Chapter 782: Deadly Joke (IX)

The sky was completely dark, and Bruce, who had been driving for a day, was 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 gloomy-looking man 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 was mumbling something incomprehensible, but because of the effect of alcohol, he couldn't say anything at all. Come up with a complete sentence.

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 balcony door has a lock, but it cannot prevent these thieves at all. After all, this is just an apartment in a slum, 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 the middle-level members of a certain gang who jointly bought the building, and then each person divided into an area and could decide where to live. 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 that 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 gang the tenant belongs to, 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 what is called a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. Even if he can defeat one landlord, he can't defeat all the landlords here, let alone the gangs that the landlords belong to.

More importantly, even if he can defeat all these people, what about the tenants here? Without the protection of the landlords and gangs, these people can't live in peace.

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

The foreman was very optimistic about Bruce, but he also shook his head about this matter. He said: "To rent a house in the East District, you must have an acquaintance to introduce you, otherwise no landlord will feel at ease to let you live in."

"If you live in his house and kill people, make explosions, or do illegal businesses, then he and the gangs above him may be unlucky. If no one introduces you, you may only be able to make do in the canned area."

"Canned area? Where is that?" Bruce asked.

The foreman pointed and said, "Follow this and walk about 3 kilometers out. You can see a garbage dump. To the south of the garbage dump, on the side close to the sea, you can see a lot of houses built with iron sheets. That's the canning area."

"People there pick up unwanted construction waste materials in the city, such as bricks and iron sheets, and build houses for themselves. From a distance, they look like cans, so it's called the canning area."

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

"Can't get out? Why?" Bruce asked.

The foreman shook his head and said nothing, but Bruce decided to go to the canning 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 broken shed made of iron sheets at the end of an alley, which was the bottom line of Bruce's imagination of the simplicity of the building.

But when he came to the canning area, he found that he 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 waste.

This place is located in the south of Gotham's East District, where the garbage dump is located and where most of the factory sewage pipes are located. In Gotham, where every inch of land is valuable, the reason why this place has not been used by developers is that it is actually a shallow beach.

The soil here is not good. If you want to build a foundation, you must first reclaim the sea. The cost is 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 elderly, disabled and seriously ill people.

Of course, there were some like him who came here temporarily because they couldn't rent a house without acquaintances.

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

It is not quite accurate to call it a house. One wall of the house is a broken wallboard in a right triangle with steel bars inside. It looks like the waste from the demolition of an apartment building in the city. The other wall is a metal balcony door without glass, covered with plastic sheeting.

The two walls form a triangular space, with some wooden boards and sundries boxes piled outside as doors. It is a bit too retro to call it a house, and a bit too avant-garde to call it a tent.

Standing on the beach, Bruce looked far away and found that this was not a residential area, but a cemetery. As far as he could see, he saw three dead people lying in the tin house.

Walking on the beach, Bruce found that the rain boots he bought were not only cheated in price, but also in quality. The seams looked tight, but when he stepped on the beach, water always leaked inside. After a while, Bruce's feet were frozen cold.

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

There is a lot of wood here, but it is impossible to make a fire. It has been thrown on the beach for too long, and the moisture has invaded the interior. The too wet materials cannot be ignited, but there is nothing dry here, including clothes.

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

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

Now, he knows where the owner of this house has gone.

If it was the previous Batman, he should have directly lifted the floor and then conducted a cause of death analysis on the spot, but now, Bruce silently covered the floor back and even found a piece of cloth to plug the gap, not because of fear, but because of cold.

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

Headache, cough, 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.