Chapter seven hundred and eighty deadly joke (seven)
When Bruce woke up the next morning, he knew that he had to find a job today. He didn't have much left in the 20 dollars. If this continued, he would really be hungry.
But is it so easy to find a job? It's far from the dock here, so working as a porter is definitely out of the question. But to be a gangster, you need a letter of introduction. The gang has to make sure you're trustworthy before they can recruit you. They won't.
A person of unknown origin.
If you are the son of a gang member, your parents may introduce you to work in this gang, or they may introduce you to gangs in other neighborhoods that have no interest in the gang they are currently working for.
And gangs in distant places also accept such members. Some gangs are even short of people, so they will go to gangs further away and ask them if they have any good next generation.
But, where does Bruce Wayne have a gang background? Without an introduction from an acquaintance, he couldn't even join the gang.
There is no way to become a formal member of the gang, but you can become an external member. There are many people like this. Not every waiter and security guard in the bar is a formal member of the gang. Many of them just work for the gang.
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Bruce wanted to work as a security guard. After all, he had an advantage in size and had very strong fighting skills. But unfortunately, the security guards in the East District didn't need any fighting skills. They needed vision.
You have to be able to determine within three seconds whether the other person is a normal customer, a thief, someone who is here to cause trouble, or a spy from other gangs. But Bruce has only been here for two days, and the only thing he can tell is the gender of the other person.
If you can't be a security guard, then you can always be a waiter, right? Bruce found a similar job, working as a waiter in a nightclub. Of course, it wasn't the kind of serving dishes, but just cleaning and sweeping the floor.
However, Bruce has a very handsome face, which always leads to situations that he cannot accept. He worked there for three days and met seven gang bosses who wanted to keep him.
All six are men.
He couldn't hide his face. The guests would think he was the kind of explosive maniac with bombs, which would affect the nightclub's business. Finally, the owner of the nightclub wanted to introduce him to the striptease bar opposite, and Bruce had no choice but to quit.
got this job.
If you want to rely on your reputation to make a living, it's not impossible. The best thing to do is to be a greeter in front of the mansion.
Generally speaking, no one dares to mess around in a mansion covered by a big gang. But the problem is that the leaders of the big gangs all know Bruce Wayne. As soon as he wanted to enter, he was taken to the top by two greeters.
In the office, they were entertained with good tea and wine. Bruce drank a lot of expensive wine and went back.
If you can't do such a low-level job, you can always become a skilled worker, right? Now the gangs are most in need of skilled workers, and Bruce doesn't intend to do any difficult work, because this will deviate from the original intention. After all, the knowledge he knows also relies on
Due to his excellent educational conditions, ordinary people in the East District certainly do not have such conditions.
The position Bruce is aiming for is a truck driver. After all, driving is not a difficult technical job. Most children in the East District will be taught to drive by their elders or gang leaders when they reach a certain age. Even if
Instead of specifically transporting goods, it's okay to fill in for the driver and run errands occasionally.
Since the gang was really short of men, Bruce said he could drive, so they immediately sent him a truck and asked him to take charge of freight from the city center to the dock.
This is not difficult at all. A year ago, there was a viaduct from the city center to the pier. After getting on the bridge from the entrance, you can get off the bridge and drive for less than three minutes to reach the terminal's distribution point.
Bruce thought, what could possibly go wrong with such a job? The total distance of transporting goods in the city was less than 20 kilometers, and he didn't have to worry about moving or unloading the goods. The gang also took care of a lunch, so it finally stabilized, right?
But it turns out that what he thought was too simple. Driving a truck is really difficult, and things other than driving are even harder.
First of all, this truck is not hired by a gang. It is usually a gang in an area and will use trucks in this area. The styles of gangs are different and must be carefully screened.
Some gangsters like to overload and take
A gun is pointed at your head and you are asked to pull more goods, regardless of whether you can pass the inspection. Some gangs like to transport contraband. If they are inspected at the distribution point, the truck driver will also get into trouble.
Moreover, if you are not familiar with the people at the distribution point, you will not be able to find a good position in the queue to unload, and there will be no one to help direct the reversing, and the efficiency will be very slow.
Others arrived at the distribution point, jumped in line casually, and then took the second trip. Bruce was holding the steering wheel outside and waited for two hours.
Moreover, seeing that he is young and has a fresh face, many porters like to play tricks, knocking on the car window and asking for cards. If you don't give money, you will wait for the goods to be transported and bumped here and there, and you will be picked up by the gang.
Please trouble me.
In addition, the traffic situation in Gotham has improved, but it has not completely improved. In most cases, when there are certain traffic conflicts, it is common to see a shotgun sticking out of the car window. Bruce has just made a little money, and he has to
Take it out and buy a gun and a riot shield.
