In The DC World With Marvel Chat Group Chapter 784: Fatal Joke (11)
"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 him at a critical moment One life will also add another client for me, if you really can't bear the pain, then come to me, the doctor welcomes every patient."
Bruce took the cigarette, and went back to the car stiffly. He put the cigarette in his pocket casually, and sat on the seat in a daze until Gotham started to rain again.
Bruce has nowhere to go, so he 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, which was so absurd and unreasonable, it was almost like a joke.
But the old man is not joking, he really regards himself as a doctor, and then finds solutions for those patients, thinking that he can cure them, in his opinion, if the pain is gone, it is considered cured.
Is this ridiculous? Maybe yes, but not without reason.
During the past few days, Bruce has deeply realized the importance of labor ability, which is the only hope for everyone here.
They must 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 can't even pay the hospital registration fee.
If you can only rely on yourself to obtain basic survival information, 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 were already dead.
Bruce, who was lying on the seat, still gradually became sleepy, but this time, his dream kept falling, wandering back and forth 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.
Getting up the next day, Bruce sat on the seat and stretched his waist. He felt a little better. , the cold feeling also faded away.
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.
Get 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 before was stolen, and he slept too deeply last night to hear anything.
The problem now is that if he wants to eat, there is not enough money to gas, and if he wants to gas, the money is not enough to eat.
If you don't work hard, 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 worse Seriously, the body will become weaker.
After weighing it over and over again, Bruce still decided to refuel. He had to ensure sustainable development instead of eating the last meal without the next meal.
In the end, he came to the gas station, filled the gas tank again with the remaining money, and set aside a little money to change the lock for the gas tank. At this point, he was penniless again .
If you add 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.
As he did a few days ago, he came to the gangster's warehouse and started loading the 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 goods are pulled to At the distribution point, he can earn another ten dollars, which is enough for three days of food.
Bruce felt that he had made the right choice and did not use the money to buy food short-sightedly, otherwise, he would still be worrying about tomorrow's meal.
Drove the car 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, you could move once every five minutes, and you could run a 20-kilometer distance for several hours. Although it was a bit slower, you could still run it.
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 .
I don’t know if I don’t look at it, but I am even more desperate when I look at it. There is a leak in a transport vehicle transporting dense ice raw materials for cold storage. The leaked material has frozen the second half of the viaduct into ice. Now I am waiting for professionals. Come and solve it, if the professionals can't come, don't even think about delivering the goods today.
I have been on the bridge all the time, and it was not until two o'clock in the afternoon that Bruce was notified that the professionals have come, but they are not professional enough, and we have to find more professional people, and the more professional people will not arrive until tomorrow, the viaduct The entrance has been sealed, and the cars that are now blocked on the road are considered unlucky for them, so 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.
The professional who came for the first time said that these raw materials cannot be recycled. Ten thousand dollars is not just a few meals for him.
The vast majority of drivers are afraid to leave their trucks. They have all experienced what Bruce experienced before. Maybe they just went to the toilet or had a meal, and the gas was stolen, and the road was impassable. Can stay here.
Some children ran to the viaduct to sell food. Many truck drivers bought it, but Bruce didn't buy it because he had no money at all.
After being hungry for another day and night, 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.
He took the tens of dollars, 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 went to the newsboy I bought several bottles of purified water at a high price and put them on the truck.
There is no good source of meat, so you 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 Descending faster.
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.
Supplementing the food, Bruce feels a lot more relieved. 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 can be regarded as the official start. The next step is to get out of the East on their own.
But Gotham is like this. Whenever a person is full of ambition 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 inspection, he found that the car was not completely new.
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Although his exterior looks 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.
Bruce discovered that the way gangsters repair 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 the Vocational and Technical College have yet to graduate, most people rely on their intuition to repair trucks.
Bruce knew that repairs like this would not work. 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 could be attributed 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 still have no money~IndoMTL.com~ A penny stumps a hero, it is not an exaggerated adjective, not to mention, Bruce is not even a penny short Penny, he is only a penny.
At this moment, a group of people approached him, claiming that they came to solve the problem of Bruce having no money.
Looking at the strong man in the lead, Bruce asked: "You said you can lend me money, what about the interest?"
The strong man waved his hand and said: "We don't talk about this here, we only tell you how much you have to repay each installment, the lower limit of the loan amount here is 300 US dollars, and for the next year, you will pay us 50 US dollars a week USD."
Bruce didn't even have to think about this number, he knew it was the so-called usury, and seeing that he was not interested, the strong man put his arms around his shoulders and said:
"Our terms are already very favorable. Believe me, those who want you to pay back thousands of dollars in one go are completely extortion."
"Look, when you are in urgent need of money, 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 you can have the rest in a week Dozens of dollars to subsidize the family."
Seeing that Bruce still didn't accept it, he said again: "Well, if you like the more traditional method, we will lend you $300, and you will pay us back $800 next month."
Bruce knows that $800 is a huge amount of money for the slums, let alone $800, $80 is a huge amount of money for him now.
Bruce looked at the strong man and asked him: "What will happen if I don't go up?"
The burly 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."