques he had learned were fully operational in an instant.

"I don't even think of this person unless you tell me." He showed a cold expression, as if he and Luka were a bunch of estranged brothers who didn't know each other's current situation or didn't want to admit it was normal. "He's here now?"

Angelica nodded awkwardly.

"He's taken over from old Sheldon now, and he's in charge of the whole line. Before, he just lived on the street with his wallet." She whispered.

Jason fell into a brief void for the second time today.

To put it plainly, he was suspecting that the 'Luka' who looked very similar to him might be the child of the Bat family he was looking for from other worlds.He didn't suspect that a bat product with relevant training could not be perfectly disguised as a street person, but Jason had previously suspected that the person he was looking for was the same person who was manipulating the world in Gotham behind the scenes. Could such a person Are you still free to do these things?

Or, is this kind of performance necessary?

Jason actually knew that what he should do now was to quietly insinuate whether this so-called Luca had appeared during Damian's visit to Lazarus Island, but he just couldn't ask.

He was silent for a while.In the end, the idea of ​​not waiting until Angelica told the other party and letting people run away still prevailed.

"Which bar does he like to go to?" Jason asked, "I'll have a drink with him someday."

It's easier to act like a person who doesn't want to admit it but actually still cares about his younger brother.

Angelica obviously believed it, and she regained her smile.

"That's where Nancy runs, but your brother doesn't drink. He orders soda every time he goes."

At this moment, Jason could no longer be swayed by this small feature of revealing the other party's identity. He just told Angelica that he knew it, and that he didn't need to mention him to Luka——

"I don't think he would want to see me."

Angelica is a good person who keeps her promises, so she really didn't mention a word about Peterson to Luca.

It's just that He Jian, as a half-detective who is still good at reading micro-expressions and psychological analysis, he can guess directly from Angelica's reaction when she sees him that she has something to hide.

Of course, He Jian couldn't guess what happened behind the scenes from this point, but unfortunately, the place where he met Angelica was the bar he often went to.

One second he was still guessing what was going on, and the next second his instincts started screaming.

——Someone was watching him.

He Jian felt a strange staring gaze, but when he pretended to look back casually, he found no suspicious person.

This can only show that the other party is a professional.

Could it be that Gotham's IQ is unreasonable, and the villain who cheats every day finds out that he is playing tricks in the other world?

It should not be a family member in this world. The only one who has seen his face is Damian, and the little brother was knocked down by him after only seeing him for a while. It is impossible to give an accurate portrait——Damian I should not be in Gotham right now.

Or some villain who is overwhelmed by his affinity and wants to do something?

He Jian glanced at Nancy, pressed a banknote under the cup, turned and left.

It was just getting dark outside the bar, and it was gray everywhere, which was good for He Jian to use his eyesight.

He walked through several blocks at a brisk pace, ready to throw people off, or distance himself to observe the stalker.

At first, the other party seemed to be following closely, so He Jian had to speed up and head towards the corners. His time in the streets was not in vain.

After climbing from an outdoor ladder to the rooftop and running and jumping from it for more than ten minutes, the feeling of being watched finally disappeared.

has it ended?

If it is not over, running on it is in danger of being seen by the vigilante.

But there was still a strange sense of urgency lingering in He Jian's heart.

He decided to obey the paranoia of this family tradition, and checked again to see if there was anyone around. After all, with his sensory ability, even Cassandra could be found, and no one should be able to escape his observation.

Of course, the surroundings of the rooftop are completely empty, without hooks and claws, the only thing there is a very old mark.There are no people hanging on the walls or windows on all sides.

Just when He Jian was considering whether to check the situation inside this building, a voice he was very familiar with sounded——

The sound of something moving at high speed in the night wind.

Without waiting for the next second, he knew where he missed.higher than the roof.

The opponent jumped from the top of another, much taller building.

At this moment, He Jian hated the conditioned reflex that he had been trained.His body began to move before his brain figured out the identity of the person.

And his limit speed is much faster than human movements.Before the other party could do anything, He Jian's hand was already attached to the other party's body.

"I have to say you surprised me a bit," Jason said slowly.

The long knife in his hand pierced the opponent's shoulder, and the blood was dripping down the blade to the ground, but the opponent didn't seem to feel any pain, and just looked at his knife dully.

This kind of reaction almost made Jason feel a little bit guilty, but the dark aura on the other party and the action that was obviously about to do something through contact left him with no other choice—the speed was too fast, and he didn't even have time to draw his gun , can only materialize the blade of the great caste.

The boy who was pierced by him looked about the same age as Tim, and there was no killing intent or malice on his body, just standing honestly and pitifully.

——Hell, Angelica was right, this guy's expression does look familiar.

Jason could clearly see the imprint of being from the same family on each other.

He found the right person.