"Boss! Boss! Something happened!" In a room on the top floor of the Living Hell, a half-year-old child hurriedly pushed the door in and said to Cobot who was writing on his desk: "The first phase of the East District reconstruction
Something happened to the three planned streets!"
Copper asked without raising his head: "What happened? Is it worth making such a fuss to you?"
"Just...just..." The child seemed to be afraid of being blamed. He hesitated for a long time, and then gritted his teeth and said: "The people in charge of this matter are running around outside these days. No one is keeping an eye on the gang boss there.
Five or six died, and we don’t know how they died..."
"Five or six died?" Cobot raised an eyebrow, looked at him and asked: "There shouldn't be any big gangs in those three streets, there are only a few small gangs in total. You mean, their bosses are all dead.
Already?"
The child swallowed his saliva and said, "That's about it. Not only that, some of the little bosses are also dead..."
"How did you die?" Cobot asked again.
"The methods of death are quite fancy. Some were shot, some were strangled, and some were drowned. But in short, it doesn't look like a gang vendetta..." The child scratched his head and said with some confusion.
When the person who reported this incident passed this information to him, he also felt very strange. Generally speaking, if a gang boss died, most of them were shot from the front, and some of the sneak attackers were only shot from the back.
A few shots.
But in a short period of time, so many gang bosses died, and the death methods were very fancy, which is very strange.
"Is there anything unusual nearby?" Cobot asked.
"Abnormal? There are no big abnormalities. However, there seem to be a lot fewer child gangs there. Maybe they were kicked out by these gangs in advance." The child said.
"Kicked out early by the gang?" Cobot put down his pen, sat up straight and said, "Why were the Children's Gang kicked out by the gang?"
"Because...Boss, you also know that the renovation plan given by Wayne Group treats all residents equally. No matter how old the residents are, everyone can be assigned a room."
"Recently, we have been regulating the order near the living hell. We all know that the rent there is very expensive. If we can control one more room, we can earn a lot of rent. As long as the children are kicked out, those who are assigned to them will
The house above me is owned by the local gang."
"It used to be small amounts of money..." the child shrugged and said, "It only cost a few dozen cents to let the children run errands, but now, when hundreds of dollars are involved, they simply won't allow these children to follow them.
Fight for profit."
Cobot sighed and said, "Then who do you think we represent?"
The child was a little confused and couldn't understand what Cobot was talking about. Cobot sighed again and said, "Forget it, go get the tire."
After a while, Fatty Tire walked in. He was now more lively, and his face was rosy. It looked like he had eaten well. He said hello to Cobot and said: "Hey, Cobot,
What's wrong? What do you want from me?"
"Have you heard about the recent building renovation project?" Cobot asked.
Tire nodded and said: "Of course, my house seems to be planned in the second phase of the project, which will start in two or three months. My mother plans to increase the money to buy us a two-bedroom and one-living house. After all, I have also recently
Now that I have a girlfriend, if I get married in the future, the house can still be used."
"Are your gangsters doing anything?" Cobot asked.
Tire recalled: "They seem to be recruiting people like crazy recently. I heard that if they hire more people, they can get an extra house. If they kick these people out, they will be able to control a lot of housing and rent them."
You can make a lot of money if you go out."
Suddenly, Tire frowned and said, "Oh no, when it comes to implementation, won't people like me and my mother also be kicked out?"
"No, I have to go back quickly and ask my mother to buy more bullets... No, this won't work either. This is really unsafe. If it doesn't work, let's just spend money to buy a house in the living hell. There's no need to scrape together this
lively……"
Cobot sighed and said: "You are in the second phase, so the gangs are recruiting people crazily, trying to get more places, but in the first phase of the resettlement plan, the gangs have already begun to chase people away."
"The quotas over there have been determined. The gangsters are driving out those who are easy to bully, taking control of the houses themselves, renting them out, and using them to make money. How do you think this should be solved?" Cobot asked,
Tire rolled his eyes, and his mind was quite flexible. He said: "If we want to completely solve this problem, we have to find a way from the Wayne Group, but it will be difficult. After all, we can't arrange for one person to watch the house every day.
Who lives..."
"As long as you don't see it, the residents will definitely be kicked out, let alone those children who helped. Even if it's me and my mother, we have guns, bullets, and a lot of money, I'm afraid we will have to wait for a while.
Avoid the edge."
Tire sighed and said: "In the final analysis, the interests are exciting. The current situation of living hell is obvious to all. Everyone is waiting for the land price to rise. As soon as there is a new construction plan, everyone will definitely flock here and want to buy more houses."
, even if you can’t sell it, you can rent it out, after all, the rent in the living hell is also very expensive.”