If you want to park your car at a distribution point overnight, it is useless to just lock the fuel tank. You must either leave someone to guard it, or you have to ask an acquaintance to watch it. And if you want to have acquaintances, you have to pay for dinner and build relationships. In which country is this?
it's the same.
Bruce worked like this for a week, and his savings increased from a dozen dollars to a few dollars. If the gang hadn't taken care of a meal at noon, he might have really come here to lose weight passively.
This is the case for working at the bottom level. If you don’t join the industry, you will get paid no matter how much you work and how long you work. If you want to join the industry, in addition to spending time and energy, you must lower your profile and seek advice from people who are integrated into the industry.
Do some behaviors that you may have found very annoying before, and become the person you used to hate.
The four words "forced to make a living" are really too heavy. No one knows what kind of burden is on the shoulders of the person who said these four words.
These days, Bruce discovered that what was more terrifying than the fierce criminal conflicts was the calm, long, endless, and poverty.
The people of Gotham are not poor, at least they are rich compared to other cities. However, such a hard-working life day after day consumes all their energy, leaving them no time to think, and they die slowly.
When Batman stood on the top of the building and looked at all this, he didn't understand why these people didn't have the strength or courage to break away from this kind of life.
But when he was deeply involved, he found that in the cold and windy night of Gotham, the flame lit by the anger of revenge could not even light a cigarette.
In less than two weeks, Bruce had the idea of retreat for the first time. He felt that he had collected enough material, but a thought in his heart told him that this was not enough.
He hasn't hit rock bottom yet.
So, he could only set sail again, and he did not plan to change jobs again, because he knew that ordinary people here did not have so much cost of making mistakes, and they did not have such strong bodies. They were not that strong to go hungry for a week.
With his fighting skills, he can still run away when gangsters cause trouble.
Among all the sufferings Bruce experienced, at some point, ordinary people could only write one word with blood in a deserted corner - accept their fate.
One day, Bruce was driving on the viaduct again. When he was stuck in traffic, he turned around and saw a familiar face.
The driver next to him was pale, wearing red lipstick, and was biting bread with his mouth wide open. Bruce rolled up the window in a hurry, but the driver opposite had already turned his head.
Seeing Bruce sitting in the driver's seat of the truck, Jack the Clown was also stunned. The bread in his mouth suddenly no longer tasted good. He took the piece of bread that had not been bitten off from his mouth and took it out.
Got some residue.
He lowered his head to pick up the scum and threw it into his mouth, rolled down the car window, and desperately reached out to hook Bruce's car window.
Bruce turned the steering wheel to hide, but there was a traffic jam and there was no room to hide. Jack got out of the car window, holding on to the edge of the truck window with one hand and knocking on Bruce's glass with the other.
Finding that he couldn't break the glass, Jack got back into his truck, rummaged around the seats, and pulled out a big bomb.
Bruce immediately rolled down the window and said, "Put it down
Put that thing down! I'm warning you, this shipment of mine is very important. It's an urgent order and it has to be delivered within two hours. If you blow up the bridge, I'll throw you off here!"
Jack, who was holding the bomb in his hand, was stunned again. He took out his ears and said, "What did you say?"
"I said! If you dare to blow up the bridge! I will..."
"No, I said the previous sentence!" Jack shouted to him.
Bruce paused and said: "This batch of goods is very important, it is an urgent order!"
Jack turned the corners of his mouth downwards, stared at Bruce with a dark look and said, "Why are you here? Why are you driving a truck? Why don't you stand on the roof of Wayne Tower to blow the wind?"
Bruce didn't want to answer him. Just as he was about to roll up the window, Jack got out of his own window again, put his hand on the window, and put his head into Bruce's truck.
Bruce rummaged around the seat, then took out a mineral water bottle and hit Jack on the head hard, but he completely retreated and grabbed Bruce's arm and asked him: "Damn it, why are you here?
Answer me, answer me Batman, are you crazy?!"
Bruce took a deep breath and glanced at the other window. There was a traffic jam ahead. The road in front of him was still blocked. The cars were moving forward at a frequency of once every five minutes. If nothing unexpected happened,
We will definitely not be able to get off the bridge within half an hour.
So he looked at Jack and said, "I'm driving a truck because I want to make money, because I'm a human being and I have to eat!"
Jack was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly burst into a series of laughter. He looked at Bruce with his mouth open and asked: "What did you say? Say it again, this is really the funniest joke I have heard this year!"
"I said, I am a human being and I have to eat. How can I eat if I don't have money?"
Jack laughed hard again and kept patting the car window until he burst into tears. Then he looked at Bruce with tearful eyes and said:
"How can you eat without money? Hahahahahaha...hahahahahaha!! That's right! How can you eat without money?"