The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

Bruce was determined to leave, but the old man still gave him a cigarette and said: Every newcomer here, I will give him a cigarette for free, which may save his life at a critical moment. It will also add another client for me, if you really can't stand the pain, then come to me, the doctor welcomes every patient.

Bruce took the cigarette and returned to the car stiffly. He put the cigarette in his pocket casually, and sat on the seat in a daze until it rained again in Gotham.

Bruce, who has nowhere to go, can only stay in the truck, which is his only shelter. Although it is not very warm, it can at least keep out the wind and rain.

Staying in the driver's seat, Bruce's mind kept echoing what the old man said, so absurd, unreasonable, almost like a joke.

But the old man was not joking. He really regarded himself as a doctor, and then looked for solutions for those patients, thinking that he could cure them. In his opinion, no pain is considered a cure.

Is this ridiculous? Maybe yes, but not without reason.

In the past few days, Bruce has deeply realized the importance of labor ability, which is the only hope for everyone here.

They have to be able to work in order to survive here. If they can't move, they really can only wait to die.

In order to gain the ability to work, they will try all possible methods, including the use of drugs to relieve pain.

There are two ways to treat a disease, one is to treat the symptoms, and the other is to treat the root cause. Bruce completely disagrees with this method of slow suicide to treat the symptoms, but he also has no way to question why these people don’t treat the root cause.

Because, with the two crumpled US dollars in his hand now, he couldn't even pay the hospital registration fee.

If you can only rely on yourself to obtain basic survival materials, then the words unpredictable is no longer a simple sigh, but a bolt from the blue.

On the day when the thunder fell, many people had already died. The death sentence was sentenced on the first day of the lunar new year, and they only left after the fifteenth day.

Bruce, who was lying on the seat, still gradually became sleepy, but this time, his dream kept falling, wandering between falling and waking up repeatedly.

His hand holding the spear gradually loosened. The double physical and psychological torture made him sink into a deep dream, so he didn't hear some strange noises.

When he got up the next day, Bruce sat on the seat and stretched himself. He felt a little better. The symptoms of stomach pain had disappeared, and his physical strength had recovered a lot. Today, the temperature did not drop anymore. After the temperature rose, the cold The feeling also faded.

Bruce felt that everything was turning around, but this feeling didn't last long. After ten minutes, he found that the car couldn't start.

Getting out of the car to check, Bruce found that the lock of the fuel tank had been picked.

The full tank of gas he had filled up before was all stolen, and he slept too deeply last night to hear anything.

The problem now is that if he wants to eat, the money is not enough to gas, and if he wants to gas, the money is not enough to eat.

If you don’t work harder, then you won’t be able to do today’s work, and after eating today’s meal, he will still have no money to eat tomorrow’s meal, but if he doesn’t eat, his gastroenteritis may become more serious, and his body will also be weaker.

After weighing it over and over again, Bruce decided to refuel. He had to ensure sustainable development instead of eating the last meal without the next meal.

Finally, he went to the gas station, filled the tank again with the money he had left, and set aside a little money to change the lock for the tank, and he was penniless again.

After adding oil, you can go to work. As long as you work, you can get money, and you can eat the next day. In this way, everything will be fine.

With such a mood, Bruce embarked on a journey again.

Like a few days ago, he came to the warehouse of the gangster and started loading goods. Today's business is very good. He filled a truck full of goods and received a tip of two dollars. As long as the truck is pulled to the distribution point, He would earn another ten dollars, enough for three days of food.

Bruce felt that he had made the right choice and didn't use the money to buy food short-sightedly, otherwise, he would still be worrying about tomorrow's meal.

I drove on the road, got on the viaduct as usual, and then started a long traffic jam.

However, in the past, even if there was a traffic jam, at least I could move once every five minutes, and I could run a 20-kilometer distance for several hours. Although it was a bit slower, I could still finish the run.

However, today's traffic line seemed to be welded to death, motionless, seeing the sun was overhead, and half of the viaduct hadn't finished running, Bruce couldn't help getting out of the car to check the situation like other drivers.

If you don’t see it, you don’t know it. It’s even more desperate when you see it. There was a leak in a transport vehicle transporting dense ice raw materials for the cold storage. The leaked material froze the second half of the viaduct into ice. Now it’s waiting for professionals to come and solve it. If the professionals can't get through, don't even think about delivering today.

He was on the bridge all the time, and it was not until two o'clock in the afternoon that Bruce was notified that the professionals had come, but they were not professional enough, and he had to find more professionals, and the more professional people would not arrive until tomorrow, and the entrance of the viaduct was closed It's closed, the cars that are now blocked on the road are considered unlucky for them, and they can only leave tomorrow.

Standing on the viaduct, Bruce can clearly feel that the sunlight here is better than that on the ground. Although it is still not as clear as it is, the vision is wider, but his mood is not open enough.

He felt angry, aggrieved, and regretful, but he didn't know who to blame.