"If you can own ten good houses, you will earn at least a few hundred dollars more a month. If you can have hundreds of houses, even big gangsters will be tempted by the profits. After all, the logistics industry still has to
It depends on the weather, but renting a house is a sure way of making money."
"You are right. To solve this problem, we can only start from the implementation aspect, and I believe that Wayne Group does have a solution."
"You said, if the person who proposed this transformation plan has a perfect way to prevent this kind of thing from happening, and we know this in advance, what should we do now?" Cobot asked.
Tire frowned, thought carefully for a while and said: "Those gangsters on the territory of the first phase of the reconstruction plan are kicking people like crazy, driving out the children's gang, and expelling the reserve troops in their own gangs.
, when it comes time to hand over the house, they will definitely be very dissatisfied if they find that they can’t get the house that has been confirmed.”
"But they don't seem to have any way to deal with the Wayne Group. After all, these are just small gangs, and they can't even meet the top executives of the Wayne Group."
"If the Wayne Group has a way to let the original owners of the houses that have already confirmed quotas move in, then they will definitely spread their grievances on these original owners, and the two parties will definitely have conflicts."
"However, even if they kick out all the members of their own gang, they may not be able to gain an absolute advantage. It is more likely that the two parties will be evenly matched."
Although Tire has never learned any theoretical knowledge, like all the children in Gotham, he has been hanging around here since he was a child, and he also has a very powerful mother. His mother owns a gas station and runs it by herself, without relying on gangsters.
This is enough to show how powerful she is.
Under the influence of his ears and eyes, Tire's logical behavior towards gangsters can be said to be clear. He said: "The original owners of these rooms must be dissatisfied with the gangsters who kicked them out, and the gangsters are also dissatisfied with them. The contradiction between the two cannot be reconciled at all.
, when the time comes, the city will definitely be in a state of turmoil again.”
"At this time, it is very important which side the Children's Gang is on..." Tire suddenly said as if he had a sudden realization, "The gangs will gradually split into several pieces. If they want to gain an advantage here, they have to rely on these familiar people.
children, and we can definitely help the children there in advance..."
"If this is the case, after several phases of the project are completed, Gotham's kid gangs may be more closely connected, instead of being independent as they are now."
Cobot shook his head and said: "It's far more than that. When you were a child, you should have come into contact with the members of the Children's Gang. They were assigned a room each, but do you think they would live in one room each? Or,
How many people squeeze into one house and then rent out other houses to make money?"
"Although I am not a member of the Children's Gang, I think they will definitely squeeze together and rent out some of the members' houses. In this way, the living conditions will be improved and money will be earned."
Tire shrugged and said: "Although I don't understand it a bit, they are still very loyal. They would rather humiliate themselves than buy food for the children in the gang, so they will definitely choose to make money."
"The single rooms assigned to the children are actually the best ones to rent out." Copot analyzed: "The vast majority of Gotham residents don't need a living room. A bed and a window are already good.
It is necessary to pay more to rent a one-bedroom apartment..."
"If we don't intervene, the gangsters will definitely interfere with who they rent the house to, and maybe they will take a cut of it, but this can be done by us..." Cobot tapped the table with his finger.
Said: "Unite all the children and no longer be exploited by those gangs..."
“And once they can earn rent and have some spare money, we can encourage them to go to school, just like the school in living hell, where we throw some children in and have specialized teachers take them to study and play.
"
"Once you go to school, the school has dormitories, which will free up more rooms for renting out and earn more money. Maybe the older children can also embark on a normal life.
The path to education.”
Tire nodded and said: "The wish is quite good, but the only problem is, how can Wayne Group ensure that everyone lives in their own house? The gangsters have blocked the door with guns, who dares not to come out?"
Cobot smiled and said: "You underestimate the technical capabilities of Wayne Group. In less than two months, the first building of the first phase of the renovation project will be completely completed. By then, you will
Let’s see who can live in it.”
Tire scratched his head and said, "If this is the case, it would be a blessing. No one can rob anyone else's house, and we will feel at ease."
"Actually, don't families like mine and my mother just want peace of mind? If the gang treats us well, then it's okay to pay some protection money. If the Wayne Group can really build such a house, we can give them some protection
The fee is the same."
"In other words, if he doesn't let us pay, we will feel wrong." Tire shook his head and said, "My mother often said that there is no free lunch in the world. If he takes the money, he will always protect us. If
If we don’t take any points, we will definitely have to pay other prices.”
"Perhaps, what he wants now is not money." Cobot turned to look out the window and said: "Perhaps, the day of eternal security and freedom you talked about will eventually come, but when that day comes, what you have to sacrifice is