The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

The sky was completely dark. After driving for a day, Bruce felt a little distracted. He just wanted to go back to the rental house and have a good sleep. But it turned out that in Gotham, nothing good happens every day.

As soon as he got home and sat on the sofa, he heard a noise outside the door, and someone banged on the door. Bruce came to the door vigilantly, listening to the noise outside.

After a while, a man's voice came: Open the door! Open the door quickly! I am the landlord, open the door quickly!

Bruce had no intention of opening the door, but soon, the door was opened from the outside, and it was not broken down violently, but opened with a key.

A man with a gloomy face stood outside. He looked at Bruce and said, Who are you? Where is the original tenant?

I am Selena's boyfriend...

I don't care what your relationship is. I only rent my house to trustworthy people. Strangers, get out of here! the landlord said loudly.

But the rent is not due...

I don't care what the rent is! the landlord said in a loud voice: Whoever I rent to can live in it. Anyone I don't rent to, get out of here!

Bruce could see that the landlord actually wanted to take back the house and then rent it out and collect two rents. Faced with such an arrogant and unreasonable person, he had no intention of being reasonable. He directly raised the gun in his hand.

The landlord stared at him and said, Don't think you are the only one with a gun. No one can break the rules here. If you don't leave quickly, just wait for me.

After saying that, he turned around and left. Bruce stood by the door and looked at him, with a bad feeling.

Back in the room, Bruce felt sleepy after a tiring day. Just as he was about to fall asleep, he heard a slight noise in the room.

He woke up in an instant, reached for the gun beside him, and came to the living room with the gun. He found someone climbing through the window. He took a closer look and saw that it was the drunk man he had seen before.

He rummaged around on the sofa, and when Bruce's gun barrel was pressed against his head, he hurriedly avoided it. He muttered indistinctly, but because of the effect of alcohol, he couldn't say a word at all. Complete words.

Bruce pointed the gun at him and made him run out of the door with urine on his butt. Then, Bruce put down the gun and prepared to go back and rest.

But after a while, there was another noise outside, and Bruce had to get up again, and then he discovered that it was another thief.

Driving the thief away again, Bruce knew that he had been targeted. Perhaps the landlord spread the news and told them that there was a rich stranger here. During this night, Bruce was visited four times by the thief. Second-rate.

The door to the balcony is locked, but it can't prevent these thieves at all. After all, this is just a slum apartment, not a fully equipped Batcave. Without preparation in advance, Batman can only come and fight one by one. There is no good prevention. means.

Bruce had to sleep on the sofa in the living room all night. When he woke up in the morning, he found that his neck was twisted. What he was holding in his arms was not the soft quilt, but the gun. And he knew that last night he at least Scare off two more thieves.

After getting up, Bruce planned to go downstairs to buy a hot dog first, but in the stairwell going downstairs, he met the Asian woman. The fat lady lowered her voice and said to him: You'd better leave quickly, Hef has been released If you know the news, he will not stop nearby thieves from entering your room...

After the Asian lady's explanation, Bruce learned that this apartment was not owned by one person, but by a middle-level member of a gang who jointly bought the building, and then each person divided into an area and could decide where to place it. To whom the room is rented.

At the same time, they will warn the thieves around them not to come here, otherwise they will be evicted by the gang. But if they encounter a difficult tenant, they will also specifically ask the thieves to harass them until the person cannot bear to move. until.

Generally speaking, landlords will not show up, kick out tenants before the lease expires, and collect rent again, because doing so may offend the tenant's gang, and may also damage their own credibility and make them lose money. Others will no longer choose to rent in this area.

However, before renting a house, they will also make it clear that they do not allow changing tenants or renting out a second time, because if allowed, it will be difficult to judge whether the subsequent people are safe. If an explosive maniac is brought in, the entire building will be destroyed. Everyone will suffer together.

The landlord didn't know who Bruce was or whether there was a dangerous soul hidden under his appearance. In order to prevent himself, his tenants and his building from being unlucky together, he claimed that he would no longer treat the tenants in this room. Provided asylum, and specifically mentioned that Bruce was a rich man.

This resulted in countless thieves visiting this room in the next two days. Bruce worked all day during the day and had to guard against thieves at night.

Moreover, he was only one person, and there were countless thieves. Even if they didn't come in and just knocked on the window outside, it was enough to keep Bruce awake all night.

Moreover, Bruce found that the landlord was gradually losing his patience. Each of the last few people who came was carrying a long gun. If Bruce hadn't reacted quickly and pointed the gun at them first, he might have suffered.

Bruce found that he could no longer stay here, so he did not intend to continue to struggle with the landlord.