After asking about the situation, Bruce knew that the driver of the raw material truck stayed up all night driving and didn't sleep all night. He didn't pay attention when he got up to check the valve today. Just halfway through, the raw material leaked completely.

The first-time professional said that these materials cannot be recycled, which means that a small negligence of the driver left him with a debt of at least 300,000 U.S. dollars, and now Bruce has realized that 300,000 U.S. dollars is not Just a few of his meals.

The vast majority of drivers dare not leave their trucks. They have all experienced what Bruce experienced before. They may just go to the toilet or have a meal, and the gas will be stolen. this.

Some kids came to sell food on the viaduct, and many truck drivers bought it, but Bruce didn't buy it because he had no money at all.

After another day and night of hunger, Bruce felt that the fat in his body was being consumed rapidly, but his spirit was better than before, and he was no longer tortured by the ubiquitous hunger.

The next day, after the road was cleared, Bruce drove to the distribution point, but when he went back to check out, half of the money was deducted.

The reason is that the goods were delayed for one day and failed to catch up with the last batch of freighters, and the price of the next batch of freighters has increased again. The gangsters can only recover the cost from their heads.

Bruce no longer has the energy to argue with the gangsters. He just wants to spend money to buy food, because his body is telling him that if he doesn't eat anymore, he will face the risk of hypoglycemia.

With the dozens of dollars, he found a bakery on the side of the road, bought two bags of cheap finished white bread, two baguettes, and some biscuits that were easy to store, put them on the truck, and asked a newsboy to buy them at a high price Several bottles of purified water were also put on the truck.

There is no good source of meat, so I can only buy finished sausages, but in fact, most of the finished sausages are offal, and the hygienic conditions are not up to standard, but Bruce can only make do, without fat supplements, the body temperature will drop even more quick.

The only difficulty now is vitamins. Vegetables are not easy to preserve, and he has no place to cook. Bruce must find himself a more stable place to live as soon as possible.

After supplementing the food, Bruce felt a lot more at ease. As long as he can save some money, he can rent a better house and have a stable place to live. His trip to the slums will be officially started, and the next step is Get out of the East End with your own power.

But Gotham is like this. Whenever a person is full of ambitions and wants to do something, accidents will definitely happen.

After dark, Bruce planned to find a place to park, but when he started the car, he found that there was a problem with the operating feel. It seemed that the steering system was not working well.

Bruce experimented for a long time, and found that there was a problem with the car. He had to get under the car to repair the car, but after a period of inspection, he found that the car was not completely new.

Although his appearance looked very glamorous, when he saw the internal structure, Bruce knew that this was a second-hand new car assembled from various old parts.

At the beginning, he thought that the gangsters would not be so kind to give him such a good car for free, but the aging of the parts inside was worse than he imagined.

The next day, Bruce went to the previous gangster. They had a good attitude and were willing to repair Bruce's car, but after the repair, they hadn't been driving for a day, and the tire had another problem.

Bruce discovered that the gangster's way of repairing cars is to replace the parts that don't work well on one car with another car, and then rely on luck for the rest.

In other words, it's not bad for them to be able to replace them successfully. Before the first batch of students from vocational technical colleges have graduated, most people rely on their intuition to repair trucks.

Bruce knew that it was impossible to continue repairing like this. He had to replace the complete parts to make the car run smoothly instead of breaking down halfway, but he didn't have the money to buy complete parts.

Bruce found that all the problems he encountered in the slums would be boiled down to two words in the end, that is, no money.

No money means no money, what you want to buy, if you are short of a penny, you have no money, and a penny stumps a hero, it is not an exaggerated adjective. Penny.

And at this moment, a group of people approached him, claiming that they were here to solve the problem of Bruce having no money.

Looking at the strong man in the lead, Bruce asked, You said you could lend me money, what about the interest?

The strong man waved his hand and said, We don't talk about this here, we just tell you how much you have to repay each installment. The lower limit of the loan here is $300. For the next year, you will pay us $50 a week.

Bruce didn't even have to think about the number, he knew it was called usury, and seeing how uninterested he was, the burly man put his arm around his shoulders and said:

Our terms are already very favorable. Believe me, those gangs who want you to pay back thousands of dollars at once are completely extortion.

Look, when you are in urgent need of money, you take us 300 dollars, and then you only need to pay us 50 dollars a week, 50 dollars, it is not difficult for drivers like you, maybe there are dozens of dollars left in a week To subsidize the family.

Seeing that Bruce still didn't accept it, he added: Well, if you prefer a more traditional method, we will lend you $300 and you will pay us back $800 next month.

Bruce knew that $800 was a huge amount of money for the slums, not to mention $800, $80 was a huge amount of money for him now.

Bruce looked at the strong man and asked him, What if I don't get up?

The strong man smiled and said, Don't worry, the gang is short of people now, you will have a good place to go, especially, you are still a beauty.