Batman has never doubted whether Gotham needs him. Gotham needs everyone with a righteous heart. 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 a question arises, who are the criminals?
In other words, who is not a criminal?
It's like, in a group of ten people, one person stabs nine other people with a knife. Batman will definitely attack this person, but if ten people stab each other with a knife, things will become a bit difficult. .
If these ten people were cutting and robbing, robbing and being robbed, but enjoying it at the same time, or even not running away at all, then most people would choose to respect the blessing and not die on my doorstep.
Now Shangcheng District and Zhongcheng District have become a mess. Residents in the densely populated areas of Xiacheng District are actively participating in the war. Seventy percent of the population in a city is fighting, and they are fighting happily. There is no such thing as being devastated by war. Decadent and sad.
It can even be said that the recent period has been Gotham's most prosperous period in ten years.
First of all, fighting for territory requires increasing the population. The residences of each family have attracted a large number of people from the lower city, which has effectively solved the wave of layoffs due to the economic downturn due to sanctions. Gangsters are a specialty of the unemployment era.
Secondly, consolidating the security measures at the family residence requires a large amount of materials, transporting materials requires logistics, and building a logistics system requires more materials, which greatly stimulates domestic consumer demand in the city. Various things in the residence are actually built. , to a certain extent, it can also be regarded as developing industry.
Finally, the war will inevitably consume weak individuals, while at the same time opening up the upward path for strong and young individuals. Because of high personnel attrition, job iteration is quick. The job of gangster does not require any difficult skills, and there are almost no barriers to education and class. No, as long as you are not afraid of death, you can ride on the east wind of the times and move forward, going further and further on the road of crime.
There will be a large number of job opportunities and a large amount of capital invested in industry, distributing economic dividends to the bottom, opening up an upward path to seek more benefits or realize self-worth. This can temporarily eliminate almost all contradictions and make the poisonous weeds in this chaotic land take root downwards. Then climb up and grow new, good, healthy branches.
Of course, war can never be beautiful. Such chaos means the loss of thousands of lives. When Batman stands at the top of Gotham and looks down, he can hear the cry of despair every second. But the sound of gunfire was even more deafening.
Whether to be shattered on the battlefield under heavy gunfire or to die silently in the delicate and lingering rainy night, neither of these two is a good choice, but Batman understands the people of Gotham very well. If he gives them 11 million more chances, they will still choose one.
This group of rare evildoers in the world never feel sorry for themselves. They will only spout smoke hotter than the flue of hell from the barrel-like trachea, and they will die to let their evil blood splash further, so that Let everyone know that no one deserves to be guilty except them.
Batman doesn't pity them either, because this bloody flower that only needs a rain to fully bloom is the good fruit they are praying for, but Batman cannot accept it, and he must not accept that there is not even a drop of him in this rain.
Gotham may be good or bad, Batman cannot be just a spectator, and he is even less likely to leave Gotham alone in this era of drastic changes. Even if there must be someone at the forefront of this era, it must be him, and it will always be 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 artillery fire was duller than before, like when the ice and cold retreated and all things began to grow, that A shocking spring thunder.
Batman joins the mayhem, but not as Batman.
Even though his birds are still guarding him, this time, Batman has become the leader of the Neville family, and as a player rather than a law enforcer, he has completed the process of establishing and fighting for hegemony among the gang families. Read it again.
Batman once mingled with gangs under the false identity of Match Malone, but again, in the years after his debut, Gotham's gangs have long been out of place. If they are called gangs, they are just like the Iceberg Restaurant created by Penguin. It's just a half-black, half-grey group of interests.
But this time, Batman is involved in the establishment process of a complete traditional gang family, or should be said to be the establishment process of an Italian family-style gang.
The biggest characteristic of family-style gangs is that in many things, they must not put profit first, but must put justice first, and they must value feelings and family ties. Family blood or emotional ties are the cage that restrains violence, and they are also the biggest factor in using the knife quickly and accurately. thrust.
The essence of manipulation is love. If the gang leader only cares about profit, then his subordinates will betray him one day because of profit. If he wants to hold the dog leash firmly in his hand, he must naturally talk about love and feelings.