This is the so-called strong dragon but not the local snake. Even if he can defeat one landlord, he cannot defeat all the landlords here, let alone the gang where the landlord belongs.

More importantly, even if he can defeat all these people, what will happen to the tenants here? Without the protection of landlords and gangs, these people would have no hope of living in peace.

Bruce decided to leave, but he didn't know where to rent a house. Fortunately, after spending so many days in the East District, he had a little idea. He found the foreman of the restaurant where he worked before and asked him to help introduce him.

The foreman was very optimistic about Bruce, but regarding this matter, he shook his head and said: When renting a house in the East District, you must be introduced by an acquaintance, otherwise no landlord will trust you to live in it.

If you live in his house and kill people randomly, carry out explosions, or do illegal business, then he and the gangsters above him may be in trouble. If no one introduces you, you may have to go to the canned area to make do. .”

Canning District? Where is that? Bruce asked.

The foreman pointed and said, Follow this and walk about 3 kilometers further. You can see a garbage dump. To the south of the garbage dump, on the side near the sea, you can see a lot of iron sheets. The house that was put up was the canning area.”

People there will pick up construction waste materials that are not needed in the city, such as bricks and iron sheets, and build their own houses. From a distance, they look like cans, so it is called the canned area.

The foreman sighed and said, I advise you not to go there. Many people get in there and can't get out.

Can't get out? Why? Bruce asked.

The foreman shook his head and said no more, but Bruce decided to go to the canned area to take a look, because the foreman's description reminded him of the place where the little girl lived before.

At that time, the little girl lived in a shabby iron shed at the end of an alley, which was the bottom line of how simple the building was in Bruce's imagination.

But when he came to the canned food area, he realized that what he thought was still too simple.

The place where the little girl lived had at least three walls, but the roof and door were made of iron sheets. But in the canning district, all the houses were made of iron sheets and construction scraps.

This is located in the south of Gotham's East District. It is where the garbage dump is located and where most of the factory sewage pipes are located. In Gotham, where land is at a premium, the reason why this area has not been used by developers is because it is actually a vast area. shoal.

The soil quality here was not good, and if you wanted to build a foundation, you had to fill the sea first. The cost was too high, so it was abandoned, but it became the home of another group of people.

When Bruce walked in, he found that most of the people hiding in these waste piles were old people, disabled people, and people who were seriously ill.

Of course, there are also some people like him who come here temporarily to make do because they can't rent a house without acquaintances to recommend them.

Bruce found a tin house. No one lived there. The people in his house seemed to be migrants. Bruce didn't know where the owner of this house had gone, but he knew that he had a place to stay tonight.

It's not quite accurate to say it's a house here. One wall of this house is a broken right-angled triangular wall panel with steel bars inside. It looks like scraps from demolished apartment buildings in the city. The other wall is a glass-less one. Metal balcony door with plastic sheeting draped over it.

Two walls form a triangular space, with some wooden boards and glove boxes stacked outside to serve as doors. The house is a bit too retro, and the tent is a bit too avant-garde.

Standing on the beach, Bruce looked far into the distance. He discovered that this was not a residential area, but a cemetery. Wherever he looked, he saw three dead people lying in a tin house.

After walking on the beach one step at a time, Bruce discovered that the rain boots he bought were not only cheated on the price, but also on the quality. The seams looked tight, but when he stepped on the beach , water always leaked inside, and after a while, Bruce's feet were so cold from the cold.

The coldness began to spread from his feet upwards, and Bruce knew that he had to get warm quickly, otherwise he would die of hypothermia like the little girl.

There is a lot of wood here, but there is no way to make a fire. It has been thrown on the beach for too long, and moisture has invaded the interior. Materials that are too wet cannot be burned, but there is nothing dry here at all, including clothes.

As night fell and the temperature got lower and lower, Bruce felt colder and colder. Squatting in the tin house, he felt like a piece of meat in a can, and he was cold from head to toe.

Bruce originally thought this was the limit, until he was moving the floor of the house and saw a human skeleton in the gap.

Now he knew where the owner of this house had gone.

If it were the previous Batman, he would have just ripped off the floor and conducted an analysis of the cause of death on the spot. But now, Bruce silently covered the floor back, and even found a piece of fabric to plug the gaps. Not because of fear, just because of the cold.

After getting up the next day, Bruce discovered that he had a cold.

With headache, coughing, and weakness, Bruce felt very uncomfortable. He just wanted to lie down all day.

This bat that flew down was not gentle at all, and was sometimes too stubborn, but what matched him was that there were never good nights in Gotham, only cold nights.

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