No one can explain love clearly. It is a confusing thing that cannot be understood no matter how you calculate it. If a person makes everyone else have the illusion that he is loved, then everyone owes him and must respect him. Him, love him and be loyal to him.
In order to truly develop the Neville family, which was actually only an empty shell, Bruce had to first recruit people. However, during the process of recruiting people, he found that almost all the family leaders adopted a charismatic recruitment method. .
To put it simply, I won’t talk about money or treatment with you. You just need to know that I never treat my subordinates badly. If you follow me, you will get something to eat. I can accept you, understand you and make good use of you better than others. What matters is the conduct of a scholar. He who knows his friends dies.
Bruce, who has sufficient experience in running a modern company, had to start comparing the human resources model of the modern company with the traditional gangster, and why the company's recruitment model did not work.
After several attempts, Bruce discovered that the key problem still lies in the difference in the nature and danger of the work.
What is it like to do ordinary work in an office with the air conditioner blowing and typing on the keyboard? It has little to do with the boss's personality. Even if the boss does not manage well and the company goes bankrupt, the worst possible outcome is unemployment and just finding another job.
But fighting really kills people. Although all candidates who are aspiring to be gangsters are ready to die, who doesn't want to live longer?
They must be assured that their immediate boss must be principled, empathetic, intelligent, and energetic, so that they will not drag their subordinates to death out of selfishness or stupidity.
If you don't even like your boss's charisma, then what smart people will be willing to follow him? If there were no smart people and professionals, wouldn’t going to the battlefield mean death?
Under this situation, Bruce had to adjust his conversational style. The previous image of an elite businessman who was shrewd and capable and knowledgeable about all kinds of market data and market trends had to be abandoned. No one here will talk to you about the stock trend.
What everyone is concerned about is whether the defense line on the flanks of the base has been arranged, how to arrange the attack on the adjacent street tomorrow, whether there are enough bullets, and how long the people of a certain family on the opposite side can hold on.
Almighty as Batman, he immediately changed his old style and almost instantly adjusted to the kind of leader that gangsters like most: a bossy, domineering but loyal leader, an attack as fast as fire, and a defense as steady as an old dog. image.
But soon, Bruce discovered another problem. The thugs gathered in the Neville family were all incredibly young, and most of them were teenagers of sixteen or seventeen years old.
Although the people who dare to do this work have already developed relatively strong bodies, and even if they are young, they look like strong young men, but Bruce really can't understand it. It doesn't matter if there are a few young men like this. At least eight out of ten are such young people.
There is another thing that is wrong, which also makes Bruce a little puzzled. Although he has changed his acting style and is as close to the gangster style as possible, he will occasionally show his Batman side. Bruce is trying 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 likable.
But whenever Bruce inadvertently reveals his side of Batman, his young men will show expressions of fanatical admiration, and the more silent Batman is without explanation, the more fanatical the atmosphere becomes.
Although these two phenomena are strange, the development they have brought to the Neville family is indeed very positive. On the one hand, boxing is afraid of young people, and the gang war is, to put it bluntly, an enlarged version of street fighting. The age advantage is still very beneficial.
Young people dare to fight hard, have quick reactions, are more receptive to new knowledge during training, and are very flexible in mind. Even with Batman's extremely picky and demanding eyes, he can pick out a few malleable ones among them. Materials occupy key positions.
Moreover, they almost worshiped Bruce, so they were naturally loyal and had no problem with their execution. They could even be called to fight wherever he was told and enforce the orders and prohibitions. This was something that many other gangsters couldn't do, so they were naturally able to help Neville. The family has the upper hand.
But even so, Batman, a hopeless skeptic and control freak, still wants to know what is causing this phenomenon?
So, he began a comprehensive investigation and also visited among his subordinates, trying to figure out why all the young people in Gotham seemed to have gathered here.
Batman checked for three full days. From the research on the problem of Gotham's declining population to the prospect of Gotham's aging era, he checked the entire population and fertility structure of Gotham. After careful analysis, he found that the problem should be Not on Gotham, but on him.
Then, he conducted some self-investigation and reflection. Just when he almost thought it was his own problem, Batman suddenly realized-
The person responsible for the initial recruitment of members of the Neville family is Tim Drake, his Red Robin.
(End of chapter)
